Location: IRC server pnwx.com, channel #asfar
Time: 8:30 pm central time

Board members present: Eric Anderson, Joshua Freeman, Justin Mallone, David
Schneider-Joseph, Susan Wishnetsky
Members present: Daniel M., Ben P-S
Visitors present: none

The meeting was called to order at 8:48 pm central time.

Approval of Minutes

A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes of the November 15
meeting. Daniel M. asked if the new board was already seated; Eric Anderson
responded that, based on last year's precedent, it was. The motion passed
4-0.

Reports of Officers

The President, Eric Anderson, reported that he had done an interview with
the
Denver Post earlier in the day.

The Vice-President, Justin Mallone, reported that he had been asked to speak
to a group of Libertarians in Pennsylvania, which would probably not happen
until February.

The Secretary, Susan Wishnetsky, reported that she still had a backlog of
new
members to be signed up and chapter information to send, although she had
caught up somewhat. She also needs to print more leaflets.

The Treasurer, Eric Anderson, had no report, but added to the agenda one
item
to be discussed later in the meeting.

Reports of Committees.

The 'zine committee reported that the print version of the current issue
(many of which were already sent out) contained some errors, some of which
were being fixed, others of which would have to remain. There is also at
least one error in the online version. Susan Wishnetsky reported that she
had found a print shop that she thought would be better and more convenient.
Justin Mallone requested submissions for the next issue.

The advertising committee reported that it had met and was recommending that
ASFAR sign up for banner ads with Burst media (www.burstmedia.com) and also
join the associates program with Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/associates/join/associates.html).
Barnes and Noble had also been considered, but it was determined that Amazon
would pay higher commissions. This would allow ASFAR to place links to
books
in many different forms, such as a youth rights "bookstore" page or search
field on our site, or links from book reviews in Youth Truth. Books
purchased directly from ASFAR links would yield 15% commissions, other
purchases made from linking through our site would yield 5%. Eric Anderson
moved to accept this committee's report; the motion was seconded and passed
4-0.

Old Business.

Eric Anderson moved to approve and implement the advertising committee's
recommendations; the motion was seconded. After discussion of who would be
responsible and some details of implementation, the vote was called and the
motion carried 4-0.

New Business

David Schneider-Joseph moved to nominate Eric Anderson as President; the
motion was seconded. Susan Wishnetsky moved to table the motion pending
greater attendance of board members. David then withdrew his motion. Eric
Anderson moved to re-elect all current officers; the motion was seconded.
Susan again moved to table the motion; the motion was seconded. The vote to
table failed with a tie vote of 2-2. There was discussion of the amount of
notice given for this meeting, and when another board meeting could be
scheduled; there was also discussion of whether greater attendance would
affect the outcome of the vote. Because of the difficulty of scheduling
another board meeting and the probability that the outcome of the vote would
not be changed by postponing it, Eric called the vote; the motion to
re-elect
the current officers passed 3-1 with 1 abstention.

Other Business

Eric Anderson raised an item which should have been included under "old
business", the transfer of Paypal funds there to an insured money market
account. Eric moved to approve this plan; after brief discussion, the
motion
was seconded and carried 4-0.

The next board meeting was scheduled for December 18 at 8:30 pm central
time.

The meeting adjourned at 10:07 pm central time.