She noted that she went ahead and made the permanent changes to the base that we decided on last week. McCool said that our current timeclocks have served us well, but are worn out. She said that she met in the Spring with a group of 5-6 supervisors of large units, and Bonny Boyan, and Bill Crossman regarding the kind of system they would like to see replace the current one. The group liked the idea of a networked system that uses existing computers that students can access with their ID cards, and that will generate reports for LAO and allow supervisors to download information. She is currently working with Purchasing on parameters for the bid document.
Security is, of course, an issue.
Before we decide on a system, supervisors would get a demo. McCool would expect to have responses from the bid by January 1998. LC spoke briefly about returning to a manual system, but since it would mean supervisors having to add hours on timesheets, it just didn't seem feasible. LC recommended we proceed with this. We do still need to determine what we're going to do and how much it will cost, however.