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

FACILITATOR:  Stephen Pruch

RECORDER:  Cindy Dietz

1.   Last meeting’s minutes were reviewed and approved.

2.   03 Tech fee funds approved were reviewed.  They will be posted to the Web.  All requests were funded by TACT, LASR, or CS.
Stephen will let Dept. head know and invite them to mtg. 6/17 in this room.

3.   Some funds were put back into the 04 pool due to Perkins Funding.

4.   Next mtg. 6/12, no mtg. 6/26.  First mtg. in Sept. is the 18th

5.   Future Agenda Items:

• Perhaps the 5 year plan should be changed to a 3 year plan and then get a 1 year plan from that.
• Homework for summer
• Evaluate membership criteria
• Infrastructure evaluation
• Should TACT mtgs. be open?
• Review questions proposed by Stephen in 5/9 email:
• How do we manage recurring costs?
• Are traditional telecourses an appropriate item for the tech fee?
• Should TACT make line item decisions or bulk decisions on requests?
• Should TACT adopt a stand on the Mac vs PC issue?
• Should TACT adopt a standard allocation per workstation requested?
• How much, if any, staffing should be funded by the tech fee?
• How 'centralized' do we want to be in managing this fee?
• What technology should Tech fee fund cover – non instructional student use?? (Expresslane terminal as example)
• Should we develop and enforce platform/application standards when requesting tech fee funding?
• What will the campus look like (technologically speaking) 5 years from now?
• Some scheduling issues:
• When to recruit new members
• Follow our charter and conclude the membership of some (and a note) do the

technology plan first thing in the fall.