Representative Assembly Meeting MINUTES

February 22, 2001

Members present: Vini Angel, Maria Alvarado, Carol Beckstead, Teri Bernstein, Espy Bolivar-Owen, Denise Cavener, Fran Chandler, Helen Cohen, Charlie Donaldson, Don Doten, Clayton Dube, Gail Edinger, , Loring Emile, Carolyn Feruzzi, Robert Flores, Gloria Heller, Carolyn Holmes, Steve Hunt, Richard Johncola, Peggy Kline, Fran Manion, Ken Mason, Joan Mills, Mitra Moassessi, David Phillips, Bill Price, Lantz Simpson, Michael Strathern, Kathy Sucher, Beverly Tholen, Michael Tracey, Nina Theiss, Alicia Villapando, Mary Jane Weil, Betty Wong

David Zehr

Members absent: Terrin Adair-Lynch, Ed Bermudez, Alan Buckley, Juanita Burris, Dennis Cozen, Jim Croxton, Ron Davis, Nicolas DiCamillo, Mary Fonseca, Mark Foster, Nancy Hanson, Bill Hogan, John Hoover, Esther Hugo, Jim Keeshen, Michael Landis, Ben Martin, John McMullen, Richard Mednick, Aida Mostkoff-Linares, Chuck Nelson, Jim Pacchioli, Laurie Pawinski, Lisa Saperston, , Christine Schultz, Kathy Shamey, Lynette Shishido, Heywood Sobel, , Rita Soshnik, Sumy Takasue, Joseph Vargas, Robert Ware

Members Excused: Lynne Boylan, Daniel Cano, Maria Dell, Ann Maddox, Michael Soldatenko

I. President’s Report

FA President Lantz Simpson announced that the District’s annual audit was presented at the last Board of Trustees Meeting.

The FA is looking into the level of compliance for the 50% Law for the past year.

The committee set up to establish the bylaws for the FA PAC is working on them over email. There will be a meeting of the FA PAC membership to vote on these bylaws on March 22, 2001. A member is a person who belongs to the FA and has either contributed at least $35 to the FA PAC or has enrolled on payroll deduction for contributing to the PAC.

Lantz attended the Southland Faculty Alliance meeting on February 12. Among the items of interest discussed was that El Camino has settled its contract–though it has not been voted on yet. In this contract is a clause concerning "intellectual property" that the FA is investigating.

The FA is still trying to settle the lawsuit with the District. The status conference set for March 8, 2001 has been postponed, however.

There was a PERB unfair labor practices hearing in January 2001 concerning the District’s recent handling of faculty reassigned time. The PERB Compliance Officer ruled that the District’s practice does not violate any existing court order.

The FA won a recent arbitration for a probationary faculty member on probation. The District was found to have violated the faculty member’s contract rights regarding evaluation procedures. The faculty member was awarded reinstatement and back pay.

The SMC Board of Trustees has begun an outreach program to campus groups. It has invited the Academic Senate to a discussion meeting.

The CPEC (California Postsecondary Education Commission) study has finally been released. Lantz attended the presentation of the study’s results at USC in January 2001. This $150,000 study, which concerns the pay disparity between part-time and full-time faculty’s pay, is available on the SMC FA website and there is a hardcopy in the FA office.

II. Negotiating Council Report - Robert Flores

Robert explained that the FA’s sunshine letter was open-ended; he then enumerated some of the items that the District specified in its sunshine letter. These points include: reassigned time; faculty assignment and load, stipends, and work-week; salary and placement; fringe benefits; calendar; rights of the Board of Trustees; distance education reassigned time; banking reassigned time; and department chairs.

There has been one meeting so far with the District. The District’s Chief Negotiator was not there; some ground rules were set up. The second meeting was cancelled. There is now a calendar in place that establishes a meeting every other week through the first week of Summer Session.

III. FACCC Report - Ken Mason

Faculty members are strongly urged to sign up for payroll deduction for the FA PAC. Four seats on the Board of Trustees are up for election in 2002.

Ken is a Governor on FACCC’s Board of Governors and attends its meetings on a regular basis. He stressed the importance of attending FACCC-sponsored Lobby Day in Sacramento on Monday, March 19, 2001 in Capitol Building Room 112 at 9:30 A.M. Ken mentioned how administrators and trustees are always very visible on Lobby Day and, thus, urged faculty to show up in even larger numbers to talk with legislators. The FACCC luncheon is $25. Reservations need to be made by March 6, 2001.

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Gloria Heller

for Ann Maddox, Recording Secretary