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PRESENT: Cindy Dietz, Joe Escobar, Linda Loft, Linda Grenz, Lida Herburger, Barb McIntire

ABSENT: Patrick Lanning, Kaaren O'Rourke, Stephen Pruch

Facilitator: Shared

Recorder: Barbara McIntire

Recorder Rotation: Lanning, Dietz, Loft, Escobar, Herburger, Grenz, McIntire

1.  Minutes:

• Minutes from the Jan. 27th meeting were approved without changes.

2. “Visitor” Discussion:

• We discussed the idea of having Nancy as a visitor while we work through the technology fee requests/unit plans for FY06. We would like to ask for clarification as to what Nancy would be doing, but are supportive of the idea of having her listen to our feedback on the unit planning process and how it works and/or doesn't work. We would recommend that she be involved at the very beginning of the allocation process.

3. Revenue History Review:

• After review of the past two years of technology fund revenue, and with some mathematical wizardry on the parts of Joe and Linda L, we came up with a recommendation of $870,000 to $875,000 for the FY06 projection.

4. A recommendation was made to only list the technology funds available after the Library, IT, and ICL allocations on the website, rather than list the total amount before these allocations. By listing the amount left after the Library, IT, and ICL allocations are subtracted, would give those who are hoping to receive funding a clearer picture of how much is truly available to them.

5. We tentatively agreed to recommend the following funding:

• Library - $35,000
• IT (internet) - $36,000
• ICL – There was general agreement across the group on the following items…
  • Workstation replacements $259,350
  • Monitor replacements $ 43,680
  • Software Licensing $ 6,000
  • Repair/Replacement fund $ 10,000
  • Paper and Toner $ 35,000
  • Printer replacements $ 14,400
  • Total tentatively agreed to: $ 368,430
  • The network infrastructure request for $29,432 was not fully discussed, and there were some strong feelings that the ICL staffing request of $43,000 should not be reviewed until ALL departments staffing requests are reviewed.

6. There were no publication reports this week.

7. Kaaren O’Rourke will be resigning from the TACT team in June of 2005 (relayed by Lida). Kaaren has participated in TACT for many years and has contributed much to the group. We are sad to see her go, and wish to THANK Kaaren for all of her work on the team over the years.

Next Meeting:   Feb. 24th, from 3pm to 5pm in ADM206.