PFT\u00a0apologizes for the summertime shoptalk, but a quick update seemed in order. Tip: print this email and take it with you to the beach.<\/p>\n
*At its July 17 meeting, held at Club Montero\u2019s in Albany, the Peralta Board of Trustees approved a gaggle of new administrators: Calvin Madlock, Assoc. VC for IT, District Office; Debbie Budd, interim president, and Lilia Celhay, categorical dean, BCC; Steven Cohen, Exec. VP, and\u00a0Inger Stark, math and sciences dean, Laney; and\u00a0Dettie Del Rosario, interim business manager, Merritt. Trustees also voted to reclassify Jennifer Seibert, formerly benefits director, as benefits manager. The board won\u2019t meet again until Sep. 11.<\/p>\n
*PFT\u2019s Committee on Political Education will interview Nicky\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez Yuen (Area 4, Berkeley) and Bill\u00a0Withrow (Area 1, Alameda),\u00a0PCCD trustees who hope to keep their seats after the Nov. general election. The Q & A is set for Th., July 26, 2:30-4 p.m., at the\u00a0PFT offices, 500 E. Eighth St., Ste. B.\u00a0PFT COPE members are urged to attend.<\/p>\n
*The district has issued checks for both parity pay and retro pay, the latter for part-timers who hadn\u2019t been properly advanced on the pay schedule.\u00a0PFT worked hard to secure the distribution of these monies to faculty, and would like to acknowledge in particular\u00a0the vigilance of\u00a0PFT Diversity Chair\u00a0Janell Hampton and\u00a0PFT Labor Representative Sara Connors\u2014and the efforts of staff in the HR and payroll offices\u2014in seeing that the $500K in retro checks got out.\u00a0PFT also thanks the many part-timers who called\u00a0PFT’s attention to the retro-pay issue and advocated so effectively on their own\u00a0behalf.<\/p>\n
The union\u2019s regular publications\u2014the e-Communiqu\u00e9,\u00a0PCCD Board Watch, and the Peralta Teacher\u2014will return in fall. Until then, follow\u00a0PFT on Twitter @PFT1603, and like it on Facebook, too.<\/p>\n