1. Call to order of meeting

2. Attendance

3. Approval of the Minutes (June 21, 2001)

4. Old Business

5. New Business

6. Announcements

7. Adjournment

Please call Clois X2305 if you have an item of discussion to be added to the agenda.

ALL REPRESENTATIVES ARE URGED TO ATTEND.
YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

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STAFF ADVISORY COUNCIL MINUTES
June 21, 2001
Arts and Sciences Conference Room
10:00 am

Clois Reese called the meeting to order at 10:07am

Attending Members:

1. Clois Reese
2. Erma Shooks
3. Trish Wells
4. Alexandra Young
5. Jill Wright
6. Delores Moore
7. Debbie McKenzie
8. Suzanne Horton
9. Celeste Turner

The minutes from the last meeting were approved as printed with the 2 corrections noted below:

A. Noted under New Business item # H should read: Clois will ask Dr. Sethna to send a letter to all the dean's etc. requesting that they allow a staff member from each division/area to attend the Staff Council Meetings.

B. Noted under New Business: Item # L should read: Clois showed the Staff Advisory Council an idea for the conference attendees which is a calculator she received from West Central Technical College as a gift.

OLD BUSINESS

A. The Staff Council discussed devising an election committee to assist in nominating officers for the New Year, to take office in July. The committee will consist of Jill Wright, Debbie McKenzie and Alex Young.

B. Clois asked the members of Staff Council if any of the current officers would like to volunteer for another term. Alex Young will return as Treasure/Technical Advisor and Jill Wright will serve as Secretary. Debbie McKenzie will serve as Assistant Secretary. Jill will send out an e-mail requesting nominations and/or volunteers to serve on the Staff Council.

C . The Staff Council discussed nominating the following members for Staff Council officers for the new year: Erma Shooks and/or Tim North as president, Wanda Nelson and/or Tim North as Vice President. Clois will ask Wanda if she would be interested in being nominated as Vice President. Suzanne Horton will ask Tim North.

D. The Staff Council discussed the Staff Advisory Council Conference that is to be held here at the State University of West Georgia in October 2002. Jill informed the Staff Council that the "Run for A-Day" is usually held the first Thursday in the month of October, which will be the Staff Council Conference check-in day. The Staff Council discussed incorporating the "Run for A-Day" into the conference. Gifts for the attendees for the conference were discussed: Water bottle, cardholder and cups. It was discussed to ask Dr. Todd if he could draw a logo for items being given away at the conference. Erma Shooks and Alex Young will meet with Dr. Todd to discuss this idea. Erma will set up a meeting with Rich Brown of the Continuing Education Department to plan the conference.
Erma will try to schedule this meeting the week of July 16th or after.

E. The Staff Council discussed giving out stadium cups to staff for Staff Appreciation Day 2002. The Staff Council will again ask Dr. Todd if he can draw a picture to put on the cup.

F. In item #J in last month's meeting the Staff Council discussed sponsoring a year-end bash and invite staff to attend. It was decided to table this idea for later in the year, since we just celebrate Staff Day etc.

G. Clois gave Jill another $1.00 that someone had sent her to contribute to the Rape Crisis Center. This now brings our total to $1340.00.

NEW BUSINESS

A. Clois gave the Staff Council members a draft copy of the USGSC minutes from the June 15th state meeting.

B. Debbie updated the Staff Council on the T-shirts sold for Staff Day 2001. The council made about $300.00 for their account. One T-shirt was left. It was decided to give Bonnie Purcell the last T-shirt since she was retiring soon.

C. Clois informed the Staff Council that she would be giving Charlotte Kraft copies of the updated bookmark to include in the new hirers Human Resources packets.

D. Clois thanked Elaine Nugent for all the hard work she did on obtaining door prizes for Staff Day. We have confidence that Elaine will do an excellent job in obtaining door prizes for our Staff Council Conference. Erma suggested we all e-mail Elaine thanking her for the wonderful job she did in collecting the door prizes.

E. The next Staff Advisory Council Meeting will be held July 19th, 2001 in Intramurals.

ADJOURNMENT

The Staff Advisory Council meeting was adjourned at 10:55am.

Respectfully Submitted,

Jill Wright