PJCFA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

The PJCFA Board met yesterday afternoon and here's a short report of what took place:

We talked about making additions, updates and corrections to the web page. Thought it would be good to have the Constitution and by-laws up there as well as a direct link to the CBA. Update the administrative and professional salary list and maybe start using it to conduct some surveys. What would you like to see on the web page?

Work was done over the summer on the administrative evaluations by faculty. The plan is still to administer the evaluations in March or April.

Reminder that voting for ratification is currently taking place with ballots due October 2.

It was agreed that PJCFA would pay travel reimbursement for official local PJCFA business. Executive Board members, Negotiating Team members, PJCFA members serving as representatives on PJC or PJCFA committees will submit a travel reimbursement request when they have to travel among the campuses or from their home to campus on non-duty days.

Everyone agreed that the recent Bargaining and Membership training that was given by UFF and FEA was excellent. It was also good to network with UWF and Chipola. We think that there is much that we learned that can put into action right away.

The Executive Board voted to change the by-laws so that the nomination for Chief Negotiator will take place at the September meeting; Chief Negotiator will be voted on at October meeting; nominations for the bargaining team will take place at the November meeting; bargaining team will be elected at the December meeting. This change was made to allow the team to have time to meet, conduct research and prepare for negotiations which usually begin in March or April.

It was approved that up to 3 members will attend the FEA bargaining training to be held October 24 in Orlando.

Some of the PJCFA Senators will be attending the UFF Senate meeting October 5-7. Sessions held by the Distance Learning Task Force and the Librarians Task Force will be held in addition to the Senate meeting.

Campus Luncheons were planned. More information will be distributed as those plans are finalized.

Appointments were made to two PJC committees.

The next PJCFA Executive Board meeting will be held on October 17 at 1:30pm in the PJCFA Office , Room 9725.