In Attendance –

Larry Ambrose, Joanne Kuemmerlin, Merce Lee, Margie Valdez, Anne Elizabeth, Greg Kerwin, Ray Ehrenstein, John Riecke, Bibi Alexander, JJ Niemann, Katie Fisher, Meg Schomp

Approval of Minutes from August – Motion by: Ray 2nd by Bibi – Vocal Approval

Treasurer Report – $1900 is now in the charity Account.

Action Item: Next month we request a Budget Report from John Riecke

Safety Committee – Requests $200

Motion made by Ray – Allow Safety Committee to distribute $200 to the First Responder Fund a 501c3 for the fire and police museums. Passed by Acclimation

Safety Expo report by Merce Lea:

August 31st total: 33486.45

– Thinks the attendance was good.

– Next Year will be on Sept 10th 2016

– Will be in a different location

– Remember the Banner

– Capitan Nagel really encouraged people to talked to police officers and ask questions

Note: Jan Marie Bell sent a very nice thank you note to INC

Membership

– Membership List was audited

 82 RNO’s which is more than 70% of the City listed RNO’s for 2015. They have 190 listed and that includes art districts and business improvement districts that we do not solicit asRNO’s (We do solicit as Associates)

 8 Patron Bronze level; 6 Patron level

 Revenues from RNO’s=$3943.90

 28 Associate Members which includes sponsors for dinner and other activities where sponsorship included membership

 Revenues from Associates = $2063

 6 Patron Silver level which include Mayor and Michael Sapp’s groups

 2 Patron Bronze level

 4 Patron level which includes District 4 City Council

 4 Organizations which includes Ortega from City Council

 12 Individuals

 While we have tried to renew and recruit, it has become a bit late in the year to expect more to join. We will begin the 2016 recruiting in December and follow up several times in the first quarter of 2016.

– Discussion regarding implementing a system that sets the membership for a 12 month period from the date the RNO joins

 Some RNOs have a Sept – Aug fiscal year

 Why couldn’t we do this in the past?

 The date of the ledger entry would be the start date of the membership

 Cloud library – When stood up, will be membership dependent

Denver Decides Committee

 Tim O’Bryne – has now been appointed to the Committee by Larry

 Committee would like to post on our Facebook page requesting questions be submitted

 Approved – Action Item – Meg Schomp – Post request on Facebook Page

 Questions need to be submitted by Sept 20th 2015

 A+ will be helping put the questions together.

 Larry – Do we need something out of the EC asking for input from INC to the questions. Ask the forum committee to review the question selection process.

 The consensus is that the Election Forum question selection process is flawed.

 JJ makes Motion: INC requests that the Election Forum committee formalizes the question selection process and have it include input from the host and sponsors of the forum.

■ 2nd – Ray

■ 4-0-1 Vote – Approved

August 15th Retreat – Joanne gave us a review and results presentation

 This was a retreat to help us with communication within and outside

 Focused on communication roles and goals

 Defined better responsibility and authority regarding assignments and people.

 We created some job descriptions. These will be sent out to the different responsible people.

 Do we want job descriptions for committee chairs?

 Reviewed goals and determined a method to follow through on more ideas rather than always generating new ones.

 – How do we get the resources, contacts, skills to the people who need them.

 – Do we want to hire a person to do job descriptions for Board, committee chairs, staff?

 Action Item: Larry create a set of tasks that could be accomplished by a staff person

INC Dinner

 Jane Potts is the Committee Chair

 Larry does not want to MC again. We will find a Master of Ceremony’s for the event.

 We will do an analysis to determine the location for the dinner this year

New Business

 EC Potluck will be Sunday Oct 18th (4pm – 7:30pm)

 We had a number of people who felt constrained

 SLAPP Suit

 Bar-b-que (Bring sides and desserts)

 Next to Cheesman Park

 Spouses are invited

 Margie is working on creating a team to revise the Excise & License rules

 Speak Free Act being introduced at the federal level

■ Looking for a time in November

■ Propose having a presentation at the Delegate meeting

■ Action Item: Larry – Could we have a motion at a Delegate meeting in

support of this Speak Free Act?

 ZAP – would like to use $200 for the Academy

 Budget exists – Approved

 Next Delegate Meeting

 Location: South High School

 Larry would like to discuss the ballot issues at the meeting

■ 4 ballot issues

 2C – Western Area Stock Show ballot issue

 There was a conversation about “conflict of interest” vis-a-vis

 Action Item: Put together questions to ask about the ballot

 How do we get the proper representatives to come to the meeting

 Let’s really try to record this to post on the web

 Reminder – We do not take positions on Ballot Issues

 AE is working on the pro-campaign neighborhood advocacy issues? for the pro / con on the ballot issues?

 Action Item: We need to buy batteries for the speaker system microphones.

 Please make more keys for our INC office in SWIC – For JJ

 Next EC Meeting

 New Location: 925 Lincoln St. (Map Link)

■ Please park in the garage.

■ Do not park in the Matrix Sign lots or in the KCNC parking

 The past newsletters for INC have been put in the SWIC office

 Action Item: JJ – Check with DPL library

 2015 Member Survey Has been sent out

 Sent to RNO Member Delegates and Assoc. Members.

 We will send out a more general survey for the next month.