Superintendents should be proactively working with both their managing agents and boards on methods of further slimming expenses within their control in balance with service levels expected. If a building’s board with a $1mm operating budget isn’t experiencing them coming forward with cost-savings ideas, directors wouldn’t be thinking twice about his/her electric bill (unless you have a penchant for thinking “Green” which is valid in its own right). As water finds it own level, in time, so do supers and boards who will pair off appropriately; the unqualified super and the petty board, the qualified super whose always challenged yet appreciated by their community. Perfection isnt obtained though it's sought.