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Representative Assembly Meeting MINUTES March 20, 2003 Members Present: Maria Alvarado, Vini Angel, Garen Baghdasarian, Robin Briggs, 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, Kai Ganado, Claudia Garcia, Carolyn Holmes, John Hoover, Marcella Kelly, Richard LaValle, Ann Maddox, Fran Manion, Ken Mason, Robert Massey, Kym McBride, Colleen McGraw, Richard Mednick, Mitra Moassessi, Elaine Morton, Lyle Nichols, Jim Pacchioli, Saul Rubin, Stuart Sam, Michael Schwartz, Lantz Simpson, Eleanor Singleton, Michael Strathearn, Kathy Sucher, Nina Theiss, Beverly Tholen, Joseph Vargas, Leslie Vaughn, Sal Veas, Andrew Walzer, David Zehr
Members Absent: Anthony Archer, Ed Bermudez, Juanita Burris, Paul Churchard, Patti Del Valle, Mark Foster, Teresa Garcia, Bill Hogan, Ridgeway Knight, Jim Lemmon, Arnold Lessing, Karl Lisovsky, Alan Litt, Ben Martin, Catherine Matheson, Richard McColl, Dana Morgan, Brenda Ness, Ernest Padilla, David Phillips, Juan Quevedo, Boris Ricks, Paul Roberts, Christine Schultz, Mario Semere, Elisha Shapiro, Lydia Strong, Sumy Takesue, Esau Tovar, Michael Tracey, Denise Travis, Alicia Villapando, Robert Ware, Betty Wong
Members Excused: Rebecca Anderson, Tom Chen, George Marcopulos, Melody Nightengale, Pauli Peter Guests: Espy Bolivar-Owen, Loring Emile, Martin Goldstein, Diane Gross, Jan McKay, Patricia Mantabe, James Santilena, Michael Soldatenko, Susan Sterr, Jim Stramel, Robert Taylor, Bill Zimmerman I. President's Report-Lantz Simpson
A. The March 17 community college rally in Sacramento was historic, the largest ever community college rally. There were an estimated 10,00 faculty, staff, students, and union representatives from all around the state.
B. On March 28, a southern California rally is scheduled at Pershing Square, outside Davis's offices from 11-1. Fifteen or more southern California colleges will be sending people to this rally.
C. "March 15 letters" or notices of termination have sent to fifteen full time instructors. At least seven of the faculty have retreat rights. Budget savings are not as great as the administration originally believed.
D. The Budget Committee subcommittee on retirement incentives has reached general agreement but has agreed on no specific plan as yet.
E. The Budget Committee continues to meet with no plan presented by the district as yet.
II. Approval of minutes, October 17, 2002 and February 27, 2003
The minutes were approved unanimously with corrections to the attendance list.
III. Motion from the Executive Committee
By-laws Revision-Second Reading Article IX
Section B: Chief Negotiator
8. For the duration of the contract, the Chief Negotiator shall have the authority to develop and sign Memoranda of Understanding subject to approval of the President, the Negotiating Council and the Representative Assembly at its next meeting. The motion passed unanimously. IV. Motion from the Executive Committee-Overload Assignments
In order to save employment for adjunct (part-time faculty) the Representative Assembly of the Faculty Association requests the full-time faculty to voluntarily forego overload teaching in Fall 2003 and Spring, 2004, and urges department chairs to encourage full-time faculty to voluntarily forego overloads during the current budget crisis.
Charles Donaldson moved and Becky Curtis seconded to add the word "voluntarily" (underlined) to the wording of the motion.
Amendment passed with two abstentions.
Motion passed, two no votes. V. Guest Speakers from FACCC-Jonathan Lightman, Carolyn Russell, Jennifer Baker.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:35 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Ann Maddox
Recording Secretary
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