Q3 SLEC Meeting - Tyler - Agenda and Reports

Not an agenda or report, but this is the proposed staff reorganization I've been talking about since convention. Per our policy, this does not require a motion to come into effect, but SLEC may shoot down all or part of it at the meeting 8/3 if that's the will of the body. For the record, all of the Directors and Officers have had the opportunity to provide input and propose changes, so while I took the lead in making certain proposals, this was a group effort.

I am including notes that I hope will answer-in-advance most of your questions, but let's please discuss this here as much as possible if you have any questions or concerns.

I'm also including the previous version for easy comparison.
 

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Anastasia Wilford said:
When can we expect to see the motion to hire a political/development consultant?
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This is very late for us to just be learning about this via an agenda line item. My knee jerk inclination at this point is to move to postpone this one but I'll hold off until we actually see what is being proposed and asked. It's late either way but a $100 ask and a $10,000 ask don't necessarily require the same amount of consideration to approve.
 
Jessi Cowart said:
I just realized the Legislative Action report was removed from the agenda, so I will try to talk through this at a high-level during my VC report as well: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KSMUzZ20tq40l-rrRwTZAQ9DDotXZz702gxyuJuM9Hc/edit?usp=sharing

(This one is viewed better as a Google Sheet rather than PDF where the font gets too small to read).
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Would you like to have it added to the agenda? We can always make an amendment. This is important information that deserves more attention than to be split with your VC report time
 
I'd like to remind everybody that I published a DRAFT agenda, and there will undoubtedly be a few tweaks as we go. The Leg Action thing was a misunderstanding or bad assumption on my part, and Jessi and I are deciding now whether to have that be a separate line item or just address the issue in our officer reports. No motion will be required.

And @John Wilford, I'm specifically asking you to resist your "knee jerk inclination" (your words) and give me a chance to line out the ask. You are 100% correct that a $100 ask and a $10000 ask are not the same thing and don't require the same consideration. Hear me out and then do what you think is best for LPTexas.
 
I'm just curious why we're just hearing about this a week out from the meeting and we still don't have any details about it.

I know the last SLEC set a really bad precedent by approving the hiring of someone with no notice and no treasurer's report, but we were assured that was a one time thing and we weren't going to be harangued into improperly thought out financial decisions with no notice *again*.
 
Because sometimes real life presents timing challenges and we have to make judgment calls about opportunities presented and how fast to act on them.

Like I said above, I'll be providing more details later today. Stay tuned.
 
Anastasia Wilford said:
I know the last SLEC set a really bad precedent by approving the hiring of someone with no notice and no treasurer's report, but we were assured that was a one time thing and we weren't going to be harangued into improperly thought out financial decisions with no notice *again*.
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The decision to hire Jocelyn as a bookkeeper was one of the smartest financial decisions this body has made since I came on board in 2018. The opportunity to vote against is always there. Nobody was "harangued".
 
I never said hiring her was a bad idea. All I asked for was time and that's all I've been asking for this whole time, enough notice for people to be prepared and give thoughtful consideration to what's being asked of them, something you have lamented that SLEC members don't do enough of. I'm just asking for the opportunity, expecting the opportunity.

A discussion thread or something, even in the executive forum.

The people who spoke against the motion were asking for just 2 weeks. We were absolutely harangued.
 
Anastasia Wilford said:
I never said hiring her was a bad idea. All I asked for was time and that's all I've been asking for this whole time, enough notice for people to be prepared and give thoughtful consideration to what's being asked of them, something you have lamented that SLEC members don't do enough of. I'm just asking for the opportunity, expecting the opportunity.

A discussion thread or something, even in the executive forum.

The people who spoke against the motion were asking for just 2 weeks. We were absolutely harangued.
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48% of SLEC voted in a way to give us a week to make the decision on our convention location when we were expected to vote on it on the same day that the numbers in the report were still changing. The past three conventions' locations have been chosen on the same day this body received the presentation and those three decisions were the three largest financial decisions this body has made in six years. I definitely agree with you that this body deserves ample time to consider and make a decision. And when I am not given that time or an adequate explanation for why I'm not given that time, my vote will be "no", just as it was over Corpus. I am suggesting others do the same.
But sometimes, problems pop up that need to be dealt with sooner rather than later. I am almost certain that if this body had put off that decision for 2 weeks, we would have lost her. While it is unfortunate that you weren't given the time you wanted to consider the motion, many things have a window of opportunity and the closing of that window oftentimes just does not wait for us.
 
Andrew Amelang said:
And @John Wilford, I'm specifically asking you to resist your "knee jerk inclination" (your words) and give me a chance to line out the ask. You are 100% correct that a $100 ask and a $10000 ask are not the same thing and don't require the same consideration. Hear me out and then do what you think is best for LPTexas.
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Was always the plan and I've already heard through the grapevine a little bit more about who the person is, what they are offering, and when it was offered, though not much about the costs. That doesn't necessarily persuade me in one way or another just wanted to let you know. My main reason in telling you that is to convey the place this short notice has put me in, in the hopes that we can do better moving forward. I will evaluate and make the call, that's my job as a member of this body, but this does make a good conscience yes from me more difficult, not impossible, but more difficult.
 
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