Ratification Poll for Modify Risk Core Unit Budget (RISK-001) (MIP40c3-SP92) - March 13, 2023

The Governance Facilitators have placed a ratification poll into the voting system as part of the responsibilities defined in MIP51. This Governance Poll will be active for fourteen days beginning on Monday, March 13 at 16:00 UTC.

This is an instant-runoff vote.

• You may rank any number of options that you would support in an executive vote.
• Unranked options signal that you would not support the option(s) in an executive vote.
• If you have no preference to any of the listed options, you should vote ‘Abstain’ as your first and only choice.

Review

The community may vote in this poll to express support or opposition to $mip_code being accepted and implemented in the Maker Protocol by ranking their support of the following options:

• Option 0: Abstain.
• Option 1: Approve Existing Budget (Business as usual): 2,760,000 DAI.
• Option 2: Approve Reduced Budget (-10%): 2,484,000 DAI.
• Option 3: Reject budget.

A brief summary of this proposal has been provided by the MIP Author and is shown below:

MIP40c3-SP92 renews the Risk Core Unit (RISK-001) budget from March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2024. The budget proposal is written in accordance with the latest MIP40 Budget Process Amendment. The Risk Core Unit recognizes the current discussions regarding cutting costs. Hence, in this budget request, two options have been included (i) approve existing budget (business as usual) and (ii) approve reduced budget (-10%).

Please review the links below to inform your position on this proposal before voting.

• Canonical Proposal Version
• Latest Proposal Version
• Proposal Discussion Thread

Outcomes

This poll implements a Minimum Positive Participation value. The Minimum Positive Participation is currently set to 10,000 MKR.

If the votes for Option 1 or Option 2 achieve a majority AND the votes for the winning option exceed 10,000 MKR, then the following actions will be taken:

• The MIP Editors will mark the proposal Accepted and the Governance Facilitators will confirm its passage on the Governance and Risk call on Thursday, March 30.
• Any further work required to implement the proposal will be tasked to the relevant Core Units.
• Note that if the Constitution MIP Set is approved this proposal will not be actioned, even if approved.

Otherwise, this proposal will be marked as rejected per MIP51.

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Resources

MIP51: Monthly Governance Cycle describes this type of poll and its position and significance within the rest of the governance cycle.

If you are new to voting in the Maker Protocol, please see the voting guide to learn how voting works.

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