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Libertarian Party of Florida Executive Committee => 2022 => Official Records => May => Topic started by: AtLarge2 on May 11, 2022, 09:34:41 PM
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Title: Motion to Approve Expenditure for Merchandising Hosting Services
Mover: Hector Roos (on behalf of Fundraising Committee)
Motion: I move to approve expenditure a one-time expense of $125 and an annually recurring expense of $75 for a hosting solution to support a LPF merchandising service.
Statement of Need:
The LPF Chair's Vision Deck contains a goal for the LPF to host to provide for merchandise sales to the public. Florida election law requires that these sales be considered donations for the purpose of campaign finance reporting. The LPF Executive Committee voted to approve a no-cost merchandising solution that did not connect with CRM to track campaign finance data. In order to achieve this goal, a domain is needed (such as lpfmerch.org) with the necessary hosting and plug-in services to facilitate donation-driven order fulfillment and compliance.
The expenses breakdown is as follows (estimated):
$125 + $75 annual recurring hosting charge ($200 in total)
The committee needs $200 which includes $75 that will be an annual recurring hosting charge. The balance of funds will be set aside as contingency for one-time purchases such as additional plug-ins.
Our hosting partner will be LPF member Chris Wiggins, who owns ClearSEM Solutions, a professional web-hosting and marketing company in South Florida: https://www.clearsemsolutions.com
- This package will include up to 20 gigs of hosting for the LPF Merch site as well as DirectAdmin which gives control panel access to the server, and SSL from Let's Encrypt.
- It does not include email access or DNS, but they recommend we use Cloudflare which is very legitimate and common. If we do use Cloudflare, Chris will need delegate access in case of emergencies.
- All contracts will be reviewed and approved by the Audit Committee before any money is spent/reimbursed.