March 2011

SPOTLIGHT Employee Spotlight – David Johnson Student Spotlight – Bethel Glumac CALENDAR March Events Calendar NOTES AND NEWS Dining Dining Plan Approved for 2011-12 Branch out your Burger Savvy with Four New Burger Creations at Burger Studio UH Hilton Restaurant Manager Wins Spirit of Hilton Award Don’t Keep it to Yourself – Share your Opinions with UH Dining Services Executive Chef Brent Gorman Earns ProChef’s Certified Chef de Cuisine Designation Catering on Cullen March Special Finance HUB Statistics University Travel Insurance Discontinued P-Card and Travel Card Update Office Supply Vendor Show on March 10 Green UH UH Earns Silver STARS Rating for Sustainability Initiatives Winner Chosen for Green UH T-shirt Contest METRO On-site Service Brings Students to Green Commuter Fair Urban Harvest – Planning the Spring Vegetable Garden Housing New Online Housing Application to Streamline Process Residents Make Valentines for Hospitalized Children Parking and Transportation Parking Strategic Plan Approved by Board of Regents Response to Cullen Field Concerns Frontier Fiesta Parking Plan Keeping you Posted on METRO’s Light Rail Construction METRO Service to the Houston Rodeo Plant Operations CenterPoint Energy Easement Clearing Policies and Procedures As the UH Policies and Procedures World Turns.. Public Safety University Oaks Community Parking Follow Up Obtaining Employee Driver Records is Now Quick and Economical Stay Green and Donate   Quick Tip: For enrollment services questions, students can call 713/743-1010. . If you have comments or would like to submit an article to future newsletters, contact Lindsay Marshall at lmmarshall@uh.ed by the 20th of each month.

P/T Card Transition from JPMC to Citibank

The State Comptroller’s Office has extended the P/T Card contract with JPMC until August 31, 2011. State agencies are required to complete the conversion by the new due date. See the following information concerning the transition period:

Central Billed P-Cards and Travel Cards (i.e., Local P-Cards, State P-Cards, Local Dept Travel Cards, Local Individual Travel Cards, and State Dept Travel Cards)

Cardholders for all central billed P-Cards and Travel Cards can continue using the current JPMC cards until further notice by Accounts Payable. Currently, we are waiting on Citibank to provide the proper on-line system accesses and the program setups. Accounts Payable is planning to initiate the program conversion as soon as Citibank completes the program setup in the new bank system and provides the proper on-line accesses to us.

Any new accounts (new cards) for the central billed programs will be opened with JPMC for the time being. Accounts Payable will manually transfer these accounts to Citibank when the Citibank system is ready.

Cardholders/departments should make sure that all previous SDOL Expense Reports have been generated and uploaded to the finance system. It should be noted that our SDOL access may be discontinued anytime after August 31, 2011.

As indicated in our previous e-mail dated 01/31/11, all individual billed corporate travel cards were expired as of 02/28/11. Cardholders who wish to continue having a corporate travel card must complete and forward a new Citibank application (http://www.uh.edu/finance/pages/AP_Travel.htm) and Corporate Card Use Agreement (MAPP 04.02.01C) to Accounts Payable.