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PRESENT:  Linda DeWitt, Cindy Dietz, Joe Escobar, Linda Grenz, Linda Loft, Kaaren O'Rourke, Stephen Pruch, Joe Russin, Robert Vogel

FACILITATOR: Stephen Pruch

RECORDER:  Robert Vogel

TACT approved the previous minutes as submitted.

Stephen provided an updated technology fee budget for review of 2002 - 2003 and the balances in both the Contingency and Reserve Funds.  TACT approved using the ~ $48,600 from the Contingency fund to support the remaining requests approved by TACT.

It was decided to raise the Reserve percentage of funds collected in FY 2004 to 8%  building on the balance from FY 2003.

There is ~$355,350 left unspent by the varius departments which have received funds for FY 2003.  TACT expects that departments will spend these monies on or before June 30th;  unspent Technology Fee funds will be recaptured for FY 2004.

TACT discussed the possibility of supporting contracted staff using Tech Fee monies.  It was unanimously decided NOT to Support Contracted staff, but continue to support Time Sheet lab and technology related requests for staffing.

The following FY 2003 requests for funding were approved:    Request ID #  5,8,9,10, 25, 14 was partially funded @ $7,000.  The following FY 2004  requests for funding were removed from FY 2004 requests - 14,24,27,31, 35, 48, 51  since they were duplications of the approved requests noted above.

TACT  discussed what constitutes requests that are not directly related to the Technology model  "Gray Ware".   No direct consensus  was reached; but TACT did expanded their definition of Technology beyond the computer, peripherals, and related AV equipment.

TACT discussed the Ranking Criteria and Process for evaluating the FY 2004 requests, using several of the weighing parameters currently in use and discussed others as to their viability, their merit and TACT's  ability to secure the appropriate data and  information for Tech Fee Application evaluations.

TACT reviewed the ranking process used for FY 2004 round of requests.  The group felt comfortable with the 0-5 range and the weighting of different categories, as well as the 10 point range for professional judgement.  TACT did not make any recommends concerning the averaging of the positional results for each person rather than averaging raw scores.

Committee members still struggled with the "other resources available" category.  There is general agreement that TACT needs more objective information about the resources available to a department or division.

TACT decide that each member will evaluate every request.

Reminder:
Joe Russin will address the Science Application for Tech Fees with the Division Chairman
Joe Escobar will address the EFL&S as well as Disabilities Services Application for Tech Fees with the Division Chairs.

NEXT AGENDA:
Begin Review- Evaluation of FY 2004 Tech Fee requests.
Left over from last minutes:   Review TACT purchase guidelines; for example: duplex printers

Recorder rotation:  DeWitt, Vogel, Rusin, Dietz, Escobar, O'Rourke, Grenz, Loft