The statutory organizational meeting of the newly constituted 2014-2016 County Executive Committee (CEC) will be held on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. , August 12, 2014 in the Alan B. Sadler County Commissioner Court Building (Room 402), 501 N. Thompson Street in Conroe, 77301. Munch & Mingle Social will begin at 5:30 pm in the County Headquarters at 310 Metcalf (formerly Collins) Street, Conroe, 77301-2856. Light refreshments will be served. The Social is sponsored by Jim Clark, candidate for County Commissioner, Precinct #4. The public is invited to attend.

 

Officers of the CEC, the Vice-Chairman, Treasurer, Parliamentarian, General Counsel and Sergeant-at-Arms, will be appointed by the County Chairman along with the Chairmen of the six Standing Committees (Vacancy, Rules, Candidates, Finance, Leadership & Organization and Headquarters & Volunteers). The CEC Secretary will be elected by the members, the eighty-nine (89) Precinct Chairmen. Members of the six Standing Committees are selected jointly by the County Chairman and the Executive Committee. No less than three-fifths (60%) of the members of each of the Committees are selected by the Precinct Chairmen and the remaining two-fifths (40%) by the County Chairman.

 

Qualifications for being eligible to serve on any Standing Committee includes previous support of the Party's nominees, with no record of having supported an opposition Party's candidate in the last preceding General election. Each Committee is composed of no less than five (5) or more than thirty (30) members, except for the Finance and Candidates Committees which is composed of no more than fifty (50) members. Special Committee members, such as the Financial Review and Minority Engagement, are appointed by the County Chairman.

 

Anyone who desires to be considered for appointment to one or more of the Standing Committees should click here to download a Recommendation Form, fill it out, and return it to Republican Headquarters. The completed form may be mailed to the Headquarters at MCRP, POB 45, Conroe, TX, 77305, sent to the Headquarters by fax at 936-539-5858, or scanned and emailed to info@mcrp.org. The deadline for receipt of the form is July 31, 2014.

 

The 2013 Volunteer of the Year and the 2013 Sally B. Naugle Headquarters Volunteer of the Year will be announced and honored at the meeting. Sally B. Naugle served as the sole Headquarters Volunteer during the early days of the full time Headquarters in the area now occupied by the Party business office. The Headquarters has enhanced the Party's visibility and credibility.

 

The CEC will consider adoption of a Party Bylaws amendment that will remove the unintended conflict between the Party Bylaws, Texas GOP Rules and Texas Election Laws about the date of the CEC organizational meeting. The CEC will then adopt the 2014-2016 Party Bylaws.