Steering Committee Meeting – MINUTES
October 24, 2027
AGENDA
- Setup and Background
- Facilitator: Margaret Elisabeth
- Steering Committee Roll Call:
- Craig Cayetano (co-chair) – reported absence
- Cassandra Lems (co-chair) – present
- Darryl! Moch (co-chair) – present
- Alfred Molison (co-chair)
- Joseph Naham (co-chair) – present
- Charles Ostdiek (co-chair) – reported absence; joined during Old Business item
- Justin Paglino (co-chair) – present
- Holly Hart (secretary) – present
- Bob Stuller (treasurer) – present
Observers (remain muted and refrain from using the chat feature): Starlene Rankin, WA; Tamar Yager VA
Approve Agenda (changes require majority, new items require ⅔)
Justin – add GCCC use of Basecamp. Agreed to include this in “Committees reports section
- Treasurer’s Report
- Accounts
Signal
Merchant $2,964.50
General $36,166.46
Savings $88,705.71
PayPal $3,022.86
Better cushion for restricted funds, somewhat recovered.
Employees IRA calculations is a new expense; they are in
process
III. New Business
- Review/Discuss Budget process (Cassandra) –
Cassandra asked what the SC thinks the timeline should be this year; primarily concerned with making it happen before 2025. Darryl! reported from the FinCom meeting this week: FinCom will propose to use the 2023 budget as a foundation for 2025. He expects this to be ready this week or early the following week. The plan to allow for input and adjustment, should be ready in about 7 weeks; two or three weeks of discussion, and completed by 2025. Holly asked whether they would consider a tiered budget. Darryl! noted that it might be beyond what the committee could handle now. FinCom does plan to project a three-year budget that could be tweaked as needed.
https://gpus.org/fiscal-policy/
- Standing Business – None
- Reports — 30 min
- Staff Report (Justin)
Justin met with David and Athena; will bring their contract proposals to the SC after election day, David would like to update the “Why I’m Green” section on the website.
- Secretary (Holly)
Business as usual. Researching solutions for efficient ways to use two-factor verification; Google Drive system and email lsit clean-up progressing
- Liaisons
Cassandra: No Reports; Credentials continues process for making recommendations for next election cycle
Darryl!: DRC has three standing requests; they need a couple more people to help
Joseph: No reports; IC hasn’t been meeting due to hurricanes affecting some members
Justin: Member of GCCC suggests BaseCamp for states parties to use for leaders to communicate and work together. Bob suggested contacting Scott Laugenauer, as the CCC uses groups.io and seem to find that works well. Darryl! noted that David Doonan had installed a message board some tie ago that didn’t get widely used,but that may be another option
Starlene Rankin presented a report for the GCCC. Ariel Cyprian, field operator, has been traveling, helping candidates with social media and filming ads for them; plan 6-second “bumper” ads. Plan trainings and state party outreach.
- Voting Queue
- Received for the Queue – None
Discussion – None
C.Voting-
1234 – ETC Report and SC Elections Certification – TBA
Presenter: Elections Tabulation Committee
Floor Manager: Joseph Naham
Discussion: October 7 through October 2o
Voting: October 21 – October 27
Approval Threshold: 50%+1
D.Completed – None
VII. Old Business – just FYI , 2 min
- Treasurer Election – General support for re-opening nomination period and starting again after November 5th election. At this time, delegates are focused on upcoming elections, few are paying close attention to National Committee business.
- Bank Account signatory transfer. Holly will follow up with Darryl! And Charles to make sure the needed letter is ready to send to the bank. Will have old members removed from account; wait until new treasurer election to update access for Charles O and new treasurer.
VIII. Executive Session – None
Total Time: 1 hour