Draft Minutes
10:00am –
1. Call to order and roll call
Members Present:
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Lisa Sporleder, President Lori Merdes, Vice President Isabel Martinez, Secretary Tami Choquette Betty Dupee Larry McGrady
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Bess Rounds Vince Yelmene Barb Rusher, Alternate |
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Others present:
Pat Ivey, Executive
Officer, System Governance
Hans Gunderson, Admin.
Coordinator, System Governance
Martin Klein, Associate
Director, Transportation and Parking, UAF Facilities Services
2. Adopt agenda
MOTION: passed without objection
“The Statewide Administration
Assembly moves to adopt the agenda for the
3. Approve minutes of
MOTION: passed
as amended without objection
“The
Statewide Administration Assembly moves to approve the minutes as amended to
reflect that Bess Rounds was present and Barb Rusher was excused. This action
is effective
4. Guest/Public Comments
There
were no guest or public comments.
5. Staff
The
minutes from the
6. FY2007 Budget Outlook
http://www.alaska.edu/swbudget/budget_planning/index.xml
http://www.alaska.edu/bor/agendas/2005/FY07operating.pdf
http://www.alaska.edu/bor/agendas/2005/FY07capital.pdf
Members were advised to
look over the budget documents and keep themselves informed.
7. Revised
http://www.uaf.edu/fs/pdfs/shuttle_allroutes.pdf
Martin
Klein explained that the new shuttle system was instituted to address old
problems, changes to the Taku parking lot and because the old system had no
service to Patty Gym or the lower dorms.
The final determinant, although not an original factor is the fact that
the borough bus no longer stops at the
The
blue and yellow routes seem to be working well.
A new green route runs from Eielson to the Nenana parking lot. The other problem is that the gold route
doesn’t stop at the Butrovich building.
The
shuttle service costs about $400,000 per year.
Funding comes from the transportation fee students have to pay of $13
per semester in addition to parking stickers. Faculty and staff don’t have to
pay that fee.
The
campus shuttles are wheel chair accessible and are going to the administration
building on
TVC
has requested Saturday service and that has been initiated as a combination
TVC/shopper shuttle where students can use this to go to TVC and go to some of
the shopping centers of
Also,
the down town parking center is going to accept the Polar Express card so
anyone with a Polar Express card can park there for free.
In
the past there was a regular stop at the
New
buses are coming. By the holidays, UAF hopes to have 5 new 13-18 passenger
buses. These are also stand-up buses so
as many as 23 passengers can be loaded on the buses. The hope is UAF can
install an electronic sign at shuttle bus stops that well tell riders when the
next shuttle will come.
Martin
replied that changes to the gold route will be made in the next couple of weeks,
and that they are working on marking the buses on both sides.
Martin
also hoped that in the future, the office for parking and transportation can be
housed in a building at the Nenana lot.
Bess
Rounds requested two parking and transportation maps for the two large Butrovich
conference rooms.
8. Staff Development
http://gov.alaska.edu/faculty/2005-08-19.SAC-facultystaffdevelopment.html
A
decision was made to help master’s degree staff and faculty with a 200,000
grant form the President’s office. The Staff Alliance discussed this yesterday
and determined that the document should have read faculty and EXECUTIVE staff
development to make it clear that it had nothing to do with regular staff
development.
9. Senior Tuition Waiver
Regulation
Barb Rusher is making
arrangements to meet with Saichi Oba to develop the regulation after the Board
of Regents meets next week.
10. IT Merger
http://www.alaska.edu/itmerger/
Lori Merdes reported that the top five logos have been chosen and sent to
statewide and UAF for final selection.
The
master plan will be available for public comment on October 1. Revisions to the plan will be published
October 21. No one will have to reapply for their positions at this time except
for the four executive positions.
11. Thanksgiving and
Christmas Potlucks: Dates and Committees
Thanksgiving
potluck is scheduled to be held November 18 and the Christmas potluck on
December 16. The Regents conference room
has been booked for the events. The
themes for these events will be decided at the October SAA meeting. The Help Desk will take care of the sign up
sheet for the lower floors. Bess Rounds
will handle the sign up sheet for the second floor.
12. Canned food drive:
Dates and Committee
Laura
Letuligasenoa and David Rohwer will be approached to deliver the canned food to
the Food bank. The governance office will do the flyers and take care of
preparing and placing the boxes around the building. Lori Merdes will head up the effort and send
emails to Butro staff. Lori will run the
campaign beginning at the Thanksgiving potluck and running though the Christmas
potluck. It was suggested that admittance to both events would require bringing
at least one canned food item.
13. Love Inc.: Chair and Committee
SAA
would like to sponsor either a large family or two small families. Barb Rusher and Betty Dupee will head up this
effort and will contact Love, Inc and see what is most needed this year.[Editors note: Leah Shepherd, who usually
heads up this effort but is leaving, will attend the next SAA meeting and
update the group on activities to date.]
14. Agenda Items for the Next Meeting –
Agenda items may include, but
may not be limited to: the IT merger, senior tuition waiver regulation, the
potlucks, canned food drive and Love, Inc. projects and staff development and
especially human resources on PERS/TRS issues, wellness project and staff
development. Lisa Sporleder will personally invite Jim Johnsen to the meeting.
15. Member Comments
There were no additional
comments
16. Adjourn
The meeting was
adjourned at