{news} Updated agenda for 11-29-05 CTGP SCC meeting at Portland Public Library
B Barry
roseberry3 at cox.net
Mon Nov 28 20:28:11 EST 2005
SCC Meeting 11/29/05
Place: Portland Public Library, Mary Flood Room, 20 Freestone Avenue,
Portland, CT
Phone: 860-342-6770
Time: 7PM to 9PM
Facilitator: to be determined
A. Preliminaries:
1. (2-3 minutes): Introductions of attendees and chapters. Recruit
timekeeper.
2. (1 minute): Identify attendees who are NOT voting representatives.
3. (1 minute): Adopt ground rules.
4. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, additions and
deletions.
5. (2-4 minutes): Comments and approval of 10-25-05 SCC minutes.
6. (5 minutes): 11-21-05 EC meeting presentation by Barbara Barry and
approval.
7. (5 minutes): Discussion of minutes (suggested by Judy Herkimer).
8. (15 minutes): Presentation of Treasurer's monthly report.
9. (15 minutes): Presentation of Treasurer's quarterly report to
Secretary of State's Office.
10. (15 minutes): Discussion regarding EC meeting and SCC meeting
should be held in December 2005.
B. Reports:
1. (5 minutes, each for): Chapter reports.
2. (15 minutes): Women's Caucus report including recent Modified
Consencus Training.
3. (10 minutes): U.S. Green Party report by CTGP representatives: Tim
McKee and Thomas Sevigny.
4. (5 minutes): V.O.T.E.R. report from Mike DeRosa.
5. (15 minutes): Budget Committee suggestions/talking points from Bob
Eaton, former treasurer.
C. Proposal 1:
PRESENTER : Hamden Chapter
CONTACT: Aaron Gustafson, 83 Treadwell St. Hamden, 230.9726,
aaron at easy-designs.net
SUBJECT: Adopting new organization structure and goals for the GP of CT
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE : After holding several state-wide planning sessions,
we feel the proposed changes in our organizational structure and the
inclusion of specific goals as outlined below and as further decided upon in
Committees will benefit the GP of CT.
PROPOSAL: The GP of CT should adopt a formal organizational structure
(including goals, and allowing for occasional Committees that will not
function as "standing," but will convene as the need arises) as follows:
MEDIA COMMITTEE (MC): Aaron Gustafson, Co-chair
Implement press release dissemination system
Explore alternative media outlets
Letters to the editor/op-ed team
Develop & maintain newsletter, email lists, listservs, websites and
blogs
Work w/ ELC on candidate/campaign support
Work w/ LC on legislation support
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE (LC): Mike DeRosa, Co-chair
Research three issues for candidates @ each level:
local/state/federal
Develop CTGP platform & position papers for candidates
Educational campaign for 2005/06: IRV
Research & support referendums
Work w/ MC on current legislation activity
Work w/ ELC on platform development
ELECTIONS COMMITTEE (ELC): Kelly McCarthy, Co-chair
Identify good races & groom candidates to achieve electoral goals
Electoral Goals 2005: 10 Local candidates
Electoral Goals 2006: 1 Statewide candidate; 5 State candidates (State
Senate or Rep.); 2 U.S. Rep candidates; Candidate for Secretary of the State
Keep track of deadlines for petitions and paperwork
Develop sliding scale funding formula for endorsed candidates
Research endorsements
Organize candidate workshops
Publish a state-wide resource directory for candidates by 2006
Work w/ LC on platform development
Work w/ MC on candidate/campaign activities
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE (FC): Judy Herkimer, Treasurer
Implement fund raising plan
Research & produce merchandising (according to budget)
Provide tabling kits for all chapters
Implement endorsement funding for all candidates on sliding scale
Work w/ ELC, LC, MC on fund raising activities & monitor goals
INTERNAL COMMITTEE (IC): Barbara Barry DeRosa, Secretary
Overhaul & maintain bylaws
Develop & implement budget (w/ Treasurer & FC)
Organize yearly internal elections
Create & maintain approved proposal reference book for EC (include
proposal & date, divided into procedural, endorsements, financial & other)
Maintain SCC Reps' voting record
Monitor registration goals w/ FC, ELC, LC, MC (increase Greens by
10%=250 people by end of 2006)
Guidelines for Member Involvement
Each individual should: 1. Assess personal strengths & interests 2.
Estimate your weekly availability & time commitments 3. Choose the one
Committee (Media/Legislation/Elections/ Fund raising/Internal) that suites
you best 4. Commit to focusing on that Committee's tasks & goals 5. If your
availability
changes, inform your Committee as soon as possible, so that your duties may
be reassigned.
Proposal 2:
September 1, 2005
PRESENTER: Hamden Chapter, Northwest Chapter
CONTACT: Judy Herkimer?
SUBJECT: Storage, cataloging and access to tape recordings of SCC meetings.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: We have established the ability for the Secretary to
tape record SCC meetings to assist in accurate record keeping and
transparency, but we have no procedure for storing, cataloging and accessing
said tape recordings.
PROPOSAL:
1.Tape recordings will be made at all regular SCC meetings, and will be
announced at the start of each meeting.
2.These tapes will then be used by the Secretary to compose the meeting's
minutes.
3.The Secretary will be responsible for copying the tapes to digital format
and posting them to the archived minutes on the ctgreens.org website (when
this feature becomes available) within 1 month of the meeting.
4.The Secretary will then label, catalog and store the original tape in the
Hartford Chapter's office, or another designated location, so that they may
be checked out to individual party members. This should occur within one
month of the meeting.
5.The physical tapes and the dated catalog will be kept available for a
period of two years, at which time they may be recycled or reused.
6.The digital files will be maintained on the GPCT server for a minimum
period of 5 years, or until server space is needed, which ever comes first.
Proposal 3:
PRESENTER: Greater Hartford Green Party Chapter SUBJECT: Reimbursement of
Chris Reilly for rent payments he made.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
The SCC on 11/14/2000 agreed that the Hartford chapter would pay half
the rent and half the utilities of the Hartford office, and that the CTGP
would pay the other half of the rent and utilities. (The April 2004 SCC
meeting decided that the CTGP will no longer pay half the rent and utilities
of the office.)
In 2003-4, during the period when Bruce Crowder was treasurer, Chris
Reilly paid $2,650 of his own money to the landlord of the Hartford office,
New Britain Ave. Real Estate, LLC.
The reasons Chris made these payments have been explained in the
minutes of the August 2004 and October 2004 SCC meetings, written by
secretary Ed DuBrule (Appendices 1 and 2). In e-mails to Ed dated 9/8/04
and 11/7/04, Chris Reilly stated that these minutes extracts are accurate.
Bruce also commented on the accuracy of the August SCC minutes extract,
saying, in part, "This seems fairly accurate, except that I don't think I
ever 'asked' Chris to cover any bills. More like he offered and I agreed,
but that's not an important distinction." Bruce's complete comments are in
Appendix 3. (Ed did not request that Bruce comment on the accuracy of the
October SCC minutes extract.)
The dates and amounts of Chris' rent payments are in Appendix 4.
In brief, the reasons why Chris chose to pay the landlord from his own
pocket are:
(1) For months previously Chris had handled the rent payments.
(2) There were problems transitioning from the former treasurer (Chris
Nelson) to Bruce. Among these problems were an inability of Bruce to write
checks because he hadn't gotten the Party's checkbook and because of
problems with bank paperwork.
(3) Often in the past Greens had spent thousands of dollars of their own
money and had been reimbursed later by the CTGP.
(4) Chris expected that the CTGP would send out an annual fundraising letter
to thousands of Connecticut Greens, as in past years, and that this letter
would bring in many thousands of dollars, as in past years, enough to
reimburse him. (Despite this expectation, a fundraising letter to only 1000
Greens was sent out, many months after Chris had made most of his rent
payments, and it netted only at most $500.) In past years about $2,000 in
postage and printing costs had been required to send out the annual
fundraising appeal, and one reason Chris paid the rent was so that the CTGP
checking account balance could be preserved and used for these costs. (When
Bruce took over as treasurer, the CTGP checking account held only $2000 or
less.)
Six of the seven rent payments made by Chris were made in the period
April 2003 through September 2003. One additional payment toward the rent
was made by Chris in March 2004; Chris explained this payment as follows:
The GP/CT, for whatever reason (perhaps financial?) only sent a check for
$350. Because the rent was $500, I needed to make up the difference with
$150 of my own money". [E-mail response to Ed, 5/27/05.]
During 2003-4 Chris also paid money from his own pocket to cover CTGP
envelopes, postage, printing, and domain name registration expenses. The
October SCC decided to reimburse Chris for these expenses at a rate of
$74.24 per month over twelve months.
PROPOSAL: The SCC should instruct the treasurer of the Connecticut Green
Party to reimburse Chris with a check for $2,650 immediately.
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Appendix 1. Minutes extract of August 2004 SCC meeting.
3. Budget (Appendix 5)
(a) Budget item relating to unreimbursed expenditures made by Chris Reilly.
One line of the proposed budget is payment of $900 to Chris Reilly. Chris
distributed a handout (available from the Secretary) showing amounts he
spent from his personal funds which were never reimbursed. The budget entry
says "this is partial re-payment; balance to be repaid in future budget
years".
The handout begins with a check for $800, paid by Chris to the landlord
of the Hartford office on 4/1/03 for April and May rent. It includes 5
other rent checks paid to the landlord of the Hartford office ranging from
$150 to $500. The sum of the rent checks is $2650.
The handout also includes 10 checks, ranging from $6.29 to $370, for
envelopes, postage, and printing; these ten checks sum to $855.82.
Finally, the handout includes one check for $35 for domain registration
renewal for the CTGP website. The sum of the rent checks,
envelopes/postage/printing checks, and domain name check is $3,540.82, and
Chris is requesting reimbursement from the CTGP of this amount. The last
check on the handout was written 3/12/04.
Chris explained how these unreimbursed expenses had come about. He
said that the November 2000 SCC meeting had decided that the state Party
should pay half the office rent and utilities; he was one of two people at
this meeting to vote against this decision. He was Party treasurer for
several years and had gotten in the habit of paying the rent.
Bruce Crowder became treasurer as a result of the February 2003
internal elections. There were problems transitioning from the former
treasurer (Chris Nelson) to Bruce. Among these problems were "problems with
the accounts" and an inability of Bruce to write checks because he hadn't
gotten the Party's checkbook. Bruce, Chris continued, asked Chris to pay
the rent.
Chris described how for several years he did the bulk of the work in
getting the annual CTGP fundraising letters out. These letters had cost,
each year, about $2000 in printing, postage, and related expenses. Greens
had donated, as a result of these mailings, about $8000 each of these years,
for a net gain to the Party of about $6000 each year. During the period May
to September 2003, the SCC repeatedly affirmed that it wanted a fundraising
letter to go out, as in previous years. Chris continued to pay the office
rent out of his personal funds, expecting that he would be reimbursed from
the proceeds of the fundraising letter. The fundraising letter finally went
out in September 2003; the handout includes, as noted above, expenditures
Chris made for envelopes/postage/printing for this mailing. [Note from the
secretary: it appears, from the dates on the handout, that Chris also spent
money for envelopes/postage/printing for the mailing associated with the
March 2004 internal elections.]
Chris said that he stopped paying the rent when proceeds from the
fundraising letter came in to the Party.
Lynah asked if the Executive Committee during this time (co-chairs Tom
Sevigny, Justine McCabe, and Mike DeRosa; Bruce as treasurer; Ed DuBrule
as secretary) had known of these facts. Tom said that Bruce never informed
that Executive Committee of this situation. Justine said that she hadn't
known of this situation.
Elizabeth Horton Sheff pointed out that Chris said that Bruce had asked
Chris to pay the rent. Elizabeth believes that expenditures authorized by a
treasurer are legally binding on a Party. Chris said he agreed with the
latter statement; the state Party is therefore responsible for reimbursing
him. Justine pointed out that the SCC had agreed to pay only half the
office rent and half the office utilities--how does that affect this
situation? Chris pointed out that the Hartford chapter should have gotten
30% of the proceeds from the fundraising letter.
Justine said that it would be desirable for Bruce Crowder to come to an
SCC meeting to explain what happened. Chris pointed out that Bruce used to
report chapter balances to the SCC, including the large negative Hartford
chapter balance which related to this situation.
Lindsay and Jean asked why Bruce hadn't reimbursed Chris from the
proceeds of the September 2003 fundraising letter. Ed DuBrule pointed out
that the proceeds of that fundraising letter were much smaller than previous
fundraising letters. (Ed attributed this, in part, to Chris not being
involved in many of the details of getting the letter out in 2003--others
Greens merged chapters' mailing lists and made the arrangements for postage
and printing, details that in the past Chris had handled.) (Ed and Chris
spoke of many bags of bad-address envelopes returned from that mailing; per
the mailing plan selected with the post office, each of these bad-address
envelopes required the Party to pay a 92 cents fee to the post office.)
Chris agreed with Ed that over time the quality of our mailing lists
have deteriorated. Ed said that the Executive Committee, at its August 2004
meeting, had spoken of a desire to get the 2004 fundraising letter out the
third week in September. He wondered if that was a realistic goal, in view
of the deterioration in quality of the mailing lists.
Tom noted that last month the SCC passed a set of financial policies
for the CTGP and that the SCC at tonight's meeting was discussing a budget.
The CTGP has never had such financial policies before, nor a budget; these
deficiencies may have allowed the situation of Chris' unreimbursed
expenditures to arise.
Elizabeth Horton Sheff said that in her opinion Chris should be
reimbursed, for both legal reasons and because he acted with the best
interests of the CTGP in mind. She hoped that the issue of whether or not
to reimburse Chris would not become reduced down to the legal issue of
whether Bruce had approved each check written by Chris from his personal
funds. Elizabeth Brancato said that it is the opinion of the Executive
Committee that this is a true debt owed to Chris. Elizabeth also said that
Bob, our current treasurer, has done excellent work; he should be protected
from any legal issues arising from the failure of the CTGP to reimburse
Chris.
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Appendix 2. Minutes extract of October 2004 SCC meeting.
Unreimbursed expenditures of Chris Reilly. The Executive Committee
requested that Chris make a presentation to the SCC tonight on his
unreimbursed expenditures. During his presentation, Chris responded to the
questions raised in the Women's Caucus proposal on those unreimbursed
expenditures (Appendix 1). That proposal includes the following questions:
"1) why Chris Reilly, founder of the GPC and former treasurer, did not
communicate the presence of the loans to at least two of the co-chairs (Tom
and Justine), despite his obvious knowledge of GPC process;
"2) why Chris wasn't repaid (if the loans were regarded as short-term and
'informal' by Bruce and Chris) once there was income from a fundraising
letter;
"3) why half of the rent for the Hartford office wasn't paid by the Hartford
chapter, even if the SCC half was paid through a loan from Chris."
Chris passed out an Excel spreadsheet listing expenditures he made and
for which he has not been reimbursed. The spreadsheet lists 17
expenditures; the earliest is dated 4/1/03 and the latest is dated 3/12/04.
Six of the expenditures are rent payments for the Hartford office. The rent
payments range from $150 to $800 and total $2,650. Ten of the expenditures
are for envelopes, postage, or printing. They range from $6.29 to $370 and
total $855.82. Finally, there is a $35 check made out to Network Solutions
for domain registration renewal for the CTGP website. The total of the
unreimbursed expenditures is $3540.82.
Chris passed around, for viewing by all SCC attendees, a cancelled
check, cash register receipt from OfficeMax, receipt from the US Postal
Service, or similar documentation for each of the seventeen entries on the
spreadsheet. Tim, the facilitator, asked if any attendees had any questions
relating to the receipts and cancelled checks that Chris had passed
around--no one did.
Chris said that the November 14, 2000 SCC meeting had decided that the
state party would pay half the rent and half the utilities for the Hartford
office. At this time the rent was $400 per month. For months after that
the CTGP treasurer wrote a check for the entire rent for the office and made
an accounting entry for the Hartford chapter's half of the rent (this
accounting entry was made in the Hartford chapter's "setaside" account, also
known as the "chapter balance"). During this period Chris sent the
treasurer a reminder that the rent was coming due, the treasurer sent Chris
the check, and Chris brought the check to the landlord.
Then in February 2003 Bruce Crowder was elected treasurer. In early
April 2003 Chris learned from Bruce that the rent hadn't been paid for two
months. Due to problems with bank paperwork, Bruce had been unable to sign
CTGP checks. Bruce agreed that Chris should pay two months' rent
($800--March and April), and Chris did this. Later the landlord informed
Chris that they had received a $400 check from Chris Nelson, the former
treasurer, so that the $800 paid by Chris became rent for April and May.
Chris straightened out the problems at the bank with the paperwork.
Chris said that in 2000 the CTGP had raised over $25,000, including
nearly $9,000 from the annual fundraising letter. In 2001 almost $15,000
had been raised, including close to $10,000 from the letter. But in 2002,
after Chris had stopped being treasurer, a fundraising letter did not go
out. Thus in early 2003, when Bruce took over the treasurer position, the
party checking account held only $2000 or less. It required about $2,000 in
postage and printing costs to mail the annual letter, so Chris proposed
paying the office rent for a month so that CTGP funds could be used for the
mailing. Some progress was made toward putting together the mailing--Ed
Savage worked on merging the chapters' lists. The next month Chris e-mailed
Bruce and again offered to pay the office rent.
Chris distributed an excerpt from the minutes of the 7/21/03 Executive
Committee meeting. Chris' handout included, in part, the following:
5. Hiring of staffperson(s). A proposal submitted by Tim McKee to the
Executive Committee is appended ....
The Executive Committee will need to write a job description ... Due
to the Connecticut Green Party's low bank account balance, it would make
sense to hire this person, perhaps, as an independent contractor, though
reservations were expressed as to whether progressive organizations should
be using independent contractors ....
The Executive Committee would post the position opening/job description
.... The Executive Committee would interview candidates and make a
recommendation as to hiring to the SCC. ... A proposal will be submitted
by the Executive Committee to the July SCC meeting.
6. Fundraising. The annual fundraising letter (sent out in September last
year) might bring in $2500 (a guesstimate). Perhaps, because of the low
bank account balance of the Connecticut Green Party, postage could be spent
on sending the letter initially to 1000 names. With donations received from
this initial mailing, the rest of the names could be mailed to. Or a loan
from a Party member could be sought for postage costs.
Chapters should be encouraged to hold fundraisers, sharing revenues
with the state.
Chris pointed out, in particular, the sentence above which reads "Or a loan
from a Party member could be sought for postage costs."
Chris distributed an excerpt from the minutes of the June 24, 2003 SCC
meeting. The attendees at that meeting included all members of the
Executive Committee (co-chairs Mike DeRosa, Tom Sevigny, and Justine McCabe;
secretary Ed DuBrule, and treasurer Bruce Crowder). Chris' handout
included, in part, the following:
5 Treasurer's report. The Party bank account has holds $2,200; $1200 is
owed in debt. In a typical month, there is $400 in operating expenses but
only $300 comes in.
Chris said that the $1,200 owed in debt referred to the rent payments he had
made thus far. At this meeting, much to Chris' embarrassment, Mike publicly
thanked Chris for paying the rent. Other minutes from this period also
mention a debt in the Treasurer's report, Chris said, though a calculation
may need to be made. Tom read the Treasurer's report in one of those
minutes.
Eventually a mailing was done to 1000 names. It had a poor financial
return. It raised at most $1500 but cost nearly $1000 to do. No follow-up
mailing was done. Therefore Chris did not ask for reimbursement at this
time.
Bob Eaton was elected treasurer in March 2004. By this time the office
rent had risen to $500 per month. One of the rent checks on Chris'
spreadsheet is for $150--Bob wrote a check for $350 and Chris wrote a check
for $150.
Ed DuBrule said that he had sent an e-mail to Bruce a few days ago,
asking if Bruce could come to tonight's meeting, but received no reply.
Bruce had told the Executive Committee previously that he is now very busy
with graduate school and a new job. Ed said that he has multiple copies of
an e-mail from Bruce relating to these matters which he could distribute.
Question 1 above asks "why Chris Reilly ... did not communicate the
presence of the loans to at least two of the co-chairs (Tom and Justine),
despite his obvious knowledge of GPC process". Chris said there has never
been clear process in the CT Green Party; there has been talk of putting
together a policy-and-procedures manual, but no one has ever done it.
(Elizabeth reminded us that the July 2004 SCC meeting passed a proposal on
financial management.) Chris pointed out that he worked with the treasurer,
Bruce, in these matters. Andy asked if Mike and Ed, who had been on the
Executive Committee during these events, had known about Chris' spending his
own money. Mike said that he had been generally aware of the situation. Ed
said that he had been aware that there was a problem involving Chris'
spending his own money, though he hadn't understood the details. Lynah said
that the Executive Committee had failed in its responsibility to inform the
SCC of the situation.
Mike said that often in the past Greens spent thousands of dollars and
were reimbursed later by the Connecticut Green Party. Chris agreed with
this statement.
Question 3 above asks " why half of the rent for the Hartford office
wasn't paid by the Hartford chapter, even if the SCC half was paid through a
loan from Chris." Chris said again that the Hartford chapter's share of the
rent was paid for (in some sense) by an accounting entry in the "setasides"
account (Hartford chapter balance). The Hartford chapter balance is now
large and negative. Chris further noted that per an SCC decision, 30% of
donations made to the CTGP are sent back to the chapter of the donor--the
failure during 2003 to do a fundraising mailing which included Hartford
chapter members had left the Hartford chapter low on funds.
Chris said he hoped that a successful annual mailing could be done
soon. He said, however, that he was concerned about the condition of the
mailing list.
The facilitator asked if the secretary could put into the minutes that
Chris had addressed all the questions in the Women's Caucus proposal to the
best of his ability. There were no objections to this request. Elizabeth
said that the intention of the Executive Committee was that Chris should not
have to spend his time at future SCC meetings addressing this issue; the
hope was that all questions chapter members had could be addressed tonight.
Chris had also explained the unreimbursed expenses at the August 2004 SCC
meeting.
The meeting turned to the proposal from the Executive Committee on
partial repayment of Chris (Appendix 2). Mike, Ed DuBrule, and Elizabeth
explained that this proposal divided Chris' unreimbursed expenses into two
categories: expenses related to the rent payments for the Hartford office,
and other expenses (envelopes, postage, printing, and website domain name
registration). The Executive Committee feels that consensus may be
reachable tonight on repaying Chris the "other expenses"; more discussion
among SCC members and chapter members may be needed before consensus is
reached on reimbursing Chris for the rent-related expenses. This proposal
totals the "other expenses" ($890.82--see proposal) and proposes paying back
Chris this amount at the rate of $74.24 per month for twelve months.
SCC DECISION: By consensus the SCC passed this proposal.
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Appendix 3. Bruce Crower's comments on the minutes extract of the August
SCC meeting:
e-mail from Bruce to Executive Committee members sent 9/16/04:
Hi Ed. This seems fairly accurate, except that I don't think I ever
"asked" Chris to cover any bills. More like he offered and I agreed,
but that's not an important distinction. I think it was awfully
considerate of him to do this. I would agree with EHS that these were
authorized expenses -- authorized by the chapter -- and we have a
commitment to reimburse Chris. I'm pretty sure we did discuss this at
exec meetings and I know at least Tom was aware of the situation but
perhaps my memory fails me.
One thing to note is that half of the rent for the office comes from
the Hartford Chapter. At some point after I took the rent payments
back over from Chris, I began the practice of only paying the SCC
portion because the Hartford's balance was in the red. If Chris
covered the rest of those particular payments out of his pocket, it
seems to me that he should get his reimbursement from the Hartford
chapter. If the Hartford chapter cannot reimburse him for those
payments, then the SCC may decide to increase the Hartford debt to the
SCC by that amount.
I'd say the chances of me coming to an SCC meeting are pretty small. I
just started graduate school and a new job and any spare time I devote
beyond that comes out of my sleep. Hope things are going well.
-Bruce
On Sep 13, 2004, at 9:40 PM, edubrule wrote:
> Hi Bruce: how are you?--long time no see! The SCC is now considering
> a one-year budget for the CTGP--one line of that proposed budget would
> pay back $900 to Chris Reilly for unreimbursed expenses. Future
> years' budgets would pay off the rest of Chris' unreimbursed expenses.
> Over the past couple of months, the Executive Committee
> (Elizabeth Horton Sheff, Elizabeth Brancato, Mike DeRosa, Bob Eaton,
> and I) has set aside time to learn about the circumstances of Chris
> having spent so much money without being reimbursed. We asked Chris
> to submit the details of those unreimbursed expenses--he submitted a
> spreadsheet (attached to this e-mail.) We have concluded that
> we believe that Chris be should be reimbursed the entire amount
> ($3540.82). One reason we believe this is because we believe that
> expenses authorized by a political party's treasurer are legally
> binding on the party.
> This issue was discussed, as part of the discussion on the
> proposed budget, at the August SCC meeting. A section of my minutes
> for that meeting--not yet "published"--is pasted below. During that
> SCC meeting I proposed that Chris explain the circumstances of his
> expenditures, and Chris and the SCC agreed that Chris should make that
> explanation. We, the Executive Committee, feel that it is proper that
> you should be given the opportunity to comment on what Chris said and
> what I have written. Further, we ask that you do submit written
> comments on what Chris said (e-mail response fine); we propose to
> bring those comments to the SCC, as information related to the
> decision to be made by the SCC as to whether the budget should include
> $900 to begin reimbursing Chris. Chris reviewed the minutes extract
> below and said that they are an accurate representation of what he
> said at the SCC meeting.
> I believe you have had some discussion of these matters with Bob
> (860-379-0632). I'm sure he'd be willing to talk further with you, as
> would I (860-523-4016). I have cc'd this e-mail to the members of the
> Executive Committee, and to Chris.
> I hope to "publish" my minutes later this week. They are long
> overdue (they're supposed to be published within one week of the
> 8/31/04 SCC meeting). The September SCC meeting will be, as usual,
> the last Tuesday of the month (9/28/04); we plan to hold it in
> Middletown or Portland (location still being worked out).
> --Ed
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Appendix 4. CTGP finances during the period Chris made the rent payments
from his own funds.
[Word file created from Excel file month-by-month 2003-4 rents
payments.xls.]
month
rent charged
Chris paid
Hartford chapter paid
CTGP paid
Sheff campaign paid
Totals
charged to Hartford chapter balance
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Apr-03
$400
$400
0
0
0
$400
0
May-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Jun-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Jul-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Aug-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Sep-03
500
500
0
0
0
500
0
Oct-03
500
0
0
1,000
0
1,000
500
Nov-03
500
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dec-03
500
0
0
500
1000
1,500
250
Jan-04
500
0
0
0
0
0
0
Feb-04
500
0
0
350
100
450
100
Mar-04
500
150
0
0
0
150
0
Totals
5,500
2,650
0
1,850
1,100
5,600
850
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