Supervisor's Team
                         Meeting minutes
                            (4/6/95)


Attending:  Bob, Doug, Manola, Carm, Brenda


1. Old Business:

   - 1st draft of the 95-96 SCAP plan will be presented to ACAC on 4/7.

   - Carson project.  Ethernet adapters don't fit.  Replacements have been
     ordered. The Luminator from Kellas 100 is on loan until May.

   - Orientation '95.  Doug met with Manola, Joan and Dave to discuss how we
     could participate in this year's orientation.  There will be 20' sessions
     to be held in areas that students are likely to work during the semester
     (e.g., Kellas and Flagg computer classrooms).  We would try to make
     "canned" presentations during the sessions since they are too short to
     much else with.  This might include how to use the WWW to obtain
     information on establishing an email account or purchasing a computer.
     Doug would like students to leave the session with something in hand
     (e.g., a disk)

   - SUNY workshops/conferences - There hasn't been much response to these
     announcements yet.


2. New Business:

   - PEOPLE:

     Bob proposed forming two (2) new teams: *Finances* and *Information
     Center*

     Mission of the Finances Team: (initially, Bob, Manola, Brenda)

     * to maintain all dept. budgets and to keep Supv. Team informed of budget
       activity/balances;
     * to provide projections of revenue and expenses for any particular
       budgeted activity as needed;
     * to recommend and develop accounting procedures and processes to be
       implemented by the department that streamline our fiscal activities and
       improve our fiscal information.


     Goals for Finances Team (1995-96):

     * produce "executive summary" monthly reports on budget activity for
       Supervisor's Team
     * maintain current account information in Quicken for electronic access as
       needed
     * reconcile all departmental budgets from monthly CERs
     * verify accuracy of bills paid (telephone) each month.
     * evaluate and recommend an accounting programs which meets the fiscal
       needs of our telephone billing and improves customer service



     Mission of the Information Center Team: (initially, Manola, Brenda, Paula)

     * meeting our departmental mission of keeping the campus well-informed
       using voice, video and data technologies;
     * publishing information, announcements, tips, documentation for
       members of
       our department as well as the campus and the public--as provided;
     * ensuring that the overall "look-and-feel" of information published is
       consistent, fresh and informative;
     * alerting the campus of problems with campus information technologies and
       DC/TM services.

     Goals for Information Center Team (1995-96):

     * publish the weekly campus activities sheets;
     * publish *internal* dept. WWW newsletter;
     * publish information for internal departmental use;
     * publish current events/announcement on the campus InfoChannel as
       provided;
     * publish public information from our dept. on  our campus WWW/gopher
       server;
     * maintain the network services HOTLINE (x2884) as a current source of
       information regarding problems with network services;
     * maintain the campus activities HOTLINE (x4444) as a current source of
       information regarding campus activities, events, cancellations.


   - PUBLIC RELATIONS:

     Nothing.


   - BUDGET/FISCAL MATTERS:

     The new Finances Team will address how we will cover the IFR decifit
     reported on in the last meeting (the budgetary mechanics of moving money
     into this account).

     Bob will present items listed from our lapsing funds requests in the ISD
     Director's meeting.


3. Important Goals to be accomplished by 4/20:

   - Call first meeting of the Finances Team and the Information Center Team.

   - Schedule a HTML workshop for staff (NOTE:  Peter Hoyt has agreed to 
     conduct
     a workshop for us on basic HTML documents)

   - Determine how IFR deficit will be covered (the budgetary mechanics)


NEXT meeting:  Thursday, 4/20 @ 8am.

REMINDER - the AGENDA for 4/20 is on our Up-To-Date department calendar.
         - be sure to bring your copy of the *Faculty Handbook* to the meeting