October 24, 2018 Meeting

Agenda

Taft College Faculty Association Agenda

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

 

  1. Welcome and Lunch

 

  1. Approval of Minutes from September meeting

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report

 

  1. TCFCBC Update
    1. 2018-19 Compensation (COLA 2.71%) (2nd reading at Oct. Board Mtg. – approved)
    2. Dental Hygiene Continuing Education Courses Compensation
    3. Section 6.1.1 Credit and Non-Credit Courses
    4. Academic Calendar 2019-20 and 2020-21
    5. English 1500 Class Size

 

  1. CTA Representative- Brian McNally

 

  1. Other

 

  1. Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 12:10pm, Location: Cougar Room (Lunch will be provided) (Every 4th Wednesday)

Minutes

Taft College Faculty Association

Minutes for October 24, 2018

 

Welcome & Introductions

President Jones welcomed faculty and guest, Brian McNally, CTA Representative.

 

Approval of Minutes

A motion to approve the minutes was made by Greg Golling with a 2ndfrom Dave Reynolds.  The motion was unanimously approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report

President Jones reported on behalf of Treasurer, Mike Mayfield an overall balance of $6646.78 excluding payment for today’s lunch.

 

Taft College Faculty Collective Bargaining Committee (TCFCBC) Update

  1. 2018-19 Compensation (COLA 2.71%) (2nd reading at October. Board Mtg.)

President Jones announced board approval of the COLA.  Faculty members were referred to email by Amanda Bauer regarding the retro pay schedule.  Michelle Oja commented that Advisor stipends were missing from monthly check.  All faculty were referred to contact Amanda Bauer regarding any errors.

 

  1. Dental Hygiene Continuing Education Courses Compensation

President Jones reported that TCFCBC reached an agreement to compensate eligible faculty members a $1200 stipend for 50 hour remediation and $1500 for the 80 hour Dental Hygiene remediation program. The Taft College Dental Hygiene program provides participants 50 or 80 hours of supervised remediation for a cost of approximately $6800.

 

Continuing Education units were discussed in TCFCBC and were found to be outside of the purview of the faculty contract. Vickie Kimbrough, Director of the Dental Hygiene will negotiate a speaker fee based on the type of continuing education courses she would like to offer.

 

Motion by Darcy Bogle with 2ndfrom Tori Furman to ratify the stipends for Dental Hygiene remediation was unanimously approved.

 

  1. Section 6.1.1 Credit and Non-Credit Courses

President Jones reported the history of non-credit courses language stated in the faculty contract. TCFCBC reached an agreement to compensate all current and future non-credit courses in a 1 to 1 ratio.  A motion was made by Vicki Jacobi with a 2ndfrom Geoffrey Dyer to update the faculty contract to reflect the language to include a 1 to 1 payment of non-credit courses was unanimously approved.

 

  1. Academic Calendar 2019-20 and 2020-21

President Jones reported that TCFCBC reached an agreementto modify the 2019-20 calendar to reinstate the Veteran’s holiday back to Monday, November 11, 2019 to comply with state mandates on required observed holidays.  The 2020-21 Academic Calendar would notate that Veteran’s day would be observed on Friday, November 13, 2020.

 

A motion was made by Greg Golling with a 2ndfrom Amar Abbott to amend the 2019-20 and approve the 2020-21 Academic Calendar.  The motion was approved.

  1. English 1500 Class Size

President Jones reported that at the request of Kamala Carlson, English Division Chair the bargaining team requested a reduction of enrollment limits of English 1500 to 25 students. President Jones updated the faculty on the history of English enrollment limits and the previously approved reduction of the English 1000 classes to 25 effective the Spring of 2017.

 

President Jones reported that TCFCBC reached an agreementto reduce enrollment limits of English 15oo to 25 effective Spring 2019.  It was also agreed that enrollment limits of English 1000 to 25 would be updated in the faculty contract.

 

Michelle Oja commented that it might be appropriate to request updates of enrollment limits to other courses based on the requirements of the Course Outline of Record.

Sharon Evelyn commented that enrollment limits for Speech courses may t need to be reviewed given that the required time for student presentations.  The Fall 2018 enrollment limits for Speech courses was set to 30.

 

A motion was made by Kamala Carlson with a 2ndfrom Danielle Kerr to update the faculty contract for enrollment limits of English 1500 and English 1000 to 25 students.  The motion was unanimously passed.

 

 

CTA Representative- Brian McNally

Brian McNally introduced himself to the faculty. He summarized his role as CTA representative and encouraged faculty members to email him with any questions. Emails can be directed to bmcnally@cta.org.

 

Danielle Kerr inquired on the option to opt out of the CTA political messages.  Brian McNally indicated that he would follow up on the process to opt out, but cited that the text messages have an opt out option noted in the message.

 

David Reynolds inquired about the process of CTA endorsement of political positions.  Brian shared that those positions and published materials were generated by the CTA State Council.

 

Christopher Chung-Wee inquired about the withdrawal of dues sponsored support to political campaigns via the Political Action Committee. Brian indicated that he would make the form to opt out of support available to our faculty.

 

Other

President Jones reported the new health insurance cards would be arriving by mail and that updated cards could be accessed via the Anthem Anywhere app.

Michelle Oja shared that home address updates are initiated by the Human Resources office.  Mariza Martinez shared that temporary address changes can be made by contacting Anthem.

 

President Jones inquired on the receipt of faculty evaluations.  Faculty commented that online evaluations had been received but that paper evaluations had not been received.  President Jones agreed to follow up on the status of paper evaluations.

 

Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.

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