RE: [council] Travel support draft text

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am not an interested party in this discussion, but as I read this, 
it strikes me that we are making an assumption here. If we are 
talking about the general case and not just this year...
For the present budget year, the travel allocation was based on the 
number of GNSO Councillors. In the new GNSO model, it is a SG 
responsibility to say how council seats map to Constituencies (if 
indeed constituencies exist in their present form). So will the 
money/allocation#-of-trips go to constituencies, or SG?
Alan

At 11/12/2008 03:26 AM, you wrote:


> It may be useful to have first from staff a comment on the 
> practicality / operation of what
> we are proposing.
>
> ie
> - will it be a lump sum given 1st Jan to each constituency or a 
> budget against which
> constituencies draw down?
> - how will the fixed sum/budget be determined if there is a variable 
> cost of the nom com and
> GNSO chair travel (eg variable cost of 3 air tickets and variable 
> days stayed).
> - if a new constituency appears in 2009 does the sum/budget to the 
> old constituencies go
> down?
> - is a travel budget an incentive to form a new constituency? 
> (Question for the OPS group to
> consider ?)
>
> Philip