Help DSNC run the board election

[Davis Square Neighborhood Council]

Hello all,

For those of you who came to the meeting tonight, we discussed having regular meetings of the election working group (open to anyone, please come!!!).

In these meetings, we will be planning the election logistics such as 

- Ballots 

- Lockboxes

- Election Logistics

- Voter registration/validation

We will start having these weekly meetings as early as possible. Here is a when2meet where you can describe which weekdays and times you are available. On Wednesday, I will send an email to schedule the meetings. If you are interested in contributing to the election procedure, please fill out the form so we can attempt to schedule a time that works for as many people as possible.

For those of you who are running for the board, the opportunity to participate in this will be limited. As such, we will probably need volunteers to chair/take notes in these meetings, as Elaine and I are both running in the election. If you are interested in taking on these roles, please reply to this email as soon as you can.

I hope you can make it to these meetings! Let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Zev

Zev Pogrebin (he/him)

+1 (646) 326-1081

Temporary Secretary

Davis Square Neighborhood Council

[Sara Oaklander]

Hi Zev, 

I'd like to help but don't have a regular daily schedule which makes it hard to complete the form. It would be great if you could narrow down the weekly meeting options to two or three and then poll folks re: what works best. If not - and I get that that might be one too many steps! - I'll just try to make the day/time that you settle on. Thanks, 

Sara

[brendan.ritter]

Hello! Just wanted to post the information I gathered last meeting.

I would normally love to be involved in this immediately, unfortunately I'll be out of state the 4th-12th, and the trip requires a lot of preparation.

This is a list of people who volunteered to run the ballot on what days:
Sat Aug 16:
   Erika Nesse
Sat Aug 23:

   Sara Oaklander
   Heidi (Sorry, didn't catch a last name!)
   Mary (Sorry, didn't catch a last name!)
Mon Aug 25:
   Sara Oaklander

This was an unofficial list of next things we needed to do:
- From the minutes, and including floor nominations, create an official list of nominations with clearly defined categories and positions
- Determine a definite list of proof of membership/ability to be on the board (residence is easy, the other categories are harder)
- Should we allow provisional ballots and if so how?
- Training for the volunteers who are going to run the ballot and perform the RCV (!)
- Do a dry run of the counting procedure
- Determine a time and actual membership of the election committee (in progress :p )
- Come up with and send out (ASAP) a questionnaire to all nominees regarding their position on Davis things. (can mostly take from this doc)

[brendan.ritter]

Oh, missed a name. Carol Rego volunteered for Mon Aug 25th

[Carol]

And August 18. 

The best days for meetings for me are Monday and Wednesdays to prepare for the election.

Carol 

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[Davis Square Neighborhood Council]

Hello all,

Based on availability from respondents, I think next Monday at 6:00 PM will be the best day to hold the first meeting. This will be held as a special meeting of the Davis Square Neighborhood Council.

I heard feedback from a lot of people that don't have a regular daily schedule. For that reason, I'll plan to schedule the meetings week-to-week.

Brendan kindly provided a to-do list of action items, which I've adapted into an agenda:

• 6:00: Meeting start
• 6:03: Election committee formation and roles
• 6:20: Presentation/handoff of sample ballot design and feedback (ZP)
• 6:30: Nominations and Candidates
• Create an official list of nominations
• Clarify the categories and desired positions of nominated candidates
• Come up with and send out a questionnaire to all nominees regarding their position on Davis issues
  
• 6:55: Clarify ballot rules

• Determine a definite list of proof of membership/ability to be on the board (residence is easy, the other categories are harder)

• Discussion on whether to allow provisional ballots
• 7:20: Election operations
• Required hardware/material acquisition
• Outreach for more volunteers
• Schedule training for the volunteers who are going to run the ballot and perform the RCV
• Schedule a dry run of the counting procedure
• 7:40: Buffer time/extra time for additional topics that come up
• 7:50: Scheduling of next meeting (select 2-3 date/times)
• 8:00: Adjourn

The items in purple indicate agenda items which I recommend be closed to election candidates.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best,

Zev

Zev Pogrebin (he/him)

+1 (646) 326-1081

Temporary Secretary

Davis Square Neighborhood Council

[rona twofisch.com]

At the church or the library ?

iPhone email from Rona Fischman. Expect autocorrect imistakes.

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[Zev Pogrebin]

Hello,

Thanks for asking.

I should have specified this, we’ll hold the meeting over zoom to allow remote attendees to be there without the additional overhead of having a hybrid meeting.

I’ll send a meeting invitation and formal meeting notice within the next day or two.

Best,

Zev

-Zev Pogrebin

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[Matt Kimsal]

Hi Brendan, et al,

I'd be happy to volunteer for the shift on August.  

Sorry for spam to all others, but wasn't clear to me who has the stick for this in the coming days. (Brendan? Zev? Someone else?) 

Best,

Matt Kimsal

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[Ian Poyant]

Meeting over Zoom. Good to know. Thanks, Zev.

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