Meeting Minutes 6-3-09

Meeting was called to order by Rick Karschnia at 7:18pm.

Introduction of new members and guests.

Officer Reports
Chair Report - Elections tonight will be run by Bill Jungbauer to ensure a fair and open process. Candidates must be in good standing to run for office and to participate in the voting process.

Vice Chair Report - MN GOP's State Central Committee Meeting is on June 13th at the Earle Brown Heritage Center, convening at 8:30am. If you want to carpool from the east side of St. Paul contact Mike Mueller.

Treasurer's Report was approved as read.
A motion was made, seconded, and approved to remove certain line items from the budget because they've been on the books for over a year with no use of the funds.

A motion was made, seconded, and approved to reimburse David Vranish $44 for the renewal of the PO Box.

Secretary's Report was approved as read.

Events Committee Report-Diana Shockley
Our annual picnic will be on June 20th, starting at noon. The committee is looking for grill team volunteers. We have 5 speakers currently lined up and it is at the Shoreview Community Center Pavilion. Brats, burgers, hotdogs and veggie burgers will be available for sale. The speakers will be conversing on the topic of free market ecology.

A motion was made, seconded to give the events committee $550 to purchase all items needed for the picnic. Discussion was had. An amendment to motion consisted of adding the words "a budget" after the word give to the motion. The amendment was made, seconded and approved. The motion, as amended, was approved.

Bylaws Committee Report-John Kossett
Committee will be meeting shortly after the meeting tonight.

Fundraising Committee Report-Bill Jungbauer
The committee is still waiting for Rick to sign the 70 fundraising letters that they are looking to send out.

Communications Committee-Lorri Zuleger
About 300 new "friends of MNLG" email addresses were added to the friends database. These email addresses were garnered from the Tax Cut Rally.

Elections Committee-Blaise Villaume
Currently the committee is gathering information about the different districts.

Rick Karschnia took a moment to recognize the hard work of all the outgoing officers and committee chairs and thank them for their service.

Motion was made and seconded to officially endorse Richard Easton for St. Paul School Board. During the discussion of this motion, a motion was made, seconded, and approved to table the motion to officially endorse Richard Easton.

The Grand Old Days Parade is Sunday, June 7th, lining up at 8am. Come walk with the St. Paul City Committee if you would like.

Elections of New Officers and Commitee Chairs
Motion was made, seconded, and approved to cast a while ballot for all uncontested elections.
Motion was made, seconded, and approved to have Lorri Zuleger be our time keeper for speeches.
Motion was made, seconded to have candidates speeches limited to 2 minutes. Amendedment to the motion was made to suggests that speeches be limited to 1 minute instead of 2. Amendment was seconded and approved. Motion, as amended, was approved.

Chair: Rick Karschnia
Vice Chairs: Jacob Hielscher and Joe Thomas
Treasurer: David Vranish
Co-Treasurer: Dave Lindberg
Secretary: Diana Shockley
Elections Committee Chair: Blaise Villaume

Motion was made, seconded, and approved to table to election of the Fundraising Committee Chair until next month.

Motion was made, seconced, and approved to take up the election of Fundraising Commitee Chair.

Fundraising Committee Chair: Jill Wilkinson
Events Committee Chair: Anisha Dunne
Communications Committee Chair: Mitch Imbertson
Bylaws Committee Chair: John Kossett
Platform Committee Chair: Jason Hoffman

Norann Dillon from MN Republican Liberty Caucus stoped by to let us know that they are having elections on Saturday June 13th after the MN GOP State Central Committee Meeting. You can visit www.rlcmn.org for more information.

The MNLG endorsement process was suggested to be put on the agenda for next months' meeting.

Motion to ajorn the meeting was made, seconded, and approved at 8:37pm.