The primary duty is to monitor the committee’s finances by:
- developing a budget
- maintaining the budget
- ensuring expenses supports 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 TRO – Telecom Regulatory Order, the DWCC immediately:
- gives 10% to CAD-ASC for administrative fees
- pays for contracted services for the specific proceeding
- puts aside 10% for DWCC’s administrative costs
- puts aside another 5,000 for translation fees (French and LSQ)
- Fundraising activities – anytime
- Donation via link to CAD-ASC website – anytime
Expenses:
- the costs of web hosting and domain reservation of deafwireless.ca
- the costs of running surveys online (no, it’s not free to retain data)
- DropBox fee to allow for the storage of videos for video editors (for a limited time)
- Monthly Google Suite fees for e-mail and document management
- travel expenses (flight, accommodation, transportation and meals) for attending CRTC hearing, and for 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
- Video editing
- honorarium fees – fees
- Attendance at related conferences: Canada’s Communications Policy and Law Conferences, WFD Congress 2019, TDI Conference 2017 and 2019, M-Enabling Conference 2020, NENA Conference 2020
What happens to DWCC funds after the mandate and the goals are met?
This topic is in discussion with the CAD-ASC on future use that supports a clause for the Deaf or an activity promoting the development of Deaf Youth. Examples: to support one or two Deaf individuals to attend WFDYS in 2019 or even, funds to support establishing another telecommunications ad-hoc committee.
The Finance Team:
- Darryl Hackett, Treasurer
- Jeffrey Beatty, Assistant Treasurer
- Lisa Anderson-Kellett, Chairperson
- Elliott Richman, Vice Chair