{news} FYI- National Greens conference call minutes-(how we are doing nationally)

Fri Jun 23 10:43:06 EDT 2006

Dear Greens folks,

  As your national committee member, along with Charlie Pillsbury, I am forwarding the minutes of the national committee STEERING committee.

  I want to try to keep you as fully informed as possible. I highlighted anything i think you might finding interesting. These are notes on the business of the party.

  Tim McKee
  860-643-2282

hhart at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu wrote:
  Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:36:03 -0500
From: hhart at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org
Subject: [usgp-coo] GPUS SC Conference call,
6/19/006 - Minutes 
(
GPUS SC Conference Call
Monday, June 19, 2006
9:00 p.m. EDT

Jody Grage, Budd Dickinson, Holly Hart, Jake Schneider, Brent McMillan, Gwen 
Wages, Emily Citkowski, Marc Sanson, Rebecca Rotzler

Facilitator: Gwen
Timekeeper: Budd

Observer: Jason Nabewaniec, GPoNYS
Calling in for a portion of the call: SundiataTellem, recent co-chair of the 
Black Caucus

1. STAFF REPORTS 
a. OPERATIONS - Emily
i. Emily sent her work report just before call. She invites any questions and/
or feedback on the style, amount of information, etc.

ii. Spanish translation: We now have two documents written and edited by 
native Spanish speakers. One is the 10 Key Values with one side Spanish, one side English; another is on Immigration. We will consider having copies 
printed. They will be printed in the next issue of Green Pages. 

iii. Merchandise and Media Committees review of online Green bookstore: 
Merchandise Committee thinks this is a great idea. MerchCom co-chair Jon Olsen will contact Media Committee, Platcom and Rebecca Rotzler to set up a conference call to work out next steps.

b. POLITICAL DIRECTOR - Brent
i. CCC 
The Green Party is currently at 302 candidates for the year.

The GPUS National Committee has just adopted the CCC's Senate- and House-CCC proposals. The CCC's goal is to get the Senate committee started first, with a goal of raising 50 contributions of $250 each from a variety of states: goal of $10,000 for the Senate committee. The plan is to submit advisory opinion for FEC recognition. for full national committee status for the Senate committee first, There is no precedent for what we're trying to do, so we will see how it falls out. 

ii. Ballot access update
Illinois' petition drive ends June 26; it's looking good, they are getting a 
cushion. 

New York needs 15,000 valid signatures and are aiming for 25,000; their drive 
runs July 11 through August 22. They are hiring a petition coordinator. If 
Malachy McCourt, their gubernatorial candidate, wins 50,000 votes, GPoNYS will 
re-gain official party (ballot) status.ext step is 50,000 votes for official 
party status.

MO, and MD have ballot campaigns coming up later in the year.

c. FUNDRAISING - Brent
i. Brent asked for input for re-solicitation message. Suggests highlighting 
work party is doing to get out the message that the Green Party is the Real 
Peace Party, and how what GP is doing is building up a structure to achieve 
peace. Brent will continue writing and send a draft to the SC list.

ii. West Coast Fundraising Assistant: Hiring committee interviewed Carlotta 
Abrams on Wednesday and have offered her the position. She has done fundraising 
for the Pacific Green Party in Oregon. A small correction is needed in the 
contract, which the SC will take up online. Carlotta Abrams will be notified 
right away, and will begin July 1.

2. BLACK CAUCUS - Gwen, Sundiata Tellem
Sundiata Tellem, recent co-chair of the GPUS Black Caucus, joined the call to 
report on activities and state of the Black Caucus. 

There have been several meetings of the BC in the past year. Sundiata has sent 
an extensive written report to the national office on activities and campaigns. 
During his tenure as co-chair, he sent monthly reports on request to those 
interested and to his state party's co-chairs. Activities have involved 
television appearances lectures, appearances with Cindy Sheehan, and with Black 
Green Party candidates.

The call addressed concerns that the Black Caucus had not been in compliance 
with their bylaws, specifically the need to hold an officer election. and lack 
of communication. Members have avoided participating due to acrimony of a few 
people, so it has been hard to meet quorum for business. Some volunteers have 
not followed through on sending out timely announcements. They would like to do 
an online election, and have been working with Hugh Esco to set up a program. 
Rebecca is willing to call members to help notify them of the upcoming election.

3. TREASURER'S REPORT - Jake 
i. Last week's treasurer's report showed about $19,000 in accounts payable and 
about $16,000 in the bank . About $9,300 is owed in state sharing. Concern 
about going into national meeting with an little cash.

PROPOSAL, Jake: that GPUS postpone paying out state sharing until the first 
week of August, after the national meeting. AGREED

4. VOTING QUEUE - Holly 
ADOPTED
#222 - SC: Resolution to Amend the Rules and Procedures on Steering Committee 
Adopted, 6/19/06
___________
Discussion of whether SC will put out an amendment in response to potential Yes 
vote. The Yes vote was not forthcoming. 

PROPOSAL for SC to propose an amendment to Proposal #222
VOTE 
Jake - No
Marc - No
Rebecca - No
Gwen - Yes
Holly - No
Jody - Yes
Bud - Yes
PROPOSAL FAILED 

#223 - CCC: Creation of National Green Party House and Senatorial campaign 
committees
Adopted, 6/19/06
_________________
CCC would like this to be part of this campaign cycle. 

PROPOSAL, Gwen: get language from political director and CCC, the SC will 
consider it online and send to the voting queue to go out next week. AGREED 

UNDER DISCUSSION
#224 - AZGP: GPUS sign-on as a supporting organization with 
VotersForPeace and the Voter's Pledge
Discussion through 6/25/06
Voting period: 6/26/06 - 7/2/06
Floor manager: Hart// 1/2

#225 - WAGP: Resolution to Support the Work of the Nonviolent 
Peaceforce
Discussion through 6/25/06
Voting period: 6/26/06 - 76/2/06
Floor manager: Grage/ 1/2

5. ONLINE ELECTION to Fill SC Co-chair Vacancy
The online election will be taking place partly during the national meeting. 
Discussion on whether to amend the process to postpone the election until after 
the national meeting; truncate the process to 1 week of discussion; or stick 
with the timeline specified in the bylaws.

AGREED that the secretary will send out the announcement calling for nominations 
again. and not propose to alter the policy. Noted that the timeline was in 
error; that will be corrected for the re-posting.

6. ANNUAL MEETING 
i. Registration 
74 paid registrations, $9,775; well ahead of where we were last year. Still one 
problems with the registration page, but that is being worked out. 

ii. Need to cut budget: we will figure out how much of the nat'l meeting needs 
to be recorded. Agreed that Campaign School was of most value. Audio budget is 
close to $1000. The proposed volunteer recording group has estimated the cost 
of high quality tapes for editing and archiving is about $1800 for 30 tapes, 
which is well over budget. We are suggesting we reduce the number of tape to 
maybe 20.

iii. Update on approval of meeting facilitator. Six have been nominated. 
Secretary will send request for bios; then send this to the voting page for the 
approval vote.

iv. Plenary planning - TABLE
Marc will write up a draft.

v. Peacekeepers - TABLE

vi. Consensus method question - - TABLE

vii. Credentialing/Dels/Alts List - plan is mostly set, will consult with 
former secretary for further details. Will have online spreadsheet and hard 
copy list of delegates/alternates.

viii. Diversity Waivers
Jake, Marc and Holly raised several concerns: The application form has just 
been sent to the NC list, although the SC had assurances from DivCom that it 
would be run by the SC first; Rebecca forwarded the DivCom subcommittee the 
information that the application is for fee waivers, not "scholarships," but the 
terminology used is still incorrect, although; there are several points not in 
compliance or that go far beyond the specific policy that created the waivers; 
this is going out just 1 month before the meeting; the secretary was to have 
been included in those receiving applications.

PROPOSAL, Marc: To extend the application deadline to July 10, with July 15 s 
the decision date; To add the secretary to the list where applications are 
received; That correct phraseology be inserted in the text, with "diversity 
committee annual meeting funds application" substituted for "scholarship." 
AGREED

7. SC P&P's - Jody and everyone else - TABLE
Some fine-tuning is left, otherwise this is nearly finished adn ready to review.

6/22/06
Holly Hart
Secretary, GPUS

Next Call: Monday, July 3, 2006 9:00 p.m. EDT

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