Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
By Matthew Lord | October 21, 2008
Work Session Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Start Time: 1:30pm
End Time: 4:45pm
Attendance:
Matthew Lord, Kendall Harris, Janet Hoppe-Leonard, Jeffrey Vasquez, Jasmine Tolle, Alexis Baranov, Brandin Watson, Cayla Poznanovich
SUMMARY
We were joined by Kendall Harris at this meeting to be briefed about the focus groups which are going to be held by Sodexo Inc. in the beginning of November. Sodexo (http://www.sodexousa.com/) is a nationally recognized evaluation firm. They will be holding these meetings for students on:
- Tuesday, November 4th at 12:45-1:45 & 5:00pm-5:45pm
- Wednesday, November 5th at 10:15am-11:15am
The more students who show up to these meetings the more productive this process will be. Some of the deliverable items which we will be looking forward to are:
- Pre-Focus Group Questions
- Possibility of taping the conversations
The goals of the campus food service is to provide quality service and work to help students have a good experience on campus. This is an important aspect of our campus community and why this evaluation process is reaching out to both students and faculty. Students can attend ALL meetings if they choose to.
Brandin brought up the importance of gathering in one place all of our projects that we are or need to be working on. We will have a meeting this Thursday in order to review and prioritize these current items. The concept is to build a prioritized list which will allow our Thursday meeting format to be more focused. This will allow us to use more hours as work hours.
We briefly discussed meeting with the architect involved with North Seattle Community College’s 25 year plan for architectural updates. We decided on a date and time to meet with him. We will meet on Thursday, October 30 in order to get an overview of the project prior to a public meeting on the topic. Part of this is to evaluate the request of funding for a student services area. This is a large commitment and requires thoughtful examination on our and other students’ part.
APPROVED the $250 amount requested for the AFT
As a group, we reviewed and discussed setting time expectations when speaking with people in our meetings. The goal here is to maintain a professional level of timeliness and productivity. It can be a balancing act at times.
ACTION ITEMS
- Develop an agenda for the November 6th Board of Trustees meeting - Alexis
- Forward our NetID for computer access in the SLMP office - Jeffrey
- Change of log-ins for administrative access on the office computers - Chris
- Hiring a reporter/communications person - yet to be defined
- Adding “Would you accept a volunteer position?” to the committee applications - yet to be defined