I. Call to Order

D. Bezayiff called to order 4:05 PM.

II. Roll Call

Present: D. Bezayiff, P. Boudreaux, S. Hathaway, C. Hodges, Y. Kim, R. Osborne,
C. Piersol, J. Wiens,

Absent: K. Cardell, B. Henry, Mary Jo Jordon, D. Kavern, J. Keele, C. Wilkins

III. Approval of agenda

M: Hathaway

S: P. Boudreaux

C: Unanimous

IV. Approval of minutes

M: S. Hathaway with corrections

S: R. Osborne

C: Unanimous

V. Reports

1. Senate President (Bezayiff)

District board meeting tomorrow. BRTF recommendations will be looked at. David will report on our progress on the 16 week calendar.

2. CCA (Piersol)

Negotiations (reopeners will begin at the end of October)

3. Curriculum Committee (Piersol)

Discussed graduation requirements.

Revisiting ethnic studies definition and will discuss science definitions at the next meeting.

4. PC Foundation (Wiens for Keele)

Foundation board met on 9/30 and approved John Nash as Grant writer as per earlier discussion. John will start on October 15.

Foundation Board heard a plea to help fund the mental health counselor and referred that decision to their finance committee for a recommendation.

Foundation Board heard a request from CHAP, represented by Richard Osborne and Jeff Keele, to fund one speaker per year as part of the PC Speakers Series. The proposal was warmly received and referred to their finance committee for a recommendation.

J. Keele met with Dr. Hall and Virginia Gurrola (Foundation Director) to draft a proposal for a grant writer oversight committee. We will propose it in the CLC’s next meeting. Our proposal is a committee of 6: 3 faculty (1 senate rep to the foundation and 2 appointed by the senate) 1 business office rep, 1 administration rep, 1 classified (appointed by CSEA). The committee would function as a subcommittee under CLC and report to CLC. It would also include the grant writer and would communicate directly with him. The committee would elect its own chair and meet on a regular basis as needed.

5. Division Reports
The Chinese Moon Festival took place in Hanford last week. The anthropology club participated with an information table about a Chinese cemetery in the area.
Richard Goode – Public Lands Day. Goode’s students and anthropology club (R. Osborne) helped clean up Lake Success area.
Science department is working on 16 week calendar and scheduling
Health students are active in health fairs and schools and head start programs throughout Tulare County.
English is “in an adjunct crises” for next semester.
Business – working to increasing FTES working with the computer lab.

VI. Old Business
Spring 2006 semester grades due May 30, 2006. This is an oversight because it is the first working day after the spring semester ends. This will probably be extended.

VII. New Business

A) College Position Announcements and Hiring Procedures
and

B) Replacement and New Faculty Positions Process for 2006-2007; 07-08

We may have replacement positions
We need to be clear of the process.
Also at the CLC meeting, should classified vote to rank certificated positions…should certified staff vote to rank classified positions?

What was a process for the hiring of the mental health professional position?
The salary of the new position was addressed.
Will “hard money” be asked for this position in the future? Will possible change of financing such position by “hard money” funds go through a campus-wide process?

Also categorical funds are an issue for faculty hired through a grant and moving them to tenure track.

C) State-wide November Special Election Propositions
Does Senate want to comment on the different propositions that are coming in November 8, 2005?

D) 16 Week Calendar Implementation

The committee will ask the dept heads to develop a fall 2006 schedule by November 14. The committee will then be able to discuss and evaluate room usage.

Shawn James from the district will share Tuesday at 3:00 PM in AC-118 intricacies of the FTES issue and the 16 week calendar.

E) District/classified “Cap” Negotiation Proposal
Implications for the faculty that the District is taking a hard line on capping benefits with classified that may require employee payments within the five year period of the contract.

F) Senate Committee Assignments
An informational note that during the next few weeks subcommittees may be formed to work on new ideas for Academic Senate.

Adjournment: 5:08 PM
M: R. Osborne

S: C. Hodges

Respectfully submitted,

J. Wiens