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[Monica Palmirani <monica.palmirani@unibo.it>]

Approve George W. Knecht ha scritto: > Good Day All, > > Since were did not have a quorum on our regularly scheduled conference > call today, and I've got a more urgent budget request from the ECF TC, > I'd like to make a proposal via email for the TC's consideration and > vote. I'm proposing the following, and ask for the following and ask > for an email response from each member with one of the follow options > by Monday, August 23rd: > > Approve > Disapprove > Request Further Clarification / Schedule Emergency Meeting for Vot > > If I receive 3 Approves, we'll consider it approved. If one Request > for Clarification occurs, we'll schedule a meeting to discuss and hold > vote on phone. Does this sound fair to everyone? > > Here goes then .... > > -------------------------------------------------- > > *The Budget Request: *The ECF TC has submitted a request for the SC's > approval of a budget to provide Technical Assistance to the State of > Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts on implementing the > Electronic Court Filing Standard, Version 4.0 (ECF 4.0). Attached is > an Excel spreadsheet outlining the items where Arizona has requested > assistance, and associated costs. > > *Some Background: *At the last SC meeting, I explained to the group > that the ECF TC may be making this request for assistance to Arizona, > and that it will exceed what had been previously budgeted for ECF TA. > At that time, the request was not formal and I mentioned I will follow > up with the ECF TC to see if they would be formalizing the request. I > have indeed followed up with the TC, and they are formally requesting > that the SC approve of a budget request to provide this TA to Arizona, > and has submitted the attached spreadsheet for the SC's consideration. > The ECF TC, however, recognizes that the figures here far exceed the > original budget for TA, and as such asks the SC to approve up to an > amount we find acceptable, whereby the ECF TC will then contact > Arizona and have them prioritize the areas they'd like to spend this > money ... and give them the option to pay for the remaining balance > (if they opted for assistance on all items) on their own. > > *The Proposal: *In light of the request and background described > above, I would submit that it would be reasonable at this point, given > no other requests for TA have been submitted, that we approve of the > full amount previously allocated for TA to be utilized in Arizona, > which is $6800. Arizona can choose how they'd like to use that money > for TA (based on attached spreadsheet) and opt to pay for any > additional assistance on their own. By doing this, we are supporting > the ECF TC and the ECF Implementer (Arizona) in full based on > previously allocated funds, and at the same time not committing any > additional funds we have that could be used for TA in the future if > requested by another implementer. > > --------------------------------------- > > > Thanks so much for your time and consideration. > > > -- > George W. Knecht > PC Intellect LLC > 602.380.8049 -- =================================== Associate professor of Legal Informatics School of Law Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna C.I.R.S.F.I.D. http://www.cirsfid.unibo.it/ Palazzo Dal Monte Gaudenzi - Via Galliera, 3 I - 40121 BOLOGNA (ITALY) Tel +39 051 277217 Fax +39 051 260782 E-mail monica.palmirani@unibo.it ====================================