Staff Senate Minutes
June 11, 2003
The Staff Senate met on June 11, 2003. Those members in attendance were Gaye Calhoun, Vera Camp, Kathy Cole, Charles Honza, Keli Honza, Jason Goodrich, Sarah Jennings, Essie Moore, Kellye Ogle, Beth Scroggins, Houston Taylor, Sarajane Telford, Mark Trout, and David Wingfield. Guests included Art Horne and Shelly Whaley. Roger Giles also joined us.
President Keli Honza called the meeting to order. David Wingfield made a motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting. Vera Camp seconded the motion.
After meeting with Roger Giles on the parking issue, Jason Goodrich then gave his report. Approval was given for individuals, other than security, to issue tickets to vehicles parked in reserved areas. An individual in several of the buildings has been given this task. Linda Mullins, in Magale, David Wingfield, in Wilson, and J.P. Wilson in the Brinson Art Building. Gaye Calhoun mentioned that students are acting “uninformed” regarding reserved parking. She wondered if students were being told “in depth” the regulations regarding parking. Sarah Jennings and Shelly Whaley both remarked that it is written in the Student Handbook. Sarah said that she would make sure that the parking regulations were reiterated at Freshman Orientation and that she would also speak with Connie Wilson. Roger Giles said that to fully “fix” the parking situation and please the faculty and staff – it would take a separate entity with significant, additional resources. President Honza raised the question, “Do we want a voting member on the Faculty Senate Parking Committee or a representative?” A “voting member” was recommended. Jason Goodrich recommended that we form our own committee and join the Faculty Senate’s Parking Committee. Gaye Calhoun made a motion to form our own “parking sub-committee,” to which Kathy Cole seconded.
Raises were then discussed briefly. Roger said that raises are locked in unless the board says otherwise.
Hiring procedures were another issue brought forth by David Wingfield. The question of why many positions are filled with off-campus people when it seems that most of the SAU employees that apply for these jobs are just, if not more, qualified to fill them… are overlooked by SAU administration. Some SAU employees are not even called for an interview. Also, the positions are made available to the public at the same time we are made aware of them. It was suggested that SAU employees might be told of a position one week ahead of the general public. We will continue to look into this issue.
Evaluations:
Roger is currently working on a new design for the evaluation forms. Bonuses are based on evaluation scores. There are 5 criteria one has to meet in order to be considered for a bonus. They are:
1. Excellence on Performance
2. Continuing education
3. Specific goals – project-type goals
4. Demonstrates appropriate conduct (satisfactory or better)
5. Meets criteria (ask Roger about this one!)
The issue of the dissemination of information to everyone on campus, especially the Physical Plant employees, was revisited. Roger and Jasper Lewis, director of the Physical Plant will meet in July and may possibly have a solution to this problem after that meeting. Roger will let us know.
Mark Trout was highly praised for the Staff Breakfast!
Roger then asked us…. how best could the administration serve us? Do we want someone representing him or her to be at all meetings? Every other meeting? Stay for a while, then leave? He said that they want to help make us successful – but they need to know how partnership between staff and administration will work best. We will meet later to discuss this issue.
President Honza then adjourned the meeting.
