May 1, 2025 Central Committee Meeting

1. Call to Order

• Time: 6:00pm
• Presiding Officer: Sheila Sturgeon, Party Chairperson

2. Roll Call & Establishment of Quorum

• Members Present: 25
• Members Absent: 18
• Guests/​Observers: 4 (includ­ing Branda Smith, District 6 Vice Chair)
• Quorum Established: Yes

3. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

• Motion to approve by: Jay Halveland
• Seconded by: Wanda Fisher
• Approved: Yes

4. Reports

a. Treasurer’s Report Treasurer’s report- end month

• Motion to approve by: Harold Gordon
• Seconded by: Jay Halveland
• Approved: Yes

c. Committee Reports

• Women’s Club
  • Next meet­ing Thursday May 8, 2025 at 7pm @ HQ
  • First fundrais­er, chick­en din­ner July 11, 2025 5 – 7pm 1^st Presbyterian $12
• Men’s Club
  • Meeting at May 15 7pm
  • Breakfast May 17 9 – 11am- all pro­ceeds going to Riley Hospital
• Election Board
  • None- next meet­ing is in June
• Fundraising
  • Sheila- can­not sell bot­tled water at Celebration in the Ville, not a vendor
  • Working toward pur­chas­ing a pro­jec­tor for a movie night
  • Asked if we can give away and put a dona­tion box out, ask­ing why can’t be a ven­dor- can sell any­thing inside- for CITV
  • Need a temp food ven­dor with health dept to sell hot dogs etc
  • Rummage sale- made $100, lot of things left over, Tammy will sell the rest at her per­son­al yard sale Memorial Day week­end. If any more dona­tions, con­tact Sheila
  • Monthly meals- Central Committee do a month­ly meal? Beth sug­gest­ed a lunch. Tammy sug­gest­ed Farmer’s Market to cap­ture those cus­tomers. FM clos­es at noon- cus­tomers like­ly won’t come over. Need a con­sis­tent sched­ule. Sync to rail­road or oth­er down­town sched­uled things. List on RR web­site. Doing fundrais­er dur­ing Art Stroll not suc­cess­ful. More infor­ma­tion, will talk about again.
  • Fair- appli­ca­tion will be due ASAP, usu­al­ly by April. Tent will be 16×16. Tim and Beth Sholze donat­ing a tent, will not have to rent from the fair board. Needs to be a heavy empha­sis on fundrais­ing. Temporary gam­ing license- Bingo night?
  • Silent auc­tions dur­ing chick­en dinners?
  • Do a din­ner on one of the week­ly nights or the fair?
• Building Committee
  • Applied for Urban Enterprise on March 17, have not heard any­thing back. Next meet­ing is May 13, new direc­tor is Brad Colter

5. Old Business

• Guest Brenda Smith VP of 6^th District- shared mobilize.us- is a web­site that com­piles local information/​events. Brings more awareness/​advertising, eas­i­ly shared on mobile devices. Also- QR codes to reg­is­ter to vote. Print off and lam­i­nate to always have on per­son. Encourage peo­ple to reg­is­ter to vote AND vote in every elec­tion. Last year 400,000 Democrats in Indiana did not vote. Make note of hous­es of hous­es that make indi­ca­tions of their polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion. Small protests/​vigils
• Laurel 50501 protest on Saturday May 3
• Donations for build­ing fund- EDG will pay 80% of cost, 6K, will need to come up with $1200 to cov­er the rest. Set up month­ly recur­ring donations?
• County offices up for elec­tion in 2026: Need to get going on find­ing can­di­dates. Print out list and hand it out at the fair? Start ask­ing. Positions ARE paid
• Protest- thanks for par­tic­i­pa­tion, more sup­port than adverse reac­tions, will plan anoth­er one in con­junc­tion with nation­al 50501
• Bereavement- Sheila decid­ed to leave it as it is, $25 dona­tion toward pre­ferred char­i­ty. Donna motion to stay the same, Beth sec­ond­ed, motion passed

6. New Business

• Men’s Club- $ and labor to fix bath­room sink, raise floor in kitchen, bought extra mate­ri­als to lev­el the floor in the kitchen
• News Examiner- Terry spoke with Donna, can put meet­ing info etc in the news­pa­per- cur­rent events section
• Beth and Tim went to Scholarship night- helped with Lions Club Scholarship. Wanting to start schol­ar­ship fund. Ended because of mon­ey issues. Tim has info about dead­lines, will get the infor­ma­tion to the cen­tral com­mit­tee to look at to decide if we want to do that
• Discord is func­tion­al- Remi will be send­ing infor­ma­tion to download/​join
• Community din­ner- last month served 56 + left­overs, send­ing signup sheet around for food/​time donations

7. Public Comment/​Open Discussion

• Tammy- DJ for fair? Monday for karaōke? For donation

8. Adjournment

• Motion to Adjourn by: Vane
• Seconded by: Jay
• Time Adjourned: 7:13pm

Minutes Submitted by:
Amanda Melville May 23, 2025