The Personnel Commission is a five-member, independent body. It is the mainstay of the Merit System. Commissioners are private citizens who must be known adherents to the merit principle. Commissioners are appointed for staggered three-year terms, and may be reappointed upon their showing a continued interest and support of Merit System principles and practices.
Two Commissioners are appointed by the Board of Trustees, two are appointed by the Classified employees through their exclusive representative, CSEA (California School Employees Association). The fifth Commissioner is appointed by the other four Commissioners.
The Commissioners are responsible for guaranteeing that employment, retention and promotion for all Classified employees are based on Merit System principles.
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Meet our current Commissioners:
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Dr. Joseph P. Metoyer, Jr. Chair
Board of Trustees appointee (Term expires 11/30/15)
Dr. Joseph P. Metoyer, Jr. is the current Chair of the Personnel Commission, and is an appointee of the District's Board of Trustees. Dr. Metoyer is the pastor/teacher of ACTS - A Church That Studies in Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Metoyer has served as Commissioner at Santa Monica College since 2001 and is actively involved in the community. |
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Joy O. Abbott, Vice Chair
abbott_joy@smc.edu
Board of Trustees' appointee (Term expires 11/30/13)
Joy O. Abbott, Vice Chair of the Personnel Commission is also an appointee of the Board of Trustees. Commissioner Abbott has three decades of experience as an entertainment industry executive. She is currently Senior Vice President, Sales Admin & Operations World Wide Television at Paramount Pictures. Commissioner Abbott also serves on the Personnel Board of the City of Santa Monica. |
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Deborah Jansen
jansen_deborah@smc.edu CSEA appointee (Term expires 11/30/15)
Deborah Jansen is one of the two CSEA appointees on the Personnel Commission. While employed at SMC for 14 years, Commissioner Jansen worked diligently to preserve and strengthen the Merit System and was a member of many District-wide committees. Now a Senior Human Resources Specialist at Los Angeles Unified School District, she was appointed Commissioner in 2006. |
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Barbara Greenstein
greenstein_barbara@smc.edu
CSEA appointee (Term expires 11/30/14)
Barbara Greenstein is the other CSEA appointee on the Personnel Commission. Currently a Deputy City Attorney at the City of Santa Monica, Commissioner Greenstein specializes in the areas of labor and employment law. She is an active member of several professional legal associations. |
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Dolores Press
press_dolores@smc.edu
Commission appointee (Term expires 11/30/13) |
Dolores Press, Personnel Commission appointee, was appointed Commissioner in 1998. A member of the SMC General Advisory Board, Commissioner Press has been a Santa Monica resident since 1975. She is a widowed mother of four adult children, and proud grandmother of seven. Commissioner Press - a lifelong activist for labor, women and renters' rights - has dedicated her life to public service. She was elected to the Santa Monica City Council in 1981 and served as Mayor Pro Tem in 1983. Commissioner Press retired after 20 years of service on the local staff of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. She was a founding councilmember of the Commission on the Status of Women, and served as an elected and appointed member on the Santa Monica Rent Control Board from 1986-1998, and as First Chair in 1979. She currently serves as an elected member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee. Commissioner Press also chaired the public hearings on the then proposed development of the Broad Stage at the SMC Performing Arts Center. She was the recipient of the Santa Monica League of United Latin Americans Citizens (LULAC) Community Award in 2002, and the Communitas Award from the Church in Ocean Park in 2003. She was honored as "Woman of the Year" in 1998 by former California Assembly Speaker Pro Tem, Sheila Kuehl. |