DWC-SD meeting notice: 6:30pm, January 18, 2021 (copy 01)

💃Reminder:Democratic Woman's Club of San Diego: Monday, January 18, 2021- Monthly Meeting 6:30PM via Zoom

January 18, 2021

Hello ,

Our next meeting is an important one in the history of our club. Not only are we electing a new President but we are redoing our bylaws to make the club more functional and compliant with chartering requirements.

Monthly Meeting

Regeneration and Renewal

When

:

Monday, January 18, 2021

: Meeting starts at

6:30 PM

but please start checking in at 6:00 PM, to help us get the meeting started on time.

Where

: Zoom registration is required – if you’re a clubmember or participant click

 

here 

to register ahead of time. All of the details on how to join will be provided – including dial-in details from a landline.

Our meetings are available live on the Democratic Woman's Club of San Diego's YouTube channel. Past meeting videos are archived.

Honoring Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

with Dr Akilah Weber

Dr. Akilah Weber will be opening our meeting with remarks to help us honor, on this sacred day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remembering Dr. King is even more important after the huge national tragic horror that we all saw on Wednesday January 6. None of us know what is ahead of us, just that we all need each other to love, cherish and hold dear.

Election of President, Secretary and Treasurer Chaired by Susan Peinado

As the current president, Susan Peinado will not be running for reelection, she will be chair this part of the meeting.

As announced at our November and December meetings, Rosamond Blevins, as Chair of the nominating committee, will make a report as required in the bylaws.

Our current Secretary, Cathie Hyatt and Treasurer, Rosamond Blevins have agreed to run for another term. Stepping down are Susan Peinado, President, Rebecca Fielding-Miller, VP Internal, and Ramla Sahid, VP External.

As both Vice President positions have been restructured in the newly proposed bylaws with additional, clearly defined responsibilites,the decision is to wait until the new bylaws have been adopted before holding the elections for those positions. It is important that candidates fully understand what is expected of them.

We have had one candidate come forth to run for President, Dr. LaWana Richmond. Her officer candidate application is

. Our new President's term will begin at the end of the January meeting.

Sarah Davis has come forth to run for Vice President next month. Her officer candidate application is

We still need applications for the two newly created positions - Director of Membership and Director of Communications. Please contact

if you are interested in running for either of these positions.

Elections:

  • January - President, Secretary, Treasurer

  • February (after adoption of the newly proposed bylaws) - VP Internal, VP External, Director of Membership, Director of Communications

Bylaw Revisions Chaired by

Yvonne Elkin

The bylaws changes were sent out in our earlier email of January 4, 2021.

Please come to the meeting having reviewed these documents. This will allow Chair Elkin to go through the changes in an efficient manner. After through discussion by our members at the upcoming meeting, the final version will be voted on at our February meeting, in accordance with our bylaws.

If you have questions about the bylaws, please email Chair Elkin,

.

To recap changes from our earlier email, we have created a new membership category for people who may want to affiliate with the Democratic Woman’s Club because they are aligned with our mission, but for some reason are not currently registered as a Democrat.

We also have better defined the responsibilities of our board members, adding two additional positions to help distribute the work across more people instead of overloading our President and Treasurer.

The procedure we will use to review these changes is:

  • We will ask people to raise their hand in Zoom to comment.

  • If someone makes a motion to amend one of our changes, we will make note and put that section on a list to address at the end of the document review.

  • Once we have completely reviewed the document we will begin to address those sections that members have indicated they want to change.

  • We will follow Robert’s Rules to accept or reject motions.

Any revisions voted on and accepted at this meeting will be redistributed at least 2 weeks prior to the February meeting. Approval of the by-law changes will be placed on the consent calendar for that meeting.

Treasurer's Report, Rosamond Blevins

Rosamond will update us on DWC-SD income and donations since our last meeting.

Covid Rant Time with Dr Fielding-Miller

This item will be timed to Esther's bedtime- around 8pm. Club Vice President

, UCSD Assistant Adjunct Professor, Medicine, School of Health Sciences, an epidemiologist, who has been featured on

and

, will address member concerns and questions on Covid related issues. More information on Dr Miller may be found

.

Remember to mail your ADEM ballot by Friday, January 22.

Registration to request a ballot is now closed. Your Voter ID number must be filled out for your vote to be counted. You will find your Voter ID number in your voter registration confirmation email from [email protected].

Club members running for ADEMs.

All Clubmembers who are running for ADEMS will have one minute to make their case to fellow Clubmembers. Please practice because one minute goes by very quickly.

Announcements

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2021 AT 11 AM PST

Online Event register

2021 Book Club Meetups, organized by club member Geneviéve Jones-Wright. Register

  • Saturday January 23, 2pm, and Saturday January 30, 2pm "Walking with the Wind," by the late Comgressman, John Lewis.

  • The book scheduled for February is "Caste," by Isabel Wilkerson

This will be my last newsletter to you as your president. It has been an honor to serve this club, to see with great pride how it has grown in both membership and influence since our very first meeting June 24, 2014, at the Bamboo Lounge. It is because of you, personally and you, the entire membership, that this growth has occured.

Your time, commitment and treasure has enabled this club to encourage San Diego women with big ideas and little budgets, lawyers to help the powerless, food and toys to be distributed, candidates to be supported and so many other projects- such as "

"

and

to be birthed and grow strong. Together, we have formed a strong female community, bound by love and respect.

Please join us at our January meeting, as we continue this crazy journey - together.

As always, if any member has questions or concerns, please feel free to call me. I look forward to 'seeing you' tomorrow, 6:30pm, Monday evening, January 18, 2020.

Please stay safe and stay home.

Susan Peinado, President

(619) 225-9236

The Mission of the Democratic Woman’s Club of San Diego County is to promote the goals and ideals of the Democratic Party with particular attention to increasing women’s political participation at all levels of elected and appointed office. Therefore, the Club will actively support Democratic candidates, contribute to party leadership, responsibility and harmony, and stimulate active interest in the Democratic Party, particularly among women.

We demand equality of opportunity, a level playing field and fair and equal treatment for all. We are dismantling the patriarchy.We (usually) meet the third Monday of every month see Events section of our website for more details. Meetings are now held on Zoom by registering here.(619) 900-4751[email protected]Join our Meetup group

Officers of the ClubSusan Peinado, President & CofounderRamla Sahid, External Vice PresidentRebecca Fielding-Miller, Internal Vice PresidentCathie Hyatt, SecretaryRosamond Blevins, Treasurer