Professional Staff Leadership Team
Approved Meeting Minutes
April 12, 2010, 1:00 p.m.
Winter Park Campus, Room 108
Present (9)
Absent (6)
Joe Sarrubbo, Donna Kosloski, Debi Jakubcin, Elizabeth Jusino, Melanie Price,
Keith Mizelle, Angela Trujillo, Joe Nunes, Mariann Swenson
Todd Hunt, Akos Delneky, Heidi Shugg, Elisha Gonzalez-Bonnewitz, Shauna
Anstey, Sonja Boles-Melvin
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 P.M.
Approval of
Minutes
The March 22, 2010 regular meeting minutes were approved.
Spring Forum
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The event will be held on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in the Special Events
Center (Building 8) Room 111 on West Campus. It will begin at 9am.
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Debi reported that 109 Professional Staff have sent RSVPs for the event.
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Debi mentioned that some of those on the list of Professional Staff were
actually faculty members. Donna and Mariann both volunteered to look into
the issue.
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Joe Nunes and Mariann Swenson offered to cover sign-in and greet staff.
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Stan Stone, Carolyn McMorran and Keith Houck will be speaking to the
group.
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Debi asked if we have any questions for the speakers that we could give
them prior to the forum. This will alert them to the Professional Staff’s
interests and allow them to prepare for the event. The PSLT came up with
the following:
o Retirement legislation information
o Information on funding for new positions across the college
o Information on raises for Professional Staff
o Re-classification for Professional Staff
o SPD funds
o PDP process
o Dr. Shugart’s feedback from “Fall for Learning”
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It was suggested that Debi contact all who have sent RSVPs in order to get
additional advance questions for speakers.
PSLT Chair
Report
PSLT Website:
Debi mentioned that Heidi, Keith, Elisha and Mariann still need to provide pictures
for the PSLT webpage.
Calendar and Scheduling Committee:
Debi distributed updated information on The Calendar and Scheduling Committee
prior to the meeting (Todd Hunt was unable to attend the PSLT meeting). Debi
asked for feedback on the information. The recent meeting minutes were discussed
which included proposed changes to class scheduling. There were various proposed
changes to class scheduling including more weekend courses and different weekday
patterns (MR and TF instead of the traditional MW, TR, MWF).
 There were conflicting points of view on whether or not scheduling changes
would be a positive move for the college.
 Donna Kosloski brought up the need for weekend security and additional
use of power. Keith Mizelle stated there would be a need for more security,
but couldn’t say the overall impact on that department without more details.
He also addressed energy costs by saying West Building 11 uses solar
power and pulls in a certain amount of power. If power is not used, OUC
gives the college a rebate.
 Joe Sarrubbo mentioned the need for research in order to find costs/benefits
of the changes.
 Other questions:
o Will we be able to find faculty to teach weekend courses?
o Will Student Affairs be expected to offer weekend hours?
o How will this impact overall staffing costs?
o How will this impact the cost of utilities?
Professional Staff Luncheon feedback:
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Everyone mentioned receiving good feedback on the food and variety of
choices.
Jason Walker was very appreciative for the warm reception he received and
the good response to his presentation.
Joe S. recommended we have an evaluation at each event. The PSLT did
not provide an evaluation for attendees of this event.
Joe N. said he will ask Jason the speaker for copies of his evaluations since
we did not provide one.
Fall for Learning:
 Debi stated that Dr. Shugart had not given her any feedback from this event.
It was suggested that we ask Dr. Stone about his thoughts on the event at the
Professional Staff Forum.
Council
Reports
College Learning Council - CLC (Donna Kosloski):
 Donna reported that the group applied for the Walmart grant which is very
similar to the DEI initiative. It should be approximately $25, 000. There is
no word on whether or not we have gotten the grant, but she will keep us
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posted.
Dr. Romano gave a PowerPoint presentation which Donna will send to the
PSLT.
Future Bachelor’s degree plans were discussed. Donna stated the college is
trying to meet all rules and regulations in a very short period of time. She
explained this is difficult because we must meet the criteria for different
agencies such as the Florida Board of Education and SACS.
There was no discussion on changing the name of the college.
There was discussion on whether or not upper level students will be charged
more tuition if they take lower division courses.
Liz Jusino clarified that A.S. students do not always have the general
education courses required for all B.S. programs, if it is not articulated, so
we may have many students required to take lower division (general
education) courses while at the Bachelor’s level.
Questions were raised on how the college will proceed if the new degrees
are not approved for Fall 2011.
College Planning Council - CPC (Joe Nunes)
 Joe discussed the “Big Meeting” and mentioned that most of the PSLT
attended this event.
 He said Dr. Shugart and senior staff will be meeting soon to discuss the
results and feedback.
 The next CPC meeting will be held on 4/22/10.
College Operations Council – COC (Elisha Gonzalez-Bonnewitz)
 Elisha was not present, but we were informed the COC has not met
recently, but will be meeting later this week.
Miscellaneous
Adjourn
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Donna mentioned that IR will be writing more reports and doing more data
analysis in the future.
 Mariann is getting ready to present at the FACC conference.
 Liz will be presenting at the FACC CPEC Innovative Exemplary Practice
awards.
 Angela and Joe S. are both on the sabbatical committee and stated that
Professional Staff are eligible, but rarely take advantage of this opportunity.
They will bring updates in the future, but suggested we go to the website at
http://www.valenciacc.edu/faculty/sabbatical/ for more information.
 Joe S. said the West Campus Answer Center has been using scanners for
financial aid documents as part of a pilot program.
 Joe N. has been presenting Circles of Belonging at various other
institutions.
 Keith has been working with OCFD on pre-incident planning. This will
help us to be better prepared in case of an emergency.
 Debi stated that Slavia House will be open in June.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:30pm.