Coordinating Committee minutes, August 3, 2015

4) Decision: Approval of minutes from July 6 Coordinating Committee meeting (Feinstein)

http://www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating/minutes/2015-07-06

Approved by Consensus

5) Decision: Appointments to Committees 

Appointment: Ruscal Cayangyang to the Finance Committee

Approved by Consensus

Appointment: Kendra Gonzalez to the Coordinating Committee Volunteer Sub-Committee

Proposal (Laidman): Make appointment contingent upon receiving her letter requesting appointment, which was not sent owing to technical difficulties

Approved by Consensus

Appointment: Kendra Gonzalez to the Finance Committee

Proposal (Laidman): Make appointment contingent upon receiving her letter requesting appointment, which was not sent owing to technical difficulties

Approved by Consensus

6) Discussion: Siting and date of January 2016 General Assembly (Feinstein) 

Feinstein reported upon San Diego County Greens interest in hosting the January 2016 meeting, and that they will provide a firm answer in August, for a decision at the September Coordinating Committee meeting.

7) Decision: Certification of Imperial County Green Party (Shantz)

Proposal (Shantz): That the Coordinating Committee certify the Green Party of Imperial County under GPCA Bylaws Section 6-6 Apointments to Vacancies in Counties In Which No County Council members were elected in the primary election, that the Green Party of Imperial County has met the conditions under GPCA Bylaws Section 5-1 Recognition. 

Amendment (Feinstein): That the GPCA Bylaws Committee be directed to inform the Green Party of Imperial County that there are problems with three aspects of their bylaws, and that specifically two of them need to be amended in order for their County Registar to actually allow them to conduct County Council elections in 2016: "7-1.3 Number of Council Members to be Elected; The number of Council members will between 3-5, and 7-1.4(c) The number of members from any district shall be rounded to the nearest integer. The total resulting from this method may be different than forty-four.  The greater number of the two shall be the number to be elected." - and that the Bylaws Committee provide suggested alternative language for the Green Party of Imperial County to review.

Proposal amended (Shantz): 

(1) That the Coordinating Committee certify the Green Party of Imperial County under GPCA Bylaws Section 6-6 Apointments to Vacancies in Counties In Which No County Council members were elected in the primary election, that the Green Party of Imperial County has met the conditions under GPCA Bylaws Section 5-1 Recognition. 

(2) That the GPCA Bylaws Committee be directed to inform the Green Party of Imperial County that there are problems with three aspects of their bylaws, and that specifically two of them need to be amended in order for their County Registar to actually allow them to conduct County Council elections in 2016: "7-1.3 Number of Council Members to be Elected; The number of Council members will between 3-5, and 7-1.4(c) The number of members from any district shall be rounded to the nearest integer. The total resulting from this method may be different than forty-four.  The greater number of the two shall be the number to be elected." - and that the Bylaws Committee provide suggested alternative language for the Green Party of Imperial County to review.

8) Discussion: Presentation on Adopt Your Precinct program (Shantz)

Presentation was made by Michael Goldbeck, County Councilmember from San Diego County on GROW-endorsed Adopt Your Precinct program, input taken from Coordinating Committee members and potential follow up steps were discussed.

9) Discussion: Rubin v Padilla is appealed to US Supreme Court (Feinstein)

Feinstein reported upon efforts to buttress the chance that the Supreme Court would take the appeal of Rubin v. Padilla, reported that no amicus brief by the GPCA would be necessary at this time, but that if the Court took the case, that the GPCA could consider action at that time.

10) Discussion: Standing General Assembly Update (Feinstein, Laidman)

Feinstein reported on which counties had reported their SGA delegates - Contra Costa (4), Los Angeles (21) and Santa Barbara (2) and solicited others from others on the call. Feinstein reported on anticipated agenda items for the October 5 - November 22 SGA session:

Endorsement vote for U.S. Senate in 2016 
http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/irvdetail?pid=67

Special election to fill two female Coordinating Committee vacancies
http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/irvdetail?pid=68

Special election to fill two male Coordinating Committee vacancies
http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/irvdetail?pid=69

Approval of minutes from the San Jose  General Assembly
http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/propdetail?pid=70

11) Report: Treasurer (Barnett) 

A phone connection was unavailable at the time of the report

12) Report: Committees

Reports were heard from the following:

A) Bylaws (Ashley)
B) Clearinghouse (Feinstein)
C) Finance (Laidman) 
D) Media (Everette) 
E) Platform (No report)
F) Information Technology Committee (Laidman)
G) Campaign Fund Support Committee  (No report)
E) Fundraising Committee (No report)
F) 2107-ANM Sub-Committee (Feinstein)

13) Report: Working Groups 

Reports were heard from the following:
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Campaigns and Candidates (no report)
Electoral Reform (no report)
Green Issues (no report)
Grassroots Organizing (Shantz)