The meeting was called to order by Nicki Schumacher at 6 PM.
Vickie Rock read the minutes of the previous meeting. Nancy Heredia moved the minutes be approved as read; Elaine Kochevar seconded the motion; motion passed.
Don Rogers reported on his trip to the State Central Committee Meeting that was held on 2-09-2008 in Parumph. He talked about the business conducted at the meeting. One notable item of business was the need for a state bylaw change that would require an executive board member to step down in the event they become a member of a suit against the Nevada Democratic Party. (A member of the executive board was a party in the suit against the Democratic Party in the case of the special casino caucus sites which were not by precinct, but considered “at large”.)
Nicki Schumacher reported that she and Vickie Rock had gone to the bank to set up a checking account for the organization. She and Vickie had each donated $20 which was used to set up the account. Thus, our current treasury has only $40 from which we can draw. Some form of fundraising would be needed. It was decided that lunch would be sold at the Convention at a slight markup and a 50/50 raffle ($1 per ticket or 6/$5) would be conducted to help raise some money to help pay for organizational expenses.
Vickie Rock noted that she had:
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Accessed the event calendar on the Democratic Party website to send out invitations to the County Convention to all delegates for whom she had email addresses.
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Set up a blog for our organization that can used for storing information such as meeting minutes, announcements, bylaws, event information, etc.
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Adapted a set of bylaws for the HCDCC based on our adopted set of state bylaws and a set of local bylaws from the Douglas County organization. This set of bylaws will be presented to the Convention body on 2-23-2008 for adoption.
Next on the agenda was an educational session led by Cindy Trigg who discussed the credentialing process for County Convention delegates, seating of delegates and alternates, and how to elect delegates to the State Convention. While any County Democrat can attend the convention, only those democrats who attended the County Caucus can be seated as a Delegate or an Alternate.
The discussion then turned to planning the logistics for the County Convention:
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Location: Sonoma Heights Elementary School, 1500 Melarkey St., Winnemucca
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Pre-Registration for Delegates and Alternates: Friday, 2-22-2008, 4-7 pm
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Convention: Saturday, 2-23-2008. Open at 8 AM for additional registration, Gavel at 10 AM
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Anticipate up to 90 delegates and an undetermined number of alternates to attend
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From those delegates, we need to elect 12 delegates to the state convention.
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Need to elect “permanent” officers and Standing Chairs of the organization at the County Convention
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Need to elect a “State Central Committee Person” who will be responsible for participating on the State Democratic Central Committee
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Need to submit Bylaws for adoption at the County Convention
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Need to submit Platform Resolutions from the floor as well as from the Caucuses to the Convention body for approval. Approved Resolutions will be forwarded to the state organization for consideration at the State Convention.
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Sandy Hammargren volunteered to head up the Convention Credentials Committee
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Elaine Kochevar volunteered to head up the Convention Rules Committee
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Don Rogers, Roger Rock, Vickie Rock, and Gordon Schumacher volunteered to help set up the convention site on Friday evening preceding the Convention
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Carolyn Rogers volunteered to head up the Convention Registration Committee
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Nancy Heredia will contact the High School to see if we can find volunteers from government classes or young democrat groups to help with the Saturday, Convention event.
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Nicki will make phone calls to a number of democrats to help find some additional Friday evening set-up workers.
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Pat Henigin will write an article for the Humboldt Sun and put up some posters around town indicating when and where the Democratic County Convention will be held.
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Attendees of this meeting are to bring their coolers w/ice to Convention site for use in storing water/refreshments for attendees.
Still need:
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Microphone for convention. Nancy will talk to the Principle at Sonoma to see if they have a system we can use. If not, we need to find someone who might have a karaoke microphone/amplifier that we could use.
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Need to find people who might volunteer to donate water, juice, coffee, donuts, fruit, etc.
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Need to find people (who are not delegates) who are willing to serve as “floor tellers” to count standing votes on the convention floor.
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Need to find people who would be willing to assist with registration on Friday evening and/or on Saturday morning.
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Need to find people who would be willing to assist Sandy with Credentials and Elaine with Rules.
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Need to find a Resolutions Chair.
Agreed to hold regular meetings after the Convention on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Location of those meetings have not yet been established.
Next planning meeting: 6 PM, Monday 2-18-2008 at Grammar School at Lay & 5th. 3094 Paiute St. Winnemucca
Meeting concluded at 8:35 PM
Attendees: Carolyn Rogers, Don Rogers, Nicki Schumacher, Elaine Kochevar, Edward Kochevar, Sandy Hammargren, Cindy Trigg (Democratic Rural Organizer), Nancy Heredia, Pat Henigin, Roger Rock, Vickie Rock.