The meeting was called to order by Gary Forbach at 4 p.m. in the Cottonwood Room of Memorial Union with the following members in attendance: Gary Forbach, Cecil Schmidt, Becky Bostian, Ross Friesen, Oscar Plaza, Bob Boncella, Shel Cohen, Cindy Hornberger, Chuck Tumlison, David Bainum, Vance Laine, and Brad Siebert.

Chairperson Gary Forbach announced that the minutes of the previous meeting had been circulated and there was one correction, the addition of Becky Bostian's name to those in attendance. With this correction, the minutes were approved as circulated.

The next meeting will be held November 11 in the Cottonwood Room. An electronic reminder will be sent to all the members. If all the work of this committee is finished at that time, the meeting will be cancelled.

David Bainum of ACC gave the following report: The switch over last Friday occurred with some small side effects. At that time all home file systems were consolidated under one network. It also added a UPS in Bennett. Some future outages will be required to install other new features. Two new staff people are on board -- a PC support person for the School of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences and a Mac support person for Art and Theatre, Music, and Mass Media. These positions are now budgeted from special money. Sue will be interviewing on Friday for a Web Technician. David is encouraging people to change to the new service that was installed on Friday. The old service will go down January 1 and then everyone will be on the new system. Training will be held on this new Interface. About 100 people campus wide are now using the new system. David recently attended the Regents Computer Advisory Committee meeting where it was announced that KU will require students to have computers beginning next fall. Fees will be charged for computer support, hook-UPS, etc. The possibility of WU charging computer use fees was discussed.

Gary announced that the Forms Committee has finished their work and forwarded it to Ron Wasserstein. Their report will be sent to all committee members and will be on the agenda for the full ETC meeting.

It was agreed that David Bainum will furnish a written report for future meetings to be a part of the record.

It was announced that the Priorities Committee has also finished their work, and the FY2000 ETC Priorities have been sent to the full ETC.

Bob Boncella circulated a copy of the proposed revisions to the Lab Policy, and gave the report for the Policy Revisions committee.

A lengthy discussion followed on the revisions. Line 10 was discussed and Shel Cohen raised several concerns, in particular the need for "front end funding" if the proposed policy is to be accepted by everyone. David Bainum said they envision 1 full-time position to monitor 20 student workers. It was suggested that more financial details are needed regarding funding costs.

Oscar Plaza suggested that we are mixing policy and budgeting issues, and that perhaps more generic language is needed to address the policy. He also argued that implementation funding should be a separate issue from policy development.

Cecil Schmidt suggested and it was approved by the entire committee that we separate funding from policy and address it separately. It was agreed that the subcommittee would continue working on the policy and then send it out to the entire group for e-mail responses and comments. David Bainum agreed to draft an Implementation and Funding plan, complete with cost estimates to be discussed at the next meeting.

Gary announced that a progress report would be sent to Ron Wasserstein regarding this meeting, and we will continue the discussion in the next meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 5 p.m.

Respectfully submitted by LaJean Rinker, Secretary