- February Meeting Club Elections (Ben Akselrod recused from this portion)
-Order of Elections: District Leaders, Civil Court, then Judicial Delegates
-Chris, Gabe and Kim will make the final decision on the whether we will do JDs on the sane ballot as the other two elections
- Judicial Delegates (30 minutes)
-Should we do written statements for Judicial Delegates
-30 seconds per Judicial Delegate for their speech
-Jordan will email all Judicial Delegates to ask for 50 words or less statement
-try to hand out statements at meeting
-Candidates will line up then step forward and speak
-No time to discuss as club because so many people will have to go out
-Budgeting 10 minutes for voting and 20 minutes for speeches
- District Leader Race (60 minutes)
-Likely only 1 competitive race
-Do all the races on OpaVote
-The uncontested candidates will talk for 1 minute
-In 2021 we gave each candidate a speech then there was questions for all the candidates (so the candidates answer the same questions)
-Do a mix of pre-selected questions
-All questions must be for every candidate and the order of speaking rotates
-There will be a time limit for questions
-5 minutes each for speeches (15 total)
-15 minutes of questions
-15 minutes of member time
-15 minutes for voting/Tech Issues
- Civil Court Race (10 minutes)
-It looks like there is going to be one candidate per seat
-Each Candidate will get 5 minutes then we will do vote by acclimation
-budgeting 10 minutes for speeches and 2 for Voting
- March Meeting
-Inviting BP Levine to talk about his housing proposal
-Tax resolution will be moved to April Meeting (John and Jerry will talk about it)
-Education Committee has a panel lined up to speak about Art Education
-Education Committee has a resolution on Arts Education
- We will invite Jerry Nadler for either April or May (give him the choice)
-Kim and Rebecca will reach out to Jerry Nadler’s office
- Spring Fundraiser
-Looking at April 27th
-Try to do it at Bohemian Spirit again
- Petitioning
-Feb 28th Start
-Julie Menin plans on using Four Freedoms Petitions
-First night of Petitioning do a kickoff event
-Find a bar and let people show up
-Grab a petition get a drink ticket
-Board votes unanimously to allocate money for the event
-Kickoff rally with Julie 1:00 Sunday March 5th in John Jay Park (waiting for okay from Julie)
-Reach out to other electeds and local news
- Outreach Committee
-3 street fairs which cost $150 each to rent tables and rent (may, June and September)
-Also Roosevelt Island Day, but there is no cost (June)
-Print out brochures (500 brochures is $200)
-Board votes unanimously to approve any cost up to $750 for outreach committee
- Smaller Banner
-We have a nice large banner, but it is unwieldy
-$100 from a union Shop (approved by Jerry)
- Apparel
-Kim suggests we use T-Spring which is the site that the county party uses
-Right now we are ordering it in bulk and it has to be stored, but that isn’t practical
-T-Spring would allow people to order on demand
-They are not union though
-Need to order samples
-Rebecca said that the quality from T-Spring is not great so the board decided against it
-Rebecca suggests Big Frog apparel
-Jill suggests that we do twice yearly apparel orders and try to
- Website
-Gmail changed their spam filters so people are not getting our newsletter and people are having trouble signing up
-Jordan and Chris will look into newsletter issue and if it can’t be solved we will reach out to Allison Schuman at Nationbuiler to see if it can be solved
-Board approved $250 with the understanding that we will attempt to fix it for free
-Amy has a list of updates for the websites that can be done
