Board elections 2014

@davidpeterson mentioned that they had changed the automatic lapse of membership from one year to three years so that some old members (from memory 190) were retained. I have seen no evidence of this but I have not had time to go through the logs yet.

What counts is financially up to date members..

We have to hold these elections and 1. change the constitution and 2. start getting new members.

It is now up to the board to hold these elections as soon as possible or to hand that power over to the party. I see no real need for secret elections as we are so few. But will yield to anyone who wants that.

@andrewreitemeyer I completely agree with the order of things: 1) elections 2) updating constitution 3) membership drive.
But there is a necessary step before 1):
0) finding out who the members are that are eligible for nomination and voting.
My understanding is that the membership officer @benvidulich does not have all information needed to determin this group.

@hubatmcjuhes Unless the board can provide evidence that a decision was made to change the membership renewal time from one year to three years then all @benvidulich needs is the list of members who are financially up to date.
He could make an announcement on the announce list warning people who wish to take part to make sure they are paid up.

@andrewreitemeyer That's true. It's just that the treasurer @andrewmcpherson is unable to produce the list of financially up-to-date members because he doesn't have access to any financial transaction records from the time before he took over office wich was about half a year ago or so.

@hubatmcjuhes : Which is what the problem has been for the last year, I did not have access to the previous party account, nor was I able to get much response out of the previous treasurer.
@andrewreitemeyer : the board previously decided to change the membership renewal forms 2 or 3 years ago.

Basically, all our membership issues used to be handled by tommy f, but when he moved back to auckland, the board lost a great deal of knowledge.

In the worst case scenario is when there are no elections by 14th October the board is in default and the membership can take over.
Does anyone in this conversation have access to the announce list?

Mind you, @andrewreitemeyer, all board members participating in this discussion have signaled support for new elections now. There is no reason to discuss such a worst case scenario.
The problem that we a re facing right now would be the very same in October anyway: We don't know who our members are. So we don't know who is eligible to vote. And if we don't find a way to find out, we will not know in October either.

@benvidulich Do you have records for all membership forms handed in throughout the years and only miss the information of the payments? Or are the historical member records lost completely and you really only have contact information once someone has signed in though the online form?

@hubatmcjuhes yes they express support but I see no action being taken only statements that there are higher priorities. It is in the statute that the board can appoint members to the board. It would be possible for the board to appoint all willing members to the board for the purpose of organising elections.

@andrewreitemeyer I'm surprised you oppose privacy during an election!