On the ground

CANDIDATE FORUM TO BE HELD ON THE SUNY DELHI CAMPUS

DELHI, NY … The SUNY Delhi Student Programming Board will host a candidate forum on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Farrell Hall Theater.

Representatives from all parties throughout Delaware County have been invited to participate in this forum. The event will allow the public to hear presentations from the participating candidates, and following the presentation, candidates will take questions from the audience. The event is free and open to the public.

Please contact Cynthia Lockrow, Delaware County Democratic Committee at 607-287-2198 for further information.

*We have confirmed that an Obama delegate will be present as of Monday the 28th. Still working on a Clinton delegate and an Edward’s representative*

The Student Association at the State University College at Delhi will play host to a candiate forum on January 31st, 2008 7pm at the Farrell Hall Theater. Representatives will be on hand from the four Democratic campaigns (although things are changing so rapidly the field may look much different in a few weeks!) This event will allow registered voters of Delaware County and elsewhere to ask questions of the candidates as well as present an opportunity for open discussion and active participation. The event is free and open to the public.

Please contact Cynthia Lockrow @ 607-287-2198 or Marty Greenfield (student activities director SUNY Delhi) @ 607-746-4568 for further information

Happy New Year!
The January meeting of the Delaware County Democratic Meeting will be held on January 23rd 7pm, Town of Delhi Offices on Elm Street.
Agenda, aside from our regular business:
Tentative guest speaker: Organizer and fellow Democrat Chip Hoagland
Meredith Committee: discussion about their successful election results
Discussion about Candidate Forum
Delegation of Dinner Duties

M E M O R A N D U M # 4

To: Interested New Yorker

From: Martin Mack, Deputy Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs

Re: Resources, Accountability and Results in Education; Reducing Hunger in Working Families

Date: Friday, November 30, 2007

In our fourth memo from the Governor’s Office, we discuss two important issues we have been working on:

- The unveiling of the Contracts for Excellence, a first-of-its-kind accountability program and a key part of our strategy to build a world-class education system in New York; and

- Our effort to expand participation in the federally-funded Food Stamp Program to reduce hunger among working families.

The Contracts for Excellence: Resources, Accountability and Results in Education

Over the past eleven months, Governor Spitzer has brought everyone together—the Legislature, the Board of Regents, local school districts, teachers, parents and advocates for children—to change our education system.

Working with the Legislature, we made the largest investment in our schools in State history; in one year alone, we increased school funding by 10 percent, or $1.8 billion. And we changed the way schools are funded, enacting a new funding formula that has—for the first time—begun to distribute aid based not on political need, but on actual educational need.

But, as all New Yorkers know, simply pouring more money into the system is not the solution. That is why we have tied our historic investment to a rigorous program of reform and accountability that includes the Contracts for Excellence, a program that is the first of its kind in the nation.
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*Review of minutes: August and September
*Treasurer Report, updates
*Secretary: some housekeeping,BOE filing, question and answers
*Election Day discussion: poll watching, signs, other GOTV efforts
*Town Report: Masonville Chair, Ruth VanPutten
*Other business: Dick Mulliken regarding a speaker in January, any other business
*Subcommittee/Plan: member roles, review of plan and appointment of committee chairs
(Time allowed following meeting for committee chairs to meet with those interested in getting involved)