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[Jim Stauffer]

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To: Green Party of California members
From: General Assemby Planning Sub-Committee
Subject: Announcing next GPCA General Assembly


Dear Green Party of California member,

We are excited to announce that the next General Assembly meeting of the
Green Party of California will be held Friday, May 25th to Sunday, May
27th, 2007 in San Francisco, at the State Government Building, 450
Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102-3661.

Agenda, registration and logistical information about this meeting will
be available here: http://www.cagreens.org/plenary

You may participate in this important event in a number of ways:

At the General Assembly
- as a delegate or a observer in the decision-making plenary sesssions
and/or
- as participant in working group, standing committee and/or caucus meetings

Before the General Assembly
- with a working group or standing committee that is generating a proposal
- discussing the agenda proposals in your county and on-line

Delegates are appointed by their counties. Check with your local county
Green organization to find out how your local process works. The number
of delegates per county is set by to a formula in the GPCA Bylaws.The 
number of delegates per county for the San Francisco General
Assembly will be posted here by April 13th: 
http://www.cagreens.org/liaison/delegates.html.

Proposals are brought to the General Assembly by Working Groups and
Standing Committees. This is the proposal template format
(http://www.cagreens.org/cc/internal/admin/PropFormat.rtf). You may
participate in the proposal-generating process as
Working Group and Standing Comittee members or observers, on their
monthly teleconference calls or via their email lists.

A General Assembly Timeline follows below. If you have any questions
about this process, please email the General Assemby Planning
Sub-Committee at agenda-team at cagreens.org.

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco. Your General Assembly
Planning Sub-Committee,

Mike Feinstein, Santa Monica
Paul Franklin, Santa Cruz
Magali Offerman, San Diego
Jada Salamatian, Kern County
Tim Smith, Sonoma County
Laura Wells, Oakland

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Key Dates and Deadlines:

• March 6th:Deadline for first drafts of proposals to be submitted to
Agenda Committee (GA-80)
• March 16th: Deadline for final drafts of proposals to be submitted to
Agenda Committee (GA-70)
• March 26th: Deadline for submission of candidate statements for
Coordinating Committee, Treasurer, Liaison to Secretary of State and
GPUS Delegation (GA-60)
• April 12th: Agenda available on www.cagreens.org/plenary (GA-43)
• April 25th: Registration and logistics available on
www.cagreens.org/plenary (GA-30)
• May 26th: General Assembly, day one (GA-00)
• May 27th: General Assembly, day two (GA+01)

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http://www.cagreens.org/ga/2007-05/internal/timeline.html

Entire General Assembly Timeline


March 6th: Deadline (WGs, Commitees) - Deadline for first drafts of
proposals to be submitted to Agenda Committee (GA-80)

March 16th: Deadline (WGs, Commitees) - Deadline for final drafts of
proposals to be submitted to Agenda Committee (GA-70)

March 23rd: Decision (GAP) - Agenda Committee approves draft agenda to
submit to Coordinating Committee (GA-63)

March 26th: Deadline (candidates) - Submission of At-Large Coordinating
Committee member candidate statements (GA-60)
candidate statement application
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/application_cc_at_large.rtf
job description per GPCA Bylaws
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/notice_cc_2007.php

March 26th: Deadline (candidates) - Submission of GPCA Treasurer
candidate statements (GA-60)
candidate statement application
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/application_treasurer.rtf
job description per GPCA Bylaws
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/notice_treasurer_2007.php

March 26th: Deadline (candidates) - Submission of GPCA Liaison to
Secretary of State candidate statements (GA-60)
candidate statement application
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/application_liason_to_SoS.rtf
job description per GPCA Bylaws
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/notice_liaison_to_SoS_2007.php

March 26th: Deadline (candidates) - Submission of GPUS Delegation member
candidate statements (GA-60)
candidate statement application
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/application_gpus_delegation.rtf
job description per GPCA Bylaws
http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/notice_gpus_delegation_2007.php

April 11th: Decision (CC): Coordinating Committee approves General
Assembly Draft Agenda (GA-46)

April 14th: Notice (GAP): Publish Plenary Packet (proposals/other agenda
items) (G-43)
- publish in .pdf format on www.cagreens.org/plenary via "link to
password-protected agenda packet";
- publish in .html form on www.cagreens.org/plenary via "link to
password-protected agenda packet";
- publish on web-based discussion page
- notice to county contact list and SC/WG e-lists

April 13th: Decision (CC): Determine which counties are active to send
delegates  (GA-42)
- 100 delegate seats allocated to active counties, based on Green
registration totals per active county.
- notice to county contacts and SC/WG e-lists

April 22th: Deadline (Host Committee) Host Committee provides
registration information to IT (GA-33)
- Host Committee provides necessary registration information to GPCA-IT
for inclusion on registration page on www.cagreens.org/plenary

April 25th: Notice (GAP) - Publish Logistics/Open Registration (GA-30)
- publish in .pdf format on www.cagreens.org/plenary via "link to
password-protected agenda packet";

April 25th: Notice (GAP) - Publish Logistics/Open Registration (GA-30)
- publish on www.cagreens.org/plenary
- notice to county contact list and SC/WG e-lists
- notice included in banner of www.cagreens.org home page

May 25th: Decision (CC) - Coordinating Committee meets for final draft
agenda review (GA-01)

May 26th: Decision (GA) - Agenda approval at beginning of General
Assembly, day one (GA-00)

May 27th: Decision (GA) - Agenda approval at beginning of General
Assembly, day two (GA+01) (if necessary)

June 10th: Report (WGs): Updating Working Group Membership (GA+14)
- Working Group Membership update filed with CC by WG Co-Cos

June 10th: Report (Minutes Taker): Submission of Draft Minutes (GA+14)
- official minutes to contain ‘decisions taken’ (including full text of
proposals passed), ‘amendments accepted’, ‘votes cast/consensus
reached’, ‘approval threshold’, ‘outstanding concerns’, ‘delegates
present’, ‘counties present’, ‘regions present’, ‘quorum counts’

June 17th: Notice (CC, GAP): Circulation of Draft Minutes  (GA+21)
- publish on www.cagreens.org/plenary via "link to password-protected
agenda packet";
- notice to county contact list and SC/WG e-lists

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