Jones County Republican Central Committee Minutes for Nov 3, 2011
Chairman Curt Stewart called the regular monthly meeting to order at 7 pm. Sue Matejka lead the pledge and Richard Stivers opened with a prayer.
Attending were Randy & Rhonda Achenbach, Roberta Andrews, Duaine & Josie Bollwit, Mike Bradley, Dawn Burmahl, Al & Jane Conrad, Mike & Cindy Davies, Sara Jane & Dick Frazier, Lee Hein, Beth Kinley, Ivan Kurt, Marie Krutzfield, Sue Matejka, Lohn Pearson, Amy Picray, Ned Rohwedder, Russ Smith, Curt Stewart, Richard Stivers, Jan Swanson, Dan & son Alex Zumbach and other guests.
Moved by Amy Picray and seconded by Russ Smith to approve the minutes of the Oct meeting. Carried
Jan Swanson reported an account balance of $3852 after receiving a $1000 contribution from Rick LaMere and reciepts over $2100 from the fall fund raiser and after expenses items of $750 to Rick LaMere for his campaign and $552 for supplies for the fall fund raiser plus a couple other bills. Printed report was available.
Curt announced the following area meetings: Nov 7th Gov Romney will be in Scott County and on Nov 14th Gov Perry will be in Scott County. On Nov 8th City elections around the county will be going on.
Guest speakers included Annie from Cedar Rapids for the Perry Presidential campaign: Dan Zumbach one of three Republicans running for the new district 18 Senate seat. Lee Hein reported his calendar is beginning to fill up and he felt the replacement of State Senate leader Paul McKinley was completed.
County officials reported: Ned reported the county is receiving a State & Federal safety award for road improvements along the Fairview to Viola road. Also Diane DeSotel is retiring effective 12/31/11 but has a month of vacation so the supervisor have tentatively got a plan that could provide better 911 coverage and by restructuring duties of county employees maybe able to maintain salary costs at current levels.
Amy reported she just mailed out property tax notices. New license plates are starting to come out next April for those plates 10 year or older. Business trade and farm specialty plates are being discontinued. She’s attending certified training classes and on schedule to complete the training with the 1st graduating class this spring.
Curt reported that several members from Jones County attended a caucus training session in Dubuque on Oct 17th. The big item is that for the Jan 3rd caucuses we will have the old 17 precincts but after Jan 15th 2012 our precincts will be reduced to 14.
Randy then reported on the plans for the Jan 3rd’s 17 precinct caucuses and the sites. He asked for volunteers who wanted to assist to sign up and announced that two training sessions are planned for Tuesday Dec 13th at 7 pm and Saturday 17th at 9 am at the Lawrence Center in Anamosa.
There was discussion regarding caucus sites, procedures for conducting caucuses and the composition of the Central committee and alternate delegates. Adding to the discussion was the inevitable confusion that moving of the caucuses to a date prior to the Jan 15th date has caused and then the new caucus rules that go into affect after Jan 15th. The biggest concern was how the members of the central committee and their alternates will be realigned. The Exec committee has been lead to believe we’ll receive guidance for this process from the State after the caucuses are completed.
Meeting adjourned at 7:40 pm
Gerald Retzlaff – Secretary
via recorded meeting
