Members present: Espy Bolivar-Owen, Chuck Brinkman, Sandra Burnett, Troy Cardenas, Fran Chandler, Becky Curtis, George Davison, Gail Edinger, Tracey Ellis, Martin Goldstein, Keith Graziedei, Ben Jimenez, Ming Lu, Colleen McGraw, Mitra Moassessi, Jim Pacchioli, Nick Pernisco, Pauli Peter, Tom Peters, Jenny Resnick, Juan Quevedo, Saul Rubin, Jackie Scott, Lantz Simpson, Howard Stahl, Michael Strathearn, Odemaris Valdivia, Alicia Villapando, Carol Womack, Janet Watts.

Excused: Dennis Frisch, Kathy Sucher.

Absent: Diana Aghabegian, Maria Alvarado, Rebecca Anderson, Vini Angel, Jill Assadi, Garen Baghdasarian, Dianne Berman, Ken Buckner, Katarina Cerovic, Tom Chen, Anna Collier, Steve Contarsy, Gail Davis Culp, Giulio Dellarocca, Michael Dixon, , Jim Downs, Ron Fitzgerald, Ron Fitzgerald, Donald Gantner, Claudia Garcia, Lesley Kawaguchi,  John Kennedy,  Matilda Krivan, Richard Lavallee, Ken Mason, Kym McBride, Suzanne McDonald, Marilyn McGrath, Fereshteh Mobasheri, Sue Moisin, Eric Oifer, Franklyn Phillips, Paris Poirier, Elaine Roque, Audrey Sandoval,  Michelle Scholefield, Michael Schwartz, Mario Semere, Elisha Shapiro, Tara Shima, Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswin, Nina Theiss, Esau Tovar, Joy Tucker, Frank Turner, Sal Veas, Kayli Weatherford, David Zehr.

Guests: Andrea York, Bryan Ha

I. Approval of Minutes – May 21, 2009:  Minutes approved unanimously.

II. Approval of Reassigned Time, Summer and Fall 2009

Summer: Odemaris Valdivia made a motion to approve the reassigned time as presented; Jackie Scott seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. 

Summer: President 20%

Fall: President – 80%

VP – 80%

Chief Negotiator – 60%

Director of Governmental Relations – 60%

Editor – 20%

Political Director – 40%

Secretary – 20%

Part-time committee – 20%

Website – 20%

Past President: for mentoring and helping with grievances – 40%

PT Negotiating Council – 10%

III.  Special Guests – FACCC Presentation on Budget 

Andrea York, Legislative Analyst for FACCC explained that to deal with drastic cuts, FACCC is advising faculty and college staff to engage with the legislature. FACCC will be bringing together budget advocacy teams at all colleges across the state.  At SMC, the Budget Advocacy Team comprised of faculty, classified staff, students, and administrators are meeting to work on possible strategies.

Andrea York introduced Bryan Ha, FACCC’s New Membership Director, who will be assisting colleges in creating advocacy teams.

Discussion: Cuts will affect education and also in-home services; they will affect the poorest of the poor. Cuts will affect CSU, UCLA and the K-12 system.  FACCC is expecting a 50% cut for categoricals, and possible flexibility for categoricals, which could allow a local board to take money for one categorical area and possibly move it into another categorical area.

There is a proposal to make some physical education classes non-credit, instead of credit classes. Chancellor Jack Scott stated that this is discriminatory – and we should lobby against it. The expectation is that the community college could lose 250,000 students statewide. Fees were also expected to rise to as high as $60 per unit.

The democratic caucus has so far held the line on fees. The Chancellor suggested that any fee increase must be modest.

STRS issues:  funding STRS – there is a small-unfunded liability; STRS is 86% funded even in the current fiscal crisis.   

IV.     President’s Report:  FA party Friday night June 5, at the home of Becky Curtis  -- 6 – 9 pm.

V.      For the Good of the Order.

Respectfully Submitted,

Becky Curtis