Present: B. Barish, T. Raubenheimer,*G. Dugan, B. Foster, N. Walker, K. Yokoya, M. Hronek (sec)

*G. Dugan chair/B. Barish present for ½ meeting due to travel.

Guest: W. Bialowons, P. Garbincius, T. Shidara

OPEN SESSION – Cost Engineers

Questions Discussed:

• Assessment of the status and issues to complete first roll up at Vancouver; do we need a meeting in June?
• Strategy and Confidentiality

• How do we initiate cost reduction?
• Costs Estimates – Europe and Asia What can we expect and when?

CLOSED SESSION:

Action Items:

• DESY Meeting -- Draft agenda should be out be next week (4/28) if not sooner.
• Vancouver Meeting - organizational meeting on 4/27
  • Added another ½ day parallel sessions
  • Town meeting being organized with help from E. Clements
  • Physics group requested a talk on the baseline - we need a volunteer
• Valencia Meeting - teleconference on 4/25 to discuss scheduling
• FALC Resource –.
  • Europe – numbers turned in to BB
  • Asia – KEK numbers turned in
• ILC R&D Program
  • GD and BB giving talks at P5/SLAC
  • Numbers being given are the same one’s that were given out to the DOE at the review
• Global Coordination & ILC R&D
  • We received our report from the MAC
  • R&D needs more priority on the key items like cavity production.
  • We really need a plan and a schedule for the R&D.
• Addition of Grigory Shirkov of Dubna approved to join the GDE.