From: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk
To: "Niklaus E. Zimmermann" <niklaus.zimmermann@wsl.ch>
Subject: Re: ECOCHANGE budget available to UEA - update
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:55:06 +0100 (BST)
Cc: "Phil Jones" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, "Emmanuel Muhr" <emuhr@vitamib.com>, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk

 Nick,
   Thanks. Perhaps I'll need to contact Keith
 as to why some of the items are in the budget.
 I understand about the salary money.

 Cheers
 Phil

> Dear Phil, Emmanuel,
>
>          sorry for late reply, I undergo
> evaluation these days. I add Emmanuel, so that he
> can correct if my answers are wrong!!!
>
> - In general, you decide how much you spend where as long
>    as you have open tasks you are expected to contribute
>    (which is the case for UEA, you are still involved in A5).
>
> - This means that you spend the money by declaration on
>    the project netboard, and not by the original budget.
>
> - You cannot spend more salary, should there be no open
>    task left for you.
>
> - You can spend more salary months than expected from the
>    budget for a specific position, but you cannot spend
>    more total money than the budget is.
>
> - One major constraint is teaching activity, which can
>    only be spent in ECOCHANGE teaching activities (summer
>    school), but you did not list any here.
>
> best,
> Nick
>
> PS: Dear Keith, I wish you all the best for
> recovery! Hope to see you soon again.
>
> At 17:34 26.08.2009, Phil Jones wrote:
>
>>   Nick,
>>     I've now found out some more information.
>>
>>   In the Consumables category, we had £5070 and
>> have left £4543. There is little, we are
>> generally able to buy in this category.
>>
>>   In a new category to us (called Recurrent
>> costs) there is £7013, with nothing spent.
>>
>>   In another new category to us (called
>> Equipment under £5000) there is £5766, again with nothing spent.
>>
>>   In another new category to us (called
>> Exceptional Non Payments) there is £3844, again with nothing spent.
>>
>>  Finally in travel there was £22923 of which
>> we've spent (for meetings so far) £3445 so far, leaving £19477.
>>
>>  These numbers were in Euros, but our accounts have them in UK pounds.
>>  They have been converted using the official EU
>> rates eoros/pounds. This should be about
>>  1.2 Euros equals one UK pound.
>>
>>   We are talking about 36 thousand pounds!  We
>> are almost spent up on salaries.
>>
>>  Cheers
>>  Phil
>>
>>  Nick,
>>     Apologies if I've asked you this before, but I'm being asked about
>>  the ECOCHANGE budget that appears to be available to UEA.
>>
>>     With the UEA budget there is money in categories that UEA has not
>>  had money in before (in other EU projects). Do you know what this money
>>  is supposed to be for?  We understand the budget for personnel and also
>>  travel, but it is the other categories - which seem to relate to more
>> travel
>>  and costs for capital equipment.
>>
>>    Keith is still off work, but is recovering well from his operation.
>>
>>  I'm off in the next few hours for 2 weeks away.
>>
>>  Cheers
>>  Phil
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Prof. Phil Jones
>>Climatic Research Unit        Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
>>School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
>>University of East Anglia
>>Norwich                          Email    p.jones@uea.ac.uk
>>NR4 7TJ
>>UK
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>>
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