University Services Committee Report

Given to the University Senate on October 30, 2006

Submitted by Dr. Ken McGill

Kyle Cullars and Greg Brown presented some data on lot usage to the University Services Committee, and they felt the parking plan was a great success.  Both also felt that the plan could use some tweaking, but it would be best to not change the plan until the fall of 2007.

Bill Richards distributed a document detailing the historical background of the library budget and expenses.  The document contained a table showing the per-student expenditure of COPLAC schools showing GCSU at the bottom of the list.  Various fee structures were presented that would impact the library support expenditures

 The library fee subcommittee met Thursday, Oct. 19th at 4:30 pm and discussed several options for the library fee.  The four basic topics discussed were:

1)      Find the necessary funds ($390,000) in the university budget to bring our funding up to the mean ($150.64 per student) of our COPLAC sample.

2)      Charge a university wide mandatory Library Fee ($37 per semester).

3)      Increase the technology fee ($37 per semester) and identify a specific portion of the technology fee for the library.

4)      Charge a departmental Library Fee (Amount determined by departmental committees) to purchase collections specific to the department discipline.