Minutes from the January meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
GO: $ $9,915.46
Special Events: $2,289.52
GO – Additional $500 received from Dr. Schwartz for staff award

Old Business
Second annual staff forum to be held at 11:00 on Monday, May 19, 2008 in Carver/Turner Room at the Havener. Results of the staff survey will be discussed and Staff Day will be promoted. Chancellor and HR Director will attend. HR Assistant Director will be invited.

ALDP Professional Develop Project will conduct a one day conference for mid-level managers. The group has met with the Chancellor and Steve Malott. Chancellor supports this project, has provided funding, and has committed to making it a standing program through HR and expanding it to all levels of employees.

New Business
Greg Harris, Sr. Development Officer gave a presentation on giving to Missouri S&T. Development will be rolling out a campus community campaign in March and would like to use staff day to announce the results. He would need approximately 5 minutes at the awards presentation ceremony to talk about the employees that are contributing to Missouri S&T and encourage others to give. He is also considering having a donor breakfast in Havener Cafeteria in conjunction with Staff Day. Greg will be announcing the campaign at departmental meetings. If anyone has any suggestions or questions let Greg know.

There are still some issues with the staff survey and the professional development questions that will be part of the survey. It will be going out soon.

Blood Drive- Cecilia and Chris will coordinate. It will be held in the summer. Jamie Archer from the Retirees Association offered their help. She also indicated that they would be willing to help with Staff Day. If you have needs where they can assist let Chris know.

Wellness Day (held in April) – Ashley Mattli, Wellness Coordinator wants to turn Wellness Day over to Staff Council to coordinated. SC felt they did not have the time or man power to do this. Chris will check to see if the Retiree’s Association would want to get involved with this project also.

Mendy Kell brought up a concern with Coventry, the new medical insurance administer. Nurse Practitioner at St. John’s are not covered by the plan. Chris will talk to Connie in HR and will bring up at ISCS.

Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees

Chancellor’s Council – None
Crisis – The incident at the college in Illinois underscores the need to sign up for mass notification. The test on January 31st was a success. There was a note from the New President (Gary Forsee) encouraging everyone to sign up.

Faculty Senate - SB389 Bill passed which allows information to be posted on-line concerning faculty's credentials, student comments, rating of courses, teaching assignments, teacher evaluations, etc. Implementation will be made after reviewing how other campuses proceed. New Computer Science department Chair is Dr. Ali Hurson. Spring 2008, there will be two separate commencement programs due to the large number of graduates. Friday, May 16th, Graduate program, 6:00 pm in the Multi-Purpose Bldg.; Saturday, May 17th, Undergraduate program, 11:00 am, in the Multi-Purpose Bldg. Dept Name change; Business and Management Systems joined with Information Science and Technology to be named: Department of Business and Information Technology. Second graduate level minor approved in Technical Communication discipline.

ICSC – meets March 18

Information Technology Computing Committee - none

Parking – Greg Harris from Development Office wanted a donated spot. This was rejected

Personnel – Meets next week

Reports of Standing Committees

Home Page – Staff Excellence Award nomination form has been posted to webpage.

Welcome – None

Staff Day Activities – Marilyn Licklider has volunteered to help with door prizes. Deb will ask a couple of employees in Registrar’s office if they could also assist with solicitation. Other volunteers are needed. Amy and Charlotte Lewis have begun meeting on the morning entertainment for the awards ceremony. Shirt design was voted on and approved. Printing on white shirts keeps the price lower. Possible menu, using a TV dinner theme, meatloaf, fried chicken, pot pie, a veggie choice, mashed potatoes, veggies, fruit cobbler and cheese fondue. Nintendo Wii is an idea for a raffle prize. Nominations were taken for the Buhlinger award. A vote will be taken next month. Discussion on the breakfast for the Campus Campaign (as presented by Greg Harris) – this may be too much activity for Havener for the morning. All staff may think they are invited to breakfast. Can Chartwells handle all activities on one day? It was decided to have refreshments at the morning program, bagels, coffee, etc. We did not have this last year. Robert will be contacting the departments for cash donations. IT will donate some electronic gadget.

Staff Development – ALDP Program to be announced soon.

Staff Excellence Awards – SC members are needed for the committee. Melissa volunteered to help. Mail any additional nominations for Jan Buhlinger award to Joyce and a vote will be taken next month.

Special Interest Committees
Campus Appearance – Cleaning up after ice and snow storms and getting prepared for the next ones. Planting trees.
Campus Day Care – none

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.

Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott