96-09-13 Trustees: Ohio State Formulates Budget Request, Authorizes Design Work

OHIO STATE FORMULATES BUDGET REQUEST, AUTHORIZES DESIGN WORK

	COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees 
on Friday (9/13) reviewed requests for state funds in the 
1998-99 biennium and authorized hiring architects and 
engineers to design a road extension and track facility.  
The board also approved contracts for renovating Bricker 
Hall, named three structures, and conducted other business.

University supports subsidy allocation linked to mission

	William J. Shkurti, vice president for finance, shared 
with trustees the university's budget priorities and 
requests for state funding in the biennium that begins July 
1, 1997.

	Shkurti said Ohio State supports several state 
initiatives directed at basing the allocations of 
instructional subsidies more on the unique mission of each 
of Ohio's public universities and on performance measures 
related to those missions.

	Historically, the allocation formula has been driven by 
enrollment, which in recent years rewarded universities with 
growing enrollments at the expense of Ohio State, which has 
concentrated on improving quality and efficiency instead of 
enrollment growth. 

	In addition, Ohio State supports the Ohio Board of 
Regents in moving toward collecting and using enrollment 
data for all quarters in funding decisions rather than just 
summer and autumn quarters.

	The primary focus of Ohio State's budget request is to 
sustain current subsidy and line items and to seek an 
appropriate equitable increase, according to Eric Kunz, 
assistant vice president and assistant provost for 
university resource planning and institutional analysis.  

	Ohio State is receiving about $589 million in subsidies 
this biennium with another $144 million in supplemental 
line-item appropriations.  The Ohio General Assembly has 
traditionally funded a series of line items, particularly in 
the health sciences and agriculture.
 
	"There are some other areas in service and outreach 
that the university feels are important," Kunz said.  
"Distance education and learning is a key request this time 
given where higher education is moving."

	The university is requesting $3.5 million over two 
years to expand access to a "virtual university" through 
technology.

	"Ohio State is taking a comprehensive perspective in 
distance learning," Kunz said.  "We feel we can develop 
appropriate programs that cover all aspects of distance  
learning."

	For the fiscal 1998 and 1999 budget years, Ohio State 
is requesting new state support for two other programs:

	-- $2.1 million for the Young Scholars program, to 
provide year-round, comprehensive early intervention to 
increase the number of minority students prepared to succeed 
in college.

	-- $300,000 for Reading Recovery, the national program 
based at Ohio State that combats illiteracy by ensuring a 
strong foundation in reading skills for primary school 
students.

	-- $240,000 for the Institute for Japanese Studies 
which leads initiatives to strengthen the relationships 
between Ohio and Ohio-based Japanese businesses.

	In addition, the university is seeking $1 million for 
the Ohio Sea Grant College and Stone Laboratory, up from the 
current $502,000.  The money is used to fund cooperative 
research among faculty, the private sector and government to 
wisely manage the resources offered by Lake Erie.  The 
additional funds would provide new support for Stone Lab, 
the freshwater biological field station near Put-in-Bay.

	The total request for these services and outreach 
activities is $7.14 million over the biennium.

	Requests for current programs include:

	-- $109.2 million for the Ohio Agricultural Research 
and Development Center and Ohio State University Extension, 
up from $90.1 million in the current biennium.

	-- $41 million for support of the university's 
professional health clinics, the Area Health Education 
Center, family medicine, geriatric medicine and gerontology, 
primary care, and the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and 
Research Institute, up from $34.1 million.

	-- $824,000 to support the Center for Labor Research, 
up from $788,000.

	The requests are being submitted to the Ohio Board of 
Regents, which will present its recommendations for all of 
public higher education to the governor later this year.

Trustees authorize construction bids; award contracts
	The board authorized employment of architectural and 
engineering firms to design storm-water management 
structures, an extension of Fyffe Road, a new Jesse Owens 
track, and a steam line replacement on the Columbus campus.  
They also authorized design work for upgrading and extending 
utilities at the Mansfield campus.

	The Fyffe Road project will extend the road from Hess 
Road near Trautman Field north to Ackerman Road at the Child 
Care Center.  The $2.9 million project, designed to ease 
traffic flow around the new Schottenstein Center, will be 
funded by central university funds.

	In conjunction with the extension, a storm-water 
detention area and storm sewers near Buckeye Village will be 
constructed.

	The track relocation, to a site north of the 
Schottenstein Center, is to accommodate planned renovations 
of Ohio Stadium, which trustees in July authorized the 
university to investigate. Estimated cost of the new track 
is $6 million to $10 million, with funding coming from the 
sale of revenue bonds.  Debt service will be paid by the 
Department of Athletics.

	A $1.3 million project to replace 900 feet of buried 
steam line between McCracken Power Plant and St. John Arena 
is designed to meet future needs west of the Olentangy 
River.  A subsequent project will build a new line from St. 
John to the Agriculture Administration Building to serve 
that area of campus.  The project is being paid with central 
university funds.

	On the Mansfield campus, heating, ventilation and air 
conditioning systems in Ovalwood, Bromfield and Eisenhower 
halls will be upgraded.  Total cost of the project is 
$774,600 with funding coming from the state and the North 
Central Technical College, also based on the campus.

	Trustees also awarded contracts for a $1.2 million 
project at Bricker Hall to renovate the first floor and 
improve the heating, ventilation and air conditioning.  It 
is being funded by the state.  

	Contracts were awarded to Navarro Construction of 
Columbus, One Stop Mechanical Contractors of Dayton, 
Ragland/J.A. Guy of Dublin, Knight Electric of Worthington 
and American Abatement of Cleveland.

Trustees approve West Campus District Master Plan
	Trustees formally adopted the West Campus District 
Master Plan.  The plan, the second in the district campus 
planning series, examines development in the 693-acre area 
from Ohio 315 to North Star Road and the north edge of 
Waterman Farm to university-owned buildings on Kinnear Road.

	It continues the master plan principles of addressing 
architectural cohesiveness and offers a plan for development 
during the next 30 to 50 years as the university expands its 
Research Park in the southern part of the district.

	The plan sets guidelines for land use, landscaping and 
maintaining open spaces.  It also sets standards for density 
of building in keeping with the urban character of central 
campus while maintaining the rural Waterman Farm.

	Along North Star Road, which borders Upper Arlington, 
the plan sets density and development standards to comply 
with zoning codes.

	While the plan is meant to guide development in the 
area, which is still significantly undeveloped, it 
recognizes that further review will be needed of future 
projects and facilities.

	The introduction and summary of the plan can be found 
on the World Wide Web at http://www.apo.ohio-state.edu.

Trustees name building, road, seminar room

	Trustees named a university-owned house at 141 W. 11th 
Ave. as The Max Kade German House in recognition of the 
German-American industrialist and philanthropist.

	The Max Kade Foundation donated $240,000 to renovate 
the facility to create a residential/educational house that 
beginning fall quarter will be home to nine undergraduate 
students and one graduate residential adviser all studying 
German.

	In addition to providing a setting for students to 
speak German on a daily basis, contributing to their mastery 
of the language, the house also will serve as a focal point 
for cultural and educational events for the Department of 
Germanic Languages and Literatures, including student club 
meetings, presentations, German film showings, German 
television broadcasts, and receptions.

	A permanent street constructed to provide access in the 
West Campus and Research Park area was named Arthur E. Adams 
Drive to reflect Adams' long and productive history of 
service to the university and to higher education.

	Adams, an Upper Arlington resident, is a professor 
emeritus in the Department of History who came to Ohio State 
in 1970 as dean of the College of Humanities.  He served as 
associate provost in 1977 and 1978 and vice provost from 
1978 to 1982.  As special assistant to the president and the 
vice president for research and graduate studies from 1982 
to 1984, Adams led the development of a research park 
proposal for the university and outlined the area now 
designated as the research park.

	The street, parallel to Lane Avenue and off Carmack 
Road, is part of the development pattern in the research 
park area suggested by the West Campus District Master Plan.

	Room 168 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., will be named 
The Gerry D. Guthrie Seminar Room in memory of Guthrie, a 
long-time employee of University Libraries and an amateur 
historian of American history, particularly that of the 
Civil War.

	The Department of History will use the room for 
meetings, seminars and classes.  Its recent renovation was 
made possible by a $10,000 gift from Guthrie's mother, 
Cecile Guthrie.

Miscellaneous business

	In other matters:

	-- Trustees met with James L. Nichols, treasurer, in 
the Fiscal Affairs and Investments Committee, to review the 
university's internally managed equity portfolio and the 
distributions of income and expenditures from the Endowment 
Fund during the past year. 

	-- Committee members discussed a draft of a 
questionnaire being sent to the university's investment 
managers to determine the kind and extent of internal 
controls they employ.  The questionnaire would be part of 
efforts being made by Ohio State to improve the risk 
management of assets.  The effort is being done in 
conjunction with other major universities.

	-- The board approved an integrity program and 
compliance manual for the University Medical Center to 
achieve continued compliance with applicable government and 
professional standards and requirements.  The granting of 
medical staff privileges or employment at any University 
Medical Center facility and the approval of any departmental 
practice group will be contingent upon acceptance and 
compliance with the integrity program.  

	-- The board heard a report from Edward F. Hayes, vice 
president for research, Richard Sisson, senior vice 
president and provost, and Virginia Trethewey, vice 
president and general counsel, on a plan for developing the 
Research Park.

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Contact:  Eric Kunz, assistant vice president and assistant 
provost, 614-292-9490; William Shkurti, 614-292-9232; 
Jill Morelli, assistant vice president and university 
architect, 614-292-4458; Richard Sisson, senior vice 
president and provost, 614-292-5881; James L. Nichols, 614-
292-6261.
Written by: Tom Spring, 614-292-8309; and David Bhaerman, 
614-292-8422.


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
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