Tuesday,
February 18, 2004
Park Hill Library
Present:
Bruce Meyer; Denver
Dave Chandler; Arvada
Rob Roper; Denver (non-Green)
Matt Baldwin; Thornton (non-Green)
Lanny Kness; Thornton
We
met in the sitting area upstairs next to the fire place without any
interruptions. Next month we don't have the community room and
might move the meeting to secure a room. April, May, and June we have
the Park Hill community room reserved.
The
Denver Resolution to the GPCO Council, promoting no Green Presidential
Candidate on the Colorado ballot, was discussed at length. The arguments
of public perception, media attention, Green volunteer involvement,
Anybody But Bush, and party growth were raised along with a couple
other notable reasons on both sides. Voting on Council ends Feb. 22.
Dave
C., Rob, and Matt are against the resolution. Bruce and Lanny are
in favor. Which brought up the point that three of our four Council
members will be voting No which Bruce believes is not representative
of the active Greens in Denver. Brad Klafehn might vote Yes only to
represent the positive view, as he personally opposes the resolution.
This transitioned into selection of another Council representative
from Denver to replace Brad Klafehn (after the current vote). Brad
is GPCO Treasurer and therefore votes on Council through that position.
Lanny volunteered and was accepted by consensus. Our current Council
representatives are:
Bruce Meyer
Dave Chandler
Sunny Maynard
Lanny Kness
Brad Klafehn is on Council as GPCO Treasurer and Bruce McNaughton
is on as GPCO Secretary. If Sunny stays on as GPCO Co-Chair she could
give her Denver seat to another as she votes as Co-Chair. I was informed
by Lucy, Council Facilitator, that Lanny cannot vote on the current
item as voting has already commenced. So his position starts February
23rd.
Dave Chandler and others are prepared to start the Jefferson County
Green Party and Dave presented Bylaws to create such a chapter. The
split of Jefferson County from Denver GP was approved by consensus.
Dave will present the new chapter at the state meeting April 24th
and once approved Denver will amend its bylaws to remove Jefferson
County. Dave had presented the new chapter as a Jefferson-Adams County
chapter, though it was decided Adams should create its own chapter
as soon as people are available. Notably, both Lanny and Matt are
from Adams County and could be the core of a chapter there sometime
this year.
We
introduced the next Denver GP fundraiser, a bluegrass concert at the
Soiled Dove downtown Denver, Saturday April 3rd. Josh Whitley is spearheading
this effort and as he was not present could not give us further details.
Dave, Bruce and Lanny all agreed to help and consider Josh the project
lead on this effort. We will be putting a deposit down for the Soiled
Dove and for a band. Tickets will be $18 pre sales, $20 day of show.
Our break-even number is 225 tickets. If we fill the place we look
to clear around $1500. More details soon.
Possible
candidates for the November ballot have come to our attention through
the distribution of a candidate recruitment appeal written by Rick
Van Wie. We have some interest from a local Denver person and a Douglas
county person. Dave and Lanny agreed to look into their inquiries
and determine what offices we are considering. Bruce agreed to send
Lanny the voting research available to assist in the process of locating
good offices to challenge. As we confirm further interest we will
introduce possible candidates and the March 16th meeting will be a
meet and question session for prospective candidates.
Two
Co-Chairs have recently stepped out of their positions. Christy Bouchard
has returned to school and cannot continue as Secretary. Many thanks
to Christy for her efforts in keeping meeting minutes, website design
and upkeep, and her many hours put into the December fundraiser. Randy
Richter needs to step out as Co-President as he needs to focus otherwise
at this time. Thanks to Randy for helping with meeting organization,
events and the fundraiser.
We
nominated Lanny Kness as Secretary and he accepted the position. He
will serve as Secretary and if need be we will confirm him next month.
Welcome Lanny.
We
still need another Co-President to complete our four Co-Chair positions.
Anyone ready to serve? A suggestion to nominate Rick Van Wie was made,
though Rick was unavailable for comment. More soon.
We
believe Christy is willing to continue to update the DGP website,
though Dave is ready and willing if he buys a new computer. So Dave
will talk to Christy about this for future transfer of responsibility.
In
discussion of GPCO officers, it was brought to the attention of the
group how Sunny currently is the only GPCO Co-Chair. (there should
be two) Sunny has mentioned a need to have a replacement while she
takes some extended vacations this year. Lanny volunteered to be considered
for a Co-Chair position. The group agreed to support him for this
office. We will talk to Sunny to see if Lanny should apply for her
seat or the open seat. Acceptance of Lanny will need to go to Council
for discussion and confirmation.
We agreed to sign up for the People's Fair, taking place June
5th and 6th at Civic Center Park. Bruce will send in the registration
fee. Please reserve some time in your schedules to volunteer on the
5th or 6th.
Next
month we might reserve a room at the downtown library just to be sure
we can meet successfully if 10 or 15 show up. Then we would return
to Park Hill in April.
Meeting
Adjourned.
Minutes by Bruce Meyer
