Minutes of Central Committee Meeting Feb 3
Minutes of the Johnson County Central Committee Meeting, February 3, 2011.
Meeting called to order 7:14pm.
Secretary’s report: Carl Fongheiser is absent due to illness. Justine Retz volunteered to take minutes for this evening. Minutes of the January meeting were distributed and approved.
Treasurer’s report: tabled treasurer absent.
Fundraising Chair, Liz Etchells reported on the fundraising event . The Wine Tasting will be held March 6th, 2pm at Devotay in Iowa City. Dennis asked us to step forward to volunteer for the event and a fundraising sub-committee will be organized to help with the event, making phone calls to get sponsors and mailing invitations as well as collecting tickets at the event. Tickets will be $25 per person. Liz will get back to us with duties.
Platform Committee Chair, Robin Roseman informed us about the upcoming off caucus year. We are encouraged to read the Johnson County platform on our website and if we have, new resolutions send them to Robin and we will discuss them at the March caucus to be held after our next meeting to elect a chair and officers.
No report from other chairs.
Old Business – letters were sent to members who had not been attending. Dennis asked if there were any members present who wanted to be able to reinstate in order to vote at the March meeting. Sue Bruell (precinct University Heights) asked to be reinstated; she was voted on and approved.
By-laws reminder, Dennis mentioned every member must be on a sub-committee and active. The upcoming fundraising event is a chance to participate.
New Business – Henry Marquand (IC1) was nominated and approved. It was noted that Peter Hansen a current central committee member moved from precinct IC9 into IC1 (there can be two representatives per precinct), he was approved.
Robin Roseman presented an idea for our community service activity. She mentioned how wonderful it was assisting with the Free Lunch Program. About 110 people are served a lunch and then given leftovers and/or the food is distributed to other agencies (Shelter House, etc) in the area. We voted yes to partner with Organizing for America (OFA) and set up a schedule. We are going to see about setting up a trial period due to the availability of central committee members. We need about 14-15 people (which we will share with OFA), we need five to cook beforehand and then 7 to cook, serve and clean up on the day we chose. The time will be the first Friday of every other month and lasts from about 9am-1:30pm. A sub -committee will be formed.
Tom Larkin rose to speak about the reorganization meeting that will be taking the place of the regularly scheduled Central Committee Meeting. The purpose of the next meeting is to elect new officers. Tom Larkin distributed the proposed election rules the final draft will be voted on at the next meeting (Tom will be the temporary or parliamentary chair for this meeting and will reflect it in the written materials).
Candidates for Chair – Terry Dahms (precinct Newport) is interested and at the next meeting, he will talk about his vision for the central committee. He wants to focus on three things: our purpose, finances and membership. If you have, questions call his cell 430-8205.
It was mentioned that it is not unusual to be getting courtesy calls from people running for chair/s we have several different committees that need chairs (data, membership, publicity, fundraising, etc).
Dennis mentioned that for people running to be chair it would be helpful to read the Johnson County and State platforms, our County constitution and by-laws.
Speakers – Mike Carberry spoke about the Iowa Power fund and the IC rail project. Please write letters to the IC Press Citizen and call the Governors office.
Justine Retz – thanked Dennis for serving as chair.
Meeting adjourned at 8:40pm.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Justine Retz substituting for Carl Fongheiser.