Recreational Sports Board

The Recreational Sports Board has not officially met this year. We tried to hold one meeting but we failed to meet Quorum. I believe that a sub-committee met this week to review the Recreational Sports budget for the year. We should be reviewing that material at our next Recreational Sports Board meeting.

The Director of Rec Sports has indicated that they continue to explore renovation/expansion options. The SERF, NAT, and Shell are all on the older side and they get many complaints about the setup ie the SERF is like a dungeon is the most common complaint. The tentative plan is to renovate the NAT and then the SERF. In regards to the Shell they are looking at some sort of partnership with Athletics but that is unclear at this point. We should be getting a presentation detailing plans for expansion/renovation. I know they are planning on adding more exterior glass to give the building more of an outdoor feel and more effectively utilize sunlight.

Rec Sports understands that this must be done with student money and the Union is already undergoing a renovation/expansion so they are trying to be mindful of the situation with regards to student seg fees. I believe they are exploring the option of looking for some private money to help fund the operation. All of these matters should be addressed at our next meeting. There might be some information I forgot so other Rec Sports Board members should feel free to post any additional information. I thought it would be in the best interest of Shared Governance to get at least some information online. Please excuse any typos.

Send in nominations for the Chancellor Search

If you would like to nominate individuals to apply for the Chancellor position, please contact David Musolf (Secretary of the Faculty) and the Search and Screen Committee. No e-mail nominations will be accepted due to confidentiality/privacy requirements. However, paper mail, confidential fax, telephone, or in person are options.

David Musolf
133 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Dr
Madison, WI 53706

Confidential fax: 608-265-7806

Be sure to include the complete address information for each nominee: name, title, institution, street address, city, state, zip, work telephone, and e-mail address (if possible).

Nominees can really be anyone, both inside and outside of UW-Madison. The one major requirement is that he or she must be tenurable. An official position description will be posted early next week at chancellorsearch.wisc.edu.

If you have questions, comments, concerns, please e-mail the entire Search and Screen Committee at chancellorsearch@bascom.wisc.edu.

Note: NextChancellorIdeas@gmail.com has been discontinued.

Chancellor Search and Screen website

A website with the official news and information about the Chancellor Search and Screen is now on-line at http://chancellorsearch.wisc.edu/

Just a reminder, if you have input (questions, comments, concerns) about the search and qualities you would like to see in Mr. Wiley's successor, please contact Erik and me at NextChancellorIdeas@gmail.com.



**Edit 2/2/08: Please use "chancellorsearch@bascom.wisc.edu" for e-mail correspondence. NextChancellorIdeas@gmail.com has been discontinued.

Athletic Board

The Athletic Board met on January 25th. We had a good meeting and the Chancellor was in attendance. Business we took care of included approving exceptional achievement awards for coaches whom qualified, receiving an update from our faculty representative to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, receiving an update from the NCAA convention, reviewing athletics fall gpa summary, evaluating Director of Athletics Barry Alavarez, and taking action on coaches whose contracts required action.

I will bring copies of all of the documents I can to our next meeting for those of you who are interested to review. Some items to note include: at the NCAA convention some representatives attempted to override the ban on text messaging recruits. The override vote was strongly defeated. Alvarez's evaluation spoke very highly of the job he is doing. The chancellor thought it was especially appropriate to comment on the strong academic performance of student-athletes, something he believes is very important. We approved all contract extensions that came before the board for current coaches. Anyways, if anyone is interested in more material or information please feel free to contact me or approach me at the next meeting.

For those of you who do not already know, me and Logan are attempting to implement some type of sports-oriented undergraduate program. We have already begun working very hard on this effort. If anyone is interested in helping or has any advice please feel free to contact us.

I am looking forward to attending our next meeting. It has been a while for me, but I can tell Shared Governance is doing very well.

1/29 Health Care Advisory Committee

The HCAC is the entity that reviews and voices approval for the UHS budget before UHS presents to SSFC. This afternoon's meeting covered only the review of that budget.

The budget's major changes reflect the U-Square building project and operational/supply costs associated with that, including hiring new custodial staff, installing additional telephone lines, upgrading antiquated technology, etc. Thus, there will be a significant operating deficit for this 08-09 budget that will dissipate over the next 4 years. The decision was made to run a deficit rather than increase student segregated fees.

Physical Therapy programs will be expanded and moved into a contract with the Dept of Physical Therapy at the UW Hospital and Clinics. The cost of the expansion will be recouped by patient (student) billings, but the overall costs for students will decrease because administrative costs will be subsidized by the seg fee budget. Currently, a student who utilizes UWHC physical therapy does incur those administrative costs.

As UHS moves into the new U-Square development this coming winter (Dec 2008, Jan 2009), they expect that the utilization of services will go up because of proximity. This will also unpredictably increase the operating expenses.

UHS will present to SSFC on February 14.

Question: Would you be more likely to use University Health Services after it has moved into its new location at University Square?

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

January 23, 2008

Local Agency Updates

Shorewood- a proposed 70000 Gross Square Feet (GSF) office building has been proposed for the 800 block of University Bay Drive and Marshall Court. The building will be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified and will have three levels of underground parking. Building is still awaiting approval. If all goes well, construction should start sometime in August of 2008 and finish the following fall (2009). Plans for the proposed building will be posted on the Shorewood website: http://villageofshorewood.org/.

City of Madison/UW Campus Updates

Regent Street and South Campus status Report can be found on the city of Madison website: http://www.cityofmadison.com/neighborhoods/rsscPlan/.

Underground work of the West Campus Utilities Project should be finished by fall 2008.

Pedestrian Bike Path is almost finished; there will be an opening ceremony in late spring.

Bio-Chemistry II proposals will be back in Joint SE Campus Committee later this year.

Charter Street Coal Plant is already burning 15% less coal than was previously used. Currently the plant uses around 128000 tons of coal per year; goal is to reduce this usage by 20000 tons of coal per year. A new study will be completed by July; the purpose of this study is to analyze how to update and make the plant more energy efficient. New boilers and burners will be brought to the plant; this opportunity will allow the University to test new fuels and sources of bio-energy such as bio-mass. The first wave of improvements will come no later than 2012. Two public scoping meetings will be held: early spring 2008 and late spring 2008.

School of Medicine and Public Health Faculty Office Building

UW –School of Medicine and UW-Hospital are proposing a faculty office building be built to relieve the over cramped offices currently located in the UW-Hospital; two offices currently being used by staff are actually meant to be Operating Rooms. This proposed building will consist of between 100000-132000 GSF and will be no more than eight stories high. Substantial completion of project will occur by December of 2009. This development is part of the major research and healthcare core in this area. Projected costs are 20-30 million dollars, which is coming from the Medical Foundation Fund. Approval was made to move School of Medicine concept plan to the Shorewood community.

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting
December 5, 2007

• Lakeshore Residence Halls were not included in the approved state budget thus the project is currently put on hold but hope to reintroduce the matter in the next state budget.

• New band practice field is well under way, base has been graded.

• The new proposed Bio-Chemistry II building is currently in the planning stages and awaiting city approval. This project will save and restore the Ag Journalism and old Bio-Chemistry buildings. Two new classrooms are included in the redevelopment and restoration of these buildings.

• Wisconsin Institute of Discovery/ Morgridge Institute of Research (WID/MIR) project is progressing well; deconstruction of the 1300 block of University Avenue is slated to begin in January 2008. Alan Fish provided presentation. WID/MIR as a collaborative science center is placed in the center of several important science departments in the center of campus. The building will also provide opportunities for science outreach to the community. The building will also complement the new social center in the south campus area- that being the new student union in the south campus area. Union South will provide guest rooms, meeting rooms, more food service, recreation, and the such for not only the campus but also WIS/MIR and the entire south campus area.

• Charter Street Heating Plant has reached a settlement with the Sierra Club and will cut back on coal usage by January 15^th 2008 via alternative fuels and energy conservation programs. Current study of the plant will be completed by mid-2008 with scoping meeting in February and a presentation of draft alternatives in May at another public meeting.

• Next meeting is scheduled for January 23, 2008.