EEO Advisory Committee Minutes

Southwest Region

Minutes: Oct. 6, 2004

Attendees: Nancy Fisher, Jeremy Russin, Rosemary Troian, Laura Tezer, Rick Rogers and Rick Wantuck. Absent: Brian Cluer, Tim Price, Eleanor Domalaog, Carlos Garza, Jessica Kondel

Jeremy Russin opened the meeting at 1:05 p.m. with the news that Tim Price was making progress in his healing.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

The minutes of the Sept. meeting were approved.

OFFICERS= REPORTS

Jeremy reported that both Rod McInnis and Bill Fox signed off on the Partnerships in Education work plan.

SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS

Program: Rosemary Troian said the subcommittee met and Jeremy will check with people at Long Beach to see if anyone there is interested in developing a Partnerships in Education.

There was a workplan involving collecting canned food for the food bank, but after Rosemary Troian read the EEOAC bylaws, it was determined that this kind of drive did not fit under the EEOAC jurisdiction.

The next meeting of the Program subcommittee will be Thurs. Oct. 14 at 2:00 p.m.

Administration: Regarding EEOAC reports which are due, Maria Harris recommended the Subcommittee wait to prepare the reports pending development of new reporting guidelines. Maria maintains files which we can use to produce Southwest Region reports when the Subcommittee begins to prepare them. The Center will produce it’s own reports as Maria only has the statistics for the Region.

Web page: The Administrative Sub-Committee would like to post pictures of EEO activities or members of the EEOAC participating in activities which are in the scope of the EEOAC. (i.e. outreach activities, career fairs, interns at work, etc.) Jeremy suggested that we change the picture often which is on the front page of the Web site. Pictures will be maintained in an archive. The next meeting of the Administration subcommittee will be Oct. 28 at 10:00 a.m.

Personnel: Nancy Fisher has been very busy with her regular work, but still intends to hold a Personnel subcommittee meeting on Oct. 13 from 9:00-10:00.

Old Business:

The committee discussed again the idea of making our EEOAC committee also a diversity committee. Because Tim Price drew up the work plan for this change, we assume that he was in favor of the change. The committee asked Jeremy to send out the draft WP again so that we may examine it before taking any action.

New Business:

2005 EEOAC membership: Jeremy has been trying to determine the status of each member of the committee to find out if their terms expire or go for one more year. Eleanor Domalaog has not time to serve. Brian Cluer would like to resign in December. Rosemary and Tim Price will be timed out in December after serving 5.5 years. Rick Wantuck would like to identify someone else for his position, but could remain in his position in a limited role if no one was identified. Laura Tezer and Nancy Fisher want to serve until Dec. 2005. Rick Rogers is going to renew his membership in Dec. 2004.

Rod McInnis will send out an e-mail soliciting membership on various committees, including the EEOAC.

Rosemary will give Bill Fox a draft e-mail which will solicit members from the SWFSC.

Announcements:

None.

Our next meeting will be November 3, 2004 at 1:00 p.m.