Flexible Compensation Benefits Committee
Wednesday, July 17, 2002  3:30 pm
103B Seretean Wellness Center
Stillwater Campus

Members Present:  Greg Fox, Sally Henderson, Terry Lehenbauer, Louisa Payne, Fran Stromberg

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.