NELSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE – 03/18/2024

Meeting Minutes

The NCDC meeting at the Faber Fire Department Station 2 – Potluck 5:45 Called to order at 6:10PM by Connie Brennan, Chair Guest Speakers – Paul Riley 5th District Congressional Candidate spoke about why he is running. You can go to his website paulrileycongress.com for more information about what he is all about.

Gary Jaketic spoke about the Ukraine fundraiser to be held April 12 the at the Nelson Heritage Center. Tickets are $20.00 (12 and above), 6-12 are $6.00 and under 6 is free.

Nomination of District Chairs:

North District – Larry Stopper

Central District – Kathy Hachey

East District – Wisteria Johnson

South District – Ester Larkin

West District – Judy Greenberg

There was some discussion about the difference between district chairs and precinct captains. The final decision was to elect Larry Stopper, Kathy Hachey and Wisteria Johnson for District Chairs and worry about the other two at a later date. This was put to motion by Brad Johnson and seconded by Mary. Motion carried.  Connie asked for discussion; hearing none the vote was called. Larry, Kathy, and Wisteria elected District Chairs.

Election of Kathy Hachey to become the new Vice Chair for Campaigns. This seat had been filled by Wisteria Johnson for a long time and she would like to spend more of her time doing the District and Precinct Captain work. Motion to elect Kathy was given by Marilyn Mars and seconded by Ann Krieger. The motion carried and there was no discussion.  Vote taken and Kathy was elected to serve as Vice Chair for the Campaign Committee chair.

Minutes of the Reorganization Meeting were accepted and approved. Treasurer’s report – by Marina. Currently we have $7,961.03. This includes $84.00 for the PO Box. No budget for the T-shirt sales. Hoping to sell more tickets for the DemFest this year, about 250 tickets. Hoping to raise $6,000.00 in sponsorships. Marina handed out the NCDC 2024 Budget. Connie asked if there was any discussion about the budget. It was then put to a motion to approve the budget by Ann and the motion was seconded there was no discussion. Treasurer’s report and budget was approved.

Reports from Committee Chairs:

Rules Committee Chair – Brad Johnson – Working diligently on the bylaws. We have until April 22nd. to get them submitted to the state.

Vice Chair Campaigns – Wisteria Johnson – There are 9 Precincts and 7 Precincts Captains.

Rockfish Precinct – Larry Stopper – North

Shipman Precinct – Ester Larkin – South

Gladstone Precinct – Ester Larkin – South

Nellysford Precinct – Kathy Hachey – Central

Faber Precinct – Cheri Boeckmann – Central

Roseland Precinct – Judy Greenberg – West

Montebello Precinct – Judy Greenberg – West

Schuyler Precinct – Nathou Attinger – East

Lovingston Precinct -Wisteria Johnson – East

Vice Chair Outreach – Ann Mische – The purpose is to become the party of information, based on research. Getting the information out to you sooner than later. Having more social gatherings.

Vice Chair Technology – Lynn Fontana – Lynn talked about the “Members Only” email that was sent out. There were 5 people that did not open their email. If it goes to your junk box or spam box, open it, and move it to your inbox and then put NCDC with the info@bluenelson.org email address in your address book

We are going to learn to use technology efficiently. The website- 2 new features (1) Elections 2024 (2) Know Your Government. The website is www.bluenelson.org. Every time you click on a link in the newsletter it pushes you to the website.

Demfest – Becky Evans – Saturday September 14, 2024, at the Nelson Heritage center from 4pm-7pm. Al Weed is selling Mountain Cove so we cannot be there this year. Food may be catered and more details to come later.

Hoping the speaker may be Abigail Spanberger and a special guest.

Sign Project.   The Save our Democracy committee has been working on signs that will be put up in various places. 2 signs were on display at the meeting. Marina and Becky also read some of the other signs that they are working on. They have used the $1,000.00 that was given by NCDC last year. If you want to give a donation, please make a check payable to NCDC and write Save our Democracy in the memo field and mail to P.O Box 178, Nellysford, VA 22958.

Connie ended the meeting after talking about the Call to Caucus. We need to elect Delegates. The National Convention will be in Chicago. Nelson county has been assigned 4 Delegates and 1 Alternate to attend the 5th District Convention. These folks will be elected at the Caucus which will be held on April 22nd at the Nelson Center. If you are elected, you will attend the 5th District Convention on May 18th in Fluvanna County. At the 5th District Convention, delegates will be selected for the State

Convention, which will be held in June in Richmond. Please let Connie know if you are interested.

Newsletters will almost always be sent to you on the 4th Sunday of each month.

We only have 2 more meetings before Demfest. The next meeting will be May 6th at the Faber Fire and Rescue.

Meeting adjourned.

Submitted by,

Angela Jones, Secretary