RPIPC Budget Meeting 12/6/10

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 15^th at 12noon