Minutes from the February meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
GO: $ 9,912.36
Special Events: $2,289.52

Old Business
Chris discussed the Advancing Excellence Campaign that was presented to SC by Greg Harris last month. Greg requested some time at the Staff Day awards ceremony to recognize participants and also wanted to have a breakfast as part of Staff Day activities. It was decided that Greg will be given time at the program to recognize participants, but the breakfast will be scheduled for another time.

There have been 156 staff council surveys completed. The survey is open to participants till the 21st. SC members were asked to send reminders to employees in their department reminding them to complete the survey.

A Professional Development survey will go out after the Open Forum in follow-up to questions concerning staff development on the staff survey. The majority of staff is interested in staff development according to the results we have received thus far. Amy is on the reaccredidation committee, and would like to include a chapter on Professional Development in the reaccredidation information.

There will be several unable to attend next month’s meeting on April 9th, so the date will be changed to April 16th.

Cecilia will coordinate the blood drive.

Retirees will help with staff day.

Chris will also talk to Jamie Archer from the retiree’s association about helping with Wellness Day.

The incident with the nurse practitioner not being covered by Coventry has been resolved.

New Business
Joyce will schedule a planning meeting for the open forum. The open forum will be May 19 in the Carver/Turner Room. Staff Day will be promote at the forum. The Chancellor and the new HR Director will attend.

Staff Day: Dean has found photos from the achieves from the 60s to use for Staff Day. Melissa will have shirt samples in a couple of weeks. Shirts will be on display at the open forum and a couple will be given away as door prizes. The Open Forum will also serve as a time to encourage staff to volunteer for Staff Day. The entertainment committee is busy working on the video. The video will contain “Kids Say the Darndest Things” with Dr. Schonberg portraying Art Linkletter. Austin Powers will make an appearance. A volunteer is needed for someone to be Austin Powers. The costume will be a raffle prize. Anyone having pictures of employees in the 60s submit to Amy. An i-Pod and free parking will be part of the raffle. If anyone can find a Nintendo Wii for a door prize, purchase it and you will be reimbursed. There was discussion about closing offices for the day. The Chancellor sends out a memo encouraging everyone’s attendance at some time during the day. Offices will still need to remain open. There will be events scheduled throughout the week. Chris will check into mini seminars lasting an hour or so. The question was asked if the ALDP professional development training could be done during staff week. Someone will be hired to do the training and this will be targeted towards middle management, so it would not be available for all staff. Some other ideas: HR retirement sessions, ALICE training from University Police, FERPA from Admissions. Another idea was to have merchant booths.

The Jan Buhlinger award was voted on. Joyce will order the plaque.

Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees
Chancellor’s Council - None
Crisis – Numbers are increasing on registration for the mass notification system.
Faculty Senate - None

ICSC – Blake Danuser, new interim VP for Human Resources, was in attendance. He is in favor of “85 and out” retirement plan. He will be talking to the new president about it. Other issues discussed: shared vacation/leave, comp & salary-fair market, morale.

Information Technology Computing Committee - none

Parking – lots of denials on appeals

Personnel – none

Reports of Standing Committees
Home Page – additional perks for Missouri S&T staff will soon be on web page

Welcome – none

Staff Excellence Awards – Still in need of nominations. Encourage your departments to make nominations. Leatha volunteered to help with interviews. Staff Council members can nominated for award, but committee can not.

Special Interest Committees
Campus Appearance – None
Charitable Awareness – will have a dress down day for “Miners for a Cure” in April.
Campus Day Care – None

Major IT changes over spring break. There will be an announcement going out.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 10:50 a.m.

Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott