LSA Exec - Minutes - April 24, 2019

 Library Staff Assembly (LSA) Executive Committee  Meeting Minutes:  

Date: 04.24.19 Wednesday 

Time: 02:00 PM-03:30 PM 

Location: Watson 400B Conference Room 

Members:

Beran, Emily (Chair); Caton, Christen (Member-at-large); Gandhi, Sunita (Secretary); Huff,  Meredith (Member-at-large); Raple, Mary (Member-at-large); Thomas, Paul (Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect) 

Attendees:

Beran, Emily; Gandhi, Sunita; Huff, Meredith; Raple, Mary; Thomas, Paul (Alphabetical order  by last names) 

Caton, Christen sent an email during the meeting with reason for not attending to Emily and Sunita and  requested to forward to other members. Sunita replied and cc’d to other members 

Agenda:  

-Approve minutes 

-Updates from LFSA, committees, etc. 

-Wrap up on SDD 

-Upcoming elections and annual report 

-Progress on tuition assistance letter 

Minutes Approval: 

-Minutes from 03.06.19 were approved by all the members  

Updates from LFSA and upcoming elections: 

-Emily provided the update from LFSA meeting 

Carmen Orth-Alfie and her team from Salary & Benefits committee are working on pay discrimination  data and soon will send out a survey of about 10-15 minutes to the library staff and faculty. It all started  with question and concern regarding staff but now are working for both staff and faculty. There is a slot  for comments also. The team has added the definitions for the similar terms so that everyone should be  on the same page in understanding these terms 

Lars and the LFSA group discussed forthcoming required governance elections  

Chris will send an email to KU lib with a request/option to volunteer for officer positions with supervisor  consent

The staff who are interested in volunteering but not getting permission from the supervisor can report  to the Dean Smith directly as he is very supportive of the staff and faculty participating/volunteering if  they want 

Wrap up on SDD (Staff Development Day): 

-Emily will send a compilation of the comments from SDD survey. She talked about these comments in  detail in the meeting and the LSA group had a discussion. Some comments are positive and some are  negative  

Progress on Tuition Assistance Program letter: 

-Emily started writing the letter and read it in the meeting, a lot of discussions happened and  suggestions were provided. Emily will add all the suggestions provided by the members in the meeting  to the Tuition Assistance Program Letter 

Adjourned