Minutes/National Council/2014-06-19

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Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

Start: 20:04 19/06/2014
End: 21:28 19/06/2014

Attendance

National Council

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

Apologies

  • Mark Gibbons

Minutes

Previous Meetings Minutes

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
  • 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

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.
  • 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
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