Dear Mr. Stallings,

I have re-read your note several times.  It makes good sense.

At the University Budget Committee we are looking for the kinds of brain
storming your letter suggests.  We need to make sure that you, and
countless others who know and care about UTC like you, make those
suggestions that can allow us to make expenditure reduction with the least
pain or disruption to the university's main mission.

Please participate - and encourage others around the campus to take the
opportunity to help suggest ways to reduce expenditure that make the most
sense.




At 03:12 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Resolving the Budget Crunch&Can it be done?
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>To seek a resolve to the Climbing budget shortfalls will have to be a
>cohesive act by a collective body for the betterment of the total unit.
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>Whatever action is taken is going to have to have an equal affect on each
>participant, allowing no one to be excluded from participating.  Starting
>at the Chancellors level, because any organization or institution will
>rise and fall on management.  Please note that any adjustments or cuts
>need to be termed as sacrifices.  With the campus trying to maintain its
>mission with little staff and even less funding, to take more cuts is to
>make sacrifices that directly affect our mission and students, both
>current and future.  How can we plan on gaining new or retaining current
>students when the campus is having to make such drastic decisions?
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>The last action I would want to see is the loss of jobs.  The only way you
>can justify a reduction in staffing is by a reduction of need.  Less
>people do less work therefore there will have to be some loss of
>departments or duties?  Or, to be politically correct, right sizing
>because of a reduced number of students which requires less faculty,
>staff, and facilities.  As the current reduction of utilities is proving,
>we now have to fight to maintain an environment conducive to educating
>students (aka Academic Mission). In attempting to make sacrifices in the
>area of utilities, while combating rising utility costs, I suggest that we
>look into reducing the waste of valuable resources by not providing these
>resources to areas that do not need them.  Consolidating evening classes
>to a limited number of buildings and turning off the resources (HAVC,
>lighting, heating of domestic water) to the unused buildings on
>campus.  In the daytime, turn off the lighting in rooms and offices when
>leaving the area.  Unoccupied offices are a great waste of
>resources.  Fees that are charged for events that use the campus
>properties should include a charge for maintenance and utilities.  This
>portion of the fee must roll over into facilities designated for utilities
>and maintenance of those areas.  This will allow facilities to better
>allocate funds for normal academic functions.
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>When money is scarce, moral is low, tempers are hot, attitudes show and
>our students see this.  Who wants to learn in this environment?  We have
>to remember that the campus is trying to pull together to help resolve a
>state problem.  UTC is trying to educate students to increase the quality
>of the Tennessee work place.  Graduating people into the Tennessee work
>force will increase the overall economic strength of this state, however,
>eliminating our ability to educate by reducing our capability or by
>compromising our ability to retain or draw new students has a detrimental
>affect on the budget at the state level.  This is trying to solve our
>money problems by eliminating the moneymakers.
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>There are a couple of ways to increase our student body, however, UTC has
>to be "the place to be".  Too many sacrifices will change UTC from being a
>valuable state resource to a small college in Chattanooga.  We ARE bigger
>than that!
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>There needs to be some campus-wide brainstorming going on.  There also
>needs to be some open minded listening to new ideas.  Radical ideas
>redesign paradigms and set new standards and goals.
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>I apologize for being wordy and long, but there is something better out
>there for UTC.  We need to be looking.
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>Respectfully,
>David Stallings
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>David A. Stallings
>Customer Services / Work Control Supervisor
>Facilities Planning and Management, Dept.3553
>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>Phone: (423) 425-4075
>Fax: (423) 425-4749
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