Present: Esther Matthew, Pat Mosteller, Ellen Zelniker, Marie Doerner, Roma Weaver, Gretchen Bitterlin, Antoinette Griffin, Rebecca Wallies, Greg Shirer, Ann Marie Damrau, Barbara Pongsrikul, Paul Richard, Lee Blackmore, Mary Burns Prine, Joan McKenna, Elissa Claar, Joe McGerald, Rosa Castillo, Monique Wood, Colleen Fitzmaurice, David Holden, Richard Weinroth, Laurie Cozzolino, Jane Halsema, Vicki Maheu, Lorraine Munoz, Hieu Nguyen, Kenny Parker, George Mendivil, Suzanne Beach, Maria Reyes, Jan Forstrom, Wendy White, Lana McFarlane.
The meeting was called to order at 3:40 p.m.
Minutes: Approved.
Administrative Governance Council – This new committee consists of the Deans, the 2 VP’s, the Academic Senate President and the Classified Senate President. This committee looked at the master plan and program review. The Adjunct Hiring Procedures Committee will report in January.
Esther Matthew presented a message from Mark Wade-Lieu, the State Academic Senate President. He said to stay calm and not panic over the bleak budget outlook. We must stay informed in order to be strong advocates. Sources of information can be found through the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges at www.faccc.org and the Community College League of California at www.ccleague.org.
Governance Handbook. Esther Matthew asked for faculty members to sign up to look over the document for input.
Fall resolution session: Esther Matthew and Roma Weaver attended and said there was no noncredit at this session. Some of adopted resolutions of interest included:
Union: Jim Mahler has been the president since 1996. He is officially our representative. He is getting together some interim officers. CE will be well represented on the executive council with a contract and adjunct rep from each site. We have to negotiate any changes to our existing agreement to 2010. Because of the budget crisis, he feels that only non-economic areas might be negotiated.
A question was asked about the medical benefit packages that were negotiated in our last contract. Brian Ellison told us that management looked at the average load for the last 2 years of the adjuncts that had 14.75 hours and 21 people were offered 15 hours to be eligible for medical benefits. Jim Mahler said he will find out more information about who got these benefits. You can contact Jim at 619-640-1155 or email him at aftjim@pacbell.net.
Ancillary activities: The 4 areas that adjunct faculty can participate in during the fall and spring semesters are:
Applications for each semester must be submitted 4 weeks before the beginning of the semester. Applications for ancillary activities during the spring semester are due on December 19, 2008.
Accreditation: The Accreditation Leadership Steering Committee, chaired by Ray Ramirez and Esther Matthew are ready to conduct surveys for students and employees. They are working on a time line and will keep everyone posted on what is happening.
FLEX: Laurie Cozzolino is the FLEX Coordinator. She would like to reconvene a FLEX committee in December. She has forms to fill out to offer a workshop for FLEX credit.
UNITED WAY: George Mendivil, the United Way Coordinator, wants to encourage people to get involved. A form online is now also available for contributions.
The Calendar for next year was approved.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLOs): These describe the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes that students have attained by the end of their course or program. The types of SLOs required for the accreditation process include: Institutional SLOs, Program SLOs, and Course SLOs.
CE INSTITUTIONAL SLOs: Gretchen Bitterlin and Barbara Pongsrikul proposed 4 institutional SLOs which are:
A motion was made and passed to have the faculty members who were present, look over the proposed SLOs and to email suggestions and then vote by email whether to accept these proposed institutional SLOs.
The members decided to have no meeting in December.
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 5:05 p.m.
Present: Esther Matthew, Ellen Zelniker, Marie Doerner, Roma Weaver, Gretchen Bitterlin, Ingrid Greenberg, Antoinette Griffin, Rebecca Wallies, Greg Shirer, Ann Marie Damrau, Dow Seegmiller, Barbara Pongsrikul, Laurie Mikolaycik, Paul Richard, John Bromma, , Mary Burns Prine, Pamela Kozminska, Joan McKenna, Dennis Horn, Joe McGerald, Barbara Raifsnider, Rosa Castillo, Monique Wood, Colleen Fitzmaurice, Niki Salmon, David Holden, Toan Humphrey, Richard Weinroth, Laurie Cozzolino, Jane Halsema, Vicki Maheu, Jamila DeCarli, Lorraine Munoz, Sherran Heitmann.
The meeting was called to order at 3:40 p.m.
Minutes: Approved.
SDAE: Ten hard copies of our contract will be sent to each site and you can also get it online at www.aftguild.org. The AFT Guild next meeting is scheduled for November 6, 2008, at Mesa College. Check the website to confirm the date and time.
Treasurer’s REPORT: We have $15,581.54.
GUEST – VICE PRESIDENT Bob Parker: SDCCD budget compared to the state Budget:
| SDCCD Adopted Budget | Budget Approved by the Governor |
|---|---|
| Statewide Growth 2% (1.46% for SDCCD) | 2.22% for SDCCD (= plus $1.3 million) |
| $75 million Property Tax Backfill ($595,000) | Same |
| Categorical Reductions 3.62% to 10.90% | Same funding as 2007-08 |
| COLA @ “Zero” Percent | .68% (=$1.3 million) |
| No Mid-Year Cuts | Potential Mid-Year Cuts |
| State addressed Structural Budget Problem via New Continuous Revenue | State budget balanced through borrowing and one-time totaling $9.3 billion |
| Apportionment Payment Deferrals (July-Sept) | July-Sept, & Jan-March |
We have a cash flow problem because of the apportionment payment deferrals that could reach $21 million by the end of April. The District can borrow from our reserves, from smaller capital projects (not Prop S or Prop N), or from the county and apportion that out on a monthly basis. The cost would be the interest the county would have gotten on the money we borrowed. For example, if we borrowed $6 million for 2 months, we would owe $12,000 per month.
Bob said that SDCCD is committed to supporting employees by avoiding layoffs, maintaining compensation levels and maintaining all employee benefits.
Other actions taken:
Hiring of Instructional Assistants - Bob stated that the hiring practices in the Ed Code were not a budget issue. The District is still hiring student workers. They can work 30 hours or less per week. The issue is hiring people who are not students. We can hire students from other colleges as long as they are a full time student. Students do not need to be board approved. All vacant contracts are frozen. The student must maintain a student status each semester. A full time CE student is 15 hours, 12 hours for a college student, and 9 units for a graduate student.
Dennis Horn told Bob that welding supplies are needed. They bought supplies in June to save money. Now they have no supplies and were told not to take any new students. Their budget has not changed since 1994. Bob Parker responded that he needs to know how much they need to finish out the year and that the CTE dean is currently working on this issue.
“What’s the Budget Have to do with Me?” Esther Matthew gave us a handout that suggested three levels of strategies of enrollment management:
Strategies for Improving Learner Persistence – Gretchen Bitterlin gave us some suggestions which included:
There is new legislation about adjuncts being allowed to work 67% instead of 60%. This does not affect us because it is for the credit side. This is an item that has to be negotiated.
Pat Mosteller was elected as our Vice President for this year as there were no other nominees.
Executive Governance Council has approved the Participatory Governance Handbook. It has already gone to print.
Deans and Program Chair meeting – Gretchen reported that this body will meet as needed. They have concerns about the new models of program chairs and other issues, such as getting mileage. At their next meeting, they will discuss the attendance policy, look at job descriptions, and auxiliary activities for adjuncts.
CE Rosters – Workshops are being set up to help anyone that needs help with the online roster.
FLEX – To get your flex credit, you need to sign up first for the activity and then after you attend, say “yes” that you attended.
CE Calendar – This is a negotiated item and needs to have 175 days per school year. We looked at the tentative calendar for next year. It includes three FLEX days before Labor Day, Thanksgiving week off, and two flex days in the spring. Ann Marie and Jim Mahler are working on the CE calendar with the district.
Side note: It was suggested that we need better communication. When sending out an e-mail, make sure to put the purpose, a deadline, and what you want that person to do with it.
Outreach – It is in the works to have outreach coordinator.
Adjournment – Meeting adjourned at 5:15 p.m.
ROOM 77 ECC
Present: Esther Matthew, Pat Mosteller, Ellen Zelniker, Roma Weaver, Gretchen Bitterlin, Ann Marie Damrau, Barbara Pongsrikul, Paul Richard, Lee Blackmore, Joan McKenna, Rebecca Wallies, Mary Burns Prine, Pamela Kozminska, Dennis Horn, Joe McGerald, Jan Forstrom, Greg Shirer, Dow Seegmiller, Laurie Mikolaycik, Elissa Claar, James Laramie, John Lindem, Ingrid Greenberg, Barbara Raifsnider, Rosa Castillo, Monique Wood.
The meeting was called to order at 3:40 p.m.
MINUTES: Approved.
PROGRAM REVIEW: Dean Ray Ramirez was there to discuss the new program review document. A motion was made and passed to approve the new program review document, but remove program discontinuance to be dealt with later. The program review process will help student success and student learning and will also assist us in our accreditation process.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) versus Expected Student Learning Results (ESLRs): Why use SLOs over ESLRs? There are more resources for SLOs. Faculty rights are protected by using SLOs. SLOs are more specific and more measurable; ESLRs are more global. A motion was made and passed for the Academic Senate to abandon ESLRs now and forever more and adopt SLOs to measure student learning outcomes.
EGC: The Participatory Governance Handbook is not a consensus, so back to the drawing board.
DGC: There was a problem for non-permanent hourly classified employees who could only work 195 days each year. Many had been working for less than 195 days for 10 years or more and our district is not sure this practice is consistent with the law. Our district is converting some of these people to contracts because they have been working for so many years under these rules. One of Constance Carroll’s goals is to have collaboration with the colleges.
SITE COUNCILS: We need to have site councils because this is our primary means of communication.
FYI: In the next 5 or 6 years, a lot of administrators are going to retire. CE needs to have some succession planning and hopes to make being a manager more attractive.
Academic Freedom: The District and the AFT Guild agree that academic freedom is essential to the teaching-learning process. The fundamental need is acknowledged to protect faculty from any censorship or restraint which might interfere with their obligation to pursue truth in the performance of their teaching function.
SDAE: The current SDAE bargaining agreement is available on line at www.sdccd.edu/hrpublic. At the SDAE council dinner they met with Jim Mahler about the transition to the AFT-Guild Local 1931. If there are any faculty concerns, Jim Mahler is the one to contact. The next meeting is Thursday, Oct. 16th at 2:00 p.m.
ELECTIONS: Elections for vice president will occur.
CE ATTENDANCE POLICY: A motion was made and passed to put our items of concern with the proposed attendance guidelines and the possible negative effects they will have on the instructional program on the agenda for the next EGC meeting. Gretchen will also e-mail Jim Mahler about this issue.
FLEX: Ann Marie Damrau reminded us to fill out the flex survey on line. A motion was made and passed to create a flex coordinator position for 10 hours a week reassigned time.
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 5:00 p.m.