Agenda

Times are approximate and subject to change at the Chair’s discretion.

Meeting Minutes

Attendance: Shaun, Anthony, Tiffany, Minnie, Aimee, Paul John, Jesser, Aimee, Alvin, Jackie, Lorenzita,

Chair: Shaun
Notetaker: Mike Y.

Treasurer’s Statements of Accounts

America First Credit Union (as of 6:10 PM)

General Fund             $9216.42

Mutual Aid Fund         $798.40

Housing Justice Fund        $194.24

Back To School Solidarity    $1533.02

Venmo                $0

• Shaun motions to adopt the agenda
  • Anthony motions to amend the agenda to include a period for actions and proposals
    • Minnie seconds
• Shaun motions to adopt last minutes
  • Anthony point of order to link to last week’s minutes
  • Shaun links to last week’s minutes
• Shaun reviews last weeks action items
  • Shaun N. – no update on last week’s agenda item will add to next week’s agenda
  • Anthony: appeal can take 1-2 years from national, and can guide us through this process. Probably not worth our time
  • Alvin C to work on password for electoral email
  • Mike Y: action items from last week are complete
• Paul John and Aimee presenting merch ideas
  • Paul John mentions PDQ printing – local and union, Anthony (at PDQ) is excited to work with us
    • Gave us t-shirt options
    • They offer literature printing services as well
    • Postcards, stickers, etc.
    • They can do last minute requests – e.g. volunteer t-shirts or lit
  • Aime asks about t-shirt printing services
    • Week turnaround according to Paul John but can follow up for clarification
  • Minnie asks to clarify if all the printing shops  we’re looking at are union
    • Paul John confirms this is the case
  • AB Printing
    • Helped us with housing justice lit and can comparison shop between A&B and PDQ
    • Sourcing lit here, not t-shirts or other merch
  • Fii Marketing
    •  Tiffany can operate shopify portion of fii marketing so we can save money
    • Can create a line of merchandise
    • Make the Road used Fii marketing and recommends – Shaun
    • Tiffany asks if Fii has price estimates
      • $16.05 a shirt for Fii
  • Royal printing
    • Lit exclusive, can print stickers but “not their speciality”
    • Not for merch
    • Pricing similar to PDQ
  • Minnie asks pricing points between local shops
    • Aimee believes A&B is the most affordable lit wise
  • Tiffany motions to table the Fii marketing bc of the monthly fee & upkeep costs
    • Anthony seconds
  • Shaun poses the question: possible to make a timeline for holiday solidarity
    • Early Nov timeline possible?
    • Aimee: Volunteer shirts will be available for both holidairties, for sure
    • Paul John – volunteer shirt turnaround should be quick
  • Paul John to share pricing in Slack
  • Shaun N asks about design contest
    • Tiffany asks if we should send form asking about designs – make sure people actually want to buy the designs they picked
    • Tiffany: can sell designs as way to fundraise for holiday solidarity
      • Shaun seconds – loves it
  • Voting on tabling fii marketing/shopify portion of this
    • Motion passes
• YDSA Meeting – Jackie presents
  • Virtual meeting at 3 p.m. Thurs
  • YDSA mentorship opportunity available for those in Las Vegas DSA
  • Personally knows 3 students who signed up for this event
  • Shaun N asks about YDSA leadership
    • Jackie mentions 2 are very interested in being active, some previous members aren’t continuing
  • Minnie: asking if they’re all UNLV or coming from other places
    • Remind we have Nevada State College –
    • All 3 are from UNLV – Jackie
  • Mike Y: will mentorship opportunity be available to general body or are we keeping it in the SC?
    • Jackie S: best to keep it to most committed members of chapter
• Shaun CCSD updates
  • Teacher health desk – comrade Kris helped him with organizing aspects within CCSD
  • Pivot to health care issues, at this meeting there will be an update on health care
  • Essentially this is currently unfunded, some teachers are getting collections calls from health care providers
  • CCSD wants people to rally around the date
    • We can post in Slack getting people to publicly comment
  • Shaun spoke to Kenny Bellmap (unsure of name?) – about forum and roundtable
    • Teachers are afraid of retribution
    • Shaun wants the opportunity for teachers to vent –but we’ll have some guiding questions about healthcare, and safety procedures
    • Logistically: next Wed? Work as date?
  • Motion on the floor:  hold a forum for education staff on Wednesday the 29th, with a flier distribution on Thursday the 23rd.
  • Aimee mentions we should outline a process for Lit printing,
  • Tiffany offers to pay for lit until being reimbursed down the line
    • Shaun objects, wants to donate the money himself
  • No opposition to printing in house
  • Mike Y asks about turnaround time
    • Tiffany can have the event details set up tomorrow and help with the QR code as well
  • Anthony L briefly chairs: Motion to hold this event the 29th, with Lit distributing taking place the 23rd at the CCSD
    • Motion passes
    • Mike Y amends to ask for time for event
    • Shaun proposes 7 pm, Tiffany S seconds
• Anthony motions to create facilitator guide for Dean Spade’s mutual aid book by Oct 4th
  • Minnie seconds
  • Aimee in opposition: asks if we’re still sticking with same date as  “Red Deal” book club, wants input for book club from mutual aid stewards
  • Discussion
    • Anthony mentions to get facilitator guide going, then to pick date for book club afterwards; no facilitator guide exists currently from current research so wants to create one in house
    • Jesser volunteers help
    • Aimee wants to be involved but concerned about capacity
      • Mutual aid stewards need to be prepared for holiday solidarity as well
      • Doesn’t want to rush this process
    • Minnie offers amendment: when the group itself meets, removing Oct 4th from the discussion. No specific timeline in place.
    • Motion on the floor: at least two SC members to create facilitator guide for Dean Spade’s facilitator book  (removed deadline)
      • Motion passes
    • Anthony L will post in slack to determine when to meet
• Aimee: follow up land acknowledgements with action items
  • How can we help Indigenous comrades? – resistance movements at pipelines, letter writing sign-on, additional Thacker Pass organizing info, etc.
  • Can even just be links in the chat or slack after the meeting – no need to even call it out verbally in meeting
  • Aimee motions to follow up the land acknowledgement at general body meetings with calls to action to be determined by LVDSA, partner orgs, etc.
    • Jackie seconds and amends to include NMO meetings
    • Motion passes
• Shaun N. Women’s March / Reproductive March invite
  • Nevada Now, Gender Justice NV, Mi Familia Vota, Planned Parenthood teaming for Women’s Reproductive Justice March
    • Oct 2, 11 am
    • Asks us to co-sponsor and be marshals
  • Housing Justice event, if held that day, would be over by 11 am
  • Minnie mentions that the national SocFem committee will meet about the rallies, and certainly thinks attendance could be strong
  • Lorenzita asks about location
    • Shaun: Lloyd D George Courthouse
  • Alvin: what does marshaling entail
    • Shaun: calm given the nature of this protest, so really just handing out water and wearing vests — need only about 5 volunteers for this part really
    • Alvin thinks it would be good for LVDSA to co-sponsor and go to this
    • Jackie asks about timeframe
      • Shaun N: planning meeting tomorrow – so by EOD?
    • Tiffany asks if women can attend the planning meeting
      • Shaun wants to someone woman-identifying to volunteer, only doing so bc Lorenzita is out of town
      • 7 p.m.
  • Shaun N motions to co-sponsor and marshal, put out call on slack for woman-identifying members to attend Nevada Now meeting
• Jackie motions to move steering committee meetings to every other week, alternating Mondays can be used to host phone banks or event recruitment
  • Tiffany seconds
  • Minnie adds: how do we meet to determine how to run general body?
  • Aimee supports!
  • Jackie S: try to do the work outside of the SC meeting during week
  • Anthony speaking in favor… assign people to do work outside of meetings, such as budget working group
  • Shaun N: when would we have next free Monday?
    • Applies to Oct 11th
    • We’d meet next week, and the first Monday.
  • Shaun motions to vote
    • Vote passes
• Anthony: code of conduct policy as written by Travis S
  • Motions to present this as a bylaw at the general body meeting
  • Tiffany point of information on how motion is presented
  • Shaun motions to enter executive session
  • Exiting executive session
  • Anthony rescinds motion
• Minnie to present SW Organizer Call
  • Tomorrow at 7 p.m.
  • Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico
  • SW leadership call pushed to 1st or 2nd weekend in Nov
  • Looking for volunteers on SW Organizer call
  • Minnie asks if there are trainings we’d like to see
    • Immigration, indigenous organizing two main points of feedback he’s received
• Mike Y. presents idea to make SC open forum replacement
  • Q&A or some sort of topic discussion with LVDSA members, SC Members or community org partner
  • Tiffany: host viewing on zoom, need data in some from
  • Mike motions to start a working group for new comms project
  • Mike motions to rescind this motion after it passes
    • This passes with 2/3rd votes
  • Shaun motions to start vetting coalition working partners first  before we include coalition partners in this comms project
  • Mike will table discussion of this  working group
• Anthony L – lessons learned from SCC meetings
  • Motion to not address this during meeting, move to make lessons learned later after this meeting
  • Jackie S 2nds
• Anthony L discusses RR training and facilitation skills meeting
  • Tiffany suggest we have trainings on a Thursday; could advertise it at the general body meeting
  • Jackie: could do standing trainings on 2nd or 3rd Thursdays of the month – RR, facilitation, organizer training, etc.
  • Anthony: 2nd Thursdays  of every month: training on leadership, facilitation, etc. could be organizer trainings as well if including Alvin & others.
    • Oct 14th
  • Anthony motions to offer chapter wide training on the 2nd thursday of every month pertaining to training on leadership, facilitation, etc.
    • Tiffany mentions to amend so we should flip and do member engagement to 2nd Thursday
      • Phone banks could be Mon / Thurs
      • General bodys first Thurs, 2nd Thurs: phone bank, 3rd thurs: training,
  • Anthony amends motion: monthly training on a thursday that does not overlap with other trainings
    • Exact days to be determined
• Tiffany endorsement application: address at next SC meeting
• Aimee mentions internship request
  • Jackie to take up request, turn it into 1:1
• Anthony motions to adjourn at 9:16
  • Seconded by Jackie at 9:17