LSA Exec - Minutes - August 3, 2023

Minutes from the Library Staff Assembly Executive Committee 

  

August 3, 2023 

Attending: Eric Bader, Brian Moss, Meredith Phares, Marianne Reed, Shelby Schellenger, Justin Sextro  

  

MEETING MINUTES 

 

  • Committee voted to approve the minutes from the July meeting. 

  • Meredith presented research on student salaries.  

  • Students currently make between $11-$16 per hour, while the lowest-paid non-student employees make $18 per hour.  

  • Marianne and Brian raised concern about salary compression with the Dean last month.   

  • Brian reported that the university’s cost-of-living salary adjustment study was finished this spring, but they are now going to redo the analysis. It should be finished by January 2024.  

  • Committee voted to appoint Debbra Peres as the USS representative on the Senate Libraries Committee. 

  • Committee voted to move Christen Caton and Victoria Williams forward for consideration to the LFSA Committee on the Code.  

  • Discussion of scheduling future meetings.  

  • Meetings scheduled for the first Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. 

  • Discussion of Docking Institute staff satisfaction survey  

  • Discussion of special charges for the coming year.  

  • May consider keeping tabs on the Docking survey and actions taken from it.  

  • Ask about Spring Staff Development Day. Would one day or multiple dates over several months have better turnout?  

  • Building an agenda for Fall General LSA meeting 

  • Potential changes to the code regarding representation on the Staff Senate Libraries committee 

  • Professional development: How best to empower staff to feel able to request funds. What are the barriers? 

  • 360 evaluations. Should staff be able to evaluate their supervisors? 

 

ACTION ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING 

  • MEREDITH: Check the budget to see how many employees are in various salary brackets (under $40,000, etc.) 

  • MARIANNE: Ask Mike Broadwell how many employees are making less than $40,000 per year. 

  • BRIAN: Inform Victoria Williams that she will be recommended to LFSA for the Committee on the Code. 

  • MARIANNE: Inform Christen Caton that she will be recommended to LFSA for the Committee on the Code. 

  • BRIAN: Find out what is needed to make changes to who LSA sends to the Senate Libraries committee.  

  • BRIAN AND MARIANNE: Talk to the Dean about 360 evaluations.