[epo-core] Grants

[Mark Keating]

Hey all,

So it was some time ago that Penfold originally badgered about this and 
I have to say I haven't paid much attention to it in the past two months 
for various reasons. That being passed let's talk about grants again. 
The only way I can currently see this working is:

1. The person/organisation wanting a grant applies in writing (email is 
fine) to me/secretary/director outlining their proposal and expected need;
2. The secretary starts to make a file containing all relevant 
information to this application/grant payment/progress;
3. The Directors vote on the proposal;
4. A member of the organisation (from the ordinary members) is appointed 
to oversee that the work is done. They work with the secretary to make 
sure all documents (emails-IRC chats etc.) are collated into the same 
location for audit purposes;
5. A cheque is made out to the person/organisation with a receipt for 
them to sign/return (audit purposes once more);
6a. The work is done, approved and signed off and all are happy;

or

6b. The person fails to do what they said and the Directors request the 
Secretary to conduct an investigation with the possible raising of a 
remittance request for all/part of the grant (we should have this in 
place but I suspect we would never need it)

That seems to be the most logical route to me, let me know your 
thoughts. For now we can get the ball rolling if people wish to by 
accepting grant requests (the sooner the better I think), so if anyone 
knows someone, lets get them talking to us so we can move this forward.

Regards

Mark

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