[Build] Lock costs

[Christie Dudley]

I'm still keen on having a little separation between the person with
the purse strings and the person who makes the call to "make it so".
Something like an undertreasurer for the build so that the person
spending the money is not the same as the person making the decisions.
 (I've found that this sort of setup can actually make things easier
for a variety of reasons.)

Christie

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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Andy Isaacson<adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:23:15PM -0700, Rubin Abdi wrote:
>> Andy Isaacson wrote, On 2009/08/10 18:59:
>> >We should also figure out some way to streamline and formalize our
>> >reimbursement process; as it currently stands, there are two options
>> >neither of which is especially awesome:
>>
>> Weren't we just going to setup a budget, get that approved through
>> consensus then have the great Shannon delegate those funds?
>
> I think it's clear the consensus process won't work for every $300
> expenditure we'll incur during the build process.
>
> I hadn't heard the plan you outlined.  (I may have missed some
> discussion, but if so I suspect most of the membership did too.)
>
> I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of a build czar with budget
> authority.
>
> If we had a treasurer in this country I'd say we should just
> go through him.
>
> I suppose we should consense something like "We will spend approximately
> $foo on the build, with $bar for floors, $blah for walls, $zork for
> sinks, $toodle for bathroom."  And then designate an executive to make
> it happen (aforementioned czar).
>
> That'd require having a plan, though...
>
> -andy
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