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February 24, 2004

To: Ron Galatolo, Chancellor
San Mateo County Community College District

From: Joaquín J. Rivera, Co-President and Chief Negotiator
San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493, AFL-CIO

Re: Contract Proposals for the 2004-2007 Contract of Academic Employees in the San Mateo County Community College District

Please transmit these contract proposals to the Board of Trustees in order to initiate negotiations for a new three year contract.

Article 7 Hours of Employment

7.4 Change the basic workweek of full-time faculty members on a regular academic year contract who are assigned to duties other than teaching or counseling to thirty (30) hours.

19.1 Change language to: A faculty member may, by written mutual agreement with the appropriate division dean on a semester-by-semester basis, be assigned to less than a five-day per week schedule. A faculty member so assigned will not be required to be on-campus for those days he/she has no assigned class or other activity. This exemption will not reduce the twenty-five (25) hours per week minimum on-campus requirement.

7.10 Language to modify this section will be forthcoming.

Article 8 Pay and Allowances

The Regular Faculty Salary Schedule shall be increased by 8% for the 2004-05 academic year.

The Adjunct Faculty Salary Schedule shall be increased by 8% for the 2004-05 academic year.

The Faculty Overload Salary Schedule shall be increased by 8% for the 2004-05 academic year.

The Post-Retirement Salary Schedule shall be increased by 8% for the 2004-05 academic year.

Provide compensation for committee work.

Add section on Class Size:

The maximum class size shall be subject to limitations inherent in the nature of the class, the size of room, the number of available student stations and equipment, the safety of students, and past practice.

Oversize classes are those that greatly exceed the standard class maximum of the traditional course offering. Teaching large classes result in additional preparation time and/or time grading, time, spent with individual students, etc. Faculty with such assignments shall be granted additional credit for such classes. Credit for oversize classes will be granted on the basis of actual enrollment on the first census for the class.

Article 9 Health and Welfare

9.1.1 Increase medical cap to $960 per month effective January 1, 2005.

9.12 MEDICAL STIPEND FOR PART-TIME FACULTY: The District will provide a stipend for 50% reimbursement of employee incurred health benefit costs to all part-time hourly academic employees who are employed in the District at 40% or more of a full-time load (6/15 FLC) and complete a 40% load.

Article 11 Leaves

19.1.1 Increase sick leave to six (6) days per semester.

11.5.1 Add the following sentence:

However, an employee may be granted up to four days of paid leave per year for personal necessity matters which need not be disclosed to or approved by the District, and such leave will be deducted from the employee's sick leave account.

Maternity Leave

11.9 Language to modify this section will be forthcoming.

19.1 Public Service Leave (new) Every unit member who is elected or

appointed to a public office, either Local, State or Federal or who serves as an elected officer of any local community college district public employee organization, or of any statewide or national public employee organization, shall have the right, upon request, to a paid leave of absence of up to ten (10) days in any academic year without loss of compensation for the purpose of enabling the employee to attend periodic, stated, special, or regular meetings of the body of the organization on which the employee serves.

Article 13 Professional Development Program

13.2 Clarification of the 3 types of leaves offered:

Short term professional development: from one day up to two weeks to participate in workshops, conferences, intensive short-term courses of study, etc.

Long-term professional development: partial courseload reduction in order to pursue longer term projects over a given semester.

Extended leaves (Sabbaticals): a semester or year off to pursue substantive independent projects.

19.1.1 Add: An instructor on a Sabbatical Leave may be allowed to work for the District in the amount of 20% of his/her full load to bring compensation up to 100%.

Add the following language to this article: The ownership and copyrights of all materials produced during an Extended (Sabbatical) Leave belong to the author/instructor.

Article 15 Performance Evaluation Procedures

Add the following language to the probationary (contract) faculty evaluation procedures:

The District will grant tenure to a probationary faculty member before the end of the fourth year if the Tenure Review Committee recommends conferral of tenure.

Article 17 Grievance Procedure

Add binding arbitration as the last step of the grievance procedures.

Article 19 Part-time Employment

19.1 Add language indicating that if classes were not offered to the faculty member, that will not constitute a break in service for the purpose of being removed from the seniority list.

Language strengthening seniority rights for part-timers in the areas of re-employment rights, assignment of additional hours up 60% of a full-time load and preference for full-time position will be forthcoming.

Provide compensation to part-timers for office hours.

Article 23 Distance Education (add new article)

Add language addressing the issues of: the use of the interactive mode of distance education; the use of the correspondence mode of distance education; the rights to the control of intellectual property, including subsequent use and compensation; access to technology, training for technology, and support for instructional technology; faculty involvement in assessing the benefits and costs of technology prior to purchase decisions; faculty involvement in assessing the benefits and costs of library technology prior to purchase decisions; faculty involvement in assessing the benefits and costs of technology used for academic counseling prior to program and purchase decisions; the effect of technology on privacy, staffing levels, and general health and safety; and, the appropriateness of and decision making process for contracting out technology based education products and or services, among others.

Appendix F FLC Allocation

Define/list English Composition Classes

Make the following changes:

Librarian Service: .5 FLC per hour

Laboratory:

Biological and Physical Sciences: 1 FLC per hour

Automotive Mechanic Technology: .85 FLC per hour

Respiratory Therapy: State "current loading practice"

Language changing FLC allocation in other disciplines will be forthcoming.

Side Letter 1: Retirement Incentive

The District will offer the STRS "2 + 2" (AB 1207) early retirement incentive to any faculty member that retires by the end of the 2003-04 academic year. Also, the current requirement of eligibility for District paid retiree benefits (the total age and years of service) should be reduced from the current total of 75 to a total of 72 for the purpose of this retirement incentive plan.

We reserve the right to add to, modify or delete proposals at any time for any reason.

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