X-Change Minutes - November 17, 2008

Welcome

Kay Bauman called the meeting to order at 2:05 pm. Kay welcomed the supervisors to the Downtown Library and X-Change meeting. Kay introduced the extension specialists and new supervisors. Donna was introduced Salary Survey and Staff Association Response Donna passed out the executive  summary of the 2008 compensation study and summary of findings and discussed the compensation study tables (attached). 

She addressed the need for review and revisions to the job descriptions. Donna also addressed the staff association response. Discussion followed and Donna introduced Ric Rea.

Leave Policies

Ric passed out a letter regarding leave without pay(attached). He addressed that leave without pay is not part of the leave policy and spoke about the implications that can come about from using leave without pay. He discussed changes that will be made to the payroll program regarding leave without pay.

Rules of Conduct Training

Stacy and Linda shared observations about feedback from the training sessions they have conducted. There were two areas that needed to be addressed:

1. Empowerment - Management should support that all employees are able to enforce the rules.
2. Modeling - Leaders should embrace and model the rules to employees as well as share their expectations. There are also needs to be a distinction between internal branch rules vs. policies.

Adjournment

After no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.