GunnyFreedom
09-17-2008, 03:55 AM
From Glen Bradley
OK Ladies and Gents,
According to what we were told at the C4L leadership summit, one of our first requirements going forward will be to hold a mass meeting (like a State Convention) and come up with elected officers, bylaws, and a plan of organization.
I'm looking at Chapter 17 section 53 of my handy-dandy copy of Robert's Rules of Order, and it appears that we have some guidelines in place for accomplishing this task.
My only real concern will be securing the venue. I have no concept of how many people we will have attending, how much space we will need, how much it will cost, etc.
We need to contact every C4L member in the State of NC and set up a mass meeting. We need a Parliamentarian to chair the meeting, a temporary rules committee (rules for this meeting only), a bylaws committee, and a plan of organization committee, and maybe, just maybe a resolutions committee to draft some sort of agenda for the next 6-12 months.
I am now looking at section 54 of ROR: "Organization of a Permanent Society" for the guidelines. Para 35 states: "When it is desired to form a permanent society, the organizers proceed in much the same way as for a mass meeting, except that the meetings while the organization is being formed should usually be carefully limited to persons whose interest in the project is known."
At some point during this meeting, a resolution should be adopted to form the permanent organization (in this case, the North Carolina Campaign For Liberty) followed by the adoption of bylaws and the signing of membership.
I am hoping that the national C4L org will have a ready set of bylaws that we can basically adopt as-is aside from some minor cosmetic adjustments for our state org, and then we can debate and adopt some basic resolutions according to the plan laid out (in skeletal form) at the C4L leadership summit in St. Paul.
Then we will need to elect permanent officers, and recess to enroll members throughout the state of NC.
If anybody has a copy of ROR handy, please read over sections 53 and 54 and provide input here.
Our first first task, I think, will be identifying 'persons whose interest in the project is known,' and inviting them to the meeting, getting an RSVP head-count, and then securing a venue and raising the funds to pay for said venue.
I want to get moving on this sooner than later. NC should be a national leader in the C4L effort. We have a very friendly GOP org towards our goal (in most - certainly not all - counties) and the sooner we get this business of affiliation with National out of the way, the sooner we can get to filling our ranks with people to prime the pump into the February 2009 Convention cycle.
I have a completely arbitrary goal of bringing in 500 new C4L people into the Convention cycle by February, which I think will put C4L people in most Counties, Districts, and the State Chair THIS YEAR a full 2 years ahead of schedule for taking over 65% of the NC GOP establishment.
We can certainly be a national leader in the C4L effort here in NC, but we need to get moving NOW.
From: Glen Bradley
Ad-hoc C4L 2nd District Coordinator (pro-tem)
OK Ladies and Gents,
According to what we were told at the C4L leadership summit, one of our first requirements going forward will be to hold a mass meeting (like a State Convention) and come up with elected officers, bylaws, and a plan of organization.
I'm looking at Chapter 17 section 53 of my handy-dandy copy of Robert's Rules of Order, and it appears that we have some guidelines in place for accomplishing this task.
My only real concern will be securing the venue. I have no concept of how many people we will have attending, how much space we will need, how much it will cost, etc.
We need to contact every C4L member in the State of NC and set up a mass meeting. We need a Parliamentarian to chair the meeting, a temporary rules committee (rules for this meeting only), a bylaws committee, and a plan of organization committee, and maybe, just maybe a resolutions committee to draft some sort of agenda for the next 6-12 months.
I am now looking at section 54 of ROR: "Organization of a Permanent Society" for the guidelines. Para 35 states: "When it is desired to form a permanent society, the organizers proceed in much the same way as for a mass meeting, except that the meetings while the organization is being formed should usually be carefully limited to persons whose interest in the project is known."
At some point during this meeting, a resolution should be adopted to form the permanent organization (in this case, the North Carolina Campaign For Liberty) followed by the adoption of bylaws and the signing of membership.
I am hoping that the national C4L org will have a ready set of bylaws that we can basically adopt as-is aside from some minor cosmetic adjustments for our state org, and then we can debate and adopt some basic resolutions according to the plan laid out (in skeletal form) at the C4L leadership summit in St. Paul.
Then we will need to elect permanent officers, and recess to enroll members throughout the state of NC.
If anybody has a copy of ROR handy, please read over sections 53 and 54 and provide input here.
Our first first task, I think, will be identifying 'persons whose interest in the project is known,' and inviting them to the meeting, getting an RSVP head-count, and then securing a venue and raising the funds to pay for said venue.
I want to get moving on this sooner than later. NC should be a national leader in the C4L effort. We have a very friendly GOP org towards our goal (in most - certainly not all - counties) and the sooner we get this business of affiliation with National out of the way, the sooner we can get to filling our ranks with people to prime the pump into the February 2009 Convention cycle.
I have a completely arbitrary goal of bringing in 500 new C4L people into the Convention cycle by February, which I think will put C4L people in most Counties, Districts, and the State Chair THIS YEAR a full 2 years ahead of schedule for taking over 65% of the NC GOP establishment.
We can certainly be a national leader in the C4L effort here in NC, but we need to get moving NOW.
From: Glen Bradley
Ad-hoc C4L 2nd District Coordinator (pro-tem)