1. Call to Order: 12:05pm Minutes distributed. (Any changes to be made at end of Secretary’s report to avoid time consumption.)

Old Business: Four letters presented thanking Academic Senate, Faculty Association, CSEA & Associated Students. Barbara Siegel made the motion to approve and send letters. Bernie Rosenloecher seconded motion. Voted on and passed.

Also, we need to send a letter of thanks for past Classified Senate President and Treasurer. Marilyn Goodrich said that the President writes the letter as a rule and without the President, it falls back onto the Executive Board.

New Business: President – Mary-John is retiring and Ana Jara the current Vice President will step into the position of Classified Senate President. Presidency passed on to Ana.

M-J thinks we need a Vice President to support her. We can hold classified wide elections again or Senators can elect the new V.P.

Question of what to do and how to do it and when it deadline for getting the new V.P. elected. Opened up for discussion. Craig Walter suggested a separate meeting and vote ‘in-house’. Barbara said that it was decided in another meeting that there should be a campus-wide election.

Deborah Jansen asked what the term of office was. M-J stated that all offices elected in June take office in July and serve for 10 months. Senate is also down to only 22 officers from the original 25. Phil Hendricks said we needed to refer back to Roberts Rules. Barbara said she would like to see a new updated list of Senators. More discussion.

Barbara made a motion to have the campus wide election of the new V.P. completed by the end of September. Bernie seconded the motion. Vote: Yes - 17; No - 0; Abstention - 1 Barbara said that given Ana/V.P. was in charge of elections, new help was needed. Tom Carter, Bobby Ponce, Carol Evans & Marilyn volunteered to be that team.

Officer’s Reports: CSEA report: Phil updated us on CSEA Senate Bill 235/AB1725 which established a relationship between unions, districts, shared governance. Said there were no court cases to refer to. In the past, the Senate has been included in District activities, but not CSEA. CSEA may bring issues/actions against District.

Questions from Senate, discussion: Joanne Guercio said she was lost in what the District was doing. Tom said the District was entitled to pick ‘representatives’ for activities. Phil said that CSEA has a seat as a representative on all committees. District can’t choose a particular group – they must include all. More discussion.

Phil said that CSEA should have a seat on dais at Board Meetings. Bobby Ponce asked a question about the Professional Development Committee. Phil said that due to the money issues it was exclusively the right of CSEA for control of AB75 monies. Subject of CSEA seat generated much discussion.

President – Ana moved on to Adam Philipson and the mission statement of the Classified Senate. Tom asked if there were an existing mission statement in the by-laws. Said we were looking at two issues: fleshing out by-laws and what we’re going to do during the year. Craig moved to form a committee to adopt a mission statement for Senate, including statement and goals. Seconded by Tom. Discussion and vote followed: Yes –15; No – 0; Abstention – 0. Motion passed. Adam, Jeanette Goolsby and Craig volunteered to be on committee.

More new business: Maria Bonin and Adam working on fundraising. Maria met with Deana Hearn regarding participation of the Classified Senate in Club Row. Would like to discuss the Senate and scholarships with money from fundraisers at a later date. Setting sights on first fundraiser in mid-October. Said she still had no books from Alex Siefert, past Treasurer.

Ana thanked M-J and reiterated that we must stand together – all Classified Senators. She said she would try to get input from Senate when possible, but there will be times when the “E Board” needs to make decisions on its own.

Adam said we should encourage a safe environment for all voices in the Senate – even those of the minority that we need to be careful not to shut out the voice of the minority.

Craig made a motion to adjourn. M-J seconded. Voice vote unanimous.

Tom moved to adjourn the meeting in memory of Staff Sgt. Perry, the first California Army National Guard Soldier to die in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Perry died defending an Iraqi police station on August 11^th. Meeting adjourned in his memory.

Adjournment: 1:00pm

Attendees: Maria Bonin, Tom Carter, Olga Chao, Carol Evans, Carl Gettleman, Marilyn Goodrich, Jeannette Goolsby, Joanne Guercio, Mary-John Hart, Phil Hendricks, Deborah Jansen, Ana Jara, Adam Philipson, Robert Ponce, Leonid Reytblat, Bernie Rosenloecher, Barbara Siegel, Gayle Sosa, Craig Walter. Excused: Gina Cole, Linda Davis, Jim Galligan, Martha Jimenez, Lee Peterson, Amelia Trejo

Guests:

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 10, 2003, Noon, B-111