New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (NHLA)
Board of Director Meeting Minutes
for November 3, 2011
1. Call To Order
(a) Secretary Jason Sutherland called to order the regular meeting of the NHLA at 7:05 pm on November 3rd, 2011.
2. Roll Call
(a) Secretary Jason Sutherland conducted roll call. (All board members present at the time of the roll call are marked with an asterisk (*).)
* Eileen Landies (Chairman) * Dan Garthwaite (Research) * Steve Villee (Treasurer)
Sandy Pierre (Vice Chair) * Keith Ammon (Membership) * Jason Sutherland (Secretary)
* Joel Winters (Political Action)
(b) Quorum: Yes
(c) Eileen arrived at 7:14PM
(d) Other members/guests present: None
3. Secretary’s Report – Jason Sutherland
(a) Jason made a motion to accept the October 6th minutes with corrections, Steve seconded, motion passed.
(b) Jason made a motion to correct two typos in the September 25th minutes, Steve seconded, the motion passed.
(c) There was a discussion of topics to include in the newsletter: December Bill Review session, spotlight on Capital Access and More Politically Alert, promoting NHLA amazon link for holiday shopping, Bill Alleman acquittal and Glik decision, board elections, civic action food pantry chip-in.
(d) Jason reported that was some response from the forum post on term limits for board members
(e) The target for the next newsletter would be November 13th.
4. Treasurer’s Report – Steve Villee
(a) Steve reported that the ending balances for October were $7,565.75 in PAC, $515.31 in Civic Action, and $7,512.11 in Operations for a grand total of $15,593.17.
(b) Steve reported that there was no secretary of state reporting.
(c) Steve reported that the website was updated to include the ability to take donation for civic action.
(d) Dan made a motion to accept the treasurers report, Joel seconded, motioned carried.
5. Membership Director’s Report – Keith Ammon
(a) Keith reported that the totals as of the end of October are 423 basic (down 20), 40 full (down 6), and 61 lifetime (up 1).
(b) Keith reported that he planned to do promotion on Facebook and some direct calling to recently joined members.
(c) Keith reported that was able to speak about the NHLA at a regional meeting in Lebanon.
(d) Keith reported that there were plans to send a NHLA promotional package to Bill W. for regional meetings in the Lebanon area.
(e) There was discussion on organizing regional meetings in Derry, Nashua, and Dover.
(f) There was discussion of the previously approved funds allocated for advertising with the Ridley Report. The Board decided cut a check for the entire approved amount of $120.
6. Political Action Director’s Report – Joel Winters
(a) Joel made a motion to approve the civic action bylaws changes as stated in the October Newsletter. Eileen seconded. The motion passed with a 6-0 vote.
(b) The Board discussed holding a bill review session in December. The tentative time and date would be December 14th from 6:30-8:30PM.
(c) There was discussion of organizing a testimony training session. It would likely be held on the second week of January. This would allow for it to be promoted in the December newsletter.
7. Research Director’s Report – Dan Garthwaite
(a) Dan Reported the Gold Standard did not go out on 10/12/11. There was a discussion on whether it should have been due to the lack of liberty related bills in that session.
(b) There was discussion of culling and adding to the gold standard review list. Scores from the 2011 Liberty Rating would be considered when adding/removing current representatives from the list.
(c) Prior to the board meeting Dan, Jason, and Steve discussed how to move to Mail Chimp for the newsletter list.
(d) Dan reported that he would look into a link checker for the website.
(e) Dan suggested that we should test the website backups in the near future.
8. Vice Chair / Civic Action Report – Sandy Pierre
(a) There was no Vice Chair report for November.
9. Chairman’s Report – Eileen Landies
(a) There was a discussion of getting printed copies of the Liberty Rating for giving out at events over the next year.
(b) Jason suggested using civic actions funds to go toward a food pantry in light of the recent extended power outages from the October storm. There was a discussion of using matching funds and using chip-in to collect funds. There was discussion of promoting it through special announcement, newsletter, PSA, via Ridley Report.
(c) The board decided to allocate up to $250 in matching funds to go toward the Goffstown Network food pantry.
10. Old Business
(a) None
11. New Business
(a) Next board meeting is scheduled for December 1st at 6:30 pm at Liberty Books in Concord, NH.
12. Adjournment
(a) Keith moved to adjourn the meeting Jason seconded. The motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 8:41pm.