[community-finance] FW: FY14 Budget - SO/AC add'l budget requests / Regular track / Recommendations to Board

[Xavier J. Calvez]

Dear all,
It looks like I misspelt the email address that I used to send the below
email yesterday. Apologies.
Thanks.

Sincerely,
Xavier

Xavier Calvez
ICANN ­ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

CFO
Office: +1 (310) 301-5838
Cell: +1 (805) 312-0052
E-fax: +1 (310) 957-2348

12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536




On 7/17/13 9:17 AM, "Xavier J. Calvez" <xavier.calvez at icann.org> wrote:

>While the Board has not yet approved the final FY14
>budget, and we are still here in Durban, I wanted to give you preliminary
>information about the proposed resolution of the special budget requests
>that were
>made by your communities for the FY14 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2013 to June
>30,
>2014).
> 
>This year's decisions (currently recommendations to be made by the
>Staff to the Board (and awaiting Board final decision on 22 August) are
>based
>on the resources available and on an evaluation of where the requests are
>likely to fit into the existing organizational strategic and operational
>plans
>and what we know about the direction those efforts are taking.
>We would like to gather your comments on any of these recommendations by
>AUGUST 4TH and will send further instructions on how to provide/post such
>comments).
> 
>There were a total of 23 regular requests from the community
>(in addition to the 31 Fast track requests)
> 
>The recommendations Staff has made to the Board were based
>on a set of draft principles that we created to govern our assessments of
>the
>requests.  We expect to create a public
>comment forum opportunity to give community members an opportunity to
>refine
>and improve them for FY15.
> 
>The recommendations for all the requests are set out in a
>document that has been posted on the Finance Wiki page ­
>[https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/FY14+Regular+Track+Sum
>m
>a]
>. You will see that (1) some requests are
>granted directly; (2) some requests are not granted; (3)  some requests
>are not granted, per se,
>but the resources are being made available through the core ICANN budget
>and
>managed by staff, and (4) in a few cases, new resources are being made
>available as part of experimental pilot programs that we will be creating
>to
>see if the activities are replicable, manageable and effective.  In
>several cases there is an expectation that
>allocated funds will not be available for release until there is an agreed
>upon
>system (collaboratively developed by both staff and community) for
>measuring
>reviewing and assessing requests for consistency across the board.
>This has proved to be a challenging year as we changed the process to add
>the programs' data, but we are
>continuing to make progress and I appreciate the commitment and interest
>all of
>you have committed to this effort.
> 
>strategic and operational planning efforts will substantially reduce the
>As we go forward and improve our strategic and operational planning
>efforts, we expect the
>number of requests as resources and activities to become more consistently
>available in our annual operating plan and budget.
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sincerely,
>Xavier
>
>Xavier Calvez
>ICANN ­ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>
>CFO
>Office: +1 (310) 301-5838
>Cell: +1 (805) 312-0052
>E-fax: +1 (310) 957-2348
>
>12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
>Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536
>
>

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