GPUS Steering Committee Minutes – 25 November 2018
SUMMARY FOR DISTRIBUTION TO STATES AND LOCAL CHAPTERS:
1. New Business: Campaign Coordinating Committee call for nominations, Apportionment Review Committee call for nominations
2. Standing Business: Treasurer’s Report (Treasurer’s Reports to the GNC available at https://gpus.org/treasurers-reports/); Fundraising Report; Fundraising Consultant update, Liaison reports
3. Voting Queue – https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/login
Received for the queue – Coordinated Campaign Committee Election
In the queue: 2018 Platform Amendments – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Civil Rights and Equal Rights; Fukushima-Daiichi -Seven Years Later Response with Open Letters; Establish a GPUS Standing Committee -Banking and Monetary Reform Committee (BMRC); Resolution in Opposition to Rising Fascism
Online SC Proposals approved since last call and sent to the NC: None
4. Old Business: Strategic Planning meeting, 2018 ANM financial report update; Apportionment Tabulation Committee membership appointments, Freshdesk update
5. Executive Session: Budget discussion – personnel
The full minutes are available at
http://gpus.org/committees/steering/minutes/November-25-2018/.
The call recording is available at 712-451-0309, 926334#, reference 36 and https://gpus.org/steering-committee-recordings/
Jody Grage, Secretary
GPUS Steering Committee Minutes – 25 November 2018
AGENDA:
I. CALL SETUP & BACKGROUND – 15 min
a) Facilitator: Charles Sherrouse
b) Roll call – Anita Rios, Jody Grage, Violet Zitola, Hillary Kane, Andrea Merida,
Gloria Mattera, Tony Ndege (joined at 8:45 pm Eastern)
Absent: Margaret Flower
Observers: David Gerry MA, Tamar Yager VA, Starlene Rankin OR
c) Agenda revision suggestions – Old Business – Strategic Planning Meeting –
add Andrea’s input from GP conference call and Gloria re: Green Uprising – approved
II. NEW BUSINESS – 15 min
a) Coordinating Campaign Committee call for nominations – to be posted Tuesday
b) Apportionment Review Committee call for nominations – to be posted Monday
III. STANDING BUSINESS – 50 min
a) Treasurer’s report – Hillary Kane – 10 min.
Treasurer’s Reports to the GNC available at https://gpus.org/treasurers-reports/
Budget proposal ready for voting queue early in the week
Total Accounts Balance $113,900.00; Savings/Reserves $96,042.37; Checking Accounts
$17,867.63; PayPal $2,021.70
Savings/reserves holding steady, checking accounts somewhat higher; Red Sun Press
accounts receivable funds available and will be paid in a couple weeks;
b) Fundraising report – Gloria – 10 min.
October Income – $15,641.31
November 1-25 Income – $11,475.50; recent $1k donation from new Green
Donations from website since Nov 1: $1,739.00 (2 Sustainers)
Eblast Donations – Election Results 11.16.18 $670.00 (15 donations, 0 sustainers)
Direct Mail checks are coming in but not entered into NB yet.
c) Fundraising Consultant update – Hillary, Gloria
Hillary – no updates since last call, Case Statement next product, huge report with many recommendations to digest, needs summary for strategic planning retreat
d) Liaison reports – 30 min
Gloria – see Fundraising above; Anita – Dispute Resolution – getting started; Andrea – BRPP – co-chair vacancy nomination period closed with no nominees – will reopen; Andrea – IC co-chairs in Colombia – will post review of the trip; Violet – BAC – budget funding main concern
IV. VOTING QUEUE – Jody – 5 min.
(https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/login)
Received for the queue: none
In the queue – 2018 Platform Amendments – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Civil Rights and Equal Rights; Fukushima-Daiichi -Seven Years Later Response with Open Letters; Establish a GPUS Standing Committee -Banking and Monetary Reform Committee (BMRC); Resolution in Opposition to Rising Fascism; SC Vacancy Election
Online SC Proposals approved since last call and sent to the NC: None
V. OLD BUSINESS – 35 min
a) Strategic Planning meeting – Gloria and Margaret – 30 min
4 December call on goals – urgent need for agenda with Executive Session items for posting to NC; Doodle poll will schedule 2nd call on nuts and bolts; document which was sent will be fleshed out to create an agenda; need zoom account host; Gloria – include response to Dem’s Green New Deal; Andrea input from Saturday small-group call yielded input on need to develop training in leadership, facilitation, database management, outreach and campaign tools; Organizing 101 module; questions about developing our own open source database, Violet – NB has some extra features including automatic voter registration updating and eblast capability; Hillary – could have one big Nation with integrated data and share costs with participating states; weekly Facebook on how Greens get things done with short intro to topics (tabling, the pitch, etc.)
b) 2018 ANM financial report update – 5 min – table to next call
c) Apportionment Tabulation Committee membership – 20 min
Nominations to ATC: Hillary – Tim Runkle from PA, Andrea – Eric Siegal MI, Adam Davis UT, Guy Benintendi CO; Gloria – James Lane NY, Sid Smith VA; Jody – Jody Grage – gender imbalance noted, committee to suggest chair for SC appointment – consensus to approve
c) Freshdesk update – emails still piling up – Starlene will send letterhead
For future agenda: ETC Report, Tech – voting page/ETC and misc. maintenance
End recording of call – 9:10 pm Eastern
VI. EXECUTIVE SESSION – 15 min
On call: Andrea, Anita, Gloria, Hillary, Jody, Tony, Violet
Budget discussion – personnel – no decisions made
End executive session – 9:35 Eastern
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 35 min
Jody Grage, Secretary