Meeting of the NASE Executive Board
Tuesday, April 4, 4:00
Ryan Road School – Room 200
APPROVED 5/2/2023
Download minutes here
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