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

Plans are being development.

State Board of Education meeting, January 21 and 22. Meeting agenda distributed.

Higher Education Week at the Legislature, January 21 - 25.

LCSC presentation to Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee (JFAC), January 23.

Spring Semester headcount as of January 15 is 2,779. Tenth day headcount is anticipated to be above 2,800, which is above last year’s spring headcount.

Governor Kempthorne and legislative leaders announced a plan to delay capitol projects. Lewis-Clark State College's multi-purpose activity center construction funding has been put on hold. The projects affected will be reconsidered on a month-to-month basis between now and April, with funds being held or released according to reviews of state revenues.

LC will continue with opening the construction bids this week. Bidding is for phase two, which includes the start of construction on the facility. Phase one, already underway, included site preparation and construction of parking lots. Funding to cover costs of phase one is not affected.

Chet Herbst met with ASLCSC leadership to provide information regarding announcements made at the campus meeting on January 10, and provided an update of the Governor's hold on capitol projects.

The scope of the Network Phase II Project is to upgrade and expand the Local Area Network (LAN) within the various campus buildings. The major improvements resulting (critical success factors) will be:

• Increased density of network ports and other instructional related areas.
• Upgraded network cable-pant from CAT-4 to CAT-5e in several existing buildings. Other buildings already have CAT-5 and CAT-5e cabling.
• LAN access from buildings currently without network connections (dormitories, etc.)
• Wireless network access in several community locations (SUB, Library, Centennial Mall, Athletic Complex).

More information is available on the Information Technology web site.

ICA Project Grant Principal Investigator: Carlton Oakes

Funding Source: Idaho Commission on the Arts Request Amount = $7,500 Match = $7,500

The next President's Council will be on Wednesday, February 6, at 9:00 a.m., in the Student Union Building Room 143.