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
October 13, 2010
Members Present: J. Constable (Chair), J. Kus, P. Newell, J. Parks, J. Waayers.
Member Absent: A. Parham (excused).
The meeting was called to order by Chair Constable at 3:32 p.m. in TA #117.
1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 10/6/10.
2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
3. Communications and Announcements.
A. Sharon Brown Welty will be attending next week’s UBC meeting to address budget
issues regarding the Multiple Off-Campus degree program MA in Education.
Memo’s have been sent out:
Dr. M. Caldwell regarding the costs of performing student ratings of faculty teaching
performance.
Vice President C. Teniente-Matson regarding the presentation on historical University
funding patterns.
B. John Waayers acknowledged the passage of the State budget, but noted that the consequence for the CSU system and CSU Fresno was unclear.
C A memo was received from Dr. Carol Fry Bohlin regarding the MA in Education Curriculum and Instruction option indicating that it was the off-Campus version of the Program not the on-Campus version. The Chair of the UBC will investigate to clear up the situation.
4. New Business.
Examine the College and School spending patterns provided by John Waayers to better
assess potential modifications to the model that best reflect how Colleges and Schools
are spending their funds. Discussion of the material will be addressed on next week’s
agenda.
5. Update on the Parking Budget
The Committee discussed the exchange of Parking budget materials over the last year
with Vive President C. Teniente-Matson and Matt Babick. A key point noted was that
the restructuring of parking policies, for which reason the UBC became involved, centers
on the putative loss of funds to the parking budget die to students learning about
relaxed parking beforehand and subsequently parking for free. The UBC agreed that
such a concern was a plausible cause of lost revenue, but that the potential for lost
of revenue had not been effectively documented by the budget information provided.
As such the UBC critically viewed the desire to restructure parking policy as a mechanism
to increase revenue rather than to address a documented problem. The committee noted
several points including (i) that careful regulation of the porous parking system
present on the campus is a challenge; and (ii) the potential to lose community “good
will” during events that have a large fraction of non-University users parking on
campus.
MSC the Chair of the UBC will write a memo to Matt Babick expressing concern regarding the lack of documentation illustrating a loss of parking revenue due to individuals parking without some form of payment.
MSC to adjourn at 5:05 p.m.
The next University Budget Committee meeting will be on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in TA #117.
Agenda
1. Approval of the Minutes of October 13, 2010.
2. Approval of the Agenda.
3. Communications and Announcements.
4. New Business.
5. Discussion of College and School Financial Patterns Provided by John Waayers.
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