Minutes of the October 4 IAAC meeting

1.  The meeting began at 10:50 a.m.  Members attending were
    Athletic Director Steve Kirkham; Faculty representatives Jim
    DesJardin and Charlie Shub; Staff Representatives Ruth
    Jackson and Glenn Steimling; Student Representative Justin
    Bailey; and UBAC Representative Al Schoffstall.

2.  A motion by Justin Bailey seconded by Ruth Jackson to approve
    the minutes of the September meeting passed without dissent.

3.  Director Kirkham gave his report.

     a.  New Facilities:  The current gym is still inadequate.
         Kirkham reported a change in direction in plans for a
         temporary field house. These plans call for adding a
         1200 to 1400 seat facility to the east of the current
         gym.  That space could be converted for use as a
         conference center, space for convocations, and similar
         uses once a permanent facility is in place. Reasoning
         behind this change in direction include the desirability
         of having a facility on campus instead of down at the
         corner of Austin Bluffs and Nevada, issues of having a
         temporary steel building at the Austin Bluffs/Nevada
         location, issues surrounding expenditures to make that
         building attractive and compatible with city planning
         goals would have increased the cost to the point where
         having a facility on campus would be cost effective as
         well as desirable. It is also easier to get approvals to
         expand a building on campus rather than to build a new
         building.

         The university will be providing fill dirt from the
         vicinity of the proposed permanent facility below pulpit
         rock to the urban renewal project on Nevada.
         Consequently, the ultimate construction of the permanent
         facility will not have to dispose of that excess dirt.
         Also, having an approximation of the final grade well
         before facility construction starts will make it easier
         for potential sponsors to visualize how things will
         look.

     b.  Conference Athletics Directors Meeting:  RMAC Athletics
         directors will be meeting at Metro State. A major item
         of discussion will be scheduling and missed class time.
         Also on the table will be discussion of the addition of
         the University of Colorado at Denver to the conference
         once they add an intercollegiate athletics program.

     c.  New Sports:  A search committee has been formed and is
         accepting applications for the head women's soccer
         coach. Competition will begin in fall of 2008.  Plans
         are to have a coach in place by January 1. Owing to
         knowledge of NCAA rules, Kirkham would prefer to have
         coaches with NCAA and/or High School experience.

         Given the ratio of females to males at UCCS, it may also
         may make sense to add additional men's sports to
         increase the number of male students.  Baseball could
         easily be accommodated at 4 diamonds on the yellow
         field. CSCS is interested in that. By adding grandstands
         on the west side of Mountain Lion Stadium, football
         could be accommodated there as the field is already
         marked for High School football.

4.  Shub gave the FAR Report. He will be attending both the
    Conference FAR meeting and the national FAR meeting in the
    next six weeks. He reported that he had provided the current
    IAAC related athletics policies to the administration, and
    that it was his understanding that the policies had been
    recast in the appropriate form, and after appropriate review
    could come back to the IAAC for input.

5.  Justin Bailey again gave the SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory
    Committee) report as both the SAAC representative and her
    alternate were out of state for competition. Bailey reported
    that movie night, despite the cold weather, was attended by
    almost 50 people and received good donations.  Planning for
    Boo-Zar is continuing. An innovation this year will be to
    encourage more involvement by the general student body.
    Janean Jubic and Nic Fuller will represent SAAC at the
    conference level SAAC. The timing of the conference meetings
    is such that they come before Basketball in the fall and
    after basketball in the spring.  Basketball players are the
    only ones who are not in season when the meetings are
    scheduled. He also reported that UCCS won the conference SAAC
    food drive competition last year.

    Finally, Bailey detailed the planned barbecue for Soccer as
    part of the Back To the Bluffs activities.

6.  New Business:  The committee discussed ideas for increasing
    involvement.  In addition to inviting faculty to the
    hospitality room, suggestions included sending a brief note
    to the faculty and staff mailing lists reminding them of the
    day's events and a request that faculty announce events in
    their classes.

    The committee decided not to change the meeting time.

    Glenn Steimling reported that the School of Business has added
    a major in Sports Management. He, and other members of the
    committee, felt there would be many opportunities for interaction
    between athletics and the new program.

7.  At 12:10, the meeting was adjourned.