Part-Time Committee Minutes
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Crowne Plaza Hotel, Burlingame
April 9, 2011

Meeting called to order at 10:30 a.m. by Chair Phyllis Eckler

In attendance: Phyllis Eckler, Susmita Sengupta, Jory Segal, Sabrina Santiago, Hugo Aparicio, Mona Field, (liaison to CCC President), Linda Sneed, Amy Roberts, John Govsky, Pat Lerman (CFT staff), Sandra Baringer, Darwin Smith, Neal Kelsey

Special guests: Carl Friedlander (CCC President), Judy Michaels (CFT staff), Josh Pechthalt (CFT President-elect), Jeff Freitas (CFT Secy/Treas-elect), Sharon Hendricks (CFT endorsed candidate for CalSTRS board), Cliff Liehe (CFT retirement committee member), Susan Schacher (CFT Adult Ed Commission).

1.            Introductions: All attendees are continuing committee members; they introduced themselves.
               New members will attend the next meeting on October 2011.

2.            Call for additional agenda items:2a. Committee governance issues: how to enforce regular attendance. Pat Lerman told is that CFT committees have very little structure, and if we want regular attendees we may need to create some rules for the committee. There is currently no rule for a maximum on absenteeism, and we could as a committee to create our own “norm” for attendance, even though we do have to go through CFT leadership to ask for removal of a non-attending committee member.
Motion M: Govsky, S: Sungupta That any Part-Time committee member who misses two of three meetings shall be contacted by the chair, asked if they intend to return to full activity, and then, at the discretion of the chair, the non-attending member may be reported to the CFT President with a request to appoint an eligible and available replacement. P: unanimously.

3.            Approval of agenda as amended: M: Sneed, S: Aparicio, P: unanimously

4.            Approval of draft minutes (Attachment A) M: Roberts, S: Sengupta, P: unanimously

5.            Action items (Attachment A)         All items are completed as planned, including actions at convention. Regarding the lack of Part-Time representation on the CFT Exec Council, the committee will continue to encourage PT and non-tenure track faculty (UC) to attend CFT Exec Council whenever possible (since any CFT member can attend). Chair Eckler has made known to President-elect Pechthalt that he would appreciate having someone from the PT appointed to any upcoming vacancy on Exec Council. The PT Committee would also like representation on the CFT Legislative committee and will continue to figure out how to achieve that goal.

6.            New Committee Secretary: Call for volunteers: Linda Sneed will take over at the next meeting.

7.            Legislation 2011 (See Attachments for AB383, AB852 & SB114). AB114: Chair Eckler passed out a document “Sorting out Parity” the explanations of the concept behind AB114. Carl explained some of the political challenges the bill presents. MOTION: M. Baringer  S: Darwin Smith

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