Staff Council
Meeting Minutes
May 17, 2007

I. Tour of the Rozsa Center
II. Call to Order
Chair Becky Christianson called the meeting to order at 12:48 pm.
III. Members Present
Ramona Backman, Rob Bishop, Becky Christianson, Diane Garrow, Peggy
Gorton, Kathy Goulette, and Peter Larsen

IV. Old Business
a) Inclement Weather Committee: No update. The committee still needs to meet again.
b) Finance Committee Report: Bev was not available so there was no report.
c) Scheduled 2007 meeting dates:
   Thursday, June 21, MUB Alumni B
   Thursday, August 16, TBD
d) Staff Recognition: Peggy Gorton reported that the committee has been
   busy and will be set for the event June 13. Letters will be going out
  tomorrow to those being recognized. More workers will be needed for
  the day of the event. They are still working out the details of the
  gift cards.

e) Staff Council/MUB calendar update: Becky met with Theresa in the
   MUB about the Council's concern about the number of events to be listed
   on the calendar. Theresa was very receptive and together the list was
   cut back. The calendar was proofed this morning and should be going out
   campus-wide soon.

f) Staff Orientation Welcoming Activities: Ramona gave an update on her
   discussions with Human Resources about the Council’s ideas for campus
   tours for new staff. Ramona asked if the council would be willing to buy
   lunch in a residence hall for the new hires at the end of the tour. Lunch
   tickets would be purchased in advance and handed out from Human Resources
   when the staff members went on the tour. Using last year's numbers of
   111 new hires, the cost for the lunches would be under $700. The Council
   members agreed this was a good idea. One issue is making sure that new
   employees have release time to go on the campus tour. We will approach
   Sherri Kauppi with this question.

V. New Business
a) Meeting schedule starting in August: The Council agreed that the
   third Thursday of the month is still a good time. The 2007-2008 meeting
   schedule will then begin on August 16.
b) Reminder: there will be no July meeting.
c) Becky noted that we should be prepared to give updates on the various
   search committees on which we are serving at the June meeting.

VI. Finance Report
No report was available.

VII. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 1:06 pm.

Minutes submitted by:  Peter Larsen, Secretary