Meeting Minutes

August 10, 2002

Present:
Rene' Hammond
Heidi Sartain
Jacquee Rosumny
Julie Patton
Sandy Smith
Etta Roberts
Cindy Williams
Cindy Molloy

Vice Chair: Sandy Smith has agreed to serve as Vice Chair. It has been agreed upon by the present committee that the by-laws be re-written for more clear understanding on the elections for Chair and Vice Chair. Sandy Smith and Etta Roberts agreed to work on this together. They will try to have ready for review in September.

Staff Awards: The Dean?s office has brought a request to the SRG Committee regarding combining the Staff Awards with the Faculty Awards. The SRG Committee has agreed to invite Brenda Davis to the next SRG meeting to discuss the request. COE staff will be given the opportunity to voice their view/opinions before a final decision is made. The representative for each school will distribute and collect all comments from staff.

Safety Report: A May meeting was held with Dena Roth, Environmental Safety Services Program Specialist. Safety Manuals are located with each department Office Manager. Sandy has discussed the issue of a more up-to-date intercom/emergency system. It was agreed upon by the SRG Committee that we continue with the Safety Committee and with Sandy Smith serving as chair of this committee in Aderhold and Cindy Williams as chair at the River?s Crossing site.

Staff Council: Sandy Smith attended the Staff Council meeting and distributed her notes to the SRG Committee. We also received a copy of the budget developmental timeline which was discussed at that meeting.

Committees:

Staff Awards Committee - Jacquee Rosumny, Cindy Malloy, and Heidi Sartain have all agreed to serve on committee.

Newsletter - Julie Patton volunteered to work on this project. Discussion was made regarding possibly distributing the newsletter more frequently this upcoming year.

T-shirt - The SRG Committee has agreed to discontinue with the t-shirt committee.

Fall Social - Discussed which School?s turn was up to host the social for this year, the possibility of having two schools host and a tentative date for the social.

New Business: Jacquee suggested that we express the issue of Handicap mobility on campus. Sandy Smith thought that this issue should be handled through the Needs and Concerns Committee. We also talked about Social Security numbers being used on documents. Julie Patton will discuss with Troy Bassett the number of staff in each school. Because of the recent changes in the college, there may be the need to add and/or delete the number of reps per school.

Next SRG meeting is scheduled for: Wednesday, September 11th at 10:00 a.m. The meeting place will be announced by the Chair.

Meeting was adjourned.