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Andrea,Your rejections, delays, foot-dragging - whatever you want to call them - are becoming ludicrous, but I will do as you ask.I have removed Council representatives from Poudre Valley and Jefferson County from the sponsor list. The proposal is now sponsored only by three representatives from Greater Boulder.Please post this proposal for agreement seeking now.Regarding your concern that:
It appears on the surface that this proposal was not brought forward in a transparent, democratic fashion in a regular meeting of GBGP.
You are correct that this proposal does not come from a GBGP meeting. The proposal comes from me, Harry Hempy, a GPCO Council member representing GBGP. I submitted it for discussion on the Proposal Drafting board, amended the proposal to incorporate contributions from Council members, obtained the confirmed support of two members of GBGP, including a co-chair, and requested the Council Facilitator to post the proposal for agreement seeking. This complies with the letter and the spirit of Procedures and Guidelines section 3.5.3. I think your concern is unfounded.
Our state party bylaws, under Section III, state at the beginning that a Green local must agree to "accept the Ten Key Values and to manage the chapter in accordance with those values.
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Andrea,After a good night's sleep I realize I may have misunderstood your rationale for rejecting this proposal to clarify GPCO officers' term of office.I had thought you were were saying the proposal did not have enough co-sponsors to be submitted directly to Council for agreement seeking and, if necessary, a vote.But perhaps you were saying the proposal has TOO MANY sponsors, instead of TOO FEW sponsors.If Scott Lupo, from Jefferson County, and Judy Harrington, from Poudre Valley, were removed from the proposal's co-sponsors, leaving just three co-sponsors from Greater Boulder, would this satisfy your rules for making a proposal directly to council and would you post then the proposal on the Proposal Agreement Seeking board?
Andrea, GPCO Bylaws and GPCO Procedures and Guidelines do NOT support your ruling.GPCO Bylaws and GPCO Procedures and Guidelines do NOT provide for officers to make proposals directly to Council.GPCO Bylaws and GPCO Procedures and Guidelines do NOT provide for local chapters to make proposals directly to Council.GPCO Procedures and Guidelines section 3.5.3, DOES provide for a representative on Council to make proposals to Council directly, providing that the proposal is co-sponsored by at least two other members of the chapter, at least one of the co-sponsors being an officer of the chapter.Here is the complete text of procedures section 3.5.3:
The Council will discuss via email issues raised among its representatives or by any Green Party member who participates. Any councilmember or Committee may submit a proposal to the convener or facilitator for discussion. Appointed state representatives of local chapters will have the ability to make proposals to the State Council directly under the following conditions: 1. That the proposal be made by the representative and two more members of the local chapter, one of those members being an elected or appointed officer of that local chapter. 2. That the proposal be published on the local chapter's listserve as soon as possible. 3. That the state representative making the proposal need not have written confirmation but simply email confirmation from the other two members making the proposal, and that copies of these emails be sent along to the State Council with the proposal.
This proposal to Amend Bylaws to Clarify Two Year Term of Office meets all three criteria.1. The proposal is made by three members of the Greater Boulder Green Party and other Council members. The Greater Boulder sponsors consist of three Council representatives, including both chapter co-chairs.2. The proposal is published on the Greater Boulder Greens Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1608017305880273&id=1727009861108273. Copies of emails confirming co-sponsorship by Greater Boulder Greens Carolyn Bninski (Co-chair and Council Representative) and Kevin Alumbaugh (Council representative) are here:
Kevin AlumbaughFeb 24 (7 days ago) YesKevin AlumbaughOn Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Carolyn Bninski
wrote: yes. On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Harry Hempy wrote: I am drafting a proposal to amend GPCO bylaws to make it clear that officers' term of office goes from annual meeting to annual meeting in odd-numbered years. Will you co-sponsor this proposal with me? Please reply, "YES". -Harry To clarify GPCO 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: Officers 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. The full draft proposal is on the GPCO Forum at http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=317.msg1648#msg1648 This proposal meets all requirements for direct submission to Council. It should be posted on the Proposal Agreement Seeking board without further delay.
Andrea,We are on it. Details about the March will be posted at http://marchforsciencedenver.org/ as they develop.At this point we have corresponded with Kevin and the Green Party of Colorado will be listed as an official sponsor of the March for Science in Denver on April 22.We are looking forward to a conference call with March organizers. We will discuss opportunities for tabling and speaking and ask about other venues for the march in Colorado that would be close to chapters located far from Denver.We will produce promotional material, with logistics for gathering, for publication on the state party website, Facebook and Twitter.I would think late March or early April will be the right time for publicity to go out. Does the party have deadlines for submitting articles for a monthly newsletter or other publications?More later,Harry
An update:On February 25, I requested this proposal be posted to the Proposal Agreement Seeking board in a message to Co-chairs Andrea Merida and Dave Bell and Secretary Sean Friend, with copies to the co-sponsors.
GPCO Council Facilitator and All,Please find a proposal to amend the GPCO Bylaws below and post it to the Proposal Agreement Seeking board. The proposal was drafted on the Proposal Drafting Board (http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=317.msg1648#msg1648) over the past week. Five council members, including three from the same chapter, are co-sponsors. Thanks, Harry Hempy
The proposal has not appeared on the Agreement Seeking Board and there has been no response to the request, to date.I will leave this topic open on the Proposal Drafting board to track the proposal until it is posted on the Proposal Agreement Seeking board.
Thanks, Scott and Veronique. I just sent a letter to Kevin Hennegan, Scott and Veronique to get communications established.This March for Science on Earth Day will be HUUUGE!
Seeing no more comments, I did a final edit of the proposal, adding the following co-sponsors: Harry Hempy (GBGP Co-chair), Carolyn Bninski (GBGP Co-chair), Kevin Alumbaugh (GBGP Council Representative), Scott Lupo (Jefferson County Council Representative), and Judy Harrington (Poudre Valley Council Representative)I believe the proposal is ready to begin agreement seeking on the Proposal Agreement Seeking board.I'll notify the Council Facilitator now.
I have (just now) modified the draft to incorporate Judy's research. I will give this draft a couple days, to see if there are any other comments.
I've been planning to do the March for Science in Denver for some time now and I'd be glad to coordinate with Kevin Hennegan on behalf of GPCO. It will truly be a nationwide event.I'd like one or two people from other chapters "co-coordinate" (if that is a word) with me. Volunteers?
Veronique, Thanks for explaining that.The fact remains that Andrea forbade my access to ColoradoGreenParty.org solely on her own authority, in gross violation of GPCO Bylaws. She tried to cover it up by secretly restoring my access.
Andrea, I challenge your ruling that commentary other than AGREE or DISAGREE is inappropriate for a proposal in agreement seeking on two counts:1. The permissible positions, stated at the beginning of this proposal, are AGREE, STAND ASIDE, or BLOCK; not AGREE or DISAGREE.2. This proposal is currently in agreement seeking. Discussion and possible amendments are part of the process. How could one ever hope to reach agreement on something without the possibility of discussion?Please reconsider your ruling.
Details, for Council members, are at http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?topic=306.0
Veronique, I did not say the webhost invigilated my access.It was coloradogreenparty.org owner/administrator/tech support person Andrea Merida.If you look up coloradogreenparty.org on Whois.com you can see the phone number and email address for the site owner, administrator and tech support, all of whom are Andrea Merida.
Andrea,I will resubmit our proposal for the annual meeting to be held on May 6 with more co-signers, as you request.But I am baffled by your ruling that the proposal, with five co-sponsors, is out of order. Please reread Judy's comments about rule 3.5.3 carefully. Rules section 3.5.3 has NEVER been used to require three members from the same chapter to co-sponsor a proposal. Of the 17 proposals considered in 2015 and 2016, only 2 proposals, 005-16 and 007-16, met that requirement.Do you, as Council Facilitator, intend to start enforcing rule 3.5.3 consistently?Harry Hempy, Co-chair, Greater Boulder Greens
