We had 4 people in attendance for the KTM.  The Wake County School Board meeting was being broadcast via WRAL and we listen to some of the speeches being delivered by the 70 people signed up to talk.

The group discussed our next steps based on our action items.  Since the school board seems willing to go through with their campaign promises in an expedited manner, it doesn’t look like our action of helping them with information about ending the diversity based forced busing will be needed.  We still want to work towards getting a better civics class taught in schools that focuses on the constitution.

An idea was created to give people action items to help retain and encourage members in the group.  By giving goals and purpose, we can encourage those who want to do something, but don’t know what they can do.  An Action Item list will continue to be expanded using the Google Docs method of sharing information.

The first item is to hand out pocket Constitutions.  Each member should purchase at least 100 pocket Constitutions to hand out.  A sticker will be created to add to the pocket Constitutions that would point to the NC Freedom and Triangle Conservatives Unite websites, so that people who received the Constitutions would know where to go to find the group and join in the action. The stickers should be available by the next KTM meeting.

Pocket Constitutions can be purchased via National Center for Constitutional Studies.
Purchasing 100 or more at a time provides the cheapest per item price.

We had 4 in attendance (illness prevented others from attending).  2 of the attendees were new; the first part of the meeting was giving them an overview of what the group had been working on.

The mission statement Google Document was updated to show the original version plus a couple of modified versions.

Initial contact with Year of Youth has been made and hopefully there will be more contact and work towards combining efforts.

The discussion focused mainly on the Cary KTM “mission statement” and the Action Item List submitted by one of the members.   The “homework” assignment for the group was to review the list and add information to it to start forming a complete Action Plan to achieve our goals stated in the “mission statement”

The Action Item List outline:

1. Align with other local conservative groups
2. Create an official consolidation
3. Identify the concerns and initiatives of local politicians / board members
4. Research the issues
5. Begin campaign for public awareness and political persuasion

We had 7 people in attendance for the Cary KTM (Kitchen Table Meeting). The group discussed working on a current focus or goal for the Cary KTM and Triangle NC Freedom. We brain stormed around two issues that had been presented to the group.

The first issue is a focus to get the Constitution taught in schools in the Wake County area. While the Constitution may be briefly mentioned in today’s studies, the focus of the group is provide a more comprehensive teaching of the Constitution.

The second issue is to work towards the end “diversity busing” in Wake County. Diversity busing started out as a method of integrating school more on racial boundaries until it was struck down by a court decision. The focus then turned to be a integration based on income. Either way, the focus causes children to be bused to schools outside of their neighborhood due to the policy or over crowding, without any significant improvement in education. The November election secured a 5th spot on the 9 member School Board that will be aimed at eliminating this method of busing.  As a group, the Cary KTM would like to help with any efforts to get this done and work against any opposition to this goal.

From these two issues, the group decided on a statement that would be the focus for the group and to work on expanding on this statement with action items.

The Cary KTM (Kitchen Table Meeting), a part of the Triangle NC Freedom group, is committed towards ensuring comprehensive education of the U.S. Constitution and it’s supporting documents in Wake County schools, pursuant to section 305 “National tree” of Public Law 108-447 (page 536).  As a group we are also committed to provide research and support resources towards the shared goal of ending “forced busing” in Wake County schools.  We also aim to support any other grass-roots efforts with a similar focus.  The Cary KTM believes that Constitution is as important to the rule of law today as when it was first signed.  We also believe that every effort should be made to uphold the rights stated within this very important document.