UFF-UWF Executive Council Members
  President
       Dr. Rosemary Hays-Thomas
UWF - Psychology
44-233
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 474.2362
rlowe@uwf.edu
   
  • Preside over meetings
  • Appoint committe members and delegate duties to them
  • Plan the chapter's objectives with other officers and the UFF stewards
  • Encourage UFF membership for all eligible
  • Recruit and develop new leaders among members
  • Serve as chief spokesperson for the chapter to the public and press
  • Understand and promote programs sponsored by UFF and its affiliates
  • Serve as a clearinghouse for essential information, referring new materials to appropriate committee chairpersons or the membership
  • Coordinate long-range planning for chapter programs, goals and activites
    Serve as an ex officio senator
  Vice President for Grievances
       Dr. Richard Platt
UWF, Management, 76/103
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5752
(850) 474-2317
rplatt@uwf.edu
  • Coordinate all grievance activity at Step I
  • Appoint grievance representative for each grievance
  • Attend all chapter meetings and report on grievance activity
  • Conduct training for grievance representatives
  Vice President for Collective Bargaining
       Dr. Gayle Baugh
UWF, Management, 76/102
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5752
(850) 474-2206
gbaugh@uwf.edu
  • Aid the UFF bargaining team
  • Represent the chapter in bargaining matters
  • Attend the chapter union meetings and report on bargaining activities
  Secretary
       Kathy Heineken
UWF, Education, 85/194
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 857-6337
kheineken@uwf.edu
   
  • Attend all chapter union meetings and take minutes (If unable to attend, appoint a minute-taker for that meeting.)
  • Keep a permanent minute book and make the minutes and records available to members upon request
  • Have copies of previous minutes available at meetings
  Treasurer
      

Dean DeBolt
UWF, Pace Library, 32/009
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 474-2213
ddebolt@uwf.edu

  • Receive all of the income of the chapter
  • Bank all funds to the credit of the chapter
  • Pay such funds as needed
  • Keep an itemized record of all receipts and expenditures
  • Make such reports as may be required by statute, governmental rules and regulations, constitution and bylaws, or by order of the president
  Membership Chair
       Dr. Sandra Davis
UWF, Education, Bldg 85
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 474-2025
sbdavis@uwf.edu
  • Arrange with stewarts for contacts for potential members
  • Coordinate all recruiting
  • Attend chapter meetings and report on membership activities
  Political Action Chair
 
       Vacant...  
  • Maintain contact with legislative delegation
  • Coordinate and recruit members from the university for lobbying
  • Attend chapter meetings and report on political action activities
  • Coordinate political action activities
  • Maintain contact with other unions particularly other FTP-NEA affiliates for cooperative political action activities
  Representative to Faculty Senate
       Steve Vodanovich
UWF, Psychology, 41/220
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 474-2944
svodanov@uwf.edu


  Retirement Advisor
       Vacant...
  Senators
       David Stout
UWF, Education, 85/197A
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 474-2284
dstout@uwf.edu
  Craig Jones
UWF, Education, 85/183
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514-5750
(850) 474-2863
kjones@uwf.edu
  • The UFF Senate is composed of representatives of all the chapters in UFF. The Senate ordinarily meets on a weekend twice a year, usually in Orlando, occasionally in Miami, Tampa or Tallahassee. The Senate is the legislative body of UFF.
  • The Senators are also members of their respective Bargaining Council.