I. Call to Order

B. Henry called the meeting to order at 4:05 PM.

II. Roll Call

Present: D. Bezayiff, P. Boudreaux, C. Britton, B. Henry, D. Hensley, C. Hodges, M. J. Jordan, J. Keele, Y. Kim, R. Osborne, M. Roman, L. Syrdahl, J. Wiens, D. Williams

Absent: S. French-Unser

III. Approval of Agenda

M: D. Bezayiff

S: Y. Kim

C: Unanimous

IV. Approval of minutes of September 20, 2006

M: D. Bezayiff

S: C. Hodges

C: Unanimous

V. Reports

1. Senate President (Henry)

The calendar proposal is a starting template for discussion.

2. CCA (Regier)

No Report

3. Curriculum Committee

No report

4. PC Foundation (Keele)

The foundation board is taking recommendations for three vacancies. The board would like to see a greater diversity of ethnic backgrounds represented.

The foundation board is rewriting the bylaws so that the faculty representative is on a 4 year term.

5. Division Reports

No new reports.

6. Adjunct Report (Syrdahl)

Concern expressed that one adjunct has already quit because of the financial hardship of the payment issue. (Instead of being paid five times per semester, adjunct are now being paid three times per semester.) Since this does not follow the education code which expresses payment must be made within 15 days following the calendar month, CCA is initiating legal action.

VI. Old Business

A. Academic Calendar

The district presented the two calendar ideas as a starting block for discussion. Intersession is not required of faculty. Intersession is not funded by the district.

Thoughts expressed:

Can’t afford it.
An intersession in the fall or spring would allow students who flunk a class to retake it and stay caught up.
If students do not take an intersession class or can’t get into some, then they will not likely stick around for a February start date of the 2^nd semester, but will look to COS or another college.
We need to consider our local community when developing a calendar. This is more important that trying to match up our calendar with Bakersfield College’s.
Consider the in-house needs of computer techs that don’t have enough time to accomplish tech work and M & O that do not have time to clean and repair.
Do classified and certified need/appreciate a week-long Spring break?
We need to see if other colleges have had successful intersessions. And if so, are they comparable in size to Porterville College.
It is said that high demand classes like English and Math should be offered during intersessions. However, do English and Math professors feel that 5 weeks is an adequate amount of time?
Health and Physical Education division expressed the desire to have a spring break week to participate in the sports tournaments that are scheduled during that week.
A promise made to the classified staff by faculty leadership was that if the 16 week calendar was adopted we would not immediately plan to go with an intersession without careful evaluation.
A mid-June graduation date puts our students behind in the race for summer jobs.

Motion made by D. Hensley to reject scenario A and Scenario B calendar models as presented by the district

S: C. Britton

C: 11 ayes, 1 abstention

VII. New Business

A. Budget Allocation Model (BAM) – (Ann Marie Wagstaff)
The budget committee is working on a “Base-Plus” model. This model gives “base” money to each college and the district. Then additional money is given based on FTES. Now the question is “What is important in deciding the base amount for each of the three colleges and district?” Ann Marie passed out a paper with over 60 considerations that they have discussed. She also mentioned that Law 361 (2^nd paragraph) talked about “Economies of Scale” which is important in developing budgets for small colleges like Porterville College. It is the Senate’s role to create a process for the development of the budget, so Ann Marie (as BAM faculty rep) asked the Senate for permission to cloister with others on the Budget Committee to develop this process.

M: permission to cloister by D. Bezayiff

S: D. Hensley

C: Unanimous

VIII. Adjournment: 5:11 PM
M: D. Bezayiiff

S: Y. Kim

Respectfully submitted

J. Wiens