# Allocation of the balance and handover of meetcoop to the new stewards
**URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/allocation-of-the-balance-and-handover-of-meetcoop-to-the-new-stewards/1391
**Category:** Decisions
**Tags:** approved
**Created:** [16 August 2023 07:48 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/allocation-of-the-balance-and-handover-of-meetcoop-to-the-new-stewards/1391 "2023-08-16T07:48:03Z")
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### Author:  [@wouter](https://forum.meet.coop/u/wouter)
#### Post date: [16 August 2023 07:48 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/allocation-of-the-balance-and-handover-of-meetcoop-to-the-new-stewards/1391/1 "2023-08-16T07:48:04Z")
## Proposal
Given the current phase, where [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) was stewarded by up to a dozen of cooperative entities in Europe and North America and is handed over to the new leadership or stewardship formed by webTV and [Innovation.coop](http://Innovation.coop), we need to decide what to do with the reserve funds that we have built up in the OpenCollective account.
We propose to dedicate the reserve to three categories:
1. to the operational members who have been ill compensated in these first three years, 2020-2023, as a delayed payment of their wages;
2. to the evolution team members who made it happen to transfer and land [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) safely in new and safe hands, as a token of appreciation for their important work;
3. to the new stewards, as a dowry to invest in the ongoing building up of [meet.coop](http://meet.coop),
and with the distribution as is defined in the attached PDF.
Anything that is not claimed by the beneficiaries as proposed within a period of six weeks after validation of this proposal, is left in the OC balance and thus added to the dowry for the next stewards of [meet.coop](http://meet.coop).
[Summer 2023 - meetcoop - compensations and investments.pdf](https://forum.meet.coop/uploads/short-url/3nqaPGJEx4fM9CcyKITdtp80kd3.pdf) (75.0 KB)
## Voting
_Poll ([view on site](https://forum.meet.coop/t/allocation-of-the-balance-and-handover-of-meetcoop-to-the-new-stewards/1391/1))_
We expect this vote to close by September 1st 2023. Please all ops members cast your votes.
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### Author:  [@wouter](https://forum.meet.coop/u/wouter)
#### Post date: [4 September 2023 14:45 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/allocation-of-the-balance-and-handover-of-meetcoop-to-the-new-stewards/1391/2 "2023-09-04T14:45:02Z")
Thanks to all seven of you voting in favour and one ops member from the 2020-2022 period apparently not feeling himself inclined to vote, but instead adding a like, we should conclude that the proposal is approved. I added the “approved” tag to it.
Now all parties mentioned with an allocated budget in the proposal have **6 weeks to present their claim** to our OpenCollective. **Anything that is not claimed by the beneficiaries as proposed within a period of six weeks after validation of this proposal, is left in the OC balance and thus added to the dowry for the next stewards**.