Kudos
Kudos
by Kyra Worrell
To: Ann Anderson, Cindy Gregovich, Pramilla Chand and Karen Long (Payables Administration)
From: Sara Gomez, Director, Administrative Information Services
Comment: Just wanted to update you all (and you may already know this) on another successful partnership between Purchasing, Payables and the ePrep team. The teams had a successful go-live on 10/4 of the M&E (Machinery and Equipment) Sales Tax Exemption Project, thanks to the hard work and considerable efforts of Ernie Jones, Arylton Costa, Janet Schwartz, and Doyle Huckabay (ePrep); Ann Anderson, Cindy Gregovich, Pramilla Chand and Karen Long (Financial Mgmt/Payables); and Ann Barry, Carla Helm (Purchasing). This project touched all of the major PAS online areas: requisition entry, buying, and accounts payable. It is anticipated that the M&E Sales Tax Exemption will bring the University considerable tax savings by allowing the University to take advantage of a recent tax exemption granted by the WA state Dept of Revenue for purchases of machinery and equipment over $1000, meeting specific criteria (directly used more than 50% of its useful life on qualifying research, with a useful life over one year). The work done by these teams automates manual procedures that have already saved the University $2 million since Feb '04! A great accomplishment and thanks to all!
To: Sue Camber (RAA), V’Ella Warren (Financial Management) and team
From: Bryan Sires, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor & Acting Chair, Boyd K. Bucey Memorial Chair of Ophthalmology, Harborview Med Ctr.
Comment: I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for your efforts related to FEC. It was an impressive and helpful presentation and I recognize it came from an enormous amount of work that has taken place over the past year. I know many others played important roles but I write you due to your leadership roles in the University and SOM, respectively. Please feel free to share my sentiments with the group. I realize there are still some issues to be worked out but it is nice to see a PROACTIVE approach to a complex issue. It is a clear sign that we have learned from our past mistakes related to dealing with resources from the Federal Government and that is all anyone can ask. Thank you for your steadfast leadership.
To: Diane Cooley and Kyra Worrell (SFS)
From: Shautzie Shieh, Counselor Senior Student Support Services/Office of Minority Affairs
Comment: Thank you very much for leading the Money 101 workshop for the staff and students in the Student Support Services program last Thursday. It was very informative and interesting. Both Tim Mccoy and I think we will arrange another presentation for our students in the future. Thank you again for your service to the students!
To: Lynn Duong (Payroll)
From: Donald Kunz, Budget Analyst for the Breast Group, Division of Oncology
Comment: Over the past year, I have been completing RSTs for Division of Oncology budgets where the PI is one of our 4 breast cancer physicians. I have consistently found Lynn Duong helpful over the phone, accurate with her work, and her work is done in an expeditious manner. It’s a pleasure working with her.
To: Jeff Follman (Financial Accounting)
From: Ken Anderson, Director, Finance & Administration, Office of the Dean, School of Public Health
Comment: Just a quick note of heartfelt thanks to Jeff Follman for his extraordinary efforts in obtaining a $100k building construction tax exemption for us. We had unknowingly undermined our initial position by not understanding the process. Jeff skillfully and successfully navigated the process, both here and in Olympia, with the positive outcome expressed below. Jeff's fine work will allow us to complete our project within original budget limits, which is critical to the success of this innovative research program. Many thanks to Jeff!
To: Ben Gines (RAA)
From: Terri E. Whitney, Research Coordinator, UW School of Nursing, Dept of Family & Child Nursing
Comment: I wanted to send you an email about the great service I received from Ben. I was in a tight jam earlier this week with the UWMC when they called to say that our budget was not approved for food. Somehow FIN was showing that we were not approved for food and that was one of many things that went wrong for me this week. By the time I called Ben I was not in a very good mood. Ben was able to calm me down and fix the problem. I appreciate his willingness to help me and get the situation resolved quickly and professionally. We had subjects coming in this week and it would have been embarrassing if we could not provide them food as promised in our guidelines. Thank you again Ben for helping our research!
To: Lily Gebrenegus (RAA)
From: Carole Davison, Assistant Director of Development, College of Architecture & Urban Planning
Comment: Lily! You ROCK! Thanks so much for doing this so quickly!
To:GRIP Team (On going GRIP going “live”) (RAA)
From: Sara Gomez, Director, Administrative Information Services
Comment: GRIP Team - Congratulations on this huge milestone! You all should feel great about what you have accomplished as a team.
To: Mark Landis (SFS)
From: Richard Y. Hom, parent of UW student
Comment: I would like to thank you for your assistance in getting the financial aid disbursements for my son (Matthew Chien-Hom) taken care of. You were very helpful and supportive. Again, Thank-You.
To: Frank Montgomery (Financial Management)
From: Sandra H. Lier, Associate Vice President for Business Services
Comment: (In regards to detailed suggestions for NACUBO advocacy issues) Thank you very much, Frank. This information is quite useful and I appreciate you and your team going to the trouble to compile it. I'll share with the NACUBO External Relations Committee next week.
To: Calvin Tran (RAA)
From: Michael M. Nguyen, Manager of Program Operations, WaNPRC
Comment: Just wanted to inform you that Calvin was very helpful is resolving the whole invoicing with budget 62-9637. We had to make some revisions to the invoice and he was kind enough to expedite a revised copy. It's very helpful to have people that go the extra mile on your side. Thanks.
