Minutes of October 11, 2001 Meeting
The meeting convened at 2:05 p.m. in room 817 Cathedral
of Learning.
UPBC members present were: Tammeka Beattie, Clifford
Brubaker, Frank Cassell, Jerome Cochran, Richard Colwell, Christine Dollaghan,
Attilio Favorini, Gerald Holder, James Maher, Thomas Metzger, Barbara Mowery,
Arthur Ramicone, Christopher Riegel, Debora Rougeux, Philip Wion, and Stephen
Wisniewski. Also present were: Jeffrey Liebmann, Jeffrey Masnick,
and Robert Pack.
UPBC members not present were: Mary Ann Barber,
James Cassing, N. John Cooper, Arthur Levine, Richard Pratt, Michael Stuckart,
Michael Unangst, and Thomas Wolf.
Report of the Chair and Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the May 10, 2001 meeting were approved.
The Provost stated that the Committee would retain the same subcommittee
structure as in previous years. He added that the Commonwealth is
now reporting a budget deficit and that the implications for the University’s
appropriations are unclear.
FY 2003 Commonwealth Appropriations Request Submission
Ramicone distributed the Chancellor’s Statement from
the formal Commonwealth appropriations request for FY 2003. He explained
that the submission requests a 6.5% increase in the Educational and General
appropriation, which increased only 0.6% in FY 2002. The submission
also requests a 4.0% increase in other line items and a continuation of
one-time line item funding for Information Technology Plan components ($2.6
million) and Laboratory Improvements and Equipment ($2.6 million).
The request is based on the assumption that tuition would not increase
by more than 4.0% and that the salary increase pool would be at least 4.0%.
The meeting adjourned at 2:35 p.m.