Recorder
Liz Havey
Recorder Email
Attendees
Chris Skelton, Pete Shields, Judy Malachowski, Susan Allen, Edward Whatley, Lyndall Muschell, Catherine Whelan, Jen Maraziti, Liz Havey
Agreements
Review President’s priority standards for evaluating budget requests
- Focus on consistency across institution by applying the same set of priority categories to all divisions and colleges
- Highest priority will go to retaining temporarily funded faculty and staff positions
- Critical need to keep institution running with particular attention to the health and safety of faculty, staff, and students
- Efficiency and best use of available resources will be considered
- Will not rank order individual items within each priority group as things may come up, which would require re-ranking
- Waiting for governor to announce state and higher education budget recommendations
- Requests will fall within the priorities discussed with RPIPC
- If funding can come from other resources, those sources should be sought out before being considered for inclusion in the overall budget
- Some questions about requests remain unanswered
- Extra compensation for special accreditation procedures – cannot create institutional disparity and will need to determine if this is standard practice
- New programs: are these requests to fund studies of viability or to fund the programs?
- Vehicle requests will not be granted until an overall fleet management program is put into place
- Need to ensure cost effectiveness and need, long range planning
- Car rental program may alleviate some need for fleet replacement
- Open Forum to inform community of request prioritization will be December 15th at 12noon