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November 6, 2008

Members present: Garen Baghdasarian, Dianne Berman, Sandra Burnett, Tom Chen, Rebecca Curtis, George Davison, Michael Dixon, Gail Edinger, Tracey Ellis, Dennis Frisch, Claudia Garcia, Martin Goldstein, Keith Graziadei, Irina Gromova Colleen McGraw, Ming Lu,  Mitra Moassessi, Suzanne McDonald, Darrell Keith Ogata, Eric Oifer, Jim Pacchioli, Nick Pernisco, Pauli Peter, Tom Peters, Franklyn Phillips, Jenny Resnick, Saul Rubin, Audrey Sandoval, Lisa Saperston, Jackie Scott, Elisha Shapiro, Tara Shima, Lantz Simpson, Howard Stahl, Kathy Sucher, Nina Theiss, Odemaris Valdivia, Alicia Villapando, Carol Womack, David Zehr.

Excused: Maria Alvarado, Lesley Kawaguchi, John Kennedy, Kym McBride, Marilyn McGrath.

Absent: Vini Angel, Diana Aghabegian, Rebecca Anderson, Jill Assadi, Espy Bolivar-Owen, Chuck Brinkman, Troy Cardenas, Katarina Cerovic, Fran Chandler, Anna Collier, Steve Contarsy, Gail Davis Culp, Giulio Dellarocca, Jim Downs,  Mobarhen Fereshteh, Ron Fitzgerald, Donald Gantner, Richard Goldenson, Jeff Gordon, Ben Jimenez,  Deborah Kraut, Matilda Krivan, Richard Lavallee, Ken Mason, Sue Moisin, Jeffrey O’Connell, Eric Oifer, Paris Poirier, Juan Quevedo, Elaine Roque, Michelle Scholefield, Michael Schwartz,  Mario Semere, Michael Strathearn, Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswin, Esau Tovar, Joy Tucker, Frank Turner, Sal Veas, Kayli Weatherford .

I.   Approval of Minutes – October 23, 2008

Dennis Frisch moved to approve the minutes of October 23, 2008; Tracey Ellis seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.

II.  Approval of 2008-09 Faculty Association Budget – Tracey Ellis:

Motion from the Executive Committee to approve the Faculty Association 2008-09 budget as presented: passed unanimously.

III   Motion from the Executive Committee on Faculty Privacy:

Howard Stahl -- Background Report on Resolution: 

Howard Stahl reported on the Resolution on Privacy: The FA is requesting a “meet and confer” with the District to discuss the problems which surfaced when faculty information regarding age and gender was released to a classified employee who was requesting such information for a research project. The information is electronically sourced information, but originated from personnel files.  This is a possible contract violation.

The Faculty Association proposes the creation of  two forms to insure faculty and classified may keep personal information private:

Opt-in: Faculty can allow voluntary participation by filling out a form, which must be received before any personal information is released.

Opt-out: This would insure faculty would not be inundated with requests for information.

Motion of the Executive Committee on Faculty Privacy:

BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Association of Santa Monica College instruct the Chief Negotiator to request a meet-and-confer with the District to discuss a Memorandum of Understanding that protects all electronically-sourced personal information from any future disclosure and creates an opt-in and an opt-out procedure.

Passed unanimously.

IV.  Approval of MOUs: deferred until agreement with  District is made.

V.  President's Report:

BOG meeting:  Dennis Frisch, CCCI’s liaison to the Board of Governors, reported on the recent BOG meeting.  The Governor has called for a special session on the state’s projected $ 3-10 billion revenue deficit.  As projections used for the state budget have changed, the budget will now have to be reworked.  The Governor’s proposal calls for $2.3 billion cuts in education.  This would mean approximately $250-275 million in cuts for the community colleges, and approximately $3-4 million in cuts to SMC.

The Board of Governors approved a resolution finding that there are insufficient funds to trigger the full time faculty hiring obligation numbers. 

Report on College Budget summit – Budget Summit:   The Academic Senate approved a resolution calling for a budget summit to look at the college’s budget challenges and to develop plans for economic recovery.  The Budget Committee has also passed a resolution to hold a budget summit, and the budget summit recommendation will be on the DPAC agenda next week.

Local elections:  Congratulations to Susan Aminoff, Margaret Quinones, and Rob Rader, who have been re-elected to the Board of Trustees.  Congratulations also to Ben Allen, Maria Leon-Vasquez and Jose Escarce, elected to the SM School Board.  Measure AA and Measure R passed.

Howard Stahl reported on changes with student evaluations.  Faculty who are being peer evaluated this fall semester need to administer student evaluations to their classes.  If these classes are being delivered in an online or hybrid mode, these evaluations shall be completed online.  If these classes are on ground the evaluations shall be completed using the paper form. The green forms are the new student evaluation forms for on-ground evaluations.  The Senate is testing a pilot on-line evaluation form and asking faculty to volunteer to test the form.  Faculty can participate in the Senate pilot if they are not currently being peer evaluated.  There has been confusion over when tenured full-time faculty should complete student evaluations. They are supposed to complete student evaluations every three years, when they are being peer evaluated.  There is a list of faculty to be evaluated this semester; check with your chair.

VI.  State Budget Workshop- deferred.

VII.  For the Good of the Order