Staff Council Minutes
April 7, 2006
Anatol Center
- Call to Order
by Chair at 8:46 a.m.; eventually a quorum was present.
- Approval of Staff Council Agenda for April 7, 2006
Moved, seconded, and approved
- Approval of Staff Council Minutes of March 10, 2006
Moved, seconded, and approved with one correction. ( Laurie “Glumm” has two M’s. )
- Announcements
- David Nelson, photographer – anyone not wanting their photo taken let him know.
- Charleen Rice – for Bob Rodgers, they are seeking over (400) volunteers for Special
Olympics Southern California 2006 LA Regional Spring Games, on Sunday, May 21 at Brentwood
School. Contact him for details 5 -7853.
- Sharon Olson – email going out regarding the 40 th International Dinner & Culture
show, April 22 in the Pyramid. Cuisine, entertainment. Put on by international student
association $20 students/$30 non-student, or $25 each for two. The menu this year features
the following countries: Philippines – appetizer; Portugal – soup; Spain &
Chile – main dishes; Lebanon , Venezuela , & Saudi Arabia – side dishes;
and dessert. Vegetarian foods included.
- Charleen Rice – 49er shops has donated the balance of the Dr. Maxson shirts for anyone
present that wants one. Past Staff Day shirts also available.
- Treasurer's Report — Charles Greenwood
Absent. $3,270 balance reported via email.
- Committee Reports
- Membership — Fred Neely
Progress.
- Special Events — Laurie Glumm
Staff Day next Wednesday lunch tickets have been sold and closed. 200 lunches sold. Cookbooks
will be on sale, cover design was previewed. $12 a book. Staff supper club 4-26 th UAM, 5 PM ,
Pres. Alexander will be speaking. $15 pp. For the rummage sale, Carol needs help.
- Staff Development — Nancy Green
Very nice Lunch ‘n Learn at the Art Museum, 20 people attended. Over 40 people signed up
for the next one, the salad event with the Grand. June event is a selection of home improvement
seminars, there will be several sessions concurrent and you pick which one you want to attend.
More information coming out on that one.
- Ways and Means — Pat West
Absent.
- Committee on Committees — Lori Chavez
Progress.
- Bylaws – Sharon Olson
Defer report to new business.
- Reports from other Committee representatives
- PCSW – Lori Chavez, Elizabeth Novack, Annual awards, the staff recipient is Kim Hinckson,
ASI; the Administrator is Sandra Cynar, Associate Dean, College of Engineering; faculty recipient
is Sharon Guthrie, Kinesiology; and the student winner is Zion Redie. The awards were given out at
the Spring Colloquium.
- Special Orders
- Time Certain 9:00 a.m.— Michael Leikam and Greg Cutler, Staff Council website
- The new Staff Council website was previewed with a presentation on the big screen.
- The format is based on the new template that is being required for all DAF (Dept of Admin
and Finance) websites. There will be a form to submit updates to the website. There will be
a link on the webpage for that purpose.
- Time Certain 9:15 a.m.— President Alexander
- The new Staff Council website was previewed with a presentation on the big screen.
- The format is based on the new template that is being required for all DAF (Dept of Admin
and Finance) websites. There will be a form to submit updates to the website. There will be
a link on the webpage for that purpose.
- Time Certain 9:00 AM — President Alexander
- Great match last night at the volleyball game. My daughters were the ball girls last night,
and I sure had a hard time getting them to sleep. J
- A big congratulation to everyone for the ranking we received in the Princeton Review report.
It is, in my opinion, a better ranking then the US News & World Report. Third in the country!
In takes into account financial, and student surveys are a big consideration, so our students are
reporting good things about what the staff here at CSULB is doing for students. We are going to
be sure and make sure everyone knows about this ranking. The surveys are based on a random
sampling of students.
- A couple of CSU days in Sacramento to support the Governor’s budget, we have the largest
project at stake in the capital budget, the new science building, Peterson Hall. The other thing
at stake is the 6% increase.
- We also went to Washington, DC with all the CSU Presidents, topics included strategic language
initiative, there is going to be some federal money involved, and we are going to help students
with a number of research grants. We are only one of three institutions nation wide that is going
to participate.
- Port security issues a topic with Dubai company issue. We are in line with projects dealing with
port security.
- Great meeting with Sharon Olson about graduation, I am starting to get an idea of what is all
involved. Three days! Very festive, and a lot of work goes into this event. This is the first and
only time that many of these relatives and friends have ever been on campus, and we want them to
leave with a great impression of our campus.
- Spring break is coming up, always wondered where people that live at the beach go for spring break.
- A number of searches in place, AD, the third candidate is on campus today. The provost search
will get under way this month. Following that will be the COB Dean search.
- We are on the tale end of the CLA Dean search, decision before year end. A lot of change happening
on campus; people have retired or moved on to bigger things. My responsibility is that we have good
quality people in place that understand our mission. Many of you are on these search committees.
- In the Princeton review we had have the Highest percentage of Pell Grants at 32% next highest is
21%; highest first generation students.
Question/Answers
- Q: Do you have the results of the ASI Election?
- A: Jamie Pollock lost, and Shefali Mistry is the new President, Hiro is still the VP, he won by 4
votes. Shefali has been in the ASI Senate and will do a great job. Jamie has done a remarkable job
this year. Send VP Robinson an email, he really went out of his way to make sure that none of the
problems we had last year happened this year during the ASI Elections.
- The library project, we were on the verge of losing the funds, because it took so long to get the
project to bid and awarded. 100 new offices for faculty/staff; 18 month completion date. June 2006 start.
- Academic Advising and Learning Assistance Center (LAC) will be moving to the Horn Center permanently
sometime by the end of the calendar year.
- Also we are looking for a location some where between here and downtown to relocate the art museum.
This will allow for better access and visibility. It is in the very early discussions right now.
- Q: Bond issue being moved to November ballot is that definite?
- A: At this point it is, but we really don’t know, it is the next possible date. The last vote
fell short by 2 votes.
- TRIO program cuts, there has been a great interest in NOT making these cuts and DC is getting a lot
of feedback towards that end. $2.5 million in TRIO related funds every year at CSULB, we have the highest
amount of these funds in the CSU.
- Q: Thanks for your emails, they are appreciated.
- A: Yes, thanks for that feedback, also if you know of any achievements that a staff member has accomplished,
please email my office, I want the rest of the CSULB community to know this information; if they have received
important recognition; local, state or national.
- Time Certain 9:30 a.m.— Chief Jack Pearson, University Police
- Thank you for inviting me this year, it has been a number of years since I have addressed this group. I see the membership
has changed, and most of the campus trouble makers are here in this room! J
- I know that you want to talk about yesterday’s power outage. PPFM has brought an outside consultant on campus today
to investigate what exactly happened. Edison brings the power to campus that hooks to our power plant. A series of shorts
occurred in our program that fed back to the Edison plant that could have caused a huge explosion, so it shut down. It did
exactly what it was suppose to do. Nesting birds combined with the recent rains may have collected on critical areas. We were
inundated with calls, backup dispatchers were added, additional staff was sent out into the field, and we had people in elevators
and alarms going off all over campus that had to be investigated. FM did a great job in this situation and they should be commended.
- All the cellular companies have reprogrammed their cell sites, 360 degree receiver, in the past 911 calls went to the highway
patrol, now the calls go directly to the agency that the cell sites serve, so many of the ones that point to our campus come to us,
there may be some overlap with the LBPD.
- I wanted to update you on the emergency website in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC); it has a new platform upgrade in the
Horn Center. So even if ITS is completely destroyed we are still operating. This enables us to keep electronically updated during any
emergency. Provides instant connectively to the City of Long Beach’s EOC, and we can bring up their status boards to know what
is going on in the area and vice versa. We also have satellite telephones so we will never lose contact with the outside world. When
the phones went down on campus months ago, we had an officer at the LB EOC in contact with us to keep us apprised of the situation.
That phone outage was an act of sabotage, by a computer hacker that was able to get around Verizon’s firewalls. This is despite
what Verizon has stated publicly.
- In addition to the EOC, we have recently received a mobile emergency center, similar to air force one, we can run the entire campus
from this vehicle. We can put the executives of this campus into the vehicle in order to respond to the emergency and protect the campus.
We have backup cell phones with differing service to enable us to communicate. We have five land lines to connect to the campus system if
it is up and running. Radio frequencies of the local emergency agencies also are set up.
- The last thing I wanted to touch on is, the Avian Flu Pandemic, a quick overview, the avian flu virus came from Asia and Africa, due
to poor sanitation and hygiene that breeds disease. It has gone through many mutations. Right now it is isolated to bird to bird contact.
Unless you work directly with birds, or handle diseased birds without the proper protective gear, you would not be vulnerable. Last report
shows it was in its 6 th mutation. Scientists say that a virus has to go through 10 mutations before it goes to humans. They estimate the
10th mutation will be reached by the end of 2006. It is a very aggressive virus. We have formed a committee on campus that is
tasked to develop a plan to continue business operations and protect our staff/faculty/students. If the pandemic hits, they estimate losing
64% of our workforce in the event of a wide spread break out.
- We will stalk the necessary supplies on campus. Similar to what you would have for an earthquake, with the addition of gloves and face
masks. The most effective solution is social isolation, stay home! There will hopefully be a vaccine available and it is being developed
currently. The university has developed a dark website that would alert you to what to do in the case of an emergency. It only is activated
in the case of an emergency. I don’t want to alarm any of you with all this information.
- I have brought copies of the emergency handbook on the back table if you wish to have one. Additional copies can be obtained from
Scott Brown 5-1992.
Question/Answers
- Q: Is there people in the EOC all the time?
- A: We do have an office down there at all times, but it is activated in stages, administration, operations, planning, financial, logistics.
They are activated as we need them. For special events, it can be brought up, such as the Blues Festival. Yesterday, during the power
outage, we set up in the police department.
- Q: The committee that was formed, is there information going out about all that you talked about?
- A: The committee has a time table of when they will release the information, I am not sure of those dates. The information will be
provided to everyone on campus.
- Old Business
- New Business
- Adjournment
10:03 a.m.
These minutes have not yet been approved.
