Meeting Minutes February 2007

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Staff Advisory Council Meeting Minutes

February 15, 2007

OSU Turfgrass Research Center, Columbus

Hosted by: John Beardmore / Todd Hicks

Wellness Committee Members:

Cheryl Engle

Sam Carter

Jean Osborne

Tim Butcher

Matt Davis

Discussion was held about SAC partnering with Wellness center to facilitate wellness activities accessible to all branch campuses.  We’ll be hearing from Connie Boehm from Wellness later in the meeting.

General discussion regarding locations of meetings. Questions were raised if we always hold meetings only in places where we have reps, suggesting we branch out to reach some of the other areas of the state that we don’t otherwise get to. We could conduct “listening sessions” at these branches when we visit to engage those staff.

Thank you letters

Bill Koshar will draft letter to facility/lunch providers to inform them of financial responsibility. Thank yous should also be circulated at meeting for everyone to sign and then given to chair/section leader.

General discussion was then held regarding our need to keep up a good rapport especially with Administration changing and fate of our group uncertain.

Web pages

Todd asked for improvements/suggestions/compliments. It was suggested that the interactive calendar still needs to be updated. Everyone thanked John for his ongoing work on the project.

Survey committee

It was discovered that the Survey committee was prematurely disbanded – Tim Butcher let us know that they are still compiling anecdotal evidence and will share with the group soon.

Matt Davis moved to accept minutes, Second by Jean Davis.

There were questions about the mission statement, Bill Koshar read aloud and there was general discussion.

Connie Boehm arrived and gave us a presentation about the student wellness center.

We broke for lunch – thank you to John Beardmore and his fellow hosts for providing us with City BBQ!

Subcommittee meetings reports

The professional development committee passed around Campus Campaign sheets to everyone with our SAC professional development fund number #31255. It will set a good example for the rest of the college if we donate for our own cause so please consider giving. Jim Lawrence will  follow-up with LH to see if he presented to FAES Cabinet yet and if funding levels have been committed.

Discussion of presentation

While we enjoyed learning from Connie Boehm, the general feeling was that she may be too focused on students for us to work with. Cindy Tschanen will look for the contact person in Faculty/Staff Wellness to see if they will partner with us. She will also see if it’s possible to have that person uplink for a videoconference for our next meeting in Piketon.

One simple idea was to compile a list of wellness links/incentives/discounts that are available in the different areas of Ohio and put it on our website to make it easy to find for staff. If we see a need in a particular area of the state that isn’t being filled we could also poll the local staff to see if they want us to lobby on their behalf with a local gym or other service for a discount.

New Business – none

Todd Hicks moved to adjourn the meeting, Bill Koshar seconded. 

Todd Hicks thanked everyone for coming, will see us in Piketon.

John Beardmore took photos of everyone outside for the website.