MINUTES

FALL 2007 Staff Forum

September 5, 2007

Health Science Building

 

 

Welcome and Invocation -  Ms. Brenda Doss, Chair, called the meeting to order at 3:00 PM in the Health Science Building room 237.  Ms. Nancy Anthony, Vice Chair, gave the invocation.

 

Guest Speaker – Ms. Diane Kilgore

Ms. Kilgore spoke about the Service Excellence Program.  She explained to the group that the Governor issued a challenge that all State agencies would provide faster, friendlier, easier service.  The Chancellor thought this was a good idea so he hired someone at the system level to be in charge of this office and that person appointed a person at each school to be in charge of implementing this project.  Ms. Kilgore was appointed to fill this position.  Each school has to do a Process Improvement Project every year.  ABAC’s project for the year that just ended was on Career Services.  The focus of the project brought about Partners in Excellence, a partnership between Faculty, Staff, and students.  The mission statement and goals were printed on a desk template and passed out to everyone on campus.  The process improvement project for next year is multi-faceted and is information based.  The first phase is the new Information center, the second part is the call center, and the third part is knowledge based.  Suggestions are needed on what ABAC can do to make your job easier so that you can provide friendlier, faster, easier service.  Ms. Kilgore reminded everyone to please sign up for the Service Excellence training.

 

 

New Personnel and Changes:

 

New Personnel:

Brandon Street and Sharon Taylor –Student Life & Housing – Coordinator of Residence Life; Lawrence Shepherd, Eric Bozeman, and Sandra Langford – Lakeside – Maintenance; Vicky Martin– Student Life & Housing – Accountant;  Austin Cooper and James Page –Public Safety – Police Officers.

 

 

Approval of Minutes

Minutes from the July 17, 2007 Staff Forum meeting were distributed and reviewed.  One change was noted.  The account balance amount was corrected and amended to be $14,997.60 (N Anthony, J Boland).  Motion carried.  The minutes will be filed as amended.

 

Old Business

  1. Account Balances were given.  The Endowment account has a balance of $14,739.00 and the Expendable account has a balance of $2,868.00.
  2. Tracy Dyal agreed to be the auctioneer for the Tom Turkey auction.  A list for items to be auctioned was passed around.
  3. Staff Council Conference will be held October 4th & 5th at Southern Polytechnic State University.

 

New Business

  1. An email will be sent to all staff asking for suggestions about Service Excellence Training for the Process Improvement Projects. 

 

Announcements

PSBOC will set up any Staff Development training that the group feels is needed.

 

HEP & CAMP will hold Hispanic Day Celebration at the Pavilion on October 3rd and the Dining Hall will be providing traditional Hispanic meals during that week.

 

Adjournment & Refreshments -  The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 P.M and refreshments were served..  Refreshments were provided by Nancy Anthony, Olga Contreras-Martinez, Missy Hutto, Emily Cheek, Brenda Doss, Teresa Williams, Janet Weaver, and Amy Willis.  Baldwin Woman’s Club members Joanne Brannen and Jean Wells provided a train cake they had baked.