Faculty Association
 
2010-2011

Minutes of Meeting
BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @12:30 PM
Faculty Association Meeting Room
Honors Hall, Bldg 10/Rm 1130

Call To Order:
The meeting commenced at 1:34pm.
   
Members Present:
Hong Chen, Lynn Jones, Albert Loh, Zornitza Prodanoff, and
Kathy Robinson

   
Members Absent:
Mina Baliamoune (NOTE: Greg Wurtz accepted employment in England and is no longer affiliated with UNF.)
   
Others Attendance:
Ricky Arjune, UNF Chief Budget Officer
 
   
I.
Approval of Minutes
 
m/s/p (motion; second; pass) March minutes
   
II.
Introductory Remarks/Old Business
  Salary Data File—Albert Loh presented preliminary UNF salary averages by discipline and rank. We have received, from the deans, some national salary averages per accrediting agencies. Data investigation and collection was delegated as follows:

 
i
Kathy to contact VP & Chief of Staff Serwatka re: peer aspirant schools; input to template the BCH (health and nursing)

 
ii
Hong input Chemistry to template (investigate other accrediting info based on spreadsheet provided by Dean Barb Hetrick)

 
iii
Zornitza input Engineering to template (see web link in email sent by Interim Dean
Peter Braza)

 
iv
Mina & Lynn input AACSB info to template; investigate whether any of the COEHS accredited programs have salary data available (per email sent by Dean Larry Daniel)

 
v
We will schedule an early summer meeting to discuss results of the above and determine how to proceed with the salary analysis.
   
III.
New Business/Agenda Items/Information Reports
 
1)
Ricky Arjune was our April guest. He provided some insights on the budget and noted that the UNF budget (including budgets by department) is available on CD in the library and via the Faculty Association. Moreover, his website (Admin. & Finance/Budget Office) has several years of data available.

   
a.
Per committee member inquiries: Ricky indicated that none of the $8.2M reserves (in 2010 – 2011 Budget) has been expended. Approximately $4.2M will be used to replace the expiring $5.6M stimulus funds. Approximately $4.1M in non-recurring funds will carry forward to the 2011 - 2012 Budget Year. Tallahassee is expecting a $5M - $6M reduction for the 2011-2012 Budget Year. Similarly, the Revenue Estimating Conference projects a 5% reduction for the next academic year. For the past 3–4 years UNF has cut back spending while other universities have cut programs.

 
2)
Per Cindy Chin, FA Executive Secretary, there were no contested positions for the BAC’s 2011 – 2012 committee positions. She will provide the full list of members after elections are complete. We will attempt to elect the 2011–2012 chair electronically.
 

 

IV.
Other Discussions and Announcements
 

None.

   
V.
Adjournment & Next Meeting
 
The meeting adjourned at 2:43 pm. The next meeting will occur early in the fall term (and is contingent upon members’ schedules).
   
 

Respectfully submitted 04/12/11
Lynn C. Jones, PhD, CPA

 
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