Minutes
Classified Staff Advisory Council
Tuesday, August 5, 2014; 9:30 a.m.
UC 266
Denise Ehren, chair, called the meeting to order at 9:33 a.m.
Present: Tricia Borchardt, Karen Brueggeman, Denise Ehren, Wes Enterline, Chris
Johnson, Dean Look, Mike Sacco, Amy Sexton, Ruth Stradinger, Liz Woolever
Quorum present: Yes
Absent: Jody Marquardt, Mary Kaster
Unfinished Business
None
New Business
Tricia moved to approve the July 8, 2014 council minutes; Chris seconded the motion,
approved unanimously.
Chair’s Report:
SPBC report was distributed to council. Please send any feedback to Denise. Council
requested clarification of staff/classified staff in document. Council will ask Faye
Schouten to serve as the CSAC rep on committee for next year and ask her to share
information from meetings with council.
UPS: Committee has been formed and is meeting. Next meeting scheduled for
tomorrow.
Ruth reported on 7/22/14 meeting and current activities. Ruth distributed survey
pertaining to layoff policy. Please review and send any feedback to Ruth by tomorrow
morning. The committee plans to distributed the survey and then to schedule listening
sessions regarding the policy. The committee will then make necessary adjustments
before submitting to Human Resources.
Teleconference with System CSACs: The August teleconference is scheduled for August
12th, 12:30 – 2:00 pm to discuss the grievance policy. The last meeting was on July 24th.
Board of Regents invite discussed. Denise will attend the meeting on 8/21 and 8/22.
UW-Oshkosh council has already reserved time for council reps to have lunch together
on the 21st and is looking for another time for council reps to meet as well.
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Minutes
Classified Staff Advisory Council
Tuesday, August 5, 2014; 9:30 a.m.
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Vice Chair’s Report: No Report
Treasurer’s Report: No Report. Jody now has signature authority. Denise will ask Jody
to chair the Grant/Fundraising Committee.
Grant/Fundraising Committee: No report
Programming Committee: Liz reported on current activities. The Classified Staff
Conference is this Thursday. The number of classified staff registered is around 80. The
break-out sessions are set up and the committee is taking care of final arrangements.
Conversational Spanish is full for the summer session.
Continuing education is offering a Latino community event – “Walk and Hour in My
Shoes” on September 26th.
Council discussed ways for programming activities to be more inviting for male staff.
Employee Recognition Committee: Photos for excellence award winners have been
scheduled. Council requested committee move up the date for selecting recipients of
awards so the names of honorees can be placed in the commencement booklet.
Outreach Committee: Wes reported on current activities. The committee will be doing a
trial run of the tour and then ask council members to join them. After trial tours are
completed the committee will use the information to finalize the resource guide.
Elections/By Laws Committee:
Resolution 2013-R001: No new information
Resolution 2013-R002 – Safe Outlet: Dean is still recruiting members.
Chancellor Liaison Report: The State of the University address by Chancellor Telfer is
scheduled for August 25th, 10:30 am.
Worksite Wellness: The worksite wellness committee is pursuing another round of biometric screenings this fall. They may pursue using a State agency paid for resource
called Optum to be more cost effective. They plan on having a table at both the
Involvement Opportunity Fair as well as the Benefits Fair. The committee is also
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Minutes
Classified Staff Advisory Council
Tuesday, August 5, 2014; 9:30 a.m.
UC 266
working on having items added to the events calendar. The next meeting is this Friday
at 10:00 am, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Ambrose Health Center.
Human Resources Liaison Report: Amy asked for council discussion on posting job
openings to the CSAC facebook page, council approved this request. Council also
discussed and approved placing link to employment openings on the CSAC website.
Ruth will take care of website changes.
Personnel Update: No report.
Website Comment submissions: None.
Other Business:
Conversations on Race: Denise distributed Conversations on Race Programming for
14/15 academic year. The committee is looking for a classified staff representative. Ruth
will talk to Nikki Mandell about trying to find a representative. Ruth will also add the
programming link on the CSAC website.
General Member Meeting: The council will schedule the meeting for the week of
September 22nd in the afternoon and invite the chancellor to open the meeting. Liz will
check the chancellor’s schedule and let Karen know when he is available.
Ruth motioned to adjourn the meeting, Mike seconded the motion, meeting adjourned
at 10:56 am.
Respectfully submitted,
Karen Brueggeman, CSAC Secretary
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