The Staff Senate met on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Reynolds 205. Senators in attendance were Cynthia Blake, Ceil Bridges, Kendra Copeland, LaTricia Davis, Brenda Garrett, Sarah Jennings, Josh Kee, Jeremy Langley, Eric Plummer, Shawana Reed, Sandra Smith, Becki Talley, Houston Taylor, Amber Sharp, Lesley Walthall, and Wilma Williams.<\/p>\n
Approval of Minutes<\/strong> Old Business<\/strong> Committee Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n University Committees Constitution Committee Academic Affairs New Business<\/strong><\/p>\n Staff Senate Elections Other<\/strong><\/p>\n Special Concerns It was suggested that the Staff Senate might consider having an account that could be used as a benevolent fund. <\/p>\n Parking on Campus Smoking on Campus Family Day Activities Adjournment<\/strong> The Staff Senate met on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Reynolds 205. Senators in attendance were Cynthia Blake, Ceil Bridges, Kendra Copeland, LaTricia Davis, Brenda Garrett, Sarah Jennings, Josh Kee, Jeremy Langley, Eric Plummer, Shawana Reed, Sandra Smith, Becki Talley, Houston Taylor, Amber Sharp, Lesley Walthall, and Wilma Williams. Approval of Minutes… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,18107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resources","7":"category-staff-senate-minutes","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/faculty-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe meeting was called to order by Eric Plummer. Josh Kee made a motion to accept the minutes with a second by Jeremy Langley. <\/p>\n
\nThere was no old business. The elections will be addressed under New Business.<\/p>\n
\nBecki Talley reported that the President had indicated he needed the names of the staff senate members that would be sitting on the university committees. Since there had been no meeting to elect the committee members, it was decided to allow the members that had been on committees the year before to remain on the committees without changes. If an outgoing staff senate member was on a committee, that committee spot was filled by current staff senate members. It was agreed to leave it as is unless someone requested to be taken off a committee.<\/p>\n
\nHouston Taylor noted that he and Wilma Williams had met to discuss issues that may need to be addressed and changed by the staff senate. Some of the issues include excessive absences from meetings, how to handle certain issues in the election process, moving the elections from May to July, and how to handle the situation when the vice-president\/president-elect does not get re-elected to the staff senate. Several options were discussed. The Constitution Committee will be meeting again and they will bring these issues back to the Staff Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n
\nLaTricia Davis reported that Academic Affairs Committee will meet on September 30th.<\/p>\n
\nStaff Senate elections were held. Houston Taylor was elected President, Josh Kee was elected Vice-President\/President-elect, Becki Talley was elected Secretary, and Jeremy Langley was elected Faculty Liaison.<\/p>\n
\nThere are several people on campus that are having health issues and the staff senate would like to remember them. It was announced that there would be a fund-raiser on Monday, October 11 at the Rails for James Jones who works at the Physical Plant. <\/p>\n
\nJeremy Langley asked if there was anything that could be done about students parking in visitor\u2019s parking. Chief Plummer noted this was an on-going problem, but there is not good way to handle it. Ticket writers can ticket anyone in the visitor\u2019s parking but it might turn out to be an actual visitor to the campus. It is very hard to know when to write a ticket or not.<\/p>\n
\nLaTricia Davis noted that students were using the parking lot south of the campus for smoking and that there had been complaints from some of the tenants of the building. <\/p>\n
\nSaturday, September 25 is Family Day at SAU. Jeremy Langley invited everyone to come to the walk-over at 4:00 when the football players come to the stadium. He encouraged everyone to help cheer the team on. Ceil Bridges reminded everyone about Mulegating on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\nThe motion to adjourn was made by Jeremy Langley and seconded by Sarah Jennings. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"