I don't know. No where on the SSA web site is there any indication of how
many employees the SSA has.

What I do know is that I have a business with 3 locations and 15 employees.
My annual telecommunications budget, including all of my phone lines, phone
systems, long distance, and cell phone service, is less than half of the SSA
budget. I don't know what "electronic communications" is, but my total
Internet budget, including DSL lines to all of my locations, web hosting and
e-mail hosting is less than $2,000 per year. My computer hardware budget
averages less than $2,000, including the cost of a couple of replacement
laptops in the last few months (which cost me $399 each).

I suspect that there are significant opportunities for savings, but without
knowing more details, that's just speculation on my part.

Mike Schumann

"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message
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Mike Schumann wrote:
I would agree that a whole new team needs to clean house.

One place to start is to take a close look at the budget. Here are some
samples:

$14,000 / yr for "Electronic Communications"
$16,800 / yr for "Equipment Rental"
$16,750 / yr for "Computer Maintenance"
$17,000 / yr for "Telecommunications"
$17,500 / yr for "Utilities"
$32,000 / yr for "Travel"
$21,500 / yr for "Building Maintenance & Grounds"
etc.....

How big of an organization is this? I would suspect that there is a lot
of economizing that could be done if someone started paying attention.

You can tell that just by looking at a budget? OK, what is the proper
amount for travel? For building maintenance & grounds? Or just pick an
easy one and tell us...

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