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RE: [bc-gnso] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget
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- Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget
- From: "Ron Andruff" <randruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:39:52 -0400
Thanks again for the hard work on this Chris.
Elisa, Steve: Could the BC once again take up the issue of the consistently
under-funded compliance department despite our continued calls for funding
an effective team (and the CEO's - both past and present - continued
unfulfilled assurances)? We have so many historical documents on this
particular issue that the letter to the Board and CEO could be a recap of
those docs with a request to clarify to the Community how and why the
Compliance budget has been reduced at this most critical time in ICANN's
history.
My two cents.
Thank you,
RA
Ronald N. Andruff
RNA <http://www.rnapartners.com> Partners, Inc.
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From: owner-bc-gnso@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Chaplow
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:00 PM
To: bc-gnso@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bc-gnso] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget
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-spr
eadsheet-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-spr
eadsheet-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
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