[LPL Board of Directors] Executive Director Contract

[Adrien Monteleone]

To all,

I've finally, after 8 weeks, secured a signed contract from our 
Executive Director.

The initial contract we offered, $250 a week for one year, and a $1200 
expense allowance was rejected, though it was more than what we had 
contracted for in the 4th Quarter of 2012.

I secured your votes on a motion to add two methods of incentive pay to 
both reward her for efforts and to provide incentive to reach Planning 
Committee goals.  This offered the possibility of an additional 
$7000-$8000+ to be earned for the year.

This was flatly rejected as well.

In consultation with the Treasurer, we found room in the current bank 
balance, and taking into account the current rate of fundraising to 
offer $350 per week, but without incentive options.

Ms. Adams countered with $350 per week and a $917 bonus per parish 
organized.

The Treasurer spoke to her by phone and he made a final offer of $400 
per week, no incentive or bonus options.

She accepted, but asked if the $400 per week could me made retroactive 
to January 12th. (what would have been the original start date of the 
contract)  The Treasurer advised this was not possible.

Additionally, he advised that this puts a serious strain on our cash 
flow, and puts the term of the contract in jeopardy.  Thus, I only 
offered this deal for 5 weeks. (till the end of this quarter, to expire 
Friday April 12th, the day before our next meeting)

This will give us time to re-evaluate and gauge our financial position.  
According to the Treasurer, we should be able to meet this obligation 
and our usual expenses through mid April, though this will seriously 
deplete the bank balance unless funding continues to roll in.  (it has 
stalled abruptly over the last few days, but that is nothing new, we've 
experienced fits and starts in the past)

This will also impact our ability to engage in other projects, 
particularly, efforts to mail out to recently registered voters to get 
them involved. (discussed at the last meeting)
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The main issue complicating the original acceptance of the contract was 
that we were offering a part-time contract and she wanted a full-time offer.

The contract as we had been operating under, and as we had offered for 
2013, was for 10-15 hours of work per week.  This was to include 
contacting Inquiries, New Volunteers, and new registered voters to 
encourage greater participation, soliciting annual dues, and to provide 
any requested information about the party to these new people.  She was 
also tasked with candidate recruitment, and providing support to parish 
organizers to help them through the process of holding a caucus and 
electing PEC's.

The Exective Director instead deemed recruiting candidates "not 
possible" or "feasible" for the Spring Elections - thus we had no 
candidates.

As well, she determined that the Parish Organizers were not doing or 
were not going to do, any of the tasks to organize their parishes, and 
so took it upon herself to do all of the work. I had advised several 
times this was not what we asked for and that we could not afford to pay 
for this level of work at this time.  She assured me she understood 
this, but felt this was the best and only way to organize the parishes, 
and that she was going to do it anyway, looking forward to building the 
party to the point it could support her full time.

When I requested the contract be signed and returned to me ASAP, she let 
me know that she could not agree to $250 per week as it was not 
sufficient to compensate her for the 50-60 hours she had to work the two 
previous weeks organizing various parishes. (though she had previously 
made clear she understood we could not afford to pay for, and that she 
was volunteering this extra effort for future benefit to her and the LPL)

It was at this point we entered the above negotiations and came to an 
agreement.

In this current contract, I have reworded and re-ordered the services 
requested in a priority fashion.  I've also explicitly included 
responsibility for establishing PECs, but I have made it clear in a 
subsequent email to her that this DOES NOT include or is not meant to be 
interpreted as her assuming full-time duties of all of the parish 
organizers, that she is to provide assitance and support to guide them 
through the process, not do their jobs for them as she had been doing. 
She replied that she understood this and that any extra effort on her 
part would be volunteered.

I have also included the expense allowance as originally offered since 
travel to the various parishes is not required of her or necessary to 
fulfill her obligations. (I am attending all caucuses except one, and I 
will work on finding someone to attend that one on behalf of the Board)
However, I have reduced the allowance amount since some of it has been 
used already.

Attached is the signed version of the contract if you are interested.

If you have any questions or anything you'd like to discuss, please feel 
free...

-- 
-- In Liberty,

Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana

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