{news} Approved minutes of the 1-29-08 SCC meeting of CTGP Quorum was met.

Sun Mar 30 22:04:21 EDT 2008

Approved minutes of the 1-29-08 SCC meeting of CTGP       Quorum was met.
Portland's Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480   Phone:
860-342-6760   Time:  7:000PM

Voting Attendees by Chapters: Central: Vittorio E. Lancia; Fairfield: Paul
Bassler, Richard Duffee; Greater Hartford: Barbara Barry, Secretary of CTGP;
S. Michael DeRosa, Co-chairperson of CTGP; Christopher Reilly, Treasurer of
CTGP; New Haven: Charlie Pillsbury, GPUS for CT;Jerry Martin, Cliff
Thornton, Co-chairperson of CTGP; New London: Ronna Stuller; Northeast:
Scott Deshefy; Tolland: Timothy McKee.   Non-voting attendee: Harold Burbank
from Northwest CT.                Facilitator: Barbara Barry, Secretary of
Green Party of CT. 

A.       Preliminaries:

1.       Introductions of voting attendees/non-voting attendees; chapters;
quorum was met; timekeeper: Vic Lancia. 

2.       Approval of tonight’s proposed agenda. No deletions.  Additions:
summer intern.                                      

3.       Review and approval of minutes of 1-8-08 SCC meeting.

4.     Review and acceptance of minutes from the 1-22-08 EC meeting.

5.      Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. Balance of:  $2639.99.
Consensus: Treasurer is to remove the inactive chapters of: Hamden,
Shoreline, Northwest, West, and the Women’s Caucus.  

B.      Proposal from the Policies and Proposals Committee:  Internal
Election Procedures:                      The election of State Officers and
USGP Representatives will be held at a meeting open to all Connecticut Green
Party members in April of each year. Ballots will be distributed to all
Connecticut Green Party members for their receipt at least 2 weeks before
the Annual Meeting. Although nominations will be accepted from the floor at
the Annual Meeting, anyone wishing to have their name printed on the ballot
must submit their name and the name of the office they are seeking in
writing, at the last State Central Committee meeting prior to the Annual
Meeting of the GP of CT. Lots will be drawn at the last State Central
Committee meeting prior to the Annual Meeting of the GP of CT, to decide
name placement on the ballot.  The candidate does not need to be present for
the drawing. The ballot will be distributed with a cover letter and
statements from any of the candidates who wish to submit one.  Statements
are limited to 200 words. 

The ballot should notify the voter that "None of the Above" should be used
to indicate non-support of any of the candidates.  For instance: if the
voter can only support one candidate, the voter should list "None of the
Above" as his/her second choice.  In that way preventing election of other
candidates from winning by default if the other voters leave their second
choice blank. Voters may also be able to mark “abstain” on the ballot i.e.
the vote is not counted. 

Ballots are to be mailed to the CTGP Post Office box.  The members should be
told that the ballot must be postmarked no later than three (3) business
days prior to the Annual Meeting.  The members name and address must be
shown on the outside of the envelope or on a separate inner envelope
containing the ballot. The ballots should be kept in a secure location until
they are turned over to the Membership List Committee and/or the Internal
Elections Committee members at the Annual Meeting. 

Anyone who does not receive a ballot can request one from a designated clerk
of the Membership List Committee or Internal Election Committee.  A ballot
will be provided if the requester has met the CTGP membership requirements.
All ballots, whether mailed or voted in person at the election, have to be
placed in a sealed envelope with the voter's name and address written on the
outside.  This is to ensure people only vote once and that only eligible
voters participate. To save time mailed ballots may be verified against the
membership list prior to the Annual Meeting. People voting in person at the
convention are instructed to seal their ballots and write their name and
address on the outside.  A sealed box should be available for the members to
depot their ballots.  At least 3 election clerks will be appointed at the
last SCC meeting prior to the Annual Meeting of the GP of CT.

At the close of voting, the elections clerks will open the ballot box and
separated all mailed ballots that had already been verified, ballots lacking
names and addresses, and ballots that had not yet been verified.  Clerks of
the Internal Elections Committee will look up all ballots with names and
addresses to verify they are from eligible voters.  Clerks will note the
number of ballots that either lacked names or were from people not on the
mailing list.  Clerks will open the former to see if there was any name
inside the envelope.  If not, the ballot is to be excluded as invalid.
Then, clerks take the ballots from people not on our mailing list and check
with the Membership List Committee to verify eligibility. All ballots must
be numbered. For all contested races, enter the rankings from all the
ballots into a program of the selected IRV (Instant Runoff Voting).       

The following data should be retained for five (5) years by the Secretary of
the Green Party of CT for future use:  the actual paper ballots, envelopes
and other materials mailed back; scanned images of all the ballots; the
rankings on the ballots that were entered; round-by-round results of the IRV
standings and the data entry of the IRV standings with results. All the
elections data shall be given to the Secretary of the GP of CT on or before
the next SCC (State Central Committee) meeting after the Annual Meeting of
the GP of CT.  The Agenda for all general membership meeting of the Party
must be mailed to each member with a notice of all resolutions that the SCC
plans to bring before the membership.  The notice must also include a
caution that resolutions are subject to amendments from the floor.
Amendments from the floor require two thirds (2/3 ) vote from those eligible
GP of CT voters. A Convention Committee will suggest rules for the running
of the Annual Meeting of the GP of CT to the membership as the first order
of business.  

C. Reports:
1.  Internal Elections Committee currently consists of Steve Fournier,
Greater Hartford and Christopher Reilly. Scott Deshefy to assist with
candidates talks; Vic Lancia to help with petitioning and registering
voters; Barbara Barry to assist with campaign development committee.
Potential candidates for CTGP internal elections must be provide to the
Internal Elections Committee no later then the SCC meeting on the last
Tuesday, March 25, 2008. The CTGP Annual Meeting will be Saturday, 4-26-08.
Place and time to be determined.

2.  Green Party of CT candidates.  Harold Burbank of Canton has decided to
run as a Green Party candidate for the 5th Congressional District. There is
no current chapter in his area. Other CTGP Congressional candidates: 1st
District: Steve Fournier of Hartford; 2nd District: Scott Deshefy, Coventry;
3rd District inclusive of New Haven and part of Middletown: none at this
time. 4th District: Richard Duffee, Stamford.  

3.   GPUS reports from: Tim McKee GPUS Rep. had the co-chairpersons to sign
the Presidential Party Designation Committee form for CT regulations. Tim
also recommended that potential GPUS Presidential Candidates be invited to
our GP of CT Annual Meeting. The date, time and place of it are not known at
this time. The Secretary will extend an invitation to the known GPUS
Presidential Candidates. Electors for the GPUS Presidential Candidate were
determined by consensus to be: Tim McKee, Richard Duffee, Vic Lancia, Ronna
Stuller, S. Michael DeRosa, Barbara Barry and Scott Deshefy.   Tim
recommends that the Green Party have 1000 candidates, nationwide in 2008.
Charlie Pillsbury, GPUS Rep. advised that CT may have up to 20 delegates
eligible to be voting members at the GPUS Presidential Convention in Chicago
(7-10-08 through 7-13-08). Consensus for the criteria for the delegates to
the 7-08 GPUS Presidential Convention: Delegates are: a) to be prorated
based on the number of votes the GPUS presidential candidate gets at the GP
of CT Annual Meeting in 4-08; b) the GPUS presidential candidate may pick
their delegates from within the CTGP; and c) CTGP delegates will be free to
vote for whomever they wish to starting on the 3rd ballot of the GPUS.
Presidential Convention in 7-10-08. 

      CP: Dates and deadlines which the GPUS presidential candidate must
meet in order to meet CT Secretary of State regulations: 4pm Wednesday,
8-6-08 is the time and date that all presidential petitions must be handed
in to the appropriate town register of voters or to the Secretary of State.
For all other GP of CT candidates: a form   endorsing the designated GP of
CT candidates by the GP of CT co-chairpersons, must be submitted by the
close of business on Wednesday, 9-10-08, to the Office of the Secretary of
State of CT, 

Michael DeRosa, GPUS Ballot Access Committee: Arizona needs 20, 400 valid
petition signatures to achieve ballot access for the GPUS presidential
candidate.  These are needed by 3-6-08 and they have about 10,000 at this
time.  GPUS has designated only $4,000 to be made available to all 50 states
to gain ballot access, if needed.  Mike requested that $100 from the GP of
CT treasury be sent to the Arizona Green Party as a show of support for
their petition drive. Consensus: agreed to this request. Media Contacts for
the GPUS Presidential Convention and Campaign: Tim McKee, S. Michael DeRosa
and Cliff Thornton.  

4.   GP of CT continues to address with legislators during the 2008
Legislative Session: Fight the Hike.   

5.   Summer Intern for the GP of CT. SMD: was approached by Alexander
Goldman, a Brandeis college student, to be a summer intern for the GP of CT
for college credit. Consensus: SMD is authorized to accept him if he appears
to be an appropriate candidate. Tim McKee, Christopher Reilly, Scott Deshefy
are also willing to meet and vet this potential 2008 summer intern.   

6.   CT Green Times newspaper. SMD: send articles to Mike DeRosa.  

7.   Actual and potential GP of CT candidates: HB: the reasons to support me
as a GP candidate for the 5th Congressional District: support impeachment of
Cheney/Bush; anti-war activities; the criminality of the federal executive
branch; climate change.  As an assistant state prosecutor in ME, I have
worked on: voter fraud and and human rights and I have supported Ralph Nader

8.   ACLU lawsuit SMD: I will be deposed for 2-1-08. CT: and I will be
deposed on  2-8-08. TMc: we could consider demonstrating in front of the
Bridgeport Court House on the day of trial. 

9.    Chapter reports: see the above activities.  

10.  Next SCC meeting 2-26-08 to be at Portland Senior Center. Next EC
meeting in 3-08: to be determined.  

Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots
democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom,
decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future
focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and
gender equality.

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