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Volu me 105 Issue 61
Administrators shed light on current issues PAIGE L. JINBO News Editor
During a two-hour Faculty Senate meeting, guest presenters addressed staffing shortfalls and the University of Hawai‘i’s recent departure from the Western Athletic Conference. Members of UH Mānoa’s Faculty Senate met Wednesday in the Art Auditorium from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. to hear David Hafner, assistant vice chancellor for campus services and Jim Donovan, director of athletics, discuss the current changes taking place within their departments. According to Hafner, for the last seven years, the number of custodial staff members on campus has continued to decrease. Last December, there were 308 custodial staffers, as opposed to 371 in 2003. “We have an insuffi cient staff to run this facility,” he said. Hafner attributes the decrease to the civil service hiring freeze that was imposed last year due to the budget cuts. “We’re understaffed due to lack of funded positions,” Hafner explained. To compensate for the insufficient personnel, Hafner discussed new approaches for cleaning: breaking the campus into zones
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Jim Donovan, director of athletics at UH Mānoa, will supervise teams in two different conferences beginning with the 2012-13 season. UH will leave the Western Athletic Conference and join the Big West and Mountain West Conferences. Universities and Colleges scale of cleanliness, UHM’s grounds and facilities ranks between casual inattention and moderate dinginess. Cleanliness is determined by the total number of labor hours
... UHM’s grounds and facilities ranks between casual inattention and moderate dinginess.
and building zone managers enabling a custodial management system to take place, shifting cleaning to evening hours when the buildings are closed and making significant investments in new methods and equipment. Based on the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of
put in per year. With a small staff and numerous tasks to be completed, UH custodial staffers put in 200,000 labor hours a year, versus the 700,000 hours deemed ideal by the A PPA. “People have told me, ‘ W hy don’t you just make your staff work harder?’ but that would be
like asking your mom to work harder,” Hafner said. “Most of these people are 60 years old and they already do back-breaking work.” In addition to the new approaches to cleaning, Hafner requested that the Mānoa Executive Team support the necessary reduction in cleaning routines and enforce policies. Following Hafner, Donovan talked about the athletic department’s expenditures and explained the departure from the Western Athletic Conference to the Big West Conference and the Mountain West Conference. “ There’s a false sense out there that if we would have stayed with the WAC, it wouldn’t
have cost more, that’s totally not true,” Donovan said. “Our estimates, if we stayed, would have cost us $1.85 million a year.”
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While it costs $2.25 million per year for the two conferences, the MWC pays $1 million more per year, per school, Donovan explained. Last month, it was announced that UH would be ending its 31year relationship with the WAC to join the BWC and MWC beginning with the 2012-13 season. “If we hadn’t had done anything, and if in three to four years from now the WAC finally dissolved, we would have been up a creek because there wouldn’t have been anywhere to move,” Donovan said. “We had to jump now while there was an opening, than not jump at all.” According to Donovan, the WAC has only a 50/50 chance of surviving for the next three to five years. “ This combination will resonate extremely well with our fans and we’ll be able to generate more revenue,” he said. UH Mānoa’s Faculty Senate meetings are held every third Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Art Auditorium and are open to the public.
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