Minutes/National Council/2013-03-27

Agenda

 * Minutes ratification https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2013-03-13
 * Action items (none)
 * Temporary constitutional amendment — http://pirateparty.openpad.me/temporary-constitutional-membership-amendment
 * Preselection bylaw amendment
 * Consider preselection applications
 * PPI voting (Mozart)
 * Campaigns
 * Approve Poster https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/file/d/1_oCzxe6RY-CVwFrVJi5BVIBhGXaTV4wtf_GxpwCfp_Bewm-FXGic54E5pjzj/edit

Start Time: 20:00 AEDT 27/03/13

Finish Time 20:43 AEDT 27/03/13

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * David Campbell
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Mozart Olbyrcht-Palmer
 * Simon Frew

Apologies

 * Rodney Serkowski

Approve previous meeting minutes

 * See motions
 * See: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2013-03-13
 * Correction to minutes made by Brendan - constitutional amendment was withdrawn and not voted on.

Action items from previous meeting

 * No action items from previous week

Temporary constitutional amendment

 * See: http://pirateparty.openpad.me/temporary-constitutional-membership-amendment
 * Amendment will be taken to the party for a vote, and acceptance conditional on the outcome.
 * Debate over the necessity of requiring a reason for choosing 'associate membership'.
 * Constitutional amendment has been withdrawn; a by-law will be adopted pending the outcome of a party wide vote.

Preselection bylaw amendment

 * "Nominations must be submitted at least 14 days before the relevant meeting." <-- Proposal to change 14 days to 3 days.
 * A meeting will need to be hosted 2 days prior to process any further applications receieved.

Preselection applications

 * Acceptance of David Campbell and Brendan Molloy's applications.

PPI Voting

 * Proposal to give Simon Frew complete discretion over PPI-GA voting on condition that:
 * he does not vote for the re-election of any of the current board members
 * he does not vote in favour of membership fees.

Approve Campaigns Committee posters

 * Proposal to allow Brendan to approve posters outside of NC meetings, on condition it has the approval of the Campaigns Officer.
 * Process for approval - Material --> Campaigns --> National Council --> Approval by Brendan
 * https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/file/d/1_oCzxe6RY-CVwFrVJi5BVIBhGXaTV4wtf_GxpwCfp_Bewm-FXGic54E5pjzj/edit is approved.

Membership payments

 * Bug found in the payment form preventing invoice state and Paypal ID from being stored.
 * Trivial fix.
 * Only one member affected.

Membership update

 * Several resignations.
 * 6 new members.

Motions
Motion: Ratify Minutes of last NC meeting located https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2013-03-13
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

'''Motion: adopt the Additional Membership Levels bylaw as written, conditional on the acceptance of the bylaw by majority vote of the Party. A one week voting period will begin on Monday, April 1.'''
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: amend preselection bylaw from 14 days to 3 days.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: accept David Campbell's application for preselection candidacy for the NSW Senate.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: accept Brendan Molloy's application for preselection candidacy for the NSW Senate.
 * 4 ayes.
 * 1 abstain.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: that Simon Frew has complete discretion in regard to voting at the PPI General Assembly conference, with the condition that he does not vote for the re-election of any current board members, nor the introduction of membership fees.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: Brendan has authority to authorise posters outside of National Council meetings, as part of the current process of authorisation.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: close meeting.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Action items

 * none