ISPC Board Meeting Minutes 9-15-2018

1)        Roll Call (2 minutes)

1. Anne, Pam, Mark, Sean, Bill, Anna, Jordan, Susan

2)        Approval of minutes from August 2018 & June annual meeting (5 minutes)

1. Mark moved to amend minutes for accuracy

   1. Treasurer’s report amended to $105 to Al for DVD purchase and $250 fee for usage (re: healthcare stories)

   2. Motion passes

3)        Overview of member organizations (Anne, 10 minutes)

1. West Suburban DSA most recent organizational member

   1. March 2018

2. Chicago ADAPT

   1. Joined July 2015

   2. Barb Prichard, Champaign-Urbana activist, on board

   3. Michael Grice

   4. Susan Arup

3. Northern IL JwJ

   1. March 2015

   2. We joined then in June 2015

   3. ISPC folks have been involved since No IL JwJ inception

4. Illinois Green Party

   1. Have been involved since ISPC’s inception (2011)

      1. As well as before incorporation (Campaign for Better Healthcare, etc)

   2. Less focus on single payer at the state level

4)      Treasurer’s Report (Mark, 5 minutes)

1. Mark has been working on developing notes for next treasurer

   1. Open invitation to join Finance Committee

2. Have not been much going on in terms of changes

   1. Sure that will change

   2. e.g. Bill’s report, newsletter

3. Need to have some kind of calendar to pass on to future Treasurers

5)        Report from committees (Lauren, 10 minutes)

1. Don’t have much of an update from last month

2. Social Media/Website Committees have decided to combine efforts

   1. Phil and Pam have expressed interest and willing to remain active on combined committees

   2. Proposed name of “Communications Committee”

      1. Could be next step nailing this down

   3. Patty willing to take a look at all social media accounts

      1. Report from Lauren on this forthcoming next month

   4. Labor Outreach Committee

      1. Hale thinking of doing some advertising around Halloween

         1. Could be some coordination between him and Anna and David Johnson in Champaign-Urbana

   5. Membership Committee

      1. Thinking of making phone calls to folks who want to become more active

         1. Going to ask committee members to be involved

         2. Donna offered to help

            1. Susan too

         3. Want to put together script

            1. Lay out what folks can be involved with

            2. e.g. signature gathering, website, social media

         4. If successful, can go back and look at older names

   6. Long Terms Care/People with Disabilities Committee

      1. Trying to reach out to people and organizations and make sure understand where they’re coming from regarding long term care

      2. Looking to connect with Lori Clark with JASC

      3. Still going through a draft

      4. Meet 4th Tuesday from 5:30-7:30

         1. Anne has been helping to spearhead committee

            1. She is secretary

      5. Working with Alliance for Community Services

         1. Planning strategic planning event

         2. Close to 3rd Saturday in November

      6. National level Consortium of People with Disabilities coming together

         1. Egen Kemp from Public Citizen getting this off the ground

         2. Susan knows from Healthcare-NOW! convention panel

6)        Newsletter and fundraiser drive (Anna, 20 minutes)     

1. Small printing error

   1. Credit card info would end up on outside

      1. Covering that up with personal note apologizing for error

2. Was difficult to do this work without office

   1. Probably workable if we only do annually

3. Was also difficult to find printer

   1. Could possibly print at library in future

4. Sending out about 175 copies

   1. Sending to members and donors

5. Database must be well maintained

6. Anna to share digital copy so folks can print out and distribute

7. Could also possibly do another mailing to coincide with online donation drive

   1. Giving Tuesday is Nov 27

8. Do we want to send out a copy via Mailchimp to big list?

7)       Update on single payer study (Bill, 20 minutes)

1. Someone experienced in journalism and familiar with single-payer to review draft

2. Will have to distribute soon; two ways:

   1. Online

   2. Print

      1. Giving

      2. Selling

      3. Using as donation

   3. Bill has been asked to make presentation at Ebeneezer church in November

      1. Could give away copies or ask folks to make donation

         1. Could be enticement to let us come and talk about single-payer

   4. May need to crowdfund in order to print in color and/or have greater reach

      1. Bill distributed crowdfunding pitch document

      2. Would be good to bring this project into regular fundraising efforts

         1. Need to separate out appeals for:

            1. Basic operating costs

            2. This project specifically

   5. Also need to work on design and marketing

      1. Graphic designer not working out

         1. InDesign could be a solution

         2. Jordan to also see about cartoonist

   6. Looking for more personal stories

   7. Text nearly done

   8. Bill to look into on demand printing from Salsedo Press

8)       Member vs. Supporter vs. Donor (20 minutes)

1. Bill:

   1. Supporter is someone who gives us contact info

      1. Presumably that means they’re at the very least interested in single-payer

   2. Member vs donor more hard to distinguish

      1. Donor obviously given us some money

         1. Some donors not members

2. Anne:

   1. Important thing is to be able to tell who gets to vote

3. Susan:

   1. Membership to her more about being active

      1. Should be some sort of distinction

9)       Contacting new members who want to be active (Bill, 5 minutes)

1. (see above)

2. Bill:

   1. We should partner with Chicago DSA and JASC to host some sort of townhall

10)     Establishing standards for social media posts (Anna, 10 minutes)

1. Need to look at who should be allowed admin privileges (e.g. posting)

11)     Chicago M4A Campaign (Jordan, 5 minutes)

1. Sheilah Garland is doing follow up

   1. Wants to make city wide working group for M4A

      1. Wants to get representation from whole city

      2. Very informal right now

12)     Announcements (5 minutes)

1. October 13 -- Anne to speak at Chicago chapter of American Federation of the Blind

2. Sameena Mustafa townhall event on Sept 22