Civil Service Employees Council
January 5, 2012, 1:15pm
Capitol Room, University Union
MINUTES
I. Roll Call – Present: Pam Bowman, Jim Buffalo, Carla Farniok, Tammy Fretueg ,
Rich Hamilton, Bill Rupert, Kim Sedgwick ,Peter Skrypkun, Wendi Mattson,
Excused: Suzanne Boussard, Hilary Churchill, Kathy Clauson, Chris Brown, Julie
DeWeese, Tishly Herrington , Cindy Roon, Linda Wade
II. Minutes (Wendi Mattson) – Minutes from December – motion by Jim and seconded
by Carla to approve the December minutes.
III. Treasurer’s Report (Carla Farniok) – Attached.
IV. President’s Report (Bill Rupert) – Bill reported he had been to an Advisory Group
meeting. The state is current on FY 11 money and at that time still owed $26
million on FY 12.
V. Civil Service Employee of the Month (Wendi Mattson)- Wendi reported that the
January Employee of the Month is Holly Fecht from the Foundation and
Development Office. Her presentation will be on January 12 at 10:00 am.
VI. Vice President for Administrative Services Report (Julie DeWeese) – No report.
VII. Director of Human Resources (Pam Bowman) - Pam reported that the System office
audit will be held February 21- 24 to make sure we are administering correctly.
Positions will be reviewed on campus.
VIII. Employee Advisory Committee Rep (Peter Skrypkun) -–Peter reported that his
next meeting will be January 12 and 13, 2012.
IX. WIU Quad Cities Campus Report (Chris Brown) – No report.
X. Representative Reports to Council
a. Affirmative Action Internship (Tishly Herrington) – No Report.
b. Web Page and IT Issues (Jim Buffalo)- Jim reported that as of yet a
meeting with Scott has not taken place.
c. Training and Development (Carla Farniok) -Jude Kiah is doing a
training session on Supervising Millennials on Wednesday, January 11
Civil Service Employees Council
January 5, 2012, 1:15pm
Capitol Room, University Union
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from 9am-11am in the University Union Lincoln Room. Anyone
interested should call/email Sharon Chenoweth at 298-1971 or
s-chenoweth@wiu.edu.
d. Technology Advisory Users Group (Jim Buffalo) - . There will be
planned outages January 7 & 8. Microsoft is adopting the policy that
you are forced to get up dates. He has a phone call into Kathy Barnett
asking what meeting would be best for him to attend. May be that he
attends meetings on a rotating basis, otherwise he would have a
meeting each week.
e. University Diversity Council – (Tishly Herrington)- no report.
XI. Committee Reports
a. Policy and Appeals (Bill Rupert/Suzanne Boussard)- No report.
b. Award Selection (Cindy Roon): No report. Bill reported that Hilary
will need to attend the meetings as previously discussed. This will be
in the event she needs to vote, she will be well informed on the
candidates. This is necessary as Cindy’s daughter is applying for an
award. Bill will talk to Cindy to find out when they are meeting and
let Hilary know. It was also discussed on how to make people more
aware of the CSEC awards. Wendi will look into a facebook page and a
UTV advertisement. Telestars was also mentioned. Rich reported that
as of yet there has been no progress on getting the email groups.
c. Constitution/Election (Jim Buffalo)- Reading of change.
d. Education (Hilary Churchill)- No report.
e. Mentoring (Kim Sedgwick) – new employees: Gerald Scott,
Construction Project Coordinator I, Physical Plant, Shelby Eck, Office
Support Specialist, Development Office, Cal Melvin, Stationary
Fireman Helper, Heating Plant, Sharon Thompson, Office Support
Specialst, Dietetics, Fashion Merch. & Hospitality, Susanne Campbell,
Nurse Practitioner, Beu , Katrina Dawson, Office Support Associate,
Admissions.
f. Social Events & Development (Hilary Churchill)- no report.
XII. Old Business –
a. We are still in need of someone to take Tishly’s place to go to meetings
while she is gone on maternity leave.
XIII. New Business – none.
Civil Service Employees Council
January 5, 2012, 1:15pm
Capitol Room, University Union
MINUTES
XIV. Group concerns –none.
XV. Announcements – none
XVI. Motion by Rich, 2nd by Carla to adjourn meeting.
XVII. Next meeting February 2, 2012 at 1:15 pm in the Capitol Room.