"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone." - Benjamin Franklin

I will not discuss the clutter of small budget lines. The 10k here and a 5k there. Clearly they do add up to sizable amount. They are not there just to make my book keeping easier. Or, if you like, less transparent. They do all have their raison d'être. What I will try to do is to draw with a broad brush the main lines on how LHCb uses the funds and why. I will also touch the point that from time to time in the evolution of an experiment some items - close to ones heart - has to be sacrificed for the good of the community.

Usage of M&O Category A: Support of the detector system Data taking 71 % Detector related cost On line Running of the experiment Technical services Logistics GRID operation Support of the experiment 26 % General services Secretariat and communication Core comp. prod. manager Testing and repair at CERN Test beam Laboratories 3 % Consolidation of the experiment Cat A and Cat B in LHCb. A : B  2 : 1 Cat_B

The big three in Cat_A: Detector related cost914k or 37 % On line850k or 34 % General services360k or 14 %85 % Detector related cost: The operation cost is either covered by service contracts or by man power. The consumables are to a large extent governed by gas and cooling fluids. The balance is about C:O=50:50, which looks reasonable here. On line: The main parts are either System management (man power) or Processors (hardware). The total investment until now is in the range of 2M. In 2009, the Farm and the DAQ read-out network will both be upgraded by about 700%. Maintenance contracts starts at installation of network equipment. Already 120 Controls PCs are out of warranty. Our estimate of about 300k looks to be correct for consumables in the line: Computers/processors/LANs. System management (man power) has been under spent in the previous years due to the inability to open new technical staff jobs at CERN funded by M&O_A. This looks now to have been resolved. General services: 3/4 of the cost is to run in an acceptable way the pit, to provide spare parts and man power. About 1/5 has been earmarked for Outreach (2.6% of total M&O_A).

The next three: Secretariat (and communication)200k or 8% Core Computing100k or 4% Test beam and Laboratories 80k or 3% Secretariat: Governed by 1.5 FTE (and a little bit of printing). Core Computing: The Core Computing Chapter has always been set to zero until now. The expressed intention of the LHCb collaboration has throughout been that we will try to find the missing manpower, 4 FTE by the last count, on voluntary basis inside the collaboration and not ask for Core Computing service tasks charged to Category A. This position is no longer tenable. 100k has therefore been earmarked to pay extra living cost for a production manager to be stationed at CERN. Test facilities: At the moment, these budget lines are at a minimum. It is expected that as we soon will have a vigorous R&D program for the upgrade, the funding ought to increase towards the funding in Inside the current budget, this is, unfortunately, not possible.

Some other points or spare slides

Compilation of cost for the On line system. On Line It has always been the expressed objective of the experiment to purchase the hardware "just in time" to maximise the performance to cost ratio and thereby also minimise the maintenance cost. Proposed Cat A Budget for 2009 to (Assumed inflation of about 2.3 %)

Breakdown of the Outreach budget:

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