[council] Motion on Travel Funding
Title: Motion on Travel Funding
Hello all,
As you know, the travel drafting team has been working on proposals to best manage TF allocation.
As you also know, there has been a proposal to use left-over DNSO funds to help “top up” the amount of funding available for the final meeting of the current fiscal year, which is Sydney (any work the DT is now working on would not have any effect until the next fiscal year).
In light of this, the DT has opted to put forward a motion for our next council meeting. This is the motion proposal which I have drafted on behalf of the DT and wanted to get in before the deadline (which is today, right?).
Comments and thoughts welcome. Thanks.
Stéphane
Whereas:
At its meeting of September 25, 2008 the GNSO Council created the Travel Drafting Team (TDT) to work on proposals to optimize the allocation and the management of Travel Funding for the GNSO Constituencies.
At a meeting held during the Mexico ICANN meeting in March 2009 between the TDT and members of ICANN staff, the TDT requested that all GNSO Constituencies receive Funding Slots for each of their elected Councillors at each one of the three yearly international ICANN meetings, with the understanding that it would then be up to each Constituency to allocate these slots according to their own internal processes.
That request stemmed in part from the recognition of the significant, and ever increasing work loads, that GNSO Councillors face. Work which they carry out as unpaid volunteers.
Since that meeting it has been identified that an amount of funds left over from the DNSO are available for use should the Council wish to provide additional Travel Funding to those GNSO Constituencies that no longer have enough credits left for their three slots for the final meeting of the fiscal year 2008, in Sydney.
The funds identified are in the amount of 19,963.79 USD.
Resolved:
That the DNSO funds be distributed evenly across all six GNSO Constituencies in time for the Sydney meeting in June, with the express purpose of providing additional Travel Funding for those persons nominated by each Constituency as recipients to be of said Travel Support.