Agenda

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

Meeting Minutes

Chair: Anthony L

Notetaker: Tiffany S.

Attendance:

• Called to order at 7:06
  • Review of SC meeting rules
  • Angel motions to swap portfolio check in with Christian’s presentation, Aimee seconds
  • Angel motions to adopt the agenda with the change, Mike second
  • Agenda is adopted at 7:09
  • Angel motions to adopt the meeting minutes from 2/14, Aimee seconds
  • Meeting minutes from 2/14 are adopted at 7:10
  • Minnie motions to adopt the minutes from 2/17, Angel seconds
  • Meeting minutes from 2/17 are adopted at 7:11
• Presentation from Christian Gerlach from Sierra Club, Regarding Avi Kaw Ame National Monument
  • Link to presentation
  • Anthony: Hopes that there will be something environmental proposed as a priority campaign at next convention
  • Angel: What key players is Sierra Club looking at in this campaign?
    • Christian works on the c3 side so no legislation, only administrative/executive offices. Targeting President Biden to use his powers under the Antiquities Act, department of interior
  • Minnie: What ways can LVDSA plug in?
    • Resolution of support, letters to the editor from individual Steering Committee members
  • Victoria: Can we have printed versions of the petition at our events?
    • Christian says that would be of huge help
  • Aimee: Hopes that we can make space for Christian to present at a general body meeting
• Portfolio Transitions
  • Does anyone have needs in the transition to new portfolios?
  • Anthony has set up Natasha with the HGOs to be liaison
  • Minnie’s main portfolio did not change, has been working with PJC to hand over Worker Power Wednesday. Has started speaking to people about tracking inventory, if anyone has thoughts/insights please reach out
  • Aimee’s portfolio did not change much
  • Natasha will follow up with Minnie about member engagement
  • Mike is still doing comms, will speak more on security screenings in executive session
    1. Anthony: suggests talking to HGOs about process for screenings and flagging potential issues
  • Angel and Tiffany will be meeting on Friday to hand off all the digital management stuff
  • Jesser will reach out to SocFem leadership to introduce himself as new sections & caucuses liaison
  • Victoria will be talking with Aimee to talk about the MCA priority
  • PJC wants to talk with Angel about best method to track coalition partner information, if anyone else has thoughts please share with PJC
    1. Angel suggests keeping a folder in the Google drive that has running agendas/notes for all the meetings with coalition partners
  • Lorenzita is thinking about what organizer trainings to set up. Trying to get some materials translated into Tagalog
  • Tiffany is getting sweatshirts from aimee this week to deal with merch distribution, also in talks with Fii marketing to talk about setting up ecommerce shop
  • Anthony wants to write the script for the general meeting as part of his duties and just have the rest of SC review the script together to save time
• General Body Meeting Prep
  • Reviewing script together
• Executive Session
• Steering Committee Retreat
  • Minnie: So far we cannot find a date that works for everyone. Seems silly to hold a retreat without everyone
  • Anthony: If we can’t find a time that works for everyone, we may need to talk about retreat topics during SC meetings
  • Angel: If we identify multiple things, we could try breaking things up into multiple 1-2 hour sessions instead of one whole day.
  • Anthony: At the beginning we met every week, we may need to go back to weekly meetings to cover some of these bigger topics
• Open Comment
  • Anthony: Cody has stepped down as an electoral priority steward. Cody does have a lot of ideas about future electoral work in LVDSA. Anthony would like Cody to come present to the SC about some of these ideas.
    1. Tiffany: Any thoughts on people to replace Cody with?
       1. Cody has suggested Jeff M.
  • Angel: Getting a lot of requests about the sweatshirts
  • Aimee: Reminding everyone about The Red Deal reading group, someone from The Red Nation will be there!
  • Anthony: Would love for the LVDSA account to hold a twitter space. Wants to recreate the poolside or fireside chats. Open enough to get a variety of answers, but not a debate.
  • Victoria: There is a tree planting at the Solidarity Fridge on Sunday. Could LVDSA be a sponsor?
    • Aimee: What do you need from us?
      • Victoria: Needs hands on deck and put our logo on a flyer
    • No one is opposed
• Meeting adjourned at 9:17