Present: Amy Baca, Julia Biglin, JoAnn Fischer, Mary Hittle, Elaine Howard, Leonor Mendoza, Anita Rios, Adele Springer

Proxy: Melissa Busby

1. Open Meeting
1. President Hittle called the meeting to order at 10:02 a.m. with the Pledge

of Allegiance.

2. Secretary/Treasurer Springer took attendance of senators present.
2. Approval of Agenda

Senator Howard made a motion to approve the agenda with Senator Fischer seconding. Motion carried.

3. Approval of Minutes

Senator Fischer made a motion to approve the minutes from the July 6, 2005, meeting with Senator Baca seconding. Motion carried.

4. President’s Report

President Hittle announced some of the personnel changes that occurred during the last fiscal year: Dr. Jerry Harmon was hired at ENMU; Chris Casey was hired the University of California at Berkley; and Mike Aleckson was hired at Phelps Dodge. New personal for this year include: Dan Tressler is the new Admission’s Director; Randy Jones is the Acting Vice President of Business Affairs, and Eric Siegel is the Data Research & Analysis Manager.

The Financial Aid, Registrar’s Office and the Admission’s Office are currently working with the Document Imaging System. This system is for saving documents to eliminate paper storage.

The CAPP banner module is up and running. This module will assist faculty and student in evaluating the student’s academic progress.

The unionization petition for representing staff has been filed and this issue will continue into the 2005-06 academic year. How this will affect staff is still in the works and staff senate will assist in getting the facts out to all staff employees.

5. Old Business
1. Committee Reports

1. Reward and Recognition—Biglin—Vice President Biglin announced

that Dean Foster from the Information Technology Department is the August Employee of the Month. The next meeting of the committee will be August 16^th.

2. New Employee Orientation Committee—Baca—The committee met

two weeks ago and is moving forward on holding an orientation. The committee will meet on August 8^th to determine the date for the orientation and agenda for the orientation.

3. Election Committee—Rios—The committee is waiting on the

employee list from HR and the President’s Office. Once the committee receives the lists, the members will meet to review the list.

4. Assessment Update—At the September or October meeting, the co-

1. Union Update-Randy Jones, Acting Vice President of Business Affairs, gave an update on the unionization process. On July 28-30, the union held an event in front of the administration building. On the 30^th, there was some bad conduct by some of the union supporters. These supporters were not employees of WNMU and started yelling at possible students and their families.

Mr. Jones stated that the employees must vote for the union and that a card check will not be done. He stated that this is a process for the union recognition.

Currently, there are two persons of the labor board. They are in the process of choosing the 3^rd person. Currently, two people have been nominated to be the 3^rd member of the board. The names of the people that have been nominated cannot be released.

2. Minimum Wage Increase

Sherri Bays and Randy Jones explained the raise in the minimum wage for the lowest paid employees according to the compensation study. The starting salary for these workers will be $6.50 per hour. This will complete Phase I of the compensation study. Phase II will be looked at this fiscal year.

Senator Fischer asked if the Phase I study looked at increasing the mid-points of these employees. Sherri Bays stated that the mid points are being looked at in the long range plans for the study. The employees that were given the new minimum wage rate increase ranges are now 15 up from an 8 or 10.

Senator Fischer asked if an ERF (Employee Request Form) was done to bring back a consultant to look at jobs, job descriptions, reclassifications, etc. Ms. Bays stated that WNMU needs to do some internal work first then bring in the consultant.

Senator Fischer asked Mr. Jones and Mrs. Bays explain the increases to the insurance premiums and ERB contributions. Mrs. Bays said that she would work with Shelly Webster in sending out a memo explaining the increases and who would be responsible for what portions. Mr. Jones will forward the memo to Secretary/Treasurer Springer to be included in the minutes from this meeting.

3. Other:

1. Strategic Planning Inputs for 2005-06—Discussion on the inputs were:
1. Annual Evaluations—According to the Staff Handbook (p. 59), the Human Resource Director is responsible to ensure that evaluations are completed. If this person is not to be responsible for this duty, then the person who is put in charge of ensuring that these evaluations are done needs to be listed in the handbook.
2. Effective Use of Technology—Mary Billing and Dean Foster developed an on-line orientation for web-ct courses. The course is ACAD 180 and the CRN # is 1835 and the course is free. This course is mandatory for all new students taking on-line courses.

1. Open Forum

The Affirmative Action Plan and the Policy Manual have not been received in the library yet. Also, the Salary Report is not in the library yet. Shelly Webster stated that Kelly Riddle was working on the report before she left campus for a few days and that as soon as possible the report would be placed at the library.

Julia Morales needs any updates to the directory tomorrow.

2. Next Meeting and Adjournment—The next meeting will be September 7^th at 10:00 a.m. Vice President Biglin made a motion to adjourn with Senator Fischer seconding. Motion carried.