Present: Dene Thomas, Karen Evans, Dean Froehlich, Chet Herbst, Rene Hofeldt, Rob Lohrmeyer, Kathy Martin, Deacon Meier, Rita Morris, Jody Oftelie, Carmen Rahm, Dan Regan, Ray Sanders

Absent: Kathy Noble

Guest: Richard Moore

Discussion focused on the report that January state revenues are down $17 million under projections. Governor Kempthorne's previous construction freeze was based on state revenues being $20 million under projection each month. The higher education construction money will likely be held until June or July.

The presidents also discussed the Idaho Promise Scholarship program. The legislature is trying to assess what impact the Promise Scholarship has had in its first year in order to determine whether or not to fund it for FY2003.

Carmen Rahm provided the following update regarding the recent denial of Internet service. The upgraded firewall to be installed by February 12.

• What happened? The attack is the result of a hacker (unknown), accessing other computers such as Velocity.com, and using these computers to send out denial of service attacks (flooding our little Internet connection) to numerous companies and organizations. While companies like Velocity.com are sending the attacks at us, they are not the actual perpetrator(s).
• Long Term Solution! The permanent solution is to upgrade our firewall to be able to identify these attacks, and avoid them. The current estimated delivery date from CISCO is mid to late February for our new firewall.
• Short Term Solution! We implemented Option 1 that was described in our emails to faculty, staff, and students. What we did was to monitor the attacks, get the IP addresses of the 3^rd party computers that are sending the attacks, and block those addresses at our firewall. This prevents good data from these sites also, but is a minor risk until the permanent solution is in place. At that time, we will remove the blocks from these addresses.

The 2002 spring enrollment headcount showed a 4% increase over last year's figures for the same time. The full-time equivalency count (FTE) also reflects a 4% increase. Enrollment at Coeur d'Alene also increased by 4%. Spring 2002 headcount 2831 and full-time equivalency 2196.06.

Richard Moore presented a historical overview of the evolution of LCSC’s organizational structure derived from catalogues, personal experience and observation and a few records. His synopsis was assisted by a series of charts provided which gave snapshots of some of the organizational schemes which have been used over the past few decades.

President Thomas wishes to initiate a Presidential Medallion to be awarded at commencement. The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual's advocacy for the institution and higher education.

Nominees for the award this year include Judy Meyer and Bill Hall.

The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, February 13, at 9:00 a.m., in the Alumni Board Room.