Approval of Agenda:

A discussion of reorganization issues was added to the agenda. The agenda was approved as amended.

Approval of Minutes:

The minutes of June 30, 2000 were approved as written.

Treasurer's Report:

No expenditures. Balance: $10

Election of Officers:

The following officers were nominated from the floor and elected:

• Secretary/Treasurer-Judy Scholl
• Parliamentarian-Stacy Thompson
• Reporter-Dan Traverso.

Paula Robertson-Rose explained the duties of each office. She also explained that the officers meet with Dr. Fonte once a month before the regular board meeting and then go to the Board meetings to represent the faculty. Officer meetings with Dr. Fonte are held once a month, usually at 4:00 pm on the Monday of the first Board meeting of the month. When Monday is a holiday, the meeting is sometimes on Tuesday.

President's Report:

Paula Robertson-Rose reported on the following items:

• There will be upward evaluation this fall around the same time as student evaluations of faculty
• The Deans have the full-time faculty contracts and will distribute them
• The proposal for faculty advising from Matthew Daude's committee on advising will come to the Senate
• There are 2 versions of the employee satisfaction survey. The version bound in blue, written by Dr. Martha Oburn is considered to be a solid document. The other document was written more for public relations.
• Audio tapes of Board meetings are on the web. Later when Board meetings are televised, the video will be available on the cable.
• The Board is currently working with the Round Rock Chamber of Commerce to encourage annexation of the City of Round Rock (not the R.R.I.S.D) into the ACC district.
• The Board has voted to refinance bonds and plans to build a Health Science building at Eastview Campus.
• The Early Retirement Plan was briefly discussed. Complete information will be coming from the administration.
• There is a budget for Faculty Senate for refreshments so there will not be a need to collect money from Senators.

Approval of Senate Committee Members:

The committee members were approved.

Special Election:

The Senate voted to have the special election as soon as possible. This led to a brief discussion of the need to have the Bylaws Committee review the bylaws to update them.

Faculty Emergency Fund:

Last year the Faculty Senate discussed a faculty emergency fund much like the student emergency fund which is handled through the ACC Foundation. Frank Cronin has done the work for this project. He requested that the information for the fund go out September 11, 2000 with the United Way information. The Faculty Senate voted to table this project until the Adjunct Faculty Association has the opportunity to elect or decline participation.

Senate Planning and Goals for FY01:

Paula Robertson-Rose requested that the Senators consider the Senate Goals and submit them for discussion. Items suggested included faculty workload review, intellectual property, and copyright (which are policies and procedures to be reviewed). Campus reps from Deans and Program Coordinators are needed for service centers. There is a need for college-wide committee list for faculty representatives. It was decided that Senators could send other ideas for goals to the President of the Senate after the meeting.

Reorganization:

A Senator stated that the academic reorganization that was announced 5 months ago has not been completed or if it has, it has not been distributed to the Faculty. Discussion ensued regarding difficulties at the beginning of the semester due to lack of an organizational structure. There is not Dean representatives for each area at each campus. Students showed up to unstaffed classes or to classes with duplicate staffing. In order for a student to change classes (even when classes are cancelled or when their registration is lost) s/he must go to different campuses for signatures. Sometimes they are required to go to multiple campuses.

The following resolution passed:

Meeting adjourned.

David Coe substituted for Lennis Polnac. Juan Molina and Byron Dungan were absent.