The results of the 2007 Staff Survey are in. Click here for a PDF of the results.

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Members Present: Joyce Abbott, Robert Berkelman, Connie Bradford, Dean Brumett,
Melissa Chambers, Christopher Dew, Melissa Folsom, Kim Frazier, Mindy Limback, Roy Soper,
Peggy Wilson, Willie Woolsey
Members Absent: Patty Frisbee, Rhonda Long, Cindi Vogt, Roy Snelson
Virginia Brooks will be retiring and will be replace by Roy Snelson. Roy received the next
highest number of votes during the previous election.
Guest: None
Opening: The meeting was called to order at 10:05 a.m. by President Kim Frazier. The
meeting was held in room 203 Library.
Minutes from the February 14 meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
GO: $ 8,218.16
Special Events: $ 2,817.50
Earth Day: $589.18

Old Business: Staff Surveys- Robert distributed confidential (at this time) copies of the Staff Survey. Kim has a copy of last year’s for comparison if needed. Kim asked each member to review and any comments can be discussed through e-mail. Further discussion will be on next month’s meeting agenda. An executive summary will be prepared for the Chancellor along with a copy of the entire survey. After discussion with the Chancellor, SC will see what items he wants SC to take action on. It was suggested to use the web page to relay to the campus that SC is addressing the concerns on the survey and that the Chancellor has received a copy of the results. Chris volunteered to chart a comparison of respondents over the last five years. Melissa Folsom will supply Chris with the numbers. Kim would also like to compare the responses from some of the most insightful questions from previous years. Before it is distributed to the campus, it will be cleaned up and reformatted. Most comments were on salary issues. It was suggested that on the webpage to link the comments to the questions that they pertained to.

Staff Day – The staff day shirt design was presented, plain black tee-shirt with logo. There will be no hat sales this year. Shirts will be sold for $7. Anyone purchasing a shirt will automatically be entered in a raffle drawing. Roger Parson will be the auctioneer for the pie auction. Other attractions will be a tattoo parlor, fortuneteller booth, and a dance floor. John Woodfin, from the theatre will let SC use costumes for the day. The committee is meeting a couple times a month and everything is on schedule. Marilyn Licklider will solicit door prizes. Melissa Folsom will sent her a list of past donors. Some ideas for door/raffle prizes were free parking pass for a year, meals from Chartwells, golfing at UMR golf course and a Centre membership. The program video committee will be meeting soon.

Staff Excellence Awards - March 20 is the deadline for nominations. All categories have at least one nomination. Most categories have a good number of nominees. The part-time award was discussed. Do we have enough part-time people to justify the award? Earth Day needs volunteers. There will be more children’s activities this year. Melissa Folsom has shirts for sale.

New Business

Committee Reports: The proposed name change will be presented to the Board of Curators
next month.

The other three campuses have asked UMR-SC to contribute to a farewell gift for Dr. Floyd.
The donation will be $50. The motion was made for SC to contribute $50 to purchase a
farewell gift for Dr. Floyd. A vote was taken and the motioned passed. (8-yes, 2-opposed, 1
abstained).

The terminology “Essential & Non-Essential Personnel” which was used on the day of the bomb threat to indicated who should and should not report to work was discussed. This term does not exist in job classifications. News Services used the term and shouldn’t have. In the future, employees should check with their supervisors to see if they should or should not report to work. The decision to pay employees that did not report to work on that day was
discussed. All situations are not the same and each will need to be treated as such. Some areas of campus may be safe and other areas could pose a threat. In this particular instance the Butler Carlton Building was unsafe, but yet the rest of the campus was not threatened. Custodians were sent to buildings to work, where it was not confirmed that the building was totally safe. The communications department was not getting a clear picture of what was going on to relay to the media. The Chancellor was out of town and this was another reason for the confusion. Supervisors were given different instructions. Should it be left to the discretion of the supervisors on who should report to work or stay home when safety is an issue? There needs to be one person to relay information. The crisis communication committee is taking steps to establish a mechanism where a conference call can be initiated with key administers so emergency decisions can be made. Kim will discuss with Chancellor and Mindy will relay this information to Andy Careage for discussion with the Crisis Communication Committee.

Jan Buehler Spirit Award: There were eight nominations for this award and a winner was selected and will be announced on Staff Day.
ICSC – Meets on April 20 – Chris will ask about the 80 and out retirement
Academic Council - None
Campus Appearance – Still cleaning up from ice storm
Chancellor’s Council - None
Charitable Awareness - None
Crisis Committee – Had a debriefing after bomb threat. Law enforcement agencies did an
excellent job with this incident. There will be two phone numbers set up where employees will
be able to obtain information in the future.
Campus Daycare – Survey results have been given to the committee members. There were
556 responses.
Food Service RFP – No update at this time.
Parking - None
Home Page – The member list and meeting dates have been updated.
Personnel - None
Welcome – None
Staff Development – Meeting will be scheduled soon

Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 11:15.
Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott

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