Napa Valley Educators Association
Executive Board Meeting Minutes
Monday, January 23, 2017
3:30-5:00

In attendance:  Mary Duenow, Vice President, Debbie Kmiec, Secretary, Ginger Dunne, Treasurer & Chief Negotiator, Erin Reilly, Director - High School, Courtney Garcia - Director - Human Rights, Kristin Pruitt, Director - Elementary School, Karen Fleming, Director - Middle School, and Mike Wilmarth, Director - Communicaitons

Absent:  Gayle is enroute she was at the issues conference in Vegas

• Approve Agenda - approved with additions of Digital Schools portal and questions on PERS
  

• Approve Minutes of November meeting - minutes were approved by Mary Duenow and 2nd by Erin Reilly
  

• NVEA Budget Report
  
  • we have $84,000 in savings, we are about $3000 under from what we have brought in and what we have spent.  
    
  • We have a large number of teachers attending Good Teaching Conference
    

• • We had a requests from all of the high schools for a scholarship and Valley Oak was mentioned since there may not be a dependant of an NVEA member, however we will look at the applicants to see if anyone is going into education.
    

• Chief Negotiator -
  
  • NVEA/NVUSD Council - no meeting since break
    

• • Nurses - current info
    

• • Workload-echo, etc - nothing new to add,
    
    • Courtney asked if new ELA adoption can be added since one of the curriculums might add to the workload of teachers.  
      
    • Mike asked that Courtney send Mike information on the concerns at bay
      

• • Elementary prep schedules - still working on gathering schedules
    

• • Salary schedule - merging to 1 - still in progress and consolidate as needed
    

• • Grading -
    
    • summit for elementary ( Jan 25); 8th-12th grades (Feb 2)
      
    • meetings coming up on dates listed,
      
    • these meetings will be different than the first grading summit meeting
      

• • Evaluations - in progress
    

• • PBIS - meets tomorrow
    

• President Report
  
  • District Budget Update
    
    • PARS today (1/23/17) is the deadline which was originally last friday (1/20/17)
      
    • we currently have enough people to go ahead with the PARS.  
      
    • The district needed 45 and we have 50.  CSEA got approved as well and they are participating also
      

• • Employee Wellness Partnership
    
    • emails have been coming weekly regrading employee wellness
      

• • Reinstating Rave Review
    
    • Chris Auld will do it and revamp the program to recognize teachers
      

• • Web site redo
    
    • Patty Wyman will assist in redoing and updating the website
      

• • LCAP input at council on 2/7/17
    
    • would like more teacher input in addition to the 8 teachers who are on council.  
      
    • This will be brought up at the site rep meeting on 1/30/17
      

• • Purchase CTA suggested books for Read Across America for each school?
    
    • Ginger will get prices and email us to see if we want to include purchasing books for the sites
      

• • State Budget
    
    • Gayle and others went to the Govenor’s presentation and we arent’ getting quite as much as we thought
      
    • with declining enrollment and even with the PARS we might still be looking at layoffs.  
      
    • Looks like district TOSA’s will be going back into the classroom, not site TOSA’s (academic specialists at sites stay)
      

• • Digital Schools
    
    • personal necessity leave 7 don’t ask don’t tell days.  pool doesn’t change from year to year
      
    • you will be capped at how many you can use
      
    • employees who have over 100 days of sick leave have the opportunity to take up to 7 DPNL days
      
    • district doesn’t like this because it costs the district money where if they  carry it over and wait until retirement it then becomes a STRS cost not district cost.