06/26/2000

Travel Reimbursements – It’s the end of the fiscal year. Please complete your reimbursement request (T-3) for all of your June travel and submit it by Wednesday, July 5. It's not much time but it's all the time we have this year. The Treasurer’s Office likes to have all of the fiscal year expenses completed as soon as possible. Thanks.

Travel Reimbursements – one more thing – We try to have all of our T-3’s submitted within 30 days of the travel. Some consultants submit their travel at the end of each month, some every couple of weeks. Whatever method you use, please be sure to submit within 30 days of the date of the expense.

FY2001 – Our new fiscal year starts July 1. Usually, we have an approved budget by now. That is not the way it’s going to happen this year. So, we have a continuation budget to start the year and we may have to defer some of our capital purchases until a real budget is adopted by the Legislature and subsequently by the UT Board of Trustees. Since we are a separate line item, we’ll start off issuing purchase orders in July and see what happens.

Professional Development Plan – I’m almost done with the Professional Development Plan. I’ll send you an email when it is complete.

GIS Design Team – The management team has asked John, Roy, Debbie, and SteveW to work as a design team to recommend to us an MTAS policy for GIS. Here’s a copy of the design team charter.

Attorney Interviews – We have scheduled the interviews for the attorney position in Knoxville that will replace Mark Pullen for Monday, July 17, 2000. We have received enough quality applications that we’re pretty sure we will be able to select someone.