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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

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

6. 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…)
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7. 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

10. Questions?