Dear All,
Attached please find the invitation from Kevin to provide community input to the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget.
Please let me know if you would like a teleconference scheduled before Mexico City, a face to face meeting with Kevin during the constituency day meetings, or a teleconference after the Mexico City meetings, so that whatever you choose can be timely scheduled.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Glen
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
Dear council, committee, and constituency leaders:
Attached please find a PDF of the proposed Framework for the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget which has been posted for public comment. Below is the link to the announcement and comment forum. We have done our best to prepare more detail this year and prepare for what is most important to the ICANN community including reducing the increase to 4.9% in response to the global economic situation. Input from your community is valued with specific emphasis this year on your insights on where we can delay, defer, or streamline the plan to save. Prioritizing spending is important as well. Given the tight schedule in Mexico City, I am actively seeking your guidance on how best to present, answer questions, receive input, and integrate suggestions from your community. Options for this interaction are listed below:
ˇ Conference call before Mexico City with your community
ˇ Present during your council/committee/constituency meeting in Mexico City
ˇ Present to the general community during one of the public forums
ˇ Conference call after Mexico City.
ˇ Online public comment
Please let me know what would serve your community best. Thank you in advance for your feedback.
Kevin Wilson
CFO
The framework for the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget is now posted on the website with a link from the front page:
TITLE: Your Input Required for Operating Plan and Budget Framework - Fiscal Year 2010
Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget
17 February 2009
The release of ICANN's Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2010 (FY10) Operating Plan and Budget [PDF, 868K] kicks off the operational planning process for ICANN, providing the community the first look at the planned work and financial resources required for FY10. The framework will be discussed with members of the ICANN community at the Mexico City meeting in March, through online public comment areas, and through conference calls with ICANN constituencies. A more detailed draft FY10 Operating Plan and Budget will be posted by 17 May 2009. After more public comment and feedback, the budget is expected to be adopted by the ICANN Board at its Sydney meeting in June 2009.
ICANN has now completed its 10th year, and this framework reflects a growing organization that is attaining operational maturity in many areas. Many of the organizational support elements envisioned for ICANN are at levels adequate to provide sufficient support for the current scale of community work. This means that ICANN's spending growth is anticipated to slow substantially in the FY10 budget as compared with previous years (4.9% compared with 30.1% in FY09).
The world economic environment has dictated that costs that can be deferred will be. ICANN will likely under run its FY09 budget through some explicit cost controls as well as through the shifting of some program expenses into FY10.
As always, the community is encouraged to comment on how well this plan addresses priorities identified in the Strategic Plan. This year, specifically in light of the world economic climate, the community is encouraged to comment regarding the plan elements that might be streamlined, reduced, or deferred: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200904.html#op-budget-fy2010