RA meeting minutes, 10-25-2016, posted 10-28-2016

To: WIS Faculty

From: Joy Grabar

Here are my notes from the RA Meeting, 10-25-2016.

Please see the HSTA bulletin board for the hard copy information.

HSTA Hilo Chapter Representative Assembly (RA) Meeting

Kea’au High School Library

5:00 – 6:30 pm

October 25, 2016

I.              Call to order

II.            Guest Speaker: Brenda Shiroma, HSTA VEBA Trust

III.          Approval of Minutes

IV.          Reports

A.             President, Dawn Raymond and Board Director, Val De Corte

1.              Please see handout on bulletin board: Hilo Chapter President’s Message, October RA 2016

2. Hand out: HSTA HYPE “Degrees, not debt program”

3. Board Meeting

4. See HSTA Core organizers for 2016-2017 handout

Hilo Chapter is looking for school level members to “be trained so they can help support state centered, chapter specific organizing activities and events,  especially the efforts around contract negotiations and legislative efforts.”  The objective of the is group is to “fully engage all of our members at every school and worksite; and supplement the work of the HSTA field staff.” We are looking for interested teachers.

B.             Treasurer

1.              Treasure’s Report

See handout on bulletin board:  Treasurer’s Report for RA Meeting: 10/25/16

C.             Charter, Bylaws, and Resolutions Committee (CBR), – Karen Kohagura and Cheney Kaku

1.              State Convention in March 2017

a. See brochure on bulletin board: How to Make A Difference

b. See handout on bulletin board: Time line for Handling Proposals of Amendments, Resolutions, and New Business Items for the 2017 Convention for dates

D.             Membership – Debra Borges and Edwin Kagawa and Gail Enriques

1.              Current membership: 1207 HSTA members (AC Active members)

2.         60 non-members (FP means Fee Payers)

3.         New Teachers Dinner: 95% of new teachers are interested in

Professional Dev. Courses,Retirement, and HYPE (paying off debts)

E.              Elections – Lynn Kashinoki and Kerinne Smith

1. Hilo Chapter Vacancies:

HSTA State Convention Delegate

NEA RA Chapter Delegate

2. State Vacancies:

                                    NEA RA State Delegate

F.              Teacher Institute – Christopher Ho

1. See handout on bulletin board: October RA Report Institute Committee

2. Date of Teacher Institute Day: February 16, 2017

3. Agenda:

Registration and Elections

General Session— Negotiations, from Osa

                                                Panel Discussions

                                                What do you want to know about your contract?

Workshop I

Brunch

Workshop II

Content Groupings

(Vendors in the cafeteria)

G.             Negotiations – Aaron Kubo and Evette Tampos

1. See handout on bulletin board: HSTA Goals and Priorities for Negotiations  and Updates in Negotiations

2. Negotiations Team will meet with Employers Team on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016

3. Goals and Priorities (based on data collected from the survey):

Substantial Pay Increases

                        -Address salary schedule compression

- supplemental pay

-Class VII movement

-Hard to Staff areas

Health Care Costs – increase employer contribution

Leaves – Expand Benefits

Teacher preparation and Collaboration

                        -increase time

-SPED specific time

Class size – work to decrease ratios

SPED teaching conditions

Teacher Say/Voice

-Academic and Financial Plan

-Bell Schedule

-Evaluation of Students (grading)

Assignment and Transfer

Teacher Evaluation and Support

H.             Uniserve Report – Rae Yamanaka

Please see handout on bulletin board: HILO UniServ Report, Volume 9, Number 2