The California State University Alumni Council
Business Meeting
CSU Monterey Bay – Portola Plaza Hotel
September 9, 2006

MEETING

Voting Members Present: CJ Klug (President), Valerie Vuicich (President-Elect), Bob Linscheid, (Alumni Trustee), Shannon Hill (Bakersfield), Tania Garcia (Channel Islands), Sue Anderson (Chico), Tim Colbie (Chico) Sheila Butts (Dominguez Hills), Jimmie Thompson (Dominguez Hills), Kate Shaheed (East Bay), Jacqui Glasener (Fresno), Judy Sharp (Fresno), Carlos Leija (Fullerton), Kristin Crellin (Fullerton), Dean Hart (Humboldt), Gay Arakawa (Long Beach), Guy Heston (Long Beach), Stephanie Regevig (Monterey Bay), Courtney Kuhn (Monterey Bay), Francine Oschin (Northridge), Jon Lundstrom (Pomona), Gary Davis (Sacramento), Jeanie Esajian (Sacramento), Pamela Langford (San Bernardino), Dia Poole (San Bernardino), Ash Hayes (San Diego), Doug Hupke (San Francisco), Derrick Morgan (San Jose), Kim Rutledge Gannon (San Luis Obispo), Ken Stone (San Luis Obispo), Jim Richardson (San Marcos), Jim Manly (Sonoma), Michele Lahti (Stanislaus)

Voting Members Absent:Bryan Burrow (Bakersfield), Yvette Bocz (Channel Islands), Charles Fisher (East Bay), Pete Mathiesen (Humboldt), Randi Moore (Los Angeles), Gary Townsend (Los Angeles), Jennifer Whitty (Maritime), Captain Lynn Korwatch (Maritime), Gray Mounger (Northridge), Melissa Riordan (Pomona), Jim Herrick (San Diego), Patricia Smith (San Jose), Kate McClintock (Sonoma), Gary McKinsey (Stanislaus)

CSU Chancellor's Office Staff Present: Karen Zamarripa, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Advocacy and Institutional Relations; Michele Perrault, Program Director, Institutional Relations, Marge Grey, Director of Communications.

1. Call to Order
President, CJ Klug, called the meeting to order at 10:30 a.m.

2. Roll Call
In lieu of Secretary Jacqui Glasener absence, the roll was passed around for check-off and it was confirmed that a quorum was present.

3. Approval of Minutes
   Motion/Second/Carried that the minutes of the June 24, 2006 business meeting be approved as submitted.

4. Officers Reports
   
   
   1. President
      President Klug welcomed everyone and once again thanked the Council for attending. He reported to the Council that the Executive Committee met for its annual retreat on August 17th in Long Beach and spent the day brainstorming and developing some overarching goals for the Council in the upcoming year. He reviewed the top three goals the Executive Committee recommended the Council focus on in the upcoming year including:
      
      
      1. Advocacy and Support of the CSU system – hosting a statewide event in the Capitol for alums beyond Legislative Day; and create and honor a “CSU Advocate of the Year” for each campus
      
      
      
      2. Educational Development – work on a path for educational development for the next two year’s; and development of an annual conference for alumni leaders statewide (target Fall 2007)
      
      
      
      3. Council Commitment – attendance, accountability, participation of members; development of recognition program for volunteers; inter-meeting teleconferences, etc.
   
   
   
   2. Treasurer
      Ken Stone provided a brief overview of the status of the 2006/07 budget including the approval of the budget by Council during an electronic vote between the June 2006 and September 2006 meeting. Essentially, the budget calls for increased sponsorship for the 2006/07 year including a budgeted $20,000 sponsorship for Legislative Day 2007 and $10,000 in sponsorship dollars to help offset quarterly meeting costs.
      
      At this time all campuses had received and the majority had paid their dues for the 2006/07 year and the spending for the first quarter of the year was staying in line with the budgeted amounts as shown in the annual budget.

5. Liaisons Reports
   
   
   1. Alumni Trustee
      Trustee Bob Linscheid reported on activities by the Trustees over the past few months including his involvement in two campus (Fresno and Fullerton) visits. Linscheid also reported on his participation at the Alumni Council Annual Retreat. In addition he went over his scheduled campus visits for the next two months including Chico, Channel Islands and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

      He reported on other issues of interest by the Trustees including, his participation on the Ad Hoc Committee on Alternative Funding Sources, the Board’s involvement in the evaluation of the Cornerstones Plan and his plans to accompany senior staff to a meeting with the Governor’s office on the potential impact of AB 2951 on the CSU.

   2. Alumni Directors' Rep
      Sheila Butts shared that the Alumni Director’s discussed several key topics at their meeting including how to improve ways to interact with their alumni such as lifetime memberships and further recognition of alumni. They also discussed the need to change the Director’s meeting time to the evening prior to each quarterly Council meetings as the Executive Committee would be reestablishing its onsite face-to-face meetings in the mornings before the start of each meeting.
      
   
   
   3. Academic Senate
      Paul Persons of the Academic Senate reported to the Council on the various activities the Senate has been working on in the past few months including support for Proposition 1D, looking at Executive Pay Compensation policies and continuing to work on their Lower Division Transfer project to determine future courses that might work. In addition, he also reported that AB 2168, a bill the Senate has been active on that would provide for common GE curriculum had been placed on the suspense file and no longer moving and that the Senate was also working on a the residency issue and how to accommodate access for more disabled students with regards to technology. Lastly Persons reported that the Senate had reduced it’s overall member number by six individuals.
   
   
   
   4. Student Representative
      No student representative was present and no report given.
   
   
   
   5. Vice Presidents of Advancement Report
      No Vice President of Advancement was present and no report given.
   
   
   
   6. System Office Report
      Michele Perrault gave a system update on pending state legislative and political issues including an overview of where the current Proposition 1D is standing with voters and some of the opportunities the Council has to continue to stay involved. She urged campuses and the Council to work on sending in resolutions of support as well as beginning to identify alumni that could speak out in support of the initiative. In addition, Michele also gave the Council and overview of the status on a few key bills to the system including AB 2951, AB 2957, AB 2813 and SB 1724.
      
      Lastly, Michele gave the Council an update on where the CSU eAdvocacy program was at and stated that the first launch of the messages on the pilot campuses were slated to go out in the next few weeks following the meeting with a full roll out on all campuses at the beginning of 2007.

6. Committee Reports
   
   
   1. Finance and Development
      Sue Anderson reported out on the committee’s examination and recommendation of the sponsorship policy. The Committee modified the current policy to address some logistical as well as financial issues with the current policy. The Committee took into account several discussions on the policy that came out of several inter-meeting conference calls from the Sponsor Taskforce. The Committee asked for the Council’s review and approval of the new policy.
      
      
   2. Government Relations
      Dia Poole shared that the committee is working on getting all campuses to host a second face-to-face event with their legislators and their alumni in the Capitol during the next fiscal year. The committee recommended utilizing the February 8th Advocacy training as a possible date to ease travel and planning expenses. The Committee is also taking the Executive Committee’s recommendation and is asking for full Council endorsement of a Alumni Advocate of the Year.
      
      Tim Colbie, reported to the Committee on his experience during this year’s Washington D.C. “Back To School” event of which he attended on behalf of CSU Chico. Lastly, the Committee discussed further ways for members to stay accountable to their advocacy activities in between meetings and have committed to in between quarterly meeting conference calls to facilitate this priority.
   
   
   
   3. Programs
      Jeanie Esajian reported on the Programs committee meeting which addressed the Executive Committee strategies for the 2006/07. The Committee has determined an annual program theme for 2007 which include the following: Retention & Recruitment, “Telling Our Story” – Branding for Alumni, Partnership with Fundraising and Generational Marketing for Alumni.
      
      The Committee also committed to an inter-meeting conference call to discuss further the Executive Committee’s priority of the development of an Annual Conference to service alumni leaders statewide.

7. Old Business
   
   
   1. CJ Klug mentioned the full Council again that passage of the Annual Budget which took place in between the previous and current meetings.

8. New Business
   
   
   1. 2006-07 Council Sponsorship Policy
      Motion/Second/Carried to adopt for the 2006-07 year the recommended Sponsorship Policy as presented by the Finance and Development Committee. Discussion on the item included the need to look into next steps on how this new policy should be presented to past/current vendors.
      
      
   
   
   2. “Advocate of the Year” Award
      Motion/Second/Carried to draft and adopt a program to promote an “Advocate of the Year” by each campus to be honored annually during the Alumni Legislative Day.
   
   
   
   3. Veteran’s Initiative
      Motion/Second/Carried to have the Council endorse the California Veteran’s Education Opportunity Partnership Program and will participate as appropriate. In addition, it is recommended that: each campus administration establish a program of participation; each campus alumni association endorse the program and establish a program of participation; and these programs be communicated to the campus President.
   
   
   
   4. Endorsement of Executive Committee Annual Priorities
      Motion/Second/Carried to endorse the recommendations made by the Executive Committee for the 2006/07 annual priorities of the Council.

9. Public Comment
   
   There was none.

10. Adjournment
    
    
    1. Next Meeting: January 19-20, 2007 at CSU Fullerton.
    
    
    
    2. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 12:15 p.m.