Document:LNC Minutes 11-12 August 1990: Difference between revisions

Neale provided a  written report  [Attachment  AA]  and  LEI provided additional material [Attachment G].  Neale said that all parties now have a  copy of the contract as modified. He said that Sue Walton of LEI wants the changes recorded in the minutes, but he doesn't think that is necessary.  Dehn said that it would be better to have the whole thing with all the changes on file in case there is any dispute later.  Neale said he would send Dehn a copy.

Neale reported that  LEI has asked for an auditor to be appointed jointly.  After a  brief discussion, the consensus appeared to be that we don't need this at this time.

In response to suggestions from various people, Neale said that he would ask LEI to (1) make sure that "Libertarian Party" appears in all convention publicity, (2) schedule the Bylaws Committee for just Wednesday and Thursday,  and (3) give consideration to the need for a media room.  In response to a question from Givot about computers that could be used by convention committees and in vote tallying,  Neale said he was talking to people about it.

Neale reported that Alan Lindsay was asking for a copy of the contract and that the office had been instructed to refer all such requests to Neale.

In response to  LEI's request for information about the schedule for business meetings, Thies moved that  "We want our convention hall available from ___  in the morning until ___ in the afternoon". Points in the discussion  included: the  purpose  of  the  convention  is  to conduct LP business,  the contract as  it stands effectively  says  we have the hall  24 hours a  day, the business meeting  suffers if there are attractive speakers  scheduled at the  same time, people felt that not enough time  was allowed for the business meeting in Philadelphia, we need to  make it practical  for C-SPAN to cover  both speakers  and business, in Philadelphia  people who wanted  to attend  the  business meeting had to skip the breakfast speakers they had paid for.

Ahmad moved to amend the motion to read "we advise LEI that we intend to use the hall from 10  to 6 to conduct business".  The amendment passed on a voice vote.

Additional comments were  made about the  amount of time allocated for business: people can  only take so  much business, discussion  of  the Platform alone should  not take that  much more time than  last  year, delegates only have  a chance to conduct business once every two years so we should  allow plenty of  time, and the platform  discussion made for more interesting programming on C-SPAN than the big speakers.

Givot moved to amend the motion to say from noon to 6. The motion to amend failed on a voice vote. The main motion passed on a voice vote.

Neale moved to authorize Neale and Alexander to take advantage of the option for a  second fundraising event.  The motion passed on a voice vote.

Neale noted that  LEI wants clarification that they can select speakers.  In reply to a question from Alexander, he said the contract specifies that we can veto their choice up to  90  days before the convention.

Gingell moved to add additional discussion of Internal Education to the end of the agenda; there was no objection.