Our SD64 DFL Convention will be held on Sunday, 25 March 2012 at Central High School, 275 Lexington Parkway North. If you have been elected a Delegate or Alternate to the convention at your precinct caucus, please join us for the afternoon.
Registration opens at 11:30am, the Convention begins at 12:30pm. Allow time for parking and carpool or use transit if you can.
If you need special accommodations (interpreter, seating, parking etc.), call Robert Hemphill at 847-757-6091 or email him.
If you want to be a leader of the Senate District DFL, we need you. Please see the nominations committee page for details on the positions available and the screening times.
Proposed Agenda
Note: this version of the agenda includes some changes since the official call was mailed.
- Call to Order by the 2011 Senate District 64 Chair (time certain at 12:30)
- Flag ceremony
- Reading of Affirmative Action Statement
- Credentials Committee First Report – Resolution of any credentials challenges
- Election of Convention Chair(s)
- Rules Committee Report – Adoption of Rules and Agenda
- Ratification of Presidential Preference Ballot
- Constitution Committee Report and Adoption of Senate District 64 Constitution
- Resolutions Committee First Report
- Reading of the Platform Resolutions Statement
- Explanation of Voting Process
- Senate District Officer reports, if any
- Nominations Committee Report – Election of Party Officers
- Chair
- Associate Chair
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Affirmative Action Officer
- Fundraising Chair
- 17 Directors
- 7 Alternate Directors
- Nominations Committee Report — Election of CD 4 Central Committee members
- 15 Delegates
- 15 Alternates
- Nominations Committee Report – Election of State Central Committee members:
- 8 Delegates
- 8 Alternates
- 2 Alternates for Chair and Associate Chair
- Nominations Committee Report – Ratification of Senate District Central Committee members
- Endorsement of State Senate Candidate for SD 64
- Endorsement of House District Candidate for HD 64A
- Endorsement of House District Candidate for HD 64B
- Resolutions Committee Second Report
- Credentials Committee Second Report
- Election of State and 4th CD/Ramsey County Convention Delegates and Alternates
- State and 4th CD/Ramsey County Convention Delegates and Alternates
- Reporting of State and 4th CD/Ramsey County Delegates and Alternates to the Convention Chair
- Election of State Delegation Co-Chairs by State Convention Delegation
- Election of Congressional District Pre-Convention Committee members and alternates
- Rules
- Credentials
- Arrangements
- Nominations
- Resolutions
- Consideration of Petition Resolutions for the DFL Action Agenda and Ongoing Platform if there are any
- Other Business
- Adjournment
Campaigns
If you are a candidate or staff for a campaign planning to attend our convention, please be sure to review the rules for campaigns prepared by our Arrangements Committee.
Pre-Convention Committees
These committees do the behind the scenes work before and at the convention.
- Rules. This committee decides the rules that govern the SD64 convention.
- Credentials. This committee enters the data from the caucuses, prepares the list of eligible delegates, and hands out voting credentials at the conventions.
- Resolutions. This committee compiles all the resolutions adopted at the precinct caucuses and administers the voting at the SD64 convention.
- Arrangements. This committee organizes the logistics and helps run things the day of the convention.
- Nominations. This committee screens candidates who are running for SD64 DFL office and proposes a slate of candidates for the convention.
- Constitution. This committee will review and propose revisions to the rules by which SD64 DFL operates for the next ten years.