LAUC-D Professional
Activities Committee (PAC)
2004-2005 Report
PAC Members: Jerry Thompson
(Chair), Daryl Morrison (Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect), Katherine Chambers, and Jared
Campbell
For 2004/05:
Number of represented librarians: 39
Number of non-represented librarians: 11
Total PAC funding allocated for
2004/2005 was $30,000.00, a 2% increase above 2003/04 funding of $29, 400.00. The funds were divided as follows:
Represented
Total Funding: $23,400.00
Non-represented Total Funding: $6,600.00
The initial allocation for
each librarian for the year was $600.00.
During the year the following reimbursements were made:
Represented:
$14,336.62 (28 librarians)
Non-represented:
$6,600.00 (11 librarians)
At the end of the fiscal year
the unexpended funds were distributed to cover expenses that were unreimbursed using
the standard formula for reimbursement based on the level of participation in
professional activities (that is, a) 50% for chair, organizer, speaker, etc.;
b) 25% for committee member, etc.; and c) 15% for observer, listener, etc.) .
Funding remaining for
unreimbursed expenses:
Represented: $9,063.38
Non-represented:
$0,000.00
This was not enough to cover the
total reduced unreimbursed expenses as follows:
Non-represented:
$1,351.43 (5 librarians)
The responsibilities that
this committee fulfills have been greatly reduced since I was last chair in
1997-1998. The committee is no longer required to meet
in June with calculators in hand to decide upon the coefficient for the total
reduced reimbursements from the left-over year-end funds and to check and
recheck via multiple calculations and re-calculations the end-of-year reimbursements.
As a matter of fact, unless there are new policy decisions to be made,
there seems to be little reason to have a committee. This year there was a
possibility of deciding on changing or increasing the reimbursements, if the
Research Committee's proposal (to cover PAC's unreimbursed expensees with
Research funds) had gone through. Unfortunately, it wasn't approved by the
LAUC-D membership. So we didn't need to meet. The primary functions that the
Chair of the committee performs are verifying librarians' professional development
participation levels, signing PAC travel expenses forms and returning those
forms as quickly as possible to Library Administration. During the new fiscal
year, the database for handling travel expenses and reimbursements is due
to change. How thoses changes will impact PAC are yet to be seen. There may
yet be a need for the complete committee.
Respectfully submitted,
Jerry Thompson, Chair
(2004/2005)