The UNA board of trustees met on campus Monday for their quarterly meeting and discussed the possible move to Division I athletics, among other things.

UNA is on track, according to Mark Linder, director of athletics and Alan Medders, vice president of advancement.

“We feel very good about the communication strategy,” Linder said.

Linder and Medders told the trustees they are finalizing plans to start an advisory board for Division I athletics, which would be in charge of raising the money for the move.

“The feedback is beginning to be very positive,” Medders said.

Each member of the advisory board would be responsible for raising $25,000, Linder said.

“(The advisory board) is a step in the right direction,” he said.

According to Medders, the application fee to apply for Division I athletics has not been raised, but he said the university is well on its way to obtaining enough money to apply.

“The goal is not necessarily the app fee, the goal is the $500,000,” Medders said.

Linder and Medders have been traveling around the local area and state talking to local groups and members of the public to clear up misconceptions about the Division I move.

Medders told the board they have visited with 120 different groups and talked to more than 1,700 people about the move.

“Y’all have worked so hard in the past few months,” said Trustee Libby Jordan to Linder and Medders.

Jordan praised the two for their hard work in spreading the word about UNA’s proposed move to Division I.

Cale also updated the board on the new science building, which is still in the planning stage of construction. The building will cost more than anticipated, Cale said.

UNA hired Construction Project Consulting to review the plans for the new science building and look at what the new building will potentially cost the university. Cale told the trustees the firm was hired to be give a second opinion about the plans for the new building.

Cale and several board members agree that if the university waits any longer to build the new science building, the costs will only go up.

Also, the trustees unanimously approved a resolution for the proposed UNA 2011-2012 fiscal year budgets.

The board also approved a resolution naming the new black box theater currently under construction on UNA’s campus as George Lindsey Theater. In addition to naming the theater after Lindsey, the board named the performance hall within the theater after Ernest Borgnine, a long time supporter of UNA.

The board also named the athletics facilities area of campus after Bill Jones, former athletics director at UNA. The athletics area, which consists of Flowers Hall, Self Field House, the soccer field, football practice field and Mike Lane Field, will now be know as Bill Jones Athletics Facility.