Draft Minutes
Audio bridge # 800-519-1987, pin *1622936*
Jeri Cary moderated the meeting on behalf of Lisa
Sporleder who attended via
audio from the hospital.
1.
Call
to Order and Roll Call
http://gov.alaska.edu/home/who/staff/
Lisa Sporleder, Statewide
Administrative Assembly, Chair
Jeri Cary, UAS Staff
Council, Vice Chair
Lori Merdes, Statewide Administrative
Assembly
Bob Kizer, UAA APT
Council
Kimberly Stanford, UAA
Classified Council
Maya Salganek, UAF Staff
Council
Others Present:
Debra Carter, Employee
Communications Specialist
Jodi Bailey,
Administrative Coordinator
Pat Ivey, Executive Director
Jeanine Senechal,
Director of Compensation
Mike Humphrey, Director
of Benefits
Will Daniels
2. Adopt Agenda
http://gov.alaska.edu/Staff/agendas/2006/06-13.htm
http://gov.alaska.edu/Staff/agendas/2006/06-13.pdf
MOTION: Moved
by Lisa Sporleder, seconded by Maya Salganek, passed without objection.
“The
Staff Alliance moves to adopt the agenda as amended for June 13, 2006
meeting. This action is effective
3. Approve May 9, 2006 minutes
http://gov.alaska.edu/Staff/minutes/2006/04-04.htm
http://gov.alaska.edu/Staff/minutes/2006/04-04.pdf
The
approval of the
4. Chair’s
report
http://gov.alaska.edu/staff/2006-06-12.compensation-letter.pdf
On behalf of
Lisa Sporleder, There was no
Chair report since Lisa Sporleder attended the meeting via audio following her
surgery.Pat Ivey read
the attached letter from
Lisa to President Hamilton concerning compensation for
the Staff Alliance chair.
5. Public Comments
Pat Ivey gave
an update on the Coalition summit that took place this past weekend where they
met and discussed the upcoming issues for next year.
6. Staff Governance Reports
SW
Lori Merdes discussed
the June 5th SAA annual meeting where the current
and newly elected members received an overview of
the grouporientation and discussed the possible
issues for next year. Jennifer Bowers
gave a presentation on the Statewide Staff Campaign that is currently taking
place to raise funds for the University.
Jim Johnsen gave an overview ofn his outlook on his new position and
what he’d like to achieve. Wendy Redman
gave a legislative update and briefed the group on the final outcomes on the
legislature. President Hamilton attended
and spoke of how he would like to get the University ready for the next year and
the legislature. Lori Merdes then gave an update on the OIT
consolidation and stated they areOIT is currently ensuringmaking sure that all the position descriptions
are up to date and is getting ready to relocate staff to
have a presence throughout the UAF and statewide campuses. The election of SAA officers
also took place at the
annual meeting.;
Barb Rusher is the SAA pPresident,
Vince Yelmene is the new vVice pPresident and Mike Molnia is the sSecretary.
UAS
http://www.uas.alaska.edu/staffcouncil/
Jeri Cary stated
that their group has not met but is currently working on elections.
UAA
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/governance/classified/
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/governance/apt/
Bob Kizer stated
that the UAA APT Council elections have taken
place with him remaining as President and Liz Downey will be the new vVice
pPresident. They The Council discussed the Start Walking
program and the changes in the health plan for next year.
Kim Stanford also stated that their the UAA
Classified Council elections took place with her remaining as
President.
UAF
http://www.uaf.edu/uafgov/staff/index.html
Maya Salganek
stated that there is a meeting of the UAF
Staff Council tomorrow, and
but at the last meeting,
Carolyn Chapman attended to discuss how a staff manual needs to be created to
help with the accreditation process. Human
Resources is trying to revamp their its website to give an electronic
version of a possible employee handbook and Staff Council is assisting them. She Salganek also stated that they are
noticing that since the age changed for the senior tuition waiver, the benefit is no longer available
to retirees of a younger age. She’s also expressed that they’re having
difficulty finding a pPresident-elect
but areis
hoping to have one chosen soon.
7. Legislative and Budget Update; FY08
Budget Guidelines
Advocacy
http://action.supportua.org/systemua/home.html
FY
2007 Budget
http://www.alaska.edu/swbudget/budget_planning/budget_docs/new/capitalpacketcolor.pdf
FY
2008 Budget Guidelines
http://www.alaska.edu/swbudget/budget_planning/budget_docs/new/fy08operatingguidelinesdraft.pdf
http://www.alaska.edu/swbudget/budget_planning/budget_docs/new/fy08capitalguidelinesdraft.pdf
No discussionThere was no
discussion of the above items.
8. Employee Relations
8.1 Beth
Behner, Associate VP, Human Resources
8.2 HR
On-line Recruitment
http://www.alaska.edu/hr/hractivities/acas/PDF/uakjobsbrochure.pdf
Jeannine Senechal attended the meeting to
discuss the UAK jobs website and the issues employee’s have come across. Jeri expressed her frustrations on the lack of
training on the
Jeannine stated that when they first
implemented the web site, they had sent staff to help with the training and
will offer it again if it’s needed. Maya
asked if there could be refresher training classes offered because she’s
noticed that people use it differently because they were trained differently.
8.3 Senior Tuition Waivers for Retirees
http://gov.alaska.edu/staff/projects/2006-05-23-tuitionwaiver-retirees.pdf
Pat Ivey stated
that this has returned on to the agenda because it has been
brought to her attention that retiree’s
of the University who are not of social security age, are not be able to use
the senior tuition waiver as an employee benefit. The group expressed their worry that the gap
between the age of a retiree and the Ssocial Ssecurity age, which is now the age to
use the waiver, is too great. The group
will put together a draft letter requesting the Human Resource department to
look more into the issue.
8.4 Update on Training and Development
Director Recruitment
http://gov.alaska.edu/staff/2006-06-07.Training-Development-Director.pdf
The candidate that was chosen is from They Human
Resources should receive an answer on whether he accepts the offer
within two weeks.
8.5 Other employee relations items
Pharmacare will become the new pharmacy provider
beginning July 1st. Mike
Humphrey stated that if an employee doesn’t receive an ID card by that date,
they can go online and print one off the web.
9. Tuition Increase Formula and Student
Retention Incentives
http://gov.alaska.edu/net/2006-05-26-DifflTuition.pdf
http://gov.alaska.edu/net/2006-05-31.AnalysisFeeChangesbyDiscipline.pdf
http://gov.alaska.edu/net/2006-05-31.AnalysisTuition-FeeChanges.pdf
Pat Ivey stated
that Saichi Oba would like to do a presentation for the group at the next
meeting due to him being unavailable today.
Pat stated that the students would like to have an incentive for
students who have declared a major and remain as students to be implemented. Lisa
Sporleder told the group that in her discussion with Saichi, he said the
formula is just putting on paper the tuition increase method
that has been used in recent years.
10. Update on Governance Regulation
http://gov.alaska.edu/staff/projects/2006-01-20.governancereg.pdf
No
update was provided.
11. Approve 2006 – 2007 Calendar
http://gov.alaska.edu/staff/calendar/
MOTION: Moved by
Lisa Sporleder, seconded by Lori Merdes, passed
without
objection.
“The
Staff Alliance moves to adopt the 2006 -2007 calendar. This action is effective
12. Agenda items for next meeting, July 11,
2006
Agenda items
include: Tuition Increase
Formula and Student Retention Incentives, Governance Regulation,
Senior Tuition Waiver and August 9-10 Retreat. Send
additional items to Pat Ivey.
13. President’s Retreat, August 9-10, 2006,
Item will be
discussed more fully at the July 11 meeting
14. Other
items of interest
MOTION: Moved by Jeri Cary, seconded by Lori
Merdes, passed
without objection.
“The Staff Alliance moves to continue Lisa
Sporleder’s term as the Presidentpresident
of the Staff Alliance until August 10, 2006.”
15. Comments
Lori Merdes
stated that July 7th will be her last day at the University because
she will be taking a leave of absence for personal reasons.
16. Adjourn
Meeting adjourned at