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Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Meeting
Purpose:
A meeting
for the newly elected Executive Committee to discuss the new direction of the
Libertarian Party of Contra Costa County (LPCCC).
Date
& Time:
Thursday,
February 10, 2022 at 7:15PM.
Location:
Virtual
Meeting via Zoom (Notice Given via Email).
Executive
Committee Members:
Mr. Adrian
F Malagon (Chair)
Ms.
Alexandria Hatch (Vice Chair)
Ms.
Meredith Hays (Secretary)
Mr. Roberto
Nuñez (Treasurer).
Agenda (As Submitted by the Chair)
Call to
Order
Roll Call
Open
Discussion (General Questions/Comments/Concerns)
Adoption of
the Agenda
Discussion
of Meetings
Running of Meetings
Use of Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised
(RONR)
In-Person vs Zoom
ExCom Meetings vs Business Meetings vs
Advocacy Meetings vs Socials
Frequency
Communication
New Post
Office Box
New Bylaws
Proposal
New Website
Email
New G-Drive
New Gmail Group
Individual Email Accounts
Social
Media Accounts
Adjourn
Call to Order & Roll Call
Mr. Malagon
called the meeting to order at 7:19PM.
Ms.
Hays called the roll. All 4 officers were present, constituting quorum.
Open Discussion
Open
discussion took place.
Adoption of the Agenda
Motion—Mr. Malagon moved to adopt the agenda,
seconded by Ms. Hatch. Mr. Malagon asked if there were any objections. Hearing
none, the agenda was adopted.
Discussion of Meetings
Mr. Malagon
explained how he would like to run meetings moving forward: ExCom Meetings will
be virtual and called as necessary, Business Meetings will be virtual and take
place quarterly, Advocacy Meetings will take place as necessary, Socials will
be in person and monthly.
RONR will
be used and enforced for ExCom and Business Meetings.
The ExCom
will have a private group chat to communicate as necessary.
New Post Office Box
Several
options were discussed. Ms. Hatch will do some research and report back to the
rest of the ExCom with some options.
New Bylaws Proposal
Mr. Malagon
fielded questions on his new Bylaws proposal which was presented at the Annual
Meeting.
New Website
Mr.
Theodore Gercken from the Libertarian Party of Alameda County will work with
Mr. Malagon to create the new Party website through Nationbuilder.
There will
be a monthly cost.
The plan is
to have it pay for itself over time with tiered donations. (Each tier could be
named after renowned Libertarian philosophers.)
Email
Mr. Malagon
plans to create a new G-Drive for County Central Committee Members to access Agendas
and Meeting Minutes. Folders with sensitive information will only be available
to the ExCom.
Mr. Malagon
plans to create an email group to send official correspondence.
Mr. Malagon
plans on looking into possibly creating an ExCom email group for transparency.
Social Media Accounts
Mr. Malagon
asked all ExCom members to log into all of the Party’s social media accounts
and assist with keeping the accounts running and current.
Ms. Hatch
will reach out to TopLobsta for new Party graphics.
Adjourn
Mr. Malagon
adjourned the meeting at 8:19PM without objection.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Ms.
Meredith Hays
Secretary,
Libertarian Party of Contra Costa County
Editorial
Notes:
1)
At
the date and time of this meeting, Adrian still did not have (according to
Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised) the authority to propose changes to the
CCCLP’s Constitution and Bylaws. When he
claimed that power, he was exceeding his authority. The matter was still being actively handled
by the duly-appointed Bylaws Committee; as a result, the permission for any
CCCLP Member to propose amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws was
superseded by, and subordinate to, the authority of the Bylaws Committee. When I officially notified Adrian that his
actions were in violation of RONR, he justified his actions with claims that
turned out to be false. As a result,
Adrian’s claims that the County Central Committee had a new set of Bylaws was a
fraud that he perpetrated against not only the County Central Committee,
but because they were reported to the California State LP as being the
“official” bylaws, he perpetrated fraud against the state LP as well. This is a clear violation of the
Non-Agression Principle, and grounds for expulsion from the Party.
2)
As
a result of his failure to appropriately implement amendments to the Constitution
and Bylaws, his implementation of virtual meetings for the purpose of
conducting Business fails to comply with the guidelines set in RONR. Adrian was present, as Vice-Chair, of the
meeting on January 30, 2022, when the Parliamentarian informed the Chair of
this restriction under RONR, so Adrian acted this way willfully, and not by
accident.
3)
The
costs associated with the new website will need to be born by the CCC even if
there are inadequate donations. This
approach to paying for the web site is wishful thinking.
4)
There
already is a Google Drive available for use of the ExCom and the Members. It covers more than the Agendas and Minutes.
5)
I
would like to believe that there is no information that is so sensitive
it should only be known by the ExCom.
That such a communications channel should be considered, let alone
established, is indicative of authoritarian paranoia.
6)
The
creation of a new distribution list (via Google Groups) was in fact a pointed
failure, and, due to the manner in which it was implemented, it led to
violations of the State LP’s bylaws.
Those violations are sufficient to cause the CCCLP to be declared
“inactive”.
7)
RONR
is quite clear that a Member or Officer of an organization can get into trouble
if they refer to others in the organization by name (instead of by
title), while addressing the body. The
Secretary repeatedly refers to “Mr. Malagon” when she is supposed to be
referring to “the Chair”; there were other violations of this same principal as
well. These actions are sufficient cause
for the Secretary to be officially removed from a meeting.
Respectfully
submitted,
Kurt
Schultz
Chairman of
the CCCLP Bylaws Committee