GPUS Steering Committee Minutes – 12 August 2018
SUMMARY FOR DISTRIBUTION TO STATES AND LOCAL CHAPTERS:
1. New Business: CCC request to appoint AJ Segneri IL to the CCC
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 assignments decisions
3. Voting Queue – https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/login
In the queue: Platform Amendments – Endorse GPAX letter to the International Criminal Court for investigation of Israeli war in the State of Palestine; Endorse the School of the Americas Annual Border Encuentro
Received for the queue: Platform Amendments – Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Change, Progressive Global Wealth Tax, Ethical Treatment of Animals in Sports – four week discussion periods begin 20 August
Online SC Proposals approved since last call and sent to the NC: None
4. Old Business: ANM summary, Strategic Planning meeting, ETC report update
5. Executive Session: None
The full agenda is available at http://gpus.org/sc-agenda-2018-08-12
The call recording will be available at 712-451-0309, 926334#, reference 28 and https://gpus.org/steering-committee-recordings/
Jody Grage, Secretary
GPUS Steering Committee Minutes – 12 August 2018
AGENDA:
I. CALL SETUP & BACKGROUND – 15 min
a) Facilitator: Charles Sherrouse
b) Roll call – Hillary Kane, Jody Grage, Violet Zitola, Joy Davis, Margaret Flowers, Tony Ndege, Gloria Mattera,
Andrea Merida; Absent: Anita Rios
Observers: Erin Fox MI, David Gerry MA, Starlene Rankin OR/Staff, Tamar Yager VA/ANM
c) Agenda revision suggestions – New Business: CCC request to appoint AJ Segneri IL to the CCC; Old Business: ETC report update
II. NEW BUSINESS
a) CCC request to appoint AJ Segneri IL to the CCC – Hillary
The full 10 members were elected, but two resigned leaving 8 members with one vacancy each for male and female – recognition of need to reword gender balance issue in committee rules; consensus to appoint AJ Segneri
III. STANDING BUSINESS – 30 min.
a) Treasurer’s report – Hillary Kane – 10 min.
Treasurer’s Reports to the GNC available at https://gpus.org/treasurers-reports/
Total in all accounts: $117,014.86 – Savings/reserves $96,278.05, Checking 1 $14,781.46, Checking 2 $414.18, Paypal $5,543.17 – Including ANM finances though not all money deposited and some bills still to pay; payroll has declined to new normal level with 63% of budget line item spent in 70% of the year; ANM scholarship refunds sent; IC members reimbursed for trip to forum in Cuba; income complete only through June, AMN approximate income $21K and expenses $15k not including July or fundraising
b) Fundraising report – Gloria – 10 min
Income: July 1 to July 31: $33,721.84; August 1 – August 11: $3,730.67, since Last Call: July 29 to Aug 11: $4,047.67
Sustainers: July: $10,642.07, August, so far: $3,381.67
ANM Fundraising July 2018: Total donations: $10,671.00
CaringCents July 2018: Total: $900
Eblast Topics: CaringCents. Sustainers, August GreenLine, CCC Telethon, Rapid Response
OnBoarding new Signups
CaringCents – round-up program – changing messaging to be more positive
GreenLine – telethon next weekend
direct mail letter content soon; fundraising eblast soon; $1k from Viggo Mortensen
Fundraising Consultant update – Hillary, Gloria
2 hr conference call yesterday with much exchange of info and date, review of documentation – letters, numbers, etc. – Mike, Gloria, Hillary; analysis requested on what of payroll line item spent
c) Liaison assignment decisions – 10 min
Consensus on liaison assignments:
Animal Rights – Joy, Annual National Meeting (ANM) – Margaret; Ballot Access (BAC) – Violet; Bylaws, Rules, Policies, and Procedures (BRPP) – Andrea; Coordinated Campaign (CCC) – Gloria; Dispute Resolution (DR) – Anita; Diversity – Joy; Eco-Action – Joy; Fundraising (FundCom) – Gloria; Peace Action (GPAX) – Tony; Green Pages – Anita; International (IC) – Andrea; Media – Gloria; Outreach – Tony; Platform (PlatCom) – Margaret; Presidential Campaign Support (PCSC) – Margaret
Discussion on Accreditation liaison – proposal to approve Violet failed – Gloria No, Tony No, Margaret No, Hillary No, Andrea No, Jody Yes, Violet Yes, Joy Yes; Gloria, Andrea, and Violet to discuss on conference call
New liaison assignments decisions on next call: Accreditation (AC); Apportionment Tabulation Committee (ATC); Finance (FinCom); Merchandise (Merch)
IV. VOTING QUEUE – Jody – 5 min.
(https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/login)
In the queue: Endorse GPAX letter to the International Criminal Court for investigation of Israeli war in the State of Palestine; Endorse the School of the Americas Annual Border Encuentro
Received for the queue: Platform Amendments – Regenerative Agriculture – Floor Manager Joy; Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Change – Floor Manager Margaret; Progressive Global Wealth Tax – Floor Manager Andrea; Ethical treatment of Animals in Sports – Floor Manager Gloria; Discussion 20 August – 16 September, Voting 17-23 September
Online SC Proposals approved since last call and sent to the NC: None
V. OLD BUSINESS – 30 min.
a) ANM summary – update by next call
b) Strategic Planning meeting – delayed because several SC members not in SLC and need to include newly elected SC members, many SC members not in SLC plus new members, need conversation on line
and Gloria will continue working on this project, need as much information as possible, Jody and Gloria will assemble documents, Hillary conducted the last strategic planning workshop
c) ETC report from 2018 ANM – problem with script, ETC will manually tabulate the votes this coming week
c} For future agendas: Tech – voting page/ETC and misc. maintenance;
Freshdesk app to manage incoming email and there are some standard replies to facilitate responses – Chris may be willing to continue to monitor, many housekeeping details included as well as media bounces, training needed, scheduling needed for SC members participation, Andrea will start doodle poll to schedule training
End recording of call – 9:55 Eastern
VI. EXECUTIVE SESSION – none
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 55 minutes
Jody Grage, Secretary