PSC Delegate Assembly 10/21/21 - notes

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PSC Delegate Assembly, October 21, 2021

6:30-9:00

Draft agenda

I Approvals

 Agenda and Minutes for September 23, 2021 meeting

Approved with minor amendments

II President’s report and discussion (including written)

CUNY Budget Request/New Deal for CUNY/October 25, Strategic Action Plan

Issues with Spring Return

• Shout out to the work being done by the anti-bullying committee and the events they put 

  on for Freedom from Bullying week; and to the health and safety committee and the work 

  they’ve done

• CUNY Budget request

• looking pretty good! Include $416 million dollars on top of last year’s enacted budget, 

  much larger increase than previous years. Increase of $300/FTE student for community 

  colleges. 1,075 new FT faculty including 500 conversion lines for adjuncts (from ND4C), 

  tuition freeze, mandatory bargaining, maintenance of effort and capital budget request 

  higher than before. Higher requests for recurring health/safety/maintenance budget. 

• Will this be approved? BoT approval is first step. But, for the first time in a while, 

  we’re actually aligned with CUNY on some key points.

• ND4C - in addition to CUNY budget hoping for stuff in executive budget. It’s not contract 

  but does affect us. Includes free tuition for undergraduate. The need for this is evident in new 

  study that shows dramatic divergence between FT faculty/student ration between SUNY and 

  CUNY.

• October 25 action at BoT meeting - hybrid. In person and online. Make sure they know 

  we’re here and we’re strong as they decide on budget request. 

• Strategic Action Plan - being rolled out in draft form to get feedback from various levels of 

  PSC structure. Focused on what we need to do, benchmarks etc. build organizing capacity - 

  campus action team.

• No surveillance testing yet

• 70/30 mandate on return to campus for teaching

• HyFlex implementation - PSC filed a university-wide grievance and convened a working group.

• Q&A: CUNY is getting campuses to take down ventilation data if they’ve posted it on their sites.

III Treasurers Report

August Financials

Budget Proposal for 2021-22

Passes. Dues discrepancy is due to not getting our contractual wage increase until Oct.

Renee leaving and Naomi Z retiring. Budget has to reflect payouts for them. Budget approved for 

next year. Some raised having a discussion about whether our affiliations are worth the cost. 

BREAK

V Legislative Update (written)

From the written report: “October 26 at 7:00pm PSC will hold a Zoom briefing with the New York 

City Central Labor Council’s political director regarding the five ballot initiatives on the November ballot 

and New York State Redistricting proposals. Here is more information and a link to sign up.”

“General Election phone banks: On October 13th we held a phone bank for Staten Island Mark Murphy 

for Borough President and Olivia Drabczyk, the Democratic nominee for the 51st City Council District. 

On October 20th we had a phone bank for Felicia Singh and Lynn Schulman in the 32nd and 29th City 

Council Districts in Queens. We are planning an additional phone bank for October 27th”

VI Executive Director’s report (written)

Announced elections on various chapters

IV Revision of PSC Procedures for EC and DA Resolutions

Proposal from the Executive Council

[the resolution is posted on our chapter blog] the debate in the DA built on a long and involved 

debate on the DA listserv about whether postponing debate on a resolution was a way of quashing it, 

which approach allowed for more organizing and mobilization in chapters, did the change in the 

conditions a resolution should meet place undue burdens etc. A substantial amendment was 

proposed that the resolution be distributed to members directly by the EC. After some debate, 

there was a motion to table the resolution that passed by a large margin.

VII Committee Report Note: this was swapped on the schedule with the previous item

Anti Bullying Committee—report on anti-bullying month

Gave a detailed report with tons of great information. Here’s their website link and will be hosting 

a book club on Mondays at 6:30pm for 5 weeks: Nov 15, 22, 29; Dec 13, 20 Book to purchase:

  Bully Free at Work (eBook version) by Valerie Cade. To sign up, email Amy Jeu, Representative of the 

PSC Anti-Bullying Committee at amyjeu@gmail.com

VIII Unfinished and New Business

A motion to unstable the resolution on resolutions was introduced and then withdrawn.

IX Adjourn