2009/8/28 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
Depends how you want to look at it, since the dollar
bills aren't color
coded or anything. But the last budget I bothered to look at (which I
believe is the one before the last one released) was underspent in the area
of technology and overspent in other areas. So I think it's valid to say
that "tech money was spent on other things". As I said, I didn't even
bother looking at the last budget. After hearing Sue admit that the one I'm
talking about was padded, there was little point.
There were explanations for all those over- and under-spends. I
considered them all to be good explanations. I would have to look at
the report again to be sure, but I think there was a better than
budgeted surplus in the year you are talking about, so the reason for
not spending the full tech budget wasn't lack of funds from having
spent them elsewhere.