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Meeting Agenda - April 8, 2023
(**THIS MEETING IS ONLY AVALABLE ON ZOOM - NOT IN PERSON**)
2nd CD Agenda 4/8/23
1. Call to Order:
2. Pledge of Allegiance:
3. Indigenous Land Acknowledgement:
“The State of Michigan occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabek – Three Fires Confederacy, the Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Bodewadmi (Potawatomi). The Michigan Democratic Party recognizes historic Indigenous communities in Michigan and those forcibly removed from their homelands. We further recognize the ongoing relationship of dependence upon, and respect for, all living beings of earth, sky, and water. In offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences.”
4. Speakers:
5. Roll call of officers:
Mary Minnick – Chair
John Helge – Vice Chair
Dallas Dean
Mark Everhart will fill in for Peggy Raddatz at this meeting.
6. **Zoom only meetings - District Committee Members:
**Please put your name and county in the chat.
Mary Minnick, Robin Aslakson, Karen Turnbull, Amanda Siggins, Christie Freestone, Christina Bush, Peggy Raddatz, Julie Alexander, Cathy Willermet, Dallas Dean, Michael Lynch, John Pakledinaz, John Helge, Edward Miller, Michael Fields, Jerry Hilliard, Shawn Davis, Jeffrey Beegle, Mark Everhart, Jennifer Koch Donovan, Landon Myers, Lynn Mason, Kim Gates, Jennifer Austin, Justin Johnson, Jason Colella, Mary Temple, Tim Smith, Sally Wagner, Mark Thomson, Chadwick Walenga and *Sandy Clarke (stepping down from Chair of Lake County Democratic Party in May 2023).
7. Roll call of Counties: (not need today. see 6.)
Barry County, Clare County, Eaton County (3/16), Gladwin County, Gratiot County, Ionia County, Isabella County, Kent County (13/24), Lake County, Manistee County, Mason County, Mecosta County, Midland County (5/16), Montcalm County, Muskegon County (11/18), Newaygo County, Oceana County, Osceola, Ottawa County (1/17), Wexford County.
8. Determination of quorum:
According to our by-laws (Section #5.1.C.), a quorum will exist when 50% of the officers and four additional members of he District Committee are present.
9. Approve Agenda:
10. Approval of minutes: (Available on the website under "Minutes" tab.)
secretarys_minutes_march_11th_2023.doc
11. Officer’s reports:
● Chairperson Report - Mary Minnick - Lake County -Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
chairs_report_april_8th_2023.doc
chairs_report_april_8th_2023.doc
● Vice-Chair's Report - John Helge - Manistee County -Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
vice_chairs_april_report.doc
● Treasurer’s Report - Dallas Dean - Newaygo County Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2cd_treasurer_report_april_2_2023.docx
● Secretary’s Report - (Temp) Mark Everhart - Manistee County Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
**Chadwick Walenga was added in our District Committee Members list. I need his email address. Please add it in the "chat" if you can at this time.
secretarys_minutes_march_11th_2023.doc
12. Committee Reports: ** Responsibilities for each committee can be found on the website under the "Committees" tab. *Just and FYI...All of the following committees chairs will bring all final decisions to the 2nd CD Chair for her final approval before anything is mailed out to our members or written up in a newspaper or email.
● Rules and Bylaws Committee: (By-Laws and Resolution has been submitted to MDP)
1). Dallas Dean (Chair) NCDP - Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Mark Everhart - Lake County D.P.
3). John Helge - Manistee County D.P.
4). Mary Minnick - Lake County D.P.
● Finance and Fundraising Committee:
1). Dallas Dean (Chair) Newaygo County D.P. - Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Ken Mahoney - Muskegon
3). K.P. Mahoney - Muskegon
● Candidate Recruitment and Support (for candidate) Committee:
1). Ed Miller (Chair) - Mason County D.P. - Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Christina Bush - Barry County D.P.
3). Christie Freestone - Gratiot County D.P.
4). Julie Alexander - Mecosta County D.P.
● Political and 2nd CD Party Organizing Committee:
**( I am looking forward to a potential zoom meeting for the three of us on April 19th to discuss the May 13th Ice Cream Social - Let me know if April 19th at 4pm will work for you both, if not, what would be a better time?)
1). Cathy Willermet (Chair)-Isabella County D.P. Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Karen Turnbull - Mecosta County D.P.
● Communications Committee:
**We had a great April 4th zoom meeting from 5pm-6pm on zoom).
1). Mary Minnick (Chair) – Lake - Please read your report under the Communication Committee tab on the 2nd CD Website. - Job Description:
2). Amanda Siggins - Wexford County D.P. – Job Description:
3). Sally Wagoner - Newaygo County D.P.
4). Chadwick Walenga – Newaygo County D.P. – Job Description:
*Artwork/Design for advertising and improving district branding for the public.
● Policy and Resolution Committee:
1). John Helge (Chair)- Manistee County D.P. Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Michael Lynch - Gratiot County D.P.
● Audit Committee:
1). Robin Aslakson (Chair) - Mason County D.P. Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Mark Everhart - Lake County D.P.
13. Unfinished Business:
Please remember that our first fundraiser of the year will follow next months business meeting. Get your tickets and bring your friends to our first ice cream social. Please see Dallas Dean the chair of the Finance and Fundraising Committee for more information.
14. New Business:
Legacy Nominee's will need to be voted on today. Legacy Dinner at the Renaissance Center 5/20/2023 in Detroit, MI. - More information to come. We will now go to the tab "Legacy Dinner Nominees"
15. County Reports:
Due to the number of counties in the 2nd CD. County Reports will be included with the meeting minutes from today. If you haven’t already submitted them, please do so as soon as possible. I add them to our website under "County Parties" tab.
16. Good and Welfare:
A). The Michigan Democratic Party Rural Caucus is holding a state wide summit to work on important issues facing rural Michigan. The action weekend (April 13th,14th and 15th):
mdpruralcaucus.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Michigan-Rural-Democratic-Summit.pdf
B). Christina Bush will discuss what she has learned about the Michigan Connected Future Event that occurred in Hastings. They are conducting a listening tour to help the state formulate a plan to provide high-speed internet for Michigan. Below is a note sent to Me from Christina to add to our agenda. (Christina the floor is yours):
"Several Barry County Democrats attended a public discussion facilitated by the Michigan High-speed Internet (MIHI) Office, to give the state our opinions on what is needed to help bring broadband out to more of our rural areas. The MIHI Office is holding 30 of these meetings throughout the state, then compiling the information into a report which will be available for review and comment. See https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/mihi for more information. These meetings fall under the MI Connected Future link on that page. The MIHI Office can supply a "Community Meeting in a Box" so you can facilitate your own meetings with local groups. (Chris Bush is willing to run through one of these with interested CD2 members; she's also approaching the Rural Caucus about this opportunity.)".
17. Meeting is now adjourned.
agenda_for_april_8th_meeting_2023.doc
Meeting Agenda - April 8, 2023
(**THIS MEETING IS ONLY AVALABLE ON ZOOM - NOT IN PERSON**)
2nd CD Agenda 4/8/23
1. Call to Order:
2. Pledge of Allegiance:
3. Indigenous Land Acknowledgement:
“The State of Michigan occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabek – Three Fires Confederacy, the Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Bodewadmi (Potawatomi). The Michigan Democratic Party recognizes historic Indigenous communities in Michigan and those forcibly removed from their homelands. We further recognize the ongoing relationship of dependence upon, and respect for, all living beings of earth, sky, and water. In offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences.”
4. Speakers:
5. Roll call of officers:
Mary Minnick – Chair
John Helge – Vice Chair
Dallas Dean
Mark Everhart will fill in for Peggy Raddatz at this meeting.
6. **Zoom only meetings - District Committee Members:
**Please put your name and county in the chat.
Mary Minnick, Robin Aslakson, Karen Turnbull, Amanda Siggins, Christie Freestone, Christina Bush, Peggy Raddatz, Julie Alexander, Cathy Willermet, Dallas Dean, Michael Lynch, John Pakledinaz, John Helge, Edward Miller, Michael Fields, Jerry Hilliard, Shawn Davis, Jeffrey Beegle, Mark Everhart, Jennifer Koch Donovan, Landon Myers, Lynn Mason, Kim Gates, Jennifer Austin, Justin Johnson, Jason Colella, Mary Temple, Tim Smith, Sally Wagner, Mark Thomson, Chadwick Walenga and *Sandy Clarke (stepping down from Chair of Lake County Democratic Party in May 2023).
7. Roll call of Counties: (not need today. see 6.)
Barry County, Clare County, Eaton County (3/16), Gladwin County, Gratiot County, Ionia County, Isabella County, Kent County (13/24), Lake County, Manistee County, Mason County, Mecosta County, Midland County (5/16), Montcalm County, Muskegon County (11/18), Newaygo County, Oceana County, Osceola, Ottawa County (1/17), Wexford County.
8. Determination of quorum:
According to our by-laws (Section #5.1.C.), a quorum will exist when 50% of the officers and four additional members of he District Committee are present.
9. Approve Agenda:
10. Approval of minutes: (Available on the website under "Minutes" tab.)
secretarys_minutes_march_11th_2023.doc
11. Officer’s reports:
● Chairperson Report - Mary Minnick - Lake County -Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
chairs_report_april_8th_2023.doc
chairs_report_april_8th_2023.doc
● Vice-Chair's Report - John Helge - Manistee County -Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
vice_chairs_april_report.doc
● Treasurer’s Report - Dallas Dean - Newaygo County Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2cd_treasurer_report_april_2_2023.docx
● Secretary’s Report - (Temp) Mark Everhart - Manistee County Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
**Chadwick Walenga was added in our District Committee Members list. I need his email address. Please add it in the "chat" if you can at this time.
secretarys_minutes_march_11th_2023.doc
12. Committee Reports: ** Responsibilities for each committee can be found on the website under the "Committees" tab. *Just and FYI...All of the following committees chairs will bring all final decisions to the 2nd CD Chair for her final approval before anything is mailed out to our members or written up in a newspaper or email.
● Rules and Bylaws Committee: (By-Laws and Resolution has been submitted to MDP)
1). Dallas Dean (Chair) NCDP - Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Mark Everhart - Lake County D.P.
3). John Helge - Manistee County D.P.
4). Mary Minnick - Lake County D.P.
● Finance and Fundraising Committee:
1). Dallas Dean (Chair) Newaygo County D.P. - Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Ken Mahoney - Muskegon
3). K.P. Mahoney - Muskegon
● Candidate Recruitment and Support (for candidate) Committee:
1). Ed Miller (Chair) - Mason County D.P. - Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Christina Bush - Barry County D.P.
3). Christie Freestone - Gratiot County D.P.
4). Julie Alexander - Mecosta County D.P.
● Political and 2nd CD Party Organizing Committee:
**( I am looking forward to a potential zoom meeting for the three of us on April 19th to discuss the May 13th Ice Cream Social - Let me know if April 19th at 4pm will work for you both, if not, what would be a better time?)
1). Cathy Willermet (Chair)-Isabella County D.P. Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Karen Turnbull - Mecosta County D.P.
● Communications Committee:
**We had a great April 4th zoom meeting from 5pm-6pm on zoom).
1). Mary Minnick (Chair) – Lake - Please read your report under the Communication Committee tab on the 2nd CD Website. - Job Description:
- *Contact the District 3 Area newspapers after our monthly meeting to put an add in their "Community *Calendar” notifying each of them of our next monthly meeting.
- *Update website, Facebook page, schedule guest and keynote speakers for all events.
2). Amanda Siggins - Wexford County D.P. – Job Description:
- *Running Zoom for our in-person meetings.
- *Contact the District 1 Area newspapers after our monthly meeting to put an add in their "Community *Calendar” notifying each of them of our next monthly meeting.
3). Sally Wagoner - Newaygo County D.P.
- *Contact the District 2 Area newspapers after our monthly meeting to put an add in their "Community *Calendar” notifying each of them of our next monthly meeting.
4). Chadwick Walenga – Newaygo County D.P. – Job Description:
*Artwork/Design for advertising and improving district branding for the public.
● Policy and Resolution Committee:
1). John Helge (Chair)- Manistee County D.P. Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Michael Lynch - Gratiot County D.P.
● Audit Committee:
1). Robin Aslakson (Chair) - Mason County D.P. Please read your report if any is needed at this time.
2). Mark Everhart - Lake County D.P.
13. Unfinished Business:
Please remember that our first fundraiser of the year will follow next months business meeting. Get your tickets and bring your friends to our first ice cream social. Please see Dallas Dean the chair of the Finance and Fundraising Committee for more information.
14. New Business:
Legacy Nominee's will need to be voted on today. Legacy Dinner at the Renaissance Center 5/20/2023 in Detroit, MI. - More information to come. We will now go to the tab "Legacy Dinner Nominees"
15. County Reports:
Due to the number of counties in the 2nd CD. County Reports will be included with the meeting minutes from today. If you haven’t already submitted them, please do so as soon as possible. I add them to our website under "County Parties" tab.
16. Good and Welfare:
A). The Michigan Democratic Party Rural Caucus is holding a state wide summit to work on important issues facing rural Michigan. The action weekend (April 13th,14th and 15th):
mdpruralcaucus.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Michigan-Rural-Democratic-Summit.pdf
B). Christina Bush will discuss what she has learned about the Michigan Connected Future Event that occurred in Hastings. They are conducting a listening tour to help the state formulate a plan to provide high-speed internet for Michigan. Below is a note sent to Me from Christina to add to our agenda. (Christina the floor is yours):
"Several Barry County Democrats attended a public discussion facilitated by the Michigan High-speed Internet (MIHI) Office, to give the state our opinions on what is needed to help bring broadband out to more of our rural areas. The MIHI Office is holding 30 of these meetings throughout the state, then compiling the information into a report which will be available for review and comment. See https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/mihi for more information. These meetings fall under the MI Connected Future link on that page. The MIHI Office can supply a "Community Meeting in a Box" so you can facilitate your own meetings with local groups. (Chris Bush is willing to run through one of these with interested CD2 members; she's also approaching the Rural Caucus about this opportunity.)".
17. Meeting is now adjourned.