[ALAC] board directors pay

Mon Mar 26 22:00:30 UTC 2012

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 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 26, 2012 4:06 PM
>To: Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
>Cc: ALAC Working List <alac at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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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>> --------------------------
>> Fouad Bajwa
>>
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