Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: President Larkin, President-Elect Fisher, Secretary S.Q. Williams, Treasurer: Kang

IFO Board Members: Foster, R. C. Johnson, A. Schoenberger

Unit Representatives: COB Pesch, COE T. Peterson, FAH Kilborn, COSE McKenna, COSS Ore, SS C. Inkster

Negotiator: Langen

1.        Call to order at 3 p.m.

2.        Minutes

                Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes of 6-18-02 (Foster/Kilborn) passed

Executive Committee minutes of 6-28-02 amended to read “search committees relating to academic matters”.

                Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes of 6-28-02 with amendment (Foster/Kang) passed

3.        Treasurer’s Report

        Treasurer reports a balance of $3131.79 on 6-29-02.

        Motion to accept the Treasurer’s report (Kilborn/Inkster) passed

4.        Call for additional Agenda Items

        5.c.          Executive Session

        7.b.          Budget cuts in the Office of the Chancellor

5.        Presidents Report

6.        a.     AAO Search

b.                    MHSC

Motion that President Larkin write a follow-up memo to Provost Spitzer reiterating the terms that we understand with regard to expertise in the MHSC and to expedite this process for the benefit and welfare of faculty affected by this delay (Foster/Peterson) passed

c.             Class Action Suit

7.        Old Business: none

7.     New Business

a.                    SCSU candidate for IFO position on Bremer grant

Motion to elect one nominee for the IFO position from SCSU to forward to Jim Pehler (Ore/Kilborn) passed

                Semya Hakim was elected and her name will be forwarded to Jim Pehler.

b.                    Budget cuts in the Office of the Chancellor

Motion that as an Executive Committee we request that the IFO Board ask MnSCU for an itemization of the budget cuts that were made in the Office of the Chancellor (OTC) as promised by the Chancellor last year (Foster/Fisher) passed

        5.     c.             Executive Session

Motion to go into Executive Session to discuss the class action lawsuit regarding Jewish Faculty (Fisher/Foster) passed

8.             Adjournment at 5:25