Tech Meeting Minutes

April 12, 2005

Attendees: Stephanie Van Dyken, Chris Thornburg, Tamla Blunt, Matt Cleveland, Kelli Wemp, Greg Litus, Ed Peyronnin (non-voting)

Agenda:

1. Call to order.
2. Vote on purchasing Graduate computers over the summer.
3. Discuss tech fees and scholarship.
4. Summer purchases.

Vote:

The group unanimously voted to purchase the Graduate computers in the summer.

Scholarships:

The scholarship will most likely be dropped. The decision will not be finalized until June.

The group discussed the lengthy process for raising tech fees $25.00. It was decided that the process would be too much work and the increase was not necessary.

The group would like to raise the tech fees 5%. This will increase the fees from about $67.00 to about $70.00.  We will continue to raise fees annually - based on vote - until we have raised the fee $25.00.

The 5% increase will be voted on through an email vote. (Note: The vote was taken it passed)

Order of Purchase:

A priority list was decided upon for the t4eaching lab in Shepardson 218: Desks first, then the plasma screens.

Priority for general labs is: Computers, Scanner, then digitizers.

A decision was made to continue to amount purchase 20 undergraduate computers.

The list of items that need to purchase is:

Computers

Tables

1 - 11x17 scanner

3 digitizers

Plasma screen (1 big or 2 small)

Additional projectors

Meeting Adjourned.