St. Gabriel Technology Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes from Technology Meeting 5/5/08

Present: Roger Riggs, Rhonda Becker . Matthew Goetz, Brenden Goodwin, Bev Forst, Sheryl Kremer, Paul Greathouse, Suzanne Fulk, Jim Kuchenbrod

  1. Roger explained to committee that we have been requested to make a recommendation of what to cut from the technology budget totaling $15,000. A lengthy discussion was held about what to cut and Roger asked everyone to take a copy of the budget home and email him today with their recommendations.
  2. Web page has been completed by the designer/developer. Rhonda Becker & Matt Scobee will start adding the remaining content to the new page and working out some small issues. The new page will be published as soon as possible.
  3. Technology members will form a team to help Steve with the summer sweep. They will help move the old computers out of rooms and get them ready for re-sale. They would like to start this process the weekend of June 7th or 14th. They will also help with bringing in the new computers in and getting them imaged. Roger will coordinate and send out an email to recruit volunteers to help with these projects.
  4.  We had planned not to meet again for the summer but feel we need to meet one more time to resolve all items above. We will meet June 2nd at 6:30 in the school teacher’s lounge.
  5. Tom Goodin will perform live at our next meeting with his new Rock band, “Tom and the Tech-Notes”, You won’t want to miss this one!

Minutes – March 3, 2008

Present: Roger Riggs, Rhonda Becker, Tom Goodin, Brenden Goodwin, Sheryl Kremer, Suzanne Fulk, Jerry Miller, Paul Greathouse

Guest: Ron Woodlee

1. Ron Woodlee came to meeting as a guest to discuss web page for Men’s club/Athletics

a.       Would like to have web page modeled from St. Patrick’s web page.

b.      Against E-Team registration due to additional fees for parents per child.

c.       Would like to see sports schedule and gym schedule on current website.

d.      Will ask Donna Tovar if she can create web page for athletics when we have meeting with her on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 .

2. Roger will send out email to see if anyone is interested in doing what Pam Bell did for ACE. She scheduled classes in lab and also scheduled instructors. Pam also did the advertising in the courier journal, record & church bulletins.  Rhonda handles registration, purchasing text books, time sheets for instructors and oversees ACE program.

3. Budget & Grant were turned in on time. We will not hear for a few months if budget was approved by the Finance Committee & Parish Council.

4. Sheryl discussed the Nova 5000 project for school.  She wrote a “Special Grant” for the project through the Archdiocese.

5. Next meeting is May 5th, at Beef O’ Brady’s. We will not meet during the summer and will resume in August or September. (No meeting in April due to Spring Break)

March 11th, 2008 : Web Page Meeting

  Present: Rhonda Becker , Roger Riggs, Matt Scobee, Steve Mattingly , Donna Tovar, Ron Woodlee

  We discussed the final changes to the web page with Donna. She will make the following changes:

  1. Bring Parish Mission down under logo and make more prominent in a banner of some sort.
  2. Change font on Logo
  3. Add page for Men’s Club, Athletics, & Technology.
  4. Add a button on main page for “Breaking News”

Donna said she will need one week to make changes.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Present: Roger Riggs, Rhonda Becker , Ken Remmers, Steve Mattingly, Paul Greathouse, Lisa Lauder, Brenden Goodwin, Bev Forst , Sheryl Kremer, Alex Tapia, Matthew Goetz, Brian Becker, Derek Licciardi

  1. Technology committee would like to have a seat on parish council or at least attend meetings as a guest to answer any questions that council may have about technology in our parish. Ken said a representative from the Technology committee would be welcome at the meetings as long as we let them know someone is coming so they can put us on the agenda.
  2. Web page is almost complete. Donna Tovar contacted Rhonda today with a final draft and is awaiting approval from Fr. John before proceeding.
  3. Men’s Club/Athletics would like to have a webpage on our site. Athletics would like to have an E-Teams page like St. Patrick’s has.  They would need to hire someone to create page. Rhonda will talk to Donna Tovar to see if she is interested in the job.
  4. Technology will invite organizations to technology meetings in the future to find out what their needs are as technology is concerned, and if they want/need space on our web page.
  5. Question was raised as to whether the web page should be a part of the budget for future growth and maintenance.
  6. Roger reviewed project list with Steve. Steve stated that he is in the process of changing the domain schema and should have this accomplished in 2 weeks. After this is done he will be able to bring 4 servers up to speed. There are an additional 2 servers slated for replacement in this fiscal year.
  7. Bev Forst reported that she would like to see more text books on CD for children with special needs. Says industry is behind in this area. She reported that everything is going well in her area as Resource coordinator for the school.
  8. Sheryl Kremer reported for the school that they are looking into finishing up adding Smart Boards to classrooms in the next budget year. Currently we have 14 classrooms that do not have a Smart Board.  She also reported that she would like input from the technology committee about new technology that is taking place in the business world. Would like opinions about video conferencing, I Pods, & blogs.
  9. It was discussed that there needs to be better communication between the technology committee /school & other committees about technology that we have and technology needs and wants.
  10. Budget for 2008/2009 is due Feb. 18 & Grant is due Feb. 22. Budget proposal will be given to Roger to review before submitting to Lisa.  

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