NCSG Travel Policy Lacks Inclusivity Please

[Stephanie Perrin]

I am impressed Remmy, I had no idea you folks were doing all that work!  
Can you please point us to the meeting transcripts and mailing list 
archives?  I would like to catch up.  I am on the GNSO Council finance 
committee, but was unaware all this work was going on within NCSG.  
Perhaps the Finance Committee should have a regular update agenda item 
at the monthly NCSG Policy Meeting call?

Kind regards,

Stephanie Perrin

On 2018-07-07 16:08, Remmy Nweke wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response Farzaneh,
>
> I think it would amount to not wanting to make Finance Committee 
> improve on its working processes and mandate to sound it off as mere 
> “protecting the interest of members or wanting to score travel slot” 
> which I think negates the purpose of the Finance Committee or probably 
> why it has been in comatose lately.
>
> For your information, the role and mandate of Finance Committee as 
> contained in the NCSG Charter Section 2.6 is very clear and is not 
> limited to the following:
>
> Develop and deploy a fund raising plan for the NCSG;
>
> Work with the ICANN’s staff to determine levels of support available 
> to the NCSG;
>
> Work with ICANN finance officers to insure the NCSG and its 
> Constituencies receive fair and equivalent financial support from ICANN;
>
> Accounting for any funds received by the NCSG from any source. This 
> accounting will include the following:
>
> All funds raised by voluntary membership fees or otherwise must be 
> held in a separate NCSG account.
>
> Proper controls must be implemented.
>
> Regarding Expenditures, FC is to among others see that:
>
>
> Financial reports must be prepared annually and be made public.
>
> Provide internal conflict resolution process regarding funds.
>
> Provide the oversight of the Treasurer function.
>
> Fulfill any other accounting, auditing or other prescribed financial 
> requirements as set by the ICANN Board of Directors for organizations 
> within the ICANN structure.
>
> For now, the present crop of FC are not people who are merely seeking 
> exposure, but want to contribute its quota, and thus find it unhealthy 
> that Finance Committee is being relegated.
>
> Looking at most of the responsibilities of the Finance Committee, its 
> stakeholdersand possible time for most of its functions and oversights 
> must be dealt with within the ICANN stakeholdes meeting for proper 
> engagement.
>
> Finally, its in the best interest of *NCSG-EC* that the Finance 
> Committee work and works well, so as to pave way for more 
> accountability and transparency in our process and overtly more 
> funding for our stakeholders.
>
> We cannot be demanding accountability and transparency from other 
> stakeholders and tactically frustrate the efforts of Finance Committee 
> thereby making the committee look as irredeemables.
>
>
> Remmy
>
>
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