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<p>You are clearly an expert and so rather than doing it to prove
something to me, would you consider working with the EPCC Audit
Committee, and Treasurer, to generate a good coding system that
answers the questions of how to allocate? <br>
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<p>Perhaps test it for a few weeks once a draft plan is created.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/2/2016 7:05 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos
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type="cite">I have done it twenty years in my job. As do
attorneys all over the world. I don't need to prove it further.
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<div>The issue is a good coding system that answers the questions
of how to allocate.<span></span><br>
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On Friday, December 2, 2016, Wes Benedict <<a
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<p>Caryn Ann, I don't mind if you do it successfully. I'm
not saying it can't be done.</p>
<p>So, I hereby challenge you to do it, if you can do it
without my help (meaning don't ask me what goes in what
category).<br>
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<pre cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
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<div>On 12/2/2016 5:11 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Wes I'm not the best person to make that
challenge to. I'm a paralegal. My entire work day
requires me to keep track of every six minute block by L
and A codes. I have done it for twenty years. It does
require setting guidelines for what things get
calculated as and tolerance levels on level of
granularity.
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica,
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Ann Harlos</b></font></div>
<div><font size="1">Region 1
Representative, Libertarian National
Committee </font><span
style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska,
Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas,
Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a
moz-do-not-send="true">Caryn.Ann.
Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div>
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Colorado</a></span></div>
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<p>An interesting experiment would be for each
LNC member to track its hours for one month
according to the Functional Allocation of
Expenses procedures requested. It would give
you some hands on experience in dealing with
the reality that we switch categories often
every few minutes, like from:<br>
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<p>40 - Admin (this conversation)</p>
<p>88 - Outreach (LNC photos on the website)</p>
<p>80 - Media or 85 - Member Communications
(delivering the message the LNC wants)</p>
<p>85 - Member Communication (recording the
termination of the membership of person who
disapproves of LNC buying meat)</p>
<p>40 Admin? or 55 Branding? or 70 - Ballot
Access? - approving staff getting a poster
about ballot access printed.<br>
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<p>I literally switch tasks every few minutes.
Trying to track this in detail is very tough.</p>
<p>I really would like to see the LNC track
themselves for a month. You'll find out how
hard this is after one hour.<br>
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<pre cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%28202%29%20333-0008" value="+12023330008" target="_blank">(202) 333-0008 ext. 232</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
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<div>I pointed out earlier the concern I am
expressing here, but I did it briefly and
without much explanation, because I wanted
to know if, in fact, I have misunderstood,
if I was making a big mistake, and if my
concerns were unfounded. All of that
remains perfectly possible, but the fact
that I have not received an explanation
making those points suggests to me that
perhaps I am onto something important.</div>
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<div>80% of the proposed budget is accounted
for by administration and compensation. A
member seeing that might be excused for
believing that the national party simply
consumes 80 cents of each dollar
received. This would be a mistake, but it
would be an understandable mistake - and
one we can easily prevent. </div>
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<div>This member would be mistaken because
compensation is not consumption. Staff
does a lot of things. Staff work is a
very large proportion of what the national
party does. When we see an affiliate
support line with a rather small number on
it, it conceals the fact that staff spends
a good amount of time supporting
affiliates. Since staff time is split
between different functions, we have a
timesheet policy allowing staff time to be
billed to different lines. </div>
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<div>So this brings us to, perhaps, a bigger
problem: even knowing this, the member
reading this budget has no idea how much
of staff time is spent on what projects.
Perhaps most importantly, neither does the
LNC. Certainly the LNC is not giving
direction as to how staff time should be
spent. We have, essentially, created a
black box into which we place 50% of the
annual budget. </div>
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<div>A budget that breaks down staff time
the way it is to be billed, and that funds
staff time from line items, also allows
members, at a glance, to see what
priorities the national party has, and to
know easily and quickly what staff is
doing. Most importantly, it assures
members that these priorities are being
set by those they elect to make such
decisions, not being left to the ED, or to
chance, or to "whatever is most pressing
at the moment." I have said before that
my most pressing </div>
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<div>After all, functional and operational
transparency require not only that members
see and hear us talking, but that we are
talking about the things that members need
to know. If we make ourselves open, but
exercise no control over fully half the
budget, we are not transparent.</div>
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<div>This is not at all hard to fix. We
know the proposed total compensation. We
may modify it at our meeting. A portion
of that, perhaps 20%, should be left in
the compensation black-box. The LNC can
decide what we'd like to prioritize by
setting percentages to various functional
lines. The remaining compensation
multiplied by the percentage gives the
amount to be moved from compensation to
the appropriate line item.</div>
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<div>Maintaining is also easy. Simply fund
compensation from the various lines, in
accordance with the timesheets received.
The Treasurer can, in turn, keep an eye on
the lines, and see if some lines are over
or under funded. If so, the board can
decide how to react - by amending the
budget, or by instructing staff to respect
the priorities set. </div>
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<div>I am not known as a transparency
champion. In large part, I have a
different notion of transparency from many
of my colleagues. The above shows the
sort of transparency I worry about. I
hope, though, that my colleagues who are
known as transparency champions will join
me on this issue, and join me in
requesting that we not place 50% of our
annual expenditure in a black-box line
item such that members cannot use the
budget to determine what it is that we do,
and we cannot use the budget to govern the
organization.</div>
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<div>For my part, I am disinclined to vote
for a budget that black-boxes 50%, and
that charges 80% to administration.</div>
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