Re: [ALSC-Forum] FYI: Elections not budgeted

[Hans Klein]

It sounds like the At Large Study Committee could shed some light on this.

I guess either Carl Bildt or Denise Michel could help us understand this
situation better.

Hans 



At 10:21 PM 5/11/01 +0200, Alexander Svensson wrote:
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>although this has already been circulating on
>various ICANN-related mailing lists, I'm reposting
>it here on the At Large Study Committee list,
>since it probably didn't reach everyone interested
>in the issue:
>
>The proposed ICANN budget for the financial year
>2001/2002 contains $0.00 for At Large elections. [1]
>Only the Study Committee itself with its $450,000
>budget is mentioned in the proposal. In a prior version
>of the budget proposal [2], the expenses for "Special
>Projects - At Large" was still "tbd" (to be determined).
>
>In the same budget, it says that the completion
>of the At Large study and the implementation (!)
>of the Study Committee's recommendations adopted by
>the Board are among the "Specific Priorities for FY01-02".
>
>As Jonathan Weinberg pointed out on the DNSO GA list,
>there is a passage in the ICANN bylaws [3] about the
>study which states that
>  Any actions taken by the Board as a result of the study
>  that require the selection of any "At Large" Directors
>  should be implemented on a schedule that will allow any
>  new "At Large" Directors to be seated no later than the
>  conclusion of the Annual Meeting of the Corporation in 2002.
>
>That Annual Meeting will take place in the end of 2002,
>and the budget for the fiscal year 01/02 (1-Jul-2001 to
>30-Jun-2002) does not contain any allowance for the
>membership registration process, let alone the election
>process. (For the first elections, the registration
>period began in February, the deadline was in the end
>of July, the elections were in October.)
>
>ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf has responded to the criticism
>by referring back to the At Large Study Committee final
>report "which is supposed to include consideration of
>funding among many other things." (The report shall be
>finished until the Los Angeles meeting in November 2001.)
>
>So, unless the budget proposal is amended in Stockholm,
>there is a budget to study the At Large, but no budget
>for the At Large!
>
>Best regards,
>/// Alexander
>
>[1] http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/doc00026.doc
>[2] http://www.icann.org/financials/preliminary-budget-19feb01.htm
>[3] http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#II
>
>See also
>http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=140
>