Re: Question for candidates

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 20 May 2014 00:58, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:18 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> > one of the options that I want the board to investigate
> > is to tie in the executive director's wage and travel budget with
> > adboard fees in such a way that the executive director will only be
> > compensated up to a maximum of what the Foundation receives in adboard
> > fees. This would free up some of the donations to be spent on
> > sponsoring the Foundation members to attend events and do outreach.
>
> I understand the value of performance-based bonuses, but this sounds
> like it would create the possibility that a new company joins the
> adboard and its fee goes entirely to the executive director.

Not necessarily: for example it would be possible to assign a
specified portion to a "bonus", some portion to travel and possibly
some portion to other spending. My point is that the total
compensation for an executive director must not exceed the income from
the advisory board.