Minutes:

The first Charges for Technology meeting began at 5:00pm, Sept 24, 2002.  This meeting was for graduate students due to their larger budgets. 

The following were in attendence; Ed Peyronnin, Pamela Kaval, Sally Clayshulte, Kirby Childs, Greg Litus and Craig Hansen.  In absentia was Tamla Blunt.  Craig graciously volunteered to be the Chair for the coming year.  Sally took the minutes of the meeting.

Ed reported that enrollment is up in the College increasing the amount of money available.  He handed out detailed budgets and brought everyone up to date.  Ten percent of the budget is going for support which includes Rich’s salary and some of the technology upgrades.  Ed has been working on a help desk with a web interface to allow students to submit computer problems.  It will be a more direct system to identify areas that need Rich’s attention.  This should be up by the end of Oct.

Another expense coming out of this year’s budget is NAS.  A big ‘HONKING’ hard drive was purchased.  The I.S. group is in the process of setting up student accounts for everyone in the College.  The accounts will be accessed by individual log ins.  The undergraduate students will have 100MB of storage available while the graduate students will have 300MB.  The system is to be up and running by the end of the semester. 

There was some discussion on features to add to future computer purchases.  We are encouraged to buy flat screens either 15 or 17 inch, optical mice (cheap $17.31) and DVD RW (expensive but greatly increases storage capabilities!)  Craig and Greg are planning on combining monies.  Budget monies can be used for purchasing computer furniture and chairs.  There was also some discussion about putting quotas on printing for undergraduates.  Also, to encourage graduate students to print wisely there may be a system put into place that counts and informs the student of the number of materials printed. 

Approved were 2 computers, 1 scanner, 6 optical mice, 14 SAS licenses and 1 surge protector for Animal Sciences.  Also, approved for the SC/BSPM Cartel were 2 computers, 6 optical mice and 5 SAS licenses. 

The meeting was adjourned at 6:00 pm.  The next meeting is tentatively planned for Oct 8, 2002 at 5:00pm. 

Respectively submitted,

Sally R. Clayshulte