Board pushed into earlier settlement
CCC faculty storms board meetin
Clackamas Community College faculty
members stormed the Oct. 12 board of educa
tion meeting with hopes of pushing the board
and their negotiating team into immediate
bargaining over recent salary disputes.
Their strategy worked.
Wearing buttons inscribed with "Not This
Time," approximately 50 faculty members
squeezed into the Barlow Board Room,
causing chairperson Anne Nickel to call for
an immediate executive session to consider
the faculty's demands.
The board reconvened their meeting later
with several board members also having
donned "Not This Time" buttons. They
continued their regular meeting while the
faculty met for three hours at another
location in Barlow to carry on negotiations
with Mike Montgomery, board attorney, and
the board negotiating team.
The board and the faculty reached a final
settlement last Tuesday.
(See story on
page 1).
In other business, handicapped persons in
Clackamas County stand to lose proposed
counseling and resource assistance unless CCC
stands behind the Handicapped Resource
Center Project and is willing to commit up to
$32,000 in 1978, said Pat Lantz, chair
person of the CCC Division of Health, P.E.
and Human Services.
"We are prepared to handle the problem
for no more than the rest of this year," Lantz
said. "We can get by with a niche, but will
need future building -- not a temporary
structure -- with more space, access, to the
core area of the college and restrooms
accessible to handicapped persons."
Lantz noted that federal grant funds are
not available to institutions which do not
meet with these specifications.
A proposed annual budget was presented
by Lantz and Don Fisher.
CCC facilities development officer,!
for $32,000 support from CCC, which!
cover costs of an 800-square-foot stn
southwest of McLoughlin.
Dr. John Hakanson, CCC preside!
quested time to explore possible resotra
funds besides the college contingency!
The board indicated full support fol
proposed Handicapped Resource Of
which will become an action item]
In other action, the board heard a poj
outside agency report from Sherry M
and Gail Spitze, representing the Conffl
clinic which meets on CCC campus,I
clinic is a 12-week, county-wide progra
individuals experiencing a transition
divorce, separation, etc.
Hakanson presented for discussiona|
posed budget guideline and calendar
Gary Dirrim, director of fiscal affairs,
posed purchasing Xerox equipment«
leasing it.
Classified employees reject proposal
factfinders report termed 'unacceptable'
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Classified employes heartily rejected a
factfinder's report proposing a total salary
and benefit increase of 8.2 per cent as being
unacceptable and non-competitive with other
community colleges at a membership meeting
Oct. 19 at Clackamas Community College.
Peter Schmidt, State Conciliator Board
factfinder, included .11 per cent life insurance
costs and .82 per cent long term disability
costs, which brings the total package proposal
to 9.13 per cent.
This means a 3.69 per cent cost of living
increase for CCC classified employes, as
compared to a metropolitan average of 8.2
per cent increase.
Kristy Kofsky, president of Local 2832 of
the American Federation of State and County
Employes (AFSCME),called the offer totally
unacceptable.
"We didn't expect him (Schmidt) to
figure in increment. It's usually automatic.
And we expected something comparable to
the local cost of living increase average,"
Kofsky said.
AFSCME leaders drew up another proposal
at an Oct. 18 meeting to present at future
negotiations, which will take place sometime
after AFSCME notifies the State Conciliator
Board of their rejection of the factfinder's
proposal, within five days of receiving the
factfinding report, Kofsky said that the
employes are not anticipating a strike situa-
tion and do not want to strike.
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"But, a lot of employes are very aniM
We're really tired of these hassles,"
said.
"Our high turnover in personnel^
show there's something wrong with ouri
scale here. The college fails to recognize
pay scale is the reason for the high turnon
Accordingto Kofsky,of theapproxinl
136 classified employes at CCC, 38 per
are new hirees since January of 1977J
These employes, hired up to July of'
year, will receive no increment step]
thereby entitling them to a $25 gross«
increase for the coming year, or the 3,6!|
cent cost of living increase.
ASG considers future entertainment
"We need to consider that apathy toward
ASG is due to specific things," said Barbara
St. Mary, ASG publicity director. "It needs
a facelift and to change the quality of enter
tainment and culture and to get a hold of the
student body and make them recognize stu
dent government."
The idea was presented to have Double T
Productions, a promotion agency in Port
land, book events at CCC. They would ar
range for all the acts, pay them, see to
publicity and other arrangements for 90
per cent of the profit. CCC would receive
10 per cent for the use of their facilities.
"The system with Double T is a good
thing," said Maureen Kearney, ASG business
manager.
"It would get people more in
volved with campus life."
"We don't have much campus life here
like they do at Mt. Hood and four-year
schools," Kearney said. "I think we're too
far away from serving the college-we put
too much emphasis on the community."
It was unanimously decided that ASG
sponsor one more dance and if it is un
successful then a definite decision will be
made as to what to do with the remaining
money specifically set aside for dances.
In other business, ASG discussed changes
in the 1978-79 budget to be approved at
today's meeting and heard a report from
St. Mary on the Oct. 12 CCC Board of
Education meeting.
concern over whether or not there shl
be any more dances.
The quality of future entertainment at
Clackamas Community College was one of
the main concerns of the Associated Student
Government at last Thursday's meeting.
After the Upepo dance which according
to Hallie Brown, ASG activities director, was
notan overwhelming success, there was some
"If were spending money on someth!
that is not benefiting the whole stud
body, why should we spend it?" said Mi
Newton, ASG senator.
Another concern was how to get C
recognized as an important campus by!
students.
Make them an offer they cannot refuse
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