Minutes of the University Budget Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
5241 N. Maple, M/S TA 43
Fresno, California 93740-8027
Office of the Academic Senate
Ext. 8-2743

Members Present: J. Constable (Chair), N. Bengiamin, J. Kus, P. Newell, A. Parham, J. Parks, J. Waayers.

Visitor: Dr. Walter Ullrich, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

The meeting was called to order by Chair Constable at 3:34 p.m. in TA #117.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 2/10/2010.

  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as amended to note in Item #7. Dr. R. Chiero is not associated with the administration of the MAT Program.

  3. Communications and Announcements.

    1. The Chair of the University Budget Committee (UBC) noted that no response regarding parking has been received from Matt Babick, Interim Parking Administrator, as indicated by Ms. C. Teniente-Matson. The chair of the UBC will send a reminder.

    2. The Chair of the UBC attended the meeting of the University Chargeback Committee on 16 Feb. During the meeting, the chair Mr. Moffitt, reviewed the chargeback policy and indicated that the committee needed to review all the existing charge-backs for suitability.

    3. It was noted that the summary of the suggestions provided during the Budget Summit called by Dr. Welty on 5 Feb. were now available to the University community.

    4. Three members of the current UBC (Bengiamin, Parks, and Parham) complete their three year UBC terms at the end of the Spring 2010 semester. If they wish to continue serving the committee they need to complete a petition available from Sharon Hayes in the Academic Senate office.

    5. Jim Kus, as chair of FACEL, noted that the committee has been charged to fast-track a review the new parking policy and the use of special parking codes.

  4. New Business – There was none.

  5. Discussion of the Budget of the MAT Program with Dr. W. Ullrich.

    Dr. Ullrich explained the budgeting of the MAT program with respect to costs (salaries) and income (student fees). It was indicated that the structure of the MAT program had been adjusted from that originally proposed to provide students the option of completing a comprehensive exam (instructionally less expensive) rather than a project (instructionally more expensive as a project requires one-on-one supervision). As ~60% of the enrolled students choose the exam option over the project option, program costs have been reduced significantly allowing the MAT program to serve as an income generating program within the Kremen School of Education and Human Development.

  6. Continued Discussion of Implementation and Examination of the New Budget Model.

    John Waayers distributed an electronic copy of the new budget model to members of the UBC. The model reflected the adjustments to minimize annual changes in the budgets of Colleges and Schools. Also included were guidelines on how to use the new model as a budgeting tool.

MSC to adjourn at 5:05 p.m.

The next University Budget Committee meeting will be on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in TA #117.

Agenda

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 2/17/10.

  2. Approval of the Agenda.

  3. Communications and Announcements.

  4. New Business.

  5. Continued Discussion of Implementation and Examination of the New Budget Model.

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