events equip budget warning:

ravanwin · Post by **ravanwin** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:50 pm

we're down to £-245 for the events space equiptment.

Just a warning. That's out of a yearly budget of £960.

Shannon · Post by **Shannon** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:29 pm

What budget is this? I'm confused. What has all the money gone towards?

swithun · Post by **swithun** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:30 am

I blew it on a new projector bulb. I still need to cash the cheque. I didn't want to renegociate the budgets (especially as I don't need many expensive things), but perhaps we didn't give enough to this WG, if a valid purchase puts it into the red by a huge amount. I was one of the people who came up with these back of an envelope figures, so maybe I (and everyone else) should live with it. Who knows.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:13 am

How much was the bulb, is that the only purchase?

The way the budgets were worked out was thinking through everything that needed to be bought in a typical year. I don't recall projector bulbs featuring in the discussion so this might be considered an oversight.

Then again, we shouldn't need to buy a new bulb very often so perhaps this isn't a problem - over the year as a whole it may work out.

swithun · Post by **swithun** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:16 am

The bulb was a bargain at 258 pounds. I don't think we did consider projector bulbs when we came up with the numbers. Maybe it is too soon to try and up the budget. There is another 700+ quid to spend on 7 colour bear suits.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:19 am

When was the last time we needed a new bulb?

swithun · Post by **swithun** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:22 am

If this was the last time, then January 2007. That's insane. 400 days with 5 hours every day. How did that happen? Even with all the Christmas filth, Ryan's afternoon comedies and films twice a week that is some doing.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:31 am

I don't think we can have used it that much.

My bet is that the lifetime counter didn't get reset when the bulb was replaced last time. We may have not needed this replacement. Did we keep the old one?

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:35 am

I'm confused now, looking back through old threads for projector stuff.

This thread suggests we bought a new projector in July '07:

http://www.theforest.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2930

swithun · Post by **swithun** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:43 am

I still have the old one. If the counter didn't get reset, then it would have given a warning each time it was turned on. But it didn't.

swithun · Post by **swithun** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:48 am

That is a spare projector for moving around - upstairs, gallery, external events. The fixed cafe one has remained the same.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:50 pm

Hmm. Maybe the counter period is not the same as the specified lifespan.