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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
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