Call to Order: 12:15pm

1. Minutes: Distributed. Any changes to be made at end of Secretary’s report to avoid time consumption.

2. General Comments by public and/or college community: None

Information Item: CSEA request to Classified Senate not to act on proposed Computer Use Policy – related to collective bargaining. Opened for questions and comments. Adam Phillipson asked if there was a way of showing the Senate was acting on their request. Lee Peterson moved to approve the union handle the policy. Move was seconded by Mary-John Hart to support CSEA’s jurisdiction in this matter. Voice vote held. 1 – No; 1 – Abstention

By-Laws and new Senate Elections: Committee for By-Laws put into place by March; Mary-John stated that elections must be held by June. There are 29 Senators for a one-year term. Call for volunteers. Barbara Siegel would like to see the last By-Laws. Lee asked for a By-Laws review committee. Steve Levine suggested looking through the By-Laws Mary-John got and see the provisions and report back to Senate. See if there are things that need to be changed in the By-Laws. Craig Walters asked if there was a By-Laws committee already established and were the By-Laws different from what we already have. He submitted that if that were the case, we use those as a benchmark. Barbara motioned that we work from the last approved set of By-Laws from May 13, 2002 that are the most up to date, complete set. Ana Jara seconded the motion. A brief discussion followed. Phil Hendricks stated that an election was held to approve the most recent By-Laws. Craig asked that if there was no committee, who would take the job to get the work done. Adam stated that this is the focus. Lee said we needed to establish this (5/13/02 version) as the working By-Laws. A hand vote followed. 15 – yes; 0 – no; 1 – abstention. This will go on the agenda for next month. Adam asked for copies prior to the next month’s meeting. Ana will send to everyone. Mary-John mentioned that after today, there are only four more meetings to get this done. She asked for any volunteers to assist in getting this accomplished. Ana, Tom Carter and Bobby Ponce volunteered. Mary-John will head group.

Updates regarding other groups: Mary-John brought up the Classified Senate Leadership Conference 6/18 – 6/20 in Lake Tahoe; Lee spoke on the planned new Liberal Arts Building project. He has gone around trying to gather up information. Barbara said it sounded like “contracting out” is the issue. She asked what difference it makes if we see the plans or not. Tom said that what we look at now could effect what goes on later…better to have our say prior to anything being built. Phil mentioned that it could be a condition of employment. Barbara made a motion that the Senate send a letter that we would like to be included in reviewing or going over construction plans. Craig seconded with supportive reasons from Mary-John who stated that as co-partners, we’d like to be included in the review. Motion passed.

Campus Committee Involvement Reports: Budget Committee met on 1/10, budget delayed until meeting of 2/28 (focuses on over-all policy). Ana and Alex Siefert are on the committee. Ana reported that Tom Donner what talks were here in regards to the budget cuts. Accreditation 4A Committee met on 1/27 and will meet again on 2/24 and is open to all employees by committee. First meeting 2/24 – list of volunteers (Lee read list – working on it). Ana is on 4A. Go to the web page for links. Both Lee and Ana are on the committee for Financial Resources.

Officer Reports: Lee stood in for Alex in her absence and gave the Treasurer’s report: The Senate’s account is stagnant but has $664.31. Secretary’s report: Attendance and corrections (none) to January minutes. Barbara made a motion requesting the attachments for the minutes and agendas go out as a ‘word’ attachment. Phil seconded. Joanne Guercio asked why everyone could access them but Barbara. Barbara said she didn’t know. Discussion followed. Steve stated that when e-mail came out, huge files were bogging down the system. Doesn’t think there’s a problem in sending it out, but Lee’s right, if Barbara can’t open the folder, there is a problem that needs looking into. Vote followed. 9 – yes; 4 – no; 5 – abstentions. Minutes passed. Lee asked Senate secretary to send draft of minutes as attachment. Vice President’s report: March 17^th is Lobby Day in Sacramento – student driven demonstration with our support. On March 28^th from 11am – 1pm there will be a countywide demonstration downtown. On March 4^th there will be a ‘silent observance’ at the Clock Tower to show “hope and concern” for what is going on now here and in the rest of the country and the world…need people there. Regarding our present situation, Mary-John said we haven’t made a dent; we’ve got to be heard. She said to talk to Bruce Smith about getting a sample letter to send to the legislature. Craig asked what Mary-John meant about the community colleges’ not making a dent. He wanted to know if she was talking about us. Mary-John explained that because we’ve been on the winter session, what is happening isn’t getting across to the legislators and the people coming back need to be educated very quickly. Barbara asked if Associated Students would be willing to finance stamps. Tom stated that the legislator’s would hear whoever was screaming loudest and then asked if March 17^th would be recognized as a “sick-out”. Mary-John said she would find out.

Steve suggested that at the next meeting everyone sits around the table. Ana motioned that we adjourn the meeting in memory of Ron Williams, the pastor of First AME By the Sea in Santa Monica who recently passed on.

8. Adjournment: 1:05pm

Attendees: Tom Carter, Gina Cole, Linda Davis, Carol Evans, Marilyn Goodrich, Joanne Guercio, Mary-John Hart, Phil Hendricks, Deborah Jansen, Ana Jara, Martha Jimenez, Steve Levine, Lee Peterson, Adam Philipson, Robert Ponce, Leonid Reytblatt, Barbara Siegel, Gayle Sosa, Craig Walter. Excused: Jim Galligan, Carl Gettleman, Pat Green, Gloria Mottler, Jackie Portal-Purdy, Bernie Rosenloecher, Alex Siefert, Amelia Trejo, Guests: Maria Bonin

Next Meeting: March 12, 2003, B-111