--- Anthere <anthere9@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello dear
all,
Regardless of the way we decide to spent money, we
have some in bank. It comes in. It comes out.
So, we need some people to take care of financial
issues.
Mav has renewed his interest in taking care of this
after the elections. Angela and I are favorable to
this. I will not speak up for Jimbo... as he is on
holidays :-)
Mav has been taking care of Wikimedia accounting for
several months as far as I can remember. I did not
hear there were any problems. He also is interested
in working on the budget.
What exactly are you suggesting? That Maveric149
should be the treasurer or he should be some sort of
financial clerk?
If the former, then I believe the treasurer should be
a member on the Board of Trustees. This fits in with
the foundation bylaws as they currently stand (
http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf ).
Having a treasurer that was not on the board would be
unusual. If none of the current five board of
trustees want to be the treasurer then I suggest that
steps should be taken to get someone on to the board
who does.
Richard is correct in the sense that the bylaws provide for one of the
Trustees to be designated as Treasurer. However, I don't believe this
means that the Treasurer cannot be assisted by people outside the
Board. So I see no reason Mav can't continue, regardless of what
official title we attach to his work. The Treasurer would then be the
primary contact on the Board for Mav and anyone else working on
financial matters for the Foundation.