California Political Treasurers Association
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Greetings!
Despite numerous airline weather delays making some arrival times uncertain, CPTA members and vendors made their way to D.C. for the 19th Annual CPTA Conference. The first evening kicked off with a night of bowling at Lucky Strike.
Thursday morning commenced with Assistant Branch Chief of the Party/Non-Party Branch Kaitlin Seufert, and Senior Campaign Finance and Reviewing Analyst Romy Adame-Wilson leading workshop discussions on reporting and compliance. After lunch we held the 2nd Annual Pub(lic) Discosure Quiz - congrats to Fade II Black for a first place win and to Wait! What? for a close second.
The after meeting cocktail hour was followed by the nighttime Monuments Walking Tour, headed by David Gould, which included the Washington Monument, the FDR Memorial and the MLK Memorial. The Friday morning meeting included our general membership meeting followed by a presentation by Steve Roberts, political law attorney with Hotlzman, Vogel, Josefiak, Torchinsky PPLC and Carter Kidd, political consultant with Campaign Solutions, about Super PACs, Hybrid PACs and FARA, the ForeignAgent Registration Act. Vendor presentations were held after lunch.
Saturday activities included a morning docent led tour of the Library of Congress, lunch in the Capitol, an afternoon spent at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and an evening dinner cruise on the Potomac.
The meeting minutes can be viewed via the link below:
A special thank you to our sponsors for helping make this annual event most memorable:
Bank of San Francisco, California Bank & Trust, Efundraising Connections, Nano Bank, Netfile, NGP VAN and Torrey Pines Bank. Vendor presentations are are included below:
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Next year the 20th Annual Conference will once again be held in June. Those attending the DC Conference selected three destinations to be decided by the members at the November meeting. The proposed destinations are Santa Barbara, Hawaii and Las Vegas.
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Legislative Update
by Branché Jones
On Monday, August 12th the Legislature returned from summer recess to meet for a month long sprint before the session ends for the year.
The final day of the session will be September 13th and they will not return until January 2020. Therefore all bills that have not passed by the 13th will effectively be dead for the year.
For bills that are still in their house of origin in January, they will have one month to move them into the other legislative house (Assembly to Senate and vice versa).
Currently, there are no issues pending that would impact us but the Secretary of State is still sending out updates on the CAL-ACCESS Replacement System Project. As you know the legislature pushed back the implementation date and the Secretary of State is sending out updates on the project.
As we near 2020 I anticipate that there may be another push back on the implementation date and additional funding from the Legislature.
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Briana Baleskie
Baleskie & Bilbray Campaigns
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SAVE THE DATE
The next regularly scheduled CPTA meeting will be on
Friday, November 15, 2019
, in Sacramento at the California Chamber of Commerce 14th Floor Conference Room, 1215 K St. The room is reserved from 9 to 4.
This meeting is sponsored by First Foundation Bank and Senior Vice President Gretchen Eischen.
As usual, attending members will donate $20 towards the cost of the lunch.
Additional information and evite to follow.
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CPTA WEBSITE LOGO
If your firm has not yet added its logo and website link to the CPTA website (Woo hoo! Free advertising!) send a pic of your company logo (jpg, tiff or png type file is fine) and your web address to Marissa Quaranta
(mquaranta@seowenscompany.com). Please request Marissa confirm receipt of your email so that you can confirm it didn't land in her junk mail.
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MEMBERSHIP UPDATES
To add a new member for your firm or to revise your current members - contact Nancy Haley, the CPTA Treasurer. Nancy's email address is nancy@haleyandcompany.com.
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CPTA Web Site: www.cpta.info
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CPTA Meeting minutes and copies of newsletters are posted on the CPTA website. If you need a login and password to access the Members Only section, please contact Marissa Quaranta. Marissa's email is mquaranta@seowenscompany.com.
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
PETER SULLIVAN
After graduating from Pitzer College with degrees in political studies and music, I moved back to the Bay Area and spent a few years playing in bands and touring the country. After a while, the experience of driving and sleeping in aging vans with five other guys in the middle of who knows where tempered my desire for a music career, and I began to seriously explore other professional options.
I worked at several nonprofit organizations, eventually ending up at a small SuperPac and 527 that supported various causes throughout the country. Of all the skills I picked up running campaigns, little did I know that preparing the occasional 8872 and FEC 3X would lead me to the next step in my career.
In late 2014, with our first child on the way, I began thinking about where I wanted to be for the 2016 election cycle. Stacy Owens, who at the time was a partner at The Henry Levy Group, took me to lunch and offered valuable advice about the players in Bay Area political consulting (none of my previous political work had been local) and that led to a number of interesting meetings and a couple of job prospects.
Then, a week before our daughter was born, Stacy contacted me about the possibility of a compliance position with her firm. When, several days after our daughter’s birth, and before I had even started work, my wife Christa and I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a congratulations card from Stacy and her firm I knew this was going to be a great fit.
At the beginning of 2018, Stacy formed S.E. Owens & Company and I joined her as compliance manager. Since then, I have been overseeing compliance for a growing list of political clients throughout California and beyond as well as helping to manage bookkeeping for a number of non-profit organizations.
In my (non-election year) free time I enjoy playing music, slow-pitch softball and cooking. My wife and daughter and I recently bought a house in Richmond, CA where we pick plums off the ground daily and grow herbs and grapes.
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CPTA/CARS Update
Through the efforts of both CPTA and the California Political Attorneys Association, with the support of the FPPC, the Secretary of State Cal Access Replacement Project is supporting the delay of the implementation date of the updated CARS program from December 31, 2019 to February 1, 2021.
In addition, the Secretary of State intends to have regular meetings with CPTA and CPAA to keep us informed on the project and to listen to our input as well. The primary CPTA representatives are David Gould, Laura Stephen and Sheila Scally. The alternates, in the event a primary representative is unable to attend a meeting, are D'Ron Smith, Mary Nunes and Tom Howard. However, as of this date, no meetings have yet been scheduled by the SOS.
Copies of both the correspondence from CPTA to the Secretary of State and the SOS response is noted below:
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Photos from Washington D.C. Conference
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