[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-06: Move Archive Records to CO
William Redpath
wredpath2 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 24 12:25:32 EDT 2017
$248/month x 12 = $2,976 per year.
Do I correctly recall our mortgage interest rate at 4.85%?
$2,976 divided by (0.0485 - minus a cash flow growth rate that I will assume to be zero) = $61,361 present value in perpetuity.
Present Value for a 24 month annuity is $5,662.
Bill Redpath
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On Fri, 3/24/17, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-06: Move Archive Records to CO
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Date: Friday, March 24, 2017, 12:07 PM
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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