2001 Group Expenses

Mark, I have a "deal" for you regarding Dave's stretch target below ($83,000
further reduction for the Tech Services group).

I have 20 new people transfering into the Tech Services Group from EE&CC who
all need computers, office refurb, etc., and I have already cut down my
equipment budget to barely cover this and my outside consulting costs to
$11K. If you can bear my $83k reduction by reducing you $18.5MM outside
consulting budget by another $83k, I will pick up the first $83k of overage
you have during the year under my Restructuring Budget.

I would appreciate the help. Let me know,
Brian

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David W Delainey
11/09/2000 06:44 PM
To: Wes Colwell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, David Oxley/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Mark E Haedicke/HOU/ECT@ECT, Eric Thode/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Stephen
Douglass/HOU/EES@EES, Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT, Scott
Tholan/Corp/Enron@Enron, Brian Redmond/HOU/ECT@ECT, Joseph Deffner/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: 2001 Group Expenses

Guys, attached you will find a final cut on the ENA 2001 expense budget.
Please review and make any adjustments to your existing plan that are
appropriate to hit the net ENA target. In order to stay flat year on year, I
split the remaining positive variance equally across the groups. As we had
discussed earlier, these costs will not be allocated to the business units
and will be tracked on the ENA income statement below the line and the
accountability managed by each of you. All outside variable costs,
specifically related to specific deals, will be charged to the business units
eg) outside legal and tax, outside technical expertise, facility costs,
outside research support, incremental back and mid office support for
specific asset management deals, specific entertainment, etc. I look at this
cost structure as the minimum capacity charge we need to operate our business
and evaluate/manage our risks.

Wes, can you please finalize the one page plan (expenses and headcount) for
each group with these changes.

Regards
Delainey