[NCSG-FC] Urgent: NCSG ABRs

[Stephanie Perrin]

Dear Finance Committee Co-chairs:

It has come to my attention that three ABRs were sent in to the process without my knowledge, and using my signature since I am responsible for the NCSG ABRs. https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/NCSG+-+FY20+Additional+Budget+Requests

The Finance Committee is not a separate constituency, and at the moment it does not have the authority to act independently in this manner.  Even if it did, such ABRs should have been discussed on the FC list.    These had to be shared and discussed with the NCSG EC at a minimum, not sent in covertly.

Please explain what happened here.... I know I have been terribly busy, what with the EPDP, the RDS II review, the budget and various other comments.  However, I don't think I have forgotten anything with respect to the ABRs, and I am pretty sure I did not know about these requests.

The one for CIVICRM is totally counterproductive....the amounts are wrong, and since we now have this funding in the core budget in the amount of 20K, we do not need to ask for it in an ABR.
Without discussing in detail the merit of these requests, I would like you to please withdraw them and ask them to be taken off the website by COB Monday.  You cannot send things in in my name without consultation, because I take my responsibilities seriously.  Furthermore, and now I am speaking to the merits of the requests, if seems to me they contradict our overall budget comments supporting restraint.  The tone suggests that the Finance Committee does not trust leadership to manage the money that is entrusted to the NCSG, and that the Finance Committee needs to be enabled to step up and manage it.  This reflects very badly on our stakeholder group, and is not a position I support, and not just because I am the current Chair....I do not see any evidence of financial mismanagement over the many years that NCUC has handled the only money we receive officially.  Recent events in NPOC, I know very little about, but the money that caused the friction had nothing to do with the PIR funding, as far as I can ascertain.

I am deeply sympathetic to the need for regional outreach and development, this is what is behind the security and human rights outreach request, but we should have discussed these additional requests to coordinate, and to get the facts straight.

Kind regards,

Stephanie Perrin

NCSG Chair
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