Santa Monica College Faculty Association

Representative Assembly Meeting

June 5, 2003

Members Present:  Maria Alavarado,  Rebecca Anderson, Vini Angel, Robin Briggs, Alan Buckley, Sandi Burnett, Fran Chandler, Becky Curtis, Nick DiCamillo, Charlie Donaldson, Gordon Dossett, Gail Edinger,  Naja El-Khoury, Don Emery, Carolyn Feruzzi, Robert Flores, Dennis Frisch, Teresa Garcia, Carolyn Holmes,  John Hoover, Marcella Kelly, Richard LaValle,   Ann Maddox, Fran Manion, Ben Martin,  James Martin,  Ken Mason, Robert Massey ,  Kym McBride, Colleen McGraw, Mitra Moasessi, Lyle Nichols, Jim Pacchioli, Ernest Padilla,  Pauli Peter, Michael Schwartz,  Lantz Simpson, Eleanor Singleton, Michael Strathern, Kathy Sucher, Sumy Takesue, Stuart Sam, Nina Theiss,  Beverly Tholen, Esau Tovar, Sal Veas, Andrew Walzer, Betty Wong,

 David Zehr

Members Absent: Anthony Archer, Garen Baghdasarian, Ed Bermudez, Juanita Burris, Paul Churchard, Patti delValle, Mark Foster, Kai Ganado, Claudia Garcia, Bill Hogan, Ridgeway Knight, Jim Lemmon, Arnold Lessing, Karl Lisovsky, Alan Litt, Catherine Matheson, Richard McColl, Richard Mednick, Elaine Morton, Brenda Ness, Melody Nightengale, David Phillips, Juan Quevedo, Boris Ricks, Paul Roberts, Saul Rubin, Stuart Sam,  Christine Schultz, Mario Semere, Elisha Shapiro, Lydia Strong, Michael Tracey, Denise Travis, Joseph Vargas, Alicia Villapondo,  Robert Ware,

Members Excused: Tom Chen, George Marcopulos, Dana Morgan,

Guests:  Espy Bolivar-Owen, Tony DiNiro, Martin Goldstein, Lesley Kawaguchi, Mike Soldatenko

I. Approval of Minutes of November 14, 2002, December 5. 2002, April 24, 2003, and May 22, 2003

     The minutes were unanimously approved.

II. President's Report-Lantz Simpson

     A. Beverly Tholen was recognized and thanked by the whole Assembly for her many years of excellent service as chair of theElections Committee.

     B. So far there are only eight names of fulltime faculty members who have indicated that they will retire by June 30, so the incentives offered if 15 people retire do not appear to be forthcoming.

     C. Concerning the possible change in health benefit providers, Faculty Association has more questions to be answered.  The district administration wishes to change from Perscare to a system called SISC, under which a group of Southern California schools and colleges are insured for less than the cost of Perscare.  More information will be forwarded to faculty as soon as it is available to the union.

     D. Report on CCCI.

     E.  FACCC focus group on May 30 was productive.

     F. CPFA Report-Andrew Walzer has a meeting scheduled with Randy Lawson to discuss  classes for adjunct faculty for Fall 2003.  Since the state budget cuts are not as large as originally feared, perhaps some class sections can be restored, to the benefit of both students and adjunct professors.

III. Approval of reassigned time for FA officers for Summer and Fall, 2003

     The following load factors were suggested for reassigned time for officers for Summer and Fall, 2003:

            Summer, 2003   Vice President                            40%

            Fall, 2003           President                                    80%

                                       Vice President                            40%

                                        Chief Negotiator                        60%

                                        Treasurer and                             40%

                                           Negotiations

                                        Grievance Committee Chair      20%

                                        Newsletters                                20%

                                         Hourly Chair                             20%

                                         Website                                     20%

Charles Donaldson moved that the Assembly accept the above figures  and Robin Briggs seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:30 P.M.

Submitted by Ann Maddox