[Lnc-business] AMENDMENT - Re: Motion for the July 15th 2012 LNC meeting - on Potential Conflicts of Interest

[Starchild]

	Thanks, Geoff. Please note it's "motions", plural -- there are two.

Love & Liberty,
                                ((( starchild )))


On Jun 24, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Geoffrey Neale wrote:

> Thank you Starchild
> 
> I will place your motion in the preliminary agenda.
> 
> Geoffrey Neale
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Starchild
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 2:26 PM
> To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] AMENDMENT - Re: Motion for the July 15th 2012
> LNC meeting - on Potential Conflicts of Interest
> 
> 	My apologies -- like Scott I misinterpreted these motions as items
> being proposed for consideration and voting now. Please consider my two
> proposed amendments below as submitted items for the LNC meeting.
> 
> 	Here is specific language for my second motion below, since I should
> have proposed specific language:
> 
> "This template is a non-binding document to assist the chair in preparing
> agendas, and not a format which must be absolutely followed."
> 
> Love & Liberty,
>                              ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative,
> Libertarian National Committee
> 
> 
> On Jun 24, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Starchild wrote:
> 
>> Geoff,
>> 
>> 	Having the Secretary maintain such a list sounds reasonable. I move
> to add the language "and guests" to the second sentence, and to allow a form
> of distribution that saves paper, so that the revised sentence reads:
>> 
>> "This register will be presented and distributed to all LNC members and
> guests at each regular LNC meeting, either in the form of a paper handout or
> an announcement of where the document may be viewed online, with at least
> one paper copy of the list always made physically available at the meeting
> to be viewed by attendees." 
>> 
>> 	In keeping with the observations about the LNC Policy Manual that I
> made in my previous message, I also move to add a third sentence:
>> 
>> "This rule shall be binding during the term of the 2012-2014 Libertarian
> National Committee, and thereafter shall take the form of a non-binding
> recommendation which each future LNC may choose to either ignore or make
> binding for its term."
>> 
>> Love & Liberty,
>>                                 ((( starchild ))) At-Large 
>> Representative, Libertarian National Committee
> 
> 
> On Jun 24, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Starchild wrote:
> 
>> 	Second. If we're going to have an opening ceremony, it seems to me
> that it ought to be something specifically liberty-affirming, but having
> such a ceremony makes more sense for a large gathering like an LP convention
> than for a Libertarian National Committee meeting. 
>> 
>> 	I also question the need for the chair to be bound to a particular
> template when it comes to setting meeting agendas, so long as there is fair
> opportunity for everyone's items to be included. This template is the kind
> of thing that has stretched the LNC Policy Manual to 72 pages.
>> 
>> 	I further move to amend the motion as follows: That the entire
> template be labeled as a suggested way of ordering the agenda, and not a
> binding rule.
>> 
>> 	In my view, Policy Manual provisions which we believe should be
> permanent binding rules ought to be added to the Bylaws, where party
> delegates can vote on them, and the manual itself should consist of the
> rules which each LNC passes to make binding on itself, for that LNC term
> only. If we allow these rules to be binding on all future committees, I
> believe we will continue to see the Policy Manual mushroom in size, and that
> it will increasingly pose the danger of constituting an end-run around the
> Bylaws and the proper power of the delegates to oversee the party. After a
> given term of the LNC, all its rules could remain in the Policy Manual, but
> simply be downgraded to recommendations.
>> 
>> Love & Liberty,
>>                               ((( starchild ))) At-Large 
>> Representative, Libertarian National Committee
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jun 24, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Geoffrey Neale wrote:
>> 
>>> I move that the following be added to the Policy Manual(I don't know
> where it should be inserted):
>>> 
>>> The Secretary shall maintain a register of all declared potential
> conflicts of interest by LNC members.  This register will be presented and
> distributed to all LNC members at each regular LNC meeting.
>>> 
>>> My reason:  I cannot perform my duty as it regards to identifying
> potential conflicts of interest without  a coherent list. I also cannot tell
> where this language should be inserted into the Policy Manual, because I
> don't get how and why it's structured. 
>>> 
>>> Geoffrey Neale
>>> 
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