Fwd: Opening an account for NPOC, NCUC and NCSG in Estonia

[Remmy Nweke]

Hi Stephanie
I will rather think that getting this account settled once and for all,
especially the interests are there and people are volunteering to work
along to ensure it worked for posterity.
I will equally suggest since there are uncertainty over Estonia e-ID, we
can take up Sam's option in Canada. VIP is that our EC can access the fund
when necessary and signatories can be changed also. For me this matters a
lot.
I thought the issue of ABR is already in the works as FC is tinkering on
template for that to be shared on or before weekend to fast track that
aspect including the assessment afterwards.
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:26 PM Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> SO.....rather than argue endlessly about where to open a bank account that
> has marginal utility given we have no money, could somebody please turn
> their minds to the ABRs and volunteer to think up what we need money for,
> and draft them?  Also comments on the five year plan, so we can see if our
> thin dribble of travel funding is going to be cut, depending on future
> revenue calculations?  Hands up, who has read it?  I am sorry folks, I do
> take this matter rather seriously, but we have bigger fish to fry at the
> moment.  This is not my biggest priority, settling on where to open an
> account.
>
> cheers Stephanie
> On 2019-01-08 04:01, Raoul Plommer wrote:
>
>
>
> This is a lot more complicated a topic than I think people are giving
>> credit to
>>
>
> Thanks for acknowledging that. :)
>
>
>> No-one has yet spoken about legal liabilities that come from establishing
>> a legal entity, and I also don’t believe that anyone has spoken to ICANN
>> legal yet (Currently we only exist as an entity within the ICANN bylaws,
>> also there are interactions with the Empowered Community responsibilities
>> that would need to be incorporated into the establishment of any entity).
>>
>
> I can only speak for my experience in Finland, but the responsibilities
> are pretty much as follows: 1) Names of people running the board and
> electing them every two years or more often 2) At least one official
> meeting in a year setting out budget and plan for next year and auditing
> the account + possibly selecting the new board.
>
> That's pretty much it.
>
> The CSG has registered as a nonprofit association in the USA and I doubt
> that they asked for a permission from ICANN to establish it. You *might*
> be right though and I guess we'd really need to ask them. That should be
> quite easy to answer to, though.
>
> I'm not sure what Empowered Community responsibilities you mean. I think
> our current charters will go a long way as the charter of a new registered
> nonprofit entity.
>
> -Raoul
>
>
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