DRAFT
Employee Assembly
Minutes
Board Room, Day Hall
January 7, 2004
12:15p.m. — 1:30p.m.

Attendance

Present: Tim Anderson, Deb Billups, Donna Goss, Joseph DeMarco, Pamela Dusseau, Tim Anderson, Deb Billups, Donna Goss, Joseph DeMarco, Pamela Dusseau, Tammy Johnson, Patricia Mahoney, Stephanie McConnell, Dawne Martyniak, Mary Smallwood Churchill, Brandi Smith

Excused:

Unexcused: Patricia Haugen

Others present: T. Bishop, M. Esposito, D. Stein, H. Mandeville

I) CALL TO ORDER

D. Goss called the meeting to order at 12:15p.m.

II) CALL FOR LATE ADDITIONS TO AGENDA

There were no late additions to add to the agenda.

III) APPROVAL OF MINUTES

M. Smallwood Churchill said that under the committee reports from the faculty senate, the name of the service on line journals is Elsevier.

P. Mahoney made a motion to accept the minutes with the corrections.

B. Smith seconded the motion.

The EA unanimously approved the December 17, 2004 minutes.

IV) UNFINISHED BUSINESS

M. Smallwood Churchill said that there was a discussion at the last meeting to have an account balance sheet at each meeting this way they would know the balances for the upcoming events.

P. Mahoney replied that she has been working on the budget. She is preparing spreadsheets to pass out, so hopefully she would have the spreadsheets ready by the 2nd meeting of each month.

M. Smallwood Churchill stated that at the last faculty senate meeting, they voted unanimously to approve the resolution on the Elsevier for the libraries not renewing their bundling contract with Elsevier.

REPORT FROM THE CHAIR
D. Goss informed the EA that Pat Haugen has accepted another position as Director of Development at the University of Oregon.

D. Goss stated that after the EA gets through the January events, then Donna Goss will assign people the different events that Pat Haugen was going to cover. Then after that, the EA will meet to decide how to fill Pat’s position on the EA and the committees that she is on.

V) COMMITTEE REPORTS

There were no updates.

VI) BUSINESS OF THE DAY

A. January 15 Presentation for Pizza with the President
D. Goss reminded the EA that they had talked about doing a presentation to President Lehman asking him for his comments in regards to a day and a life of staff at Cornell.

D. Stein and D. Billups were working on the presentation. Deb gave a brief description of the presentation that they have worked on.

H. Mandeville said that a letter is being sent out to all Deans, Director’s and Department Heads inviting all employee’s to attend this event. An article is also being printed in PawPrint.

H. Mandeville told the EA that she has already talked to Cornell Catering about having them cater the event. The cost is $3.50 per person. The total cost will be $3,325.00 for the event.

P. Dusseau made a motion to have Cornell Catering cater the event.

T. Anderson seconded it.

The EA voted unanimously to have Cornell Catering cater the event.

B. January 15 Webcast
There was a discussion about the live webcast.

M. Smallwood Churchill made a motion to have J. DeMarco to get an estimate and get back to the EA with them.

M. Smallwood Churchill made a motion to have J. DeMarco go ahead and set up the live video broadcast.

C. Forums
Chet W. will be leading the open forums. There will be 8 stations set up around the room, with questions, and the staff is encourage to go around to the different stations and mark any comments that they have may have pertaining to that question.

VII) OPEN FORUM

VIII) ADJOURNMENT

D. Goss adjourned the meeting at 1:30.