Employee Assembly Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
501F Day Hall

I. Call to Order and Introductions

J. DeMarco, Chair, called the meeting to order at 12:18 p.m.

Attendance:

Present: Joseph DeMarco, Donna Goss, Tammy Johnson, Dawne Martyniak, Lisa Rose, Thomas Shelley, Mary Smallwood Churchill, Brandi Smith

Excused: Deb Billups, Patricia Mahoney

Others Present: Michael Esposito, Tammy Bishop, Hope Mandeville

II. Call for Late Additions to the Agenda

J. DeMarco asked for any late additions.

T. Johnson wanted IOC to be added.

III. Approval of Minutes

February 5, 2003

J. DeMarco asked if there were any corrections or additions that anybody would like to make to the minutes.

There were some amendments made.

J. DeMarco entertained a motion to approve the minutes as amended.

L. Rose made a motion to approve the minutes.

T. Shelley seconded it.

IV. Report from the Chair

1. J. DeMarco and D. Stein met about the Orientation packet and sent out the email to EA about it.
2. There was an Executive Breakfast
3. There was a Leadership Meeting and they talked about: Slope Day, Budget Update, Campus Governance, and the number of Trustees.

V. Open Forum

D. Martyniak said that there are email addresses for the government for those who are protesting the war and that she has them if anyone is interested.

VI. Committee Reports

Office of the Assemblies

H. Mandeville said that the letter to all CU staff from Mary Opperman about the election will hopefully go out next week. Elections usually cost about $3000 and she is hoping that the EA can help with some of the cost. She will fill out the form and give it to the Finance Committee.

If no more than 6 people run, the EA should visit whether to do an election.

She suggested that the EA make a plan for the March meetings when guests will be attending.

IOC

T. Johnson said that at the last EA meeting, there was a vote to fill the 1-year vacant seat. The IOC met in the morning because there was some concern about the vote. A paper that T. Shelley had written was handed out that said, “The questions has come up concerning reversing a decision made by the Assembly. This may only be done by introducing a new main motion to reverse the decision. The generic wording would be: ‘It is moves to reverse the decision made by the EA on (date) to�.such that�’ In the case in question, the wording would be, ‘It is moves to reverse the decision made at the EA meeting on Feb. 5, 3003, to fill the open seat, recently vacated by Leti McNeill, at this time. Instead, the seat will be up for election at the upcoming employee election.”

There was a discussion and no motion was made to counter the vote.

VII. Unfinished Business

UBC Proposal

There was a discussion about adding the UBC to the EA charter. T. Shelley reminded everyone that the Faculty Senate has it as a standing committee and it is not included in their charter and it contains the same information.

T. Johnson asked if it could be done in the EA format and added as an addendum to Article 7.

J. DeMarco said that it could and T. Shelley said that it is all the same information.

T. Shelley made a motion to add University Benefits Committee as an official committee to the EA with the wording to be worked on for the EA to vote at a later date.

T. Johnson seconded the motion.

The motion was passed.

Election/Vacancy

This was covered in the staff Report update

VIII. New Business

Membership Status Review

T. Johnson said that she went over the membership with T. Bishop to confirm the seats up for election.

Assemblies Picnic

D. Goss said that it would be a nice idea to have an Assemblies picnic in May to include EA, SA, UA and GPSA and their committee members. She asked if the EA thought that she should go forward and everyone liked the idea.

J. DeMarco said that the last day of classes is on May 2.

Lehman Welcome Reception

D. Goss asked what others thought about having a reception for Lehman in the fall to welcome him and include all assemblies and their committees.

M. Esposito said that he thought it would be better to have it an EA and their committees reception. Would have more impact.

Orientation Packet

J. DeMarco said that he had sent out an email for EA members to help with the packet and he only got 1 response.

Employee Trustee Update

The EA went into a closed session at 1:24.

IX. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 1:34 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Tammy Bishop