Present: Romy Thiele, John Searle, Victoria Clinton, John Kirk, Paddy Moran, Katharine Harer, Bess Chandler, Anne Nicholls, Karen Olesen, Murielle Terri Rose, Dan Kaplan and guest, Harriet Tucker.

Absent: George Goth, (ill) and Joaquin Rivera (meeting conflict)

The meeting began at 2:46 pm.

Minutes of Sept. 26th and Oct. 24th were approved with corrections. The correct spelling of Richard Holober's last name, support of Rosalie Mahoney for city council not school board and change the word "man" to staffing of phone bank were corrections to the Sept. 26th minutes.

Co-president report by Katharine Harer was on topic of the Faculty Quality of Life Survey. Katharine stated the deadline has been extended, remind faculty (part time and full time) to respond to the survey on line or fill out a hard copy. The results of survey should be available mid-Spring. There have been to date about 200 responses from faculty. On another topic, Katharine mentioned that several scholarships for high school seniors of AFT members are available, such as the Raul Theilhet Scholarship, info. available at national and state websites.

Katharine announced the Sixtieth Convention of the California Federation of Teachers would be held in Sacramento, Fri. Mar. 8th through Sun. March 10th.

Harriet Tucker, Office Manager, for Local #1493 was honored and recognized for her years of service. Dan Kaplan presented this Award of Appreciation to Harriet on behalf of the local membership and Executive Committee for her outstanding and conscientious service for these last ten years, since Sept. 17, 1991, to be exact. Dan mentioned that our local is fortunate to have the length of dedication and commitment to service that Harriet has provided for us.

Negotiations status report given by Katharine Harer included their ongoing discussion regarding definition of "parity" for faculty (part time/full time) in relationship to salary increases and current faculty responsibilities beyond the classroom. Our districts portion of the 57 million dollars from the state for part time equity is around $950,000. The free, state mediation service (facilitator), Paul Roose, has been requested as well as a push for accelerated pace of negotiations by adding more meeting dates once negotiations do get underway. Executive committee members shared more issues and concerns on the topic of "parity" between variety of adjunct faculty service areas, i.e. Science, Art and Counseling.

Paddy Moran thanked everyone for supporting Campus Equity Week, especially new faculty that staffed tables with information and petitions. This is only the second year of this statewide activity and each year brings more interest and involvement. Each campus shared unique activities that took place. It was mentioned the popularity that free food and/or candy makes at the petition tables!
Ideas for next year included encouraging part time faculty to donate one hour during that week to work at the petition table as well as taking more pictures…to start historical local record of the activity. About 700 signatures were collected. These petitions are sent to Campus Equity Week Central Coordinator and Legislative Analyst for California Part-time Faculty Association, Chris Storer. He then sends them to the Governor and Legislators.

John Searle announced and gave flyers to take to respective campuses for College of San Mateo - AFT Social to be held at Jack's Pizza on Friday, Dec. 7th.

John Kirk reported on three formal grievances. One grievance currently at Level II from Cañada and two more recently filed from CSM.

Shared Governance Council report given by Katharine Harer and Dan Kaplan. Topic was electronic monitoring of our district e-mail and the district renewal of contract with 4CNET, which is our internet service provider. The concern is that 4CNET policy of electronic monitoring is not in conformity with the rules and regulations of our District Policy. Included in executive committee packet was the resolution submitted by Kate Motoyama at the November 2001 Academic Senate State Fall Plenary Session held in Cerritos, urging 4CNET to revise its acceptable use policy.

Discussion took place regarding issues regarding formation of faculty screening committees, district hiring practices and tenure review and evaluation. Katharine Harer stated that she and Kate Montoyoma are drafting a letter to Chancellor requesting reconstitution of Trust Committee. The previous trust committee membership comprised equal representation of administration, academic senate and AFT.

District Calendar Committee is working on mock calendar for 15 weeks semester, with focus on whether or not our current facilities can handle this schedule. A group of faculty from CSM visited Pierce College. These D.C. committee members were positive for the most part with some reservations. Skyline College did a survey regarding the calendar change and the results were split 50-50 pro/con. Concern about this calendar change impact on classified staff also mentioned.

Karen Olesen gave update report on Counseling Task Force as shared by Sondra Saterfield, task force member. Task force has requested extension on their Dec. 1st deadline into Spring 2002 semester. Sondra had shared with interested Cañada counselors a letter submitted to Joaquin written by CSM counselor Jackie Gamelin. In this letter Jackie questions the validity of discussion paper and what data was used to develop this paper as basis for the Side letter of agreement, which created the "Counseling Task Force".

There was one campus report on the topic of formation of faculty screening committees on the Cañada College campus. The issues that have been discussed by faculty participating in the academic senate meetings on this topic were reviewed.

The meeting adjourned at 4:35 pm. Minutes respectfully submitted by Karen Olesen.