February 9, 2005 minutes

CSAC Members Present: Jean Bord, Paulette Feld, Mary Hale, Jan Keene, Jerry Murphy, Terry Olson, Jill Reichenberger, Karen Reiter, Cindy Schultz, Gloria Splittgerber, and Patti Wild
CSAC Members Absent: Red Darland, Dan Hoyt, Sabrina Johnson, and Marlene Zdanovec
Administrative Liaison: Tim Danielson
SAS Liaison: Bryan Bain
Guest(s): Chancellor Wells, Vice Chancellor Garb, and CSDAD Chair Lynda Olsen

Meeting was opened by Chair, Jean Bord.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Karen Reiter made the motion, seconded by Cindy Schultz to approve the minutes from the January 12, 2005 meeting. Minutes approved by committee consensus.

TREASURER’S REPORT
Karen Reiter reported that all expenses for the last CSAC newsletter have now been paid leaving a current balance of $327.99.

CHANCELLOR WELLS – Budget Report
Chancellor Wells gave us an overview of Govenor Doyle’s recently released budget proposal and what the numbers mean for UW Oshkosh. There are both some encouragements and some challenges within the budget proposal and Chancellor Wells encouraged us, as citizens, to make our feelings concerning budget issues known to legislators and the Governor.

VICE CHANCELLOR GARB – New TitanCard
Elliott Garb gave the committee a chance to ask any questions they had concerning the issuance of new TitanCards. He also brought a copy of what the new cards will look like. Dr. Garb assured the committee that no one is obligated to get a new card – it is a voluntary decision. There is not an end-time for the use of the current card at the present time. All association with US Bank through the new TitanCard is a strictly personal decision between the employee/student and US Bank.

CHAIR’S REPORT
Jean reported that Bruce Schierstedt has been placed on the COEHS Dean Search & Screen Committee as the Classified Staff Representative. There is still a need for a CS representative on the NCA (university accreditation) committee. If anyone is interested, or knows someone who might be, please let Jean know ASAP. Also, Susie Gustke will be resigning from the Awards Committee in June, so a replacement will have to be found.

COMMITTEE REPORTS
• ACUG Representativee - Patti Wild
No report at this time – the first meeting for the semester to be held on 2/10.

• Awards & Recognition - Gloria Splittgerber
Sara Stichert will be the CSDAD committee representative to work on a better system of prize distribution for that day.

• Committee on Committees - Karen Reiter
The committee interest survey form is set and ready to go out sometime the first week of March.

Mary Cook needed to step down from her appointment to the EAP Committee – Mary Simon has agreed to take her place.

Holly will no longer be working on the CSAC newsletter after the current issue, so a replacement will have to be found.

Robin West has agreed to serve on the Gender Equity Council.

• Liaison – Senate of Academic Staff – Bryan Bain
Nothing to report at this time.

• Classified Staff Grant Committee - Paulette Feld
The committee will be starting another round of grant application review in March.

• CSDAD Planning - Lynda Olsen
Good progress has been made on preparations for the day’s events. If there are any questions about the day, please see Lynda.

• Grant Fund Raising Committee - Jill Reichenberger
The committee decided to do a “blow-out” sale on the cookbooks on Wednesday, March 9th in Reeve Union, selling the books for 2/$10. There are approximately 650 cookbooks left at this time.

Becky Payne has the letter done and the tickets will be printed soon for the CSDAD raffle. Since the money raised last year was down from the previous year, Jill asked that committee members make an extra effort to sell raffle tickets this year.

• Marketing - Cindy Schultz
Cindy showed the group the mock-up and graphics for a CSAC banner. The cost would be $144 for a 6’ long, 28” high vinyl banner. The possibilities of finding a cheaper vendor and for finding something that would make the banner freestanding (to make it more useful in every environment) will be checked into.

• Elections - Cindy Schultz
Cindy brought to the committee’s attention the fact that circumstances have caused the number of CSAC members needing to be elected each of the next three years to be off balance. Several alternatives were given for moving the numbers back to the optimal 5 each year. Jill Reichenberger made the motion to elect Gloria Splittgerber’s replacement for a full 3 year term; this motion was seconded by Paulette Feld; approved by committee consensus. Jan Keene moved to allow Terry Olson to volunteer to add a fourth year to her term to achieve the 5 new members each year; the motion was seconded by Karen Reiter; approved by committee consensus.

NEW CSAC BUSINESS
The Faculty Senate voted to disband anything to do with CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement). Provost Lane Earns has asked for a recommendation from the CSAC on this issue. Jill Reichenberger made a motion that the CSAC recommend that CQI be disbanded; Paulette Feld seconded the motion; approved by committee consensus.

“ROUND ROBIN” (other University business of interest to CSAC)
Jean made a statement concerning his need to have anyone on the committee to contact him if they have questions concerning CSAC business. Also, that committee members would disseminate his contact information to anyone on campus who has questions or concerns with CSAC.

NEXT CSAC MEETING: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. in Dempsey 212.