[GPSCC-chat] Draft Agenda for GPSCC Meeting Thursday October 24th

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GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY 
Draft Agenda for Monthly General Meeting October 24, 2013 
San  Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA  
(Between Santa Clara and San Fernando  Streets) 
7:00 pm – Eat and chat (No speaker announced at time of  preparation of 
this draft agenda) 
7:30 pm – Begin meeting 
Select Facilitator, Note taker, Time keeper, and Vibes watcher(s); Select 
Agenda Preparer for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes) 
Introductions and Announcements (10 Minutes) 
Treasurer’s Report – Jim Doyle (5 minutes) 
Report  on status of P. O. Box – Continued fromn September meeting – Tian 
Harter   
(5  minutes) 
Discussion  and decision re November and December meetings – November 24th 
is   
the  Thanksgiving holiday; Meet on December 19th? – Spencer Graves (5  
minutes) 
Report  on November 16-17th Santa Rosa GPCA Plenary Agenda; Recruit and  
appoint Plenary Delegates/Alternates; Discuss SGA issues –   
Warner  Bloomberg (30 Minutes)  
Discussion  and Proposal to Instruct GPSCC Standing General Assembly  
Delegates re voting for GPCA endorsements  of state office candidates – Spencer 
Graves (15 minutes) 
Notes:  Current plans are for SGA delegates to  vote on GPCA endorsement of 
GPCA state office candidates during the week  immediately following  
the  Plenary.  This meeting will be the  last GPSCC general meeting before  
the  voting period ending November  24th.  The GPSCC SGA delegates  are:   
Jim  Doyle, Drew Johnson, John Thielking, Betsy Wolfe-Graves  
and  Spencer Graves. 
Proposal  regarding GPSCC endorsements of local candidates – Spencer Graves 
(15 minutes) –  see text of proposal following these agenda proposals 
Health  Care Committee Report  –  (10 Minutes) 
Environment  Committee Report --  (10  Minutes) 
Discussion of status of tabling supplies – (10 Minutes)  
Plan  for Tabling – Need to identify event coordinators -- (15 Minutes)  
Downtown  Health Fair October 25th 
Jr. Statesman November  16th 
Mercy  Killers (play) November 16th 
Holiday  Peace Fair December 7th 
Others? 
Proposal  re GPSCC blog – Spencer Graves  
(10  Minutes)  See text proposal  below.

Discussion  about sponsoring a local screening of Gar Alperovitz's "Next 
American  Revolution" – Spencer Graves (10 minutes) 
(2 Hours  30 Minutes Estimated Cumulative Times. Goal: Adjourn by 9:30 pm) 
Agenda  Preparer’s Comment:  There is “too  much” on this agenda.  Are 
there  items that can 
wait  until the next meeting? 
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Spencer Graves Proposal re GPSCC local  candidates endorsements.  Prop 14  
has in essence transformed the primary into the only election for minor  
parties.  We can appear on the  general election ballot only if we come in 
first or second in the primary.  That strongly encourages minor parties  to 
coordinate with one another to the maximum extent that their membership will  
allow.  We cannot control which  candidates pull papers and file to run, but 
we can control endorsements and  recruitment of candidates to file papers.  
There was discussion of this in the email list of the GPCA Standing  General 
Assembly <gpca-votes at cagreens.org>.  Sanda Everette indicated there have  
already been contacts between the statewide Coordinating Committee of the  
California Greens and representatives of Peace and Freedom and Libertarian  
parties.  Sanda said, "We were  hoping that there could be a full statewide 
slate with candidates running from  the three parties and no one competing with 
another third party candidate."   
RESOLUTION:  The Green Party of Santa Clara County  will attempt to contact 
other minor parties in Santa Clara County, attend their  meetings, and 
invite them to ours for the following purposes:   
1.  The Santa Clara Greens  will agree to endorse candidates of other minor 
parties for races where we do  not have our own candidate.  "Minor  
parties" in this case will refer primarily to the Peace and Freedom and the  
Libertarian parties.   
2.  The Santa Clara Greens  will attempt to coordinate with other minor 
parties to develop joint procedures  for recruiting candidates to run for 
offices in a way that can maximize our  chances of winning.   
Spencer  Graves Proposal re GPSCC blog.   
PROPOSED:  The Santa Clara  Greens will authorize the creation of a blog on 
its web site.  The party will elect at least two blog  editors.  At least 
one editor  (different from the author) must approve any text posted as a 
blog.  All blogs must be consistent with the  ten key values and be labeled as 
the opinion of the author and not necessarily a  position of the Green Party 
of Santa Clara County.  Also, claims that might be controversial  should be 
justified with a footnote giving a reference to an appropriate source  with 
not links when appropriate web sites are available.  
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