July 13, 2017 CCDCC meeting notes

Attendees: Corynne Courpas, Mitch Edelman, Zach Hands,
Charles Harrison, Joan McGrath, Frank Rammes, Ann Riley,
Anne Stoner,  Don West, members. Lily, Katy - Interns



Visitors: Ellen Marble, Christian Orr

Discussion: 

	Recent visits of Baltimore Mayor Pugh and
	Senator Cardin to Carroll County - the CCDCC was not given
	advance notice of either visit. Don stated that if these
	visits were for official business, it would not be
	appropriate to notify the CCDCC; to do so would have allowed
	for interpretation of visits as campaigning.


June minutes and treasurer's report were approved by
unanimous consent. Current balance is $7587.19.


Finances may allow Central Committee to open headquarters
for 2018 election.

Chair's Report:

	The Frederick Gala was attended by about 250 people,
	with Senator Klobuchar keynote speaker and all announced
	gubernatorial candidates in attendance. The 2018 Carroll
	County DVD will be held just prior to the primary, which
	should boost attendance. The VOCAL picnic will be held
	7/23 from 3-7 PM at King's Pavilion Park. It is open to
	all. Carroll Can will meet on 7/16, from 3-5 PM, at
	Westminster Public Library

Club Reports:

	Frank Rammes announced that CCDEMS picnic will be held on
	7/30 at Lions' Pavilion, and some candidates are expected to
	attend. Future speakers at meetings: Dr. Mona Becker is
	scheduled to speak at October meeting.  Anne will recruit a
	speaker from LGBTQ+ community. Ellen Marble was introduced
	as CCDEMS recording secretary.

	Anita Riley announced South Carroll Dems will meet on 8/13
	at 7PM. She mentioned that the club's future is at risk,
	because of small membership.

Community:

	 School funding, closings will persist as issues into 2018.

Other:

	We were urged to write letters to the editor to represent
	our positions on local issues.

	Facebook traffic has been down over the last month.

	Upcoming Fund-Raising event for CCDCC: we will hold our
	annual fund-raising breakfast in October.

	There will be a wrap-up meeting for the Western Maryland PAC
	at end of July. Don will attend. Next year, the Western Md.
	PAC will again meet at Rocky Gap.

	Corynne started a sign-up sheet for Fall Fest, to be held
	weekend of 9/23.

	Christian Orr presented for discussion the 4-year strategic
	plan, which met with general approval. Christian and Mitch
	will do cleanup and present revised draft for August
	meeting.

LGBTQ+:


	Anne announced that there is a need to reorganize  LGBTQ+
	representation on diversity council


Candidate Recruitment:

	Joan reported that she would like budget for printing,
	social media for candidate recruitment. She used demographic
	information from previous CCDCC presentation to suggest
	holding training sessions in 3 locations. Discussion
	followed. Consensus of committee was to work on recruitment,
	and we can structure training after we have better idea of
	what candidates we may have to work with and support.

	Zach presented his analysis of most vulnerable county
	commissioners. He sees D3, D4 as most vulnerable seats,
	based on possible open seat in D4, and D3 having higher
	proportion of Dem voters than rest of the county. He also
	asked for specific questions for canvassing during Summer of
	Resistance.

Meeting adjourned