<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 8, 2006, at 12:30 AM, <A href="mailto:Rick.Florence@asu.edu">Rick.Florence@asu.edu</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I mention the use of the accounts with the spending cards to offer Wim ,perhaps,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">a little ammunition.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I can't imagine running a shop and service department with</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">much efficiency if I had to request funds for every part I need.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Having the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">cards allows me to make purchases at any time without waiting for the red tape.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We also try to keep a year's worth of parts on hand for two reasons: 1. There</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">is less down time, 2. In the occasional lean year (it has happened with our</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">legislature), our service does not grind to a halt.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rick</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Man, I'm jealous. I have an account, but I have to go through the purchase requisition process if I need a new bottle of glue or a size 8 wood screw. Then, only the finance manager can use the card to make the purchase, or else I have to go through all kinds of paperwork to be reimbursed for small purchases. It's a pain, and like you'd probably suspect, a lot doesn't get done because of red tape.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regarding your statement about the "occasional lean year" (we're just coming out of a string of the worst "lean years" this school has seen in decades - or at least I hope we're coming out of it), how are you able to roll over funds from one budget year to the next? The only way we can do that here is to use an account that charges a usage fee. It costs me nothing to save the money and it can roll over and build up, but there is an 8% surcharge to spend it. You can't get a VISA debit card with this type of account. The only way we can have an account with a debit card is the type where you have to use every penny by June 30, or lose it.<DIV>Jeff</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>