[council] Motion on Travel Funding

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

As you know, the travel drafting team has been working on proposals to best
manage TF allocation.

As you also know, there has been a proposal to use left-over DNSO funds to
help ³top up² the amount of funding available for the final meeting of the
current fiscal year, which is Sydney (any work the DT is now working on
would not have any effect until the next fiscal year).

In light of this, the DT has opted to put forward a motion for our next
council meeting. This is the motion proposal which I have drafted on behalf
of the DT and wanted to get in before the deadline (which is today, right?).

Comments and thoughts welcome. Thanks.

Stéphane


Whereas:
 
At its meeting of September 25, 2008 the GNSO Council created the Travel
Drafting Team (TDT) to work on proposals to optimize the allocation and the
management of Travel Funding for the GNSO Constituencies.
 
At a meeting held during the Mexico ICANN meeting in March 2009 between the
TDT and members of ICANN staff, the TDT requested that all GNSO
Constituencies receive Funding Slots for each of their elected Councillors
at each one of the three yearly international ICANN meetings, with the
understanding that it would then be up to each Constituency to allocate
these slots according to their own internal processes.
 
That request stemmed in part from the recognition of the significant, and
ever increasing work loads, that GNSO Councillors face. Work which they
carry out as unpaid volunteers.
 
Since that meeting it has been identified that an amount of funds left over
from the DNSO are available for use should the Council wish to provide
additional Travel Funding to those GNSO Constituencies that no longer have
enough credits left for their three slots for the final meeting of the
fiscal year 2008, in Sydney.
 
The funds identified are in the amount of 19,963.79 USD.
 
Resolved:
 
That the DNSO funds be distributed evenly across all six GNSO Constituencies
in time for the Sydney meeting in June, with the express purpose of
providing additional Travel Funding for those persons nominated by each
Constituency as recipients to be of said Travel Support.