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Attendees: Stephen Pruch, Cynthia Dietz, Joe Russin, Kaaren O'rourke, Bob Vogel, Joe Escobar, Linda Dewitt, Linda Grenz.

Absent: Linda Loft

Recorder: Joe Russin

1.   Previous week's minutes approved.
2.   Today's agenda: Review of Technology Fee applications

• There was general discussion about the meaning and boundaries of the main selection criterion: "technology that directly affects students".
• There was a discussion about how to separate out potential Perkins fund requests from potential Technology Fee requests. Is overlap               acceptable?
• There was a suggestion for setting up a system to review the bigger applications once per year to better fit with external budget and workload  cycles.
• Reminders of the history of the proposal: 1. "Grandfathered" tech fees replaced for 1 year. 2. Summer requests granted. 3. Around $310,000 new revenue for Fall Term, 2002.
• Stephen presented a summary of the estimated annual budget vs. current proposals. If all were approved from this round, all but about $10,000 of the annual budget would be spent.
• Estimated annual budget based on scenario of no cuts, but could be impacted by the outcome of January vote.
• There was a discussion of the fate of funds not spent; they return back to the general pool.
• A suggestion was put forth to try to incorporate an incentive for applicants to submit the most cost-effective strategy possible. The current system fosters higher spending to "try to use up the allotted funds". This will be looked at when we revise the interim application process.