GREEN FOCUS EDITORIAL BOARD TELECONFERENCE MARCH 31ST, 2004 Notetaker: Alfonso Acosta Present: Don Boring, Laura Wells, Robyn Oetinger, Karine Megerdoomian, Stuart Bechman, Alfonso Acosta, Kyra Moore, Andrew Nguyen, Larry Cafiero. 1ST ITEM: CONTENT AND GREEN FOCUS Don: wants a couple of lead articles. Two issues, Peter Camejo endorsing Ralph Nader and Don wants an updated article about Matt Gonzalez. Laura: forwarded articles to Don from February 8. Karine: Need to add on agenda on Kyra being added to Editorial Board Robyn: wanted to know about issues for next issue of Green Focus. Don: suggested that the next issue is fresh with ideas. Include information about GP Convention and who will be the Presidential Nominee for the GP. Also, the Ralph Nader issue. Karine: said she spoke with Forrest Hill. Mentioned he has information on candidates running for GP offices. Also, wants "Wesley-intiative" in the next issue of Green Focus. Kyra: suggested clean money campaign information and both sides of the Wesley initiative and the Terri Baum campaign as vital issues. Don: agreed with Kyra; wants an editorial section dedicated to Wesley initiative. Karine: wants each candidate to send in a profile to GF, or Forrest Hill can compile info. and also a summary of San Francisco plenary accomplishments. Laura: agreed with Karine to have Forrest Hill get involved and to gather candidate profiles. Don: agreed. Robyn: mentioned Berkeley passed IRV, also Sonoma recently. She said she can forward to Don a press release from Sonoma so he can put in GF. Don: said he will take forwarded info. from Forrest Hill for Candidate's Bios, IRV info. from Jo Chamberlain and Greg; and Matt Gonzalez and Wesley initiative info. for next issue. Andrew: said Steven Hill would be great for IRV info. Karine: wants an article about plenary decisions made in SF; will use a press release. Robyn: wants GP Convention info. Don: agreed with Robyn's idea. Robyn: said on-line discussions for issues in next GF should continue. 2ND ITEM: DEADLINES FOR NEWSPAPER Don: May 1st submissions deadline and all information to him by May 1st so he can edit and deliver to layout by May 14th, Russell then gets the 15th; and 5/21 GF goes to the printing company. Laura: said printing company needs a week to do the job. Robyn: said GF should be printed by the 28th of May and will be distributed at June 5th plenary in Sacramento. 3RD ITEM: CC Robyn: CC will discuss GF Karine: said there are two issues at next CC teleconference. Michael Borenstein may ask, if GF should remain part of GROW, or move it to Media or CC. The second issue for the CC will be the newspapers distribution. Robyn: worried that some members of CC are concerned about contents of GF. Said next CC Meeting is Monday April 5th at 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Don: didn't want to be part of the CC teleconference, suggested Robyn and Stuart only participate. And said, he prefers GF stay a part of GROW. Robyn: agreed. Karine: said she doesn't want to see the CC controlling the GF and doesn't think it belongs under the Media operations. Laura: suggested to Kyra to read the GF Annual Report 2003 just published. Kyra: agreed with Karine's points concerning leaving GF part of GROW. Don: wants the GP to have an independent newspaper. Specifically, the GF should not be an ad-hoc of the CC; he mentioned perhaps spinning-off GF to operate autonomously. Kyra: said GF should be independent or stay under GROW. And recommended both sides be argued in detail over the upcoming months. Robyn: recommended the discussion continue on listserve and that an artificial deadline for the discussion be April 5th. 4TH ITEM: CLEARINGHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION Robyn: how much should CC know about self-sustaining proposal? Laura: how about a proposal deadline? Robyn: GROW needs to reach a consensus before a proposal is submitted to CC. Laura: Robyn and Stuart have a draft proposal to submit to CC. Robyn: agreed. Don: agreed. Robyn: discussion of proposal. A two-part proposal and will formally be submitted at next plenary (sacramento); points will include: a self-sustaining budget and distribution/administration Kyra: agreed with two-part proposal. Karine: wants county's to bid for distribution. Clearinghouse will not be doing Gf distribution; wants the bidding process. Budget Committee deferred this to the CC at plenary. Robyn: asked, will budget be submitted to General Assembly or CC? Don: isn't San Diego taking on the subscriptions? Karine: Yes. San Diego is. Don: That's fine with me. Robyn: feels discussion hasn't covered proposals that may be offered to CC;-needs more feedback from listserve; wants GF to be protected! Karine: Don't go through the CC, but through the General Assembly for the self-sustaining budget proposal. Robyn: agreed with Karine's sentiment. 5TH ITEM: HOW MUCH COUNTY DISTRIBUTING GF SHOULD BE PAID? Stuart: $100-200 per month or pay the respective county each issue. Robyn: agreed with Stuart. Karine: suggested $200 per month for the county. Robyn: said CC may say "no" money for the county distributing GF. 6TH ITEM: ANNOUNCEMENT/DECISION ITEM Kyra: stated she wants to be an editorial member of GF and did an introduction of herself and qualifications. Don: said he had reviewed her resume on-line and was very impressed. Robyn: said a consensus had been reached to accept Kyra as new member of GF. 7TH ITEM: GPCA ISSUES Don: wants a GF issue before next Presidential election in November. Laura: agreed. Karine: agreed. Also wondered whether (webmaster) Eric Barr should be on the GF editorial board listserv. Laura: suggested someone ask Eric what he needs. Karine: said someone needs to update the parts of GF website that she was taking care of (i.e. about pages) and that we needed to look for a volunteer. END of Call