Subject: Re: Council Phone Bill

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 11:35:33 -0500 (CDT)

Songling and Chen Dong,

I appreciate your concern over the telephone bill reimbursement request
I sent to HQ. I view my role in this procedure as record keeping,
as I said in the DC Council meeting. I could only check wether
the requested item is related to IFCSS Council business ad is to
proper budget. I think it is the IFCSS treasurer's duty to check
it against other relevant financial regulations of IFCSS and/laws.

As for Hongguang's phone bill reimbursement, I don't see anything
wrong. How did I review it? I looked at the phone bills to see whether
it is under Hongguang's name and whether the claimed called numbers
are reasonable. Actually Hongguang has done a good job in filing
the reimbursement: he did it with the formal reimbursement form
from the HQ.

I guess the question is on the amount. I would like to voice my thoughts.
Yes, it is a big number. So? Should we criticize him or praise him?
I would like to praise him: he spent so much time on phone for the 
IFCSS business. Even the phone bills would be reimbursed, his time
on it is still a huge value that he contributed to IFCSS.

The question is: do we have limit to the amount that certain Council member
could be reimbursed? No. Shall we have some trust to our colleagus 
workers in their judgement in using their phone?
It is necessary to remind ourselves that we always need to save 
money for IFCSS. But, I don't see any problem in the reimbursement
request.

When it comes to money, it becomes sensitive. Yes, we all should be
cautious in handling it. But, when you work for IFCSS, you get 
bills for it, I don't know what you should do. If you don't ask
reimbursement, it's you high value that we should amdire, but you
can't require all others to do the same as you.

However, I think business is business. In such case, I would get my
reimbursement first. Then if I want show more support to the organization
I work for, I write a check to it as a donation. If you want to show
your high moral value, you can write the check as big as you like,
as frequently as you like.

Yungui Ding

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From: Hongguang Zhou <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:31:19 -0400 (EDT)

Madison.

hongguang