Archives for 2023

Meeting of the NASE Executive Committee

Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 4:00

APPROVED 11/14/2023

JFK Community Room

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In Attendance: (28 participants)

Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Hana Zayatz, Tammy Cook, Harrison Wallace, Danielle Kowal, Laura St. Pierre, Sara Simmons, Veronica Douglas, Sara Churchill-Winsor, Mareatha Wallace, Jennifer Hayden, Karen Schiaffo, Heather Brown, Andrea Egitto, Kate Fontaine, Kim Bowler, Kevin Schmith, Mark Baldwin, Laila Copperansky, Nick Richert, Leslie Skantz-Hodgson, Cyndie Ouimette, Sharon Carlson, Paula Rigano Murray, Daria Steward, Brian Bagdon, Jeromie Whalen, Jamie Lawrence

 

Excused:

Sandy Bombard, Helen Woods, Ellen Brown, Tammy LaChance

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:05 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order & Check in

 

Item II: New Business

• Would like to have a policy or actions around racial discrimination and bullying that is separate/own thing from the current policy
• Don’t forget to look over and give feedback on the bullying policy that was shared out from the Superintendent
• Would like to discuss workman’s comp and using sick days when an educator/staff gets hurt or injured on the job
  • This is something on the list for the next negotiations period
• 2 math teachers, math interventionists, curriculum director and special education coordinator meeting around curriculum 
  • shared that math instruction will move to a scripted curriculum and will happen with ELA in the next year

Meeting of the NASE Executive Committee

Tuesday, September 12, 4:00

JFK Community Room

APPROVED 10/10/2023

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In Attendance: (28 participants)

Veronica Douglas, Jennifer Hayden, Kira Henninger, Karen Schiaffo, Kevin Schmith, Jamie Lawrence, Hana Zayatz, Daria Steward, Sara Simmons, Carrie Foley, Cyndie Ouimette, Leslie Skantz-Hodgson, Ryan Parent, Laila Copperansky, Erica Lamanna, Laura St. Pierre, Helen Woods, Tammy LaChance, Erica Caron, Andrea Egitto, Ellen Brown, Paula Rigano Murray, Brian Bagdon, Jeromie Whalen, Sharon Carlson, Heather Brown, Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Nick Richert

 

Excused:

Mark Baldwin, Sandy Bombard, Kim Bowler, Mareatha Wallace

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:04 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order 

• Welcome to new Officers and Chapter Coordinators and Delegates!

 

Item II: New Business

• None at this time

 

Item III: Secretary’s Report

• Vacancies are up to date

MOTION: to accept the Secretary’s Report

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Sharon

Seconded by: Paula

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item IV: Sub-Committees and PALs

Meeting of the NASE Executive Board

Tuesday,  June 13, 4:00

JFK – Community Room – JFK and JSS brings snacks

APPROVED 9/12/2023

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In Attendance: (28 participants)

Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Heather Brown, Erica Caron, Ellen Brown, Erica Lamanna, Helen Woods, Jennifer Hayden, Paula Rigano-Murray, Sandy Bombard, Sara Simmons, Sharon Carlson, Susan Rees, Veronica Douglas, Karen Schiaffo, Mareatha Wallace, Kate Fontaine, Daria Steward, Laila Copperansky, Kira Henninger, Jamie Lawrence, Kevin Schmith, Brian Bagdon, Cyndie Ouimette, Deirdre Johnson, Ryan Parent, Tammy LaChance

 

Heather calls the meeting to order at 4:02pm.

 

Item I:  Call to Order 

• Welcome to new delegates and make introductions
  • Tammy LaChance from JFK
• Review delegate vacancies
  • 2 at BSS
  • 1 at JFK
  • 1 at JSS 
  • 3 at Leeds 
  • 2 at NHS
  • 2 at Ryan Road
  • Full at SVAHS 
  • 1 at Clerical
  • 1 at custodial 
  • Have no cafeteria delegates

 

Item II: New Business

School Committee passed Resolution on the Thrive A

Meeting of the NASE Executive Board

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Room 200, Ryan Road Elementary School

APPROVED 10/3/2023

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In Attendance: (11 participants)

Andrea Egitto, Karen Schiaffo, Paula Rigano-Murray, Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Erica Lamanna, Sara Churchill-Winsor, Kim Bowler, Brian Badgon, Kate Fontaine, Cyndie Ouimette, Heather Brown,

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:05 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order and New Business

• Leeds OT doing 3 programming (Leeds, Leeds Preschool, JFK) as a .9 and has 50 kids on her caseload. She can’t fit all of her caseload into her schedule. The other elementary OTs only have 2 programming, 2 programming or 1 programming. She is meeting with Celeste about this 9/5 → Kate will follow up with OT around how this meeting with Celeste went
• New 2nd floater position was cut with the budget
• First Wednesday of each month will be with the Superintendent Dr.Bonner to be open to join
• Retroactive snow pay communication for the 10-12 members needed, a janitorial meeting was discussed with Dr.Bonner around this issue and will be followed up on
• Could not get para orientation negotiated in the contract → NHS has 7 new paras who lacked NHS knowledge. Paula was able to talk with them for 20 minutes. NHS principal is going to budget with the budget to pay paras half day for a para orientation. 
  • Paula was able to get all 7 to sign up as members!!
  • Thoughts that Erica and Paula will run this
• Are staff having concerns around the COVID policy and the lack of response to this? Still currently no health office leader. Questions on COVID direct to BSS nurse
• People are reporting that they don’t want to test because they do not want to use 5 of their sick days for their 5 COVID out days. The COVID policy is not clear for the 23-24 school year

Meeting of the NASE Executive Board

Tuesday,  April 4, 4:00

Ryan Road School – Room 200

APPROVED 5/2/2023

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In Attendance: (13 participants)

Andrea Egitto, Karen Schiaffo, Paula Rigano-Murray, Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Tammy Cook, Sharon Carlson, Erica Lamanna, Brian Bagdon, Sara Churchill-Winsor, Kim Bowler, Cyndie Ouimette, Heather Brown, Kate Fontaine, Tammy 

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:02 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order 

• Check-in

 

Item II: New Business

• Working on snow day retro for snow day pay → some have received the retro pay and some have not, unsure as to why, the superintendent and business office is fighting this
  • Thought is to file a grievance with past practice around this, then to make an MOA around the language for pay for snow days
• Brian emailed Sara around the vacation pay issues
  • Moving forward with grievance 
• Rumors with the budget cuts that non-student facing members to be cut and that is worrisome
• Health insurance from GIC was told to change plans since it looks out of the area → Tammy has reached out to Chad around this problem and will continue to work on this
• Sick bank question: What is the process and do people get denied? If this is for a sick family member can this work? → Will need to do FMLA and can ask superintendent to ask to use personal sick time for family member
• SVAHS have not received the negotiations stipends from 2022 → will send a list to Sharon to have this processed
• Andrea and Heather met with the mayor on Monday 4/3 around the school budget concerns and issues for the upcoming fiscal year
• Political Action Liaison (PAL) issues → questioning Hellen Woods and Veronica Douglas are appointed and shared out to MTA, confirmed that Hellen Woods and Veronica Douglas are our PALs

Item III: Secretary’s Report

MOTION: to accept the secretary’s report

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Sharon

Seconded by: Kate

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item IV: Treasurer’s report – budget for FY23

MOTION: to accept the treasurer’s report 

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Paula

Seconded by: Tammy

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item V: NASE End of year party

• All-In grant ready for the end of the year social asking for $5,000 → will be submitted with Heather and Andrea to be CC’d on the application
• Possible dates → 1st Choice: Thursday, June 15th  2nd Choice: Wednesday, June 14th

 

Item VI: NPS Budget 

• Heather and Andrea met with the mayor on Monday around the budget with doing another $100,000 per building
• Trip to Boston had about 30 people ready to go → the hearing was canceled and will be rescheduled
  • Most likely to go out in a date in May
  • MTA will fund a bus, a room, and lunch with support/guide on a plan when at the state house
• If the mayor does not increase then need to work on school committee to lobby the higher budget
• If the mayor does increase then need to work on the legislature 

• Members please communicate budget needs at city council meetings as well as with the mayor
• Members please communicate budget needs at the legislature level for chapter 70 funding for Northampton as well as around the Fair Share Amendment funding

 

Item VII: NASE Annual Meeting

• MTA Annual Meeting: Currently at 8 delegates going → would love to get 4 more delegates to go
  • Sara and Vanessa will be joining to make 10 total
• NASE scholarship updates → 9 applicants, the committee will meet this week to select the 4 who will get the scholarship
• Bylaws change was talked about at the EC meeting → FOR THE FUTURE: a committee at the beginning of the year should meet and work on earlier in the year
• NASE Annual meeting at JFK → need snacks to be brought
  • Tammy Cook, Sara Churchill-Winsor volunteered to do
• NASE Annual meeting at JFK → ballot forms will have names who are already nominated and 1 or 2 empty lines for write ins

 

Item VIII: Smith Voc update

• Started the budget meeting 4/4
• Contract is signed and in paper form → waiting for it to be shared out and posted

 

Item IX: Adjourn

MOTION: to adjourn.

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Cindy

Seconded by: Sharon

Motion Approved: unanimously