NEC/Minutes/14th June 2010
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NEC meeting minutes 14th June 2010
Attendees
Andrew Tindall, Andrew Robinson, Miah Gregory, Peter Liddell, John Barron
Summary
Start of NEC meeting
Apologies: Peter Brett
Minutes of last meeting approved.
Merchandising.
Devolved elections. Need to talk to Scottish Administrative Officer about this. Worth getting Andrew Paliwoda along to the NEC meetings.
Members’ blog aggregator ready to go live. Peter Brett suggests we buy pirateship.org.uk for this. Action: Peter Liddell will contact Peter Brett about organising this.
Member retention. We need to set up a team (perhaps at local levels) to contact members and engage them in the party.
How much access to the members list should regional administrators have access to? Email addresses, forum names.. Ability to send newsletters out to members in their region. Download of the raw postcode regions. Any additional information required should be requested via the NEC.
Electoral commission renewal needs to be sent off. NEC approved the payment for this. Action: Peter Liddell will send this to the electoral commission.
Number of available PPUK email addresses - Will Tovey suggests we are close to our limit and may need to buy more. Action: Peter Liddell will contact Tom regarding starting the web team meeting again, checking whether any email accounts can be dropped and finding out about the cost of adding more.
Cost of standing orders. Action: Peter Liddell will find out and get back to the NEC.
Life membership idea. Interesting idea, but NEC was not sure that the party is established enough to proceed on this front at the moment.
Free membership idea - suggested that these could get limited access, newsletters etc, but no voting rights. Free membership should be for life, as people can opt out in the future if they decide to. Action: Peter Liddell will talk to Tom about this.
NEC approved sticking to £2.50/year for discounted memberships, but changing from under 21‘s to Student/Retired/Unwaged.
Membership expiry - suggestion that when full members don’t renew, they should change to ‘free members’ until they pay again. NEC passed this.
Tom is setting up the voting system for preference voting.
Voter verification, proposal that members may optionally request vote receipts to verify their vote in the count. NEC is happy that John Barron can continue organising things without needing the NEC to approve all of the detail.
Method of STV counting to use: Three likely options are: Meek, Electoral Reform Society 1997, Scottish STV rules - we need to pick one to be used for this election.
Whichever system is selected, a test vote should be run to exercise it.
At this stage, the suggestion is that in the event of a tie for the 12th person, we address this at the time.
Ten upcoming local elections in July, the deadline for some of these has already passed, but others are still open for nominations. Question over whether we can stand in any of these given the short timescales. Action: John Barron will contact regional administrators to try and coordinate this more rapidly in future, possibly going as far as delegating authority to sign the forms.
Andrew Tindall asks that if anyone has any major blog posts/news, that they do them prior to Friday evening so they can be included in the newsletter.
Andrew Robinson attended a debate in Durham, which although PPUK technically lost the debate, the consensus was that PPUK did well. Andrew led a three person team, with an ex-Labour MP and a current Conservative MP.
Andrew Robinson gave his apologies for next weeks meeting.