Steering Committee Meeting

July 19, 2021

Steering Committee Meeting

Agenda

6:05 Call to Order

Adoption of agenda

Review Steering Committee meeting rules

6:10 SC Member Portfolios

Determine how to distribute portfolios

Vote to approve portfolios

Determine process for re-evaluating and shifting portfolios

6:40 Campaign Steward Selection Process

Determine selection process & timeline

Vote to approve process

If appropriate, move to Executive Session to discuss current candidates

6:50 Grievance Officer Selection Process

Determine selection process & timeline

Vote to approve process

If appropriate, move to Executive Session to discuss current candidates

7:00 Review Conflict of Interest Policy
7:10 Executive Session – Grievance #1
7:20 Executive Session – Grievance #2
7:30 Back to School Solidarity

Review meeting decisions

Identify next steps

7:40 Sunday Solidarity

Determine how we will be impacted by members being away in Thacker Pass

7:50 First General Body Meeting

Determine date

Determine agenda

Identify next steps

7:55 Schedule Next SC Meeting

Minutes

  • 6:06 – Anthony motions to adopt the agenda
    • Tiffany seconds
    • Anthony reviews meeting parameters for non-SC members in attendance
  • 6:10 – Portfolio discussion
    • Should we have primary leads on individual portfolio’s or should we leave them up to the group?
      • Tiffany – We should have a primary as we evaluate and reevaluate portfolios.
      • Each portfolio has a primary and steering committee members that are assisting, from there, members from each portfolio assign tasks to themselves.
    • Workflow: We will assign a primary and a secondary for each portfolio, these individuals are responsible for making sure the work is complete, but not necessarily by them. Steering committee members will fill out the spreadsheet with all tasks that they would like to and/or capable of doing. While they may not be a primary or secondary, they can still assist another portfolio. This is true for non-steering committee members as well.
    • Partner Relations & Community Building
      • Primary: Shaun
      • Secondaries: Paul John & Lorenzita
    • National Coordination
      • Primary: Minnie
      • Secondaries:
    • Campaigns & Working Groups Support (separate from portfolios)
      • Discussion about whether this should be a portfolio, SC comes to conclusion that technically it should be a portfolio with 4 or more advisors/liaisons becoming primaries.
      • Electoral Liaison/Advisor: Anthony
      • Mutual Aid Liaison/Advisor(s): Aimee & Minnie
      • Housing Justice Liaison/Advisor: Jackie
        • Secondaries: Minnie & Paul John
      • Caucuses & Sections Liaison/Advisor: Tiffany
        • Secondary: Shaun
        • Navigating the initial creation of the caucuses and sections, assisting with bylaws, proposing initial events and support there.
    • Organizer Management & Development
      • Primary: Alvin
      • Secondaries: Minnie
    • Member Engagement
      • Primary: Jackie
      • Secondaries: Alvin
    • Finance & Resource Management
      • Primary: Aimee
      • Secondaries: Tiffany & Anthony
    • Digital Management
      • Primary: Tiffany
      • Secondaries: Alvin
    • Event Planning
      • Primary: Paul John
      • Secondaries: Jesser & Shaun
    • Security
      • Primary: Alvin
      • Secondaries: Jesser
    • Member Accountability & Support
      • Primary: Anthony
      • Secondaries: Minnie
    • Record Keeping & Data
      • Primary: Tiffany
      • Secondaries:
    • Political Education
      • Primary: Jesser
      • Secondaries: Minnie
    • Operations
      • Primary: Aimee
      • Secondaries: Tiffany
    • Communications Strategy & Management
      • Primary: Anthony
      • Secondaries: Jesser
    • Legislative Tracking
      • Primary: Lorenzita
      • Secondaries: Aimee
    • Minnie motions to adopt the portfolio assignments as stated above
    • Anthony seconds
    • Motion passes unanimously
  • Reevaluation process for portfolios
    • Tiffany motions to discuss at a later meeting
    • Minnie seconds
    • We will discuss at a later meeting
  • 7:08 – Campaign steward selection process
    • Process & Timeline
    • Tiffany – come up with questionnaire, review on our own time, then vote as steering committee.
    • Discussion about whether we can appoint stewards tonight or if we need a longer process.
    • Nominees per category:
      • Mutual aid: 5
      • Housing: 8
      • Electoral: 6
        • There is crossover between these, need the right person for each priority.
    • Discussion on priority campaign committees vs. stewards
      • 1 or 2 stewards makes the most sense to have people report at steering committee meetings, but for housing we need to get the ball rolling.
    • Timeline:
      • We are able to vote on stewards within the week
      • Within 48 hours, we release questionnaire for candidates to complete
      • Have candidates complete questionnaire by end of day Saturday
        • Majority agrees with this timeline
        • Anthony will make questionnaire/doc and share to us
      • Schedule meeting for stewards – will do it at next steering committee meeting scheduled at the end of this meeting.
  • 7:20 – grievance officer selection process
    • Same process as above schedule
    • Tiffany – we released the grievance form later, need to have a different timeline for grievance officers.
    • Nominations:
      • 4 accepted nominations
    • 5 day difference between steward nomination form and grievance officer nomination form
    • Alvin motions to do same timeline for steward nomination form but five days delayed for grievance nomination form.
    • Anthony seconds
    • Motion for unanimous consent
    • Passes
  • 7:24 – conflict of interest policy
    • Anthony motions for executive session
    • Tiffany seconds
  • 7:25 – Executive session, conflict of interest policy
  • 7:39 – Executive session, grievance #1 & #2 –
  • 9:14 – Sunday Solidarity
    • Need someone to handle Sunday Solidarity while the main group is off at Thacker Pass
    • Minnie is available but needs a briefing by the people who normally run the event
    • Tamara – the awnings are at the NV dems office so we need someone who has access to the office
    • Anthony – Brendan said he was available to help with Sunday Solidarity and really wants to help
    • Paul John – Count him in
    • Minnie will reach out to Aimee and let Anthony know what he can do to help
  • 9:18 – General Body Meeting
    • August 10th @ 6:30pm
      • Passes with 3 abstain
  • 9:26 – Next SC meeting
    • Tuesday, July 27th @ 6pm
      • No opposed
  • 9:29 – Adjourned