University Staff Advisory Committee (USAC) Meeting Minutes

3/5/2015

9:09 a.m. – 9:46 a.m.

Attendees:

Joe Kultys, ,Student Services Chair

Karena Brace, Graduate Teacher Education William Miller, Nursing

Mike Hardik, Maintenance Jack Chielli, Marketing/Communications

Theresa Rule, Pharmaceutical Sciences Michael McCree, Admissions

Nancy Weeks, Advancement, Secretary Kimberly Keller, Controller’s Office, Treasurer

Excused

Jill Price, Student Development Jamie Miller, Residence Life, Vice Chair

Joseph Housenick, Human Resources Sara Myers, Athletics

Chris Jagoe, Public Safety

Approval of Minutes

Minutes from the meeting, February 5th were approved and posted to the committee website.

Old Business

Item A: USAC Elections for 2015-16 – Mike McCree

April nominations and May votes will take place regarding three open positions. Positions include Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary.

Item B: Staff Development Training Opportunity – March 6th at 9:00 a.m.

a.  Session topic: Professional Communications with Mia Briceno.

New Business

Item A: USAC Elections for 2015-16 – Jamie Miller will lead the effort with help of Mike McCree. April nominations and May votes will take place regarding four potentially open positions, once it is determined who is eligible for renewal. Positions include Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Kimberly Keller volunteered to serve another term as Treasurer.

Item B: Social Events Subcommittee - Karena Brace, Sara Meyers, & Jill Price

TheSweetLushCupcakeCamper inquiry -Wednesday or Thursdays they would waive fee. They would also supply promotional supplies such as flyers. Date TBD, potentially looking at one day during last week of classes in April. More details to follow.

Item C: Discount Placement – Theresa Rule

We will work with Marketing to upload the list of employee discounts for community businesses. We will house on the USAC Webpage, but will place the URL in various places such as FAC page, Wilkes Portal, etc. USAC committee will also periodically remind the campus community that the discount program exists.

Other Business

Item A: Blue & Pink Day – Kim Keller

The Jude Zayac Foundation contacted a member of the Wilkes staff asking to hold a Blue and Pink day on campus on March 20th. While this is a worthy cause, because of our non-solicitation policy, we generally do not promote such events on campus.

Item B: Country Line Dancing at Wilkes– March 13th

The event will take place 7-9 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom.

Item C: 12th Annual Colon Cancer Awareness Saves Unlimited Adult Lives (C.A.S.U.A.L. ) Day – March 26th

The event is being promoting via Today at Wilkes. Participants can order a pin or shirt. The order forms can be sent directly to AnnMarie Carey or Camille Daniels in Student Services or via email to . All order forms and payment are due byMarch 10th.

Item C: Benefits Issues – Joe Housenick

Topics tabled to next meeting as Joe was not in attendance.

Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 9:46 a.m. The next meeting will take place on April 2nd, 2015 @ 9:00 a.m., location is TBA.