Napa Valley EA Exec Board
January 19, 2021 Minutes
​ 3:30 - 4:30 

Minutes

In Attendance:  President - Gayle Young, Vice President - Mary Duenow, Secretary - Debbie Kmiec, Treasurer - Karen Fleming, Directors-At-Large: High School - Deb St. Clair, Middle - Sara Kvidahl-Schmitz, Elementary - Kristin Pruitt, Communication - Mike Wilmarth,  Human Rights/Chief Negotiator - Courtney Garcia, Political Action - Michael Alger, Council Rep - Elaine Boloyan

Absent:  CTA Rep - Michelle Washington

• Welcome 
  

• Vaccines are coming
  
  • They will start on Thursday
    
  • 750 doses available to us with 1100 people responding to the survey that they want it.
    
  • District is prioritizing first with teachers who are with students in classrooms
    
  • There is enough for the first round for teachers who are teaching in person with secondary (high school and middle school) in person teachers being vaccinated first and then, Bus drivers, office staff, custodians, food service workers and then elementary teachers.
    
  • SPED teachers who have been teaching in Phase 3 will be vaccinated in the first round as well.
    
  • Gina’s surveyed is for NVUSD employees only
    
  • Napa County Public Health survey is for Napa County residents only
    
  • There are at least 3 different ways that we should be signing up through:  employer, county, and doctor
    
  • Three days probably will receive another shipment of vaccines next week
    
  • 11am to 3pm at the Napa Valley College in the gym.  You will be called and given an appointment time
    
  • No parking permit needed
    
  • If teaching during this time just put something in google classroom stating you can’t meet will see you soon.
    
  • No conversation yet about mandating vaccines for teachers in order to be employed by NVUSD.  District will mandate returning to work before mandating vaccines.
    
  • The district will be getting the Mederma vaccine
    
  • Vaccines will be Thursday, 1/21/21, Friday, 1/22/21, and Monday, 1/25/21
    
  • Vaccine diminishes symptoms, won't prevent you from getting COVID just won't get it as bad.
    
  • County should be the one informing NVUSD employees with a one pager what this means and doesn’t mean for employees
    
  • If an employee gets COVID there is no more COVID leave, however if you are still able to teach via zoom you will not get docked any leave
    
  • if you got COVID from your campus it is a worker’s compensation claim.
    
  • If you got it from home or party and too sick to work then leave is taken off of sick leave
    

• Early Tell MOU
  
  • District offering a $1000 bonus for the first 20 people filing their retirement papers
    
  • We need to lay off 22 teachers (11 and 11 no breakdown at secondary yet)
    

• Council Committees
  
  • Need to send a memo out to site reps to make sure they have collected any interests with educational practices.
    
    • Evaluation
      
    • Special Ed
      
    • Step and Column and Longevity (Frozen steps)
      
    • No rebenched changes through step and column for quite some time and looking at leveling pieces
      
    • Summer School
      
    • Phase 3
      
    • Grading and Assessment
      
      • No guideline for what a credit meant
        
      • Who takes on the responsibility to encourage student to pursue letter grade in place of the CR
        
      • Would like all conversation around grading be stopped until we can discuss in council
        
    • Schedule around weeks with Monday holidays 
      
      • doing away with Wednesday 1-6 therefore Tuesday would be 4, 5, 6 Wednesday would be 1, 2, 3, Thursday would be 4, 5, 6 and Friday would be 1, 2, 3 or something similar
        
      • Might be fixed for future situations
        
    • Symptoms from vaccine
      

• Contract negotiations are on the back burner with the hopes of having a contract by January 2022
  

• April 30, 2021 will now be a student day to make up for the smoke day that we had in October