Subject: ALAC Statement on the Expense Analysis To: Secretary of the Board of ICANN Copied to: ALAC Board Liaison Wendy Seltzer, Vice President of Policy at ICANN Denise Michel, Alac-announce list, At-Large Staff Dear Secretary of the Board Of ICANN, The At-Large Staff has the honour to transmit to you the At-Large Advisory Statement on the Expense Analysis for distribution to the Board. The ALAC welcomes any comments the Board may wish to make by reply. The attached Statement was drafted by the At-Large staff with contents as requested by the At-Large Executive Committee, as a reply to the public consultation on the same subject to be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#eag-feedback. Due to the imminent closure of the public comment window, Alan Greenberg sent the text on to the ALAC on 12th July, noting that if he received no objections in short order he would transmit it to the public comment period noting that it was still pending a vote of the ALAC (this communication may be viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/eagfeedback/msg00006.html). The ALAC began a vote on this document on 19th July, ending on 26th July. The results were announced on 27th July by the Staff, said result being that the Statement was endorsed by a vote of 11-0-0. The result may be verified under the following URL: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=nQ3H6mYY67sTeq6JArKf -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff at atlarge.icann.org The ALAC wishes to commend the ICANN Board and financial management team on the greater transparency in its financial operations visible in the current FY budget. We look forward to further efforts of this kind to make ICANN's financial operations more transparent. In that vein, we wish to suggest more direct links in reporting between budget allocations and actual expenditure, and the link between financing for initiatives and their outcomes. For example, reporting on how effective recruitment and outreach efforts to grow the active ICANN community are when contrasted with the varying amounts budgeted and spent for these activities from year to year would be widely useful in our view.