Denver INC Executive Meeting Minutes

August 8, 2016

Daniel’s Foundation

 Attendance:

Board: JJ Niemann, Michelle Schoen, John Riecke, Bonita Lahey, Steve Nissen, Drew Dutcher, Bibi Alexander.

Committee Chairs: Joel Noble.

Meeting called to order at: 6:35 p.m.

Minutes:

Meeting minutes for May 9, 2016 EC meeting were approved during the June 20, 2016 meeting.
– This information was not included in the June 20, 2016 minutes.

Meeting minutes for June 20, 2016 EC meeting were approved.

Meeting minutes for July 11, 2016 EC meeting were approved.

Treasurer’s Report (see separate report) – Total funds – $35,143.86. Need to amend annual awards dinner summary (decrease $100) $1,752.57 rather than $1,852.57.

Audit Report: Reviewed bookkeeping procedures and how money was spent. Books all in good standing. Misc. budget has been significantly overdrawn for several years, so we need to look at increasing it. Could use line items to resolve this. Bibi and John need to coordinate to make sure items are correctly categorized. General supplies should also be adjusted up. Annual audits should be completed during the first quarter, not the third. Bibi does a good job of tracking uncashed checks that take a while to clear. INC is heavily dependent on Visit Denver for the annual awards dinner. John will forward the audit to the committee. Need to look carefully at the cost of food, etc. for delegate meetings.

Budget Chair, Membership Chair, At-Large, and Public Safety Chair, Communications Chair: Need 1 at-large member, plus we need one person for each of the other spots.

John Riecke will contact Metro State and UCD to see if we can find a journalism student who wants to intern in exchange for course credit. Will work as the newsletter editor to assist Maggie.

August Delegate Meeting: Meeting in the West Atrium of the Museum of Nature and Science on August 13, 2016. Door will be open at 8:30 for us. The museum itself does not open until 9:00. We will discuss the two marijuana-related ballot initiatives.

September Delegate Meeting: Still looking for a location.

Committee Reports:

Transportation: Joel Nobel: Agenda is set for next committee meeting. Waiting for final confirmation of all speakers.

New Business:

Strategic Vision: Bring in new RNOs, reach out to city leaders.

Strategic Vision: The INC will accomplish our mission by expanding the knowledge and resources available and by engaging thought leaders and decision makers through our advocacy and petitioning. We will focus on bringing more Denver residents into registered neighborhood organizations throughout Denver. We will focus on inviting more RNO leaders to participate in INC. we will use data and our knowledge of the social/political fabric of Denver to focus our advocacy on the most important issues and opportunities that affect neighborhoods. The focus will be directed at Denver city employees, representatives, and thought leaders that will be the decision makers on these issues and the implementers of these opportunities.

Election forums upcoming:

9/19-23: Candidate introductions to be taped.

9/25: House Districts 1 and 2

9/26: House Districts 4 and 5

10/4: Ballot issues

10/5: Ballot issues

10/6: House Districts 8 and 9

10/12: District Attorney & State Senate District 31

10/13: Congressional District 1, State Senate District 33

Ideas:

Identify possible RNO members to add by the end of the year: Valverde, for example. We can allow up to 10 free memberships for groups that cannot afford the membership fee.

Need to add strategic vision and at least one metric per goal before approving the strategic plan.

Motion: Approve the concept of the strategic plan and tentative dates so that we can move forward with creating metrics and action items to improve upon it with the hope of full approval at the next meeting.

Approved: unanimously.

Adjourned: 8:00 p.m.