<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Ed,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for the comments.</div><div class="gmail_extra">there were some suggestions in the current draft to change the tone and make it more neutral. there are still work to be done there. I also think that NCSG FC members can jump in here and share their thoughts.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I am looking forward other NCSG PC members suggestions and ideas to move forward. I guess can try to submit the comment a few days later (while since it is about the budget and there are time constraints)if we can resolve the concerns and elaborate in some areas.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Rafik<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-29 0:00 GMT+09:00 Edward Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net" target="_blank">egmorris1@toast.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Sans-Serif;font-size:14px"><div>Hi Rafik,<br>
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I’d like to thank those who stepped in to contribute to the budget comment. I sadly disagree with the tone and much of the content of the document. I do not endorse it.<br>
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There was no way for me to edit the document without completely deleting much of what had previously been written there. I just didn’t feel that was an appropriate thing to do.<br>
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Rather I have completed and submitted to the Comments Forum a Personal Comment, which I am attaching to this post. I welcome those who have stepped up to do the NCSG comment to consider what I had to say, borrow from my post, or disregard it completely.<br>
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My objection to the NCSG comment as written consists of the following objections:<br>
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1. I believe it is too negative and accusatory and fails to recognize the hard work done by Finance and the unique nature of the first year of the Empowered Community.<br>
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I have major problems with the process, and have expressed them in my Comment, along with suggested ways of improving cooperation and community input. However, I don’t believe any slights were deliberate or intentional. I believe the Community, including myself, erred in placing so many hard deadlines on Finance as part of the budget process in the new Bylaws. This is a year of adaptation but generalized critical comments without specific proposed solutions serve no purpose. And that is what much of the proposed NCSG comment consists of.<br>
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2. I find the objections to ALAC expenditures to appear as a stand alone attack on the AC. There are a number of areas of expenditure that many of us would find questionable. Why focus only on these in the absence of criticism of other questionable expenses?<br>
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3. I don’t find staff retreats to be among the most pressing fiscal matters. After all, as a supplemental request components of the NCSG asked for their own retreats and the GNSO Council was actually granted one. Should we not first oppose these retreats or is there a reason staff retreats are so onerous?<br>
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4. As noted in my personal comment, my biggest concern involves the lack of funding priority for core policy activities. I have focused on one unfunded proposal – that of $100,000 for external PDP support – and would encourage the NCSG to consider adopting this view.<br>
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Although I can not endorse the comment, out of respect for the work done on the document I will not oppose it. I will abstain and hope my comments above as well as those in my personal comment will be considered by the PC.<br>
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Regrettably, I have some domestic responsibilities to attend to this evening that must take priority over my volunteer activities here. Consider my abstention to be a permament one and feel free to borrow from, or ignore, my offerings on this matter.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Ed Morris </div>
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