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I.
Call to Order
II.
Credentials Committee’s preliminary report
III.
Rules Committee’s report
A.
Adoption of the agenda
B.
Adoption of the rules
IV.
Reading of Affirmative Action Statement
V.
Election of permanent Convention chairs
VI.
Appointment of Convention officials
VII.
Credentials Committee’s second report
VIII. Endorsement of
candidates for Board of Education (4)[1]
IX.
Endorsement of ballot measures
X.
Report of the Constitution Committee
XI.
Nominating Committee’s report; election of officers
A.
Chair
B.
Associate Chair
C.
Secretary
D.
Treasurer
E.
Affirmative Action Officer
F.
Finance Director
G.
Directors (one of each gender)
XII.
Other business
XIII. Adjournment
1. Registration.
Registration shall begin at
2. Seating.
(a) Delegates and Alternates serving as
Delegates will be seated by Ward. Ward maps will be available in the
registration area. No new delegate may be seated from the time that ballots are
distributed until they are collected.
(b) Alternates shall be seated separately in
the convention hall until the Credentials Committee has given its first report,
at which time Alternates may proceed to the registration area to be upgraded.
In Wards in which there are more Alternates than available slots and in which
the Alternates were nor ranked, Alternates will be upgraded by lottery.
(c) Delegates leaving the Convention floor
shall turn in their badges to the delegation chair. Delegation chairs shall
turn in returned badges to the Credentials Committee.
(d) Any delegate or alternate who has moved
outside his/her precinct but within the City shall become last alternate in
his/her new precinct. If there is more than one delegate and/or alternate who
has become last alternate, lots shall be drawn to determine rank.
(e) Disputes as to eligibility may be
referred by the complainant to the Credentials Committee for resolution and may
be appealed to the Convention thereafter.
(f) Only delegates, alternates serving as
delegates, candidates for endorsement, Convention officials, and elected public
officials shall be allowed on the floor of the Convention. Each campaign shall
be allotted four floor passes and may distribute these to any of its campaign
workers.
3. Delegation
chairs. The Ward delegation chair shall be the highest-ranking officer if
present; otherwise, the Ward delegation chair shall be appointed by the
Convention chair.
4. Debate
on Motions and Resolutions. Only delegates or alternates serving as
delegates may participate in debate. Each speaker shall be limited to one
minute. After three alternating speakers have been heard on each side of an
issue, further debate is excluded, except that debate may be extended for a
specific time by a majority vote. A motion to extend debate is not debatable.
Speakers must identify themselves and their Ward when recognized and must
address the Convention using the public-address system, provided that the chair
shall reasonably accommodate persons who are unable to use the public-address
system.
5. Special
guests. At the discretion of the Chair, DFL candidates, elected officials
and special guests may address the Convention for up to one minute per speaker.
6. Literature.
Campaign literature may not be distributed in the Convention hall during
balloting.
7. Voting.
All voting shall be by delegates and alternates serving as delegates who
are sitting in the location designated for their Ward. The only exceptions
shall be tellers, people working at the credentials area, and other workers who
are considered by the chair to be essential to the business of the Convention.
Roll call or announcement of votes by Ward shall not be allowed. Paper ballots
shall be used for endorsements and any contested elections but shall not be
allowed for further business unless moved and supported by at least one-third
of the delegates present. The Convention tellers shall distribute, collect, and
count the ballots by Ward. No more than two representatives of each campaign on
the ballot shall be allowed to observe the counting. After tellers total the
ballots, the totals by candidate will be reported to the Convention. The
results by Ward shall be available to any delegate or Convention official.
8. Nominations
for endorsement.
(a) For each office and for ballot measures,
the chair shall first call for nominations from the floor for endorsement.
Nominations shall be by name only. After the candidates have been named, the
chair shall determine an order for speaking time by lot.
(b) Each nominee shall be allowed a total of
seven (7) minutes to address the Convention, as the candidate sees fit.
(c) No time shall be allowed on behalf of
candidates present and declining the nominations. After the conclusion of speeches,
there will be a question-and-answer period of
1) 45 minutes
for candidates for office and
2) 15 minutes
for each ballot measure committee.
(d) Each nominated candidate for office shall
state whether he or she will or will not run against the DFL candidates
endorsed for the office if four candidates are endorsed.
(e) All questions must be submitted in
writing to the chair by the end of the campaign speech section, with name,
ward, and precinct of the questioner. Only single questions will be accepted.
(f) The chair will select questions at
random to ask. Inappropriate questions may be discarded at the discretion of
the chair. Inappropriate questions are those of a personal nature, those meant
to be answered by only one candidate and redundant questions.
(g) Each candidate or ballot measure
committee will have a maximum of 60 seconds for a response to each question.
1) For candidates
for office, the order of answering will begin in reverse order of the nomination
speeches and will rotate with each question.
2) Each ballot
measure will have its question and answer period in the order in which it was
nominated. Each ballot measure committee will select its own spokespersons to
answer questions.
9. Requirements.
A 60-percent affirmative vote of the delegates voting on the issue shall be
required for endorsement. The phrase “60-percent affirmative vote” means that
to be endorsed, a candidate or ballot measure must receive 60 percent of the
votes cast for that ballot, excluding blanks and abstentions. Ballots marked no
endorsement shall be valid. Each vote for endorsement shall be a test of
quorum. When more than one person is to be elected, the Convention may endorse
as many persons as there are positions. Each delegate may vote for as many
candidates as there are persons to be elected. A 60-percent vote of no
endorsement means that there shall be no further endorsement for that office.
Balloting for that office will then cease.
10. Balloting
for endorsement.
(a)
Candidates for
office. There shall be a minimum of five ballots before a motion to
adjourn or no endorsement is in order. Following the acceptance of each
ballot’s results by the Convention, the paper ballots shall be immediately
destroyed. Any candidate not receiving 10 percent or more of the ballots cast
shall be automatically dropped between the first and second ballots. Any
candidate not receiving 15 percent or more of the ballots cast shall be
automatically dropped between the second and third ballots. Any candidate not
receiving 20 percent or more of the ballots cast shall be automatically dropped
between the third and fourth ballots. The candidate with the lowest vote totals
after the fourth ballot and each subsequent ballot shall be automatically
dropped until there remains no fewer than one more candidate than there are
remaining positions for endorsements.
(b)
Ballot measures. There shall be
one endorsement ballot for all ballot measures. Each ballot measure shall be
numbered on the endorsement ballot in the order it was nominated.
11. Election
of Party officers. For each office, the chair shall call for nominations by
name only. After the candidates have been named, the chair shall determine
speaking order by lot. Each candidate will have one minute to address the
Convention. Elections shall be by majority vote.
12. Central
Committee endorsement. Prior to the primary, the Minneapolis DFL Party
Central Committee may not endorse. If DFL-endorsed candidates should fail to
win the primary, the Minneapolis DFL Party Central Committee shall be empowered
to endorse candidates.
13. Campaign
signs. Only campaigns seeking endorsement at this Convention may post up to
10 signs, not to exceed two feet by four feet, inside the Convention hall.
Signs may be posted beginning at
14, Fees.
15. Other
business. City Convention business shall take precedence over other
conventions.
16. Officials.
The chair shall appoint the Convention tellers and other officials as
required. Staff persons shall serve at the discretion of the chair.
17. Quorum.
The quorum for this Convention shall be 50 percent plus one of the number
of persons registered and seated as delegates reported in the second
Credentials Committee report.
18. Motion
to table. A motion to table shall be construed as a motion to postpone
indefinitely and, therefore, shall be debatable.
19. Parliamentary
procedure. This Convention shall be governed in turn by the DFL Call, the
State DFL Party Constitution, the Fifth Congressional District DFL Party
Constitution, the Minneapolis DFL Party Constitution, these rules, and Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised.
The Convention shall be its own judge as to the interpretation of these rules.
20. Resolutions.
Per the rules of the Platform Committee.
Respectfully submitted,
Rules Committee.
Julie Mattson Ostrow, chair, Ward 1
John Harrison-Townsend, Ward 1
Eric Pusey, Ward 8
Johan Engevik, Ward 10
Kelly O’Brien, Ward 11
John Quincy, Ward 11
Martin Dietl, Ward 12
Judi Sateren, Ward 13
Ernie Lewis, Ward 13