ESSEX COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
Committee Meeting
Westport Town Hall
Westport, NY
November 19, 2009

Attendance: Chesterfield: Crown Point: Bethany Kosmider, Elizabethtown: Maggie Bartley, Helen Fenoff-Daneker Essex: Rita Fitzgerald Jay: Fred Balzac, Keene: Lewis: Clyde Morse, Minerva: Sue Montgomery Corey, Simon Gradner Moriah: David Mace, Newcomb: , North Elba: Clair Touby, North Hudson: Schroon Lake:: Mark Whitney, Pat Hogan, St. Armand: Tom Jones, Sue Abbott-Jones, Ticonderoga: , Westport: Dan Connell, Lucy Connell, Willsboro: Mona White, Wilmington: Sue Ellen Gettens,
(14 required for a quorum; 18 present)

Visiting:. Bruce Pushee (Elizabethtown),

Presiding Officer:Sue Montgomery Corey(Chair, Minerva)
Pledge of Allegiance:
7:05 PM
Approval of Minutes:
7:07: 10/22/2009 Minutes Approval moved by Clair Touby, passed unaimously
Treasurer's Report:
deferred
Appointments:
7:15 Dan Connell Westport-1, moves the appointment of Bethany Kosmider to Crown POint-3
Appropriations:
7:51
     David Mace (Moriah-3) moves the Essex County Democratic Committee establish a standing GOTV committee with voluntary membership that shall elect its chair at its first meeting and is initially charged to investigate the selection of a database system to maintain voter contact information, with special consideration to be given to the feasability of adopting the State Committee's Vote Builder system. It shall report its recommendations with request for funding back to the full committee not later than the first meeting of the next year (January 28th, 2010).
     seconded & approved unanimously
     Clair Touby (North Elba-2) moves the Essex County Democratic Committee establish a committee to help guide development of town committeees
     seconded & approved unanimously
     Clair Touby (North Elba-2) moves the Essex County Democratic Committee establish a standing Fund Raisng committee
     seconded & approved unanimously
     David Mace (Moriah-3) moves the Essex County Democratic Committee authorize expenditures from the Treasury up to another $1000 to defray costs of organizing the Decmeber 12th Dinner with Tom DiNapoli as a featured speaker
     seconded & approved unanimously

Adjournment: 9:00pm
      moves adjournment
     seconded & approved unanimously