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Mon May 12 15:47:23 PDT 2014
May 12, 2014
For Those Who May Be Interested: Below is a copy of information sent to
me from Sanda Everette regarding what is going to happen since there will be
no Registrar of Voter supervised elections in 2014 for county central
committees (GPCA county councils). The "work around" -- at least this year --
is that current county council members are to be re-appointed for an
additional two year term. The "SGA" apparently is being used to process the
"proposal" (it is not listed on the current draft Plenary agenda). I do not
know if the GPSCC has any active participants/observers on the "SGA"; but I
have not seen anyone else post anything about this. 'Sorry if I missed it
among all the email clutter. In Struggle! Warner
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Subj: Fwd: [gpca-votes] Discuss: ID 51 - Bylaws Interpretation Regarding
County Council elections 2014-2016
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From: _voting at cagreens.org_ (mailto:voting at cagreens.org)
Date: May 7, 2014, 12:01:01 AM PDT
To: _gpca-votes at cagreens.org_ (mailto:gpca-votes at cagreens.org)
Subject: [gpca-votes] Discuss: ID 51 - Bylaws Interpretation Regarding
County Council elections 2014-2016
Reply-To: _gpca-votes at cagreens.org_ (mailto:gpca-votes at cagreens.org)
Discussion has begun for the following proposal:
Proposal ID: 51
Proposal: Bylaws Interpretation Regarding County Council elections
2014-2016
Floor Manager: Mike Feinstein, _mfeinstein at feinstein.org_
(mailto:mfeinstein at feinstein.org)
Discussion Dates: 05/07/2014 - 06/15/2014
Voting Dates: 06/16/2014 - 06/22/2014
Voting ends at Midnight Pacific Time
Background: The California state legislature passed SB1272 and it was
signed into
law by Governor Brown in 2012, to change state law so that county
registrars only conduct County Council elections every four years -
during presidential preference primary elections - rather than every
two years during the primary elections, as has been the practice since
the GPCA first qualified for the ballot.
The GPCA June 2013 Napa General Assembly passed a budget for GPCA
FY2013-2014 that budgeted $3,000 for the conduct of the 2014-2016
County Council elections, and empowered the Coordinating Committee to
contract directly for support services. But the Coordinating Committee
ultimately found that the GPCA did not have the volunteer
infrastructure to simultaneously conduct County Council elections and
also gather the new larger number of signatures-in-lieus of a filing
fee for its endorsed statewide candidates.
Therefore to provide for County Councils for the 2014-2016 County
Council term, the Coordinating Committee provides the following bylaws
interpretation.
Whereas without any further bylaws interpretations to provide for
County Councils in 2014-2016, the GPCA will have no County Councils in
place for 2014-2016 when the 2012-2014 term ends,
Therefore the GPCA finds that for the purposes of providing for County
Councils in 2014-2016, the following GPCA members shall be considered
County Council members at the beginning of the 2014-2016 term, as long
as the Coordinating Committee sends notice of these conditions to the
GPCA Inform List, and as long as a list of who qualifies via this
criteria is sent to _applications at cagreens.org_
(mailto:applications at cagreens.org) by midnight, Monday, June
23:
1) All those GPCA members who were elected in the June 2012 County
Council elections, and who have not either resigned their seat, or
otherwise lost their seat as per the bylaws of the county Green Party
to whose County Council they were elected, or as per the GPCA bylaws
(as described in GPCA Bylaws 6-4
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy); and
2) All those GPCA members who were appointed to a County Council
according to the process described in their county Green Party's bylaws
and still remain on that County Council (as described in GPCA Bylaws
6-3
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va
cancies); and
3) All those GPCA members who were appointed to a County Council in
counties in which no County Council members were elected in the primary
election, and still remain on that County Council (as described in GPCA
Bylaws 6-6
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va
cancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_
the_primary_election) ; and
The GPCA finds that despite there being no County Council elections for
2014-2016, that to be consistent with GPCA bylaws which state that
County Council terms are for two years (as per GPCA bylaws 6-2.1
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections), that
the process described herein shall take the place of those County
Council elections for 2014-2016, and that the members of each County
Council in all GPCA counties shall be considered members of new County
Councils for 2014-2016, and that the election of officers for each new
County Council term as described in each county Green Party's bylaws
shall apply
Proposal: That the General Assembly approve the following bylaws
interpretation:
Whereas SB1272, passed by the California state legislature and signed
into law by Governor Brown changed state law so that county registrars
only conduct County Council elections every four years - during
presidential preference primary elections - rather than every two years
during the primary elections, as has been the practice since the GPCA
first qualified for the ballot; and
Whereas the June 2013 Napa General Assembly passed a budget for GPCA
FY2013-2014 that budgeted $3,000 for the conduct of the 2014-2016
County Council elections, and empowered the Coordinating Committee to
contract directly for support services; and
Whereas the Coordinating Committee found that the party did not have
the volunteer infrastructure to simultaneously conduct County Council
elections and gather the new larger number of signatures-in-lieus of a
filing fee for its endorsed statewide candidates, and
Whereas without any further bylaws interpretations to provide for
County Councils in 2014-2016, the GPCA will have no County Councils in
place for 2014-2016 when the 2012-2014 term ends,
Therefore the GPCA finds that for the purposes of providing for County
Councils in 2014-2016, the following GPCA members shall be considered
County Council members at the beginning of the 2014-2016 term, as long
as the Coordinating Committee sends notice of these conditions to the
GPCA Inform List, and as long as a list of who qualifies via this
criteria is sent to _applications at cagreens.org_
(mailto:applications at cagreens.org) by midnight, Monday, June
23:
1) All those GPCA members who were elected in the June 2012 County
Council elections, and who have not either resigned their seat, or
otherwise lost their seat as per the bylaws of the county Green Party
to whose County Council they were elected, or as per the GPCA bylaws
(as described in GPCA Bylaws 6-4
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy); and
2) All those GPCA members who were appointed to a County Council
according to the process described in their county Green Party's bylaws
and still remain on that County Council (as described in GPCA Bylaws
6-3
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va
cancies); and
3) All those GPCA members who were appointed to a County Council in
counties in which no County Council members were elected in the primary
election, and still remain on that County Council (as described in GPCA
Bylaws 6-6
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va
cancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_
the_primary_election) ; and
The GPCA finds that despite there being no County Council elections for
2014-2016, that to be consistent with GPCA bylaws which state that
County Council terms are for two years (as per GPCA bylaws 6-2.1
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections), that
the process described herein shall take the place of those County
Council elections for 2014-2016, and that the members of each County
Council in all GPCA counties shall be considered members of new County
Councils for 2014-2016, and that the election of officers for each new
County Council term as described in each county Green Party's bylaws
shall apply.
Resources:
References:
Full details are available at:
http://files.cagreens.org/vote/propdetail?pid=51
Please send your comments to _gpca-votes at cagreens.org_
(mailto:gpca-votes at cagreens.org) .
Thank you and have a wonderful day!
--The GPCA SGA Voting System Admin
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