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

[Esther Dyson]

As far as I can see from outside, it's very simple. this is a draft budget 
and it's not at all clear what the amount should be, so they left it out - 
probably by mistake.  Certainly a silly mistake, politically and 
practically, but certainly not a secret board decision.... Stand by for an 
amendment in Stockholm....and meanwhile, please do contribute to the 
substantive questions the Committee is trying to address.

Esther Dyson

At 16:50 11.05.01 -0400, Hans Klein wrote:


>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
> >



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