Re: [council] Proposed Comment on FY17 Budget and Operating Plan

[Amr Elsadr <aelsadr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Ed, James, Carlos and Keith…, thank you very much for this. I can’t imagine 
that getting this done was particularly easy.

I was wondering how we would be handling this on tonight’s Council call. It is 
listed as an agenda item for Council approval on on the Council meeting agenda 
(https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Agenda+14+April+2016), 
but not listed as a motion to be voted on 
(https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+14+April+2016).
 So I’m not entirely clear on what the outcome of this agenda item is meant to 
be. Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Amr

> On Apr 13, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Edward Morris <egmorris1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> My Fellow Councillors,
>  
> You will recall at our ICANN55 Council meeting, a small team (James, Carlos, 
> Keith, myself) volunteered to formulate draft comments relating to ICANN's 
> proposed Draft FY17 operating plan and budget.  Attached you will find a 
> starter draft of comments for the Council to consider.  Track changes are 
> enabled should any member of the Council wish to suggest edits. Please feel 
> to do so and then send them back over the list. This small team with 
> assistance from staff will maintain a master copy to ready for submission.
>  
> The Public Comments are due by 30 April 2016, and thus we have just over two 
> weeks to make edits and then determine if the Council wishes to submit them.  
> This topic is currently on the GNSO Council agenda for tomorrow.  The small 
> team also recognizes that likely all SGs & Cs will be submitting their own 
> comments.  In that regard and because we are managers of the policy process, 
> this draft of comments attempted to only focus at a higher level of how the 
> proposed budget impacts the GNSO and its policy development activities.
>  
> This process for submitting comments mimics what occurred last year for the 
> FY16 draft budget.  Once that draft was completed over the Council list, the 
> comments were submitted without objection.  As we will likely discuss 
> tomorrow and based on this current experience, the Council should consider 
> formalizing this process especially in the light of a future empowered 
> community.
>  
> In addition to thanking James, Carlos and Keith with whom it has been a 
> pleasure to work with, special thanks go out from all of us  to Berry and 
> Marika for their exceptional input and dedicated effort on this comment. We 
> are extraordinarily lucky to have such fine staff assigned to help us on 
> Council.
>  
> We looks forward to everyone's input.
>  
> Kind Regards,
>  
> Ed Morris
> <Budget Comment.docx>