Minutes/National Council/2016-09-07

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-08-24
 * Action items: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-08-24#Action_Items_2
 * Dispute Resolution Committee business (Mozart)
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Dispute_Resolution_Committee/Application_2016-1#Final_determination
 * Officer reports
 * Social Media (David)
 * Executive reports
 * Secretariat (Fletcher)
 * Treasury (Mark/Peter)
 * Constitution (Fletcher)
 * Pirate Party Pirate Fundraiser (Frew)
 * Pirate Bureau (Frew)
 * New Approvals Process (Frew)
 * Uni club
 * https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/whats-your-step-one/939/25
 * General Business

Start: 20:36 AEST End: 22:31 AEST

Attendance

 * Fletcher Boyd
 * David Crafti
 * Andrew Downing
 * Simon Frew
 * Mark Gibbons
 * David Read (Social Media)

Apologies

 * Thomas Randle

Absent

 * Emily Sievers
 * Michael Keating
 * Peter Fulton

Previous meeting minutes

 * See motions

Action Items

 * Nothing to note

DRC business

 * The DRC has returned on 2016-1: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Dispute_Resolution_Committee/Application_2016-1#Final_determination
 * NC is required to provide notice to members
 * Will be included in a future full member mailout (to reduce mailout volume)
 * Nilay hasn't responded to emails or attended the two DRC meetings.
 * David has poked Nilay and she has set up email notifications for her party account

Social Media

 * https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/the-pirate-socmed-thread/963/2

Secretariat

 * 1421 members, several resignations due to all member mails but no significant fluctuation

Treasury

 * $591.76 in cheque; $702.70 in savings; $85.48 on the debit card. This is low but not terminal, and there have been no expenditures or revenue of any significance over the past fortnight.
 * Bank handover is taking longer than ideal due to ANZ requiring all existing signatories to sign off

Constitution

 * Changes to the constitution from the 2016 CAPs have been written: https://github.com/ppau/documents/commits/Congress_2016
 * Vote will be CFV'd and included in the minutes for the next meeting due to a lack of quorum

Pirate Party Pirate Fundraiser

 * Simon is still keen on running the cruise and not skipping catering (for alcohol related reasons)
 * David is concerned about low income from the event compared to the risk of not gaining enough interest
 * Simon suggests that the event itself is promotional and that crowdfunding can be used to offset the risk
 * Crowdfunding is difficult without a set date which cannot be settled without a non refundable deposit
 * Fletcher suggests negotiating a refundable deposit (if cancelled with enough notice)

Note: after this meeting a deposit refundable until Christmas was been negotiated

Pirate Bureau

 * Simon has layed out the general idea and will present a ToR at the next meeting: https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/the-pirate-bureau/958

New Approvals Process

 * Suggested process was Pirate Bureau specific and has been withdrawn for corrections

Uni club

 * https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/whats-your-step-one/939/25
 * David Read requests the thread be split off
 * Party can endorse the club
 * David Crafti possibly available for specific events as closest NC member

NC absences

 * The Constitution has been modified to automatically vacate the position when a councillor doesn't attend 4 meetings/two months. This ignores explained absences

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes for 2016-08-24 as written.
 * Put by: Fletcher
 * Ayes (5): Fletcher Boyd, David Crafti, Andrew Downing, Simon Frew, Mark Gibbons
 * Motion lapses