July 25, 2021

Green Party US – Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

Date: Sunday, July 25, 2021, Time: 8:00 pm ET

Call Recordings: https://gpus.org/steering-committee-recordings

  • Setup and Background
    1. Facilitator: Mike Dennis
    2. Steering Committee Roll Call:
      1. Margaret Elisabeth (co-chair) – present
      2. Ahmed Eltouny (co-chair) – present
      3. Rei Stone-Grover (co-chair) – present
      4. Anita Rios (co-chair) – absent 
      5. Chris Stella (co-chair) – present
      6. Garrett Wasserman (co-chair) – present
      7. Tamar Yager (co-chair) – present
      8. Kristin Combs (secretary) – present
      9. Hillary Kane (treasurer) – present
    3. Observers (invited): Trahern Crews (MN), David Gerry (DG), Gloria Mattera (NY), Tony Ndege (NC)
    4. Observers (remain muted and do not use chat feature): Mike Gamms (YES), Holly Hart (IA), Charles Ostdiek, Diana Brown (CA), Rita Jacobs
    5. Establish Quorum (8 present, 9 current members, quorum is 5) – QUORUM
    6. Approve Agenda (changes require majority, new items require ⅔)
      1. potential addition: discussion of MD (RG) – withdrawn
      2. Give Seth Wooley access to voting software – tabled to next meeting

  • New Business
    1. Introductions (SC past and present)

discussion only

  1. Steering Committee 101 (KC/HK)

discussion only

  1. Committee Liaison Assignments (KC)

Action: KC will send out survey, SC continue discussion on list

  • Standing Business
    1. Reports
      1. Secretary (KC/DG) – Several delegation updates

Agenda timeline: to SC on Sun, updates to Sec by Wed, to NC on Thu

  1. Treasurer (HK) – report next meeting. Becoming a legal entity in FL.
  2. Fundraising (HK/TY) – report next meeting. Direct mail coming out soon
  3. Staff (HK/GM) – working on ANM. Rave review for Athena’s first weeks
  4. GPAX (KC) – officer elections
  5. PlatCom (KC) – starting to receive submissions
  6. Green Pages (GW) – new issue released!
  7. BAC (ME) – AR got ballot access! Working on OK/AZ next
  8. BMRC (ME) – working on platform amendment
  9. PCSC (ME) – presented at ANM
  10. TN – BRPP (TN) – none
  11. Eco-Action (TN) – doing a lot – Cuba solidarity event, other actions
  12. Outreach (TN) – scheduling meeting for vols with staff on branding
  13. CCC (GC) – webinar, call for elections coming soon
  14. FundCom (GC) – see info in fundraising report
  15. Media (GC) – LOTS of press releases
  16. ETC (GC) – ETC UDPATE – July 25, 2021
  17. ANMC (TY) – program was great, attendance a little low, made $$
  18. IC (AE) – march for Cuba
  19. FinCom (TY) – see next month treasurer’s report
  1. Recap of Listserv Decisions
    1. Update of Elections Administrator MOU approved by consensus on 7/14: KC, HK, GM, ME, AR (no other responses)
  2. Follow-up on Action Items
    1. GM (DUE: 7/15/21) — send MOU to Feinstein — sent and rejected

  • Voting Queue
    1. In the Queue
      1. 1062  — Disaccreditation of the Georgia Green Party

Presenter: Accreditation Committee (acc-chairs@gp.org)

Floor Manager: Tamar Yager

Stage: Voting

  1. Receive for Queue
    1. 1063 – Approval of Charles Ostdiek to the GPUS Finance Committee

Presenter: Steering Committee (secretary@gp.org)

Floor Manager: Margaret Elisabeth

Stage: Findings – NONE

  • Old Business
    1. Elections Database Admin MOU (GM / HK) — 15 min

Action: SC review MOU and comment on list

  • Executive Session
    1. Discussion of potential legal issue