Staff Senate Minutes
July 11, 2007
The staff senate met on July 11, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. in Reynolds 210. Senators in attendance were Gaye Calhoun, Wayne Garner, Brenda Garrett, Dr. Roger Guevara, Charles Honza, Mary Hubbard, Melody Mayo, Essie Moore, Kellye Ogle, Becki Talley, Houston Taylor, Shelley Whaley, Wilma Williams and Donald Wray. Visitors included Felicia Boone-Bozeman and Tanya Knight.
Approval of Minutes
The meeting was called to order by President Kellye Ogle. A motion to accept the minutes of May 16 was made by Mary Hubbard and seconded by Houston Taylor. The motion passed.
Old Business
There was a discussion about the policy change for employees taking classes during work hours. Darrell Morrison could not be at the meeting because of the legislature meeting, but Kellye Ogle read a proposed policy change regarding classes. The proposed change only concerns an employee that is hired into a position where a degree is required for the position and the employee does not have one or has not completed a degree. The supervisor can approve that employee to take up to two courses during the work day and adjust their work schedule accordingly. Several questions were asked and it was decided to table this until Darrell Morrison could attend the meeting and address the issues.
Committee Reports
Constitution Committee
Houston Taylor reported that the Constitution Committee had discussed changes to the current constitution. One amendment was proposed and will be voted on at the August 8 Back-to-School meeting. This amendment will add a Section 3 under Article I that states:
“to be nominated for the staff senate, a staff member must be a University employee for twelve (12) consecutive months.”
Other changes will be discussed at a later meeting.
Election Committee
Wayne Garner gave a report about electronic voting. He had previously run a sample test using the electronic voting and reported the results were good. There was a suggestion that Shelley Keith could help create an easier electronic voting process. Wayne said he would discuss it with her.
New Business
There was no new business.
Other
The CLIP bonus was discussed and Kellye reported that she had asked the administration about the policy but had not had a response yet. It was decided to table until the administration had time to respond.
Brian Berry from Student Life sent a request for information about a faculty/staff appeals process for parking tickets to Roger Giles which had been forwarded to Kellye Ogle. There is no appeals process in place at this time other than the SGA appeals process which does not have any jurisdiction over the faculty or staff. It was decided to ask Tim Wise, president of the faculty senate about establishing a committee made up of faculty and staff to hear these appeals.
Adjournment
The motion to adjourn was made by Essie Moore and seconded by Donald Wray. The next meeting will be the Back-To-School meeting on August 8, 2007 in Foundation Hall.
