Members Absent: Billie Blackburn, A. B. Harrison, Tom Poole, Robert Reed, John Wilguess
Ad Hoc Members: Billy Barfield
Ex Officio: Anne Matoy, Barbara Wells
Greg Fox called the meeting to order.
I. Approval of agenda. Greg Fox asked for additions or corrections to the agenda. Being none, the agenda was declared approved.
II. Approval of minutes.
Sally Henderson moved to approve the minutes as corrected, Terry
Lehenbauer seconded the motion, passed.
III. Task
Force Reports
A.
Retirement Task Force—Billy Barfield, Chairman
The committee is making progress
and should be able to meet their goal of presentation of a plan to
administration by the first of the 2003.
They
have developed two plans: one if the university is allowed to leave OTR and one
is they are not. They are in the
process of getting
incremental costs in order to determine what is possible and
what is cost prohibitive. When a
realistic plan is put together, it will be presented
to faculty and staff for
feedback. These presentations will
hopefully be at the beginning of the fall semester.
One side issue the committee stumbled over was the
capping of contributions instituted by OTR in 1995 which unfairly impacts
employees of comprehensive universities. A
recommendation for a buy back plan at the uncapped rate will be presented to
administration.
B. Cafeteria Plan/Leave Task Force—no report
IV.
Human
Resource Report—Anne Matoy
Staff and faculty should have received a letter from Dr. Halligan,
detailing the hiring of Judge Morris by the Board of Regents and his charge
from
the Regents. He will be setting up
meeting with various campus groups and members of administration.
Matoy mentioned that although a presentation of
457(b) plans was heard in the May meeting, no action was taken by the
committee. Henderson
moved that
Human Resources put together a plan to make a 457(b) plan available to employees
and present it to administration. Seconded by
Payne: passed.
V. Status of committee
Greg Fox
emphasized that although Dr. Halligan has announced his retirement and Dr.
Birdwell is now the Athletic Director, the committee’s charge
has not changed.
VI. Meeting dates.
An attempt was made to set meeting dates for the fall semester.
The consensus was that not enough faculty representatives (the people
with the most changeable schedules) were present to set the dates.
VII. Announcements
Sally Henderson announced that OSU/OKC had met with a representative
from OU about their health plan. Henderson
stated that
some aspects of the plan was more attractive than OSU’s current
plan. She volunteered to pursue a
presentation of the plan to the committee.
Henderson moved to adjourn, seconded by Payne: passed.