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Hi all

Quick note on two things:

First, I looked up the process for approving previous meeting minutes in
RONR:

  • Approving the minutes is the first task of every meeting. (41:6)
  • A motion may be made to postpone approving the minutes until a later
    time. This motion is approved by majority. It is not debatable. (48:11)
  • Members may not vote “no” on the motion to approve minutes. Members may
    only propose amendments. Once there are no more proposed amendments, the
    minutes are approved. (41:11)

Second, I’m going to prepare a sign-in sheet template to print out and
bring to the meetings. My plan is to list some low-effort volunteering
ideas on the sign-in sheet and gently encourage people to pick one. Let me
know if you have any volunteering ideas I should list please :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Brendan, much appreciated. Good to know the official RONR rules regarding minutes. Did you find the info online and have a link?

Listing some low-effort volunteering ideas on the sign-in sheet and gently encouraging folks to pick one is a good idea. Maybe a column with an empty box next to the space for each name, which the attendee can fill with a number corresponding to the number listed next to one of a number of ideas printed at the bottom of the page? The other info we’ve usually encouraged people to provide is name/email/phone/address (or at least city or neighborhood in SF) and whether they’re a member (preferably specifying LPC member; this can be confusing since joining national as a member is separate – one other reason I opposed adding an additional layer of confusion by having separate county membership dues).

Here are a few ideas:

  1. Contact three people and invite them to next month’s meeting
  2. Attend a city government meeting between now and next month
  3. Write a letter to the editor advocating for freedom on some issue and send it to a local publication (having a flier listing some of them would be good too)
  4. Have a conversation with one non-libertarian person about the LP or libertarianism, and let us know how it went at next month’s meeting, what objection(s) you encountered
  5. Sign up to one or more of the LPSF’s email lists, if you’re not already subscribed (include the addresses to write to)
  6. Register to vote as a Libertarian or join the LP as a paid member, if you aren’t already

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))

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On Aug 11, 2025, at 3:57 PM, Brendan McMillion brendanmcmillion@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all

Quick note on two things:

First, I looked up the process for approving previous meeting minutes in RONR:

  • Approving the minutes is the first task of every meeting. (41:6)
  • A motion may be made to postpone approving the minutes until a later time. This motion is approved by majority. It is not debatable. (48:11)
  • Members may not vote “no” on the motion to approve minutes. Members may only propose amendments. Once there are no more proposed amendments, the minutes are approved. (41:11)

Second, I’m going to prepare a sign-in sheet template to print out and bring to the meetings. My plan is to list some low-effort volunteering ideas on the sign-in sheet and gently encourage people to pick one. Let me know if you have any volunteering ideas I should list please :slight_smile: