April 12, 2006
CSAC Members Present: Red Darland, Mary Hale, Michelle Jensen, Sabrina Johnson, Terry Olson,
Jill Reichenberger, Karen Reiter, Cindy Schultz, Patty Stenz, and Marlene Zdanovec
CSAC Members Absent: Kyn Anthony, Dan Hoyt, Evelyn Meuret, Jerry Murphy and Jim Strey
Administrative Liaison: Tim Danielson
SAS Liaison: Ann Marie Johnson (absent)
Guest(s): Jean Bord
Meeting was opened by Chair, Jill Reichenberger.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
March 8, 2006 minutes were approved by committee consensus.
TREASURER’S REPORT
There is a balance of $526.11 in the account at this time. Karen informed the committee that the costs for one more newsletter will be coming out of that figure with any balance remaining to be rolled over for the next year.
CHAIR’S REPORT: U-Plan Jill handed out budget material she received at the U-Plan meeting which addresses UW Oshkosh’s budget requests for the 07-09 biennium. Tim Danielson explained that UW Oshkosh needed to plan for enrollment growth for several reasons: UW Green Bay and UW Stevens Point each have put together an aggressive enrollment growth plan that makes it clear that they expect to take students away from us, so if we don’t also have a plan in place, they may be able to do so plus it may give System a reason to say they would cut our budget/enrollment to give that support to the other campuses so they can grow.
CSAC website Jill advised the committee that Laura Rommelfanger from the Chancellor’s Office has offered to keep the CSAC website updated for us. The committee agreed that we would both accept and appreciate her help. Jill will send an e-mail to all CSAC committee chairs to let them know that they should send any changes for their areas to Laura.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
- ACUG Representative Michelle Jensen
- The biggest project the group is working on at this time is preparing the campus for a wireless network.
Liaison- Senate of Academic Staff AnnMarie Johnson- AnnMarie was not at the meeting, so there was no report.
Awards & Recognition Marlene Zdanovec- Paulette Feld, Co-chair of the Committee, recently sent a campus email to ask for Star nominations. The Star Award is given each month to a Classified Staff who has performed above and beyond the expectations of their assigned positions and responsibilities. The May Star Award winner has been chosen.
- The biggest project the group is working on at this time is preparing the campus for a wireless network.
Nominations will be accepted until May 1 for the 2006 Classified Staff Outstanding Performance Award (OPA). This award recognizes excellence in providing service to the University community.
- Committee on Committees - Karen Reiter
- Jean Bord with be the Classified Staff representative on the search committee for the Assistant Director for Staffing and Development position.
Classified Staff Grant Committee Sabrina Johnson- There were 12 applications for grants in the Spring ’06 semester. The committee chose the six applicants who had never received a grant as yet and divided the grant money between them in an effort to help as many applicants as possible.
CSDAD Planning Jean Bord- There are 320+ registered for the day so far. Participants will wear Royal Blue shirts; Administrators and Council members will wear Sapphire Blue. T-shirts will be available for pick up at the Bookstore book buy-back area on May 24th from 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and on May 25th from 12:00 1:30 p.m. Registrants who have chosen workshops that entail a fee will be asked to pay the fee(s) at the time they pick up their t-shirts.
Grant Fund Raising Committee Marlene Zdanovec- A letter from the committee that includes the raffle tickets will be distributed to classified staff during the first week of May. In addition to cash prizes, new features this year are a resort package, overnight hotel stay, concert tickets and a digital camera.
- Jean Bord with be the Classified Staff representative on the search committee for the Assistant Director for Staffing and Development position.
- Marketing Cindy Schultz
- CSDAD posters were delivered to all sponsors for display. Postcards were sent to all on campus to remind them of the day. The committee is talking about putting together another issue of the newsletter after the day.
OLD CSAC BUSINESS
Volunteer Project Update Red Darland
The day turned out to be a great opportunity, despite the rainy weather. The help was greatly appreciated and the classified staff who volunteered enjoyed the experience. Red will send a copy of the thank you letter received from the Senior Center to all participants and the Chancellor.
NEW CSAC BUSINESS
Format of CSDAD Jill
Jill received information from Paula Hayford (Student Health Center) about a day similar to our CSDAD put on by the UW Extension- Outagamie County. The day was shorter (8 2:15) and consisted of three speakers and a lunch instead of all the workshops we have traditionally had. Council discussion ensued concerning possible changes to our day with consideration of the problems we have experienced in the past. Jill will present some of our ideas to the Chancellor to get his thoughts on changing our format.
Election Results Cindy
Cindy welcomed new committee members, Julie Wilkinson and Sara Stichert to the meeting, and congratulated Marlene, Patty, Michelle and Karen on being reelected for another term.
She informed the council that voter turnout has improved since last year and the process went much smoother without using the write-in system. Jill mentioned that Kim Nguyen from Academic Computing helped OSA with their online election and it went very well. She will contact him for the same type of help with our election for next year.
Cindy also made the council aware that there is still an unfilled position in the Trades area (Jerry Murphy’s position.) If anyone knows of an interested staff member that would be able to fill that spot, please bring it to the council’s attention.
Jill reminded everyone that all officer seats are up for election this year, and asked that council members be prepared to nominate and vote at the next meeting. Anyone accepting nomination will be asked to say a few words about what area on campus they come from, what other committees they may be involved in, etc. to give council members some information before the vote takes place.
All new and current council members were reminded to get a picture to Jill for our website (if they haven’t already done so) along with bios to go with the pictures.
OSA Resolution: Tom Shields, current OSA Vice President, explained the OSA-05-039 resolution opposing the proposed amendment to the state constitution which would invalidate civil law and domestic partner unions. He cited the concerns this could cause in many areas, including domestic violence against women. Tom did a great job presenting the information and asking for CSAC support of the resolution.
Jill will send a copy of the amendment to all council members to read in its entirety. The council will be asked to vote at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
NEXT CSAC MEETING: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. in Dempsey 212.
Respectfully submitted,
Terry Olson, Student Services Manager