Present:  Anna Abraham, Grace Aranda, Rolf Averill, Kathy Bell, Terese Croteau, Lupita Cruz, Noel Dreher, Carolyn Eaton, Deena Fishbein, Barbara Foster, Eva Gonzales, Kathi Hart, Tonya Haymore, Rebecca Hindman, Michelle Hintz, Barbara Lancaster, Gilbert Maldonado, Jean Mason, Joseph Nardi, Barbara Pickard, Patty Piontek, Kevin Prahar, Terri Rice, Ana Rodriguez, Karen Stanley, Rebecca Stevenson, Ted Stokes, Ruth Szabo, Lewis Tenney, Lisa Wakefield, Carolyn Watson, and Joan Weber.

Excused: Emily Boyd, Peg Davis, Christine Duddleston, Melissa Fritz, Dolores Johnston, Alana Lee Levine, Anne Lopez, Beth Riggs, Marc Roszler, and Alicia Velasquez.

Guests: Dr. Nancy Huber 

Opening:

        Karen Stanley opened the retreat at 8:30am by welcoming new and returning members to SAC and introduced Dr. Nancy Huber who is a professor from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who specializes in Leadership who would act as the moderator for the day.   Barbara Lancaster was introduced as this year's new President and also welcomed the group and introduced this year's SAC Executive Board.

        Dr. Huber got the meeting started with several different introduction exercises to start having everyone open up.  These included "who are you" and "truths and lies" tests.

        Dr. Huber had the group do the "Personal Profile System Exam" which is an exam given to help determine personality types.  The group was asked to answer all questions introspectively and honestly according to how they are personality wise at work.  This test also determines how each of us works with others and to recognize our own strengths/weaknesses and how to have this work best for each of us.  The group was then divided into groups according the personality profile outcomes and wrote letters of invite to President Likins as different personality types to practice skillful negotiation.

        After a nice luncheon buffet from 12-1pm, Lisa Wakefield presented information on each of the SAC Committees (Communications, Emily Krauz Staff Endowment Fund, Employee Recognition, Human Resources, Legislative, Membership/Liaisons, and Activities) so that each SAC member would choose one committee to serve on and preliminary committees would form to discuss goals, meetings, and upcoming events.  Budget requests for each committee would be forthcoming in order to prepare for the upcoming year's events.  Chairs for each committee were formed as follows:

        Communications - Michelle Hintz

        Emily Krauz - Anne Lopez

        Employee Recognition - Anne Lopez, Grace Aranda & Barb Lancaster

        Human Resources - Noel Dresher

        Legislative - Kevin Prahar

        Membership/Liaisons - Anne Lopez

        Activities - Anna Abraham

        The following information was obtained by Lisa after submission of goals, meetings, and members from each committee:

Membership/Liaison Committee

        Chair - Anne Lopez alopez@al.arizona.edu

        Patty Piontek ppiontek@ag.arizona.edu

        Ruth Szabo rszabo@u.arizona.edu

        Barbara Pickard bpickard@u.arizona.edu

        Eva Gonzales eva@physics.arizona.edu

        Lou Tenney ltenney@u.arizona.edu

        Goals:

        1) Restructure SAC membership

                Volunteers

                Membership from: colleges. Departments

                Note: check ASU Membership

        2) To have SAC become a well-known acronym all across the university

        3) increase membership to ____ consider upping limit from 42

        4) revisit new employee welcome

                a) how many times to meet

                b) change name from new employee welcome

        5) invite college councils to sac meetings

        6) application notification of it being received so that they do not think they are forgotten

        7) request (2) names from present members of possible applicants

Communications Committee

        Chair Michelle Hintz mhintz@ag.arizona.edu

        Grace Aranda granda@u.arizona.edu

        Becky Stevenson rebecca@ag.arizona.edu

        Terese Croteau croteau@u.arizona.edu

        Becki Hindman rhindman@ag.arizona.edu

        Carolyn Watson watsonc@u.arizona.edu

        Goals:

        1) Bulletin (monthly as needed) printed for no access folks and on web in English and Spanish

        2) Newsletter (Quarterly) August, November, February & May

        3) Website newsletters online, activities - pictures and Classifieds ?

        4) Promote campus town halls, wildcat welcome, SAC sponsored events

        5) Tabletop display for campus events

        6) Brochure SAC membership, activities

        7) Update power point presentation

Activities Committee

        Chair Anna Abraham aabraham@email.arizona.edu

        Kathy Bell kkbell@ag.arizona.edu

        Barbara Fosterbfoster@arizona.edu

        Terri Rice trice@ag.arizona.edu

        Tonya Haymore thaymore@u.arizona.edu

        Goals:

 

Committee will meet 1st Tuesday of each month from 2-3pm (before SAC mtg)

Human Resources Committee

        Chair Noel Dreher ndreher@u.arizona.edu

        Deena Fishbein deena@sie.arizona.edu

        Joan Weber jweber@ag.arizona.edu

        Lupita Cruz lmaldona@u.arizona.edu

        Rolf Averill averill@u.arizona.edu

        Ted Stokes stokest@email.arizona.edu

        Joe Nardi nardi@email.arizona.edu

        Ana Rodriguez rodrigua@ag.arizona.edu

        Jean Mason jeanm@email.arizona.edu

        Goals:

        1) Reduce cost of rec center

        2) lengthening time of permits deductions

        3) Health insurance 3-tier

        4) Personal days/month

        5) Extra Closure days

        6) Winter break w/ no vacation time

        7) Retirement designation

        8) 16 hour professional development work release (promote and encourage)

        9) Retirement plans - earlier vesting - choices

        10) health wellness days

        11) flex time

        12) tuition waivers

        13) minimum wage increased

        14) salary compensation

 Legislative Committee

        Chair Kevin Prahar kprahar@email.arizona.edu

        Carolyn Eaton ceaton@u.arizona.edu

        Lou Tenney ltenney@u.arizona.edu

        Goals:

        1) Try to host a 'Get to Know You' forum with Greg Fahey from the Government Relations Office in order to learn exactly how the office functions and what it does for the UA Community.

        2) Increase participation at the UA Pride Night festivities.

        3) Have increased UA Staff presence at Legislative forums and meetings around Campus.

        4) Host various forums and meetings with Legislators in Phoenix AND Tucson, perhaps getting another rally together for Phoenix next Spring.

        5) Get information to all UA Staff in order to educate about 2004 Candidates who are pro-University on issues.

        6) Distribute more widely and effectively, information on legislation pending in Phoenix that affect Staff; along with instructions on how Staff can communicate their feelings regarding the bills being considered to their legislators.

Employee Recognition Committee

        Chairs: Anne Lopez, Grace Aranda and Barb Lancaster

        New members:

                Terese Croteau croteau@u.arizona.edu

                Eva Gonzales eva@physics.arizona.edu

        This committee will meet in August

        Barbara and Lisa closed at 3:30pm with an invitation to all members of the group to stay involved and to bring ideas to the forefront for discussion at the general and committee meetings.

Respectfully submitted 07/29/03 by tlh