{news} FW: Minutes from SCC meeting 11/29/05 of CTGP: quorum requirement met.
B Barry
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Sun Mar 12 02:18:21 EST 2006
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Subject: Minutes from SCC meeting 11/29/05 of CTGP: quorum requirement met.
Minutes from SCC meeting 11/29/05: quorum requirement met.
Place: Portland Public Library, Mary Flood Room, 20 Freestone Avenue,
Portland, CT
Phone: 860-342-6770 Time: 7PM to 9PM
Voting attendees by chapters: Fairfield: David Bedell, Paul Bassler; Greater
Hartford: Ed Debrule, Barbara Barry, Secretary of CTGP, Mike DeRosa,
co-chairperson of CTGP;New Haven: Daniel Sumrall, Allan Brison; Middletown:
Vic Lancia and Molly, Northeast: Christopher Demmoit, Jean deMet; Tolland:
Tim McKee;
Facilitator: Tim McKee
A. Preliminaries:
1. (2-3 minutes): Introductions of attendees and chapters. Timekeeper:
Vic Lancia.
2. (1 minute): Identify attendees who are NOT voting representatives:
none.
3. (1 minute): Adopt ground rules: discussed modified concencus; many
people verbalized frustration/dislike of it. Modified concencus process
approved for this meeting.
4. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, additions:
none. Deletions: Proposal 1 :new organization structure due to lack of
presence of the authors: Aaron Gustafson and Kelly McCarthy, resigned:
co-chairpersons. Proposal 2: storage/cataloging of tape recordings of SCC
meeting by Hamden and Northwest chapters due to lack of presence of the
author: Judy Herkimer; budget suggestions: deferred due to time restraints.
Treasurer's monthly report and 3rd quarter
treasurer's report to the CT. Secretary of State: due to lack of treasurer:
Judy Herkimer or a deputy treasurer or her representative. She did not
forward any report(s)
to the remaining CTGP officers for this meeting
5. (2-4 minutes): Comments and approval of 10-25-05 SCC minutes by
Barbara Barry: approved by concencus.
6. (5 minutes): 11-21-05 EC meeting presentation by Barbara Barry:
approved by concencus.
7. (5 minutes): Discussion of minutes (suggested by Judy Herkimer):
Barbara Barry presented: Judy Herkimer perceives bias in the minutes by
Barbara Barry, Secretary of CTGP. Barbara discussed, as she has with Judy
at the 10-25-05 EC meeting, that minutes have been done word for word.
Barbara has no control over what people say. Barbara could put the minutes
in quotes since they are done word for word. So far, Barbara has not. Mike
DeRosa: in the past, some people have
forgotten what they have said. Our approved proposal from years ago
regarding the use of recordings was to help ensure accuracy of minutes.
8. (15 minutes): Discussion regarding EC meeting and SCC meeting should
be held in December 2005 due to EC proposal by Judy Herkimer at 10-21-05: no
EC or SCC meetings in 12-05. Some people felt very strongly that the
important business of the CTGP needs to be addressed during the 12-27-05
scheduled SCC meeting. concencus: agreement to meet as usual on 12-27-05.
Should EC meeting be held 12-12-05? Concencus: Yes, encouraged to meet on
the previously arranged 2nd Monday of the month, 12-12-05; yes: suggest
delaying the meeting so Barbara, secretary, can get to the meeting a few
minutes after completion of her work at 7PM. Discussed: only one active
co-chariperson: Mike DeRosa as both Kelly McCarthy and Aaron Gustafson have
resigned their co-chairperson positions, immediately after election day.
Working site of EC meeting: Greater Hartford Green Party' office. Hope
the treasurer, Judy Herkimer, can attend.
B. Reports:
1. (5 minutes, each for): Chapter reports:
New Haven: Daniel Sumrall: working in coalition to support a living wage in
New Haven City employees; A German Green Party member is speaking in New
Haven tonight; to have longer chapter meeting to discuss campaign
streamlining; potential candidates for 2006 election. Allan Brison: to
have specific speaker forums open to the public on special subjects (e.g.
homelessness in New Haven) will have question and answer forum. Websit for
New Haven Chapter: hopefully will be up and available in January 2006, as
New Haven now has ability to update and edit information. 12-13-05 march
and rally: working with people from the Hill section of the city. Hope to
get Yale-New Haven Hospital (Y-NHH) to address neighborhood issues: hospital
expansion (largest they have undertaken) e.g. issue that Y-NHH has put
lenies on homes of selected low-income houses.
Northeast: Christopher Demmoit: Jean deMet: got 28% of vote for 1st
selectperson (mayor type position) in Willimantic, came in 2nd place,
beating the Republician candidate. Doing weekly community show, now.
Continue to work with peace group. Continue to weekly picket Wal-Mart.
Showed the film: The High Cost of Low Price. Halloween: chapter gave out
coloring books and candy:.
Greater Hartford: Mike DeRosa: continue keeping our office open in coalition
with the Clash Collective which maintains a lending library of literature,
pictorals, videos, books. Continue with our periodic Friday night movies.
showed The High Cost of Low Price, film. David Ionno, ran for Board of
Education in Hartford. Did not win but his supporter encourage him to
continue speaking out and run again. He had endorsement of 3 unions. Have
more people and more organization done regarding participating in an organic
food co-op. Office if open for Green Party or the like activities.
Incorrect allocaton of Greater Hartford Green Party chapter funds.
Middletown: Vic Lancia: to show the movie: The High Cost of Low Price, film
on 12-12-05; continue: weekly peace vigil: newspaper captured: sign: "War is
good business".
Tolland: Tim McKee: continue with the usual.
Fairfield: David Bedell: Derrek Shapiro, Green Party candidate for Stamford
mayor, got 3% of vote and ballot access; Democratic mayor, just, got
reelected. (He is also running for governor.) Republican came in second.
Derrek continues to address Green Party issues. Only elected Green Party
person in office: constable in New Caanan, typically a republican
stronghold. The Green Party candidate was a write-in candidate and won out
of a field of five.
2. (15 minutes): Women's Caucus report regarding recent Modified
Consencus Training: Allan Brison: all participants were asked to complete a
questionnaire about their knowledge about modified concencus; he does not
know how many people were the actual participants, out of the 12 people
present were actually present. All 12 people did participate to some degree.
Allan did not sure what the questionnaire was used for e.g.: help educators
find areas of individual or group educational opportunities; or elimination
of people from more fully participating in the training. Barbara Barry: If
you look at the 4-26-05 SCC Women's Caucus verbal proposal indicates that
interested people were encourage to attend. Preference was likely to be
given to those people who already actually facilitated meetings. However,
at latter EC, SCC meeting and via e-mails another qualifier was added,
which was not clearly presented in the written proposal or agreed upon by
this (SCC) body. That was that a participant had to have facilitated 2 SCC
meetings in the last 5 years. When I asked the Womens' Caucus
representative (Judy Herkimer) at the 10-25-05 SCC meeting, if the Women's
Caucus thought of other ways to train people, she advised: "no". Did the
Women's Caucus every consider opening the training to at least 1 member of
every chapter in the CTGP, to allow for a fuller, more democratic process
and show respect for diversity and fairness, Green Party values, Judy
stated: "no". Various people agreed it would have been more fair to at
least open the training to each chapter. Discussion was held regarding:
different types of concencus is practiced by other groups, in and out of the
Green Party; advantages and disadvantages of modified concencus. Some
people dislike modified concencus or parts of it. We need to learn
more about how the process is done.
3. (10 minutes): U.S. Green Party report by CTGP representatives: Tim
McKee:(Thomas Sevigny was not present.) national discussion regarding
what/if anything is to done about state chapters who do/did not put on the
ballot the nationally endorsed presidential candidate e.g Utah put Ralph
Nader on their ballot line for president. Trying to enhance unity.
What/if any direction will national party suggest the states do regarding
running candidates, acquiring or maintaining ballot access.
4. (5 minutes): V.O.T.E.R. report from Mike DeRosa: CT legistature just
passed a couple of hours ago, a procedure where 3rd party candidates will
have to petition to get on ballot and campaign finances. This seems to be in
conflict with the equal political party access provision under the U.S.
Constitution. I will, get details. Have a lawyer who is willing to
work on some potential lawsuits, regarding ballot access in CT, If we
choose to go forward. Voter verified paper trail proposal is in
trouble due to the cost of the machines. Federal monies will not cover the
total cost of the machines. Each town will have to pay for major proportion
of the voting machines. Tim McKee: newspaper articles regarding voter
machines;
the state regulation regarding need to petition, might be
unconstitutional. Tim to do a press release
with comments from various Green Party members.
Proposal 3:
PRESENTER: Ed Dubrule, 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 was 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.
Discussed by attendees. Clarifying questions were asked and answered. No
blocking concerns. Concencus: CTGP treasurer to reimburse Chris Reilly,
$2,650.00, immediately.
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