stolen tools - security

[Fred Sturm]

Hi Barbara,
	I have reported this to the department administrator and chair (via email 
- neither seems to be here today. It's that "summer lull" when it's hard to 
tell who will be around when). I'll leave it to them exactly how they want 
to handle it. I'm sure it will involve some notification of security and 
physical plant. I'm not clear whether the maintenance staff is university 
staff or out-sourced, and I don't know the details of how the 
"self-insurance" program works (the U basically self-insures in tandem with 
the state, and there is a pretty high deductible, and lots of red tape), so 
I don't know exactly how to proceed. Hence I leave it in the hands of my 
"higher-ups."  		
	As it happens, all but a couple of these tools belong to the university. 
I've been diligently working to get the university to purchase all the 
tools I need (I steer a couple hundred a year out of the parts budget in 
that direction). I rarely leave any personal tools here overnight. I intend 
to get to the point where I don't need to lug my personal tool case to the 
university when I come. This theft sets that goal back a bit.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico


--On Friday, July 16, 2004 10:25 AM -0500 Barbara Richmond 
<piano57@flash.net> wrote:

> Hi Fred,
>
> Just wondering, did you report it to security and perhaps physical plant?
> I had the problem once and it turned out that my stuff wasn't the only
> target. The offender was caught.   A couple years before I had had to
> have a discussion with the folks at physical plant explaining that the
> university didn't own my tools (unlike the tools at physical plant).
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> sometime CAUT