Reminder of November 30 Meeting + Meeting Materials

Reminder of the November meeting of the 46th LD Democrats, which will be held:

November 30, 2022

7:00pm

Physical location: Thornton Place (Meeting Room) 

The address is 329 NE Thornton Place. (The complex where the AMC Theatres are.)

Directions to the meeting room:  Find the Subway sandwich restaurant at Thornton Place. There is an outdoor breezeway to the left of Subway. Walk down that breezeway to the doorway on the left just before the outdoor stairs.

The room is fully accessible and has step-free access all the way from Northgate Station. Restrooms are available.

If arriving by transit, Link (at Northgate Station) and several all-day bus routes (20, 40, 67, 75, 345/6/7/8) come to Northgate Transit Center, one block away. If arriving by car, parking in the Thornton Place garage is no charge for the first three hours. ADA spaces near the garage elevator available.  Do not park on the surface level of NE Thornton Pl as those spaces are limited to a half hour.

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Attendance via Zoom offered as an access accommodation to anyone who wishes to attend virtually.  In compliance with the Bylaws, to alert the Chair and Vice Chair of your preference to attend the meeting via Zoom accommodation, 

please click here to register for the Zoom meeting;

We ask that ALL members and PCOs planning to attend either in-person or via Zoom, please fill out this additional attendance count form, so that we can ensure the proper size of facility (for in-person), and proper numbers of meeting administration designees for the Zoom room.

In-Person or Virtual Attendance Count Form 

The following business will be conducted at the November 30 meeting:

Proposed Agenda:

• Land Acknowledgement
• Consideration of letter to Mayor Harrell on Climate Action and the Inflation Reduction Act
• Consideration of Bylaws Amendment (PCO only vote)
• Report of the Platform Committee:  Consideration of Adoption of the 2022 Platform (all members may vote)
• Officers Reports
• Good of the Order

Questions on any of these items may be sent to [email protected]

Meeting Materials are found below:

Meeting materials:

Proposed Letter to Mayor Harrell as proposed by Environmental Caucus

Bylaws_Amendment_Proposals_11-30-22.pdf (nationbuilder.com)

Proposed Motion to adopt the 2022 Platform:  

"It is moved that we adopt the Washington State Democrats 2022 platform as our own, and supplement it with a 46th Legislative District City of Seattle Section, as developed by our members during a working session in December, for adoption by December 31, 2022, and allow for our members to vote for it online, or by mail-in ballot for any member who needs non-online accommodation." 

Explanation:  We will provide a link to a survey during the meeting, for members that are interested in participating, to select a date and time. As we did with the State platform, Platform Chair Hunter Brown will provide the ability for people to participate without attending the meeting date and time that was selected, by allowing them to offer amendments in advance of the meeting. The group will then discuss and vote on the amendments. 

Washington State Democratic Platform 2022 (external link)

For a starting point and reference, the previous Seattle section of the last local Platform is found on Page 25 of the 2018 Platform