===== PAGE 1 ===== ## Kentucky State University Staff Senate Minutes

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Attendees
Jasmin Thurman, Jack Lee Wollman, Jr., Alison Jackson, Chandee Felder, Barbara Hayes, Donna Carter, Danielle Barber, Louis Milligan, Jim Dodds
Absent: Elise Bome (excused), Yolanda Benson, Travis Haskins, (excused)
1. Call to Order:	2:06PM	• Called by Jasmin L Thurman
Item	Discussion	Decision/Proposal
2. Roll Call		• Taken by Alison Jackson
3. Adoption of Agenda	•	• Unanimously Approved
4. Opening Remarks	• Approve June, July, and August Meeting Minutes.• June Meeting: Travis Haskins was marked both here and absent. He was moved to absent.• Lots of KSU employees showed up at this meeting today. Thank you!• Staff Member definition: any employee that does not have a faculty distinction or teaches less than two courses here at KSU.	• Unanimously Approved• June is unanimously approved with corrections.• Jasmin will post these minutes when new website goes up
5. Board of Regents Meeting Update	• Faculty Senate talked about wanting a National Search for Provost.• Jasmin Thurman talked about staff concerns: Covid, consequences of not wearing mask.• Jasmin has not had the opportunity to meet with the President.• Recognition of Breds of the Month.	• Note to everyone: Things that are discussed on the board are things that are on the agenda. President is the person who puts things on the agenda. If we want anything discussed at the Board of Regents meeting, we need to make sure it is on the agenda. If it's not on the agenda, it will not be discussed.
6. Staff Senate Nominations and Voting	• We are supposed to be a Senate of 20. Currently, we have 11.	• Administrative Unit 2: Three names were submitted.

===== PAGE 2 ===== - The revised constitution allows us to nominate people who want to be on Staff Senate based on majority vote by Staff Senate. - J asmin has list of nominations and we will need to vote on these. For those who receive the majority vote from Staff Senate, they will receive a letter to see if they are interested in the position. Anyone who doesn't receive majority vote by Staff Senate can still run in November. - Representation is based on a % of employees that make up each unit.

- Administrative Unit 1: President's Office and anyone who reports to the President. It should only have one senator. Currently it has 2. Elise Bome and Alison Jackson. - Administrative Unit 2: Academic Affairs. It should have 8 senators. Current senators are Donna Carter, Yolanda Benson, Louis Miliigan, and Jack Lee Wollman, Jr. Currently there are 4 vacancies. - Ashley Apshire: received majority vote - April Higgins: received majority vote - Administrative Unit 3: Student Affairs. It should have 4 Senators. It only has one: Travis Haskins. There are 3 vacancies. o DC Conwell: received majority vote • Administrative Unit 3: Five names were submitted - Administrative Unit 4: Finance and Administration and Auxiliary. It should have 7 Senators. Current Senators are Jasmin Thurman, Barbara Hayes, Danielle Barber, Jim Dodds. There are three vacancies. - Because two people are in administrative unit one, a senate position from Administrative Unit 4 has been removed. Therefore, there are only two vacancies in administrative unit 4 not. - Jamar Simmons: received majority vote - Arla n Sims: did not received majority vote. - Ma urie Smith: did not received majority vote. - Jamal Jackson: received majority vote - Pat Ross: received majority vote • Administrative Unit 4: Five names were submitted o Bethany Brown: did not receive majority vote o Samantha Combest: Received majority vote • Outreach: Will be meeting this Thursday at 1PM. No updates at this time. o Rebecca Persons: did not receive majority vote o Monique Shaw: did not receive majority vote o Ed Fields: Received majority vote. ### 7. Staff Senate Committee Updates - If anyone would like to be on the outreach committee, email your information to Louis Milligan. ===== PAGE 3 =====

	• Elections: Will be meeting this Wednesday at 1PM. No updates at this time.\n• Ad Hoc: COVID 19 Concerns\n• Gold Task Force: all the concerns we talked about at our emergency meeting were brought to this meeting and addressed.\n• 5 specific concerns were brought to this meeting. 4 were addressed.\n• Compliance with Social Distancing, Mask, and 20% capacity is still being addressed at this time.
8. Closing Remarks	• Jack wants to thank everyone who has been helpful to him. This thank you goes into the future as well.\n• Sick employee: Staff senate has agreed to give 100.00 gift cardn• Thank you to everyone who attended. < /td > < td style = 'text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;' > • Elise and Allison will reach out as far as giving a100.00 gift card to employee who is sick.
9. Adjournment:	• 3:58PM