Steering Committee Meeting – MINUTES
Sunday, June 14, 2026
8:00 pm EDT
I Setup and Background – 10 min
Facilitator: Allan Hunter
Steering Committee Roll Call:
1. Arshia Papari (co-chair) – present
2. Cassandra Lems(co-chair) – present
3. Craig Cayetano (co-chair) – present
4. Charles Ostdiek(co-chair) – present
5. Kalia Fitzgerald (co-chair) – present
6. Tamar Yager (co-chair) – present
7. Wissam Charafeddine (co-chair) – present
8. Holly Hart (secretary) – presents
Observers are asked to remain muted and refrain from using the chat function. If someone wishes to speak to an agenda item, please send a request to secretary@gp.org.
Observers: Maureen Doyle, MA, EcoAction; Mark Dunlea, NY, EcoAction – report for EcoAction; Cassiday Moriarity, YES, Finance – review of finances; Gloria Matters, NY, Fundraising, Media; Aly Schmmidt, TX; Clyde Shabazz, MI
Establish Quorum (8 current members, quorum is 5)
ANNOUNCEMENTS, if any – please consider how much time will be needed for these items
ITEMS marked FYI are included for informational purposes, unless discussion is requested.
Approve Agenda (changes require majority, new items require ⅔ approval) – 5 min, if needed.
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New Submission for Voting Queue: Update Article IX – Platform Agnostic Title and Definitions – ADD to Voting Queue Section
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New Submission for Voting Queue Consolidate NatCom Affairs and Votes list sections and Add GPUS Community Hub section – ADD to Voting Queue Section
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Two Proposals – Temporary Inactive Status for Green Parties of Montana and Louisiana – ADD to Voting Queue Section
4. Request to move EcoAction Committee Report to start or earlier in the call; Mark Dunlea from Eco-Action – AGREED
Moved from Item V. Committee Reports
Mark Dunlea reported for Ecoaction:
Developing for EcoAction itself a statement on Data Centers. They advocate a ban, not just a moratorium.
Created a Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence. Some aspects of this topic are beyond the scope of EcoAction; they are working to develop it.
Updating Green New Deal on the current material on website, which is out of date. The update would reflect current platform content, with 5-6 paragraphs on historical perspective and platform content.
Planning 2 webinars: Native Plants, to include Winona LaDuke; Policy for Green candidates
II. Treasurer Report (Charles) 30 min
1. Financial Reports
A, Charles gave a report and provided the account balances. The Finance Committee is fine-tuning budget reports, putting funds in accounts as prescribed by fiscal policy,
gpus finances 6/14/2026
signal financial credit union:
operations (checking 1): $33,143.69
merch and other (checking 2): $20,272.02
operations reserve (savings 1*): $79,015.74
*savings 1 has operations reserves and most restricted funds.
restricted funds (savings 2**): $9,774.28
**savings 2 has the legal restricted fund of $5,000 and the party building special fundraising appeal (what is called, in the budget, the video production fund) fund of $4,774.28.
paypal:
$187.1
B. FinCom member Cassiday Moriarity presented two reports showing the financial condition of GPUS.
Projections were mostly on target. The reports show a comparison from past few years, looking for trends. Estimates are within 2-3% for budget vs actual. There has been a small uptick for cash on hand.
There has not been clear separation of reserves’ funds going back to about 2022. Working to ensure templates and information remains available for continued work and consistency.
Tamar noted that the summer income increase is due to the ANM. Those finances are kept separately. That income goes to pay ANM bills.
Tamar also looked over accounts and noted our latest FEC report is off. Showing bank balances is only part of the story, we must show what we can spend.
Cassiday replied they are working on the FEC report.
Discussion on committee reserves: GCCC funds must be distributed to Green candidates seeking federal office. Craig asked about a contractor hired by the CCC. Charles replied that had not happened yet. Craig asked about the funds sent to the Sean Dougherty campaign. Holly will follow up with the campaign manager.
III. New/Current Business
None
IV. Standing Business/Old Business
1.Follow-up with “inactive” state parties. (Holly) 2 min
AC updates with sample proposals. AC members have approved the proposals. for Louisiana and Montana.
AGREED to send to the voting queue. Cassandra asked to expedite, to send out the following day. AGREED, CONSENSUS. 2 weeks discussion 1 week vote, simple majority threshold. Holly will b e floor manager
V. Reports
[NOTE to SC: Liaisons should contact committees per the “calendar.” The calendar is included as a second sheet in the Liaisons spreadsheet, linked below
Co-chairs have reviewed and selected committees they want to serve as liaisons. The list of Co-chairs can also be updated, as needed.]
1. Guest Committee(s) – EcoACTION, see above
2. Staff (Tamar) – Staff meeting this week; staff is working on information transfer and emails; Athena will be working on ANM registration. Charles asked whether Basecamp work would be possible given other work; Tamar replied ANM had to come first; Cassandra noted that the projected amount of time needed was far more than it is really taking. Arshia asked about a staff review report; Tamar noted Arshia was to come up with reports.
3. Secretary (Holly) Basecamp update update. Renewed Delegates 101, trying for following week; Committees 101. Basecamp tutorials; voting page work update; “transition,” google and Basecamp update, if available; ETC update
4. Craig: Media, Merch, PCSC, Outreach
Media has onboarded the new social media coordinator; working on social media audit and organizing Canva account to create or refresh templates. Notes that Kalia’s livestream promoting the ANM should be condensed and added to the national YouTube channel where it will gain greater outreach. Craig Seeman, Media member, has been working on an Instagram presentation, addressing presentation, social media reaction and technology.. Most social media contacts are increasing – Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram; not Twitter; UpScroll is being shadowbanned
5. Cassandra: ANMCom, FundCom, Credentials , DRC
Deferred to Tamar for update on ANMCom, June 20th is the deadline to register for housing.
6. Wissam: IC, Green Pages, GPAX , BRPP, BMRC
IC approved a proposal for GPUS to re-join FGPA/FGPA and thereby Glocal Greens.
7. Arshia: CCC, Platform
Attended the CCC meeting last week. They reported on CCC funds, discussed volunteer and candidate management. Noted the possibility of adding new members to fill positions.
Holly advised them to make sure the go.org forwarding address to the CCC is forwarding to the co-chairs, or who ever needs to get it. Set up a spreadsheet and call for state liaison contacts. Charles asked to make sure that CCC social media accounts stick to Green candidates.
8. Tamar: Diversity
See above, ANMCom, will have some “solidarity funds” to help with housing.
9. Charles: FinCom, Animal Rights
In recent FinCom meetings, it was determined that a windows compatible computer is needed in order to make FEC reports.
REQUEST: FinCom asks the SC to recommend an off budget expenditure of up to $350 for laptop for whoever is FinCom co-chair. Currently FEC reports for June and July are needed. Craig recommended a computer at less cost, $200 or less. AGREED, Consensus, to approved purchase of up to $350; Craig and Tamar will research options and make the purchase, with specs provided to Craig to compare prices, looking for lower cost.
10. Kalia: CCC, BMRC, AC, BAC, EcoAction
Contacted Athena about getting access to committees’ meeting calendars.
VII. Voting Queue – (Holly)
Received for the Voting Queue
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Proposal – New Committee for Government Transparency https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1Ko1cAE62yVoWOU5-Js7I-VoP6Hr7HGYL
Craig: This proposal cites the Platform as part of the purpose. This seems redundant to create another committee for this. Will this work result in direction to other committees? Would like further review. Kalia responded that this had been part of a workshop in the last ANM; the group does research and provided un-propagandized information.
AGREED on 48/48 – all are asked to read the document and reply. If there are no findings, it will go forward; if there are, they will be sent to the sponsors for clarification.
2 weeks discussion, 1 week vote, simple majority threshold
Floor Manager: Kalia
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GRISTVan – Proposal from GPMI (for the voting queue or other consideration ?)
Arshia described the program. Still some bugs and is costly, but provides useful and needed information. Tamar pointed out that NationBuilder already provides a lot of this. Craig pointed out there are other programs, and this is outside of our budget, Charles stated: $48,000, no way. Wissam recommended to the sponsor that this has to be tested with at least 25,000 subjects. Craig asked if this has been sponsored by GPMI. It has not.
FINDING: Not state party’caucussponsored.
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AGREED to add two Accreditation Proposals for Temporary Inactive Status
2 weeks discussion,
1 week vote,
Simple majority threshold
Floor Manager: Holly
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2 proposals regarding Communications Platforms names and Policy applying to all communications platforms. SC had not had time to look over, so AGREED on 48/48 to have a chance to review.
Discussion
#1297 – Platform Copy Editing – Approve 11 Specific Platform Edits
Discussion through 6/21/2026
Voting period: 6/22/- 6/28/2026
Approval Threshold: ⅔
Floor Manager: Holly
APPEAL (more info TBA)
#1298 – Approve Minor Platform Copy-Editing
Discussion through 6/21/2026
Voting period: 6/22/- 6/28/2026
Approval Threshold: ⅔
Floor Manager: Holly
Voting
None
Completed
#1296 Election of 2026 Special Election ETC Members
#1296 Tabulation Results
TOTAL TIME – 2 hr 35 min