[council] GNSO Council Agenda Item: ICANN FY Budget and Ops Plan Standing Committee

[Berry Cobb]

Dear Council Members,

 

Staff wanted to draw your attention to one of the agenda items in
preparation for the Council call on 12 October.  

 

You might recall discussions at ICANN59 about the possible formation of a
standing committee to assist the GNSO Council's participation in the annual
ICANN Fiscal Year Budget and Operating Plan process and to become more
proactive in preparation of public comments on behalf of the Council.
Attached, you will find a draft document that first contains a call for
volunteers within the Council and secondly the document contains a proposed
draft charter for the standing committee activities.  Should the Council
support the standing committee formation and with adequate volunteers, the
charter can then be further refined and later approved by the Council.  

 

In related news, you just saw a note sent by the Council Chair with the
announcement of the public comment period for the PTI FY19 draft budget.  In
the past, the Council has not submitted public comments because it is more
to do with operations that affect registry operators and less to do with
policy development.  However, that does not prevent the Council from
submitting comments for this cycle.  The comment period will close 26
November.  The target for PTI budget approval is 9 January 2018.  There will
also be two sessions at ICANN60 relating to the FY19 Budget:

.         ICANN Budget Basics (30 Oct, 1515-1645) http://sched.co/CbEv

.         Budget Working Group (1 Nov, 1030-1400) http://sched.co/CbGT

 

Also, ICANN Finance held an FY19 Planning webinar in September
<https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/FY19+Planning+Process> .
The public comment window for the ICANN Org budget is set to begin on 15
January until 4 March 2018.  You might notice this schedule is earlier than
prior years to allow the ICANN Board to approve the budget and still provide
adequate time for review by the Empowered Community (EC).  The earlier
process cycle and Board approval is to mitigate ICANN Org from having to
enter into the "care-taker budget" process should the EC choose not to
reject the budget.  Staff will remind the Council often as key milestones on
the budget process draw near.

 

Thank you for your attention and staff looks forward to assisting the
Council on this process.

 

B

 

Berry A. Cobb

720.839.5735

mail at berrycobb.com

@berrycobb

 

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