August 3, 2020

MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
RISK MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING

MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
AUGUST 3, 2020, 1:00 P.M.
https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/4178365051

Roll Call

Present –

  • Ms. Amelia “Amy” Counts, Committee Chair
  • Mr. Craig Frazier, Committee Member
  • Ms. Carol Silvey, Committee Member
  • Ms. Carrie Tergin, Committee Member

Also present –

  • Clifton M. Smart III, President
  • Donna Christian, Director of Internal Audit and Risk Management
  • Jeff Coiner, Chief Information Officer
  • Rachael Dockery, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
  • Briar Douglas, Student Governor
  • Steve Foucart, Chief Financial Officer
  • David Hough, Dean of the College of Education
  • Grant Jones, Business Manager, Bookstore
  • Rob Martin, Information Security Officer
  • Natalie McNish, Senior Auditor, Internal Audit and Risk Management
  • Beverly Miller Keltner, Governor
  • Lynn Parman, Governor
  • Suzanne Shaw, Vice President for Marketing and Communications
  • James Sexton, Director of Bookstore
  • Dee Siscoe, Vice President for Student Affairs
  • Rowena Stone, Secretary to the Board of Governors
  • Chris Waters, Governor

Roll Call – Ms. Amy Counts, Committee Chair, called the Risk Management and Audit Committee meeting to order at 1:03 p.m. on Monday, August 3, 2020, via Zoom webinar.

Closed Meeting – It was determined that the Board of Governors needed to meet in a closed session to consider items of business provided in the Revised Statutes of Missouri. Ms. Counts asked if a resolution authorizing a closed meeting of the Board was prepared. Thereupon, the following resolution was presented for consideration:

BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Governors for Missouri State University that a closed meeting, with closed records and closed vote, be held during a recess of the August 3, 2020, Risk Management and Audit Committee meeting of the Board of Governors to consider items of business pursuant to:

  1. A. R.S.Mo. 610.021(17). “Confidential or privileged communications between a public governmental body and its auditor,...” and
  2. B. R.S.Mo. 610.021(21). “Records that identify the configuration of components or the operation of a computer, computer system, computer network, or telecommunications network, and would allow unauthorized access to or unlawful disruption of a computer, computer system, computer network, or telecommunications network of a public governmental body.”

Ms. Carrie Tergin moved the approval of the resolution and Mr. Craig Frazier seconded the motion.

A roll-call vote on the motion was as follows: those voting in favor – Governors Counts, Frazier, Silvey, and Tergin; those voting against – none.

Ms. Counts declared the resolution passed unanimously. The open meeting was recessed at 1:05 p.m. to go into closed session.

The open meeting was reconvened at 2:04 p.m.

Adjournment – Ms. Counts adjourned the Risk Management and Audit Committee meeting at 2:06 p.m. on the motion of Mr. Frazier, the second of Ms. Tergin, and the unanimous approval of the committee.

 


Rowena Stone
Secretary to the Board