Folio 03
Ledger Reading
A desk reading that marks where a chart would drift from the ordinance, delivered as annotated pages rather than a bound set of drawings.
- Form
- Annotated reading notes, returned to the clerk
- Time
- About ten days for a single fund
- Place
- Read at the studio from copies the clerk sends
- Fee
- From a single fund; a second fund is quoted on top
Some years the clerk does not need a folio yet. The draft is still moving, the executive is still merging projects, and a finished chart would only have to be thrown away. A Ledger Reading is the prior step: we read the draft and return the pages with marks where a later chart would lie.
The notes point at three kinds of trouble. A project name in the narrative that does not match the line in the table. A capital item written as if it were this year’s whole cost when the appendix shows a tail into the next fiscal year. A gloss someone has already drafted for the hearing that quietly groups two heads the ordinance keeps apart.
You receive the marked copy and a short letter in the clerk’s language of work, usually Thai, with an English version if you ask. You do not receive charts. If the reading shows a folio would help, we say so, and the folio is a separate commission after the draft settles.
One fund is the starting scope: the expenditure ordinance, or the revenue estimate, not both, unless the quote says both. We need a complete copy. A partial PDF with the capital appendix missing is returned with that gap named, not filled.