Council Updates

Hello Again!

Our full Staff Council meeting was held on Tuesday, October 2nd, and opened with a brief address from President Vogel. He praised the work of the previous Staff Council, and hoped that the new one, in its reorganized and enlarged format, would be equally effective in increasing the value of staff contribution to the effort of organizing and projecting the voice of the University.

A brief Q & A session followed, and we made a point to thank him on behalf of all the staff for the extra time off over the winter holidays. Then we all trooped out into the sunshine to have a group photo taken. It was an informative meeting; the staff reps to the Board of Trustees committees made their reports, and all the committee chairs gave brief summaries of their group's preliminary discussions. Everyone had creative and useful ideas for the upcoming year's projects.

Here's where I ask for help! I could use some feedback: how interested would people be in a preliminary report on the Staff Council meetings? Authorized minutes don't get approved until the next scheduled meeting, and then they get posted to the website on a schedule I'm not familiar with yet. (the most recent set posted as of today are April 2007)

If people would like a summary sooner, I can write up a brief overview from my personal notes--I'm allowed to do that as long as it's understood that it isn't the final "authorized" version of the minutes. But posting that also takes up time and blog-space, so I'll wait to hear if there's any real interest in it first.

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Thanks in advance for the input,

Joanne