Minutes/National Council/2014-06-19

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-06-05
 * Constitutional Amendments Closing Date Reminder
 * PPI (Brendan)
 * Congress (Brendan)
 * Bank account status (Mark)
 * Expense claims (Brendan)
 * Revenue statement preparation (Ben/Mark)
 * FOI campaign (Brendan)
 * Quotes for product (Brendan)
 * Officer Reports:
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Officer_Reports/2014-06-19
 * Intent to run for NC (all)
 * General Business

Start: 20:04 19/06/2014

End: 21:28 19/06/2014

National Council

 * Simon Frew (Chair)
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Daniel Judge
 * David Campbell
 * Melanie Thomas
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Ben McGinnes

Apologies

 * Mark Gibbons

Previous Meetings Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-06-05
 * See Motions

Constitutional Amendments Closing Date Reminder

 * Just a reminder that this closes tomorrow night 11.59pm on 20 June.
 * DanielJ to send out reminder email

PPI

 * Brendan met over IRC with the co-chair of PPI, Koen de Voegt
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/Special_PPI_Meeting/2014-06-10
 * it was pleasant.
 * he seems to genuinely understand the issues.
 * later that very same week, Brendan was threatened by Anders Kleppe (another person on the PPI board)
 * in response to Brendan suggesting we needn't attend voice meetings and there needed to be asynchronous mechanisms for involvement
 * Brendan forwarded the threat to the pp-leaders list
 * Swedes replied to the effect that Brendan had valid critiques and should recieve an apology
 * Also PPUK emailed us, NZ, CA, US regarding a communication network between this group.
 * Overall, Brendan proposes that at this stage we consider withdrawing our PPI motion until next year, because we _might_ be able to fix this.
 * If Koen can get an online GA in the next 6 month, we can fix the statutes.
 * If it fails then propose withdrawl.
 * Brendan will discuss this as a formal item at the Congress and put a formal motion of what our attempt shall be and that we will withdraw if this requirement can't be met.

Congress

 * 10 Physical, 10 online attendees RSVP so far
 * Gender split on online attendees is 50/50, 20/80 physical.
 * Net Sales: $359.00
 * online attendees is a donation format and have donated $126.78
 * early stages yet also, still lots of lead in time.
 * Venue: can begin/enter at 9am, leave at 4pm Saturday and 5pm Sunday.
 * Speakers: haven't received a reply from Birgitta, so we can't confirm she's speaking.
 * open to suggestion as to who Brendan should approach at this point.
 * Mozart will be looking for quotes for PA hire over the next two weeks.
 * Could have some Discussion forums at Congress. We may have some spare time to do some general discussion of interesting things.
 * This was an idea Brendan suggested for last Congress but we had too much work.
 * Less things to cover/on the agenda this year

Bank account status

 * Need to persue the bringing into existence of the Debit Card.
 * Let it be noted, that banks are painful to deal with
 * Ben/Mark to keep NC appraised of progress
 * Note that all party monies are now properly transferred to the new ANZ accounts

Expense claim

 * Brendan needs to be reimburses for $192.10 in VPS costs.
 * See motions

Revenue statement preparation

 * Ben needs all the bank statements etc sent to him to prepare
 * all reciepts have already been sent
 * Mark needs to set up Xero
 * needed some details such as ABN and TFN
 * we may not have a TFN as we arent registered for tax, David to follow up to make sure
 * See action items

FOI campaign

 * Pozible campaign to fund FOI requests
 * http://www.pozible.com/project/183229/-1/2e071a8043e08b482d23fae44f76287a
 * only stickers as reward, as we should have lots of them
 * consensus that we go forward with this campaign
 * expect to recieve the $1000 fairly quickly.

Quotes for product

 * An earlier NC meeting passed a budget of $2k for stickers and badges combined, and $1k for shirts.
 * It'll cost $325 for 500 35mm badges
 * suggestion that we go for 2000 in 2 designs of 1000 each.
 * maybe approx $1160 for 2000 badges (or less)
 * stickers can get expensive, especially for decent quality ones that will last on a car outdoors.
 * designs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2ivs8pm77f0i0h/3StickerDesigns.jpg
 * "freedom democracy science" design for bumper stickers
 * release design on twitter for feedback/reaction: http://i.imgur.com/XFXUdh1.png
 * do 1000 of each design, one high quality bumper, two smaller glossy paper.
 * T-shirts a bit more expensive than expected
 * have decided all black so that'll save us about $250
 * but the budget still blows out by $500
 * new motion that the budget for shirts is now $1500 + $100 postage
 * see motions

Officer Reports

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Officer_Reports/2014-06-19
 * commendations to Mozart for his efforts to bash out the KAFTA response.
 * Mozart wrote about 8-9 pages analysing a boring FTA
 * professional lawyers only managed 6-7
 * also dcrafti made a minor but substantial contribution
 * Brendan asked Rebecca to just send the Facebook reports to the NC when she gets them, DanielJ can incorporate those into the reports separately as they come.
 * Suggest that Bryn shift the SA meetings to monthly rather than fortnightly
 * Raise as a discussion topic at congress the idea of how best to do IRL local meetings.

Intent to run for NC

 * The following incumbent members of the National Council have indicated they will not be contesting their current positions:
 * Melanie Thomas: Deputy President
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer: Deputy Secretary, Policy Development Officer
 * Glen Takkenberg: Registered Officer
 * Brendan Molloy: Councillor (is contesting President, Deputy President)
 * Ben McGinnes: Victorian Coordinator (will however recontest Treasurer)

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2014-06-05.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Frew_, David, GlenTakkenberg, mel, Mozart, DanielJ); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (Hasimir)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Reimburse Brendan for $192.10 in VPS costs.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (GlenTakkenberg, Ben, DanielJ, Frew_, mel_, David, Mozart); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (Brendan)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Approve a budget of $1600 for the production and shipping of relevant shirts.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Ben, Frew_, GlenTakkenberg, Mozart, MarkG, DanielJ); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Approve a budget of $2500 for the production and shipping of stickers and badges.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 8 (Brendan, GlenTakkenberg, Ben, DanielJ, mel_, Mozart, Frew_, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: End this epic tale.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Ben, Mozart, GlenTakkenberg, MarkG, Frew_, DanielJ); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

Action Items

 * Daniel to send out reminder email regarding constitutional amendments closing date
 * Brendan to talk with Keating about how we'll get the modem working in advance in for Congress
 * Ben to continue to persue banks regarding debit card and keep NC informed on progress
 * Ben to follow up with MarkG as soon as humanly possible in regard to Xero
 * David to call the ATO and see if we have a TFN
 * Brendan to run sticker design on twitter
 * Daniel to get new sticker quotes