OPERATING STAFF COUNCIL
February 6, 2002
Council
members present: Abby Archila, District 1; Mark Ernst, District 5; Julie
Johnson-Dubois, District 6; Marie Hanson, District 7; 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; Nicole Runde, At-Large; Wendy Rappa,
At-Large
Ex-Officios:
Holly Wellstead, HR Representative
Lori Gula, Campus Journal
Discussion:
HR is preparing an article for CJ regarding the Non-Tuition Assistance Pilot program. Nancy Hamer has designed the waiver forms, which will be available in March for use beginning with April 8th summer session registration.
Street
Smart is a
new one time offered training program being held on 2/22. Cost is $25 to register. It is an all day session from 9-5. The goal of the training is to give
participants a sense of how to deal with difficult people in non-violent ways.
Reports
from Standing Committees
Ø
Compensation and Benefits: Committee will send Sick Pool Donor Program
research to David Butler per his request.
Madaline had a meeting with Manchester staff and they had concerns with
Earned time as it pertains to Bereavement.
The issue of Bereavement and earned time was put on benefits plate for
review.
Ø
Communications: Committee will be
taking a OS Council group photo at March’s meeting to be placed on the website.
Date for proposed meeting to be held in Manchester was tentatively set for May’s
meeting. Madeline will report back to
us on that date. Committee was asked to
contact Nan Sherry at HR letting her know what literature the council would
like to have put on the literature table during the AOP Conference.
Ø
Development-Committee has not had a
chance to meet but will meet following the Councils meeting.
Ø
SPPC-Will
be meeting on 2/25. Nicole is the
alternate and will attend 2/25 meeting.
Ø
Transportation- Julie had a lot of information to disseminate pertinent to the
Transportation Committee.
i.
Renovations
to Kingsbury, which will result in a loss of 83 spots located around Kingsbury. Renovations to begin within 15 months. Parking space loss should not adversely affect
the parking situation as CIS folks will have already moved out to the Leavitt
Center location.
ii.
All
parking permits will be replaced in July 2002.
iii.
Nov.
marked the first carpooling day. 113
parking spaces in A-Lot were reserved for folks who carpooled to work with at
least 2-3 people. Refreshments were offered
to participants of carpooling day. More
carpooling days will be planned in the future.
The committee tossed around the following ideas for resolving
some of the parking issue:
i.
Vans
to be made available for use of carpooling.
Van to stay at designated individuals house to be used for picking up
other members. A parking space would be
reserved for the van. This plan would
be 50% federally funded. To cover the other 50% of the cost van pooling would
have some type of fee.
ii.
Three
tier commuter-pricing program.
iii.
Should
grads, hourly, teaching assistants have different permits? Currently they hold a staff permit.
iv.
Looking
at changes to streets, lanes, and lights.
Meeting with the town on looking at traffic lights, eliminating left
hand turns out of Nesmith, putting another lane in the NH Hall area, increasing
visibility of the crosswalks.
Candace Corvey & David Butler will be at the March meeting and will address Benefits Cost Containment.
Ginette
reported that the OS & PAT Recognition Program will remain separate and the
dates will be set within the next 2 weeks.
Karen
Mars & Belinda Camire volunteered to assist with AOP Conference in March.
No
council meeting in July.
Karin
Coe met with Donna Sorrentino and reps from Grounds and Roads, and Housekeeping
in regards to ice/snow on the walkways making them hazardous. Housekeeping is responsible for main
entrances of all doorways, staircases, and walkways, out to a point where the
Grounds crew can plow them with a tractor, usually 10 feet. Grounds are responsible for all areas beyond
10 feet. However due to the low number
of Grounds crew to covering the entire campus what can folks do to assist in
sanding walkways? Depts. may call for a
bucket of sand to be put by the doorways so that folks coming and going can
toss some sand down if the walkway is slippery and treacherous.
The
council voted to approve the January minutes.
The
meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully
submitted, Erika Clifford