1) Proposed by Stewart Kautsch, Bergen County
(Term Limits). Section 5.1, paragraph (c), to have the following sentence
added. "An exception is made for the office of Treasurer."
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2) Proposed by
Stewart Kautsch, Bergen County
(Term Limits). Section 5.1, paragraph (d), to have the following sentence
added. "An exception is made for the office of Treasurer."
Nature and Intent: "Technical" positions such as
Treasurer are often exempted from term limits because of difficulties in
recruitment of such positions. We need to consider the possibility that GPNJ
may not grow sufficiently in the next few years to head off a lack of a
Treasurer.
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3) Proposed by Stewart Kautsch, Bergen County
(Convention delegate to member ratio.) Section 7.3, paragraph (a), to have
the following sentence added. "If the Ratio is not 1:1, the method for
selecting delegates from counties without a Local Affiliate shall be
determined by the Executive Committee."
Nature and Intent: On the other hand, we may
experience rapid growth and find it
necessary to implement a "Representative-to-Member" ratio greater than 1:1
before we have Affiliates covering all GPNJ members. (We may
have other good reasons for implementing such a ratio, anyway.)
Section 7.3 *assumes* that all GPNJ members can be members of a Local
Affiliate, but this is not at all the case. The third proposed change would
at least allow us the possibility of not disenfranchising a good portion of
our membership.
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4) Proposed by George DeCarlo, Union County
Bylaws proposal to change the concern for the Second Vice Chair
(Section 5.4 - Second Vice Chair)
This proposal is being made to correct the bylaws due to the limited
definition regarding the Second Vice Chair thought and intended to be a
Diversity Chair. The following wording is to be stricken "women and people
of color" replaced by "traditionally disenfranchised groups."
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5) Proposed by Norman Zboray, Somerset County
In Section 12 ("Amendments") change the wording from "written notice has
been made to all members " to "the bylaw proposals were posted on the
official GPNJ web site ".
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7) Proposed by Nick Mellis (Mercer).
The following proposal would replace and or add to Section 5.2. of our
bylaws.
Redifining the role of State Chair. This proposal if passed would take
affect with the election of the state chair in 2007.
Starting in 2007 the chair of the GPNJ will be considered a 'full time'
position. Full Time being defined as follows: The state chair person would
not be a part of any committees or subcommittees either on the national or
state level. The person would be elected to focus 'full time' on the growth
and administration of the day to day business of the state party. The state
chair would also not be able to run for any public office while serving as
state chair. The state chairperson would be mandated to visit all twenty one
county's meetings in the state of New Jersey. For the purpose of furthering
the growth of that county local. If no county local exists then the chair
will visit that county with the intended purpose of finding a group of
people who would be willing to help start one. When the state chair has
personal business to attend to the chair will clearly state that to the
email list serve that he/she needs time off due to family or work. The state
chair will also give out a report on email and on a monthly basis on
progress being made to grow the GPNJ. This includes visitations, etc.
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8) Proposed by Gregory Lane (Cumberland)
Name change amendment
Section 1-Organization Name and Purpose-(The word Citizens would be added to
Green Party of New Jersey to make it the Citizens Green Party of New Jersey)
so the statement would read "The organization shall be known as the Citizens
Green Party of New Jersey."
Paragraphs 2 (excepting the name, if a name addition is made) and 3, which
outlines our purpose as a Progressive Political Party remains unchanged.
However, Paragraph 4 should read as follows: "We uphold a vision based on
the four pillars of the Global Green movement: ecological wisdom, social
justice, grassroots(/participatory) democracy, and nonviolence."
Purpose and intent: Adding the word Citizens to Green Party of New Jersey
gives a greater identification with those voters not aligned with us, who
believe we are an ecological-based organization rather than the
multi-faceted party
we really are. The alteration in paragraph 4 of Section 1 brings us in line
with the four principals of the Global Greens Charter, which lists
grassroots
democracy as participatory democracy. The two terms are combined as they
represent the same concept: but in doing so, it must be stressed what we
call
Grassroots Democracy in the GPUS Value System is Participatory Democracy to
the
Global Greens.
[Editor's Note: The Global Greens Charter can be found at
http://www.global.greens.org.au/charter.htm ]
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9) From Nick Mellis, Mercer County, pertaining to our National State Reps.
If elected to the national Green Party governing body (aka Green National
Committee) Our Ste Rep's would be required to do the following. The persons
elected would be responsible for voting in at least 80% of all votes posted
by the GNC. The two Represenitves would be responsible to contact the GPNJ's
two alternate's to the GNC in order to vote in place of our Rep(s) who are
unable to vote for whatever reason. Our national Reps also need to make our
Green Council aware of upcoming vote with enough time so that the Council
may debate the merits of such proposal and recommend our reps as to how they
should vote. A voting record should/would be kept
on the GPNJ web site as to the voting record of our national reps. The
proposal and how our reps voted would be posted on our web site for all to
see. Our national reps and the alternates would be required to present
national proposals to the GC list serve as soon as they receive them. So
that the Council can have the maximum time available to discuss and come to
a conclusion on them. In order to focus more on their core mission our
National Reps would be permitted to only belong to one national and one
state committee at a one time.
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10) From Nick Mellis, Mercer County
Modifications to the Green Council Email list on Yahoogroups. The following
persons would be allowed to be a member of the GPNJ Green Council listserve.
Only Members in good standing would be allowed to be on and participate.
Members defined for this list's purpose as:
1. Registered Green Party Office Holders (Partisan and Non Partisan). 2.
Registered Green Party County Coordinators or Representives to the Green
Council.
3. Registered Green Party Past Party officers. These people would have to
request that they stay on the list and verify that they are registered green
within their counties.
The list would be maintained by the Chair and Co-Chair of the GPNJ. Thus
ownership of the list would change with each election of officers.
