10/11/10 meeting minutes

1) Funding: Midwest conference-$670, LEAP--$500
2)Fundraising @ Gabe's--Nik: pay for fliers/ads, we get bands to play entire door ours.  Jan 20
3)LEAP speaker: Nov 8-19th.  Check 100 person IMU room--Alex
4)BUSTED event: reserve room--Chris, make FB event--Nik, flier design--Viktor
5)Conference: link down
6)Announcements/news: Ron Paul in Oct, 21 debate, MADD against prop 19, Wash U

Meeting minutes 9/16/10

1) GSP->call SSDP national office: Sarah

Registering people to vote/event on pentacrest

2)Banner size-Ryan to figure out

3)Know Your Rights event
Same location as before, IMU Indiana Room if available
Bullet points--Check out other orgs/websites for previously made points
Put national logo on bullet points
Double as event ad?

4)21
Onsite voting booths

5)Midwest conference
4-5 people interested

6)Funding for
Speaker
Advertising for Speaker
Conferences

7)News/Announcements
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129930970

9/9/2010 meeting minutes

1. Nik meeting w/YESS
--need manpower, door to door people
--registering people
--voting booths on campus: 20
--SSDP t-shirts
--get related events going, inform people

2. Law
--Rachel--know your Rights, mid October, get her input on enforcement, policy, mass email, handout bullet points for know your rights
--meet w/local police--Alex to contact

3. Fundraising
--bake sales
--Yacht Club, other local bars
--Marni contact

4. News
--DEA w

9/1/2010 Meeting Minutes

SSDP is back in session for the academic year of 2010-2011.  Permanent meeting time and location will be announced tomorrow.  Here are last night's minutes.

Local police and LEAP involvement:
Chat about policy and alcohol policy alternatives with local police.
Next Semester focus on Lowest Priority

21 Ordinance:
What is the ballot, exactly
Nik to contact Yes To Entertaining Students Safely
Know Your Rights, Sensible Drinking?
Tabling--get a banner?
Registering in dorms
City Council:
Possibly will bring up 21 again in the future, ways to combat this, lots of talk/awareness campaigns, pose possible solutions to Iowa City drinking "problem"
University side:
Talk to university donors
Greeks--Sarah do outreach to mobilize, register members/donors talk to university
Intrafraternity Council

Good Samaritan Policy Changes:
Talk to Student Government
Talk to SSDP staff
Christian to email to SSDP

Gary Johnson event recap
Supplies for year: SSDP banner w/national logo, possibility of a zine?

Know Your Rights event big success

Hey everyone sorry for the lack of consistent posting lately! We have been busy, busy, busy here at UIowa SSDP.

Some updates: Last night was a very successful Know Your Rights discussion. I'll have my 4 pages of notes up sometime this weekend, though perhaps in another format so no one has to scroll for days.

We will be hosting Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana this coming Tuesday, the 27th in Shambaugh Auditorium at 7:30pm. Be there!

Sadly, we've all heard about university residence hall staff's decision to bring in police and drug dogs into the dorms here. This will be addressed at next meeting Thursday 29th, 8:30 pm 51 Schaeffer Hall.

But there's some good news! Check out http://www.dailyiowan.com/2010/04/23/Opinions/16910.html for some coverage on the Good Samaritan Policy!

Also: the Johnson County attorney has decided 1st time simple marijuana possession will go on a special track beginning July 1st. If these individuals complete said track in a year, their charges will be dropped from their record. Yay!

3/25/10 notes

City 2010 ballot instead of 2011 in favour of ordinance. So now motivated to fight status quo. Decent amount of people speaking against it. Few more opportunities to do so. Television air time. Council made obvious not change minds. Hayek biggest surprise, unintended consequences. Introduced at work session though Current law: 19 yr olds+can go into after 10pm, ordinance making it 21, some already voluntarily. Couple bars will def go out of business/cut back staff. 19 keeps out high school age. Ordinance is indiscriminate against any drinking establishment/music venues. Blanket, what constitutes bar. Definitions exists already. Establishment that serves drinks past midnight. Primarily alcohol after 10 cutoff. Probably no exceptions. Find sally mason letter to. 14 million dollar in cameras. Camera issue related to downtown, student government. Police can monitor in live time. Business+government. Student government used 2,000 for that. Provost Loh press conference. Willing to put into. Casino surveillance: state of the art may have some sort of, pan tilt zoom. 1500 a pop. Student government, look up on daily Iowan tomorrow. Letters to editor. GSP, Rocklin had emailed that on board, couple months. Were supposedly going to write and implement next year. Alcohol education. Letter to editor writing thing decent strategy. Helpful to come up with strategies to curb. Meeting on march 29th at 8pm, go and get media. One more after on april 6th. 29th special, april 6th regular. Mike Porter doing referendum. 2100 sigs for 18 ordinance. Collecting to amend, file before april 8th. Make friends w/Mike Porter Letters to editors 2nd most read. Monday: Ryan Allured, Chris St Peter Tuesday: Sam Khan, Alex Earl Wednesday: Andrew, Sarah Thursday: Marni Steadham, Friday: Greek Community: Board outreach. Ryan interested in chapters, members. Alumni: UDems: into 21 ordinance. Republicans: Combine secretary and treasurer into just secretary. Marni president VP: Andrew Secretary: Chris Jeff: no collaboration on, how weed won the west about, how DEA guns Conference attended conference: attending lectures on workshops, everything. A lot on marijuana big thing, visited dispensary. Harborside, non-profits, go to community. Or helping people who cannot afford medicine. Few lectures, some on lobbying and event planning, heard from LEAP presentation, Sam: couple people put out presentation on using media how you want to approach people who don’t know about drug policy. Assume they don’t know anything. Reporters come and ask questions, might end up quoting you. How to organize within college through flyers. Message got: if look like stoner no one will believe you. People pay attention if suit, organize professional group. Media and contacts in check. Definitely not get arrested for anything. Stressed follow ups w/good Samaritan policy, keep in contact with Rocklin. Drop in reminders. Do follow ups after passed. Try to get word out there that there is good Samaritan policy going. Ryan follow up w/staffer. Sam doing opinion pieces, series talking about how iowa is affected by drug war. Conference in cali, how matter here. Local union 13, growers produces distributors. National union of growers. People who grow are farmers, cash crop. Sooner or later iowa will get on. Announcements: Ryan—benefit show, white tornado. Gabe’s possible dates, end of april preferred. Try and get venue set up then go after bands, dead larry uniphonics. Cornmeal, any local any friendlies. Try to iron out w/gabes. Once happens then grab bands. Alex: meeting w/lawyer friend on Tuesday to figure out when able and willing to put on know your rights, still down for presentation. Let us know whenever available. Get fleshed out. Sam: April 2nd fiesta, from 6:30 to 7:30 free food, trance to 1 am, in between talent show. Doing play that spans entire two hours. Play is called victim of fun. Students going through faces of education. 1 alcohol, 2 sports, 3 study no good grades, 4 more balanced. One scene overdose and ppl leaving. Getting censored by board members/org committee, argument that no actors yet. Have 8 and if all, looking for 16 or 20 trying to create bar scene, another where drunk guy talking to toilet. Push on drug education. Show up or volunteer, event april 2nd. Starts at 7:30, Announcements:

3/4 21 ordinance notes

Why is this ordinance a bad thing?
-criminalizing students
-does it actually solve anything?
-organizations lose out on fundraising
-dangerous situations
Want
A safer approach to use and medical attention

How to fight it
Tabling with email and phone
Canvassing
Community outreach
Attending city council meetings
Contact previous organizers and people who support our effort
-take suggestions from the group

Logistics and Email
-Assign who is doing what from above


Mayor Hayek March 22th work session, could vote on 23rd formal meeting, takes 3 readings of an ordinance to become law

Amend existing or create new one altogether—if amend can collect signatures now, or have to wait if it’s a new one. Middle March, meeting on April 13th, one towards end of April. Final passage around there.

Public comment or on agenda at 23rd meeting

Different this time, 2007 didn’t have enough votes on council, now have enough votes on council. Now council will pass and we must collect signatures to overturn 2500 signatures. If get signatures likely vote would be in November.

Why bad? Bars are social place for students, more comfortable otherwise go to house parties. Down at bars don’t drink as much b/c costs more money, more binge drinking off campus. Same rational as why drinking age should be lowered. Busineses have a lot to lose.

Some opposed who are now in favour, PAS have been emailing about this. Maybe sway council members. Regina baily against, chamblin on fence, terry dickens,

Burn and Hayek, Mims all for it. Mike White probably in favour.
First go to meeting then consistently harass then have meeting 2/report back on 25th


*VEISHA research

*Fundraising. Usually have higher covers for anyone under 21.
*rational is to curb underage drinking will not work
*some bars may go out of business
*Safer considerations
*How affect servers
*PAULAs better than fake IDs
*food shops possibly hurt
*bootlegging charges would obviously go up.
*policing?
*residential people are opposed to 21 b/c don’t want house parties

*Iowa city bigger than residential area

Main point is many small negative effects and no clear positive.