A Bi-Weekly Newsletter from ITA Administration | |
Office of the Chief Financial Officer |
Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
Invitation to
Orientation Training Course ITA will host Orientation Training for new and current ITA employees on June 13, 2006. The training explains ITA’s strategic goals and objectives so that new employees can fully contribute to the mission of the organization. It also emphasizes the benefits of ITA’s recently implemented reorganization and showcases the synergies among all four ITA units on crosscutting issues. You will participate in a full day of training that is highly interactive and conducted by a professional trainer. This course is open to career employees new to ITA since February 2006, to employees who were not able to take the last course in February 8, and to any ITA employee that would benefit from this training opportunity. Space is limited, so please take advantage of this great opportunity to learn about your organization. Your senior management fully supports your participation in this program. Deputy Under Secretary Michelle O’Neill will provide opening remarks. You will also have the opportunity to interact with senior managers from your program area. To register for this training, contact Charles Jefferson in the Office of Organization and Management Support (OOMS) via email at charles.jefferson@mail.doc.gov or telephone at (202)482-6078. Detailed information regarding the training agenda, time and location will be provided to registered participants in advance of the training. An advisory committee is a group established by statute, the President, or senior agency official to obtain advice on issues or policies. If the responsibility to establish an advisory committee has been placed upon your program unit and you do not know where to begin, please click on the following link http://www.ita.doc.gov/ooms/APTable.htm, scroll down to Chapter 6. Management and Systems and click on Advisory Committees. This takes you directly to the International Trade Administration’s (ITA’s) guidance on advisory committees. If you need additional assistance you may contact Jacqueline Harris, ITA Advisory Committee Liaison, at (202)482-4011 or via email at Jacqueline.Harris@mail.doc.gov. ITA travelers are reminded that a travel voucher must be completed and sent to the National Business Center (NBC) after a trip that involves a travel gift. A travel voucher must be completed for all in-kind travel gifts, even if the trip involves no expense to the government. For those travelers located overseas where NBC does not process your travel voucher, you must still send to NBC a copy of the approved travel voucher that involves a travel gift. If you have questions, please call Sharon Russell at (202)482-3267. ITA leadership recently conducted a comprehensive mid-year financial and performance review of each program and found that planned program accomplishment is on schedule and all financial indicators show that this year will require continued fiscal constraint as we approach year-end. If you have questions, please contact your Budget Analyst or Doug Allis at (202)482-9151. ITA submitted it's initial FY 2008 budget proposal to the Secretary on May 16th. Our proposal will be reviewed by the Secretary's staff and we will get the Department's responses during the summer. After the Secretary decides on the level of funding for ITA then the budget will be recast for review by the Office of Management and Budget. If you have questions, please contact your Budget Analyst or Doug Allis at (202)482-9151. |
Question: How do I dispute a transaction on a purchase card statement? Answer: Cardholder may dispute a transaction on their government purchase card statement in Citibank Citidirect system by logging on to http://www.cards.citidirect.com (If the cardholder has never been in Citidirect before or it has been several months since they last visited the website, please contact Citibank Help Desk at 1-800-790-7206, option 2, for Username and Password instructions).
The
progress of ITA's appropriations can be followed on the Library of
Congress - Thomas web site - a link is provided below. ITA progress is
listed under the Science/State/Justice/Commerce subcommittee in the House
and the Commerce/Justice/Science subcommittee in the Senate. For your
convenience both are listed together on the web site. The Thomas web site
address is: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app07.html
For additional information, please contact Doug Allis at
(202)482-9151.
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Approved by the Office of ITA Acting DOA
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