August 14, 2020

FSU Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

August 14, 2020 (via zoom)

Ex Com Members Present: Steve Striffler; Jessica Holden; Travis Johnston; Caroline Coscia; Jeff Melnick; Monique Fuguet; Tracy Brown; Joe Ramsey; Linda Liu; Tim Sieber

Others Present: Lorenzo Nencioli, FSU Membership Coordinator; Katie D’Urso, MTA Field Rep;

1. Approval of the agenda: Motion to approve. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.
2. Approval of the minutes (contact FSU office for copy of all approved minutes): Motion to approve. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.
3. Election Proposal (see below): Caroline recommends option A. Election would cost $100 through Election Buddy. Travis agrees that he can arrange election vote via Qualtrics. Caroline will recheck re cost with Election Buddy. Motion to approve option A. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.
4. Committees: Suggestion to ask Maria Brincker to serve as Academic Technology Committee rep. Steve will reach out to her and Alex Mueller. Travis expresses interest in serving. Agreed that Travis will serve. Suggestion to ask a Nursing fac (possibly Manu Thakral) and Carlos Siqueira to be on Health and Safety Committee. Motion to confirm the following committee members. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously:

Grievance Committee: Gillian MacNaughton and Ellen Frank

Sexual Harassment Committee: Andrew Leong

University Anomaly Committee: Vivian Ciaramitaro, Jay Dee

Health and Safety Committee: John Hess

Academic Technology Committee: Travis Johnston

Sick leave Bank Committee- Natalia Scarpetti

Caroline: suggest we have a standing policies and bylaws committee. Discussion of issue. Motion to approve creation of FSU Policies and Procedures Committee. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.

Discussion of Elections Committee. Jessica agrees to continue to serve. Caroline: suggests third member for Spring. Travis: can help in Spring if Qualtrics is used. Motion to appoint Caroline, Jessica to committee and to have Travis serve later in Spring 21 if needed. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.

Discussion of Diversity Committee. Ex Com asked to provide feedback on latest report. Steve: we will brainstorm re possible members.

TIM LEAVES

Discussion of bargaining support team. Suggestion to change name to Contract Action Team (CAT). Suggestion to have newly named CAT focus on dealing with action items requested by Core Bargaining Team. Katie: great if CAT could do independent work but without focusing on CBA language issues- would focus on member engagement, keeping CBT ‘on track’. Agreed to change name of Bargaining Support Committee as detailed in FSU policies to Contract Action Team. Steve will send blast email to members. Agreed that former Bargaining Support Committee will be disbanded, to be replaced by CAT.

Agreed Monique will continue as Treasurer (she is currently in middle of her term).

Discussion of Communications Director role. Jeff Melnick agrees to write guidelines document for future Comm. Directors. Motion to reapprove Jeff as Communications Director. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.

Motion to appoint Travis Johnston as Parliamentarian. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously.

Motion to appoint Jessica Holden as Clerk. Motion seconded. Motion passes unanimously. Discussion of asking Clerk to keep time during Ex Com minutes, to approve or take draft minutes in a more active capacity from this point forward.

   5. Math Dept/Course Sizes/NTT Faculty and Dept Governance: Jeff will bring issues in Math to Joe Berger, CEHD Dean, at ACTF (?). FSU can continue to raise issues in L-M. need to address longer term issue of NTT involvement in department, class size issues, etc.

    6.  Further Ex Com meetings for summer: Agreed to have another meeting two weeks from today at 10 (8/28). Caroline will review Fall 20 Ex Com schedule.

MEETING ENDS

Special Election – TT Representative

Following past election schedules, I am presenting two options for the TT special election.

Option A: Honor period of non-responsibility

Option B:  Hold the election as soon as possible

Labor Day is Monday, September 7^th.  Classes start Tuesday, September 8^th

New hires (TTs and promoted to TT) effective September 1^st.

Recommendation

Option A avoids Labor Day long weekend and works around the first week of classes. 

Voting Platform

Spring 2020 we used Election Buddy which worked excellently. The cost for this election would be $100 and working with Election Buddy to set up the election.  This special election is just for TT faculty and one race.  The faculty council used Qualtrics for their Spring 2020 election.  This is a free survey software.  I have never used but can seek assistance from the two people (Pol Sci dept) who knows the software.