LFSA Exec - Minutes - July 23, 2019

LIBRARY FACULTY AND STAFF ASSEMBLY (LFSA)  

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING NOTES 

July 23, 2019 

Present 

• Betsaida Reyes - LFA Chair 

• Paul Thomas - LSA Chair 

• Chris Bohling - LSA Vice-chair (via phone) 

• Erin Wolfe - LFA Secretary 

• Scott Cossel - LSA Secretary 

Absent 

• Brian Rosenblum - LFA Vice-chair 

Opening 

Meeting commenced and general introductions for new members 

Overview of work in the near future 

No special charge for this group at this time. 

Meeting with the Dean 

Betsaida reviewed the LFA Chair/Vice-chair meeting with Dean Smith (7/12/2019): 

• Insurance rates for library staff may change 

• Upcoming merit raises for library staff are still in discussion 

• KU-wide base salary increase for staff earning less than $30k. This does not apply to anyone in the  libraries, as no staff are in that range. Cabinet meetings are continuing to discuss other potential  changes to Libraries staff salaries, which may include a base salary increase for library staff earning  less than $40k. 

• When serving as “instructor of record”, courses will now be described under the Professional  Performance section rather than Service in Promotion and Tenure candidate documents 

Paul reviewed the LSA Chair/Vice-chair meeting with Dean Smith (7/10/2019) 

• Library staff raises 

• Tuition assistance changes (reimbursment will likely be distributed at beginning of term rather  than the end as has been the process in the past) 

LFSA Committees: Code & Bylaws, Nominating and Ballot, CRSA, Salaries & Benefits

Members and LFSA Exec liaisons

• CRSA - Karen Cook, Whitney Baker, Scott Cossel, Lynn Ward, Andi Back 

– Scott Cossel (current member) will serve as liaison and will call first meeting • Salaries & Benefits - Ann Snow, Samantha Bishop Simmons, Lea Currie, Lars Leon  – Carmen Orth-Alfie (previous chair) will serve as liaison  

• Code & Bylaws - Neal Axton, Sarah Chapman, Kristin Sederstrom 

– Erin Wolfe will serve as liaison  

• Nominating and Ballot - Jon Giullian, Brian Rosenblum, Sunita Ghandi 

– Chris Bohling (previous chair) will serve as liaison 

Work for 2019-20 

• Review Annual Reports 

• Continuing/Special Charges 

– Salaries & Benefits: outstanding Special Charge on gender pay equity in the Libraries. LFSA  exec committee approved the 2018-19 committee members to be retained as an ad-hoc  committee to complete the survey in Fall 2019. After the results are analyzed, they will be  turned over to LFSA Exec to determine next steps for this Special Charge. 

– Code & Bylaws: Question about the need for a 2/3 majority in order to make changes to  the code. Chris Bohling reports that this is not in the code, but is a traditional guideline.  The Committee on the Code should review needs of the LFSA and determine which  guidelines should be followed. Decision to be explicated in the code. 

Goals for 2019-2020 

• Monitor ongoing issues (tuition assistance program, staff/merit raises) 

• Consider allowing members to attend via Zoom, reaching quorum 

• S&B Special Charge (following recommendations by S&B Committeee) 

• Per code - LFSA Exec meets minimum twice/year, more if needed. Betsaida will schedule a fall and  spring meeting at a later date. 

• Betsaida will schedule LFSA & LFA Fall General Assemblies. Paul will schedule LSA Fall General  Assembly.