The secretary for the Libertarian National Committee is David Blau.
Regular Meeting of the
Libertarian National Committee
December 7, 2013
Dallas, TX
Secretary’s Report
Credentialing
On July 25, 2013, Jillian Mack informed the LNC that she was resigning as Region 3 representative, effective immediately. On that date, the Region 3 alternate Sam Goldstein became Region 3 representative, leaving the alternate position empty. On August 9, 2013, the Region 3 state chairs elected Steve Linnabary as the new Region 3 alternate.
Email Ballots
The following email ballots took place since the July meeting in Las Vegas:
1. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-11) the motion regarding accounting policies and procedures reproduced in Appendix A to this Secretary’s Report.
Voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Hagan, Kirkland, Lark, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Tomasso, Visek, Wiener.
Voting nay: Cloud, Johnson, Wrights
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 13 to 3 on August 20, 2013.
2. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-12) the motion regarding credit cards and receipts reproduced in Appendix B to this Secretary’s Report.
Those voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Hagan, Kirkland, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Tomasso, Visek, Wiener.
Those voting nay: Cloud, Hinkle, Johnson, Lark, Vohra, Wrights.
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 12 to 6 on August 20, 2013.
3. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-13) the motion regarding fixed assets reproduced in Appendix C to this Secretary’s Report.
Those voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Kirkland, Lark, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Visek, Wiener
Those voting nay: Cloud, Hinkle, Johnson, Vohra, Wrights
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 11 to 5 on August 20, 2013.
4. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-14) the motion regarding time sheets and expense allocation reproduced in Appendix D to this Secretary’s Report.
Those voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Kirkland, Lark, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Visek, Wiener
Those voting nay: Cloud, Hagan, Hinkle, Johnson, Vohra, Wrights
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 11 to 6 on August 20, 2013.
5. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-15) the motion regarding inventories reproduced in Appendix E to this Secretary’s Report.
Those voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Hagan, Kirkland, Lark, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Tomasso, Visek, Wiener
Those voting nay: Cloud, Hinkle, Johnson, Vohra, Wrights
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 13 to 5 on August 20, 2013.
6. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-16) the motion regarding contracts reproduced in Appendix F to this Secretary’s Report.
Those voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Hagan, Kirkland, Lark, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Tomasso, Visek, Wiener
Those voting nay: Cloud, Hinkle, Johnson, Vohra, Wrights
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 13 to 5 on August 20, 2013.
7. On July 30, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-17) the motion regarding related party reporting reproduced in Appendix G to this Secretary’s Report.
Those voting aye: Blau, Goldstein, Hagan, Kirkland, Lark, Neale, Olsen, Pojunis, Redpath, Starchild, Visek, Wiener
Those voting nay: Cloud, Hinkle, Johnson, Vohra, Wrights
Superseded alternates: Lieberman (aye)
This motion passed 12 to 5 on August 20, 2013.
8. On September 6, 2013, Chairman Neale moved (ballot 2013-18):
To increase budget authority for legal expense in the 2013 LNC budget by $3,500 to fund the costs of an appeal, to the Supreme Court of the United States, of the decision that kept the Libertarian Party presidential ticket from appearing on the ballot in Michigan in 2012.
Those voting aye: Cloud, Goldstein, Hagan, Hinkle, Johnson, Kirkland, Lark, Lieberman, Neale, Redpath, Tomasso, Visek, Vohra, Wiener, Wrights
Those voting nay: Olsen
Abstaining: Blau
This motion passed 15 to 1 with 1 abstention on September 18, 2013.
Policy Manual
I provided an updated version of the Policy Manual to the LNC on August 22, 2013. This version included the seven new policies from email ballots 2013-11 through 2013-17.
Conflicts of Interest
On September 29, 2013, Mr. Hagan reported that he was appointed Treasurer of the Libertarian Party of Nevada.
On September 30, 2013, Mr. Goldstein reported that he was appointed Campaign Manager for the Tatgenhorst for Secretary of State campaign in Indiana. The following day, Mr. Goldstein reported that he was no longer Chair of the Libertarian Party of Indiana.
These changes are included in the Conflict of Interest pages in the binder.
Minutes of Meetings
As has been pointed out, I have been tardy getting the official minutes of our meeting up on the website. I apologize for the delay. While the substance of the minutes has been generally approved with some minor corrections, I have been unable in several instances to get approval on non-substantive matters such as formatting, the correct use of honorifics, and so on. Dr. Lark has been most helpful in suggesting formatting improvements to the minutes, so I have asked him to assist me with preparing the minutes. He has graciously agreed.
There is some backlog of minutes to be posted, both of LNC meetings and Executive Committee meetings. The minutes themselves are largely complete except for the formatting issues. I expect that they can be posted up in relative short order, once I have a chunk of Dr. Lark’s time.