[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-03: Sustain Chair's Ruling Regarding Convention Packages

[Alicia Mattson]

Just to add a few more thoughts:

I thought Norm's points were well made.  We put convention package sales
into a completely different set of accounts on our books because the
primary goal of those cash flows is to offset the expenses of the
convention.  We do the same with sales of t-shirts or hats.  In 2008 when
we contracted the convention management duties out to an LLC, those package
sales revenues went to the LLC, not to the Party.  The entity that incurred
the expenses received the offsetting revenue as well.

A convention package buyer is paying for meals, for the travel costs of the
speakers at their meals, etc.  They're buying goods and services.

If I sell my car to you for $5,000, you didn't give me a gift.  We
exchanged assets of equal worth.

Think about why the status is called "sustaining" membership.  It is
desired for those people to donate funds that the party can freely use for
operations to sustain the party itself.  The intent seems to be implied in
the very name that was chosen for the status.

-Alicia



On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by May 8, 2015 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.*
> *Co-Sponsors:*  Mattson, Olsen, Wiener, Hagan
>
> *Motion:*  To sustain the Chair's ruling that a person's purchase of a
> convention package in the prior twelve months
> meets the requirement of Bylaws Article 5.3 that a sustaining member must
> have "given at least $25 to the
> Party in the prior twelve months"
> *Note about Effect*:
> Because this is phrased as a motion to sustain the chair's ruling, a "yes"
> vote means that the purchase of a convention package should count toward
> sustaining membership.  A "no" vote means that the purchase of a convention
> package should NOT count towards sustaining membership.
>
> Alicia Mattson
> LNC Secretary
>
>
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