Vice President Business Council

Minutes

November 15, 2001

VP Issues:

Cabinet and PAC notes - Rich reviewed the Cabinet and PAC meetings. Rich shared the new Affirmative Action Plan with the BAC. Rich attended a meeting at Hal Holmes this week with representatives from Olympia.

Financial Services Issues:

Tuition and Fee Waiver Committee met and reviewed waivers.

US Bank Visit and Contract – Joe reported that they have extended Central’s existing contract with US Bank for one year

Problems With Student Employment Clearance timing – There were several students that were not cleared for employment at the beginning of fall quarter. We will be looking at how to resolve this problem in the near future.

Risk Assessment – Margaret Smith will be asked to join a BAC meeting to discuss the risk assessment survey she has requested us to complete.

DNR visit is scheduled for the 20^th.

CTS Issues:

Barge Hall DHCP – computer identification routing upgrade has been completed. The next buildings to be done will be S/S & Button.

Gene indicated that letters had been sent to CWU computer science graduates as part of the recruitment process for filling the SAP vacancies. Two of the three finalists are CWU graduates.

Facilities Management:

Ellensburg Telephone has requested permission to do cabling around student village. Will look into.

HR Issues:

All current PERS 2 members will have the opportunity to choose between remaining in PERS 2 or transferring to the new PERS 3 retirement plan. The transfer window is from March 1 through August 31 of 2002. To help people make this important decision, there will be three different seminars that employees can attend during work hours. Each seminar will be offered multiple times over several months to ensure everyone has the opportunity to attend. The first of the three seminars will begin in med-December. Advertisements of exact time and location will be announced.