I ran across an interesting ICANN document from 2010. I will try to dig it up again. It listed payments to board members (prior to this effort for individual remuneration. The smallest number was about $30K, going up to $175K (Dengate-Thrush) and a few even more than that. I agree the board should get paid, and should be reimbursed for expenses, which is what I imagine the case was for the $30K crowd. But some of these people were pulling down a lot of money. -----Original Message-----
From: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> Sent: Mar 26, 2012 4:06 PM To: Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@gmail.com> Cc: ALAC Working List <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays
I am not sure where they are paid but is usually the practice globally that if you are a Director, you receive what's called Director's fees or some kind of emolument etc. I have not checked but you can go to the website Fouad and look up the Financials and it is usually disclosed.
It is nothing "new" and my view is that any Director of any Board should be paid/remunerated for work done in directing.
My comments were based on my assumption and happy to be corrected.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@gmail.com> wrote:
ICANN Board Members are paid? Is this true?
-- Foo?
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Olivier,
I am against the idea of merely providing written reports and shortening it so. I will explain why. Board members are paid to do the work and should not be seen to be shirking nor trying to cut a day, on the other hand the ALAC are all committed volunteers who do work without receipt of payment.
The Thursday Board meeting is merely "show" or keeping up with appearances for an open and transparent environment. Secondly, even from Thursday meeting dynamics, there is no exclusive ALAC time of interface with the Board.
The convergence of Board members face to face with all stakeholders is something which we should optimise and maximise in terms of Board meetings or ALAC reports to Board meetings. The real behind the scenes Board meetings happens on Friday. Rather than asking why it is poorly attended, one would think that it should really happen on Saturday or Sunday when everyone is still there. Either way, ALAC Excom should at least be present in the Board Meetings when ALAC chair presents the Report.
Whilst, the ALAC Chair may be submitting monthly written reports to the Board, it is not the same dynamics as being in the room together. The Board, in my view should exercise leadership and be creative in how it rearranges its program to ensure that attendance is strengthened rather than wiping it out altogether.
Kind Regards,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com wrote:
Dear Folks,
there is currently some discussion amongst the Board and SO/ACs, about the Friday session at ICANN meetings. The sessions starts at 8:00 with Board Committee Report, then continuing with SO/AC Chair Reports and then the ICANN Board Meeting. Traditionally, this has been poorly attended and rather boring to sit through.
There is discussion whether this could be replaced with written reports to be filed on the ICANN Web Site, thus shortening the ICANN week by one day. Any note of thanks would take place in the Thursday afternoon Public Forum & Wrap up.
The response I have provided so far, is that whilst I am not against having our ALAC report published instead of spoken -- for those of you who have attended, I have kept my spoken report to less than 3 minutes but for some, the reporting is really tedious and long --, I am concerned that this would shorten an already packed week. In particular, the ALAC Executive Committee meets on Friday afternoon and this is the time when we have access to the CEO, COO, CFO etc. This is the time when we can really interchange with Senior ICANN staff. I am therefore concerned that ICANN not having a morning session on Fridays would mean our afternoon session would be scrapped too.
Also, in San José, we also used the Friday morning for LACRALO capacity building, so this day was needed.
I'd be interested in your point of view, so that I can relay it to the Board members who have asked me my point of view.
Kind regards,
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair
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