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MAT Executive Council Meeting
October 11, 1995, 9:30 AM
District Office, Maricopa Room

Members Present:
	Sharon Blanton, SCC		        Sue Tavakoli, DSSC
	Sue Starrfield, SMCC		        Henrietta Harris, SMCC
	Raul Monreal, PVCC		        Bruce Dickson, MCC
	Carol Wilson, RSCC		         Renee Barstack, DSSC
	Nancy Markowski, PVCC		 Alberto Sanchez, GCC
	Cookie Horne, GCC		         Barbara Thelander, MCC
	Patti Johnson, CGCC		        Gail Mee, MCC
	Cheryl Kubasch, DSSC		    Mary Lou Mosley, PVCC
	Ruth Ramano, CGCC		        Joe Ochap, EMCCC
	Harvey Blanshan, SMCC		Raul Sandoval, PC
	Sue Kater, GWCC		


Call To Order:
President Harris called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m.

Approval of September 13, 1995 Minutes
It was moved (Monreal) and seconded (Sanchez) that approval of September 13 
minutes be tabled until the next meeting since not all council members had 
received/read the minutes yet.

ADHOC Committee on MAT Management Study Report
President Harris reported on the October 4, 1995 ADHOC Committee meeting.
Discussion items at the meeting included:
	*  Relationship between the MAT Management Study and the 
	   Apollo Project, specifically the organizational anaylsis
	   team.
	*  Specific differences and implications for the following
	   terms:  nonrenewal, reclassification, reorganization,
	   reassignment
	*  Discussion of specific issues from the study:
		Movement from MAT to PSA
		Validity of the job descriptions/outdated descriptions
		Revising Grades 11 and 12 for PSA
		The band issue did not reflect how they are carried
			out on campuses.
	*  Discussion of hiring a consultant to analyze the report.
	*  Questions
		Does this study continue to have liability?
		Does this study continue to have deadline date of
		  December 15,1995, and if so, why?
		Were the concerns addressed by the MAT membership in
		  the focus groups actually addressed in the report?
		  Two major concerns were "common concerns" and "meet
		  and confer".
	*  Clarify the relationships/links between meet and confer and
	   the study.
	*  How should we look at the following systems:  reclassification;
	   pay; classification; restructuring.
	*  How should we facilitate a strategic conversation on meet and
	   confer?  

District Committee Liaisons
Cheryl Kubash asked that a MAT Representative be appointed to the Apollo 
Organizational Steering Team.  RRBarstack will represent MAT on both the Apollo 
Organizational and LCS Steering teams.

Dialogue With Dr. Waechter and Dr. Bleed
Governing Board discussions continue to agonize over the "meet and confer" 
process.  The MAT Employee Group has been challenged to find a new process that 
eliminates the "we/they" kind of approach to discussing salary/benefits; a 
creative way of addressing MAT concerns.  In order to fit within the budget 
cycle, a process for discussing salary needs to be addressed immediately.

Discussion items included:
	Do we need to follow the process used to determine benefits?  Do we 
	need to do more "all employee" kinds of things?   
        
	Should salaries be negotiated according to comparisons of "like"
	salaries (management within MCCCD with outside management)?
	
	Should all employees always receive the same salary increases?

	What will job descriptions look like?  Should they describe what
	the organization needs with candidates identifying what skills
	they can bring to that and salaries being determined according
	to skill level?
	
	Would "broad banding" (three broad bands instead of nine classes)
	cost the district more or less?

	Is an annual step increase still the number one priority of all
	employee groups?  (Approximately 57% of the district employees are
	not eligible for a step.)

	Apollo sounds like it is going to address reorganization; is trying 
	to reorganize MAT now inappropriate?  Reorganization should be a
	continuous process.

	Maybe our traditional employee group categories all need to be 
	addressed/reviewed.

	Objectives for this year include reviewing the policy manual to
	look for things that may be contradictory to what the organizational
	team may be doing and to dialogue with them to raise awareness of
	those things that may need to be modified.

	Our immediate concern needs to be with anything that impacts the
	budget process.  College budget materials are due to the district
	by December 1; CFAC looks at the budget in January.  Each college
	receives the same budget from the year before as a base.  We can
	expect approximately $5 - 6 million in new money from tax levy; 
	$0 - 5 million from the state depending on state financial 
	circumstances.  Probably we are looking at $5 1/2 - 7 million in new
	money.  CFAC has to set aside money for all legal requirements
	and then takes what is left and allocates it.  It costs approximately 
	$5 million to do an across the district step and 3% COLA increase.
	Those decisions are pretty well set by CFAC in January.

	Everything on the district salary schedule is based on the midpoint
	for each grade.  For MAT that is step 5; 100% of what is done is
	done to step 5.

	A committee consisting of MAT members on the Meet and Confer and
	Review/Recommendations committees will meet on Thursday, October
	19 at 7:30 a.m. at the DSSC to address the compensation issue.

Meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,


Renee Rodgers-Barstack
Secretary, MAT Executive Council

Next Meeting:  November 9, 1995 at 9:30 a.m. at DSSC, Maricopa Room