[NV Greens] Re: [North-NV-Greens] RE: Washoe meeting notes

Wed Dec 6 09:18:14 PST 2006

You can print out business cards on your home computers. I get light  weight card stock at the store and mostly list my name and email and  websites. Very cheap. 

 I think the $150 left over should go  to buy bumper stickers. I have such a hard time here finding good  bumper stickers!  Just have them say Green Party and a web site.
  Give them out free at the meetings and maybe more people will come. 

  It is a 120 mile round trip for me to go to Reno. I really need a closer group. 
  Have you heard the news that a SLAUGHTERHOUSE is being planned for my  town, Silver Springs? If anything should be against the Green  philosophy-this should be!
  So I have another fight on my hands,.

  Nylene

jdenzin at clarkcountygreens.org wrote:  I am sending this e-mail out to the three main Green Party of Nevada
e-mail lists:

Clark County Greens: clarkgreen at dasbistro.com
Green Party of Nevada (STATE): nvgreen at dasbistro.com
North Nevada Greens: north-nv-greens at dasbistro.com

To answer Craig's first and second question, "How are things in Clark?"
and "Are you all meeting?", I would say that things are as they
normally are ... and that's not necessarily good.  In 2005, many people
in Clark County came together to volunteer to help the Green Party of
Nevada at the state level.  Since that time, most of those people have
left leaving a small state party infrastructure and an even smaller
Clark County chapter.  This is definitely repairable, but people will
need to attend the upcoming meeting on December 17, 2006 in order to
continue Clark County meetings as this is looking to be the last Clark
County chapter meeting.  The Clark County bank account has been closed
(we were unable to access it) and the funds have been transferred to
the Green Party of Nevada bank account.

Craig asks, "What is the status of our state website?"

The website has been updated.  Please see the following links in order
to determine if the updates are accurate and/or any other information
needs to be updated:

http://www.nevadagreenparty.org/
http://www.nevadagreenparty.org/contact.html
http://www.nevadagreenparty.org/chapters.html

I do not mind maintaining the website as it takes about 3 hours each
month or less.  However, I am willing to share what I know with anyone
who is interested in helping to maintain the Green Party of Nevada
website.  Send me an e-mail and we can go from there.

Craig asks, "What mechanism should we use for posting to all Nevada
Greens?"

This is a good question to which there is no definite answer.  I would
recommend sending e-mails to the three e-mail lists above.  One may
have to first sign up to each of the e-mail lists in order to be able
to send e-mail to them.  Again, contact me and I can help sign people
up to these lists.

Craig asks, "If we post onto DasBistro, will it get out to all?"

If you post to the three e-mail lists I have listed above, then, your
e-mail will automatically be sent out to everyone who has signed up to
be on those e-mail lists.  This is NOT every Green in Nevada, it's not
even close.  But, theoretically, it's supposed to be every Green in
Nevada who has access to a computer with Internet and who is interested
in communicating with other Greens via e-mail.  So, as far as sending
out an e-mail and getting it into the hands of those people who would
be most likely to want it, these three e-mail lists would be your best
bet.  Obviously, if you have other people that are not Greens or who
have not signed onto these lists, you can always send it to them as
well.

Washoe Meeting asks, "Currently it [Green Party of Nevada] is not on
there [voter registration form] , so Green Party is not a choice, it is
a write in."

This is true and unfortunate.  According to the Nevada Secretary of
State Elections department, this was an administrative decision.  They
printed the new registration forms and only included the parties that
had ballot access at the time of the printing.  I don't know how this
is legal or if this is even appropriate, but nobody complained very
much at the time so they got away with it.  Supposedly, all we had to
do was get ballot access again and then we can be listed back on the
voter registration form.  We'll see if they do another printing in
order to make this happen.  If someone wants to be in constant contact
with the Secretary of State about this, that'll probably light the fire
so that it actually happens.

Washoe Meeting asks, "Do they have a mailing box, phone, and are they
currently meeting regularly? Are they willing to maintain a PO Box?"

Currently, the Clark County Greens do not have a P.O. Box, a phone
number, and are meeting but the future of the meetings is still not
known.  I do not think a P.O. Box in Clark County is appropriate at
this time as there are no volunteers to maintain it.  However, we are
using Paul E.'s P.O. Box as the Green Party of Nevada mailing address. 
So, Paul E., if you get mail for us please contact me or Charles if
necessary.

Washoe Meeting asks, "Who is maintaining the website, and how do we get
traffic going on it? None of us are good at keeping websites going, and
thus need to either learn this quickly, or find someone with the
expertise to do that."

Currently, I am maintaining the website with Charles I. helping out when
he can.  We are maintaining both the nevadagreenparty.org and the
clarkcountygreens.org websites.  A Washoe County (or even Lyon County
as we have some new volunteers in Lyon County) website would be great
and I could help maintain that as well.  Like I said above, it takes
about three hours a month to maintain the website, so it's really not a
big deal for me to do.  Anda again, contact me if you'd like to help.

Washoe Meeting asks, "Paul E. mentioned an 800 number that had been used
at one time. Does anyone know anything about this?

At some time in 2005, the Green Party of Nevada was organized enough to
be able to maintain an 800 number.  However, once that number was
cancelled, we no longer had the organization to pick up a new one. 
It's definitely essential to have, but the decision-making at the state
level is non-existant at this time. 

Those are all of the questions I noticed in the Washoe meeting minutes
e-mail.  If I missed one or two, please ask again and I'll do my best
to share the information that I have.

My suggestion:

Use the December 17, 2006 meetings as meetings to fill the ranks of the
Green Party of Nevada at the state level, i.e. get volunteers to serve
on the Executive Council.  Plan a state meeting where everyone agrees
to meet in person in order to meet each other and to discuss many of
the issues that are difficult to discuss via e-mail.  I will soon be
moving out of Nevada and will be able to continue maintaining the
website but I will not be able to do much more.  

I would also suggest sending your thoughts, whoever you are out there
reading this message, to these e-mail lists.  Your thoughts will only
serve to help the party.  It's important to share your views and to get
involved at least on the e-mail lists and then if you'd like, in person
at one of the meetings.  Vibrant discussion on these e-mail lists is
essential to the growth of the state party.

Thanks for reading,

Jason Denzin
Chairperson (until state meeting in March - July of 2007)
jdenzin at clarkcountygreens.org

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Washoe meeting notes
> From: "craig  bergland" 
> Date: Sun, December 03, 2006 2:47 pm
> To: 
> Cc: "Etxeberri Paul" , ,
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> 11/27/2006 
> 
> Dear Jason, 
> 
> finally had a local meeting, and plan to continue this on a monthly basis. 
> 
> Thank you for holding the state party together for the last year, we all appreciate it. 
> 
> We plan on meeting regularly, and hope to grow. 
> 
> How are things in Clark? 
> 
> Are you all meeting? 
> 
>  What is the status of our state website? In the meeting notes (below)  are Paul's PO Box #, and my cell number, which perhaps you or Charles  could put onto the State Green website as Washoe contact information?  How can we help? 
> 
> What mechanism should we use for  posting to all Nevada Greens? As you wrote a while back, it is good for  us to all communicate, and not just amongst ourselves here in Washoe.  If we post onto DasBistro, will it get out to all? Should we post onto  Clark link, or just what is the best way to do this? 
> 
> Forgive me, I'm a computer dud, and your advice is certainly timely and knowledgable. 
> 
> Thank you again for putting up with all my crap over the last year. 
> 
> Let us know what we can do, and please offer your advice and input as you are willing and able. 
> 
> Yours, 
> 
> Craig 
> 
> PS my mailbox is giving me fits. The best method for me for email is still renofreepress at charter.net. 
> 
>  Also, can you email me your phone# and Charles' if you have it? I have  them somewhere, but don't know if they're current or what. 
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> Green Party of Nevada 
> 
> Minutes of Washoe County Greens 
> 
> End of November, 2006 
> 
> In attendance, Paul J., Paul E., Kathy R., and Craig B. 
> 
> Meeting started at 1PM. 
> 
> It was moved that we meet monthly, and rotate facilitators. Motion approved. 
> 
> We agreed to use a 'talking stick' which Kathy has used sucessfully in the past as a talking tool. 
> 
> Discussion centered on the importance of maintaining a State Green Party, and we unanimously agreed to its importance. 
> 
>  Not only will this be a mechanism for getting and encouraging Greens to  run for office in '08, but this may be a means for the Green Party to  get its name back on the voters registration form for Nevada. Currently  it is not on there, so Green Party is not a choice, it is a write in. 
> 
> We all feel it is essential to keep a statewide Green Party. 
> 
> It was discussed that we need to find out the status of the Clark County Greens. 
> 
> Do they have a mailing box, phone, and are they currently meeting regularly? 
> 
> Are they willing to maintain a PO Box? 
> 
>  Who is maintaining the website, and how do we get traffic going on it?  None of us are good at keeping websites going, and thus need to either  learn this quickly, or find someone with the expertise to do that. 
> 
>  It was mentioned that Jason and Charles from Clark have been doing a  wonderful job fielding inquiries, and should be congratulated and  thanked for their good work. And it is probably overdue that they be  given a break from this duty. They have kept the state party going for  a long time. Perhaps they can be persuaded to help update the state  site with current contact information and etc. 
> 
> Craig B. volunteered his phone number (775-376-3570) as a Northern Nevada contact number. 
> 
> Paul E. said his current PO Box (11152, Reno, 89510) does recieve Green mail, and offered to continue this for the party. 
> 
> Paul E. mentioned an 800 number that had been used at one time. Does anyone know anything about this? 
> 
>  We also agreed that it is important to use the existing email function  of the Nevada Greens to post our Washoe minutes, and to connect with  other state Greens. 
> 
> Kathy is the Washoe Treasurer,  and would like to relinquish this duty. We will discuss this at next  meeting. Our current funds are around $200. 
> 
> We  agreed to hold another Pizza Pix and Politix meeting at the Round Table  pizza place on Vine Street on the 7th of January. Also agreement was to  make this a monthly function, and perhaps to expand it to a Pot-luck  Pix and Politix meeting at various rotating places around town on a  regular basis. 
> 
> Craig mentioned that he has about  $150 left from his campaign funds, and has to disburse these funds  before his filing with the state in January. These funds can be given  to local charities or other organizations, as we understand, and it was  suggested that several groups here could use this money. Great Basin  Mine Watch, PLAN, and others are certainly deserving of help. Also,  Paul mentioned seeing a Green Party bumper sticker on a car, and it was  noted that if we used some of this funding to print business cards,  then we could all carry a few and put these on windshield wipers as we  run across Green cars. 
> 
> No action taken, but time is  getting short and we need to address this. And also special thanks to  David Curtis for his encouragement and financial support during this  last year. 
> 
> It was also discussed that we need to  contact our newly elected federal state and local representatives and  send them a wish list of actions we would like to see them work on  during the next session of legislature. Either collectively or  individually it may benefit us all to continue to try to effect the  political process here, and contacting our representatives is one more  way we can do that. 
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> 
> We all enjoyed the meeting, seem to have gotten some work done, and look forward to our next meeting on Dec. 17. 
> 
> Kathy brought a nice pasta dish, and Craig made some fresh bread for the meeting. 
> 
> Meeting adjourned a 5. 
> 
> Temporary acting secretary, 
> 
> Craig Bergland. 

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