The mission of the Staff Council is to foster a positive and respectful working
environment by advocating for the interests and concerns of each staff member
Meeting Minutes
August 20, 2015
11:00am – 12pm
I. Welcome
Meeting called to order – 11:02
Quorum established
II. Approval of Minutes
No minutes to approve
III. Chair Report – Leslie Kamtman
Reminder of mission – to foster a positive and respectful working environment.
Important Dates to remember – on the back of the agenda
BOG – Sept. 18
BOT – Sept. 24-25
Installation – Sept. 25
Community Day – Sept. 26
Appointment of Parliamentarian – Christia Thomasson
IV. Jason Romney, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Director
Draft of Executive Summary provided (Tell your Story)
About communication
Convened faculty about what that meant – connect to student learning
Faculty will share primary burden of implementation of plan
Communication skills we want to develop – 3 outcomes: passion for professional career,
(what they do and why they do it) developed over a period of time, self
critique/critically about their own work, critically about work of others.
Develop assessment plan – Institutional Research to assist
5 year project
Propose in January
What has to do with staff? – be aware of it
QEP – part of SACS re-affirmation
Re-affirmation – showing we are still in compliance with the standards
Doing more than status quo – infact things we want to improve
Have to do, and do well
Broad based involvement in both the development and implementation of the QEP plan
What ways staff can participate in QEP
V. Committee Reports
A. Special Events – Jackie Riffle– looking for co-chair
B. Professional Development — Sarah Lawrence
 Tom Murray – ECPR on Oct. 12-13
o 2012 – Emotional CPR classes offered
o Doing once or twice per year
o Trainings are all day 2 day events.
o Highly experiential
o How to best help people who are experiencing emotional crisis
 Looking for help
 Several workshops have already been scheduled:
o Sept. 11 from 11:30-12:30 Jamie Moore will present a workshop on how
to plant flowers and veggies,
o Oct. 7– Ed. Stephens will present a workshop on getting the most out of
Outlook for PC users and Oct. 21 – getting the most out of Outlook for
MAC users.
o Oct. 12 and 13, Tom Murray will conduct a two-day ECPR workshop.
o January 27, 2016 – Marcie & Sarah will show us how to get the most out
of ORBIT and Banner self-service.
o February 11, 2016 – Tom Murray will present a workshop on how to
handle stress.
o There are several more workshops planned with dates to be determined:
MS Access: working with tables, MS Access: working with queries,
nutrition/cooking workshop and a workshop on couponing presented by
Ramona Richmond.
C. Membership & Elections – Mary Graves
 Need help
 Last year
 Welcome new employees:
o Chief Harris – worked at 7-8 universities, 20+ years, glad to be here
o Marquetta Smith – HR, graduate from NCSU in May, from Winston
 Information given about Aramark
 Faculty Staff Lunch – Thursday for $6
D. Community Service and Sustainability – Jamie Moore
 Unable to be here
 Big Sweep – campus activity or working with Washington Park – Oct. 3
 Community Roots day – Oct. 24
 School Wide Community Service Project
o Toy Project
o Food drive – campus night of Nutcracker
o Should go for something
VI. Staff Assembly Report
 Leslie, Patsy and Lauren are delegates
 Seeking an alternate
 Will send an email requesting a volunteer and with info.
VII. State Employees Combined Campaign – Jim DeCristo, Leslie Kamtman
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Annually the state of NC has a state employees combined campaign for charities
Did not participate last year
Pres. Ross asked every campus to support the cause
The campaign is a way for us to support causes that we care about
Michael Rothkopf from Faculty Affairs
Leslie Kamtman for Staff Council
Asking everyone to participate
Campaign is from now until Nov. 1
Reps of staff council – to help with distribution of getting out the materials
Available for payroll deductions
All kinds of organizations available
From January-December 2016
More information to come
Asked all of Cabinet to participate
Jim will be going to ask all Deans
Can give updates regularly on how much we raise
Participation is important
VIII. Jim DeCristo, Chief of Staff
 Community Day – Alumni Reunion Picklestock over Labor Day weekend
 Faculty Endowed Scholarship concert – fundraiser Sat. Sept. 5 starts at 1:00, runs
throughout the afternoon.
 Chancellor’s Installation – use volunteers
 Community Day – use volunteers
 If interested email Ginger or Jim, and let them know
IX. James Lucas, Director of Human Resources
 Policy Review email – please take time to review
 Sept. 9 – Benefits fair
 Annual training and review of Title IX – will begin in September
 Oct. – Supervisor training
 Flu Clinic – Oct. 21 in Eisenberg
 ORBIT – gives you retirement data, you should create an account if you don’t have one
 Benefitfocus to Aon, going back to Benefitfocus. Transition back will leave us in a
blackout period.
 Excited about working with Staff Council
 HR will be onboard and help to support
 Walk a Mile in her shoes
X. Requests/Announcements
 Lauren Whitaker - Last spring chaired ad hoc committee for awards, would like Staff
Council to sponsor a day or week of giving – everyone on campus gives one hour of their
time to community service event. If involved, hope you will sponsor a project. Get
cooperation of faculty council and student council. Community building for us, get
support and get publicity. Hopefully in the spring. Res lIfe does it once month, Nakita
would love to join committee
XI. Adjournment
 Adjournment 12:05
UNCSA STAFF COUNCIL
UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER
August 24: Convocation, Crawford Hall, 5:00 pm
September 17: Staff Council Meeting, Eisenberg Social Hall, 11am-12pm
September 18: UNC Board of Governors at UNCSA
September 24-25: UNCSA Board of Trustees Meeting
September 25: Installation of M. Lindsay Bierman as the Eighth Chancellor of UNCSA
September 26: UNCSA Community Day
October 15: All School Staff Meeting
November 19: Staff Council Meeting
December 17: Staff Council Meeting
January 21: Staff Council Meeting
February 18: Staff Council Meeting
March 17: All School Staff Meeting
April 21: Staff Council Meeting
May 19: Staff Council Meeting
June 16: Staff Council Meeting