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Present: Browne, Carter, Deutz, Chesham M, Wigley,
Miller (late)
Apologies: Thomas (Party business), Allen
(Party business), Buick (holiday), Johnson (holiday)
1)
Minutes and amendments
a) 4b Addendum. Deutz and Wigley
"The planning permission cost is £170, and the
application fee to change the sign would be £95'".
Agreed
b) 4b Addendum. Deutz and Carter "The proposed
shopfront will consist of an aluminium box section shopfront
comprising three windows and three infill panels above. A new
wider door and infill panel above will be in the same material. It
will be finished in RAL 9007 metallic semi-gloss polyester-based
thermosetting powder coating. The signage will remain unchanged".
Agreed.
c) re 6b. Deutz and Browne "The form 'F' for
Terry Lawlor was processed in January" Agreed.
d) re.
4d. Chesham and Miller "Change 'moved' to 'removed'".
Agreed.
e) re. 4c. Miller and Chesham "The amount of
the cash settlement was approx. £520". Agreed.
2)
Matters arising
a) Stair's Speakers test
Deutz and
Browne "That cde Miller be the third member of the panel to
examine cde Stair for the Speakers' test". Agreed
b)
Martin reports inability to implement 3j, namely drafting a letter
in fulfilment of Conference resolution.
Miller and Chesham
M. "That cde Buick draft the letter". Carried 5-0-1
c)
Call for nominations for an EC subcommittee to investigate the
costs, procedures and duties incurred by the Party of establishing
an employed post : none received.
Deutz and Browne "That
a further call be made". 5-0-1
3) Reports of Party
Officers, Departments and Subcommittees
a) SSD : 100 extra
standards produced for June 2009
Noted.
b) Election
dept: preliminary report from Euro elections.
Wigley and
Miller "That all members and sympathisers taking part be
thanked for their work". Agreed
c) A/V dept re
digitisation of master tapes.
i) Miller and Wigley "That
the request for two soundcards at a total cost of up to £150
be granted". Agreed
ii) Wigley and Miller "That
the AV committee be responsible for the storage and movement of
master audio tapes". Agreed.
d) Parliament
pamphlet.
Wigley and Carter "That the Publications
Dept. be asked to submit a final draft of the parliament pamphlet
to the August EC for approval, having taken into consideration any
recommendations made to them for alterations". Carried
6-0.
e) Library committee : requesting £300 budget:
list of books for library currently missing.
Carter and
Browne "That the £300 library budget be approved".
Carried 6-0
f) Nominations:
i) CLB nominate Howard
Comber to Premises Committee.
Deutz and Miller "That
cde Comber be appointed". Agreed.
ii) Confirmation
from WLB of ALB's nomination to AHC on Party dues.
Wigley
and Deutz "That cde Buick's nomination be confirmed".
Agreed
iii) Offer from Layout dept (SSD) to train a group
of comrades in layout in session(s) at lancaster.
Deutz and
Wigley "That the matter be referred to the SSPC".
Agreed.
iv) Other calls to be made include Asst.
Treasurer.
A) Wigley and Browne "That an urgent
further call be made for an Asst. Treasurer, and for new layout
members to the SSD". Agreed.
B) Wigley and Deutz "That
a call be made for members to the PFU committee". Agreed.
g)
Photocopier.
Deutz and Wigley "That Stair be contacted
and asked if he will contact the photocopier firm to clear up the
matter of delivery". Agreed.
4) Accounts
None
to hand.
5) Forms A and F.
Form F for:
a)
Steve Pantlin (lack of interest)
b) Arnold Gibson (claimed
as lapsed by previous CB Sec, no response to mail)
c) Ken
Partington (resigned in 2007, no response to mail)
Deutz
and Wigley "That the forms 'F' for Steve Pantlin, Arnold
Gibson, and Ken Partington be accepted". Agreed.
Broke
at 14:45 ; resumed 15: 06
6) Correspondence:
a) WSG
(India) minutes : request copy of 'Poles apart?' DVD.
Miller
and Browne "That the WSG(I) be sent a copy of the DVD 'Poles
apart'". Agreed.
b) CLB re expanding Ballot
Committee.
"Be it resolved that in view of the fact that
the 2009 Party Officer/Executive Committee ballot was, contrary to
accepted practices, counted by only a single member of the Ballot
Committee, and that we understand a nominee to this Committee was
earlier this year passed over by the Executive Committee partly
because the Committee was supposedly fully staffed, Central London
Branch asks the Executive Committee to consider expanding the
Ballot Committee complement to four members and appointing the
aforementioned nominee". (Carried 4-0-1)
i) Miller and
Chesham "That Lorna Stevens be appointed to the Ballot
Committee". This was ruled out of order by the chair. The
committee is full with three members, and her nomination had
already been before the EC and been unsuccessful.
ii) Deutz
and Carter "That the Ballot Committee was not understaffed :
two members of the committee were standing for election and thus
could not take part, as outlined in the Ballot Committee report to
the May 2009 EC". Carried 4-2. For: Deutz, Carter, Wigley,
Browne. Against : Milller, Chesham M.
iii) Wigley and
Carter "Where necessary, the committee co-opts tellers for
the purpose of counting ballots, as was done in this case".
Carried 4-2. For: Deutz, Carter, Wigley, Browne. Against :
Milller, Chesham M.
c) Praja Bharath Party (Dalits in
India, claim socialist leanings, want money).
Miller and
Browne "That the Assistant Secretary reply in accordance with
the facts". Agreed.
d) Kephas Mulenga : encloses an
article on Zambian politics, and "wants to know why there are
no blacks and Indians in the SPGB". Also encloses letter to
Paddy Shannon re his poems, and request for money.
Wigley
and Deutz "That cde Mulenga be informed: 1) The Party does
not recognise his use of the phrase 'blacks and Indians'. We set
out to liberate the working class regardless of race or sex. 2)
The Party, as noted above, takes members from the whole working
class, and includes members from Africa and India as well as many
other parts of the world". Carried 5-1.
e)
Digitalisation of the Socialist Standard
Deutz and Wigley
"That the matter be referred to cde. Miller for a definitive
reply to the August EC". Agreed.
7) Any other
business
a) M. Chesham raised display arrangements for the
new window.
b) Deutz raised membership cards. Miller
reported the cde McCullough's email address was no longer working,
but he now had a phone number and would continue to try to make
contact.
c) Browne asked for a call for reports from
Departments and Subcommittees.
Deutz and Wigley "That
the call be made for reports to ADM from Officers, Departments and
Subcommittees, to be submitted at latest to the September EC
meeting (5th September 2009)". Agreed
8) Next
meeting.
a) Date and time: 1st August at 1pm.
b)
Chair
Wigley and Browne "That Buick be Chair".
Agreed.
Meeting adjourned 15:57.
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