THE MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Fresno, California 93740-8023
Office of the Academic Senate
FAX: 278-5745
Telephone: 278-2743
(EC-11)
November 26, 2012
Members Present:
Kevin Ayotte (Vice-Chair), Jacinta Amaral (Statewide), Shawn Clark (ASI), Provost William
Covino, Michael Jenkins (At-large), Melanie Ram
(At-large), President John Welty
Excused Absent:
Lynn Williams (Chair), Gena Gechter
(University-wide)
Absent:
Magda Gilewicz (At-large)
Visitors:
Venita Baker, Eugene Zumwalt
The meeting was called to order at 3:10 p.m. by Vice Chair Ayotte in
HML 2108.
1.
Agenda.
Vice Chair Ayotte asked to amend the agenda to include an item
#4 Executive Session.
MSC to approve the Agenda as amended.
2.
Minutes of 11/5/12.
MSC to approve the Minutes of 11/5/12.
3.
Communications and Announcements.
A.
Election Process for Faculty Representatives to the
Advisory Committee to the Trustees Committee for the
Selection of the President (ACTCSP).
Vice Chair Ayotte described the adjustment of deadlines in
the election process to allow for one additional day beyond
the schedule arranged at the 11/19/12 Executive
Committee meeting.
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B.
Board of Trustees Budget Request to California Legislature
President Welty reported that the Board of Trustees approved the
2013-14 CSU budget request to the California legislature. The
total request is for $441,770,000 with the following allocations:
Mandatory costs
(health benefits, new space, energy)
Graduation initiative & student success
Compenstion-3 percent increase pool
5 percent enrollment growth
Urgent maintenance needs
Information technology infrastructure:
upgrade and renewal
Instructional equipment replacement
Center for California Studies
$48,182,000
$58,000,000
$86,259,000
$155,825,000
$50,000,000
$20,000,000
$23,000,000
$504,000
The CSU now awaits the Governor’s budget proposal. which should
be provided around 1/10/13.
Discussion ensued re: the source of enrollment growth and
the basis for associated request for funding increase.
C.
Fresno State Budget Planning re: Proposition 30.
President Welty reported that, of the $13 million set aside
in the campus 2012-13 budget to plan for the possible
failure of proposition 30, $7 million will go toward the
refund of student fees following Proposition 30’s passage.
President Welty is preparing a proposal for using the
remaining $6 million in one-time funds and will present
this proposal to the University Budget Committee next
week.
D.
Draft Web Policy.
A memo dated November 7, 2012 has been received from
Bruce Whitworth, Executive Director of Web
Communications, with a request for the Executive
Committee to review the draft university Web policy.
Senator Amaral (State-wide) requested that Bruce
Whitworth provide a list of the committees that have
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reviewed and approved the draft policy. Vice Chair Ayotte
will contact him to obtain this information.
Item will appear on the next Agenda of the Executive
Committee.
4.
Executive Session.
The Committee entered Executive Session at 3:20pm. The
Committee returned from Executive Session at 3:30pm.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:35 p.m.
The next meeting of the Executive Committee will be announced.
An Agenda will be distributed prior to the meeting.
Submitted by:
Kevin J. Ayotte
Vice-Chair
Academic Senate