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STAFF COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES

9/18/07 – 10:00 A.M – LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM #230

Attending:  Mary Ann Braden, Alice Watson, Debbie Voyles, Steven Clark, Linda Haskins, Leslie Turner, Mary Ann Wild, Charlotte Dubois, Lesley Deal, Angela Farnsley, Cari Edwards, Ethel King, Regina McCarty, Angie Clark, Cynthia Stevenson, Kim Wells and Diane Fuchs

Excused Absence:  Lisa Stark, Connie Schnieders, Diana Holman, Kim Draughn, Stephen Miller and Loretta Seals

Unexcused Absence:   None  

Mary Ann Wild provided the Treasurer’s Report.  See detail above. 

Welcome to new Staff Council members!  Introductions were made by individual members.  New members will be serving for a two year period.

The first item of business was the election of officers for 2007 – 2008 academic year.  Steven Clark provided a description of duties for each position. 

Staff Council Officers for 2007 -2008 are:

President:  Diane Fuchs

Vice President:  Regina McCarty

Secretary:  Lesley Deal

Treasurer:  Mary Ann Wild

A special “thank you” to Steven Clark for serving as President of Staff Council.  We appreciated all of his efforts and dedication in his role as President. 

Steven Clark volunteered to continue to coordinate the Staff Council website functions.  Thank you!

For the record, the following folks received scholarship / honorarium for the fall semester.  These awards were given out at the Chancellor’s picnic.  Congrats!

Paula Skelley – Honorarium

Lesley Turner – Honorarium

Ruben Borrego – Scholarship

Trudy Walter has volunteered to continue to coordinate the sending of cards and also birthday bags.  Thank you!

Discussed staff assistance for the holidays.  Steven Clark volunteered to send out an e-mail to Clerical, Service Maintenance and Technical folks regarding the process along with the appropriate form.  Thank you!

Discussed conducting a food drive.  Item was tabled for further discussions.

Discussed a possible holiday goodie give-away.  Suggestion was made that we might want to have an angel tree instead of goodies.  Item was tabled for further discussions.

Discussed the Staff Council Holiday Silent Auction.  Alice Watson made a motion to hold a Staff Council Holiday Silent Auction in November.  Motion was second by Regina McCarty.  Vote was taken.  Motion passed unanimously.  A committee was elected.  Thank you to the following members for volunteering to serve on this committee:  Angie Clark, Cari Edwards, Linda Haskins, Charlotte Dubois, Mary Ann Braden, Cynthia Stevenson and Mary Ann Wild. 

After discussions, the following suggestions/ideas regarding the above event were made:

·         Advertise event outside of campus

·         Have committee elect a chair

·         Cari Edwards volunteered to check the availability of the game room

·         Suggested dates for the event are November 13 or 14 or 15, 2007

·         Utilize secretaries within departments to get the word out to faculty about the event

·         Review list of donations from last year

·         Ethel King volunteered to check on reserving the new university conference rooms as a possible location

·         Check with appropriate folks to make sure that there is no conflict with the Chancellor’s Medallion Dinner

·         Get the donation request out early

·         Craft items seem to be one of the top sellers

·         The candy items made by Loretta Seals were a very popular item

Steven Clark volunteered to send out a donation e-mail to all Clerical, Technical and Service Maintenance folks.  Thank you!

Below is a listing of 2007 – 2008 Staff Council Meeting dates and locations:

We had a very well attended Ice Cream Social!  Everyone was very appreciative of the treat.

Discussed obtaining a listing of folks in each department.  Linda Williams said that a listing will be distributed sometime around the first of October 1, 2007. 

NEXT STAFF COUNCIL MEETING:    October 16 - 10:00 a.m. – Library Building – Room #230.