Hall C has completed 5 experiments in '99 and is getting ready for G0. The long range planning process will begin in Sept. 2000, with an interim report out in April 2001. This will influence the FY 2003 budget. It's important for the lab to get it's act together this summer. There will be a town meeting in January, and the rest of the spring will be used for the preparation of the long range plan.
Nuclear physics needs an infusion of money.
RHIC and JLab operating funds are too low. If the money had been there all along, JLab would be getting its new construction project much sooner. Almost surely, JLab will be asked to take responsibility for the superconducting linac for the spallation neutron source. Around 50 new people, mostly technical in the accelerator division, are to be hired for this project. This hiring has already begun.