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From: "County Contacts" <contacts2006 at lists.cagreens.org>
To: "County Contacts" <Contacts2006 at cagreens.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:38 PM
Subject: [GPCA Official Notice] GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Proposal Agenda 
PacketAvailable


> GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE
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> This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  For more information, 
> or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit reply. 
> Follow the contact directions
> stated in the email.
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> The proposal agenda packet for the May 16-17 General Assembly in Venice,
> Los Angeles is now available for downloading from the plenary web site:
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>             http://www.cagreens.org/plenary/
>
> You will need the common password for access to the agenda packet.
> Please contact your County Council or Regional Representative if you
> don't have it.
>
> This agenda packet contains proposals, meeting schedule, and county
> delegate allocation. Please read it ASAP. If you have concerns about any
> proposal, please send them to the people listed as the contact persons
> and/or sponsors *before* the meeting begins.
>
> The General Assemblies in the "off years" of the election cycle tend to
> focus on internal party issues. This GA will decide the annual budget
> and deal with proposals for restructuring certain aspects of our
> organizational structure, among other issues.
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> The target date for the logistics packet and opening online registration
> is April 16.
>
> The logistics packet contains information on the meeting site, housing,
> registration and host contact information.
>
> NOTE: Counties are also required to submit their list of General
> Assembly delegates online. Use the Delegates link on the plenary page
> cited above.
>
> Online registration and delegate submission closes on Wednesday, May 13.
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>                    IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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> ** Site Volunteers **
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> The host committee is in need of volunteers, especially in food service
> (breakfast and lunch). The hosts are offering free admission to the GA
> in exchange for helping with the various food tasks. Contact Will
> Yeager, 310-804-9916, gardenbeekeeper at yahoo.com, if you are interested.
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> ** Note Taker **
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> We are looking for people with note-taking skills for the upcoming
> plenary. This is a paid position and a valuable service to the GPCA.
>
> The skills of a good note taker include being a good listener and a
> competent typist. Familiarity with the Green meeting process is also
> helpful. Having previous note-taking experience in your Local or in a
> GPCA committee is advantageous.
>
> There is a Note Taker Guidelines document available at
> http://cagreens.org/gap/NoteTaker.rtf.
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> The note taker job can be shared among several people. You can serve for
> a morning or afternoon session, a whole day, or the entire weekend.
>
> The note taker position is budgeted for $250. This breaks down to $100 a
> day for the raw notes and $50 for the final editing of the raw notes.
>
> If you are interested, please send your name and phone number to
> agenda-team at cagreens.org.
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>                      HOST COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENT
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> [The following announcement has been circulated around the LA area to
> recruit volunteers and attendees. The General Assembly (plenary) will be
> held in the Venice United Methodist Church.]
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> COOL, COOL VENUE FOR PLENARY IN LA AREA....
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> Proving that Venice is the coolest place to be, its United Methodist
> Church folks re-named their social hall "The Center for Peace, Justice,
> and The Arts." For the young and young at heart there's a skate ramp
> available for use until 11pm. They feed folks and teach folks and have
> multiple opportunities for community building. The site of one of LA's
> biggest al-anon meetings every Saturday night, so it's not
> available....so we're looking to create some great options for the
> plenary's Saturday night event(s).
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> All are invited to come sign up and network toward making this a great
> plenary. There's a HOSTEL RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET with really great
> sleep-over rates. It's the stop-off place for the famous "hippy bus"
> that goes up and down the state ("The Green Tortoise")
>
> Contact Glenn Hopkins (Mootney123 at aol.com).
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