Hiya, Sorry for the delay. I will have May together in 48 hours.
MINUTES
Libertarian Party of San Francisco
April 13, 2013
Introductions
Eric John Diesel, Jawj Greenwald, Michael Edelstein, Secretary Denny Bailey, visitor Marty Sturmer, Richard Winger, Vice Chair Marcy Berry, and Chair Aubrey Freedman
Starchild, David Peters, Phil Berg also in attendance.
Activist Report
Eric has applied to San Mateo County Commission on Disabilities.
Jawj is researching tax law for the tax day event.
Michael is campaigning for Matthew Borrows of Campaign for Liberty and gives the book "Anarchy and the Law" to Marcy.
Denny went to the convention early for some insight into state government.
Marty met with Devin Nunes in Visalia to discuss passing a bill to abolish the IRS.
Richard went to Sacramento numerous times to lobby for ballot access. He also publishes Ballot Access News and the site ballot-access.org.
Marcy spoke at the Plan Bay Area hearings and prepared flyers and buttons for tax day outreach.
Aubrey and Phil also spoke at the Plan Bay Area hearings.
Aubrey added about the Post Sustainability Institute lawsuit against Plan Bay Area and urges everyone to donate.
Aubrey reports email/mail membership drive later in the meeting.
Announcements
Ray Kurtswell, speaking April 13th, noted during introductions.
Ron Paul Institute for Peace.
Debate April 24th 6pm, "Are We Powerless Over Our Addictions."
May 4th 7pm Free Exchange, Michael Edelstein on Ayn Rand.
New Living Expo April 26th-28th, Golden Gate Liberty Revolution Booth.
Junior State or America Convention April 27th.
Pride Fair is all set. June 29th & 30th.
Eric's license disobedience case on Monday 9am.
Treasurer's Report
Aubrey reports $3344.26
Nullify NDAA Update
AB351 introduced by Tim Donnelly seeks to criminalize federal arrests by state law enforcement. Should be headed to full assembly.
California LP Convention Report
Starchild reports on fees and events at the convention. State chair reelected, mostly business as usual.
Tax Day Event
Aubrey calls for literature.
Marcy reports fees for permit were waived for event if rules are followed.
Promotional materials are in place and support from the Fair Tax and GGLR is expected.
Tax day event strategy.
Costs are estimated and outlined. Motion to appropriate $250 for Tax Day expenses, with excess used for printing literature, passes unanimously.
Where do you get chocolate coins?
Add Bitcoin to Website
Phil explains Bitcoin.
Motion to add Bitcoin donations button to the LPSF.org website and store them offline, carries by majority, Marcy opposed. Rules for accounting are tabled for future meetings.
Hi Denny! Thanks for the minutes--I didn't realize we covered so much! The only corrections I noticed were that Starchild also gave public comment during the Plan Bay Area hearing in San Francisco in April and Michael's talk at the Free Exchange social was about self-esteem, not Ayn Rand. Everything else is fine with me.
Thanks for all the detail!
Aubrey
Hi Aubrey and Denny,
I will change that for Denny when I post the minutes on the LPSF website today.
Marcy
Technically as secretary, Denny should approve any changes to his minutes, not that I expect he would have any objection to these minor corrections. One more correction -- I believe the speaker referred to is Ray Kurtzweil. [I've heard him on the radio and he is a brilliant futurist, although some of his ideas also raise some troubling questions (see e.g. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510121/ray-kurzweil-plans-to-create-a-mind-at-google-and-have-it-serve-you/ ).]
As usual I appreciate Denny's generally informative minutes, but some more detail on a few of the items here could be helpful, such as:
> Eric has applied to San Mateo County Commission on Disabilities.
> Jawj is researching tax law for the tax day event.
It's not clear to me what the context was for either of these actions. What is Eric's goal in applying to this commission? How was tax law relevant for our Tax Day event?
Even though we presumably all have some familiarity with Plan Bay Area at this point, it could be helpful for the historical record to include a bit of background on what something like this is when including a reference to it. Ten years from now, LPSF members could see this and be like, "What's that about?"
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
Hi Starchild,
I agree with you. The troubling question is the elephant in the room: what If the State gets its claws on it.
This is always with dark side with the advance of science and technology.
BTW, I'm a great fan of Ray Kurzweil.
Warm regards, Michael
(1) "Technically as secretary, Denny should approve any changes......."
I don't know how you figure this. In all organization I have been in the people who were at the meeting either (1) approve the minutes as presented or (2) vote to amend or correct the minutes. Whether the secretary approves or not is irrelevant.
I DO NOT WANT to make any big issue of this! The minutes as submitted are fine in my opinion. Denny is doing a great job.
In the condo assoc of which I am the treasurer we do not normally record who voted aye and who nay unless a member requests it; we only record the number of ayes and nays.
(2) There is a long discussion about Plan Bay Area in the May 29 - June 4 edition of the Bay Guardian. The Bay Guardianistas are not happy with the Plan either, but of course their objections are not the same as those libertarians would raise. I saved several issues of this rag and will bring them to the next meeting.
Les
This is the way I see it too. Also, whoever wants more detailed minutes than a busy volunteer can provide is welcome to run for Secretary. I am happy with Denny's minutes (delighted actually!),made the changes that were needed (factual stuff), and the minutes are up on the website. Done!
Marcy
Leslie,
Sorry for any confusion that my poorly-stated remark below may have engendered. Yes, ultimate approval of the minutes would be up to us as a group. I just meant that prior to being approved by the group, it should technically be the secretary making any changes to the minutes, and other people making recommendations. Agreed this is not a big deal in our context, and if we want to come up with some other working arrangement, I'm open to that. My general philosophy on minutes is the more information included, the better. At our meetings (unlike say California LP ExCom minutes or Libertarian National Committee minutes) we are not elected representatives in the same sense, so it's less important to have a record of who voted how, but if a secretary does include that information, great! The goal, imho, is to give someone reading the minutes who did not attend a meeting (or someone reading later who did attend but may have a fuzzy memory of the meeting) as accurate a sense as possible of what took place there.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))