happy holidays to all....
as per your request i have tried to accumulate information on
what i feel would be a reasonable start for a standard 12 month budget for the
names council.
as a budget is nothing but a quantified plan of action , i have taken some
"license" here and assumed the following:
a. 4 annual face-to-face meetings lasting 4 hours held concurrently with
ICANN meetings
b. all meetings to be webcast using the berkman facilities and to be
webcast within a "normal busines" day as defined by Berkman
c. 6 teleconferences to be scattered throughout the year averaging approx 2
hours
d. normal attendence at the teleconferences = 12-15 persons
e. mail server space & bandwidth to be donated (if that isn't currently
done i am sure we can get it done)
f. now for the toughest: - Secretariat compensation & expenses:
i will assume for the next year that we contract for a secretariat on a
1/3-1/2 time basis. this needs more thinking and task elaboration and the
numbers i have put on this are "for discussion purposes" only . This is by no
means an attempt at "open negotiation" and the numbers i have come up with are
based on a combination of a little research and an educated guess
here we go...
all figures in US $
a.. room expenses 4 meetings @ 1000/room x
4 (this is dependent on how good of
a negotiator
Andrew & Louis are so it could & should be eve less
here) US
$ 4000
b. webcast 4 meetings at 4 hours =
16 hours @ 120/hr (fudge factor = 20%)
= 1920
c. 6 teleconferences averave 2 hours with 12-15
participants
(all
participants pay for the cost of the call to the conference center
except
the secretariat) $675 X 6 + $50/call
for
secretariat 4700
f. Secretatiat normal office & phone & occasional
postage (assume donated office space)
will probably be in the
neighborhood of $350-400 per month ($350 x
12) 4200
Secretariat travel to 4 Icann Meetings
(assume coach travel & 5 days + meals
at an estimate of $2500/meeting X 4
meetings
10000
Compensation
estimated on the basis of 40% time billed as an independent
contractor
including
25% benefits
35,000
Estimated
total expenses $55,800
add 15%
variance
8,370
Total including
Variance
$64,170
Projected
annual budget for discussion
purposes
$65,000 - $70,000
NOTE: THIS IS A PROJECTED ANNUAL BUDGET
AND DOES NOT ADDRESS THE CURRENT PAYABLE DUE FOR PAST SERVICES RENDERED TO
THE COUNCIL
please understand that this is a
"starting point " for discussion purposes and feel free to snip away at any
area.