Meeting of the FIC 3/26/04 at the IFO Delegate Assembly, Holiday Inn North, St. Paul
Meeting called to order at 8:30 a.m.
Members present: Tamara Berg (Winona), Shannon Skarphol Kaml (Metropolitan), Mary Bliesmer (Mankato), Tracy Ore (St. Cloud), Suzanne Black (Southwest), Theresia Fisher (Board Liaison), and Pat Arseneault (IFO Staff).
A. Candidates’ Forum
Shannon thanked committee members who had participated in the on-line discussion to formulate questions for the Candidates’ Forum and updated the group regarding the format and location and time for the event. She encouraged members to recruit their colleagues for the event. All four IFO Presidential Candidates have agreed to participate and will be submitting their entire remarks formed around the questions presented by the committee for inclusion on the FIC website. She provided committee members with a number of flyers to post/distribute on their campuses to direct interested IFO members to this information. A generic email announcement will also be sent for individuals to personalize to their campuses and distribute at their discretion to IFO members.
B. Election of Chair in Fall 2004
Tamara and Shannon encouraged committee members to consider serving as Chair or Co-Chairs for the following year as they have completed their two-year term and are not eligible to serve again.
II. New Business
A. DA Resolutions
Committee members reviewed the DA Resolutions. Several members made requests to the committee for the support of specific resolutions coming from their campuses. Resolutions originating from the committee were identified. The committee agreed to support the St. Cloud campus resolution creating an IFO GLBTA Committee with budget equivalent to the FIC and MIC in addition to the committee’s own resolution to create such a committee.
B. FIC DA Report
The FIC report to DA was reviewed and jointly approved.
C. FIC Grant
Pat updated the committee on her discussion with the potential FIC grant recipient at Mankato. As the recipients were willing to meet the FIC’s requests to repeat the proposed panel discuss at the 2006 DA, post their report on the FIC website and include at least 15 female participants, the grant award was approved. Pat will take our request to the Board.
III. Administrative Business
A. Minutes
The February 20 minutes were read and approved with clerical changes.
B. Budget
It was agreed that the FIC would request the Board roll over the remaining money in our FY04 budget for use in FY05. Rationale for this action would included increasing the amount offered in the grant, sending an FIC member to Board meetings on a regular basis and to provide further educational opportunities for FIC members, such as trainings at committee meetings similar to this year’s Safe Space Training or conference attendance.
C. FIC Website
Possible improvements or changes to the website were discussed. The members would like to see more visual content such as photos of FIC grant and award recipients. Pat was requested to check with Jim Pehler regarding the availability of photos. A link should be added from the FIC homepage to Candidates’ Forum statements.
Meeting adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Shannon Skarphol Kaml, acting Recording Secretary