[council] Your Input Required for Operating Plan and Budget Framework - Fiscal Year 2010

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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