 | Board of Visitors minutes October 2, 2000 |  |
Operating Budget Amendments
- 1) Replace Obsolete Information Systems with an Enterprise Resource Planning System ($4,000,000 [GF]) — Replace financial, human resource, and student information systems with an integrated software solution from Oracle.
- 2) Establish a Scientific Research Investment Fund ($4,000,000 [GF]) — To provide funding for start-up laboratory support to recruit new world-class faculty in science and engineering.
- 3) Provide Funding for Indigent Care and Undergraduate Medical Education ($2,000,000 [GF] and $2,150,239 [NGF]) — Support undergraduate medical education by providing full reimbursement of physician indigent care costs. This request represents continued funding of the amount appropriated in 2000-01 only.
- 4) Maintain New Facilities ($897,497 [GF], 12.5 FTEs) — Provide support for operations and maintenance costs of new E&G facilities.
- 5) General Liability Insurance Premiums ($300,000 [GF] in each year) — The State Division of Risk Management changed the way it allocates general liability insurance premiums to an experienced-based methodology. This resulted in a significant unbudgeted increase in the University's annual premium.
- 6) Nursing Faculty ($250,000 [GF], 4.0 FTEs) — New faculty to support enrollment growth and to reduce the student/faculty ratio in the clinical setting.
- 7) Reduce Deferred Maintenance Backlog ($1,100,000 [GF], 10.0 FTEs) - Provide funding for major and routine maintenance in order to deal sufficiently with deterioration at the rate at which it occurs and to help reduce deferred maintenance backlog.
- 8) Improve Access to Technology in the Classroom ($500,000 [GF], 2.0 FTEs) - Resources to renovate and equip classrooms with technology and provide ongoing technical support for those rooms.
- 9) Target Disadvantaged and Under-represented Students ($210,000 [GF]) — Provide a non-graded, one-week summer experience to 50 rising 8th grade and 50 rising 9th grade students with the goal of increasing the numbers of disadvantaged and underrepresented students who are sufficiently academically competitive to enroll in the University or elsewhere.
- 10) Eminent Scholars Program: ($200,000 [NGF] in each year) Request additional NGF appropriation for increases in endowment expenditures directly related to the Eminent Scholar Program.
| Board of Visitors minutes October 2, 2000 | |