Minutes/National Council/2021-01-21

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Meeting Minutes
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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

Minutes

Previous Minutes

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: 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
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