Minutes/National Council/2021-08-19

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Meeting Minutes
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Start: 20:35 AEST

End: 21:49 AEST

Agenda

  • Previous meeting minutes
  • Correspondence, reports, and action items
    • Party Rego changes and the open letter (Miles/Alex)
    • Sticker Drive update (Alex)
    • Confirmation of ballot results and updated policy text (Alex)
    • Update from IR committee (Miles)
    • Request for pizza budget for Young Pirates event (Miles)
    • Direct Democracy software trial (Miles)
    • Participatory budgeting trial (Miles)
    • NSW Corporations Act compliance (Miles)
  • Discussion items, and motions
    • Email lists, Microsoft and AWS SES (Alex)
  • General business

Sydney Assange group report (JohnA) Economics Event (JohnA) Treasury access progress (JohnA)

  • Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

  • Miles Whiticker (chair)
  • Alex Jago (minutes)
  • Andrew Downing
  • Roger Whatling
  • Mitchell Curnoe
  • John August
  • David Kennedy
  • Fred Gerner

Apologies

Absentees

  • Brandon Selic

Observers

  • maus
  • milspec
  • Star_Tube
  • twisty

Correspondence, reports, and action items

Previous meeting minutes

Party Rego changes and open letter

Sticker Drive update

  • Going well, up to mid-$300s
  • Many pledgers giving extra money
    • Let's do something cool
  • Closes on September 19th
  • Shirts also largely ready to go, just waiting on stickers to cross the line

Certification of ballot results

  • Everything passed
  • See motions

IR Committee update

  • Investigating rejoining PPI
    • Still in research stage
    • Positive so far, but any decision a long way off
  • PR on Afghanistan, hopefully
  • PDC collab re treaties

Incorporation compliance things

  • There's a few things we need to do:
    • Get that Public Officer form in, John!
    • Having done that, we need to lodge our financial return
  • Miles intends to write a you-beaut handover document for both AEC and NSW Fair Trading obligations

Treasury access

  • Alex has to go to the bank to sort out updated signatories
  • Mitch has to go to ANZ too to verify his existence with them
  • In parallel Mark Gibbons is fighting with Stripe support over KYC related account verification
  • As of this meeting (since we haven't passed a motion saying so) Mark is set to not be a signatory any more (as we haven't put a motion to that effect)

Assange event

  • John went along to the Sydney zoom event
  • went well
  • Suggests we add a whistleblower support sticker

Discussion items

Young Pirates Event

  • Next Friday
  • At UQ, co-hosted with Libertarian Soc
  • Miles request $50 for pizza budget

Direct democracy and participatory budgeting trials

  • Miles has tasked the Programming Team with checking out a couple of direct democracy text stacks
  • gry has volunteered to take a look at install requirements; Satch also volunteers
  • intent to trial at a committee level with intent to using them at Congress level
    • Andrew volunteers PDC, which it will likely work well for
  • very detailed proposal to follow

this ties into ... participatory budgeting

  • Option A: members write up detailed and costed proposals for expenditure; NC picks and chooses
  • Option B: referendum at Congress to guide the NC as to funding allocation
  • detailed proposal to follow

Email fun times

  • the Lists server could go through SES but currently doesn't
  • Microsoft currently thinks it's a spam IP
  • "I don't think this needs a vote, just make it happen." - Roger, who is affected

Economics Event

  • John has Mark Gibbons and Cameron Murray on board
  • planned date September 1st
  • better do some promo!
  • Tech test run on the 28th, hopefully

General Business

  • Twisty is alive ... just

Abuses of powers w.r.t. lockdown and such

  • Mitch proposes forming a working group to look into this sort of thing
  • Roger working on a revised position
  • Star_Tube also interested
  • Andrew notes the policy (long term) vs. press release (short term)
  • Miles notes that if we're going to have eventual actual policy the preceding pressers should match it
  • Working Group formed vaguely under PDC's remit

Motions

  • MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting from 5th August
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 7 (MW, AJ, FG, JA, RW, DK, AD)
    • Abstain 1 (MC)
    • Motion carried 20:38 AEST
  • MOTION: Approve signing onto Corey Allen's open letter
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 7 (MC, AD, MW, FG, DK, JA, AJ)
    • Abstain 1 (RW)
    • Motion carried 20:47 AEST
  • MOTION: that NC certifies all online ballots as having carried.
    • Put by: Alex Jago
    • Ayes 8 (MC, AD, MW, FG, DK, JA, AJ, RW)
    • Motion carried 20:57
  • MOTION: approve Miles and/or Alex to spend up to $50 on catering and misc expenses for the Young Pirates event at UQ
    • Ayes 6 (MC, AD, FG, DK, JA, RW)
    • Abstain 2 (AJ, MW)
    • Motion carried 21:02
  • MOTION: once John is Public Officer, preauthorise the appropriate reimbursement of the lodgement fee for the Financial Affairs form lodgement
    • Put by: Alex Jago
    • Ayes 7 (MC, AD, MW, FG, DK, AJ, RW)
    • Abstain 1 (JA)
    • Motion carried 21:27 AEST
  • MOTION: close the meeting.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Carried unanimously.
    • Meeting closed at 21:49 AEST
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