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== Strategy Meeting, Executive Meeting, and Discussion Night ==

; When: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
; Where: Community Room, Bread & Roses Cooperative Housing, 307 Queen Street South, Kitchener
; Who: Laurel Russwurm, Mary Jackes, Jim Sannes, Jon Cassels, Sharon Sommerville, Cathy Scott, Evan Rosamond, David Dirks, Myron Steinman, Terry Henderson, Stu Chandler, Trevor Pollitt, Bob Jonkman.

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=== Executive Meeting ===

==== Agenda Item ====

Web Site: http://fairvotewrc.ca/

Aden Seaman has been running the hardware and purchasing services out-of-pocket. Now the infrastructure needs to be upgraded, and service providers are increasing service charges. In order to bring the website and services under management of the Executive Board a budget for these services needs to be created, funding established, and vendors retained.

Website hosting: About $60/year for a minimal server (20 GBytes), about $150/year for 70 GBytes storage (unknown how much storage is being used now). https://www.ovh.com/ Note that local (Waterloo Region) providers may have lower prices for community groups.

Domain name registration: About $40/year from https://register4less.com ; maybe $20/year from https://gandi.net/

Phone number: +1–519–279–2990 – Receives little use, but gives professional appearance to our chapter. Transfer (porting): $10.00 + $0.85/month service + $0.01/minute calling. Free voice mail, phone conferencing, IVR (voice mail menus). https://voip.ms/

Total: from $90/year to $200/year

'''MOTION''': To establish funds in order to continue to maintain the website, then purchase required services.

==== Meeting Notes ====
* Value of the website is apparent
* But we'll need to do some fundraising
** Call out to Discussion mailing list?
*** But don't ask repeatedly
** Pass the hat at meetings?
*** Only at AGM
** Investigate e-transfers and PayPal (Jon Cassels and Cathy Scott)
** Can put e-commerce applications on website once we have a permanent web host
** David Dirks will draft a document for requesting donations

* Defer a vote on this motion until next meeting

=== Strategy Meeting ===
==== Agenda Items ====
* Summer Festivals: Race Relations (21 March), TriPride (early June), Multicultural (late June), Nonviolence (early July), Kultrun (early July), others?

* Federal Election, 21 October 2019 strategy for Fair Vote Canada, Fair Vote Waterloo?

* Outreach Committee report? (David Dirks)

* Door to door pilot campaign discussion (Sharon Sommerville)

* Other business

==== Meeting Notes ====
* Summer Festivals
** Need someone to take the lead in organizing summer festivals (individual organizers for individual events was not successful)
*** Cathy Scott will assist
** Literature for info tables?
*** We still have old material; don't need anything new
*** Get some materials from Fair Vote Canada national office (tabloid, infographic postcards)

* Election law?
** Find out if Fair Vote Canada will be registering as a Third Party Advertiser (Sharon?)

* Federal Election candidate events
** Will partner with ''Social Development Centre of Waterloo Region'' again
** Also contact the ''Social Planning Council of Cambridge and North Dumfries'' (Bob Jonkman)
** Ensure that Fair Vote Waterloo members are at all the Candidate events (debates, roundtables, &c)
** We will create a "Fact Sheet" and "Info Sheet" for candidates, to be done at Discussion Night on Wed, 31 July 2019.

* Outreach
** Contact David Dirks to help with Outreach
** Targetting millennials
** Reach out to teachers teaching Civics courses in High School
*** There's a High School History Teachers conference, find people there?
*** Contacts with individual teachers; our existing contacts have moved on.

* Door to Door Pilot
** There have been no additional campaigns
** There was a remarkable level of interest, and signing of petitions
** Door-to-door is an effective thing to do, but labour intensive
** We don't want to commit our limited volunteer hours on this
** The postcards (infographic?) were effective
** Door-to-door is a good thing to do during an election year
*** Do it earlier, June and July, so we get to the doors before the candidates do
** Work in pairs, but even better as a group
** How often?
*** Two hours every two weeks? No.
*** Two hours every month? Yes.
*** Start in May

* Letter Writing Group
** Need a better mailing list (can be set up with a permanent webhost)
** Need "Media Watchers"
*** Respond to anyone who writes about electoral reform or proportional representation
*** Articles about public issues, these illustrate why we need proportional representation

* Strategy: We need a big annual event
** "Intro to PR"?
** Get 200 people into a room?
*** Typical turnout for our events is 20 to 50 people (some of us think that's very successful)
*** ...but only politically engaged people come to these events
** Make this an annual event, get big-name speakers as it builds
** One annual event is more approachable than monthly meetings
** Target for July, August

* Hold the FVC AGM in Waterloo Region?
** Approach Anita Nickerson (Executive Director of FVC), National Council
** Open some AGM events to the community
** Have multiple streams: 1) Community 2) Fair Vote members

* Municipal level
** Approach local township / city councils about ranked ballots
** Berry Vrbanovic (Kitchener mayor) is interested; Matt Piggott has already approached him (but Matt is no longer in Waterloo Region)
** Scott McMillan (Woolwich councillor) has expressed interest in pursuing ranked ballots

* What does Fair Vote do?
** Advocates only for Proportional Representation
** Not ranked ballots in single member systems

* Other news
** Myron Steinman is working with CKWR (FM 98.5); wants to revive the ''Community Connections'' show.
** Sharon Sommerville will be stepping down as Chapter Coordinator.

Meeting notes taken by Bob Jonkman

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