Fullerton College Faculty Senate

 

Approved Minutes

May 18, 2006

 

 


 

Present

 

 

 

Business.........................................

Dale Craig, Nancy Woolridge

 

Counseling......................................

Inez Bielke, Elias Dominguez, Flor Aguilera-Huerta

 

Fine Arts.........................................

Michelle Coletta

 

Humanities......................................

Danielle Fouquette, John Ison, Robert Lundergan,

Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Miguel Powers

 

Library.............................................

Michele Fitzsimmons

 

Math/Computer Science...................

Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen, Greg Nguyen, Robert Diaz

 

Natural Sciences..............................

Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro

 

Part-Time Faculty.............................

 

 

Physical Education..........................

Jim Kiefer, Pete Snyder

 

Social Sciences...............................

Arienne Turner

 

Student Services..............................

 

 

Technology/Engineering....................

Gayle Cebrian, Dennis Howey, Rosa Molina

 

At-large...........................................

Callista Lee, Marcus Wilson

 

 

 

 

Associated Students........................

Alejandra Goodrich

 

 

 

 

President.........................................

Joumana McGowan

 

Past President.................................

Rolando Sanabria

 

Secretary........................................

Jane Troop

 

Treasurer.........................................

Ken Collins

 

At-large, Curriculum Chair.................

Doug Eisner

 

 

 

Guests:  Mark Greenhalgh, Adela Lopez, Adam O’Conner, Mark Spero

 

 

 

Absent

 

 

 

Business/CIS...................................

Joel Willenbring

 

At-large...........................................

Mike Moore, Sally Moore, Elise Donley

 

Fine Arts.........................................

Bill Hayner, Chuck Ketter

 

Humanities......................................

Robert Lundergan, Jeff Rodine

 

Part-time.........................................

Jim Book

 

Social Sciences...............................

Susan Grabiel, Diana Kyle

 

Student Services..............................

Paul McKinley

 

Technology......................................

Kevin Sampson

 

I.                     CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 3:10 p.m. by President Joumana McGowan.

 

II.                   APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

M/S/U (Wilson/Cebrian) to approve the Minutes of the May 4, 2006 meeting.


 

III.                  APPROVAL OF AGENDA

 

M/S/U (McQueen/Eisner) to approve the agenda for this meeting.

 

IV.                PUBLIC COMMENTS

 

Alex Cima presented a petition requesting that ACT provide an Apple technician on campus. This is at no cost to the college.

 

Jim Kiefer announced that the track and field team finished seventh in Southern California.  He also mentioned that physical education is being waived for some students who have served in the armed services.

           

V.         EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

 

President McGowan announced that the Dynamic Fund issue will be discussed in the fall semester.

Dr. Drummond, the Community College Chancellor, was on campus to see the bond projects and talk about the future of Orange County community colleges.

 

Dr. McGowan thanked those who attended the ground breaking ceremony for the commons.  She mentioned that, based on faculty complaints, Dr. Portolan will be looking into the matter of parking for motorcycles and disabled students. It was also announced that a PAC retreat will be held in June to evaluate the reorganization of PAC and how effective it has been. 

 

The District allocation models were discussed in DPC since salary negotiations are finished.  Next Monday DPC will be voting on the budget allocation models. 

 

Dr. McGowan thanked Rolando Sanabria for his three years as Senate President.  She presented certificates to outgoing Senators and gifts to the Senate Exec. members.  She also introduced the new Senators. 

 

Treasurer’s Report

 

Treasurer Collins thanked those who brought refreshments to the meeting.

 

VI.        CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

No report.

 

VII.       ELECTIONS

 

Interim Curriculum Chair

Mark Greenhalgh

 

President’s Advisory Committee, Term 2006-2008

Jay Seidel

 

Honors Program Advisory Committee, Term 2006-2008

Jane Ishibashi

Sheilah Stokes


 

 

Registrar’s Selection Committee

Joe Reyes

 

Library Curriculum Representative, Term 2006-2009

Jane Ishibashi

 

Dr. Hodge visited the Senate where she recognized the work of the faculty during the year.  She mentioned the faculty’s dedication in keeping students at Fullerton College through all the construction.  The accomplishments of the college can be seen in the President’s Weekly.

 

VIII.       UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

None.

 

IX.        OLD BUSINESS

 

Proposed Changes to the Senate By-laws

 

The proposed motion brought forward by Danielle Fouquette and Miguel Powers to amend the Senate By-laws relative to nominations for the Senate Exec. failed to pass.

 

X.         NEW BUSINESS

 

Fred Williams and Adam O’Connor presented the four budget models being discussed at DPC. These budget models are:

 

Budget Model 1, “Growth beyond Extended Day”

This budget model provides additional ongoing funding to the campuses if they grow past their base. The money would be in addition to the regular overload budgets and would be used to support the additional students. It is proposed that the growth target be set to the projected amount for next year. The Senate discussed whether the targets should be set to next year or last year.

 

M/S/P (Powers/Wilson) Fullerton College Senate supports this idea, but we object to the modification and we request that we use last year’s actual number as the 04-05 base.

 

Budget Model #2, “Facilities Funding”

This budget model would allocate additional ongoing funding per square feet for new buildings on campus. The initial projection would be to fund $6.74 per square foot. This would pay for the support necessary to maintain the new buildings. It was pointed out that a variety of costs are associated with new buildings including supplies and maintenance.

 

The issue was raised as to whether this additional money would be restricted to direct facilities support only. It was the sense of the Senate that this money should be spent on building maintenance and supplies.

 

The revised DPC budget model removed some of the new building projects, such as the parking structure, from this square foot funding, It was felt that the parking structure was an income-generating building and, therefore, did not require additional funding.

 


 

 

It was recommended that the original proposal be supported by the Senate.

 

M/S/U (Powers/Kiefer) FC supports the previous budget proposal that was provided by the budget officers at $6.75, and we restrict the spending of this money on M&O expenses only.

 

Budget Model #3 “Removing the Simpson Model”

This budget model proposes to automatically give COLA to the campuses prior to settling salary negotiations.

 

M/S/P (Wilson/Sanabria) Fullerton College does not approve or support this proposal until faculty receive automatic COLA increases.

 

Budget Model 4 “Rollup of PFE Costs”

This budget model would fold the ongoing PFE costs into the District budget and would charge the campus centers for additional roll-up costs. This charge would be spread out over a number of years.

 

M/S/P (Wilson/Craig) Fullerton College Senate approves Model 4 with the note that it is of extremely disproportionate benefit to SCE with the provision that our Senate representatives have discretion to vote on this.

 

XI.         LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

 

No report.

United Faculty

It was announced that United Faculty has settled salary at 4.75% and that the back pay will be in the June paycheck.

 

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted, 

 

/s/

 

Jane Troop, Secretary