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Minutes: July General Membership Meeting 7/20/15

Meeting called into order by the President on 7/20/15. The agenda was unanimously approved.

Welcome and Introductions

Speaker: Milan R. Balinton – Executive Director of the African American Community Service Agency

 

Officer Reports:

President Alex Wara:

  • Everything is chartered. Sign up for committees in the back! We won’t be hosting rooms for convention since it’ll be in San Jose.

Membership Director Emily Ramos:

  • Updated status on membership. Announced there will be a purge for members that don’t pay their dues.

Treasurer Charles Wilson:

  • We’re in the black!

Secretary Kathy Tran:

  • Nothing new to report. Sign up for the Communications Committee!

Old business

New Business

  • Retreat Announcement by Alex Wara
  • Our speakers for the next upcoming months will be San Jose Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco, and San Jose major Sam Liccardo, respectively
  • Recommendation for endorsement for the Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument by Amanda Robinson
    • Motion on the floor to discuss the national monument campaign. Amanda Montez  seconds the motion.  Motion passes.
    • Amanda Robinson requests SVYD to write a letter to Obama to request to make this a national monument.

VII. Announcements

  • Amanda Montez announced some job opportunities available at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Announced that on September 24 is the Santa Clara County League of Conservation Voters’s Annual Awards Fundraiser. For SVYD members and elected officials, the fee is $25 to attend! Amanda talked about sponsorship opportunities available.
  • Peter Allen formally declared to run for San jose Councilmember District 6. This is an early endorsement request, and next month will be question session. This is the first announcement he has made about running for District 6.
  •  Shaian Mohammadi announced as Omar Torres’s proxy about the Region 7 CDP Meeting on July 25 at Seaside, CA.
  • Amanda Robinson invited SVYD members to a debate watch party on Aug 6.
  • Emily Ramos announced about the tech museum’s 3D printing and body show.

VII. Adjournment

Motion to adjourn meeting was passed. Meeting ended by 8:30.

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Agenda: July 20, 2015

Welcomes, Introductions
Speaker: Milan R. Balinton – Executive Director of the African American Community Service Agency.

Officer Reports:

  • President (Alex Wara)
  • Membership Director (Emily Ramos)
  • Secretary (Kathy Tran)
  • Treasurer (Charles Wilson)
  • Political Director (Justin Carvalho)

Old Business

New Business

VII. Announcements

VII. Adjournment

 

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Agenda – June 15,2015

Welcome, Introductions, and Potluck

Officers Reports

  • President (Alex Wara)
  • Membership Director (Emily Ann Ramos)
  • Secretary (Juan M. Quinones
  • Treasurer (Joshua Barousse)

Old Business

New Business

  • Election of 2015-2016 Officers

VII. Announcements

VII. Adjournment

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Bylaws Amendment

SVYD’s Participation in State Party Endorsements. As a chartered Democratic club, SVYD is entitled to participate in pre-endorsing conferences conducted by the California Democratic Party (“CDP”) at the regional level, as part of the CDP’s multi-step process for endorsing candidates and ballot propositions and initiatives. SVYD’s participation is governed by Article VIII, Section 3g(5)(c) the CDP Central Committee’s Bylaws (as amended November 2014), certain elements of which are described below.

1. In the year prior to the pre-endorsing process, a roster of SVYD members in good standing and duly registered as members of the Democratic Party of California as of July 1 of said year shall be submitted to specified county and state party representatives in accordance with applicable party requirements. A “member in good standing”, and the status of such members included in the roster shall be certified by a President, Vice-President of Membership or Treasurer of SVYD.

2. SVYD’s member representative(s) to a particular pre-endorsing conference shall be from a roster described above. As to those Assembly Districts in which SVYD members reside (e.g., AD 24, AD 25, AD 27, AD 28), SVYD may designate one representative who is a resident of such Assembly District for each full (not a fraction thereof) 20 members in good standing registered to vote in the Assembly District who were listed on the roster.

The SVYD President shall select the representative(s) to the pre-endorsing conference, subject to agreement of the member and approval by the membership by majority of the vote at a general membership meeting, with the objective of equally apportioning representatives between men and women to the extent possible. As SVYD members who are also members of other club(s) may only be counted for representation once, the applicable Central Committee Regional Director will assign such members to SVYD or another club’s roster in accordance with the Central Committee Bylaws.

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Minutes – May General Membership Meeting 5/18/2015

Meeting called to order at 7:28 p.m. by President

Agenda approved unanimously

Officer Reports

President (Alex Wara)

– Update from Convention

  • SVYD was the recipient of 2 awards: CYD Chapter of the Year and Region 7 Volunteer of the Year.
  • Next convention will be in San Jose on February 26-28.
  • Since convention will be in San Jose, SVYD will be the host CYD chapter. We will need to form a planning committee. Please let Alex know if you are interested.

Membership Director (Emily Ramos)

  • At Convention, a new Eboard was elected. Notably, we have new regional director for CBAY (that’s our region in CYD), Dyana Delfin-Polk. Since she is more based up in the north part of the bay, she has appointed Emily as her regional deputy director for the south bay. Emily will represent the clubs SVYD (Silicon Valley Young Democrats), PYD (Peninsula Young Democrats), SCYD (South Alameda County Young Democrats – the Alameda is silent), and Stanford Democrats. We hope to have a stronger voice in CYD.
  • Membership dues for the 2015-2016 year will be accepted at the next meeting.

Women’s Leadership Committee Report

  • Nothing to report

Secretary (Juan M. Quinones) – Report given by Alex

  • Plan on seeing some changes on the website

Treasurer (Joshua Barousse) – Report given by Alex

  • Rooms were paid for during convention and the credit card didn’t get declined. We’re good to go!

Political Director (Jeff Cardenas) – Report given by Alex

  • Nothing to report

Old Business

Bylaw change

  • We will be updating our bylaws with some changes to allow us to participate in certain state votes.
  • This may also allow us to vote in the pre-endorsement caucuses.

New Business

1) Nomination of 2015-2016 officers

Lucas Ramirez moved to nominate Alex Wara for President. Angelica Ramos seconded. Alex accepts nomination.

No other nominations for President.

Angelica Ramos moved to nominate Emily Ramos for Membership Director. Abby Longcor seconded. Emily accepts the nomination.

No other nominations for Membership Director.

Jonathon Padilla moved to nominate Patrick Ahrens for Treasurer. Charles Wilson III seconded. Patrick does not accept nomination.

Amanda Robinson moved to nominate Abby Longcor for Treasurer. Charles Wilison III seconded. Abby accepts the nomination.

No other nominations for Treasurer.

Justin Carvalho nominated himself for Political Director. Angelica Ramos seconded.

No other nominations for Political Director.

There are no nominations for Secretary.

Nominations remain open until the club votes in the June Election Meeting.

 

VII. Announcements

  • Noveed Safipour, president of PYD talks about about SB277, which PYD endorsed, and asks SVYD to endorse. Lucas Ramirez moves to endorse. Amanda Robinson seconded. Motion unanimously passes. SVYD endorses SB277.
  • Angelica Ramos thanked SVYD unanimously endorsing her for the Regional Director position for Region 7. She is grateful for the experience and support which gave her a greater understanding of the struggles that young dems and women face when they run for office. Although she did not win, the young dems should be proud that another young dem, Omar Torres, is the new regional director and she looks forward to working with him. Should young dems have any questions about Region feel free to ask Omar or Angelica.

VII. Adjournment

Gabe Carhart moved to adjourn the meeting. Nicolette Lee seconds. Motion passed unanimously. Meeting is adjourned at 8:09 p.m.

 

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SVYD General Membership Meeting May 18, 2015

Welcome and Introductions
Officers Reports

President (Alex Wara)
Membership Director (Emily Ramos)
Women’s Leadership Committee Report
Secretary (Juan M. Quinones
Treasurer (Joshua Barousse)
Political Director (Jeff Cardenas
Old Business

1) Convention Re-Cap
2) Bylaw change

New Business
1) Nomination of 2015-2016 officers
VII. Announcements

VII. Adjournment

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SVYD April 20th General Membership Meeting Minutes

Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Jason Spitzer: CA Clean Money Campaign

 

Officer Reports:

President (Alex Wara)

 

We will be receiving an award at convention for our great work make sure you come and support us.
Membership Director (Emily Ramos)

If you havetn paid your dues please do so.
Women’s Leadership Committee Report

We need more women to sign up to join the committee

 

Secretary (Juan M. Quinones

We are working on updating our webpage if you know how to build websites please help us.
Treasurer (Joshua Barousse)
Finances are looking great
Political Director (Jeff Cardenas)

Nothing new to report
SVYD Voter Engagement Committee

Old Business
1)Convention
2) JJ Dinner After Party

New Business

Motion passed to endorse Igor Tregub for VP of finance for CYD.
1) CDP bylaw change
2) Announcement of E-Board Elections (June)

 

VII. Announcements:

 

VII. Adjournment:

Motion to adjourn meeting was passed. Meeting ended at 9pm.

 

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March 16 SVYD General Membership Meeting Minutes

  1. Welcome and Introductions
  2. Guest Speaker: Supervisor Cindy Chavez

Officers Reports

  1. President (Alex Wara)
    1. Thank you Supervisor Chavez for being part of today’s panel.
    2. Nothing new to report
  1. Membership Director (Emily Ramoss)
    1. Nothing to new report.
  1. Women’s Leadership Committee Report
    1. Sara indicated that we need more women to join the committee.
    2. Please feel free to email her.
  1. Secretary (Juan M. Quinones
    1. Nothing new to report
  1. Treasurer (Joshua Barousse)
    1. Nothing new to report
  1. Political Director (Jeff Cardenas
    1. Asks if you are interested in attending this year’s convention to fill out the doodle form.
    2. SVYD Voter Engagement Committee will be ask folks at convention for support.

Old Business

    1. Reminder of our to attend our JJ Dinner After Party Fundraiser on April 24th, 2015

New Business

VII. Announcements

VII. Adjournment

Motion pass to adjourn tonight’s meeting. Meeting was adjourn 8:59pm

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SVYD Agenda 4/20/15

Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Jason Spitzer: CA Clean Money Campaign

Officer Reports:

President (Alex Wara)
Membership Director (Emily Ramos)
Women’s Leadership Committee Report
Secretary (Juan M. Quinones
Treasurer (Joshua Barousse)
Political Director (Jeff Cardenas)
SVYD Voter Engagement Committee

Old Business
1)Convention
2) JJ Dinner After Party

New Business
1) CDP bylaw change
2) Announcement of E-Board Elections (June)

VII. Announcements

VII. Adjournment