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<p>Actually, if Caryn Ann does a good enough job, we should no
longer need an off-site storage unit. The unit we're in now just
went up to $248 per month starting in March 2018 (up about $20
from February).</p>
<p>William Redpath, can you calculate the Prevent Value of the
saving of $248 per month in perpetuity? <br>
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<p>And if you can do that, can you then get a bit more precise by
making the assumption the $248 per month spending won't stop for 2
years?<br>
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<p>Thanks Bill, that'd be great.</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 3/24/2017 11:43 AM, Wes Benedict
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4b13610b-4d25-e691-32df-446e702748e1@lp.org"
type="cite">Around 300 boxes with the miscellaneous "slips of
paper" have been shredded since 2013. I spent many days on that
work myself doing a first and second pass through the mountain of
junk in the cool, damp, rat-infested dungeon storage underneath
the Watergate complex, and then doing 3rd and 4th passes at our
storage units after moving the stuff to Alexandria. (I did not
shred the stuff myself--just identified the boxes and then had a
professional service handle it).
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I am not exaggerating about the rats. I do not recall finding dead
rats in any boxes and did not necessarily see rats inside our
particular unit, but there were dead dried out rat carcasses less
than 20 feet outside the door to our unit and in the hallway
leading up to our unit and inside adjacent units.
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In addition to things that have been shredded, I did not count the
number of boxes of stuff that I threw away that did not need to be
shredded. I also personally tore apart, dismantled, and sawed when
necessary (with my personal Bosch circular saws and drill), large
painted plywood structures that I think were used in the 2000 and
2004 national conventions (along with the wooden pallets).
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For a decade, it seemed, no one was willing to throw things away.
I can't blame them. Who wants to throw something away when someone
might complain later? Plus, it's easier to just box up an old
employees stuff and push it aside rather than go through it and
sort it all out. The result was valuable things were getting
buried by old broken furniture and useless pieces of returned mail
slips that had no value. Boxes of potentially valuable documents
were getting crushed and split and were spilling in the damp
basement of the Watergate. The basement of the Watergate obviously
wasn't climate controlled and the storage facilities were down an
underground hallway from the dumpsters for CVS and the grocery
store Safeway, and just 200 yard crawl for rats from the shores of
the Potomac. Grocery stores generate a lot of smelly garbage that
attracts rats.
<br>
<br>
For the most part, I did not go through many individual boxes and
sort through individual pieces of stuff. I either kept the whole
box, or through the whole box out (or shredded if necessary).
<br>
<br>
We still have over a dozen 4-drawer file cabinets and maybe 100
boxes of stuff that needs to be gone through more carefully. That
takes a lot of time. When it's time to bring the stuff back from
Colorado, I expect the content to be 15% of it's original size.
That's because there is still stuff to throw away, and also, for
things like fundraising letters that were sent in 1992--there are
probably 5 or 10 copies of each.
<br>
<br>
That stuff is getting older every day, but at least we now have it
stored in a climate controlled storage unit in Alexandria, instead
of the basement of the Watergate.
<br>
<br>
I probably inadvertently threw some things out that we wished I
hadn't, but I feel like my actions to jettison some garbage even
if there was some collateral damage, was urgent, and necessary for
the greater good of the documents that were saved, and because we
needed space for our more recent documents.
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A few photos attached.
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Wes Benedict, Executive Director
<br>
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
<br>
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
<br>
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
<br>
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
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On 3/24/2017 4:43 AM, Alicia Mattson wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Having spent some time digging through
these materials a few years ago, I know there are a LOT of boxes
of old membership forms with hand-written signatures on the
membership certification. I don't imagine those going online
for the world to see, so why ship 50 boxes to Colorado and back?
<br>
<br>
I don't recall a terribly high percentage of those files being
things that are of historical value that would belong in an
online archive. Some of it was, but much was not. Old invoices
and vendor contracts. Miscellaneous contents of the desk
drawers of former employees. Is there really enough historical
material to fill a UHaul?
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