After P the boss left, leaving me floundering like a haddock on a fishing boat, the Highways Manager said to me "P used to get the money and I spent it". I had little idea how P got the money, but 2 months ago, I rewrote a couple of his bids for funds from the Regional Funding Allocation (Round 2, or RFA2). Relatively small bids but he had got acceptance for them, despite their small size, and my rewrites were those on the table.
In my infrequent visits to the regional directors group (like a minnow in a group of Great White Sharks, to carry on with fish analogies, and to confuse fresh and salt water species, for that matter), I noticed there was an underspend in the first round of regional funding (RFA1), so I shyly suggested that my schemes could be delivered quickly, and soak up some of the underspend in Round One.
Lo and behold, after my Assistant Director was roped into going to the directors group yesterday, it turns out one of the bids was accepted (the other, to my chagrin, being too small for the grand Regional Assembly: if only they had said, I could have made it much bigger!).
So that is four and a half million squids (again, fish!) to improve a junction and enable the construction of 1000s of new homes as allocated in the Regional Spatial Strategy, and to improve access to our local fishing port(!). I haven't ever done that before.
2 comments:
Knew you'd actually be good at it! Well done matey! :)
my goodness anyone would think you were actually capable of doing your job! Fancy that.
;-)
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