After NOAA's David Skaggs Research Center was completed and occupied, our staff with joint appointments or recent transfers noted the indoor bike storage room there. They asked about arranging the same kind of facility at the two NCAR campuses. They were assured it was a good idea, and the space committee would try to find a way to make it happen.

I've noticed that the lines in the east Foothills Lab parking lot where I often park are rather narrow, making it difficult to park large personal and GSA vehicles there. One consequence of these narrow spaces is that it makes it difficult to get in and out of large vehicles once parked. The lot's layout probably meets whatever minimum regulations apply, but given its appearance, the lot will likely need repainting soon. It would be nice to make the spaces slightly wider, or mark some spaces for smaller vehicles and some for larger.

Subject: Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers

Along with many other women at UCAR/NCAR, I'm a nursing mother, so I need to pump breast milk while at work. In the past, there has been division-allocated space given to nursing women to express milk, but no NCAR-wide policy. Recently, the room that our division was using for this was taken away.

I am disappointed that UCAR is offering to pay me for closure hours rather than having me draw on my quite generous pool of PTO hours while at the same time denying pay to scheduled casual staff who do not get benefits. Is there a good reason (for example, federal law) why this is done?

Inclement Weather Closures (from UCAR Policies and Procedures Section 5-4):