The primary duty is to monitor the Committee’s finances by:
- developing a budget
- maintaining the budget
- ensuring expenses support the mandate of the DWC Consultative Committee
- fundraising to cover the DWC Consultative Committee’s expenses
Revenue sources and timeframe:
- Membership Fees (more information to come soon)
- CRTC Cost-Recovery (if approved) – unpredictable, can be 6 to 13 months turnaround time from cost application to the approved result of the application. Costs can vary and depend on the cost analysis process by CRTC. Nothing is guaranteed.
- Once Cost Application is approved by a CRTC-published Telecom Regulatory Order (TRO), the DWCC immediately:
- puts aside 10% for DWCC’s administrative costs, to create an accounting cushion.
- pays for contracted services for the specific proceeding
- puts aside another 5,000 for translation fees (French and LSQ)
- Fundraising activities – anytime
Expenses:
- the costs of web hosting and domain reservation of deafwireless.ca
- the costs of running surveys online, such as Survey Monkey, (no, it’s not free to retain data)
- DropBox fee to allow for the storage of videos for video editors (for a limited time)
- Adobe Acrobat Pro for advanced PDF document management
- Monthly Google Suite fees for e-mail and document management
- travel expenses (flight, accommodation, transportation and meals) for attending CRTC public hearings, and consultative meetings (CWTA, etc.)
- Emergency fees to support the team in its DDBHH representative roles
- printing, photocopying, office supplies, ie. binders, highlighters
- professional fees:
- french translations, captioning
- ASL and LSQ talent (or Deaf Interpreters) for videos
- Deaf-Blind Consultant
- Video editing
- honorarium fees – fees
- Attendance at related conferences: Canada’s Communications Policy and Law Conferences, WFD Congress 2019 and 2023, TDI Conference 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023.
The Finance Team:
- Jeffrey Beatty, Treasurer
- Lisa Anderson, Chairperson
- Darryl Hackett, Vice Chair
What happens to DWCC funds after the mandate and the goals are met?