[LPL Board of Directors] Investigative Committee Result

[Adrien Monteleone]

National will be likely considering a move to dividing it's election of 
officers between Mid-Term and Presidential Conventions.

We moved to 4 year conventions to save moneyand because attendance was 
so sparse.

But with the party growingnow, perhaps we could hold a special 
convention in 2014, divide up election of officers accordingly, and have 
Bylaws debate at Mid-Term conventions and Platform debate at 
Presidential conventions. (thus moving to conventions every 2 years)

The problem with theRules is that the Board can't make their ownrules 
they are governed by, that needs to be done by the general membership. 
But we did set it so they only need a majority vote instead of the 2/3 
that isneeded by the Bylaws.

Generally, you don't want to be able to change Bylaws or Rules too 
easily. That is a place where you want stability, same for officers.

In cases like the email problem - that is within the purview of the 
Chair from what I can tell under Robert's.  In that case, the Board 
could adopt a standing rule of procedureon the matter.


-- In Liberty,

Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana

On 04/11/2013 02:56 PM, Daniel Hayes wrote:
> Oh..I forgot to mention that I am all for amending the by laws, one of 
> the main by laws I want to amend are the ones that make it virtually 
> impossible to amend but ever 4 years. Also, its as hard or harder to 
> change/create standing rules as it is to change the by laws. 
> Obviously, changes to the by laws should be difficult to do, but to be 
> essentially unable to do but every 4 years is a bit too rough. I am 
> all for the By Laws committee.
>
>
> On 2013-04-11 14:28, Boyd Smith wrote:
>> When is the next convention? I think it would be a very good idea to
>> have these issues formally addressed.
>>
>> Boyd W. Smith
>> Elections Officer
>> LPL
>>
>> FROM: Adrien Monteleone <chairman at lplouisiana.org>
>> TO: scc at lplouisiana.org
>> SENT: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:22 PM
>> SUBJECT: Re: [LPL Board of Directors] Investigative Committee Result
>>
>> The Bylaws amendments have to wait for a convention, but we can pass
>> a resolution asking the Bylaws committee to be formed down the road
>> prior to that convention, to take up such issues.
>>
>> In the meantime we can pass a resolution expressing the sense of the
>> Board that such actions are inappropriate and potentially injurious to
>> the Board and the party Brand.
>>
>> As for email rules, there are some in place informally already. The
>> problem was I did not get to pass them on to the new folks.
>>
>> I will be sending them to everyone later tonight.
>>
>> I think had everyone been more aware of those procedures, we would
>> not have seen the discord we saw the last few days.
>>
>> As well, official rules have to wait for a convention. They are to be
>> handled by the same convention committee.
>>
>> If we still want to discuss the present set of email procedures, we 
>> can do so.
>>
>> -- In Liberty,
>>
>> Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
>> Libertarian Party of Louisiana
>>
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