[sudo-discuss] [omni-consensus] Proposal: Hire or Replace Me as Omni's Bookkeeper

[robb]

srry still haven't had time to read Julian's book

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 11:29 AM Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think the more salient part of Julian's counter proposal is to get a 6mo
> extension on our taxes, which should give us enough time to focus on the
> GCEA mediation first.
>
> And if Julian thinks he can recruit a free intern to help out with the
> bookkeeping, I don't see anything wrong with that. As long as we don't
> spend *more* effort training an intern plus doing the books...
>
> Patrik
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 11:05 AM robb <sf99er at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> according to who?
>> it would cost way more $ to get someone else to do it
>> & if our MO is hiring outside ppl instead of paying our volunteers, i'll
>> quit volunteering
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:45 AM Jenny Ryan <jenny at jennyryan.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Evidently the plan is to "find an intern" to do it all.
>>>
>>> Best of luck with that.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:14 <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> this block is just so fucked. agree with using all currently available
>>>> means allowed in bylaws to authorize payment for clearly below market
>>>> rate professional services.  has BAPS offered any sort of counter
>>>> proposal or are we just tasked with looking in the mirror at what could
>>>> be wrong with ourselves and finding the tax answers there?
>>>>
>>>> On 2019-03-27 8:42 pm, Yardena Cohen wrote:
>>>> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:16 PM Patrik D'haeseleer <
>>>> patrikd at gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >> It might be useful to remind folks that by the Omni Commons Bylaws,
>>>> >> the board can legally act by a majority vote. Not that we should be
>>>> >> making a habit out of that, but it might be a useful option to fall
>>>> >> back on if we start to run out of time to get our tax paperwork
>>>> >> done...
>>>> >
>>>> > Not only that, but we'd already given the finance working group a lot
>>>> > of leeway and discretion in the past, to the point where I think
>>>> > *legally* they could have just decided to pay Jenny without asking for
>>>> > consensus. The fact that they did ask is a good thing, but they didn't
>>>> > have to.
>>>> >
>>>> > Which makes the accusations about people "wanting to run a
>>>> > corporation" really stink. It's a cheap shot. The corporate form is
>>>> > forced on us by circumstance, and we've been trying hard to run an
>>>> > anarchist collective simultaneously, in parallel. If anybody really
>>>> > wanted a hostile takeover, it would have happened by now.
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