proposal for the travel policy - no receipts for <= $500

Stormy Peters stormy.peters at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 20:28:35 UTC 2016


Can we keep the same policy but say that the member project must collect
and approve receipts before we approve?

$500 seems like a lot to me.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
wrote:

> Stormy Peters wrote at 00:19 (PDT):
> > Is all the travel project specific?
>
> Just to add to Karen's answer on this question, for the sake of newer
> subscribers to policies-discuss who might not know this part:
>
> Conservancy staff follows the exact same travel policy that our member
> projects do.
>
> However, the "no receipts <= $500" proposal could likely never apply to
> Conservancy staff, because there's no "PLC to attest", as this proposed
> change requires.  (i.e., for Conservancy staff travel, Karen as
> Executive Director reviews all staff travel expense reports except her
> own, and the Treasurer reviews hers.)
>
> So, I would expect for all staff travel, we'd still follow the existing
> procedures, even when an individual trip cost is below $500.
>
> The proposal works for member project travel because the PLC is an
> additional governing body available to provide additional oversight.
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