RESOLUTION ON PART-TIME FACULTY STATE BUDGET CATEGORICALS

WHEREAS part-time faculty play an integral role at Santa Monica College, and

WHEREAS in 2001 legislation was passed and categorical funding set aside to help close the inequities between full time and part-time faculty by providing additional funding to part-time faculty for their salaries, and

WHEREAS the Board of Governor's Policy Statement regarding these funds states in part, "The funds in Schedule (16) of this item shall be allocated solely to increase compensation for part-time faculty from the amounts previously authorized, " and "These funds are to be used to assist districts in making part-time faculty salaries more comparable to full-time salaries for similar work, as determined by each district's local collective bargaining unit." and

WHEREAS AB 3099 (1996), AB 301 (1997), and AB 420 (1999) were passed to provide funding for part-time faculty office hours and health benefits, and

WHEREAS all these funds may be folded into the base or general funding;

BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Association supports the intentions of the original 2001 legislation and honors Santa Monica College's part-time faculty by insisting this money continue to be kept as categorical funding, to be used for the purposes for which it was intended.