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May 27, 2010

New SAC reps announced

The Staff Association Council (SAC) welcomed eight new associate members at its May 19 meeting. New members serve for six months as non-voting associates who sit on one or more of SAC’s standing committees.

New members are: Carolyn Chuha, Swanson School of Engineering; Dawn Rae Cziczin, School of Arts and Sciences; Karma Lee Edwards, School of Medicine; Amy Elliott, School of Nursing; Jesse Nicholson, Student Affairs; Nancy Rihtarchik, Graduate School of Public Health; Betty Jean Thompson, Budget and Controller, and Deborah Walker, Student Affairs.

Also at this month’s meeting, Steve Zupcic, vice chair of the benefits committee, reported that a meeting with Human Resources officials to discuss SAC’s proposal to establish a University-wide sick leave bank of staff-donated sick time is expected to be held in late June.

Such sick-leave banks, which have been created at other universities, benefit staff members who have used up their accrued time off, but still have conditions that prevent them from working.

SAC unanimously endorsed the sick-leave bank proposal in February. The group believes the proposal is cost-effective for both Pitt staff and the University.

In other SAC developments:

In response to a question, Pitt police officer Ronald Bennett told SAC members that for on-campus medical emergencies he recommends calling either the city’s 911 service (callers from campus phones must dial 9-911) or calling the University Police Department at 4-2121. Both options work equally well and the two services exchange called-in information “almost instantaneously,” so that personnel from both services respond, Bennett said, adding that Pitt police are trained first responders to medical emergencies.

Discounted tickets are on sale at the William Pitt Union ticket office for the July 31 SAC-sponsored Pitt Kennywood Day, as well as for Sandcastle Waterpark and Idlewild.

—Peter Hart


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