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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	735
Proposal	Fiscal Policy: Housekeeping Changes
Presenter	Finance Committee
Floor Manager	Katey Culver
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	01-13-2014 - 01-26-2014
Voting	01-27-2014 - 02-02-2014
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

It is the responsibility of the Finance Committee of GPUS to ensure that Green Party documents relevant to financial matters are both current and accurate. In its dutiful review of the FISCAL POLICY of the GREEN PARTY of the UNITED STATES document, the Finance Committee found a number of minor errors of punctuation, omitted words, redundant terms, and the like in the document. The Committee has prepared the changes to the Fiscal Policy listed just below for consideration by the National Committee, and recommends their adoption.

Proposal

Proposed housekeeping changes to the Fiscal Policy document:

1)  Article 1-Sec.2.1 Omit "provision" and include "Rules," excluding "Rules" at the conclusion of the sentence.

2)  Article 1-Sec.3.9 The "R" in Rules should be capitalized.

  3)  Article 1-Sec.3.11 The "T" in Treasurer should be capitalized.

4)  Article 5-Sec.2.3 Omit "each one's" and substitute "their" in line 3.

5)  Article  6-Sec.2.1(a) The comma before "and" should be after "and" in line 2.

6)  Article  6-Sec.2.2 (c) There should be no comma between "projection" and "that" in line 2.

7)  Article  6-Sec.5.1 (a) sixth line - include "time" after "which."

8)  Article  7-Sec.4.1 Omit "For" in line 2.

9)  Article  8-Sec.1.6 Add "the" before "caucus" in line 3.

10)  Article  9-Sec.2.2.1 Omit the second sentence, and edit the third sentence to read as follows: “Reports from the Accountant and the Treasurer will document this transfer.”

11)  Article  9-Sec.2.2.2 Omit the second sentence entirely.

12)  Article  9-Sec.2.2.3 Period at end of sentence, after "purpose."

13)  Article  9-Sec.3.2 Second sentence - capital "C" in caucus.

14)  Article  9-Sec.6.2 Omit "other" and add "individual" in line 1.

15)  Article  9-Sec.6.2 Last Sentence - comma after "review."

16)  Article  9-Sec.6.3 Omit "are" in line 2.

17)  Article 11-Sec.2.4 (a) Omit "to" and add "shall" in the last line.

18)  Article  11-Sec.2.4 (b) Add capital "S" before "C" in line 5.

19)  Article  11.Sec.2.7 5th line "its", not "it's".

20)  Article  13-Sec.3.6 Add "are fulfilled." at the close.

21)  Article Change the address to PO Box 75075, Washington, DC 20013.

Resources

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References

GPUS Fiscal Policy @ http://www.gp.org/documents/fiscal-policy.shtml#09

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