06.20.16

Helpful Tip for Health Savings Account Participants

For those on the High Deductible Plan (HDP) with a health savings account, prescription cost management is a critical aspect of managing your health savings account funds.  Under the HDP, prescription drug expenses must go to deductible first before co-insurance will be applied to those claims.  The retail cost of some prescriptions is fairly high.  To help manage those costs, there is a helpful website, www.goodrx.com.  This website will search local pharmacies and provide you with the retail cost of that prescription, so you may comparison shop.  The website also provides you access to discounts and coupons for many prescription drugs.

Please look for more useful tips in future Linc articles!  If you have a cost-saving tip that you would like to share, please contact Nicole Ralph in the Human Resources office at 6-2342 or nicole.ralph@llcc.edu.

Posted in HR |
06.16.16

Thanks to all who helped make Campus Visit Day a success

A sincere thank you to all who helped make the Summer 2016 Campus Visit Day a great success. Whether you participated at the event, helped with setup or teardown or provided other needed services, we greatly appreciate your support with this significant recruitment event. Approximately 150 attended the event, with 57 of those being prospective students.
The Public Relations and Marketing staff
06.16.16

In the News

Jolene Adams, coordinator, Culinary Institute, was interviewed by Illinois AgriNews on the current class being offered through the Illinois State Board of Education for daycare and elementary school cooks using farm-to-table ingredients.

WFMB news, WICS/FOX 55 and Illinois AgriNews covered the Illinois State Fair Wine Competition June 15 in the Workforce Careers Center.  Thirty finalists were chosen from 228 entries and represented many varieties, from sparkling to dessert wines. Judges were chef/sommeliers, wine makers from other states, and consumers, including Dr. Charlotte Warren, LLCC president.

 

06.15.16

KUDOS NOMINATIONS BEING ACCEPTED

The next KUDOS awards will be announced in July. Nominate a deserving colleague by clicking on the KUDOS tab in the upper right corner of LincIn.

The KUDOS award is an informal way to recognize the small and large ways our faculty and staff contribute to the positive environment that is LLCC. Brighten someone’s day and say “thank you, great job!” with a KUDOS.

06.14.16

Campus Visit Day is today!

Prospective students and their families are visiting campus today. More than 150 people are expected to attend the evening session from 5-7:30 p.m. An information session will be held in the Student Union of Menard Hall, with exhibits in the A. Lincoln Commons. Tours also will be available.

06.14.16

Flags lowered on campus

The President of the United States of America and Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner have announced that all entities covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act are to fly the flags at half-staff in honor of:

VICTIMS OF THE ORLANDO TERRORIST ATTACK

until sunset, Thursday, June 16, 2016

06.14.16

Facilities Services Work Order switching to KBox

The Facilities Services Work Order system is migrating to a new web-based submission process via the KBOX ticket system as currently in use by ITS, the Print Shop and Institutional Research and Effectiveness departments.  The queue is available for immediate use.  As with the previous system, all ticket submissions must still be Approved by your Supervisor before the request will be processed.

  • To submit your request, just click on the ITS Service Desk icon on your desktop on campus (off campus, https://help.llcc.edu/),
  • Select New>New Ticket From Queue>Facilities Services Work Order and complete the form.
  • Click on Apply Changes>Save.
  • Supervisor’s, please be advised that you will receive an email from facsvcs@llcc.edu with a link to a ticket number.
    * You must log into KBOX first and then click on the link within the email to access the ticket.
  • Set the Approval – select Approved or Rejected and list any notes if pertinent.
  • Click on Apply Changes>Save.

Please click on the appropriate link to view how to submit a work order or how to approve a work order. ITS will host two open workshop sessions that you can stop in and ask questions and receive personal assistance with the steps to submit a ticket through the KBOX software for any of the Queue’s.  No registration is necessary. For those off-campus and in need of assistance, please contact Jeris Creasey to schedule a training session via Skype.

Thursday, June 23 10-11 a.m. in Menard Hall, Room 1173

Tuesday, June 28 2-3 p.m. in Menard Hall, Room 1173

 

06.13.16

Full migration to Kbox for Print Shop submissions set for July 1.

The Print Shop will complete the migration to the new KBox web-based site on July 1. Submissions of print orders after July 1 will only be accepted through this site. For information on using KBox for Print Shop orders, please view these instructional materials provided by ITS:

These resources can always be found on the Employee Portal, Click IT at the top, the on the Faculty & Staff Specialized ITS Training in the left-hand menu. Should you require additional assistance, please contact the ITS Service Desk at 786.2555 during our scheduled hours.

Posted in ITS |
06.13.16

Campus Parking Lot and Road Repairs

We have begun the repairs to our parking lots and drives by milling and patching the most degraded areas of the lots.  Yesterday we started the process of removing the loose paint from our curbs to ready them for new painting.  The project will pick up the pace tomorrow, when we begin work at the east end of the campus, working our way west to the main entrance at Shepherd Road.  During the project, we will be closing three parking lots at a time to perform crack sealing, apply coats of sealer and restripe the parking spots, directional arrows and signage.

Here is the tentative schedule (without specific dates due to weather changes that may occur):

1st day (tomorrow):  Close and seal Lot 19 (old tennis courts) & Lot 20 (behind Cass Gym) and the strip of spaces directly south of Lot 19.
2nd day:  Close and seal Lots 18, 16 & 15.
3rd day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 1.  Close and seal Lot 17 and the Facilities/Storage Building areas.
4th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 2.  Close and seal Lots 9,11 & 13.
5th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 3.  Close and seal Lots 10,12 & 14
6th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 4.  Close and seal Lots 6, 8 and the east half of the Montgomery Hall lot.
7th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 5.  Close and seal Lots 5 & 7.
8th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 6.  Close and seal Lots 2 & 4.
9th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 7.  Close and seal Lots 1 & 3.
10th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 8.
11th day:  Stripe the areas sealed on Day 9.

As you can see, we are letting the lots “cure” for a day prior to striping each one.  During these operations, we will be seal coating the roadways adjacent to the lots being sealed on any given day.  On the final two days we will close the Main Entrance in order to apply 3 coats of sealer to the inbound and outbound lanes of Poorman Drive.  We will make use the Foundation Road entrance/exit for that period of time.  We will be making good use of the Friday closings for the most disruptive work.

The Contractor will provide traffic control throughout the project and we will be working closely with our Police Department and Springfield Mass Transit, as well.

As always, we appreciate your patience and cooperation as we maintain and improve our facilities.

Hugh Garvey
Asst. VP Construction