George Perkins distributed a worksheet showing Percentage of Space Needs After Construction of New Social Sciences Building and Addition to College of Health Building. According to him, by 2011-2012 only 74% of the classroom space needs will be available on campus. It will improve to 81% after the Education Building is complete. This building project has received $12m funding now and $12m for next year. The College of Business and the Computer Science buildings additions will improve the percentage to 97. Office space situation is unsatisfactory. Currently it is at 54% and even after the College of Business and the Computer Science buildings additions, it will improve to only 68%. If classes are held from 8 am to 10 pm M-R and 8 am to 4 pm Sat, then there will be enough classroom space now. But scheduling constraints prevent this from happening. Overcrowding of classrooms was brought up. George said, if any faculty have issues regarding this, they can email him and he will look into it. As always, in buildings marked for specific colleges, that college will have priority assignment privilege for the classrooms in that building. Space requirements for each individual building is determined by a committee from that college.

After George left, regular business of committee was started. Minutes of last meeting were distributed. It was pointed out that in the minutes, there was a mention about George disputing Tallahasse’s claim that UNF is overbuilt in classrooms and George did not specifically discuss that point. That point will be forwarded to him for response.

Nominations for Committee chair were invited. Rama agreed to continue as chair and the committee approved.

Rama told the committee of the FA Exec committee’s charge to the committee to have a dialogue with Administration and finance regarding the continuing problems about paychecks, deductions etc in Banner. For the next meeting, we will invite Shari Shuman to discuss these issues.

It was decided that the committee would not meet in June but in July. July 12 th, Tue was tentatively chosen. Email will be sent to members to find out convenient meeting time. Fall semester meeting times will be decided later.

Robb Waltner was elected Secretary.

Meeting adjourned at 1.15 pm

Respectfully submitted by Rama Rao