cc: p.jones@uea.ac.uk date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:11 +0000 (GMT) from: Simon Clegg subject: money matters to: a.grant@uea.ac.uk Dear Alastair, I'm writing about a couple of financial matters. First some good news: I'm in the process of getting UC Davis to issue a subcontract to UEA to get my salary paid for at least another year. I expect it will be approved. The other thing is that the allocation of my salary over the last couple of years, which you may remember I've tried to correct more than once, seems still to be wrong. I'd be grateful if you'd apply some pressure to make sure things are fixed. Let me explain: The different sources of income to pay me have been a handful of research grants, of which the main one has been an EU grant ("EUCAARI"), and a 3 year NERC grant. The latter is "directly allocated" so the School gets all the money, as you explained to me in the summer. I share EUCAARI, which started in 2007, with Phil Jones in CRU. It was established at the beginning that it would pay for about 9 months of my time and the rest of the funds would pay for someone in CRU. At various times over the last couple of years I have discovered that the charges were not being done correctly - basically too much of my time was being charged to EUCAARI. I have tried to get the errors fixed, and to establish a calendar that shows where I should be paid from month by month. I last attempted to sort things out in late 2008, and the attached "emails.txt" file contains my instructions, and exchanges with Janice and others. I assumed from Janice's last message that everything was going to be put right. However - and you can guess what's coming - Phil Jones just emailed me with the following message: Simon, I've now some idea what needs to be done on my part of EUCAARI. Clare has looked at the budget and there is only about 2 months of a researcher time left! Clare also shows me that you've been paying yourself for months in 2007 and 2008. The last two months were July and August 2009. Can you talk to someone about getting this back 0 it may be a mistake? In the original DoW UEA had about 21 months of which I thought I had about 8. I can probably get done what needs to be done with 6. I need the 6 to be able to justify the number of months in the job advert. I'm combining this with some other work to make more months, which might then be more appealing. I'm going to need the two months from 2009 back. Cheers Phil >From his message it appears that my corrections haven't been made. The 2 months from 2009 Phil refers to may be related to a currency exchange windfall I think we expected - I used the surplus to pay myself another couple of months. If the money has come into the University then I should look at that again to see how many GBP the euros actually bought. I'd be grateful if you'd instruct someone to produce a document showing where I have been paid from, preferably since early 2007, and we'll go through the process of doing corrections again. Janice is always helpful but it seems that once things are out of her hands they disappear into a hole somewhere. Sincerely, Simon. ************************************** Simon L. Clegg, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K. email: s.clegg@uea.ac.uk phone: (0)1603 593185 fax: (0)1603 591327 Skype: slclegg (with video) SkypeIn: 919-975-4901 (USA) Professor Clegg is also a member of the Air Quality Research Centre at the University of California at Davis. ************************************** Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\emails.txt"