Napa Valley EA Exec Board
March 21, 2022
​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, Grievance - Jen Can

Absent:  Directors-At-Large: Political Action - Michael Alger, CTA Rep - Michelle Washington

• Welcome/Check in
  

• Norms
  

• Political Action
  
  • We have 4 school board seats up for election this year which is the majority of the board
    
  • There are also county seats that are up for election
    
  • Things are much more contentious than they have been in the past.  Kids aren’t necessarily the priority perse
    
  • There are standing rules and we currently don’t have any within our chapter at the present time.  We need to vet and make recommendations.
    
  • The district will be pulling things back such as CTE and bringing it back to the district and doing things internally
    
  • We are spending millions of dollars to NCOE to have them run programs for us
    
  • 88% of the students in the county are in NVUSD
    
  • Reaching out to CTA’s political person to help us present a political stance for the district.
    

• Elections
  
  • 2 candidates for Vice President and Secretary.  Evan Vercellini will probably run for Human Rights
    
  • 2nd election in a month meeting on 3/28/22 will be canceled
    
  • Ballots are due 4/7/22 instead of having a meeting it will be a ballot drop off.  Election results will be announced on 4/8/22.
    
  • Election committee will be Corey Morton, Jen Can, Courtney Garcia
    

• April Social
  
  • April 28, 2022 at Napa Sport 3:30pm
    

• IBPS
  
  • There will be a big training in 2022-2023
    
  • There was an hour training during new teacher orientation
    
  • Would be beneficial for us to do an IBPS training for our members in May holding a short session.  Very important that our membership, exec board, etc. know what IBPS is.
    

• Survey Results
  

• Council
  
  • New Committees
    
    • Stipends
      
      • Not just ELD or AVID, we will be taking on music, football, theater, etc. (industry standards and continues to match increases when increases occur)
        
      • Honorariums - Masters, 
        
    • SPED - FCMAT, restructuring 
      
    • PAR - Peer Assistance and Review, exit strategy,
      
    • Work Load
      

• State Council March 26, 2022