Richard Gallagher wrote:

--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello dear all,

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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.

--Michael Snow