Previous budget clearly indicates that there is Steward + Secretary Compensation and other items, one of which was Governance and included c.52kENS tokens.
The description for Governance Steward + Secretary Compensation reads as follows - Working Group Steward and Secretary compensation totalling $276,000 USDC.
The description for Governance reads as follows - Fee reimbursements and initiatives related to reducing friction in the governance process. This can also include $ENS distributed in order to lower barriers to the governance proposal process.
This was the budget everyone voted for and approved. You can’t just take money from one category of spending and throw it into another one, especially into own compensation. It’s called misappropriation of funds.
By the very least this money should be refunded, because they were never approved by the community.
I object to this arbitrary spending of money and would like to invite all delegates with common sense to reject this budget as well.