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Use the links to the right to view faculty responses to District reductions in hourly assignments and other related communications.



 
 

Budget Crisis


Advocacy - legislator contact list, sample letters    
AFA Dialogue - "Where's the Tentative Agreement?; Rank 10 & the Budget Crisis" 5/11/09 (252 KB)
AFA Update - " SRJC at a Crossroads:Budget Woes; Background Info about Faculty Benefits" 4/09/09 (312 KB)
Assemblymember Noreen Evans, Chair - Budget Presentation 10/13/09 (1.9 MB)
CCLC (Community College League of California) Budget Information pdf 6/03/09 (244 KB)
CCLC (Community College League of California) official website - state budget's local impact    
Email - follow up from AFA President, "AFA Budget Issues Update #8" 8/13/09 (68 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA Chief Negotiating Ofcr, "AFA Budget Issues Update #7" 8/5/09 (44 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA President, "AFA Budget Issues Update #6" 7/29/09 (60 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA Chief Negotiating Ofcr, "AFA Budget Issues Update #5" 7/22/09 (40 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA President, "AFA Budget Issues Update #4" 7/14/09 (68 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA Chief Negotiating Ofcr, "AFA Budget Issues Update #3" 7/07/09 (44 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA Chief Negotiating Ofcr, "AFA Budget Issues Update #2" 6/30/09 (60 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA President, "AFA Budget Issues Update #1" 6/23/09 (68 KB)
Email - follow up from AFA President, "Hourly Assignments and the Fall Schedule Reduction" 6/16/09 (76 KB)
FACCC (Faculty Assoc. for Calif. Community Colleges) response to recommended state cuts    
FACULTY COMMENTS - response to District reduction in hourly assignments 7/23/09 (--- KB)
MOU Article 16: Cancellation or Amendment of Instructional Hourly Assignments 6/15/09 (124 KB)
Survey Results - Spring 2009 Negotiations and Faculty Benefits    

May 21, 2009
Colleagues--

     As a result of the Governor's May 14 proposed budget revision and the resulting cuts to the District's State funding for both this year and next, the District has decided this week to reduce the Summer and Fall schedules a total amount equivalent to 18% of the present Fall schedule.  The reductions will be coming from the hourly assignments. These cuts represent approximately one-third of all Fall hourly assignments.  As far as we know, no Department or Cluster has  
been given a specific goal for reduction. The District plans to issue the guidelines for making these cuts to the Fall Schedule of classes next week.

      AFA agrees that the financial emergency is both acute and authentic. Our role in the process is to:

    • Preserve programs and services for students,
    • Assure that particular cuts are necessary, and
    • Uphold faculty rights under Article 16.
      AFA acknowledges that the District has the right to reduce or modify the schedule as stated in the Contract (16.07 A--D). The decision to reduce the Fall 2009 Schedule of Classes will have serious implications for students, departments, programs, and individual instructors.  AFA intends to protect the rights of all faculty during this crisis.

      The AFA Negotiation Team is engaged in ongoing discussions with the District. We will try to keep you updated as more details become available. In the meantime, please stay in contact with your department chair or supervising administrator. This will be especially important for those who have hourly assignments.

Janet McCulloch
Chief Negotiator, All Faculty Association

Warren Ruud
President, All Faculty Association

Ann Herbst
Conciliation/Grievance Officer, All Faculty Association

 
  Phone: 707⁄527–4731 FAX: 707⁄524–1762 Last Update: 11/03/09