Incident Regarding Mistransferred Treasury Funds

[connor]

@CoachJonathan

I just posted the new request to Tally here: Tally | Gitcoin Proposal

This may not be the ideal place to share this but I’m not aware of discussion on this vote happening anywhere else, so posting here. I voted “Against” on this proposal - some people have reached out privately to learn why, so to be transparent I’ll also post in public.

First off, let me say I absolutely think we need to find a way to keep the MMM team compensated for both past and future work, I don’t want to see the workstream stuck with $0 for the season, and regardless of my vote I’m confident the proposal will pass given it’s basically at quorum already.

But I voted against it for a few reasons:

• There hasn’t really been any actual discussion (in public or that I’ve seen) about the issue, how to resolve it (financially) and the next steps, it was “hey this big mistake happened” and then “Here’s a new budget request”. The proposal says MMM “will be staggering their budget request from the rest of Gitcoin” going forward - what are the financial and operational implications of this?
• I don’t feel like any real ownership has been taken over the mistake (and I don’t think it’s Tally’s fault)
• I am still a bit unsettled about the $100k+ sent from the CSDO multisig to MMM of which there still hasn’t been any acknowledgment of it, unclear whether that was free gift or if it’s supposed to be paid back by this budget, if that will happen again, etc
• IMO some key stakeholders should probably abstain from voting on this

But most importantly with so little discussion or debate, does this go and set the precedent that any time in the future funds are lost, workstreams can just turn around and request more and expect to get it?

I hesitated to vote no outright because i knew it would ruffle some feathers, but frankly, it looks pretty clear this is going to pass regardless so it’s more of an ideological pushback. I <3 the MMM team and want the DAO to support you all but I also would like more transparency, accountability, and to establish clear processes.

@thedevanshmehta

Will the reduced amount negatively affect the workstream ? I wouldn’t want them penalized for no fault of theirs.

+1 need more info on workstream impact, new budget items, other funding sources in the interim (csdo) etc

@thedevanshmehta

Ideally it would have been nice to have a snapshot vote before the tally vote, with the options of keeping the same budget, increasing it or reducing it (with the multi-sig signers involved abstaining from the vote)

+100