Hey Chops, Sorry was out of town for a bit and did not get a chance to follow up on this. From what I can tell the answer is yes, I thought it might have been only on officer members; but, I had a non officer confirm that she sees it as well.
Alrighty, given the fact that your alert box didn't respond to the hover-over action, I checked your Layout file, and found the source of the problem. Ultimately, you had copied the "notification" code to your layout, but this is code that is automatically inserted into the layout. I went ahead and deleted the code and redeployed your layout. Now, members should be able to hover over the alert box and it'll tell them why it's there.