Supervisory/Confidential Council Minutes
October 16, 2001
Present: Kathy Birdsall, Marcia Clendenen, Val Evans, Joanne Holland, Barb Kalsem,
Pam Kirkhart, Chris Knight, Kaela Postma, Ralph Oliver
Ex-Officio: Brenda Behling
Approval of Minutes: Marcia Clendenen moved to approve the September 18, 2001 minutes. Barb Kalsem seconded the motion. All in favor. September 18 minutes approved unanimously.
Continued Business
A. S/C Survey
All council members were asked to send a reminder e-mail to their S/C employee grouping as follow-up for the survey. Surveys were sent via campus mail October 11,
2001, and should be returned to Val Evans by October 31. A committee was selected to tabulate and gather results from the returned surveys. They are Kaela Postma, Pam
Kirkhart, Val Evans and Cynthia Feller.
B. Peer Advisory
The Peer Advisory Group had accepted the resignation of Lyn Foshe last Spring and
Dawn Smith had resigned from the University earlier this year. One representative should serve on the group from each Supervisory, Confidential and Council. Ralph
Oliver will continue as the Supervisory classification representative. Marcia Clendenen was nominated and elected to the Peer Advisory Group as the Council representative.
The Confidential classification remains open.
C. RISCAC
RISCAC will be meeting in November. No report was given for the meeting in
September. Ralph mentioned Governor Vilsack is implementing an Iowa State Code for all government branches within the State of Iowa.
D. Other
Brenda Behling has extra copies of the old Supervisory/Confidential Employee
Handbook from March 1999 if anyone would like copies. The handbook is not scheduled for republishing due to legal issues, expense, and resources already available in the OPG.
No news yet on the early retirement option that will expire June 30, 2002. Employees must be at least 57 years old with at least 15 years of employment at Iowa State.
Governor Vilsack is also recommending 55 years of age with at least 20 years of employment as another early retirement option.

S&C Council Minutes
Oct. 16, 2001
New Business
Ralph Oliver will be meeting with Marlise McCammon of HRS, Marcia Clendenen and Diane
McDonald of ISU RISCAC regarding the salary negotiations with the Board of Regents.
S/C employees can elect to recommend negotiated rates or choose to make another recommendation. Everyone was in favor of accepting the already negotiated merit raises for the next three year plan.
The “lead” position salary status was discussed. Lead employees are eligible for a 5% pay increase above their current classification if they are supervising other blue collar or technical employees that are on the same pay scale. At this time, clerical are not eligible for lead status.
The Board of Regents are meeting Wednesday and Thursday this week. Merit system salaries are on the docket in order to get approval for definitions of temporary leave. The
University would like the Regents to approve “20 work days” as temporary layoff. The
University furlough for 2001-02 may be 5 days maximum.
Brenda recommended having Provost Rollin Richmond speak to the S/C committee regarding the developments of the Task Force on Strategic Effectiveness and Budget. All were in favor setting something up for November or December. The Task Force will be giving its recommendation to the President by January. (Meeting has been set for
November 6 at 2:30 PM.)
Guest speakers recommended for future meetings included President Geoffrey in
December and Postal and Parcel rep. Jim Ziebold in January.
Announcements
Special council meeting arranged for November 6 at 2:00 PM in 210 Beardshear, followed by updates on the budget task force with Provost Richmond at 2:30 PM.
Submitted by,
Chris Knight
Co-Chair