FYI - I'd like to work with you all to encode your FY18 budgets. As you make allocations against these funds, let me know so we can work together. This will give me a good excuse to finish the site and to write instructions :)

regards,

bex

----- Original message ----- From: Brian Exelbierd bex@pobox.com To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: [Ambassadors] Budget Update Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:38:05 +0100

Today the Council met and voted on a budget issue that affects Ambassadors:

The FY18 (2017-2018) budget provided by RH will not be available by March 1, 2017. Therefore the council has authorized a temporary spending authorization for Ambassador regions in today's meeting.

Regions are authorized to allocate/spend up to 10% of their prior year budget. This should carry us through to the final budget allocation which is coming. This IS NOT A BUDGET CUT. This is just a way to allow regions to keep doing their work while also protecting us from the unknown. See details below please.

Explanation/Discussion:

Because we do not have final budget numbers, we need to be conservative with spending. Therefore Ambassador regions are authorized to allocate and potentially spend up to 10% of their prior year budget. This is NOT A FINAL BUDGET nor do we expect to have severe budget cuts, but we need to be fiscally responsible. If a region needs to spend more than this amount, they should vote on the ticket assuming they will receive 90% of their prior year budget and make a request to the Council in a ticket.

To put this in context, 10% of the prior year budget should cover the period from March 1 to about April 10 (assuming level spending). For some regions this may go further depending on the actual timing of events. The 90% level proposed above assuming some cutting and allows for regions to make a decision based on a reasonably conservative estimate of their total budget. While changes are possible, we are not expecting the public budget to be reduced but have been given no official guidance on this. Additionally, this estimates reasonably conservative reductions to account for some budgetary realignment the Council may choose to do.

regards,

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