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DRAFT Agenda, GPLAC County Council meeting, February 11, 2018

Green Party of Los Angeles County • County Council Meeting Agenda
Saturday, February 11, 2018 • Teleconference
1:45 call in to get settled
2pm to 5pm: Meeting

Co-Facilitators: Ajay Rai and Timeka Drew
Minutes: Mike Feinstein
Time Keeper:  Linda Piera Avila
Vibes Watcher: Cordula Ohman

1) Welcome and Introductions - All attendees (ten minutes)

2) Opportunity to amend agenda and/or add emergency items (ten minutes)
Presenter: Facilitators
• Relevant By-Law 9-5.5 Once distributed, the Agenda may not be changed until the meeting. The time and order of already agendized items may be amended by a 3/5 vote.  New agenda items may be added by a 2/3 vote.

3) Decision: Election of GPLAC Female Co-coordinator (fifteen minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Rai in role as co-coordinator

Background: GPLAC Bylaws 6-1.1 provide for one-year terms for GPLAC Co-Coordinators (http://losangeles.cagreens.org/bylaws/2017-03-12#section6-1): "The Council shall elect two Co-Coordinators, one male and one female. Within each four-year County Council term, there shall be four consecutive one year Co-Coordinator terms. The first one year term shall commence with the first meeting of the newly elected County Council and the last one shall end when the subsequent County Council holds it first meeting. The voting procedure shall be by Instant Run-Off (IRV), using a simple majority threshold, and including the No Other Candidate option, as referenced in the GPCA Bylaws (Section 7).”

The terms of GPLAC co-coordinators Marla Bernstein and Ajay Rai http://losangeles.cagreens.org/officers commenced in July 2016 http://losangeles.cagreens.org/county-council/minutes/2016-07-10 and were to run for one year, but no election for new terms was on the July 2017 County Council agenda.  At the September 10, 2017 County Council meeting, Ajay Rai was elected male co-coordinator, leaving the female co-coordinator position vacant. The terms of whomever is elected at this meeting will run through July 2018.

Thus far the seat has remained unfilled.  At the December 12, 2017 County Council meeting, Timeka Drew indicated her interest in running, if/when she is appointed to fill a County Council vacancy, and until then, would work in a voluntary supporting role to the Male Co-coordinator.

3) Decision: Election of GPLAC Female Co-coordinator (fifteen minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Rai in role as co-coordinator

Election: Female co-coordinator position

4) Report: Treasurer’s report (five minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Doug Barnett, GPLAC Treasurer

5) Decision: Approval of minutes from October 22, 2017 meetings (five minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Feinstein

http://losangeles.cagreens.org/county-council/minutes/2017-10-22

6) Decision: Approval of minutes from December 18, 2017 meetings (five minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Feinstein

http://losangeles.cagreens.org/county-council/minutes/2017-12-16

7) Discussion: Update upcoming Standing General Assembly, including GPLAC bylaws proposal to GPCA, (twenty minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Feinstein

Background: See items attached at end of agenda

8) Decision: Appointment of Delegate to Standing General Assembly vacancy (ten minutes)

Background:  Current GPLAC SGA delegate Gwenn Morreale has offered to step down for the remainder of the 2017-2018 SGA term, if the County Council wants to appoint someone to replace her.  Timeka Drew has asked to be appointed to the SGA

Proposal: Appoint Timeka Drew as a GPLAC SGA delegate

9) DIscussion: Update on efforts by GPLAC endorsed Green candidates to qualify for the ballot in Los Angeles County (fifteen minutes)

Background:  Dueñas, Feinstein, Mejia, Mollet
http://lavote.net/Apps/CandidateList/Index?id=3793

10) Decision: Endorsement of Rachel Bruhnke for State Assembly (fifteen minutes)
Sponsors/Presenter: Rai in role as co-coordinator

Background: GPLAC Bylaws 5-2.9 Elected and Appointed Office http://losangeles.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-02#section5-2.9  state that among the responsibilities of the County Council are to

5-2.9(a) Develop an overall Green electoral strategy for Los Angeles County.
5-2.9(b) Develop Green Party members as candidates for partisan and non partisan elective and appointive office.
5-2.9(c) Endorse Green Party members who are candidates for public office and make a statement of support for candidates for public office who are not Green Party members

Green Party member Rachel Bruhnke is running for State Assembly.  Endorsement requires a 2/3 vote with at least 3/5 of County Councilmembers voting.

GPLAC Rules and Procedures Article 7: Endorsed Candidates http://losangeles.cagreens.org/rules/2016-11-13#ARTICLE_7 states: Any endorsed candidate shall be expected to campaign in a manner that
- accurately represents the decisions of the Green Party of Los Angeles County, the Green Party of California and the Green Party of the United States, including endorsement of other candidates;
- generally supports the principles and policies of the Green Party of California platform and any additional issue and policy positions taken by the Green Party of Los Angeles; and where there is a disagreement between the positions of the endorsed candidate and those of the Green Party of California and/or the Green Party of Los Angeles County, be willing to state how this is so and why;
- does not misrepresent the candidate's own record nor that of others and makes a good faith effort to be factually correct;
- does not use prejudicial, biased, or offensive language, images or graphics with respect to race, gender, ethnicity, physical ability, spirituality, sexuality, or age;
- is in compliance with all applicable laws regarding being a candidate for public office

GPLAC Rules and Procedures 5-4.3 Use in Support of Endosed Candidates http://losangeles.cagreens.org/rules/2016-11-13#ARTICLE_5 state: Candidates endorsed by the GPLAC County Council shall have an email announcing their endorsement sent by the GPLAC to all registered Greens in their district for whom the GPLAC has email addresses. Endorsed candidates shall have a minimum of at least one additional email sent on their behalf in both the primary election and the general election (where there are both). The County Council shall retain the option to send to send additional emails at its discretion.

Proposal: Endorsement of Rachel Bruhnke for State Assembly

11) Decision: Endorsement of Rodolfo Cortes for U.S. House of Representatives (fifteen minutes)
Sponsors/Presenter: Rai in role as co-coordinator

Background: GPLAC Bylaws 5-2.9 Elected and Appointed Office http://losangeles.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-02#section5-2.9  state that among the responsibilities of the County Council are to

5-2.9(a) Develop an overall Green electoral strategy for Los Angeles County.
5-2.9(b) Develop Green Party members as candidates for partisan and non partisan elective and appointive office.
5-2.9(c) Endorse Green Party members who are candidates for public office and make a statement of support for candidates for public office who are not Green Party members

Green Party member Rachel Bruhnke is running for State Assembly.  Endorsement requires a 2/3 vote with at least 3/5 of County Councilmembers voting.

GPLAC Rules and Procedures Article 7: Endorsed Candidates http://losangeles.cagreens.org/rules/2016-11-13#ARTICLE_7 states: Any endorsed candidate shall be expected to campaign in a manner that
- accurately represents the decisions of the Green Party of Los Angeles County, the Green Party of California and the Green Party of the United States, including endorsement of other candidates;
- generally supports the principles and policies of the Green Party of California platform and any additional issue and policy positions taken by the Green Party of Los Angeles; and where there is a disagreement between the positions of the endorsed candidate and those of the Green Party of California and/or the Green Party of Los Angeles County, be willing to state how this is so and why;
- does not misrepresent the candidate's own record nor that of others and makes a good faith effort to be factually correct;
- does not use prejudicial, biased, or offensive language, images or graphics with respect to race, gender, ethnicity, physical ability, spirituality, sexuality, or age;
- is in compliance with all applicable laws regarding being a candidate for public office

GPLAC Rules and Procedures 5-4.3 Use in Support of Endosed Candidates http://losangeles.cagreens.org/rules/2016-11-13#ARTICLE_5 state: Candidates endorsed by the GPLAC County Council shall have an email announcing their endorsement sent by the GPLAC to all registered Greens in their district for whom the GPLAC has email addresses. Endorsed candidates shall have a minimum of at least one additional email sent on their behalf in both the primary election and the general election (where there are both). The County Council shall retain the option to send to send additional emails at its discretion.

Proposal: Endorsement of Rodolfo Cortes for U.S. House of Representatives

12) Decision: Set Next County Council meeting dates (fifteen minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Rai in role as co-coordinator

Background: The next GPCA General Assembly is Saturday/Sunday, June 9-10, and the GPUS Annual National Meeting is likely July 19-22.

13) Decision: Endorse AFI3RM Women's March (ten minutes)
Sponsors/Presenter: Dueñas

Background: http://www.af3irm.org/af3irm/2018/01/forward-to-a-feminist-future-statem...

Proposal: Endorse AFI3RM Women's March

14) DIscussion: GPLAC Bylaws regading filling County Council vacancies (ten minutes)
Sponsor/Presenter: Feinstein

Background: Section 8-3 Nominations

8-3.1 Nominees must be registered Greens within the District they wish to represent, and must also gather as many signatures of registered Greens in the district on a petition as defined in 8.4, as would be normally required by the County Registrar to appear on the ballot in that district, for the purposes of being elected to the Los Angeles County Green Party County Council; or for the County Council meetings of March 12, April 23 and June 4, may gather five signatures of registered Greens in the district on a petition as defined in 8.4 and to be appointed, would need 80% approval from the County Council

8-3.2 Any nominee that has satisfied the conditions as stated in 8-3.1 may request that a vote be taken either at the next County Council meeting as long as the nominations have been submitted by the agenda-submittal deadline, or may request that the County Council vote by email, or by teleconferencing, if a teleconference is already scheduled. The Co-Coordinators must agendize the vote as requested by the nominee. If the vote is to occur at an in-person meeting or teleconference, it must be agendized as the first order of business, except if there are elections under 5-2.4 agendized, in which case consideration of appointment of the nominee shall be agendized immediately afterwards.

ATTACHMENTS

Election: Coordinating Committee, unscheduled vacancy, one male seat, remainder of July 2017 - June 2019 (secret ballot)

Three candidates have applied within the deadline sent out in the notice for these open seats - Randy Hicks, Josh Jones and James Lauderdale. Their bios are listed on the link accompanying this election. The close of the application period is 11:59pm tonight, so there may be more candidates. 
COMPLETELY POSTED except if there are more candidates before midnight tonight. 
 
Election: GPUS Delegation, unscheduled vacancy, three alternates, remainder of July 2017 - June 2019 (secret ballot)
Four candidates applied within the deadline sent out in the notice for these open seats - Rodolfo Cortes, Timeka Drew, Adam Siegel and Jesse Townley.  Their bios are listed on the link accompanying this election.
Note that this election was the result of a CC Bylaws Interpretation
COMPLETELY POSTED 
 
 
Bylaws Interpretation: Election of GPUS Delegation Alternate seats 
This is the bylaws interpretation made the CC during the summer of 2017, that approved the special election to fill three GPUS Delegation vacancies. Apparently SGA administrators chose not to place it on the fall 2017 SGA, in contradiction to GPCA bylaws, nor given that decision, was it then brought to the November Ventura General Assembly, which would have been the next way to comply with GPCA bylaws.  Now it is finally bering brought forward to the SGA.
Note that the content of the findings does not correspond to the Interpretation approved by the CC, as the final Interpretation that was approved by the CC was for a proposal that was to arrive at a different Interpretation, and the findings for it itself were not amended with that change.  On the CC’s February 5 agenda, appropriate findings will be considered to accompany this Interpretation before it goes to the SGA.
INCOMPLETELY POSTED, AS FINDINGS NEED TO BE AMENDED BY COORDINATING COMMITTEE AND THEN POSTED
 
 
Bylaws Interpretation: Endorsement of Statewide Ballot Measures
This is the bylaws interpretation made the CC during the fall of 2017, that gave the CC the authority to endorse the Top Two repeal ballot measure.  In violation of GPCA bylaws, it was not brought to the November Ventura General Assembly. Given that, it needs to be placed before the SGA now. 
COMPLETELY POSTED 
 
 
Approval: Minutes, General Assembly, June 10-11, 2017
These are the draft minutes produced by Mimi Newton.  They should have review by the State Meeting Planning Committee and the CC before sent to the SGA
COMPLETELY POSTED, EXCEPT TEXT MAY BE AMENDED BY COORDINATING COMMITTEE BEFORE BEGINNING OF SGA
 
 
GPCA position on Prop 68: SB 5 California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018
This proposal is awaiting publication on February 20 of analysis by the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the pro/con statements from the Secretary of State’s office
Note this is a ranked-choice voting, as per GPCA Bylaws
INCOMPLETELY POSTED, PENDING ADDITIONAL TEXT FROM LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE, SECRETARY OF STATE AND GREEN PARTY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
 
 
GPCA position on Prop 69: Proposition 61: ACA 5 Motor vehicle fees taxes: restriction on expenditures: appropriations limit
This proposal is awaiting publication on February 20 of analysis by the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the pro/con statements from the Secretary of State’s office
Note this is a ranked-choice voting, as per GPCA Bylaws
INCOMPLETELY POSTED, PENDING ADDITIONAL TEXT FROM LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE, SECRETARY OF STATE AND GREEN PARTY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
 
 
GPCA position on Prop 70: ACA 1 Resolution Chapter 105, statutes of 2017, Mayes Greenhouse Gas Reduction Reserve Fund
This proposal is awaiting publication on February 20 of analysis by the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the pro/con statements from the Secretary of State’s office
Note this is a ranked-choice voting, as per GPCA Bylaws
INCOMPLETELY POSTED, PENDING ADDITIONAL TEXT FROM LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE, SECRETARY OF STATE AND GREEN PARTY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
 
 
GPCA position on Prop 71: ACA 17 Resolution Chapter 190, Statutes of 2017, Mullin Ballot measures: effective date
This proposal is awaiting publication on February 20 of analysis by the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the pro/con statements from the Secretary of State’s office
Note this is a ranked-choice voting, as per GPCA Bylaws
INCOMPLETELY POSTED, PENDING ADDITIONAL TEXT FROM LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE, SECRETARY OF STATE AND GREEN PARTY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
 
 
Bylaws Amendment: Article 12-4 GPUS Delegation Elections
This bylaws amendment is currently in the discussion/voting period by the GPUS Delegation and a decision will be made by Thursday, February 8.  If it is approved, it will be left on the site, if not, the proposal will be removed.  The reason that this proposal is numbered #19, is that a proposal from the GPUS Delegation to amend its bylaws was originally schedule to be proposal #19 back in 2013, but for various reasons it was pulled at the last minute.  As a result, this space has been left as a placeholder since then, and it makes sense for this text to be numbered here, as it would be listed in the section in which other bylaw changes were made to accommodate the SGA, as is much of this proposal.
COMPLETELY POSTED, PENDING FINAL APPROVAL BY GPUS DELEGATION
 
 
Bylaws Amendment: Bylaws Amendment: Elections Eligibility and Timing for Coordinating Committee
This proposal from two county parties was sent to the Bylaws Committee during the summer of 2017 in compliance with GPCA Bylaws, that specify that all bylaws amendments from a county party must be sent to the Bylaws Committee first.  This proposal was sent to the bylaws committee twice during the summer of 2017, but apparently was never forwarded by the Bylaws Committee to the SGA administrator for the fall 2017 SGA.  Therefore in order to comply with GPCA Bylaws, it is placed upon this agenda.  
Note that this proposal originally contained text regarding elections for both the Coordinating Committee and the GPUS Delegation. But assuming that the GPUS Delegation sponsors its own proposal to make those clarifications, this proposal will only contain language addressing CC elections.  It is currently posted as such, but will be amended later in the week based upon the GPUS Delegation’s Decision.
COMPLETELY POSTED, PENDING RESULTS OF GPUS DELEGATION DECISION ON ITS OWN ITEM

 

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