June 8, 2005

CSAC Members Present: Red Darland, Mary Hale, Dan Hoyt, Michelle Jensen, Sabrina Johnson, Evelyn Meuret, Terry Olson, Jill Reichenberger, Karen Reiter, Cindy Schultz, Patty Stenz, and Marlene Zdanovec

CSAC Members Absent: Kyn Anthony, Jan Keene, and Jerry Murphy
Administrative Liaison: Tim Danielson - absent
SAS Liaison: AnnMarie Johnson
Guest(s): Jean Bord

Meeting was opened by Chair, Jill Reichenberger.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Cindy moved to accept the May 11 minutes as written; Marlene seconded the motion. Minutes were approve by consensus.

TREASURER’S REPORT
There is a current balance of $259.63 which should be enough to cover the outstanding expenses for the 2004-2005 academic year.

CHAIR’S REPORT
Jill reported that the executive committee’s meeting with Chancellor Wells included a long discussion on how to achieve more visibility for the CSAC. The Chancellor and the exec committee will be working on ideas for a possible article in the Northwestern that would highlight some of the good things happening on campus instead of the budget cuts. The committee decided that the exec committee should meet with the Chancellor soon to discuss possibly dropping the picnic supper on CSDAD so that the day doesn’t get to be such a long one.

Jill asked the committee to consider whether it would like to create a timeline for the upcoming year to help keep the committee on track with it’s goals. She also suggested that we might increase visibility by helping at Fall Fest this year.

COMMITTEE REPORTS
• ACUG Representative – Michelle Jensen
No meeting until September.

• Liaison- Senate of Academic Staff – AnnMarie Johnson
No meeting until September,

• Awards & Recognition – Marlene Zdanovec
July STAR award winners will be drawn on Tuesday, June 14. The committee will be reviewing folders for OPA soon.

• Committee on Committees - Karen Reiter
Nothing to report.

• Classified Staff Grant Committee – Sabrina Johnson
Nothing to report.

• CSDAD Planning – Jean Bord
Jean reported for Lynda Olsen that the day was a success, though number in attendance was down. There were 28 people that didn’t show up for the day, according to how many folders were never picked up, but most committee members acknowledged that some people picked up their folders and went home as a free day with pay. Some possible suggestions for keeping people at the day were to have people prepay for seminars that charge a fee and/or take attendance at seminars to see who is missing.

Jean heard from ROTC that they felt excluded. Since they are federal, NOT state employees, the council felt that there was no reason to include them in the day’s activities.

There was general discussion on the games. Few people participated this year so changing the format in some way was suggested. The possibility of another scavenger hunt (done in an earlier year) was suggested.

• Grant Fund Raising Committee – Jill Reichenberger
There were no final sales numbers available at this time for the CSDAD raffle tickets.

• Marketing – Cindy Schultz
There is a meeting tomorrow (6/9.)

OLD CSAC BUSINESS
• Raffle Ticket Sales
No numbers yet.

• Names of Raffle Winners
Some of the raffle winners included: John Swanson - $500; Red Darland - $250; Mary Hale - $100; Terry Dibble - $50; and Sandy Muinde - $25 Menards gift card.

NEW CSAC BUSINESS
• CSAC Goals for 2005/2006: CSAC Visibility (Roseanne Hoefel and/or Community Service Projects)
In an effort to make the CSAC more visible on campus and in the community, it was suggested that the council either take part in or volunteer for the Roseanne Hoefel run/walk next spring. Red Darland also distributed copies of a listing of community service projects that the council may want to become involved in. She will invite Annie, the person who provided the listing, to our next council meeting to help the committee possibly make a choice for involvement. Council members were asked to review the handout and come to next month’s meeting with the top three choices from the listing. Any additional ideas not on the listing will also be considered at next month’s meeting – just make sure to obtain as much information about your idea as possible, i.e. time commitment, number of volunteers needed, etc.

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