PNC 04/16/2023

April 2nd, 2023

Agenda

Discussion

New Business

• USPP Conference planning update
• FL observers - the importance of a political director

Summary

Meeting called to order at 9:17pm EST

Attending

Drew Bingaman, PA Yari, Rose Klein, CA Mitch Davilo, IL

Non-voting

Wanda Ward, FL V, Sarai Oviedo, TX Anthony Jay, IN Matthew Crowley, FL

Reports

IT: V: fixing broken links Yari: support.uspirates looking nice, form for nominations is about to go live

Platform: Joe is taking up stuff Mitch might need to step back

Outreach: high priority/low priority graphics list is being set up collaborative canva is being made

Swarmcare: state outreach meetings went great, looking forward to heartland meetings coming up next

Secretary: worked on nominations page and stuff on support.uspirates will be working on task manager next

Chair: 21st birthday on wodensday as official business

Old Business

none

New Business

• Conference planning update:
  • we are six or five weeks away
  • if there aren't sufficient nominations in place by next week, we should start pushing them
  • find the form that was used last time to get community panels
  • figure out who we want, pie in the sky for speakers
  • send out a press release ASAP
  • need help with tech support, could do a sort of dry tech run with OBS
  • do an email blast about the nominations form ASAP

• Political Director talk with Matt:
  • better to have someone who is answerable to the exec committee
  • figure out how to adapt the platform into a political strategy for each term
  • political director would not choose candidates. State parties would.
  • go to exec comm and ask for direction about difficult choices
  • this position would, right now, help with local roles perhaps as well - but later on would just be national.
  • train candidates, give them a step-by-step guide, answer candidate questions, especially for federal candidates.
  • states could ask national for help, would be job of political director.
  • would not have a say over candidacy
  • a support position
  • could just have this position as an advisory position to the PNC instead of an officer

• IL: would like to consider demoting public relations director to the same sort of level
• PA: this position could also absorb state moderator position
  • this gives an interesting perspective on the ways we were talking about that particular role
  • an important role under this is also candidate recruitment
    • call the PR person scallywag

PA: motion that PNC sends the idea of political director to committee to write a motion dropped

IL: motion to remove nominations for PR director and State Moderator CA second

• • can be a temporary elimination - could come back if we decide that we want them back.

Passed unanimously

Motion to adjourn Passed unanimously Adjourned at 10:09 EST

Meeting Minutes

The meeting was livestreamed to youtube and can be viewed at this link: https://youtube.com/live/0iKD2q3o6gE