What is a Transportation Secretary?

My desk in the office is called the Transportation Secretary, though I have other things than just transportation. My responsibilities include:

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Transportation Secretary, which means I'm in charge of all train tickets, boat tickets, airplane tickets (we do have people fly places sometimes), and everything in regards to travel within mission boundaries. This can get a bit tedious at times, with gigantic conferences and lots of exchanges, but for the most part I like it!

Vehicle Coordinator, which means I am in charge of all the cars in the mission. Thankfully, we only have 24 cars in our mission, but I'm in charge of taking care of the maintenance for them all, all the accidents and wrecks we get, working with the insurance, and probably biggest, making sure all the drivers we have are legal in France to drive and are church certified. That is ongoing, I work with a lot of spreadsheets keeping up with the state of the cars and drivers, who is legal to drive, who will become illegal soon (after one year non-European

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drivers' licenses are invalid), and who is certified. This is probably my biggest and most stressful job.

First Year legality. This is me getting together a bunch of paperwork, like passport scans, proof of insurance, proof of residency, and stuff like that together for all the incoming missionaries to the mission, to get them all legal in the country, and to make sure they have all that they need to stay legal for the first year here.

Cell Phones. I'm in charge of replacing broken cell phones, ordering new ones every once in a while, re attributing numbers to different SIM cards when they get lost, and that sort of thing. It's alright, the mission cell phones seem to break often, so it's a fairly involved process.