Some of the services listed in the agreement are more appropriate as state services. After an extensive discussion the Board asked that the agreement be revised to reflect a better division of what is appropriately centralized in the reQuest office and what can be better handled regionally. Pat Holloway and Sharon Brettschneider will revise the document and bring it back to the Board. New Business Telecommunications Planning Session Sharon distributed a draft Business Plan that resulted from the reQuest Telecommunications Planning Day which was held at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library on May 15th. Sharon has asked CSU to give her a proposal for hooking up to the networks first and then how much it would cost to bring in individual libraries.
More information needs to be gathered about networking in the schools.
A meeting has been planned with P. Owens, B. Sullivan, J. Thompson, R. Regan, A. Hopkins and S. Brettschneider to discuss the implications of a statewide outsourcing contract. The Telecommunications Committee will examine options and bring back a proposal to the July Board meeting. Budget Process Sharon reported that reQuest needs to decide how to use the remaining funds for the year and how much to request in the next federal and state budget cycle. P. Holloway and A. Hopkins volunteered for this committee.