Eastern Oregon University

Tech-Fee Committee Minutes

February 9, 2001

Members Present: Cavinato, Espil, Beal, Buboltz, Hart, Baisden, Larison. Resource members present: Dill, Cutright, Taylor

Minutes:

Tech Fee Committee met on this date at 7:00am in IH 203 to hear presentations from authors of various proposals for funding.

Minutes from February 2, 2001 meeting were approved as submitted.

Committee approved the purchase of three new HP 4050N printers (approximately $1450.00 ea) from the Equipment Replacement Account. They are to replace two printers in the Pierce Lab and one printer in the Learning Center Lab. The printers being replaced are well used and no longer capable of keeping up with the volume of printing required in the student labs.

Anna spoke with Darlene Morgan regarding a possible equipment reserve account within the Tech Fee budget. Darlene said that (after further consideration since her last conversation about this matter) it might be possible to set up the equipment reserve account, but that once money was allocated to that account it could never be spent elsewhere. Marv asked at what level such an account would have to be funded. Anna will get more information from Darlene at a later time. Anna also learned from Darlene that all tech fee money collected from Summer Term students would go into the following year’s budget.

Proposals by the following individuals were presented and explained:

Jeff Woodford – Chemistry

Ron Kelley – Chemistry

Dixie Lund – DDE

Kat Galloway & Jason Brown - Art

Jim Krieder – Student Activities

Questions regarding the various proposals were brought forward by committee members. Questions included concerns such as whether or not the authors of the proposals had sought like-kind funding elsewhere, and how much (if any) of the request included on-going support after this year. It was stressed by the committee that according to the original guidelines for the Tech Fee, funds from the Tech Fee may not be used to fund equipment for faculty or staff use.

Meeting Adjourned at 9:20am.

Minutes Submitted by Helen Moore