Thus far the President has allowed only temporary hiring on all open positions. Positions lost in the Early Incentive Retirement are gone, John Haak doesn't believe they will ever be returned. When permission is obtained to fill any of the open positions that have temporary hires in them, the persons in the temporary slots will have to go through the normal hiring process - they will not be automatically moved into the permanent slot. After receiving the funds, now comes the reality of actually doing the planning. The Planning Office and DAGS did not start real work on Phase 3 until late April.
Attention is now intense.
Ground breaking could be in summer of 1998, with 18 months for construction, there would be a move-in date of January 2000. No funds for equipment for Phase 3 have been appropriated. A request for equipment funding will be submitted in Spring 1999. Then the architects have to turn in a budget to match the DAGS allocation. The architects estimated costs according to the Planning Office are now 3 million dollars over the budget allocation.