[fgp-chat] Agenda of Jan 28 GPVA Business Meeting

[Dr. Christopher Fink]

Dear Virginia Greens,

We will hold our next state party business meeting on Sunday, January 
28, by teleconference from 1pm to 4pm. Any member may join this meeting 
using either a phone or internet connection. Details on how to join will 
be sent to the business list several days before the meeting.

NOTE TO LC MEMBERS: PLEASE PREPARE WRITTEN REPORTS AND SEND THEM TO THE 
BUSINESS LIST AT LEAST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE MEETING.

The major business item on this agenda is the election of officers and 
delegates. Please review the positions that will be elected. If you 
would like to nominate someone (or self-nominate) for any of these 
positions, please let your local representative know and he can forward 
the nomination to the co-chairs and business list. ALL NOMINATIONS MUST 
BE ANNOUNCED AND AGREED TO BY THE NOMINEE BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON THE DAY 
BEFORE THE MEETING. Nominees should send a brief statement to the 
business list-serve to familiarize members with their qualifications.

Thanks,

Sid & Tamar, co-chairs

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AGENDA OF GPVA BUSINESS MEETING ON SUNDAY, JAN 28 2018.

LOCATION: Teleconference meeting using FreeConferenceCall.com. 
Call/login details to be provided a few days before the meeting. 
Participants will need access to a computer and the internet in order to 
cast votes. Non-voting members may fully participate by phone.

TIME: 1pm to 4pm

(For purposes of calculating quorum, currently active locals represented 
at at least one of the previous two scheduled business meetings were 
Arlington, Blue Ridge, Charlottesville, Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Hampton 
Roads, Lynchburg, New River Valley, Richmond, and Shenandoah.)

INTRODUCTION (10 mins)

Choose facilitator, note taker, timekeeper, vibes watcher.

(Notes for our new members: Anyone can be take on any one of these roles 
for a business meeting. If you would like to volunteer to take one of 
these roles you are free to do so, or someone may nominate you to do so. 
In the event two or more people are interested in serving in the same 
role, a co-chair will poll the members present regarding their 
preference. Facilitators should be familiar with both consensus practice 
and parliamentary norms, and possessed of both patience and 
self-confidence.)

Ratify agenda. (5 min)
Approve minutes of last meeting. (5 min)

OFFICIAL REPORTS (3 mins each -- total 30 mins)

(Detailed reports should be submitted in writing to the business 
listserve, and highlights only briefly summarized at the meeting.)
Co-Chair's report.
Treasurer's report.
Webmaster's report.
GPUS delegates and committee members' reports.
Local reports.

OLD BUSINESS

Confirmation of LC interim decisions: (5 mins)

     Committee appointments: Sid Smith to DRC, Tom Yager to 
Accreditation, Tamar Yager to Finance
     Social Media Guidelines

Review of election (10 min)

Report and recommendation of the Committee on Committees. (20 min)

Review of website progress (10 min)


NEW BUSINESS

Proposal (from Faifax Green Party) to endorse the Wolf-PAC Resolution 
(below). (20 min)

ELECTIONS (60 mins)

(Note: officer and delegate elections are a "major decision" under bylaw 
Para. 10.3. Voting members will cast their vote online using OpaVote.com.)

Press Secretary
General Secretary
Co-chair (nominally male or "not female"; see bylaws Para. 14.1.1.)
List-serve Moderator
National Delegates (2 delegates, 2 alternates)


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Virginia Resolution to Restore Free and Fair Elections in the United States
Applies to Congress for a limited national convention for the exclusive 
purpose of proposing an amendment
to the United States Constitution that will restore balance and 
integrity to our elections.
WHEREAS, the framers of the Constitution of the United States of America 
intended that the Congress of the United States of America should be 
"dependent on the people alone" (James Madison, Federalist 52); and
WHEREAS, that dependency has evolved from a dependency on the people 
alone to a dependency on powerful special interests, through campaigns 
or third-party groups, that has created a fundamental imbalance in our 
representative democracy; and
WHEREAS, Americans across the political spectrum agree that elections in 
the United States of America should be free from the disproportional 
influence of special interests and fair enough that any citizen can be 
elected into office; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia states that 
“all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people,” 
that government is “instituted for the common benefit,” and the people 
have the inalienable right to reform or alter their government for the 
public good (Article I, Sections 2 & 3); and

WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution requires Congress 
to call a convention for proposing amendments to the federal 
Constitution on the application of two­-thirds of the legislatures of 
the several states; and
WHEREAS, the Virginia Legislature perceives the need for an amendments 
convention in order to restore balance and integrity to our elections by 
proposing an amendment to the federal Constitution that will permanently 
protect free and fair elections in America by addressing, inter alia, 
issues raised by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) 130 S.Ct. 876 and 
related cases and events, and desires that said convention should be so 
limited; and
WHEREAS, the Commonwealth of Virginia desires that the delegates to said 
convention shall be comprised equally of individuals currently elected 
to state and local office, or be selected by election, in each 
Congressional district for the purpose of serving as delegates, though 
all individuals elected or appointed to federal office, now or in the 
past, be prohibited from serving as delegates to the convention, and 
intends to retain the ability to restrict or expand the power of its 
delegates within the limits expressed herein; and
WHEREAS, the Commonwealth of Virginia intends that this be a continuing 
application considered together with applications calling for a 
convention passed in the 2013-2014 Vermont legislature as R454, the 
2013-2014 California legislature as Resolution Chapter 77, the 98th 
Illinois General Assembly as SJR 42, the 2014-2015 New Jersey 
legislature as SCR 132, the 2015-2016 Rhode Island legislature as HR 
7670 and SR 2589, and all other passed, pending, and future applications 
until such time as two-thirds of the several states have applied for a 
convention for a similar purpose and said convention is convened by 
Congress.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the people of the Commonwealth of 
Virginia speaking through its legislature, and pursuant to Article V of 
the United States Constitution, hereby apply to the United States 
Congress to call a convention for the exclusive purpose of proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America that will 
restore free and fair elections as described herein, as soon as 
two-thirds of the several states have applied for a convention for a 
similar purpose; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chief Clerk of the Virginia [House of 
Representatives or Senate] transmit copies of this resolution to the 
President of the United States; the Vice President of the United States 
in his capacity as presiding officer of the United States Senate, the 
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Minority 
Leader of the United States House of Representatives, the President Pro 
Tempore of the United States Senate, to each Senator and Representative 
from Virginia in the Congress of the United States with the respectful 
request that the full and complete text of this resolution be printed in 
the Congressional Record, to the presiding officers of each legislative 
body of each of the several states, requesting the cooperation of the 
states in issuing an application compelling Congress to call a 
convention for proposing amendments pursuant to Article V of the U.S. 
Constitution.

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B. Sidney Smith
GPVA, Co-chair
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