August 28^th, 2006

Student Tech Fee Minutes

Officer Nominations

·         President: Matt Everitt

·         Secretary: Eli Rufe

Increasing Student Technology Fees

·         Student Tech Fee Increase Approved by committee to a set rate of $100/yr.

o       Open hearings will commence, yet to be determined

·         Any increase >5% requires open hearings, 2/3 committee approval, dean, ITEC, Board of Governors approvals

·         5% is ~$3.54

Budget for College of Agriculture

·         Current tech fee for fall/spring is $70.89

o       2,745 Students/yr = $194,565.60 + $4.895 Carryover =

o       Projected Budget of $199,461.20

o       Minus maintenance/other necessary costs = $56,634

o       Minus Grad Students costs ($25,291.81) = $29,343 for undergraduate students

·         Larry will begin to post budget reports on AGSCI webpage (monthly?)

·         Committee should decide whether or not to purchase more computers per year, from 20 to 40 units.

o       The number of computers no longer under warranty is a concern; more new computers per year will solve that problem.

·         Committee should decide on additional disc space servers/plotter purchase

o       Want vs. Need/Practicality, take web bundle into account

·         New Microsoft contract for staff computers allows student computer labs to have free operating system upgrades.

Web Bundle

·         Adobe/Macromedia Products

o       Upgrade all labs, just two, or just one

§         Costs: $309/license + $74.45 CS2 Maintenance + $68.73 Macromedia Maintenance = $452.45/license with maintenance

§         For 90 Machines (all three labs), $42,077.85 with maintenance

·         $28,762.11 without maintenance

o       Dreamweaver upgrades (required regardless) alone costs $137.45/license

·         THIS SHALL BE ADDRESSED AT NEXT MEETING  

o       Web bundle w/out maintenance vs. Web bundle with maintenance, and which labs to upgrade.

Room 218 Completion

·         Operation: complete.

·         It is very nice; check it out if you haven’t yet.

·         There are open slots for classes still available.  Let people know.

Larry’s PC/Laptop Purchases

·         Larry needs a new PC/Laptop

o       Should Student tech fees fund this or not?

§         Committee should discuss and vote on this at next meeting.

Set Meeting Date for Fall Semester

·         Second Tuesday of Fall Semester

Next Meeting

·         September 19^th, 4:30pm

o       All items from ‘Student Tech Fee Agenda – August 29^th, 2006’ that were not addressed, should be at the next meeting:

§         Room 218 additional upgrade

§         Mediasite

§         Department purchases –

·         Horticulture wants new cameras

§         Ag Grad Lab wants to standardize software in all computers

§         Matt Everitt