I’m aware of the process, but the approval should have been sought before Nick spent money because according to our articles the money cannot be paid unless there is an approval (I think we changed it to not need GPG at the last AGM but could be wrong). The chance that the spend not be approved is very real, all that would need to happen is for no other director to respond to the email with the approval. I’m sure that won’t happen, but maybe the articles should be changed to be about not committing the hackerspace to spending without approval rather than approval for the specific function of the bank transfer. Just something for the next AGM.

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 9:29 PM, Andy Gaskell wrote:

Hi 

This email was just really sent as a formality, as agreed between directors. So one director emails the list for approval, so another could approve it signed with gpg.

Kind of like how you'd make a pull request in git and ask a fellow team member to approve and merge.

There was never any chance we'd not honour commitments to pay things previously arranged.

Hope that helps explain the process, and email thread.

Cheers

Andy 

On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 21:17 Iain R. Learmonth, <iain@learmonth.me> wrote:

This is a very broken process if we can now just leave Nick without payment because we don’t approve it.

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 8:03 PM, Andy Gaskell wrote:

> Hi

> Just an email for approval of spending £466.89 on the final payment on

> the new big text.  Funds to Nick.

> Thanks

> Andy

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