Employee Assembly
September 2, 1998
Uris Hall - Room 153
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

In Attendance: CJ Lance-Duboscq, Larry Russell, Cris Gardner, Meg Overstrom, Gary Brandt, Joe DeMarco, Tom Hoebbel, Dennis Stein, Trudie Calvert, Michael Esposito, Linda Clougherty, David Di Bene, Charla Hayes.

We also had a visitor, Cheryl Frank from Media Services.

I. Call to Order and Introductions

II. Open Forum - Items Discussed:

• Cornell Daily Sun subscriptions - Cris passed around a sign up sheet and asked that anyone who already has access to the Sun to please not request another one.
• Employee Day Committee needs more people.
• Communications committee will meet Wednesday, September 9th at 12:15 p.m.
• Day Hall Display board - Meg has scheduled the Day hall display for February 1999 with Joel Seligmann, but it was noted by Dennis Stein that it may be under construction and not available at that time.
• Meg mentioned that it would be most advantageous to receive the EA Agenda and minutes in advance of the meetings.

III. Approval of Minutes

The minutes of May 27, 1998 were approved.

IV. Announcements and Reports

A. Report from the Chair

• CJ will be away from the 7th - 28th of September
• We would like a photographer at most events for EA press

B. Assemblies’ Annual Retreat - Wednesday, September 2

C. Day of Caring - September 16

EA Volunteers and Cancellation of EA meeting

• Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 15; too much to do to cancel. Will be chaired by Tom since CJ will be out of town.

D. Expo ‘98 - September 23 - Toni McBride’s group is decorating the tables, we need photos, handouts (brochures, pencils, candy?), etc. for the EA table. Tom is working on this effort and asked EA members to sign up for one hour shifts to staff the table.

E. Staff Celebration Week - September 28 - M. Overstrom, J. DeMarco, M. Esposito and C. Gardner volunteered to work on the celebration.

F. Employee Day - October 3

G. Opperman/Rogers Luncheon Meetings Fall 1998

• 9/21, 10/19, 12/21 - question sheet sent around
• 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Day Hall Board Room

H. Assemblies Leadership Meetings Fall 1998

9/22, 10/21, 11/23 - these meetings are attended by Chairs and Vice Chairs of each assembly, a forum with the President, Vice Presidents, etc. (President Rawlings, Fred Rogers, Mary Opperman, Susan Murphy, Hank Dullea, etc.). 4:00–5:00 PM - Day Hall Board Room

V. Business of the Day

a. -Career Services for Employees:

Schedule JoAnn Shepherd to attend a meeting in October or November.

b. P2K:

Lack of focus on training at meetings. Employees need to know how P2K might affect their areas of work. They seem to be looking at the “grand picture”, but not thinking about the impact of employees in their jobs. What skills are we going to need? Need to start linking roles with positions. CJ is going to send out info she has on this. G. Brandt mentioned that HR has gone through this training and that the training and facilities were excellent.

c.EA Mission Statement -

Tabled for future meeting.

d. EA Vacancies

Endowed At-Large ‘00 Endowed OPI ‘00 Invite DSA winners, anyone generally interested. Put a statement in PawPrint. IOC will coordinate with Dennis.

e. Committee Appointment

• Notification of Committee meeting planners of new members
• IOC - EA Vacancies & Committee members updating - IOC needs more manpower
• University Benefits Committee
• Education Committee - has no chair
• Committee on Committees - to be discussed in October
• Communications Committee needs more members - Larry Russell volunteered to join this group.

f. PawPrint Insert -

4 pages; needs volunteers (Tom is coordinating; CJ, Linda, Cris and Joe volunteered to help with this). Tom noted that we will need a LOT of material to fill up 4 pages!

g. Discussed the “roving” EA meetings and decided that we would do this once a month; the second meeting of the month.

Tom volunteered to take care of October, David - November. It was decided that folks could check out space in their individual departments and colleges, rather than the Assemblies office arranging them.

h.EA Photo Shoot (1:00 PM) - Univ. Photographer took some candid photos during the meeting and also a group photo outside following the meeting.