<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-15 8:38 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11 June 2016 at 11:12, Sean DALY <<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dave - I don't agree that whomever submits a grant application becomes the<br>
> treasurer for those funds.<br>
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</span>Fair enough :) I am merely observing what I see as current practice<br>
with the Trip Advisor grant :)<br>
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> What should happen is a sales cycle: if there is<br>
> interest, the SLOBs should be in the loop so they can assist with<br>
> face-to-face meetings, followup documents, and Adam/SFC liaison issues.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is probably the key point to ensure funds actually get to the active members. It will require 100% transparency of grants documents and SCF management issues.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
> Document signings involving Walter require prior SFC review. In my view,<br>
> disbursal of funds from a successful grant should be managed by SFC/SLOBs<br>
> (perhaps primarily in the role of a Finance Manager or Treasurer), as per<br>
> Gould or TripAdvisor.<br>
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</span>Please could you clarify why Walter (or any other SLOB) would<br>
specifically need to be signing documents; I understand that that<br>
Conservancy signs the documents, because legally Conservancy is the<br>
party to them and neither SLOBs nor Members are agents of Conservancy<br>
and lack signing authority. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Conversely, I don't see why SLOBS or Conservancy would be involved in<br>
the management of a project; they only and merely approve the funding,<br>
and until a Financial Manager is in place, this is done by regular<br>
motion.<br>
<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div> </div><div>What is proposed in the new "by funds structure" is to keep a Project Leader per Project as the Treasurer of that Project's fund. For general purpose expenses SL already have the SLOBs who act as Treasurers of the General Funds fund.</div><div><br></div><div>Project Leaders-Treasurers should be encouraged to present time-cycle required Budgets to the SL Funding/Grants Committee.</div><div><br></div><div>Each Project Leader may approve or not an specific grant or grant percentage to get into his/her Project Fund for N periods of time. By approving the incoming of funds into the project, the Project Leader shall agree to make his/her best effort to deliver the grant's desired results on each time cycle as well as of course to share the results openly.</div><div><br></div><div>That said and according to current SLOBs requirements, SLOBs approval will get a long tale as according to current motions system it requires that (A) each disbursement motion gets to be seconded by one SLOB + (B) the motion gets 4 affirmative votes. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
On 11 June 2016 at 16:44, Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What does the SFC say about the management of grant funds?<br>
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</span>I understand their policy is that spends have to be agreed by SLOB<br>
within the terms of the grant.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Dave<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Laura V.<br>
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