[Lnc-business] DRAFT MINUTE NOV 16-17 2019 V3

[Alicia Mattson]

Below are my comments on v3 of the November LNC meeting minutes.

On November 11, prior to the meeting, I sent a number of factual
corrections for the Secretary's report which had been distributed, but
almost all of those issues still persist in v3 of the minutes, so I'll
repeat the remaining items here:

1)  In the section titled, “Status of Minutes Since Last Report”, the date
of the July minutes was July 27-28, rather than July 28-29.

2)  In that same section, the July 27-28 minutes were approved by email
ballot number 190922-01, rather than 190922-11.

3)  There is a section titled, “LNC Membership Changes Since August
Meeting” but the meeting was in July rather than August. That section lists
that Pat Ford was elected as the new Region 8 alternate, but it should also
mention that the vacancy existed because Jeff Lyons resigned by email to
the LNC on 08/06/19. This resignation was also after the July meeting, thus
hasn’t been documented in other minutes.

4)  About the Credentials Committee, the Secretary's report states,
"California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Ohio have each earned one seat
and must name their appointments by January 31, 2020."  According to the
sustaining membership counts for 2018 delegate allocation, the top 5
sustaining membership states were instead: California, Texas, Florida,
VIRGINIA, and New York. Ohio was not in the top 5, but Virginia was.

5)  About the Credentials Committee, Bylaw Article 11.4.b says of the state
appointments to Credentials Committee, "These shall be selected by each of
the affiliate parties no later than three months prior to the Regular
Convention." With the convention calling to order on May 22, 2020, the
appointment
deadline of three months prior would be February 22, rather than the stated
January 31.

6)  About the Platform Committee, Bylaw Article 11.3.d says of the Platform
Committee appointment deadline that they shall be selected, "no later than
the last day of the fifth month prior to the Regular Convention." With the
convention calling to order on May 22, 2020, that appointment deadline
would be the last day of December, so December 31 rather than the stated
November 30.

7)  Under the heading “Email Ballots” the first sentence also needs the
dates corrected for the July meeting.

8)  Email ballot number 190804-01 is missing from the listing of email
ballots since the last regular meeting.

9)  Email ballot number 190830-1 ended on 09/06/19, rather than 09/07/19.

10)  On email ballot number 190922-01, it lists the co-sponsors as “Harlos,
Longstreth, Merced, Phillips” but I saw no cosponsorship from Mr. Merced. I
saw that you inquired whether Mr. Merced would, but I saw no response from
him. I did instead see co-sponsorship from Hagan and Smith who are not
listed there.

11)  On email ballot 190922-01, the vote total reports 11 “aye” votes, but
the roll call listing only shows 10 names in the list. It is missing an
affirmative vote from Tim Hagan, which can be seen on the email list here:
http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business/2019/055042.html


Main body of the minutes:

p. 9, the motion to strike the time allotted for the Blockchain Committee
etc. was made by Mr. Goldstein, rather than Mr. Redpath.

p. 12, final paragraph, the last name of our Operations Director is spelled
with only one "s" rather than two.  Same spelling issue is also on p. 13 in
the first "Audit Committee" paragraph.

p. 18, footnote 3, in an email to the LNC you indicated that Ms. Ryan's
name is actually "Bette Rose" rather than "BetteRose"

p. 20, in the "Call to Order" paragraph, the second sentence indicates that
some notification had been given to the LNC.  I can't find any such
notification in my email records.

p. 21, there is a "Note from Ms. Harlos" paragraph near the top of the page
which is entirely redundant with footnote 5 on the same page.

p. 21, in between the sentence beginning, "Following that adjustment..."
and the sentence, "Mr. Hewitt moved the following multi-part..." insert,
"Ms. Harlos joined the meeting at 9:45 a.m. and resumed the secretarial
duties."

p. 21, Mr. Hewitt's multi-part motion is missing some words:
a) the second bullet point is missing a comma before the "and" and missing
the phrase, "$8,000, from" so that it should read, "Reduce 7340 (LP News)
by 1 issue from 5 issues to 4 issues, and by $8,000, from $54,000 to
446,000."
b) the fourth bullet point is missing the word "by" so that it should read,
"Reduce line 7106-10 (Campus Outreach) by $10,000 from $10,000 to $0"

p. 21, the Hewitt motion was submitted to us in writing so that it could be
recorded verbatim in the minutes, but it has not been recorded as
submitted.  Throughout the motion, several numeric values have been
replaced with both the spelled out words plus the parenthetical Arabic
numeral.  That may be the secretary's preferred style, but it's not how the
motion was submitted.

p. 22, the Phillips motion was also submitted to us in writing so that it
could be recorded verbatim in the minutes, but what has been recorded has a
number of differences (besides the numbers changed to both spell out and
use parenthetical Arabic numerals, which has also been changed in the
amended version at the bottom of p. 24).  The submitted language was:

"Increase 4020-10 (Board Solicitation Revenue) by $42,000, from $600 to
$42,600, through establishment of a Give or Get requirement of $1,000 for
LNC members and $500 for alternates for existing LNC members through the
end of the term, and $1,000 for LNC members and $500 for alternates elected
at the 2020 convention through the end of the year.

Increase 7360-40 (Candidate Support & Training by $40,800, from $102,400 to
$143,200, to increase hours for Ms. Schultz from 20 hours to 40 hours, and
for Mr. Pazell from 20 hours to 30 hours."

Spanning p. 23-24, during the time I was serving as secretary pro tem, the
language of the Phillips amendment recorded here does not match what I
emailed to you, which matched the way the motion was submitted in writing
in terms of how the program name is referenced.

p. 25 indicates that I moved for an extension of time to introduce a
motion, but it doesn't reflect that the extension was granted by the body
and I did actually introduce that motion.  It just skipped straight to the
amendment of that motion.

p. 25, Mr. Sarwark yielded the gavel to Mr. Hagan prior to making the
motion to amend, rather than after.

p. 25, I emailed the language of the budget proviso motion so that it could
be recorded verbatim in the minutes.  My submitted language only said
"two-thirds vote", not the "two-thirds (2/3rd) vote" language which is
recorded.  Please revert to the submitted language without the
parenthetical at all, especially a fraction with an Ordinal denominator
rather than a Cardinal denominator.  The same change should be carried
through to the language of Mr. Sarwark's amendment.

p. 25, very minor typo, but when Mr. Goldstein moved to end all debate, an
"s" is missing from the end of the word "questions."

p. 29, the results for the Awards Committee, Mr. Gillis was reported onsite
to have received 10 votes in the OpaVote system, though the minutes here
document 11 votes.  It's worth a double-check to make sure that 11 is the
correct number.

p. 32, one candidate's last name is misspelled as "Scnell" rather than
"Schell" and the sample ballot on p. 262 has the same issue.

p. 34, the paragraph regarding the next two highest vote-getters.  If the
minutes are to reflect debate comments, including the inquiry as to whether
I would be amenable to being appointed as the 3rd alternate, let's also
include that the reason I declined to do that was that Mr. Perry is usually
named as the committee representative from New Hampshire.  (As it turns out
after the fact, NH did name Mr. Perry as their rep, so my instinct was
correct.)

p. 38, the show-of-hands vote on Mr. Ford's motion was initially counted as
being 8-6, but then there was doubt as to whether everyone had been
included, so the vote was re-counted and came out as 9-5.  The minutes show
a total of 9-6, which matches neither of the counts.

p. 38, I don't understand the sentence which begins, "Ms. Mattson indicated
several changes and inquired..."  I sounds like maybe I thought I saw some
changes from the prior version in the version presented that day.  Instead
I think it more accurately reflects the situation to describe it as, "Ms.
Mattson indicated she had seen no response to her feedback on these
proposals and inquired..."

p. 38 indicates that the motion to postpone indefinitely failed, but by a
vote total of 8-7 which would have been sufficient to pass.  I recorded
that vote as instead being failed by a 5-8 vote total.

-Alicia


On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 5:26 AM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> Dr. Moulton kindly reviewed my second draft and found some minor formatting
> changes and one change where "date" should have been "data."  Thus, here is
> V3.
>
> I am ready to start an email ballot on this, please advise if you need more
> review time and how much.
>  LNC-MIN_2019-11-16-17_V3.docx
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tt-NSfBkBsFLevhQzA0Y5FrVfDvQm96W/view?usp=drive_web
> >
>  LNC-MIN_2019-11-16-17_V3.pdf
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QRGUtsc9khkAM-32eLJUuw_RG5Ob8Jlj/view?usp=drive_web
> >
>
>
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