Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting Agenda
Feb 7, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Rm 108

Agenda

6:00pm Call to order

6:03pm Minutes (Dudley) & Money (Suzi)

Chair announcements/reports (Greg):

• WDP activities

6:09pm Old Business

Adopt-a-Highway

JC-FFF

Lunch

6:17pm New Business

Legislative Actions

6:34pm Announcements from the Floor

Upcoming Meetings

Legislative Watch Zoom – Mon 6pm & Wed 3pm

Hot Springs Mardi Gras Celebration – Feb 19, 2023

Nellie Tayloe Ross – Feb 25, 2023

Reorg & Monthly Meeting – March 7, 2023

Other?

6:45 Adjourn

Post-meeting discussion about JC Dems Clubs

Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting

January 4, 2023

Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Room 108

Call to Order:

Greg Haas called the meeting to order at 6:14 pm.

Attendance :

Greg Haas, Mary Van Auken, Vikki Chenette, Suzi Black, Dudley Case, Sharon Case, Lois Petersen, Linda Wilson 

Secretary Report: 

No changes to the minutes were suggested and minutes from December 6, 2022 were approved.

Treasurer Report:

Suzi reported the amounts in the Scholarship account and the JC Dems General account.

Chair Announcements – Greg

WDP Activities:

David Martin is no longer an employee of WDP.

WDP Secretary (Mandy) will take on social media job.

Greg has interviewed for the WDP Executive Director position. A second round of interviews will be held next week.

Greg will be helping with organizing 2 of the 3 dark counties in Wyoming – Sublette and Weston Counties.

Erin O’Doherty got the new state voter list today.

The Democratic voter registration went down before the primary election but has gone back up since the election. 

Nellie Tayloe Ross Dinner Event will be held on February 25 and 26 in Cheyenne.

Blue Bison Event will be held on May 27 and 28 in Riverton.

End of Summer Event will be held September 9 and 10 in Newcastle.

Women’s Caucus Meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 pm.

Old Business:

1. Newsletter – Lois

Eleven newsletters were returned as undeliverable.

$120 was spent on stamps and $26 on copying.

Everyone thanked Lois for all her work on the newsletter.

2. Adopt-a-Highway – Lois

Lois has the safety vests and trash bags.

The location will most likely be just north of Buffalo on I-90 around the Lake DeSmet area.

JC Dems will get a sign after 2 cleanups are done.

3. Precinct Committee People – Greg

We still need to sign up more people.

4. JC Dems Lunch – Greg

Jim Shell is apparently interested in organizing lunches like we had last year.  Previous lunches were held at the golf course and Bozeman restaurants. 

New Business:

1.  JC-FFF (Johnson County Friends Feeding Friends) – Linda

This organization bags food every Wednesday.

The group decided to sign up to help on September 20 at 5:30pm in the basement of the dentist’s office.

JC-FFF also holds a 0.5K race in June.

2. JC Dems Office Elections – Greg

County party elections are held in March and state party elections are held in April.

It was decided to hold our next election on Tuesday, March 7 at 6:00 pm.  The regular March meeting will be held at 7:00 pm.

Greg is throwing his hat into the ring for County Chair again and Suzi has indicated she would like to step down as Treasurer.

3. Phone banking for Weston and Sublette Counties – Greg

Greg needs help calling Democrats in those counties to help set up a Democratic Party in each county.

4. Appreciation for Meeting Space – Greg

Vikki made a motion to donate $100 to Sheridan College’s Golf for Knowledge to show our appreciation for the college letting us use a room for our JC Dems monthly meetings.  Lois seconded the motion.  Motion passes.

Announcements from the Floor:

None

Upcoming Meetings:

Suzi made a motion to hold the JC Dems monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm rather than 7:00 pm.  Mary seconded the motion.  Motion passed.

WDP is selling tables at the Nellie Tayloe Ross Dinner at a discounted price.  And there will be on online auction and buyers will pay for shipping if they do not attend the event or Greg can picking up winning bids for any of our members who do not attend the event.

The Scholarship Committee has decided to meet on Wednesday, January 18 at 11:00 am in the Johnson County Library.

For other meetings see Chair Announcements above.

Adjourn:

 Greg adjourned meeting at 7:30 pm.

Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting Agenda
Jan 4, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Rm 108 104

Agenda

6:00pm Call to order

6:03pm Minutes (Dudley) & Money (Suzi)

Chair announcements/reports (Greg):

• WDP activities

6:09pm Old Business

Newsletter

Adopt-a-Highway

Precinct Committee People

Lunch

6:17pm New Business

JC-FFF

County Officer Elections

Phonebanking for Weston and Sublette

Appreciation for Meeting Space

6:34pm Announcements from the Floor

Upcoming Meetings

Monthly Meeting – Feb 7, 2023

Nellie Tayloe Ross – Feb 25, 2023

William D. McIntyre Scholarship Committee?

Other?

6:45 Adjourn

Post-meeting discussion about guest speakers.

Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting

December 6, 2022

Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Room 108

Call to Order:

Greg Haas called the meeting to order at 7:02 pm.

Attendance :

Greg Haas, Suzi Black, Mitch Black, Dudley Case, Sharon Case, Lois Petersen, Linda Wilson, Mary Van Auken

Secretary Report:

No changes to the minutes were suggested and minutes from November 2, 2022 were approved.

Treasurer Report:

Suzi reported on the Scholarship account and on the JC Dems general account.

Chair Announcements/Reports:

1. Campaign Finance Reports – 2022

Greg has put these Johnson County and Buffalo reports on the JC Dems website. Greg reviewed a few of the reports that reported contributions and expenditures.

2. WDP Activities:

a. Sarah Hunt is resigning as Executive Director of WDP. She will be working until the second week of January.

b. In Uinta County all the Democratic officers changed their party affiliation in the last election and thus all lost their party officer positions. They are holding elections on December 7 for new, temporary officers until March.

c. Election debriefings – Greg lead 2 of the 4 debriefings. Many said that the election preparations must start earlier. There is another gathering tentatively scheduled for election debriefing on December 17.

d. The Nellie Tayloe Ross Dinner will be held on February 25 in Cheyenne. Tickets will be available starting in January.

Old Business:

1. Thank you cards and Sept. 5 picnic follow-up

Greg handed out a sheet with three sample messages.

Greg said he would like to get a list of members who were invited to the picnic and the results of those invitations.

2. Adopt-a-Highway

Lois gave a report and continues to gather information about this project.

Lois would like to get a location to clean up that is near Buffalo or between Buffalo and Sheridan. Some suggestions were made about locations.

New Business:

1. Railroad Workers

Greg felt that JC Dems should take a position in favor of paid sick leave for the railroad workers. But no one made a motion to that effect, so the issue was dropped.

2. Phone banking tool

Greg briefly explained what this tool can do.

Announcement from the Floor:

1. JC Dems Newsletter

Lois handed out a sample JC Dems newsletter that she and Vikki Chenette had created. Lois asked for feedback on the sample newsletter. The newsletter was well received.

Linda made a motion to send out the newsletter with any necessary corrections and adjustments to the members using the new December 9, 2022 members list from WDP. Suzi seconded the motion. After some discussion the motion passed.

Lois made a motion that JC Dems spend up to $300 on mailing of the newsletter. Linda seconded the motion. After some discussion the motion passed.

Greg said he will get the new members list from Erin O’Doherty.

2. Linda Shell

Sharon mentioned that Linda Shell had recently had knee surgery and a pacemaker put in. Lois volunteered to send out a get-well card to Linda.

3. Johnson County School District

Dudley asked if anyone knew a staff members or school board members who might help get green energy projects into the schools. If so, please contact Dudley. The Sheridan Area Resource Council and the Powder River Basin Resource Council are looking into this issue up in Sheridan and here in Johnson County.

Upcoming Meetings:

The next JC Dems meeting will be on Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 7:00 pm in Room 108 of the Bomber Mountain Civic Center.

Adjournment:

The meeting was adjourned at 8:12 pm.

Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting
Dec 6, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Rm 108

Agenda

7:00pm Call to order

7:03pm Minutes (Dudley) & Money (Suzi)

Chair announcements/reports (Greg):

• financial reports, WDP activities

7:09pm Old Business

Thank you cards and Sept 5 follow-up

Adopt-a-Highway

7:17pm New Business

Railroad Workers

Uinta County

Phonebanking tool*

7:27pm Announcements from the Floor

Upcoming Meetings

Monthly Meeting – January 3rd, 2023?

Other?

7:37 Adjourn

* After the meeting Greg will demonstrate the web-based phonebanking tool and miniVAN. Both can be incredibly easy tools for coordinating and inviting and thanking; contacting our members in general.

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Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting
November 2, 2022
Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Room 108

Call to Order:
Greg Haas called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.

Attendance:
Greg Haas, Suzi Black, Mitch Black, Vikki Chenette, Dudley Case, Sharon Case, Lois Petersen, Casey Meyers, Mary Van Auken

Secretary Report:
No changes to the minutes were suggested and the minutes were approved.

Treasurer Report:

• Suzi reported the total amounts in the JC Dems’ general account and in the scholarship account.
• The monies appropriated for the various political campaigns at the October meeting have been sent out to the campaigns.
• Vikki announced that she has received two more donations for quilt raffle in the amounts of $60 and $20, which she gave to the Suzi at this meeting.

Chair Announcements:
JC Dems is required to submit financial reports to the Secretary of State three times a year, and donations to the scholarship fund are considered donations to the JC Dems since the scholarship fund is not part of a separate organization.
JC Dems has received thank you cards from Martha Wright, Kim Bartlett and Hank Szramkowski for our donations to their campaigns.
There will be an ad in this week’s Buffalo Bulletin for Lynnette Greybull’s campaign.

It was decided not to send out campaign postcards due to the election date being next week. Postcards might not arrive in the mail until after the election was over.

The Wyoming Democratic Party (WDP) is making a big effort to get out the vote (GOTV) and canvass before the election.  As a result of this effort it was discovered that there were a lot of wrong addresses and phone numbers in the voter lists, so this is being corrected.

WDP has a texting system which costs $95 to join and Greg paid this cost and is setting up this system for the JC Dems.  Greg offered to train anyone who wants to help out with texting voters.

Minivan and phone banking are also available to help reach voters.

The WDP has voter outreach to three Wyoming counties which have no Democratic leadership.

The Greybull and Labeau campaigns are renting vans to pick up and drive voters on the Wind River Reservation to the polls.

The WDP is also starting to work on the Spring Democratic state and county elections.

Old Business:
Mary will send out thank you cards to the people who have donated to the scholarship fund.

Greg said we need to follow up with the people who attended the September 5 picnic and encourage them to buy a quilt raffle ticket for the scholarship fund if they haven’t done so already.

Lois will send Greg a list of picnic attendees so we can contact those who did not attend the picnic. Vikki, Lois and Greg will work on creating a script that can be used when contacting these members.

New Business:

1. GOTV will use phone banking. Greg joined Martha Wright when she was canvassing for her election. Suzi is calling members of her precinct.
2. Greg is setting up two texting training sessions for the WDP.
3. Greg asked if anyone wanted to be a poll watcher at next Tuesday’s election. Each party trains its poll watchers.

4. Adopt-a-Highway – Lois

   Lois suggested that JC Dems adopt-a-highway. This program requires trash to be picked up along a two mile stretch of highway for two years twice each year. WYDOT would also put up a Johnson County Democratic Party sign along this stretch of highway.

   Greg made a motion for the JC Dems to adopt-a-highway. Vikki seconded the motion. Motion passed.

   Lois will follow up with the Sheridan County Democratic Party to see how they set up their stretch of highway with WYDOT.

5. The Buffalo Pathfinders will hold a 5K walk on November 25 starting at 8 am at the Super 8.
6. Margo’s Pottery & Fine Crafts is having music on Friday nights.
7. The hospital is having an open house on November 16 from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.
8. The Steel Drum Band has practices on Tuesday nights at 6:30 pm in the Congregational Church.
9. Powder River Basin Resource Council’s Annual Meeting is on Saturday, November 5 at 2:00 pm in the Ramada Inn in Sheridan.
10. Greg suggested creating a JC Dems quarterly newsletter that would cost $500.

Next Meeting:
Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 pm in Room 108 of the Bomber Mountain Civic Center. Greg asked members to think about whether or not they wanted to change the day and time of monthly meetings.

Adjournment:
Greg adjourned the meeting at 8:20 pm.

Due to an unfortunate scheduling conflict I need to reschedule our November Monthly Meeting.

It will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 7PM in room 108 of the Bomber Mtn Civic Center.

I apologize for the late notice and inconvenience. -Greg

Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting
Nov 2, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Bomber Mountain Civic Center, Rm 108

Agenda

7:00pm Call to order

7:03pm Minutes (Dudley) & Money (Suzi)

Chair announcements/reports (Greg):

• canvassing, WDP activities

7:09pm Old Business

Thank you cards and Sept 5 follow-up

7:17pm New Business

GOTV

Adopt-a-Highway

7:42pm Announcements from the Floor

Upcoming Meetings

Monthly Meeting – Dec 6th?

Other?

7:48 Adjourn