The co-coordinators shall insure that the coordinating committee's actions and decisions are in accordance with the GPCA bylaws, and the GPCA-CC's own internal rules.

Specific duties to include:

• Coordinators will maintain regular phone and email contact with each other including weekly to bi-weekly phone meetings (more often when needed.)
• GPCA-CC and Plenary Meetings:

1. Compile agendas for CC meetings, utilizing feedback and suggestions from all CC members, both voting and non-voting.
2. Coordinate appropriate venues for CC teleconferences, meetings, and retreats.
3. Facilitate monthly teleconference and other CC meetings, unless otherwise arranged before meeting time.
4. Be responsible for facilitation and presentation of new delegate orientation at GPCA plenaries, including other presenters as necessary and appropriate.
5. Introduce CC members and officers to plenary body.

• Monitor and facilitate the CC email list to help the flow of information and to maintain a working decorum among CC members:

1. Read all email posted to the CC list
2. Respond to emails that are asking general questions on policy, procedure and other decisions. Make determination to respond to individual or to whole list.
3. Determine whether content of posted emails should be directed to an individual or CC ad-hoc committees instead of whole list and contact sender accordingly.
4. Facilitate online discussion by helping to focus, summarize and move discussion forward.
5. Determine whether there is a need for an online vote. Determine time constraints. Set up and run the vote.
6. Keep CC list serve roster updated. Communicate with Technical Assistant regarding CC members/officers to be added or removed from CC list serve.

• Monitor & help to Facilitate Completion of Tasks and Decisions:

1. Maintain an updated task list, to include individual tasks, and CC ad hoc committee tasks and committee memberships.
2. Contact CC members/officers for updates on task completion/progress. If tasks are not getting done help problem solve, including reassigning tasks if necessary.
3. Assist committees that are not functioning by helping to problem solve structural and procedural road blocks, or if resolution is time sensitive and urgent, by stepping in to assist, including to coordinate committee.
4. Contact CC members/officers not engaged with tasks or meetings and help to facilitate a resolution.
5. Be persistent in pushing tasks to completion. Bring tasks back to meeting agendas until completed or no longer valid.
6. Facilitate and maintain an open line of communication between the CC and SC/WG co-coordinators.

• Provide Communication and Assistance to CC members:

1. Help to orient new CC members to tasks and responsibilities of the CC.
2. Provide communication assistance to any CC member whose on-line capabilities are compromised due to technical failure.
3. Facilitate and maintain communication with those not able to attend meetings, and those non-voting CC members whose attendance is not specifically required, i.e. Liaison to Sec. of State, Tech assistant, Spokespersons, Secretaries to the CC.