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Minutes:
April 6, 2010
All-Libraries Meeting
These are the key points from the Dean's presentation today on budget. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any member of the Cabinet.
The campus will take a $9.4 million reduction for the fiscal year starting July 1 (FY11). This is the best information as of today and there could be changes depending on a variety of economic factors.
These cuts are focused in 3 broad areas: attrition, conversion, and consolidation. The Libraries will be taking these cuts as follows:
ATTRITION: The Libraries were instructed that we would lose 3 faculty lines (Anthes, D'Avis, Krismann) for which retirement agreements were in place.
[Even though we are losing Susan Anthes' position, the search for an Interim Associate Director for Public Services is continuing as planned.]
We are losing the positions and the associated funds - this does not necessarily mean these jobs will not be filled in the future. Other vacant faculty positions are still secure and the Libraries may be able to negotiate with the campus to fill these positions in different ways. These
3 faculty positions are the only personnel impact for the Libraries.
Overall, the campus will eliminate a total of 135 FTE faculty and staff
(combined) during the current and next fiscal years (FY10-FY11).
CONVERSION: This entails moving current campus commitments from general funds (State funds or "hard" money) to soft funds (one-time money). In this area, the campus has committed to paying the FY11 PASCAL Bay 2 loan payment ($277,500). We are hopeful this is an agreement for future years as well but that is yet uncertain. There are 2 more loan payments due in FY12 and FY13.
CONSOLIDATION: The Libraries have already made considerable workflows improvements. We will use the ongoing move to our digital future to continue such efficiencies (such as on-demand purchasing). A $600,000 cut to the materials is part of this area but it will be backfilled for FY11.
This is still an ongoing problem, however, so bibliographers are already meeting to determine how to streamline the budget even further in hopes of reducing impact of this $600K cut.
After the Dean's presentation, discussion ensued and several questions were raised.
* It is unknown how the 3 lost faculty lines will be absorbed. The Cabinet and other appropriate groups will begin working on this immediately.
* There is nothing to report on cuts to other campus units. Please stay tuned for the Chancellor's budget forums later this month.
Q. Will there be a hiring freeze?
A. Not at this time.
Q. Will there be raises for FY11?
A. Unknown at this time.
Q. What is the impact on the student budget?
A. Unknown at this time. The ongoing student wage budget is supplemented by campus funds as well as Libraries discretionary (salary savings) funds and we are not sure what the impact might be.
* Although this is painful, ultimately, we are in much better shape than many of our peer institutions. State funding will be reduced to approximately 5% after this round of cuts.
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John Culshaw
Professor and Associate Director for Administrative Services University Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder
184 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0184
Phone 303-492-6252
Fax 303-492-1881
E-Mail john.culshaw@colorado.edu
