NYSFAAA EXEC COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
JUNE 16-18, 2004
Present: Sue Aldrich, Maria Barlaam, Anne Barton,
Kerrie Cooper, Carolyn Corcoran, Gail Drapala, Claire Jacobi, Mike McGraw, Judi
Miladin, Mike Pede, John Smith, Earl Tretheway, Samantha Veeder, Mike Williams
Absent: Kevin Ryan
Guests: Bill Cheetham, Laura Dominy, Johanna Kelly,
Brian Levy, MaryEllen Nugent, Nancy Pawluk, Karen Price-Scott, Lisa Simpson,
Beth Turner
Motion: Approval
of February 2004 meeting minutes
Cooper/Barlaam
Unanimous
Mike McGraw
reported that we’re in good shape and he passed out the Audit for year ending
June 2003. This is the first audit in
which there were no findings and Mike expressed his gratitude to regional treasurers
for this. The mileage reimbursement
change is effective for July 1, 2004 from .30/mile to .375/mile (voted at
2/2004 meeting). Mike passed out new
version of Expense Report.
Kerrie Cooper
reported that we’re at 1031 members which is down 105 from last year. Region 5 has largest drop; all but Region 4
are down. Discussion took place on
Region 7’s membership concerns and how the timing of the new website will
affect membership reapplications.
Motion: Approval to destroy 2002-2003 paper
membership applications.
Miladin/Smith
Unanimous
Additional
discussion on new wesite’s timing related to membership application issues.
Motion:
If new website is not up by 7/1/04, then we mail paper applications to
members. There was no second of this
motion so the motion was rescinded by Miladin.
Motion: That
an email be sent to all members clarifying how the 0405 membership
registration/application will work in conjunction with new website going live.
Barlaam/Drapala
Approved
Motion: To
pay June revenue sharing checks
Smith/Miladin
Approved
Mide Pede
reported that fall EASFAA Training will be held the first morning of the
conference at the connecting hotel in Rochester. This is one of four sites around the state. Topics include general loan issues and the
cost is $25 for EASFAA members and $75 for nonmembers. Registration can be done via EASFAA website. Mike also indicated that there is
intermediate training tentatively being planned for early August on Graham,
Leach, Blyley. Three sites would be in
Syracuse, Westchester, and NYC. This is
tentative however.
Anne Barton
announced the new officers are Tom Dalton, President, Susan Howard,
Pres.-Elect, Neville Brown, VP, Ken Fierra, Secretary and Cathy Bellomo,
Treasurer.
EASFAA
annually requests 15 copies of our annual conference programs. That needs to get put in the conference
planning manual on the ‘to do’ list.
Discussion
took place on changing the selection process for EASFAA Conference Scholarship
winner. Plans are to make it less of a
‘luck’ result and to see if we can get members to earn the scholarship and
become truly more active in EASFAA.
EASFAA
Conference 2005 is at Bally’s in Atlantic City with a $135 daily cost. 2006 will likely be at the new convention
center in Niagara Falls, NY.
Discussion
took place on possibility of increasing our five $1000 Scholarships as smaller
states are giving out ten $2000 scholarships.
EASFAA and
NYSFAAA will jointly host a reception for George Chin at NASFAA.
Judi Miladin
reported that 1017 ballots were sent out for recent election; 313 were returned
and 22 of those were ineligible. 291
ballots were valid. Results are:
Joan Warren 1st VP
Karen Price-Scott 2nd VP
Sam Veeder Treasurer
Carolyn Corcoran Secretary
Motion:
To destroy the ballots of recent election
Drapala/Pede
Approved
Note is made
that Cayuga Community College helped in subsidizing the cost of the election.
John Smith
passed out the preliminary program
Gail Drapala
reported that chairs/co-chairs are working on the program but are waiting until
Conference 2004 is over before finetuning the program
A copy of the
HESC Update is attached. Anne Barton did
request an updated HESC organizational chart.
Mike Williams explained that more reorganization will be happening in
September so a new chart won’t be available until after that. Mike will take the help desk ticket number
issue to HESC hierarchy again.
Region 3
asked for a decision on allowing each region’s Regional Chair to go to the
annual conference free of charge.
Discussion took place. Anne
clarified that each region has one conference fee waiver in place already. Region 3’s proposal was aimed at trying to
reward a person who’s very active in the region. It was concluded that the region could choose to cover
transportation expenses for a member.
Mike Pede will write up a policy
and develop a form that can be used statewide for the regional conference fee
waiver.
Bill Cheetham
gave a history of the strategic long-range plan. There have been three revisions over the years and the most
recent is on the website. Bill went
through the Governance Committee’s written recommendations concerning the plan
and presented a written report.
We went
through these and made some proposed changes.
Anne will write up the all revision proposals and email Council members
over the summer for comment. Secretary
will need to do a mailing to members no later than September 1st,
with the proposed changes.
Anne touched
on Reauthorization issues and specifically HR42-83, the College Access and
Opporturnity Grant bill. She talked about
endorsing some vs. all of it and that SallieMae is urging school support.
NY State
Senate bill 299, sponsored by Senator LaValle, involves schools’ disclosure
policies regarding adjustments made to a student’s financial aid.
NYSFAAA’s
historian is Adrienne King, who works at NY Poli Tech.
VESID was
confused and emailed Anne with updated VESID forms. Seems they got NYSFAAA confused with SUNYFAP…
We now have a
small supply of NYSFAAA thank you cards and Anne will distribute to regional
rep’s.
Discussion
took place on re-creation of a speakers’ bureau. Anne asked for a volunteer to contact regions about this and
Claire Jacobi volunteered.
Anne will
contact Paula Gordon at ATAC on Monday to clarify when the website will be up.
Mike McGraw
handed out and went over the proposed budget.
Motion: To
approve the proposed budget
Cooper/Smith
Approved
Mike Williams
explained there’s an RFP pending involving a contract to produce the CUNT
ETA. He was asked if we’ll (aid officers)
get access to the CUNY portal and Mike indicated that it’s in discussion. Mike will put any updated information
regarding this in updated HESC notes and send out later. He also brought most recent HESC directory
that’s available.
Mike McGraw
indicated that if any college wants to participate in the State Fair Education
Day in August, they need to contact Sharon Karkowski at Tompkins-Cortland.
The 0405 Exec Council meeting dates are on
the website:
Sept 23-24 in
Saratoga
Dec 9-10
Feb 6,7,8
June 15,1,17
Region 8’s
proposal was presented by Beth Turne and Brian Levy, with Laura Dominy, Sue
Aldrich, and Kerrie Cooper all of the Facilities Committee present. Proposed dates are Nov 5-8 and site Lake
Placid Resort Hotel (site of 1999 Conference).
Region 6’s
proposal was made by Claire Jacobi and Karen Price-Scott. Dates were Oct 7-12 at the Sheraton in NYC.
Questions and
discussion followed the presentations.
Motion:
To accept the proposal from Region 6, pending approval of the contract
by our attorneys.
Drapla/Barlaam
3
in favor, 9 opposed
Motion
denied
Motion: To
accept Region 8’s proposal, pending review and approval of the contract by our
attorneys.
Cooper/Smith
8
in favor, 3 abstentions, none opposed
Motion
approved
Region 8 is
tentative site for Conference 2006
Motion: To
adjourn at 11:10 am
Drapla/Cooper
Approved