Flexible Compensation Benefits Committee
Monday, Dec. 16, 2002

Conference Room, Wellness Center

Minutes

Members Present:  Blackburn, Fox, Lehenbauer,  Payne, Poole, Reed, and Stromberg

Members Absent:  Brooks, Cooper, Harrison, Henderson Morris, Wilguess

Ad Hoc, Ex Officio members and Guests Present:  Barfield, Purdie, and Wells

Motion to approve the agenda was made by Reed and seconded by Stromberg. Passed.

The motion to approve the minutes of the Nov. 26 meeting was made by Lehenbauer and approved by Stromberg.  Passed.

Barfield reported that the retirement taskforce’s presentation had been presented to the Joe Alexander, Executive Board and the PB & B Committee of Staff Advisory Council as well as the Emeriti group.  The taskforce had been asked by SAC to set up meeting to present the proposal to the general staff.  After some discussion, it was decided that presentation to the Faculty Council and incoming President Schmidly should be done before general staff meetings and that HR should wait to post the presentation on the website until after presentation to Faculty Council, Staff Advisory Council and the Administrative Officers.

Wells is waiting for the final slide of the presentation (dealing with feedback about the proposal) before posting it to the website.

The motion was made by Barfield and seconded by Payne to have Brad Barnes set up a website for anonymous feedback to the studied by the retirement taskforce.  For now all correspondence to the site would be available to the chairs of the FCBC, the retirement taskforce, and the cafeteria taskforce.  Members of the committee and subcommittee would be able to obtain access by contact Brad.  Brad should look into the possibility of separating staff and faculty comments so they can be shared with SAC and Faculty Council representatives as feedback from their constituents.  Passed.

The taskforce will present to the full Faculty Council on Jan. 14 and is on the January agenda for SAC.

Representatives of the retirement taskforce went to OU and met with Lex Holmes and Al Swartzkoph on the OTR issues.  They had a mixed reception about the capping and payback formulas.  They wanted an alternative plan detailed before supporting getting out of OTR.  They believe they would get some support at OU for uncapping and fixing the payback formula.  However, they did not anticipate much support at all for getting out of OTR.

The cafeteria taskforce has a presentation ready.  Have meetings been set up?   After some discussion it was decided to make presentations to all groups one month after the retirement presentations.

Lehenbauer presented a Big 12 health survey.  OSU  looks very good on premium costs.  Is it worth do a RFI for health care?

Motion to adjourn was made and seconded. Passed