RE: [council] Motion on Travel Funding

["Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Stéphane.  Is the practical effect of this motion to fund slots for 7 
persons per constituency for the current fiscal year?


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        From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stéphane Van Gelder
        Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:50 PM
        To: 'GNSO Council'
        Subject: [council] Motion on Travel Funding
        
        
        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 "top up" 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.