Staff Senate

Full senate Meeting

June 8, 2011

Senate Chambers

Meeting called to order at 1:20 pm by President Lane. A quorum was present.

  1. Roll Call

Guests: Laura Alexander, Associate Vice President of Human Resources

Senators Present: Aimee Appelhans, Ginny Becker, David Bluemel, Bonnie Botello, Christi Byers, Lori Dockter, Cheri Frank, Tonya Gerharter, Carolyn Herman, Stacy Lane, Jim Logue, Ben Marks, Aneesa McDonald, Christy Nordmann, Katie Ogden, Heather Patterson, Jauque Schuman, Tod Scott, Linda Waggener, Maureena Walker, Kathi Zubrod

Senators Absent: Rebecca Ashley, Beverly Bell, Mark Davidson, Al Emmons, Farrell Graf, Jamie LeJambre, Kelly McMicheal

Proxies: Leo Clymer for Cyndi Cowardin, Laura Barton for Winter Hansen, Marvin Perry for Thyra Page

  1. Approve May Minutes
  2. VP Franks moved table the May minutes due to not being circulated. Senator Ogden 2nd. Motion passed.
  3. Approve June Agenda
  4. Remove Item III sec A. Senator Appelhans moved, Senator Logue seconded. Motion passed.
  5. Administration Reports
  6. Vice President of Administration, Doug Vinzant- Removed from Agenda
  7. Associate Vice President of Human Resources, Laura Alexander
  8. State committee Benefit report- cutting the benefits to generous. Need to look at state governments, k-12 and other Universities. Recommendations: Orthodontics and 80% of Dental for restorative benefits. Dental$4.80 ind/$9.00 Fam., Ortho added $9.57/mo. Collapse deductible into 1 instead of $350/$750. High deductible health plan, consumer driven health care. $1500/$2000. Health Savings Account accounts allows employer to funnel into account, HSA would carry over from year to year. Would not go away like the Health Reimbursement accounts. Effective date of January 1, 2013. $200 annual for the HSA for the lower pay percentile. All dependent on what the Governor’s office and legislature do with the recommendations. Ralph Hayes should have all the info on the hays group report.
  9. Employee Evals 87%. She will get the numbers for the July meeting. Email what we want. If the numbers are over 90% they will run the numbers.
  10. Bill Mai-Head of Legislative offices, Chris Boswell-Admin & information, 3rd no name.
  11. HSA are transportable funds. (Move to employer or cash out, not sure of details as it is a Fed program).
  12. Smoking / Chewing differential. Premium differential would be for rates. ADA risks for Alcohol.
  13. Salary conversations: Very Dynamic conversation on looking at salary ranges. HR has regional, local data in HR office. Request for Quote (RFQ) is out for consultants who may have more info on best practices. Want the study done by mid-August so that it can go into the budget request.
  14. Staff Wellness resolution, info was sent to the president’s office.
  15. Officer Reports
  16. President, Stacy Lane
  17. Thank you from winner of staff recognition, other one is a thank you card for First Interstate Bank for donating sandwich meat for our retreat.
  18. Committee work, 5 bills voted on, 5 resolutions, 3 senators, R&P, Finance policy.
  19. Vice President, Cheri Frank
  20. Cheri was invited to test upgrade to posting & application system. Significant improvements made and continuing to work on it. Staff Senate shirts, will bring to July meeting. Senator Logue will run next month’s meeting as incoming Vice President.
  21. Old Business
  22. Bill # 40- Staff Senate Communications and Compensation Committees Update- Second Reading
  23. Do pass with amendments, Change List serve to email lists
  24. Senator Appelhans moved to pass, Senator Logue seconded. Bill # 40 passed.
  25. New Business
  26. Confirm Jon Kelly, University Scheduling, Seat # 32
  27. Senator Scott moved, SenatorMcDonald. Motion Passed.
  28. Bill # 41 – Credentials and Elections Committee Update- First reading
  29. Moved Appelhans, Suspend reading of addendums. SenatorMcDonald seconded. Motion passed.
  30. Senator Franks moved to suspend rules for second reading, Senator Nordmann seconded. Motion passed.
  31. Senator Appelhans moved to suspend actual second reading of bill # 41, senator Scott seconded. Move through or start again in July. Motion passed.
  32. Senator Appelhans moved to pass bill # 41 Senator Logue seconded. Motion passed by roll call vote
  33. Liaison Reports
  34. ASUW Rep- Senator Aimee Appelhans- Will keep in discussions
  35. Faculty Senate Rep- Senator Stacy Lane- April meeting, Cheri will take over meetings in September.
  36. Committee Reports
  37. Communications Committee- Senator Aimee Appelhans- Working on cleaning folder on warehouse, paper folder and complete year end report. New chair Rebecca Ashley. Meeting will happen as scheduled.
  38. Meeting- 6/21 11-12 in the Skylight Lounge
  39. Compensation Committee- Senator Christi Byers
  40. Meeting 6/15 4-5 in Coe Library, Room 504
  41. Cancel meeting and will rap up via email
  42. Credentials and Elections Committee- Senator Christy Nordmann
  43. Finished bill #41. Senator Nordmann will clean out
  44. Finance Committee- Senator Lori Dockter
  45. Finance committee report will be done.
  46. Recognition committee- Senator Tonya Gerharter
  47. EOQ 2ndqtr closed on June 10 @ 5 pm, 6 complete, 2 incompletes
  48. Open Forum

A brief open forum followed the regular business of the Staff Senate.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:45 pm by President Lane.

Respectfully submitted by Lori Dockter, Secretary-elect