[Lnc-business] Seeking Feedback: Membership Support Committee

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Caryn Ann, haven't you (an LNC member) been the chair, and appoint all 
the people to the Historical Committee, since it's inception?  Not sure 
that's a model we want to adopt.

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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Secretary Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/

On 2018-08-26 13:59, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> Much much better.  I have a question though - why so many LNC members?
>    We are stretched thin and there are many many members who want to
>    help.  I would like to see committees - particularly ones with
>    absolutely no budget - to be member ran with the composition of that
>    committee approved by the LNC not just the LNC chair (if we reduced 
> the
>    LNC membership of the committee - if kept as it is right now, only
>    approval by the Chair is necessary).
>    The Historical Committee - which actually HAS a budget has NO 
> required
>    LNC members.  Why are we not moving towards that model?
>    tldr; I am likely to vote against if the number of LNC members is 
> not
>    reduced.  We can always volunteer to be appointed.  I would like to 
> see
>    NO required LNC members.
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> 
>    On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 10:49 AM Alex Merced (LNC Vice Chair) via
>    Lnc-business <[4]lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> 
>         Below is the newer wording for what used to be the
>      Retention/Outreach
>         committee motion. I have simplified the motion based on what I
>      saw on
>         the email ballots of committee motions from previous LNC terms.
>         My intention is to create a committee that want to help provide
>      some
>         extra hands to the staff in Membership related tasks and fact
>      finding
>         (making thank you calls/emails). Since this can be quite a wide
>      range
>         of activities I chose to not define them within the motion so 
> the
>         committee chair or the committee can coordinate with the
>      Membership
>         Manager and other staff on how they can be helpful.
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>         Membership Support Committee
>         Create a Membership Support Committee consisting of four LNC
>      members or
>         LNC alternates and three non-LNC members of the LP.  The LNC
>      members of
>         the committee are elected by the LNC and the non-LNC members 
> are
>         appointed by the LNC Chair based on recommendations from the 
> LNC
>         members of the committee.  The LNC Chair will appoint an 
> Interim
>      Chair
>         of the Membership Support Committee until a permanent Chair can
>      be
>         elected by its’ members.
>         The Membership Support Committee will seek to find ways to
>      support LP
>         staff in matters of membership growth and retention.  The
>      committee
>         will submit a report of its activities at the 2nd and 4th LNC
>      meetings
>         each year.
>         Alex Merced
>         Vice Chair of the Libertarian National Committee/LP
> 
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