Councilors - You may have already seen this announcement from your SG/C leadership, but does anyone have any FY18 budget requests from a Council perspective? For example, in Hyderabad we discussed discretionary travel funding for PDP WG leaders who weren’t otherwise sponsored, but no firm decision was taken. Council needs to submit its requests, if any, by 30 JAN, so please bring your ideas to discuss during our next call on 19 JAN. Thanks— J. From: <community-finance-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of ICANN-Controller <controller@icann.org> Date: Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:47 PM To: "community-finance@icann.org" <community-finance@icann.org> Subject: [community-finance] FY18 SO/AC Additional Budget Requests Process - Official Start Dear Community Members and Leaders, 15 December 2016 marks the launch of the FY18 SO-AC Community Additional Budget Request process. As you know, this process pertains to a dedicated part of the overall ICANN annual budget that is set aside to fund specific requests from the community for activities that are not already included in the recurring ICANN budget. The timeline and deliverables for the process are as follows: FY18 Community Additional Budget Requests Timeline Start End Kick off and Submission period 12/15/2016 1/30/2017 Preliminary review of requests by ICANN staff 1/31/2017 3/10/2017 SO/AC consultations at ICANN 58 (by request, during Constituents’ Day) 3/11/2017 3/16/2017 Final assessments and recommendations by ICANN staff 3/20/2017 4/14/2017 ICANN Board review and approval at May Board meeting 5/15/2017 5/31/2017 Action items In preparation for the submission, please review the following documents attached with this email: * FY18 Community Additional Budget Requests Process description and timeline * Principles that govern ICANN’s request assessment work * FY18 template request form Please e-mail any questions you may have to controller@icann.org<mailto:controller@icann.org>. For updates related to the FY18 SO/AC Additional Budget Requests Process, please access the following web page on the Finance Community Wiki: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=63153499 We look forward to working with you all again on this effort for FY18! Regards, ICANN Staff