STAFF EMPLOYEE’S COUNCIL
DATE: December 19, 2000
Melton Media Room, Journalism Building
REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT: Val Chappel, Don Emerson, Marianne Fuller, Elizabeth
Gadsden, Kathy Hoffman, Helen Johnson, Lisa Johnson, Michele Krick, Diane Krutz, Ginger
Miller, Brenda Quihuis, Lori Roundtree, Kendall Stagg, Linda Spezia, Terry Torvinen, Peggy
Troupe, Susan Warren, Emelita Weldon, Diane Yohey
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS: Jodie Helman (Chair), Ginger Miller (Vice-Chair), Cami Allen
(Secretary), Lisa Farmer (Public Relations), Kristi Forbes (Treasurer)
ADVISOR: Stephanie Flatt
VISITORS: President Joe Crowley, Mark Kauffman (SNEA), Dan Tone (Academic Affairs),
Susan Henthorne (GSA)
REPRESENTATIVES ABSENT: Janis Bennett (excused w/proxy), Judy Hamilton (excused
w/proxy), Lucy Rice (proxy), Curtis Funk, Michelle Palton (excused), Nezzera Kemp, Victor
Atkocaitis
I.
Minutes
November 21, 2000 minutes approved with changes.
II.
Guests
President Joe Crowley was presented with an engraved marble apple on behalf of the Staff
Employees Council for his support over the years. Long time employee and friend of President
Crowley’s, Jewell Radcliffe made the presentation.
Dr. David Westfall, Vice President of Academic Affairs, presented to the council a powerpoint
presentation on the growth of UNR. Dr. Westfall’s presentation included such information as the
faculty hire statistics, the current ratio of faculty to staff being 5 to 1, and the estimated rise in
freshman attendance for Fall 2000 was 23% due to the Millenium Scholarships. UNR is again
expecting a 23% increase in enrollment in Fall 2001 and a 50% increase in enrollment in the next
10 years.
Unable to answer the question of the hire rate of classified employees at UNR, Dr. Westfall asked
Chair Helman to obtain this information for him to be included in his presentation.
According to Dr. Westfall, the university is currently overbudgeted. This is in large due to not
being prepared for the increase in students and including them in the budget presented to the
legislature two years ago by UNR. If the budget UNR is requesting from the legislature this year.
III.
Chair’s Report
The University Security Committee is no longer meeting and should be deleted as a committee.
Liz Gadsen asked Chair Helman and the council for a moment of silence in memory of Gary
Kramer. Gary was a member of the SEC and a longtime employee of UNR in Parking Services.
IV.
New Business
Committee Reports
Affirmative Action:
Arboretum Board: Did not meet
Classified Employee Recognition:
Classified Employee of the Year:
Classified Staff Development Fund: Did not meet
Compensation: Did not meet
Education Leave Stipend: Did not meet
Facilities Planning and Management:
Advisement Center: The Advisement Center will be housed in the old Admissions and
Records down in the basement in Clark. They will be housed there for a couple of years.
Ashok Dhingra and Shannon Ellis agreed with this. The Advisement Center should be up
and running by the beginning of Spring Semester.
Request to Name Mackay Social Science Room 242: The History Department is not
interested in naming room 242 “John & Marie Noble Room”. Board willing to call the
room “John & Marie Noble Room”. History Department wants to name room 242 “John
& Marie Noble History Room”. Chair Perry is going to talk to the History Department to
make sure of their decision.
Biological Resource Research Center: BRC requested space last meeting. Carol Ort had
spoke with Lee Weber and renting a trailer is not a viable concept. Board put this back on
agenda for the February meeting.
Motion was made and passed that January meeting is canceled. Facilities Planning Board
meetings will resume February 13th.
The rest of the meeting was reserved at viewing and discussion of the master plan that Buzz
Nelson brought.
Food Services:
Matt updated the committee on the Wolf Perk Coffee House. The Coffee Science
Institute will be supplying a special blend/roast just for the Wolf Perk. They are also
helping specify new equipment to be in place in January. Prices for the improved product
will remain the same. Suzanne recommended including decaf coffee on the menu.
Mike reported on the Burger King and Taco Bell Express price adjustments and research
being conducted on Pizza Hut prices. Mike also updated the committee on the plans to
convert the Blimpie Cart (which now carries Campbells Soup) in the College of
Education to a self-operated Upper Crust cart. This would provide an equivalent product
without the need to pay royalties to Blimpie (currently about $1000/month) thereby
opening the possibility for lowered prices.
Michele asked for a clarification of the hours of the Peabodys cart in the library. A
discussion followed concerning hours of the carts in the library and the College of
Education as well as the products offered and the sanitation of the operations.
A discussion about marketing of retail food operations included a recap of fall semester
and options for future efforts. Suggestions/comments included:
Simplify, “Too much to see.”
Coupons not effective, but might try a mailing with coupons
Use staff to communicate specials
Do product samplings
Use the Web
Look at crossover marketing
Put an A-frame in the Student Services Bldg. to advertise COE operations
Next Meeting: tentatively scheduled for 9:00 a.m., Friday, 1/26/01
Gender Relations:
Parking and Traffic Board:
Safety:
SEC By-Laws: Will be meeting in January
SEC Luncheon:
SEC Open House:
The committee cleared up some concerns raised during the last meeting:
1. It was confirmed that Open House will be Friday, March 16, in the JTSU
Auditorium from 11:00 am – 3:30 pm.
2. A letter will be sent from the President’s Office to all faculty and staff (instead
of Deans, Directors, and Department Chairs granting administrative leave to
attend the Open House.
3. JTSU has agreed to set up a booth to make ID cards, providing the necessary
paperwork is provided by Personnel.
4. Vendors providing services catered toward classified/university employees
may be included at Open House.
Peggy Troupe has arranged for all the food at the same price per person as the
previous year. Dining Services also offered to provide the drinks free of charge.
The committee voted to not include guest speakers during this year’s Open
House. The decision was based on feedback provided at the SEC general meeting
and the consensus that speakers would take away from the new approach the
committee is attempting this year. The committee also voted against having the
different SEC committees compete against each other in a table design
competition and a competition between representatives’ constituency attendance.
Both decisions were based on the format change. A suggestion was made to have
a random drawing for the committees participating in Open House. This will be
further discussed.
Following is a list of departments/vendors/agencies the committee has decided to
invite to Open House. The committee will be contacting each of them this month
and will report back the next meeting, Friday, January 12, from 12-1 at the Cellar.
1. Academic & Career Services
2. Admissions/Transfer Ctr.
3. Affirmative Action
4. ASUN Bookstore
5. Balloon Race Committee
6. BCN Personnel
7. Campus Child Care
8. Campus Security/Escort Services
9. Center for Aging
10. Controller’s Office/Computer Loans
11. Crisis Call Center
12. Environmental Health and Safety
13. Excellence in Teaching Program
14. Facilities Management
15. Faculty Senate
16. Financial Aid
17. Jot Travis Student Union
18. Lawlor Events Center
19. Library
20. Office of Continuous Quality Improvement
21. Office of Prospective Students
22. Parking Services
23. Printing/Mail Services
24. Residential Life and Housing
25. Student Health Center
26. University Inn
27. University Police
28. UNR Personnel
29. Wellness Center
30. Women’s Resource Center
31. AT&T Wireless
32. Chartwell’s
33. Corporate Express
34. Office Depot
Special Interests:
Web Page:
Approved October Minutes on web.
Roxie Taft notified the Web Committee of the December Employees of the month, the
information has been added to the Awards Page.
The Web Committee went to the basement to view the records of the SEC to reconstruct
the Past Officers page. We did not have much luck as the officer's names were in no
specific place on any of the documents. The committee would like to propose that the
executive board be listed on the minutes. Ether separately or with the executive title after
their name on the "Representative Present/ Representatives Absent" portion of the
minutes. We feel this would not only be beneficial to the web committee but to other
aspects of the SEC as well. This being the case we would like to discuss the importance
of researching the data of past officers.
After a discussion with Dr Dhingra, Chair Helman requested the deletion of the
University Security Committee and the Faculty/Staff Club be deleted from the
Committees Page. As per this request those deletions have been made.
Researching Open House presentations: No Internet connections, No modem connections
in JTSU auditorium. I am looking into a loaner laptop to be able to show SEC web site.
Web Committee would like to know how many handouts we should have for open house.
UNR to install new web server with Front Page Extensions. This will allow our form to
be easily read when submitted to Chairs e-mail. This will happen approximately May
2001.
Working Family Task Force: Did not meet
V.
Old Business
The Blanket Drive is completed and the winner was announced as Chair Jodie Helman, Military
Science, for having 10 blankets donated on her behalf. Jodie received two tickets to Reno Little
Theater’s “…a little Christmas” and a complimentary brunch for two at Rapscallion Seafood Bar
and Grill.
Val Chappel was recognized for the donation of over 100 blankets from Residential Life and
Housing.
Dianne Yohey was recognized for the donation of approximately 280 blankets she received from
Sierra Nevada Job Corps.
VI.
Meeting adjourned at 4:04 pm
Prepared by:
Approved by:
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Cami Allen, Secretary
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Jodie Helman, Chair