Approved the research proposal from material engineering

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David Aquino, engineering director, started out the day uptight. His young child had the flu the night before, and he had been up all night to help. Upon arrival at his office, David had to make urgent phone calls to approve a two-week overtime work plan due to a plant fire the night before and to plan for a product committee meeting the next day to counter environmental concerns about a wastewater treatment plant.

David gave a retirement plaque to Jose Reyes in his own office in the presence of the personnel director at 1:45 p.m. Furthermore, he approved the request of two engineers for a week of overtime to design a new, final quality control station.

At 2:00 p.m., he was asked to attend a three-hour budget meeting at 3:00 p.m. called by the president. In the meeting, guidelines and a timetable for next year’s budget requests were discussed. For engineering, he was told there would be an increase of only 10%. He then arranged for a meeting with the president and the controller at 2:00 p.m. the next day to request more money.

What should Soledad do?