NEC/Minutes/7th June 2010
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NEC meeting minutes 7th June 2010
Attendees
Andrew Tindall, Andrew Robinson, Peter Liddell, Peter Brett, Diarmuid Clarke, Finlay Archibald, John Barron, Miah Gregory
Summary
Start of NEC meeting
Minutes of previous meeting approved.
Merchandising.
Action: Peter Brett and campaigns team will put together a suitable specification for printer requirements before encouraging people to find local suppliers that can meet that specification.
Where should the registered party address be? Andrew Robinson notes that a large amount of correspondence is being sent to him which is really for the attention of the treasurer.
Peter Liddell was happy for the address to be changed to his location.
Electoral commission has contacted us to say our yearly registration is overdue (costs £25).
Action: Peter Liddell will download the re-registration form and organise this.
T-shirts/flags. Concern over actual interest in these versus costs of production etc.
We have sold a total of 86 items and made just over £100 commission.
Action: Andrew Tindall will ensure merchandise is promoted in the next newsletter.
Devolved elections. Waiting for the Scottish Regional Administrative Officer to be ratified.
Internal election process.
Change of officer forms for electoral commission (Campaigns Officer). Peter Brett has posted his forms to Peter Liddell.
Action: Peter Liddell needs to complete the form and send it in.
Upcoming Board election and voting method for this election (the board will decide on future Board elections themselves).
NEC decided to use openstv software for this vote. Tom will set up the voting system to collect the votes and provide them in an anonymised form to allow anyone to run the openstv software on to confirm the result.
NEC decided that the option to re-open nominations should not be provided as there is no obvious way to tie this into an STV election.
Proposal that John Barron should take on the role of Returning Officer for this election and drive it forward. Agreed by all NEC members present.
Unconference. Peter Brett has told Eric Priezkalns to proceed and let us know if he needs any help/assistance/etc.
Member retention.
Time-scale for new payment methods. Peter Liddell is currently looking into credit/debit card handling (without Paypal).
Direct debit would be preferable, as this doesn't expire after a few years as with credit/debit cards.
We are going to have a large number of members up for renewal within the next month or two, and we either need to make sure direct debit or similar is in place by the end of July ready for this.
Looking at a £2.50 quarterly direct debit option.
Suggestion that 12th July should be our final decision date on this.
PPUK manifest process needs restarting. Suggestion that we wait until the Scottish Regional Administrative Officer election is over.
Finlay Archibald is looking for volunteers for the freshers campaign.
Action: Finlay Archibald will put together a blog post on this and Andrew Tindall will mention it in the next newsletter.
Andy Robinson has his first appointment as a party leader that has taken part in a campaign. Debate in Durham, up against a number of industry figures.