[IMC-Finance] current balance / process question

[Amy L. Dalton]

hi everyone,

I had some questions about a few emails that came thru the list awhile back.

First, i am on this list on behalf of the philly imc collective. the 
philly imc has not met recently about global business, but is active in 
editorial labor. i send periodic updates to keep people in the loop as 
this list. Please consider us connected and supportive of the 
imc-finance process.

I want to say thank you to everyone for the participation and work, and 
I want to ask two questions.

(1) to follow up from this note:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-finance/2009-January/0129-z8.html
I am concerned to learn that as of this writing the funds approved for 
guatemala CMI were never disbursed. has this been addressed since timo 
wrote? i would like to request that someone from urbana champaign report 
back on this.

(2) second and related, i feel we need to become more systematic about 
closing the decisionmaking period and moving forward with fund 
disbursement. in the last few emails as well as in the past, i observe 
that it seems to be difficult for those of us who do not have access to 
the bank account to figure out how to do this. could we agree upon and 
document a protocol for this? here are some thoughts toward such a protocol:

In this note, jason give us information on how to contact him, which is 
clearly the responsibility of the group requesting funds:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-finance/2009-February/0206-jj.html

as far as i can see it we need something on both ends of this step -- 
before it, we need someone to announce that a decision period is 
completed. after this, we need the disbursement to happen and we need 
someone to report back to us on the status of a disbursement. Does this 
sound right?

if so, i propose that the first task be taken on by the list moderator. 
i am not certain who this is. according to the list info page, the 
moderator's email is imc-finance-owner at lists.indymedia.org i would 
propose that it makes sense for someone outside of urbana-champaign to 
be the list moderator. i also propose that it would be good if we knew 
who this person was. all this would need to be figured out.

the second task, as jason clarifies, must be done by the group 
requesting the disbursement.

the last two steps, i propose, must be done by the treasurer of urbana 
champaign (currently Jason). i would like to emphasize that i think not 
only the disbursement, but the repeorting back on the disbursement, are 
both necessarily the task of the treasurer.

please respond to these ideas and send any revisions or concerns. i 
would like to close by again thanking everyone for their labor.

best,
amy


> Hi Mark and everyone else.
> To answer your question about Guatemala.  No.  The
> approved project funds were never disbursed.
> Best,
> Timo
> 
> 
> Hola a Todo Mundo,
> Para contestar sobre la pregunta de Guatemala.  No. 
> Los fondos aprobados para el proyecto del FSA nunca
> fueron entregados.
> 
> Abrazos,
> Timo
> 
> --- mark burdett <mark en indymedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, according to what UC IMC sent me, the current
>> global indymedia 
>> account balance is $65,493.72
>> 
>> 2008 activity was:
>>  -$7,460 disbursements
>>  $20,000 donation received
>>  -$1,000 fiscal sponsorship fee
>> 
>> --mark B.
>> 
>> > mark burdett wrote:
>> > > Hi, by the way, could we get an update on the
>> current status of the 
>> > > global fund?  presumably there are plenty of
>> funds in it but there 
>> > > hasn't been much traffic on this list lately. 
>> e.g. I never heard if 
>> > > funds were sent to CMI Guatemala last fall.  The
>> last balance report i 
>> > > found was a year ago:
>> > >
>>
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