[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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