Meetings & Minutes

Juneau (3)

• Re-opened survey link. Resend email to people to take Policy Survey.
• Reviewed and made updates to proposed bylaws
  • Clarified between “Active” and “Inactive” members to allow members of dual-partyship
• Started skeleton document of proposed policies and procedures
• Proposed creation of Meeting Facilitators slide showcasing the meeting agreements
• Next meeting date: April 19th, 2025 10am

Juneau (3), Dillingham

• APOC doesn’t have clear guidance around a wholly in-kind structure https://apoc.doa.alaska.gov/home/
  • IRS may have additional guidance on how time can be valued
• Need clarity on whether we need to register with: https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/
• Recommendation not to do party support for federal campaigns (though individuals are still encouraged to) to avoid having to register with FEC
• Print out survey for No Consent Rallies next weekend/ Email folks and remind them to do it
  • Next steps: Survey Results & Candidate Evaluation surveys

Juneau (2), Anchorage

• Protect Alaska’s Elections (https://protectalaskaselections.org/) launched campaign to keep ranked choice voting
• Review proposed In-Kind Network as financial structure
  • Pros: Decentralized/Donors have ability to choose projects to fund
  • Cons: Not having a pool of not having funding for time-sensitive projects
• Updated timeline to complete bylaws by April/May for registration with State
• Next meeting March 22nd and moved to evening at 6pm

Juneau (3), Dillingham

• Tentative Candidate Evaluation Timeline
  • April/May: Create Primary Poll based on Policy Survey.
  • June: Poll all candidates quick turn around survey (Focus questions)
  • July: Evaluate survey responses/ Compile & append responses with notes
  • Internal feedback on report/ Publish to website
  • Primary Ballot- August 18th
  • Post-Primary Nomination Process
  • Update report for General Election
• Finished initial review of bylaws
  • Follow-up with APOC on finance questions
  • After bylaws are complete, political group can be registered with the state!
• No meeting March 8th: Folks will be attending https://c4aa.org/whisper/unleashing-unstoppable-voters-alaska/
• Next meeting March 15th 10am

Juneau (3), Dillingham, Gustavus

• Reviewed flier for Survey/Website
• Talked about a timeline for the next couple month:
  • Feb 16-20th Getting fliers out and personal emails out to encourage people to take survey
    • PDF with 4 of the same images with QR code and website
  • Bylaws
  • Pop-up Dan Sullivan (Feb 18th) 
  • No Kings (March 28th)
  • Tentatively Closing Survey (April 6th) 
  • Compiling data 
  • How do we evaluate candidates? (Gubernatorial, Senate, House)
  • Primaries (August 18th) 
  • Review: How do we evaluate candidates? (House and Senate Races)
  • General (November 3rd) 
  • Review: How did the candidates do after the election? (demerit system: Accessibility. Expectation vs Reality.) 
• Reviewed Proposed Bylaws
  • Potential use of RVC123.org as a free ranked choice voting tool for decision-making
  • Talked about only live voting (2 week notice), no absentee voting. But include in policy and procedures a process for public testimony beforehand so people who can’t make it can have a statement read.
  • Need to draft language around thresholds for updating bylaws and for policies.
  • Discussed candidate (potential endorsement/alignment) processes
    • A point in time and we can rescore them again to hold them accountable for what they said vs. what they did

Juneau (3), Dillingham

• Issues Survey is out in the world. 20 people have taken it so far.
  • Extending survey date out till April 6th to allow for getting the word out at upcoming large gatherings
  • Flier will be created with QR code to encourage more survey participants
• Update and Review Proposed Bylaws Document
  • Identified need for further Policies and Procedures around: Community & Special Topic Groups, Endorsements, Disbandment, etc
    • Forthcoming opportunity to try out endorsement process with House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Candidates
  • Follow-up with Brian about how to do Rank Choice Voting in meetings

Juneau (2), Dillingham

• Review PDF of Values Survey Results and make edits for clarity
  • Draft email to send out to survey participants to let them know results are available
  • Ways to get word that results are out
• Preview Alaska Issues Survey
  • Included in email about survey results
  • Broad survey to gauge what issues are important.
    • Identified important issues will be further refined in follow-up issues survey
• Plan for Bylaws Discussion for next week

Juneau (1), Dillingham (1), Gustavus (1), Anchorage (1)

• Discussed Rank Choice Voting Repeal
• Bill Hill’s entrance into the Race
• Marmot Day Release (February 2nd) for Results and Survey
• Will review AK Forward Party bylaws and start drafting AK Neighbors bylaws

Juneau (2), Dillingham, Anchorage, Palmer

• Figure out better placement on website for next meetings date and zoom link.
• Planned release of survey results and next survey on Marmot Day (February 2^nd)
• Outline for next survey:
  • Fundamental Rights
    • Housing
  • What government should be? Core Services (Less Important/More Important) Ranking
    • Financial Aid
    • Health services
  • Policy Statements (Strongly disagree/strongly agree) geared at establishing baseline
    • example: Alaska Marine Highway, income taxes, pioneer home, public health, university of Alaska, constitutional guarantee of privacy, education, environmental, statewide salestax
• Budget balancing tool? (Not this survey but would be nice someday)
• Candidate surveys after the primary. Long-term accountability follow-up.
• Pat giving talk at Loussac Library (January 13^th at 6pm)
• Unofficial in-person Juneau gathering (TBD week of 18-24)  
• Next zoom meeting January 25^th 10am. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84962000367?pwd=aEgcvt64stPIhGfe1AGNYj7FhSTWCe.1

Juneau (2), Dillingham

• Discuss updated graphics for Initial survey results (Will update rest of slides to the new format. Will change color coding for party affiliation)
• Updated access for blog minutes to keep up to date!
• Discussion: How would our party respond to incidents like what happened in Venezuela?

Next Meeting: Sunday, January 11th 10am
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84962000367?pwd=aEgcvt64stPIhGfe1AGNYj7FhSTWCe.1