Staff Council Minutes 11-12-08

New Business

Friday Backpack program was introduced by Deb Middendorf.  This program began with the Wyman School and has now grown to four schools.  The group accepts monetary donations and would like to have volunteers to help with stuffing the backpacks.  This would be a good program for student groups and other organizations on campus.  The backpacks are filled with non-perishable food items for elementary students to take home with them over the weekends.

Welcome brochures were handed out; names, email addresses and phone numbers were discussed with no changes needed.  Discussion of Staff Council Perks Program that is offered to the faculty and staff community is included on the brochures along with the Staff Council Meeting dates and mission statement.

Discussion of Staff Day/Week, after a brief talk this council voted to keep Staff Day as a day program and delete week long activities due to small turn out for those events last year.  

Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees

Chancellor's Council - Nothing to report

Crisis - Nothing to report

Faculty Senate -

• Discussed the multipurpose building updates
• Will be updating the bylaws to include a conflict of interest committee
• Salary for students was discussed as well as funding cuts
• ABET has been on campus and has completed the university's accreditation

ICSC -

• Salary and Wage
• Retirement Options
• Professional Development

Information Technology Computing Committee

Parking -

• Meets on the second Wednesday of the month 
• Has not meet this semester will be looking at 75 to 85 parking appeals 

Personnel - Nothing to report

Reports of Standing Committees

Home Page - Nothing to report

Welcome -

• New brochures have been updated

Staff Day Activities -

• Voted to keep the activities to one day
• Will have lunch and the pie auction in the Havener Center
• All other activities to be held on the main mall otherwise known as the puck

Staff Development

Professional Development -

• Program is ready to start this month.  This is a pilot program using employee software and uses an assessment tool to assess where the employees are in conjunction with computer skills and knowledge
• After discussion regarding this committee, a motion was made to dissolve the Professional Development Committee.  This committee was developed to get this program started.  Now that it has been implemented, Roger Jett ex-officio will keep this council updated

Staff Excellence Awards -

Special Interest Committees

Campus Appearance -

• Began leaf removal
• Tulips are now in the ground
• New planters have been set near Toomy Hall
• Staff is getting ready for snow and ice removal

Campus Day Care -

• Cindy Woodin in Dr. Wray's Office has been working with PCRMC
• Will begin working in conjunction to find a location.

Charitable Awareness -

• Priscilla Winner is in the process of contacting GRACE for the yearly collection of non-perishable food items to be given away during the Christmas holiday.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 10:55 a.m. The next Staff Council Meeting is scheduled for December 10, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Laura Bodkins