Adopted
Bluffdale City Hall, 2222 14400 S, Bluffdale, UT 84065
Rob Axson, chair, opened the meeting at 10:38am.
He invited MaryAnn Christensen and Kim DelGrosso to address the body about their experiences door knocking in Arizona and Nevada.
Kim DelGrosso offered the prayer. Gary Leany led the Pledge of Allegiance and Wendy Hart read the Freedom of Religion platform plank.
Attendance is 97 of which 53 in person and 44 online. Of the people in person, 2 are in St. George, 15 are in Weber and 36 in Bluffdale.
Jen Garner, Davis County, made a motion to adjourn the meeting so we can get to door knocking. She then amended her motion to schedule an adjourned meeting on Nov 9th or Nov 16th. She amended her motion to adjourn the meeting before the end of the year. She withdrew her motion.
Olivia Dawn HW, Davis County, made a motion to amend the agenda to strike item 1 (review of the Convention Committee members) and item 4 (bylaw amendments) from the agenda. Kari Malkovich, URW, objected. The motion failed. Olivia called for division. The motion failed again - 27 for and 59 against.
Chuck Wood, Utah County, made a motion to move item 1 to a special meeting on November 16, 2024 at a time of the chair’s choosing to be held on Zoom. Rob clarified that this is not a vote for the convention committee but to share the names of the additional people who Rob wants to add to the convention committee. The convention committee was approved last year and is not changing. Chuck withdrew his motion.
Gene Garate called the question on the adoption of the agenda. The motion passed.
We moved to the adoption of the agenda. The motion passed and the agenda was adopted at 11:28am, starting the four-hour time limit.
Rob announced that our parliamentarian at our last meeting - who was subbing for Jessica Christopher, who was out of town - had given inaccurate counsel based on our rules. The motion was to amend the agenda to add a new item to the agenda. Rob had ruled this was a ⅔ vote based on that parliamentarian’s advice, but it should have been a majority vote. That said, the motion would have still failed based on the outcome of that vote.
Olivia Dawn HW asked if we can amend the minutes from the Sept 7 meeting with an asterisk that a correction was made at the next (i.e., today’s) meeting. Rob agreed.
Minutes from September 7, 2024 were approved without objection.
Lyndon Brittner, Utah County, made a motion to ask for Spencer Cox to withdraw from the governor’s race. Rob ruled this out of order. Lyndon withdrew his motion to work on it.
We moved to officer reports.
Kim Coleman made her officer report.
Brad Bonham made his officer report.
McKay Newell made his officer report.
Stafford Palmieri Sievert made her officer report.
Rob Axson made his officer report.
Rob noted that we had already addressed item 1 of the business, which was announcing that we were adding people to the Convention Committee. The Convention Committee that was approved last year and will be the committee for the 2025 Organizing Convention is:
- Chair - Nicki Brammer
- Credentials - Mac Sims
- Logistics - Shawn Milne
- Technology - Charles Wood and Chris Null, co-chairs
- Communication & Public Relations - Emily Ekins
- Rules - Gina Worthen
- Elections - Dan Burton
- Security/Sgt at Arms - Sheriff Mike Smith
- Parliamentarian - Jessica Christopher
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Others as needed
- Lesa Sandberg
- Jennifer Garner
- Peter Greathouse
- Christina Boggess
- Jamie Munns
Rob asked that anyone else who wants to support the convention let him know. Marci Campbell, Davis County, indicated she would like to support credentialing. Teena Horlacher, Davis County, also indicated interest in helping with convention.
Rob moved on to item 2, Other Convention Details. Rob noted that we’re considering May 3, 10 or 17th as the date and looking at UVU or Mountain America for the venue. It’s looking like Mountain America is going to be the best option and we’re leaning towards May 17 (to avoid high school and college graduations and Mother’s Day, which is May 11).
Rob clarified that in Nominating years, we are constrained by state law in terms of when we have to report the results to the state, which is the last Monday in April. In organizing years, we have more flexibility. The overall constraining issue is finding a venue at the right price, which is why the body gave the chair to book convention locations for years in advance.
Teena Horlacher, Davis County, made a motion to use paper ballots at the organizing convention. Rob ruled the motion out of order and asked Teena to engage with the convention committee on this topic.
Stafford introduced the third item, Discussion of Updated Operations Manual. In lieu of a live discussion at the meeting, Stafford asked people to send her any suggestions. She suggested that members start with the table of contents.
Daniela Harding, Davis County, noted that the indicia process is missing from the operations manual.
There was a quorum call. There were 38 in Bluffdale, 10 in Weber, 1 in St. George and 45 online for a total of 94. Quorum was maintained.
Stafford presented the Bylaw Amendment to Bring Speech Length for Second and Subsequent Speeches in Multi-Round Balloting in Alignment with Other Speech Length. Bob McEntee, Weber County, made an amendment to strike “an optional” and restore “if they desire” to clarify that this is up to the candidate to decide if they want to take the time. There was no objection to the amendment. The amendment passed. We returned to the underlying motion. There were 83 yays and 7 nays.
Lyndon Bittner made a motion to amend the agenda to add a resolution to the agenda. A quorum call was called. We had lost quorum so we stood adjourned at 1:25pm. The quorum count was 72, of which 32 were online, 4 in Weber, 1 in St. George and 35 in Bluffdale.
