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Minutes from
UPSA Executive Board Meeting
Thursday, October 14, 2004

Attending:  Ray Hummert, Jeannette Johnson, Ola Faucher, Doug Powell, Jason O'Connor, Dan Consolver, Maxine Younes, Danny Kaiser, Karen Ledom, Jill Hummels, Kevin Halgren, Pam Houston, Mark Nesbitt-Daly, Donna Hultine

  1. Minutes from September 9, 2004 meeting approved as submitted
  2. Treasurer's report -  No Change.  There was discussion about trying to run an advertisement in the Kansan to thank Facilities and Operations staff for the beauty of the campus but we cannot do this with state money.  We will run a quarter page ad for the Professional Development series announcement.
  1. President's report -- Dan Consolver
    • Mark has been attending SenEx meetings for Dan because of conflicts.   
    • Upcoming professional development meeting -- John McElroy on Identity Theft.
    • Dan visited with legislators at pregame homecoming meeting -- they wanted to know what they could do for us.
    • Terry Rombeck of the Lawrence Journal World wants a Kaitlyn brochure even though it's a bit out of date.  We need to jump on this interest and we need to all help with updating the brochure.
    • The Provost gave a great presentation at the last general session.  Hummels made notes and will try to post these on the UPSA web site
  1. Classified Senate Report -- Maxine Younes
    • David Johnston did a presentation of the marketing study .
    • KU Classified employees attended a joint meeting with other state schools about the alternative service plan.  This is on the Regents agenda for November
    • There has been some discussion about reorganizing governance structure.  Classified Senate doesn't want to lose any existing representation in attempts to simplify the structure.

5.  Human Resources Report -- Ola Faucher

    • Pam Burkhead ran spreadsheets with the demographic information we requested.  Faucher wants to know who should go over it.  Consolver stated that the data will help answer "who are we representing and what are their issues?"  There is so much information available. Ola will work with the Governance & Representation committee to go over it.
    • Faucher advised that in a meeting with the Provost, they discussed recognition of contributions of UPSA employees on a state and national level.  She's working with University Relations to brainstorm ways to do this.  The Credits section in the Oread is a natural for a feature article every now and then.  It would be nice to have a new staff section but there are many. How do we solicit and sustain this information?  We discussed that faculty are used to reporting their accomplishments but staff are not. It's not part of staff culture. Johnson suggested that perhaps once a year we could send out an e-mail with a form to self report the year's accomplishments.

6.  Committee Reports

a.     Governance & Representation -- Kevin Halgren
We need a transition plan for restructuring UPSA governance.  The committee is recommending a web based method of elections.  In this transition plan, we don't want to just drop representatives we already have, i.e. we will already have a president elect who will take over in May 2005.  Johnson asked about a possible mechanism to remove someone.  They will address this in their next meeting.
Consolver wants the group to be called "the unclassified senate" and take out the "professional staff" reference.  Hummert suggested that we provide drafts of the plan at one of the professional development meetings.  Hummels will make up a quick survey to hand out at the professional development meeting -- "Tell us who you are and what's important to you in the upcoming legislative session."
Next meeting we will look at our proposed structure change and the university's proposed governance structure change.

Meeting adjourned @ 1:40 pm