{"id":73,"date":"2013-04-19T20:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2013-04-19T20:29:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:29:03","slug":"e-communique-vol-ii-no-05","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"e-Communique Vol. II, No. 05"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Peralta Community,<\/div>\n
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Second Tuesday brings the month\u2019s first e-Communiqu\u00e9. Send items and info you\u2019d like to see in this space to\u00a0PFT Communications Director Matthew Goldstein at mgoldstein@peralta.edu.<\/div>\n
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*The Peralta Board of Trustees meets tonight at seven at 333 E. Eighth St. for its only Nov. meeting. Notable agenda items include a public hearing on Local\u00a039\u2019s contract proposal, consideration of a $25K contract extension for employee-investigator Mark Paschal, and a move \u201cto formally enter into an exclusive negotiation agreement (ENA) between the City of Oakland (City) and Peralta Community College District (District) to explore the potential of purchasing the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.\u201d<\/div>\n
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*The\u00a0PFT Executive Council voted unanimously Nov. 4 to condemn the district\u2019s use of Measure A money in connection with any potential purchase of the Kaiser Center.\u00a0PFT\u2019s vote followed anti-Kaiser resolutions from the academic senates at BCC, CoA, and Merritt. With college facilities in need of basic maintenance and repair, faculty are troubled by the administration\u2019s consideration of a risky land deal, particularly in the midst of\u00a0the district financial crisis and a collapsing California real-estate market.<\/div>\n
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*The announcement of three finalists for the top\u00a0PCCD job has done little to quell faculty concerns about the chancellor-search and -selection processes.\u00a0PFT urges the board to approve site visits to the finalists\u2019 home colleges before<\/em> the Nov. 29-30 candidate interviews in the district. If the board doesn\u2019t authorize Nov. site visits,\u00a0the\u00a0PFT Executive Council has formally moved to send\u00a0PFT delegations to the sites, to hold public forums on their findings, and to work with\u00a0SEIU and Local 39 to initiate a no-confidence\u00a0vote in the\u00a0hiring process.\u00a0PFT asks everyone concerned about the future of the district to seek and share information about the three candidates by performing Google searches, contacting colleagues at the relevant campuses, etc. The three finalists are Edna Chun, VP of HR at Broward Community College (Fla.); Lawrence Cox, Provost\/CEO of Compton College (Cal.); and Ed Gould, Superintendant\/President of Imperial Valley College (Cal.).<\/div>\n
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*All Peralta\u00a0board candidates backed by\u00a0PFT\u2019s political action committee (PAC) secured new terms. Abel\u00a0Guill\u00e9n (Area 7), Linda Handy (Area 3), and Bill Riley (Area 5) reclaimed their seats, thanks in no small part to\u00a0PFT PAC support. (Early PAC endorsement helped President\u00a0Guill\u00e9n run unopposed; his name didn\u2019t appear on the ballot.)\u00a0PFT looks forward to strengthening its ties with the trustees, and reaffirms its commitment to pushing them hard\u00a0to get the district on track.<\/div>\n
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*A\u00a0PFT General Membership meeting is set for Thurs., December 9, 3-5 p.m., in Room A-266 at Laney. The meeting, the second of the semester, will focus on getting faculty input on contract proposals to help\u00a0PFT counter the district\u2019s grim wish list of takeaways. Faculty are encouraged to email suggestions for contract items to mgoldstein@peralta.edu.<\/div>\n
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In solidarity,<\/div>\n
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Matthew Goldstein, Communications Director<\/div>\n
Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1603<\/div>\n
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(PFT President Debby\u00a0Weintraub is on vacation. She\u2019ll be back for the next e-Communiqu\u00e9, set to go out Tues., Nov. 23.)<\/div>\n
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For more about PFT\u2014contract information, contacts, downloadable forms, updates, etc.\u2014visit\u00a0pft1603.org or write PFT1603info@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Peralta Community, Second Tuesday brings the month\u2019s first e-Communiqu\u00e9. Send items and info you\u2019d like to see in this space to\u00a0PFT Communications Director Matthew Goldstein at mgoldstein@peralta.edu. *The Peralta Board of Trustees meets tonight at seven at 333 E. Eighth St. for its only Nov. meeting. Notable agenda items include a public hearing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}