36th District Democrats

The Chair has created an Events Committee, chaired by the Events Chair. The Treasurer and Immediate Past Chair will also reside on this committee and have an automatic vote. The Events Committee is charged with planning and executing the two district events: Summer Event and November Event. Additionally, the Events Committee is charged with organizing social events like political happy hours and political book clubs. The Events Committee will confirm venues for district membership, executive board meetings, public forums and debates.

The Chair has created a Communications and Tech Committee, co-chaired by the Communications Chair and the Technology Chair. The Data Manager and Membership Chair automatically have vote on this committee. The CD & T Committee will be of service to other committees where there is a communications or technological need. The CD & T Committee is charged with creating an interactive website with social networking capabilities that allows certain Executive Board members to add their content to the site, to create and distribute a regularly published newsletter to the district’s membership and to communicate to the residents of the 36th District the plans, goals, activities of the 36th District Democrats. The Committee is charged with implementing technologies to increase participation and access to information. Additionally, the Committee will oversee the membership data and communications strategies as it relates to credentialing, meeting sign in, mailing labels, listservs and the like.

The Chair has created a Governance Committee, chaired by the Vice Chair. The Governance Committee is charged with reviewing the district bylaws and recommending changes/amendments to the full Executive board for consideration and full membership for approval.

The Chair has created an Endorsements Committee, chaired by the Vice Chair. The Endorsements Committee is charged with formalizing an endorsement process including scheduling interviews with candidates and advocates for/against ballot measures, scheduling and advertising the E-board endorsement interviews, communicating the results to the full membership and creating/formalizing a sample ballot for distribution. The Chair, the Vice Chair for Political Organizing and the Vice Chair are all members of the Endorsements Committee and must all sign off on the sample ballot before distribution.

The Chair has created a Policy Committee co-chaired by the Issues Chair and the King County Legislative Action Chair. The committee is charged with tracking legislative issues (federal, state and local) and suggesting action or advocacy of legislative issues that mesh with our platform and ideals. The Policy Committee further is charged with reviewing the platform and recommending changes or amendments to the platform. In addition, the Policy Committee shall schedule Programs for the agenda as well as forums, debates and other public advocacy and education around issues relevant to the 36th District Democrats. The Policy Committee is charged with coordinating with other groups to advance these principles as well.

As prescribed in the district bylaws, a Political Committee is charged with membership recruitment, literature distribution and precinct caucus management. The committee is chaired by the Vice Chair of Political Organizing and its membership automatically includes the Chair of the District and each of the five NOC organizers. In addition to the duties outlined in the bylaws, the political committee is in charge of organizing the precinct caucuses, filling empty PCO slots, voter registration efforts, providing PCO training, assisting in newsletter distribution, creating networks to disseminate information, working with the Coordinated Campaign and any national Democratic organizations to increase GOTV efforts in the district.