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Present:
Anna Abraham, Grace Aranda, Rolf Averill, Kathy Bell, Terese
Croteau, Peg Davis, Noel Dreher, Carolyn Eaton, Deena Fishbein,
Barbara Foster, Melissa Fritz, Eva Gonzales, Kathi Hart, Tonya
Haymore, Rebecca Hindman, Michelle Hintz, Dolores Johnston, Barbara
Lancaster, Alana Lee Levine, Gilbert Maldonado, Jean Mason, Joe
Nardi, Patty Piontek, Kevin Prahar, Terri Rice, Ana Rodriguez, Karen
Stanley, Ruth Szabo, Lew Tenney, Alicia Velasquez, Lisa Wakefield,
Carolyn Watson, Joan Weber.
Excused:
Lupita Cruz, Barbara Pickard, Beth Riggs, Marc Roszler,
Rebecca Stevenson,
Unexcused:
Emily Boyd, Christine Duddleston, Ted Stokes.
Guests:
Janis Leisbold and Cathy Nicholson
Opening:
Process
Agenda Items
Barbara opened the
meeting at
3:10pm
by welcoming everyone and remarking on what a great turnout it was
for the first meeting. It
was also a very successful retreat and much was accomplished during
the afternoon’s committee work as listserv’s and communications
were already underway. The
morning of the retreat was spent getting to know each other and was
led by Dr. Nancy Huber whom is teaching a course Spring 2003 and
information was handed out on this.
Dolores did not have
a treasurer’s report at this time but Barbara explained that when
it was available she would send it out the listserv.
It was also asked all committee chairs submit a yearly budget
to Dolores or Barbara by the next SAC meeting so that and expense
budget could be created.
Barbara explained
that the Executive Board had their first meeting on
07/15/03
and the discussion items included the Tri-University Meeting (more
on this to follow).
Cathy Nicholson from
Human Resources explained that their currently was an “interim
policy on retirement” posted on their website at:
http://www.hr.arizona.edu/09_rel/policies/pp204details.php
The policy involves reducing the age
requirement for Appointed Personnel from 62 years to 50 years as it
currently stands for Non-appointed personnel.
There is also currently talks on having a mandated UA email
policy for all classified staff that have access to information
systems – this would be used to disseminate information more
quickly – this information should be released shortly via 3D Memo.
Recently a new Tuition Reduction Policy went into effect
(with help from SAC) that states that FTE does not affect the
tuition waiver and that it would be $25/9 units.
The policy was also amended that employees/dependents
affected by layoff and long-termed disability would be also able to
take advantage of this benefit.
The website should reflect the new policy soon.
Barbara
explained that Wildcat Welcome still needs your help!
Contact Juliette Moore with Campus Recreation at juliette@u.arizona.edu
or 621-8707 for additional information.
There are two training sessions for volunteers for the “Ask
Me” booths at the SUMC Kiva Room on Tuesday 08/12/03 at 2pm and
Thursday 08/14/03 at 9am. All
volunteers get an “ask me t-shirt” and it is a fun event.
Barbara reminded everyone that
Thursday August 28, 2003
is “
Sea
of
Red
” Day – great day to
wear your SAC shirts! Barbara
also presented everyone with the opportunity to get their SAC coffee
mugs.
Lisa stated that we are almost sold out of Diamondback
tickets – there are only about 13 tickets left.
More may be available if needed since NAU has pulled out of
the event due to a lack of interest for this date and they lost
money on the last ticket sale promotion.
UA has three buses of baseball fans heading up to
Phoenix
for the day
Committee
Reports
Tri-University Classified Staff Executive Board: Barbara updated the
committee on the Tri-University meeting which was held in
Flagstaff
on
Friday, August 1, 2003
at NAU campus.
All of the Tri-U boards were represented in some way
including NAU, ASU (
Main
, West, and East), UA, and
UA South. One of the
goals of this year’s board is to have a staff non-voting seat
added to the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) meetings – students
currently hold two seat (one voting seat held by current president
of ASUA and one non-voting seat held by ex-ASUA president) and
faculty hold one non-voting seat.
Another issue that came up is to have UA and NAU create
Reduction in Force (RIF) policies
RIF
policies are used as a
mediation and independent review tool so that when a staff member is
laid off there is an independent committee that reviews the
circumstances involving the layoff to ensure fairness.
This committee has the power to overturn a layoff if it is
determined that it was done unfair.
Cathy Nicholson from HR brought up the suggestion that some
research be done on this issue since UA has many more employees on
“soft or grant” funding and that maybe these employees should
not be RIF eligible because of funding issues involved – if this
was the case HR might be much more acceptable of the idea.
She also suggested that their were some great “shared
governance” models concerning staff out there (Georgia Tech,
Michigan, California schools) and that we should look at these other
examples present in regards to RIF’s.
At the Tri-U meeting Dr. John Haeger (NAU president)
addressed the members and explained his ideas on the future of the
state’s universities which included: 1) he feels that all three
president’s get along well and work well with the current ABOR
members, 2) we are soon to see changes in how “state” schools
are funded including a more independent approach, and 3) while all
three schools have different goals and approaches they are working
well together toward common goals.
Communications: Per
Michelle, chair, committee will meet today following SAC general
meeting
.
Emily Krauz Staff Endowment: Per Anne, chair, they will meet again
sometime in November to award the Fall 2004 scholarships.
New members are always welcome on this short time-commitment,
fun, anonymous committee – contact Anne for additional
information. The
committee recently decided to rewrite some of the scholarship
application rules including allowing someone to win awards
consecutive semesters and always the maximum award amount to be
raised to $500/semester. For
Spring 2003 their were 17 awards given which ranged from $17 to
$300. The intent of the
endowment is to reward those seeking to enhance their UA career
through continued education.
Employee Recognition: Per Anne, chair, they will meet in
mid-September to set the event planning timeline.
New members always welcome on this hard-working yet rewarding
committee. George
Davis’ name emerged as emcee for the event again but nominations
still welcomed.
Human Resources: Per Noel, chair, their next meeting will be
08/19/03
and she welcomed anyone with items for them to look into to contact
her or any of the other members.
New members always welcome!
Legislative: Per Kevin, chair, they too need members – even just
to help email or call a legislative member to express a voter’s
concerns on an upcoming issue. They
will once again be helping with “UA Pride Night” on
02/17/04
where UA and staff from around the state are invited to an informal
gathering with legislators in
Phoenix
to discuss issues and to get to know each other. Food, fun, and a
bus – what more can you ask for?
Membership/Liaisons: Just
finished recruiting 21 new members and a successful retreat so they
are taking a break right now per Karen, chair.
Activities: Anna handed the floor to Tonya for updates on the “1st
annual UA Yard Sale” to take place on
09/24/03
in the SUMC Tucson/Catalina rooms from
10am-3pm
. Lots of help is needed
from SAC members – donations, time, etc.
Items will be collected in advance by committee members and
“color tagged” priced. Tonya
and Anna have storage room and are expecting lots of items.
More info to come!
University
Committees
Appointed Personnel
Organization Council (APOC): Per Lisa, there has not been a SAC
member on this committee for the last few years.
She will contact Steve Harvath, committee chair, for
information on getting SAC back on.
BETA: Eva,
committee member, reported in Lupita’s, liaison, absence and
explained that BETA members if open to any person holding an
Administrative Assistant, Administrative Associate, Business
Manager, Business Manager, Senior, Executive Assistant, Office
Specialist, Senior, Office Supervisor, Program Coordinator, or
Program Coordinator, Senior, position at The University of Arizona.
They are currently working on rewriting who is eligible for
the group. Their board
meeting is
09/24/03
from
12-1pm
at the Little Chapel on campus.
Business and
Professional Women: Per Tonya, liaison, there were difficulties
last year with meetings but contact will be reestablished.
Campus Advisory Council: Per
Rolf, liaison, the next meeting is
09/12/03
.
Commission on the Status of Women: Kathi,
liaison, will contact them for next meeting date.
Ombudsperson Committee: Lisa
and Anne, liasions, report that their will be a training session for
new members on
09/12/03
and a meeting will follow thereafter.
Shared Governance: Lisa, liaison, reported that the focus of the
committee is to figure out what works and doesn’t work on campus
and make recommendations accordingly.
The next meeting is still TBA.
Strategic Planning Budget Advisory Committee (SPBAC): Per Karen,
liaison, regular meetings are halted during the summer but will
start again soon. In the
meantime, a subcommittee has been meeting.
Goal of the committee in the upcoming year includes rewriting
the “plan” with the “Focus on Excellence” in mind.
Student Union Advisory Board:
Per Lew, liaison, they did not meet over the summer and next meeting
is TBA.
University Compensation Advisory Team (UCAT): Per
Barb, liaison, no meetings were held over the summer and next
meeting is set for September sometime.
UA Retiree Organization: Per
Peg, liaison, no meetings were held over the summer and next meeting
is TBA.
University Hearing Board: Per
Anne, liaison, this committee does not meet until a student files a
hearing request (disciplinary action issues) so nothing has happened
over the summer.
Parking and Transportation Advisory Board: Per
Anne, liaison, no summer meetings were held and the next meeting is
TBA.
Diversity Coalition: President
Likins attends every other meeting which was the last one held and
the issues focused on the reorganizations within that office that
had recently occurred. The next meeting is
09/11/03
MPAC: Kathi, Lisa, Noel, and Barb all sit on this committee dealing
with issues which were brought up by the “Millenium II Survey.”
Parking and transportation issues were discussed at the last
meeting.
Meeting
Close:
Barb suggested to the
committee members to consider given the size of this year’s group
to consider adding a “Parliamentarian Executive Board Member” to
cover parliamentary procedure during the meetings.
All other campus councils contain such a member.
The last bylaw update occurred four (4) years ago so it might
be of interest to reconsider them again.
It was also discussed
whether SAC would be participating or organizing a team of members
to participate in the Diabetes walk UA group organized by the
College of Science, Mary Carter.
Anna with Activities committee is to look into organizing a
team of SAC participants.
Meeting was adjourned at
4:35pm
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Respectfully submitted by Tonya L. Haymore
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