ID 692 – Assign Desert Greens Utah to Temporary Inactive Status

[Ryan Jones]

Proposal ID 692Proposal Assign Desert Greens Utah to Temporary Inactive StatusPresenter Accreditation CommitteeFloor Manager AJ SegneriPhase DiscussionDiscussion 01/07/2013 - 01/20/2013Voting 01/21/2013 - 01/27/2013Presens Quorum 0.6666Consens Quorum A Majority of Yes and No VotesBackgroundGPUS Rules and Procedures, Article I, Chapter IV, Section 3, reads:"3. An accredited state party which has failed to cast votes for aperiod of six months, or has not sent delegates to two consecutivemeetings of the National Committee, may be assigned to temporaryinactive status, upon recommendation of the Accreditation Committeeand majority vote of the National Committee. Parties assigned totemporary inactive status will retain GREEN PARTY accreditation and,insofar as possible, will continue to receive NC correspondence; butshall not be counted toward the NC quorum."Several state parties that are accredited members of the GPUS havefailed to participate with GPUS for extended periods of time. Becausethe NC voting quorum requirements are based on the number of activestates voting, having non voting states listed as active can help makethe passage of some proposals before the National Committee verydifficult.The Desert Greens have not participated in an online NC votesince Oct. 2009 , nor have they sent delegates to either of the last two annual meetings of the NC.ProposalDesert Greens of Utah is assigned to temporary inactive status, butwill retain GPUS accreditation.TIMELINEThis will take effect immediately upon passage, and the Secretary will bedirected to make such changes as needed to put this into effect.ResourcesNoneCONTACTSGPUS Accreditation CommitteeHolly Hart, co-chair hhart11@gmail.com (319) 331-9616Tamar Yager, co-chair tamar@gp.org 703-534-2187ReferencesGP-US Rules and Procedureshttp://gp.org/documents/rules.shtml#section2GP-US Voting Pagehttp://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/voteresultsGP-US Meetings and Minuteshttp://www.gp.org/minutes.shtml

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