[LPL Board of Directors] Performance Based Pay amendment to Executive Director contract
Wes Benedict
finance at lplouisiana.org
Thu Feb 28 15:20:52 CST 2013
I vote aye.
--Wes Benedict
Adrien Monteleone wrote, On 2/28/2013 2:58 PM:
> Thanks Frank for your vote!!
>
> Current results are:
>
> Mr. Horne - Aye
> Mr. Kearney - Aye
> Mr. Smith - Aye
> Mr. Griffin - Aye
> Mr. Monteleone - Aye
>
> A quorum has been reached.
>
> The votes so far are 5-0 in favor - an absolute majority of the Board
> having voted in favor - the motion carries.
>
> Still not voting:
>
> Mr. Lewis
> Mr. Ebarb
> Mr. Benedict
> Mr. Thompson
>
> All those who have not yet voted are encouraged to still submit their
> votes for the record.
>
> Thanks to everyone, and I will let Wendy know tonight of her new
> incentive terms and get her signature.
>
>
>
> In Liberty,
>
> Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
> Libertarian Party of Louisiana
> On 2/28/13 1:29 PM, Franklin Griffin wrote:
>> AYE MATEY
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 2/28/13, Adrien Monteleone /<chairman at lplouisiana.org>/*
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Adrien Monteleone <chairman at lplouisiana.org>
>> Subject: Re: [LPL Board of Directors] Performance Based Pay
>> amendment to Executive Director contract
>> To: scc at lplouisiana.org
>> Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:52 PM
>>
>> Thanks for the votes Lee, Howard & Boyd.
>>
>> The current tally is:
>>
>> Mr. Horne - Aye
>> Mr. Kearney - Aye
>> Mr. Smith - Aye
>>
>> Not voted yet:
>>
>> Mr. Lewis
>> Mr. Ebarb
>> Mr. Benedict
>> Mr. Thompson
>> Mr. Griffin
>> Mr. Monteleone (the chair will wait till last to vote per
>> Robert's protocol)
>>
>>
>>
>> Five votes are needed for a quorum, and a majority of those are
>> needed for
>> passage.
>>
>> Thus we need one more vote, yay or nay, besides my own to proceed.
>>
>> Please get your votes in soon.
>>
>> I'd like to tell her what these new terms are and have her sign
>> them in person
>> at the caucus tonight.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In Liberty,
>>
>> Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
>> Libertarian Party of Louisiana
>>
>> On 2/28/13 9:33 AM, elections at lplouisiana.org
>> <http://us.mc1816.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=elections@lplouisiana.org>
>> wrote:
>> > I vote aye. Wendy does wonderful good work and very hard
>> work. I am sure
>> > that she will be able to meet those goals and exceed them
>> before the date
>> > listed. I wish we had 100 more of her.
>> >
>> > Boyd Smith
>> >
>> >> 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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