September 12, 2021

Green Party US – Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

Date: Sunday, September 12, 2021, Time: 8:00 pm ET

 

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

  • Setup and Background

    1. Facilitator: Gloria Mattera
    2. Steering Committee Roll Call:
      1. Margaret Elisabeth, co-chair (ME) – present
      2. Ahmed Eltouny, co-chair (AE) – present
      3. Rei Stone-Grover, co-chair (RSG) – present
      4. Anita Rios, co-chair (AR) – present
      5. Chris Stella, co-chair (CS) – absent (Ida related)
      6. Garrett Wasserman, co-chair (GW) – present
      7. Tamar Yager, co-chair (TY) – present
      8. Kristin Combs, secretary (KC) – present
      9. Hillary Kane, treasurer (HK) – present
    3. Observers (remain muted and do not use chat feature): Diana Brown (CA), CJ Chapman (NY), David Gerry (MA), Holly Hart (IA), Rachel Muldez (TX)
    4. Establish Quorum (8 present, 9 current members, quorum is 5) — MET
    5. Approve Agenda — CONSENSUS

  • New Business

    1. Voting Software 101 (KC) — discussion only

  • Standing Business

    1. Follow-up on Action Items
      1. ME — let US Food Sovereignty / UN Food Summit know we want to attend next working meeting

Action: ME will attend meeting on 9/24

  1. ME/AE/RSG/AR/CS/GW/TY — let committees know they should email budget requests/proposals to finance@gp.org by 9/10/21

Action: liaisons that did not notify will do so

  1. ME/KC — draft MOU for voting software updates

Action: finalize MOU, all programmers are on board

  1. KC — CCC call for elections — DONE
  2. KC — post all 2021 minutes to gpus.org

Action: KC send new format to David Doonan for posting

  1. HK — follow-up to resolve issue with tertiary payment processor — DONE

Recovered some but not all $$ lost ~$2500

  1. RSG — touch base with Holly RE: AC up on voting software — DONE
  2. HK — create internal report on FM

Action: Hillary will finish report before next meeting

  1. Approval of Expenditures
    1. Global Green, $200, line 102 — CONSENSUS
    2. FPVA Dues, $236, line 103 — CONSENSUS
    3. CCC Grants, $787 from reserves, $2913 from line 59 — CONSENSUS
      1. K.A. Heard Jr., $250
      2. Connor Mulvaney, $500
      3. Bart Everson, $300
      4. Kearni Warren, $250
      5. Cam Gordon, $1000
      6. Logan Simmering, $250
      7. Claretta Duckett-Freeman, $200
      8. Edwin DeJesus, $400
      9. Dominique Faison, $250
      10. Craig Cayetano, $300
  2. Reports
    1. Secretary (KC) — Delegation updates: MO
    2. Treasurer (HK) — TR to GNC July 21
    3. Fundraising (TY) — 2021 ytd Fundraising income.xlsx
    4. Staff (AE/HK) — Athena funneling new contacts to states /committees
    5. ME: BAC, BMRC, DRC — notified about budget request
    6. Media (AE) — planning to update mission / rules
    7. CCC (AE) — approved grants, call for nominations went out
    8. GPAX (AE) — 3 webinars coming: direct action, covert warfare, Afghanistan
    9. AC (RSG) — want to use voting software
    10. Fundcom (RSG) — see report above
    11. ANMC (AR) — put out call for next ANM location
    12. GW: 210912 – Green Pages, ApRevCom, PCSC, ETC
    13. Diversity (TY) — creating a council of caucuses
    14. Fincom (TY) — working on 2022 budget proposal
    15. Merch (TY) — vendor won’t respond to us b/c H20 has outstanding bill

  • Voting Queue

    1. In the Queue
      1. 1064 — Amend the GPUS Bylaws, Rules and Procedures, Revoke Association of Principal Transphobic Organizers GCG-PAC, and ECSGP

Presenter: Nevada Green Party

Floor Manager: Ahmed Eltouny

Stage: Discussion (voting starts Mon 9/13)

  1. Received for Queue 
    1. SUBMITTED: Code of Conduct

Presenter: National Green Party Black Caucus, Ohio Green Party

Floor Manager (tentative): N/A

Stage: Preview

Action: KC will bring to BRPP, SC will review before next meeting

  • Executive Session

    1. Personnel Matters — discussion only