PROPOSAL NUMBER: 022-03

PROPOSAL SUBJECT: The Summit County Green Party be reinstated as an active chapter of the Green Party of Colorado

PRESENTER: Alison "Sunny" Maynard, GPCO Co-chair

TIMELINE EFFECTIVE:
Indefinite

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The Summit County Green Party had no representative at the last State Meeting and has been "Inactive" on the GPCO Council for longer than the six months following the April 26, 2003, State Meeting at which these amendments to the Bylaws were approved:

3.1.1 A Green local shall be placed in Inactive Status if it fails to send any representatives to a state meeting or if it fails to have representatives vote for three or more consecutive votes on the council, or if it no longer has any active members on the council. Council members will be considered inactive if they do not vote on three consecutive votes. They will be notified of their status by the Council Facilitator immediately upon missing the third vote. They can be reactivated by notifying the Council Facilitator that they wish to be reactivated and by voting on the next Council vote. Council representatives cannot be reactivated in an Inactive or defunct local. For absence at a state meeting, the local will be notified by the Secretary within one week of the meeting. Once placed in Inactive Status, a local will not be counted in the quorum for votes and its representatives will not be allowed to vote. For missing votes on the Council, the local will be notified by the Council Facilitator immediately upon failing to vote for the third time, or when it no longer has any representatives on the Council.

3.1.2 A Green local can be removed from the Green Party of Colorado for any cause by a vote of at least 75% of the voting Greens at a state Party meeting, or by consensus of the Council, not counting the local being removed.

3.1.3 A Green local can be reinstated to Active Status by submitting a written request (email is acceptable) for reinstatement to the Council or to a state meeting, listing its new active members for the Council and being approved by at least a 60% vote of the voting Greens at a state meeting, or by at least a 60% vote of the Council.

3.1.4 If a Green local has been in Inactive Status for more than six months, it will be considered to be defunct and will be removed entirely as a Green local. To be reinstated, the local will have to go through the same procedures as a new local.

JUSTIFICATION/GOALS:This proposal would keep a chapter, that is apparently very active locally, also active in the decision making process of the State party organization. This chapter is presently close to being "defunct" and having to "go through the same procedures as a new local" to be reinstated.

FULL PROPOSAL:
Email received from Doug Malkan of the Summit County Green Party: "Could you please reinstate Summit Greens as a chapter in Colorado since the chapter is and has continued to be active. Summit Greens has an elected representative in the Breckenridge Town Council who has brought bio-diesel to the town and is a national model by running it in our altitude and weather, we ran a candidate in the last election for county commissioner and received 37% of the vote, we are actively opposing the war and cyanide mining at the moment, and we have an issue on the ballot in today's election for clean indoor air.
We agree to the bylaws of GPOC and will have one representative to the council (we are allowed 4) as follows: Doug Malkan", dougmalkan@yahoo.com