Staff Council Minutes – 1/09/2008
Members Present: Joyce Abbott, Dean Brumett, Christopher Dew, Nina Eickhorst, Cecilia Elmore, Melissa Folsom, Amy Gillman, Wade Jadwin, Mendy Kell, Mindy Limback, Brenda McKinnon, Debbie Middendorf, Roy Snelson
Members Absent: Robert Berkelman, Peggy Wilson
Guest: None
Opening
The meeting was called to order at 10:06 a.m. by Chair, Christopher Dew. The meeting was held in Carver/Turner room at the Havener Center.
Minutes from the December meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer’s Report:
General Operating Fund- $9,415.46
Special Events (Staff Day) - $2289.52
Activity - GO Acct: $49.90- Postcards for announcement of new open meeting format
GO Acct: $150.50- New ‘Welcome’ brochures for new employees with new logo
GO Acct: $106.70- Travel for Melissa Folsom for ISAC monthly meeting in Columbia
Old Business:
SC open forum will be Monday, May 19, 2008 at 11:00. Joyce will reserve a room at the Havener.
New Business
GRACE Collection: 5 trucks of food and toys and $500 in monetary donations were delivered to GRACE for Christmas. Thank you note from GRACE was received.
Joyce handed out the updated by-laws reflecting the name change. The motion was made seconded and approved to accept the new by-laws. Melissa will post them to the web.
Joyce reported that the search committee for the Director of HR/AA will recommend 3 names to Steve Malott. This search was narrowed from 5 candidates that were interviewing on campus last week. It is hoped to have someone on board by mid-February. SC was asked if they would like to meet with the finalists. It was decided that SC members could participate in the open forums to meet each candidate.
A staff member asked about the possibility of Christmas Eve being a ½ day paid holiday. This will be brought up at ISC.
A supervisor had a concern about doing away with the part-time staff excellence award. They were willing to provide the award if SC would present it during the program on Staff Day. It was decided since the program was for SC awards that recognition would only be given to that person on the slide presentation.
Chris met with a group from the Administrative Leadership Development Program. They are working on a project to present a mini conference for mid-level management and they want SC’s support. They will be giving a proposal to the Chancellor for his approval. This would help SC’s case in establishing further staff development programs and perhaps getting HR involved. A motion was made and passed to give ALDP support to proceed with this program.
Staff Day: Peg Wilson will be unable to chair Staff Day this year. Dean Brumett volunteered to chair the event. Motion was made and passed for Dean Brumett to chair this year’s Staff Day and Melissa Folsom will co-chair. Motion was made and passed for the theme to be “The 60’s”. Dean asked for members to be thinking about ideas for shirts. Due to last year’s problems we will be sensitive to all issues when designing the shirts.
Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees
ICSC – Chris distributed minutes from December 18 meeting. Chris is the new president for 2008. His term will continue through December 2008 even if his term ends on Missouri S&T campus. Chris feels like this is a great opportunity to bring some of the issues that are important to Missouri S&T to the fore front.
Information Technology Computing Committee – This is a new committee that SC will have a representative on. Mindy Limbeck was elected to serve on this committee.
Faculty Senate - None
Chancellor’s Council – Next Meeting is Jan. 17.
Crisis – Jan 30 a test will be conducted at 12:05 p.m. of the campus emergency mass notification system. Only 37% of employees have signed up for this service. An announcement will go out again asking everyone to sign up for the service. You can sign up at IT.mst.edu
Personnel – Discussing personal leave policy for faculty
Parking - none
Reports of Standing Committees
Home Page – has been updated with name change
Welcome – new brochures have been delivered to HR
Staff Day Activities – will begin meeting soon
Staff Development – Amy distributed a draft staff development survey. This survey will find out what kind of professional development the campus would like to see and this information will help our case when making recommendation to the Chancellor. Some employees may not fill out because they know their manager will not support this. Perhaps insert paragraph stating that SC will be seeking support from Managers. Discussion on if this should go out as part of staff survey or as a separate survey. One or so questions will be added to the regular survey and will then be followed up with the Professional Development Survey. Results will need to be in from both surveys before the open forum. Amy asked that all SC members review the survey and get back to her with any comments or suggestions.
Staff Excellence Awards - none
Special Interest Committees
Campus Appearance – replacing approximately 50 trees from last year’s ice storm
Campus Day Care – none
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m.
Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott