Approved

April 25, 2000

IHETS Board Room
714 N. Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN

Conference Call, 1:30 p.m.

Present: Ellen Watson, ISU Chair; Elaine Bennington, Ivy Tech; Wayne Bohm, USI; Fred Nay, BSU; Neal Vines, PU; Carmin Schnarr, VU, for Carl Koenig; Barrie Zimmerman, IPBS; and Max Gordon, Dave King, Jennifer Ping, Mark Rottler, Ed Tully, and Betty Hart, IHETS staff.

Chair Ellen Watson opened the meeting at 1:30 p.m. and announced that the May 9 meeting time would be changed to begin at 2:30 p.m. The meeting will be in Indianapolis, with the agenda coming out of today's meeting.

Strategic Directions for Appropriation Request
King provided an overview of the Board of Directors discussion April 13 and updated everyone on follow-up steps. The Board will meet again on May 24 at 1:00 p.m., the Management Committee on May 16, and refined presentation will be given at the May Working Group and ITC meetings. He summarized questions facing the ITC at this point:

1. Is this request on the right track?
2. If a $10 million request is not realistic, then what is?
3. Where do we go from here and what is the value of this request to our members, partners, and the State?

Tully reviewed material circulated previously addressing the intended results and benefits to be shared by everyone, summarizing that IHETS' goal is to lead the charge of delivering more and more education to support urgent economic development needs. At this point, the two issues that directly concern the ITC are network access and network applications. Testing of broadband delivery to the home will be conducted with the telephone companies. Spreadsheets with the number of circuits and cost analysis are available to anyone that needs that information. He asked what applications the institutions need and want to be included in research and development plans.

The consensus was that the request needs to be viewed as a whole and the profile in Indiana needs to be raised. Vines suggested that everyone look at planet.com to better understand what is happening today. Nay underscored Ball State's desire to reach students at home.

The meeting adjourned at 2:55 p.m.