Excused: Eva Gonzales, Ana Rodriguez

Absent:

Guests: Alison Vaillancourt, HR

Opening Announcements – Randy Livingston - Feb 5^th blood drive, cats in community at Project YES mar 7-predate on feb 28, weed pulling - registration is active: feed and water you and great chance to network and do something worthwhile. Joyce is leading craft project and bag of supplies. Stuff the Cat tran on apr 2^nd - cherry & univ, passenger drop off, culminates staff food drive. Anyone not getting emails

Lean 6 Sigma - provost hay idea to review purchasing process - p card, university hiring process, mergers. Efficient management review looking for redundancy, etc. Looked at

teams put together with an inexpensive consultant in eller college to review these processes. 184,000 pcard transactions last year. Things to improve: collecting receipts, having to print it, hours spent chasing stuff down. What if we had more vendors via az byways. Team working through it to improve things

hiring team - how long it takes to get new employee up to speed. Dollars lost by unproductive personnel due to unable to get what they need is 960,000 a year. Getting email is set to net id, employee id, cat card but students get it when they are admitted so streamlined into same for staff, etc. Create physical and virtual one stop unit. Electronic submission of I9s. Easier process and holistic training.

Merger team - questions depts need to ask themselves. How do you assess the cultures in different depts. Process driven as opposed to faculty management and services. How do you know a merger makes sense and what it will take to make a merger work.

Teams were handpicked in HR to get the greatest experience dealing with experts...not the usual suspects.

Furlough questions:

Nothing is in stone yet. Messaging going around is for a broad audience: legislature, news, etc

For every 20 mil lost 200 jobs lost. 5% cut is 20 mil. Hiring freeze is 20 mil. 17 mil left is a problem. We’re going to make it through this year due to preplanning. Affect on retiring members is understood and being reviewed by administration.

State and local funded employees are the ones being considered for furlough, admin/fac/staff.

QTR about 2000 use it including dependents. Legislature doesnt believe it should be a benefit at all so talking about it too much brings it to their minds. View to making changes to how it is stated. How much would really be saved? % going up most likely. Many folks work for UA etc for this benefit.

Benefit contributions might change and it would be still be a deal compared to others. No word on retirement change. Fac reviewed possibly suspending retirement contribution saving 7-10% and leaving money in their pocket. Doesnt seem wise in the long term.

Did quite a deal of cost modeling for furlough strategy to save 7 mil. Concern of graduating loss to costs. SAC should come up with a number ($40,000) and defined by family ability.

Dont know 2010 budget as yet. 1.6 bil for 2009 and 1.5 bil for 2010. Budget gap assumes 5mil stimulus money. Raising taxes and borrowing.

Spreading out the furloughs - everybody takes 1hr week for 40 weeks, as of July 1 is minus 5 days. Acad - 2.5% reduction more than other option. fte reduction is 98% . No impact on health insurance.

Mosaic lot of money in 80 mil state dollars. Hung up in legislative body wont allow us to borrow. Need it as our systems are outdated and will eventually fail. Systems will not allow the granting needed to be a research university. Emergency ABOR meeting needing info on contracts and our new system will allow for this process in a cost effective way.

Faculty workload being reviewed for efficiency. Major concern for faculty.

Hire back is an issue that we should be noted to the president concerning layoffs.

Randy asked for input on a letter to Dr Shelton regarding a threshold for furlough, and method of call back with layoff. - Angie, Randy, Diana, Sharon, working on this to get a draft out by next week

Treasurer's Report - Jean Mason -

Break into Committees – Plan for the year (Budget, Events)

Committee Reports -

Tri-University Classified Staff Executive Board – SAC Executive Committee - not set

Communications - Maria Ionescu - bulletin today

Emily Krauz Staff Endowment Fund – Shana McClelland - applications due mar 1st

Employee Recognition - Grace Aranda - nominations coming in feb 6th

Legislative – Phyllis Kabins - emails on budgetary and contacting legislature

Activities – Claudia Arias, Lupe Jacobo - blood drive, cat tran might work with retirees, apr 4 food drive campus health

Appointed Professionals Advisory Council (APAC) - Shana McClelland - Shana checking with her contact

Campus Recreation Advisory Council 2007-2008 (CRAC) Lupe Jacobo, Jim Hicks - deciding on expansion, meeting upcoming and asks sac to vote on their issues, any concerns let Jim & Lupe know. Free days stress buster day tomorrow: skin cancer

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) – Lorelli Panico, Phyllis Kabins - they will be donating 1500 to ERC

Faculty Senate – Randy Livingston, Shana McClelland - Deb/Jannelle/Diana will be backing up Shana on future meetings

Life and Work Connections – Grace Aranda - dates on calendar or events

S.U. Advisory Board - Claudia Arias, Joyce Childers - eligible combo meal plan for part time students not just full time if you notify catcard office by Bill Sheba at SU

UA Retiree Organization – Sharon Bouck - Had Holly Altman present and interested in getting involved on campus. Legislature cant dip into retirement fund without a law

New Business: Education committee did get together but time is not possible for

Meeting Close

Wrap-up – Randy Livingston

Meeting adjourned at 4:15 pm

Respectfully Submitted by Grace Aranda