Minutes of Monthly Meeting
Jan. 3, 2001
Council
Members Present: Cathy Ebert, District 16;
Sharon Gordon, (chair) District 6;
Karin Coe, District 8; Dick Swasey, (vice-chair)
member-at-large; Lois Morris, District 11; Mark Ernst, District 5; Ginette
Couture, District 13; Belinda Camire, District 15; Flora Joyal, District 7;
Shirley Norton, District 14; Debbie Anderson, (recorder) District 9.
Absent: Paul Dean, member-at-large
Ex
Officios: Michelle Gregoire, Campus Journal
Gregg
Sanborn, President’s Office
Deb
Carr, Human Resources Representative
Guy
Hutt, Human Resource, Professional Development
Guest: Jim Varn, Provost Office,
Coordinator-Academic Planning Steering Committee
Jim
Varn, Provost Office , Coordinator of the Academic Planning Steering Committee,
spoke for a few minutes and handed out a preliminary draft. The Committee was
established by the President and Provost to develop an academic action plan for
the next five years. The preliminary
draft contains 7 critical issues and questions that the committee has raised
during its discussions. The goal of the
Committee is to present a draft plan to the university community for
consideration, revision, and approval during the 2000-2001 academic year. Mr. Varn would like comments/feedback from
the council in the next two weeks if possible.
Committee
assignments:
2 council members still need to pick a committee to serve on
Paul
Dean- absent
Debra
Anderson – Benefits & Compensation
Sharon
& Dick will try to take turns and be at the different committee meetings
The
direction for this committee is to focus on the compensation raises and how
they will be divided ATB, equity , and merit. What would be the Compensation
and Benefits Committees suggestion as to how we do this division. What would be in the interest to our
constituents. Also possibly get together with the PAT council to
brainstorm. Another suggestion is the
formation of a plan where people can donate sick leave. People with a
catastrophic illness could borrow from a sick leave pool.
Direction
for this committee would be to work with David Butler and Guy Hutt on making
sure job classifications are put into place or worked on. Sharon had heard that
there might be an outside concern coming in to evaluate Operating Staff against
the real
world
or other companies. Gregg Sanborn did
confirm that a more sophisticated compensation study as well as a definition of
markets for specific classification will be carried out in the future.
Suggested
working on a newsletter that could be done monthly possibly called
You
& UNH. You could use this newsletter as a way to remind people of the
benefits we have here on campus. Also
use this newsletter as a way to tell people of the accomplishments the council
has made.
Gregg
Sanborn wanted to know if the council had decided to implement the Auto
attendant voice-mail system that had been discussed at past meetings. Sharon informed Gregg that at the Operating
Staff Council emergency meeting in December, the council did in fact agree to
go ahead with the voice-mail system.
Lois will get in touch with Donna (from Gregg’s office) to complete the
set up process.
Committee
meetings: will be held after the regular business
meeting each month. This will formally start at the February meeting.
Sharon
read a letter that she received from Mary Ellen Boelhower, Director of
Stewardship, regarding the University Community Scholarship Fund. The market
value of the fund as of June 30, 1999 is $25,935.91 with new gifts received
totaling $11,635.56 with a market value as of June 30, 2000 of $38,280.36. The scholarship that they gave to Nicholas
Osborn of Concord, a senior in Microbiology, was in the amount of $1,896.28. This is the type of information that people
don’t hear that needs to be told.
Gregg
announced that the PAT/OS orientation meeting has been tentatively set for Feb.
14.
Guy
Hutt- Manager of Professional and Organization Development for Human Resources
spoke on the new development program Managing@UNH. The first module will be offered in January,
February and March. The program was
highlighted in the December 15 issue of the Campus Journal.
Sharon
passed out copies of the new by-laws.
The next meeting will be the first Wednesday in February. Sharon will make sure everyone get a
schedule of the meetings.
Council
voted to skip the July meeting.
The
meeting was adjourned at 10:05 Lois
moved, Dick seconded.
Reported
by Debbie Anderson