Council on Staff
Affairs
(COSA)Minutes
Tuesday, February 9, 1999
8:30 A.M.
Dogwood Room University Center
Members present:
Holly Decker,
Hilda Spell, TR"Cat"
Decker, John Anderson,
Sammy Dees,
Scott Doner,
Ann Farmer,
Ann Harris,
Joe Hickey,
Ann Lacey,
Shirley McClain,
Debi Parkhill,
Tom Parnell,
Ruth Salter,
Beverly Sharpe,
Gloria Tonsil,
Tim Yorkey,
Inman Grimsley
Members excused:
Nina Windham,
Sandra Denson, and
Hazel Hewett
Member at large:
Grady Pearl Everette,
Pat Rozier, and
Bill Filtz
The Council on Staff
Affairs meeting was called to order at 8:32 A.M.
Special Order of the
Day: Elections: John Anderson stated that he has sent letters out to department
heads of the Business and Finance area, EEO-4 (secretarial/clerical) area, and
EEO-7 (service maintenance) area, that are up for re-election, to help update
their personnel listings for the upcoming election of new COSA members. Members'
terms that are finished on COSA will be
Holly Decker,
Hazel Hewett, and
Joe Hickey.
Approval of the
Minutes:
Debi Parkhill needed to be added to the
January 12th minutes and than the minutes were approved.
Treasurer's
Report- Nina Windham: No Report
Committee Reports
a. Employee Recognition- No
report
b. Election- Special Order of
the Day
c.
Policy- Pat Rozier: Plans on having a meeting
in the next few days to discuss the changes to the By-Laws.
d. Recycling- Bill Filtz and Tom Parnell talked about how they are working with
the person that is picking up the recycling items to see what kind of time and
manpower is needed to pick up all the recycling items on campus.
e. Retirement Walkway- Hilda
Spell said that she talked to Jeff Snow about whether the amount of
money that is given to the Retirement Walkway is tax deductible. If it's just
given to the walkway fund it is, but if you buy a person a brick it's not. A
committee is going to have to be set up to make sure who is eligible for a
brick.
Report from the
Chair
Holly Decker said that she had missed the
last Administrative Council Meeting and highlighted some of the items from the
January Meeting. Also Dr. Crowe e-mailed
Holly saying he has all the
material on the salary study and well start working on it sometime in March.
Holly is going to be one of the
jailbirds during the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation fund drive for Diabetes
Education and Research on February 23, 1999 at
10:00 am
in front of the Palms Dining Center.
Old Business
a. Holiday work-
Nina Windham was not present to talk
about this and it will be carried over to March's meeting.
New Business
a.
Holly Decker,
Sandra Denson, and
Bill Filtz will be attending the
University System of Georgia State Conference Meeting
February 18, 1999
in Macon at
10:00 am.
There being no
further discussion or business, the meeting was adjourned at
9:26 A.M.
and will meet again on March 9, 1999.
Respectfully
submitted: TR "Cat" Decker
Cosa secretary