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

[William Redpath]

I vote No.  A convention package purchase should not count toward
sustaining membership.  Bill Redpath

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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