Master Planning Committee Meeting
February 12, 2009
Notes

Attending: Deb Horner, Doug Braddock, Dianne Milke, Jennie Carroll, Gary Newman, Bonita Dainowski, Linda Zannazo, Joshua Greenberg, Bill Krause, Lydia Anderson, Joe Hayes, Scott Arko, Rich Boone
Guests: Kit Duke (Chief Facilities Officer, Associate Vice President Facilities, UA Statewide), Scott McCrea, Jonathan Shambare (Director, UAF Division of Design and Construction)

Update on GI Antenna request
Carol Lewis gave approval, so the antenna placement will move ahead.

Subcommittee Reports
Campus Landscape and Outdoor Art (Deb Horner)
The subcommittee is re-thinking concept of West Ridge Plaza with respect to learning habitats. One possibility is to plant species that people use or would use for home landscaping.
The group held a conversation on campus art and will recommend the formation of a standing committee on campus art. Wendy Croskrey (Art Department) has been asked to participate. One concern is that the campus doesn’t track campus art well. Kit Duke offered that UA Statewide will be developing guidelines for public art.
The subcommittee will be putting together a plan for the landscaping of the Ballaine Lake parking area.

North Campus Subcommittee (Luke Hopkins)
Third leg of a skijoring race has been approved for the North Campus; it will take place this Sunday.
There are ongoing signage issues – concerns about whether there are enough signs on the trails specifying use.
Army Corps permit (5 yrs) will be submitted next week to allow for trail surface work; it allows for enhancement of the trails in the wetlands area. Chips would be added to some sections of the Pooch Loop.
Concern expressed that North Campus information on the web needs to be expanded. Next month or at the end of this month the committee on the Viereck Nature Trail will meet.

Facilities Services Update (Linda Zannazo)
Bids were opened for the renovation of the west side of the Arctic Health Research Building.
Most of the space vacated by the state virology department in the AHRB will be used as temporary backfill space.
UA may receive $3.5 – 17 million from the federal stimulus package for facilities. There will be a requirement that projects are under contract within 90 days of fund receipt.

Public Comment - none

Conversation with Kit Duke regarding BOR expectations for new Campus Master Plan
BOR has new guidelines for campus master plans. Each MAU is required to develop a campus master plan that includes 12 categories of data; the meaning of the categories isn’t sufficiently clear. There have been two amendments to the UAA campus master plan, which has been used as a model to test to new BOR expectations.
Our existing Campus Master Plan is already basically consistent with the BOR expectations for the new campus master plan.

Other
The Housing Task force is preparing its draft report for the Chancellor but submission later in February.

The next meeting of the Master Planning Committee will be held Thursday February 26, 2009 in the Chancellor’s Conference Room.

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Tanana Valley Campus
PO Box 8040-UAF

Phone: +1 907 474 7920
Fax:    +1 907 474 6725
fndlm5@uaf.edu