Report from 16 March meeting

Business:

• Komlan Amesse was elected President-elect for next year.

• Julia Edel is going to chair a group to develop a display for Stu-Fac day

• Khalid Rasul will arrange a tour of the Magnet Lab for later this month.
  

Other:

Before the meeting, Dr. Carr made a short presentation of the site plans for construction of the new parking ramp and the location of temporary parking that will be needed during construction. After the meeting, some of us visited the site to get some "before" pictures.

Click on the picture to see a larger version. (These photos have all been edited to about 600x500 pixels to keep them in the 100 kB range. High quality originals are available if needed.)


This first picture shows part of the group at the location where we expect a new footbridge will be built to allow access to a new parking area to the north of the drainage ditch. We expect a sidewalk and bridge will be here in the near future, and that a parking lot will be cut into the woods before the end of summer.


From there, some of us walked around the outline of the new parking ramp. This picture was taken at what we think will be the north-west corner of the building. Kevin, Doug, George, and Sarah are lined up along the virtual west wall of the ramp.



This picture shows Kevin standing next to the southwest corner of the building (marked with a blue arrow). Kevin is probably where a future sidewalk will be located, and I am taking the photo from a location that will probably be the center of an access road along the south side of the ramp.


The other arrow points to George, who is standing next to the southeast corner of the parking ramp. The new road will run straight down the right side of the photo.


This last photo was taken standing at the entrance to the TPP health programs office, looking west along the north side of the new parking ramp. One blue arrow shows the northeast corner, while the arrow in the distance shows the northwest corner where the first picture was taken. This view will be easy to update as construction proceeds, because the faculty parking lot on the right will not be affected by construction.