Meeting Minutes March 15, 2007

Minutes of the SAC meeting, March 15th, 2007, OSU South Centers, Piketon.

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Staff Advisory Council Meeting

Minutes

March 15, 2007

OSU South Centers

Hosted by:  Mary Gulas

Present:

Absent:

Todd Hicks called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone.  Todd thanked Mary for hosting the meeting this month.

Guest:

Jeanne Osborne introduced her guest, Lucinda Miller.  Lucinda is the Extension Specialist 4-H Youth Development staff member at South Centers.  Lucinda briefly described the different programs that she worked with.   She expressed her interest in having the Wellness Mobile Unit come to OSU South Centers.

Membership:

Todd went over the changes in the membership for the Council. Teresa Funk will replace Kay Clay; Mike Benintendi resigned and Sam Carter replaced him; Tami Rogers will be replaced by Linda Good; and Andrea Trachsel recently married and her name is now changed to Andrea Richardson.

Survey:

Tim Butcher felt that the Survey Committee was disbanded prematurely.  Tim expressed there is still a lot to do with the survey.  Tim suggested that there be another member on his committee.  Mike Kaufman offered to be on the committee.  Tim handed out a draft of the power point he had put together.  Tim reported that only 1/3 of the people responded, but stated that it was well received by the people that did respond. 

Bill Koshar said that when the results are given to Dr. Newcomb, there should also be a follow-up. Tim said that he and Mike should have the results down within a month and will bring it back to the next Council meeting in May.

Todd recommended that a mass email should be sent out thanking those that did participate.  Bill suggested that when the next survey goes out that the information for the last survey be added to it.  Dave Drake suggested that it would be nice to add a link on the Council’s web page for accessing the survey results.

Staff Wellness:

Todd introduced Marianne Robinson, Program Manager for OSU Managed Health Care Systems.

Marianne gave a brief overview of what the Staff Wellness Program provides and answered any questions that members had.  Marianne said that they now have a mobile unit that can travel to different areas on campus, regional, county, and district offices to provide flu shots, educational programs, blood pressure education, and Personal Health Assessments.  All of these services are free of charge to OSU Employees. 

Marianne said a good way to learn more about the Staff Wellness is by accessing the HR Resources newsletter.  The link is www.hr.osu.edu.

Tim suggested that Mary coordinate and be the contact person for the mobile unit to go to the South Centers and provide Personal Health Assessments Screenings.  Mary stated that she would follow up with this.

Matt Davis will check on the dates for Spring Conferences and Staff In-Services so that the mobile unit could be brought to those sites.

John Beardmore will add links to the SAC home page so people can access the Staff Wellness information.

Todd and John are going to work on a display also.

Minutes:

Todd asked if there were any additions or corrections to the minutes from the February meeting.  Tim moved to approve the minutes as presented, seconded by Liz Kinney.  Motion carried.

Task Force Committees:

Todd asked that Subcommittees break out and return in 30 minutes with their reports.  It was suggested that instead of the subcommittees breaking out into sessions because several of the members were on more than one committee, that we do a round table discussion.

Day with the Dean:

Mandy Pillivant, Chair, felt that the Day with the Dean needs to be changed from the Farm Science Review to something else.  Dave and Mike said they were working on a day that Dr. Moser goes to Wooster for a day and they reverse rolls.  Mandy suggested that SAC partner with Wooster’s Summer Fest for Day with the Dean.  It was also suggested that Day with the Dean was held twice a year, spring and fall and also change the name of it.

Professional Development:

Bill Koshar reported that L.H. Newcomb encourages SAC members to make a contribution to the Campus Campaign. Jeanne Osborne will be the liaison to Dr. Moser. 

SAC members are encouraged to talk about the different functions such as the Shirley Brooks-Jones Citizenship Award, Day with the Dean and Campus Campaign at all of the faculty meetings.

Staff Appreciation Day:

Mike, Todd, and Liz will partner with Staff Wellness to have them come to the Staff Appreciation Day.  There were several suggestions of having a corn hole tournament, tug-a-war, corn climb, dunk tank, and etc. for the Appreciation Day.

There was discussion of having frozen yogurt, popsicles or drumsticks for campus and cookies for county offices.

It was also discussed of having gift certificates for everyone, instead of ice cream for the campus area and cookies for the county offices.  This way everyone would be receiving the same thing.  April Wax was going to work on this.

It was suggested to have John Victor and his group perform.

Shirley Brooks-Jones Citizenship Award:

April Wax and Liz Kinney will serve on this committee.  It was decided to present the award at the Annual Meeting in October.

Guiding Coalition:

There hasn’t been anything reported.  Todd was going to check with Dr. Newcomb to see if it is still in existence. 

Marketing:

Todd asked if we still had this committee.  Bill recommended that we continue to keep it.

Discussion of executive committee:

Todd discussed the ending of several of the terms.  At the end of 2007, Bill Koshar will be off and Todd Hicks and John Beardmore will be rotating off.  Todd asked that everyone give some thought to this and he expressed that it would nice to have an election with more than one name one the ballot.

John Beardmore reported that he will be updating the web site and still in need of some of the members pictures.

Todd asked if the subcommittees would prefer to meet as a round table discussion instead of the subcommittee breakout sessions.  This would accommodate those that serve on more than one committee.  It was agreed upon to continue the round table discussions.

New Business:

No new business

Todd Hicks, Chair, asked if there were a motion to adjourn, Dave Drake made a motion to adjourn, seconded by John Beardmore.  Meeting adjourned.