Structure of The Green Party Of California
The Green Party has as one of its Ten Key Values the value of Grassroots Democracy. In that vein, the Green Party of California (GPCA) is committed to operating in a manner which empowers the registered Greens in the state to have as much say as possible in all policy decisions of the GPCA.
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Press Contacts and Spokespersons
The Green Party of California is a partisan political organization that exists under the California State Elections Code. State law defines how we participate in the electoral process, but leaves much of our internal organization up to us.
Organizational Chart
The highest decision-making body in the Green Party is the bi-annual General Assembly (aka Plenary). Active counties select delegates to represent them in the plenary and no proxies are allowed. The number of delegates allocated to each county is roughly proportional, based on the number of Green registrants in that county.
A state Coordinating Committee (CC) oversees the ongoing work of the state party between plenaries, maintains communication between locals, and handles any decisions or actions which cannot wait until the next plenary.
State Working Groups (WG), Standing Committees (SC), Special groups and Caucuses carry out work in specific areas and develop and review proposals before they come before the plenary. To maintain communication, CC members act as liasons to working groups and standing committees.
Most Committees and Groups have regular monthly meetings.
Official Actions
Global Organizational Chart
Local Structure
Each active county elects members during partisan primary elections to the local County Council (CC), which is the official legal body of the party at the local level and is responsible for compliance with state and local election laws.
County Councils are usually required to hold regular public meetings and are generally responsible for organizing and coordinating Green Party activity in their county.
Local or county Green Party groups ("locals") can write their own bylaws to specify decision-making and other processes for the group.