Napa Valley Educators Association Site Representative Council
October 29, 2018

3:30-5:00


  • Welcome
 
  • School Board Member Elect visit - Cindy Water
    • She will be starting on the school board on 12/6/18.  
    • Parent of 2 NVUSD graduates.  Former English teacher at Napa High School.
    • Decided to run for school board because she couldn’t get questions answered as a teacher or union member.  
    • She is interested in equity.  All about fairness and academics.  Wants more positive publicity in the newspaper for our students.  
    • Encourages all of us to attend board meetings.
 
  • Check in
 
 
  • Treasurer Report - Budget Vote Ann Brown moved and Corey Morton seconded the adoption of the budget as presented
 
  • President’s Report
    • District Budget Roadshow November 13th, 3:30-5:00 Board Room
      • Looking at closing the books and our formula and how it works with those people paid out of categorical funds
 
  • Raise in October 31st paycheck -
    • New Salary Schedule
    • Will reflect our 3.11% raise with retro back to August 1st
 
  • Good Teacher Conference - Feb. 1-3 (Superbowl Weekend) we would like new people to attend and there will be a cap at 20 people.  If anyone is interested please let Gayle know;
 
  • New Teacher Conference Mar. 8-10 (teachers who have been teaching 3 years) NVEA wants to send 10 teachers
 
  • Calendar Input -
    • Meeting this Wednesday to develop survey regarding the calendar.  Questions will be asked about community events, starting school on the Monday versus Wednesday.  Survey should be out to members by next week.
    • We have input and can give our views but we cannot negotiate the calendar.  The calendar is being relooked at. 
    • It has been at least 25 years since we started school after labor day.  There is talk about whether we need 3 weeks at christmas break as well as the week at thanksgiving.
    • Survey will also include start and end time.  Gayle wants all to participate and make sure our staff participates.  If we want a voice we have to use our voice.
    • Reason for 2 days of professional development is because of the amount of trainings that are taking place in the district causing sub shortage.  District is using an outside agency. These additional PD days will not be the discretion of the site.
    • The reason we don’t have a voice in the calendar is because we do not have a voice as far as where the dates are put.  A scope of representation was handed out.  The blue represents what we can do and the yellow is what we can consult on.  
    • 180 days is not open for negotiations unless they are a charter school and they can go down to 175 days.  All information regarding number of days and number of minutes information can all be found on the CDE’s website.  
    • By days being added to the calendar we actually get paid for being present a full day.  If we go to a workshop and get compensation we only get $150 which covers the cost for a sub.  
    • Parents will also be given the opportunity to take the survey on the calendar.
 
  • MOU’s -
    • MOU around 2 additional PD days was sent out by Gayle and will be signed in the near future.
 
  • CTA Grants -
    • CTA.org with listing of grants that can be applied for
 
  • NVEA Bulletin Boards
    • Redwood won the Bagel and Coffee Party for the NVEA bulletin board
 
  • Standard
    • We made our goal so everyone is covered effective 11/1/18
 
  • Food Drive -
    • make sure you get your box and sign.  
    • Have kids decorate the box.  
    • Food Bank provided a list of items that they need.
 
  • Toy Drive - more info to come next meeting
 
  • Holiday Family Event - 12/3/18 at Napa Masonic Lodge
    • Cookies with Santa we will be decorating cookies and can get pictures taken with Santa
 
 
  • Chief Negotiator
    • Council Update
      • Evaluations - hasn’t met recently they met last year and over the summer. A question was asked about the difference between an alternate evaluation and a regular evaluation there needs to be clarity.  The forms are very different.
 
  • Sped - took interests generated and prioritized the top 5 that we want to work on
 
  • Assignment impact (workload) - trying to implement a tool to analyze current initiatives and new things coming in
  • Counselors - defining problems, what is happening, reviewing where they are listed in the contract and where they aren’t.  Survey will be going out to counselors for input
  • PBIS - in process of trying to figure out how to help raise the gap towards fewer suspensions/expulsions and how those kids who are behaving the way they are supposed to not lose out on the learning they are entitled to.  In a stand still with Laura leaving the district and who will take her place.
 
  • Vice President -Membership make sure everyone has received their membership cards
 
 
 
  • High - nothing to share
 
  • Human Rights -
    • Equity Conference at Cordelia Service Center ,
    • Columbia Employee store in Richmond, Gayle will forward invite to us valid from 11/2/18 to 11/25/18. Between 40-50% off all Columbia brand items.  Take a screenshot from the email, bring a pay stub, teacher id, CTA card etc. Email will come from NVEA
 
  • Communications -
 
  • Other - Ginger is running for school board for Solano County of Education if you would like to contribute to her campaign she would really appreciate it.
 
  • State Council -See Report
    • There was a lot about Tony Thurmond
    • Mission statement for CTA was shared.  There was a lot of talk about equity and every child getting a high quality public education
    • CTA has affiliate groups that share a common interest in education
    • Mike sits on student support services committee they are in the process Gayle is on teacher evaluation and academic freedom they were working on policy language updating it so it was positive and getting rid of redundancy
    • This was the first state council meeting post JANUS there were models that showed where up to 30% of employees have opted out of membership, only about 800 teachers statewide have decided to drop their membership.  NVEA has only had 2 members drop due to other issues in their personal lives.
 
  • Meeting adjourned at 5:00pm
 
  • Next Site Rep Meeting: Monday,  November 26, 2018