[CREATE] LGM 2012 Travel Expenses

Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins at gmail.com
Thu May 10 04:11:59 PDT 2012


2012/5/10 a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>

> hi
>
>  hi!
>>
>>
>> A practical question regarding this year's LGM:
>> to whom should we submit our travel expenses?
>>
>>
> does anybody want to take the task on him / her?
>

Hi,

This is my responsibility.

I will put the reimbursement file online later today.

More below on Ale's proposal.

>
>
>
> i also have a remark. our policy is to reimburse the travel expenses at
> the prorata of the money we could collect.
>
> while in the past we could always reimburse all the people asking for it,
> for the first time this year it's likely that we won't be able to full
> refund the costs (it all depends on who will be asking, so we don't know
> yet for sure; last year we also thought that the finances were too
> tight...).
>
> personally, i'd like to make a change in that policy and first full
> reimburse the people that had travel costs which are a multiple of their
> monthly income (i think that we only have one such case), then reimburse
> those who had costs that correpsond to a big part of their monthly income
> (probably 2 or 3 such cases) and finally distribute the rest among the
> other people asking for a refund.
>
> we don't need to ask for income details, we should be able to guess it
> ourselves for some people and other can tell (and have already told) us
> that it's important for them to get refundend.
>
>
> so:
>
> a/ any volonteer?
>

Yes, me

>
> b/ is the policy proposed ok?
>

While I think there is a great heart and a very good intention behind that
proposal, I would be more encline to stick with what has always been the
rule. Otherwise it opens the door to arbitrary calls and knowing the
situation of one or a few people doen’t make the exercice more fair as some
people might be in a difficult situation as well and won’t tell about it.

Let’s first determine what the needs are. Ony then will we know the height
of the percentage of the reimbursements for each person asking of it.
Meanwhile, money is still coming in, slowly but...

It is always up to anyone to ask for a reimbursement. We’ll give until end
of this month period to fill the form and then we’ll know.

Louis

>
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
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