MINUTES Meeting – Libertarian Party of El Paso County Special Convention Meeting Date – Thursday, April 20, 2020 Time – 11:00am Location – American Tire Exchange, 740 Babcock Road Opening/Welcome/Introductions Board Members present: John Hjersman, Chris Houtchens, Judy Darcy
Others Present: Nathan Foutch & Molly Foutch This Constitutes a Quorum Call to Order: 12:58pm
Presentation and Adoption of Agenda Motion: John Hjersman as presented Second: Chris Houtchens MSCU
Minutes from Previous Meeting February if Received from Lexi – still nothing Motion: Motion – Carry to next meeting Judy Darcy Second: John Hjersman MSCU
Bylaws Proposals Proposal 1 Motion: Judy Darcy As presented Second: Chris Houtchens MSCU
Proposal 2 As Amended Motion: John Hjersman Second: Chris Houtchens MSCU
Standing Rules Motion Adopt as presented: Judy Darcy Second : Chris Houtchens MSCU
Others present via Zoom: Anthony Delgado 1:13pm Chris Houtchens left at 1:14pm Tori Ciraolo appears via face time at 1:14pm This constitutes a Quorum
Election of Officers Chair: Nominate Tori Ciraolo: John Hjersman Tori Ciraolo Accepts Nomination NCU
Vice Chair: Nominate Judy Darcy: Tori Ciraolo Nominate Nathan Foutch: Judy Darcy Judy Darcy Declines Nathan Foutch Accepts NCU
Director and Officer Reports Interim Chairman, Victoria Ciraolo – Phone bank for Candidates, Bylaws Meeting, Rally at the Capitol
Vice Chairman, –
Secretary, Victoria Ciraolo –
Treasurer, John Hjersman – Phone Bank for Candidates, Bylaws Meeting
Outreach Director, Judy Darcy – Phone Bank for Candidates, Bylaws Meeting, Rally at Capitol
Education Director, Chris Houtchens – Chris Houtchens appears via telephone at 1:30pm Chris Resigned as Education Director at 1:31pm
Committee Reports Bylaws Committee, John, Judy, Tori – Bylaws Proposal 1 & 2
Media Committee, vacant
Social Media Coordinator, Judy Darcy –
Newsletter Editor, Jessica Senia –
Convention Committee, Lance Haverkamp –
Campaigns Committee, vacant
Education Committee, Chris Houtchens –
Policy Committee, Chris Houtchens, Chairman – Standing Rules
Fundraising Committee, vacant
Affiliate Representative, John Hjersman – In Writing
IT Committee, Aaron Devandry
Political Issues Liaisons,
Manitou Springs, Paotie Dawson –
New Business Nominations/appointments for the Board Table Nomintaions to next Board Meeting for Education Director Motion: Judy Darcy Second: John Hjersman MSCU
Nomination of Candidates, and acceptance of LPCO Nominations US Senate – 2 candidates – Gaylon Kent & Raymon Doane – Primary
US Congress District 5 – Doug Lunde – Scott Meyer, Robert Bentley, Sean McCormick, Andrew Rominski, Daniel Smith, Jessica Peterson, Bonnie Davis, Tim Harris, Matthew Jensen, Edward Duffett, David Anthony, accepted for Vacancy Committee, to be vetted by LPCO
Colorado Senate District 10 – Heather Johnson
Colorado Senate District 12 – Zechariah Harris 25 years old + 12 month residence
Colorado House of Representatives District 14 – David Thompson
Colorado House of Representatives District 15 – Mike McRedmond
Colorado House of Representatives District 16 – John Hjersman
Colorado House of Representatives District 17 – Susan Quilleash-Nelson
Colorado House of Representatives District 18 – Nathan Foutch
Colorado House of Representatives District 19 – Larry Knob
Colorado House of Representatives District 20 – Judy Darcy
Colorado House of Representatives District 21 – Mike Seebeck 25 years old + 12 month residence
El Paso County Commissioner District 2 – Rob Berg
El Paso County Commissioner District 3 – Tim Campbell
El Paso County Commissioner District 4 – Victoria Ciraolo All Candidates approved Unanimously
Website, CRM, cloud
New voter list was donate as In Kind Contribution at a cost of $27 –ish to be updated in final minutes by John Hjersman (note: John never updated the Board with that exact cost)
Schedule IT Meeting before next Board Meeting. Thursday? Preliminary Meeting
Board Meeting Times and Locations May 6, 2020 6pm Tori’s House
Announcements Dues for 2020 are due to remain a contributing member. $25
National Convention in Austin Texas, May 20-25
Tori is making arrangements for additional social events.
Discussion/Q&A
Recess until 5pm to Revisit 9. B. 1:59pm Board Members Present at Tori’s House at 5pm Technical difficulties prevented the resumption of the remote meeting. Attempted to fix it until 8:22pm Recess until 5:00pm April 21, 2020 at Recess at 8:27pm
Call to Order by Tori at 5:32pm Board Members Present: Judy Darcy, John Hjersman, present at Judy’s House, Tori Ciraolo via Zoom then Messenger call, Nathan Foutch via Zoom Others Present: Molly Foutch via Zoom This constitutes a Quorum
Complete 9. B. Without technical difficulties. (note: No information on how that was completed in the the minutes provided for upload)
Adjourn 6:18pm