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

Program Review Board (PRB) Minutes – Sep. 25, 2003 *Sherri Kraham Acting Chair Director, Program Review Board *Nick Harvey Representative of the UK Government 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 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.