COHS Budget Committee Meeting
July 21, 2008
Dean’s Conference Room
2:00 PM
Members present: Dr.
Jessica Dolecheck, Dr. Florencetta Gibson, Mrs. Debbie Wisenor,
Dr. Judy Fellows,
Dr. Paxton Oliver, Ms. Donna Eichhorn, Ms. Jane Bruson, Ms. Sharon Chaney, Mrs.
Donna Thomas
Excused: Dr. Mike
Ramsey, Ms. Carolyn Murphy, Mr. Brett Bennett, Ms. Beverly Jerrell
Not present: Dr.
Linda Sabin, Sandra Jones
Topic: Allocations
of COHS raises
·
Dr.
Dolecheck opened the meeting with discussion of the points to consider as
mandated by the Dean regarding raises, which are
1. Raises must be tied to merit.
2. Allocations ($57,000) will be used
only for full-time and department heads.
3. We have a total of 55 FTE
including department heads.
4. To be eligible, faculty must have
been here at least a year.
5. A recommendation is needed by the
committee by the end of July.
·
Dr.
Dolecheck reviewed the minutes from the Oct 4, 2007 COHS Budget Committee
meeting regarding the raises. A ranking system with percentages was previously
used and a recommendation was made at that time for the committee to relook at
this system of evaluation of faculty and dept. heads.
·
An
overview was given by Dr. Dolecheck of an example of how Brett Bennett broke
down the $57,000 on an excel spreadsheet; with around 1.95% of this amount
being given to each department based the total salaries.
·
Also
proposed by Dr. Dolecheck was to give this amount to each department head and
the department head will distribute the money based on the eligibility criteria
above.
·
Dr.
Oliver asked for clarification of who is eligible – Dr. Gibson noted that the
lab coordinator, who does not meet eligibility requirements however, has gone
above and beyond in their jobs. Also mentioned the Business & Facilities
Manager does not meet eligibility requirements. Dr. Oliver indicated that they
are not eligible and that he and Dr. Ryman are also not eligible.
·
Mrs.
Wisenor noted that the amount of money given will be changed by how many are
really eligible.
·
Dr.
Fellows noted that giving out last year’s allocation, those who received and
amounts were ranked, but, Dr. Dolecheck noted that the proposal does not really
let you rank 1.95% and lower. The reason
we were able to use rankings was because we had a larger pool of money which
allowed us to rank according to 5%, 4%, 3% & 2%.
·
Mrs.
Wisenor discussed the concern that the amount received last year for some was
smaller and they did a lot and that some others may have received more money
who did not exhibit as much merit.
·
This
was confirmed by Dr. Gibson, that in her department, nursing, that the salaries
here are not equitable to those of salaries of nurses in the professional
field.
·
Dr.
Fellows proposed that this raise could be done the same across the board, so
everyone who is eligible, if it equals 55 people, would get $1036.36.
·
Dr.
Gibson, talked about giving the department heads discretion of how much to
give, as she noted that there were some people in the nursing department that
did not receive a raise last year and felt that they do need some recognition
because this affected the moral of the department.
·
Dr.
Oliver recommended a vote for the 2 options that have been discussed
1. 1.95% of the total salaries given
to the department head to distribute in his/her department
2. A set raise, the same for all who
are eligible across the board, the number eligible divided into the $57,000.
·
Voting
was conducted via secret ballot and opened by Dr. Dolecheck
·
Results
are as follows: A majority vote
indicated that an across the board raise will be given to eligible faculty and
dept heads.
·
Each
dept head is to submit a list of eligible persons to Dr. Dolecheck by Wed.
7/23/08 at noon.
·
Discussion
was then conducted about how to give Nursing Lab Coordinator and COHS Business
Manager a raise. It was recommended that $1000.00 for each, total of $2000.00
be taken from the $57,000. The remaining $55,000 will then be divided by those
eligible, not to exceed 55 people with the condition these two individuals will
not receive more than any faculty or dept head.
·
Pending
these minutes, Dr. Oliver will report these recommendations to Dr. Ryman.
·
Dr.
Gibson asked if this was recurring and Dr. Oliver confirmed that yes, once the
money was put into the salary it is recurring and a new contract will be
issued.
Meeting adjourned:
2:55 PM
Submitted by Donna
Thomas