Meeting Minutes
CVCC Professional Staff Association
May 9, 2006

Members Present: Doug Allen, Sue Asp, Carol Burns, Wanda Horvath, May Khang, Ashley Brown, Renee Neal, Regina Reep, Angie Rudd, Becky Smith, Donna Trado and Joyce Watson.

The meeting was called to order by President Doug Allen at 2:35 at the East Wing Chemistry Lab.

Treasurer's Report: Joyce Watson presented the Treasurer Report. As of May 9, 2006, $367.69.

Doug Allen reported that Susan Killian has been appointed to the At-Large position by the Executive Board to replace Karen Hiott who has left CVCC.

Doug Allen reported that Bob Shave has agreed to serve with Karen Less as PSA representatives on the Professional Development Committee. Any suggestions for professional development should be sent to these two people or Angie or Amy. It was mentioned that the PSA had some ideas on this subject. Doug agreed to research and find the titles discussed previously and get them to appropriate persons.

Leave changes will be submitted to the Personnel Planning and Programs Committee at the May meeting. Changes are expected to begin on June 1, 2006. The changes are:

• Submit in ½ hour increments instead of ½ day
• Begin importing State years of service for computation of accrual rate of annual leave,
• “bonus” leave would not be imported.

There was some discussion of talking with the appropriate personnel concerning the importing of state service.

President Allen reported there are high hopes for a significant pay raise. It was suggested that as PSA members each person e-mail their legislator from their home computer to encourage them to vote for this legislation.

Anne Williams, Sue Asp and Angie Rudd are serving as the Professional Staff of the Year Award committee. Nominations are due by May 11 th . Please take time to vote.

President Doug Allen and Ashley Brown made a report to the Trustees on Jan. 25 th . The Handout will be on the web page for PSA soon. It was reported that the Trustees are in agreement on the pay equity. The money has been requested from the county budget.

Sue Asp gave a brief update from the Presidential Search Committee (our chosen representative to the Search Committee). April Cline and Sue did computer research on the applicants and made spreadsheets with information. A lot of hard work was done by Sue and April. Consultant gave approximately 49 applicants, cut to 29 then narrowed to 10 applicants. Candidates were given 3 questions to answer on video. Each Board member was given a question to ask each candidate. Sue and Angie were instrumental in getting a “meet and greet” time for each of the final candidates. The recommendation has gone to Raleigh for approval.

Other business: Should part-time professional staff be allowed to join PSA. A poll was sent to all members and the recommendation from the Executive Board was that “Permanent Part-time” professional staff who work at least 25 hours a week be eligible for membership in the CVCC Professional Staff Association. A motion was made and seconded to accept this recommendation. The motion passed unanimously.

There was discussion about the North Carolina Community College Professional Staff award. A letter was sent from the N3CSDPA to say that no “staff” person has ever won the award only “Administrator/Dean”. There is hope to have the award procedure reviewed and possibly have two awards, staff and administrator.

Ashley Brown gave an update on Leadership Training. Linda Lutz and Wayne Wooten spearheaded the leadership training. Dr. Linda Phillips was instrumental in getting this training provided to us. The Management Session training will begin June 16 for four weeks (4). In the fall, the initial leadership training classes will begin again for those who could not make the first class. Angie Rudd did a great job with the certificates and graduation of the class.

Next Meeting, Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:30 East Campus Room 1001.

Respectfully submitted

Joyce C. Watson

Secretary, PSA