Minutes of the Facilities Planning Committee
for August 9, 2002

Attendees: Bill Streeter, Chair; Marwan Wafa, Walter Feldt, Steve McLaughlin, Don Cress, and Gene Goodman. Richard Lott and Tom Peischl attended as Ex-officio members. Larry Duetsch, Timothy Fossum and Rebecca Martin were excused. Don Kolbe and Ed Neckar were invited guests.

ALL AGENCY PROJECTS

Tom Bittner spent a day with Kolbe and Neckar to compile the project list. Kolbe discussed the eleven projects ($100,000-$500,000 renovation or up to $1 million for maintenance projects). UW-P target based on FACMAN data set by UW-System is $4.7 million and requests totaled approximately $2.64 million. Actual funding by state government is expected to be much less.

Kolbe asked the committee to review the suggested current priority order. System will forward the list to DFD and DFD will reorganize it as they see fit. DFD views maintenance, and health and safety issues as top priority issues. Renovations are last so Kolbe placed the renovation projects in the middle of the list to reduce the chance of losing some of the maintenance projects. One of the renovation projects is in Molinaro Hall (L1 level) Classroom Renovation. Kolbe handed out plans to show the areas affected. This does not relate to the Molinaro Phase I project (SMI). These are two parts of the major development plan (L1 and L2 levels) that can be done without having to impact other areas in the building. These plans are to build larger classrooms.

Bittner and Albers reviewed the classroom usage for the last two years. When they looked at the enrollments they learned we were short seminar and middle sized classrooms. Not the big lecture hall but the in-between size.

Neckar said he has feedback that MOLN 149 does not work well. If faculty offices are needed, that area could be converted to offices without impacting anything else. This is detailed in the physical development plan as being converted to offices in Molinaro Hall Phase II.

On the 2nd floor, in Geography, two large classrooms would be created by removing the storage/lab to across the hallway. Soils and Dendrochronology Labs and prep/storage rooms were created across the hall. The chair has a large room that serves as a lab/office. That will be eliminated to form these labs.

Wafa said MOLN 236 is a heavily used conference room. MOLN 248B is slated to be divided in the future. MOLN 219 will be a prep/storage/work room for Geography. Molinaro Hall phase II has programmed a larger conference room in (MOLN 216C will be an office area with a large conference room). That may be the new space for the conference room currently located in MOLN 236. In the interim Molinaro 217 and 275A are possibly available as meeting rooms.

Kolbe briefly explained the scope and justification for the list of projects being submitted. The projects are as follows:

Campus Emergency Electrical Power System Renovation
Campus Emergency Telephones
Campus Damper Repair/Replacement
Inner Loop Road Asphalt and Curb Repair
Molinaro L1 Classroom Renovation
Molinaro Hall Geography Classroom/Lab Renovation
Campus Wide Drainage
Tennis Court Repair
Animal Care Facility-Emergency Systems
Campus Carpet Replacement (Nursing Offices, Labs, Business Svcs, Purchasing, Human Resources, Credit Union, Registrar, Cashier's Office, Financial Aid Office, scattered offices in Comm Arts)
Grounds Storage Building Replacement

A PR Project (Bonded) project being submitted is the Communication Arts parking lot renovation at $495,000.

Discussion of adding the Comm Arts Language Lab was determined to be added to the list above. Don Cress will ask Christoph to send to Kolbe the project scope, justification and budget details. The project will be added after the Molinaro hall geography Classroom/Lab Renovation.

Major Projects Proposed for the 2003-05 Biennium:

Student Union Expansion
Comm Arts Expansion
Molinaro Renovation Phase I

The Molinaro L1 project involves remodeling in the SMI area.

Cost of the Student Union Expansion has continued to escalate - some state tax dollars involved but not significant. McLaughlin will look into creative financing keeping in mind that the expansion will be paid for primarily with student segregated fees.