001Mr. Chavez, if you lead us, please. Hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Um yeah right all members are present. Um since we have an audience I will read this today. A personnel commission meeting is a business meeting of the commissioners held in a public forum to comply with the Brown Act. This is an opportunity for citizens to make suggestions and identify concerns about matters on the agenda or other classified personnel matters. Um okay where we go or suggest topics for future agendas. Those in person attendees wishing to address the commission are invited to fill out a request to speak card and present it to the secretary prior to
002this portion of the agenda. Individuals will be addressing the full commission, not individual commissioners, and shall be asked to stand whenever possible while presenting their comments. For the record, any individual addressing the commission shall first state their full name. The commission has policy limiting speakers to no more than three minutes. All right. So, we do have speaker this evening, but we did have a card that we'll get there in a second. Um, commissioner reports. Mr. Sid, what's that? Commissioner reports. You got anything to report, sir? No. Okay, Mr. G, just want to report that we had two good uh conferences last month. One in our NAFTA and one in Cerritos. We all learned a lot at these conferences and hopefully we could implement some things we learned into our commission. And uh also want to
003say congratulations to Maria for being named the employee of the month last month. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. There we go. Um just to piggy back on Mr. G, I was able to attend the one in Critos and I found it to be actually very very good. The venue is always nice, you know, that's kind of a neat little setting. Um, way too many people to vote for me and um, but the information was really, really good. Really good. Um, Mr. Yeah. So, in the last month, we have I know we voted on someus. Um I've I've missed the last meeting so I'm trying to think which one specifically but we have been moving forward with someus um closing out the 2425 negotiation year. So we agreed on those. Our TAs came back so
004we'll be bringing those to our meeting this month. Um our secretary is getting her feet wet on um she had her first meeting last month. So, um, getting her feet wet and learning all the trades of, you know, all the skills and things needed to be secretary. We've had, um, some leadership in the big CSEA world, um, some leadership things that have been going on, um, conferences and things like that. So, good information to be bringing back to our membership. We've had some complaints and some grievances we've been working through. Um, and then we have end of the year coming up, so people getting ready to uh start summer school things and stuff like that soon. Um, opportunities are out there, so they're, you know, signing up for those and things like that. So, other
005than that, we do we did a survey for um our initial proposal, I'm sorry, our successor proposal for um contract negotiations for 2526. So negotiations team will be meeting soon to decide what articles we want to open and what within those articles we want to negotiate. Um this is our contract successor year. So our whole contract is open. Um we'll do for three years. So this this current contract ends June 30th and our new one will be July 1, but of course we're going to have some crossover time. So this one will stay in effect until we get the new one. Um, but we will be negotiating for a three-year contract. So, that's coming up soon. Other than that, Julie, can you think of anything that I need to specify? Conference delegates. Oh, conference delegates.
006We have Thank you. We did vote on conference delegates. See, it's good that your HR tech is one of my There you go. Exactly. I kn I knew the tie. So, um, conference delegates have been voted on. Our conference this year is actually a week earlier than usual. It's usually the last week of July, first week of August um or first couple days of August. This year it's actually the week of the 20th to the 25th. So um and it is in Reno again this year. So um and Julie is one of our delegates um that was uh voted in. So she will be needing that time off. So just a heads up. Uh but yeah, so we are actually sending four, which is the max that we're allowed to send this year. So we'll
007be sending four and we have two alternates just in case. Um and then they'll be bringing back that information um to the membership and we'll be getting the resolutions next month. So we'll know there's only two on the table. Um and the resolutions are basically what within CSEA on the larger chapter on on the larger scale um that we're going to change within like our bylaws and constitution and stuff on the larger scale which can trickle down to the chapters at the local levels for any changes that would be needed. So that's it for now then. Yeah, that's it for now. We're just waiting for registration for conference to open so we can get those registered and then once we get them registered for the conference that opens up the housing and then everything has
008to triple staff. So that's it for today. Thank you. Thank you m um I don't see Mr. Gutierre's anything from the district. Mr. maybe conducting the he's going to pinch it. Oh there we go. designated uh negotiations has gone really well with CSA uh from the district standpoint. We as they always do. Yes, we have a very good relationship and we continue to build that and remain strong. Um I would like to say with Dan taking over the leadership here, it uh the commission has really grown itself. Not not to knock my stool at all, but um the district is happy that Dan is u in charge in making improvements and getting the hiring done that we still trouble. Why are they why why are they locking you up? Are you in trouble? Um also
009we're looking into we're investigating uh we'd like to start a um what was it? Dan foundations. a foundation uh and maybe marketing toward early literacy, early literacy to align with the district's goal of uh supporting literacy. So, we'd like to align and hopefully get that foundation to go. It's been something I wanted to do for the last couple years. So, Oh, cool. I think we were getting real close to being to that spot. So, with Mr. G's help, of course, we're gonna um Mr. G's college. Oh yeah, because the G Foundation's biggest. We do have the monthly appreciation um employee appreciation picking coming up. That'll be on the 14th. We're going to be watching a movie this year, not um out in outside uh doing a barbecue in the hot windy that always fun thing
010down. Well, try something. Oh god, watch this. Look what happened. something a little this year. Make sure that we can appreciate everybody. You're all invited. Anything else? I think that's good. Thank you, Mr. Ortiz. Your turn. All right. All right. Good evening, uh, commissioners and staff, uh, guests. Uh uh this is what I have for you uh today. Certainly this reflects what I I report at the school board meeting. So apologies if these are repeats. Uh we have uh uh zero interviews in pro progress. We don't have any recruitments that are in the testing stage and we do have three recruitments that are closing today. So uh buyer translator and paren close today. On the uh statistics, we have 373 classified employees. Total 179 full-time benefited, 118 benefited part-time and 80 82 nonbenefited part-time. Uh
011as always, we have 15 classified management employees. On the classifications, uh security, we have no vacancies. With safety, we have two vacancies that we're currently scheduling interviews. Um let's see uh what else we have on the prayer educators. Uh we uh held interviews for our first part of the paralooa which is a big interview big interview day. Uh we made 10 offers. Some people had turned us down but uh now we have 10 10 candidates that have been hired in place. So we're moving forward. Uh Paris and as as you I've reported we we have to open up again because we exhausted that list. Uh lots of people told us no. Other jobs, not enough hours, they didn't want to do the duties. Uh change their mind. So they were waiting for regular care work.
012Yeah. So uh we have to open again and we'll go through that process and try to get a new list to you. Uh let's see. We're going to uh continue with the parah interviews with the part-time. So I think we filled everything that's like six and a half hours and up, right? So now we're going below that. some of them part-time. So that'll be fair too and that's probably in May somewhere in uh after the first week in May. And let's see, we had the office assistant interviews held and those positions are built. Our next f focus on uh some of the classifications that we have on the on on hold is the health assistant. So that's going to be the next in line maintenance worker one, Christian services 2, and school accounting commission. Those
013are the ones that we're going to try to do during this pause. While we're not interviewing, we're gonna uh do a switch to try to uh move these to testing. So, some of these uh there are some we're still working on some nutritional services positions that they they've identified that they want to add. So, we're working with them on that. Uh the staff is also working on the len length of service certificates which are going to be presented at this uh employee appreciation day. Uh there's the reason the normal assurance letters and end of the year letters. So there's a lot of things that are still being worked out at the with the staff in our office. Um we had about 90 on boarding so far since July 1st. That was about a month ago.
014So we're probably overdated like 123. So we're at 123 uh up to this point. So that's a lot of people are being moved in, right? uh either promotion or outside hires etc. The campus safety and security trainings we have to reschedule the last one. So I'm also helping the district out with that to facilitate it. Uh once we get a new date, we'll announce it and we'll we'll send the email out. Uh we also likely we'll have two more trainings in May. So there's total three that we're still trying to find dates for. Um let's see. And I think uh CSEA employee of the year selection is is taking place this week. I'm I'm getting some of the scorecards back. I'm going to tally all that up probably tomorrow and we'll make an announcement soon
015once we get through that. And then uh but the only other thing that was already reported is that we went to that labor and employment law training March 27th at Critos. It's very informative by the fantastic the law firm, right? They're great presenters. really dry information about laws, right? Case law and so on. They make it really interesting. So, uh it was great. That's all I have to say. I appreciate my oversight. I read through the public comment, identified that we did have a speaker and then just moved along with the agenda. So totally sorry forgot trustee eastless would like to speak and bypassed right up front you read the whole thing and said hey move along you're up sir and my apologies no problem director commissioners and staff audits uh thank you for letting
016me speak for a couple minutes here as an employee I really enjoyed the personnel commission and I believe the merit system the last 10 years I really had my questions you know but what I've seen in the last 60 days is great you guys keep up the good work heard a lot of good things and I've seen a lot of good things and uh thank you very much and uh let's keep up the good work you know I mean really means a lot classified employees unified school district thank you thank you appreciate that what have you been doing behind the scenes here he's got a staff I was about ready to send this three of you. I'm you prop them up. That's right. And good job three. I mean, this is just outstanding. Generally chocolates
017over there. Well, make sure when you walk into our office, touch every single and then move them around to different. It's a pattern. Yeah. No. Um I've sat here now for six months. this is a schedule thing or eight months, a year, something like that and it's always been dry, it's been cut and whatever, but also, you know, let's get rid of it. Let's re-examine. Let's do this and that. It's very nice to hear somebody come in here that isn't a complaining, b saying something else or anything else. CSEA knows even when I was a trustee. I mean, you guys are the backbone of this district 110%. And the personnel commission hopefully helps you, you know, be successful in your jobs. And it's nice to be recognized by a trustee to come in here and
018say, "Hey, good job, ladies, sir. Um, it's 110% appreciated." And the credit also goes all to CSEA, your guys' hierarchy and everything else. When Doug says, you know, negotiations went well. I can tell you for 14 years of being involved in the district, CSEA negotiations always go well. Um, there is no fight and everybody hates each other and everything else. You guys are able to sit at the table and work out issues. I commend you for that and have for the last 14 years. Now, if somebody else could take that bleed, maybe take him to conference with you and show you how to be a good, you know, representative marketing today. I'm just saying that. I don't know. All right. Um, we're going to go on to the adoption of the agenda. I'll entertain a
019motion for the adoption. Motion second. Anybody like anything pulled, moved around, or deleted? All in favor? I opposed. All right. Uh, I forgot to say that. Silence team's approval. Um, we're going to go on to discussion information. CSPCA conference debrief. Uh, Mr. Ortiz, I believe the, uh, Mr. G already kind of gave a gave a debrief on this, but this was my first conference with this district with the CSPCA and the staff and I and uh, Mr. Gene, Mr. Gilbert uh size attendant and uh there was a lot of great information out there uh really good presentations. Uh they posted all their presentations online so even if we couldn't attend certain sessions we can get the information. So I know we've been sharing that information around in the office. So uh really was great um
020great opportunity for us to learn and to uh sharpen our skills and bring that back to the district and to the service of the classified employees. So that's interesting. Anything anything from a good conference just just kind of hard to get to and the travel was hard but to work out. Yeah, it was worth it. Good. Um the AALRR employment law conference, Mr. Chief, I also touched briefly on this in my my remarks. Um we conference is a day conference that is also difficult to get there by 7:30 in the morning. We had Oh yeah, you guys before 6 and it was a long day. It's about 18 hours, right? But uh yeah, those presenters were excellent and I can't emphasize enough how uh for some really dry material about uh you know uh pay
021hours and working conditions, litigation, employment law. Uh it was interesting, right? So I I think uh is a great benefit to this commission. I know we all uh got a lot of information out of that. So we look forward to doing that again next year. It was so such a good amount of information. It's current so and it's here. Anything else? Anything from the other commissioners? Good conference, too. Yeah, we've learned a lot. And you know, I think we should find stuff for the staff, too. Well, exactly that. Yes. So, maybe include them, especially in this one, you know, moving forward and even, you know, taking the likes of CSEA, you know, with them. Maybe some of your leadership would like to attend, you know, something like that. We can open the door, you know,
022get you guys, you know, in with this because the information was very valuable. A lot of illegal. Yeah. My one heartburn was is the first presenters knocked it out of the park and everybody after the fact they kind of fell a little short. Yeah, remember that? You're kind like a video, right? I mean, it was that was that was fantastic. But that was tough for us because we probably we probably spent more time in the car in traffic going there and coming back than we spent at the conference. So that's a tough make. We're going to go on to the uh 25 employee appreciation event which is May 14th at the pack. Mr. Ortiz, uh you have the flyer in your in your packets. This was also distributed today via email. Everybody should have this
023flyer. Uh obviously everybody's invited. The Incredibles. Yeah. We're going to watch the Incredibles. There's two separate showings. You know, it's an early and a late one. And uh uh the committee has been working really hard to put this together to find a new location identifying you know menu food right we're going to have some food trucks and uh should be a great time. So please everybody put that on your calendar and attend and RSVP there's a little QR code in there to please fill that out and look forward to seeing you there. We've done