[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-06: Move Archive Records to CO

[Wes Benedict]

Actually, if Caryn Ann does a good enough job, we should no longer need 
an off-site storage unit. The unit we're in now just went up to $248 per 
month starting in March 2018 (up about $20 from February).

William Redpath, can you calculate the Prevent Value of the saving of 
$248 per month in perpetuity?

And if you can do that, can you then get a bit more precise by making 
the assumption the $248 per month spending won't stop for 2 years?

Thanks Bill, that'd be great.


Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

On 3/24/2017 11:43 AM, Wes Benedict wrote:
> Around 300 boxes with the miscellaneous "slips of paper" have been 
> shredded since 2013. I spent many days on that work myself doing a 
> first and second pass through the mountain of junk in the cool, damp, 
> rat-infested dungeon storage underneath the Watergate complex, and 
> then doing 3rd and 4th passes at our storage units after moving the 
> stuff to Alexandria. (I did not shred the stuff myself--just 
> identified the boxes and then had a professional service handle it).
>
> I am not exaggerating about the rats. I do not recall finding dead 
> rats in any boxes and did not necessarily see rats inside our 
> particular unit, but there were dead dried out rat carcasses less than 
> 20 feet outside the door to our unit and in the hallway leading up to 
> our unit and inside adjacent units.
>
> In addition to things that have been shredded, I did not count the 
> number of boxes of stuff that I threw away that did not need to be 
> shredded. I also personally tore apart, dismantled, and sawed when 
> necessary (with my personal Bosch circular saws and drill), large 
> painted plywood structures that I think were used in the 2000 and 2004 
> national conventions (along with the wooden pallets).
>
> For a decade, it seemed, no one was willing to throw things away. I 
> can't blame them. Who wants to throw something away when someone might 
> complain later? Plus, it's easier to just box up an old employees 
> stuff and push it aside rather than go through it and sort it all 
> out.  The result was valuable things were getting buried by old broken 
> furniture and useless pieces of returned mail slips that had no value. 
> Boxes of potentially valuable documents were getting crushed and split 
> and were spilling in the damp basement of the Watergate. The basement 
> of the Watergate obviously wasn't climate controlled and the storage 
> facilities were down an underground hallway from the dumpsters for CVS 
> and the grocery store Safeway, and just 200 yard crawl for rats from 
> the shores of the Potomac. Grocery stores generate a lot of smelly 
> garbage that attracts rats.
>
> For the most part, I did not go through many individual boxes and sort 
> through individual pieces of stuff. I either kept the whole box, or 
> through the whole box out (or shredded if necessary).
>
> We still have over a dozen 4-drawer file cabinets and maybe 100 boxes 
> of stuff that needs to be gone through more carefully. That takes a 
> lot of time. When it's time to bring the stuff back from Colorado, I 
> expect the content to be 15% of it's original size. That's because 
> there is still stuff to throw away, and also, for things like 
> fundraising letters that were sent in 1992--there are probably 5 or 10 
> copies of each.
>
> That stuff is getting older every day, but at least we now have it 
> stored in a climate controlled storage unit in Alexandria, instead of 
> the basement of the Watergate.
>
> I probably inadvertently  threw some things out that we wished I 
> hadn't, but I feel like my actions to jettison some garbage even if 
> there was some collateral damage, was urgent, and necessary for the 
> greater good of the documents that were saved, and because we needed 
> space for our more recent documents.
>
> A few photos attached.
>
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
> 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>
> On 3/24/2017 4:43 AM, Alicia Mattson wrote:
>> Having spent some time digging through these materials a few years 
>> ago, I know there are a LOT of boxes of old membership forms with 
>> hand-written signatures on the membership certification.  I don't 
>> imagine those going online for the world to see, so why ship 50 boxes 
>> to Colorado and back?
>>
>> I don't recall a terribly high percentage of those files being things 
>> that are of historical value that would belong in an online archive.  
>> Some of it was, but much was not.  Old invoices and vendor 
>> contracts.  Miscellaneous contents of the desk drawers of former 
>> employees.  Is there really enough historical material to fill a UHaul?
>
>
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