Attending:  Pam Houston, Dan Consolver, Kathy Stiers, Jill Hummels, Jason O'Connor, Jeannette Johnson, Danny Kaiser, Angie Johnson, Mark Nesbitt-Daly, and Donna Hultine

Minutes:  Minutes from the December 11, 2003 Executive Board meeting were approved.

Treasurer's Report:

We currently have a balance of $1,672.00

President's Report

SenEx Meeting – SenEx continues to spend time on the basketball season ticket plan for faculty/staff.  Houston explained that an additional 200 seats would be provided, each person could only buy two sets of tickets.  New ticket lottery winners will be able to buy 4 game packages and faculty and staff will be re-seated in the corners of the arena.

Provost Meeting – Consolver met with the Provost who talked about the "budget call" document which Houston will forward to us.  It asks for major accomplishments of the past 6 years and major goals for the next three years. 

There was a lot of discussion about merit increases.  There is a great desire to give some sort of cost of living increase. It is hard to stretch such a small amount of money over so many staff that it feels almost not worth the effort.  There was a sentiment that re-appointment is merit and should be able to get an across the board increase.

Houston wants to talk to Faucher more about salary benchmarking.  She also wants to work more on issues to bring up with the legislators.

Committee Reports

Governance and Representation –

No date has been set for the visit with legislators.  Since Janet Murguia is leaving, we will work with Jon Josserand.  Last year we were able to use Marlin Rein's help but this is not an option.  It was suggested that Linda Luckey might be able to help.  J. Johnson recommended waiting a week until the Provost was back in town.  It was mentioned that the Classified Senate has been arranging their lobbying efforts on their own.  Houston said she would e-mail the Provost for his advice on how we should proceed.  Houston mentioned that Nesbitt-Daly made all of the appointments himself last year.  Linda Luckey does this for the Classified Senate and the students and we wondered if she might do this for UPSA as well.

We need to work to establish what our message is.  We also need to know what people's experiences were from last year.  Consolver suggested that if we don't have a date within the next three weeks, we should just go ourselves.

We agreed to meet again in two weeks, January 20^th at 11:30 a.m.  Houston will send out talking points from last year.  Nesbitt-Daly will collate shared comments.

Becoming a More Representative UPSA - We discussed where officers should be appointed from among the existing board or whether they should be elected for positions on the board.  J. Johnson felt election was better, it seems more open.  Consolver felt that appointing would be better because it gives members a chance to be a "fly on the wall" observer first before jumping in.  We also discussed that the committee chairs are volunteer and wondered if they should be elected.  Members of the committees however don't have to be board members.  If committee chairs come from the board we need to also look at how UPSA reps. get appointed to committees. Some of these committee appointments are tricky.  We also need to have a way to get information back from committee representatives who are not on the executive board.

Adjourned @ 1:35 pm