07-09 Budget Priorities
The following budget priorities document is the result of the last Core meeting (3-29-06) where the Academic and Administrative lists were combined and prioritized.
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This document has been forwarded to the budget coordinators as of April 14, 2006. Response from Steve Trotter follows;
In review of the highest priority items the content mgmt. system stands out as not quite ready for budget review in that it has a range from $50K-200K. Any suggestions on how to size this one?
RESPONSE: it was suggested to put this placeholder at $125 - $150k given the current status of the project.
Although, the media A/V replacement cycle remains as in the highest priority section, I see that the replacement cycle for academic labs has dropped a notch in terms of ITCH priority. I'm wondering if this might be a sense from the group because we have generally been finding ways to do those replacements thus far. In other words if reserves dried up and no longer funded replacements would this rise back up to be a top priority? Same question applies to server replacements.
RESPONSE:I agree that we would likely raise the priority of the Academic Labs replacement if the reserves weren't available to periodically fund this.
Also, I wonder if we can wait on the adaptive/assistive technologies. Isn't this an ADA issue that probably should wait that long?
RESPONSE: The adaptive technology is an ADA issue if a faculty, staff or student has asked for a reasonable accommodation because of a disability. Even if no one has asked, under ADA if the organization should have known of the need for an accommodation, you run significant risk if you don't provide the accommodation. It sounded like no individual had requested an accommodation but it was understood that there is a need. I agree that Evergreen and the individual(s) who need this technology would be better served if we accomplished this sooner than next biennium.
Finally, way down the list is something that caught my eye regarding our having 1400 machines for faculty/staff. Is it true that we have 2+pc's per capita?
RESPONSE: The count of 1400 computers is somewhat of an estimate. It is taken from a count of those computers that run log-in scripts and we estimate the number of Mac machines. This total does not include computers in labs so the actual count across campus is larger.