BTA Meeting Minutes » September 2007
A copy of the BTA Meeting Minutes for September 2007 in PDF format can be downloaded by clicking on September 2007 Minutes. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the file.
Approved Minutes for BTA Meeting Held September 18, 2007
Meeting called to order at 3:37 P.M. on 9/18/07 by
Deborah Campbell.
Agenda amended and approved. Minutes from May approved.
Attendance:
Maya Nelson, Carleen Maselli, Mary Kraybill, Deborah Campbell, Susan Gibbs, CeCe Grubbs, MaryLouise Green, Deborah Casey, Gayle Costanza, Teresa Badger, Barry Wofsy, JJ , Suzanne James Peters.
Site Reports:
BHS: Open house is being held after progress reports, so there may be an issue with parents and grades. It is also on a Wednesday. Teachers be there until 9 or so, and won't have time off until the following Friday.
Treasurer's Report:
Deborah Casey reported BTA checking account balance as $6054.20. The CD balance is $18,113.60.
Grievance Report:
Carleen Maselli: Last Tuesday was first day for class size bounty. See site administrator and also your contract for specifics about claiming.
State Council Report:
Carleen Maselli: Merit pay has been introduced into NCLB legislation. Call the "800" number provided, or use the form letter at mycta.org. Deborah Campbell, CeCe Grubbs, and Deborah Casey are requesting to go, as visitors, to CTA State Council. A motion was put forward for 4 people to attend state council, paying up to $3,000. Motion passed.
PAR Report:
Susan Gibbs: First PAR meeting this Thursday. There is a budget that needs to be allocated and spent as soon as possible. This is for staff development, and has funded such things as "Making Math Real," and the differentiated instruction certification classes.
Medical Benefits Report:
CeCe Grubbs: Sue Shabazz has retired and BTA must vote for a representative for the SCMPA. Deborah Campbell would like to be the replacement. Exec board will need to appoint the new person after this meeting.
There is a benefits plan conference coming up November 4th. We'd like to send one person, and may need to approve up to $1000 to send the new member. A motion to send Deborah Campbell was approved.
Assembly Bill 8 was endorsed by CTA. This would cover uninsured people and be funded by a social security tax. This would cater to the big health insurance companies.
PAC Report:
Suzanne James Peters: Andre Stewart and Bonnie Weidel are running for the two open BUSD Board seats. Bonnie is active in the art community. Andre is already sitting on the board. There have been no new memberships to the BTA/PAC, and no monies will be used in the next year. This money could be used for letter campaigning for upcoming medical and merit pay legislation. In two years there will be three board of education seats opening up.
Bargaining/Catastrophic Leave Bank Reports:
Deborah
Casey: Net pay increase will be 6.08%, after medical and vision
increases taken out. Updated contract will be posted on mybta.org
soon.
Catastrophic leave bank membership open until September 30th. No new
dues needed for existing members.
New Business:
There's a new program at the elementary level called Accelerated Reader. It may take a lot of teaching time. It was initially presented as voluntary, but now it seems to be mandatory. It was purchased with BEF funding.
There will be a meeting at the library held by Betsy Eubanks regarding special education. We don't have any information about what this meeting will be about
Maya Nelson, JJ Jones, Carleen Maselli, Maggie Olsen, Teresa Badger, and Mike Sindel will attend the Regional One Conference October 5-7, 2007.
Ending balance for district is up. District decline in enrollment is very small, much less than expected.
New BTA meeting dates:
October 16th, November 13th, December 18th, January 15th, February 26th, March 18th, April 15th, and May 20th.
Meeting adjourned: 5:21.
Executive Board met immediately following and nominated Deborah Campbell
to be the BTA's SCMPA representative. Nomination passed.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mary Kraybill, BTA Recording Secretary
A copy of the BTA Meeting Minutes for September 2007 in PDF format can be downloaded by clicking on September 2007 Minutes. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the file.