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Please read the proposal and keep comments on the topic of the proposal only. This proposal is moderated, and the GPCO Code of Conduct will apply (located here: http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0).Designate your vote by using the following terms: AGREE, BLOCK, or STAND ASIDE. Any blocks will require a vote of the council.Per Section 3.1 of the GPCO Bylaws, "A Green local must present its proposed bylaws for approval, and be approved by 60% of the voting Greens at a state party meeting, or by the state council."There are currently twelve (12) active voting chapters in the Green Party of Colorado. Adoption of this proposal requires an AGREE of at least 60% of all votes cast and also requires a minimum quorum of at least one response from seven (7) chapters.Active ChaptersJefferson CountyAdams CountyArapahoe CountyDenverDouglas CountyGreater BoulderPikes PeakPoudre ValleyMesaSan MiguelPlatte ValleyLongmontThe floor is now open for one week of Agreement Seeking, ending March 19, 2017 at 11.59 pm.1. Basic InfoDate proposed: March 12, 2017Name of the sponsors: Greater Boulder Green Party2. Title:Amend GPCO Bylaws to Clarify Two Year Term of Office3. Text of the actual Proposal:To clarify officers term of office and remove obsolete material, the Bylaws of the Green Party of Colorado shall be amended as follows. Replace Section 5.1 which currently reads, "In order to serve the growth of the GPCO and to communicate our message, platform and values to the public, the GPCO will elect two state co-chairs to two year terms. Every effort shall be made to reach gender and geographic diversity." with the following text:QuoteOfficers shall be chosen at each annual state meeting held in odd number years to two year terms. The term of office begins immediately upon election and ends with the election of officers at the next odd year annual meeting. Every effort shall be made to reach gender and geographic diversity.Delete Section 5.7 in its entirety. The section currently reads, "Co-chairs shall be chosen at each annual state meeting and other officers in odd number years to serve two year terms in office." This section is obsolete because co-chairs now serve two year terms.4. Background:Greater Boulder Green Party seeks to clarify the length of service of the co-chairs.5. Justification/Goals:Historically, terms of GPCO officers have run from annual meeting to annual meeting. This amendment simply codifies past practice, going back at least to 2007. An explicit reference to the co-chair term in the minutes from the state meeting in 2007 can be found at http://coloradogreenparty.org/about/history/gpco-2007-state-meeting-minutes/.The meeting was held June 23-24, 2007, in Carbondale, Colorado. On Saturday, June 23, after a decision to change the co-chair terms from two years (which they were at that time) to one year, the following is found in the meeting minutes. Quote11:15 a.m. Election of new state officers and national delegates and selection of webmaster and e-list manager Tom Kelly of the Arapahoe Greens and Dave Chandler of the Adams-Jefferson Greens volunteered to become co-chairs for the 07-08 term.Agreement seeking resulted in a consensus for Kelly and Chandler as state co-chairs for approximately one year, beginning June 23 and until the next annual state meeting.Dan Sage of the Arapahoe Greens volunteered to continue as state treasurer for the 07-09 term.Agreement seeking resulted in a consensus for Sage as treasurer for approximately two years, beginning June 23 and until the annual state meeting of 2009.Eric Fried of the Poudre Valley Greens volunteered to become state secretary for the 07-09 term.Agreement seeking resulted in a consensus for Fried as secretary for approximately two years, beginning June 23 and until the annual state meeting of 2009.This is an explicit description of a one-year term being approximately one year from the date of the election to the date of the following year's meeting. It is also an explicit description of a two-year term being approximately two years from the date of the election to the date of the meeting two years hence. Although the co-chair terms were reduced from two years to one year, the other offices continued with two-year terms, so both the one-year term and the two-year term are described in the minutes. The description of the term length is repeated for each office, so it does not seem to be a typo.The 2008 meeting was held on May 3, so the nominal one-year term from the 2007 meeting (June 23) to the 2008 meeting (May 3) was approximately ten and a half months. The 2009 meeting was held in July by teleconference, no specific date available on the history page, so the nominal two-year term from the 2007 meeting (June 23) to the 2009 meeting (sometime in July) was several weeks longer than two years.6. Pros and Cons:Pros: There is no precedent for setting the annual meeting date based on the date the current officers were elected. Delaying the annual meeting, so as to put the desire of an officer to serve 24 months ahead of the needs of the party to organize for the 2018 election cycle, hurts the party's prospects for the 2018 election.Cons:7. Alternatives to the proposal:8. References: Moderator Note: This issue has already been corrected via Proposal 007-15: length of co-chair term (http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=251.0).
Ok, now that this proposal has been blocked, I have moved it to the Voting page, here: http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=322.0Please note that any votes cast here will not be counted. They must be cast at the link above.I will be turning off comments here if there is confusion.Thanks.
Per Section 3.1 of the GPCO Bylaws, “A Green local must present its proposed bylaws for approval, and be approved by 60% of the voting Greens at a state party meeting, or by the state council.”Isn't this a clarification of the state by-laws, not a local chapter's by-laws?
Andrea,There is definitely confusion, on a couple levels.1. The content of bylaws section 5.7 is unclear. According to proposal 007-15 the text should be
5.7 Officers shall be chosen in odd numbered years to serve two-year terms in office.
But the copy of the bylaws on the GPCO website reads
5.7 Co-chairs shall be chosen at each annual state meeting and other officers in odd number years to serve two year terms in office.
2. The proposal you posted here is different from the proposal on the Proposal Drafting board that GBGP agreed to sponsor. You summarily censored the background section that explained the reason for the proposal. I'm confused that you think you have the authority to censor other people's proposals.For these reasons, I propose an amendment to this proposal to replace the entire Text of the proposal with the following:
5.7 Officers shall be chosen at each odd-year annual meeting to serve two-year terms, ending at the next odd-year annual meeting.
This change to 5.7 will resolve the confusion about the wording of 5.7 in the current bylaws and clearly establish that officers terms run from odd year annual meeting to odd-year annual meeting.
Larry, I would ask you to reconsider your block.Bylaws section 5.7 clearly states
5.7 Co-chairs shall be chosen at each annual state meeting . . . .
This is obviously wrong because Co-chairs serve two-year terms, per section 5.1.If you don't like my wording for fixing section 5.7:
5.7 Officers shall be chosen at each odd-year annual meeting to serve two-year terms, ending at the next odd-year annual meeting.
please propose an alternative sentence that makes it clear that officer elections occur only in odd numbered years.
I'll modify the proposal in voting with your text. I simply took what you originally submitted.EDIT: I've modified the bylaws to reflect the change ratified with 007-15. I will not modify the proposal language, because it contains hyperbole.
I can see what part of the issue is, here. The bylaws were never updated to reflect the change from the passage of Proposal 007-15, which was actually passed before I became co-chair and before Sean Friend became secretary.http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=251.0The bylaws now say the following:V. Officers 5.1 In order to serve the growth of the GPCO and to communicate our message, platform and values to the public, the GPCO will elect two state co-chairs to two-year terms. Every effort shall be made to reach gender and geographic diversity.5.7 Officers shall be chosen in odd numbered years to serve two year terms in office.This reflects your amendment back then too.
And given the above reply by Andrea, I will keep my block in place. The language disagreement at issue here seems to have been cleared up by Proposal 007-15, and I therefore see no reason to reconsider my block.Larry DunnACGP
i missed this vote in going out to see my new granddaughter in san francsico.but i'm surprised to see a block without an explanation of why. this is supposed to be agreement-seeking time, where we discuss a proposal. blocking without explanation is a curtailment of discussion. that's not agreement-seeking.
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