Classified Staff Advisory Council (CSAC) Minutes
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I.
Call to Order
II.
Roll Call
1) Present: J. Berger, T. Fell, R. Hamann, D. Hanson, B. Kolpitcke, C. Taylor, J. Treu, C. Wilson, R.
Wilson, B. Yoshizumi
2) Absent: Cheryl Rice, Pam Woods, Krista Shulka
III. Minutes—June 8, 2010 minutes approved as amended. M/S/P
September 14, 2010 minutes approved. M/S/P
IV. Guests Provost Kathleen Enz Finken and Tracy Noyes, Continuing Education
Presented working group’s outline of pros and cons of moving graduation to the La Crosse Center.
Two key points: Are we serving the students and their parents and risk management
Commencement has become a very large task to accomplish. Tracy spoke on some of these issues along
with discussion. Continuing Ed is currently overseeing graduation. Would like letter of support from
CSAC by the first week of November.
V.
Reports
1) Committees
a. By Laws—2nd reading – question on whether joint university committees need to be address in
CSAC bylaws. Joint are not considered part of the committee. Bylaws approved. M/S/P
Maureen Spencer is new secretary for this committee and Terry Stika will continue as chair.
b. Chairs report –
 CSAC website updated. Please send Krista picture and info about yourself (job title, how
long at UW-L, why you wanted to become involved with CSAC).

OSER workshop is coming up on Thursday, October 21. 2 sessions available

Chancellor is looking forward to another open forum with classified staff. We will look
at January dates
c. Fundraising Committee—No report
d. Program Committee—Karyn Cecele is new chair, Ingrid Iverson, Recorder. Met last week and
will meet again soon to finalize draft documents and bring recommendations to the council soon.
e. Committee on Committee— No official meeting at this time.
f. Academic Calendar—Nothing new, will be meeting later this week.
g. IT Task Force—Has not met.
h. SAC Dean Search—Lois Stuhr indicated applications are still being accepted. Wanted to touch
base on logistics. Questions that might be asked to these applicants from a classified point of view.
i. CIO Search – Matt not in attendance.
j. Textbook Committee— working on policies at the moment. All textbook requests that fit the
guidelines were filled for fall semester.
k. Joint Planning & Budget Committee – Karyn Cecele will be classified non-representative.
Karry indicated she had pointed out to committee that classified assignments will be coming from
CSAC instead of Chancellor. Discussion of term lengths.
l. Regents Relations – Cyndi indicated the big thing right now is election time and there are
scheduled open forums every Tuesday until elections.
m. Smoking Policy
Pam & Ben are sitting on this committee organized by Bob Hetzel to review UW-L’s smoking
policy. A charge was given to the committee and will bring findings/recommendations to 4 groups
on campus.
VI.
Unfinished Business
Complete Streets - Motion to support Complete Streets. M/S/P
Committee Vacancies – Will send out notice to classified regarding vacancies on the Joint
Environmental Sustainability, Joint Minority Affairs, and Student Academic Initiatives Oversight
Committees.
VII.
New Business
1) Bonnie Daines addressed council concerns and dangers regarding bicycle/pedestrian incident
on campus. She was struck from behind. Would like to see something done to protect pedestrians
from bikes.
Motion was made to create a resolution asking for committee creation to review bicycle/pedestrian
policies. M/S/P
2) Joint Environmental Sustainability committee would like to present to the council at the
November meeting.
3) Barbara Stewart, Campus Climate and Diversity, would like to speak to the council in
November also.
VIII. Next Regular Meeting Discussion
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Graff Main Hall 325
IX. Adjourn
3:20 p.m.