By Ronnie Grant on Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The CSUEU Executive Officer Committee will meet this Friday starting at 9 a.m. on the campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

By Ronnie Grant on Tuesday, February 17, 2009

CSEA’s Information Technology department will be performing maintenance on all CSEA technology services – including www.calcsea.org, www.csueu.org, calcsea.org mail and the Citrix application services – on 2/21 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

During this time, the websites will be offline.

By Ronnie Grant on Sunday, February 15, 2009

CSUEU’s offices are closed today (Monday 2/16) due to the holiday.

Any 2/16 deadline for elections is automatically moved to tomorrow, 2/17.

By Ronnie Grant on Sunday, February 15, 2009

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By Ronnie Grant on Sunday, February 15, 2009

HOWTO: How To do something - one in an occasional series. Today's article applies only to CSUEU officers and CSEA employees with Citrix access.

When you login to Citrix, the list of printers you can select are copied from your local laptop or desktop. This can cause problems, because even if you have a printer at 1108 O Street configured on your computer, if you login to Citrix from outside the building, you won't be able to print to the office.

Here's how to add an O St. printer within Citrix in a special way that allows you to send print jobs to it when you are home. Using this method, I can print a document to the CSUEU Xerox photocopier in Sacramento while at home in Los Angeles.

Login to Citrix. Click Start, then Settings, then Printers and Faxes. Double-click the Add Printer icon. This opens the Add Printer Wizard. At the welcome screen, click Next. At the Local or Network Printer screen, just click Next again. At the Specify a Printer screen, click Next again. (The...

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By Ronnie Grant on Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Tidbit of the Day – one in an occasional series here at Inside CSUEU.

From Robert’s Rules of Order, section 41, page 363:

Unless a precirculated agenda is formally adopted at the session to which it applies, it is not binding as to detail or order of consideration, other than as it lists preexisting orders of the day (pp. 353ff.) or conforms to the standard order of business (pp. 24-25, 342ff.) or an order of business prescribed by the rules of the organization (pp. 15-17, 24).

By Ronnie Grant on Saturday, February 14, 2009

Whoops - I hosed the conference code previously distributed for today's call. I apologize for my fat-finger screw-up.

To make it up to you, I'll be available until 11:00 a.m. as a virtual "office hour."

Call 800-704-9804

Enter conference code 26259268

Or, email me by 11:45 a.m. or text me at 8185195117 with your phone number and I'll call you!

By Ronnie Grant on Wednesday, February 11, 2009

For nomination committees: Here's what to do (in brief) at the close of your chapter election nominations period:

1. Decide if you want to hold local chapter balloting or have HQ conduct mail balloting. Tell Dayna Ramos (dramos@calcsea.org) your decision.

1a. Email Dayna (dramos@calcsea.org) and tell her the date your nominations closed and that you are sending the nomination forms.

2. Bundle up all received chapter nomination forms and FAX them to Dayna. Keep the originals for now - we'll ask you to mail the originals along with all other paperwork at the end of elections.

3. For any position that has only one nomination form received, the only person who nominated wins by acclimation. Congratulate them and make an announcement locally, and notify Dayna (dramos@calcsea.org), myself (rgrant@calcsea.org).

By Ronnie Grant on Wednesday, February 11, 2009

From Chief of Staff Phillip Coonley:

This is a reminder that Thursday, February 12, 2009 and Monday February 16, 2009 are CSEA holidays and all CSEA and CSUEU offices will be closed.

By Ronnie Grant on Wednesday, February 11, 2009

An open conference call with a short presentation, Q&A, and open forum on the topic of GC and Chapter elections has been scheduled:

When: Saturday, February 14 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Where: Call toll-free 1-800-704-9804 and enter conference code 89814139

Who: Open to all CSUEU members, but particularly helpful for Chapter E-Boards, Chapter Nominations Committees, and candidates

This is the third call in an ad-hoc series on elections. If you did not receive notice of the earlier calls, it was likely because you were not yet named as an nominations committee member to HQ yet.

The call will be recorded and available to anyone who can’t make it.

No RSVP needed. Bring your questions on elections - I look forward to hearing you Saturday!