[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-06: Move Archive Records to CO
William Redpath
wredpath2 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 24 13:53:38 EDT 2017
The Pittsburgh LNC meeting is only three weeks away. Can't we discuss all this in person there, and then vote? Bill Redpath
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On Fri, 3/24/17, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-06: Move Archive Records to CO
To: "Libertarian National Committee list" <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
Date: Friday, March 24, 2017, 1:00 PM
Okay I
think I answered everyone's post. I will say the one
thing I said when I was looking at taking five years to get
a two year degree because I waited until I was out on my own
to go to school. Five years will come no matter what.
The only question is where I will be when they do.
Similarly, the years will pass here. Do we want a pile of
unorganized stuff in two years or do we want to take
advantage of this opportunity (that may in fact be very low
costs because Wes will do a few fundraising emails for it,
and I have committed some money).
- Caryn Ann
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at
10:58 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
wrote:
Wes, I cannot promise we will not need an offsite
storage any longer, for instance there are a few items to
add to the historical collection (Nolan's widow has his
personal correspondences and some early Party stuff I am
securing), but it will certainly be compact and lean and
useable. While I am passionate about Party history, I am
not sentimental to the extent of "OMG The Nolan may
have this touched This Piece of Paper, it Must Be
Saved!" but any culling decisions will be brought to
the LNC, and you will have thorough
recommendations.
I also
think we can use this project as a means of
"touch" to the members to garner some
excitement. Whether one thinks my interest is silly (as
some do), there is no doubt, that I am infectious with
it.
- Caryn Ann
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at
10:55 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
wrote:
Starchild, thank you for your trust in me. So
far I believe I have demonstrated it - I *could* have easily
spent up to a thousand dollars already but I have sought
volunteers with skills to do professional scanning and as
long as I can tap into those (and not burn out their time),
I will do so. I treat OPP very seriously. I have also
committed to being completely transparent and forthcoming
with monetary decisions (and we have a public committee
discussion list) and accountable to members. There have
been some minimal costs that I have gotten donated. And
that will be the case whenever I can - and it is in the best
interest of the project (i.e. volunteer work has to be of
the quality we need - a home scanner will not do when we
need a professional scan job, but fortunately I have a
volunteer with access to the genealogical scanner used by
the LDS church- PRO!).
- Caryn Ann
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at
10:51 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
wrote:
Alicia,
The issue of common carrier versus
U-Haul is something I discussed with Wes. In order to pack
things up so that it can be transported would take staff
time. And Wes wants to send the shelving, and just send
things "as is" and let me straighten it up. With
the U-Haul it can just be put in and sent with no re-packing
needed.
As far as
whether or not everything can be organized and scanned
before the end of next term, there are several issues there.
First, the committee itself. While this committee ends at
that time, it is my intention to prove its value, have a
good working model, and move for a permanent historical
committee next year. In any event, LPedia must be
maintained, and I expect the LNC will appoint a new
committee- and if I am not on the LNC, I will apply to be on
the committee. Even if not, I will continue my volunteer
work. I think Starchild covered this well. As far as
goals, I am very sober-minded as to our goals. I
absolutely do not expect (nor is there budget for, though I
am doing pretty well at finding no-cost volunteers) the
entire archives to be scanned by the end of this term. I
do realistically expect it to be organized and inventoried
and the most critical items uploaded. And with the
organization, the next committee will be able to continue to
prioritize until it is done. Without the organization, I
cannot wisely spend the initial budget on the most critical
and most general interest items. While I might be in
rapturous delight over a handwritten note by Gary Nolan on
the back of a memo, our membership is more interested in
news items. training items, press releases, and minutes. I
am prioritizing to the needs and wants of our members. And
as Daniel and Wes said, there is a lot of duplicates and
items that do not need to be saved. I will be able to make
culling recommendations to the LNC and to Wes and to carry
those out.
I expect
these records will remain here for at least a few years. And
I have a volunteer that drives cross country often, and I
might be able to find someone to bring them back at little
to no cost - the volume will be less in any event, even if
we have to pay. And they could come back by common carrier
as I will be able to have the volunteers to re-pack as
necessary.
I went
quickly through a representative portion of the offsite
storage. Everything I saw were items to be saved (in
general, most certainly there is redundancy and culling and
curating to do). It is interesting you mention the
"so and so's desk" boxes... that is part of
the problem. Who is ever going to go through that stuff?
Wes thinks there might be minutes and other important items
there, if not, I will straighten it out and solve that
problem. And when I say "I" I don't mean I
am super woman to do it all myself, but with a home base in
CO, the birthplace, of the Party, and my volunteer
connections in neighboring states, I can manage this
properly, as a Chair should.
In any event, it will be cheaper to
come back after several years, in great shape with
professional organization and of use to the Party and its
members.
-Caryn Ann
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at
10:40 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
wrote:
I have a bunch of commentary to add that I will
take one at a time.
Daniel,
that is exactly what I was thinking. I think this
Committee may find some auction items and may be able to put
together a nice historical interest display, and you might
want to consider having one of us speak.
-Caryn Ann
On Fri,
Mar 24, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Hayes <danielehayes at icloud.com>
wrote:
Us finally throwing away
a bunch of sacred invoices and other magical papers and
stuff we don't need was my motivation to sponsor . It
might take 5 years to recoup but it is money we can
save.
Also,
keep in mind that if we can monetize some of this stuff,
even better. As Sam and a couple of others know, we are
looking to hold a silent auction at convention in NOLA.
Caryn Ann may find some things that we don't want to
throw away but don't have space to display that a member
might have interest in. I'd rather see us put some
cash to the use this party exists for and allow a member to
have some enjoyment instead of sticking it in a box on a
shelf. One person's junk is another person's
treasure.
Daniel
HayesLNC
At Large Member
Sent from my
iPhone
On Mar 24, 2017, at 11:07 AM, Wes Benedict
<wes.benedict at lp.org>
wrote:
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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HarlosRegion 1
Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,
Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.orgCommunications Director, Libertarian Party of
ColoradoColorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party
Radical Caucus Chair, LP Historical Preservation
Committee
A haiku to the Statement of
Principles:We defend your
rightsAnd oppose the use of
forceTaxation is
theft
--
In
Liberty,Caryn Ann
HarlosRegion 1
Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,
Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.orgCommunications Director, Libertarian Party of
ColoradoColorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party
Radical Caucus Chair, LP Historical Preservation
Committee
A haiku to the Statement of
Principles:We defend your
rightsAnd oppose the use of
forceTaxation is
theft
--
In
Liberty,Caryn Ann
HarlosRegion 1
Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,
Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.orgCommunications Director, Libertarian Party of
ColoradoColorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party
Radical Caucus Chair, LP Historical Preservation
Committee
A haiku to the Statement of
Principles:We defend your
rightsAnd oppose the use of
forceTaxation is
theft
--
In
Liberty,Caryn Ann
HarlosRegion 1
Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,
Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.orgCommunications Director, Libertarian Party of
ColoradoColorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party
Radical Caucus Chair, LP Historical Preservation
Committee
A haiku to the Statement of
Principles:We defend your
rightsAnd oppose the use of
forceTaxation is
theft
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