Windham Democratic Committee
Minutes of Dec 4, 2000 Meeting

VFW - Main Street, Willimantic, CT

DRAFT 

1. Call to order at: 7:10 p.m. by Chair Niles. Quorum - 29 present
2. Motion to table minutes of previous meeting: L. Ide/L. Sarin Vote - unanimous
3. Motion to table Treasurer's Report: W. Sayers/D. White Vote - unanimous
4. Art Breault has resigned due to his having moved out of town. Motion to accept A. Breault's resignation from the WDTC with regrets: Y. Negron/D. White Vote - unanimous
5. *Nomination of Susan Johnson to fill first vacancy on the WDTC: D. White/T. DeVivo
   *Nomination of Jose Rosario to fill second vacancy on the WDTC: J. Perez/D.J.O'Brien
   *Nomination of Dow Henchel to fill third vacancy on the WDTC: D.J.O'Brien/A. Beauleau
   *Motion to close nominations and secretary cast one affirmative ballot: D. White/L. Montalvo Vote: unanimous
6. *Notification that Tom Cronin has resigned from the ZBA. He had served as Chair for the past two years. Motion to accept T. Cronin's resignation with regret: A. Beauleau/T.White Vote -unanimous
   *Now a permanent position is open for two years. Motion to move A. Beauleau from Alternate to Permanent: D.J.O'Brien/T. DeVivo
   *Motion that nominations be closed and secretary case one affirmative ballot: V. Rayhall/T. DeVivo Vote - unanimous
   *There will not be an opening for Alternate on the ZBA.
7. Our Democratic candidates did very well in the elections. There was a very good group of workers. Chair thanked all who made Election Day a big success. We worked at getting the Latino vote out and were very successful - over 1,100 Latinos voted in Windham.
8. Treasurer's Report: $2,150 - Balance (Expenses: $1,800 - WILI / $100 - the Chronicle) $1500 was raised for radio ads because people were happy with the idea of the ads being done for candidates. Motion to accept the treasurer's report: D. White/W. Pawelkewicz Vote -unanimous
9. Chair Niles appointed the following individuals to serve on the "Town Committee Platform Committee:" W. Pawelkiewicz, Y. Negron, L. Ide, T. DeVivo, T. Lacey, M. Diaz, D.J.O'Brien, T. White, V. Rayhall and J. Lescoe. V. Rayhall will chair the committee. The committee will be responsible for developing a WDTC platform, which will be presented to the committee for a vote.
10. Mary McCabe's partner passed away. Moment of silence was held. Memorial service will be on Thursday @ 3:30 p.m. in the Betty Tipton Room at ECSU. A donation of $25.00 will be made on behalf of the WDTC to the Jean Thorenson Adoption Research Fund at ECSU.
11. Discussion at the next meeting of when this committee should meet (i.e., monthly, bi-monthly, every three months)?
12. Nancy Wyman will be attending our next meeting.
13. CancerWalk-WDTC raised over the $2,500 goal!
14. December 13 will be the actual vote for State Chairmanship. John Olson is running against Ed Marcus.
15. Meeting adjourned: 8:00 p.m.

Minutes recorded and submitted by: Yolanda Negrón, Recording Secretary

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