Final Approved January 20, 2009

December 16, 2008

Executive Committee Minutes

 

 

Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: President John Palmer, Past President Judy Kilborn, Secretary Michael Tripp, Treasurer Michael Connaughton

IFO Board Members: David Warne, Debra Leigh, President-Elect Mark Jaede 

Unit Representatives: COB Bill Hudson, COE Frances Kayona, COFAH VACANT, COSE Balsy Kasi, COSS Robert Johnson, SPEC JoAnn Gasparino

Negotiator: Michael Connaughton

 

 

1.    Call to order at 3:23 p.m.

 

2.    Approval of Minutes—done in Senate.

 

3.    Treasurer’s Report—to be given next month. There will be a quarterly report in January.

 

4.    Announcements/ Status Reports

a.    Administrative Searches—there was discussion about the LR&TS Dean Search. Palmer will discuss this privately with the President on Friday. There was discussion about the budget and how it will affect the faculty and class sizes in the future.

b.    Grievance Report—to be given in the new semester.

c.    Foundations of Excellence (Warne)—Warne gave a status report. There was discussion about payments. Palmer volunteered to report to the President the difficulties of payment. Warne said that a payment is supposed to be on the way. There was discussion about the payment difficulties for work done by faculty. Palmer reported that this was discussed at statewide Meet and Confer. The chancellor said they should be able to pay in three weeks and he said the responsible person for seeing that is done is the president.    

d.    Article 22 & 25—there is a meeting Thursday to finish work scheduled.

e.    IRB Policy Changes—waiting for response from IRB.

f.     State Meet & Confer—the majority of the time was taken up by D2L. The purge will happen one week later. There was discussion about the budget cuts and the impact on campus locally.

 

5.    Call for new agenda items

 

6.    Unfinished Business

 

7.    New Business

a.    Meet and Confer—strategy discussed.

b.    Reassign time for committee chairs (Warne, Tripp)—this will be taken off the agenda.

c.    Electronic Voting (Kilborn)—some people tested it Friday. This will go on the Senate agenda.

d.    Request for Extension Beyond 4-year fixed-term Appointment (EC 10/28/08)—no discussion because Palmer has not heard from the department.

e.    Negotiators Questions—there was discussion about the questions coming from Connie Howard. Palmer will look for the questions and forward them to EC.

f.     At Large FA: Representative on LR&TS Associate Dean Search—discussed above.

g.    SCSU Action Chair—Hudson is considering this position, and he said yes.

h.    Recall Election Results and Issues—Palmer explained the status of the recall election. There were 15 votes for no; 22 votes for yes; 5 spoiled votes (one blank ballot; four duplicate votes). EC discussed what they should do with the fraud and with the outcome of 22.2. This has only been tallied once by the elections committee. After they tally it for the 2nd time they will determine the outcome. The matter of fraud will be referred to the elections committee.

i.      Voting Schedule—Monica Nayenga prepared the schedule before going on leave. The elections committee asked why the dates are a month later than last year and it is because of Monica’s leave. Jaede asked that we follow the constitution regarding nominations this year.

j.     Sabbatical Leave Grievance—there was at least one clerical error on the list given to us by the committee. There was discussion about tenure dates and some assumptions that were made. Palmer met with committee members today and he agreed to try to get this worked out. There was discussion that a short-term crisis should not make long-term bad policies such as only granting mandatory sabbaticals.  

k.    Temporary Replacement for Gen. Ed. Committee COFAH—the committee member is leaving for England and would like someone to replace her. Temporary vacancies can be filled by the college rep (there is no COFAH rep). A call will go out.

l.      Winona Action Model—Palmer sent out information and he asked for EC’s advice to their action chair. There was discussion. Palmer will help Hudson make this local.

 

8.    Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.

 

Submitted and prepared by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant