The Ohio State University

College Democrats

E-Board Minutes

May 1, 2011

Attendence: Mallory Kimble, Julia Slusarz, Daira Suljovic, Jacob Foshkul, Sydney Schmitt, Mike Triozzi, Liz Martino, Travis Skaggs, Luke McKaig, Jasmine Perkins, Joey Longley, Shelby Waite, Kyle Strickland, Kenny Myers, Sabrina Moxey, Genna Schwartz, Drew Doherty, Josh Ahart

Buckeyes For Brown- Foshkul

Students For Obama- Myers

Nominations for full e board

Executive Director- Kenny Myers-unanimous acclimation

Membership Coordinator- Genna Schwartz-unanimous acclimation

Social Coordinator- Genevieve Simon- unanimous acclimation

Service Coordinator- Sydney Schmitt and Luke McKaig- unanimous acclimation

LGBT Coordinator- Bryan Hogg- unanimous acclimation

Women’s Coordinator- Zel Caldwell and Sabrina Moxey- unanimous acclimation

Minority Coordinator- Jasmine Perkins- unanimous acclimation

Green Coordinator- Andrew Lin- unanimous acclimation

Human Rights Coordinator- Julie Sweeney and Jacob Bogart- unanimous acclimation

SB5 Coordinator-Kelsey Shoub and Daira Suljovic- unanimous acclimation

Campaign Coordinator-Craig Scheidler-unanamous acclimation

Advocacy Coordinator- Paul Fillipeli and Julia Slusarz-unanimous acclimation

Fundraising Director- Josh Ahart- unanimous acclimation

Marketing Coordinator- Shelby Waite

Technology Coordinator- Drew Doherty

End E Board nominations

Joey will meet with his appointees on a regular basis PAC political action committee

Individual meeting with appointed members will be conducted in order to clearly define goals

Next Weeks Meeting

-potential Republican nominees

-afghanistan

-undocumented immigration

-syria and Libya-Mike, Jake, Julia S., Paul

- have a seniors night (25^th)

-for final meeting offer a vision for next years vision

Coming Meetings

-may 4^th Libya defense

-may 11^th Internship Fair

-may 18^th PC or Immigrations-depending on speaker availability

-may 25^th senior night/ next years vision

-june 1^st study break

service project in response to “conservative week” week of 15^th -21^st

brainstorm service project ideas

-address sb5 at same time

-look for contacts at public schools and libraries

E-Board Retreat!

-Oval Beach (by T. Skaggs)

-Iuka Park weather permitting

-team building games

-may 8^th

-members will bring things

-corn hole

- songs by Genna and Liz

Internship Fair

-interest groups

-campaigns

-OFA

*vote on Tuesday!

Attendence- Mallory Kimble, Liz Martino, Joey Longley, Travis Skaggs, Hazel Caldwell, Kyle Strickland, Craig Scheidler, Mike Triozzi

-tabling for sb5 and hb  159

-petitions should be ready by next meeting

next meeting topic

-political correctness discussion

-debt , deficit

-liz moderate discussion on debt and deficit

-informal presentation(ask paul to do this)

-play youtube video on simplified version of debt

-and Obama speech

-maybe name meeting debt and deficit the hard choice ahead

next meeting

-sb5 and  hb 159

next two meetings

-political correctness

-get  moderators from black community and lgbt community etc

appointments

-highlight in e mails that appointment deadline is Wednesday

-extend deadline if needed for appointments

-tabling for petitions as soon as tomorrow if possible

plus’ and deltas

.Attendance- Kyle Strickland, Mike Triozzi, Kenny Myers, Joey Longley, Liz Martino, Mallory Kimble, Travis Skaggs, Julia Slusarz

Wednesdays Meeting

-USG candidates speak

-Joey to introduce Nick

-Kyle or Kenny to introduce Jake

-make it clear that nick and jake are democrats

-senate candidates stand up

General Theme

-SB5 stuff

-Pat O’Connel student week of action the week after next, voting rights issue, Kenny says talk to him

-Kasichs daughters private school has to shut down with budget cuts

-announce appointments

-set 2 week deadline to have appointments done

-boot camp idea suggested for appointment positions

-have an e board retreat

-idea of lumping education and labor together mainly because of sb5

positions we will have

-lgbt

-womens

-minority affairs

-green

-advocacy

-temp sb5

-internship

-service

-membership

-social (good times)

-marketing

-technology

-human rights

-fundraising

-executive director

do some outings without alcohol not all parties

-       e mail accounts – set those up

Attendance: Matt Caffrey, Kelly Stritzinger, Julia Slusarz, Dustin White, Zel Caldwell, Andrew Ashbrook, Joey Longley, Mallory Kimble, Mike Triozzi, Sydney Schmitt (called in)

Recap last week: Shit my Kasich says: Was mostly Caffrey speaking. Decent, but not the best meeting ever.

Kelly brought $20 for DC trip

DC trip:

Car seating: we should have members write preferences on sheet, then e-board will pick who is riding in cars.

Members will be able to change if they have issues with which car they are placed in.

We have two minivans (Matt and Joey’s parents’ cars) and one car (Dustin)

We need at least one more car:

–      Renting? $10/day-ish

–      Borrowing? We will call people to find out if they are willing to drive: Travis? Paul? Genevieve? Mike? Andrew Lin? Sabrina Moxcey (Matt will call these people after e-board)

We will not assign cars or hotels, but will ask preference.

Members will list 3 people they want to live/ride with.

Hostel:  Still hasn’t been reserved. Matt has called but the person was unable to help. We may need to stay do hostel international instead. Either way, Matt will take care of it soon.

Metro: We need to send Metro a money order in order to get the passes in advance. They will send us the passes in the mail.

Code of Conduct for Trip: Mike, Mallory, Liz, Dustin will work on it.  Mike will make google doc and share everyone on it.

Schedule:  We will finalize which locations we’re going to go to. Monday we’re going to senate floor! Matt is going to take care of schedule, which will be made public after other trip details finalized

Petitions for getting sexual violence policy on USG ballot:

We need people to get signatures, needed by end of quarter. Like to be done/to reach 300 signatures by the end of this week.

We will make sure some get passed around at next Dems meeting

This week’s meeting 3/3/11: “Race and Education”

Sydney is meeting with Warren  (president of BSA). Thinking of inviting Larry (former BSA president) to meeting

Specific topic: AA within Democratic party, Democratic party connections        with AA community? Why it’s strong?

            Relation between party and community

            Affirmative action?

            Black politics prof. will be contacted – may come or provide advice

            Education funding based on property taxes – and how that’s racialized

            Patty Cunningham: Blacks in the Education system?

Pass around petitions for sexual violence

Next week’s meeting 3/10/11: Study Break

Where?

-We’ve done Noodles, Potbelly, Five Guys already

-Bdubs?

            Zel will try to call them and arrange 7:30 reservation

-Five Guys = backup

2/20 Dems Minutes

Attendance: Matt Caffrey, Nick Messenger, Kumar Raghuvanshi, Julia Slusarz (absent)

-This weeks meeting: Update on stuff Kasich has been doing

            -SB 5

            -Transparency/ Race Issues

            -Budget

            -Name for meeting:

                        -“Shi! My Governor Says”

            -EB make presentations, otherwise Katie Kelly (speaker) can discuss

                        -Zel (minority transparency), Matt (SB 5)

            -Meeting 3/2: black history meeting

            -Study Break

            -Meeting 3/30: PC stuff

-Protest information

            -record videos at the protest for Kasich Project

            -please invite people via the Facebook event and share with other progressive

            student organization.

            -get fliers in the journalism building. Spread more around eventually.

            -sign making

-D.C. trip

            -Money given to Mike at the party will be given to Matt

            -We have decided on the hostel (Hilltop Hostel) and on buying Metro passes

            -7:30 meetings prior to the regular meeting will continue

            -USG will be kicking in for part of the cost of the trip (hopefully)

-We will vote on the amendment Wednesday after the meeting.

-We need to further discuss EB times.

-Concerns

            -pluses and deltas style

-Dustin and Matt have relationship issues.

-Attendance: Dustin White, Nick Messenger, Laura Smales, Tim Sandusky, Bryan Hogg, Nneka Madu (Absent)

-Mike will trade his “Jesus Skittles” for “Jesus Reeses” (Jeeses)

-Pluses and Deltas

-This Weeks Meeting:

            -People are getting tired of discussions

                        -Therefore, Dustin is going to do his presentation on fetishes.

                        -Human Sexually 101

                                    -Liz doesn’t know.

                                    -“Tales of Getting Tail”- lets invite WARR.

                                    -Rashida from HRC can speak about transgender issues and Genna

                                    can show a video.

-Can Becca and Julia talk about sex?

                                    -Zel will talk about choice.

                        -Also, let’s talk about deficits.

            -Zach will come to the meeting to speak.

            -DC Meeting before the meeting at 7:30.

                        -$1776 for trip

                        -MetroPass conversation- let’s go w/ an unlimited pass.

                        -Liz may be able to drive to DC, Bruce and Ann Martino permitting.

                        -Dates for the trip are 19^th-23^rd.

-Party this Friday

-Event this Thursday with the College Republicans

            -Board games and pizza. Prizes.

-Internship available for current state senator. Event planning.

-Appointment:

            -Mallory Kimble and Josh Ahart

                        -Unanimous (Dustin’s not here)

Meeting Minutes 1/30

Attendance: Nick Messenger, Laura Smales, Tim Sandusky, Nneka Madu, Sydney Schmitt, Kumar Raghuvanshi (absent)

-Fundraiser

            -2/3 @ 7:30, Level

            -Many, many amazing people coming.

            -$3 for students

            -Dress code: men: dress pants, ties, suits etc.

                                 women: skirts, dresses

            -Dustin will give a presentation at the meeting about who the electeds are, tips for                         mingling, etc.

            -Liz and Genna will give a presentation on etiquette.

            -Trave, Kenny, Matt, Zel, Liz, Bryan, Andrew

-D.C. trip

            -Very democratic (what do you want to do?)

            -Start planning

                        -we need a date (leave sometime between the 18-20. stay 3-4 nights.)

-CDO

            -Very good

            -Goal to 100 letters to the editor a month statewide

            -Make a video: what does the budget do that hurts you?

-Party

            -YouTube/ Viral Video Theme (2/12)

-New blog

-Constitutional amendment

            -vote absentee

            -people who have appointed positions should not be axed.

-Voting

            -four people applied: Josh Ahart, Luke McKaig, Julia Slusarz, Joey Longley (Joey

            and Julia were the only ones who submitted the proposal).

                        -Co-chair: Joey and Julia.

-Liz mocks Dustin. Dustin talks of fornication. Matt masturbates to Trave. Joey is the dominant. The end.

-Language: co-advocacy coordinator.

-All eboard: yeses

-Joey and Julia win co-advocacy chair.

• Office Hours - Do it!!
• Blog
• Roe v. Wade? as a topic
• Everyone come up with ideas
• List/schedule of bloggers
• SOTU watch party - Tuesday
• Hangover Easy, 8:27 pm
• How strong is OFA in terms of pushing folks to it. 
• This week's meeting => Sexual Violence policy
• Make Facebook group to unify coalition online
• World Cafe on LGBT issues
• Tues, 3-6 pm, Longaberger House
• CDO Winter Meeting
• Media Strategy
• Matt has a red mini-van :-)
• "CDO has gotten a lot out of us." - Matt Caffrey
• Fundraiser
• Space, appetizers = FREE
  
• Lots of confirmed guests -> working on Mary Jo, Ted Strickland, and Mike Coleman
• $3 Student price? - not for members, just other students
• Sexual Violence Policy - Brad Pyle and Bryan Ashton from USG came to discuss it
• CSA: Student code of conduct
• Its up for review every three years
• Feb 7 is first committee review session
• CSA passes changes by June
• Board of Trustees by Fall 2011
• HR, personnel changes, policies, task force or working group to change it
• Matt => process right, direction and velocity => ?
• 2 year policy process => to change and implement a policy/rule university-wide (accelerated - best case = 1.5 years, conservative = 2.5-3 years)
• Student code of conduct is quicker
• Feb 7th is 1st meeting => weekly committee meetings
• can be changed by June
• It will start being talked about at the end of winter quarter
• Dems as facilitator, between USG, WARR, WISE, etc. to make progress
• Weekly meetings w/ 1-2 representatives
• Start with each groups ideal policy and concerns, and work towards a consensus policy to submit to the code committee.
• Dems will take a harder line to push faster progress on the issue. 
• Executive Director
• lots of great candidates
• Zel is approved, 4-3 (Yeses-Matt, Kelly, Mike, Liz; Nos-Dustin, Travis)
• New Fundraising Director will now need to be appointed.