DRAFT
Employee Assembly
Minutes
Board Room, Day Hall
February 4, 2004
12:15p.m. — 1:30p.m.

Attendance

Present: Donna Goss, Joseph DeMarco, Pamela Dusseau, Tammy Johnson, Patricia Mahoney, Stephanie McConnell, Dawne Martyniak, Mary Smallwood Churchill

Excused: Tim Anderson, Deb Billups, Brandi Smith

Unexcused:

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

I) CALL TO ORDER

D. Goss called the meeting to order at 12:15p.m. She welcomed Janice Miles who is on the Communications Committee and is interested in being on the EA. IOC will be interviewing her after the EA meeting.

II) CALL FOR LATE ADDITIONS TO AGENDA

There were no late additions to add to the agenda.

III) APPROVAL OF MINUTES

January 7, 2004
There were some corrections.

S. McConnell made a motion to approve minutes with corrections.

J. DeMarco seconded.

Minutes were approved.

IV) REPORT FROM THE CHAIR

D. Goss asked that people look at things into perspective. The EA has had a very busy few months. The EA met in September, had an organizational meeting in October to establish where the EA wanted to go, the Inauguration, Call the Engagement, forums, Pizza with the President. Committees are progressing, Emergency Grant Fund is doing great, IOC has elections coming up, Educations Committee is doing a survey, and the AdHoc committee to look at outreach.

V) UNFINISHED BUSINESS

J. DeMArco asked about the questions and answers from the Pizza with the President.

T. Bishop said that they should be ready by the end of February.

P. Dusseau said that she has talked to people in her area and it seems that people were disappointed with the event and felt as if they didn’t have time with the President. The President’s address is typically a Fall event and she suggested that maybe they have another event before Fall.

D. Goss asked for people’s opinions. There was no conclusion.

J. DeMarco said that the President should send out the questions to all staff through email and the other members agreed.

M. Smallwood Churchill wanted to know the status of the referendum regarding the field of representatives on the ballot.

D. Goss said that at the EA meeting on January 28, the EA decided not to put it on the ballot this year.

VI) COMMITTEE REPORTS

UBC: J. DeMarco said that the UBC will be meeting to discuss changes to Health Insurance.

Education Committee: S. McConnell said that the committee met and are working on a survey to send to all staff. The next step is to go to Mary Opperman with the questions. The goal is to have the survey go out the end of February. The survey goal is to determine if the university is meeting people’s education needs.

Transportation Advisory Committee: M. Smallwood Churchill said that there is a new chair of the committee: Tim Lau. The committee is asking for input regarding transportation. She will collect comments, questions, or complaints.

Finance Committee: P. Mahoney will have a budget statement at the next EA meeting.

VII) BUSINESS OF THE DAY

A. Vice Chair Position
D. Goss said that the EA agreed in December that the EA would postpone talking about the Vice Chair position. She wanted to know if the EA wanted to fill the seat for the remainder of the term, or leave it vacant. The term goes until June 1.

Everyone agreed to fill the position.

T. Johnson said to send her nominations and the EA will vote at the next meeting.

B. EA Representative to the UA
D. Goss said that there is still a vacancy. The meetings are the 4th Wednesdays of the month.

S. McConnell said that she would try it, but may have conflicts.

M. Smallwood Churchill nominated Stephanie McConnell to be the EA representative to the UA.

T. Johnson said that IOC will meet and discuss.

C. Sports Saturday Final Plans
J. DeMarco said that 661 tickets have been sold.  Duties have been assigned and things are ready to go.

D. Campus Safety Partnership
D. Goss said that the University Assembly chair is asking assembly members to send anything that they see on campus that is not safe to him by February 9.

E. Outreach AdHoc Committee
D. Goss asked the committee to get back together and discuss the possibility of having field representatives. The members are M. Smallwood Churchill, B. Smith and P. Dusseau. Another member is needed. J. Miles expressed an interest.

VIII) OPEN FORUM

IX) ADJOURNMENT

D. Goss adjourned the meeting at 1:30.