February 8th, 2024 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-bbb-room/.

Recording:

Decisions/Endorsements

Elect Temporary Quartermaster

Joe needs to step down as Quartermaster so he can run for office starting Feb. 13th. We need to elect a temporary replacement before the elections are done.

Projects/Events

Elections

Update calendar from:

• Jan 25th - Last date for nominations
• Jan 26th - Candidates submit videos which we will post to our YouTube channel starting on Jan 27th
• Jan 27th - We will send ballots out. Pirates will have three weeks to vote
• Jan 28th - Pirate News will include candidate Q&A
• Feb 3rd - We will also have time for a candidate Q&A at the Winter conference.
• Feb 16th - Ballots must be returned

Steve will handle voting tokens. Jamie will send out ballots.

Planning for 2024

• Restart democracy committee: Sat Jan 6th
• Contact cities/town to get list of voters
  • Get list of contacts
  • Write email
  • Send it
• Put together plan for local organizing and 2024 town/legislature campaign
• Mail members/voters
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
• Call potential candidates/supporters
• ?

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news on Jan 7th
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Participants

• jokeefe
• Joe
• srevilak

Summary

Melanie Campbell has volunteered to serve as treasurer until we find a permanent replacement. Motion to elect, starting on Saturday Feb 10th, until the actual member election occurs. Motion passes 3--0.