Meetings & Minutes

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

Juneau (2), Dillingham, Palmer

• Overview of Netcalc scores
• Discuss reformatting graphs in survey results (all 5 values instead of the stacked low values/neutral/High values and use percentages instead of counts)
• Discuss future surveys and increasing pool (want more young Alaskans, want more people from other parties to take part in next round)

Winter Hiatus till January 4th, 2025 10am: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84962000367?pwd=aEgcvt64stPIhGfe1AGNYj7FhSTWCe.1

Juneau (2), Dillingham

• Using comments section from the first survey to structure second round survey questions:
• Core infrastructure/state services. Economic Growth. Natural Resources. 
• Allow for anonymous responders to surveys to allow for a greater pool of candidates.

Next meeting December 14th 10am https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84962000367?pwd=aEgcvt64stPIhGfe1AGNYj7FhSTWCe.1

Juneau (3), Dillingham, Anchorage

• Initial survey results into graphs. Will redo Question 1 graphs from stacked bars into columns stacking 1&2 (Low interest) 3, and 4&5 (high interest) 
• Discussed the recent Ranked Choice Voting proposal stalled for the municipal level in Juneau. Anchorage will soon be hosting an event in support of RCV statewide. 
• Plan to release survey results along with a new survey in January before Legislative Session. 
• Draft of new issues survey will be shared at next Meeting. 

Next meeting December 7th 10am https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84962000367?pwd=aEgcvt64stPIhGfe1AGNYj7FhSTWCe.1

Our fall survey has closed – We reviewed initial results & will work on developing a report.

We worked on topics for the follow-up survey and met with members of the Alaska Forward Party to see what we could learn from them as they work on their parallel effort.

Pat is working on bringing the Center for Artistic Activism to Juneau for a workshop in March.

Next meeting November 23rd 10am https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84962000367?pwd=aEgcvt64stPIhGfe1AGNYj7FhSTWCe.1