{"id":27950,"date":"2026-09-28T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=27950"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:32:42","slug":"flower-gift-fund-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/general\/flower-gift-fund-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower &amp; Gift Fund 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All faculty, administrative staff, and clerical\/support staff are automatically enrolled in the University Faculty and Staff Flower and Gift Fund. Members may choose to contribute $15 annually through payroll deduction. Deductions will occur Oct. 23 for biweekly employees and Oct. 30 for monthly employees. Current participants in the payroll deduction do not need to re-enroll. New employees can access the Flower Fund DocuSign on the Payroll website under Payroll Forms. The payroll deduction enrollment deadline is Oct. 16. For questions, contact Jennifer Roberts at 931-372-3712 or <a href=\"mailto:jaroberts@tntech.edu\" data-outlook-id=\"c57d5b0a-d0b0-419a-8680-2c787eb53ad6\">jaroberts@tntech.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">NOTE: Administrative officers, deans, faculty members, and department chairs are responsible for reporting illnesses, deaths, weddings, and births to the President\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All faculty, administrative staff, and clerical\/support staff are automatically enrolled in the University Faculty and Staff Flower and Gift Fund. Members may choose to contribute $15 annually through payroll deduction. Deductions will occur Oct. 23 for biweekly employees and Oct. 30 for monthly employees. Current participants in the payroll deduction do not need to re-enroll. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,25],"class_list":["post-27950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-facstaff","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27951,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions\/27951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}