March 8, 2005

CSAC Members Present: Jean Bord, Red Darland, Paulette Feld, Mary Hale, Dan Hoyt, Sabrina Johnson, Jan Keene, Jerry Murphy, Terry Olson, Karen Reiter, Cindy Schultz, Gloria Splittgerber, Patti Wild, and Marlene Zdanovec

CSAC Members Absent: Jill Reichenberger
Administrative Liaison: Tim Danielson
SAS Liaison: Bryan Bain (absent)
Guest(s): Chancellor Wells, Tom Sonnleitner, and Lynda Olsen, CSDAD Chair

Meeting was opened by Chair, Jean Bord.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Cindy Schultz made a motion, seconded by Paulette Feld to accept the minutes of the February 9 CSAC
meeting. Approval by consensus.

TREASURER’S REPORT
There has been no change since last month’s meeting.

CHAIR’S REPORT
Jan reported on the U-Plan meeting: the new biennial budget was discussed in the same presentation as
last month’s CSAC meeting.

Jean reported that he had received a letter from Provost Earns detailing the grade recognition and course
repeat policy changes that will take effect in the Fall 2006 semester.

Jean asked that any CSAC committee chairs contact him with information about committee
accomplishments so he can start putting together the end-of-year report.

There are two Search and Screen Committees that need Classified Staff members appointed one is the AVC for Community Engagement, and the other is AVC of Enrollment and Information Services. Jean gave this information to Karen Reiter for follow up.

CHANCELLOR WELLS AND TOM SONNLEITNER
Chancellor Wells and Tom Sonnleitner gave the council an update on the state budget. The news was
not all good or all bad and they did a very good job of explaining what the budget proposal means to
our campus. They will be going to Madison tomorrow and will be working in the coming weeks to
obtain clarification on some issues. They hope to have more concrete answers to questions concerning layoffs and job losses by the middle of April. Chancellor Wells asked the council to keep him informed concerning questions and rumors across campus so that the correct information can be disseminated.

COMMITTEE REPORTS
--ACUG Representative - Patti Wild
Patti reported three items from the last ACUG meeting: 1) John Berens informed the group that the Lawson project was being delayed in order to examine the risks and explore other options.
2) The idea of procurement contracts was discussed as a budget savings measure. 3) A schedule was set up for computer equipment across campus to be either turned off or put into a power saving or sleep mode overnight in order to save money.

--Awards & Recognition - Gloria Splittgerber
This committee will be meeting via e-mail this month because of the CSAC meeting time change. They will be voting on the April STAR award recipient.

--Committee on Committees - Karen Reiter
Annual committee interest survey will go out next week.

--Classified Staff Grant Committee - Paulette Feld
The new web page should be going up sometime next week so the committee is waiting for that to start the new round of grants. Also as Paulette’s term is almost up, she informed the council that a new CSAC member will need to take over as chair of this committee. Paulette plans to remain on the committee as a member and will help the future chair in any way she can.

--CSDAD Planning - Lynda Olsen
The planning process is going well. Workshop registration forms need to be turned in soon. Employees must register for a workshop in order to get a t-shirt.

--Grant Fund Raising Committee - Jill Reichenberger
Marlene reported that cookbooks go on sale in the Reeve Union Mall area tomorrow (March 9) from 11:00 1:00, two for the price of one ($5 each). There have been brisk sales in the Bookstore since the sale price was instituted.

--Marketing - Cindy Schultz
The committee has been working on a pamphlet to highlight CSAC and what we do.

Cindy has checked with other vendors but none beat the original price of $144 for a CSAC banner. The company we’re working with can prepare the ends of the banner so it could be free standing with the use of pvc pipe. Karen Reiter informed the committee that there are currently no funds to purchase the banner in this fiscal year. Jan Keene offered the possible solution of using money earmarked for CSDAD to purchase the banner since it will be used that day and since our keynote speaker is a state employee, we don’t have a speaker expense. We don’t have a dollar amount commitment from the UW Oshkosh Credit Union, but once we have that commitment, the banner could be purchased using those funds. Patti Wild made a motion to accept that proposal once the donation has been confirmed; Dan Hoyt seconded the motion which was accepted by committee consensus.

“ROUND ROBIN” (other University business of interest to CSAC)
Budget overruns for the current fiscal year were discussed. There were several large expenses this year
that drained our budget because they all happened at the same time (newsletter template, printing costs, frames, etc.) It was suggested that a possible cost savings would be to print a minimum number (50) of the committee interest forms to distribute to Facilities Management and then send an e-mail with a link to our website where the form can be accessed for the rest of campus.

NEXT CSAC MEETING: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. in Dempsey 212.