Candor, Paul. Simply tell him that you don't have the budget to do it and he should try to get supplemental funding for this project. Take it to the Music School Director or Dean. These are the problems they are supposed to solve. Spending money within your budget is your job. Raising money for special projects is their job. I certainly wouldn't entertain spending 28% of my budget for this kind of job....fortunately the people here wouldn't expect me to. We need a new harpsichord here but that money will be found someplace beside my budget. dave David M. Porritt dporritt at smu.edu ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:35 PM To: caut at ptg.org Cc: caut at ptg.org; caut-bounces at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] caut Digest, Vol 1090, Issue 3 Hi List, Some of my greenish hue is starting to wear off on being a CAUT, but on budget matters with piano faculty, in particular, I shine brighter that the emerald city!! We have 105 keyboard instruments here at the university, one of them being a Belt forte-piano about 25 years old. The professor who plays it primarily is demanding a major rehabilitation to it which will require some outside help with my assisting this outside expert. The estimated cost of bringing this "expert" in will take over 28% of my yearly budget. The instrument is used in concert 6-8 times per year as compared to our 3 Steinway D's, 1 concert Baldwin and 3 Steinway B's which are used constantly. Some of the other faculty are up in arms about using the piano budget and insist that this is a "special project" and should use "special funds" like grants and the like. Of course I agree strongly both ways! It is a university instrument, so it should use university funds. On the other hand it is used so infrequently, that I can't see using a huge slice of my pie. On the third hand, one of my responsibilities is to see to it that all instruments are happy. Having such a limited budget as I do, if I had to replace a good quality grand, (not even concert level), I would be spending far more than one year's budget, leaving all other instruments on hold until next year whatever the need may be.INCLUDING the concert instruments. So I ask for a bit of seasoned advise from you all. How have you handled such delemmas? Thanks for your help. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you..... Paul T. Williams RPT University of Nebraska-Lincoln -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060918/adee37a1/attachment.html
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