<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Thank you for the minutes of the </span>February 11 meeting that I missed. The description of how</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">we arrived at conclusions seems authentic even down to the losses in collective memory. And</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">I am far from displeased with resulting decisions. Firstly, I am indeed delighted that I no longer represent the GBC on Adcom. I always found this difficult. But I am especially pleased that John has made this political commitment at this time. As for organizing regional conventions every four years, meeting the legal requirements has been done variously. But the underlying principle — letting as many registered Green-Rainbow people know as possible has worked. Even ads in local newspapers have been used. The last time I did it it was with Joanna, and we managed to send out several hundred letters. The main event was a panel discussion that attracted close to thirty people. Postcards are a good way to go, and there is no need here to mention candidates. </font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">I am also delighted at the choice male co-chair and consider David Rolde to have a better understanding of what the Green-Rainbow Party means to Massachusetts than most people.</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">His admiration for the work of Chuck Turner makes this clear.</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">I will report on my activities as a Green-Rainbow Party member in Cambridge in a separate letter.</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""> ~ Elie Yarden</font></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2020, at 12:53 PM, John Blumenstiel via GBC-Business <<a href="mailto:gbc-business@greenrainbow.net" class="">gbc-business@greenrainbow.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Draft minutes of the February 2020 meeting of the Greater Boston Chapter (GBC) of the Green-Rainbow Party
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by David Rolde
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Held Tuesday February 11, 2020, at 7pm at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) building, 2161 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
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1.Come to Order
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Persons present at the beginning of the meeting: Jamie McLaughlin (co-chair), Mike Vaglica, Mike Heichman, Brian Cady, John Blumenstiel (treasurer), David Rolde (secretary) = 6 members present. No quorum. 7 is needed for quorum [We attained quorum later: Maha Visnu Gray and Michelle Fahey arrived during the meeting]
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1.b. Approval of previous meeting minutes.
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Mike H asks to add a discussion of having a possible bylaws change to lower quorum. We add that near the end of the agenda.
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Brian asks to add discussion or proposal about sending postcards to GRP members about the GRP Regional Conventions. We include that in the Outreach for Regional Conventions agenda item
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Brian reports that there is a possibility of mailing postcards to registered GRP members about the regional conventions. There are approximately 500 GRP members in each region. The postcards will cost $0.35 each to mail, and approximately $0.15 each to print, i.e., $250 to print and mail for each region. There is some money from a fundraiser and some money in GRP printing budget. GBC could pay part (half?) of the cost of postcards to the two regions that we are organizing regional conventions for. We don't know when the postcards can be sent. The timing depends on when David Gerry gets the addresses of the GRP members to us. We don't know if the cards will be sent before or after the March 3 GRP Presidential Primary. The postcard can have approximately 125 words on it.
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