Meeting Minutes

Staff Representative Group Meeting Minutes –May 11, 2006

G23 Aderhold Hall

Present: Shea Ray, Mike Gorman, Susan Christopher, Elizabeth Platt, Barbara Galvond, Marianne Roberts, Laura Patrick, Caroline Wooten, David Avin.

Old Business

1. Minutes

Minutes from last meeting were approved. Mike will have them posted to SRG website.

2. Standing committee reports

Safety Committee: Fire evacuation on 5/9/06 went well. There were some communication issues with unauthorized persons calling and canceling 911 calls to police department. The communication issues will be ironed out at a meeting the week of 5/15/06. The safety manual will be voted on by the Administrative Cabinet after final revisions have been made. Laura Patrick and others mentioned the elevators at River’s Crossing have been malfunctioning at a regular rate with people getting stuck inside. Also, the bushes that were trimmed at River’s Crossing have grown back and either need to be trimmed again or removed.

Newsletter Committee: Spring newsletter will be distributed on 5/12/06.

Staff Awards Committee: No report.

3. Special committee reports

Social Committee: An ice-cream social is planned for this summer.

Staff Lounge Committee: Cabinets are installed and walls are painted. Flat panel TV is mounted but cable has yet to be installed. Tables and chairs have been ordered. One idea for decorating included the pictures of Staff Award for Excellence winners. The committee is planning an event to welcome everyone to see it in the near future and would like to ask everyone that uses the new lounge to utilize it and help keep it clean.

4. Report of Chair

Staff Council: The Staff Council is working on a handbook to help schools & colleges develop Staff Representative Groups. There was a positive vote for eight additional staff members to sit on the University Council. Currently, there is one staff member, 22 students and 134 faculty members on the UC. The whole University Council will vote to pass the change to the by-laws in September.

SRG Elections: Because the SRG committee is just getting back into the swing of things, the consensus was to keep the existing leadership in place for the next year.

Committee chair elections will be held at the June 8th SRG meeting.

New Business

Shea suggested that next year the newsletter committee be changed to the communications committee and utilize/maintain the SRG website for updated content.
Discussion around new travel authority system and new employee request for approval procedure.
Discussion around safety equipment ordered for the college and an easier way to identify who is in charge during an emergency. Also, there was a discussion on improving communication between during an emergency using walkie-talkies or something similar.

Next meeting will be on June 8th at 10:00 a.m. in G23 Aderhold.

Meeting was adjourned.