GM 2013-10-16 minutes

The regular General Meeting of the Pirate Party of Canada came to order at 22:43 Eastern Time, October 16, 2013 at ca.pirateirc.net irc channel #canada. The President was in the chair.

psema4 MOVED to approve the minutes from the last meeting, SECONDED by chadkoh; CARRIED

Wilson MOVED "Motion to accept Travis McCrea's resignation as leader and the appointment of James Wilson as interim leader as per the party constitution" SECONDED by BrentSchaffrick; CARRIED

Ric Lim reported that we have $6,991.70 in the bank. This is after paying our auditor for long outstanding bill from 2011 return $574.88 and the just submitted 2012 return $1,149.75. We have received the invoice from our former IT (Director).

The $4158.40 bill prompted a lot of discussion. There was some confusion as to why a party full of memebers with an IT back-ground would be paying so much for IT services. Elections Canada requires that self-employed persons bill at commercial rates for any contributions over $1200/year (about 20 hours).

chadkoh asked: "So, can we move to form a committee to review the hours?" The Chair interpreted that as a motion SECONDED by pappasadrian. After some discussion, Broken_Syntax restated the motion as: "Have a committee chaired by Leonard Parker to review the hours of the IT Administration terms, due to have findings in a fortnight." Sort of tacked on (by pappasadrian and chadkoh) was: "and to report the findings to the (EB)." CARRIED.

Our new sysadmin as announced, who joined the meeting immediately thereafter. There was some discussion about volunteers. Wilson said: 'The answer to "are we looking for volunteers?" will be "always".' Broken_Syntax asked: "Can we agree to start a discussion thread on this, and try to get the general membership involved. Maybe we can have volunteers drummed up by next GM?" The Chair interpreted that as another possible motion.

OO-Dragon MOVED: "use MOTION: when ever doing a MOTION:", SECONDED by Broken_Syntax; CARRIED.

chadkoh MOVED: "Strike Project Dev Committee from Special Rules of order"; SECONDED by trailblazer(RLim). Wilson asked: "what propmted the need?" Chadok: "The IT Committee stuff can stay since EB is acting as IT Director. But the PDC is no more, and the rules can be struck from the record." trailblazer: "plus there is a budget allocated for that." The motion was CARRIED.

pappasadrian MOVED: "Adjourn", SECONDED by DatapacRat; CARRIED

The meeting adjourned at 22:01 Eastern time.