OPERATING STAFF COUNCIL
December 5, 2001
Council
members present: Mark Ernst, District 5; Julie Johnson-Dubois, District 6; Karin Coe,
(vice chair) District 8; Erika Clifford (recorder), District 9; Karen
Mars, District 10; Darcy Azzarella, District 11; Ginette Couture (chair),
District 13; Shirley Norton, District 14; Belinda Camire, District 15; Madeline
Slocum, District 16; Dwain Lozier, At-large; Wendy Rappa, At-Large; Nicole
Runde, At-Large
Council
members absent:
Abby Archila, District 1; Matt Price, District 4; Marie Hanson, District 7;
Barbara Bailey, District 12;
Ex-Officios:
President Leitzel
Gregg Sanborn, Presidents
Office
Janet Doty, HR
Representative
The
council voted to approve the November minutes.
Sharon
welcomed a prospective member Ed Ouellete to the council. He would be voted in to the council in
January for District 2 if he chooses to serve on the council, leaving only one
District (District 3) vacant.
Doctor
Leitzel stopped in momentarily to express her thanks and appreciation to the
outgoing members of the council for the hard work and dedication they
contributed to the council, and to the new members her well wishes for the
upcoming year.
Sharon
and Debbie said goodbye to the council, as this is their last month with the
council.
Council
voted in Ginette Couture as the new chair; Karin Coe as vice chair and Erika
Clifford as recorder.
Discussion:
Gregg
discussed the Presidential Search. The
search committee will have offsite interviews with candidates to maintain
candidate confidentiality. They will
then narrow the candidate pool to about 10-14 candidates hopefully by March 14th
bringing them in for interviews on campus. The search committee hopes to make
recommendations of candidate selection by April 1st in line with Doctor Leitzels
retirement date of June 30.
Informed
the council that information is on the way from the benefits office regarding federal
changes for 2002 to the additional retirement contributions as well as to the
Graduate tuition waiver. Effective
January 2002 graduate tuition waiver benefits will no longer be taxed for USNH
employees. Be on the lookout for a
letter from the benefits office detailing the changes. Please call your HR
contact if you have any questions regarding the changes.
Other
discussion:
Discussed
duties of the various committees and described what each committee represents.
Compensation
and Benefits-working
towards sick pool donor program (currently on hold). Recently passed Jury duty benefits after years of working at
it.
Communications-website development in
progress, discussed some various methods for communicating OS council
happenings to constituents. (i.e. quarterly newsletter, electronic newsletter
etc..)
Development-in the past has worked on
OS professional development initiatives.
Would like to continue in that direction.
SPPC-system wide council made up
from all campuses that meet quarterly. Lonn Sattler is the representative of this council and he
communicates to us periodically with what is happening with SPPC. Policies ultimately go through SPPC for
input.
Transportation-data pertaining to the
maintenance costs of parking per space, building a parking structure, number of
passes issued and the number of spaces available and potential ideas for
handling parking issues was printed in the 11/30 campus journal. Julie handed out a financial review of the
transportation services to the council. Julie Johnson-Dubois will continue to
be the OS representative on the Transportation Committee.
Members
will be choosing which committee they would like to serve on and then the
chairs of each committee will be selected at the January meeting.
The
meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully
submitted, Erika Clifford