[Imc-africa] imc-finance money goes where?

[Jay]

Hi Andy and everyone,

At 12/18/2006, andy gunn wrote:
>hi all, i was a little busy this weekend so i 
>didn't have time to respond to the
>discussion before now.  i and the other folks at prometheus working on the
>project are flattered that you trust us to 
>manage all of the imc finance funds.

:)

>i have a few concerns.  for one, with the 
>disbursement of the x-y funds, i know
>that prometheus does not need more than another 
>$1200 to $1500 out of the whole
>amount.  i am not sure what other equipment is 
>required or was part of the grant
>for purchase.

The $4250 came from the original budget of that 
being the amount necessary to buy the equipment 
for the Maseno station.  I can fish up that 
document if you'd like -- it should be in both 
the imc-africa and imc-finance archives.  We also 
applied for money from X minus Y for the same 
equipment, and in the meantime revised the 
numbers so we could possibliy build two stations 
with the money allotted.  So, we ended up getting 
both batches of money -- yee haw!

>i know there has been discussion of other purchases such as computers,
>networking and other media gear.  prometheus is mostly a broadcast community
>radio organization, and we don't know much about 
>those things.  my main concern
>is that we will be asked to make other purchases for equipment and transport
>them to the imc space in nairobi, along with all of the radio equipment.  we
>don't have the capacity for that currently.

If I remember correctly the budget we sent to 
imc-finance did include money for the computers 
necessary to run the station/s.  I've been a bit 
out of the loop with equipment discussions, so I 
don't know who is buying computers and where they're coming from.


>i would be fine with holding the funds, and perhaps providing reimbursement to
>others for equipment costs and other expenses as necessary.  what do people
>think about this?  are there other organizations that would want to take on
>these funds?
>
>i don't mean to complicate the situation, but i am not sure i am entirely
>comfortable with prometheus holding $6000 in funds, of which we only need half
>or less.  i realize time is getting short, so if it is the consensus of the
>group to give us all the money, i will go along with it.
>-a

I don't know about X minus Y, but for imc-finance 
I think the easist thing would be for the money 
to go in one big chunk to one place rather than 
break it up into bits.   If we get the initial 
check sent to Prometheus, if you're okay with 
that, Prometheus can have access immediately to 
as much as you need to buy the necessary 
equipment.  Otherwise I'm afraid we'd make things 
much too tricky, especially in these next couple 
weeks when you relly need to have cash on hand.

My main question after that is a logisitcal one: 
what will be the best way to access the money we 
have while people are in Nairobi?  Soon what's 
going to happen is that Sphinx, Andy, Fabian etc. 
will join John in Nairobi, and they're going to 
need to access money on the spot.  After 
Prometheus purchases what it needs to buy the 
equipment, we could figure out where the rest of 
the money should go so the crowd on the ground in 
Nairobi will best be able to get to it.  Maybe 
it's to someone with an account at an 
international bank that has a branch in 
Nairobi?  Is Nairobi on the global ATM/MAC 
system?  I haven't been in Africa in a couple 
years, so my ideas of how complicated money 
transfers can be from the U.S. to Africa may be 
outdated -- maybe getting hold of international money in Nairobi is easy?

Jay



>Jay wrote:
> > Hi imc-africa,
> >
> > Sounds like we have general agreement that having imc-finance send the
> > money directly to Prometheus makes sense.  Good!
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > At 12/14/2006, you wrote:
> >> i agree - je conviens
> >>
> >> is someone keeping a single balance-sheet,
> >> to make it easier to keep track of budget and allocations?
> >>
> >> est-ce qu'il ya un budget consolide quelque pars
> >> pour facilite la comprehension?
> >>
> >> terna
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/14/06, sphinx
> >> <<mailto:sphinx at indymedia.org>sphinx at indymedia.org> wrote:
> >> Je pense qu'il est logique que l'argent de imc-finance va directement a'
> >> Prometheus parceque celui qui reçoit l'argent va encore paye' les
> >> frais de
> >> transaction pour l'envoyer a promethues.
> >>
> >>
> >> I think it is just logical that the money from imc-finance goes
> >> directly to
> >> Prometheus becuase whoever receives the money will still have to send
> >> it to
> >> promethues and will again have to pay transaction charges.
> >>
> >> Sphinx
>
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