What does OPC do? Tri-chairs: Bret Watson (Administrative) Debbie Lee (Faculty) Denise Perez (Staff)

OPC’s role at Foothill (summary) Operations Planning Committee Train: staff and faculty on budget and funding processes Develop: rubric for grading resource requests Rank: resource requests based on graded rubric

OPC’s role at Foothill Fall Quarter: Create and improve on rubric used to rank resource requests Bring rubric to PaRC for discussion and approval Update spreadsheet (what got funded, what didn’t)

OPC’s role at Foothill Winter Quarter: Training – Different Funds Bring folks up to speed on current budget Have VP’s come to OPC to explain rankings of resource requests

OPC’s role at Foothill Spring Quarter: Need Deans’ and VPs’ rankings in order to proceed Rank resource requests using rubric

Process for ranking resource requests Step 1: Departments complete program reviews Step 2: Deans and division rank resource requests (high, medium, low) Step 3: VP’s rank resource requests (high, medium, low) Step 4: Finance office categorizes funding requests (one-time b-budget, lottery, etc…) Cont’d next slide

Process for ranking resource requests Step 5: OPC ranks b-budget/facilities/re- assigned time resource requests (high, medium, low) – OPC only ranks the resource requests rated as high by the VP’s Step 6: OPC recommendations/rankings sent to PaRC for discussion and approval Step 7: President makes the decision on funding

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