The Chair accepted the proposal and stated that the IRC will vote on it at its February meeting. Discussion of the proposal followed, which included questions about the source of funding, and concern about inconsistencies that appear to be present in the source of funding for the wiring to the new Student Services Center as opposed to the wiring for the new Music Performance Center. Virginia Wheeless pointed out that the committee needs to know the level of priority assigned to this project, if the funds are going to compete with other projects the IRC has already approved. Bill stated that he would provide a breakdown of the cost estimates of this proposal as well as for the Student Services Center, to be distributed to IRC members with the minutes. Bill Buntain also reported that sales of remote access subscriptions were slow during the Fall semester because of the timing of when they became available.
Sales are very high right now.
Remote e-mail access is not yet available in the subscription package, which might slow down the sales somewhat. He and his staff are still evaluating products for student e-mail and will add that to the package as soon as it is available. He hopes to have sales numbers at the next IRC meeting. He confirmed that students will not be asked to pay any increase in their fees to support the remote access service. It was pointed out that departments will have to pay for staff subscriptions for the service.