ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT COUNCEIL

Minutes of the Council Meeting

Tuesday January 9, 2006

 

Katherine Drummond called the meeting to order at 9:10 am and asked Alexis Rodriguez-Nieves to call the roll.

 

Present (65):   Joanna Albanese, Barbara Albrecht, Tamu Al-Islam (Ron Eckhardt) , Keith Amparado, Trine Aschim, Roddy Austin, Daniel Biddle, George Branin, Mellitte Buckman, Robert Butler, Gloria Cahill, Christine Campbell, Micheal Cansino, Catherine Chapman,  Anita Daniels (Jason Beckerman), Maria Deacetis, Terri Desai, John DeSantis, Mollie DeuGaw, Jenni Dorn, Katherine Drummond, Monica Estrada, Jennifer Farmwald, Kathleen Fannin, Ninette Gironella, David Gordon, Liz Greene, Suzanne guinea (Monica Gray), Callie Hirsh, Jason Hollander (Christopher James), Tracy Kamens, Wendy Kaplan (Dan Stanford), Elizabeth Kuzina, Robert Lavelle, Scott Lewis, Ida Longarino, Ben Maddox, Neptali Martinez, Gail McIntyre, Amber Min-Lee (Sherri Katz), Patricia Montalbano, Alison Moppett, Kathleen Murray, John Myers, Felicia Newton (Anita Dwyer), David Niedenthal, Larry Pender, Ellyn Polansky, Harris Reife (Steve Holder), Margie Rodriguez (Hector Gonzalez), Alexis Rodriguez-Nieves, Valrie Russell, Marguerite Sharkey, Cynthia Slavin, Dolores Spinelli, Elizabeth Stoll, Anne Stubing (Jong Choi), Michael Summers (Richard Israel), Jennie Tichenor, Jennifer Tidball, John Tyler (Phil Christopher), Cheryl Villa-Abrille, David Vintinner, Jennnifer Weitsen, Yael Yisraeli

 

Absent (37): Rafael Acevedo, Rachel Alldis, Marilyn Andzeski, Tamar Arnon, Wenyi Bader, Barbara Benson, Caroline Boneta, Sandra Bowie, Katherine Brignole, Linda Chin, Kerri Cioffi, Carlo Ciotoli, Marybeth Fenlaw, Barbara Glavina, Renee Harris, Scott Hughes, Keisha Hunter, Jerry Jordan, Jo Katcher, Janet Koztowski, Ted Lawton, Debbie Lloret, Martin McDonough, Daisuke Nakamura, Shanell Pacheco, Vincent Parham, Loretta Poole,  Matthew Pucciarelli, Vito Rizzo, Katy Santos, Regina Syquia, Sue Taylor, Carl Villanueva, Elease Welch, Joanne Wilhelm, David Zapotocky

 

Katherine Drummond asked for a motion to approve the minutes for the December meeting.   A motion was made by Larry Pender and seconded by Katherine Murray. The motion passed without dissent.

 

III.       Chair’s Report

Katherine reported on the following:

 

*Feedback from general discussion at December meeting about regular collection of money at AMC general meeting. Limited feedback was received from AMC reps. Going forward, the consensus was rather than a collection opportunity at each meeting, the AMC would collaborate with Office of Community Service for a monetary collection in the event extraordinary/unusual occurrences (disaster, etc). Collections would be announced and identified on AMC website so that representatives could communicate to constituents

 

*The success of the AMC depends in large measure on the involvement of the representatives at the monthly meetings as well as through communication to their constituents. Elected representatives have agreed to the following per the Bylaws of the Administrative Management Council, Section VII, Paragraph D, which reads as follows:

Attendance at AMC Meetings - It is the representative's responsibility to make sure that his/her unit is represented at the monthly Council meetings. If a representative is absent from three Council meetings annually without the representation of an alternate, the Chairperson of the AMC may, with two-thirds approval by the AMC, recommend to the unit that a new election be held for the position(s) of the representative(s) and alternate(s).

 

*The University hosting of a Meeting on January 31, 2007 regarding NYU's women Academic and Administrative leadership.  The purpose of the January 31st session would be to attract women who are interested in:
Ø          Quality of life issues
Ø          Getting together to discuss common research interests
Ø          Learning about leadership development opportunities
Ø          Networking and mentoring
Ø          Understanding what is going on at NYU on these fronts already
Ø          Just getting to know one another

The approximately half day session would include
Briefing for Women at NYU - Progress Report on university initiatives        

Remarks for President Sexton
Panel Discussion on different paths to and types of leadership at NYU, changes, barriers, lessons learned etc
Luncheon Roundtables - organized by a topic or interest group with a facilitator        

Closing session to discuss one key insight or suggestion emanating from each table and "next steps"

Personnel & Benefits: Liz Greene reported that the preliminary draft of our letter of recommendations to University Administration that was distributed to you at our meeting in December was sent to our constituents on December 7^th for their review and comments. A total of 18 comments were forwarded to Liz by the December 22^nd deadline. The majority of the comments indicated support of the recommendations being made. A few comments offered editorial changes, while a few others suggested additional topics that can be considered for the future.

 

Liz incorporated the editorial changes into the revised draft and, in the Wellness Initiative section, added that reimbursement for participation in health/fitness classes be provided in addition to membership fees.

 

Before asking for a motion for approval of the letter, Liz asked if there were any questions or comments. A motion was made by John DeSantis and seconded by Larry Pender. The motion passed without dissent.

 

Liz announced that the next Personnel & Benefits Committee is on Friday, January 26^th. The meeting will be meeting from 12:00 – 1:30 in the conference room on the 6^th floor of 715 Broadway. Katie Casey (VP for Human Resources) is scheduled to come to the meeting.

 

The AMC Assessment of Role and Governance Ad Hoc Committee: Marguerite Sharkey reported that The ad hoc committee met on Monday, January 8.  Under discussion are the plans for continued interviews of University constituents.  A sub-group of the committee will be meeting with Executive Vice President Mike Alfano later this month.  The next committee meeting will be on Tuesday, January 30th at 9:15 AM.

 

Community Service: Alexis Rodriguez announced that the holiday toy collection went very well; in total around 600 toys were collected. A special thanks was given to Carl Villenueva for the use of Coles once again to collect and sort the toys. This year’s toys were donated to the 9^th Police Precinct; for their annual holiday party where once again we gave out hot chocolate and cookies & The Children’s Aid Society.

 

The committee will be accepted holiday cards until January 12^th. Once again the cards will be donated to the Seamans Merchant Organization. 

 

Looking forward to the end of the year event ~ “Book and a Buck”, we would like to ask for any suggestions from all constituents for an organization that we could donate the buck to.

 

The committees’ next meeting will be on January 18^th at 12 noon at 721 Broadway, on the 12^th floor.

NYU Administrator:  Jennifer Weitsen reported The NYU Administrator will be out shortly.

ByLaws: John DeSantis reported that The Bylaws committee will amend the Bylaws to reflect the use of electronic voting where applicable.

 

Special Events: Scott Lewis announced that the committee was meeting on January 12^th. The committee hopes to begin to send out information abut the Art Show soon. For more information on the Art Show, please contact Scott Lewis.

 

 

Nominations & Elections: The nominations and elections committee is hoping to move to on-line elections. They will also be looking into correcting the designation of units within central administration.

 

V.        Old Business - None

 

Ken Fauerbach announced that at the December meeting of the Environmental Sustainability Task Force they received an extensive presentation much like the one received last month.

 

 The 7^th Annual Martin Luther King celebration is to begin next Tuesday on January 16^th.

 

The meeting adjourned upon a motion made.

 

                                                                                    Respectfully submitted,

 

                                                                                    Alexis M. Rodriguez-Nieves, Secretary