[Sosfbay-discuss] bylaws re regional rep election

[Jim Doyle]

Here are the bylaw re election of regional representatives
which was approved by consensus at the general meeting
of the Green Party of Santa Clara County on Thursday January 3, 2008.

The next steps are to establish a compatible version in San Mateo County
and then for each of the two counties to report the bylaw changes to the
state party.

At the meeting on January 3-rd there was discussion which led to changes in
Article 9.7.  The words or recall were dropped form the title of Article 9.7
and in the text of Article 9.7 the words or recalled were also deleted.

In Article 9.3 the word separate was added between a and meeting in the
last sentence of that paragraph.  There was also one typo on that last 
sentence:
ethe now reads the.

The word draft has been dropped from the descriptive title of the document.

A word document has been attached for those who can access word documents.

Jim Doyle

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      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         
      separate meeting that precedes the meeting where the 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      

            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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