[bc-gnso] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget

Wed May 22 19:18:32 UTC 2013

I am interested, Chris. 
I would assume that all should be seriously concerned re under funded compliance dept. 
It is one area that I couldn't figure out at all from the report. 
It needs clarification but maybe before we write our letter, as there is a bit of confusion in the report. 
M
From: randruff at rnapartners.com
To: bc-gnso at icann.org
Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:39:52 -0400

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  We have so many historical
documents on this particular issue that the letter to the Board and CEO could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
Partners, Inc.

From:
owner-bc-gnso at icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso at icann.org] On Behalf Of Chris Chaplow

Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:00
PM

To: bc-gnso at 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

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-spreadsheet-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-spreadsheet-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

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