WR Greens Meeting Notes 2018-11-07

When

Wednesday, 7 November 2018 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Where

Abe Erb Brewery and Restaurant, 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario Map

Who

Theo, Ian McGregor, Cathy Scott, Laurel Russwurm, Stacey Danckert, David Weber, Kris Braun, David Dolson, Tori Mikhnovsky, Trevor Pollitt, Stephanie Jantzen-Martin, Collan Simmons, Tyler Rouse, Teresa Cornwell, Sam Nabi

Riding Updates

• There should be a meeting of Financial Agents for EDAs and CAs from all ridings

Kitchener South -- Hespeler

• KitSHesp will be having its inaugural AGM

When: Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 7:00pm

Where: Borealis Restaurant

Location: XXXXX Map

• Several volunteers and members have indicated interest
• This meeting is open to visitors!

Committee Reports

Nominations Committee

• Kris Braun has a spreadsheet of potential nominees
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IdPdcqD9jpOc89blp6W5h_cBGx1ppJstf_gQv79XGJ8/edit?usp=sharing

Communications Committee

• Need a Mission Statement for WRGreens
  • What are we trying to achieve?

• Web site needs streamlining

• https://wrgreens.ca/ is the touchstone

• Google Suites?
  • Green Party of Canada laready has Google Suites
  • Used by WRGreens in the last two campaigns
  • Creating yet another separate suite will only fragment things even more

• Tori Mikhnovsky and Bob Jonkman to meet to sort things out

General meeting notes

• People wanting to get involved have found it difficult to get information about the Waterloo Region Green Parties
  • Sent e-mails, but they "went into a black hole"
  • (what e-mail address were they sent to?)

• Stacey gives overview of WRGreens history:
  • There are enough of us together to overcome the problems of a single riding association
  • Explanation of Committees:
    • Events
    • Communications and Outreach (includes Membership)
    • Volunteers
    • Nominations

• Discussion List e-mails need to be made easily accessible
  • There is an archive, but it is difficult to use

Ian McGregor

• Ideas on voting?
  • People are not voting Green, but voting strategically
• Everyone needs to tell 5 other people to vote Green
  • Website with tally of people who pledge to vote Green?
  • It would take only 6 generations of conversations to get 20,000 voters
• One-on-one contacts are easy and community-building
  • Going for a walk is also exercise-making!
• When successful, if we can say "There's 20,0000 other people voting Green" then others are more likely to vote Green

• But achieving Proportional Representation is better, this is just a stopgap.

Acronym Expansion

• EDA - Electoral District Association (federal riding)
• CA - Constituents Association (provincial riding)
• AGM - Annual General Meeting