TOP LEVEL DOMAIN ASSOCIATION
Ways and Means Committee
The
Ways and Means Committee shall coordinate and develop fund raising drives,
strategies, and initiatives, search for and secure membership facilities where
not already provided for specifically in these bylaws, and report to the Board
of Directors its findings and recommendations.
The Ways and Means Committee
shall work closely with, and also at the direction of the Executive Treasurer
and Board of Directors of the TLDA shall seek to improve membership incentives
and benefits, and also work toward seeking various forms of dispute resolution
services when requested to render such assistance.
The
Ways and Means Committee shall be responsible for its own internal
administrative structure and organization, within the guidelines established
here in the Bylaws, and shall make available to the Records Committee all of its
archives, records, and proceedings, except when the sensitive nature of the
material was provided to the Ways and Means Committee in a manner of
confidential nature (such as assistance in securing dispute resolution services
or proprietary industrial/commercial property, intellectual or otherwise).
The
Ways and Means Committee shall be the place where any member can engage in
communication of a confidential nature, and be assured that such information
communicated will be held in the strictest confidence while the appropriate
committees or advisory panels can work with the information on an anonymous
basis.
The
Ways and Means Committee shall be free to form sub-committees and appoint
members to those committees as well as consult with outside firms and advisory
panels to accomplish its mandate of "finding ways and means".
Current Committee Members
John
Palmer
Bradley Thornton
(one open seat)