Joint Planning and Budget Committee

November 30, 2005

1:15 pm, 325 Graff Main

 

Members Present:  Bill Colclough, William Doering, Thomas Gendreau, John Mason, Mick Miyamoto, Mike Nelson, David Riley, Gwyn Straker, Mary Torstveit, Mary Beth Vahala, Katie Van Roosenbeek, Ken Winter

Consultants: Ron Lostetter, Sharon Radtke

The meeting was called to order by Chair, Dave Riley.

         I.      Minutes of the September 28, 2005 meeting were approved.

       II.      Dave distributed a spreadsheet from Kerrie Hoar on “Current Conditions at UW System Schools as of November 2005.” 

      III.      Recommendation (M/SP):

JPB recommends that administrators be encouraged to save salary costs by permitting supervised employees to reduce the percentage of their appointment given two conditions:

a.      the employee requests such reduction of his/her own free will, and

b.      the reduction can occur without seriously impairing campus operations.
 

   IV.      Recommendation (M/S/P):

JPB recognizes that the wide variety of Instructional Academic Staff (IAS) assignments makes it impractical to establish a “one size fits all” IAS workload expectation - be it credits per semester, contact hours or student credit hours.  It is also clear that many IAS have already assumed substantial responsibilities at or beyond the original suggestion’s spirit of a 15-credit instructional load, and there is no evidence that there is a reasonable expectation for significant additional revenue from blanket changes to IAS assignments.  JPB recommends that academic departments in consultation with their deans re-evaluate workload policies to ensure that IAS are treated fairly and that IAS responsibilities are appropriate.  JPB further recommends that IAS contractual policies be amended to provide job security for this group of employees that is more consistent with other UW-L employees and other UW campuses.

     V.      Recommendation (M/S/P): 

JPB recognizes that student printing at UW-L is a major cost to the campus that is currently subject to inconsistent controls.  Generally there are no explicit limits or costs for student printing.  JPB recommends that the chancellor charge a group to investigate and potentially implement a campus-wide and cost-effective solution that creates incentives for students to make rational trade-offs about on-campus printing.

   VI.      Update from the sub-committees:

a.      Utilities – Ron stated that an e-mail would be e-mailed to the campus listing the energy savings ideas that the committee put together.  The e-mail will request additional suggestions.

b.      Summer and J-Term – committee has met once.

  VII.      Meeting Adjourned.