Post by dawnh1 on Aug 22, 2012 12:30:41 GMT -5
Steering Committee Meeting
August 18, 2012
Those in attendance were: Alex, John, Julio, Dawn, Robert and Farrell.
John reported that he communicated with Robert Hill and things are moving along with the new WEB page. Hill has everything he needs for the page. John has paid the $99 hosting fee. John talked with Aaron Price and Aaron wanted to know if we wanted the 700 delegates added to the Google group or if we wanted to invite the delegates to be added. John made the motion and Alex seconded that we invite the delegates to join the Google groups to they can be informed of our progress, etc. The motion passed unanimously. The WEB site will be fully operational in a couple weeks. It will not have a polling feature immediately. There will be a forum board for each grievance. Hill is using all 3rd party software.
Robert Manning mentioned that he would like to see the commercial that was done and on the old WEB site carried over to the new site. We own the commercial. Robert made the motion and Alex seconded that we have the commercial on the home page of the new site. It passed unanimously. John will talk to Robert Hill and see if he can source it from nationbuilder. He will also see if it can be linked to the commercial on utube if not he will talk with Michael Pollok. Having photos from Philadelphia on the website was also discussed.
Alex got the needed information for creating the corporation document. Regina told Alex that the 501c3 status will work for us. Robert mentioned that most organizations similar to ours have 2 branches - one a 501c3 and one a 501c4. Robert thinks this is the route we should take. We deferred further discussion on this topic until Regina is on the call to better explain the technicalities. The name of the corporation will be “The 99% Declaration.” There was some discussion of a subtitle and discussion was deferred until the next call.
John will set up a PayPal account tonight.
Funding the organization was discussed. Once we get the email address on Google groups, we will send an email asking everyone to donate $10. John made the motion seconded by Alex that we post $10 as a suggested donation. We will work out the exact wording for the request later. It was asked what should be said about the donation being tax deductible? We will ask Regina for wording as she has experience in fundraising.
Robert Manning has been looking into getting a lawyer to handle the law suit if Congress and the President do not act on the grievances. He asked Mr. Bonifaz with the Truth Out organization if any of the grievances could qualify for filing in federal court. It is Mr. Bonifaz’s opinion that none of the grievances are actionable for a suit in federal court. Robert is also going to talk with Ralph Nader and Molly Munder and the National lawyer’s guild in San Francisco to see if they would be willing to handle the suit. He is also going to approach Bernie Sanders with what we have done and how it relates to our First Amendment rights.
It was also mentioned that we have not decided on when we are going to give the petition to the 3 branches of government. We have to give them the petition before we can go to court. How are we going to serve the petition on the government? How do we get the document to the delegates to amend or what are we going to do with it? We have some grievances we need to concentrate on more than others. Some delegates are not happy with how it is currently. We need to be able to do this on the website.
Dawn made the motion regarding Julio’s previous suggestion that the petition as it is now written will serve as our platform and will be posted on the website as such. Sections 1, 2, and 3 that the delegates showed overwhelming support for as reflected by votes in the highest percentiles will be our initial focus. Seconded by Alex and passed unanimously.
Since Kian has not been active on the SC for some time, Robert will contact him to see if he wants to continue to serve on the SC.
Julio made the motion that once Regina has a draft of the bylaws for the corporation that she will send a copy to everyone on the SC to everyone will have the opportunity to make amendments. Seconded by Alex. Passed unanimously.
The next meeting will be Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 5pm PT, 8pm ET.
August 18, 2012
Those in attendance were: Alex, John, Julio, Dawn, Robert and Farrell.
John reported that he communicated with Robert Hill and things are moving along with the new WEB page. Hill has everything he needs for the page. John has paid the $99 hosting fee. John talked with Aaron Price and Aaron wanted to know if we wanted the 700 delegates added to the Google group or if we wanted to invite the delegates to be added. John made the motion and Alex seconded that we invite the delegates to join the Google groups to they can be informed of our progress, etc. The motion passed unanimously. The WEB site will be fully operational in a couple weeks. It will not have a polling feature immediately. There will be a forum board for each grievance. Hill is using all 3rd party software.
Robert Manning mentioned that he would like to see the commercial that was done and on the old WEB site carried over to the new site. We own the commercial. Robert made the motion and Alex seconded that we have the commercial on the home page of the new site. It passed unanimously. John will talk to Robert Hill and see if he can source it from nationbuilder. He will also see if it can be linked to the commercial on utube if not he will talk with Michael Pollok. Having photos from Philadelphia on the website was also discussed.
Alex got the needed information for creating the corporation document. Regina told Alex that the 501c3 status will work for us. Robert mentioned that most organizations similar to ours have 2 branches - one a 501c3 and one a 501c4. Robert thinks this is the route we should take. We deferred further discussion on this topic until Regina is on the call to better explain the technicalities. The name of the corporation will be “The 99% Declaration.” There was some discussion of a subtitle and discussion was deferred until the next call.
John will set up a PayPal account tonight.
Funding the organization was discussed. Once we get the email address on Google groups, we will send an email asking everyone to donate $10. John made the motion seconded by Alex that we post $10 as a suggested donation. We will work out the exact wording for the request later. It was asked what should be said about the donation being tax deductible? We will ask Regina for wording as she has experience in fundraising.
Robert Manning has been looking into getting a lawyer to handle the law suit if Congress and the President do not act on the grievances. He asked Mr. Bonifaz with the Truth Out organization if any of the grievances could qualify for filing in federal court. It is Mr. Bonifaz’s opinion that none of the grievances are actionable for a suit in federal court. Robert is also going to talk with Ralph Nader and Molly Munder and the National lawyer’s guild in San Francisco to see if they would be willing to handle the suit. He is also going to approach Bernie Sanders with what we have done and how it relates to our First Amendment rights.
It was also mentioned that we have not decided on when we are going to give the petition to the 3 branches of government. We have to give them the petition before we can go to court. How are we going to serve the petition on the government? How do we get the document to the delegates to amend or what are we going to do with it? We have some grievances we need to concentrate on more than others. Some delegates are not happy with how it is currently. We need to be able to do this on the website.
Dawn made the motion regarding Julio’s previous suggestion that the petition as it is now written will serve as our platform and will be posted on the website as such. Sections 1, 2, and 3 that the delegates showed overwhelming support for as reflected by votes in the highest percentiles will be our initial focus. Seconded by Alex and passed unanimously.
Since Kian has not been active on the SC for some time, Robert will contact him to see if he wants to continue to serve on the SC.
Julio made the motion that once Regina has a draft of the bylaws for the corporation that she will send a copy to everyone on the SC to everyone will have the opportunity to make amendments. Seconded by Alex. Passed unanimously.
The next meeting will be Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 5pm PT, 8pm ET.