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

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Thank you Ms Mattson.  I will review.  I did make those changes to the Sec
report but I suspect my assembly program grabbed the earlier version. I
will take a look at the new issues- and review with my recording.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 3:05 AM Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> 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
> > <
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tt-NSfBkBsFLevhQzA0Y5FrVfDvQm96W/view?usp=drive_web
> > >
> >  LNC-MIN_2019-11-16-17_V3.pdf
> > <
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QRGUtsc9khkAM-32eLJUuw_RG5Ob8Jlj/view?usp=drive_web
> > >
> >
> >
> > *  In Liberty,*
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>
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