Proposed agenda for the June committee meeting

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Call to Order

Chair, 2 minutes

Minutes

Secretary, 3 minutes

• Proposed motion: "Resolved hat the committee adopts the minutes as eported (or amended) of the April meeting, held 2006/04/08."

Treasurer's Report

Treasurer, 5 minutes

• Proposed motion: "Resolved that the committee accepts the treasurer's report with thanks."

Chair's Report

Chair, 15 minutes

• CD1 Nominating Convention
  • Convention at Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Williamsburg, 13 May
    • Our own Shawn O'Donnell elected overwhelmingly on first ballog.
• PREVAIL access:
  • SPVA has waved $200 fee because we added new Dem voter IDs last year.
  • Submitted contract, order form and now have an updated account ID / password.
• By-laws:
  • Faxed existing hard-copy to SPVA.

Old Business

Review of by-laws

Parliamentarian, 5 minutes

• Proposed motion: "Resolved that the Fredericksburg Democratic Committee adds the adoption of the bylaws (or as amended) to the agenda for its July meeting, and directs the Secretary to notify all committee members of that vote before 20 June."

Spring fundraising effort

Secretary, 5 minutes

• T-shirts / golf shirts as promos.
• One early contributor already.
• James' material, updated for current status.
• PREVAIL for targeted mailing
  • Prevail lists ~300 "strong Democrats" in the city; we will target them for the first mailing.

Voter File / Prevail Access Policy

Chair, 5 minutes

• Proposed motion: "Resolved that the Fredericksburg Democratic Committee adopts the draft policy[1] for allowing access to the SPVA's voter file for candidates seeking election to local offices in the City of Fredericksburg, and directs the Chair to forward the adopted policy to the State Party."

  [1] http://fredericksburgdem.org/organization/fxbg/2006/PREVAIL_policy-DRAFT.pdf

New Business

Primary Election Volunteers

Chair, 5 minutes

• Voters who come out for this primary are most likely "strong* Democrats. We would do well to have information tables at each precinct, staffed if possible with folks who can distribute flyers, answer questions, and collect contact information.
  • Can we coordinate with the Equality Virginia folks?

Voter ID Project

Chair, 10 minutes

• Neighborhood recruitment: we need committee folks to help identify and recruit people in each neighborhood who can function as a point of contact and information for us. For a list of the neighborhoods, please see:

  http://fredericksburgdem.org/organization/fxbg/precinct_layout_2005.html

• I would like for the bulk of our July meeting to be a working session for this project (or we could hold a separate working session before then).

Summer Events

Chair, 15 minutes

Possible events include:

• Clean Money Day, Tuesday, 27 June: Public Campaign Fund is organizing hosue parties in honor of Tom DeLay's exit from Congress, to raise awareness of the need for public campaign finance.
• Heritage festival, 4th of July

  Anyone feel like cooling off in the raft race? See:

  • http://www.simplyfredericksburg.com/events/heritagefest.shtml
  • http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=20899&Sort=A&MGrp=3&MCat=11
  • http://www.visitfred.com/visitors/events/events.aspx?etid=1&em=7&ey=2006

• Agricultural Fair, "America's Oldest Fair", 28 July - 5 August. See:
  • http://fredfair.net/
• Regional Democratic Picnic ??

Virginia Partisans' Resolution

Rob Tanner, Leigh D'Lugos, 5 minutes

For proposed resolution language, please see: http://vapartisans.org/0411064res.html

Announcements

• Quarterly meeting of the Steering and Central Committees of the state party, Friday and Saturday, 23-24 June, at the Doubletreee Hotel, Charlottesville.
• July Regional Democratic Breakfast, Tickers Coffee, Saturday, 1 July, 9:00 AM.

Adjournment

• Next meeting: 9:30 AM Saturday, 8 July 2006, CRRL public meeting room #2.