Meeting of the NASE Executive Committee

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 4:00

JFK Community Room

APPROVED 1/9/2024

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In Attendance: (26 participants)

Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Sharon Carlson, Laura St.Pierre, Ryan Parent, Jamie Lawrence, Kira Henninger, Kim Bowler, Hana Zayatz, Daria Steward, Danielle Kowal, Sara Churchill-Winsor, Veronica Douglas, Harrison Wallace, Karen Schiaffo, Erica Lamanna, Paula Rigano-Murray, Jennifer Hayden, Sara Simmons, Brian Bagdon, Nick Richert, Laila Copperansky, Sandy Bombard, Tammy LaChance, Kate Fontaine, Andrea Egitto, Helen Woods,

 

Excused:

Mark Baldwin, 

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:01 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order – Check in

 

Item II: New Business

• None at this time

 

Item III: Secretary’s Report

• Title to be changed to “Executive Committee” from “Executive Board”

MOTION: to accept the Secretary’s Report with amendment

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Sharon

Seconded by: Jennifer

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item IV:  Sub-Committees and PAL

• Volunteers are needed for:

• Social Committee
• Scholarship Committee
• Bylaws Committee
• Snacks – each building sign-up

 

Item V: Treasurer’s report – budget for FY24

MOTION: to accept the Treasurer’s Report 

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Paula

Seconded by: Kim

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item VI: Membership update

• 60 outstanding members overall
• 7 new members from last membership update
• Do have 8 new hires as of now

 

Item VII: NPS Budget season – Ten minute meetings in each building.

• The sneak peek was worse than bleak, worse have seen in a very long time
  • Mayor received a raise of 36% ($70,000)
• FY24 = $37,765,747 total budget and minusing the 1.2 million (was 1 x fund – not continuing to fund this for this year and moving forward) – 36,565,747; anticipated budget of FY25 = $42,897,127

• • Reporting will be needing 4% increase minus $1.2 million from the bailout from last year
    • This is less than what we need! $4.8 million budget gap!

• Thursday, December 15th at 6:30pm school committee meeting → please show up!!

• Read the language in your unit for the reduction in force in the contracts!!

• Show up to school committee meetings!!!

• • • Coming in person is more impactful. If you can’t join Zoom! SHOW UP!
    • Each school should sign up to go to a school committee meeting
    • Share out budget cuts are coming, not in writing → “Pay attention to the budget!” and “Watch the budget!” and “Show up to budget meetings!” 

• Document for strategy and talking points to support the schools (Thanks Kira!)

• Shared from Superintendent Budget Reporting out:
  • Central Office proposed cuts = $135,857
    • Reduce clerk position from 35 hours to 28 hours per week
    • Reduce another clerk from full time to half time (40,000)
    • Transportation $6,400
    • Reduce General Fund support of Cafe $23,000
    • SE clerical hours $9,700
    • Custodian uniforms $3,800
    • Extraordinary maintenance $10,000
    • PD $15,000
    • PD contracts $5,000
  • JFK proposed cuts = about $245,000
    • .5 PTE
    • 2 FTE
    • 1 FTE coach ESSER
    • Tech integration specialist (retiring and now being replaced)
  • Bridge Street proposed cuts = about $197,000
    • 1 para
    • 1 FTE TSS
    • 1 interventionist
    • 1 title 1 reading (.8 instead of 1.0)
  • Jackson Street proposed cuts = about $261,000
    • 3 FTE teachers
    • 1 para
    • Not adding a planned SAC
  • Leeds proposed cuts = about $245,000
    • 2 SE teacher
    • 1 teacher
    • 1 para
    • .5 library para
  • Ryan Road proposed cuts = about $134,00
    • 1 Para
    • .5 para
    • 1 SE teacher
    • Reducing a building sub
  • NHS proposed cuts = about $336,000
    • 3 teachers
    • 1 adjustment counselor

Item VIII: NHS Safety

• Freshman were not being held accountable in the beginning of the room and now is spreading throughout the entire school
• 4 shelter in place in the last 3 days as well as cops called
• No suspensions as of this moment
• Superintendent has not been in the building
• A grievance has been written and is being filed as of 12/12/2023 morning on behalf of all of Unit A and Unit C

Item IX: Adjourn

MOTION: to adjourn.

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Sara

Seconded by: Veronica

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Upcoming meetings:

January 2, Executive Board meeting – 4:00, Ryan Road School

January 3, NASE meeting with NPS superintendent

January 9, Executive Committee Meeting – 4:00 JFK Community Room – BSS brings snacks

SAVE THE DATE – Wednesday April 24, 2024 – NASE Annual Meeting – 3:30 Snacks, 4:00 Meeting

 

Membership Coordinator Report for EC Meeting 12/12/23 

• 538 NASE members for all 8 units
• 6 New members in November
  • Unit A=1
  • Unit C=2
  • Unit E=1
  • Unit F=2

2 joined from Staff that weren’t already members (NHS & JSS)   Now 60 outstanding

4 out of 15 new hires joined (JSS, NHS & JFK)

Thank you to Executive Committee members for your work welcoming and supporting staff.

Karen Schiaffo

NASE Membership Coordinator 

RKF/RR School Nurse & Building Delegate

schiaffo89@gmail.com

413-320-3608 

12/12/23

 

Meeting of the NASE Executive Board

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Room 200, Ryan Road Elementary School

APPROVED 12/5/2023

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In Attendance: (12 participants)

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

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:08 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order and New Business

• Mandatory trainings were awful and took very long which was hard to complete for many members by the due date
  • This has to be changed to be more effective for the various units and time requirements (4-5 hours)
  • The information slides are not easily reached
• Crossing guards are wanting to be part of the union → is this a possibility
  • Ask Jason how to proceed with this
    • Idea to bring to Jason: Could we make a separate transportation unit with bus drivers, monitors and crossing guards?
• At the high school the door alarms are constantly going off from students coming in and out and there seems to not be any follow up consequences to such students
• .6 employees do get a full lunch and prep time
• Brian keep a look out for the the Unit F retropay snow days
• No movement on the possible COVID MOA with the Superintendent

Item II: Secretary’s Report

MOTION: to accept the Secretary’s Report 

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Cyndie

Seconded by: Karen

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item III: Treasurer’s report

• Budget for FY24

• Dues chart

MOTION: to accept the Treasurer’s Report

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Karen

Seconded by: Tammy

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item IV: 504 Coordinator position

• Unit A and President will talk about this before the meeting with the Superintendent

Item V: Collecting signatures & update on Test the Test

• Signature Pages
  • You have to use the actual petition pages – NOT photocopied
  • Each member get 5 signatures including oneself
  • Bring your signature pages to the next EC meeting 10/10
• Test the Test Update
  • Will now be a do the test with a shared link, no longer an in person event
  • The link has been shared out

Item VI: Adjourn

MOTION: to adjourn.

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Kate

Seconded by: Cyndie

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Upcoming meetings:

October 4, NASE meeting with NPS superintendent

October 10, Executive Committee meeting 4:00 – JFK Community room

November 7, Executive Board meeting – 4:00, Ryan Road School

November 8, NASE meeting with NPS superintendent

November 14, Executive Committee meeting 4:00- JFK Community Room

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