LFSA Exec - Minutes - December 16, 2025

LFSA Exec Minutes
December 16, 2025

Present: Melissa Mayhew, Rebecca Schroeder, Sydney McFadden, Joshua Bolick, Elspeth Healey, Marianne Reed, Amanda Schlumpberger

Absent: N/A

Agenda:

1. Approve October Minutes [link]
2. Review charges from LFSA General Assembly
   1. Salary & Benefits
   2. Nominating & Ballot
3. Committee Reports (ensure all have chairs named) 
   1. Nominating and Balloting (Rebecca) 
   2. CRSA (Elspeth) 
   3. Code: (Amanda) 
   4. Meetings with Carol updates (Josh/Elspeth, Rebecca/Syd) 
4. LFSA budget discussion
5. Meeting times for Spring semester
6. New Business
7. Conclude

Notes:

1. Approved October Minutes
2. Review charges from LFSA General Assembly
   1. Salary & Benefits
      1. LSFA voted at General Assembly to send code change to ballot. LSA had a provisional vote to send to ballot a measure to add the committee to their code IF LSFA removes the committee from their code.
         1. If added to LSA, the wording will need to be updated to reflect its new scope.
   2. Nominating & Ballot
      1. New standing charge was approved during General Assembly, will be sent out in January.
3. Committee Reports (ensure all have chairs named) 
   1. Nominating and Balloting (Rebecca)
      1. No updates.
   2. CRSA (Elspeth) 
      1. Continuing discussion of funding requests.
      2. Discussion will happen later this week on coordinating with IGEL (Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship) on new request process – reroute some tasks to IGEL.
   3. Code: (Amanda) 
      1. No updates.
   4. Meetings with Carol updates (Josh/Elspeth, Rebecca/Syd)
      1. Annex
         1. No updates.
      2. Salary Increases
         1. No updates.
      3. Evaluation
         1. How to ID tasks to pull back from.
      4. Faculty – more communication with Dean regarding code change information.
      5. Talent development and funding.
      6. KEYS Survey
         1. There is a mismatch between staff sentiment and survey results.
      7. Evaluations
         1. Advocated for service being part of staff evaluations, but as of now it won’t be included.
            1. Discussing additional incentives.
         2. Looking for ways to encourage more active participation from members while they are in committees.
      8. Clarity in written policy for Talent/Professional development activities being counted as payable hours for hourly employees.
      9. Student Assistants 
         1. hourly rate audit
            1. Advocating raises to be competitive.
         2. Shadowing
            1. Get with OCA/University Senate to share stories of this program to the wider campus. 
4. LFSA budget discussion
   1. Carol and Rich identified pool of funding for academic year.
      1. LSA - $500
      2. LFA - $500
      3. LFSA - $200
         1. $1,200 total - flexible, committees can decide on different structure. Funds are kept track of under the same code.
5. Meeting times for Spring semester
   1. February – hold a space on the calendar for if it’s needed.
   2. March – Meeting for identifying who to reach out to for next year’s members.
   3. April/May – Meeting for putting the Annual Report together.