Funding / Project Requests

A funding / project request is the initial proposal or idea representing a need or an opportunity within the college. Requests will be evaluated to determine technology, facilities, and personnel needs; budget; risk; complexity; alignment with strategic goals; and feasibility. This may or may not require financial resources. This process will align with annual budget cycle planning and review.  Requests will also be considered throughout the year.

Funding sources may include:

• Strategic
• Grants
• Leveraged Funds
• Higher Education Asset Preservation and Replacement (HEAPR)
• Operational
• Repair and Replacement (R&R)

Requests may be categorized as follows:

Strategic Initiatives

• New and innovative.
• Purposeful and well-defined.
• Requests should NOT be for day-to-day operational needs. Those items should be entered through the annual budget submission process as general operating needs.
• Requests MUST be aligned with one of RCTC's Strategic Objectives and include baseline data used to identify needs, anticipated outcomes, the time-line, and measurements to be used for evaluating the outcomes.

Repair and Replacement (R&R)

• A specialized definition for campus funded repair and in-kind (equivalent or similar) replacement of physical elements of facilities and fixed equipment.
  • Main buildings, offices, classrooms, hallways, bathrooms.
  • Fixed equipment, such as boilers, pumps, and other building systems, etc.
• Under current MinnState system procedures, campuses are required to invest at least $1.00 per square foot annually for repair and replacement.

Operational Requests  

• An operational request sustains or improves current activities outside of general annual planned budgets.
  • Office Moves
  • Lab Equipment
  • Furniture
  • End-of-Life Replacement

Resources 

• Resources are a supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that are needed to successfully perform an initiative or project.

Employees

RCTC Campus Facilities and/or Technology projects

• Submit a request on the right-hand side of this page.
• Funding / Project Requests User Guide and Instructions