Professional Staff Leadership Team
Approved Meeting Minutes
September 14, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
East Campus Building 8 room 105D
Present
Heidi Shugg, Sonja Boles-Melvin, Debi Jakubcin, Todd Hunt, Joe Nunes, Donna
Kosloski, Keith Mizelle, Angela Trujillo, Karen (Sand Lake Center Rotating
Representative)
Absent
Melanie Price, Shauna Anstey, Liz Jusino Karen Blondeau, Joe Sarrubbo, Elisha
Gonzalez-Bonnewitz,
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:02 p.m.
Approval of
Minutes
The July 20th, 2009 regular meeting minutes were approved as submitted by
consensus.
PSLT Chair
Report
HR Benefits information sessions ongoing. Health Assessment from Cigna is
mandatory per Dr. Shugart. The Assessment is confidential and it is a great tool to
target Health specific workshops for Valencia employees. Currently there will be
25 incentive points given to all participants and a chance to win a Wii gaming
system and the Wii Fit software. Due to this mandatory health assessment
Valencia receives a 3% reduction in premiums and therefore allows employees a
discounted premium rate.
(Debi
Jakubcin)
Miscellaneous
Sonya: Not sure of enrollment numbers for Flex Start classes. Currently running
reports and cleaning up items from registration.
Donna: Has sent in her reports documentation of students attending multiple
campuses for classes in a single term. This number has increased. She is collecting
information about “feelings on the Budget” for Amy Bosley (co-chair Budget
Committee). Need to email Donna your feelings on the Budget by Wednesday
September 16th.
Keith: Parking has been manageable due to class time schedules, days of classes,
consistency. Parking spaces filled on a consistent basis.
Karen: External training is down but training for government agencies is up. Sand
Lake Center is looking to move into a new building within the next two years.
They are renting the property currently where they are located. Their new location
is TBD. They are currently working with contractors in regards to their new space.
Angela: New building at West Campus, Building 11. This is excellent for OSD
students. It has state of the art facilities and excellent testing centers.
Professional
Staff Fall for
Learning
Forum
(Joe Nunes)
Council
Updates
Joe distributed minutes from the Fall Forum Planning Committee meeting held on
9/1/09 at CJI. Committee: Andrea Alfano, Sonja Boles-Melvin, Cynthia Cerrato,
Debi Jakubcin, Brent Nakagama, Donna Kosloski, and Joe Nunes.

13 tables with 8 people per table: Need moderators for each table that are
not vested in the particular topic area. There will be someone at each table
in which they specialize in that topic area to be used only as a way of better
understanding the topic or idea.

Moderator was described as the individual to drive the conversation and to
act as a “referee.” The example Joe gave was Brent Nakagama as a
moderator. The tables would rotate every 15 minutes. Table topics would
include “Valencia Specific Issues,” “Effectively Resolving Employee
Issues,” and “Computerized Social Networking” (Twitter, Facebook,
MySpace).

This event would take place on October 14th from 8-12:30(?) at the new
conference center at West Campus. The theme of the event that was agreed
upon by those present is “Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month” or
something along those lines. This would theme the lunch portion of the
Forum.

Lunch was decided upon to be a potluck event with dishes centered around
the Hispanic Heritage Month theme. The invitation and RSVP was agreed
to indicate what is to be brought and how many servings of the dish to be
provided. Last Forum there were 110 Professional Staff in attendance.

Joe is to send out an email to the PSLT group by the end of the week to
early Monday. Debi is to check the budget to see if there is any money
available to work with for the Forum. The invitations are to indicate that
the morning is to be light beverages, example: coffee, water, juice, to
inform everyone that a continental breakfast is not being served. It was
noted that a continental breakfast is usually expected so if this is to be
different it is best to inform everyone ahead of time.
COC: Meeting was cancelled. No update at this time.
CLC: Donna is the CLC representative. She shared the minutes from the
September 3rd meeting. She informed everyone about the overview of the New
Student profile which was presented by Kurt Ewen and Roberta Brown. “Emphasis
was placed in describing new first time in college students versus new first time at
Valencia students.” “Additional discussion took place to explain the continuing
nature of new students who were originally transfer students versus first time in
college students.” “Karen reminded everyone that changes were due by February
10, 2010 for the catalogue.” Debi is to forward the slide presentation from the
meeting that Donna attended.
CPC: Joe is the CPC representative. He shared the minutes from the July 23rd
meeting. Amy Bosley is the new co-chair for the 2009-2010 terms. He highlighted
that the budget and related PowerPoint presentation can be viewed at:
http://www.valenciacc.edu/budget/documents/OperatingBudget2009-10.pdf
http://www.valenciacc.edu/budget/budget.cfm
 “Kurt Ewen will report on unit planning as part of our Institutional
Effectiveness process, and the use of the planning tool that facilitates the
linkage of plans made throughout the college by the various planning units
to the goals and objectives in the strategic plan.”
 “Jared Graber will provide a brief update on the process of preparing the
Five-Year Interim report for SACS.”
 Upcoming discussions for the following meetings:
September: “How do we define and practice collaboration?”
November: “Impact of recession on governance.”
January: “Impact of budget cuts.”
February: “Creating ways to boost revenues and cut costs.”
April: “How is our commitment to valuing diversity honored through the
work envisioned by this plan?”
Round Table
Todd Hunt: Bookstore discount was a huge success. In those three weeks the
book sales were up 163%. Bookstore gave away in the discount over $807,000.
Online orders were up 75%. Sale weeks were August 3-21st.
Keith Mizelle: Shared that the PPD was a huge success in his department.
Next Meeting
October 12, West Campus, TBA
Adjourn
The meeting adjourned at 3:30p.m.
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