Coordinating Committee minutes, April 4, 2016

Coordinating Committee members present (9): Victoria Ashley, Marla Bernstein,Trinidad Castaneda,  Maxine Daniel, Sandra EveretteMike FeinsteinTim Laidman, Jessica Montiel, Alex Shanz

Coordinating Committee members not-present (1): Michael Goldbeck

Invited Guests (Greens): Doug Barnett, GPCA Treasurer

Quorum at 7:33 with seven (7) present: Victoria Ashley, Marla BernsteinMaxine Daniel, Sandra EveretteMike FeinsteinTim Laidman, Jessica Montiel

Castaneda joined at 7:42
Shantz joined call at 8:04


2) Roles

Facilitator: Tim Laidman (Alex Shantz assumed faciliation when he joined the call)
Minutes taker: Mike Feinstein
Time keeper: Maxine Daniel
Vibes Watcher: Victoria Ashley

Approved by consensus


3) Approval of Agenda (five minutes or less) (simple majority vote)

Amendment (Feinstein):  #5 and #9 were duplicates, leave it as #5

Approved by consensus


4) Decision: Approval of Minutes

Decision: Approval of Coordinating Committee minutes, March 7, 2016 (Feinstein)
http://www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating/minutes/2016-03-07

Amendment (Daniel): typo, change seven to six
Amendment (Feinstein): clarified Bernstein's attendance

Proposal (Feinstein): approve mintues with amendments

Approved by consensus


5) Decision:  Bylaws Inpretation: Extend deadline to apply to be PNC delegate to May 8 to be affirmed at GA (Everette, Feinstein)

Proposal: Bylaws Interpretation: Extend deadline to apply to be PNC delegate to May 8 to be affirmed at GA

Approved by consensus


6) Decision: Approve Draft Agenda for San Francisco General Assembly (State Meeting Planning Committee)

http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2016-05/agenda-draft-to-counties

Proposal (Feinstein): Approve agenda with amended breakout sessions and a concurrent solication for workshop content for the Gathering portion.

Approved by consensus


7) Discussion: Planning for San Francisco General Assembly (State Meeting Planning Committee)

http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2016-05/

Food, logistics discussed.


8) Discussion: GPCA Finances and Financial Reports (Barnett, Laidman)

Barnett, Laidman made report. 


10) Treasurer's Report 

Laidman made report on teleconference, Bernstein sent written report to Coordinating Committee email list.


reports were made informally for some committees and working groups, and some not

11) Report: Committees 

A) Bylaws (Ashley)

B) Clearinghouse (Feinstein)

C) Finance (Laidman) 

D) Fundraising Committee 

E) Media (Trini) 

F) Platform ()

G) Information Technology Committee (Laidman)

H) Campaign Fund Support Committee   

I) Personnel Committee  

J) State Meeting Planning Committee/Agenda Team


12) Report: Working Groups 

A) Campaigns and Candidates (Moorman)

B) Electoral Reform (Jean)

C) Green Issues (Moorman) 

D) Grassroots Organizing (Shantz)