Green Party of New Milford
Agenda ~ Regular Meeting #7
Sunday, August 6, 2017, 4:00pm
25 Summit Street
- Welcome / Introductions (5 minutes)
- Agenda additions / Minutes submitted from previous meeting, July 16, 2017 (5 minutes)
- Old business
- Officer reports (10 minutes)
- Organizational Chair
- Financial Chair
- Secretarial Chair
- Town officials and candidates report (10 minutes)
- Joe — Board of Finance / Independent candidate for Council
- Ron — Historical Properties Commission / Old Boardman Bridge Comm.
- Town committee vacancies
- Finances (10 minutes)
- Printing expenses:
- banner $63.81
- 1K cards $206.63
- Cash on hand: $0
- Hat pass / Fundraising ideas
- Printing expenses:
- Village Fair Days review (15 minutes)
- Thanks again to John Battista and Justine McCabe for underwriting cost of booth rental!
- Thanks to all our volunteers!
- David Stevenson (“Progressive Soup”), Wanda Broderick and Cindy Davis (TPP or Therapy for Political People, the former Brookfield Bernie group) joined us
- 1 new Green registration! 3 other new ones; ±27 names on mailing list
- Expenses
- Experiences
- Mission statement/bylaws – Revised draft with changes from last meeting complete, members to review. (10 minutes)
- Actions (15 minutes)
- Media: Issue press release announcing official GPCT chapter in New Milford
- Town ordination Fracking Ban. Success!
- Next issues:
- Solar array on Candlewood Mountain — Colin report on getting petitions
- Sanctuary City
- Other local issues
- Registration drive Saturdays during Farmers Market “Greens on the Green”
- LTE’s: Anti-solar array?
- Web site and social media (5 minutes)
- New Website is up! GreenPartyofNewMilford.org redirects to our WordPress site, newmilfordgreens.wordpress.com
- Facebook group
- Email list
- Twitter?
- At next meeting (and meanwhile), consider how we should do social media to easily communicate with a much larger group of people .
- New business (10 minutes)
- Connecting with local progressive individuals and organizations
- Next meeting dates 2017: September 3, October 1, November 5, December 3; 2018: January 7, February 4
- Meeting place: 25 Summit Street
- Other
- Adjourn
- Officer reports (10 minutes)