Agenda for August 6, 2017

 Green Party of New Milford
Agenda ~ Regular Meeting #7
Sunday, August 6, 2017, 4:00pm to about 6:00 PM
25 Summit Street, New Milford, CT 06776

• 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
  • 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