Present:   Anne Bonner, Bret Force, Ben Hill, Bill Kyker, Nanci LaVelle, Kay Malmberg, Kaaren OíRourke, Jose Ortal, Lynne Phillips, Jane Russell, Sandra Wiese, Donna Zmolek
Absent:   Linda Loft, Marie Matsen, Jane Scheidecker
Facilitator:  Donna Zmolek
 

Approval of Minutes
The October 31, minutes was approved without revision.

New Member
Bret Force, student representative selected by ASLCC, was introduced.

Mary Spilde ñ On the Budget
The president addressed the serious budget problem for FY 02-03 and related that it was due to the stateís shortfall and the collegeís rising deficit.  The contributing factors to the deficit are personnel costs and the continuing shortfalls from expenditures exceeding revenues. 

She discussed two phases of the budget process: 
Phase I ñ  Has been progressing since beginning of  Fall term.  This phase will deal with the entire budget planning process and assessing staff input regarding an open and widespread process.  It will also assess and prioritize a list of criteria provided by staff.  BAG has been active in providing the Executive Team the accumulated criteria input from staff.  There will also be a review of  programs and efficiencies based on a prioritized list of that criteria.   Once an assessment of programs and services  has been done, the Executive Team will make a recommendation to the Board.  During this phase, the president plans to send a memo to college staff addressing the many aspects of an open budget process .  She also anticipates updating all college staff  next week on the current budget projections.  She will share the same budget assumptions with the Board on 11/14.

Phase II- Begins April, 2002.  This phase deals with possible tuition increases and will culminate in a final recommendation to the Board on reductions of programs and services.

ìProcessî Input from Staff
Terry will provide a copy of the accumulated input to Marie who will be asked to give a copy to the Executive Team.  Terry will also post a copy of all the process input on the Budget Development web site.

Ongoing Input from College Employees
Terry will collect any  ìafter the deadlineî input on criteria and process  and will give it to Marie.

Update in The Daily
Donna will provide a BAG update for  Tuesdayís Daily.
 

•  BAG will plan to attend the presidentís  November 14 all staff budget forum instead of  their regular meeting. 

The next BAG meeting will be November 21, 3-5PM, BUS 205.