November 27, 2013 Meeting

Agenda

Taft College Faculty Association Agenda

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

 

  1. Welcome and Lunch

 

  1. Approval of Minutes from October meeting

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report

 

  1. TCFCBC Update
    1. Early Retirement Incentive
    2. Enrollment Limits
    3. District Service Incentive
    4. Retro-pay
    5. Evaluations

 

  1. Contract Highlight – 7.3.1 (see below)

 

  1. Flex Hours

 

  1. Retirement Board of Authority Member

Next meeting: April 11, 2014, 10:15 – 12:00, Cougar Room

 

  1. Other

 

  1. Next Meeting: January Inservice, TBA Location: Cougar Room (Lunch will be provided) (Every 4th Wednesday)

 

 

 

 

7.3.1 To establish a salary schedule effective July 1st of each contract year, the Frey Report issued in the same contract year will be used to set the minimum salary schedule increase by averaging the non-doctorate maximum at step 20 matrix, ranks 30 – 36 as compared to step 18 in the most current TC salary schedule. The goal is to target salaries at a future rank 36.

 

Minutes

Taft College Faculty Association

Minutes of November 27, 2013

 

Call to Order

President Diane Jones called the meeting to order at 12:15 pm.

 

Approval of Minutes

Minutes of the October 23 meeting were approved as presented.

 

Treasurer’s Report

Treasurer Ruby Payne reported that the balance in the association account is $11421.14 before today’s lunch.

Taft College Faculty Collective Bargaining Committee (TCFCBC) Update

Early Retirement Incentive

President Diane Jones reported that Board of Trustees recently approved the early retirement incentive that the Faculty Association had ratified via email. In order to take advantage of this incentive, a faculty member must retire into STRS, and notify the district of their intent by January 6, 2014. The $30,000 will be paid out in two annual payments of $15,000 on 7-1-14 and 7-1-15. A motion was presented by Tony Thompson and seconded by Craig Johnson to ratify this incentive. Ratified Unanimously

 

Enrollment Limits

President Diane Jones reported that Board of Trustees recently approved the enrollment limits language memorializing current practice. Diane also sent this out via email. A motion was presented by Tony Thompson and seconded by Jessica Grimes to ratify the agreement. Ratified Unanimously

 

District Service Incentive

President Diane Jones reported that the district brought this issue to the table. Given the recent focus on pension reform, our current district service incentive may not pass an audit. Specifically, it is not listed on the salary schedule and it is enacted and ends instead of being ongoing. Diane ran our language past Alan Frey and our CTA representative, and both stated we could be on shaky ground with our current program. If a pension reform conflict were to arise, retirees that received our longevity bonus could theoretically have to pay back cash received at the rate of 5% per year. The process is just starting, and several options have been presented. Admin will return to the next TCFCBC meeting with cost projections. To be continued…

 

Retro-Pay

President Diane Jones reported faculty members should have received any retro pay on 11-15-13. If you didn’t receive yours, please contact Diane. She also stated that there was an error in the summer retro pay. The number of workweeks in July were not counted properly. This should be corrected in a future payment.

 

 

Evaluations

President Diane Jones reminded the association that associate faculty are evaluated each year during the four year tenure process. Tenured faculty are evaluated every three years after that. Historically, student evaluations were done in class on a paper form. This year, surprise emails started going out stating that student evaluations were being done on-line, with no prior discussion or negotiation. This issue will be discussed in the next TCFCBC meeting. A discussion ensued in which different processes and concerns were presented.

 

Contract Highlight – 7.3.1

President Diane Jones led a discussion on this section of the contract pertaining to the Frey Report.

 

Flex Hours

President Diane Jones reminded the association that flex hours can be earned by performing approved, off contract work. Examples include in service hours for which no salary schedule credit units have been earned, weekend time at conferences, and brown bag lunches. The only time these flex hours can be used is during inservice on non mandatory meeting days. They are “use it or lose it” and can’t be converted into money or service time.

 

Other

Salary Unit Report

President Diane Jones reported that salary unit reports should have gone out by this time. In the future, HR Director Jana Peters stated she will give a summary report by May 10th each year to those faculty members that can potentially make a move on the salary schedule. She will then send out more detailed reports to all faculty members prior to the start of the fall semester.

 

New Committees

President Diane Jones reported that the academic employer employee relations (AEER) committee recently met and recommended to Superintendent/President Dena Maloney that three new committees: safety, strategic planning, and budget be added to the list of approved committees. Dena approved all three committees.

 

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 12:52 pm.

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