arturo- i think you may have forgotten to add sundays and the student village to the computer labs in your calculations? in any case, i made some adjustments to your spreadsheet, which you can see attached in case i made any errors. IF i counted everything right there are a total of ~686 hours/week (not including people coming in early to work). that would mean a savings of $686 a week with a $1 cut, and with ~29 weeks/academic year, around $19,894 savings/year. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Arturo M. Escajeda <artesc@xxxxxx> wrote: > Like I said earlier, we could suggest* > *1) cutting the pay down a bit. If everyone took a $1.00 cut, times the > number of hours worked every week (I calculated it to be about 500) would be > $500 a week in savings. (i attached a spreadsheet of my calculations in case > I made errors). > > > Also, we might consider even going so far as *closing 1 or 2 of the labs*that > are less busy, or at least, 1 or 2 of the labs that are less > centralized and serve a smaller number of students. I am not sure if this > would be feasible or not; and I am certainly hoping that it doesn't come to > this, but ultimately, the closing of 1 or 2 labs will have far less of an > effect on the student population here than closing every lab on campus down. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Justin Williamson <plato@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hope everybody gets this... Note that you can only email into the >> list from your BU address at this point. If you want these emails to >> go to a different address or be able to reply from a different >> address, let me know and I'll make it happen. >> >> I've been asked to write up a series of alternatives and proposals as >> a first step in our meeting with the Towers RHA representative. On >> top of the things brought up in the Facebook group, and in the emails >> that have circulated so far, does anybody have any other ideas? Also, >> feel free to "2nd" some of the ideas you think are most feasible. If >> possible, try and get some kind of back-of-the-envelope calculation as >> to how much money your proposal could save or generate. >> >> -Justin >> >> >> > > > -- > Sincerely, > Arturo M. Escajeda > -- Annabelle Ho http://wholesomecuisine.blogspot.com http://slowfoodbu.blogspot.com http://kombuchafuel.blogspot.com -- Annabelle Ho http://wholesomecuisine.blogspot.com http://slowfoodbu.blogspot.com http://kombuchafuel.blogspot.com