This is government, no such thing as one person in charge. We are a City and a County. The Mayor is in control of the City, and another 8 elected offices are in the County (but no County supervisor). So, there are 9 officials in charge. Not even the voters are in charge as the State of Missouri appoints some of the officials.
Even the City police force isn't under the rule of the Mayor. The State of Missouri took control of the St. Louis Police force and the Kansas City police force during the Civil war. The State was a slavery state, but the metro areas (or what might pass for a metro area back then), were not that much into that slavery thing. The underground railroad was a big thing in St. Louis that helped many slaves get across the river to IL (free state). Oh, btw, the City being it's own County, isn't the same thing as St. Louis County, that is a different County. Confused yet? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/11/05 9:54 AM >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:15:00AM -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > Now I don't know many department managers that would spend X dollars > out of their budget to save Y dollars in someone elses budget. You > might use the savings to justify the expenditure "up the line", but the > savings are soft dollars. Never measured. Never seen. So you just need to go a bit further 'up the line' to find the point at which the two departments have a common manager, and sell it to him/her. :) At some level in any organisation there's someone who would have visibility of both budgets -- if that's the Managing Director (CEO, President, whatever) then it might be a bit harder but it doesn't make the point invalid... The nice thing is that cutting utility costs doesn't (usually) do anyone out of a job -- it makes for an easier cost-saving proposition than the budget cuts that might mean job losses. How many CEOs would knock back a proposal that: a) reduced overheads, and b) didn't involve giving anyone the sack? Cheers, Vic Cross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
