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 We have so many historical documents on this particular issue that the letter to the Board and CEO could be a recap of those docs with a request to clarify to the Community how and why the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. _____ From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Chris Chaplow Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:00 PM To: bc-gnso@icann.org 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