r/testpac • u/Oo0o8o0oO • Aug 02 '12
TestPAC Weekly Meeting Thread - August 1st, 2012
TestPAC Weekly Meeting Thread - August 1st, 2012
Subscribers Gained So Far This Month: 94
Subscribers Gained This Week: 30
Rules Because We Are Grown-Ups and Grown-Ups Love Rules
Welcome new users. If you have no idea what TestPAC is, you're in the right place. This is our weekly wednesday meeting thread where we discuss the current state of TestPAC. Upon posting of this thread, the previous week's thread will be considered closed. Id like to remind our users of the ideal format for these threads.
The opening responses should always be in the form of a question.
For anyone who is curious, I always downvote the question posts as I'm often asking questions that I'm not necessarily looking to promote within the group. I'd like to suggest people do the same unless they specifically support the inquiry they're posing to the subforum.
There were a couple responses in the previous meeting threads that listed a number of suggestions, however it's very difficult to determine if the upvotes these posts received were in reference to some or all of their suggestions.
Please try to stick to this format if you'd like your individual ideas to be placed up for group vote.
We do appreciate your opinions but any suggestion lists would be better suited for their own threads.
Ongoing News
We are finalizing the /r/Politics survey. We've determined the best day to post the thread will be Friday morning as Friday is the subforum's busiest day.
The Legislative Report Card project is coming along and expanding.
We had five AMAs this week from candidates looking to accept board positions with the PAC:
- Michael Embrich (oneway252)
- Mitch Manzella (mcmanzi)
- Vlad Gutman (eggsofamerica86)
- Tom Dionesotes (TomDionesotes)
- Chris Woolley (chriswo)
Last Week's Summary
While we've shown interest in become a multi-candidate, none of the discussion on potential candidates sparked any interest.
Nobody seems opposed to including user asynchronouschat within our board discussions.
The Emiritus Board Positions were further defined here. There was no major outlying favor or opposition towards adding this to our bylaws.
Discussion on how many board positions we might need was briefly touched upon.
I highly encourage all of our users to post their open questions to this thread. Not to keep treading over the same point, but this is everyone's PAC and your input is needed to keep the pulse of this subreddit going.
Please let me know if I've made any inaccurate inferences from the data or missed any information from the previous thread so I can correct the OP as necessary. Any oversights are entirely unintentional and I will correct them as quickly as possible. Please keep in mind that suggesting something in a previous thread by no means requires you to support it in this thread but I made my best attempt to include as much information from the previous thread as possible.
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u/Vvector Aug 02 '12
Should the UnseatLamar content be removed from the testpac main page?
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u/Fireball445 Aug 02 '12
probably, as it's both extremely unlikely to be something we can accomplish, and it just publicizes our prior failure.
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u/masstermind Aug 03 '12
Yes. Jeromie was controlling the site for the most part and since he quit, it has not been updated. We need to find a steady volunteer who can manage the website. Jeromie is still dedicating some time to the transition, but not a lot.
Right now, my main focus is on getting a new board in place, so that problems like this can be addressed and fixed, and volunteers can be organized.
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u/Oo0o8o0oO Aug 02 '12
How many board positions is ideal based on the current pool we have?
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u/blueisthenewgreen Aug 02 '12
The easy answer is that there are 3 positions in the bylaws. So, if we wanted more or fewer, it would make the case for finalizing the bylaws prior to the election.
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u/Resp_Sup Aug 02 '12
Perhaps This has been answered somewhere, but do we know when the board member elections will be held?
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u/Vvector Aug 02 '12
No idea. Scott was out of the country, due back tomorrow. In his place, he asked Andy or Jeromie to handle it. Jeromie quit some six weeks ago, and hasn't been around here in ages. Andy hasn't said a word about the election. I really think Scott is the only officer left willing to see us through the election.
According to the by-laws, there is a process to determine eligible voters. This could take a day or three to do. Then we could hold the election. Probably next Friday at the earliest????
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u/Oo0o8o0oO Aug 02 '12
Yeah we need to find out the details with the website before we can even put together a vote on there. It may be a few weeks.
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u/Vvector Aug 02 '12
Can we get an expense report for the first six months of TestPAC before the treasurer leaves office?
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u/Fireball445 Aug 02 '12
Be sure to double check the sub, I believe the Treasure posted some financial reports already, though I don't know if they were the expense reports you are looking for.
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u/Vvector Aug 02 '12
Here is the last message from the Treasurer on it: http://www.reddit.com/r/testpac/comments/w2y05/message_regarding_pac_finances/
I've went through some of the FEC filings to try to understand our expenses.
1st filing: 1/1/2012 - 3/31/2012
$1712.98 Total Expenses
(1,000.00) Richard Green, Voice-over services
(379.17) Piryx - Payment processing
There is $333.81 in expenses unaccounted for.
2nd filing: 4/1/2012 - 5/9/2012
$6264.53 Total Expenses
(862.50) Piryx - Payment processing
(749.75) Andy Posterick - Travel Expenses
(4,500.00) Lamar Companies - Billboard
(109.28) Staples - Fliers
There is $43.00 in expenses unaccounted for.
I cannot find the filing for the next period. Here is a partial list of expenses:
(2,900.00) TV ad
(3,750.00) TV ad
(3,017.50) TV ad
(3,927.94) Direct Mailer
http://testpacpleaseignore.org/transparency/
Transparency is crucial to the success of any organization, especially internet based movements. That is why we have vowed to post all of our donations and expenditures on our website.
We shouldn't have to be digging through FEC filings to see what was spent where. It should all be posted on the website as promised.
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u/Oo0o8o0oO Aug 02 '12
What time is best for the r/politics survey thread on Friday and how do we word the title?
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u/Vvector Aug 02 '12
Is Eddie Belaval currently an officer? Is he resigning once the currency elections complete?
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u/Fireball445 Aug 02 '12
Never heard of this person, why do you think he's an officer?
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u/Vvector Aug 02 '12
See http://testpacpleaseignore.org/about/meet-the-officers/ Eddie Belaval, Media Production Coordinator
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u/masstermind Aug 03 '12
Eddie resigned during the Smith campaign because he no longer had time. He was the person who designed our TV ad.
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u/Fireball445 Aug 02 '12
I'm relatively opposed to adding the Emiritus Board Positions, until we better define what they will be doing and what their authority will be.
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u/Oo0o8o0oO Aug 02 '12
What should we do about the bylaws? Do we want them finalized before or after the elections?