constituent institutions. The terms and conditions of employment for the two categories are
different. Attachment 3 is a copy of the revised personnel policy.
The board prescribed that “administrators” shall be deemed eligible for enrollment in the
Optional Retirement Program only if the position they occupy is within the SAAO category of
employment (and subject to the “faculty status” prerequisite described in Section C hereinafter at
The purpose of this memorandum is to identify and prescribe a schedule for accomplishing all
actions now required to implement these enactments of the Board of Governors.
Accommodating approved additions to the SAAO category at your campus; elections as
Attachment 4 (1) lists the SPA positions nominated by your institution for addition to the SAAO
category, (2) identifies those that were approved by the Board of Governors on November 13,
1998, as well as those that were disapproved, and (3) identifies in addition the “generic”
positions presumably common to all constituent institutions that will be included within the
SAAO category of employment at each institution that maintains positions so titled, whether they
were specifically requested by your campus or not. Thus, from Attachment 4 you can derive a
complete list of all new additions to the SAAO complement at your campus, by virtue of board
action on November 13, 1998.
Persons who currently occupy the positions that have been converted from SPA to the exempt
SAAO category may elect to retain their SPA status rather than be reassigned to EPA status
(although new appointees to such positions in the future uniformly will have EPA status). Each
such incumbent must be provided an opportunity for a personal interview with an appropriate
university official who will assist in determining how the change from SPA to EPA status would
affect individual career plans. Directors of Human Resources and EPA personnel officers will
receive detailed information concerning these interviews in their next meeting at General
