[Lnc-business] NOTICE OF SPECIAL E-MEETING MARCH 26 9PM-11PM EASTERN

[Richard Longstreth]

I cosponsored the proposed meeting, time, and subject. Because no changes
were made to the original ask, and how email threads work, I thought
everything was implied. If the members of this body would rather a minimum
of six separate email threads calling for this meeting, with debate
occurring in each, I would be happy to comply. Just let me know how formal
we would like to be on a call that received 8 cosponsors, all not making
changes to the original motion thus implicitly echoing the time, date,
subject matter, etc.

I feel the policy manual requirements were met and defer to the chair to
make a decision otherwise.

Richard Longstreth
Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
Libertarian National Committee
richard.longstreth at lp.org
931.538.9300

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On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 04:13 Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> Besides the detail of the subject matter, Mr. Goldstein already pointed out
> that our policy requires, "Each committee member calling for an electronic
> meeting must do so by emailing the entire committee and specifying the date
> of the meeting, time of the meeting, meeting link including the identity of
> the Electronic Meeting Provider, and the topic(s) to be addressed."
>
> Yet the co-sponsors were obtained based on the topic, but not with the
> other details specified.  In the middle of the process the original
> requestor said the meeting would be set for 10 days from when the final
> sponsor was obtained, at 9-11 pm Eastern on that date.  The final sponsor
> was obtained on 03/14, but the call of the meeting is for 12 days later
> rather than the 10 days later indicated.  There was no way for Dr. Lark to
> know to ask for an earlier time to accommodate his 03/26 schedule conflict
> before the meeting call was sent out, given that the information given to
> him previously did not suggest 03/26 would be the resulting date.  Even if
> it had been set for 10 days rather than 12, the fact that the date was not
> locked by the sponsors in advance but was instead a floating relative date
> meant that one had to predict when the final sponsor would develop to check
> their calendar for conflicts.
>
> This call-to-meeting changes the details after-the-fact.  The real impact
> of not following the protocol established by our policy is to interfere
> with one member's ability to fully participate.  This sort of thing is
> exactly why the policy says the cosponsors must agree to all those details.
>
> -Alicia
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:54 AM Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I think the subject matter given in this meeting notice is improperly
> > broad.
> >
> > The initial sponsor of the idea started an email with a subject line
> > referring only to "convention" and asked for a meeting to discuss this
> > matter.  Mr. Goldstein asked for clarification of what matter.  The
> > response was, "our contingency plans and status in light of the
> pandemic."
> >
> > That was the given understanding when other LNC members agreed to join
> the
> > call of the meeting.  Yet this meeting notice says the subject is again
> > just the very broad "convention" topic, rather than the narrowed answer
> > which was given in that email thread.
> >
> > Some other topics that came up in that email thread go beyond the scope
> of
> > contingency plans and into brainstorming potential bylaws amendments on
> > other topics not related to the stated purpose of the meeting.  I am
> quite
> > concerned that stating the topic as "convention" rather than "our
> > contingency plans and status in light of the pandemic" could lead to some
> > trying to bring those subjects into the meeting, when that was not the
> > purpose stated.
> >
> > I will object to topics other than "our contingency plans and status in
> > light of the pandemic" as being outside of the scope of the special
> meeting.
> >
> > -Alicia
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 5:25 PM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
> > lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Here is the Zoom information.  This meeting was sponsored by Hagan,
> >> Harlos,
> >> Longstreth, Merced, Nekhaila, Phillips, Smith, Van Horn
> >>
> >> Caryn Ann Harlos is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
> >>
> >> Topic: LNC Special Meeting Re: Convention
> >> Time: Mar 26, 2020 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
> >>
> >> Join Zoom Meeting
> >> https://zoom.us/j/239017962
> >>
> >> Meeting ID: 239 017 962
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >> *  In Liberty,*
> >> * Personal Note:  I have what is commonly known as Asperger's Syndrome
> >> (part of the autism spectrum).  This can affect inter-personal
> >> communication skills in both personal and electronic arenas.  If anyone
> >> found anything offensive or overly off-putting (or some other social
> faux
> >> pas) in an actual email, please contact me privately and let me know.  *
> >>
> >
>