Minutes for Monroe County Green Party general meeting*
Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 7:00 PM
Monroe County Public Library Auditorium
Facilitator; Auden Thomas
Introductions: Attendance, Total 12;
Attendees: George Murphy, Auden Thomas, Isabel Piedmont, Tiffany
Price, Jason Hojnacki,
Jeff Melton, Rebecca Riall, Dan Hussey, Nell Weatherwax, Steps to
Freedom/Sean Bagley,
Benji ____?,Alex Bowden.

Approval of minutes tabled till December 3rd meeting.
Agenda was approved.
Announcements
Campus Greens have paperwork in place to restart the group, yet still
need a faculty or staff sponsor.

Reports
MCGP Coordinators:
Treasurer (Auden Thomas): Auden reported the bank balance at $
501.00.
Secretary (George Murphy): George reported the membership totals 53
full members and approximately 473 supporting.
Technology (Larry Meehan): Not Present
Media (David Boyer): Not Present. David has not been active for
several months. George will contact David to find out if he plans to
become active in this position.
Campus Greens: (Tiffany Price) Tiffany reported the Campus Greens
have paperwork in place to restart the group, yet still need a
faculty or staff sponsor.
Green Party Liaison:(Steps),Steps reported he has been in contact
with the GPUSA, and has also sent them a letter. He hopes to
determine the relevance of the GPUSA and if further communication is
worthwhile.

Four Pillars Working Groups:
A general discussion began regarding what happened to forums.
Ideas were discussed on how better to organize future event(s).
Nonviolence (Jeff Melton): Jeff moved that we vote on joining a group
interested in building a political party around the I-69 movement.
Jeff will provide more information on this.
Grassroots democracy (Dan Selvaggi): Not Present
Ecological wisdom (Isabel Piedmont): No report
Social justice: *(Benji) Benji volunteered to fill this position.
Living wage coalition (Steve Gardner): Not Present

Other:
Shadow government: Isabel reported that the City Council has passed
the GPP .The next step is the Zoning commission.

Campaign Debriefing
Jeff Melton received 1.5% of the vote district-wide and 6.5% in
Monroe County. Jeff called this a great showing for a party that did
not even exist two years ago. The number one lesson learned was we
had a serious lack of people needed to run this campaign.

Julie Roberts received 15% of the vote in district 2,Bloomington.




New business;
We discussed the next election, and the possibility of working with
some democrats. Isabel suggested the possibility of a `slate'
approach for the `at large' seats.
Greens Party members present at this meeting were not enthusiastic at
the idea of supporting any so-called progressive Democratic candidate
following the outright lies and general Green Party bashing from
democrats after the election.
Nell suggested that new and old business be moved to the beginning of
the agenda rather than the end.

Dan Hussey will be the Facilitator for next MCGP meeting on December 3

Meeting adjourned at 8:40PM.