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Minutes of Administrative Staff Council Meeting
April 2, 1998
Members Present: Jerry Ameling, Shelley Applebaum, Joyce Blinn, Deb Boyce, Scot Bressler, Deb Burris, Carmen Castro-Rivera, Dianne Cherry,
Judy Donald, James Elsasser, Mike Failor, Pat Green, Linda Hamilton, John Hartung, Joyce Kepke, Sandy LaGro, Paul Lopez, Dawn
Mays, Joan Morgan, Sue Perkins, Jan Peterson, Cindy Puffer, Jan Ruffner, Bonita Sanders-Bembry, Jane Schimpf, Tim Smith, Robin
Veitch, Bob Waddle, Laura Waggoner, Reva Walker, Betty Ward, Jodi Webb, Matt Webb, Deb Wells, Duane Whitmire, Calvin Williams.
Members Absent Who Sent Substitutes: Doug Burns for Sally Blair, Norma Stickler for Beverly Stearns.
Members Absent: Craig Bedra, Penny Dean, Sharon Hanna, Elayne Jacoby (due to prior commitment at Health Fair), Inge Klopping, Deborah Knigga,
Becky McOmber, Gene Palmer, Kurt Thomas, Paul Yon.
Guests: Pat Kania, Internal Affairs Committee
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 1:35 p.m. by Chair, Duane Whitmire.
Approval of Minutes: Judy Donald corrected the attendance of the March meeting by including Deb Burris as attending. Joan Morgan moved to accept
corrected minutes, Pat Green seconded. Minutes were approved as amended.
Guest Speakers: Larry Weiss and Dr. Charles Middleton attended the meeting to discuss State Issues 1 and 2 and the importance of passage to
higher education. Larry passed out several pieces of information and urged everyone to share information with colleagues.
It is important to understand that K-12 will receive funding based upon the court’s ruling whether Issue 2 passes or not.
Should this issue fail, the funding will come from the budgets of higher education and state agencies. BGSU could experience
a budget cut of 15% beginning with the fiscal year 1999-2000.
Duane asked council for their thoughts on endorsing State Issue 2. Pat Green felt that ASC should endorse the issues. Pat
moved that the ASC Executive Committee write the resolution in support of State Issue 2 for ASC, Dawn Mays, seconded. Pat
called for question. Motion passed with 2 abstentions.
Chair Report:
Duane passed out the ASC Chair Report and highlighted points of interest to the group. He thanked the scholarship committee
for the work they have done and turned the meeting over to that committee for the raffle drawing.
Chair Elect Report:
Deb reported that the Leadership Team had met with Dr. Ribeau and requested funding for the BG Best Awards program for Administrative
Staff. He graciously agreed to fund this effort through his office. Deb also requested anyone interested in serving as vice
chair and secretary to contact either her or Judy Donald, as ballots will be put together soon.
Secretary Report: No report.
Committee Reports:
Amendments: (Bev Stearns, Chair) - Due to the absence of Beverly Stearns, John Hartung presented materials to vote on from the amendments
committee. Discussion followed whether to vote on these as separate issues or as a package. It was decided to vote as separate
issues.
1. Changing the charter from vice presidential areas to functional areas. waiting period. John Hartung moved to amend, suggested
revising Section III, 2nd paragraph, to finish as follows. Members may not hold consecutive three-year terms, and are eligible
for re-election after completing a two-year waiting period; Matt Webb seconded. Motion passed.
2. John moved to accept Section III and Section IV involving the reduction of reps from 10% to 6% and time off council from
1 to 2 years, Matt Webb seconded. Joyce Blinn moved to amend the motion to keep the 1 year off council instead of 2 years,
Pat Green seconded. Pat Green called for the question. Motion defeated. John Hartung called for the question. Matt Webb moved
to suspend rules, Carmen Castro-Rivera seconded. Motion passed. Original motion passed.
External Affairs: ( Bonita Sanders-Bembry, Chair) - The program "Bring Your Daughter to Work"(ages 9-15) is being planned for April 22. Questions
can be directed to Bonita or Human Resources.
Awards & Special Recognitions: (Jane Schimpf, Chair) - Jane mentioned that nominations for BG Best Awards are due April 15. Nominations for the Ferrari Award
will be coming out shortly, due by June 1.
Internal Affairs: (Jan Peterson/Betty Ward, Co-Chairs) - Jan said that the committee is planning an orientation meeting in June along with a
luncheon for new administrative staff.
Personnel Welfare: (Pat Green/Inge Klopping, Co-Chairs) - Pat presented the information on the compensation plan for the 1st reading. She urged
everyone to review the documents as we will be voting on these at the May meeting. She mentioned that Human Resources has
agreed to review the policies each year to fine tune the procedure.
Professional Development: (Dawn Mays, Chair) - Professional Connections has been established.
Salary: (Gene Palmer, Chair) - No report.
Scholarship: (Carmen Castro-Rivera, Chair) - Carmen thanked the committee for all their hard work. 1756 tickets were sold amounting to
$1622 going to the administrative staff scholarship fund. The results of the raffle were as follows:
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Color Stylewriter 4100 printer (Kay Sergent, Psychology)
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an autographed Antonio Daniels photo (Tammy Shain, Women’s Basketball)
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an autographed Antonio Daniels Vancouver Grizzlies jersey (Jeremy Freyman, son of Deb Freyman, Biology)
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2 season tickets to 1998-99 BGSU Theater Production (Joe Williford, Family & Consumer Science)
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2 season tickets to 1998-99 College of Musical Arts Festival Series (Deb Boyce, University Advancement)
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4 rounds of golf with golf cart at Forrest Creason course (Connie DiPuccio, University Bookstore)
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2 season passes to 1998 Falcon home football games (Deb Conklin, psychology)
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2 tickets to the 1998 Parent’s Day Concert - November 7, 1998 (Gabor Szekely, Mathematics & Statistics)
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a Fall 1998 (one-semester) pass to the BGSU Recreation Center (Stacey Dudley, EDCI)
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a Marcia Adams gift package: totebag and 3 autographed cookbooks (Janice Veitch, Computer Services)
Winners will be receiving a notification slip via campus mail that explains how to claim your prize.
Estimated contributions to date at $4,000 with the goal being $5,000. Anyone wishing to donate, please contact the Foundation
Office at 2-2551 to designate your donation to the ASC Scholarship Fund.
Old Business: See Personnel Welfare Committee report.
New Business: Calvin Williams questioned how merit is distributed and what policies exist regarding this. It was decided to put this on
the agenda for the May meeting.
Duane mentioned due to the Board of Trustee meeting, the next ASC meeting will begin at 12:30 p.m. instead of 1:30 p.m. Please
mark your calendars.
The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.
Judy Donald
Secretary, ASC
NEXT MEETING
May 7, 1998
12:30 P.M. ALUMNI ROOM, UNIVERSITY UNION
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