[Lnc-business] Proposed Policy Manual addition regarding electronic meetings

[Joshua Katz]

Is it appropriate to offer comments on this motion at this time?

Joshua Katz
On Sep 14, 2014 2:30 AM, "Daniel Wiener" <wiener at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I like some but not all of Dan Karlan’s suggestions for videoconference
> and teleconference procedures.  So here is my proposed draft of a Policy
> Manual amendment, to be considered at our upcoming meeting.  Remember, we
> can always modify our procedures as we learn from experience.
>
>
> Daniel Wiener
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> Add a new *Section 1.02(7) Electronic Meetings:*
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>
>  *Pursuant to Article 13 of the LP Bylaws, the LNC and all committees of
> the national party may conduct meetings via videoconference or
> teleconference (“e-conference”) according to the following rules:*
>
>
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>    - *For videoconferences, it is the responsibility of committee member
>    to provide their own compatible equipment.  In the temporary absence of the
>    necessary equipment, or in the case of technical difficulties, a committee
>    member must be allowed to participate by teleconference.  To the extent
>    that it is technically feasible, meetings shall be open to all Libertarian
>    Party sustaining members to listen in on, but those members must first
>    identify themselves and their phone numbers to the person acting as
>    secretary, and their status must be verified prior to the meeting.  By a
>    majority vote a committee may allow a non-committee member to participate
>    on a limited basis.*
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>    - *Either the committee chair or one-third of the committee members
>    may call for an e-conference.  A minimum of seven (7) days notice for such
>    a meeting, along with the agenda, shall be provided to all committee
>    members by email, and shall also be reposted on the LNC-Business list.  No
>    item of business may be placed on or added to the agenda unless all
>    committee members have access to the same supporting documentation.*
>
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>
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>    - *Participants must try to eliminate background noise, including
>    radio, television, traffic, appliances, and side conversations, as well as
>    call waiting for those who have it. A participants shall not place a
>    telephone on hold if the system has music or messages playing while in that
>    mode.  Failure to do any of the above, or to otherwise mute the sound when
>    a participant isn’t talking, shall be grounds for dropping the participant
>    from the e-conference.*
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>    - *Each committee member shall be given an opportunity to speak at
>    least once on each agenda item, but a member may defer until others have
>    had an opportunity to speak.  If the technical means are available, members
>    may signal to the committee chair their desire to speak.  The committee
>    chair may choose the order to call on members.  The default time limit for
>    each speaker shall be three minutes, but a different limit, applicable
>    equally to all speakers, may be specified either in the agenda material
>    prior to the meeting or by a majority of the committee.  An individual
>    speaker’s time may be extended by unanimous consent.  Seconding a motion
>    and similar parliamentary matters shall not require recognition, and shall
>    not deprive a member of the opportunity to speak substantively on an agenda
>    item.  *
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>    - *The chair may choose a voting method which will clearly and
>    efficiently determine the outcome.  In cases where a roll call vote is
>    required, it shall be sufficient if the voting method can accurately
>    identify how each committee member voted and allow that information to be
>    recorded.*
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>    - *A person (normally the Party Secretary in the case of an LNC or
>    Executive Committee meeting) shall be appointed to perform the secretarial
>    function who is not also the person chairing the meeting.*
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>    - *Barring technical difficulties and excepting Executive Sessions,
>    e-conferences shall be recorded.  The audio (and, if practical, the video)
>    shall be archived and linked to on the LP website.  All individuals
>    attending an e-conference must agree to be so recorded, and also agree not
>    to record and not to divulge the contents of Executive Sessions unless the
>    committee allows it by unanimous consent.  Individuals who do not agree to
>    these conditions shall be excluded from the e-conference.*
>
>
>
> --
> *"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we
> guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we
> compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if
> this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare
> the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or
> experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it
> disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key
> to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it
> doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is.
> If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”*
> -- Richard Feynman
>
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