October 13, 2024

  1. Setup and Background
  2.   Facilitator: Tamar Yager
  3.   Steering Committee Roll Call:
  4.     Craig Cayetano (co-chair – present
  5.     Cassandra Lems (co-chair) – present
  6.     Darryl! Moch (co-chair – reported absence
  7.     Alfred Molison (co-chair) – present
  8.     Joseph Naham (co-chair) – present
  9.     Charles Ostdiek (co-chair) – present
  10.     Justin Paglino  (co-chair) – present
  11.     Holly Hart (secretary) – present
  12.     Bob Stuller (treasurer) – present

 

Observers (remain muted and refrain from using the chat feature):

Scott Laugenour, WA, CCC Co-chair;  Starlene Rankin, WA; Maureen Doyle, MA; Tamar Yager, VA

Establish Quorum (9 current members, quorum is 5)

Approve Agenda (changes require majority, new items require ⅔)

APPROVED REQUEST TO ADD (Craig): Media Committee request for response to Harris/Walz campaign ad attack on Stein/Ware campaign

   Treasurer’s Report (Bob)

  1. Accounts, Status

 

Signal

General   33,941.39

Merchant 2316.50

Savings   88,705.71

PayPal 2755.72  

 An issue occurred when Nationbuilder tried to make a deposit with a negative number, causing a problem with Stripe funds going into the accounts.  Bob is not sure if Nationbuilder has fixed the bug, yet. He will follow up with David Doonan to make sure the treasurer’s GP address is functioning. Charles estimates that we have used some of the operating funds reserves (i.e., 3 mos. operating funds) by about $15,000. With the addition of $28,000 discovered that had not been deposited earlier, due to the bug, he believes that would cover any shortfall in this case. 

 

Nationbuilder costs will be going up, as the party database has increased.  Craig asked what it would cost to have GPUS maintain an umbrella account and cover accounts for state party affiliates.  Tamar stated that the cost won’t go up until February, and there will be an opportunity to do some list cleaning.  Advised to look under pricing for costs for total addresses, and add-ons.

 III.    New Business  

  1.               CCC Request  for $2000: $1000 for New Jersey 13, $1000 for Benjamin Taylor, NJ Congress  See Addendum A  Approval would mean going over budget allocation by $400.  APPROVED by Consensus

 

  1.                 Attack Ad  – Response

 Craig read a request from Media for a response, including a targeted appeal, possibly an ad. Many donors say they have reached the donation amount ceiling after the PNC; is there another way to seek funds? Bob referred to major parties’ PACs and committees.  Craig stated that we have a base community that is already maxed out donating to the campaign. We can ask them to donate to the party to address the attack.  How do we structure an Ask?

Holly proposed asking the  Media Director to write a response; then, create a video and disseminate on social media; or, just social media and video.  Cassandra also noted an ad can be produced quickly “in house”and distributed inexpensively.

 Holly will contact Scott McLarty to ask for a response

SC will follow up with FundCom (Gloria and Tamar) on how this can work.

  1. Standing Business
  2. Payment for 5th Zoom account runs to the end of February. Proposed payment for Zoom webinar feature for one month per request from GPAX is no longer needed. 
  1. Reports
  2.   Staff Report (Justin) – met with the staff a couple times. Busy with the Stein campaign, so haven’t yet drafted a written response to their contract proposal.  Discussed use of a communications calendar to help control flow of eBlasts and when things go out.
  1.   Secretary (Holly) – will be added to eBlast calendar team to  help coordinate, ensure things flow smoothly.
  1.  Liaisons

          Craig: Media; Merchandise, Presidential Campaign Support Committee

GreenStream went well; Media reviewed to improve, and plan to get out news on several campaigns.  Facebook seems to have maximized followers –  161,928 as of July 17th.  Growth in Instagram followers is increasing quickly, up almost 10,000 since July 17th (28-38,000); Twittter has been gaining ground with 4, 000; YouTube also added nearly 2,000 more followers; our goal  is to get to the number to be able to host fundraisers on YouTube.

Cassandra: Annual National Meeting, ETC, Fundraising, Credentials

Sat in on meetings of ANMCom, Credentials and Fundraising.  Credentials will be coming up with a list of proposed changes for the next election cycle.  Both Fundraising and ANMCom touched on  the need for budget submissions for next year’s budget, but saw no urgency regarding last month’s September 10th deadline.

 Joseph: Banking and Monetary Reform,  Green Pages, International, CCC

CCC continues to host candidate cafes each Thursday evening; working on 2025 budget, 2025 Cal for candidates

IC – members were involved with hurricane preparations

EcoAction – will attend tomorrow’s workshop

         Voting Queue –  (Holly)

  1.           Received for the Queue  –  None

              

  1. In the Queue — 

Discussion

#1234 – ETC Report and SC Elections Certification –

Presenter: Elections Tabulation Committee

Floor Manager: Joseph Naham

Discussion: October 7 through October 20

Voting: October 21 – October 27

Approval Threshold: 50%+1

 Voting– None

  1.     Completed  

#1233 – Special Election to Fill Open Seats for Green Congressional Campaign Committee

                        Ranked Choice Vote, 2 seats

Elected were Kalia Fitzgerald, GPNC; Samantha Hull, GPCO

 

  1.         Old Business –
  2. Treasurer Election  – General support for re-opening nomination period and starting again after November 5th election.  At this time, delegates are focussed on upcoming elections, few are paying close attention to National Committee business.
  3.           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.

VII.         Executive Session (Craig)  – No longer needed, item was covered in the Attack Ad discussion

TOTAL TIME –1 hr, 30 min
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ADDENDUM A

$1000 awarded to Benjamin Taylor, Candidate for US Congress – New Jersey

10/04/2024 

$1000 awarded to the Green Party of New Jersey to support the Green 13 Strategy

I would like the disbursement of these awards to be placed on the meeting agenda for Oct 13.  I will be present to answer any questions that Steering Committee members may have.

 Please note that these awards have slightly overdrawn the CCC’s budget balance.  The amount that we are overdrawn is $415.50.  We will see if there is any fundraising that we can do to close this gap in time for Oct 13, but if we have not done so I’ll then be requesting not only a standard budget disbursement, but approval for an additional spend up to $415.50 so that both awards can be quickly fulfilled.

 Please see the current worksheet whereby CCC’s “reserve” funds and budget balances are tracked:

 2024 CCC Reserves and Budget Tracking

 Please also note that the Coordinated Campaign Committee has no other grant applications “in the hopper” and it has closed the grant application link.  No more grant applications are being accepted for 2024.  This is both because the campaign season is winding down and also because budgeted funds are exhausted.

 Thank you for helping the CCC to support Green Party candidates.

 I await confirmation that these disbursements/expenses are on the agenda for October 13.

 Scott Laugenour, Co-Chair

GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee

ccc@gp.org