CNTA Representative Council Meeting AGENDA August 23, 2016

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1 CNTA Representative Council Meeting AGENDA August 23, 2016 I. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER 4:05 PM II. AGENDA APPROVAL and APPROVAL OF MINUTES from 5/17/2016 Approval of the agenda with additions: Motion to approve: Cameron turner, Foothill 2 nd by: Paaru Kwiatkowski, Ramirez Approval of the minutes: Motion to approve: Cameron Turner, Foothill 2 nd by: Martha Santos, Corona III. REPORTS a. President's Report Julie Cooley discussed the conferences she attended in the summer. Security breaches at CNTA occurred over the summer and details were given. Security cameras were purchased and they caught a perpetrator on video and he was arrested. Now CNTA has surveillance systems for security. Getting bids for opening the wall in the front of the building to get upstairs, due to security reasons. We have a new CNTA website. it is more interactive. Individuals will need to register to gain access to all the information. b. Vice President s Report Kristi Johnson reported on her summer discussed that 12 people attended the NEA/RA, in Washington, DC largest turn out, from CNTA ever. Attended President s conference with Julie.

2 ELA/ELD adoption issues were addressed in the summer. PAC interviews occurred. Disneyland will no longer be selling discount tickets as of Sept. 15th c. Treasurer s Report Omar Mayen reported on the budget. Our reserve is $219,426.28, unrestricted funds. Line item 7560: budget for our new website, under budget on our conferences. Refinanced our mortgage loan with a new bank, BVVA, with an additional cash flow of 62,000 year New line item identified for building improvements. Extra income via CTA, to house Elisa in our building New website will keep the members informed of what we are spending our funds on. $250 (twice for the deductible to pay for the damage to the building), to cover the $6000 of damage. d. **Directors' Reports will be given at the end of breakout session (breakout session was moved or tabled from the April Rep. Council due to meeting time constraints.) Took place for 10 minutes with their specific directors. Director Reported out: Tonya Spencer (K-3 Director) : Medication trainings, are they mandated? Reader by 9 mandatory? People have not been paid for last years stipends. Beginning of the year paperwork, why are we doing it?

3 Duty and lottery procedures Jennifer DeVries (Elementary 4-6 Director) Class sized reduction, AVID school questions & grading Do progress reports need to only be done on line District Assessment at some schools are being used to make smart goals District Assessments are paced faster than the rate of teaching ELA questions on assessments Jerry Goar (Intermediate Director) Scheduling issues at River Heights TSA and duties Academics K-8 site where secondary teachers are supposed to do duties for younger kids Chris Rodriguez (High School Director) General concerns about master schedule and sheltered students. New rules about non A-G classes Orange grove is concerned about their fence. about CTE classes, honors Sp and Sp 4. Insurance Aides WASC meetings on mini day Angela Thomas (Support Service Director) Balancing caseloads among councilors Psychologists want to have a cap on new assessments. Why are SLP s still under employed? A sub for sent for APE shortage DHH caseloads are high. Nurse are understaffed, 12 in the whole district Rocket programs cannot do the duties for pay Admin is taking away aide support and violates IEP Marlynn Haynes, Ramirez motion to extend the meeting by 10 minutes and seconded by Cameron Turner. Passed

4 IV. NEW BUSINESS a. PAC A Skit was performed to explain the importance of prop 55. The purpose of the tax is to tax people making over $500,000 a year to supply money for school system. The tax we are currently benefitting will be running out in a few years if this proposition expires. In the past this has given us raises, end to furlough days and layoff of teachers, plus controlling our class size. The district is also supporting the measure of voting YES on 55. Reps were combined into teams to form site PAC committees to visit sites. Site leads assigned, sign ups occurred, practice occurred. Update: The committee met with school board candidates for potential candidates, the collation attended meeting also. The Collation supported one candidate, Jami Merchant, the executive board endorsed the candidate also Loretta Arenas motioned to endorse Jami Merchant as a candidate for the school board, trusty are 5. Julie Mendoza, Vincentia elementary seconded the motion. Motion: Passes (opposed 1, Abstentions 15) Maria Sarmineto, Cenntenial High school Motion to endorse for the RCC board of trustees Bill Hendrick Martha Santos seconded. Colby Earnest asked about why we are not having the candidates speak to the reps. Answer was it was an issue of timing and summer break. Discussion occurred about how the process worked with the collation. Motion to close debate from Dan Tucker Motion Passes to close debate. Motion Passes to endorse Bill Hedrick. (Opposed 2, Abstentions 3) b. Insurance Committee Update

5 Dan Tucker and Ula Brown discussed our insurance with the district. They discussed how VEBA works with 98.9 to our insurance and 1.1 to servicing the plans. Costs are being driven up by prescription drugs. We are trying to combat those costs by getting new pharmacy plans. Kaiser is up to over 98% of generic usage of medication. Another reason is a lack of competition in prescription medication. Our health care costs are increasing; in general, preliminary rates United Health Care HMO 3.1% or less, PPO 7.68%, Kaiser approx. in the 6% range. (Approx for a family plan per month). We have not had a rate increase for 1.5 years, new rates will not go into effect until January Open enrollment dates are Oct. 10-Nov. 4, 2016 online. Meeting with Reps Oct. 10 &11, 2016 from 11:00-4:30 PM at the DO learning Center South.It will occur over only 2 days because most people are doing it online. If you are happy with what you have you don t need to go in. c. Bargaining Committee Update Jerry Goar discussed site visits to get staff inputs. Questions were asked and Jerry said he would respond to questions that were ed to him. The Committee members have not been confirmed at this point. Executive board passed a motion to send 3 people to a conference about contract writing. d. CEC, DLT, and LCAP CEC(Contortion for Educational Change) update third and final year of implementation. DLT (District Leadership Team) meeting will occur on August 29 th, bringing decision making to a site based level. LCAP: We have new teachers involved in this committee. e. CNTA Building and Security Reference President s report.

6 f. ECLF Mentor Project Meet this summer and presented in Chicago this summer. g. Site Rep Elections and School Site Safety Committees Election Update: Reported by Maria Macabales Over the summer CTA affirmed the original election results. CTA rejected CNTA s executive s board s decision to rerun an election for the challenged positions. CTA s decision is final. The board was introduced to the members. No ethnic minority is needed due to our executive board composition. Site Reps: One for every ten members is requested, round up if needed. If you are running you may not do the elections. You can be elected by acclimation. No written ballots needed. Give the sites a time line to get the candidates in. Submit Results into Lorene Householder. School Site Safety committee, page 41 in our book. Each site must have one and the first meeting needs to occur by the 30 th work day. Position must be elected. h. Catastrophic leave: Tanya Spencer discussed how catastrophic leave that people can specifically donate to people who are caring for others with a catastrophic illness. Stephanie Floyd at Eisenhower is in need of days to care for her husband. The paperwork can be sent to Tanya or Katie at the site. i. Gifts awarded

7 V. ADJOURNMENT Motion to adjourn Loretta Arenas 2 nd Martha Santos Meeting Adjourned at 6:29PM ** Our next CNTA Rep. Council Meeting is September 20, 2016