The Athletics and University Advancement budget hearing minutes as follows:


UTC BUDGET HEARING
UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT AND ATHLETICS
MARCH 29, 2001



Richard Brown opened the budget hearing at 2:05 p.m. and thanked everyone
for attending.

Budget issues going forward for 2001-2002: 
ENROLLMENT…..ENROLLMENT…..ENROLLMENT!

·     New students will be an important part of the budget
·     Articulation Agreement between the two year colleges and UTC
·     Transfer students
·     Maintaining the current student FTE data base
·     Human Resource Issues/Faculty Compensation Plan
·     Exempt and Non-Exempt staff compensation issues
·     Institutional Effectiveness recommendations (SACS Recommendations)
·     Institutional Costs: 
        o       Insurance
        o       Equipment (telephones, major technology enhancements)
        o       Utilities
        o       Custodial issues
        o       Preventive maintenance issues

Cost going forward 2000-2001:  Base budget of$67,274,343 with adjustments
on the revenue and expenditure side making the adjusted cost going forward
$67,476,560.  The Governor is possibly recommending about $700,000 next
year.  Projecting a slight enrollment increase with a five percent fee
increase the projected adjusted revenue base for 2001-2002 would be
$68,402,750 with unallocated revenues of $926,000, leaving limited dollars
for further allocation.

Vice Chancellor Brown presented the Mission Statement again stating that
each Vice Chancellor who presents should tie their budget back to the
Mission Statement and the Five Strategic Planning Initiatives.  Each budget
presentation and summary will be put on the web for review.

Review of budget presentations:

Chancellor's Office base budget of $840,856 requesting $880,167 making this
an increase of $39,311.

Student Development base budget of $2,007,694 requesting $2,095,752 making
this an increase of $88,058.  Most of this will be used for positions to
clean up the University Center.

Finance & Operations base budget is $11,976,757 requesting $12,368,017
making this an increase of $391,260.  Most of this involves the facilities
area and upgrades in positions.


Vice Chancellor for University Advancement:

Vice Chancellor Kelley introduced the Development Mission statement (which
will be available on the web) by stating that they basically friend-raise
and fundraise.  This is done by forming, cultivating, and seeking support
for University priorities.  

Vice Chancellor Kelley is requesting a new budget for Special Events, and
with this request she is asking for a return of funding for the Major Gifts
Director position and travel money for this person to go out and recruit
donors.  This budget needs $25,000 for the first year with an additional
$10,000 second year.  These funds will be used to help cover special events
such as Engineering Campaign Kickoff, Engineering Building groundbreaking,
and UTC Place groundbreaking events.  In the Vice Chancellor's budget she
is requesting an additional $8,036 for travel, for UC Foundation printing
and mailing costs, and additional money to pay Chamber of Commerce dues,
which have increased.

Office of Development requesting an increase of $57,054 to add back the
Major Gifts position and travel costs associated with this position.

The Development Athletic Fundraiser is requesting an increase of $365.

Alumni Office is requesting an additional $70,005 for one full-time
coordinator for alumni chapters and a one half-time support person.

University Relations requesting an increase of $148,202 which includes the
Web Development Specialist salary of $40,000 (currently funded by student
tech fees) be rolled over to the state budget, along with printing,
duplicating, and mailing costs. 

University Relations-Marketing is requesting an additional $78,000 for
advertising and marketing.

WUTC Radio requesting an additional $17,299 for a non-exempt position to
help with campaign support.

In summary, University Advancement's total base budget is $1,265,940 and
they are requesting $1,644,901 for an increase of $378,961.

Richard Brown thanked Margaret Kelley for their presentation and introduced
Oval Jaynes to present the Athletic budget request.  Oval stated the
mission of the athletic program strives to inspire the pursuit of
excellence through honest effort, fair play, and personal integrity.  To
provide a successful, quality, competitive intercollegiate athletic
experience for UTC students, which will enrich their lives, and provide the
necessary training ground for life growth, enhance the image of the
institution, and build upon the academic mission of the University.  Oval
introduced Matthew Pope, who is the new Assistant Athletic Director of
Business Administration.

Athletic Highlights 2000-2001:  The athletic department has a total of 16
sports with each sport celebrated separately.  These sports include:
soccer, volleyball, women's basketball, football, men's basketball,
wrestling, cross country, golf, indoor track, outdoor track, men's tennis,
and women's tennis.  The Athletic department is very proud of its student
athletes.  They had 14 students maintain a 4.0 GPA in the fall, 90 who
maintained a 3.2 GPA or better, and 27 on the athletic honor roll for a
total of 41% of student athletes with a GPA of 3.0 or better.  This takes a
tremendous amount of effort to maintain these GPA's and give the amount of
time to sports that is needed.
Athletics Capital Projects:  Track and Soccer complex, approximate cost to
build a track and soccer complex is $2 million.  Health and Training Center
in the new Student Center - $2 million.  The Golf practice facility will be
funded with private money as will the renovation of the locker room for
wrestling estimated cost is $23,000.  The gymnastics and wrestling rooms
are also in need of renovations.

Proposed New Sport Budget for Women's Golf:  Mr. Jaynes requested a base
budget of $20,000 for year one.  This includes a part-time salary of
$12,000 and other operating costs.  The year two budget cost will be
$64,500, and year three costs will be $72,000.  Currently, there are 8
schools in our conference who compete in women's golf.

Athletics base budget is $5,266,956 and Oval is projecting revenues of
$5,252,603 with expenditures of $5,322,271 which is an increase of $69,668.