Council Members Present: Cathy Ebert, District 16; Ginette Couture, District 13; John
Bolton, District 1; Dick Swasey, (vice-chair)
member-at-large; Sharon Gordon, (chair)
District 6; Belinda Camire, District 15; Karin Coe, District 8; Shirley Norton,
District 14; Lois Morris, District 11; Flora Joyal, District 7, Debbie
Anderson, (recorder) District 9
Absent: Paul Dean, member-at-large; Mark Ernst,
District 5
Ex
Officios: Gregg Sanborn, President’s
Office
Janet Doty, Human
Resources Representative
Lonn Sattler, SPPC
January
minutes approved
Announcements:
1)
needs
3 operating staff people to serve on the President’s Award of Excellence Review
Committee. The Presidential Award of
Excellence is an annual award of $1000 given to 1 operating staff member, 1 pat
staff member, and 1 extension educator.
The award is given to the person who goes above and beyond in making contributions
to the University. The committee will
review the nominations. If you know of
someone that would be interested in serving on this committee please contact
Sharon Demers at Human Resources.
2)Reminder
of the AOP Conference on March 15 for the Administrative Office Personnel. The
Conference is open to all operating staff and administrative staff. You can
register on-line. Information will be coming in the mail.
3)The
Holidays & Closings 2001 schedule has been changed to include Monday, Dec.
31 as a day that university offices will be closed. Vacation/earned time will be used for this day.
4)The
Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch has been offering discounts to UNH
employees. More information can be found on the Human Resources notice on the
web: http://unhinfo.unh.edu/hr/events and click on the link for the
Balsams.
5)March
1 is the deadline to submit an application for the Staff Professional
Development Grant Program. The grant
award is for $750 and can be used to attend conferences, workshop, and courses
not offered within the UNH system.
Forms can be downloaded from the Human Resources web-site (http://unhinfo.unh.edu/hr/) Also, PDQ (Position Description
Questionnaires) are now on-line and are inter-active and can be completed and
sent electronically.
Gregg
Sanborn-President’s Office
1)Reminder
of the OS/PAT orientation meeting on Feb. 14. President Leitzel will be joining
us in the afternoon session.
2)Computing
& Information Services (CIS) – Bob Cape, Assistant Vice-President is
working with the Academic Computer Advisory Committee – they have developed a
draft of an Acceptable Use Policy for Information Technology. Bob Cape is
asking the respective councils, various committees, staff throughout the
university to review that draft policy and give feedback to him – prior to
making any final recommendations to the President. The draft policy is on-line.
This is an intent to clarify what is an acceptable use for computers.
Sharon will forward to us the email with the web-site
3)Facilities-During
the last snowstorm, the Grounds & Roads crew worked anywhere from 12 –24
hours to clean up the campus. Gregg would like the OS council to pass a
resolution thanking the Grounds & Roads crew for the excellent work in
cleaning up the campus. Everyone agreed
it was an excellent idea and Sharon volunteered to write the letter.
Discussion items:
1)Compensation
& Benefits Committee-Ginette-The committee hasn’t met yet. They will meet
today after the regular meeting adjourns. The Feb. 14 orientation meeting will
give us a chance to meet with the PAT to possibly set up a meeting to discuss
mutual issues.
2)Communication-Lois-The
committee be meeting today after the regular meeting adjourns. They are working
on suggestions presented by Sharon at last months meeting. Flora is working on
getting some information from Human Resources. The voice-mail system-still
working on getting that set up-having difficulty accessing the system.
3)Development-Belinda-The
committee has met once. Working on training and how that would affect people.
Also looking at the Survey that had been done last year. Don’t want to
duplicate something that has been done already.
4)Transportation-Margaret
Berry will be attending those meetings as our representative. Some of the
issues that the Transportation Committee is working on is:
a)campus
master plan b)development &
implementation of an origin & destination study for the Durham campus.
c)established committee meetings for the next year d)presentation to the committee regarding statistical review of
the number of parking & service permits issued e)conduct a comprehensive review of the university’s progress
regarding handicapped permits f)status
update towards recommendation included with the 99-00 UNH Transportation Policy
Committee Review g)proposed changes to
the Winter Parking Ban h)developing a
Transportation Committee Web-Site
NHPTV – The annual spring pledge drive begins Mar 3 – Mar 18 and they are looking for volunteers. If you would like to volunteer please contact Nancy Normile, Manage of Volunteers and Customer Service at: Nnormile@nhptv.unh.edu
Feb.
14 OS/PAT orientation meeting.
A
little different format will be used this year. Past chairs will be there in
the am session to address where the council left off and then set an agenda for
the new year. 1)why you volunteered to
serve on the council 2)what is your suggestion or ideas that you would like to
see the council address.
The
afternoon session will be combined councils in small groups-will be able to see
if both councils have mutual issues to address. President Leitzel will then be
coming in at 2:45 to speak to us and listen to our ideas and suggestions.
Lonn
Sattler – representative from the SPPC - handed out a draft for the proposed
Jury Duty for
Operating
Staff. This proposal is to grant full
jury duty coverage of Operating Staff without requiring earned time to be used
for jury duty service and without reducing the current earned time accrual
rates. This coverage would be provided
in exchange for an increase in the minimum usage of earned time by 2 days per
year as outlined below:
Years
of Service Minimum
Usage per year
Date
of hire up to 6 years from
10 days to 12 days
6
years up to 12 years from
12 days to 14 days
12
years up to 18 years from
14 days to 16 days
18
years and over from
16 days to 18 days
Hopefully
this will be a plan that everyone will benefit from. Lonn needs input from us
and Sharon urged everyone to email or send a hard copy to our
constituents.
The
meeting was adjourned – motion made by Lois, seconded by Kathy.
Next
meeting will be March 7.
Submitted
by,
Debbie
Anderson, Recorder