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Present: Bess Chandler, Dan Kaplan, John Kirk, Katharine Harer,  George

Goth, Paddy Moran, Pat Deamer, Karen Olesen, Nina Floro, Linda Vogel,

Joaquin Rivera

 The meeting began at 2:30.

 The minutes of Jan 31, 2001 were approved with corrections.

 Joaquin Rivera went over the final negotiations settlement, which the

faculty ratified last week and the Board of Trustees will likely ratify

tonight. The raise should be in the February check and the retroactive

in March's. The vision care plan follows the dental plan with regards to

domestic partners, that is they may be of the same or opposite sex as

the employee. The vision care plan is in effect as of March 1. The

provider is VSP and the employee should check if his/her optician

accepts them. The District is expected to distribute the contract to the

faculty soon.

 Joaquin Rivera said that the tax credit given teachers in last year's

state budget only covers K-12 teachers.

 Katharine Harer said she and the chairs of the professional development

committees are working hard to implement sabbaticals for the fall. There

should be flyers out by March 1 and the the deadline for applications is

April 15. She said they are trying to get consistency between the

campuses. The $100 K funding for the program will be split between the

campuses in the same ratio as the professional development monies. As

the money comes from PFE funds, the proposals must meet PFE guidelines

but she does not see that as a problem. The name of the program is

actually the Extended Professional Development Program.

 Katharine Harer said that this year the union and the administration

will examine how well the Professional Development, Trustees Grants and

PFE programs are working. Karen Olesen said that Skyline had presented

an excellent flex workshop on these programs and that she hopes to have

it presented at Canada next fall.

 Katharine Harer discussed enrollment management. We had previously

asked the Academic Senates and the other unions if they wished to meet

with the union to develop proposals. The Senates wish to include the

administration from the beginning. CSEA has a new president who is aware

of our proposal but has yet to respond. Karen Olesen said there is an

excellent document on enrollment management available from the State

Academic Senate.

 Katharine Harer discussed the latest District Shared Governance

meeting. The Board of Trustees wants to have another bond issue on the

November ballot, this one to fund both equipment and facilities.

 The governor's budget was discussed at the District Shared Governance

meeting. It has a 3.91% COLA, $62 million for increased part time

compensation and $1 million to implement the SF State campus at Canada.

There was concern that the energy crisis will eat up the state budget

surplus.

 Katharine Harer said that there will likely be a big discussion on

enrollment at the next Shared Governance meeting. Pat Deamer said there

is a very good document on program cancellation available on the State

Academic Senate webpage. Dan Kaplan said there was considerable concern

at the last CSM Academic Senate meeting that program review will be

linked to program cancellation.

 Katharine Harer said that there was nothing new on the Chancellor's

proposed reorganization of the administration.

 John Kirk discussed grievances. There was a meeting this morning

regarding the involuntary reassignment of an instructor. He said that

there had been a verbal agreement, that this agreement had been given

several times and that the president of Canada now flatly says there was

no such thing. He said the instructor had drawn up a compromise but that

if this was not accepted we would seek arbitration on the grounds of a)

involuntary reassignment, b) involuntary transfer, c) punishing for

filing a grievance and d) an attack on an active AFT officer. The

Executive Committee voted unanimously to go with arbitration should the

proposed compromise be rejected.

 Paddy Moran gave a report on a meeting with the CFT Northern California

part time representative held last Sunday. Part time reps from SMCCCD,

Peralta, San Francisco City and Los Rios were present and numerous part

time issues were discussed. Paddy Moran said an equity bill relating to

part timers will be introduced in the legislature soon. She also noted

that, statewide, 68% of all community college instructors are part time.

 The Boot Camp program for new hires was discussed. While it was

generally agreed that such a program is useful it was thought that it

had been poorly implemented and it is still unclear what items are to be

covered or for how many hours a faculty member must participate.

Katharine Harer said it was crazy not to have run this program by the

District Senate and the union before starting it up.

 Dan Kaplan said that the president of the French Teachers Union will be

present at the CFT convention, mainly to learn more about distance

education.

 Bess Chandler said that 16 teachers had manned the polling booth at

Skyline and that voter participation had increased by 3.5% over last

year.

 The meeting adjourned at 3:50 pm.

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