Executive Board Meeting

Minutes 4/27/26

Board Members Attending:

1. Welcome & introduction        [3:00-3:10 pm; 10 min]

1. Housekeeping

1. Overview the meeting agenda
2. Identify any additional agenda items

3. General business

1. Election committee wants to see apportionment re Division reps for each division
2. Labor Notes – r
3. RecruitingE-Board, JUMC, Bargaining
   

2. Approve previous meeting’s minutes

1. 2026.04.13 SCCFT 1950 E-Board Meeting Agenda and Minutes
2. Sample motion: I move that the Executive Board approve the minutes for the [DATE] E-Board meeting, as revised.
3. AAG moves to approve minutes 4/13, second Rashawn

1. Motion for minutes for 4/13 passes unanimously
   

2. Member Comments                [3:10-3:15 pm; 5 min]
   

3. Reports (Inform)                [3:15-3:55 pm; 40 min]

1. Officer Reports

1. President

1. 1:1 with Kailtlin G
2. Attended AFT WA executive board meeting
3. Hosted live chat of 4/16 College Community update
4. BOT statement; engagement with members re workload primer
5. DOJ delay, college
6. 1:1 GB, TP
7. Election Committee nominations form.
8. Attend PARED meeting
9. Provided College with statement re  RIF alternatives MOU
10. Trainings – Workload primer

1. Three workload education sessions

11. JUMC

1. SFRA – asking college to provide information to faculty re SFRA and holds on SFRA
2. LOAs -Moonlights; Part time release time re FPC postings; grant funded faculty workload
3. COLA correction

12. Cases and Grievances
13. No Hate Washington

14. AFT-WA CTC Council
    

2. 1st Vice President (Internal Relations)

1. Hosting first workload session 4/28 at 11:00 a.m.
   

3. 2nd Vice President (External Relations)

1. Grievance Committee & all grievances at Step 2

2. No updates

3. Meetings for this week.
4. May ‘26 will have things scheduled for personal time

4. 3rd Vice President (Associate Faculty)

1. a. AFT-WA Contingent Faculty Issues Committee (CFIC)(no updates)

2. b.ELL/Tuition International Education – IR response from College – it goes to General Fund; E Hamako sent additional IR to VP Aiello re student Fees

3. c.SFRA – IR response from college – SFRA info goes to students from Financial/Cashiers office.  It goes to the student ctc account.  Students have the option of having paper SFRA in other languages.  We want college to communicate to faculty that:

1. 1. Students must complete SFRA once a year

2. 2.Process how student holds get release

3. 3.How students can obtain SFRA in multiple languages
   

5. Treasurer

1. Monthly report: “Receipts & disbursements of the preceding month”

2. No updates – but 10 day list has been received

6. Secretary

1. Communications received (no updates)
   

2. Representative Reports

1. Division Representatives

1. BCS & PE

2. CTE

3. HTS & LLR & AA & SS

4. Dr H. No updates
5. Caitlin M

1. Form to add reports for today’s meetings
2. Request to meet faculty advisor concern

1. The advisor’s administrator has made troubling comments
2. 172 contracted days and general hours – not enough to do what they want with the department
3. Verbal statement – advisor wants to remain anonymous        
4. Goal to notify the E-Board – to check what we do at this point.
5. We might need more details for next steps (ex. Grievance or JUMC)  (JUMC would be research, LOA, or ask college about topic/process)
6. Opportunity to educate members re workload; look over workload primer
7. Cailtin to set up meeting with EH and GB
8. CBA has workload adjustment – request workload review

7. STEM
   

2. Legislative/ COPE Representative

1. Statement for No-Hate WA STate
   

3. MLK Labor Representatives
   

3. Internal

1. Organizing infrastructure

1. –

2. Union Committees

1. –Elections
2. Created election nomination Google Form https://bit.ly/SCCFT-Nomination-Form-E-Board-2026-27
3. Liased with Election Committee Chair.
4. Steve Bogart gives results of Spring ‘26 ARC elections

1. Certify elections for Spring ‘26 ARC elections
2. Motion by DO, second by RS
3. Motion passes unanimous in favor

5. E-Board Elections Ballot Construction (May 1 to May 8th)
6. E-Board Elections – Nomination Forms went out

1. Election May 9th to May 17th
2. Election needs to be certified by May 31st

7. Division Apportionment /Reapportionment re E-Board Elections

1. Per SCCFT Bylaws – ratio of 1 representative for 40 union members –
2. In addition, any unit with fewer than 20 members shall be combined with another unit as determined by E-Board
3. Do we need reapportionment of Divisions/Reps?
4. TP or AAG  to run numbers ratio rep/members re DIvision/Reps;TP can get a count (See Discussion Section)
5. Current count of members by division

1. BCS – 41
2. CTS -26
3. HTS & ACL – 64 (HTS 47 – ACL -17)
4. STEM – 43

6. Discussion about encouraging E-Board to recruit division rep candidates

3. Campaigns & membership drives

1. Parent Education

1. Attended Parent Education organizing meeting

2. RIFs

1. Provided statement to College for its press release about the RIF alternatives MOU.

4. Research

5. Trainings for faculty

1. Revised & expanded Workload: A (Rough) Primer https://bit.ly/SCCFT-Workload-Primer-2026
2. Scheduled three Workload Education Sessions to be led by Officers. April 28, 3:30 pm; May 8, 10:00 am; May 13, 1:00 pm on Zoom

6. Quarterly General Meetings

1. Facilitated Spring General Membership Meeting: https://bit.ly/SCCFT-2026-Q4-Spring-General-Meeting-SLIDES 

4. External

1. Advocacy & networking

1. Attended College Council Meeting
2. Attended AFT-WA Executive Board Meeting
3. Hosted live-chat of April 16 College Campus Update Meeting.

2. JUMC

1. Facilitated JUMC prep & table meetings.
2. Concern about potential “direct dealing” between College and individual departments’ faculty members re: department finances and budget reductions.
3. Advocating that the College provide faculty with more information about the new mandatory Student Financial Responsibility Agreement (SFRA) & holds.
4. Researching student fees and other financial flows.
5. Advocating a Letter of Agreement (LOA) to improve FPC job postings’ information for Associate Faculty (e.g., rate of pay, hours to be paid, lack of benefits eligibility for FPC work).
6. Advocating an LOA re: rights to Moonlights if an assigned Moonlight course is cancelled.
7. Advocating an LOA re: grant-funded faculty workload & compensation.
8. Advocating for corrections to CBA’s COLA increases.

3. Bargaining

1. Recruiting prospective CBA Bargaining Team Lead.

4. College Committees appointments

1. JUMC Team selected Exceptional Faculty Award Committee members: Wendy Hill & Ben Wiggins

5. Cases & Grievances

1. Handling various cases.
2. Two at Step 2

1. Review and make recommendations to either step 3 or 4)

6. Trainings for College

1. –

7. Political endorsements & donations

1. Endorsed the No Hate in Washington State campaign, per E-Board direction.
   

4. Break                                         [3:55-4:05 pm; 10 min]
   

5. Proposals (Decide)                [4:05-___ pm]
   

6. Discussions (Discuss)        [Time allowing]

1. Spring Elections #2

1. E Board

1. E-Board Elections Ballot Construction (May 1 to May 8th)
2. E-Board Elections – Nomination Forms went out

1. Election May 9th to May 17th
2. Election needs to be certified by May 31st

3. Emergent consensus to certify vote online
4. E Board to look at Members list see who is a member to recruit members for E-Board candidates for Spring ‘26.
5. E-Board to do outreach for candidates
6. Division Apportionment /Reapportionment re E-Board Elections

1. Per SCCFT Bylaws – ratio of 1 representative for 40 union members –
2. In addition, any unit with fewer than 20 members shall be combined with another unit as determined by E-Board
3. Do we need reapportionment of Divisions/Reps?

7. Discussion about encouraging E-Board to recruit division rep candidates
8. Current count of members by division

1. BCS – 41
2. CTS -26
3. HTS & ACL – 64 (HTS 47 – ACL -17)
4. STEM – 43

9. Discussion – any chan

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