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Minutes from
UPSA Executive Board Meeting
Thursday, June 10, 2004

 

Attending:  Jason O'Connor, Angie Johnson, Kathy Stiers, Dan Consolver, Danny Kaiser, Donna Hultine, Jeannette Johnson, Ola Faucher, Mark Nesbitt-Daly

Minutes:  Minutes from the May meeting were reviewed and approved.

Committee Assignments and Elections:

J. Johnson advised that we do not need any new members on the Recognition Committee.  Linda Bonebrake will take the open slot.  She was a classified member of the committee and is now unclassified.  Next year we'll need to fill three open slots and we need to have more representation from academic units. 

The United Way committee is usually staffed by the UPSA chair.

Planning & Resources Committee representative will continue to be Kathryn Tuttle.  Organization & Administration Committee representative is J. Johnson.

J. Johnson also wants to continue on the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee.  She explained that this committee was formed when the University Theater merged with Fine Arts.  There was much concern and frustration surrounding this decision and this committee was charged to review whether a reorganization was to happen.

We are looking to fill 4 spots with this upcoming election – one representative, president elect, secretary and treasurer.  Election notices will go out possibly by the end of this week.  We will allow 10 days to 2 weeks for voting.

J. Johnson thought that each of us should try to recruit people to serve on our UPSA committees.  Then they'd have some knowledge about our group and be in a more comfortable position to run for the board.

Consolver is interested in producing more brochures promoting unclassified service.  He feels this will generate more interest to get involved.

J. Johnson will send web edits for Consolver to get posted, updating committee information.

Consolver advised that the Governance and Representation committee has a lot of work to do with the legislative visit and possible restructuring of our organization.  J. Johnson says we need a knowledgeable, large group.

President's Report

SenEx meetings are set for the 10th, 17th and 24th of June.  They will be working on setting charges for committees.

After June 24th, SenEx  meeting and after our July 8th UPSA meeting, Consolver will e-mail the charges for 2005 to us.

Committee Reports

Governance & Representation – Nesbitt-Daly will still serve on this committee but does not wish to chair any longer.

Professional Development – John Augusto, the former chair has left the University.  No report.

Public Relations – No report.

Classified Senate

Maxine Younes will replace Kathy Stiers on UPSA.  Stiers advised that they'd like to start a 2-way dialog with UPSA.  They'd like to have an UPSA rep sit in on their meetings as well.  They meet the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 10:30 to noon at the Union.

Human Resources

Faucher reported that the new classified evaluation process in the PeopleAdmin software is ready.  Also, we should have pay advices available on the web in a month.

Meeting adjourned @ 1:15 pm.