Minutes/National Council/2016-04-27

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Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

Start: 20:31 AEST
End: 22:59 AEST


Attendance

National Council

  • Simon Frew
  • David Crafti
  • Mark Gibbons
  • Fletcher Boyd
  • Thomas Randle
  • Michael Keating
  • Peter Fulton

Minutes

Previous meeting's minutes

  • Typo fixes and minor corrections
  • See Motions

Congress 2015 minutes

Pozible last throes

  • We did it!
  • Especially good effort by Rundll on promotion & management of it etc
  • Kudos and thanks to everyone who donated
  • Other parties and NGOs etc were less help than hoped, it came down to our members and other individual supporters for most part
  • MarkG will do up a nice PR
  • Total Pledged : A$ 12,610.00
    • Not Captured : A$ 1,935.00
    • Total Captured : A$ 10,675.00
    • so ~$2K of card declines
      • one of these is a single $1.5k donation that has been identified and will be captured soon
  • Also an issue found with Pozible where editing your donation results in being charged for each iteration of the edit
    • CAPT-Irrelevant got charged 5 times.
    • ie if someone donated $50, and edited it to $75, they've been charged $125
    • Rundll will contact pozible - e bug in their software charging people the full amount each time they tried to edit a pledge
    • Multiple charges bug amounts to about $500 worth
  • Now we will need to hit everyone up again for electoral stuff

Membership Fees

  • So far unresolved
    • Do we want to charge set membership fees? There were mixed opinions
    • Much discussion, especially around preferred default.
    • Shall keep "Pay what you want" for the first year at least
      • Don't want to hammer our members with a mandatory fee just after we've been hounding them over memberdb and election pozibles
    • Discussion of trialling a minimum with a subset of members nixed as would be unfair to those members.
    • Will raise membership fees as a congress item and/or a discuss thread
  • Decided shall set default value to $50 with the option for people to set their own value including to $0, thus retaining "Pay what you want" for now

Election

Pre-selection meeting

  • We have only 1 NSW potental candidate at this stage
  • We have the email ready to go out
  • dcrafti said he would be returning officer
  • there's no reason not to close everything at the start of the meeting
    • Fletcher suggest's that people can add nominations right up until the preselection meeting starts
    • If we are going to leave it open for NSW we should leave it open for other states too
    • even though our original close was 25th, that doesnt necessarily preclude us from leaving it til meeting start, especially if we state so in this next mailout
    • https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/preselectionmeetingreminder
  • Concern that states with 2 niminees should close, but decided that better candidates trumps prompt candidates (depsite promptness being a personal plus)
    • a wider field is better in all cases to get the best candidate so all niominations will be left open til start of preselection meeting
  • For the meeting itself, it will be basically: candidates intro, questions, general election chat, close, vote
  • See motions
    • DanielJ abstains due to considering nominating for NSW to bring candidates to x2

Fundraising round 2

  • We are going to have to do this all over
    • we now have money again so the worst is over
      • We'll need to get materials, targets etc sorted out...
      • First goal will be making sure we have enough for 3 states
  • Ideally should aim for $10k.
    • perhaps $5k since we have already hit everyone up already
  • Do We have other options besides Pozible?
  • Crafti has met Luke a few times and ponders if we should consider approaching him to be the campaign manager for Victoria.
  • CAPT-Irrelevant will explore some pozible alternatives

Election materials

Party votes

Deputy registered officers (whoever)

  • We will need to nominate deputy registered officers to deal with state preselection bureaucracy
  • Last time it was mostly the first candidate on the ballot I recall but lets just do NC members per state we could have candidates
    • That way can sort it out beforehand
    • so NC or first candidate on case by case basis as per convenience/location
    • Perhaps do all states except SA, NT, ACT
    • Fletcher is already listed (from Canning)
  • Forms will need to be arranged, signed etc and fed trhough dcrafti
    • deputy appointment can be handled online, it is just a lot of back and forward of printing, signing, scanning, emailing. But for candidate nominations that RO will need take forms into office in person
    • ideally recommend that everyone get an electronic signature, so that we can skip the printing/scanning steps?
  • https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/election-2016-dep-registered-officers
  • http://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/pirate.htm
  • DanielJ will do NSW, Keating QLD, and dcrafti Vic (already RO)

General Business

Motions

  • MOTION: Accept minutes for 2016-04-13 as amended
    • Put by: Frew
      • Ayes: 4 (Frew, Rundll, MarkG, dcrafti); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 3 (Fletcher, DanielJ, CAPT-Irrelevant)
    • Result: Motion carries.
  • CFV MOTION: Approve the minutes for the 2015 national congress as written
    • Put by: Fletcher
      • Ayes: 6 (Frew, dcrafti, MarkG, Fletcher, Rundll, Keating); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 1 (CAPT-Irrelevant)
    • Result: Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Extend pre-selection nominations until 4pm Sunday May 1
    • Put by: Simon Frew
      • Ayes: 5 (CAPT-Irrelevant, Frew, dcrafti, MarkG, Rundll); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 1 (DanielJ)
    • Result: Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Close meeting now
    • Put by: Simon Frew
      • Ayes: 5 (CAPT-Irrelevant, Frew, DanielJ, MarkG, Rundll); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Result: Motion carries.
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