[members-discuss] Surprise on renew fees

On 14/12/11 18:40, Carlos Friacas wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Nigel Titley wrote:
>
>>> Which is the reason? There was a public vote with a public result?
>> Yes. The charging scheme is always voted on by the membership, every
>> year.
> Hello,
>
> I've been a bit far from these issues, but as far as i understood, the 
> charging scheme wasn't directly voted upon by members, right?
> Members voted on the Yearly Budget, and the charging scheme is just a 
> subset of that, correct?
> It was not possible to approve the charging scheme, and at the same time 
> (with a different cast of votes) reject the Budget, right?
>
No, the members only vote on the charging scheme, they don't vote on the
budget.

The members *used* to vote on and approve the budget but they
voluntarily and pretty near unanimously voted to give up this power
several years ago.

Nigel