<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>Hi all, some of you may know me or = have seen my name around the Guild. I am an associate member and have passed the = technical half of the RPT exams. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>I am student at the local college = taking small business accounting and income tax. Another tech, Harry, a friend of mine, has the contract at the college but the piano teacher and the = head of the music dept. are clients of mine. The head of the music dept, John, = is new. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>A piano gets moved to one of the = culinary schools venues for Christmas shows and I was asked to submit an estimate to fix = the upright for that venue. Harry has no problem with this, he doesn't want = the work. It's not in his contract. John came back and said the = administration had only put $100 in the budget for the pianos for the year. He wants a = maintenance routine and budget. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>What sources can I provide to John to = present to the school board so he gets an adequate budget?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=2>Keith = Roberts</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>