<div dir="ltr">I'm all for standards. +1 (I'd vote more if it was allowed). It also makes sense that the 10% increase/decrease would be within a major category rather than from one line item to the next.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Grace Dunbar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdunbar@esilibrary.com" target="_blank">gdunbar@esilibrary.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hi all,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I have been remiss in following up on my action item:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">EOB voting on 10% changes to the conference budget</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A hasty search through email didn't turn up anything historical other than the wiki which states:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The hosting site should also seek approval from the EOB for any budget changes that increase<b> an expense</b> by at least 10% and <b>decrease income</b> by at least 10%”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As I think Kathy said in an email on that discussion thread, “expense” has typically been interpreted as an major line item. These would line up with what those familiar with accounting would call a GL (general ledger) code. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">So, A/V would be a GL code or major line item expense and we would be looking at 10% increases to those numbers - not the individual costs for the lavalier mics or the projectors that are minor line items under that. And, of course, any 10% decreases to expected/projected overall revenue generation. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> But I do think this brings up an opportunity to present the local committees with a standard Account Ledger to use that will standardize these entries so we have some continuity. This has been done somewhat informally in the past but I would like to suggest that the EOB conference committee (not the current local committee) begin working on some standard procedural documents and guidelines that each local conference committee <u>must</u> use. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">My proposal is that, if we all agree on the current intent of the 10% wording, then we incorporate this into a more specific and clear set of documents and expectations for the local conference committees to follow. While there is mentorship and document turnover from year to year, I think most groups (in hindsight) would welcome more specificity on the nuts and bolts. </span></p><br><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thoughts?</span></span><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">TIA,</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Grace<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></span></font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Grace Dunbar, Vice President<br>
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