EA: January 23, 2009 Employee Assembly Meeting Minutes

Employee Assembly Meeting
Friday, January 23, 2009
12:15—1:30 p.m.
Johnson Museum, 6th Floor
Minutes

I. Call to Order

B. Cornell called the meeting to order at 12:19 p.m.

II. Call for Late Additions to the Agenda

D. Stein asked to add a discussion about the George Peter Newspaper Framing cost.

III. Report from Chair

B. Cornell thanks those who helped set up the retreat.

IV. Report from SA representative

J. Seymour reporting for E. Cusick said the SA formed a committee to deal with transfer students and their affairs. They have also discussed a lobbying trip to D. C. for federal financial aid.

V. Report from EA representative to the Faculty Senate

A. Mittman said there have been no recent meetings to report on.

VI. Report from Staff Climate Survey Steering Committee representative

B. Liddick said there are plans to start the focus groups in the March/April timeframe. There are still great concerns over the current financial climate and how it will affect the survey.

VII. Approval of Minutes

There were no minutes presented for approval.

• George Peter Newspaper Framing

D. Stein reminded everyone when George Peter died they printed a special edition of PawPrint. He said L. Lawrence put the article in a temporary frame in order to give it to the family at the memorial service with the plan that we would replace it with a higher quality permanent frame eventually.

He said they sent the edition to be printed on high quality paper and the pricing for high quality framing would be about $250 for the 3 sets of frames needed. D. Stein asked if the EA would be willing to pay half of the cost if PawPrint paid the second half? J. Seymour motioned for the EA to pay $125 toward the framing. P. Korolov second. A. Mittman said we can comfortably allocate money from the budget. B. Cornell asked all in favor: 5 yes, 0 opposed, 1 abstained. The motion passed.

II. Committee Reports

a) Executive committee
No report.
b) Staff Recognition & Award committee
B. Cornell said there is a meeting scheduled soon to review new and old nominees.
c) Communications committee
J. Seymour said the committee met yesterday with Y. Miller from the Survey Research Institute. She informed them about surveys, random samples and costs. He said at the next meeting they will start on questions. Y. Miller has offered to do a free one-time analysis of their questions.
d) Finance
No report.
e) Emergency Grant Fund
B. Liddick said the committee has been meeting regularly and they are rewriting everything. He said they are meeting again next week.
f) Personnel Policy
No report.
g) IOC
P. Korolov said there are several people who have applied for the Employee Assembly and committees.
h) University Benefits
J. Magura said she was informed meetings of this committee have been suspended until further notice.
i) Employee Education
J. Seymour said there would be a meeting soon.
j) “Ad Hoc” Charter Review
No report.

III. Old Business

None.

X. Adjourn to EA Retreat

The EA meeting was adjourned at 12:28 p.m.

XI. Revisit EA Goals with Jim Sheridan

XII. Open Forum

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