samsloan wrote:
quote="Randy Bauer"]Sam, who harps on endlessly about the move to
Crossville, doesn't grasp the reality of USCF expenses. Payroll and
benefits (some of which support the magazine) are 32 percent of the
USCF budget - and are actually running under budget for the fiscal
year. While not a minimal amount, it isn't the albatross that Sam
would claim. The magazine itself, when considering indirect costs, is
nearly as much.

I haven't done the analysis about number of staff pre and post the
move, comparing other expenses, etc. I wasn't on the Board when some
of those personnel and benefits decisions were made, and it's a moot
point anyway. It's time to move on to new challenges, Sam - it's a
new century, try not to focus on the USCF in "the good old days" of
the last one.

Randy Bauer[/quote]

I was sanctioned before on the USCF Issues Forum for posting this old
quote from Randy Bauer which is one of the reasons why I am on
moderated status now and they cannot read what I wrote until the
following day if at all, but here is what Randy wrote back in 2005
when he was advocating the move to Crossville and claimed that we
would make back $90,000 per year due to the lower personnel costs in
Crossville.

We all know how that that turned out. The personnel costs proved to be
higher in Crossville than in New Windsor.

Here is what Randy Bauer wrote in reply to me:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...5?dmode=source

"While the New Windsor building cost may have been less than
constructing a new facility, we owned a building with far more space
than the USCF needed, with various repairs that needed to be made, and
in a higher cost area with higher labor costs, property taxes,
insurance, and utility payments as a result. Hardly free. Beatriz'
estimate is that we will save somewhere in the range of $90,000 a year
on employee costs alone -- it doesn't take long for that to dwarf the
$200,000 to move.


But I suppose that we will make it back "in the long run" by paying
the Tennessee employees two dollars less per hour than the New Windsor
employees.

Somebody should calculate how long it will take to make that back.

Will the USCF be in business long enough to make back the $201,466.60
being spent on the move to Crossville, which does not include the cost
of the new building?

"If I thought you had the money, I'd be happy to make a bet with you
on it. I calculate it will be a matter of a few years. In the
meantime, the USCF will benefit from rightsizing its workforce, better
aligning staff to provide services, and improving its technology and
physical plant. That's what profitable businesses do to maintain a
comparative advantage -- and the USCF will be better for it as well.

"Randy Bauer"


1) Why exactly are you attacking Bauer for a claim made by Beatriz
Marinello? He was quoting her.

2) The phrase used was "employee costs," not "salaries." The problem
seems to be that more people took the benefits package in Crossville,
because in New Windsor their spouses had had health insurance
elsewhere. Obviously Marinello was wrong about this, and it would be
legitimate to criticize her for it. But since she's no longer on the
Board and not running for anything, it seems kind of pointless.