Dear Danny: Happy to clarify this, however in part I must refer you to my previous answer: * There is no settled travel budget for this community until the board has approved the budget. * There is also no settled formula for any other group - the travel support proposals are undergoing community review as you know, and are themselves subject to change. * At-Large, just like every other community, has equal access to information related to the budget, allowing an equal opportunity to provide input. * I would refer you to other sections of the proposed travel support draft, which directly address ALAC in specific. As to the more specific budget questions, I refer you to the various previous replies to this question and related questions by Denise, myself, and Doug. A number of those are available in writing from the Finance and Budget Subcommittee wiki page at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?finance_and_budget_committee. On 12/06/2008 22:48, "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote: Nick, Allow me to re-phrase the question. Having reviewed the minutes of the AFRALO 7 May session, I see that: "The Staff noted that the travel budget is currently under review and that there is a strong likelihood that At-Large's travel budget will be reduced to match the travel budgets of the other ICANN constituencies." Under the proposed ICANN Travel Support draft, other individual constituencies (such as the GNSO, ASO, or ccNSO) will be getting an allocation equal to Half of Council Size + 1 for Chair (with the highest per constituency dollar total set at $184,800). Is it being proposed by Staff that a similar formula be used for At-Large travel? Setting aside the issue of Summit funding, what budget totals have been proposed for the At-Large by the ICANN Staff? When can we see a breakdown of the proposed At-Large budget? Related questions: The ICANN Accountability & Transparency Frameworks document indicates Financial Accounts * Within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year, the Audit Committee presents to the Board a final audited set of accounts for the year, along with an audit report that examines the standard of compliance with accounting standards. * The final accounts are posted on the ICANN website for the information of the ICANN community. Within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year would have been around March 1, yet I haven't seen the final audited set of accounts for the year posted on the ICANN website. Neither have I seen IRS Form 990 posted for many many years. I direct your attention to this section of the IRS Letter Granting Tax Exemption to ICANN: "You are required to make your form 990 available for public inspection for three years after the later of the due date of your return or the date the return is filed. You are also required to make available for public inspection your exemption application, any supporting documents, and this exemption letter. Copies of these documents must be provided to any individual upon written or in person request without charge other than reasonable fees for copying and postage. You may fulfill this requirement by placing these documents on the Internet. Penalties may be imposed for failure to comply with these requirements." http://www.icann.org/financials/tax/us/irs-letter-grant-28aug00.htm Looking forward to any elucidations. regards, Danny --- On Wed, 6/11/08, Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org> wrote:
From: Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Summary Minutes NARALO Teleconference 09 June To: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com>, "At-Large Staff" <staff@atlarge.icann.org>, "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 12:47 PM Dear Danny:
I understand that there are pretty much always modifications to the budget before it is passed based upon consultations with the community. Certainly because of the Summit question the At-Large budget is very much an open question.
On 11/06/2008 14:45, "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote:
Nick,
If the Board in Paris approves the overall budget, what will be the At-Large departmental budget for the fiscal year?
regards, Danny
--- On Wed, 6/11/08, Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org> wrote:
From: Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Summary Minutes NARALO Teleconference 09 June To: "At-Large Staff" <staff@atlarge.icann.org>, "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 8:18 AM I'm sorry I couldn't join you all - I'm swamped in pre-Paris work, and of course you now have Frederic as a dedicated RALO resource!
One thing I should mention with respect to the minutes
apologies if this is well-understood.
As I previously mentioned, I did put forward the proposal for outreach events in the initial internal budgeting worksheets. However, just because I put something forward doesn't mean that it will necessarily make the 'cut'.
We will not know what precisely did make it into the At-Large budget until after the Board passes the budget in Paris - and in particular until it decides on whether or not, based upon community input, the At-Large Summit will be supported financially or not.
I understand the strong feelings of NARAL related to the outreach objectives and these proposals and I have relayed these. I wanted to make sure that you knew what the status of the proposals was though, so that there wouldn't be any misunderstandings...
On 10/06/2008 21:07, "At-Large Staff" <staff@atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
Dear all,
Please find the summary minutes, action items and audio recording of yesterday's NARALO teleconference on the meeting page. The minutes are also attached below.
https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?09_june_2008
Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org
Summary Minutes 09 June 2008
1. Roll Call - As above 2. Review of the Summary Minutes 12 May 2008
N/A 3. Review of the Action Items 12 May 2008
N/A 4. NARALO -- first 12 month review:
What did we do well?
* Glad that this group did more to include individuals than others. * We seem to do more discussion on policy than other regions. * NARALO has had good interventions with ALAC as a whole. * NARALO has had great energy. * We made a strong statement to the ALAC. * Even though we are rather a small group of people we have been able to make strong points to ALAC. * We reacted well to the ALAC abuse of process in the joint constituency statement. * The group has been more active in the past six months than ever and as compared to other groups. * We were able to be proactive on a couple of issues. * NARALO has been most active on the Adobe Connect policy briefings. * The leadership has been good and our RALO has been very active.
What did we do badly?
* We didn't make nuisances of ourselves enough and we've let ICANN get away with too much. * We need those short updates on issues and hope that we see them soon. * There is still too much garbage on list but Evan has done well in trying to control this. * RAA revisions. We failed to come together and issue an appropriate statement to the JPA. We haven't done anything to prep our ALAC reps prior to meetings. * Those that are empowered in a group usually take the time to come up to speed with issues and look for solutions. Those that are not elected tend not to participate at a level that would make for valuable input. Its very time consuming to do so. Also, without going to the meetings and interacting on a personal level, its difficult to see where people are coming from.
How can we improve?
* More discussion on policy. * Its hard to get a handle on all of the various policies in order to provide input. * More outreach. * Develop a strong communications mechanism. * The Staff has done good work with Adobe Connect and we should continue to utilize these tools. * We need to keep a better eye on the calendar. * Better communications and to somehow get those that are not empowered to travel once in a while. * More outreach, more education, more policy discussions.
5. Outreach -- selection of strategic events
We need to identify locations far ahead of time so that we can adequately plan and implement them.
NTEN - Spring CES - January ICT Summit - Vancouver - February Consumer Groups events in Washington (there are two coming up) Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Lawyers in October
Please bring up other ideas on the mailing list and we will add it to the list. 6. July meeting election of one ALAC rep, Chair and Secretariat
During the July meeting we will be electing the above. This is a proper election so calls for nomination will be done. Evan, Darlene and Beau have agreed to stand in their positions. When should we do the elections? There were no preferences so we will put it to the list. 7. Priorities for June ICANN meeting
Be careful in what meetings we go to in order for us to get the most bang for our buck. There will be an RAA meeting on Monday and Danny will prep some materials for us to be prepared for it. 8. Other Matters
If you received an e-mail from Frederic Teboul, please respond ASAP. The more input we have, the better everyone can work together. We now have good support staff for Nick and now that these exist, we need to make better use of it.
The Summit proposal is due tomorrow. Maybe we can also kick a copy of it to John (?) Nesbitt. 9. Next Meeting
July 14, 2008
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