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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Hi everyone,</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">With me helping out in
the accounting queue recently, and Conservancy’s board meeting
coming up, I’ve been looking at specific changes we can propose
to make the travel policy friendlier. That’s coming up—but
first, to lay the groundwork for those, I wanted to make some
changes that don’t change the rules, so we’d have a better base
to discuss bigger changes.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Those changes are in a
branch 2017-08-reflect-practice. <a
href="https://k.sfconservancy.org/policies/changelog?branch=2017-08-reflect-practice">Here’s
the history of commits</a>; <a
href="https://k.sfconservancy.org/policies/files/bcc90cfb1a5d3424063f38e34203edb2764f3cb8/Travel/conservancy-travel-policy.md">here’s
the policy with all the changes</a>. Some of the commits are
copyedits too small to comment on, but I did want to highlight
some of the bigger changes for anyone interested.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;"><a
href="https://k.sfconservancy.org/policies/changeset/5f8a406c13e3b225c437d3d758007548bc8ffa27">Format
the policy as Markdown</a> - It was previously asciidoc, but
there’s so much more tooling available for Markdown now, it made
sense to go ahead and do this.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;"><a
href="https://k.sfconservancy.org/policies/changeset/3422d93682351b0ea41f869965f2bfc77467d89b">Update
information about rates we use</a> - This is the most
substantial change in the branch, but it was forced on us by
external factors. A few of you have noticed the Bank of Canada
no longer publishes useful currency conversion rates as of
April. Because of that, we have switched to Open Exchange Rates
for the same job. This commit also cleans up the easy reference
section so it doesn’t refer to GSA rates when those aren’t
relevant for international travel.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;"><a
href="https://k.sfconservancy.org/policies/changeset/0dcee4e12c2af8fd5760063c20550f44ba453695">Explain
that baggage fees require a receipt</a> - The policy explains
that all expenses require a receipt unless they’re covered by
M&IE per diem. Most individual sections remind the reader
about this, but the baggage section didn’t. This commit fixes
that.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">If you have questions
about these changes or others in the branch, please write back
and let us know.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Thank you,</p>
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