Members Present:  Sue Walton, Emily Ronning, Gretchen Link, Mark Kinders, Sarah Egerstrom, Kimberly Gould Speckman and Sally Berhlolder

Members Absent:  Angela Kaiser, Larry Testa, Steve Luebke

Others Present:  Amber Tubre

Call to order at 10:33 a.m.

Approval of  May 21, 2003 minutes.
 

Chair’s Report (Sue Walton)
 

•  Sue has met with the Chancellor and has attended several events related to her new duties as Chair.

Legislative Update (Mark Kinders)
 

• Discussed the newspaper articles that were printed suggesting the chancellors in the UW System had been given raises.  The reality is that the system has updated its ranges for chancellor’s salaries so that it can be competitive as it hires new chancellors for universities within the system.

•  Revenue projections are on target for 2004.  We will be back into heated budget issue discussions come January 2004.

Representative’s Report (Emily Ronning)

• A draft of an issues statement for the Council of Academic Staff Representatives was included on the back of the orientation meeting outline that Emily provided to each of us.  She encouraged us to review the draft and send her any suggested changes.
• From a legal standpoint, the System will be reviewing our affirmative action policies so they don’t come under fire as was the case recently in Michigan.
• Emily encourages everyone to visit the UW-System Web site at www.wisconsin.edu in order to see what’s happening and the impact it has on us.

New Business

•  We will meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
• We intend to schedule a Category B themed meeting in the future in which employees who are in that category can come and speak about their positions in campus.
• Everyone should start thinking about what we can do to support academic staff employees since no pay raises are on the horizon.  There may be grant monies we can access for this purpose.

Old Business

NA
 

Adjournment at 11:55 a.m.

Next meeting is Wednesday, October 22, 2003.