Steering Committee Meeting: December 29th, 2025

Chair/Facilitator(s): Brian T.S..

Attendance: Sophie D., Brian T.S., Anthony L., Casey L., Jaden P., Jeff M., Jesser S., Lorenzita S., Sand H., Tyler C.

Notetaker: Sophie D.

Agenda

7:05	Call to Order Approve agenda Approve last meeting’s minutes
7:10	Check-ins How is everyone doing, need support with anything? Follow up on action items
	Discuss LVDSA fair
7:15	Steering Committee Vacancies Anthony motions to appoint Tyler Cavey as an Interim Member Engagement Coordinator Dealing with Member Engagement events: DSA 101 Jan 11th Member Engagement meeting Jan 14th New Member Orientation Jan 28th Vacancy in Co-Chair position, shall we appoint an interim? Delegation of responsibilities Email checking
7:20	Review Campaign Steward Appointments
7:30	Discussion on Campaign Progress and Needs Overlapping Stripe accounts Dealing with Mutual Aid hot food situation (Previously postponed) campaign data sharing agreement (Previously postponed)Val’s rent cap petition Any other concerns or needs
7:50	YDSA UNLV discussion Hosting DSA 101 & a Town Hall event at UNLV in February? (paid) Who else can we get on board?
8:00	January General Body Meeting Planning Role delegation Sign in table Printing QR codes Zoom/screen share Putting the steward reports in the newsletter Printing agenda and newsletter Stewards need to be reminded to fill out their reports by January 2nd Putting together the facilitator script Updating Member List Casey motions to use OpenSlides again
8:20	Open Comment
8:30	Adjourn

Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order at 7:11pm
Casey motions to approve the agenda
- Anthony seconds
- Passes unanimously
Sophie motions to approve last meeting’s minutes
- Jaden seconds
- Passes unanimously
Check-in
- Anthony wants to talk about the upcoming DSA fair on the 24th/25th
- Sophie motions to add to the agenda
- Anthony seconds
- Passes unanimously
- Moved to talk about after check-in
Action Items
- Casey still needs to contact Hot Leads
- GBM sign-in will be discussed later in the meeting
- Resolution has been sent out
- Steward nomination form went out
- DSA fair event will be talked about
- Executive session resolved
DSA fair
- 25th would be a SunSol
- Date will be decided based on venue availability
  - Needs to be decided ASAP
- Meet with stewards Saturday
- Primary objectives: identify people willing to take the lead on the fair
  - Reach out to Kathleen
- Outreach & Flyers
  - Emails and texts
  - Social media plan
  - Member outreach plan
    - Designate an outreach leader
      - Brian will work with Anthony
      - Casey will find zip codes to target
- Have each group come up with a table
  - Can we give them each a budget?
- Anthony motions to put a message in slack’s chapter general and make a slack channel to plan
  - Passes unanimously
- Anthony suggests Bill Briare Family Park as a location for the fair
  - Sophie expresses concern for noise level
    - Casey will check the volume of the park
  - The grass areas are available to reserve
    - Loud noises would become a special event
Steering Committee Vacancies
- Anthony motions to appoint Tyler Cavey to be the Steward of Member Engagement with specialty access in order to lead the duties of Member Engagement until the date of the special election
  - Jaden seconds
  - Tyler is willing
  - Passes unanimously
- Tyler will be included in DSA fair planning channel
- Discussion on whether to appoint an interim co-chair
  - Anthony motions that an interim should come from within steering
    - Motions to appoint Casey or Jesser
    - Brian seconds Jesser
    - Jesser passes unanimously
  - Casey will continue to help with email
Campaign Steward appointments
- Member Engagement can’t be appointed– must wait for next election
  - Candidates must be announced at least two weeks in advance
- Valerie’s campaign steward
  - Brady E. nominated by Valerie
  - Brady accepts
  - Brady only candidate
  - Anthony motions to appoint Brady
    - Casey and Jaden second
    - Passes unanimously
- Shaun’s campaign steward
  - Zoe and Lorenzita nominated
  - Zoe accepts
  - Zoe only candidate
  - Candidates are in favor
  - Anthony motions to appoint Zoe
    - Brian seconds
    - Passes unanimously
- Mutual Aid campaign steward
  - Dominic B. and Crystal C nominated
  - Dominic nominated by current steward Austin
  - Crystal self-nominated
  - Dominic accepted
  - Anthony motions to appoint Dominic
    - Casey seconds
    - Passes unanimously
- No ICE campaign steward
  - Crystal C. self nominated
Discussion on campaign progress
- Current Stripe account is under the wrong email, wants to consolidate
  - No one knows how
- Sunsetting No ICE resolution confirmed
- Sophie discusses Mutual Aid hot food trouble
  - Casey suggests leaving this to mutual aid to figure out
  - Anthony agrees, but states we can make a committee if needed
    - Suggests asking Dominic specifically
  - Jaden agrees
    - Casey mentions Kobe is interested in a formation like this
- (Previously postponed) campaign data sharing agreement
  - We don’t know what this is
    - Casey will reach out to Tiffany
- (Previously postponed)Val’s rent cap petition
  - We don’t know what this is
    - Casey will reach out to Tiffany
- Next campaign coordinating meeting looks like it will probably be Saturday
  - To be confirmed
  - Either hybrid or virtual
YDSA discussion
- Sophie requests we spend chapter funds to reserve event space for two on-campus events at UNLV
  - DSA 101
  - Student Town Hall
    - No price information is listed whatsoever so we can’t determine yet whether it aligns with our budget
- Anthony motions to consider dedicating no more than $100 of chapter funds to book event space
  - Sophie amends to separate the conversation based on each event
  - Passes unanimously
- Motion to consider hosting a town hall at UNLV with the intention to create a YDSA chapter utilizing up to $60 in chapter funds
  - This motion is to be reconsidered based on final dollar amount
  - Anthony seconds
    - Passes unanimously
- Motion to host February’s DSA 101 event on the UNLV campus and cross-promote it as a YDSA event
  - Brian seconds
  - Anthony motions to amend to limiting this event to a $60 budget
    - Brian seconds
    - Passes unanimously
January GBM planning
- Role assignment
  - Sign-in table
    - Sophie + one person
      - Ask Tyler if he wants to suggest someone
      - Sophie finds a +1
        
        Lorenzita if all else fails
  - Print QR code
    - Make a sign in link and print the QR
      - Sophie’s responsibility
      - Casey will help
  - Newsletter
    - Brian will make sure it’s all done
  - Putting together the facilitator script
    - Anthony will take it
  - Update the member list
    - Sophie’s responsibility
    - Teach Brian after
- Casey motions to use OpenSlides at the next GBM
  - Jesser seconds
  - Anthony suggests doing this in February instead due to Tiffany’s leave of absence
  - Anthony motions to table the question
    - Brian seconds
Meeting adjourns at 8:36pm