March 21, 2018 Meeting

Agenda

Taft College Faculty Association Agenda

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

 

  1. Welcome and Lunch

 

  1. Approval of Minutes from February meeting

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report

 

  1. TCFCBC Update

 

  1. AB 119 (1st reading at March Board Mtg.)
  2. Academic Senate Officer Compensation (1st reading at March Board Mtg.)
  3. Face-to-face Teaching TCI/MCCF update
  4. Work Experience Classes Compensation
  5. Health Benefits (Armando Cabrera, SISC representative)

 

  1. Other

 

  1. Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 12:10pm, Location: Cougar Room (Lunch will be provided) (Every 4th Wednesday)

Minutes

Taft College Faculty Association

Minutes for March 21, 2018

 

Approval of Minutes

President Jones welcomed Antonio Alfaro, the new learning disability specialist faculty, to the meeting. Dr. Michelle Oja made a motion to approve the minutes, and Darcy Bogle seconded this motion, which was unanimously carried.

Treasurer’s Report

Treasurer Mike Mayfield reported a balance of $9868.19 before lunch.

 

Taft College Faculty Collective Bargaining Committee (TCFCBC) Update

 

  1. AB 119:

President Jones reported that the language for the MOU had its first reading in the March board meeting and will go for its second reading in the April board meeting. After its approval, it will go into effect on July 1st.

 

  1. Academic Senate Officer Compensation:

President Jones reported that the bargaining team reached consensus to increase the release time from 50% to 100% for academic senate officers and that the MOU had its first reading in the March board meeting. It will go to its second reading in the April board meeting. After its approval, it will go into effect on July 1st.

 

  1. Face-to-Face Teaching TCI/MCCF Update:

President Jones reported that the MOUs for teaching face-to-face at TCI/MCCF received approval, and Dr. Dan Hall will be sending these agreements to the prisons.

 

  1. Work Experience Classes Compensation:

President Jones reported this issue was put on the agenda to account for the CTE interest in subject-specific work experience classes. Taft College currently offers general work experience where students can sign up for a 1-, 2-, or 3-unit class based on their work experience, but now, after a 6-year hiatus, there is an interest for subject-specific work experience classes that are taught by faculty members who meet minimum qualifications in the subject matter. These classes would consist of students doing an orientation, faculty visiting the work place to ensure it meets requirements, and then faculty going over an evaluation with the student, at the end of the course. She mentioned these classes differ from a normal class in that there is no graded work. She further reported that a subcommittee of Joe’ll Chaidez, Diane Jones, and Dr. Deb Daniels has been formed to research what other colleges are doing and will bring back options to bargaining.

 

  1. Health Benefits:

President Jones reported that the bargaining team is in the preliminary stages of discussing the health benefit issue, which the District has restricted to medical benefits not dental or vision. She explained that the bargaining team requested the District to provide health benefit forums for all employees to understand the current insurance plan and different options.

 

President Jones introduced the SISC Representative Armando Cabrera, who provided an overview of what SISC is (Self Insured Schools of California) and its history: it started in Kern County to address mounting health care costs. Even though it began in Kern County, it is now statewide and is a school-based entity. There are 205 plans. Since SISC has no profit-margin because it is a public company, every dollar a member pays, $.95 of it goes to pay claims with the remaining $.05 paying for administrative costs.

 

Cabrera stated that all the PPO plans have the same value that includes free generic prescriptions.

 

Cabrera defined the following terms to help differentiate plans: a deductible is the first amount of money paid before a member receives medical care; out-of-pocket costs include everything outside the deductible, such as a copay, a lab, prescriptions, et cetera; co-insurance is the amount of money paid after you pay the deductible.

 

He explained that Taft College is one of a handful of over 61 school districts with the 100-A $20 Plan. All the plans have a maximum out-of-pocket cost. Within the network, there are some services that are at no cost, and members were advised to be aware of services in and out of the network, such as non-formulary drugs, which aren’t covered by the network.

 

All other 100% PPO plans are designed with the same services. If a change occurs in one plan, then it’s made across plans. However, what does change are the copays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs, not the services. For instance, the 100-D $20 Plan, has an increased deductible, out-of-pocket costs for certain services, and a higher cost for prescriptions. The next two 100-G $30 Plans include an increased deductible, out-of-pocket costs, and copay.

 

President Jones mentioned that Cabrera will be here Friday, March 23rd, for three more sessions.

 

Other

President Jones reported that there was a mistake with the overload—some were paid too soon, some too late; however, Amanda Bauer is working to rectify this issue, and everyone should be paid correctly, including the last of the retro pay and late overload paychecks, by the end of March.

 

Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 1:05 pm.

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