Minutes from the County Council Meeting, Tuesday, May 22

Presentation by Chi Chin, Sherry Franklin of the Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. They are introducing legislation to ban the sale of fur and animal pelts in SF. The SFGP will draft a letter urging the supervisors to sign on to this legislation. (Note: Susan sent the letters last Friday to all Supervisors.)

New Tenants: We have new office mates: Our Children's Earth. They are a non-profit focusing on Clean Air issues. We will be able to join on many issues as well as share space with them.

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Present: Susan King (facilitator), Kathy Roberts, David Sloane, Jim Dorenkott, Bandi Caro, Dave Wilbur, Bruce Wolfe, Rita Goldberger, Paul Kangas, Pat Villano, Sue Vaughan, Erika McDonald, John-Marc Chandonia, Marc Salomon, Vicki Leidner, John Rizzo, Micheas Herman, Ross Mirkarimi



1) Election Recap

-- 2006: What needs more work:

-- More party recruitment for volunteers for campaigns

-- Better training of volunteers needed

-- Better resource coordination in terms of precinct walking
-- We need a bigger base -- voter registration drive

Attendees: JMC, Rich, Paul, Christy, Ann Garrison

GM agenda (facil by Paul and Christy)

State plenary delegate selection and agenda review - 30 min

May 9 local economic situation teach-in @labor, endorsement
- 10 min, Martin Zehr

Party strategy and goals for year - 45 minutes

CCA - 20 min, Eric Brooks

Announcements - 10 min

Present: JMC, Rich, Christy, Paul Platt, Sue, Razzu, Michael, Peter Warfield (guest)

Library fee opposition endorsement:

Warfield discussed the the proposal to authorize the move from "Inter-Library Loan" to the consortium known as "link+". Problems include a $115 "lost book fee", automating the book loan process from other libraries which appears to be less user -friendly, has a smaller selection, increased fees and many other problems. Mirkarimi and Daly opposed the authorization at committee.

We consensed on writing a letter of our opposition to the board.

CC Members present: Marc S, Rich, Sue V, JMC

Attendees were CC members Erika McDonald, Sue Vaughan, Christina Olague, Marc Salomon, Jazzie Collins. Jim Dorenkott also attended the latter part of the meeting. Rich Stone was also present.
General Meeting agenda was set as follows for February 20:
Facilitators: Christina and JMC
Introductions/accreditation/explanation of consensus process (15 minutes)
Early endorsement of Ross Mirkarimi for District 5 and Mark Sanchez for District 9
decision item (10 minutes) Add Rich Stone to the CC
(5 minutes) Green Building Panel

Present: Marc, Jazzie, Sue, JMC (notes), Micheas (facil), Jim D.

Nominated Erika McDonald to the CC (by consensus).

Retroactively excused Christina O's absence last month. Done (by consensus).

Added WiFi proposal to GM consent calendar (by consensus).

Lease office to NextArts on July 16 for $50; Susan responsible for letting people in, collecting the check, and ensuring office is cleaned up. Approved by consensus.

Attendees: Sue V (facil), Susan, Jazzie, Nancy, JMC (notes), Marc, Micheas, Jim, Christina

CC approved $250 for GROW for a new table. Micheas will buy it.

CC added active members (by consensus): Rita, Barbara Blong, Barbara Early, Mary Anne Greb, Kim Knox, Rosalind Lord, David Fairley, Pam Coxson, Ann Garrison, Charlene Smythe, Ron Dicks, Karl Kramer, Mark Barnes, Herb Mintz, Jamilla Din.

CC agreed to keep several non-active members on the list (by consensus): H Brown, Tran Pham, Jakub Colton, Dave Heller (the good).

Present: Marc, Nancy, Pat, Susan, JMC, Kim, Jazzie, Jim, Eric

Office Lease

Our landlord wants to raise our rent to $1100, and we'll counter with $1000 (consensus). If they reject our counter, we'll look for other places (Mission). JMC will try to attend if Susan can set up a meeting late in the day.

Finances - need to renew lapsed sustainers (expired/canceled credit cards). We should also ask sustainers to let us do direct withdrawals from their bank accounts rather than credit cards.

Present: JMC, Sue, Micheas, Marc, Susan, Kim

Office (Susan): Lease is currently month-to-month. Want to negociate longer-term lease. We want leak fixed, carpet cleaned. Susan will continue to negociate, and bring final lease back to us.

Keys: Several keys still out that we won't get back. We should check whether they're lost and cut new keys if so.

Forrest Hill sublease: we should be sure Forrest abides by the conditions we put on it.

Attending: Micheas, Jazzie, Sue, JMC, Marc, Susan, Caty, Kim

Minutes: JMC

Treasurer - Christine still does not have sig on checking acct or Quickbooks. She has a PC, Dave has a Mac. We need to set up automated billpay. Bottleneck to getting things switched over appears to be WaMu's opening hours. Micheas will take charge of facilitating whatever needs to be done.

Present: Kim (facil), Sue, Micheas, JMC, Marc, Susan.

1. Plenary - a) added Don, Charlene, Sue V as alternates. JMC will submit list to state. b) discussion of issues, and what the delegates decided at their meeting on Saturday.

2. Endorsement policy - CIWG discussed the proposed endorsement policy; Susan promises to type in notes from CIWG meeting. JMC will send her straw poll procedure we used to arrive at ranked choice endorsements at previous meetings. Approval of the policy will be agendized at a future GM (Jan).

Agenda:

i. GM Agenda: 7:30-9:30

Intro, facilitators (Susan and Marc S) note taker (Sue V), agenda OK 10 min

1. Community College bonds -- Prop A, Hopefully Phillip Day and/or Johnny Carter will be able to present for; Michael Goldstein con             : 15 minutes
2. Prop H -- gun ban, hopefully people from both sides of the issue will come: 30 minutes; pro-John Avalos/Bill Barnes; con-Marc Salomon
3. Yes on Prop G -- To be presented by Sue V.: 10 minutes
4.  Prop B -- resurfacing bonds, presented by Sue V.: 5 minutes
5. GPCA update  -- Christina Olague, 10 minutes

4/13/05 CC Meeting

CC members present: JMC, Marc Solomon, Susan King, Caty Powell,
Maureen Deboer, Kim Knox (about 1 hour late), Micheas Herman (over 1
hour late).

Notes: JMC

1) "Stop Arnold" petition. Tom Brown presenting for California for
Democracy. Wants time on GM agenda to endorse their petitioning. 2
websites: californiafordemocracy.com, contestthevote.org, paid for by
their members (no fundraising). Complimentary to "A Better
California" which is also planning to do a petition. Mark Leno is

CC members present: John-Marc C, Marc S, Maureen D, Kim K, Susan K,
Micheas, Katy P

I. County Council Appointments

The SF Green Party may appoint 2 additional people to County Council seats.
Susan K proposed this process begin in March as Micheas has just joined the
GCC. There was commentary and Susan K appended her proposal to begin the
search process in February.

Attendees: Marc Salomon, John-Marc Chandonia (notes). Non-CC: Micheas Herman, Dave Snyder.

8/11/04

CC meeting minutes

CC members: Caty Powell, Kim Knox, Marc Salomon, John-Marc Chandonia (notes), Michael Alterman, Paul Quick

Others: Chris Finn, Micheas Herman, Dave Wilbur, Milton Marks

Minutes-5/12 CC meeting

Present: John-Marc Chandonia, Chris Finn, Carlos Petroni (Carlos), Caty Powell (Caty), Marc Salomon, Michael Alterman, Sujung Kim (SJK), Maureen Deboer, Scott Stewart, Kim Knox, Dave Snyder, Susan King (SK), Dave Wilbur

Facilitators: MD, JMC
Minutes: SJK, edited by JMC

Scott

Attending: JMC, Christy, Paul, Nils, Rich, Amy.

extended GM next week (7-9:30), plus special GM on 9/3 (6-10). Facilitators for 8/27: Rich and Christy. Facilitators for 9/3: Erika and Razzu. JMC will present items.

8/27 agenda:

Consent calendar - yes on B, M, N, T, U, 2. no on C, F, P, S, V, 4, 6, 8.

Followed by 15 minutes total for props with presenters, and 10 minutes total for ones without. JMC will present all items. Short reading/questions, followed by straw poll, followed by consensus process.

9/3 agenda:

Present:  Erika, JMC, Sue, Christina, Liam
Facilitation: Erika plus one

1.  Newspaper
 -- Send email to printer on 10/3
 -- Print 20,000 newspapers on 10/3
 -- ready to mail 2,000 to absentees on October 9 at a cost of about $500 to $700
 -- newspapers will arrive by 10/17
 -- phone bank at 10/17 GM and take phone lists home to continue phone banking
 -- Mail to non-absentees by October 25

Present: Marc S, Jazzie, Pat Gerber, Susan, JMC, Micheas, Charlene, Pierre

1. Candidate brainstorming

Races in 2006:

Supervisors:

D2 - MAP, D4 - Open and Pierre Frayse, D6 - Daly, D8 - Dufty vs AL (?) , D10 - SM vs Charlene Smythe.

CC Board - Wong, Rodis, Carter vs. Bruce Wolfe, KK?

School Board - Chin, Kelly, Lipson vs. Lipson, Jane Kim, DH (?), JJ (?)

Assessor - incumbent vs. Dave Wilbur, Vicki Leidner

Congress D8 - Medea, Matt, Krissy K

St senate - (vs Yee) - same potential people as D8

AD 12 - open vs. Barry Hermanson

Present: Susan, Jazzie, JMC, Marc, Mishwa Lee, Liam.

Meetings with legislators and candidates - idea to use CIWG meetings for long strategy meetings. Rizzo already asked for GM time, but maybe we should have longer meeting at CIWG. Other people to meet with--Jane (possibly with Mark S), Ross, Sarah Lipson. Campaign debriefings - Keefer, Bruce, Knox, Kangas, Hermanson, Drennen.

Present: Micheas Herman, Tom Hubschman, Rich Stone; Jazzie Collins, Sue Vaughan, Christina Olague, Marc Salomon

Notes: Sue Vaughan

At the Monday CIWG meeting, we reached consensus that:

1) We would send questionnaires to: Eric Mar, all Green candidates for
school board adn CC board (Eric Sullivan), other progressives (Jim
Ferrigno);

2) There will be a forum for these candidates

Timeline:

July 12-???: online discussion of which of the 26 questions to use as
filter questions and development of 5 questions to ask candidates at the
forum

July 22: HLU seminar

July 30: Responses to questionnaires will due

CC meeting, 6/9/04

Attending: Kim Knox (co-facilitator), Susan King (Minutes), John-Marc Chandonia (co-facilitator, edited minutes), Marc Solomon, Michael Alterman, Caty Powell, non cc: Hal Looby (Arbitration Cte), Micheas Herman, Chris Finn, Mark Barnes, Dave Snyder (late). No show CC: Paul Quick, Sujung Kim, Maureen Deboer

Present: Micheas, Erika, Jazzie, Christina, John-Marc, Sue, Susan King, Marc Salomon, Jeanne Rosenmeier, David Fairley, Rich Stone

Present: Micheas Herman, John-Marc Chandonia, Erika McDonald, Sue Vaughan, Jim Dorenkott, Marc Salomon, Susan King, Rich Stone, Christina Olague, Jazzie Collins



1. Finances -- about $1,700 to $1,800 in the bank right now
We still don't know if we can get the lower postal rate for our mailing.
Sue wants to do a major fundraiser.



2. GM moved from third to fourth Wednesday of November. Consensus

Present:  Marc Salomon, Sue Vaughan, Micheas Herman, 
Jazzie Collins, Christina Olague, Jim Dorenkott, 
Susan King
Absent: John-Marc Chandonia, Erika McDonald, Charlene Smythe

1) Finances:  estimated cushion of $500 above expenses for
the next month; We owe the state $1,500.00; We will be 
getting from John-Marc as he drains the Paypal account 
slowly.  We have about $2,100.00 in the account now.  Rent 
check -- on July 30, Christine McC mailed it, returned to 
sender.  We may have to open a third account for local 

Present: Jazzie Collins, Jim Dorenkott, Susan King, Nancy Lewis, Christina Olague, Charlene Smythe, Sue Vaughan, Mike Petrelis

1) Mike Feinstein and update on state party

2) Affirm active membership (we are still waiting for HLU, West Side Greens, Energy,

Bruce Allison

Rob Arnow

Tommi Avicolli-Mecca

Terry Baum

Don Bechler

Medea Benjamin

Andy Blue

June Brashares

Eric Brooks

Dennis Brumm -- energy/peak oil

John-Marc Chandonia -- CC, Rules, GROW

Chin Chi -- Animal Advocacy

Walter Cidlowski -- CIWG

Present: John-Marc Chandonia, Jazzie Collins, Christina Olague, Susan King, Sue Vaughan, Jim Dorenkott, Pat Villano, Micheas Herman, Marc Salomon, Nancy Lewis, Rita Goldberger, Liam Woods-Smith, Ray Tobey

I. Meeting with Matt -- included Matt Gonzalez, Vicki Leidner, Kim Knox, Paul Platt, Christy Melia, Kathy Roberts, Ray Tobey, Dave Peterson, Chin Chi, Rosalind Lord, John Radogno, Erika McDonald

II. Fund raising update
a) Letter to donors:
-- Get Matt or Ross or both to sign the party
-- JMC: 2,000 labels and letters = about $100
-- PV: 2,000 #10 envelopes = $200

Present: John-Marc Chandonia, Jim Dorenkott, Micheas Herman, Susan King, Marc Salomon, Sue Vaughan, Kim KNox, Bruce Wolfe

I. Slate card -- we need a committee: Rosalind, Pat Villano, Paul Platt, Rob Arnow: Sue will take care of creating the committee; JMC will continue to work on web page.

II. Senate candidates at May 24 event -- Sue will contact

III. Treasurer -- we need a report, we won't buy her Quickbook. Get Dave Snyder to export into Quickbooks format and export to her.

IV. GM agenda
Facilitators: Marc and Sue
Timekeeper:
Note taker: Susan King

Agenda 
     I. GM agenda 
    II. Finance update 
   III. Active membership list.
    IV. Working Group Budget 
     V. Fundraising 
    VI. New CC 

Members Present: Susan King, John-Marc Chandonia (facilitator), Kim
Knox, Maureen DeBoer, Micheas Herman (note taker)

Members absent: Marc Solomon, Kate Powell, Sujung Kim 

Guests: Bruce Wolfe, Ray Tobey, Dave Snyder(treasurer), Charles Kalish,
Charlyne Smythe.


     I. Treasurers Report (attached):
              * Banking fees are double amount budgeted. Events are
                double budget. 

Here are the minutes from the CC meeting this Tuesday, June 18:

Agenda:

1. Intros, Announcements, Agenda revisions, etc.

2. Rent Club fundraising report Dave Snyder

3. Revise bylaws re: active membership

4. Change from 2 Green meetings to one business meeting and one activist
meeting

6. set agenda time to vote on Newsom's Compassion not Cash initiative.

7. Office search update

Decisions:

Rent Club: Each CC member is expected to recruit at leaset 3 sustaining

Announcements;

1. Greens are marching in the Cesar Chavez parade.

2. Election Training May 18, 9:30-4:00 followed by reception. Susan King,
Kim Knox organizing.

3. Larisa Casillas plans a People of Color Caucus, for people of color to
discuss their reasons for becoming Greens and improving involvement by
people of color.

FUNDRAISING

The County Council approved, as a time-sensitive decision, a finance
committee plan to invest $460 in a fundraising letter. Discussion of the

At our first meeting on April 3, the Endorsement
Working Group discussed and agreed upon a timeline
that would help to guide our work and allow for a
transparent endorsement process. Working group members
who were present and participated in the meeting,
included Rob Arnow, Don Eichelberger, Susan King,
Kimberley Knox (co-chair), Janet Nudelman, and Larisa
Casillas (co-chair).

We believe that the SFGP endorsement process needs to
be a fair, thoughtful and transparent process for
Greens and candidates/campaigns alike. To allow for

After meeting with Jay Pond, Green candidate for US
Congress, for more than one hour, the EWG will propose
recommending Jay Pond at the next general meeting on
April 24.

Jay came to the EWG with a well-developed platform
that includes the following issues:

FIG meeting at June's House (April 10, 2002)

10 people showed up to phone bank from 7-0pm



Eric Brooks presented the issue of the turbine power peaker plants being considered for BVHP. Consensus to support opposition to these plants when there are options that can be explored for energy.



SPECIAL HEARING ON PEAKER PLANT: Friday, Oct 19 11:00 am Rm 263 City Hall.



2ND PHONE BANK? Next Weds, Oct 24th. 6:00-8:30. Dinner served to all volunteers.



Congressional resolution to condemn Turkey for the Armenian genocide during WWI.

Discussion of Sonoma retreat - Jim, JMC, Susan, David gave their perspectives on what went on at the GPCA retreat.

GPCA plenary in SF on Memorial Day weekend. People who want to help Susan and Bruce plan should email Susan, funking at mindspring dot com. Also, people who want to register but can't afford the registration fee can apply to the GPCA for financial aid; contact Susan for details. Sue Vaughan should invite Richard Heinberg to present a seminar/workshop.

SFGP special endorsement forum and 1st round of endorsement decisions

Candidate presentations and Q&A: 10 min each, including questions

Tian Harter

Larry Cafiero

Mike Wyman

Laura Wells

Todd Chretien

Barry Hermanson

Forrest Hill

Mehul Thakker

Krissy Keefer

Consent Calendar - Endorse Chris Daly's proposal requiring disclosure to buyers if tenants were evicted in order to sell a building. Endorsed by Consensus.

Endorsements:

Barry - endorsed by consensus.

Krissy - endorsed by consensus (1 stand-aside)

General meeting minutes: we had a very short meeting followed by a holiday party. Susan King and JMC facilitated. The only items were a report-back from the GPCA plenary in Davis, and a second reading of the Bylaws ammendment splitting the M&A board into 2 groups: Rules and Mediation (passed by consensus).

Agenda

I. Intros -- 5 minutes

Agenda approval

Active members

II. Prop A. -- 20

Pro-Johnnie Carter

Con-Michael Goldstein

Resolution: Consensus: No

III. Prop B -- 20

Pro -- Brad Benson and Leah Shahum

Con -- Sue Vaughan

Resolution

8 -- yes

9 -- No

6 Abstain

No position

IV. Prop G -- 20

Pro -- Ross Mirkarimi and John Rizzo

Con -- Kathy Roberts

Yes -- 21

No -- 4

Abstentions -- 0

Yes on G

V. Prop H.

Pro: Bill Barnes

Agenda:
Intro -- 10 minutes: agenda adds, new members, consensus process
College not Combat -- decision
Clean up SF voter roles
Renew CSU -- decision
Affirm CC nominations -- decision
Green Convergence
'GP Nepal Event
Bylaw -- bylaws
WG Updates
Announcements
Community Choice Aggregation endorsement -- decision

Ethics Charter amendment:
Ross -- light agency status, budget from Board of Supervisors
"best practices" funding study, 3 years to best practice funding
Independent counsel -- limited

3/16/05 General Meeting
Facil: Nancy Marmol & Micheas Herman

Notes: JMC

I. Intro

II. Accreditation

People who asked to be added to the active member list for the year. Need consensus or 2/3 vote to add to 2005 active members list.

Dave Heller - added by consensus.

Amrah Salomon Johnson - added by consensus.

Scott Stewart - commented (concerns about process) but didn’t want to be added

General Meeting Notes

10/20/04

Facilitators: Micheas Herman & Sue Vaughan

Notes: Charles Kalish, edited by JMC

Attending: Caty Powell, Aaron, Barry Hermannson, Walter C., Maria, Carlos, Berta, Federico, Susan Vaughn, Micheas, Charles, Marc Solomon, Bruce Wolfe, John-Marc, Kathy Roberts, Maitalal.

Showing up late: Phil Wilkie, old guy with beard, Jesse Powell, Dave Wilbur, Susan King

Intro/Approve Agenda/Accreditation - 5 minutes

Facilitators: Nancy Marmol, Michael Alterman

Notes: JMC

Credentialing:

Added Irene Dick-Endrizzi as active member, by consensus.

Did not add Pat Gerber; vote failed 25y,10n,9a (abstentions more than 25% of yes/no votes)

District 10 recall discussion and proposal: Chris Finn presenting, with Ahimsa Sumchai and Maurice Campbell.

Proposal: support the following statement?

"Given serious deficiencies on the part of the Dept of Elections in
providing information to the proponents of the District 10 recall, the SFGP

5/19/04 General Meeting

Facilitators: John-Marc Chandonia, Maureen DeBoer

Notes: Micheas Herman, Sue Vaughan, Maureen DeBoer (notes indicate when notetaker changed), edited by JMC

Introduction: (5min)

Introduced facilitators, presented agenda. Susan King asked to switch scheduled D5 and D9 endorsement periods; there appeared to be no consensus to do this, so the proposal was withdrawn. Chris Finn raised concern that we had not agreed

General Meeting

3/17/04

Facilitators: Susan King & Joe Morse

Minutes: JMC

Review of state meeting proposals regarding the presidential nomination (45 min) (Susan)

June Brashares: presented Warner Bloomberg's proposal to bind delegates

Marc Salomon: Asked about NOTA. Susan: NOTA wasn

SFGP General Meeting, 1/21/04

Facilitators - Paul Quick (PQ) and Maureen DeBoer (MD)

Minutes - John-Marc Chandonia (JMC)

Intros & Announcements

Susan King (SK) - 2/18 - Women in Politics event at Women

General Membership Meeting

6/18/03

Choose facilitator, note taker

Facilitators - Susan King (SK), Marc Solomon (MS)

Notes - John-Marc Chandonia (JMC)

Announcements:

MS - 9:30 Thursday, Rules cmte, board chambers

MA - Lavender Greens have fliers for Pride; they want 8 Safety Monitors for parade.

MS - Wants to set up a seminar series on Housing / Planning / Land Use issues (thinking Aug-Sep)

JMC - Hand out some MUNI fliers!

Minutes: Terry Baum, edited by John-Marc Chandonia


Facilitators: June Brashares & John-Marc Chandonia

SISTER CITY: Roger Langford, who was appointed to the SF Commission on
Aging by Matt Gonzalez, wanted us to sign a letter Matt has written,
supporting making the city of Mondragon in Spain a sister city of San
Francisco. SF has 14 sister cities, but none in Spain. Mondragon has
more worker-owned businesses than anywhere in the world, and San
Francisco has more worker- owned businesses than anywhere in the US

Notes: Susan King, edited by John-Marc Chandonia

Facilitators: ?

Agenda:

1) Pat Gray, Candidate for US Congress, seat 12 (Lantos)

2) Announcement for new CC member nominations

3) Move to 1038 Howard

4) Announcements

5) Agenda for next meeting (with Matt Gonzalez, 2/25/03)

1) Vote Green, Vote Gray: Pat Gray, San Mateo activist is running against Tom Lantos, a pro war
Democrat. She gave a brief presentation on her views and background and
discussed running a friendly contested primary race with Barry Hermanson,

Facilitators: Susan King & Rob Arnow

Notes: John-Marc Chandonia

1. Intros

2. Announcements


Don Eichelberger - Benefit for Liberation Radio, 93.7, Fri 6/14, Cell Space.
Details TBA.

Susan K - will do booth at Haight St fair in 2 weeks (Sunday, 6/9).

Vi Huynh - Thursday 6/13 7 pm Green Talk w/ Peter & Donna Warren, Beck
Hall in San Mateo. 300 Santa Inez St @ Ellsworth San Mateo. Also 6/20 7
pm: Medea Benjamin, peace & justice for Afghan people @ West Orange
Library, 840 West Orange Ave, South SF. for info on either, call Tom

GREEN PARTY GENERAL MEETING 2/26/02

Facilitators: Lucy Colvin and Don Eichelberger

I. Announcements:

1) Sat. April 13 - Peter Camejo to debate Libertarian Party candidate in SF, no venue selected.

2) Biologic group that put on Rave benefits has invited us to do another
event in early April. Beneficiaries SFGP & Dr. Helen Caldicott for
antinuclear activities. Can we do endorsement via email? (Before late March
general meeting?)


II. Committee and Working Group reports:

A. Outreach

Facilitator: Caleb, Minutes: Susan

Summary of consensus decisions:

1.Consent Calendar: endorse World Car free day

2. Endorsements: endorse Jay Pond for Congress 8

3. Ad hoc outreach: use Afirmative Action to recruit new CC members, guidelines
to be drafted by Janet Nudelman for approval next meeting

4. Arbitration cte: appoint Erika McDonald and June Brashares, recruit one male
candidate to be confirmed next meeting

5. State Coordinating Cte rep: appoint John Marc Candonia as interim rep and

AGENDA:

I. Introductions, choose facilitator, etc.

II. Announcements

III. Presentations/Endorsements

IV. More Endorsements

V. Report on Ralph Nader Visit/Super Rally

VI. SFGP Delegates to State Meeting

VII. Committee Reports

DECISIONS MADE:

1) Endorsement of Props. B, D, F and H on City Ballot for Nov. 6.

2) Endorsement of Medea Benjamin and Ron Dicks for MUD Board

3) Endorsement of IMF, Frankenfoods, and Prison Reform events

4) Endorsement of Ancient Forest State Initiative

Present: Sue Vaughan, Marc Salomon, Micheas Herman, Jazzie Collins, Mark Schwartz, Zadik, Paul Platt, Rich Stone, Bruce Wolfe

Facilitators: Sue Vaughan and Micheas Herman

Notetaker: Sue Vaughan and ???? I left before 9 p.m.

Agenda:

1. Intro

2. Accreditation

3. Muni Charter Reform

4. Holdover appointments --Sue, 15 minutes

5. Public Hearing for Ballot Measures -- Marc, 15

6. WiFi Advisory Proposal -- Micheas, 15

7. No Ads/Billboards -- Christina, 15

Ballot argument:

Present: Bruce Allison, June Brashares, John-Marc Chandonia, Walter Cidlowski, Jazzie Collins, Maxine Doogan, Jim Dorenkott, Denise Dorey, Pat Gerber, Shona Gochenaur, Tian Harter, Vi Huynh, Ana Maria Loya, Jon Martinelli, Erika McDonald, Christina Olague, Slava Osowska, Paul Platt, George Price, Renee Saucedo, Vince E. Turner, Sue Vaughan, Bruce Wolfe

Facilitators: Erika and JMC
Note taker: Sue Vaughan

1. Introductions

2. Accreditation

3. Renee Saucedo and Ana Maria Loya - immigration discussion (45 min)

Facilitators: Jazzie Collins and Marc Salomon
Notetaker: Sue Vaughan
Timekeeper:

Present: JMC, Erika McDonald, Sue Vaughan, Marc Salomon, Susan King, Jazzie Collins, Christina Olague, Paul Platt, Dave Wilbur, Bruce Wolfe, Bruce Allison and Bobby, Terry Baum, Jim Dorenkott, Micheas Herman

1. Intro
2. Consensus process
3. Accreditation
4. Endorsements
a) School bonds (Sarah Lipson didn't come so we are postponing discussion on these propositions)
-- Prop A
-- Prop 1d
-- Prop 88

Postponed until next GM.

b) Parking tax (JMC)

Endorsed by consensus

Facilitators: John-Marc Chandonia and Nancy Lewis

Accreditation -- William Qutami added as active member

Present: Mark Barnes, Terry Baum, Eric Brooks, John-Marc Chandonia, Chin Chi, Jazzie Collins, Walter Cydloswki, Jim Dorenkott, Don Eichelberger, Rita Goldberger, Micheas Herman, Barry Hermanson, Vy Hyunh, Susan King, Vicki Leidner, Nancy Lewis, Rosalind Lord, Erika McDonald, William Qutami, Marc Salomon, Sue Vaughan, Bruce Wolfe, Richard Ross's Volunteer

1) Introductions

2) Consensus Process

Here is a summary of the important decisions (and the not-so important ones)
that were made at our last business meeting, Tuesday, October 23, 2001.

Finances: We have $8,000 in the bank, but don't get too excited, we owe a
lot of expenses, especially to Rob ($3,700 for signs and materials). We
agreed to the following expenses:

$500 for Rob Arnow's stipend

$500 for fundraising (remit envelopes are on the top of the list)

$300 max for an ad in the Guardian

$100 to hire a locksmith to change the locks after the election

Facil - Sue and Bruce

1) Introductions/Consensus process/Accreditation

Philip Perea, Bruce Allison, Michael Kwan, Rose Kenyan, Brian Cutillo, Michael Dane

2) Bruce Wolfe - GPCA report, 15 minutes

General discussion and Q/A about disfunctionality of CC.

Proposal to host spring plenary (probably in May, at the state building). Ray had a concern but stood aside. Consensus.

3) Election recap -- 40 minutes discussion of highlights of recent election.

4) Working group status update -- 5

Reviewed prior statement on middle east:

3 hrs of candidate interviews... see questionnaires posted on our website.

Endorsed by consensus: No on J, No on 7, Weak Yes on 11.

Endorsed by consensus for BoE: Bobbi Lopez, Sandra Lee Fewer (nobody else)

Endorsed by vote for CCB: Wolfe (preferred), Marks, Jackson. Vote: 8-1-1.

No endorsement (tonight) for CA legislature.

No endorsement (tonight) for BART board.

Supervisors (all by consensus):

D1: Mar (sole)

D3: ranked: 1) Chiu, 2) Tony

D4: no candidate

D5: Ross (sole)

D9: Mark (sole)

D7: no cand

Facil: Razzu,

Added Randy Knox as active member. Didn't add Mark Schwartz, for now.

Sunday Streets presentation by Susan King. MAP+Elsbernd want a BoS hearing+approval before any athletic events. Proposal to support Sunday Streets and oppose BoS resolution. FA to include SFGP on endorsement list for Sunday Streets (accepted). Endorsed by consensus. Consensus on opposition to MAP resolution. Susan will draft a letter for the CC to send BoS.

Facil: Erika and Rich Stone (Razzu filling in part of the time for Erika)

Added Vi Huynh as active member for 2008, by consensus.

Proposal from Riva Enteen to send statement to school board saying we're opposed to JROTC, and that we don't want it continued, and that we'll pay attention they next time they're up for re-election. Text: "We will look very closely at the next school board vote on JROTC and will consider the votes carefully when making any endorsements for future candidates." Consensus.

Facilitators: Susan King & Marc Salomon
Notetaker: Richard Stone

-Susan King explains consensus process

-Maxine Doogan discusses/fields questions re: petition drive for the
protection of sex workers from the excessive abuse of law
enforcement(7:43-8:05):

-MD proposes the stoppage of federal money earmarked for 'training' law
enforcement officials to recognize sex traffickers, which at times leads to
wrongful profiling and deportation of sex workers

-MD proposes to stop 'pay-to-work' discriminatory practices

Active members added: J-M Rosenmeier (by consensus)

Charlene Smythe re-added to the CC for the rest of the term, by consensus.

SB1019 endorsement (police disciplinary records being made public) - we endorsed last time, but it was blocked in committee. The one killed in committee was a little broader (included public process for filing complaints, etc); this one leaves more discretion to the locals. Endorsed by consensus (Erika will tell ACLU)

Agenda: I. Announcements; II. Election Detox; III. Post election Forum; IV.
IRV; V. Green Projects. VI. County Council

I. A. Medea is heading for Pakistan on an fact finding tour. Send off
party on Saturday night, 11/14 at Global Exchange.

B. Don Bechler, Healthcare for All- A Sac. Bill with 9 health care
proposals, including single-payer, is being discussed and will hold public
forums throughout the state in January-February. Oakland 2/7. People
interested in taking a day-long workshop on health care issues to be able

Facilitators – John-Marc Chandonia, Erica McDonald

1. Introduction
2. Agenda Review
3. Discussion of Lonnie Holmes.
4. Gang Injunction – Renee Saucedo, and Ross Mirkirmi
   delayed for lack of presenters.
5. Newspaper update
   John Marc Chandonia
   discussion
6. Indicia report
   discussion
7. Bayview report back
   discussion
8. State plenary

In case you missed the meeting last night, the SF Green Party agreed to move
out of 1910 Mission and into 1038 Howard street as of 4/1/03.

The move concludes a nearly year long search for cheaper space and met the
diverse needs of the many activists of the SF Green party. It is a
storefront location, between 6th and 7th on Howard street, near the Civic
Center BART, accessible by all downtown transit nodes. It is fully ADA
accessible, with separate men and women's restrooms. There is an adjacent
community room that is available for use as well as the large 900 square

July 5th, 2005

Attendees: Dave G., Bryan, Tanja, Jennifer, Walter, Mike, Rosa, Dave W.

The draft agenda and revisions were discussed and finalized.

Mid-Market Seminar

Discussed and prioritized panelist options for the July 11th seminar, and discussed topics and questions that interest the group. Dave to contact names mentioned as potential speakers and moderators.

Future Seminars

Mike volunteered to organize a seminar around “Smart Growth

SFGP Housing and Land Use Meeting Minutes

May 17, 2005

Attendees:

Jennifer; Rosa; Emmie; Mike; David W.; Walter; Sarah; Kathi

Mike facilitated, Rosa took meeting minutes.

Agenda Items:

1. Finalize agenda

2. Prepare for next Seminar

3. Seminar Venue

4. Prop 13 discussions – postponed to next meeting

5. State Legislation Update – post postponed to next meeting

6. Housing Element

7. Next Meeting Agenda

8. Announcements

1. Finalize agenda

SFGP Housing and Land Use minutes: March 1, 2005

Attendees:

jennifer donlon; rosa terrazas; marc salomon; emmie zik; david geiser; mike smith; kinya jones; sara dennis; tanya pink; david wilbur; kaye griffin; walter cidlowski

Select facilitator and notetaker

Jennifer volunteered for meeting facilitator and Kinya volunteered to record the minutes.

Market / Octavia Better Neighborhood (BN) planning process (dw)

HLU Meeting, Tue Jan 4th, 2005

Present: Kathi, Jennifer and Dave (Mike and Tanja called with work conflicts and Bryan is on vacation in Brazil. The meeting also conflicted with a party for Matt on his last day at the Board of Supervisors)

Agenda approved

News Items

Present:
John Marc Chandonia, Marc Solomon, Susan Vaughan,
Micheas Herman, Jazzie Collins, Nancy Lewis,
Susan King, Jim Dorenkott.

Add new CC members:

Charlene Smythe nominated by consensus

Compassionate use, Not agendized do to lack of printed text of resolution.

Finance discussion.

Pride - Jeanne Rosenmeyer is one monitor.

Tabling.

Paul Kangas: Susan King will draft an advisory letter for
the General Membership to approve.

This meeting was to determine the SF Green Party endorsement for mayor in
the November, 2003 general election.



Facilitators: Janet Nudelman, John-Marc Chandonia

Vibes: Erika McDonald

Timekeeper: Kim Knox



Bottom line: The SF Green Party endorsed Matt Gonzalez for mayor in the
November, 2003 election.



Some Details:



Guidelines for the meeting were presented, including guidelines for
respectful communication, focusing on respect for differing opinions. These
guidelines will be posted on the web, as well as prominently displayed at

These are draft notes taken by Sue Vaughan, for information only.
No official decisions were made at this meeting.

Bicycles: Leah Shahum -- executive director SFBC,
Rich Coffin -- president, Walk SF, long-time bike coalition and volunteer.

Leah -- bike coalition for six years, bicycling is
transportation

Where we are at SFBC in terms of our priorities:

1) impediments to people bicycling

2) impediments for getting others to bike

3) more people on tandems,bike dating

Number one issue for three to five years:

Present: JMC, Sue, Bruce

JMC will recover current copy of the bylaws/policies, which were lost when the new server bill didn't get paid.

Proposed bylaws changes for GM to adopt:

1) In section 7, change "A quorum for" to "A quorum to make decisions at" ... a GM, and "5" to "9".

2) In section 4, and new L&C section, add statement "The quorum to make decisions shall be at least 3 active members of the WG, C, or L."

Attendees: JMC, Sue, Bruce.

Tabled local/caucus language for now due to lack of time.

Decided to ask the GM for more input on quorum. It seems like last time we had almost reached consensus on WG quorum of 3 and GM quorum of 9, but we should discuss this more.

Proposed bylaws amendment for GPCA plenary delegates:

(at the end of section 8): In the last sentence, add after "may choose" the clause ", by consensus (no fallback vote, notwithstanding section 7),"

Rules Committee Meeting Minutes for July 5, 2006
Present: JMC, Sue Vaughan
Actions taken tonight:
-- submit proposal to CC re. CC attendance policy (background – other CCs)
-- submit proposal to the CC/GM to take a straw poll at GM on questions about locals to help come up with bylaw change to submit in August re. locals
-- submit a bylaw change to renumber the bylaws as a prelude to actually changing them.

Proposed bylaws changes:
A) plenary delegates can only add delegates by consensus of attending delegates present in the county where the plenary is being held

1st meeting of WG; Bruce, Sue, and JMC attended

Set regular meeting time - 1st Wednesday 7-9, by consensus

Parts of the Bylaws we need to prioritize work on

* New section on locals “bill of rights

Attendance: We had quorum! John Marc Chandonia, Susan King, Kim Knox, Sujung Kim, Caty Powell, Marc Salomon, Paul Quick (no: Maureen Deboer, Michael Alterman)
Non CC: Mike (new), Bruce Wolfe, Nancy Marmol (M and A board), Don Eichelberger



Nominate new CC member:
Nominee: by consent, the CC nominates Micheas Herman to one of the three open spots on the SF Green Party County Council. The vote goes to the GM for vote, as follows:



The GM will first try for consensus, failing this, we will elect Micheas by a secret ballot, requiring 50% + 1 for affirmation.

General Membership meeting, final endorsements:



Facilitators: John Marc Chandonia, Nancy Lewisv

Minutes: Susan King

Timekeeper: Erika McDonald




Intro: approve agenda, add new members. Added Liam Woods-Smith by consensus.



Agenda:

Candidate Presentations 1 hour

Supervisors:
NOTA: D 2 NOTA, no questionnaire returned

NOTA: D 4- Janry Mak, Ron Dudum, NOTA

Chris #1, NOTA: D 6- Daly endorsed, Dugovic, possible ranking

ENDORSED! D 8- Alix Rosenthal, Starchild, NOTA ; 12 Yes, 3 No, 4 Abstian

Hot off the press, minutes from tonight's meeting of the SFGP County
Council.

Attending: CC: Susan King, Kim Knox, Sujung Kim, John Marc Chandonia, Paul
Quick, Marc Salomon; non CC: Nancy Williams, Scott Stuart, Nicole Walter,
Charles Kalish, June Brashares, Woody Hastings,

1. Nader Poll. We discussed the process for the statewide poll for the
Nader/Camejo endorsement. We will add the item to the GM for discussion and
submit our results to the state based on the results of the GM. We will
allot the results to the nine votes we have from the SF delegation

Draft minutes of SF Green Party County Council meeting
December 10, 2003

Present: cc: Ron, Susan, June, Caleb, Dave, Janet; others: Terri Baum, Jim Dorenkott, Dave Wilbur

1. Arbitration issues

Arb cmt has been meeting to develop guidelines for safe and ethical communication. An outstanding issue regarding an Inez Casillas complaint against Marc Solomon, which she feels has not been resolved. Arb cmt recommends the following: 1. talk to individuals re: complaint and seriousness, 2. if issue persists, arb cmt will bring formal proposal to cc or gm.

Notes from CC Meeting:

1. Improving CC meetings

Facilitation training: We agreed to ask the facilitation trainer to come to our CC meeting on Nov. 12 to plan what she can do to help us improve our facilitation of consensus process.

Start time of the meeting is moved to 7:30.

Secretary position was dissolved into separate responsibilities: Susan will continue to put together CC agenda and distribute the GM meeting agenda. Dave will take notes at CC meetings. Caleb will keep the list of active members.

2. Dialogue/safe space guidelines

Green party county council, June 11, 2003
Draft minutes

Present: CC members: Davey, Ron, Susan, Caleb, Jerry, Nancy, Kim, Seth;
Others: Matt Spencer, Debbie Gordon

1. Decision: creation/renaming of listserves:

1. County council business
2. Announcements (unchanged)
3. Weekly updates (unchanged)
4. Working groups
5. Members (formerly stafflist)

Davey to deal with getting them set up.

2. Finances

Debbie is willing to return to doing the bookkeeping if there is an
functioning finance cmt (and fundraising, ideally)

Attendance: We had quorum! John Marc Chandonia, Susan King, Kim Knox, Sujung Kim, Caty Powell, Marc Salomon, Paul Quick (no: Maureen Deboer, Michael Alterman)
Non CC: Mike (new), Bruce Wolfe, Nancy Marmol (M and A board), Don Eichelberger

Nominate new CC member:
Nominee: by consent, the CC nominates Micheas Herman to one of the three open spots on the SF Green Party County Council. The vote goes to the GM for vote, as follows:
The GM will first try for consensus, failing this, we will elect Micheas by a secret ballot, requiring 50% + 1 for affirmation.

SF Green Party Energy Working Group 11/14/06

Present: Dennis Brumm, Michaes Herman, Eric Brooks (Facilitator), Ann Garrison, and Don Eichelberger (Note taker)

Agenda: I. WG Co-ordination; II. Peak Oil Resolution progress;III. Expanding focus of the group; IV. Meeting times

I. Group Coordination- Don continues to want to pull back in his coordination of the group, and his preference would be to look for ways everyone can take on some of the coordination, and not be so centralized in to one coordinator.

Discussion:

State Plenary  (JMC)

-JMC saiz don’t raise consensus from 4/5 to 2/3 and against increasing size of the State CC

-Martin saiz not allow consensus process to be blocked. consensus = incorporate input, don’t obstruct vote 

San Francisco Green Party Sustainability Working Group 1/25/07

Present: Eric Brooks, Dennis Brumm, Don Eichelberger, Jeannie Rosenmeier, Anne Garrison

Agenda: I. Peak Oil Task Force Update; II. Biofuels, nuclear and other “answers” to energy and global warming; III. Community Choice/Public Power; IV. Group Focus

I. Peak Oil Task Force- Dennis Brumm- BOS has passed a resolution calling for the creation of the task force under the auspices of the BOS, but not LAFCO. Another hearing will be held some time in February to discus scope and funding.

Discussion:

Facilitators: John-Marc Chandonia and Sue Vaughan

Facilitators: Christina and Jim Dorenkott
Notetaker:

12 noon to 12:05: Intro and accreditation

12:05 to 12:45 -- candidates for sheriff

12:45-1 p.m. -- decision

Present: Liam Woods-Smith, Erika McDonald, JMC, Sue Vaughan, Susan King, Dave Peterson, Jazzie Collins, Paul Platt, Jeanne Rosenmeier, Rich Stone, Jim Dorenkott, Dave Snyder, Micheas Herman, Bruce Wolfe, Marc Salomon, Rita Goldberger, Deborah Doyle, XY-library presenter, Peter Warfield, Collin

Facilitators: Erika and John-Marc

Notetaker: Sue Vaughan

Agenda:

1. Intro and accreditation

2. Prop D -- Library Preservation Fund

3. Consent calendar -- 2 minutes

Prop E -- mayoral question time

Four people present: Eric Brooke, Ann Garrison, Mato Ska, and Dr. Ahimsa Porter-Sumchai.

Meeting chaired by Eric Brooke, attended by Ann Garrison and Mato Ska, a new Green Party member who
has just moved to San Francisco from Albuquerque.

Mato Ska introduced himself and said that Mato Ska was his Native American adoptive name, and that he
had participated on the Stop the War Machine-Albuquerque list that I participate in, and I then realized that
his other name is Martin Zehr, whose posts I had often read on that list.

Mato Ska said that:

Sustainability Working Group 5/31/07

Agenda: I. Pre-meeting discussion; II. CCA; III. Plenary presentation on biofuels; IV. Green washing

Present: Eric Brookes, Facilitator, Don Eichelberger, Note taker, John-Marc Chandonia, Anne Garrison, Jeanne Rosenmeier; Toni

I. Pre-meeting discussion- prior to the start of the meeting, I made note of some of the free-floating discussion on the general topic of creating a sustainable world:

Present: JMC, Eric, Jeanne, Don.

Transpo active members for 2008: JMC, Eric Brooks, Sue Vaughan, Jeanne Rosenmeier, Don Eichelberger, Christina Olague (based on active participation in 07).

Letter writing campaign re: getting better people appointed to the MTA: we suggest Sue Vaughan. If there is a letter writing effort to get the board to reject the MTA appointees and ask the mayor to appoint our people instead, we can sign on to it online. Sue should be one of the people we suggest to appoint to the MTA.

Attendees: JMC, Vi, Eric, Brian Cutillo, Jeanne Rosenmeier

Discussion of Peskin transit amendment. Can't find link on web; JMC will email Peskin's office to ask for draft. 2 main points: dedicate more garage/parking fees to MUNI, and remove salary cap for MUNI operators. We'll try to discuss this over email and at next month's meeting.

Attending were Micheas Herman, Eric Brooks and Jim Dorenkott.
Main topics of discussion were - Free Muni - Transit Riders' Union -
Other Miscellaneous Transportation Improvement Suggestions
(We did not approve previous minutes because, not being regular members,
we did not have them readily at hand, and had also not attended the
previous meeting.)

FREE MUNI

The first hour of the meeting was held only by myself and Micheas, and
we spent the entire hour hashing out a rough proposal for a practical
and reasonably achievable roll out for a free Muni transit plan. The

Present: Pi, Emily, Jerry, Sue, JMC, Linda (Emily's wife)

Minutes: JMC

Emily Drennen - running for BART board this November, but wants early endorsement from the SFGP. The TWG recommends (by consensus) her for early endorsement by the SFGP and Sue and JMC will ask for time on the April (May at latest) GM.

Notes from the TWG meeting on 02-28-06
Present: JMC, Jerry Path, Sue Vaughan, Zabe Bent (SFCTA representative for Geary BRT)

For next month’s meeting
A.
1) Get Jeremy Nelson here, get help with figuring this out.
2) JMC – Hermosa Beach, Santa Monica
3) Sue – check out DPT surveys; find out number of driveways

B. (Later)
4) Is market rate legal? Regina, John Avalos, Marc Salomon – find out how we get a an opinion from a city attorney. Call Ross’s office.
5) Get buy in from Greens? Call it charging a user fee.
6) Name – Guaranteed Space Permit
7) Outreach

Present: Sue, JMC, Christine, Karen Fitzgerald, Mary Zablotny, Ted Hexter, Pierre, Eric

Mary presented info on suicide barrier for GG Bridge. Christine opposes the barrier, but stood aside on the resolution. By consensus, we agreed to support a barrier provided: 1) the funds aren't taken from dedicated transportation funding, 2) the barrier is part of a comprehensive suicide prevention strategy, and 3) the design is both aesthetically pleasing (i.e. doesn't block the view) and structurally sound (i.e. wind shear, earthquake safety, etc). We will take this to the GM in January.

TWG meeting, July 26,2005

Present: Christine, Jerry, Ed, Sue, Eric Brooks at the end

1. Home Depot -- Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center is opposing and asking
people to turn out at a Planning Commission hearing on July 28. Should we ask
this group to send us a proposal? Their opposition is based on increased
traffic and air pollution. We could have a resolution something like this:

Whereas, the proposed Home Depot megastore would be terrible for Bernal Heights
as it would create horrible tie-ups on Bayshore Boulevard and Cortland,
therefore be it

Attendees: JMC, Sue, Ed, Pi.

JMC gave Sue letters regarding deficiencies in the Bike Plan for each Supervisor, describing overall problems and things in their own district. We previously approved them, but finally got them printed.

We agreed to support legislation by Ross on recommending a change in CEQA guidelines that would make it easier to put in bike/ped facilities w/o triggering an EIR. This is consistent with A.10 in our platform, so Sue will write a letter quoting our platform and asking the Supes to support the legislation.

TWG, 3/10/05

Attending: members JMC, Sue, Christine. Guests: Bruce Wolfe, Rick Ruvolo, Ed Chavez

Presentation by Rick Ruvolo, SF Department of the Environment (rick.ruvolo@sfgov.org). Talked about SF Clean vehicle fleet. There are 2 Hydrogen-powered cars and a temporary fueling station that they're planning to upgrade to generate H2 using solar-powered electrolysis.

Present: JMC, Sue V, Jerry P, Sherry Boschert from San Francisco Electric Auto Association (guest), Don Eichelberger from Energy WG.

Consensus on sending several letters drafted by Sue V. regarding our position on GG Park, MUNI fare increases, etc. This is all basic stuff from our platform.

Attendees: JMC, Sue Vaughan, Jerry Path, Christine McClintock. Briefly: Kathy Roberts.

We reviewed changes to the platform plank when it was adopted at last week's GM.

Attendees: JMC, Sue Vaughan, Jerry Path, Christine McClintock.

Business: we made further edits to the platform draft, and
also scheduled another meeting next Thursday at the same time to continue this work.

Present: JMC, Sue Vaughan, Jerry Path

Minutes: JMC

Update speaker affiliations:

MUNI advisory cmte - Oka, paratransit

Hart - SFBC

Leah - SFBC

Emily - former chair, BAC

Cheryl - Pedestrian safety advisory committee

Pi Ra - PSAC, Walk SF

Strassner - PSAC, Sierra Club

Snyder - TLC

Ellen Murray - MUNI driver

Ruach - UTW

Ask Christine to deal with pizza, along with Jerry. 10:15 Sunday.

Facilitator - JMC

Notes - SV (bring JMC computer for info)

SV will invite Pat Murphy, Savannah Blackwell.

TWG minutes

3/11/04

Attendees: John-Marc Chandonia, Selwyn Woodworth, Steve Willis, Sue Vaughan, Lia Wilbourn, Jeremy Nelson (guest)

Minutes: JMC

GGP Update (Steve):

TRO issued against garage in GGP. Judge may issue
an injuction tomorrow morning. Sue Vaughan got an update on the 4
different plans for the GGP garage; hopefully they'll not be needed.
Steve's lawsuit is related to the environmental aspects of the garage;
Kathy's lawsuit is based on violations in Prop J. SW is preparing a
FAQ.

Present: Christine McClintock, John-Marc Chandonia, Sue Vaughn, Kathy Roberts; guest: Kevin McKeown

Minutes: JMC

Co-chair elections

Announcement that these will be held next month; Sue Vaughn expressed interest in running for co-chair.

Membership criteria

Consensus on status quo w/ non-Greens (ok to attend meetings, get on email list, but not becoming voting members). No discussion of possible meeting/event membership criteria, as those who brought this idea forward were not present.

Pedestrian issues

Present: John-Marc Chandonia, Sue Vaughn, Don Eichelberger, Matt Spencer, Dave Snyder, Ted Strawser (guest), Joe Speaks (guest)

Notes: JMC

MUNI discussion

Discussed our various proposals with Joe. 1 cent gas tax legal, but would raise $3 million. (would require vote). Suggestion: make different proposals contingent on each other. Split off chunks of voters (residents vs commuters, but proposing cheaper rates for residents).

Timeline: Charter amendment needs to get on the ballot by mid-July. Need support of supes ASAP.

Attendees: JMC, Steve Willis, Don Eichelberger

Minutes: JMC

MUNI - JMC will get in touch with people who wrote Guardian editorial; Marc Solomon thought they were coming? What's next public hearing on fare hike (maybe 4/8)?

Want to make TWG flier about MUNI to use at tabling over the summer: lobby supes and promote our alternatives. Promote TWG meetings. JMC will coordinate flier design with the tabling workshop. Steve has good printer to print these.

Minutes from TWG meeting, 2/6/03

7:30 pm (regular meeting time is 1st Thursday of every month at 7:30, although this could be changed to accomodate schedules)

Location: Since none of us had a key due to the recent SFGP office breakin, we met at the office, but moved our meeting to City Blend.

Attendees:

John-Marc Chandonia (chair)

Marc Solomon

Steve Willis

Present: Jeanne Rosenmeier, Eric Brooks, Sue Vaughan, Don Eichelberger

1) TALC Regional Transportation Plan --