Here is a revised budget for the names council. I have made the following assumptions and discussed the various costs included with miscellaneous vendors over the last 3 weeks. Please review and comment if you wish and lets see if we can get this taken care of at this next meeting
Assumptions and related costs are included below: (Note: all costs are in US$)
Web Hosting & Connectivity:
Machines: Estimated Cost = $5000
Connectivity = ICANN will provide connectivity
Total web hosting & Connectivity $ 5,000
Teleconferences:
Estimate 12 teleconferences per year x 2 hours x 20 persons (est. $600/teleconference) 7,200
Salaries:
One full time Names Council Staff person to be located physically in the ICANN offices in Marina Del Rey California
Salary cost (including payroll taxes & insurance) 55,000
Office expenses (Including telephone etc) (estimate at $900 US/month) $10,800
Office set up (i.e. equipment purchases - computer, acctg software etc. ) 3,000
Total Office expenses 13,800
Travel to 3 meetings/year for 4 days @$2,500/meeting for above mentioned staff 7,500
Incidentals & miscellaneous unforeseen costs (contingency 15,000
Total not counting ICANN Meeting costs $91,500
Suggestion for handling meeting costs...
For single per-ICANN meeting fee (<$1,000), the NC
would be able to create an
audio archive of the following
meetings: 4,000
- NC
-
GA
- constituencies
-
Working Groups
An audio tape would be made for each meeting, later to be
digitized and
posted on a real audio source website. This would satisfy the
by-law
requirements
(i checked with the ICANN staff) and significantly reduce our
budget for meeting broadcasts.
Total overall including contingency reserve $95,500