[Lnc-business] MOTION: Re: August LNC meeting

[Starchild]

	I'm fairly agnostic on where we meet Joshua (though see below), but if it were to be Minneapolis, I'd be much more interested in hearing about what the Cyrstal Libertarians accomplished with their city council majority once they had it. We've all heard plenty about how to get elected (including, for those who called in, the informative teleconference you and Brett Bittner hosted just a few weeks ago on the topic), but we pay too little attention, in my opinion, to what Libertarians actually do once in office. Important to remember that winning office is a means to an end, not the end in itself. The goal is to advance freedom. The more we can show that to be happening when Libertarians hold office, the more reason voters have to elect us.

	As usual with our meetings, I'll look more favorably on locations that:

• save the LP money by not paying for meeting room rentals and related expenses (e.g. catered food/beverages)
• have locals willing to host traveling LNC members or others coming to the meeting in order to avoid/reduce lodging expenses
• have party affiliates who want to host an LNC meeting in their area and haven't done so before or recently
• have tie-ins with local (L)ibertarian activism or events 

	Related to saving the party money on this meeting (and on future meetings by improving meeting cost transparency), I also make the following motion, and ask for co-sponsors:

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Moved, that no more than one party staff member maximum be flown to the August meeting at party expense, that staff looking into meeting locations be directed to prioritize looking for locations that will not require any room rental fee or related fees/obligations (e.g. buying a certain amount of food, filling a block of hotel rooms, etc.), and that the LNC be informed within a reasonable length of time after each meeting of the total cost to the party of that meeting and the breakdown of expenses making up that cost, including amounts paid for flights, shipping, food, etc.
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Love & Liberty,
                                 ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                             (415) 625-FREE
                               @StarchildSF


On Mar 14, 2017, at 7:27 AM, Joshua Katz wrote:

> I suggest Minneapolis, which is near Crystal, Minnesota, where Libertarians used to be a majority on the city council.  This would enable us to have a session, maybe over lunch, where we can hear about how they won that majority.  
> 
> Joshua A. Katz
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear LNC members,
> 
> Many of us are in the midst of planning our summers and I think it is time
> that we take up the issue of where to have our meeting scheduled for August 19-20, 2017.
> 
> I'm in favor of moving west for this one.  Let's get the ball rolling with suggestions of locations and sites so we can narrow it down over the next couple weeks and perhaps have a decision done by our April meeting.
> 
> Thanks and 
> 
> Live Free,
> 
> 
> Sam Goldstein
> Libertarian National Committee
> Member at Large
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