Finance & Economic Welfare (FEW) Committee Meeting – November 2, 2005
Present: John Ralston, Davetta Davis, Carol Davis, Pattie Edwards, Nancy Knadler, and Martyna Warren.
Absent: Donna Bottorff, Richard Brown, Susan Walker, Marian Vassar, and Brent Fryrear (Ex-Officio).
Chair Martyna Warren opened meeting at 2:40 pm.
Minutes from October meeting were unavailable, Robin Durham took the minutes from the October meeting and she was unable to attend today’s session.
Martyna noted December 2005 payroll would be distributed prior to Holiday break for both P&A and Classified staff, but this would be the last year that would be the case. Starting in 2006, the paychecks would be distributed on their normal biweekly or monthly cycle.
Martyna noted that Pres. Ramsey would be holding a meeting with the Executive Committee of the Staff Senate on Nov 8 and anyone wishing to submit an item to get on the agenda should forward that to her before then.
The next meeting of the Human Resources committee would be November 10 and Martyna would take any items to the meeting if someone wished to submit something to her.
The Provost has formulated a Budget & Planning Committee that will host a series of meetings regarding the 2007 budget. Several Staff Senators are on the committee.
FEW goals for 2005-2006 were handed out and overlapping goals between the FEW committee and those of the Plans & Policies committee were discussed.
Martyna would check with Bev Davis regarding the overlapping of FEW Goal I Objective 1 with Plans & Policies (P&P) Goal III Objective 6 relating to performance evaluation system.
FEW committee decided to delete Objective 1 under Goal II and reword Objective 2 under Goal II to read “review for possible recommendations to make travel easier for employees regarding the pay and reimbursed concept in the current policy.” Martyna would ask Audit Services for their policy statement regarding use of procard for travel expenses.
FEW will look at small grant policy regarding its purpose and how it ties into employee professional development policies within departments.
Martyna will get more information from Julien Carter regarding the new software HR is buying to help with salary analysis.
Members suggested to Martyna that she ask HR committee to look into upgrading the CareerOp phone system so applicants have a more user-friendly experience when trying to find out if a job has been filled and if their applications are still under consideration for a posting.
Carol Davis, liaison to Plans & Policy, discussed the updated draft of the PTO policy that she got at the P&P committee meeting. Carol noted a list of questions P&P had about the PTO policy and Julien Carter’s response to them.
FEW will get information from the Plans & Policy committee regarding the “Transition” section in the PTO policy. John Ralston said he hadn’t seen that section before and would like to study its impact.
Other business: FEW wants to post minutes of its meetings on docushare to keep constituents informed.
Committee will meet Wednesday afternoon before regular Staff Senate monthly meetings.
Meeting adjourned at 4:25 pm.