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Originally Posted by jacklemoine
Sloan, I'm surprised at your questions. Did you
not keep notes of your meeting? Why would you not have a copy of the
budget that had been submitted to you for your approval? And why
would you not have made notes of any changes that the Board made to
it?
Then you could compare your copy with the budget Nolan posted. If
there were any discrepancies you could yell!
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The board members were all given printouts of the budget. In addition,
several non-board members including Hal Bogner and Harry Payne were in
the room and they were given printouts as well.
Bill Goichberg expressed surprise and concern that the budget that had
been developed by Joel Channing and his Nine Wise Men only one week
earlier had been busted by the executive director who had added in a
bunch of new expenses including a 3.2% raise for the entire staff.
Then we went though a bunch of the new items and Bill Goichberg with
his handy pencil drew a line through some of them and wrote in some
new numbers and that is how we "balanced" the budget.
I voted against this by the way (not that it matters) and I reported
this in my posting to this group from Denver Airport on my way home.
The only way to find out whether the budget posted on the USCF home
page is the same that was passed at the Executive Board meeting would
be to get that original sheet with the new numbers written in by Bill
Goichberg.
Yes, it is true that I could have taken better notes but I never
imagined that two months would pass before the new budget would be
posted on uschess.org
Naturally, since the Executive Director had changed the budget passed
by the Nine Wise Men without telling them, I have great fear that he
changed the budget passed by the six stupid EB members as well.
Sam Sloan