CLASSIFIED
COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
1/9/03
Present: Barbara Daley, Donna Elliott, Caryn Goldman,
Pablo Gonzalez; Linda Herda, Chuck Leach, Phyllis Porcar, Julene Rhoan, Theresa
Tentes, Megan Ton.
Phyllis
Porcar thanked everyone for coming and wished everyone a Happy New Year. She reported that the College Board of
Trustees and the State Chancellor’s Office had settled their differences
over the hiring procedure of our Chancellor, Ron Galatolo and that litigation
is off.
Approved
minutes from November 7 meeting as submitted.
Treasurer’s
Report
Theresa
Tentes reported that there is now $2268.16 in our account. This figure does not
include the money already set aside for scholarship funds: $1402 for
Staff/Faculty Scholarship and $500 for Classified Scholarship. Grand total is
$4170.
Fundraising
The
Chevy’s Night Dinner raised $53.29. It was a lot of fun, lots of people
participated and there was no cost to us and involved very little of our time
to setup. Theresa will check with Chevy’s about possibly setting up
another date. She will also call Round Table Pizza and Armadillo Willy’s
in San Mateo to see how they set up their fundraiser nights
The
Holiday Basket Raffle fundraiser brought in $914. There were 13 baskets donated
by departments and divisions.
The
Spaghetti Dinner is set for Friday, March 21 at the Municipal Building in South
San Francisco. Pablo Gonzalez is the chair of this committee and a lot of
volunteers will be needed.
There
will be no meeting of the Fundraising Committee until the semester is underway
and things quiet down.
Concerns
& Discussion
There
was much discussion about the recent flooding and power outages. The Office of
Instruction indicates that it uses a general initial guideline for determining
class cancellations. Until further decisions are made, if there is sufficient
natural light for students to safely get to and use their classrooms, classes
will remain in session until otherwise determined. Therefore, classes will not
be automatically cancelled when there is a power outage. Each situation will
require individual attention and judgment by the administration.
There
was also discussion about the air quality in building 5.
If
you have a Health & Safety issue that you and your supervisor cannot solve,
fill out the Health & Safety Committee Report form and follow the
instructions. (See attachment)
FASDAC/Museum
of Tolerance
The
next trip to the Museum of Tolerance is scheduled for April 7 & 8,
2003. Pablo Gonzalez and Kathy
Fitzpatrick will be participating. It has cost around $50,000 per year to send
approximately 20 people for this training. It is uncertain of how the recent
budget cuts will affect this money. There has been talk of trying to
‘train trainers’ to bring certain aspects of this program directly
to our campuses to reach more people.
There have been tentative dates of February 3-5 for training with more
follow up in March and April.
Strategic
Alternatives for Institutional Funding - SAIF
There
have been four meetings to talk about ways to cut the budget. Some suggestions
were: eliminate not-filled positions, offer early retirement packages, and not
renew post retirement contracts. Recommendations were made that President White
took to the Board of Trustees last month. Dr. White has asked to attend the
next Classified Council meeting in February to let us know what the final
decisions are.
Smoking
Proposals
The
Classified Council has been asked if we have any suggestions in the area of the
recent discussions around smoking on campus. Discussion followed. It was
decided that Classified Council propose that there be signage around campus and
there be smoke-free areas.
Alternative
Calendar
There
was discussion about going to a 15 week semester with a 5 week intercession
instead of 18 weeks semesters.
Classified
Employee Award
Phyllis
Porcar distributed copies of the Community College League of California Annual
Convention Program. Skyline College’s One Stop Student Services Center is
listed on page 12.
Next
meeting will be Thursday, February 6th, 2:00 pm, room 5131.
Respectfully
submitted by Linda Herda, Secretary