The Florida Young Democrats had a conference call last night where our upcoming convention in December was discussed. I would encourage everyone to be thinking about who we can nominate for these awards, I would like to see us nominate at least one person for each award:
Awards Committee Volunteers: contact Dave Cutler. Nominations for awards should be emailed immediately to Dave at PrdFLDem@tampabay.rr.com. Here is the list of FYD awards:
County Chapter of the Year: to recognize a chapter that has shown either a dramatic increase in membership or whose members represent a large portion of elected or appointed city/county offices.
College Chapter of the Year: to recognize a chapter that has shown either a dramatic increase in membership or whose members represent a large portion of elected or appointed school/city/county offices.
High School Chapter of the Year: to recognize a chapter that has shown either a dramatic increase in membership or whose members have assisted in public awareness campaigns..
FYD Event of Distinction: to recognize one or more chapters that created state-wide attention for positively promoting the Democratic ideals.
Jeffrey Mattison Wershow Service Award: this award was named after an Alachua County Young Democrat and Army National Guardsman who was killed in the line of duty while serving in Iraq in 2003; the award is to recognize an outstanding FYD member who serves in the armed forces, in any of the CitizenCorps programs, with their local police department, or with their local fire department.
Young Democrat of the Year: to recognize an outstanding Democrat not older than forty-one (41) years of age.
Democrat of the Year: to recognize an outstanding Democrat elected official who has supported the FYD and its goals.
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At the end of last night's call our state Chair, Matthew Cole, let us know his intention to resign from his role as chair. Here is his official statement from the minutes he sent out following the call:
"Lastly, I would like to make a personal announcement. As a small business owner, my work schedule has increased to the point that I can not dedicate the full time necessary to serve as FYD Chair. I am therefore calling for the election of a new FYD Chair to be held during our December 10th caucus at the FDP convention. The new Chair would commence service at the conclusion of the Central Committee meeting and continue to serve through 2007, the remainder of the current term.
In the mean time, stay focused on building your local chapters as we gear up for our December meeting and prepare the groundwork for victories in 2006!"
I know that the Leon County Young Democrats appreciate all of the hard work that Matt has put into our organization statewide and we have noticed the improvement of our organization over the last 2.5 years and we are sorry to see him move on.
He is leaving big shoes to fill.
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