Minutes

Present: C. Bailey, C. Denard, E. Hall, D. Hutchinson, M. McCune, S. Sloan

The meeting began at 1:35 p.m.

I. Update from Senior Staff:

Diane H. has projected figures for the Science Building, Athletic Building and Faculty/Staff Salaries. Susan S. reported that Senior Staff did benchmarks for each area and determined which senior staff was responsible for these benchmarks. Many sections have been cost projected. Some areas don’t need money as much as direction of who would be responsible for carrying out certain tasks. The next step is for each Senior Staff member to meet with the departments responsible for completing tasks. The action plan by these departments will determine some of the cost. Carolyn D.’s concern was the timeline to submit the plan to the Board. At this time the plan does not indicate actions, measures or key indicators.

II. A summary letter to campus community should go out to the campus community by the end of August from Carolyn D. for past year’s work done by the Strategic Planning Committee. Carolyn D. did indicate that once a copy of the final draft was completed and before it was submitted to the Board it should go out one last time to the community. Meghan M. felt that any copy of the plan going to the Board should have projected costs if the Board was to make any kind of acceptance or approval. They could not make any decisions without projected costs.

III. Membership Composition:

There will be some rotation of a few committee members but the Board would like Steve Z. to continue as a member of SPC. APPC still needs to meet to vote on their representatives for SPC.

IV. There was a concern that once Carolyn D. left who would be overseeing the SPC. Ellen H. reported that although she could not do it all herself, she was very much committed to this plan and a plan would be worked out so that work will continue. Diane H. reported that some costs she has projected are already in the budget. The next step would be to project an amount that would be needed to implement. Carolyn D. felt the sooner we launched the plan, the sooner we can use it and gain support. We need to continue momentum.

The attending committee members decided that the following needed to be done:

1. See what was already in the current budget that would help the plan move forward,

2. Determine liberal estimated costs needed to be raised to complete certain tasks,

3. Complete plan to be submitted to the Board in September with estimated projected costs for their review to vote for approval in December.

Next Meeting:

Ellen H. will work with President Ryerson to set time and date for next meeting with the entire SPC. It needs to be determined how often the group will meet. Ellen H. felt that now much of the work would be done by smaller groups and these groups would ultimately set meeting dates and times for themselves.

Meeting ended at 2:30 p.m.

Minutes respectively submitted by : Phyllis Siemiatkowski