FW: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting

Hi all,

See e-mail way below.

So, this is on the same vein as Evan’s last e-mails to the region. We need to figure out what our regional priorities are to bring them forward. It is very likely that this telephone conf will be held on Monday or Tuesday so any input on this is well appreciated by myself (and I will be sure to be checking my e-mails over the weekend – hubby out of town and I have nothing better to do).

If I do not receive any other input, then I will be going forward with the idea of having 3-4 outreach meetings per year. Again, any input is welcome.

Darlene

Darlene A. Thompson

Community Access Program Administrator

Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910

Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0

Phone: (867) 975-5631

Fax: (867) 975-5610

dthompson@gov.nu.ca

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:20:31 +0100
To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <cheryl@hovtek.com.au>, Vanda Scartezini UOL <vanda@uol.com.br>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>, Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@web.de>, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@gmail.com>
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Conversation: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting
Subject: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting

To the ALAC Budget Subcommittee: Cheryl, Vanda, Alan, Annette, and Fatimata,
cc: At-Large Secretariats

As you know, a Doodle page has been setup to schedule the Budget Subcommitee meeting requested at the last meeting of the ALAC on 11th March. At present, only Cheryl and Fatimata have said which dates are suitable for them – I hope that the rest of you will respond as a matter of urgency so this meeting can be scheduled – the URL again is: http://www.doodle.ch/9ewginbz2biwd3cy

We have setup an agenda page for this meeting, at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?bc_april_meeting

We are in the process of linking the documents related to that agenda to the page, as well as providing references to the supporting information related to them.

The Chair of ALAC has asked me to remind members of the Finance and Budget Subcommittee that they should be attending the meeting as representatives of their regions. In particular, she draws to your attention that this means that you should be bringing to the meeting any suggestions for activities and events that your region believes to be important for the financial year beginning July 1 2008, running to the end of June 2009.

Members of the Secretariats: I would like to appeal to you once again in the same vein – please ensure that any regional priorities which have a financial impact are sent to the members of the budget committee, and also to the staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org as soon as possible.

The staff would like to remind everyone once again that the process of taking input from the constituencies began with an email on January 9th, from Denise Michel, VP of Policy Development. The Director of At-Large followed this up with an email on 30th January, reiterating the call for input. You may find PDFs of these emails at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?finance_and_budget_committee. Of course, in New Delhi calls for budget input and a review of the budgeting process was conducted. Complete information on the budgeting and operational planning cycle can be found at http://www.icann.org/planning/

The staff confirm hereby that as of date of this email we have received the suggestions listed below as regards regional priorities with a budget impact for the upcoming fiscal year:

We have drawn to the Chair’s attention the proposal made some time ago by Wendy Seltzer for research to be done, and have asked for a copy of the proposal in its last form from Wendy, which could form one suggestion for future work this coming year.
We have the draft budget for the At-Large Summit.
APRALO has proposed participation in the IGF from its region (since the IGF will be held in the Asia-Australia-Pacific region this year). APRALO has a draft proposal which we very much hope will be finalised imminently.
LACRALO has said that it believes there must be funding to allow its region to meet at least once-yearly face-to-face whether at an ICANN International Meeting in the region in the given year, or separately, if there is to be no international meeting in LAC that year due to the rotation between regions which occurs.

As has been repeatedly stated, the staff would prefer to build a draft budget based to the greatest possible extent upon priorities identified by the At-Large community. We believe it would be extremely helpful for each RALO to send at least some written thoughts on this important subject.

We do trust that the meeting of the Finance and Budget Subcommittee in the coming few days will provide substantial additional input. At the same time, on 30th January we did inform the community that input should reach us by the beginning of March – and it is now the end of March, so we need whatever comments you would care to make as soon as possible.

Of course, like all parts of the ICANN community, At-Large will be able to comment on the draft budget and operating plan once it is publicly posted. There will be opportunites for At-Large community members to participate in telephonic briefings on the draft budget once it is posted in order to help the community offer comments and understand the draft budget and its provisions for the At-Large community.
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