PNC 12/06/20

Agenda

Reports

Outreach

Proposed amendment to USPCA Articles of Incorporation

Thirteenth: We are governed by the seven generally accepted cooperative principles:
1. Voluntary and Open Membership
2. Democratic Member Control
3. Members’ Economic Participation
4. Autonomy and Independence
5. Education, Training, and Information
6. Cooperation Among Cooperatives
7. Concern for Community

Proposed amendments to PNC Bylaws

Article I - add the following:
The term “state” as used in these articles includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands.

Article III, section 3, 7
Each delegation shall be treated equally in all matters with an exception in the matter of nominations for President and Vice-President of the United States, wherein each delegation shall have a vote in a national convention weighted by its population in millions rounded up to the next whole million. In the case of the delegation representing a constituency that has a primary election wherein the pirate party has state ballot status, the delegation shall allot its votes to candidates in proportion to the results of the state’s primary.

Article III, section 5, 1.
Officers and Subcommittee Liaisons shall not participate in PNC votes, unless the Officer or Subcommittee Liaison in question is also acting as a State Representative, each recognized state delegation, without regard to delegation size, shall have one vote.

Article V, section 1, 3
Unless expressly stated in the United States Pirate Cooperative Association (USPCA) bylaws, the Pirate National Committee shall be considered the operating board of the United States Pirate Cooperative Association.

Minutes

Record of the meeting

 


[9:02pm] Bosun: Shall we start?
[9:02pm] Bosun: IDs
[9:02pm] yari: Rose Klein, California
[9:02pm] Bosun: Joseph Klein USPP Chair
[9:02pm] Joe: Joseph Onoroski, Treasurer, Massachusetts
[9:02pm] Olivia_: Olivia Kristiann, PPI volunteer
[9:03pm] Sayyida: Megan Klein Vice Chair
[9:03pm] Sayyida: Wi
[9:03pm] Olivia_: Is Mitch coming?
[9:03pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary, Massachusetts
[9:03pm] jokeefe: Meeting wiki page: https://wiki.pirate-party.us/PNC_12/06/20
[9:03pm] papegaai: Title: PNC 12/06/20 - United States Pirate Party (at wiki.pirate-party.us)
[9:04pm] Bosun: I do not know if Mitch will be on.
[9:04pm] Sayyida: hey Olivia_ !!!
[9:04pm] Bosun: Anything new from IT?
[9:05pm] jokeefe: Copied blog to uspirates.org
[9:06pm] jokeefe: It is active now, and should look the same
[9:06pm] Olivia_: Hey Meg and hope everyone is doing well and not freezing I hear the East coast is about to be hit with a Nor-easter..
[9:06pm] jokeefe: I installed the new PPDE theme, but haven’t activated it until we know how to configure it
[9:06pm] Sayyida: OOOO that sucks for our east coast members. Chicago isn't death cold but its damp and 33
[9:06pm] jokeefe: That was yesterday
[9:07pm] Olivia_: Great for the domain change!  I can make a new blog post announcing it saying to change bookmarks.
[9:07pm] Sayyida: jokeefe, thanks!
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Will add link to the Discord.
[9:07pm] jokeefe: The old blog will have a note telling people to go to the new blog.
[9:08pm] Olivia_: Hopefully all archived links still redirect.
[9:08pm] Joe: The Nor'Easter was yesterday, but in terms of storms it was relatively mild.
[9:08pm] Olivia_: Is the old domain name secure and not able to be jacked?
[9:09pm] jokeefe: They should all be.
[9:09pm] Olivia_: Back home growing up during Nor-easters we had walls of snow but throughout the years it got milder.
[9:09pm] Bosun: How many do we have?
[9:09pm] Bosun: ... domains
[9:10pm] jokeefe: two
[9:10pm] jokeefe: uspirates.org and pirate-party.us