I'm aware it's the correct place. The issue is the membership generally blindly passes the accounts each year. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Brendan Lewis <blewis§l2i.com.au> wrote: > Michael, > The correct place to discuss that is at auDA's AGM. > However in my experience at previous AGM's not one was particularly > interested in discussing the topic. ?Nor why travel was so high, or why > multi-million dollar investments were structured so that they no longer > appeared in the accounts. > > Cheers > > Brendan > > > Michael Purse wrote: >> >> Not sure why I haven't thought about this earlier: >> >> auDA now has 7 staff and according to the budget, they cost auDA >> $944,000 per annum and then $482,000 in "technical", which is >> significantly higher than the figures from a few years ago. Staff >> costs were $650,000 and included a lot of the technical line. How does >> this nearly double? I can also recall auDA having 3-4 staff including >> Chris. >> >> Why has this increased so dramatically? Is there actually this much >> more workload? I can't see how there could be this much of an increase >> in workload for auDA other than the work they've created for >> themselves recently. It almost seems like the increase in spending on >> this line is simply because the money is there. Wouldn't it make more >> sense for auDA fees simply to be reduced some more rather than >> doubling staff numbers? >> >> I also wonder whether these staff are fulltime or not, and would be >> interested (but probably wont find out) what kind of remuneration >> they're on. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ >Received on Fri May 22 2009 - 00:50:56 UTC
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