EDUHSDFA Rep Council Minutes

September 9, 2019 4:00pm

Ponderosa High School Amanda’s Room (J4)
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Call to order 4:14 Stephanie

Attendance - Tomei, Rhyan, Fletcher, Moeller, Speake, Eisenhart, Zeller, Gunnerson, Wold, Kientz,
Taylor
Davis, Larsen, Bourque, Brown
Officer’s Reports - Not covered below All 20 min
1. President
a. District survey - association gave input last year and district made changes
accordingly
b. Assured that responses are anonymous. Comments and site level admin will not see
comments
c. Special Education -
i. working with Pondo SpEd department on curriculum and staffing
ii. Nurses - working with district nurses on staffing concerns
2. Budget Advisory Committee -
i. need for discussion on structural changes to budget

3. Vice President
a. Attended Negotiations session
b. Retro Pay - Teachers on differential pay did not receive full retro

4. Secretary
a. Not present
b. May and August minutes approved

5. Treasurer
a. 18-19 Financial report shared electronically
b. E Taylor and E Larsen agreed to work on audit committee to finalize year-end
financial statement.

6. School Board Report

i. President is recognizing a teacher at each school board meeting. Recognized
Julia Madsen at last school board meeting for her work on the health care
committee.
7. Solar panel updates -
i. up to 2 years to get solar panels online
8. Bond -
i. Survey indicated support in community. School Board will have to vote by
the end of the month to authorize putting it on ballot
Site Rep Reports - Issues at site, not covered below: 5 min per site
1. El Dorado-
a. concern regarding pay scale for ROP teachers. Coming from industry no opportunity
for salary advancement.
b. Would like to add this to spring negotiations.
c. Workstation issues with AP Art, science, and Industrial tech.
d. Need to run a vote for schedule change
2. Independence-nothing to report
3. OakRidge-
a. previous issue resolved regarding admin and dept. Chair making decisions without
proper procedure.
4. Ponderosa-
a. can’t find work station number for art rooms. Will check again.
b. PE numbers are very high. Concern for safety.
i. Admin went and got waiver signatures without talking to reps. Not balancing
numbers instead of signing waivers.
ii. Remind teachers that signed waivers they need to be fixed by semester. No
more waivers.
c. Concern regarding addition of advisory period. Voting for change of schedule within
the day. Only certificated teachers can vote.
d. Lunch is counted as part of the day. Beginning to end time.
5. Union Mine
a. Teachers feeling left out because CVT is not coming to site for updates on health
care.
b. Need to make it clear that only teachers are voting in regard to schedule change.
6. Virtual
a. Evaluations-who can do the evaluations?
b. Teacher wanted a different evaluator.
c. Decision is left up to the principal.

Old Business:
a. Open Site Rep Positions--ORHS and EDHS
i. ORHS has Rep. EDHS is a maybe
b. New Members Follow-Up (Names, Treates, Tough questions) Stephanie & Angela
i. Site Reps to check with new teachers not signed up with CTA yet.
ii. Bring a treat to new teachers. Hand out folders with visit.
c. Remind--Bargaining Updates
i. Sign up staff for remind so they are getting updates.
d. Region 2 Leadership Conference
i. Eric is going and Angela will attend for treasurers.

New Business
a. Our Local Union Strength and Plan/Member Engagement GrantStephanie/Angela
i. Before next meeting review our goals and pick action step.
 ii. Use feedback for membership engagement grant application next year.
b. Contract Dates to monitor Stephanie
i. Handout for important contract dates.
ii. Check log for tracking teachers IEP meetings.
iii. Numbers are balanced at sites
c. Proposed Calendar Stephanie
i. Draft calendar 2020/21 Tuesday August 11th (with kids). Teachers would start
Friday Aug. 7
ii. Still built in quarter off days.
iii. Winter Dec. 21 to Jan. 1st
iv. 4 days president day weekend.
v. Friday before and after Spring Break. Ron would like to agree those are red flag
days.
vi. Currently contract doesn’t allow for red flag days attached to spring break. Would
like to increase it from 2-4 days.
vii. Stephanie suggesting start on the 10th.

d. Member Engagement Social, Buttons, other swag Jenn T.

i. Jenn made template examples for buttons, stickers, and bags
ii. The more purchased the cheaper they are.
iii. Stickers are expensive.
iv. Jen will mock up final designs and send out cost. Buttons are cheaper. Start with
ordering those first.
v. Eric moves to allocate $300 to order buttons for members. Lance seconds motion
vi. Pondo will host socials in Dec. at Breakroom.
vii. Spring social at Solid ground in Feb.
viii. Final in May at Rucksack
e. Health Insurance Changes Angela
i. Information sent out. Meetings with CTA planned.
f. Audit Committee Angela
g. Discipline Follow-up Stephanie
i. El Dorado was sent quick reference sheet regarding the codes for discipline.
ii. Stephanie will put a committee together for what teachers would like to see
regarding information on discipline issues
h. Election Chair Stephanie
i. Suzanne Everett has volunteered
Motion made to approve
i. Class Size Issues (Peer Tutors, Work Stations) Amanda/Stephanie
i. Tony would like to convene a meeting with teachers who have peer tutors and see if
they really do need to be counted in numbers.
j. Proposed Meeting Date Change Lance
i. El Dorado volunteered as Rep. but has conflict with Monday’s.
k. Know Your Contract (Evals) Eric
i. Highlighted material on evaluation procedures.
 ii. Teachers need to be trained to evaluate teachers. BTSA is a qualifying training.
About 10 hrs. Of training required.
iii. Probationary teachers should be getting mid year meeting. Teachers need to know
how they can improve and provide action steps.

Talking Points 2 min

● Trainings from CTA 10/16 “Generation Debt & Oct 28 Legal Rights at ORHS 4-6 in B-3
● Social 9/27 El DOrado Saloon 3:30-5:30

Meeting adjourned at 6:45 P.M.

Exec Board Meeting Rep Council Meeting
3:45 4:00 in ?, Ponderosa

August 5 August 5 Back to School Meeting

August 30 September 9 Class Balancing

September 30 October 7 CTA Director Mike Patterson

October 25 November 4 Karmen FMLA

November 22* December 2

January 7 (10 AM) January 13 Chris Moore? LCAP

January 24 February 3

February 21 March 2

April 3* April 13 Elections Planning

April 24 May 4
School Board Meetings

August 27 Stephanie​ & Jen January 14 (EDHS) Stephanie & Lance

September 10(EDHS) Stephanie & Britta February 11 Stephanie & Natalie

September 24 Eric L. February 25 (PHS) Eric L. & Amanda

October 8 Stephanie & Ross March 10 Stephanie

October 22 (ORHS) Angela & Mike April 14 Eric L.

November 12 Stephanie​ & Eric M. April 28 (UMHS) Stephanie & Jeff

December 10 Stephanie May 12 (UMHS) Brigid

June 9 Eric L.

June 11 Stephanie
 Organizing Chair:
Member Engagement Chair:​Jenn Tomei
Elections Chair:
Women’s Issues Chairs: ​Jenn Zimney & Taylor Sabado

Health Committee: ​Natalie Fletterick, Angela Brown, Julia Madsen

LCAP Committee: Eric Moeller, Ryan Madsen

Contract Dates to Remember

1. Meetings Review:
End all Quarters Article 9, 2.B Site Review of IEP/504 Meetings (Prin &
Reps)
December & May Article 9.2B District Review of Meetings

2. Class Size Monitoring

20th Instructional day Article 11, 1 Class SIze not to exceed 32.57
(15th for VA/UM)
10th Day of 2nd Term/Sem Class Size 31.57 (26.64 Cont.)
Nov & Dec District report to FA Progress
Feb Article 11, 6 Dist/FA meet review current & next year
staffing
End 3rd week of 1st sem Article 11,7 Review Class Size
End of 2nd week in May Article 11, 7 Dist/FA meet to review Ave Class Size
By Tues. of 2nd week Article 11, 9.A Prin Report to Rep Courses +8 variance
By end 2nd week Article 11, 9.B No more than 8 variance in courses or
waivers

3. Evaluations
Sept 1 Article 13, 3.A Employees notified of Evaluator
Oct 1 Article 13, 3.B Meet to est. goals
Dec.1/March1 Article 13, 3.D Probationary Teachers 1 eval and Summary
30 Days Prior to Year-end Conf Article 13, 3.G Request Data for Std 6
30 Days Prior to Year-End Article 13. 3.H Year-End Eval
Our Plan for Local Union Strength
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Print & Digital Communications

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Community Connections
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