August General Meeting

Location: Harriet Tubman House, USES
Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Meeting Time: 6:00PM

Proposed Agenda

We encourage everyone to respect each other's time and try to participate on time.

Goals of the Meeting

To provide newcomers or remind other attendants of the general purpose of DFA.
To consider and discuss Fall elections, national DFA positions and priorities.
To consider and discuss organizational structure regarding our effectiveness, challenges, and problems.
To consider our plans both in the short-term and long-term.

Meeting Agenda

5 Minutes:

Ask for someone to facilitate meeting.
Ask for someone to be the time keeper.
Ask for someone to write the meeting minutes.

2-10 Minutes:

Review Agenda and ask for revisions, additions, changes.

5-10 Minutes:

Ask someone to provide short description of the general purpose of the DFA.

10-15 Minutes:

Updates

National DFA

Candidate endorsements--see Fall Elections

Downing Street Memos

Supreme Court Nominations

End of meetup.com communication network

New organizing tools on DFA website

Eastern Mass. regional group

10-15 Minutes:

Fall Elections

Actions for endorsed candidates.

Consider other endorsements? If so, what process to follow?

Possible candidate forum after 9/23/05 preliminary election.

Volunteers needed for endorsed candidates.

Letters of recommendation to DFA HQ.

Other assistance to endorsed candidates?

Other non-Boston endorsed candidates.

Volunteer sign-up sheet for candidates at our meeting?

15-20 Minutes:

DFA-Boston Organization

Read off list of items discussed at Steering Committee Meeting---(please see meeting minutes for list of ideas we spoke about)

Break-Outs?

Dreams & Visions?

10-15 Minutes:

Review Action Items

Specific Tasks

People's commitments

Timeline goals

5 Minutes:

Conclusion and Round Robin: Everyone shares their feedback on how the meeting went and what we could do better next time.