# September 19th Meeting Agenda

**URL:** <https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/september-19th-meeting-agenda/365>\
**Category:** National Advisory Council (NAC)\
**Tags:** agenda\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/september-19th-meeting-agenda/365 "2018-12-20T16:41:33Z")\
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Attendees:  
CfA: Christopher Whitaker, ST Mayer, Veronica Young, Hashim Mteuzi, Tom Dooner  
NAC: Jason Hibbets, Jill Bjers, Ramy Kim (!), Nina Kim, Janet Michaelis, Dawn McDougall, Emma Burnett  
Not in attendance: Laura Biediger, Chris Alfano

# Pre-Meeting Updates

## Upcoming Calendar

- Congress (October 19th - 21st): Charlotte
  - Registrations at 105
  - Hotel room reservation deadline: 9/21
  - Swag order to happen on Monday (CW)
  - Your stay at the Kimpton during Brigade Congress!
  - Need help getting registration numbers up.

## Upcoming Workshops

- Brigade on-boarding: Code for BCS (Texas)

## Special Project Updates

- [Florence Response](https://www.florenceresponse.org/) Work continues

- Civic Tech Immigration Coalition

## NAC Updates

Jason - Laura and Jason meet with ST to discuss next steps on election framework tweaks and feedback from the network.

## CFA Updates

- MOU Updates (ST/CW)
  - Will have open office hours at Congress for MOU discussion
  - Will start sending out 2019 MOU s after Thanksgiving to be effective 1/1/2019
  - Updated Brigade Website! (Tom Dooner)

# Agenda

## Standing Items to Cover:

Health Check-in (10 min)

- [Dayton is sad](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/left-behind-america/)

## NAC Elections for 2019

- Recommended Input Process (Jason or Laura or ST)
- [2019 NAC Elections Timeline and Framework](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V58e_-ffksy8djJUuZL771daSuBO0MKAmZmxz-AwBlQ/edit#) (ST)

## Brigade Congress - Veronica/Christopher (15 minutes)

- 2018 Notes above
- 2019:
  - Cleveland, Looking at Public Library for venue
  - 3rd weekend in October each year.

## NAC In-Person Meeting Agenda Prep (CW)

- Discussion Topic Ideas (CW)
  - 2019 Planning
  - Journey map the brigade member experience (ST)
  - Community forum/town hall (Emma)

## MOU Update Process (ST)

- Any questions on this front?

## NDoCH Date Decision ( TD)

- Some discussion in NAC channel (no objections)
- Any objections to always the 3rd Saturday in Sept?

## Senior Director Hiring Update (ST)

Getting close to making an offer

## Other items

[Diversity and inclusion training from the Linux Foundation](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-speaker-orientation/)

# Decisions Made

- Brigade Congress will always be 3rd Weekend in Oct
- Cleveland is the city for 2019
- Whitaker will check on viability of longer time for NAC meeting
- Attempt to do buddy system - find first timers and offer it up
- NDoCH will always be third weekend in September
- Our calendar is now set!

# Assigned Action Items

- Jill and Christopher will scrub the agenda and Jill will post it (Chair responsibility)

# Items to be forwarded to next month’s in-person meeting

- Journey Mapping - ST
- Social Contract - DM
- Onboarding NAC Docs - DM
- 2019 Planning - CW
- Community forum/town hall (Emma)

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