UFT Minutes for month of May, 2007					gal1203@gmail.com 

CS 57 UFT Consultation Committee 
 Attendance: Gary Litt, Larry Sachs, Theresa Ocasio, Christine Butler, Kelley Herrmann,  David Saphra,  Paul Keane, Sarah Tierney
Mr. Philip: 
Mr. Litt: 
Mr. Saphra
Mr. Sachs
Mr. Keane
Ms. Herrmann
Ms. Butler
Ms. Tierney
Ms. Calabrese
1..     Professional Period (6R) activities for 2007-2008
 Mr. Litt: 

Mr. Philip: I’m for it (Professional Period 6R)
Litt: New contract says these are the items teachers will choice from. Item F seems popular w/ teachers. Tuesday I’ll start handing out selection sheets
Mr. Philip: With new teachers PD will be more critical than ever. This is a powerful piece we’re being offered. ATS is coming to an end. There’s a certain amount of paperwork that goes with this.
2.     Cluster / OTP positions for 2007-2008
 L: Everybody please take a look at  Atricle 7 SBO and 
Positiions of staff require an SBO. Dean is one of the positions that we don’t have to have an SBO. We will need to have an SBO on coordinators and staff dev’s. Info I was given at last weeks chapt. Meeting doc’s are due tomorrow.
Mr. Philip: Positions are the same as those we’ve had since Chancellor’s Dist.
Ms. Ocasio: “I want to resign again for the position so that I can reapply for the same position that I had last year.” – still applies
Litt: There was no posting in the circulars for Literacy Coach. 
Mr. Philip: I have the paperwork in here. I’m working on it right now. It’s more complicated. 
L: It’s not a Coach, it’s a Staff Developer postion. There’s a .3 data coordinator that would require SBO, Test Coordinator requires SBO etc.  Art postion, selection criteria must be reflect CITY requirements.
Philip: We’ll change wording so that “preference will be given” to those holding Art liscense.

3.     Budget allowances for equipment: Teachers have asked if classrooms be supplied with dry erase boards and appropriate teacher desks and chairs?
 Litt: Teachers are asking to be provided with setup like FDA has – they want white boards.
Mr. Philip:  That’s a massive amount of money required. Talking at least 25 classrooms, demolition, abatement, contruction. We’re already spending $125 K for auditorium chairs. You don’t want to hang something up that’s going to fall down. I tried to have Panasonic come in w/interactive boards but they refused to come back because of infrastructure complications. Would require $150-175 K to do this. We’ll approach plant manager about doing this. Ideally I would like this as well. I am going to agree whole-heartedly although I’d rather wait for the interactive boards first.
Litt: Could we purchase more of the easel types as a temporary solution?

Mr. Philip: We could buy more of those, that’s not a problem.
Litt: Teachers need more area to write. Also very few classrooms have teacher-sized desks and chairs.
Mr. Philip: We could order for next years
H: How about upgrading our TV’s and VCR’s.
Mr. Philip: Company were dealing with, CAM electronincs lost their license.
H: What about the laptop lab that’s on the 3rd floor
Mr. Philip: We may use the smaller lab for teachers to borrow. People will have to be responsible. There will have to be some level of monitoring. It may be inevitable that we might lose something eventually. But it shouldn’t be within the 1st week.
Library is not a secure area. I will be speaking to Bob about securing lab with Fox locks.

Litt: Is FDA getting more students to account for additional classroom space that’s being claimed by taking over our computer lab.
Philip: If a walk-thru was conducted in our school they would claim that some of our own classrooms are under-utilized as well. In terms of bigger picture – my trade-off is that I’m trying to not have to accommodate new “9 – Zone” classrooms. 
4.     C-30 Process. When will the Assistant Principal vacancy be posted?
Litt: Teachers come to me with the questions of this type. When will AP be posted.

Mr. Philip: We’ll go w/IA and 30 days later start C30 process.

Gary Litt, Larry Sachs, Theresa Ocasio, Christine Butler, Kelley Herrmann,  David Saphra,  Paul Keane, Sarah Tierney 

Agenda
 
1.     Professional Period (6R) activities for 2007-2008
 
2.     Cluster / OTP positions for 2007-2008
 
3.     Budget allowances for equipment: Teachers have asked if classrooms be supplied with dry erase boards and appropriate teacher desks and chairs?
 
4.     C-30 Process. When will the Assistant Principal vacancy be posted?

 Gary Litt, Larry Sachs, Theresa Ocasio, Christine Butler, Kelley Herrmann,  David Saphra,  Paul Keane, Sarah Tierney