[NV Greens] General Meeting Minutes

Sat Oct 15 16:44:25 PDT 2005

Minutes for General Meeting
October 15, 2005
Washoe and Clark Counties
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Meeting Started 1:45 p.m.

I. Introductions
Executive Council:
Barb Ewing (Treasurer)
Charles Imboden (Secretary)
Bob Giaquinta (Member-at-Large)
Jason Halprin (Co-Chair)

General Participants:
Saab Lofton
Dylan Small
Ron Mahood
Genelle Baltutis
Bobbi Smith

Washoe County
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Kathy Rusco
Bonnie Turnbull
Dave Lackey
Stevie Lackie
Craig B.

Agreed to Consensus/70% Majority and proposed agenda.

II. History of Green Party

1984 - Green Committees of Correspondance (10 Key Values)
1990 - GPCC changed name to Greens/GPUSA to reflect difference between
Social and Political activists
1996 - Association of State Green Parties (Green Party of Nevada comes
into 
2000 - ASGP and GPUSA had joint convention where Nader was nominated for
Pres.
2001 - ASGP changed name to US Green Party

Green Party of Nevada History
1996 - started by petitioning to get Nader on ballot
1998 - no candidates
2000 - re-petitioned to get Nader on ballot (2.46% of votes), Kathy
Rusco, and Charles Laws
2002 - Charles Laws, Lane Startin, Brandi Harrington, Paul Lenart, Bob 
2004 - lost ballot access
2006 - need to re-petition to get ballot access

March, 2005: Participated in Peace Rallies in Las Vegas
April, 2005: Earth Day spring picnic event
July 15, 2005: State Meeting to elect current EC members
August, 2005: sent out mailers to announce picnic and next state meeting
September, 2005: established new voicemail 800 number, established P.O.
Box, updated Green Party of Nevada website, passed out info at First
Friday.

III. Status & Recent Accomplishments

IV. Financial Status
Barb Ewing: Opened Green Party of Nevada state checking account with
$79, Clark County will be $362.95, Washoe County has $40.

Proposal to make $40 in Washoe stay with Washoe: Proposal Passes.

V. Singularity of Our Two Party System

<insert file from Bob>
Democrats and Republicans are both the same.

VI. Outreach

Nevada Green Roots and Shoots Committee

Committee to outreach with five main goals:
1. Make contact with other groups
2. Introduce Greens to Nevada
3. Increase membership
4. Share Information
5. Find Candidates

Find groups that link up with and agree with the 10-key values and bring
these groups together through the Green Party.

VII. Candidates
   A. Offices on Ballot

Ballot Access: 

OFFICES FOR 2006 BALLOT

US SENATOR (Ensign)
US REPRESENTATIVE- DISTRICTS 1,2,3
GOVERNOR
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
SECRETARY OF STATE
STATE TREASURER
STATE CONTOLLER
ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE SENATOR- DISTRICTS 2, 5(B), 7(B), 8, 9, 10, 12
STATE ASSEMBLY-DISRICTS 1-23,28, 29, 34, 37 41, 42
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS- DISTRICTS E, F, G,
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION- DISTRICTS 2, 4, 5, 6
STATE UNIVERSITY REGENT-DISTRICTS D, F, G
CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS- D, F, G
(OMITTED ARE CONSTABLES, JUDGES, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ETC.)

   B. Reequirements

               Need 1% of registered voters (~10,000 voters by 1/1/2006)
               Candidates receive 1% of the vote
               Petition to get 1% of state voters
               Petition candidate by candidate (100 or 250 voters)

   C. Candidate Search Councils

Need 3 volunteers for State level search council

May 1 is first date to submit petitions through May 12

Candidate Search Council
Bob Giaquinta, Kathy Rusco, Barb Ewing

BREAK

VIII. Open Discussion

Additions?

----Next EC Meeting
	Sat, Nov 12, 3:30P, Barb's house, approving interim EC members
----Next CCG Meeting
	Tomorrow, Sunday October 16th, 2005, Clark County Library, 12PM
----Ron Discussed First Friday tabling, called for volunteers, Henderson
"Third Thursday" 	tabling event suggested
----Next WCG (added)
	Next Sunday, October 23, 3:00PM 36665 Pomo Dr, Reno, NV 775-747-6727
----Next General NVGP Meeting
	In person meeting? Late March/Early April (spring equinox). Venue in
Tonopah 	suggested. March 25-26 backup date, EC will setup
transportation, fundamentals, 	etc., two days, Community Center, April
1-2 primary (passed with Consensus, no stand 	asides or blocks)
----Do we want to combine General Meeting and Nominating Convention?
Yes.
----Where do we want to meet?
	See above.
----Contact Info for Washoe County Greens
	Will have something after next WCG meeting.

----Platform Committee (GPUS)
	Volunteers? Barb Ewing volunteers. Saab volunteers (not GP member).
Talks about GPUS 	Platform matters through email. GPNV assigns one
representative. Need more info on 	what duties happen. Tabled for later
date. Genelle is interested. Tabled for next 	meeting? Right away? Barb
will contact Charles Laws (former position-holder). 	Position nominees
will be voted on at next EC meeting. (consensed to tabling till 	next
EC meeting, no stand asides, no blocks)

A. Party Officer Vacancies
	Co-chair (womyn) vacant
	Member at large vacant (possibly two)
	Craig Bergland interim member at large until nominating convention,
possibly not 	able to attend meetings, input through email? Craig
agees. (consensed, no blocks, 	stand asides)
B. Comments

C. Quesitons

D. Suggestion
	Washoe county will talk about open co-chair position at next WCG
meeting

Debriefing
	Washoe: Excellent meeting, need work on hardware communication, looking
forward to Washoe County reformation
	Genelle: Went well, dry-erase markers, sound issues, videoconference
would be nice, went well, nicely facilitated
	Barb: Went very well.
	Ron: Not going to Clark County meeting, wants to socialize with
members, only interested in organizing, not nuts and bolts, organizing
- get more people to meetings, registered, on email lists, so on,
that's the part I care about. Interested in other parts, but not going
to participate until organizing is better.
	Kimberley: Good meeting, little lengthy
	Charles: Great meeting, thanks for attending, can only go up from here.
	Jason: Went well.
	Bob: Spoke at peace rally, people said they were going to come, but
didn't. Disappointing.
Washoe county had to leave.

Meeting ended at 4:30 p.m.

Notes by Jason and Charles