Due to budget restrictions, and the reluctance of my employer to replace departed staff, I find myself at the top of the list (due to the unavailabilty of the Assistant Director and the Environment Commissioner) to attend meetings of subgroups of the Regional Assembly,otherwise known as EDG/TOG (Environment Directors Group/Transport Officers Group) but only Environment Directors (and me, a mere local government minor functionary) attended, who want to talk about regional transport funding bids. It is my function to not let my little authority slip off the regional funding list/horizon.
I had to deal with: NE, HA, EA, PINS, GoSW, HaCa, RIEP, RFA1, RFA2, RCF, RIF, EDG, TOG(as above), DfT, RSS, RES, RTB, RA, RDA, IMD, SSCT, IDP, GVA, VfM, FKRoF and topslice, connectivity and maintenance bids (prizes for correct translations). Add "commissioning" and "zero-based budgetting" on a local basis and my head is ready to explode. I got in a word with someone from the Regional Assembly about how we could help with their underspend, and get local projects paid for, and got a positive response, so I did my job and kept up our local profile in the face of the big boys, like the County Councils. I got to arrive by car as well, thanks to M volunteering to go to work by train, (when on the one previous occasion, I arrived, drenched, on foot from the station), so I could power drive my ego to and from the, rather remote and unsustainable, venue. Then I went to the dentist , back in Newton Abbot, and got a thorough torturing. jeez
Steep learning curve and I really ought to ask for a payrise when I win my 6 and a 1/2 million squids for my projects.
4 comments:
You bloody made them all up, shurely? You forgot one: CAD.
:)
I think I've mentioned before TOG is Terry's Old Geezers!
I doubt I'll be able to get a ticket!
You must be a very clever Hutters to get all those letters after your name. By the way, is budgetting with two t's a real word or have you caught the merman disease of drunken typing:)
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