CHAPARRAL

This is an important year for the classified staff: it is an election year for the CSEA, and newly elected leaders will set the course of our chapter for the next two years. Being a CSEA officer is a great responsibility. The CSEA Executive Board represents your concerns, opinions and, most importantly, votes on vital college issues on your behalf.

Attendance at the Chapter meetings over the past school year has improved. The more classified employees who participate in shared governance, the better the outcome.

Our focus this year includes assessing our chapter, involving more people in various seminars and workshops offered by the CSEA, planning the time we spend at the negotiation table, and the roles and responsibilities of the negotiation team.

By the time this article is published, many of you will be familiar with the final report on Technical Assistance by the consultants. No, I am not going to share my opinion about consultants’ observations and findings or their recommendations. Certainly, some ground rules should be agreed upon between all parties for the Board of Trustees meetings. There are some other valuable and not so valuable recommendations that all constituent groups will be looking into.

Negotiations are our main concern, because of the uncertainty of the state budget. Further, it is a successor agreement, so updating the contract is the ultimate goal of the CSEA negotiations team.

In Unity,
Saodat Aziskhanova

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