TASC MEETING
Minutes
August 2, 2006

Call to Order
Mike Graham called the meeting to order at 1:20pm. Members present were Michael Graham, Janet Woolman, Marcus Stein, Ashley Berken, Wayne Fetter and Michael Duff. Others in attendance were Shannon Davis, Chad Thibodeaux and Stacie Fuselier. Members absent were Dr. Todd Furman and Nick Kohrs.

Minutes
Mike Duff made a motion, and Marcus Stein seconded it, to approve 27Apr06 minutes.

CITO Update
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Marcus Stein made a motion to nominate Michael Duff for executive chair of meeting. Ashley Berken seconded the motion. Michael Duff was unanimously approved as executive chair of meeting.

Michael Graham discussed that the committee has to decide how they want to allocate the budget. He let them know that the way it was done last year seemed to work best. He told them that last year they had certain things that are allocated from the fund that are fixed, such as salaries, but what was left over was split evenly between all colleges and each college would make proposals as to what they needed the funds to be spent on as a whole. Michael Duff re-iterated how much smoother things went last year compared to the previous years he was on the committee. Michael Graham told the committee that this was their IDEA phase and by the next meeting they needed to come up with ideas that would benefit the student body as a whole.

Michael Graham announced that Shannon Davis was the interim coordinator of TASC and that Janet Woolman was chairing the search committee to find his replacement.

Michael Graham then brought up the Bandwidth issue and they all discussed the problem and how they are looking into buying more Bandwidth. Michael said he was committed to doubling the existing Bandwidth.

Michael Graham also spoke about LONI, that will provide us with Internet 2, possibly Internet 1. He expects it by January and Dr. Fetter mentioned that he had received an email that the date was in October. Michael told everyone that the fiber was pulled to UCS, but there was still a lot left to be done.

Michael Graham then discussed the myspace.com issue. He told everyone that before Chad blocked the site, we were operating at 99.2% to 99.8% capacity and that the next day we got back 10% of our bandwidth. Michael Graham let everyone know that the academic mission of the university was our first priority. Michael Duff recommended that we possibly put myspace.com on a timer. Chad Thibodeaux was going to research it to see if that was an option. Marcus Stein said he had gotten phone calls about the issue, but that once he explained the situation, most people understood that it was not a “censorship” issue. Shannon Davis also said the same thing. Michael Graham said he was working on a letter to the Contraband newspaper to explain the situation because he knew there were several complaints. They also discussed that it was not just here that there was a problem, that other universities were experiencing the same problem. It was also mentioned there will always be a new site that we will have to worry about. Michael Graham wanted to make sure everyone knew he was not opposed to expand the Bandwidth. He also doesn’t want to block anything. He is just concerned about the academic stuff first.

Michael Duff asked about the Portal. Michael Graham let the committee know that it had been involved in the state “red tape” and that we had paid for it on June 30, 2006, and this Friday there was going to be the first conference call about the install, and it is coming, it would probably take about a year.

It was decided that the next meeting would be on Monday, August 14, 2006 at 2:00 and that at that meeting they would decide on the set times for the meetings.

Ashley Berken made a motion, and Marcus Stein seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 2:05.