<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Hi Ian,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">The short answer for the University of MN Nano Center is no, we don't have a line item in the UM state budget.  <br><br>But we did, way back in the early 90's when I started here.  These were referred to as "state special" funding lines in the UM funding bill, and there were a handful of labs that got this special treatment.  We all felt pretty good about it as we felt pretty good about this as direct state support meant the university couldn't move the money to another department.  Then one year (1991), when the democratically-controlled state legislature passed the university funding bill, and the republican governor didn't like it, the governor decided to line-item veto all the state special funding lines.  Suddenly we  became a pawn in the political shenanigans of state government.  Not fun.  Several years after that, all the "state special" funding lines were folded into the main university budget bill.  That was probably a good thing.  Direct state support sounds good, but IMO convincing your university administration to continue supporting you is likely easier than convincing those involved in state funding decisions.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards,<br>Greg<br><br>Greg Cibuzar</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Manager, Minnesota N<font size="2">ano</font> C<font size="2">en</font>ter</span><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.mnc.umn.edu" target="_blank">www.mnc.umn.edu</a></span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">University of Minnesota</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">612-625-8079</span><br></font></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Ian Harvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:IRHarvey@eng.utah.edu" target="_blank">IRHarvey@eng.utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Micro/Nano Lab Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I just had a very positive discussion with our AVP-R acknowledging that she never expects our lab to break even.</div><div><br></div><div>(!!)</div><div><br></div><div>But for sustainability she wants to go after a legislative line item to fund our O&M and the lab and asset management/automation software that will link to other areas of campus and to off-campus resources.</div><div><br></div><div>Her question is:  <b>What other research labs receive non-campus budgetary support </b>(other than user fees, Dean, VP, etc.), such as an endowment, or a state or other government line item support of ongoing costs to keep prices low to the researchers?  </div><div><br></div><div>If she can point to peers who are recognized for the importance of the facilities by stakeholders who strategically provide for ongoing costs, then she feels like she can make the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Your assistance is greatly appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>—Ian</div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="text-indent:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="text-indent:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Ian R. Harvey, Ph.D.<br><br>Associate Director<br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px">Utah Nanofab at the University of Utah</span><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_-4928585183662951043Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacin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