[These are unofficial draft minutes; they have not yet been approved by the executive committee.]

Adelante Progressive Caucus

Executive Committee

Minutes of regular meeting, 20 April 2023

The Executive Committee of the Adelante Progressive Caucus of the Democratic Party of New Mexico convened for a regular monthly meeting on Zoom from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm on Thursday 20 April 2023.

Attendance

Present:

  • Cricket Courtney (CD-2 Chair)
  • Colton Dean (Vice-Chair)
  • Dan Fay (Treasurer)
  • Patricia French (Chair)
  • Nicole Olonovich (Political Director)
  • Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Secretary)

Call to order and quorum check

The chair called the meeting to order at 6:40 pm and confirmed that a quorum of the executive committee was present.

Farewell party for Cheryl Harris

PF reported that Cheryl Harris had arrived in Utah, signing documents at the bank before she left, to try to get the transfer of signature powers taken care of.

NO informed the group that a going-away party for CH will be held at Flora Lucero’s home on 4 June from 2 to 5 pm.

Web site updates

PF appointed a committee to consider how to update and refresh the web site, and do so, consisting of:

  • Michael Sperberg-McQueen
  • Dan Fay
  • Nicole Olonovich

Meeting schedule

We discussed the scheduling of caucus and executive committee meetings. For the moment, we will stay with the first Thursday of each month for the caucus and the third Thursday of each month for the executive committee. This is not ideal, since several members of the caucus are also members of Fuerzas Unidas, which meets on the third Thursday. Once the selection of state party committee members is completed, people will have a better sense of their schedules and we may reconsider the schedule.

The chair officially called caucus and EC meetings for May and June as follows:

  • 4 May, general member meeting
  • 18 May, executive committee meeting
  • 1 June, general member meeting
  • 15 June, executive committee meeting

Approval of minutes

The minutes of the meeting of 23 March were unanimously approved as distributed (moved by PF, seconded by NO).

Meeting in Socorro

We discussed the scheduling of an outreach meeting in Socorro and settled on the Saturday the 17th or 24th of June, probably from 1 to 3 pm. CC will check availability and cost of a meeting space.

Tabling at State Central Committee meeting

We discussed plans for running a table at the State Central Committee meeting on 22 April.

Bylaws vote

The secretary reported that the balloting period for the proposed revision of the bylaws will run for another week and end at 11:59 pm Mountain Time on 27 April. So far we have very light turnout.

Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 7:35 pm.