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Present: Dan Kaplan, John Kirk, Katharine Harer,  George Goth, Paddy

Moran,  Joaquin Rivera, Beth Chandler, Nina Floro, Pat Deamer

 The meeting began at 2:45.

 There not being a quorum the meeting was informational.

 Katharine Harer and Joaquin Rivera gave the Presidents' Report. We were

able to negotiate some changes regarding the placement of newly hired

faculty. The major ones are:

 a. those hired in the fall of 2000 will be placed at steps up to 10 but

held there until they would have normally reached that step;

 b. those hired prior to that time who would have been placed at a

higher step (if, say, they had 10 years of experience but were placed at

6) will be bumped up to step 10 provided they have not already reached

that step and they will not be frozen there;

 c. those hired in this and future years will be placed at step 4 if

they have 0, 1, 2 or 3 years of experience and up to step 8 if they have

more experience than that;

 d. the union received a 'hold harmless' agreement on this issue from

the District;

 e. the union will not encourage anyone to pursue legal action on this

issue.

 A meeting with 17 Skyline faculty had been held only a short time

before this meeting; some faculty were appreciative, some were not.

 A total of 34 faculty will be bumped up as in section b). George Goth

said the union should contact them and inform them of this. Dan Kaplan

will do this and mention it will happen if this agreement is ratified by

the faculty. The ratification vote is next Wednesday.

 Ron Galatalo is the new acting chancellor. We have had good relations

with him in the past in his role of vice chancellor.

 Katharine Harer discussed the last District Shared Governance meeting.

The major points:

 a) the state surplus has dropped by $2 billion;

 b) the COLA is likely to be 3.91%;

 c) $62 million is proposed for part-time equity;

 d) ETNA raised its cost of medical benefits by 41% and has been dropped

by PERS. Other medical benefit providers have raised their costs by 16 -

20%;

 e) the cost of utilities to the District has risen from $50K to $120K

per month;

 f) enrollment in the District is down from 18,015 to 17,695 this year;

 g) the District is looking to establish a home buying program for

teachers. This program would be available to those who have not owned a

home for the last three years;

 h) the District is establishing a recycling program.

 i) Enrollment Management was not discussed.

 Pat Deamer said that 10 minutes per meeting had been added to the

length of night courses. Joaquin Rivera said we had agreed to that

provided there was additional compensation for the instructors.

 The history of the Enrollment Management program was reviewed.

Katharine Harer said that we had spent 5 or 6 months getting nowhere and

that, next semester, we need to run our own show.

 Paddy Moran discussed her project of 1-to-1 phone discussions with

part-timers. She said that in one evening she had spent two hours and

managed to have talks with only two part-time instructors and was

worried that there are over 700 of them. John Kirk said she should

recruit some of them to help with the calling and Dan Kaplan said she

should first focus on the 40% who were union members.

 Paddy Moran said the issues of most interest to them were access to

medical benefits, seniority rights and their relationship to the Faculty

Senates. Bess Chandler said that they had to petition to be members of

the Senates and that, while they could attend Senate meetings, they

could not vote.

 Paddy Moran said that the week of Oct 23 - Nov 3 will be Part Time

Equity Week and there will be tables on campus with literature about

part time issues. She was worried that some of the part timers manning

the tables might be worried about confrontations with administrators

and/or full-time faculty. Katherine Harer said that this should be a big

issue at the retreat.

 Nina Floro reported on the Bay Faculty Association meeting of April 23.

Attorneys Besemek and Fassler disscussed legal issues relating to

teaching. Items discussed were:

 a) any faculty member (both union members and non-members) questioned

by an administrator has the right to have a union rep present. The

faculty member has to request this right and need not be informed that

this right exists;

 b) e-mail privacy on servers run by the Districts is a negotiable item

(Dan Kaplan said he will check to see if our District has purchased

e-mail monitoring software);

 c) ownership of intellectual property depends on the skills needed to

produce it, where the work was done and any special payments made. If it

is an issue, there should be language in the contract addressing it.

(Dan Kaplan said there was an article in a recent Perspective about the

language on this issue in the LA contract);

 d) unprofessional conduct is 'in the eye of the beholder' and can come

into conflict with First Amendment rights;

 e) denial of contract renewal for the first two years can be grieved

only on procedures; for years three and four it can be grieved on both

substance and procedure.

 f) 'hybrid seniority,' which affects part-timers and which includes

program needs, seniority and affirmative action considerations, was

discussed.

 Katharine Harer discussed the Union Retreat, which will be held at

Enso's in Half Moon Bay on June 1 from 9 to 5. Fourteen people from the

Executive Committee have said they will attend and several others have

been invited. The morning session will be attended by EC members only

and will focus on next year's salary campaign, the part time campaign

and developing job descriptions for chapter chairs (we have purchased

release time for them next year). The afternoon section will have more

invited to participate and will be more open in nature. Enso's will

provide vegetarian meals and snacks.

 George Goth said that recent issues of the Advocate should be reviewed

and that those who wrote articles for it should be invited to the

afternoon session. Dan Kaplan said he would do that.

 Katherine Harer said it was important that PEOPLE BE AT THE RETREAT ON

TIME.

 John Kirk discussed grievances. The two major ones discussed at

previous meetings of the EC are moving towards arbitration, with dates

in the fall if no solution is reached before then. The CSM disability

counselor has been added to the grievance relating to reassigned time.

 Joaquin Rivera discussed the District Calendar, which is moving

forward. There had been a meeting at Skyline to discuss it and there

will be another in a week. He said he has not seen much discussion about

it from any of the affected groups yet and that this discussion needs to

be encouraged. He said that the Board would like to see it ratified by

them in late September, early October but seemed not to have recognized

that this is a negotiable item and must be ratified by the faculty as

well. He said that he, personally, thinks there is a lot to be said for

the new calendar but that it needs to be thoroughly thought through

before it is implemented.

 The meeting adjourned at 4:25 pm.

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