Committee Reports

Members Present: Marcie Stefan, Rosalie Bandyopadhyay, Dottie Faisby, Alex Chaves, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Chestnut

Minutes 2/22/18:

• Forum tonight: questions are ready, forum will be live-streamed.
• Lee’s proposal: we need to get people out to vote – it is necessary to bridge gaps between whites/blacks, liberals/conservatives
  •  Reaching the countryside. If the festival works, we can proceed to expand to Palatka, Alachua, and Starke as well.
  • Yoho gets money from the NRA. Let’s play this to our advantage.
  • Speeches will be light. The idea is to have fun with music and performances, family-oriented, fun games for kids.
  • All the politicians said they would come. They will each speak for 5 minutes (again, the idea is to have fun and keep it light).
  • Lee is asking for funding from the DEC. He is asking for a $500 contribution, it is mostly for advertising (not so much the event itself).
  • Still discussing date and length.

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Chair Cynthia Moore Chestnut called the meeting to order at 6:01 PM, Tuesday 6 March 2018, at the DEC Office, Gainesville, Florida.  She observed that Ermon Owens, Chair of the Alachua County Black Caucus died recently at Newnans Lake, and she called for a moment of silence in his memory.

Members Present: Chanae Baker, Jo Beaty, Sheryl Eddie (replacing Melvin Flournoy who has left the SC), Cynthia Chestnut, Terry Fleming, Mark Goldstein, Barbara McDade-Gordon, Horace Moore, Richard Powell, Marcie Stefan de Alvardo, James Thompson.  Member Absent: Kameela Spence.  Committee Chair Present: Iris Burke.  Others Present: Jake Gordon, Armondo Grundy.
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