Minutes/National Council/2014-03-27

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Agenda

• Ratify previous meeting's minutes — https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-03-13
• New Qld Coordinator (Brendan)
• New IEC members (Brendan)
• Reimbursement claims (if any)
• Banking status (Mark)
• Code of conduct (Mozart) — http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/code-of-conduct
• Congress 2014

Start: 20:38 27/3/14
Finish: 21:53 27/3/14

Attendance

• Simon Frew (Chair)
• Brendan Molloy
• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
• Mark Gibbons
• Glen Takkenberg
• Melanie Thomas
• Ben McGinnes

Apologies

• DanielJ

Minutes

Previous meeting's minutes

• Held over until the next National Council meeting due to inability to ratify with current numbers.

New Qld Coordinator

• Mel has chosen to vacate in favour of a suitable candidate.
• Michael Keating has applied for the position.
• Michael helped hand out how-to-vote cards.
• See motions

New IEC members

• Two applications: one from Michelle Allen (WA Candidate) the other from David Campbell (Councillor)
• See motions

Reimbursement claims

• All reimbursements already dealt with, but are recorded for the minutes.
• Reimbursements to Brendan Molloy:
  • $1,254.68 for corflute signs for the WA election.
  • $1550 for how-to-vote cards for the WA election.

Banking status

• Mark won't be looking into Xero until there is a bank account to attach to it.
• Mel will sign the ANZ forms tomorrow.
• Forms should then arrive mid-next week in Canberra and further progress can be made.

Code of Conduct

• http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/code-of-conduct
• Designed to make sure everyone is aware of their responsibilities.
• Discussion and dissent in regard to proposed motion text
  • item and motion held over til next meeting

Amendment of National Council Resolution 2011-4

• Lacked gender neutral language and should also say "state and territory coordinators"
  • See motions.
• This resolution should be converted to a by-law and archived
  • resolutions were intended to be a central place for directives that were not clarifications of the constitution
  • See action items

Congress 2014

• Mel has been scoping venues, (QUT has no usable internet(?!), Greek club charges per person)
  • Irish club could be suitable
• Keating requested to also assist in finding a location due to new QLD co-ordinator role
• A weekend in July
• Pref in CBD
• Needs decent internet for streaming
• ballpark likely approx 50 ppl

By-Law Numbering

• Brendan has added constitutional number formatting to this page:
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/By-laws

Motions

• MOTION: Appoint Michael Keating as Qld Coordinator.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 7 (MarkG, Frew, Brendan, Ben, GlenTakkenberg, Mozart, mel); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Appoint Michelle Allen and David Campbell as members of the IEC.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Mozart, Ben, GlenTakkenberg, Frew, MarkG, mel); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Amend all gender-neutral language in 2011-4 to its gender neutral counterpart.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 6 (Brendan, Ben, GlenTakkenberg, MarkG, Mozart, mel); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Amend 2011-4 to refer to State and Territory Coordinators.
  • Put by: Mozart
  • Ayes: 6 (Ben, Mozart, Brendan, GlenTakkenberg, MarkG, mel); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Change the nomenclature for resolutions from Resolution-<year>-<number> to Resolution <year>-<number>.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 7 (MarkG, Brendan, Frew, Mozart, Ben, mel, GlenTakkenberg); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Close the meeting now
  • Put by: Frew
  • Ayes: 5 (Ben, Brendan, Frew, MarkG, mel); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

Action items

• Mozart to convert this resolution into a bylaw for next meeting (and then we archive it)