NEC/Minutes/19th December 2011
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Attending
Loz Kaye (LK)
Andy Halsall (AH)
Gavin Meredith (GM)
Apologies
Phil Cooke (PC)
Harley Faggater (HF)
Minutes
Minutes from the last meeting not approved as they had not yet been issued.
Matters arising
GM has sent the revised email to the relevant teams for the meeting on the 19th. He has had replies from everyone bar the board.
NEC are continuing to work on their Job descriptions, which are due on the 15th January.
AH has not amended the previous minutes nor issued last weeks due to the length and complexity of the meeting as well as other commitments.
GM contacted the conference team with regard to venue pricing.
LK has continued to wokr on the Cyber Security response and is waiting to issue on that.
LK & AH put together and sent an FOI request to the Cabinet Office with regard to spending on Cyber Secruty policy elements already in place.
AH, LK worked with EG to come to an agreement on how to move forward with the remaining policy elements on the web side
GM has dealt with changing the party address, the paperwork has been sent.
GM AH and LK have met to finalise changes to the banking.
HF has sent the ICO forms and fee to the ICO.
LK has sent new links to Ed for party front page. D
Policy
AH stated that as per discussions on Sunday the blog post and email were ready and approved in principal with LK. The web element would have to wait until everything was in place (LK and AH had looked over that on the 15th and EG had agreed in principle with the implementation). LK stated he wanted to ensure that the social media side was covered when the initial element was dropped out to the party. AH stated that a launch time of 9am on the 20th would seem reasonable.
Conference
GM stated that the conference team had decided on the British Library as a venue but that the consensus between GM and AH was that this was excessive on the price size. GM stated that he had been in contact with AH and that he was aware that AH had obtained additional quotes for comparison, GM asked how many people were still to come back to AH with quotes. AH stated that there were 2 venues (in addition to the 7 with responses) that had yet to give full details, including availability, and that he was waiting for over a dozen additional quotes in via the event's management company he had contacted. The NEC felt that this was all that needed to be done at this point with regard to the conference. GM reminded the NEC that if they thought of, or contacted a speaker they should come forward.
AOB
GM - Wanted to remind the NEC of the issues surrounding SOPA in the US.
LK - Wanted to make clear that tomorrow everything needed to be in place for the wider meeting. LK asked about the agenda, GM stated that each team was to provide a brief of what they had done in the last 6 months and would do in the next 6 months with a Q&A element after each brief. LK asked who was slated to chair, GM stated that he would chair the meeting.
AH - Wanted to inform the NEC that he was looking at running adverts in a local and digital magazine as a trial run for the pre-election elements and that those would not cost the party anything. GM reminded the NEC that the 'normal' costs of running such adverts should be reported to him.