“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
- Charles Dickens, The Tale of Two Cities
I hope you, your family and your fellow clubmembers are well.
This month’s meeting will focus on Online Voting for clubs. Thank you to everyone who’s shared what their club is doing to hold online meetings, what’s working well and what needs some improvement.
We’ll share our collective knowledge and the Club Development Committee will outline a proposal to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
We hope to reach a consensus on the preferred voting method and then have the Party provide a Safe Harbor rule that clubs can easily adopt before the end of June 2020.
At the April 30th special meeting the Central Committee suspended…
…the Policies and Procedures portions regarding binding of a club's associate votes until Director of Clubs and the Chair certify that a club has acceptable accommodations to COVID-19 pandemic electronic meeting policies, and that such acceptable accommodations be developed by clubs individually within 60 days of today.
- Unapproved Minutes 4/30/20
You can register here for all of the Council of Clubs Meetings and you’ll get details on how to join from your computer/smartphone/regular phone. If you have any problems please email clubs@sddemocrats.org.
For our second meeting of 2020 here is the proposed agenda:
Introductions of those in attendance, including elected officials, guests
Online Voting discussion and proposal
Zoom meeting - using Yes/No feature
Zoom meeting - using Polling feature
Email voting - using plain old email
OpaVote - used in a Zoom meeting and for email voting
Bylaw changes for online voting - Safe Harbor rule
Upcoming meetings of interest
North Area Caucus - May 16, 2PM
Central Committee Meeting - May 19, 6PM including proposed bylaws changes
Announcements
We’re postponing the voting on Club of the Year until our June 20 meeting, as by then we’ll have agreed on how to run the voting :)
Thanks for everyone who completed the form already but for those who didn’t, we still need every club to let the Party know of changes to meeting details, newly elected officers, and bylaws. To make it easy, the Party has setup an online form here.
I look forward to seeing/hearing you this Saturday, 10AM - Zoom meeting registration
Cheers, John Loughlin
Director of Clubs | john@demclubs.org | (619) 302-4751 | www.demclubs.org