[Lnc-business] Seeking Co-Sponsors For a Motion to Give Staff the Authority to Select the number of issues of LP News

[William Redpath]

I will co-sponsor.  Bill Redpath
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On Tue, 6/20/17, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Seeking Co-Sponsors For a Motion to Give Staff the Authority to Select the number of issues of LP News
 To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
 Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 12:16 PM
 
 I will
 co-sponsor Mr. Hayes' motion on the number of LP News
 issues.
 
 
 Sam
 GoldsteinLibertarian National
 CommitteeMember at Large8925 N
 Meridian St, Ste 101Indianapolis IN
 46260317-850-0726 Phone317-582-1773
 Fax
 
 On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at
 10:50 AM, Whitney Bilyeu <whitneycb76 at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 I
 will co-sponsor.
 On Jun 20, 2017 8:33 AM,
 "Daniel Hayes" <danielehayes at icloud.com>
 wrote:
 
 Once somebody objected this was
 inevitable. Here comes a request for cosponsors of a motion
 by email at the bottom of this missive .
 Our staff has asked for the
 discretion to cut an issue of LP news this year.  The
 rationale seems to be with lots of transition in staff and
 some other projects there isn't the time to do it well.
  
 I was the main
 driver of reducing the number of physical issues of LPNews
 at the December meeting.  That said, Lauren Daugherty our
 Head of Development was not in favor of that.  She likes to
 have more touches in between "asks" for money. 
 It's part of cultivating donors. Nobody likes to feel
 like an ATM.  I totally get that though I think there are
 other ways to do it and still believe we should start to
 transition to an all digital format. That said I believe in
 giving our staff the tools they ask for to
 succeed.
 In this case,
 the person tasked with raising our donation levels and
 maintaining and increasing our dues paying members prefers
 more touches.  Our executive director who has a good
 understanding of what a can of worms the LPNews
 "issue" is has asked us to cut an issue.  I
 don't think he would do that without good
 reason.
 Nick has the
 authority to direct staff(or let our executive director do
 it).  From the technical aspects Joshua mentions, there
 doesn't need to be a motion for Wes to do this,
 especially with Nick's ok.  Caryn Ann objects because
 of underlying arguments made in the unsuccessful attempt to
 limit the number of LPNews issues to 4 during the December
 2016 LNC meeting.  That motion failing didn't mandate
 more issues. It just did not set a limit of 4. I may be
 wrong on the specifics but it becomes moot either way if
 this motion passes.
 If
 we don't amend the budget line, that leaves the funding
 there for 6 issues.  Let's say things go smoother or
 other things shift and Wes changes his mind on being able to
 put out 6 well produced issues. By giving him discretion to
 select between publishing 5 or 6 issues that removes at
 least the objection of going against the sentiment that may
 or may not have been codified in December. It also lets him
 do his job we hired him for which is to allocate staff
 resources with the chair's guidance.
 I can already sense that while we
 may not technically need a motion, despite how painful email
 motions can be, not having one is going to be made much more
 time consuming and painful by cries of
 "foul".
 So I
 am seeking cosponsors for the following
 motion:"Move to allow staff the
 discretion to choose between publishing a total of five or
 six physical issues of LPNews for the year of 2017, subject
 to the approval of the Chairman."
 Daniel HayesLNC At
 Large Member
 
 
 Sent from my
 iPhone
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