Minutes/National Council/2021-01-21

National Council meeting 21st January 2021

Start: 8:30pm Sydney time

End: 9:30pm Sydney time

Agenda

 * Previous minutes
 * Membership audit (Alex)
 * Banking update (Alex)
 * Pirate Live (Miles)
 * Local crews (Alex / discussion)

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker, President
 * John August, Treasurer
 * Alex Jago, Secretary
 * Fred Gerner, Councillor
 * David Kennedy, Councillor
 * Brandon Selic, Deputy President (from 21:17)


 * Bryn Busai (Dispute Resolution Committee)

Apologies

 * Phillip Richards, Councillor

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-01-07
 * see motions

Membership Audit

 * AEC granted a last-minute two-month extension to March 18th
 * need another 120 for comfort
 * 50 joined/renewed in January so far
 * still heaps of people available to call even if the success rate is not very good
 * some discussion of CATI/voip/autodialer things, conclusion that we don't really need it at this scale

Banking update

 * itshappening.gif
 * Alex went to the bank again on Tuesday
 * forms are signed and on their way
 * waiting on ANZ to get John and Mark in to their respective branches to sign them now, basically

Pirate Live

 * no news is good news
 * Miles has been chatting about potential future topics
 * hoping to do a climate change one next

Local Crews / privacy policy rewrite

 * "not really an action item for now but please start thinking about ways local crews can happen again, we need them" - Alex
 * John is doing Speaker's corner etc :)
 * "what I really want is for local branch participation to be expected, just like any other party worth their salt"
 * O weeks very pricey, local markets more OK, Alex less afraid of throwing money at the problem now
 * John raises internal comms, Alex remembers that he signed up to overhaul the privacy policy
 * localised mailing lists a good start
 * Alex to look into the memberDB/Dada communication scripts, try and set John/Fred up on the NSW/Victorian lists respectively
 * privacy policy rewrite off-track-ness
 * Brandon: "generally delete old records after 7 years" (context of resigned members)
 * "for the next two months I don't want to worry about that, I just want more general online meetings" - Alex

Motions

 * MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-01-07
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (MW, AJ, FG, DK, JA); Nays 0; Abstain 0
 * Motion carried at 20:41


 * MOTION: give John August access to the NSW mailing list, and Fred Gerner access to the Victorian mailing list
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AJ, FG, DK, JA, BS); Nays 0; Abstain 0
 * Motion carried at 21:27


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AJ, FG, DK, JA, BS); Nays 0; Abstain 0
 * Meeting closed at 21:30