Thank you, Melissa for asking the right questions about the emperor's new
clothes.  Everything you say in your e'message is right on target, IMHO,
and cuts through all the edu-babble.  If more of us could be as perceptive
as you are, we might finally get some changes.

Fritz.

At 05:47 PM 4/13/2004 -0400, Melissa Burchfield wrote:
>I appreciate all the information we've received so far about the budget
>process.  However, after reading through all of it and attending as many
>of the budget hearings as I was able, it seems to me that there is an
>essential piece of information missing:  what is the total amount of money
>budgeted for each division, and what percentage does each division get of
>the total monetary pie?
>
>We've been given vast charts of numbers and lengthy Powerpoint
>presentations, but, intentional or not, the overabundance of information
>seems to obscure the true financial situation rather than reveal it.  For
>example, the last budget meeting summary gives the following chart:

Fritz W. Efaw, SB, AAdipl, PhD,
Rose of Cimarron Distinguished
Chair of  Excellent Edu-Babble.

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