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AFT/VCCCD
TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED
The District and AFT Local 1828 have reached a tentative agreement to roll over our current contract for three years. The full text of the Agreement is as follows:
This Tentative Agreement is entered into between the District and AFT and resolves negotiations over a successor agreement covering three years, beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2013. Subject to ratification by the parties, to non-substantive changes to the contract related to dates, and deletion of Section 3.1A of Article 3, to be replaced by what appears in Attachment 1 hereto, the parties agree to roll over the terms and conditions of the 2007-2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement without change. In addition, all MOU's listed on the Attachment 2 will be incorporated.
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For faculty receiving a
Minimum Qualifications letter:
If you have received a letter from the District asking for additional employment information from you regarding transcripts, equivalency information, minimum qualifications questions, etc. and would like AFT to help you understand the process and options, please contact Bea Herrera, AFT Grievance Chair. She can be reached via email at
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. You can also leave a message for her at the union office by calling (805)650-8035.
The following information is needed in writing from you either via email or in person:
- Copy of letter. You can email it or fax it to the AFT Office. Fax number is (805)650-9279.
- Which discipline were you originally hired for?
- Where you an emergency hire or regular hire? What year?
- What minimum qualifications did you possess at the time of the original hire?
- Did you request an "equivalency" at the time of the original hire?
- Are you still teaching in the same discipline you were originally hired for? If no, which discipline do you now teach in?
- If you teach at different VCCCD campus, which campus was your original campus of hire?
- What disciplines are you currently teaching at each site?
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Your 2010-2012 Executive Council
President
Steve Hall (FT Math OC)
Treasurer
Bob Gregg (PT BUS MC)
Secretary
Linda Loiselle (FT NURS MC)
Budget Analyst
Alan Hayashi (FT MATH OC)
Chief Negotiator
Steve Hall (FT MATH OC)
Grievance Chair
Bea Herrera (FT COUNS VC)
Asst. Grievance Chair
Andrea Horigan (PT SOC VC)
Cope Chair
Paula Munoz (FT COUNS VC)
Publications Chair
Deborah DeVries (PT ENGL OC)
Membership Chair
Mike Dixon (PT ENGL VC)
OC Full-Time VP
Mary Jones (FT NURS OC)
OC Part-Time VP
Mike Scanlon (PT PE OC)
MC Full-Time VP
Anitra Evans (FT COUNS MC)
MC Part-Time VP
Renee Fraser (PT HIST MC)
VC Full-Time VP
Andrea Adlman (FT MATH VC)
VC Part-Time VP
Connie Jenkins (PT ART VC)
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Contract Negotiations
Click here to see our Intial Proposal to the District (Dated 1-15-2010)
Click here to see the Initial Proposal from the District (Dated 1-15-2010)
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Budget Update: Just the facts by Connie Jenkins
The following is a synopsis of the current state of the VCCCD budget.
In July, the state of California passed a budget which cut CCC funding $630 million by reducing base funding, eliminating growth funds (COLA having been axed from the beginning), and slashing categorical programs.
At VCCCD: Although the District credited $2.2m in new income from the prior year's growth, the state reduced base funding by roughly 1,000 students, or $4.5m, giving with one hand and taking it back with the other, as it were.
For fiscal year 2010, the District projects it will receive general fund revenues of $134.8m - $6.1m less than last year, a reduction of 4.4%.
Categoricals were cut by an additional $4.8m, an average of 37%. Some funds were totally eliminated. Matriculation was cut 57%. (These numbers may be modified in Nov. /Dec.)
Federal stimulus funds will restore an estimated $422K or 3% of the above total funds, resulting in a reduction of $4.4m or 34% over all.
Enrollment: The district deposited $2.2m in growth funds (464 FTES) into the reserves in June at the end of 2008-09. Total 2008-09 enrollment: 29,348-2,500 unfunded, an increase of 11.2% in one year. (Enrollment in 2007-08 was 26,381.)
Although the district is projecting a 1% decline in enrollment for the current year as a result of class cuts and the cancellation of the 4-week summer session, enrollment for the fall semester is up about 2% district-wide. This year, over 3,000 FTES will not be funded by the state.
If all of our enrollment were funded, the district would gain an additional $14m!!
Expenditures: The adopted budget projects spending of $136m. Despite these severe funding cuts, the district budget projects a 1% increase in expenditures ($1.34m) over last year. However, they have budgeted $1.1m less on faculty salaries (a 2% decrease).
We know that about 100 adjunct faculty were cut last January. We do not know yet whether there have been further reductions this year or more are coming for spring. The cancellation of the 4-week summer session will affect both full-time and part-time faculty. Forty-one classified employees have been laid off so far this year. Two management positions have been left unfilled. However, the number of managers district-wide has grown from 44 in 2005 to 57 now, an increase of 30%.
Reserves: The district's unrestricted general fund reserve totals $20.6m or 15.1%. If you include the $1.3m in reserves held by the campuses, it's $22.8m or 16.8%.
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