Program Review Board (PRB) Minutes – Oct. 07, 2003

Program Review Board (PRB) Minutes – Oct. 07, 2003 Attendees: *Sherri Kraham Acting Chair/ Director, Program Review Board Heidi Venamore Representative of the Government of Australia *Amb. Neil Mules Senior Representative from Government of Australia *Nick Harvey Representative of the UK Government COL Paul Hough CPA Comptroller COL Tony Bell CPA – Head of Contracting Activities *COL Michael Toner Coalition Joint Task Force-7 Comptroller LTC Terry Ross Coalition Joint Task Force-7 Deputy Comptroller *Gerald Thompson Representative of National Security and Defense *Suzanne Schaffrath Representative of Governance *COL Mike Kirsch Director of Operations – Chief of Staff James Carrera CPA – Program Management Liaison Cell Hank Bassford CPA – Baghdad, Regional Coordinator Henin Baugh CPA – Baghdad, Representative Jack Rintoul Senior Advisor to Ministry of Housing & Construction Gillian MacLean Representative of Directorate of Operations *Voting Members The Program Review met to discuss the Iraq 2004 Budget. When waiting for the Finance & Budget Ministry representative to show up, COL Reynolds led off the discussions on Salaries for the 2004 budget. All Salaries are to be part of the ministries budget in 2004. A new salary scale was requested to be developed by Ambassador Bremer. The Budget & Finance office needs the number of workers, their grades and their steps for each ministry. The CPA Senior Ministry Advisors need to complete this count before 31 December. The Minister of Finance was held up at another meeting and was unable to attend. The meeting was adjourned without taking any action on the Iraq 2004 Budget.