[LPL Board of Directors] MOTION FROM THE CHAIR - Fundraiser position

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thank you Reed,

Vote received.

I will however take the liberty to address your concerns:

I understand fully the desire to meet Vinson before approving a contract with 
him. It is for this reason, I wanted to handle this at the January meeting and 
have him attend. I had no intention of pushing this to be signed and completed 
before the April meeting, nor was I expecting the Board to approve a contract 
that doesn't exist yet. I was asking for support and approval to negotiate and 
offer the contract, but the Board would still have to approve it. We conducted 
a similar process with Wendy.

Perhaps my choice of using the language "and offer" should be amended out to 
make it clear that no signatures would be applied until the Board approves the 
terms.

If you submitted such as a motion to amend, I'm sure that amendment would pass 
and we could then consider the amended proposal.



The question of why paying someone to raise funds I thought I had already 
addressed, but the simple fact, other than his previous ability and 
experience, is that he could do so full time. None of us have that 
availability. Thus the potential to raise more funds is available. We could 
ask the same questions for each task the Executive Director does. Why pay her 
to do them, when we can do them for free? The simple answer is not even all of 
us put together can consistently manage the time to complete the tasks she is 
performing working full time on them.


To be sure, Wendy is not comfortable asking for money. She has made that 
clear. But she is doing it anyway as you mentioned. But, I think it a much 
more positive and productive situation to employ the principle of "division of 
labor," as it is called in economic circles, where she carries out the tasks 
she is best doing, and someone else carries out the tasks they are better 
suited to - namely fundraising. She is already employing this with organizing 
the parishes in a different task — the organizers she has found, for the most 
part, but not all, are unwilling to make phone calls to get anyone to attend 
the caucuses. They seem to be willing to do any other leg work, but not that 
crucial part. So she has decided to handle that on her own, becuase she is 
good at it and knows it has to be done for the event to be a success. Everyone 
has their strengths and their roles. If we can find someone who is capable and 
willing to perform a function we need, that she is not experienced in or very 
good doing, and it would save us the burden of having to do so, and that would 
allow us to focus on our other responsibilities instead of having to perform 
it ourselves, then I see no reason not to attempt to do so.


In conclusion, I am open to the above amendment if you wish to propose it, and 
I certainly agree with waiting till the April meeting to formally approve the 
contract and offer it to Mr. Mouser, after everyone has had a chance to meet 
him as we did with Wendy.

This will give us some time to conduct a proper negotiation, and to take 
account of our own efforts and abilities as volunteer part time fundraisers.


In Liberty,

Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana

On 1/31/13 12:52 AM, Reed Ebarb wrote:
> I am voting nay on this. I simply know to little at this point to give a
> full vote of confidence. I haven't met him and I don't feel comfortable
> giving anyone a contract unless the Board has had a chance to sit down and
> meet this person, as well as negotiate a contract. If I can still send out
> fund-raising letters, why pay him 35% of the return on them for doing what
> I can do for free? As far as Wendy not wanting to ask for money, she may
> just have to get over that. At our current rate, $20,400 isn't that far
> off what I think we can do. The return on this set of letters will tell me
> more about whether we will have the financial support from our base to
> continue with or without a fund-raiser.
>
> In the mean time though, I am voting nay.
>
> --Reed Ebarb, Secretary and interim Treasurer
>
>
>> What would a contract look like? I already do fund-raising letters and
>> some calls myself, so what would he be doing that myself and Wendy aren't
>> already doing?
>>
>>> To all,
>>>
>>> We had discussed at our October meeting the possibility of taking on
>>> Vinson
>>> Mouser(former Chairman for the new folks), or someone else, as LPL
>>> fundraiser.
>>>
>>> My apologies for not including it in January's agenda.
>>>
>>> Considering the new contract we've offered Wendy, and the funding goals
>>> set by
>>> the SPC, we will need some major effort to bring money into the party.
>>>
>>> I suggest we take up the issue ASAP.
>>>
>>> I'll get the ball rolling with this then:
>>>
>>> Motion -
>>>
>>> That the chairman is authorized to negotiate and offer a contract for
>>> fundraising with Vinson Mouser for the remainder of 2013.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please submit your votes, and or discussion as soon as possible so we
>>> can
>>> get
>>> moving on this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> In Liberty,
>>>
>>> Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
>>> Libertarian Party of Louisiana
>>>
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