Themes Serious issues to consider, short term and long term Significant commonality in goals among partners WIYN’s capabilities of limited match to department faculties Focus on single observer and/or common survey modes needs more discussion

What Is Our Process for Understanding and Resolving Issues? We face many issues in finding new partners or establishing a future vision for ourselves Site – what is Kitt Peak’s future? Financial – What are the costs? How will we manage? Legal – What is our status if partners pull out? Competition from other consortia (ARC has a clear financial plan and known costs) Capabilities on WIYN and elsewhere – do they meet the needs of potential partners?

Short Term Tasks Accept NOAO’s offer to support operations Hire Interim Operations Director Hire consultant to help understand finances, and develop cost and staffing models – Need to define tasks more clearly – Need to define operations models to cost Organized board effort to find new partners

What is the right leadership model? Short Term - Three key positions 1.Interim Operations Director 2.Consultant for planning 3.Day to day management Longer Term – What is the role of a director – Can we define what a director would direct? – Must wait until we have greater clarity on our future

Out of the Box 4-m “SMARTS” model – Need a group of 4m telescopes with already secure funding – Hard to do with multiple funding sources and multiple sites – Combine with another underfunded telescope to operate ONE of them – Do we need to save WIYN first, and then try to create a broader consortium Role of AURA? Can we explicitly ask for their help? Opportunity: AAS Meeting in a Meeting BigBoss LIGO, PHAs, other groups may find WIYN of use