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Professional Staff Senate
Regular Meeting - April 2, 2004

Senators Present: Lin Brummels, Cheri Polenske, Ruth Smith, Phyllis Spethman, Dorothy Weber

Senators absent: Rollie Bullock, Mitch DeBoer, Stan Gardner

Liaisons from Other Senates Present: Bill Long

Guests: Jim Knotwell, American Democracy Project

Visitors: Gretchen Bauman

Lin called the meeting to order at 9:35; a quorum was present.

Two corrections were made to the March minutes:
1) Stan Gardner was added to the re-election list
2) Ruth Smith was added to the list of senators present.

The March minutes were approved as corrected. M-Phyllis S-Ruth

No Treasurer's Report was given

Guest, Jim Knotwell, the campus coordinator of the American Democracy Project, discussed the purpose and phases of the project. He is also asking for the Professional Staff Senate to endorse the project. Lin will email the members for input. Jim will also mail senators a book with the project information.

Committee reports:

Mentoring (Brummels) met with Gretchen Bauman and is going to recall the mentoring committee to get the process in place
Social (Spethman) still discussing event possibilities
Recognition (DeBoer) no report
Continuing Education (Gardner) no report
Membership (Polenske) a new membership excel file was created and sent to Lin for distribution for the upcoming elections
Hospitality (Weber) cards to Jeannine Wriedt, Trevor Garbers and Karla Pick. Balance in Courtesy Club fund is $155.03. We have a need to form guidelines as to what we send for events. A suggestion was made to give a receipt to members for anything paid over $3.00.
Policy (Bulock) No Report
Communication (Smith) have had no formal meeting

Agenda Items

*The Program Viability Audit document was discussed and Lin reported on the comments she received from the membership. Marilyn Liedorff would like to attend a meeting to be involved with further discussion regarding this issue.

*Spring elections will be run the same as in the past. Lin will distribute a membership list via email for nominations. Senate terms expiring this spring are Phyllis Spethman, Ruth Smith, Mitch DeBoer and Stan Gardner. Each is eligible to run again.

*Lin distributed a document requesting staff grants and program awards from the WSC Foundation. Suggestions were made and noted. Lin will distribute the modified document via email.

The next regular meeting will be Friday 9:30 A.M. May 7, 2004, Bluestem.

Meeting adjourned 10:40.

Respectfully submitted,
Cheri Polenske, Secretary

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