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Professional Staff Leadership Team
Un-Adopted Meeting Minutes
April 9, 2012 2-4 pm
Winter Park Campus Room 107
Jerry Reed, Julie Balassa, Johnny Aplin, Jeff Hogan, Joe Sarrubbo, Josh Murdock,
Liz Jusino. Todd Hunt and Donna Kosloski via phone
Elisha Gonzalez-Bonnewitz, Mariann Swenson, Heidi Shugg, Dwayne Smoot, Patti
Riva, Shauna Anstey
After experiencing audio difficulties attempting to connect Heidi, Todd and Donna via phone, the meeting was moved to room 123 and called to order at 2:30 p.m.
The April 9, 2012 regular meeting minutes were identified as missing a few items and tabled to another meeting for adoption.
Liz informed the team that the food had been ordered for the luncheon next week.
The committee decided on salad buffet with chicken and fruit salad. The room was reserved. The agenda is going to be:
Continental Breakfast
Report from Joe Nunes on legislative updates
Update on the faculty EDGE by Jenny Charriaz
Break
Survivor networking activity conducted by Josh Murdock
Networking activity conducted by Celeste Henry
Liz stressed that the event is designed to focus on relaxation and not information.
86 people have confirmed and Josh has agreed to send out a proper e-vite (using eventbrite) to get a more accurate headcount. Liz mentioned that Celeste requested some funding to purchase props; but, our budget is depleted and we are unable to financially assist her without using funds from next year’s budget. It was agreed that we should not dip into next year’s budget.
Jeff Hogan mentioned that Shelby Fiorentino’s daughter (past PSLT board member) has been suffering medical issues and asked the board to keep her family in their thoughts/prayers.
Liz mentioned that two Professional Staff have been nominated for Grapevine awards. However, since Professional Staff are inelligible for Grapevine awards, she thought it would be a good idea to recognize them verbally during the luncheon. She also thought this would be a good venue for recognizing any other
Professional Staff accomplishments (degrees, etc). The board agreed.

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Council
Reports
Joe presented the S.P.D. advising report. It is being designed with the following five principles in mind:
Learning
People
Access
Diversity
Integrity
The S.P.D. advisory committee believed that these funds should be used to provide opportunity that equally benefits college employees. While still in draft phase, the committee is pushing the following changes up the pipeline.
1) Uncouple Program and Staff Development
2) Focus on Employee Development by renaming it to EDP or EDF
3) Redesigning into 4 tracks
1) Degree Seeking
2) Enrichment
3) Exploration for Professional Growth
4) No $1100 cap on employees wishing to earn their A.A. or A.S.
There was also discussion that SPD funds should be available for travel and material expenses in addition to conference registration fees and tuition.
It was mentioned that Perkins MiniGrants could be used for travel and conferences once SPD funds were depleted.
No other council reports were presented at this time.
Miscellaneous It was reported that a Professional Staff member is being asked to pay a $35 readmission fee to take Valencia classes. The logic behind this required fee was discussed with quite a bit of passion. The board seemed divided on how this issue should be handled. It was agreed that we would send out a survey to the
Professional Staff membership asking them to identify hot topics and include that as one of the potential topics.
Once the survey has been collected, the board will use the data to determine what 5 areas the PSLT will focus on in the coming year.
We tabled deciding what 5 areas to suggest to Professional Staff and will work collaboratively via e-mail to make that decision. We will then distribute a Qualtrix survey out to Professional Staff.
Other hot topics mentioned were inconsistent paygrades and employees being asked/expected to perform tasks not listed on their job description for no additional

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Adjourn compensation.
Julie mentioned that when we discuss items we fail to bring them take a formal vote. We referenced our bylaws where the language spelled out clear directions on how to do this.
We then voted on whether we should send the Qualtrix survey out to the
Professional Staff to garner feedback. All in attendance approved the motion.
Donna and Todd abstained as audio difficulties prevented them from fully understanding the issue.
The meeting adjourned at 3:44 PM.
Next Meeting: May 14 th
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