[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] 167th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes

Hi,

> Considering that the membership recently voted not to increase fees for 2024 it is slightly surprising that increasing membership fees would again be on the agenda for the following year.

The membership votes on the charging scheme every year, so of course we can vote on price changes again for 2025.

Personally I think the outcome of the recent vote was a bad decision. Inflation causes salaries for staff to have to go up, and if we as members refuse to pay for that, what does that say about us?

I hope that in the future the board will do the voting in another way:
- First vote on what we want the NCC to do, and thereby deciding on how much money needs to be spent
- Then vote on the charging scheme to decide on how the members will contribute to fund what has been decided on

Now we have voted to give the NCC too little money to compensate its staff for inflation, yet we still expect the same (or better) service. That doesn’t make sense.

Cheers,
Sander