Classified Senate Minutes – 21 March 2014
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Welcome/Call to Order.
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Approve minutes from February 2014 meeting with changes from
Chasity Whiteside
o Motion: Noell Adams
o Second: Gordon Watt
o Passed unanimously by all present
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President's Report
o Did not go to board meeting
o Chabot has a new VP of Academic Services: Dr. Stacy Thompson
o New hires planned: 3 new custodians, a research analyst, and a
night dispatcher
o President Sperling's Brown Bag
 Plan to hire 9 new faculty
• One will be dedicated to athletics
• One will be digital photography
 Chabot 5 counselors are retiring and not all are on the list
for replacement because it wasn't included on the
prioritization
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Vice President's Report
o President Sperling's next Brown Bag is about Classified Staff
o Reminder: we are still in accreditation and could use help
 Haven't progressed much due to work-load
 It's not optional to go through accreditation process
o Reminder: fill out accreditation survey from Carolyn Arnold
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Secretary's Report
o Christie Verarde will be resigning from the position of secretary
o October notes have been prepared and September notes are in
progress
o Need to hold elections for new treasurer
 Election committee: Gordon Watt, Katrin Field, and Noell
Adams
o Trisha Avila replaces Katrin as Student Services Representative
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Treasurer's Report
o Co-curricular account has $5,074 with deposit of $140 from St.
Patrick's Day basket.
o General Funds have:
 $30 in supplies
 $100 in travel
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o Deductions from payroll to co-curricular account are $115 per
month
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SEIU Report
o Chabot
 Received survey from classified staff and results showed
that concerns relate to income and benefits
 March 26 – Negotiations begin
• District Team: David Betts, Kathryn Linzmeyer,
Wyman Fong, Dyan Mitchell, Barbara Yesnosky and
possibly a lawyer
• SEIU Team: Kaden Kratzer, Nely Obligacion, Chasity
Whiteside, Gregory Correa, Jeff Nelson, William
Eddy, and Dee Sanchez as current sub
o Regional
 Demonstration in Hayward regarding pay cut and the
contract imposed on them
 March 8 – School industry meeting
• Shows all works have the same problems
• Offers support
 Chabot ranked toward the bottom of a list of clean
colleges—lack of cleanliness the result of facilities staff
being understaffed
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St. Patrick's Day basket
o Winner: Lora Bongard
o Sold most tickets: JoAnn Cerefice
o Made $140 on basket
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Classified Appreciation Week: June 9th
o Breakfast on June 9th
o Jeff Drouin and athletics department will host BBQ June 10th
o Ice cream sponsored by President Sperling's office on June 11th
o Hold it at Caesar Chavez plaza by DSRC
o We can pay expenses for night shift's food so they receive
something from the classified appreciation week too
o Include student assistants and on-call staff for appreciation week
o Could have a class on emergency/safety training to keep us upto-date
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Workload concerns
o Faculty Senate made a statement via Kathy Kelley to the Board
of Trustees that there have been unreasonable cuts and
unreasonable expectation on those who remain
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o We need to remind the board that Classified Staff have felt the
same unreasonable cuts and unreasonable expectations
o Gordon Watt and Chasity Whiteside will draft a letter expressing
this
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State Senate Classified regarding job training and advancement
o Should we send a letter to the senate as a group or an
individual?
 Individual letters show more impact
• Individuals know about their areas than the group
• Individuals can provide more detail
• Letters are handled by the senate equally, whether
written by a group or an individual; therefore, many
individual letters have more impact than one group
letter.
 A letter can still be sent as a group
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Student Services
o Student Senate (SSCC) packet is out. We should let people
know.
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Basic Skills Committee
o Nothing to report
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Budget Committee
o Nothing to report
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College council
o Still looking at defining what college council is
o Their goal is to be a policy making body
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DEMC
o Nothing to report
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CEMC
o Catherine Powell will attend next meeting
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Online Learning Committee
o Nothing to report
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DBSG
o Nobody present at Classified Senate meeting attended DBSG
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o DBSG is looking at Chancellor's idea to add 4 IPBM committees
to improve communication between District, Chabot, and Las
Positas
o Board approved, passed last Tuesday
o We will need a Classified Senate representative at these
meetings
o Are classified personnel allowed to be on faculty hiring
committees?
 Some deans say yes, others say no
 We can check the HR website to find out
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Facilities Committee
o PE exterior is being finished
o New wrought iron gates are installed and people can see into
pool deck
o Progress on building 1700 is moving along but construction
crews are blocking fire lanes and have other safety violations,
which creates liabilities
o Parking Lot G project is still in progress
o "Talkaphones" will be running by June in G lot
o Marquee is in progress but construction has damaged sprinkler
system and more time is being spent repairing damage than
working on the marquee itself
o The Chabot Health Center wants to move to building 700 South
 Currently in building 100, which will be under construction
 Would cost $50,000
 Does not take into account where current offices in the
building would be relocated
 It would take a lot of time and money for construction to
convert the building
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Health & Safety Committee
o Parking issues regarding staff in student lots
 When staff take student spaces, students are forced into
staff spaces
 Students and contractors pay for parking; staff does not
pay for parking
• Staff should use the spaces provided for them
because everyone else is paying for the spaces being
taken from them
 Hazardous Materials Inspection
• Inspection went well
• People knew where everything was located
• Only minor bits were noted
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Signs needed for "No bicycle riding, No skateboarding on
campus"
Need an eCigarette policy
Would like a campus intruder and active shooter training in
the next year
PRBC
o Meetings are being held twice per month now, not once per week
o Deans provided summary of program reviews
o Other program reviews will be given from groups without deans
o There is concern that faculty is doing classified work when
classified cannot do faculty
o There is greater concern because faculty members will ask for a
stipend when doing classified work
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Staff Development Committee
o Not meeting until next week
o Working on staff development days—talked about who is
responsible
o Staff development is not a required day for classified like it is for
faculty
o Would like development state-funded, not from our budget
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Technology Committee
o Buildings 1700 and 1800 put in distance education classrooms
 One teacher can broadcast to rooms at Chabot and Las
Positas
o A temporary webmaster will be hired under Counseling because
they have the budget to pay for the position. For the 2014-2015
year, the webmaster position will be full-time.
o Measure B funding is almost out because it was used by District
facilities. The rest of it will be used to replace current
technology that needs to be replaced
o Working on a clear process to approve new technology
o April 9th is when the report will be given to PRBC about the
concerns of the Tech Committee
o New Curricunet
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Bookstore Committee
o No report
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For the Good of the Order
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o Heather Hernandez wants to be a Classified Senate
representative
o We need a committee for the Carlson Award
o Need to move April meeting from April 25th to April 18th
 Motion: Noell Adams
 Second: Michelle Iriarte
 Passed unanimously by all present
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Adjournment
People who attended meeting:
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Noell Adams
Lisa Carlson
Gregory Correa
Katrin Field
Christopher Gutierrez
Heather Hernandez
Michelle Iriarte
Rosie Mogle
Nate Moore
Catherine Powell
Craig Shira
Rachael Tupper-Eoff
Christie Verarde
Gordon Watt
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