[LPL Board of Directors] Performance Based Pay amendment to Executive Director contract
Adrien Monteleone
chairman at lplouisiana.org
Wed Feb 27 13:05:18 CST 2013
Howard,
To your #1:
I've attached a copy of her contract. Sorry I didn't send it over sooner as
promised after the meeting. Everyone should have a copy for full disclosure.
You will see in the Goals & Services sections, that she is already tasked with
performing these duties so there should be no conflict. One may ask then, "Why
provide an incentive to do what we are already paying her to do?"
These incentives are to pay her for meeting specific goals set by the
Strategic Planning Committee above and beyond her routine tasks of
communicating with members to help facilitate our projects.
When we created the contract, we envisioned she would be more of a coordinator
and facilitator than someone doing the bulk of the work, for say, organizing
parishes. That is the primary task of the Vice-Chairman and the Parish
Organizers. She was envisioned to play a supporting role here. In practice,
it seems she is playing a major role in this effortand thus is working beyond
what we originally set out for her.
Theincentives are also designed to provide room for her to make more money if
she works harder. Currently, she could conceivable raise a considerable sum
for us, and still only be paid $13k this year. She's willing to do the work
to build the party because she believes in the LPand more specifically, the
LPL, but she is fast approaching the point where what we are paying her will
be insufficient and she'll have to find a second job and cut back on her LPL
work. She enjoys what she is doing for us, and is willing to work for lessnow,
so she can build us up to be able to pay her more down the road. She is
presently making up the difference with savings, which are about to run out.
I think the incentive based option allows for some breathing room for her,
helps us accomplish our goals, and is designed not to put us in financial straits.
There is also the issue I discovered while speaking to her last night that she
has the perception that she is raising money for us, but not being compensated
for it. I explained that at present, she is receiving the bulk of ANY funds
raised by anyone. I'll draw up a P&L or something to illustrate it better for
everyone, but I think she just didn't see that nearly everything we collect
goes to pay her on her base contractpresently. There's no "money on the table"
after it's all said and done. I think this is largely due, not so much to how
things are presently structured, but that her contract is just for way too
little, compared to what she needs, to meet living expenses.
When one is working 50-60 hours a week and is making $250 a week doing it,
they will likely get frustrated in short order.
Hopefully our talk last night, and these incentive options can serve to
relieve those frustrations and keep her working hard for the LPL.
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To your #2:
I think T. Lee addressed that as well or better than I could. (and certainly
with less words)
In Liberty,
Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana
On 2/27/13 7:02 AM, Membership LPL wrote:
>
> I have a discussion question(s).
>
> 1. Are there any concern that this incentive would distract from her other
> roles as Executive Director?
>
> 2.Are there any concern that if others who may have been helping her or
> doing so independently do not receive any such compensation?
>
> ---------------------------
>
> Howard Kearney
>
> Membership
>
> *From:*scc-bounces at lplouisiana.org [mailto:scc-bounces at lplouisiana.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Adrien Monteleone
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:30 PM
> *To:* Mailing list for LPL Board of Directors
> *Subject:* [LPL Board of Directors] Performance Based Pay amendment to
> Executive Director contract
>
> I'm proposing the following amendment to add a section to Wendy's contract
> as follows:
>
> Performance based pay
>
> $1 (one dollar)per registered voter in excess of 8,000 before 1/1/14.
> Payment to be made quarterly after the initial threshold has been surpassed,
> and upon calculation of the number of net new voters per the official list
> purchased from the Secretary of State's office.
>
> $5 (five dollars) per new annual dues paying member who attended a
> successful parish organizing caucus. Payment to be made quarterly after
> accurate filing of all required paperwork evidencing the caucus, as members
> sign up and payment is received from Piryx, that match the attendance roster.
>
>
> This will work to provide incentive towards three goals, increased voter
> registration, increase in organized parishes, and increased funding.
>
> The voter registration funding would require only a small percentage of
> those new voters to sign up as dues paying members to break even. (about 2-5%)
>
> The second incentive is really geared towards both organizing new parishes,
> and bringing in new members as a result of that effort. It would pay for
> itself, since she only gets a bonus if she gets new members.
>
> Thus each quarter, on or about the second pay check (to allow for
> calculations) we would issue her a bonus payment for the amount earned
> according to these two criteria.
>
> These criteria I think are fair for the effort required, and provide her the
> means to earn more if she works harder with no upper limit. (and it would
> all be "paid for" since it is tied to new memberships)
>
> In other states where petition drives are held to secure signatures for
> ballot access, $1-$2 is the typical incentive pay for valid signatures.
> However, petition signatures generally do not rely on people changing party
> affiliation. Since this is a much harder goal, but we do not yet know how
> much work is involved, I think $1 per new LP voter is a reasonable start.
>
> The above proposal would offer no upper limit, but as an example, she would
> qualify for $6,000 for reaching our registration goal of 14,000. This would
> require in a worst case scenario, 300 new members, or 5% of those 6000
> voters to sign up. Considering we are now contacting new voters within a
> short time span of their registration to get them active, this should be
> achievable.
>
> Also, the proposal above would allow her to qualify for significantly more
> also with no upper limit and do so only by bringing new money into the
> treasury to pay for it. If she were to form 25 PECs with only the minimum
> number of members/officers and got each to sign up as an LPL member, she
> would qualify for an additional $750. Of course, that would be a minimum,
> she could earn much more if she brings in more.
>
> While I think 10,000 voters is a more likely result, 25 parishes is not out
> of reach. She's already a few months away from 10 and is almost ready to
> begin the next batch.
>
> I think giving her the room to effectively decide how much she wants to earn
> this year and tying that extra amount to her bringing it in to pay for it,
> will achieve the results we are looking for.
>
>
> Thus I am asking for your votes, and/or amendments/discussion/questions on
> the above Motion to Amend.
>
> (no second is required)
>
>
> --
> In Liberty,
>
> Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
> Libertarian Party of Louisiana
>
>
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