Committee Minutes, Wednesday, February 6th 2008

Chairman Kenneth Webb submitted the following report to the Student Senate on Wednesday, February 6th 2008, on behalf of the University Affairs Committee, and pursuant to its Wednesday, February 6th 2008 recommendations:

Attendance:

There were six (6) members (Demanovich, Ellis, Howard, Robinson, Webb, Womack) present.

There were two (2) members (A. Davis, Trickel) absent.

The following officials were also present: P. Barnes, Joyner.

A quorum was present.

Meeting Minutes:

Transportation:

Heard from: Tom Kendig, Director

Parking Changes:
->Most parking fees increasing by 3%
->Expanding Dan Allen payspaces
-->Try to merge some other space types together to save some spots
->Some spaces on the fringe lots being converted from storage to commuter lots.
->Increased crackdown on repeat offenders

Route Changes:
->New reverse route, especially focused on WV
->Varsity will add a new bus to route and reroute bus through Fraternity Ct.
->Question was asked about night service, focused on downtown to NC State transportation.
-->Transportation is looking into that.

Information Technology:

Presenting: Greg Sparks & Harry Nicholos

Office of Information Technology:
Discussion
Merger mainly focused on improving efficiency and increasing throughput, which will decrease the current backlog on IT projects.

R71:
Working on making a unified calendaring system. Was 2 separate, incompatible systems.

Space information
Already providing space below costs.
Possibility of a tiered storage system.
Not really supportive of outsourcing mainly b/c of reliability issues. (Other entities don't have redundancy that NCSU has).

Unity ID's are not reused (new policy as of Fall 2007).

R71 tabled by consent