Cupertino Education Association
Executive Board Meeting
Monday, January 10, 2011
CEA Office 4:00 PM
I. Meeting called to order by Dave Villafana at 4:03 PM.
II. Amendments to the Agenda - Add rep assembly to IV.F., and add bargaining to IV.G., and calendar to IV.H.
III. Approval of December 13, 2010 Minutes - Minutes moved and seconded. Motion passed.
IV. Discussion Items
A. State Budget - Governor Brown put forth a budget plan that does not touch education for now. The hope is that the current taxes can be extended so cuts will not be needed later.
B. School Visitations - Dave was thinking of having each of us go to two sites (brunch and lunch) all in one day. We will figure out a day and discuss it with us.
C. Property Update - No new properties to look at, but he will keep us informed about it.
D. Community Service/Coupons/iPod Touch - There was good response and a nice variety of donations collected. The iPod Touches will get picked at the next rep assembly. Also if we can collect coupons that are buy one/get one free and donate those things to the food banks etc.
E. Teacher of the Year - The information will be coming out soon and the person who is chosen as district teacher of the year is usually the one who has the best, most complete, and detailed write up about them.
F. NEA Rep Assembly - Amy would like to go this year and so will Barbara and Neal.
G. Bargaining - Now, with IBB, if both sides agree on what was discussed at bargaining then a joint announcement about progress is put out. The calendar was agreed to for next year and there are five things that usually are true about the calendar every year. Those five things are starting in the third week of August, ending about the second week of June, having a February break in the middle of the month, and an April break the third week of that month. Had a discussion about catastrophic leave because it is very nebulous as of now. We are tying to clear up language. We need to make sure it's used only as catastrophic leave. We are looking at making all days that are donated be equal. So regardless of how long someone has been teaching, if they donate a day to someone who is on catastrophic leave it will equal a day. Also discussed having some sort of buffer so that if someone donates all of their days, they will not end up with nothing when they need it. Additionally, a 4-person committee would decide on whether or not to give the catastrophic leave. A waiting period was also discussed, so in order to use catastrophic leave the person would need to use a certain amount of days before the catastrophic leave comes in. Another discussion was about no one receiving more than 100% of their salary when on catastrophic leave. Another concept looked at was that there should be a cap on how much time you can be on catastrophic leave. Gave Neal direction for all of the concepts that he discussed with us. The district still wants to get rid of Willie Brown. The ed code says that you can be on Willie Brown for 10 years from age 55 to 70. There is a problem with people stipulating exactly what they want to teach and when and where.
H. Calendar - The district will be voted on tomorrow night at the board meeting. When is approved it will be sent out to the sites.
V. Reports - None.
Reminder: February executive board meeting will be on the 7th
not the 14th.