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Minutes
12.12.2004
CCC
Meeting Minutes
Those
in Attendance: Jo Chamberlain (CA), Amy Heart (WI), Jane Hunter
(NJ), Brent McMillan (DC), Tom Sevigny (CT), Rob Tufts (MD), Jen
Walling (IL)
Absent: Cindy Asrir (NE), Susan Fawcett (MI), Ross Mirkarimi (CA),
Jason Neville (LA), David Silva (LC)
Facilitator: Amy
Notetaker: Brent
1. Resources Subcommittee
1.A. Develop new application for resources.
Action Item: Jen will try to have the separated application done
within a week. She is also developing an application for
candidates who want to have their fundraising plan and campaign
plan reviewed.
1.B. Compile feedback received from questionnaire sent out to
candidates.
Amy heard from Susan that she will compile the results of the
Questionnaire soon.
1.C. Letter to Matt Gonzalez
Action Item: Jen will review the letter to Matt.
1.D. Update of Campaign Manual
Rob is interested in working on this. Rob gave an example of a
change that needs to be made. Rob and Amy will work together on
this. Amy will ask Kevin from the Officeholders Network to review
the current document.
1.E. Matching funds may need to be discontinued …
Matching funds are not being considered in the Tier 1 budget. We
need to prioritize the items to fundraise towards. We discussed a
disclaimer statement in regards to the matching funds program on
the application.
2. Campaign Schools
2.A. Develop template for campaign school
We will have a call about this in early January. Jen will email
everybody to set this up.
We discussed the proposed Green Summit in Georgia. It was agreed
that the Greens in Georgia need to have a commitment from Greens
in other states in order to move forward. It was recommended that
Brent not travel to Brunswick for the meeting on the 17th but try
to do as much as possible over the phone.
3. State Associates Program
A. Develop "job description" for State Associates
Brent sent out the job description to the extent that it was
developed by the previous CCC.
Action Item: Brent will draft an updated version for discussion on
the next call. CCC members to get their comments to him by Friday.
B. Schedule regional conference call with state associates
Amy reported on the Great Lakes Region call which took place on
November 16th. She will be sending out the notes from the call
shortly. They are planning a Campaign School for 2005 in Chicago.
They plan to hold calls quarterly with the next call in February.
Each CCC member should try to coordinate one of the conference
calls.
Action Items: Tom agreed to work towards a call in the Northeast.
Rob agreed to work towards a call for the Chesapeake region. Jen
will work with Cindy on a call for the Prairie Region. Brent will
work on the next call for the Pacific Northwest Region. Amy will
work on the next call for the Great Lakes Region. Jane will assist
David on a call for the Southwest Region. Jason has committed
previously on a call for the Southern region.
C. Approve of regions sent out by Brent
Regions as revised: (Revisions in parenthesis)
The Pacific Northwest - Northern California, Oregon, Washington,
and Idaho paired with Montana and Wyoming. Alaska and Hawaii are
very remote but might be attached to the Pacific Northwest.
The Great Lakes Region - Wisconsin, (The Chicago Area of)
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan paired with (Western)
Pennsylvania and Iowa (also PR).
The Chesapeake Region - Virginia, DC, West Virginia, (Eastern
Pennsylvania), Maryland, Delaware, and (Southern) New Jersey.
The Prairie Region - Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa (also GLR),
Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois (also GLR)
The Southwest - Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado,
New Mexico, Utah, Texas
The South - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
The Northeast - Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and (Northern New Jersey).
The High Plains - South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota.
4. Maintain Web Page/Listservers
A. Add new templates
B. Solve problem concerning ownership of election database
Brent reported that Susan Dridi and Jonathan Lundell have agreed
to assess the current software developed by Kendra. Susan will
contact Kendra to make the arrangements.
5. Subcommittees/Liaisons with other Groups
A. Reconvene BAWG
Action Item - Brent is working on a detailed report on our current
Ballot Access situation. He will run it by the BAWG for comment
before sending to the national committee. This is also an
opportunity to reconvene the BAWG and begin working on the issues
for 2005.
B. Campus Greens
Jen reported on the current status of the Campus Greens. There is
a conference call on December 20th. Rob will be on the call as
well. The old 501C4 organization is nearly dormant. The 527 is
moving forward.
Brent reported that current co-chair of the Campus Greens
organization, Shannon Anderson dropped off materials for storage
at the national office. She has served for almost two years and
her term is coming to an end soon.
C. Officeholders Network
Brent reported that the new listserv for the Officeholders Network
is up and running. Gray and Brent have administrative access.
Brent is contacting all of the new and recently re-elected
officeholders about the new listserv.
Action Item - Brent to contact the existing officeholders about
the new listserv.
6. Other
Jen talked about building a database of officeholder
accomplishments. She is willing to call the new and recently
re-elected officeholders. We will combine this with the calls to
solicit donor list. Amy volunteered to assist.
Amy brought up the idea of targeted candidates who lost and still
have money in their campaign accounts.
We discussed the building of a database of officeholders. Jane and
Brent will discuss this further on Friday. Rob has ideas as well.
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