BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING AUGUST 19, 2010 Present: Mr. Paul Womack, Chair, Dr. Eugene Walker, Mr. Jay Cunningham, and Mr. Don McChesney ‘Meeting called to order at 10:05 AM. Mr. Cunningham arrived at 10:15 AM Ms Barbara Colman discussed with the committee some new information conceming the Rock Gym in Stone Mountain. There was a meeting held with the city of Stone Mountain about the gym. A new group has presented a new proposal for use of the building. We are awaiting a plan from this new group. a. Dr. Walker questioned what the group wanted and wanted to protect the interests of another group the Ga. Hall of Fame music group. His request was that each group be given fair hearings on their proposals. Dispac Center A and B buildings have been mostly vacated on N. Decatur Rd. A small portion of our staff still remains. Our data system is still there. A plan was presented for the future of Dispac. Everyone there will eventually be moved. It will all relocate to AIC. Our AS 400 servers will go to the Bryant Center. We will eventually have 3 centers to maintain the security and operation of our data systems. One will be at the Bryant Center. One will be at the Sam Moss Center. One will be at AIC. We will also have an emergency center probably located out o* state to take care that our system will work in case of some natural or weather related disaster. This will keep our circle operation of fiber optics working, ‘The move of all the data centers could take up to a year Mr. Hunter mentioned we ‘would also have a hot site in case our site failed. Mr, Womack and Mr. McChesney spoke of the value of the AS400 blade system in our computer center. Mr. Womack asked that we take the DISPAC vote to the full board as soon as possible. We also discussed the Shamrock Middle School renaming. Mr. Moseley presented the board policies on naming facilities. Mr. McChesney spoke in strong support of this proposal to rename Shamrock to Druid Hills Middle School. A committee will be convened to possibly rename the school. Mr. Turk presented the BOSS program. Budget outsourcing savings project. Please include the BOSS attachments to the notes.J. Ms, Tyson is researching companies that study outsourcing for k-12 environments. We are going to get a presentation from companies that do this for a future potential RFP. We will try to move the timeline as quickly as possible. k, Mr. Donahue brought us the background on possibly putting some cell towers on school property benefiting both the school and the county. Three companies have expressed an interest. Mr. Donahue mentioned that we do not have a cell tower policy. T- Mobile has presented an 18-24 month phase in program. They have also looked at several possible locations. 1. Ms. Tyson will research all the possibilities and return to the budget and finance committee in October 2010 with her findings. Motion to adjourn Mr. McChesney Second Dr, Walker Meeting adjourned at 11:35 AM