Notes from October 14th meeting

1. Discussion with Ruth Williams
   1. Operating budgets: state funding and how funding changes
      • System prepares requests (DINs) for across-the-board and (in recent bienniums) campus-specific requests
      • Cuts are usually spread across system as proportional to budget
      • Salary increases largely paid from tuition (not new state funding)
   2. Overview of planning and links to budgets
      • Summary of events by year
      • Shrinking state support in mid-1990s. Turned around in late 1990s (enrollment growth) and early 2000s (new Milwaukee Idea funding) .
      • Parallel budget planning change around 2000 from managing budget cuts to investing in future.
   3. Looking into the future: how to influence the process
2. Brief updates
   1. Accreditation web site
      • Public pages for meeting notes, times, etc.
      • Password protected space for developing draft documents, and web log
   2. Committee report
      • First (albeit incomplete) pass at planning history done
      • Narrative will need to review past and make recommendations for future
3. Future meetings
   1. Full PFF Committee meeting: November 11, 8-9:30 AM, Endris 597
   • Possible guests are Jay Moore or other APBC members, Mike Rupp (financial matters), Don Weill (resources)
   2. Working groups typically meeting once every 1-2 weeks