“Layoffs Restored” Resolution & Petition Delivery Thursday 5/18 at the Board of Trustees Meeting

On Thursday, May 18, the first round of departments taking action for a fair contract will deliver their Photo Petitions to the Board of Trustees, who at the same meeting will be considering a “Layoffs Restored” resolution submitted by Trustees Susan Solomon, first, and Anita Martinez, second. See the full Resolution here.

Invoking the mission of our college, Trustees Solomon and Martinez highlight the devastating impact of last May’s layoffs and propose a new forward-looking vision of enrollment growth for our college. For too long, CCSF has been in a downward spiral of downsizing. As the Resolution states, “from 2017/2018 to 2021/2022…CCSF suffered an enrollment decline of 43%,” yet “CCSF cut course offerings over that period from 7,877 sections to 4,382 sections which represents a 44% decline in offerings.” As faculty and students in impacted departments know well, the layoffs last May were a continuation of this cycle, and Trustees Solomon and Martinez are calling for a solution.

The first step is to recall the full time tenured and tenure track faculty laid off last May (see Resolution’s conclusion), a move that will allow departments across the college to open new sections as needed, so they can again meet community demand for new skills, better jobs, and hope. This is the path to CCSF’s financial stability and to restoring our mission as a college.

This Resolution marks a new direction for our college, and on Thursday, a contingent of local leaders will join students and faculty from impacted departments to speak in favor of it.

Bargaining and Delegate Assembly Overlap Tuesday, May 16th

On Thursday, your bargaining team was offered another time to negotiate with the District, which conflicts with the last DA meeting of the semester. We’re encouraging all delegates to pivot from attending DA to attending open bargaining from 2-5 pm, MUB 261. If you are unable to attend in person, you can still join the DA meeting via Zoom.  

Submit Parking Reimbursement Requests by May 31

Under your current contract, you are eligible for partial reimbursement of your 2022-2023 parking fees at the Chinatown, Mission, and Downtown Campus. See Mission form here, Chinatown form here, & Downtown form here for more details, and see your Parking Reimbursement Worksheet here.

• Faculty members are eligible to have up to 50% of their parking costs reimbursed until the fund is depleted.

• If there are not sufficient funds to pay for a 50% reimbursement, each faculty member participating in the program will receive the same (lesser) percentage reimbursement.

• Only receipts for parking on assigned working days during the time the faculty member is actually working at the campus (Mission, Chinatown, & Downtown) will be eligible for reimbursement. You must list your teaching/work hours and submit receipts in chronological order for those items.

You have until May 31, 2023 to return your original receipts, worksheets and spreadsheets. There are several ways to get them to us. 1) Alison Datz at Chinatown campus and Carolyn Cox at Mission. 2) Interoffice mail to AFT 2121 3) USPS – AFT 2121, PO Box 951595, San Francisco, CA 94159.

If you have any questions, you can call Wendy Leung 415-585-2121.