Charles said he would wait for a couple months before purchasing, in order to allow others the chance to join forces. DMA offered to investigate whether they could join with Charles, instead of purchasing on their own in the next few weeks as they had planned. Tami Luckwaldt distributed a set of spreadsheets. Jim Edgerton explained that money was moved permanently from other divisions budgets to DIRM s budget about a year ago. The way we draw down federal money was changed also with the consolidation of the Controller s Office.
Federal money is drawn into the budget code that earns it.
A couple meetings ago, the AMAC decided it was not fair to the divisions to have their money under DIRM s control and not used for the purpose for which it was budgeted. It was decided that the AMAC would manage it. Jim asked everyone to turn to page 2 of the stapled spreadsheets. This page represented a 3-year history of what funds the divisions had used at DIRM, and illustrated that the funding is generally less than is actually needed. Jim asked what the divisions wanted to do.