MELA Meeting Minutes 2019

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Call to order 10:02 am

II. Approval of February Minutes- Christa Wilhite made the motion to approve the February minutes. Marie Roberts seconded. Motion carried

III. Approval of April Agenda—Phyllis Johnson made the motion to approve the April agenda. Jennifer James seconded. Motion carried

IV.

Unfinished Business

V.

New Business

1. Krista LeBrun

i. Update on Shalon’s Return—April 22 nd will be Shalon’s return date. Her schedule will be flexible. ii. MILD Grant Application (Deadline: April 26, 2019)—These have been made public. iii. ET Requests/Updates (Table until May for Shalon)—Shalon has a process and procedure for this. Please keep submitting and Shalon will review in May. iv. Update from MACJC Meeting 2. TII— Contract expires in October. To ensure contract is in place will add to the ITS Queue. Will work to align all contracts with the fiscal year to streamline the process of for when MACJC reviews contracts and budgets annually 3. MELO— As previously discussed, removal of Lyrasis and Credo. Cost for FY20 $375K. Talked with chair of MELO about offering training about the MELO services and will explore that more in the next few months. MACJC stated they would review all aspects of MSVCC contracts, including MELO, on an annual basis to determine which contracts need to be re-evaluated. 4. SmarterServices— This contract was done a little earlier than normal but that is due to the possible RFP and budget reviews. Will add this to the ITS queue in late Summer 2019. 5. Catalog down time for infrastructure revisions and re-branding— Shalon will be restructuring the infrastructure. To do this, Catalog has to be disabled. This will be done in the middle of June (potentially 6/13 or 6/14). We will be offering TEO I & II this summer. Both start May 13 due to having to bring down Canvas Catalog in June. TEO I is tentatively scheduled for July 15 with Jennifer Leimer and TEO II is tentatively scheduled or August 20 with Kimberly Ellis. 6. Budget for PD—The budget for PD was reduced to $20,000. Let Krista know if there are specific needs. Data for past enrollments, surveys, needs assessment, etc will be used to determine offering. v. Update on PD:

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