AGENDA - COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING
			       GREEN PARTY OFFICE
		    NOVEMBER 13, 2002, 6:30 - 8:30 pm


Convene meeting 6:30 p.m.

1.	Minutes/ Treasurer's Report - 15 mins.- Magali & Karine

2.	Filling Treasurer position - all

3.	Election statistics, review and discuss - all

4.	Office maintenance and change in Lease - 15 mins. -Karine
	[see below]

5.	Discussion: Proposal for Meeting changes - Karine - 15 mins.
	[see below]

6.	Working Group Update; Campaign - Magali, Karine, Robyn  - 10 mins.

7.	Status of State Rep position - Magali

8.	Dates for 2003 General Membership Meetings -  Jimenez- 5 mins.

9.	Plans for Selection of Delegates to January Plenary - Jimenez- 10 mins.

10.	Discussion: Zero Point/Overunity Systems/video possibilities
	Jan Kregars - 5 mins. - Jimenez

11. Info on Voting irregularities

12. Adjourn

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PROPOSAL FOR OFFICE LEASE CHANGE

This is a proposal to change the names on the office lease
from Karine Megerdoomian and Robyn Ardez to Green Party of
San Diego County. The GPSD office has been advertised as such
in the community and among Greens, it has helped us tremendously
in outreach and organization, and was a great asset for our 
campaign efforts during the November 2002 election. It is obvious
that the GPSD needs to do all it can to maintain this office space.

The renting of an office is in complete accordance with the GPSD 
Two-Year Strategy Plan approved by the County Council and the General
Membership in 2002, which included the renting of an office space as
one of the goals for the first year.

Several members have made donations towards the office. In addition,
a few members have volunteered to become sustainers, thus covering half
the office rent for the first six months. The County Council should make
all efforts to organize an office fundraiser and establish an office
sustainer program in order to set aside the rent amount for one year. The
office rent should be included in the overall yearly budget of the GPSD.


PROPOSAL TO MODIFY MEETING FREQUENCY AND TYPE
(Informal Text)

(1) Core Group
I would like to propose regular and frequent meetings of the "core group"
which would consist of all elected county council members, but not the
representatives from locals. The "core group", in theory at least, consists
of the active members of the GPSD with a vision about the future of the GPSD
and an interest in developing strategies for achieving these goals.
This group should meet often enough like once a month or even every two
weeks.

(2) County Council
The full county council would also include delegates from all local groups
and would meet every two months only. These meetings will be geared towards
coordination of county strategy and goals with the locals.
One of the problems we are having now is that the local group
representatives do not have the time to attend county council meetings where
most of it is not really directly related to local business. By separating
the "core group" meetings and the general county council (including local
reps) meetings would help in getting delegates to attend. Specially that
these meetings will consist of only issues that are directly relevant to the
locals, local groups' updates on their projects and issues, discussion of
strategy implementation within the local groups, how the county can help
locals in achieving their goals, etc. This group will meet every two months.

This structure of "core group" in addition to "county council" or
"delegates" meetings would allow us to gear the meetings towards the people
present and would help us cut on wasted time.

(3) General Membership
The General Membership is the one that suffers most of low attendance. I
suggest that we cut those meetings to, let's say, every 3 months. Our
current bylaws say "The General Membership shall meet at least once every
three months, but may be held more frequently as determined by the County
Council."
The hamburg greens hold their general membership meetings every 6 months
and it's mainly for discussion and decisions on issues such as endorsements,
general policy or platform decisions. Sometimes however they may have an
emergency meeting to come up with a position on e.g., the war on Iraq.