1. Call to order of meeting

2. Attendance

3. Approval of the Minutes

4. Old Business

5. New Business

6. Announcements

7. Adjournment

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STAFF ADVISORY COUNCIL MINUTES
Hubbard Dining Room
December 4, 2001
12:30pm

Erma Shooks called the meeting to order at 12:30pm.

Attending Members:

1. Erma Shooks
2. Alexandra Young
3. Cherie Holt
4. Sam Lenaeus
5. Walter Todd
6. Celeste Turner
7. Trish Wells
8. Robin Witcher
9. Tim North
10. Debbie McKenzie
11. Delores Moore
12. Tina Johnson
13. Clay Alsip

The minutes of the previous meeting were not available so that business item was skipped.

NEW BUSINESS

1) Rudolph to the Rescue had raised over $400 cash and a truckload of toys at meeting time. The Athletics Boosters, the Art Department, and Sigma Nu fraternity are all participating in toy/donation drives that will be added to the collection from our event.

2) It was agreed by unanimous vote to send Thank You notes to Aramark, the Townsend Center, the Honors House, and the Music Department for their assistance with Rudolph the Rescue. Erma suggested that Robert Jennings might have the names of each student who had provided music for the event.

3) We discussed the November 30th Faculty Senate meeting. Those in attendance were: Erma Shooks, Clois Reese, Sam Lenaeus, Tim North, Clay Alsip, Robin Witcher, Delores Moore and Dr. Andrew Luna. We attended the meeting to voice staff's concerns about the proposal addressing domestic partner insurance benefits. The Senate voted to send the proposal back to committee for further consideration. The proposal will most likely come up for vote again in the January meeting.

SAC discussed questions such as "What is the jurisdiction of the faculty senate?" And, Do they have the authority to make policy decisions that affect benefits for the entire university? Clay Alsip proposed that the council send a letter to the faculty senate member, stating our position clearly.

Conference Planning - Erma Shooks suggested that the SAC begin visiting and patronizing, as a group, restaurants in this area that we think the 2002 conference attendees will go to. Giving us a chance to sample the different food and to tell the restaurant managers about our 2002 conference.

We discussed the need for SAC members to have name badges. Delores reported the McEvers has the gold name badges that many departments purchased for their staff for $7.00.

Robin Witcher reported that she had completed the revision of the conference theme to include the Board of Regents seal. We will discuss in more detail he conference planning at January meeting.

4) Questions regarding the status of the Leave Pool and Retirement at 25 years were raised. The Board of Regents is discussing both issues, but no updates are available at this time.

5) Alternative Dispute Resolution - The committee voted unanimously to accept the ADR proposal that was sent out via email for our approval.

6) Next meeting will be a lunch meeting at Z-6 at 11:30 am, January 17, 2002. Erma will contact the Kennesaw SAC and invite them to debrief us on their conference planning process.

ADJOURNMENT

Trish Wells made motion to adjourn and Delores Moore 2nd the motion. Meeting adjourned at 1:06pm.

Respectfully Submitted,

Robin Witcher