October Gets Rolling

Hi Everyone,

Here are a few housekeeping items:

The October Staffline is now available!
In addition to its usual interesting articles, it contains the offer of an early discount for the UVM community on First Night Buttons(Half Price!) and tickets to shows at the Flynn and Memorial Auditorium. The offer only is good until October 31st, so try to check on it soon.

The committees are gradually getting their membership lists and schedules posted to the council website. Two are already up and hopefully the rest will follow soon. Short bios of members are also being posted as links under their names on the main list.

Next, as mentioned in the last post, the Communication Committee met on 9/27/2007, and discussed several items we'd like to address this year. Among them was how to modernize and increase the ways members can receive the Staffline without losing old methods that are still useful. Another was the need for a standardized and accessible location for basic information about Staff Council functions, policies, and procedures.

The planned January roll-out of the new UVM website template could provide a good timeline for us to get those updates ready at the same time, if possible. Towards that goal we also wondered if the Council office could consult the TechCATS (from the CTL), for advice on posting information to the Council website in the new template.

Overall it was a very good discussion, but I won't take up your time listing all the topics right here--I've put the Summary written by our Chair in the right-hand column with the other linked documents.

We meet again this coming Thursday, October 11th, and I'll let you know how the plans have progressed-

Have a good week,

Joanne