Santa Monica College Faculty Association

Representative Assembly Meeting

May 20, 2004

Members present:  Maria Alvarado, Vini Angel, Alan Buckley, Sandi Burnett, Tom Chen, Steve Contarsy, Tim Cramer, Tracey Ellis, Mark Foster, Dennis Frisch, Kai Ganado, Anneliese Gerl, Carolyn Holmes, John Hoover, Lesley Kawaguchi, Ann Maddox, Ed Markarian, Ken Mason, Kym McBride, Richard McColl, Richard Mednick, Mitra Moassessi, Lyle Nichols, Jim Pacchioli, Pauli Peter, Toni Randall, Judith Remmes, Michael Schwartz, Lantz Simpson, Eleanor Singleton, Michael Soldatenko, Howard Stahl, Michael Strathern, Sumy Takesue, Betty Wong, David Zehr, Linda Zwang-Weissman,

Members Absent:  Anthony Archer, Garen Baghdasarian, Fariba Bolandhemet, Robin Briggs, Juanita Burris, Fran Chandler, Jim Croxton, Becky Curtis, Nick DiCamillo, Gwen Dophna, Naja El-Khoury, Don Emery, Martin Goldstein, Pierre Goueth, Craig Hammond, Josh Kanin, Ridgeway Knight, Richard LaValle, Jim Lemmon, Arnold Lessing, Alan Litt, Fran Manion, James Martin, Sheila Mason, Robert Massey, Suzanne McDonald, Colleen McGraw, Melissa Michelson, Elaine Morton, Brenda Ness, Krystyne Oakes, Ernest Padilla, David Phillips, Juan Quevedo, Paul Roberts, Mario Semere, Rita Soshnik, Marci Spiegler, Lydia Strong, Kathy Sucher, Denise Travis, Sal Veas, Alicia Villapondo, Andrew Walzer, Robert Ware, Mari Womack

Members excused:  George Marcopulos, Ben Martin

Guest:  Richard Tahvildarein-Jesswein

The meeting was called to order at 11:20 A.M.

I.  President’s Report-Lantz Simpson

    A.  The education coalition between the SMC Faculty Association and the Santa Monica  K-12  teachers has agreed to endorse and support their respective board candidates for the November, 2004 elections.  Candidate interviews are tentatively scheduled for May 25.  All faculty members are invited to attend.

    B. The May revise state budget for California community colleges allows $80 million for equalization of which Santa Monica College should receive $8,000,000 for the 2004-05 school year.

    C. Dr. Robertson has chosen to hire only three new full time faculty members for 04-05, so SMC will be required to pay penalties equal to hiring more faculty, unless the chancellor’s office grants a waiver.

II. Elections Committee-Dennis Frisch

  Elections will take place through 12 noon Wednesday, June 2, the votes will be counted immediately, and results will be available late Wednesday.

III. Negotiations-Mitra Moassessi

      Dennis Frisch, Kym McBride, and Mitra Moassessi have been elected to the negotiating team by the Negotiating Council.

      The critical areas to be negotiated are as follows:

            Article 10-Health Benefits

            Article 8-Salary

            Faculty Association release time

            Office hours, overload, and associate status

            Distance education

            Banked hours pay at separation

IV.  CCCI Report-Ken Mason

A.     New CCCI by-laws were approved at the May 7-8 meeting.

B.     CCCI members voted to oppose appointment of Margaret Quinones to the Board of Governors.

C.     New officers elected: President, Zoe Close; Executive secretary and chair of standing committee for publications, Dennis Frisch; John Smith, Treasurer, Rancho Santiago.

V. Special Guest-FACCC Vice President Bill Hewitt discussed strategies for faculty to have a voice in Board of Trustee elections

 The meeting adjourned at 12:35 P.M.

Submitted by Ann Maddox

                      Recording Secretary