Academic Staff Council Minutes
April 30, 2003

Call to order at 3:05 p.m..

Approval of March minutes. We're on a quest to find last month's minutes.

Members present: Marilyn Duerst, Emily Ronning, Sue Walton, Kathy Olsen, Larry Testa, Steven Luebke, and Michael Stifter. Others present: Tony Bredahl

Chair's Report

• Shared list of eligible Academic Staff, some inaccuracies, represented only Category A
• Provided ASC budget update, gave 10% back during recent budget exercise, most of budget is travel related (monthly meetings to Madison and Summer conference)
• Newly elected members will join our May meeting, Chair gave an overview of expectations for the incoming chair (meetings, compensation, etc.), elections will be conducted at the next meeting
• Budget: nothing new to report, still much speculation on how deep the cuts will be and how much impact they will have (especially on Category B staff)

Representatives Report (Tony Bredahl reporting):

• Circulated minutes from 4/17 meeting
• · Highlights: mentioned Classified pay plan and pay plan for the rest of staff, shared the legislative talking points (each campus will be affected differently, our IAS/Category B staff could be most affected), SARS preparation, Academic Staff Leadership conference will be held at UW-Oshkosh this year (Academic Staff are encouraged to attend)
• Next meeting is on 5/5

New Business

• Budget: no news as previously mentioned.
• Next Meeting: election of new officers.

Old Business

• Elections: newly elected members include Kimberly Gould Speckman, Sally Berkholder, and Angela Kaiser.
• Chair further outlined duties of new chair.
• Question raised on who won System Award for Excellence, Bob Sievert was nominated for UWRF

Other Business

• NA

Adjournment at 3:45 p.m..

Next Meeting is Wednesday, 5/21 at 3 p.m. in the Regents Room of the Student Center. Refreshments will be served as new members are introduced.