University of Minnesota, Morris
Campus Resources & Planning Committee Minutes

 May 11, 1998

Members present:  Andy Lopez, Lowell Rasmussen, Sara Haugen, Gwen Rudney, 
Jason Anderson, Jenny Dose, Jeff Ratliff-Crain, Maddy Maxeiner, Chris Wenner.

Guests: Sam Schuman, Jeri Mullin, Dave Johnson, Fred Farrell.

The meeting began with Maddy Maxeiner's comments concerning the minutes 
of 4/20/98.  She reminded the committee that increasing fund raising 
goals requires increased resources (personnel) for fund-raising 
activities.  Andy Lopez assured her that the vice chancellor group 
understood that concept when he reviewed the material with them earlier.

The Physical Plant Subcommittee reported.  They have met weekly to 
wrestle with space issues.  Lowell Rasmussen emphasized that the campus 
will need to become adjusted to swing (temporary) space for several 
years.  The following concepts resulted from their deliberations 
(summarized from email by Lowell Rasmussen):


1. A good objective would be to move those units and departments which 
deal with external campus clients to Community Services, and those units 
which deal with internal campus clients should be focused on the mall. 

[Jeri Mullin expressed concern about separating Admissions/Financial Aid 
from the Registrar's Office as they share paper files.]

2. The subcommittee recommends that Commission on Women, Womens Resource 
Center, 
and E-Quality be relocated from the PE Annex to the future dressing room 
area in the basement of the Student Center. It is understood that this is 
a 
temporary move and all affected parties have agreed to the recommendations.

[Other possibilities explored and found unworkable included renting 
apartments for these groups.]

3. The subcommittee recommends that Alumni Relations and Fund Development 
be 
relocated to the HFA Plaza area...[temporarily]... until the 
Community Services Building is renovated. [Eventually] the HFA 
plaza offices will be used by Humanities. The existing Alumni area would 
be used by Human Resources to provide a more private access to faculty 
staff and students.  

4. The subcommittee recommends relocation of the Science faculty annex to 
the site adjacent to the Humanities faculty annex. The site is the most 
cost effective location to get campus infrastructure to the Science 
Annex. It uses would be as follows: 
     Fall 1998 -Fall 2000 Current faculty to stay in this building
     Fall 2000  Fall 2001 Geology/Physics Faculty displaced out of Old 
     Science to use this space. 
     Fall 2001 Fall 2002 University College and others displaced out of 
     Community Services to use this facility. 

[Great concern was expressed about aesthetics and first impressions of 
parents and prospective students.]

The CRPC voted to endorse items 1-3 and revisit item 4.

The committee then discussed other priority space issues. 

The computer lab in Camden is woefully inadequate and has generated much 
concern.  There is a need to reprioritize space on campus, using high 
quality spaces for teaching and low quality spaces for storage.  There 
are privacy concerns surrounding the Health Services facility due to 
entry and exit traffic in that area.

The subcommittee will continue its work.  Other groups will report at 
later meetings.  

The CRPC will meet again on Monday, May 18, at 4 pm in the Behmler 
Conference Room.