February 2003
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MINUTES OF THE YC-AFT EXECUTIVE BOARD,
February 15, 2003
1. The meeting of the executive board Yuba College-American Federation of Teachers, Local 4952 was called to order of February 15, 2003 at Luis Cairos in Winters, California at 12:00 PM.
2. Those present were Jim Kitchen, Dave Althausen, Charles Johnson, Dan Salamone, Doug Harris, Tom Marquette, and Suzanne Wakim.
3. The minutes of January 18, 2003 were approved as amended.
4. MSP. New Members to the executive board.
A. Dan Salamone: Marysville Representative
B. Doug Harris: Clearlake Representative
C. Tom Marquette: Web Page Designer
5. Jim Kitchen presented the financial report from Lynda Peters. As of February 14, 2003:
A. Checking: $8,825.97
B. Contigency Reserve (CD): 5,525.79
C. Legal Defense Fund (CD): 20,133.69
D. Invoice for Release Time 9,953.10 (These funds have not yet been deposited)
E. Total 44,078.37
I. Dues and Agency Fees have not been added to this total
F. Internal Audit (Internal Review) required by AFT/CFT. Dan Salamone volunteered for this committee and will be working with Al Kolsten.
6. President’s report
A. State and District Budget Woes
I. How the Governors budget cut proposal affects Yuba
a. Yuba Budget approx 45 Billion: approx 30 from state allocation and 12 from catagoricals.
b. Expect to loose 5 billion from catagoricals, and another 4 billion from other cuts
c. 2001/02 budget projected 210,000 deficit. We actually ended with $1,190,024 surplus. This gives us a reserve of 8.72%
d. Estimate for 2002/03: district has cut $911,000 and is still anticipating a deficit of $1,625. This still leaves us with 4.93% reserves.
II. Have cut approx. 28 FTEf. However our FTEs has actually increased
a. 2003/04: Have cut 250 estimated FTEs (governors estimate of reduction based on increase of tuition).
III. Estimated cuts for 2003/04 are an additional $7,750,921
IV 2003/04 Proposed Budget Adjustments
a. Reduction in categoricals (among many other cuts):
i. reduction of Adjunct parity funds by 11%
b. Cuts to instruction
ii. these cuts are still being debated but seems likely to be passed by board
iii. will be closing Colussa center
c. will be cutting and closing a variety of programs
-Overall
i. $4,493,822 cut from Categorical
ii. $935,604 cut from Partnership for Excellence
iii. $2,321,495 cut from instruction
B. Adjunct Faculty need to be present in as many committees as possible. We are mobilizing to get adjuncts attending all site council meetings. We are still attempting to get adjunct representation on the District Council.
C. District Rallys
I. Campus Rally (Marysville) to promote Letter writing
II. State rally March 17
D. CFT: Budget Meeting: February 22, 2003. Executive board members will attend.
E. CFT 2003 State Convention, March 21-23 in San Francisco. Executive board members will attend.
F. MSP to purchase computers for President and Vice-President of executive board.
G. Reports of Executive Committee Members
I. Dave Althausen: $500 scholarship for a student per campus from the union. We have been promoting this at Woodland, but not on other campuses. It is suggested that other campuses promote this as well.
II. Jim Kitchen: will be writing a letter to propose that the adjunct union be given official time during the adjunct orientation. This will count for adjunct flex time.
H. Adjournment
I. Meeting was adjourned at 2:30 PM
II. Next Meeting is scheduled for March 15, 2003 at 12 PM at Pietro’s in Woodland, CA
III. Other Meetings scheduled: April 19 in Clearlake and May 24, in Marysville
Respectfully submitted,
Suzanne Wakim
YC-AFT Secretary