ACE Association of College Educators West Valley Mission Community College District Office at West Valley 741-4631 or ace@wvmccd.cc.ca.us Web Site http://wvmccd.cc.ca.us/wvmccd/ace

APPROVED MINUTES

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Mission College E3-301 at 2:30 pm

I. MEMBERSPRESENT

Present	Member	Present	Member
x	Pat Andrews, WVC, President	x	Louise Lodato, MC, AF Negotiator
x	Carol Beck, MC, FT Rep	x	Ellen McAlister, MC, Negotiator
x	Roberta Berlani, WVC, FT Rep	x	Benjamin Mendelsohn, WVC, FT Rep
x	Randy Castello, WVC, Chief Negotiator, Budget Analyst	x	Susanna Pancella, MC, Vice President, Secretary
x	Donna Frankel, AF Rep At-Large	x	Rod Pavao, MC, FT Rep, Grievance/FSA Specialist
x	Tom Golbetz, WVC, FT Rep	x	Himanshu Rath, MC, AF Rep
x	Michael Herauf, WVC, Grievance/FSA Specialist		Doug Temkin, WVC, Newsletter Editor
x	Nichola Gutierrez, WVC, Treasurer	x	Marge Throndson, WVC, AF Rep
x	Ed Kleppinger, MC, FT Rep

GUESTS: James Kittock

II. CALLTO ORDER The President called the meeting to order at 2:40p.m.

III. ORGANIZATION

IV. AGENDA: Add as first item: Work to Contract

V. MINUTES

VI. REPORTS

A. President: Faculty have given us feedback on all that has happened to date. Theyfeel that we are professionally handling matters. Please attend the Academic Senatemeetings at both campuses on Sept. 6 (West Valley at 2pm) and Sept. 8 (Missionat 2:05pm) they will discuss supporting ACE's actions.

B. Vice President: None

C. Secretary: The list of contract articles that everyone volunteered to review wassent. Please report on these articles over the next few weeks.

Pleasecheck your email addresses for Council members to make sure they are correct.

D. Treasurer/BudgetAnalyst: None

E. LegalAnalyst: None

F. Newsletter Editor: Articles should be given to Doug by September 14. Thenewsletter will be coming out the week of September 19.

G. Associate Faculty: None

VII. CLOSEDSESSION

A. Grievance/FSASpecialist Report

B. Negotiations

VIII. OLD BUSINESS None

IX. NEW BUSINESS

Work to Contract: there have been many questions on reassigned time for division anddepartment chairs. There is concern as to how this will be calculated. This iscurrently under investigation.

Benefits Consultant: has been invited to our next regular meeting so that we may askquestions about the preliminary report.

Open Session:James Kittock came to the meeting with questions about "work tocontract" and institutional responsibility.

Constitutional Change: it was reviewed and some wording changes weresuggested.

Proposed Change to Constitutional Language: Article VI: Section2: TheCouncil shall notify the Association within fifteen (15) working days of theconclusion of negotiations for the purpose of ratification of contracts reachedwith the college district. Such negotiated agreements shall be ratified orrejected by a majority vote of the Association members using either an officialconfidential paper or email ballot.

Motion: Toaccept the proposed change to the constitution language in Article V1: Section2.

Made by:Rod Pavao Secondedby: Ed Kleppinger

Passed

We will review this proposed change again at thenext meeting before it is sent to the faculty.

Compensation for summer work:

Thereshould be a process for any Council member who works to be compensated fairlyfor the work performed. It must be work directed by the organization and itmust be documented. It would be nice if the work could be pre-approved but thisdoes not always happen. It should be remembered that Council work continues allyear round and perhaps we have to meet in the summer.

Pleasegive this matter some thought and it will be discussed at the next meeting.

Unloadedhours by arrangement:FYI: a form for these hours was distributed at Mission. It was presented as arequirement but it is in reality a pilot.

X. FUTUREBUSINESS

Special Council meeting: September 7 at Mission in E3-301at 2:30pm

Nextregular ACE meeting: September 15 at Mission in E3-301 starting at 2:30pm

XI. ADJOURNMENT The meeting ended at 5pm.

Respectfullysubmitted,

SusannaPancella, Secretary