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<DIV><FONT size=4>May 12, 2014</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>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</FONT></DIV>
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From: <A href="mailto:sanda@gmail.com">sanda</A><BR>To:
wsb3attyca@aol.com<BR>Sent: 5/7/2014 2:18:22 A.M. Pacific Daylight
Time<BR>Subj: Fwd: [gpca-votes] Discuss: ID 51 - Bylaws Interpretation
Regarding County Council elections 2014-2016<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Begin forwarded message:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=mailto:voting@cagreens.org
href="mailto:voting@cagreens.org">voting@cagreens.org</A><BR><B>Date:</B>
May 7, 2014, 12:01:01 AM PDT<BR><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org
href="mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org">gpca-votes@cagreens.org</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
<B>[gpca-votes] Discuss: ID 51 - Bylaws Interpretation Regarding County
Council elections 2014-2016</B><BR><B>Reply-To:</B> <A
title=mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org
href="mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org">gpca-votes@cagreens.org</A><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><SPAN>Discussion has begun for the following
proposal:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Proposal ID: 51
</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Proposal: Bylaws Interpretation Regarding County Council
elections 2014-2016 </SPAN><BR><SPAN>Floor Manager: Mike Feinstein,
<A title=mailto:mfeinstein@feinstein.org
href="mailto:mfeinstein@feinstein.org">mfeinstein@feinstein.org</A>
</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Discussion Dates: 05/07/2014 - 06/15/2014
</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Voting Dates: 06/16/2014 - 06/22/2014
</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Voting ends at Midnight Pacific
Time</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Background: The California state
legislature passed SB1272 and it was signed into</SPAN><BR><SPAN>law by
Governor Brown in 2012, to change state law so that
county</SPAN><BR><SPAN>registrars only conduct County Council elections
every four years -</SPAN><BR><SPAN>during presidential preference primary
elections - rather than every</SPAN><BR><SPAN>two years during the primary
elections, as has been the practice since</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the GPCA first
qualified for the ballot.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The GPCA June
2013 Napa General Assembly passed a budget for
GPCA</SPAN><BR><SPAN>FY2013-2014 that budgeted $3,000 for the conduct of
the 2014-2016</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council elections, and empowered the
Coordinating Committee to</SPAN><BR><SPAN>contract directly for support
services. But the Coordinating Committee</SPAN><BR><SPAN>ultimately found
that the GPCA did not have the volunteer</SPAN><BR><SPAN>infrastructure to
simultaneously conduct County Council elections and</SPAN><BR><SPAN>also
gather the new larger number of signatures-in-lieus of a
filing</SPAN><BR><SPAN>fee for its endorsed statewide
candidates.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Therefore to provide for
County Councils for the 2014-2016 County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council term, the
Coordinating Committee provides the following
bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>interpretation.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Whereas
without any further bylaws interpretations to provide
for</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Councils in 2014-2016, the GPCA will have no
County Councils in</SPAN><BR><SPAN>place for 2014-2016 when the 2012-2014
term ends, </SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Therefore the GPCA finds that
for the purposes of providing for County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Councils in
2014-2016, the following GPCA members shall be
considered</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council members at the beginning of the
2014-2016 term, as long</SPAN><BR><SPAN>as the Coordinating Committee
sends notice of these conditions to the</SPAN><BR><SPAN>GPCA Inform List,
and as long as a list of who qualifies via this</SPAN><BR><SPAN>criteria
is sent to <A title=mailto:applications@cagreens.org
href="mailto:applications@cagreens.org">applications@cagreens.org</A> by
midnight, Monday,
June</SPAN><BR><SPAN>23:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>1) All those
GPCA members who were elected in the June 2012
County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council elections, and who have not either resigned
their seat, or</SPAN><BR><SPAN>otherwise lost their seat as per the bylaws
of the county Green Party</SPAN><BR><SPAN>to whose County Council they
were elected, or as per the GPCA bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>(as described in
GPCA Bylaws 6-4</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy</A>);
and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>2) All those GPCA members who were
appointed to a County Council</SPAN><BR><SPAN>according to the process
described in their county Green Party's bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>and still
remain on that County Council (as described in GPCA
Bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>6-3</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN>cancies);
and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>3) All those GPCA members who were
appointed to a County Council in</SPAN><BR><SPAN>counties in which no
County Council members were elected in the
primary</SPAN><BR><SPAN>election, and still remain on that County Council
(as described in GPCA</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Bylaws 6-6</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN>cancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the_primary_election)
; and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The GPCA finds that despite there
being no County Council elections for</SPAN><BR><SPAN>2014-2016,
that to be consistent with GPCA bylaws which state
that</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council terms are for two years (as per GPCA
bylaws 6-2.1</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections</A>),
that</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the process described herein shall take the place of
those County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council elections for 2014-2016, and that the
members of each County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council in all GPCA counties shall
be considered members of new County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Councils for
2014-2016, and that the election of officers for each
new</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council term as described in each county Green
Party's bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>shall
apply</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Proposal: That the
General Assembly approve the following bylaws
interpretation:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Whereas SB1272, passed by
the California state legislature and signed</SPAN><BR><SPAN>into law by
Governor Brown changed state law so that county
registrars</SPAN><BR><SPAN>only conduct County Council elections every
four years - during</SPAN><BR><SPAN>presidential preference primary
elections - rather than every two years</SPAN><BR><SPAN>during the primary
elections, as has been the practice since the GPCA</SPAN><BR><SPAN>first
qualified for the ballot; and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Whereas the
June 2013 Napa General Assembly passed a budget for
GPCA</SPAN><BR><SPAN>FY2013-2014 that budgeted $3,000 for the conduct of
the 2014-2016</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council elections, and empowered the
Coordinating Committee to</SPAN><BR><SPAN>contract directly for support
services; and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Whereas the Coordinating
Committee found that the party did not have</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the volunteer
infrastructure to simultaneously conduct County
Council</SPAN><BR><SPAN>elections and gather the new larger number of
signatures-in-lieus of a</SPAN><BR><SPAN>filing fee for its endorsed
statewide candidates, and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Whereas without
any further bylaws interpretations to provide for</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County
Councils in 2014-2016, the GPCA will have no County Councils
in</SPAN><BR><SPAN>place for 2014-2016 when the 2012-2014 term ends,
</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Therefore the GPCA finds that for the
purposes of providing for County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Councils in 2014-2016,
the following GPCA members shall be considered</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County
Council members at the beginning of the 2014-2016 term, as
long</SPAN><BR><SPAN>as the Coordinating Committee sends notice of these
conditions to the</SPAN><BR><SPAN>GPCA Inform List, and as long as a list
of who qualifies via this</SPAN><BR><SPAN>criteria is sent to <A
title=mailto:applications@cagreens.org
href="mailto:applications@cagreens.org">applications@cagreens.org</A> by
midnight, Monday,
June</SPAN><BR><SPAN>23:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>1) All those
GPCA members who were elected in the June 2012
County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council elections, and who have not either resigned
their seat, or</SPAN><BR><SPAN>otherwise lost their seat as per the bylaws
of the county Green Party</SPAN><BR><SPAN>to whose County Council they
were elected, or as per the GPCA bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>(as described in
GPCA Bylaws 6-4</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-4_Vacancy</A>);
and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>2) All those GPCA members who were
appointed to a County Council</SPAN><BR><SPAN>according to the process
described in their county Green Party's bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>and still
remain on that County Council (as described in GPCA
Bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>6-3</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-3_Appointment_to_Va</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN>cancies);
and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>3) All those GPCA members who were
appointed to a County Council in</SPAN><BR><SPAN>counties in which no
County Council members were elected in the
primary</SPAN><BR><SPAN>election, and still remain on that County Council
(as described in GPCA</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Bylaws 6-6</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-6_Appointment_to_Va</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN>cancies_in_Counties_in_which_no_County_Council_members_were_elected_in_</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the_primary_election)
; and</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The GPCA finds that despite there
being no County Council elections for</SPAN><BR><SPAN>2014-2016,
that to be consistent with GPCA bylaws which state
that</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council terms are for two years (as per GPCA
bylaws 6-2.1</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections
href="http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections">http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_6-2_Elections</A>),
that</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the process described herein shall take the place of
those County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council elections for 2014-2016, and that the
members of each County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Council in all GPCA counties shall
be considered members of new County</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Councils for
2014-2016, and that the election of officers for each
new</SPAN><BR><SPAN>County Council term as described in each county Green
Party's bylaws</SPAN><BR><SPAN>shall
apply.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Resources:
</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>References:
</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Full details are available
at:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
title=http://files.cagreens.org/vote/propdetail?pid=51
href="http://files.cagreens.org/vote/propdetail?pid=51">http://files.cagreens.org/vote/propdetail?pid=51</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Please
send your comments to <A title=mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org
href="mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org">gpca-votes@cagreens.org</A>.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Thank
you and have a wonderful day!</SPAN><BR><SPAN>--The GPCA SGA Voting System
Admin</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>_______________________________________________</SPAN><BR><SPAN>gpca-votes
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