Austin Community College Classified Employees Association
General Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, December 14, 1999
HBC Room 201.1 - 12:00 - 1:00 pm

This meeting was dedicated to former Classified employees who are now Professional Technical employees. New Classified officers and Representatives were introduced.

George Sweeney moved to approve the October minutes; Katy Gott seconded. Al Kaiser moved to approve the November minutes: Buddy Rainer seconded.

President Doyen reported on items impacting Classifieds:

1) ACC Board of Trustees Meeting (12/6): 3 Board member positions will be up for elections, May 6th; the Board received the Classified officers' job performance evaluation of President Fonte; at Fonte's request, the Board will look into professional evaluators to review not only the President's performance, but also the accuracy of employee benefits (and into the salary issues which were problems earlier); the use of outside "citizen committees to provide advice to the Board and/or College" will be considered; among the policies up for review in future: "Due-Process Requirements for Employment Termination;" Board members expressed concern that the "24 hours of professional development" will be administered fairly.

2) Classified Officers' Meeting with Fonte (12/9): 2 items per Jackie Poole - Possible in our future: a Classified Emergency Assistance Fund, & a Degree Completion Assistance Fund (Bachelor's degree). 1 item per Mark Goodrich - Fonte is looking into the Classifieds request to have a Campus Police Officer on the Campus Police Task Force.

During the meeting, door prizes were awarded. See http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/acccea for more details.

Elections: Al Kaiser is chair of the election committee. Time line was presented to have new President Elect and Representative in place by February meeting.

Other Committee Reports: 1) T-Shirts - more orders needed. 2) By-Laws - January meeting will focus on By-Laws/Constitution changes. 3) Salary and Benefits - committee is waiting for results of business surveys. 4) Police - draft is being drawn up regarding "stand by time"

Former Classified employees - who are now Professional Technical employees, (Pat Rogers, Luanne Allen, Adriana Autrey) spoke for a few minutes regarding their insight of how the Classified and Professional Technical employees work together and what it takes to move from Classified to Professional Technical.

Respectfully submitted,

Donna Pitts

Next meeting: Tuesday, January 11

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