Classified Senate Minutes – 19 June 2014
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Welcome/Call to Order.
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May minutes: to be approved with changes
o Motion: Catherine Powell
o Vote to approve voted "aye" by all present except for Craig
Shira, who abstained
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President's Report
o Board Meeting
 Speaker advocating reform of prop 13
 Notes on emeritus retirement
 Lorenzo Legaspi brief on budget
 Tentative amount for Chabot: $37.7 million
 Tentative amount for Las Positas: $26.4 million
 District will need to contribute toward faculty
benefits
 Landscaping at Chabot along Hesperian project was
approved and will begin
 Comments made that the District doesn't address
the landscape needs Chabot actually has
 Comments made that this doesn't address campus
safety
o Students cut through bushes and trample the
plants
o A place for cars to drop-off people is needed
 Two new leadership position changes
 Interim Dean of Science & Mathematics: Tim Dave
 Interim Dean of Counseling: ValJean Dale
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Vice President's Report
o Classified Appreciation Week went well
o Discussion: Classified Senate Retreat
 Suggested to have it in August
 Survey to be sent to Classified Senators to vote for best
day to hold a retreat
 Suggestion: budget money for events at retreat
o Upcoming events
 Aug 14 Convocation at Las Positas
 Aug 15 College Day
 Sept 2 Flex Day
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Secretary's Report
o No report
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Treasurer's Report
o Co-curricular account: $4,919.68
o General fund account
 Supplies: $30
 Travel: $2.56
o Deductions from payroll to co-curricular account: $115/month
o Expenses
 Scholarship: $500
 Travel for Yvonne Wu-Craig: $78.40
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SEIU Report
o Chabot
 Thursday, June 19, 2014 deadline for contract proposals
for both Union and District
 District has been very quiet and will likely submit
proposals before midnight
 District will likely propose increase in medical
premiums
 Union proposed 5.5% pay increase for one year
 Union proposed wording change for section
describing Campus Safety overtime
 Union proposed payment for Classified Senate
 Union proposed that employees required to wear
uniforms to be reimbursed for buying uniforms, up to
a certain dollar amount
 District hasn't responded to most requests and have
said "no" to almost everything else
o Regional
 State elections held recently
 Oakland working to raise minimum wage and will be on the
ballot in November
 Richmond, Berkeley, San Francisco working on minimum
wage legislation too
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Steve Stevenson, former Classified Senator, wants to continue being a
representative on the Bookstore Committee
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Facilities Committee
o Building 1700 will be up by July—working on courtyard
o New marquee sign has been bagged for the past month because
of graffiti
 Contractor left a scaffold next to the sign, allowing it to be
vandalized
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Contractor has since moved the scaffold and chained it to a
tree, which violates safety code, is a liability, and could
injure someone if it falls
o Redoing drains in the softball field because of a problem with the
original construction
o Tim Nelson saw damage by contractors in the parking lots
 Parking lots will be repaired during the summer
 During repairs, the lots will be closed
 Traffic will need to be re-routed
o Fire alarm system is old and is currently running on refurbished
equipment. A new system is being researched.
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For the Good of the Order
o Suggestion: would like request for college members to learn
changes in Business Services because things change and people
are not told of the changes
o Would like summer training in new technology and procedures
 A poll will be put out for what topics are need
 Emergency preparation
 So much work to be done, it is unsure when there is time
for training
 January 13th suggested as a training day
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Adjournment
People who attended meeting:
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Noell Adams
Gregory Correa
Katrin Field
Heather Hernandez
K Metcalf
Rosie Mogle
Nate Moore
Catherine Powell
Cheryl Sannebeck
Craig Shira
Rachael Tupper-Eoff
Christie Verarde
Angela Villasana
Gordon Watt
Chasity Whiteside
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