1-29-2003

STAFF ASSEMBLY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MINUTES

January 29, 2003 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

President’s Conference Room

Members Present:  Keith Gauthier, Neva Bishop, Marcia Bertholf, Krystal Burns, Theresa Castillo, Anne Thomas, Mary Beth Charleboix, Kim Gieber, Trevor Werttemberger and Vicki Loveland and Steve Doolittle from Human Resources, Raymond Reyes and Bob Bartlett

Members Absent: Cathy Perry, William Kostelec

The meeting was called to order by Keith at 12:11

Old Business

12/18/02, 01/08/03 and 01/22/03 (amended) minutes approved.

Katie Burrows is rescheduling the Thursday meetings.

Both The Vacation Proposal and the Community Service proposal have gone to Mike Casey.

Steve will meet with Mike to discuss both.

New Business

Raymond and Vicki presented the SAEC a timeline for rollout of the Diversity training (see attached).  We were given copies of the surveys that will be used in the development of the training to evaluate and return feedback by February 7, 2003.

The “In this together” harassment training is different from what the Diversity training will be.

Bob Bartlett spoke to the SAEC regarding the presentation of “National Pastime” by the Onyx Theatre.  This will be performed at Gonzaga Prep on February 23.  This is for all of the Gonzaga Faculty and Staff and their families.  He asked us to get the information out to the and to facilitate ticket distribution to staff

Steve Doolittle asked for input on how the Administration could communicate better with the staff.  This came out of the joint memo sent to Father Spitzer from the Staff Assembly Executive council and the Faculty Assembly Executive council. 

Steve suggested a Colloquium of some sort for just Staff. This would mean at least a half-day with a food and offices would have to close.

His questions to the SAEC are

          What would staff like this to be?

          What do we want to accomplish?

          What questions do we want answered?

Ann commented that a meeting that included a break out of smaller groups would have to include training for the facilitators.  Steve answered with the facilitators would be the VPs.

Other comments were:

          The information needs to be disseminated

          This should be a dialogue…. not just a Father Spitzer speech

          Training on What is community? What is communication?

          Follow through is important.

Steve suggested that the meeting be held mid February, however the SAEC asked that it be moved to March or April.

Meeting adjourned 1:20 PM

Scheduling of future meetings

Next Meeting will be held on February 5, 2003.  Future meetings will be held each Wednesday in the 1898 Room from 12:00 – 1:00 with the exception of the first meeting of every month, which will be on the first Thursday of the month.  Since this is the lunch hour, please feel free to bring your lunch.  All SAEC members will be notified if there is a change to this recurring meeting.

By virtue of the bylaws, all Staff Assembly meetings are open unless otherwise designated by the Executive Council.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

http://www.gonzaga.edu/staff         email:  staff-assembly@gonzaga.edu