Meeting Minutes
August 14, 2005
Meeting Started at 12:05
In attendance were Barb, Kimberley, Tracy, Charles, Jason, and Maria with five out of the seven Executive Council members making a quorum.
100 minutes for Agenda items - 30 minutes left for open discussion
I. Greetings/Introductions
We discussed the purpose of Executive Council: Purpose of Executive Council meetings is to take care of the administrative details of the Green Party of Nevada. The focus at executive meetings needs to be on sticking to the agenda and moving forward by making decisions. We would like participants at the Executive Council meeting to be respectful of the duties of the Executive Council.
We explained the consensus process: Five basic steps.
II. Approve Agenda, make additions, deletions, etc.
III. Announcements/Updates
Banking Situation: Barb has contacted Nevada State Bank because they are the only bank that doesn't charge a fee. Any balance we would have had would be reduced through fees if the bank account is at another bank. Boulder Dam credit union might be a reasonable choice.
PROPOSAL --> Charles will look into the Boulder Dam credit union and coordinate with Barb about opening the account and they are empowered to decide whether or not the credit union would be a suitable place to invest our money. -- Reached Consensus, no blocks, no stand asides.
IV. Discussion of meeting guidelines and rules
PROPOSAL --> To hand out Meeting Guidelines at every meeting, explain the purpose of Executive Council Meetings, explain consensus process, and verbally go through the meeting guidelines at the start of meetings. -- Reached Consensus, no blocks, no stand asides.
V. Discussion of fundraising and outreach ideas statewide
PROPOSAL --> Barb, Charles, and Tracy will find out details of card-carrying member program, create a draft of an e-mail to encourage folks through e-mail lists to go to the gpus.org website and sign up as a card-carrying member so the Green Party of Nevada can get half of the $35 membership fee, and bring draft with program information back to the next Executive Council meeting. -- Reached Consensus, no blocks, no stand asides.
Proposals discussed but not consensed to:
Kimberley mentioned some great craft ideas and that these would be inexpensive. She also mentioned that we could have a craft fair where all of us could participate and make the crafts to offer for donations at the Picnic.
(Break)
VI. Discussion of delegate replacement
Tabled for discussion about budget: (We were not clear as to how to allocate donations into this fund versus other expenses we might have.) PROPOSAL --> The Executive Council will create a fund to be used to send two delegates to the national convention each year.
Tabled for discussion and for the general meeting: (We realized that this decision would have to be made at a general meeting by all registered Greens, not just by the Executive Council) PROPOSAL --> Elect two delegates (one from Executive Council and one can be any registered Green) from the Green Party of Nevada to the national convention at the first general meeting after the spring equinox. This state meeting will vote on the various issues being discussed at the national convention and the delegates will be responsible for communicating these views to the national convention. Delegates will be responsible for representing registered Greens in Nevada at the National Convention.
VII. Date of next GM and discussion of what we need for this meeting - 10 mins.
The next General Meeting is on Saturday, October 15, 2005
Still need a location that can accomodate:
Room in Clark County
Room in Washoe County
Proposal to have another Executive Council meeting on the Saturday, September 17, 12 p.m. at Barb's place. -- Reached Consensus, no blocks, no stand asides.
VIII. Discussion of Jason's proposal of dates for next year's meetings
IX. Discussion of meeting places - discussed above in VII.
X. Picnic
XII. Summarizing and Debriefing
Meeting ended at 2:55 p.m.
Minutes recorded by Jason Halprin