PBIE MEETING MINUTES OF 10/29/09
PRESENT: Michelle Tubbs, Christine Work, Stephanie Lugo, Cory Harris, Abdel Farah, Ming Wang, Kathy Zurilla, Michael Roe, Josephina Vondras, Gabriele Triefenbach-Kramer, Cynthia Richichi, Debbie Horowitz, Ilene Castaldo, Joann Hamburg.
Minutes of Oct. 15th- Christine Work clarified that her comment was to mean that we should not only focus on new initiatives.  The minutes were amended to reflect this. All voted in favor to accept. 
Minutes of Oct. 21st- It was clarified that the “Considerations: the Green Program and the Honors Program” bullet did not clearly indicated the point of discussion was which initiatives contained staffing requests.  The minutes were amended to reflect this.  All voted in favor to accept.
Michelle explained that our task is to decide which initiatives we will recommend to the cabinet level.
ONLINE REQUISITION PROCESSING INITIATIVE from the Purchasing department in the Business office. Cynthia and Joanne explained that this would be a new position to assess and oversee the fixed assets of the college. This is so our entire inventory can be accounted for college wide. This would include any item with a cost  of $500 or over. Michelle thought that any personnel initiatives should not go through PBIE. Michael said we had decided that this would be the last year.
LED PROJECTORS- Michelle confirmed that this idea was discussed with and supported by the Student Communications Working Group. Other colleges use this idea for communication. Christine thought the idea is premature and overwhelming to implement. There is a one time cost to purchase 12-14 units. It will post emergencies. One unit would be placed in each  building. Abdel said it would probably need at least a part timer to implement it.
TIME ENTRY VIA WEB from human resources- We do not know what it is about.
MULTIMEDIA INSRUCTIONAL DESIGN SUPPORT PERSONNEL(MIDS)- This calls for additional education to train the ITS people to become more up to date on new technology for web enhancing our classes. The point seems to be to then have the ITS people immediately available to help us. We had a discussion around the fact that Maureen Larson seems to be already doing this, so what it the point of additional funding or personnel?
Michelle explained how the rankings for the initiatives we decide to recommend…each  committee member ranks the initiatives on their own and brings them to a meeting. Then all rankings will be put into excel and we will obtain the average rankings overall. If we have any questions, we should contact the corresponding department and bring any info we get to the next meeting.
We will try to meet in OH207 again.
Ilene Castaldo
Approved 11/5/09