The campus' budget planning process judged that it was important to maintain the operating divisions' current General Fund base budgets to ensure departments will continue to have stability in their base budget allocations. As in the past, the RPP Task Force recognized that certain mandatory cost requirements must be funded "off the top" of any new funds being allocated to the campus. Two of the more substantive items are funding for state-supported summer operations, increased energy costs, and a contingency reserve for salaries.

The Task Force agreed that this year's resource planning should recognize workload increases while preserving the traditional proposal process. Another critical issue was the extensive nature of temporary funds beings allocated to support ongoing needs which resulted in an adjustment to last year's workload model to provide some permanent funding for these recurring costs. The 2001-02 process consisted of two discrete elements:

1. The Workload Model which identified a permanent allocation of faculty resources to meet the increased enrollment target of 1,175 FTES, and a distribution of permanent resources to all divisions for non-faculty workload pressures.
   
   
2. The Traditional Proposal Process that prioritized budget recommendations based on division requests.