Center Budget Review for the Faculty Senate, October 25, 2006

 

Shafizadeh Rocky Mountain Center for Wood and Carbohydrate Chemistry

Donald E. Kiely, Director

 

The following budget information has been prepared in place of the official Center Review Budget Form.  It contains the relevant requested data.  

 

Last Fiscal Year:  July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006

 

External funds available

 

Renewal -“Value-Added Product Development from Agricultural Resources”,  USDA - CRESS, Award No. 2004-364463-14477, $341,737 (direct costs), June 1, 2004  - May 31, 2006.

 

            Approximately $150,000 of this grant was still available for this period

 

Renewal - “Value-Added Product Development from Agricultural Resources”,  USDA - CRESS, Award No. 2005-364463-15561, $377,803 (direct costs), June 1, 2005  - May 31, 2007.

 

All the funds in this grant were available in the last fiscal year.  Total grant funds available were about $527,000.

 

State funds available

 

            State budget as administered through the Office of The Vice President for Research

 

            Salary + Fringe -            23,016

            Operating Expenses -     5,105

            Total                            $28,161

 

 

Total revenue available for July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006, $551,000

 

Five year revenue projection - July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2011

 

It is not possible to give an accurate five year revenue projection at this time but what is possible is a minimum revenue three year projection.

 

July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2009,  External funds available

 

New - “Value-Added Product Development from Agricultural Resources”,  USDA - CRESS, Award No. 2003-34463-13003, $374,309 (direct costs), June 1, 2006 - May 31, 2008.

 

As with previous USDA grants a no-cost one year extension will take this grant to May 31, 2009.  None of the funds in the new USDA grant will be spent until June 1, 2007 making available USDA funding ( $374,309) for 2007-2009.  At this stage it is not possible to say what additional funds may become available for this period and the succeeding two years, but efforts will continue to fund the Center as needed.  Personnel funding will gradually decrease over the next 2-3 years as graduate students finish, the postdoctoral student finishes and the current project draws to a close.  This represents a normal research cycle for labs of this kind.

 

State Funds: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007

 

            Salary + Fringe -           25,771

            Operating Expenses -     5,486

            Total                            $31,257

 

Assuming that the state budget doesn’t decrease over the next the anticipated funds for the Center will average about what is budgeted for 2006-2007. 

 

Personnel values for 2006 - 2007.  These numbers are about 10% higher then for 2005-2006.

 

Name                           Position                                   %                    Salary  +  Fringe

Ms. Kylie Kramer        Lab Manager/                          100                     45,276

                                     Research Specialist

Mr. Kirk Hash  Research Specialist                              100                     50,860

Dr. Travis Denton           Post Doctoral Research          100                     59,186

                                      Associate

Mr. Tyler Smith              Graduate Research                 100                     20,300         

                                      Assistant

Ms. Chrissie Carpenter Graduate Research                   100                     20,300

                                      Assistant

Mr. Michael Hinton        Graduate Research                 100                     20,300

                                      Assistant

Ms. Heidi Mills   Visiting foreign                        100                     13,533

                                      Graduate Research Assistant

                                      (8 months)

Ms. Cara-Lee Davey      Visiting foreign                        100                     16,917

                                      Graduate Research Assistant

                                      (10 months)

Other part-time                                                                            15,000

lab assistants

Ms. Bobbi Awful          Administrative support 50                      15,870

 

 

Dr. Donald E.                 Prof./Chemistry,

Kiely                              Center Director                      100                  41,840*

 

*Summer salary and fringe benefits.

 

Personnel totals                                                                                  $319,381

 

The three domestic graduate students will all finish within two years, the postdoctoral researcher will stay until the end of August, 2007.  This year’s personnel budget is the highest in the nine years Dr. Kiely has been Director. 

 

Equipment Costs (July, 2005- June, 2006)**

            Dionex Liquid Chromatograph                                                              26,000

            Perkin Elmer Differential Scanning Calorimeter                                      22,000

            **Orders placed before July 1, 2006

 

Contracts (July, 2005- June, 2006)- Subcontract from a USDA grant for

             chemical research, The Department of Chemistry, The University of

             Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand                                                                    12,000

 

Supplies (July, 2005- June, 2006, estimate)                                                                 30,000

 

Travel                                                                                                                            8,000

 

Other expenses (estimate)                                                                                             4,000

 

Total Direct Costs                                                                                                    $102,000

 

Budget summary - The budget situation in the Center - the past six years and projected for at least the next couple of years - is strong.  During this period, external funding has allowed for considerable upgrading of vital instrumentation in the Center and employment of full time research people and graduate and undergraduate students.  The Center was started in 1966 by the late Prof. Fred Shafizadeh (1924-1983) and was well known on this campus as the Wood Chem Lab.  In 1994 the lab was granted Center status and renamed the Shafizadeh Center based upon a generous donation from Mrs. Shafizadeh.  The funds from that donation remain at about $62,000 in the UM Foundation with approximately $ 3,500 /year available for primarily student scholarships.   The Wood Chem / Shafizadeh Center was directed by Prof. Geoff Richards from 1984 - 1996, who was succeeded by Prof. Kiely in 1997.  The Center represents a very successful and productive long term (40 years) research facility at The University of Montana, unique to Montana and the Northwest, and  dedicated to studying the most abundant, renewable plant carbon compounds on earth, the carbohydrates.  Given the emphasis on renewable resources in today’s economy, the need for the Center has never been greater.