May 2010 meeting minutes

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This article details the proceedings of the Pirate Party of New Zealand General Meeting 15 May 2010.

Actionables

 * Bruce should open a bank account in the following week.

Present
Bruce (EC), Cairo (Wolfy), Peter Ajamian (pj), Lukas (Qu4Z), Luke Chandler(C4), Emily, Jason (5o1), Byron, Tommy Fergusson (pervach)

Minutes
Meeting opened 7:50pm

Elected dictator's report
I'm acting as elected dictator from previous meeting, with authority to open a bank account as sole signatory. But I didn't do that because I felt there was not enough of a membership to justify it. We're now up to 17 members (YAY!) $50 in cash, $40 spent on the domain, some memberships to be paid once we have an account.

Lengthy discussion about membership limits and naming of of teen pirates / young pirates, it was eventually agreed that they should be left to make these decisions themselves, within the bounds of the PPNZ charter.

Luke proposed (again) that we move IRC servers. This was unanimously rejected (again)

General agreement that Bruce should open a bank account in the following week.

Election of leadership; Some discussion about who is eligible for nomination, general agreement that elected officers must be eligible party members, and should be New Zealand residents. We will not insist that they be New Zealand Citizens.

Nominations for president; Bruce Jason John (But Bruce informs that John has declined any leadership position in advance) Tommy Fergusson (declined) Luke Chandler (ineligible, not yet 18) Emily (Declined)

Some confusion about how to vote fairly and openly on IRC. This was eventually sorted out, and Bruce Kingsbury was elected by a 4 vote majority.

Further discussion about election of a Vice President and the best way to conduct voting. It was eventually agreed that we do not have enough candidates yet. In future voting is to be conducted by having a separate chatroom where all participants except for nominees may join, vote, and see that votes are counted fairly.

Motion that Luke hand over control of IRC channel to newly elected leadership (Bruce/Jason) Passed.

Lengthy discussion about the responsibilities of secretary and treasurer. Proposed that Peter Ajamian stand as treasurer however it was eventually decided that it would be easier to continue the current arrangement where Bruce continues to act as treasurer with sole signing authority for now. Moved by Bruce, Seconded by Lukas, Passed.

Motion that Emily be elected Secretary and Public Relations, moved Bruce, Seconded Jason, motion declined.

Some discussion about the role of Secretary and Public Relations, eventually agreed that it's traditional for a party secretary to handle Public Relations so we do not need separate positions for this.

Emily moved that Peter also stand for secretary and we take a vote. Seconded Tommy.

Result of vote that the Emily was elected secretary.

Motion that Emily should have access to edit the PPNZ website and access to social media accounts; Moved Luke, Seconded Bruce. Passed.

Meeting descended into chaos, discussing (again) matters of Teen Pirates and T-shirt deals. Probably the only sensible thing to come from this is that we really need to run our meetings a lot better.

Meeting declared closed and reopened at various times by people with no authority to declare such things.

Finally declared closed at 10pm by Bruce (Former elected benign dictator, now elected president and treasurer)

(Note for future meetings, we need to have a motion that minutes of previous meetings be accepted)