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1. Call to Order
   The regular meeting of the Libertarian Party of Brevard County, Fl. was called to order at 6:44 PM on May 19th , 2021 at Carrabba’s Italian Grill by Chair – Brian Fleming
2. Present:
   Executive Committee: Brian Fleming –Chair, Mari Peele -Vice-Chair, Greg Peele – Treasurer, Rick Heffelfinger –Secretary, Nathan Slusher -Director-At-Large
   Voting Members: Kevin Ratzel, Robert Klimkowski
   Visitor:, Matthew Hammond, Jacob Quaider
3. Determination of Quorum (75% of Executive Committee or 25% of all voting members)
   Quorum was met
4. Approval and Adoption of Agenda
   A motion to adopt the agenda was made. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.
5. Guest Speaker
   None. Guest speakers will not be coordinated until a meeting location more conducive is found.
6. Approval of the Minutes
   A motion to approve the minutes from the April 21, 2021 business meetings was made. The motion was seconded and passed without objection.
7. Officer Reports
   Vice Chair:
   Reported on meetings attended (County and City of Cocoa). Updated a flyer for the Orlando gun show. Upcoming goals: activate Stripe on the website, set-up fund raiser, parse latest voter data for outreach to different districts, and run email contacts through email verification service.
   Treasurer:
   Received $95 in donations since last meeting
   Three reoccurring contributors totaling $100/month
   Balance $1,590.14
   Liability $72 to secretary for PO Box
   2nd quarterly report will be due on July 10th.
   PNC bank incorrectly reported that checks where free. Checks will cost $22.75. A motion will be made to authorize up to $30 for the purchase of checks.

Attempt was made to setup account on Facebook for political advertising. A problem with ID validation requires that a notarized form be provided. This is being worked.
Stripe setup has been verified. The website will be updated to use it as well as Paypal.
Attended city of Cocoa meeting
Secretary:
Provided hardcopy of “subscribed members” and “LPBC Membership” spreadsheet to all EC members. Reported current enrollment from webpage in Monkey mail is currently 17 and current voting membership is 7. Encourage all in attendance to use the webpage and enter info so we can communicate to them in the future.
Director-At-Large:
Reported on successful beach cleanup with 10 people in attendance. Attended 2 Titusville and County meetings this past month and wrote up recaps and published them on Facebook. A lot of Facebook activity the past month. Ccurrently 898 following after starting with 620 in January. Will continue to work meeting attendance and writing recaps for Facebook.
Chair:
During the pre meeting it was decided that 2 things will be cornerstones to the Brevard platform; Government Transparency and the Indian River Lagoon.
Government Transparency
• Hold government accountable
• Attentive and responsive to public comments
• Provide understanding of how to interact with local government and sharing with the party.
• Ensure information is accessible and easy to understand
Indian River Lagoon (IRL)
• Empower volunteerism to help provide solutions and resources
• Provide educational material to community and businesses
• Ensure resources collected from enforment (eg fines) are correctly directed to lagoon efforts not the general fund.
Chair is currently seeking in roads into the IRL buracrasy. Will be working to make the IRL activity more community based and influenced vice government controlled.

Other desirable platform positions identified were also Home rule and fiscal responsibility.
Possible meeting time and place change being considered. Moving the meeting to Mondays would free up some overlap with other affiliates meetings in region 9.
Provided gun show support. May be working with Orange county to provide presence at events such as gun shows
LPBC Goals: Get our name and voice known, get candidates elected (Raising money and helping candidates with campaigns), and growing the party. Growing the party is #1. We are in this for the long game.
Working with region 9 for affiliate training during the convention. Will be working with the convention committee next year as well. Will be pushing to get the convention in Osceola and the following year Brevard.
Campaign training will be occurring in Atlanta over memorial day weekend and also at the convention.
The Director at large expressed enthusiasium for the party platform items and believes it will provide proper branding to encourage electing Libertarians across the county. He has a goal to run 5 candidates next year. Currently, Kevin and Rob are both looking at potential runs next year.

8. Unfinished Business:
   Motion 2021_04 to Amend the LPBC Constitution. Motion failed in a vote 5 to 1.
9. New Business:
   Standing Rule Discussion:
   Our first Standing Rule will be presented as a motion next month. The rule will state that all motions must be submitted to the secretary in writing before the meeting.
10. Notice & Announcement
    Business meeting June 14 same location –Carrabbas
    Next social TBD
11. Adjournment
    Meeting was adjourned at 7:52 PM by Chair – Brian Fleming.
    Minutes submitted by: Rick Heffelfinger

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1. Call to Order
   The regular meeting of the Libertarian Party of Brevard County, Fl. was called to order at
   6:41 PM on April 21st, 2021 at Carrabba’s Italian Grill by Chair – Brian Fleming
2. Present:
   Executive Committee: Brian Fleming –Chair, Mari Peele -Vice-Chair, Greg Peele –
   Treasurer, Rick Heffelfinger –Secretary, Nathan Slusher -Director-At-Large
   Voting Members: Thai Heiler
   Members: George Lebovitz
   Visitor: Kevin Ratzel, Richard Perez, Robert Klimkowski
3. Determination of Quorum (75% of Executive Committee or 25% of all voting members)
   Quorum was met
4. Approval and Adoption of Agenda
   A motion to adopt the agenda was made. The motion was seconded and passed
   unanimously.
5. Guest Speaker
   None. Researching for guest speaker at next meeting. Nathan mention security guard at
   parrish that is starting her own security business. Brian recommends GOA official from
   Brevard
6. Approval of the Minutes
   A motion to approve the minutes from the March 17, 2021 business meetings was made.
   The motion was seconded and passed without objection.

7. Officer Reports
   Treasurer:
   Received $150 donations
   Expended $2.06 banking fees
   Thank you to two reoccurring contributors to Paypal
   Balance $1,499.65
   $929.35 is in PNC

$520.30 Paypal
$50 Stripe account (new)
Liability $72 to secretary for PO Box
Anuual audit turned in on time to SOE
2021 1st quarter campaign audit turned in on time. 2nd quarterly report will be due on July
10th.
PNC banking is all good except for missing checks. Monthly service fee is no longer being
assessed on it.
Paypal treasurer ID corrected and ID validation still being worked
Full audit of all bank accounts performed and SOE corrections performed back to 2019.
All amendments were accepted by SOE without any inquiry
Stripe was actually set-up by John O. It has been linked to the bank account and Greg did a
$50 test. After Stripe clears, the website will be updated to use it as well as Paypal.
Attended controversial city of Cocoa meeting on the 13th, attended region 9 meeting and
BCC meeting on the 20th.
Objectives for next month: get the checks, put the stripe processor on the webpage,
continue working/researching our own web hosting vice LPF host, and attend meetings as
schedule permits.
All bank statements available for inspection.

Vice Chair:
Emails from website subscribers, voter registration, and previous member delivered to
secretary.
Attended the region 9 meeting. Spoke at BCC meeting. Even though the measure passed
she believes it was a positive event for Libertarians to be seen and heard.
Learned of a service that cleans up email. Will be making a floor motion to considering
authorization to move forward
Working graphics for beach cleanup and fundraiser already have plug-ins for website to
active Stripe and will work that after verification of Greg’s contribution.

Secretary:
Received emails from Mari. Need to work with Mailchimp to solve delivery issues to
google email.
Continue to advertise with meetup, Facebook and webpage.
Embroidery status
Change of policy concerning paper. Secretary will bring copy(s) for routing at meeting but
board and members should review on-line and print as they see fit.
Director-At-Large:
March 23rd was first attended meeting Titusville posted minutes received 22K hits on
Facebook within 48 hours. Posting to additional meetings has resulted in 48K people
reached and 13K engagements since last meeting. Page likes has gone from 630 to 817.
Additional LP affiliates have also been sharing our stuff
Nathan believes that pursuing local government transparency is the road to winning and
has shared this with LPF. We need to pursue finding more volunteers to attend meetings
and provide articles/post.

Chair:
The team is all doing a great job. We all work as a team. Attending meetings is great.
Nathan is pursuing a motion with Titusville to change alcohol service laws. Must always
provide solutions.
Region 9 meeting. Working with Marcus Morrea (region 9 rep). he will be running for rep
again at the convention. Have been discussing with him maximizing sharing of info and
good communications.
On the LPF convention committee this year. 20 rooms already sold out. 20 more
adder.$4000 dollars raised. Pushing to keep the affiliate working group at the convention
to encourage and foster communication between the affiliates. Brian summarized the BCC
meeting and our participation.

Our four items are lagoon, transparency,guns, taxes. These are the issues that we will use
to focus candidates. Focus on local issues.We are going to reach out via Facebook to find
how the community feels about our local issue focus topics.
Brian believes facebook is dying, he would like to use email, Text message and the
webpage. This is a one to two year target for migration.
Brian got his shirt embroiderd as well. Within the next 6 months wants to work on new
logo.

8. Unfinished Business:
   None
9. New Business:

Motion 2021_04 to Amend the LPBC Constitution
Mover: Nathan Slusher
Motion: I move to remove Article 4, Section 4 from the LPBC Constitution. Article 4,
Section 4 states: “Adoption of a new constitution and bylaws or amendments to this
constitution or bylaws, shall be presented for hearings and discussion at two consecutive
business meetings and shall only be put to a vote and adopted at the second hearing. “
Greg and Mari Peele spoke in opposition. Motion made by Nathan slushier to table until
next meeting. Between now and then the motion will be amended to exclude a possible
motion that would completely dissolve the entire constitution during one meeting. Motion
to table approved.
Greg thank the group for the opportunity to prove we know Roberts rule better than the
BCC.
Floor motions:
Mari proposed a motion to run our email list through a checker at 1 cent per address.
Motion: Mari moves to authorize expenditure of up to $10, one time, for verification of
email addresses for outreach.
Chair suggest making it $20, Mari agrees and amends motion to :

Motion: Mari moves to authorize expenditure of up to $20, one time, for verification of
email addresses for outreach. Motion passes.
Nathan proposed a motion to authorize $100 to do Facebook advertising for party growth.
Much discussion ensued.
Chair make motion to amend the motion for $50 over 3 months. Ending august 2021.
Motion passes.

10. Notice & Announcement
    Business meeting May 19 same location –Carrabbas
    Next social May 8th Cocunuts beach cleanup
11. LPF news – None
12. Action items
    Brian will send a web site for tracking in an email. Action items coming in EC page to
    remove meetup

13. Adjournment
    Meeting was adjourned at 8:09 PM by Chair – Brian Fleming.
    Minutes submitted by: Rick Heffelfinger

These minutes were approved by the LPBC Executive Committee during the Business Meeting held on 5/19/2021. ___________________ Richard K Heffelfinger Secretary, LPBC