[Sosfbay-discuss] Additional item for Thursday's agenda/bylaws proposal

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PROPOSED BY-LAWS RE REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE 
ARTICLE  9   ELECTION OF REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES (RR) AND  ALTERNATES

9.0   Definitions in GPCA bylaws
Regional Representation on the GPCA Coordinating Committee is defined by  the 
GPCA bylaws,  
Articles 6, 7 and elsewhere.  This  bylaws article constitutes an alternative 
election process as  
provided for in the GPCA bylaws section 7-1.5.

9.1   RR Election  Meeting
RR election meetings  are considered valid if they meet the following 
conditions: 
1)  the election is authorized and called by  the County Council
2)  the meeting is open to  all county party Members and all Members present 
can vote  
in the  election,
3)  the election has been  publicly announced on county party email lists at 
least 15 days  
in advance of the election meeting and
4) where the RR Election is a preannounced agenda item for the  meeting.

9.2   Declaring  Candidacy
Candidates shall declare  their candidacy on the email lists of the counties 
of the region
prior to the RR Candidate Presentation Meetings at which a vacancy or  
replacement is  
considered.  

9.3   Presentation and Election Meetings         
The  RR election process may be conducted as part of the regular monthly 
meetings of  the 
GPSCC.  Alternately, a  special meeting may be called if so decided by the 
county council. 
Candidates shall present themselves to the electorate at a valid  meeting.  
This  presentation 
shall be at a meeting that precedes the meeting where ethe vote  occurs.   

9.4   Election Process 
This election process assumes this region  is allocated one representative.  
This section shall 
be  amended if the allocation is increased.  The Regional Representative and 
Alternate  
Representative shall be chosen by separate votes.  The Regional 
Representative shall be  
chosen first.  In an election  where there is only one declared candidate, 
the decision shall  
be  made in  Accordance Article 5 of  these bylaws.  Regional  Representative 
elections shall  
be  deemed business decisions.  If more  than one candidate has declared 
their candidacy, the  
election shall be conducted using Instant Runoff Voting, with section  7-1.9 
of the GPCA  
bylaws as guidance. 

9.5   Regional  Coordination
A candidate must be approved by all  of the county parties of the region.  If 
different candidates
are  approved by the county parties the decision(s) shall be retaken by the 
county  parties until  
agreement  on candidates between the county parties is reached.

9.6   Representational Balance in the  Region
It shall be an objective to  have the Regional Representative and the first 
Alternate Regional
representative be from different counties wherever possible.

9.7  Replacement or  Recall
A Regional Representative or an  Alternate Regional Representative may be 
replaced or recalled
using the  same process for election described here.

9.8   Effective  Date
This amendment, Article 9 of  the by-laws, shall take effect after formal 
approval by the 
GPSCC, and after the bylaws of substantially the same form have been  adopted 
by all  
counties in the region. Upon adoption, the County Council from each  county 
party  
shall separately and independently notify the GPCA of their bylaws  
amendments adding  
this  alternative election process to the default procedures provided by the 
state  
Green Party Bylaws.

9.9   Expiration of Article  9
This article 9 detailing the  selection of regional representatives to the 
GPCA Coordinating
Committee  shall expire if a county party in the region rescinds it, or if 
the region is  redefined  
and  a new county party added to the region decides not to adopt this  bylaw. 




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