Happy birthday to all our UR employees celebrating their special days in January! We hope you have a great day and a wonderful new year!

1/3 – Andrea Swanagan
1/3 – Eileen Gieselman
1/5 – Nancy Cole
1/6 – Dylan Reed
1/7 – Drew Buscareno
1/9 – Kate Brown
1/11 – Colleen Bailey-Knapke
1/11 – Stu Fortener
1/12 – James Riley
1/13 – Laura Walker
1/17 – Anne Overly
1/17 – Matthew Frazier
1/19 – Jeff Fersch
1/21 – Matthew McVeigh
1/23 – Nadia Erickson
1/24 – Melissa Lechlitner
1/24 – Suzanne DeGuilio
1/25 – Kelly Courington
1/25 – Lou Nanni
1/26 – Cristian Baguer
1/26 – Joanne Norell
1/30 – Geoff Stookey
1/31 – Bryan Reaume

With the upcoming holiday break, the Building Services team has asked that we share the following information:

Please make sure that any cubicle/desk trash receptacles have been emptied in the communal trash before you leave for the holiday break. On Thursday, 12/21/22, the evening and overnight crew will be emptying the communal/common area trash receptacles only. Communal/Common area trash receptacles can be located in kitchens, breakrooms, and any area that is an open staff area. Doing this will help ensure that over the holiday break there will not be trash left in an open area.

The regular cleaning schedule will resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.

If you have any questions about this in regard to University Relations, please contact Lana Taylor.

Happy Holidays!

Colleagues,

With winter coming, we have been working with Kite Properties to adjust parking for the ESC Smart Cars. We wanted to provide the details about parking for the cars this winter:

• Parking for SMART Cars #12 & #14 has been moved to the south end of the parking area below the building against the brick wall directly behind 5 Guys. This parking will be in effect through March 2023. The parking signs for these cars have been switched so the #12 & #14 signage is now on the winter parking locations and the cars have been moved to the appropriate spaces.
• The normal parking spots used by cars #12 & #14 now have signage with “Restricted – No Parking”. These spots will be used by both Kite Properties through March 2023. If one of these spots (or both) is open, do not assume it is available for use. Please note, the signage includes verbiage that cars may be towed at the owner’s expense.
• Parking for SMART Car #9 will remain as is for now. We will reevaluate as winter weather approaches.
• If you need to pick up or drop off, use the circle drive adjacent to the lobby doors. The use of flashers in this loading/unloading zone is encouraged.

If you have any questions, please contact Lana Taylor (ltaylor1@nd.edu)

Colleagues,

New CRT Brochures and Endowment Charts are printed and housed in the storytelling wall. Remaining planned giving brochures are coming soon.

-Amber Cerveny

Colleagues,

As a reminder, please utilize the Gift Intake Form to provide our team with all pertinent details regarding incoming gifts.

Thank you,
Gift Management

Colleagues,

OIT’s networking engineering group will be replacing the existing UPS (uninterrupted power supply) in the wiring closet at Eddy Street on the morning of Wednesday, 12/14/2022. The network will be back up and operational by 7 am. No action is required on your part; this is informational only. If you have any network connection issues on Wednesday morning, please submit a ServiceNow ticket via this link.

-Development Help Desk

Kite Properties has notified us of some construction and a move-out that will be happening on the 2nd floor of the building this week. These activities may have some increased noise and elevator usage.

• There will be new office tenant construction on the 2nd floor from December 12th – February 10th. Please note:
  • There may be some noise during this time.
  • There may be additional elevator use by the construction team. We have asked the construction team that materials not be brought in during high-use times on the elevator 8AM – 9AM; 12PM – 1PM; and 4PM – 5PM).
• There will be an office tenant move-out scheduled for December 14th, 2022.
  • There may be additional elevator use by the moving team.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Lana Taylor.

Included in your planning for the upcoming holiday break, please ensure that your department’s requests for pre-break payments are forwarded timely for processing. During this high volume time, we ask that all requests for vendor payments, employee reimbursements, etc. be forwarded as soon as possible.

We will make every effort to generate pre-break payments for all requests received on or before the end of day on Monday, December 19. Requests for payment received after that time may not be processed until after break as our efforts will be focused on those received by the deadline. Please allow additional time for us to process requests for new or international payees due to potential tax or other compliance issues that may arise.

Also, please consider using your Procurement Card for eligible, small dollar transactions.

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your requests during this time, please contact us. If you have an emergency payment situation that may arise during the break, please notify us at acctpay@nd.edu which will be monitored.

From all of us in Accounts Payable, Happy Holidays!

Ed Verhamme
Accounts Payable Manager

Colleagues,

Please join us in celebrating the promotion of Matt LaFlash to BI Data Engineer Specialist effective December 1, 2022! He will continue to report to Wayne Harpenau on the Data & Strategic Analytics team. In his new role, he will have increased responsibilities in building complex data sources and data governance to ensure uniform and consumable data definitions and reporting in the Data Mart and use throughout the department. Matt will continue his work configuring and supporting Business Objects and Tableau applications helping to drive innovations and insights through data and dashboards for many areas in University Relations.

Matt joined University Relations in 2018 and has contributed to many projects in his tenure here including being a major contributor to many dashboards, including the Fundraiser Dashboard, Advisory Council Dashboard, and the For Good Dashboard, as well as many ad-hoc and standardized reports.

Congratulations, Matt!

A quick note for Eddy Street Tenants: Kite will be shutting off the water to our building today (11/30/22) between 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm to repair a water leak in one of the offices on the 1st floor. If you will be in the office during this time, restrooms and sinks will be unavailable for use.

If you have any questions, please reach out to me.

Thanks!
Lana Taylor