[labnetwork] budget data

[Robert McDermott]

Hi, 

I am on the Executive Committee at the Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recently the Dean of the College of Engineering has decided to cut all support to this facility, so that we are required to support ourselves entirely through user fees. As a result, the rates have gone through the roof, usage has dropped, and the facility is struggling. 

The Executive Committee wants to make a case to the Dean that we need some amount of internal support to grow the facility (or even to survive). I am interested in learning whether a totally self-supporting university cleanroom is the norm, or whether this is an anomaly. 

If university cleanroom managers out there are willing to help, could you please provide the following information:

1.	Approximate total yearly budget for your cleanroom.
2.	Approx. yearly user fee income (broken out into internal and external users, if possible).
3.	Approx. funding from within the university (including staff salaries and support for facilities).
4.	Approx. funding from external grants. 

Any information you can provide is helpful. 

Thanks in advance, 

Robert

Robert McDermott
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chamberlin Hall
1150 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-4476