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PRESENT:  Stephen Pruch, Linda DeWitt, Linda Loft, Joe Escobar, Cindy Dietz

FACILITATOR:  Stephen Pruch

RECORDER:  Linda Loft

1.   Last meetings minutes were reviewed and approved with corrections.

2.   The '04 tech fee allocations will be posted soon to the TACT website.  Managers will be notified by email when the page is posted.

3.   Steve reported on his meeting with Instructional Managers where the discussion centered on what type of projects were appropriate for tech fee funding.

4.   General discussion and questions:

• Funding of recurring costs without applications.
• Discussion centered around how to differentiate this type of funding from other applications. Examples were the college internet access charges, the WebCT license, and possibly a base funding for the online library content.  Requests that contained personnel were deemed not appropriate for funding without applications.
• Are traditional telecourses appropriate for tech fees?
• The telecourses lost their fees, except pass-through fees when we went to the tech fee.  The maintenance fee on the tilttrack jukebox for Channel 23 was viewed as appropriate but other aspects were thought not appropriate for the fee.
• Should TACT make line item decision or bulk decisions on requests?
• As applicants' knowledge of what is appropriate for tech fee money increases, this issue may disappear.  At issue is time to evaluate each line item in a proposal.  However, it was also suggested that a line item could be vetoed as inappropriate, and not veto the entire project.
• Should TACT adopt a stand on the Mac vs PC issue:
• Although this issue arose around the cost of workstations, TACT decided to look at this as a planning issue, not just a funding issue.
• Should TACT adopt a standard allocation per workstation requested?
• It was thought that a baseline should be established, and variations from that could be acceptable if based on a discipline-centered need.
• TACT Membership Discussion
• After a short review of the TACT charter, it was decided to look at adding possibly 3-4 new members Fall '04.  Steve will poll the current members that have met the minimum time obligation to see if they want to continue.  The need for a balance of members from different positions and areas of campus was acknowledged.  But the over-arching criteria for membership is knowledge of technology issues and the ability to think broadly about college-wide.  Tact agreed that recruiting new members should be first on the fall agenda.  Current Tact members were encouraged to lobby people to apply.