[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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