[APAC-Discuss] Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget Now Available for Your Feedback - ICANN CEO- Göran Marby

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From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:22 PM
Subject: [ALAC-Announce] Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget Now Available
for Your Feedback - ICANN CEO- Göran Marby
To: ALAC Announce <alac-announce at atlarge-lists.icann.org>




https://www.icann.org/news/blog/draft-fy20-operating-plan-and-budget-now-available-for-your-feedback



*Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget Now Available for Your Feedback*

As a not-for-profit organization working in the public interest, one of the
ICANN organization's most important responsibilities is to develop an
annual operating budget. We posted our Draft Operating Plan and Budget for
Fiscal Year 2020 <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-12-17-en>.

Long-term financial planning and fiscal responsibility is necessary, and
can only be achieved when the ICANN org, Board, and community work together
to properly plan. In FY20, we continue to anticipate minimal growth in
funding; it is forecasted at $140.1 million, up 2% from FY19.

Expenses are budgeted below funding at $137.1 million.

As a result of the budgeted increase of the Reserve Fund, the budgeted
funding is slightly higher than last year. We've budgeted to contribute
approximately $3 million (2 to 3% of the total budget) to the Reserve Fund,
which will not have any negative impact to planned work. Annual allocation
to the Reserve Fund will be the standard approach, at least until it is
replenished to the minimum target level. This simply is the right thing to
do.

Constituency and fellowship travel support will remain at the same level as
FY19, as will the ICANN org staff, which stands at approximately 400
people. To ensure the best support for the community's work, we have
controls in place to hire or replace staff only when clearly required, but
we still ensure the best support for the community's work after driving
efficiency improvements.

We've also brought the timeline for Public Comment forward to begin before
the end of 2018. We've extended the comment period to 53 days to give you
more time to review the documents. You will find five detailed documents,
with content broken into six modules by topic: *Contractual Compliance and
Consumer Safeguards, Direct Policy Support, DNS Marketplace and Identifier
Ecosystem, Technology and DNS Security, Engagement,* and *Reviews.*

The FY20 planning cycle is the final year of the current strategic plan,
which makes it a transition year, as we are developing the 2021-2025
Strategic Plan in parallel. During FY20, we will use the new strategic plan
to plan for FY21.

You, the community, play an essential role in planning for the year ahead.
We need and want your feedback and input. I look forward to productive
discussions about this proposed Budget over the coming months before it's
finalized in March 2019. Please take action! Share your comments here
<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-12-17-en> during the Public
Comment process.




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