SRG Meeting

Thursday – March 13, 2008

Present: Cindy Williams, Heather Fancher, Amanda Cole, Becky Hendren, Helen Rogers, Vaishali Uchil, Jacquee Rosumny (Chair)

Meeting called to order at 10:05 a.m.

February minutes were not ready to approve. Will be addressed through email.

NOTE: There seems to be trouble accessing the minutes on the website. Jacquee will talk to Dave Wynne to see what the trouble is with the link. [Minutes were not yet posted for February 2008.]

Safety Committee: (Kay Bernales)

The meeting with the Fire Marshall George McElhannon, lasted 2 hours. There was a great deal of discussion and many ideas came out of the meeting. The new Safety Committee Chair is Kay Bernales was announced at the meeting. It was agreed upon that the College of Education will have a fire drill every quarter. The Safety Committee agreed that the committee and the floor reps would be consolidated into one committee. One of the ideas that came out of the meeting is that Kay Bernales will set up a listserv for the COE Safety Committee which will be used to post the minutes and any other information the committee will need. Each representative will be responsible for communicating with their department/floor. For further in depth information about the meeting, please see the attached minutes.

Newsletter Committee:

The newsletter issue will be coming out after the Staff Awards.

Report from the Chair: (Jacquee Rosumny)

Discussed the new addition to the Harassment Policy, “Disruptive Behavior”.

“Any student, faculty member, administrator, or employee, acting individually or in concert with others, who clearly obstructs or disrupts, or attempts to obstruct or disrupt any teachings, research, administrative, disciplinary or public service activity or any other activity authorized to be discharged or held on any campus of the University System of Georgia is considered by the Board of Regents to have committee an act of gross irresponsibility and shall be subject to disciplinary procedures, possibly resulting in dismissal or termination of employment.

All segments of the academic community are under a strong obligation and have a mutual responsibility to protect the campus community from disorderly, disruptive, or obstructive actions which interfere with academic pursuits of teaching, learning and other campus activities.

This policy does not change or in any way infringe upon the existing policies and practices in support of freedom of expression and action. It is considered necessary to combat the ultimate effect of irresponsible disruptive and obstructive actions which tend to destroy academic freedom and the institutional structures through which it operates.”

SRG needs to continually seek ways to ensure we are communicating with all the staff in COE, whether it is via the website, posting the minutes, and we need to remember we are the ambassadors to our departments and we can run copies of the minutes and post them in our own departments.

Staff Awards Committee: (Amanda Cole)

Colors will be Black/Red. Hairy Dawg and the cheerleaders will be there. It will be catered by the UGA Catering Department for a BBQ with hamburgers and hot dogs. We need to check to see if they will do “vegetarian” burgers for us too! The tape of our speaker Coach VanHalanger is done. BBQ will be done on the small patio by the Sun Room. The event will be in the River’s Crossing Sun Room.

We are looking for judges now for the 8 nominations we have. Those nominations are: Margaret Turner, Tammy Bridges, Andy Garber, Teresa Melton, Helen Rogers, Demetrius Smith, Troy Bassett, and Nancy Vandergrift.

The UGA Bookstore will provide some door prizes. We will also have posters with Mark Richt signatures on them.

Staff Council Meeting: (Helen Rogers)

Some discussion on benefits. Some interesting facts: Every employee is eligible for a $7500, interest free grant towards buying their first home. If you want to know more about this go to: www.dcaloans.com

Next council meeting: April 2 at 2:30 p.m. in room 213 of SLC

The next SRG meeting is April 3 in G-23.

Meeting adjourned at: 11:10 a.m. Staff Awards meeting followed.

Minutes taken by Amanda Cole and Jacquee Rosumny.