PSS - June 14, 2006 Minutes

Professional Staff Senate Meeting Minutes
June 14, 2006

Call to order:

Dave Graber, chair, called the meeting to order at 11:03 a.m.; a quorum was not present.

Attendance:

Senators present: Dave Graber, Derek Anderson, Lin Brummels, Eddie Elfers

Absent: Oliver Twelvetrees, Brandon Eckmann, Tammy Tyson, Kevin Halle Student Rep: Brett Burns

Approval of minutes from last meeting:

The minutes from the May 3rd meeting were reviewed and will be sent out for e-mail approval.

Committee Reports:

Mentoring: No Report
Social: No Report
Recognition: Derek is working on the recognition program – notes below.
Continuing Ed: No Report
Membership: No Report
Hospitality: Tammy turned in the cards and checkbook. Sympathy cards were sent to six staff/faculty; get well cards to three staff and wedding congratulations to one staff. There is $266.84 on hand.
Policy: No Report
Communication: No Report

New business:

Final Election Results for the 2006-07 academic year – Mary Carstens will fill Tammy Tyson’s seat. Marcus Schlichter will replace Dave Graber, and Derek Anderson was re-elected. Senators Halle, Brummels and Twelvetrees will be retained for their second year term. Bev Buhrman will replace Brandon Eckmann and Loren Kucera will replace Eddie Elfers.

Professional Staff Grants – The grants were all approved by the WSC Foundation. For the record, the following program development grants were awarded:

1. AAA (Advising Athletes on Academics) Teamwork grant to fund an additional Mentor for the 2006-07 academic year for $980.96;

2. Ready, Set, Cook nutritional education program for student athletes was funded for $832.19;

3. Athletic Transition Program to hire a counselor 8-10 hours per week for the fall semester to assist athletes from urban backgrounds and/or junior college transfers to adjust to WSC and persist toward graduation for $$2,099.18.

In addition, there were staff development grants awarded to:

1. Kathy Mohlfeld to attend a Social Norms Conference for $1000.00;

2. Karla Pick to subscribe to a Guide to Managing Federal Grants and enrollment in an on-line grants education program for a total of $591.00; and

3. Bev Buhrman and Cheri Polenske to attend a Kuali financial Systems Conference for $1000.00.

Professional Staff recognition award: Dave will meet with Dr. Collings and/or Cheryl Waddington to try to finalize details of this award.

Recognition Program: Derek is planning to invite those who retire from the College back to the Professional Staff brunch on August 10th, 2006. Derek is looking into finding a speaker and/or some entertainment for the program. He is working with HR in preparing certificates for staff meeting the 10 and 20 year marks at WSC. The program will be held at 10:30 with a brunch provided by the college. Staff should look for invitations later in the summer.

Constitution: The amended constitution was sent to members. Comments were received and discussed. No further action was taken at this time due to lack of a quorum. This will be revisited at the August meeting.

The next meeting will be August 2, 2006 at the Coffee Shop, downtown at 11:00. New Senators will be invited to come to this meeting and officially begin duties at the September meeting.

Adjournment:

The meeting adjoined at 11:30. The PSS will not meet in July due to the holiday schedule.

Minutes submitted by Lin Brummels for Kevin E. Halle; Senate Secretary

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