CAMPUS PLANNING AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL
January 30, 2001 College
of Education
4:00 p.m. Room
355
Council Members
Present: Traci
Bliss (Chair), Darrell Buffaloe, Scott Campbell, Kimberly Carter-Cram, Darin
Dehle,
Sherri Dienstfrey, Tony Martin, Ernie Naftzger, Priscilla Reis and Beth Miner.
Absent: Darla
Bell, Ken Prolo and Rob Spencer
Guest: Darin
Dehle
The meeting was called to
order by Traci Bliss at 4:00 p.m. There
were no announcements.
Approval of Minutes
Moved by Scott Campbell and
seconded by Kim Carter-Cram to approve the November 14 minutes.
Motion passed
unanimously. A motion was made by Scott
and seconded by Kim Carter-Cram to
approve the November 28
minutes. Motion passed unanimously.
Old Business
Policy Recommendations on
Energy Plan with Incentives - Darrell Buffaloe
Darrell Buffaloe explained
that the escalating costs of energy makes incentives to campus units a moot
point now - - that any
savings would need to be put back into the reserve. He handed out an Outline
for the Energy Conservation
Program. He informed the committee of
the pending legislation in the
State to open up Energy
Conservation Incentive offered by several companies to provide the means of
energy savings with no cost
the University/College. Their fees
would be paid in the amount of savings
the institution gained in
reduced energy consumption from these recommendations and implementations.
He mentioned that an alum,
Mr. Scott McClure of McClure Engineering had performed “energy audits”
for the campus and the
University would hopefully contract a company to work with on these
proposals.
He mentioned the University
of Utah had entered into a “Performance Contract” for guaranteed savings.
The project cost
approximately 15 million dollars and the payback to the contractor ended up $18
million.
Darrell explained his
department was working on ways to reduce energy consumption on campus. Listed
below are a few of these.
·
Evening classes
consolidated into one building instead of having a building open for only
one
class.
·
Custodians
working during the day while the buildings are open.
·
Checking into
the feasibility of having more energy efficient hours for the library.
After a lengthy discussion
the following changes were made to the ISU Energy Conservation Program
Outline. (Copy with changes attached to minutes)
1. To change the name from Campus Energy
Committee to University Energy Committee.
2. Change the #1 under Section B, committee
composition to the following and excluding from
from
the Faculty Senate:
A
member of the Campus Planning Council (Faculty).
3. To # 3 under Section C add:
and consistent with academic goals,
research and creative activity.
4. To #4 under Section C add:
while not compromising the aesthetics of
the campus.
5. To add under Section D the following:
This will be taken care of on a quarterly
basis.
The discussion continued and
Darrell mentioned that he thought with all of the energy rate hikes they had
estimated a $1 million dollar
increase in costs this year. He felt
that it would be so beneficial to the
university for the
legislature to the pass the pending bill to allow the contractors to help
provide the energy
savings plan. Dr. Priscilla Reis asked whether the
University Energy Committee would be ad hoc or long
term and needed to be
established and approved through the Faculty Senate. Mr. Tony Martin agreed to
serve on the committee as the
Campus Planning Council Representative.
A motion was made by Tony
Martin and seconded by Sherri
Dienstfrey to recommend to Faculty Senate that this committee be established
as a long term standing
committee. Dr. Bliss and several
members suggested that Darrell Buffaloe serve as
the Chair of the University
Energy Committee, Dr. Reis suggested
that this committee be formed as a sub-
committee of the Campus
Planning Council. The committee was in
agreement on both additions and question
was called. The motion passed unanimously. A letter will be sent to the Faculty Senate
to act immediately
on establishing this
committee.
The general consensus of the
committee was to commend Darrell Buffaloe on his strong effort and expertise
in this area. A discussion followed about ways to get the
message out to the public on the committee’s effort
for energy conservation. The following were suggested.
1.
Letter in News
and Notes
2.
Letter in
Student Newspaper
Dr. Bliss will follow up with
News and Notes and will work on getting this information out the general
University population.
Update on Faculty Senate
Review - Priscilla Reis
Dr. Reis gave a brief summary
of the Faculty Senate Review of the Campus Planning Council.
She felt the proceedings and
review were going well. She mentioned
they were taking into consideration
dropping the Speakers and
Artists Committee from the Council’s jurisdiction. One of the recommendations
was to set up more efficient
long term management of the committee and to have the Council establish a
permanent meeting date.
New Business
Review of Facility Access
Minutes
The committee looked at the
minutes and made one change under Section B “Awareness on Campus” change
the following from “According
to the By-Laws, we should send our minutes to the Campus Planning Committee
for their support” to “for
their approval”. Moved by Mr. Ernie Naftzger and seconded by Priscilla
Reis to
approve the minutes of the
Facilty Access Committee. Motion passed
unanimously.
Future Agenda Items
As an announcement Scott
Campbell handed out copies of the “Rendezvous Programming Schedule” and the
“Preliminary Project Team
Members.” A short discussion
followed. For future agenda items, Dr.
Bliss
reminded the group of its
commitment to space utilization. She
asked Scott Campbell how best to proceed on
the “Space Utilization Issue”. Scott agreed to present a portion of the
Vision and Mission Statement for the
University. He will bring Jeff Madsen who serves as part
time Space Utilization Manager to the meeting for
this presentation which will
be the major focus of the February 13 meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 5:20
p.m.
Respectfully submitted: Approved by:
Beth Miner
Traci Bliss