Minutes
Los
Angeles Harbor College
Thursday,
Sept 21, 2000
Present: Bruce
Lemon, Charles Davis, Kate Campbell, Susan McMurray, Brenda Guertin, Yvonne
Pueblos, Wendy Hollis, Tricia Wickers, Mike Hiscocks, Rod Oakes, Jonathon Lee,
Jane Pavlina, Linda Forrest, Tissa Munasinghe, Nicholas Webb, ASO President,
Jim Stanbery (presiding) Mark Wood (vice-president), June Smith (immediate past
president), Len Glover (treasurer), Sally Fasteau (recorder)
Absent: Nabeel
Barakat, Joyce Parker, R. David Weber, Steve Judge
Guests: Pamela
Watkins (Communications), Philip Heath(ASO senate), Kristopher Galang (ASO
Senate) Marge Edelen (LAC), Kathy Keller (PFE)
1.
Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 12:25 p.m.
Approval of Agenda:
:
With no objection, the agenda was approved with the addition
of item III D. (Motion to Reaffirm VP of Student Services Selection Committee
appointee)
Approval of Minutes:
With no objection, the minutes of the Sept. 7 , 2000 meeting
were approved with the addition of June Smith as present.
Treasurer’s Report:
Len Glover reported that 34 faculty members have paid dues
to the faculty association. The current
balance in the treasury is $2291.32.
II. Special
Orders
1.
Planning
Update (Stanbery)
The next Strategic Planning Task Force meeting is September
26, 2000 from 1:30 - 4:00 in LRC 125.
Burt Peachy, the planning consultant, will facilitate the next step of
developing our planning process and activities.
The Facilities Planning list was distributed for future
discussion.
B. Consent Agenda
Items:
With no objection, motion noticed to nominate Deborah Tull for Hayward Award was approved.
III. Motions
Noticed for Action Sept. 21, 2000
Replacement motion
There were no objections to the replacement motion.
A. Academic Senate
Procedures
Motion:
Parliamentarian:
The chair will appoint a parliamentarian. All senators will be supplied with Robert=s Rules of Order summaries.
Time Limits:
Agendas will include time limits monitored by vice
president.
Speakers= List for Discussion of Motions:
A. The
chair will maintain a speakers= list on which any senator who has not previously spoken on the motion
being considered have precedence over any senator who has already spoken on
it. The Chair may place him or herself
on the list but otherwise not join debate.
B. Points of information are not
privileged; Points of order are privileged.
C. Speakers notifying the secretary in
advance of the meeting or obtaining approval of the Senate when agenda is
adopted may speak for time requested, otherwise all remarks will be limited to
2 minutes.
D. When the agenda time for discussion has
expired, if senators who have not already spoken remain on the speakers= list, the vice president shall move
extension of time to complete the existing list; otherwise the vice president
will move the previous question. Either of these motions may be made at any
time by any member of the body.
E. Where time remains and no senators are
seeking recognition, visitors may speak without special permission of the body.
Committee Reports:
All committees will keep and post
approved minutes or written meeting summaries.
Approved committee minutes or written reports shall be distributed at or
before Senate meetings. Committee
Chairs= oral comments on their reports will
be limited to 2 minutes except by prior notice to secretary or Senate approval
when adopting the agenda. It is understood that all committees of the Senate
function under the Brown Act.
Social Committee:
A Social Committee Chair will be
elected to perform all social and courtesy functions. Courtesy concerns shall be forwarded to the social committee
chair.
Senate Budget:
The Senate will adopt a yearly plan
and budget. Monthly treasurer reports
will include all Senate accounts.
Executive Committee:
The Executive Committee shall
include elected faculty officers, elected faculty PAC representatives,
principal Senate committee chairs, meeting Tuesdays at a time to be announced,
dependent on completed surveys; meetings open to all with members having
privilege of the floor.
MSP:
Fasteau/Campbell
B. Interim Planning Process
Motion
to Divide passed: 11 yes 9 No
Motion:
1. That in conducting the strategic planning activities
demanded of the college between now and Oct. 1, PAC rely as much as possible on existing committees and
procedures with a view toward judging their future relevance for a college
governance structure that is also an effective planning structure.
Motion
Passed
Motion:
2. That
where existing structures or procedures seem inadequate for the planning
activities required between now and Oct 1, the Senate would have no objection
if PAC attempted any structural or procedural innovations which seem expedient
and are lawful.
Motion
Passed
Motion:
3. That
after Oct 1, in adopting a college governance agreement for ratification by the
respective constituencies, PAC utilize the proposal of 5-11-00 as a point of
departure, to be reviewed and completed in the light of the experience of the
interim period.
Motion
passed
3. FHPC Motions:
Motion:
1. The
Academic Senate supports AFT Article 33 and recommends to the college president
that all replacement faculty be replaced under this contracted item. In the event the college president declines
to replace a position, the justification will be forwarded to the Faculty
Hiring Priorities Committee for review and recommended action.
Motion Tabled
Motion:
2.
The
Senate approves the emergency rehire of a nursing faculty member without going
through the FHPC prioritization process.
Motion Passed
Motion:
3.
The
Senate approves the expenditure of $100 per day for lunch for the FHPC
committee members during the presentation period (for a maximum of two days)
Motion Passed
D. Vice President of Student Services selection
committee:
Motion:
To reaffirm the Vice President of
Student Services selection committee appointee.
Discussion regarding senate
appointees to selection committees indicated that prior to the beginning of the
Fall semester the Senate President was
asked to serve on the selection committee for the VP of Student Services or
appoint a faculty member to do so.
Because school was not in session and because precedence had been set in
the past to appoint senate representatives to committees when needed without
taking it to the Senate for a vote,
with the approval of the Senate Vice president and Secretary the
President appointed himself to the committee.
This appointment was confirmed by the Senate at it’s Sept. 7, 2000 meeting.
The Counseling Division requested
that they also be represented on the committee because they were the only group
in Student Services not represented on the committee. Because additional faculty could not be added to the committee,
the Senate President offered to give up his seat on the committee for a
counseling representative.
Motion:
To affirm Brenda Guertin as the representative from the faculty to
serve on the Vice President of Student Services selection committee. Motion
Passed
IV. Motions
noticed for action Oct. 5, 2000
Hayward Award
Beverly Shue recommended that the
Harbor College Academic Senate nominate Debbie Tull for the Hayward Award for
an exemplary program for Mental Health.
V. Comments
on distributed reports/notices/committee minutes
A.
FHPC (Wood)
The FHPC Presentation Schedule for
Sept. 29, 2000 was distributed with a
note that the Counseling Division needed to be added to the list.
B. PFE (Guertin)
The Partnership for Excellence
9/22/00 meeting agenda was distributed.
The forms for project proposals will be finalized at the meeting. It was announced that the projected budget
for 2000 - 2001 would be $500,000.
VI. Announcements:
1.
Administrative
selection committees and representation appointments (Stanbery)
Discussion postponed to next regular
meeting of the Senate.
ASO Activities (Nicholas Webb)
The ASO Senate will have a retreat
on Sept 23, 2000.
Adjournment: 1:50 P.M.
Respectfully Submitted:
Sally Fasteau, Secretary