Steering Committee Meeting: January 26th, 2026

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

Attendance: Sophie D., Anthony L., Casey L., Jaden P., Jesser S., Lorenzita S., Sand H., Keean G., David L., Tyler C., Kurtis C., Megan C., Brian T.S., Shaun N., Lorenzita S.,

Notetaker: Sophie D.

Agenda

Call to Order

Approve agenda
Approve last meeting’s minutes

Introductions W/ David

Check-ins

How is everyone doing, need support with anything?
Follow up on action items

DSA fair debrief

Discussion on Campaign Progress and Needs

February General Body Meeting Planning

Role delegation
- Sign in table
  - Printing QR codes
- Zoom/screen share
- Agenda
- Putting the steward reports in the newsletter
- Printing agenda and newsletter
- Reviewing the facilitator script
- Updating Member List
Casey motions to use OpenSlides again

Sand proposes two resolutions for consideration

ICE Out Discussion

Debrief on community ICE event
- Vote on participation
ICE out Organizer Town Hall
Vote on whether or not to have a special chapter meeting on involvement with anti-ICE organizing

National Political Committee resources for Venezuela and ICE protests

National Political Committee resources for Venezuela and ICE protests
Invitation to participate in a debate at UNLV? Marlon Medina, Across the Aisle
- Casey: I put this on here. It’s obviously bad faith and imo doesn’t even warrant a response but I thought it would be fun to laugh at.

Administrative Committee

Any missing events/backlog?

Discuss buying more candles for merch

Open Comment

Adjourn

Meeting Minutes

Meeting Called to order at 7:05
Anthony motions to re-order the agenda to prioritize finishing old items
- Jaden seconds
- Passes unanimously
Anthony motions to adopt as amended
- Sophie seconds
- Passes unanimously
Sophie motions to approve last meeting’s minutes
- Casey seconds
- Passes unanimously
David introduces himself as our Western Regional Field Organizer
- There’s a leadership-only call about Anti-ICE tomorrow at 9:00pm Eastern
- Reminder about Wednesday’s Office Space funds matching program
DSA Fair debrief
- Positives
  - Wide range of attendees
  - Organizers were engaged in conversations throughout the event
  - Location was ideal
  - Hot drinks
  - Seeing friends
  - Great for morale
  - People want it to be semi-regular
  - Anthony did a great job
  - Great teamwork
  - Nice to have CSWG folks
  - People loved the sticker hunt
- Deltas – things we wish was different
  - Better sound/speakers needed
  - More fundraising
  - It was too windy
  - Some very important things weren’t printed
  - No one joined DSA that day
  - Tables weren’t as pre-organized as they could be
  - No DSA banner
  - No vegan options
  - Some people had conversations for way too long, didn’t give everyone a chance to join the convo
- Aspirations for the future
  - Clearer list of necessary materials
  - Try AB testing different approaches to recruitment
  - General DSA branded table with broader materials
  - Starting program earlier to give more things to do and decrease crowding
  - Not everyone was prepared for public speaking
  - Vegan options always needed
  - More merch
  - More than one person at each table
  - Mayday
    - Align with strike
  - Live music
- Anthony will type up notes in a report for the general body
Campaign needs
- Brian is gonna meet with campaign stewards and report back
- Next campaign coordinating meeting Feb 21st at Culinary Union Hall
  - Time undetermined
  - Someone needs to ping Lorenzita to set a time with Paul C.
    - Tyler C. said he will
  - Brian will take over picking a time
February GBM planning
- Sign-in table: Sophie
- Zoom: Anthony
- Steward reports in newsletter: Jaden
- Agenda and newsletter printing: Casey
- Reviewing facilitator script: Anthony, Jesser, Brian
- Updating member list: Sophie (and Sand)
- Set up openslides: Casey
- Anthony motions to pull CSWG’s resolution off of consent agenda and move to discussion
- No longer doing breakout rooms for imperialism discussion
- Leaving extra time for ICE discussion
  - Start with sunsetting of No ICE and current moment
  - Talk about other chapter campaigns and wins (Avelo, tomorrow’s meeting)
  - Open floor to ideas without debate
  - Turn convo to General Strike opinions
Discussion on whether to use Openslides
- Casey motions to use it
- Sophie seconds
- Anthony suggests only using it to display the votes but not to record votes due to wifi and tech complications
- Casey withdraws motion
- Anthony still wants to use it for ease of possible amendments
- Sophie motions to use openslides to display the resolutions on the screen only
  - Lorenzita seconds
  - Passes unanimously
Sophie motions to extend meeting time to 9:00pm
- Passes unanimously
Two resolutions
- Resolution to Amend the LVDSA Fiscal Policy to Include a Conflict of Interest Section
  - Anthony motions to pass
  - Lorenzita seconds
  - Passes unanimously
- Resolution to Revise the Duties Designated to the Administrative Committee
  - Anthony motions to adopt
  - Jaden seconds
  - Passes unanimously
Motion to table discussion on anti ICE coalition until the next Steering committee meeting after the General Body Meeting
- Brian seconds
- Brian motions to amend to have a vote on the matter no later than the Monday after the General Body Meeting
  - No second
- Original motion passes unanimously
Discussion on community partner town hall where we establish our own campaign and find where we overlap with other formations
- Invite organizers and unions
- Discussion will happen if members vote to adopt a new No ICE campaign
Anthony motions to add 5 minutes to the meeting time
- Lorenzita seconds
- Passes
Lorenzita motions to table discussion on buying merch candles
- Anthony seconds
- Passes
Meeting adjourned at 9:05pm