Nearly Halfway Through February

Hi Everyone,

The Staff Council Office asked us to get this information to you:

The February 2, 2010 Staff Council Meeting Summary is available now on the website or right here.

A majority of the meeting was spent discussing the Salary Raise Pool Recommendation that needed to be brought to the February 5, 2010 Board of Trustees Meeting. Fairness, equity and the difficult economy were foremost in everyone's minds as different suggestions were brought up and discussed. The final recommendation garnered the most votes as meeting those criteria most evenly, so it is what we went forward with to the Board of Trustees. It can be read here or on the Staff Council website, along with our SC President Beth Walsh's report to the Board:
Staff Council FY11 Salary Raise Pool Recommendation
Staff Council Report - Board of Trustees Meeting - February 5, 2010


Next, the SGA has sent us a survey for staff regarding undergraduate students:

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What do YOU want to know about UVM undergraduate students?

We are gathering information for an upcoming presentation and would love to hear what UVM Staff members want to know about the students they help to serve! You may have questions such as: What are our reasons for selecting UVM? Who plans to stay within the Vermont community, and why? What is our long term vision and what are our hopes for the University? Please forward your anonymous feedback or thoughts to SGA President Bryce Jones at bjones1@uvm.edu or SGA Vice President Kate Ash at kash@uvm.edu by February 16th. As two undergraduate students, we look forward to hearing your feedback and thank you for all that you do!
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Last, instead of pasting the quoted message in again, I'm going to refer you to #3 in the post from Dec 21, 2009, regarding the Campus Budget Update: Staff Council Request for Ideas. 'Nuff said.

That's the end of the Council Office info--

Blogwise, I do know that the Weather Gadget on this page is broken. According to the Gadget Master("Terence"!), Google is having some issues with its gadgets and everyone is working hard to solve all the problems. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon and we won't have to look at the error message any more--I'm not even able to delete the gadget right now, sorry!


Well, everyone have a very good weekend and holiday,

Joanne