<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Andrew Ward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:award3535@tds.net" target="_blank">award3535@tds.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I do have a question, who votes to re-allocate unspent funds?<br>
I could see some problems with re-allocation if the region is over ruled by another region<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My understanding is that each region will have their OWN budget to wrangle. APAC will handle APAC, LATAM will handle LATAM, etc...<br><br></div><div>Is that how it worked in the past? Cross-regional budget reallocation isn't something I had heard of before.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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On 11/5/2015 6:57 PM, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015, at 01:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 03:01:45PM -0500, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:<br>
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2) it lists Quarterly Budgets, so if we are under budget on one<br>
quarter do we keep that money or (use it or lose it) is it lost?<br>
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No. The only "use it or lose it" window, as far as I know is on a Fiscal<br>
year basis (March to February), not a quarterly basis.<br>
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I got the impression at the call we had with Ruth that there's also a<br>
half-year checkpoint now where things should be spent by the end of<br>
August. Did I misunderstand that?<br>
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That said, we _don't_ want to lose it when we get to the either that<br>
point or the end overall, so the quarterly checkpoints give us an<br>
opportunity to re-allocate. If the region doesn't have a specific good<br>
use for unspent funds at that point, we can apply it to somewhere that<br>
does (either a need in another region or a non-regional request).<br>
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Checking the budget every quarter seems like a good idea, as we could<br>
have a better overview of how we have been doing so far. But at least in<br>
the EMEA, some people when they get funding approval to participate in<br>
events, they submit their receipts for reimbursement after several<br>
months, and as a result we get mixed up when re-allocating funds.<br>
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So I would propose if we are going to revise the regional budgets every<br>
quarter to re-allocate unspent funds, then we should toughen the process<br>
of reimbursement and ask for people to submit receipts(along with event<br>
reports, etc) within for eg. 2 weeks after the event takes place.<br>
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Zacharias<br>
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