FA Executive Council Meets Monday (22 Oct) 4-5 pm

The FA's Executive Council (officers and cluster representatives as listed along the right column in this blog) are scheduled to meet today from 4-5 pm in CC 232. The agenda is the following:

JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING
AGENDA
22 October 2007

Approval of Agenda
Minutes
Treasurer’s Report

President’s Report
• New Day (Cluster Representatives & Officers)
• Other Potential Meeting Dates on our Calendar (Nov 12, Dec 10)
• Board Retreat (Governance, Tuition, Budget, Campus Safety vs Police)
• Reorganization – discussion item
• Contract
o Salary & Benefits (Core Group of 3 or 4 Negotiators TBD)
Salary Study (V Clark, D Krug, M Martin)
Health Benefits (T Hughes, B Pinker, K Carver)
Goals for Future Contracts (TBD …)
o Faculty Development & Travel (C Kadel, …)
o Book/Computerstore Credit in Lieu of Desktop ( J Anderson, M Martin, C Dunecsky, M Robertson)
o Summer Pro-Rata Pay
• Collegial Steering
o High Anxiety with Reorganization Looming
o Policy Revisions (D Williams, …)
o Consistency Considerations
o Graduation Ceremonies Discussion
o Negotiations
o Campus Police Considerations (…)
o Faculty Engagement with League
• Learning Summit here in June
• Sustainability ongoing
• Board Meeting
o I reported faculty generally pleased with Dr. Calaway and those involved with office moves seemed happy, too. I commended the A-TAC/DLCC engagement with the LMS decision, noted the anxiety with reorganization, and thanked board for contract date extension.
o KACCT (Deferred Maintenance, Technical Authority, Distribution Formula)
• By-Laws Revisions (K Day, R Eveslage, M Martin, S Wilson)
• Online/Distance Coordination, Direction, & Quality (Csilla Dunecsky, Michael Robertson)

Old Business:
• Health Clinic (Roberta Eveslage)
• Diversity Initiatives and some sort of center or institute (Kami Day)

New Business:
• Reorganization
o What do You want to see in Reorganization?
o What about Chairs?
o What about Reassigned Time?
o How Does it Impact the Bargaining Unit?
• Program Facilitators & Their Remuneration/ReassignedTime
o Extends, potentially, to other areas/positions
• Campus Safety versus Police
o Partner in VT-ENGAGE?
• What is the Faculty Leadership Team?
o FA Officers
o Ed Affairs Chair
o A-TAC Co-Chair
o Peer Review Chair
o Advisory Comm to VP of Instruction Chair
o What else? Who are we missing? How do we want to be organized?
o Depends on how many slots to fill…

Adjournment