Program Review Board (PRB) Minutes – Sep. 25, 2003

 

Attendees:       

*Sherri Kraham                                    Acting Chair Director, Program Review Board

*Nick Harvey                                       Representative of the UK Government 

COL Paul Hough                                  CPA Comptroller        

COL Tony Bell                         CPA – Head of Contract Activities

COL Michael Toner                             Coalition Joint Task Force-7 Comptroller

LTC Terry Ross                                   Coalition Joint Task Force-7 Deputy Comptroller

Al Runnels                                            CPA Chief Financial Officer

*Gerald Thompson                               Representative of National Security and Defense

*Andy Bearpark                                   CPA Director of Operations

*George Wolfe                         Director, Economic Development

*Suzanne Schaffrath                             Representative of CPA - Governance

LTC Andy Hughes                               CPA General Counsel 

COL Mike Kirsch                                Director of Operation

*BGEN Jon A.Gallinetti                        Coalition Joint Task Force-7 Deputy Commander

MAJ Peter Bruotte                               Representative of the Ministry of Education

Jack Rintoul                                          Senior Advisor, Ministry of Housing and Construction

 

*Voting Members

 

 

The following Funding Requests were approved by the Board for recommendation to the Administrator:

 

#498 - School Refurbishment in the South, $888,000 – Spending authority was approved for CPA’s South region to fund this project under the Construction Initiative program.  These funds will be used to provide $500 grants to 1776 of the 2200 schools in the South which have not been renovated under CPA or other programs.  Payments will be disseminated in the form of a grant to parent teacher associations, as was successfully implemented elsewhere in the country, where the program generated a great deal of positive activity from the community including the contribution of free labor.  The Board approved, conditional upon the provision of a monthly report to the PRB (and Ministry of Education) on the status of the project.  The project will be overseen by CPA-South Region. 

 

#493 – Public Information Campaign – Back to School and Salary Scale - $53,500  Funds were approved for two public information campaigns - $50,000 for (undated) materials related to the opening of primary school and the importance of getting children in school and $3,500 to supplement a previous request for dissemination of information about the new government salary scale.