[Davis Democrats] Davis Democrat Club board meeting on December 6

[G Richard Yamagata PhD]

Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers,

One Week Notice.
There will be a Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Monday, December 6th at
7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.
The address is 315 East 14th Street.

Please note that any Davis Democrat Club member is welcome to attend the
meetings.  We normally have at least 1 to 2 guests per meeting.  We have
never had a meeting without someone from the public in attendance.

Boardmembers need to come to this meeting.  We will be voting to remove from
our large board roster, people that have not attended meetings for over two
years.  We are trying to trim the board to 22 members.  The club by-laws say
that people cannot miss 3 meetings in a row without an excuse.  

Other items on the agenda are fundraising and organization for the coming
year, 2005.  An item that was not discussed, but needs to be discussed is
the Winter general meeting that we have each year in either January,
February or March.  Some years we have had up to 3 of these, one each month
and in other years we have only had one general meeting.  The suggestion has
been made that we schedule one of these at the next meeting with Mike
Machado as the keynote speaker.  He will be thanking the Davis Democrat Club
for their help and support in the last hard fought election.

If you have any suggestions for the agenda, please send them to Kingsley,
Tony, or me via the list.  There should be a final agenda sent out on
Sunday, December 5th.  Please also be aware that someone will be telephoning
the board members to remind them of the meeting, probably Betty Weir.  I
have already received some unofficial input from other DDC board members on
this preliminary agenda.

Please find below the location and time for the next meeting:

DDC Board Meeting
Time: 7 PM to 8:04 PM
Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.  
                315 East 14th Street.

Please find the preliminary agenda below.

Preliminary Agenda -- this is only a preliminary agenda.  The agenda will
change as it is worked on by the President and Vice President.  There is a
note about the December DDC meeting at the bottom of this e-mail.

        Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda 
                November 8, 7 pm - 8pm
     Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library.  
                315 East 14th Street.

I.  Introduction   (8 minutes -- usually takes 2 minutes)
        i.	Approval of Agenda
        ii.	Approval of Minutes for past meetings 
                The following have not been approved:
                August 2nd
                September 6th
                October 4th (if minutes exist, I was ill that day)
                November 8th minutes will be handed out.
                ( http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/newsletter.htm The Newsletter
page )
        iii.	Minutes from other clubs and campus Democrats 
                (usually no one shows up from these groups.  Lyle Smith can
be asked to speak about the other town Democrat organizations.)

II.  Treasurer's Report     (5 minutes)

III.  The DDC Holiday Party (10 minutes)
        i.	Report from chairs on this event
        ii.	Additional planning and requests

IV.   The Winter General Meetings in January, February or March (7 minutes)
        i.	Report on last year's event 
        ii.     Ideas for this year. (Suggested Thank You meeting with Mike
Machado)
        ii.	Appointment of chairs for 2005 Winter events.

V.    Content of the Next Newsletter (6 minutes)
        i.	Update by Current Editor
        ii.	Story ideas

VII.  New and Unfinished Business (24 minutes)
        i.	New items
                a) Club support for the Yolo County Young Democrats (8 minutes)
                b) Other
        ii.     Continued discussion about fundraising and events post "Beat
Bush" (15 minutes)
        iii.	Announcements
        iv.	Next Meeting Time/Location
        v.	Meeting adjournment

Time:  60 minutes