November 5, 2002

The meeting began at 3:06 p.m. with Dewey Heinsma (co-chair), Laurel Jones, Dennis Hogan, Ron Bowman, Chandra Patterson, (ASB), Gail Jensen, Greg Estrada and Karen Watts present. Becky Elam (co-chair), Catalina Cruz, Don Robinson, John Norman, Kristi DiMemmo and Brian Orlauski were absent.

• On motion by Ron Bowman and seconded by Dennis Hogan, the minutes for October 1, 2002 were approved.
  
  
• Shared Governance
  In February 2002 changes to the Budget Committee Shared Governance Membership and Charge were passed by the committee and submitted to College Council. At this time, none of these changes have been acknowledged and committees have been asked to reevaluate their memberships and charges. Voting on changes is postponed until December's meeting and the committee will re-submit them to College Council.
  
  
• State Block Grant and PFE status report was presented by Gail Jensen. The committee would like to make sure that deadlines are established for identifying and selecting projects to ensure that money is assigned and unused monies are reassigned before it "disappears" back to the state.
  
  
• CalPERS report presented by Dennis Hogan. The current rate increase for 02/03 is 2.894%. Next fiscal year it will increase 9.527%; half a million dollars. This increase may cause future adjustments for the District to remain in compliance with the 50% Law.
  
  
• ASB Treasurer, Chandra Patterson, did research in response to the committee's concern about the ASB negative budget. At this time, it is balanced due to a carryover which the budget did not reflect.
  
  
• Student copies The District currently provides free copies to students in the learning center, computer labs and tutorial center. Paper and printer costs to the District have become a concern and must be offset by some method. Several suggestions were made:
  
  
  • Charging students lab fees
  • Free or discounted copies with an ASB card
  • Modifying software so that only selections of websites instead of entire websites printout
  • ASB could subsidize
  • A card usable campus-wide could be issued to students
    
    
• The next meeting is December 3, 3:00 p.m. in the Board Room.

The meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

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