<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:18 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<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">
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I think motion A could be simplified:<br>
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<span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">The </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Finance
Manager </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">shall
be appointed by a majority vote of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board
and may be either a</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
non-voting officer or one of the current Oversight Board members.
The Finance Manager will serve at the will of the Board and may be
removed and replaced by a majority vote of the Board if necessary.<br>
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to <br>
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The Oversight Board shall appoint a member of Sugar Labs to serve
in the office of <u>Finance Manager</u> at the will of the Board.<br>
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The last two paragraphs can be deleted. The last paragraph is
redundant given the Finance Manager serves at the will of the
Board. The <br>
paragraph regarding remuneration is unnecessary since the Board
can clearly make decisions about remuneration as needed (which is
basically <br>
wha the paragraph says). <br>
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I think Motion B is unnecessary. The procedure with regard to the
Conservancy is already defined (and apparently not under our
control). <br>
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Add to Motion A: duties:<br>
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3. The Finance Manager is authorized to approve expenditures up to
$100 Requests for expenditures will be presented to the Board by
the <br>
Finance Manager for approval.<br>
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Most of the rest is implicit in Motion A duties item 1. <br>
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<br></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with Tony. But I would like to extend the approval of these types of expenditures to others as well. We had approved Bernie up to $200 for infrastructure team expenditures (MOTION 2011-04) and I thought we had intended the same for Chris in regard to i18n (MOTION 2013-05) and me regarding Turtle Art Days (MOTION 2016-09). I'd like to give similar discretion to, for example, the marketing team. But I don't know how to make these decisions sticky vis-a-vis the reporting requirements of the Conservancy. They seem to want a full oversight board vote on every expenditure. Unless we can sort that out, the FM authorization proposed in #3 above is meaningless.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</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"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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