[bc-gnso] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget

["Chris Chaplow" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Members 

 

 

Here are some notes on the FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget was published a 
few days early on May 10.

Comments close 31 May and reply 21 June ahead of special Board meeting to 
approve on 28th June.

FY14 starts 1 July.  

 

Link to document.

 <http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/op-budget-fy14-10may13-en.htm> 
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/op-budget-fy14-10may13-en.htm

 

This year has been very different from previous as the new CEO has implemented 
a new project management system called ATASK.

Finance Staff have been busy setting this up and inputting data. 

As a result there was no Framework Budget in February so the info in the draft 
Budget is new to the community.

The format this year is different, instead of 80 pages of document  it is more 
12 pages of glossy introduction and the rest tables.  

 

 

Highlights – High level

 

Revenue   

FY13 

General revenue forecast is 76m$  slightly down on budget of 78m$  (71m$ in 
FY12 Forcast)
Plus gTLD at  174m$  up from  an original 61m$    (this is loading for non 
batching)

 

FY14

General revenue budget is 88m$     ( historic transaction vols are -1% this is 
up due to 2.5 million .com contract change, 4 meeting sponships,  New gTLD 
domain sales income in 7m).

 

Plus gTLD at applications  98 m$ 

 

Operating Expenses

  

FY13

Operating Expenses forecast  68m$   against  74m$ in FY13  Budget  from  71m$ 
in FY12 Budget and 63m$ in FY12 Forcast

ie FY13 expenses are again significant under budget

large 30m to reserves

 

FY14

84 m$   plus 57$ for new gTLD

 

Staff levels

Last year I reported Staff levels up from 149 to 189
FY13 forcast is average 179  and end of year 233

FY14 Budget is average 259 and end of year 284

 

Highlights – Low Level 

 

Here diving into ATASK 

 

Take information descriptive from myicann.org  -  ‘projects’ tag  

 

Projects Structure of Objectives – Goals – Portfolios – Programs

at the lowest level we have 160 ‘programmes’ which replaced the old  projects 

 

There is information of expenses in this xls 

http://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-projects-spreadsheet-fy14-16may13-en.xlsx

Where you can see the 160 programmes (same as those in (myicann.org) with  all 
expenses broken down into Personnel, Travel, Prof Services, Admin

 

Problem for us now is that programmes are different from projects, so any year 
on year comparison is impossible. 

I  struggle a bit with the programme titles which read to me more like job 
descriptions than projects.

 

I think the work ahead in the BC comment is to go through the 160 programmes 
and ask ourselves what is this?   If we don’t understand  pose the question.

 

As an example:

 

FY13 

Compliance  -   60%  up to 6.1 m$ in FY13  from  4.8 m$ in FY12 Budget and 3.8 
m$ in FY12 Forecast

 

FY14  - 11 programes

CC meeting updates  157k$

CC Monthly updates 0

CC  Other programmes  571 k$

CC Complaint Processing and Monitoring Activities  1473 k$

CC Audit Programme 1115 k$

CC Contract and policy driven iniciatives   103 k$ 

CC New gTLD programme readiness    162 k$

CC Outreach   0$

Improve CC programme   0$

CC Annaul report      0$

Total  3.5 m$

 

To answer Ron’s question again, looking at the historical perspective. I looks 
more like the large increase in compliance  that we celebrated last year did 
not happen. 

FY12 Budget was    4.8m    

FY12 Forecast was  3.8m    (need to research actual) 

FY13 Budget was    6.9 m    

FY13 Forecast was  not reported?

FY14 Budget  3.5m 

 

To point Andrew in the right direction for progress on Regional initiatives.

(and as a great example for all to try):

 

In myICANN.org projects

Select “Internationalization”

In Fadi’s Goals select “Engage Stakeholders globally”

In Sally’s Portfolios   select “Engage Stakeholders Globally” and Tarik’s 
program “Implement Regional Strategies”

In Sally’s Portfolios   select “Regional initiatives, Including centres of 
Excellence”  and Sally’s program “Development and implement standard office 
infrastructure”

 

Turning to the xls  

http://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-projects-spreadsheet-fy14-16may13-en.xlsx

for each program we can see the expenditure breakdown.

Using the above example

program “Implement Regional Strategies”  5.5m$

program “Development and implement standard office infrastructure”  99.340$   
(in xls programme  “Other Programs for Regional Initiatives, including Centers 
of Excellence”

 

So it looks loke 5,5m$ which probably was not in last year but who knows?

 

And Andrews second Outreach question.

One would best go through the xls searching on the word Outreach for all the 
occurrences and investigate them one by one.

 

Hope this is helpful

Any comment or request  for more elaboration in a particular area most welcome.

 

Any volunteers to review the 160 programms and either

Ask question what  it is?

Opinion on high or low figure from BC perspective, comparing to previous years 
where possible.

 

There has not been much interest from the CSG work group this time around.

Angie and Gabi had been interested in this subject  last year so  I am hoping 
that it might continue.

 

Best 

 

Chris Chaplow