The committee was supposed to meet this past Tuesday - was cancelled due to illness

The next meeting is scheduled for January 6^th, 2004

· Network & Systems - Sharon Luciw

No update

· Information Systems - Gerry Gyuire

No update

The committee will be meeting on December 18^th

4. STRATEGIC PLAN ? DEVELOP A PLAN OF ACTION FOR REVISION

· 1996 Willie & Penny Patz were ask by the Chancellor to come up with a strategic plan for the district

They put together a plan based upon meetings with individual divisions, deans, managers, groups of faculty, the senates, etc

The plan was adopted by the Board in June of '96

Used to guide a lot of the decision making regarding technology until about '99

· In '99 an outside consulting group (Collegis) was called in to help manage the technology support of the District and help design a new strategic plan for the District

This is the document the District currently is working under

There were objections to the strategies and goals, at the end of the document, and were brought before the Board

In light of the objections that were heard, ETAC was charged with revising the strategies and goals to meet the over all goals of the District

ETAC decided to not substantially change the text of the strategic plan itself but to change the strategies and goals

The goals with associated strategies were what the District was supposed to work towards, in particular ETS

· Since the plan is normally revised every four years and due to the changes in technology and our budget environment, it is imperative to look at the current document for revisions to meet our changing environment

· John Swensson suggested that the document is looked at from the big picture point of view

Need to look at a new admin system

Technology training is a big issue to look at

The wireless issue needs to be addressed in the plan

Would like ETUDES to become ubiquitous

Need a good SPAM filter

The issue of computer replacement needs to be addressed

The comment was made that these are all tactical issues not strategic issues - strategies to implement the goal

Can be used as the strategy for creating the larger goals

· The current task is to look at the larger goals and see if they need to be changed and then look at the strategies for implementing those goals

· Jamie Doll expressed the fact that there is no mention of security in the current goals and feels that it should be broken out as a separate goal

·Allison Lenkeit is concerned with the wording of the Mission Statement because the goals didnÕt focus on how technology would be used to improve student outcomes or teaching