[foundation-board] Signing authority

Tue Jan 10 11:02:53 UTC 2012

Thanks for drilling into this, Jordan. I remain +1.

Laura, on your question about who can authorise a bid for funds, it
strikes me that this has been pretty ad-hoc so far. It would be good
to think through how the network approaches this more formally, as we
are at a level where tendering for more grants might well over-burden
the organisation. I feel this is linked to the need for an explicit
strategy.

Cheers

Becky

On 10 January 2012 08:01, Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com> wrote:
> I'm happy with:
>
> 1) An authorised payment ceiling of £7K per invoice
>
> 2) Signing authority for contractor agreements
>
> This means that all other contracts (including grants) have to be signed by
> one of the board.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jordan
>
>
> On 6 Jan 2012, at 10:16, Laura James wrote:
>
> The authority Jason has should be fine. My most urgent need is to set up new
> contractor agreements, and invoices (which I expect to start working on next
> week).
>
> I should say that it's not clear to me yet what the processes are for
>
> 1) authorising a bid for funds, eg a new grant or tender
>
> 2) establishing such a grant if the bid is successful (signing contract etc)
>
> I appreciate that both of these may depend on the scale of the proposal and
> whether it's a new funder etc.  It may be that for these processes to work
> efficiently, additional authority could be useful, but as yet I'm not clear
> on what stages of these two need to go to Rufus and/or the board.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> On 5 Jan 2012 20:37, "Jordan S Hatcher" <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Laura
>>
>> What signing authority are you asking for exactly?
>>
>> From what I can see we only authorised Jason for:
>>
>> 1) An authorised payment ceiling of £7K per invoice
>> 2) Signing authority for contractor agreements
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>>
>> On 3 Jan 2012, at 11:39, Laura James wrote:
>>
>> > Continuing handover from Jason...
>> >
>> > I would like to be able to sign documents (eg. new contractor
>> > agreements) on behalf of the OKFN, for which I need authority from the
>> > board.  Could you provide this in email please?
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> >
>> > Laura
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Dr Laura James
>> > Foundation Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
>> >
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