[fvc-wat-disc] Discussion Night and Exec Meeting, 7pm on Wed 30 Jan 2019 at Bread&Roses
Bob Jonkman
bjonkman at sobac.com
Fri Feb 1 17:11:23 EST 2019
...and for those who were unable to attend Wednesday's meeting, here are
some meeting notes. There's a list of all past meeting notes at
http://www.fairvotewrc.ca/meetings/
--Bob Jonkman
Co-Chair, Fair Vote Waterloo
=====
2019 January Executive and Strategy Meeting
When
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Where
Community Room, Bread & Roses Cooperative Housing, 307 Queen Street
South, Kitchener
Who
Laurel Russwurm, Mary Jackes, Jim Sannes, Jon Cassels, Sharon
Sommerville, Cathy Scott, Evan Rosamond, David Dirks, Myron
Steinman, Terry Henderson, Stu Chandler, Trevor Pollitt, Bob Jonkman.
Executive Meeting
Agenda Item
Web Site: http://fairvotewrc.ca/
Aden Seaman has been running the hardware and purchasing services
out-of-pocket. Now the infrastructure needs to be upgraded, and service
providers are increasing service charges. In order to bring the website
and services under management of the Executive Board a budget for these
services needs to be created, funding established, and vendors retained.
Website hosting: About $60/year for a minimal server (20 GBytes), about
$150/year for 70 GBytes storage (unknown how much storage is being used
now). https://www.ovh.com/ Note that local (Waterloo Region) providers
may have lower prices for community groups.
Domain name registration: About $40/year from https://register4less.com
<https://register4less.com/> ; maybe $20/year from https://gandi.net/
Phone number: +1‑519‑279‑2990 — Receives little use, but gives
professional appearance to our chapter. Transfer (porting): $10.00 +
$0.85/month service + $0.01/minute calling. Free voice mail, phone
conferencing, IVR (voice mail menus). https://voip.ms/
Total: from $90/year to $200/year
*MOTION*: To establish funds in order to continue to maintain the
website, then purchase required services.
Meeting Notes
* Value of the website is apparent
* But we’ll need to do some fundraising
o Call out to Discussion mailing list?
+ But don’t ask repeatedly
o Pass the hat at meetings?
+ Only at AGM
o Investigate e-transfers and PayPal (Jon Cassels and Cathy Scott)
o Can put e-commerce applications on website once we have a
permanent web host
o David Dirks will draft a document for requesting donations
* Defer a vote on this motion until next meeting
Strategy Meeting
Agenda Items
* Summer Festivals: Race Relations (21 March), TriPride (early June),
Multicultural (late June), Nonviolence (early July), Kultrun (early
July), others?
* Federal Election, 21 October 2019 strategy for Fair Vote Canada,
Fair Vote Waterloo?
* Outreach Committee report? (David Dirks)
* Door to door pilot campaign discussion (Sharon Sommerville)
* Other business
Meeting Notes
* Summer Festivals
o Need someone to take the lead in organizing summer festivals
(individual organizers for individual events was not successful)
+ Cathy Scott will assist
o Literature for info tables?
+ We still have old material; don’t need anything new
+ Get some materials from Fair Vote Canada national office
(tabloid, infographic postcards)
o List of festivals (not complete)
+ United Nations International Day for the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination (21 March)
+ TriPride (early June)
+ Multicultural (late June)
+ Nonviolence (early July)
+ Kultrun (early July)
+ Cambridge International Festival (August)
+ Labour Day Picnic
+ Hold The Line (September)
+ Fall Fairs, eg. /Wellesley Apple Butter Cheese Festival/
+ Neighbourhood Festivals
+ Open Streets?
* Election law?
o Find out if Fair Vote Canada will be registering as a Third
Party Advertiser (Sharon?)
* Federal Election candidate events
o Will partner with /Social Development Centre of Waterloo Region/
again
o Also contact the /Social Planning Council of Cambridge and North
Dumfries/ (Bob Jonkman)
o Ensure that Fair Vote Waterloo members are at all the Candidate
events (debates, roundtables, &c)
o We will create a “Fact Sheet” and “Info Sheet” for candidates,
to be done at Discussion Night on Wed, 31 July 2019.
* Outreach
o Contact David Dirks to help with Outreach
o Targetting millennials
o Reach out to teachers teaching Civics courses in High School
+ There’s a High School History Teachers conference, find
people there?
+ Contacts with individual teachers; our existing contacts
have moved on.
* Door to Door Pilot
o There have been no additional campaigns
o There was a remarkable level of interest, and signing of petitions
o Door-to-door is an effective thing to do, but labour intensive
o We don’t want to commit our limited volunteer hours on this
o The postcards (infographic?) were effective
o Door-to-door is a good thing to do during an election year
+ Do it earlier, June and July, so we get to the doors before
the candidates do
o Work in pairs, but even better as a group
o How often?
+ Two hours every two weeks? No.
+ Two hours every month? Yes.
+ Start in May
* Letter Writing Group
o Need a better mailing list (can be set up with a permanent webhost)
o Need “Media Watchers”
+ Respond to anyone who writes about electoral reform or
proportional representation
+ Articles about public issues, these illustrate why we need
proportional representation
* Strategy: We need a big annual event
o “Intro to PR”?
o Get 200 people into a room?
+ Typical turnout for our events is 20 to 50 people (some of
us think that’s very successful)
+ …but only politically engaged people come to these events
o Make this an annual event, get big-name speakers as it builds
o One annual event is more approachable than monthly meetings
o Target for July, August
* Hold the FVC AGM in Waterloo Region?
o Approach Anita Nickerson (Executive Director of FVC), National
Council
o Open some AGM events to the community
o Have multiple streams: 1) Community 2) Fair Vote members
* Municipal level
o Approach local township / city councils about ranked ballots
o Berry Vrbanovic (Kitchener mayor) is interested; Matt Piggott
has already approached him (but Matt is no longer in Waterloo
Region)
o Scott McMillan (Woolwich councillor) has expressed interest in
pursuing ranked ballots
* What does Fair Vote do?
o Advocates only for Proportional Representation
o Not ranked ballots in single member systems
* Other news
o Myron Steinman is working with CKWR (FM 98.5); wants to revive
the /Community Connections/ show.
o Sharon Sommerville will be stepping down as Chapter Coordinator.
Meeting notes taken by Bob Jonkman
=====
On 2019-01-30 5:40 p.m., Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Hi again: Here's the agenda for this evening. Yes, I'll bring 10 copies.
> See you all there! And bundle up!
>
> --Bob.
>
> =====
>
> = Fair Vote Canada Waterloo Region Chapter =
> == Strategy Meeting, Executive Meeting, and Discussion Night ==
>
> *When*: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
> *Where*: Community Room, Bread & Roses Cooperative Housing, 307 Queen
> Street South, Kitchener
>
> === Executive Meeting ===
>
> Web Site: http://fairvotewrc.ca/
>
> Aden Seaman has been running the hardware and purchasing services
> out-of-pocket. Now the infrastructure needs to be upgraded, and service
> providers are increasing service charges. In order to bring the website
> and services under management of the Executive Board a budget for these
> services needs to be created, funding established, and vendors retained.
>
> Website hosting: About $60/year for a minimal server (20 GBytes), about
> $150/year for 70 GBytes storage (unknown how much storage is being used
> now). https://www.ovh.com/ Note that local (Waterloo Region) providers
> may have lower prices for community groups.
>
> Domain name registration: About $40/year from https://register4less.com
> ; maybe $20/year from https://gandi.net/
>
> Phone number: +1–519–279–2990 – Receives little use, but gives
> professional appearance to our chapter. Transfer (porting): $10.00 +
> $0.85/month service + $0.01/minute calling. Free voice mail, phone
> conferencing, IVR (voice mail menus). https://voip.ms/
>
> Total: from $90/year to $200/year
>
> *MOTION*: To establish funds in order to continue to maintain the
> website, then purchase required services.
>
> === Strategy Meeting ===
> * Summer Festivals: Race Relations (21 March), TriPride (early June),
> Multicultural (late June), Nonviolence (early July), Kultrun (early
> July), others?
>
> * Federal Election, 21 October 2019 strategy for Fair Vote Canada, Fair
> Vote Waterloo?
>
> * Outreach Committee report? (David Dirks)
>
> * Door to door pilot campaign discussion (Sharon Sommerville)
>
> * Other business
>
> === Discussion Night ===
> What things have been going on in the political world that Proportional
> Representation might have improved, prevented, or made unnecessary?
>
> =====
>
> On 2019-01-29 10:28 a.m., Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> Hi everyone: Happy New Year! Now that we have a whole month of 2019
>> under our belts, it's time for another Discussion Night.
>>
>> At the beginning of the year we usually have a strategy and planning
>> meeting, where we discuss what Fair Vote Waterloo will be doing in the
>> upcoming year. There are community events, summer festivals, and
>> there's a federal election coming up in October! What other things
>> are happening this year? How can FairvoteWRC promote Proportional
>> Representation at these events?
>>
>> We'll combine this month's Discussion Night with a meeting of the
>> Executive. The main agenda item deals with moving our website to a
>> commercial webhosting service. There will be regular recurring costs
>> for this, so we need to establish a budget. Perhaps we need to
>> organize a fundraising event, or work fundraising into our regular
>> activities.
>>
>> *What*: Fair Vote Waterloo Discussion Night and Exec Meeting
>> *When*: Wednesday, 30 January from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
>> *Where*: Community Room, Bread and Roses Co-op
>> *Location*: 307 Queen Street South, Kitchener
>> *Map*: https://osm.org/go/ZXnwTLMg--?m=
>>
>>
>> If you're driving to Bread And Roses, please park in the north parking
>> lot and place a note on the dashboard of your vehicle:
>>
>> *Meeting in Community Room re Apt 107 from 7-9pm*
>>
>> North Parking Lot Map: https://osm.org/go/ZXnwTL0rw--?m=
>>
>>
>>
>> See you at the meeting!
>> --Bob.
>>
>>
>
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