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Napa Valley Educators Association Site Representative Council
January 29, 2018

3:30-5:00


Executive Board Members Present: 
President - Gayle Young, Vice President - Mary Duenow, Secretary - Debbie Kmiec, Treasurer/Chief Negotiator - Ginger Dunne, Directors-at-Large -  Kristin Pruitt (Elementary),, Erin Reilly (High), Human Rights - Courtney Garcia, Communication - Mike Willmarth
 
Site Reps Present: 
Alta Heights:  Ginger Dunne, American Canyon HS:  Dave Hollman, American Canyon MS:  Alex King, Mark Portwood, Bel Aire:  Lauren Riendeau,  Browns Valley:  Angela Oster, Canyon Oaks:  Canyon Oaks: Becky Albertazzi,  Kathy Tschida, Donaldson Way:  Maureen McCullough, El Centro/Salvador:  Corey Morton, Harvest MS:  Manya Franco, Sara Kvidahl-Schmitz, Independent Studies:  Jessica Farrell, McPherson:  Laurie Gaynor, Mt. George:  Annie Tisher, Napa HS:  Melinda Miller, Sean Gregory, Maria Vega, NVLA:  Marliese Esquivel, Sarah Miller, New Tech High:  Angeline Warnock, Northwood:  Kim Vichi, Phillips:  Ann Brown, Redwood MS:  Lorna Dekker, Nancy Lussier, Silverado MS:  John Call, Jennifer Can, Patty Wyman, Snow:  Teri Isola,  Vichy:  Debbie Cates, Valley Oak:  Evrim Cakir, Vintage:  Michael Alger, Ted Ward,  West Park:  Laura Zinser, Yountville:  Carl Elias
Executive Board Members Absent:
Directors-at-Large:  Karen Fleming (Middle), CTA Liaison - Steve Savage
 
Site Reps Absent:
American Canyon HS:  Elizabeth Hawkins, Scott Hayburn, Devin Reza,  Harvest MS:  Karen Fleming, Napa Junction:  Megan Wolfe, Napa HS:  Sharon D. Anderson, Rick Underwood, Pueblo Vista:  River MS:  Louann Talbert, Shearer:  Amy Ruggiero,  Vintage: Chris Auld, Andrew Barker, Jennifer Castelazo, Kelli Watkins, Itinerants: Academic Specialists:

  • Welcome
 
  • LCAP Presentation - Mary Anne Valles
 
  • November Minutes
 
  • Treasurer Report -
    • checking acct is balances and we have money no transfers needing to be made
 
  • President’s Report
    • District Budget Roadshow February 13 (NHS), 15(VHS), 21 (ACHS), 4:00pm  please attend any and all and share with members so they know to attend also
 
  • Budget presented at School Board Meeting
    • $3.5million deficit to cut across the board input is needed,
    • looking at district solvancy 71/2% is what district feels is solvant, state says 3%
    • 2 1/2 % addition to the savings acct which is a one time funding, Gayle will be pushing back against this a lot in support of us.
    • Gayle believes it should come to our employees not sit in a savings account waiting for a rainy day
    • Interest is to keep as many positions as possible
    • CEO is very conservative (Wade not Patrick)
    • Gayle has concerns with another year with the same demographer
    • Reserve is used for program developments, declining enrollments, they are redistributing the money
    • The reserve was at 7% board was ok dipping in to it when they were short and they were fine dipping in to it to assist for careleess spending
    • Gayle needs our support to get people and us to the road shows and Wade is the person to ask these questions of
      • We need to be vocal about the reserve
      • District is going to want input on what should and shouldn’t be cut
    • Principals have already been listened to
    • If we are short 100 students and yoiu need 4 less teachers the amt of money the students generate is much more than just loosing those 4 teachers
    • 15 people in the district where $289 was not taken out of pay for year 2014 - as long as you are still employed by the district you can pay it over time not all at once - was a human error
    • We need to talk as a union that MOU’s not be signed to go one student over because it ends up being more than 1 over until the new school is finished Donaldson Way will be overstaffed to accommodate for the overage
    • New land is being purchased for Stone Bridge, need to be given a site just like any other school since they were already on a school site
      • Money comes from Stone Bridge to occupy that site - their teachers are not part of our union and they make a lot less than us
    • Budget talk is for Wade not Gayle
 
  • Form Responses
 
  • Site Visits
    • Gayle will be coming out to sites w/Ted Ward in February or March to look at member engagement.  She will be emailing dates and times
      •  American Canyon HS visit 3:30pm Wed, 1/31/18
    • CTA has pushed out informtaion around JANUS - see powerpoint attached to agenda
      • Gives information about 154 years of proven success, fair dismisal laws, teacher retirement laws, bargaining rights, passing of prop 30 and 55, what is JANUS vs. AFSCME
      • US Supreme Court will hear it by June 2018
      • What is fare share? Explanation
      • Talks about what happened in Wisconsin
      • POWER OF UNION MEMBERSHIP!!!
 
  • Good Teacher Conference - Feb. 2-4; New Teacher Conference Feb.23-25
    • 28 people going from NVEA to good teacher conference
    • At least 2 teachers want to go to new teacher conference possibly 6
 
  • CILC -January 31st 5:30pm Cordelia Office
    • Planning starts this wednesday, Gayle is looking for representative to help plan - Patty Wyman mentioned Chrissy Cotten
 
  • Framing Meeting - 4:00pm, February 6th. Frame Questions
    • Gayle has packet that she will get to site reps
    • Will be sent to everyone, purpose is to define who we are, what we believe in, etc.
    • 3 areas of focus - 1)student success, 2)opportunities, and 3)quality please send to all staff members so everyone has a voice
 
  • IBPS Training January 30th 8:00am-3:00pm
    • 10 members are going who are new
    • 2019 everyone will be going (all site reps, negotiations, exec board, admin etc)
 
  • Chief Negotiator
    • Council Update
      • Special ed is working on how it is currentlu being done, with placement, etc.
      • Evaluation survey sent out positive things have come back
        • Contract language change around 5 year track
        • Focus on professional growth
      • Class size - something went out to all PE teachers nothing has been reported back
        • No wiggle room for students with classe
 
  • Vice President -Membership nothing to report
 
  • Directors Reports
    • Elementary - Read Across America coming up
 
  • Middle - CTA Benefits  NEA Benefits
 
  • High - nothing to report
 
  • Human Rights - Women’s March
    • Courtney Garcia went to Sonoma Women’s March, very well attended, signs on getting women out to vote, Mike wants pictures to post on website if they are appropriate (clean and classy)
    • Mary Duenow attended Napa women’s march and carried NVEA sign, had fun, positive comments about teachers being present
 
  • Communications -website, FaceBook, Twitter
 
  • State Council Update - JANUS
    • A lot of communication around endorsements
 
  • No big voting things that took place
 
  • Gayle sits on teacher evaluation and academic freedom committess at state council  - talked about political things that have gottent teachers in trouble freedom of speech for constitutional rights vs. freedom of speech as a teacher
    • Teacher took school district to court for being fired for writing letter to the editor that talked negatively about district - court ruled in favor of district since we as an employee of the district can’t talk negatively to the public about our place of employment.
      • Criticizing has to be with them and talk to them not against them
      • We are not just teachers, we are parents, tax payers, etc. within the community
 
 
Next Site Rep Meeting: February 26th, 2018 at 3:30pm

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