Suggestion made to let the bookstore know that he is coming and perhaps ask him to sign his books. At the next meeting this committee will determine the membership of the ad hoc committee for Orientation day. Keep the funding as allocated presently for both faculty and classified travel and conference. Continue to fund retreats. Other activities should be serving some training need.
Every area has their own specific training needs.
One year it was used for training for the Info Tech staff when GroupWise was being installed. The money for training is there, it's just a matter of identifying the needs. It is not enough to buy even coffee and pastries and some people end up using their own money without being reimbursed. As criteria, the group having a meeting would submit a list of the anticipated attendees in order to receive the funds and then they would send a sign-in sheet afterwards. Department chairs will have to be informed of the procedure and pass the information on to their successors.