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Official Minutes of the
Executive Board/Central Committee
April 14, 2006
Mauker Union, College Eye Room
3:30-5:00 p.m.
• Call to order
Roll (X=present):
Executive Board Committee Chairs
X Frank Thompson, President Jesse Swan, Negotiations
X Jeffrey Funderburk, Vice President Paul Siddens, Membership and Past President
X Becky Hawbaker, Secretary Dean Kruckeberg, Communications
X Hans Isakson, Treasurer X Swan and Thompson, Academic Freedom
X Karen Couch Breitbach, At-Large
Jesse Swan, At-Large
Barbara Lounsberry, At-Large
Central Committee Constituency Representatives
X Barbara Cutter, History Katherine VanWormer, CSBS
X Jeffrey Funderburk, Art/Music X Russ Campbell, CNS
Susan Rochette-Cawley, English X Jolene Tagtow, Price Lab School
Melissa Beall, Communications Studies Kurt Meredith, Curr.&Inst/OSFE
X Dan Power, CBA John Henning, Ed Psych/HPELS/Ed.Leadership
Chris Neuhaus, Library Bob Krueger, Philosophy, Religion, Languages
Ex-Officio
X Chuck Quirk, Executive Director
Other Members and Guests Present:
Presentation and Approval of the Minutes
• Call to Order: Thompson called the meeting to order at 3:30.
• Membership Update: Quirk reported one new member and gave the current membership total.
• Presentation and Approval of Minutes from March 3 rd meeting. The minutes were approved with no changes.
• Treasurer's Report. Isakson presented the Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2006 and a Profit and Loss Statement for July 2005-March 2006. The Treasurer's Report was accepted.
• Grievance Reports: Funderburk reported no new activity in terms of grievance. Thompson reported on a case not at the formal grievance level.
• Old Business
• Presidential Search: Thompson reported that he is very pleased with the actions of the Campus Committee for the Presidential Search, and thanked especially Dan Power and Ira Simet for their efforts to widen faculty participation in the process. Hawbaker reported that members of the CCPS plan to visit the home campuses of the finalists, continue to contact non-directed references, and encourage evaluation feedback on each of the finalists by all members of the UNI community. She reported that the CCPS will meet next week to summarize all of the feedback and will meet with the Search and Screen Committee next Friday to make recommendations to the Board of Regents. Quirk asked if the recommendations would include a ranking of the candidates. Power replied that the committee would give strengths and weaknesses of forwarded candidates.
• Collective Bargaining Team for Negotiations: Quirk submitted the names of the proposed members of the negotiations committee, including: Tom Kessler (chair), Karen Breitbach, Barbara Cutter, Roberta Davilla, Jeff Funderburk, Joe Gorton, Hans Isakson, Bob Krueger, Kurt Meredith, Chris Neuhaus, Dan Power, Jesse Swan, Frank Thompson (ex-officio), Brian Gruhn (attorney), and Chuck Quirk (Chief Negotiator).
Funderburk/Campbell moved to accept the slate of members of the bargaining team. The motion passed.
Quirk distributed a draft of a bargaining issue survey. The survey includes a ranking section for issues; a Likert scale section on areas such as support for professional development, campus environment, workplace issues, technology, and salary; and a demographics section. Cutter suggested adding a comment box on the survey. Power suggested adding flexibility spending account for wellness to the issues section.
• Elections Committee: Hawbaker announced that 42 members voted on MyUniverse and 3 members voted by paper ballot in the Executive Board election. This number is more than triple the number who voted the last time the ballot was electronic but half of the number that voted last year with paper ballots. She noted that last year's election included contested seats for President, Vice President, and At-Large Representative. She reported that members whose official email address differs from the UF list serv were not able to access the ballot, but this can be avoided in the future. She reported that Frank Thompson, Jeff Funderburk, and Hans Isakson were reelected to their current offices, Christine Canning was elected as Secretary, and Jesse Swan, Catherine Zeman, and Bob Krueger were elected At-Large Representatives. The next round of elections will be for area representatives. She asked members in attendance if they were willing to run again and all replied that they would.
• New Business
• Parking Resolution: Thompson has asked for a ‘meet and confer' with Tom Schellhardt regarding the Multimodal Parking Facility. Power and Breitbach both serve on the Parking Planning Committee. Power discussed his advocacy for a different site and purpose. Funderburk proposed a resolution on the parking facility.
Campbell/Cutter moved to approve the resolution with one change in wording. The motion was approved.
The resolution will be shared with campus decision makers at an appropriate time relative to the meet and confer.
• University Budget: Quirk shared a concern from a member regarding the memo from Interim Provost Lubker about budget. The concern is that United Faculty is not mentioned as a constituency group, and that “program” is not defined in the master agreement.
• Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 4:34.