Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

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Present – Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Peggy Codding, Peter Cokkinias, Marti Epstein, Dino Govoni, Rich Grudzinski, Margaret McAllister, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, David Scott, Will Silvio and Jeri Sykes.

 

  1. Marti made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Peggy seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
     
  2. We discussed financial assistance for the Rick Applin Memorial concert. $1300 is needed to pay the non-Berklee musicians to travel and perform at the concert. Rich made a motion to pay $1300 for financial and travel assistance for the performers, Peter seconded, and the vote was unanimous.
     
  3. Department meeting attendance is on hold due to Sr.VP/AA opposing the Union attending any department meetings. We will have a full faculty meeting once the audit is completed and budget is ready to present and will address the upcoming bargain in summer of 2016, BoCo merger, and all other faculty issues.
     
  4. We discussed the Union budget and the upcoming bargain in summer of 2016.
     
  5. David Scott discussed the Twitter account – we are in the process of increasing the visibility of our Union. We will discuss this with the AFT communications plan. Jackson will communicate with faculty about our Facebook and Twitter pages. We will keep this topic alive in each meeting going forward.
     
  6. We discussed the class cancelation procedures and the contractual obligations of our faculty. Also complicating the issue is the new Massachusetts sick time referendum that passed last year.

Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

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Present – Dennis Cecere, Peggy Codding, Peter Cokkinias, Marti Epstein, Rich Grudzinski, Danny Harrington, Margaret McAllister, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, David Scott, Will Silvio and Jeri Sykes. Guest: Teodros Kiros

  1. Marti made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Dennis seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
     
  2. Jackson is attending a funeral. We discussed the Chair Evaluation Form. We are in the process of setting up an on-line version of our current form. Once the faculty complete the form we would be able to keep the information gathered. We discussed the form, the questions, and modifying the form. We will re-do and present next week.
     
  3. AFT National – guests coming Nov. 4 through the 5 to discuss a communications plan with the possibility of a communications position to assist us as we go into bargaining next year.
     
  4. We discussed the Faculty Report – all new faculty, PT, FT, conversions, etc. 632 faculty, 250 FT (39.55%), 382 PT (60.45%).
     
  5. Memorial Concert for Rick Applin is being scheduled for next semester. The union would like to assist in travel expenses for musicians coming to perform. We will do some research on the actual costs and come back with a number.
     
  6. We discussed the upcoming bargain in 2016.

Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

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Present – Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Marti Epstein, Rich Grudzinski, Danny Harrington, Jeff Perry, Jackson Schultz, Will Silvio and Jeri Sykes. Guest: Teodros Kiros

1. Danny made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Jeri seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
 

2. Meeting 9/24 with Jackson, Haidee, Sr.VP of AA, and the college’s lawyer regarding new Title IX document that the college has put together as a catch all for faculty, staff, and admin. Many changes have been implemented as a result of our efforts. The new document will be ready for our review soon.

Part 2 of the meeting was about the prospective merger with BoCo. The college has not really looked at all the costs yet. It will be up to us to sort things out – very similar to their approach to the Grad Program bargaining. We discussed the merger at length including Musical Theatre at Berklee and how it may or may not be affected by the merger.

2. We would like to set-up a town meeting for faculty on the merger.

3. Newsletter – we are going to put together a newsletter for the fall that will highlight some of these very important topics.

4. We will be setting up a chair review for faculty to review their chair.

5. We discussed the on-line teaching report from the MOU study group.

6. Jeff discussed the budget and our upcoming audit.