Approved 9-14-00

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Thursday
September 7, 2000
SS 115

PRESENT
Bruce Christensen, Gary Dohrer, Dave Eisler, Marie Kotter, Ron Holt, Judith Mitchell - Chair, Dan Schroeder, Sally Shigley, Alden Talbot - Vice Chair, Paul Thompson, Kay Brown - Secretary.

EXCUSED
Gene Sessions

MINUTES
Bruce Christensen: Moved to approve the minutes from the August 31, 2000 meeting.
Second: Dan Schroeder
Outcome: The minutes were approved.

OLYMPICS 2002
Julie Snowball would like to encourage faculty to register as a volunteer for the 2002 Olympics. Currently 25, 000 have signed on as volunteers. The Olympic Committee wants to sign up 40,0000 volunteers and will end up using approximately 33,000 volunteers. Interviews are being conducted at the Dee Events Center. Volunteers will receive an official Olympic uniforms. You can register online at: http://www.slc2002.org/ It takes about thirty minutes to apply.

A letter from Mitt Romney will either be mailed or e-mailed to Weber State faculty encouraging them to volunteer. A follow up letter will be mailed out by Faculty Senate Chair or President of Weber State.

COMPUTERS
Roy Stock presented information from the PC 4 U Committee. This committee is developing a program that will provide a personal computer or a computer upgrade to every employee at Weber State. Formal contacts have been made with Dell, Gateway, PeoplePC, zUniversity and Microsoft.

Included in the monthly membership fee is unlimited Internet access. Employees would be teamed up with a top-tier Internet Service Provider (ISP) twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Internet access would include 56 Kb modem connection, hassle-free Web browsing, 10 Mb of personal web pages and email. A computer system for $24.95 would include a AMD K6(R)-2 500Mhz CPU with 3DNOW, 64 megabytes of RAM, 10 gigabyte hard drive, Conexant HCF 56K Winmodem, 40x CD-ROM drive, and a 3.5 inch 1.44 megabyte floppy diskette drive. Other systems run $34.95 and $49.95 per month.

Iomega has also been contacted and approached about funding and providing peripheral devices for storage.

STUDENT HOUSING
Nandi Dyal-Chand presented information on proposed student housing. Information was provided showing the percentage of students living in campus housing at WSU (3.67%), Boise State (8%), BYU (20%), Idaho State (10%), Ricks (15%), University of Utah (10%) and Utah State (18%).

Enrollment in 1964 was 6,494 with 8.59% living in campus housing. In 1968 enrollment was 10,280 with 8.54% living in campus housing. Last year we had 14,984 students enrolled with 3.67% living in campus housing.

Existing facilities are deficient in fire and seismic codes, contain no data connections, and have power outlet shortages. Construction costs to address these deficiencies would run $23,000 per bed.

They are looking at the land south of the Dee Events Center. This is a twenty-three acre site and would accommodate 1,000 beds of apartment-style housing for single students and 600 units of family housing separated by an athletic field or park. The Wasatch, Stansbury and LaSal area is six acres and would accommodate 400 beds of single student housing or 150 family units. The student housing units would lodge four students, and contain four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a common living and kitchen area.

An RFP was sent to thirteen companies to bid on managing Weber State=s current student housing facilities. Five of these companies were invited to make presentations on campus to the Housing Committee. Three of the companies were then visited by Housing Committee members who then reported back to the Housing Committee. One company was then selected. Their management contract will start January 1, 2001. The company managing the housing facilities will not be allowed to build new housing facilities at Weber State. If new facilities are built, they will be financed by the University through bonds.

MOTION
Bruce Christensen: Moved to place the student housing issues on the agenda for the September 21, 2000 Faculty Senate meeting as an information item.
Second: Gary Dohrer
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

FACULTY EVALUATIONS
Leo Dirr will be invited to the Executive Committee meeting September 14, 2000 to discuss his request for copies of faculty evaluations. Copies of faculty evaluation forms from the University of Utah and from Utah State University were distributed to Executive Committee members.

NEXT MEETING
The next meeting is the Agenda Setting meeting and will take place September 14, 2000.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.