budget

[Fred Sturm]

Hi Wim, 	
	Here's something from my archives (you can find the thread, which was 
parts/supplies budgets, by checking the caut list archives).
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico

PS My own current budget (allocated to me from the department) is a 
whopping $600/year for about 80 pianos and 3 or 4 harpsichords (or hso's). 
This is supplemented by the music department billing other University 
entities for my services - the large performance hall, dance, theater, 
president's office, etc. This augments the figure to about $2500/year. My 
chair tells me he is almost certain the upper administration will approve 
our request for a new course fee of $5/credit hour for all music dept 
courses, targeted at pianos. This will generate $40,000 to $60,000/year, 
but the bulk will go to piano replacement.

Archived post, 5/4/99:
Recently, I posted a querry to the list regarding annual budgeted amounts
for parts/supplies/tools/etc at other institutions of higher learning (and
lower funding :)

I recieved approx. 8 responses.  Few of these budgets were identical in
the types of expenses they covered but I ran a per/piano average as
best I could.

I would have loved to include the Univ of Michigan budget with its, as yet,
un-plumbed depths; it would have done wonders for the average!

For what its worth, the extremely (!) un-scientific average came to:

$55 per piano (per year).



(my thanks to all who replied to my querry.  The above figure looked
mighty impressive next to WSU's figure of $6/piano!  We'll see if it
turns the right heads here.)


Regards,

Alan Crane, RPT
School of Music
Wichita State University
crane@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
crane@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu


--On Thursday, August 7, 2003 6:02 PM -0400 Wimblees@aol.com wrote:

> Good news, bad news
>
> We have a new chair at UA, and today I met with her. Among topics we
> discussed was a budget. I haven't had one for the past two years, so when
> she asked know how I want, she didn't like "as much as I can get". Then
> she asked how much other schools get.
>
> UA has 74 pianos, 2 h'chords and a p'forte. What are some budgets in
> comparable schools?
>
> Wim