Steering Committee Meeting: March 9th, 2026

March 9, 2026

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

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

Notetaker: Sophie D.

Agenda

Call to Order

  • Approve agenda
  • Approve last meeting’s minutes
Check-ins

  • How is everyone doing, need support with anything?
  • Follow up on action items
April GBM
Nominations

  • HGO
  • Abolish ICE
National Required Changes

  • Transition from Periscope to Hex
  • New chartering requirements checklist
  • Assigning chartering liaison
Office Space fundraising

  • Using next fundraising committee meeting
May Day & No Kings Planning

  • Review Press Release by Emilio
Electoral Campaign Needs & Updates
Clarification on non-endorsed candidate rules
Open Comment
Adjourn

Meeting Minutes

  • Call to order at 7:03
  • Tyler motions to approve the agenda
    • Anthony seconds
    • Passes unanimously
  • Brian motions to approve last meeting’s minutes
    • Tyler seconds
    • Passes unanimously
  • Check-ins
    • Jaden adjusting to new schedule
    • Tyler: MEC replaced MArch phone bank with a fundraising one
      • DSA 101 and social for March combined
    • Jesser working on the reading group
      • Working on first no ICE event
        • Anthony suggests collaborating on Know Your Rights
    • Anthony has a lot of work this week outside of DSA
      • Happy with how much work DSA has right now
      • Advocates for focusing on existing projects & not adopting new ones until convention
    • Sophie doing well
    • Casey doing okay
  • Action items
    • May 2nd reservation from last meeting no longer needed
    • All other action items completed
  • April GBM
    • Space reserved at East Las Vegas Community Center
      • Saturday the 4th
      • 2:30-5:30pm
    • We should really do a poli-ed class since it has been pushed 2 months
    • Further planning at next SC meeting
  • Nominations (HGO and anti ICE)
    • Tamara stepped down as HGO
      • Dylan may be ghosting
        • Need to confirm
        • Anthony will reach out
    • 1-2 HGO elections should happen at next GBM
      • Brian will put together a nomination form
    • Abolish ICE nominee selection
      • Anthony motions to move to Executive Session
        • Jesser seconds
        • Passes unanimously
      • Audrey H appointed as Steward unanimously
      • Jill G appointed as Steward unanimously
      • Alex B appointed as Steward 7-1
  • National required changes
    • National sent an email notifying us that we will be transitioning our member list from Periscope to new platform Hex
      • Brian and Casey will handle the transition, including sharing the information in Vaultwarden
    • Democracy Commission would like us to assign a charting lead
      • Tyler takes on the task
    • Brian and Tyler will fill out the pre-checklist from DemComm
  • Office Space Fundraising
    • Anthony suggests taking over Thursday Fundraising Committee meeting to turn it into a phone bank
      • Casey can’t facilitate it anyways
      • Anthony will transfer the Zoom link
  • No Kings
    • Emilio wrote a draft press release
    • Anthony suggests keeping the template he made as a Comms tool
      • Sand will keep it saved in the Comms toolkit
    • Discussion on who/what should be put as a contact
      • Jaden suggests a broad “LVDSA” as the contact name
      • Casey suggests Brian
    • Jesser suggests more formal writing;
      • No all-caps
      • Professionalism
        • Can stay incendiary
      • Brian seconds
    • Anthony says that a Press Release isn’t a statement; it’s a statement that we have made a statement
      • Suggestion; add a paragraph that LVDSA has released this statement
        • “On X date, LVDSA SC released a statement in regards to __
      • Media can write an article about us
      • Will need partner information
    • Anthony requests to take over the draft
      • Approved
    • Sophie volunteers to put her name on the statement
      • We should also ask Tiffany
  • May Day
    • LVWOC event on road to May Day
      • April 25th
    • Workplace Organizing style LVDSA partner fair
      • Targeting Labor Unions
      • Structure test
    • Motion to join May Day Strong coalition passes unanimously
    • Will reach out to Academic Worker’s Union, Make the Road NV, Nevada Faculty Alliance, United Brothel Workers, & Starbucks Workers United
      • None have a contract yet
  • Electoral campaign needs and updates
    • Campaigns are currently on track
      • Needs to start ramping up
    • Anthony suggests phone banking to sign up for canvassing
      • Lorenzita agrees
    • “Now that filing is official, it’s time to ramp up”
    • Lorenzita says campaigns don’t have enough money right now
      • We need a campaign manager
      • Brady is supposed to be paid, hasn’t been
      • We should probably be at $40,000 raised but we are not close
    • Tyler will take on the task of hosting phone banking
    • Lorenzita will work with candidates to host an external fundraising event
  • Electoral rules clarification
    • Motion to go to executive session
  • Meeting adjourned
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