GCEA Director’s Meeting October 2024
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in person and Teams. Meeting was called to order by Ronnie Lira, President at 12:06 pm and roll was called.
GCEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in person and Teams. Meeting was called to order by Ronnie Lira, President at 12:06 pm and roll was called.
Guest in attendance: James Fagen, CEA
Finance Report:
Profit and Loss approved via email. Profit and Loss will be sent with approved minutes for distribution.
Minutes Approval:
September minutes were approved via Outlook voting. Minutes were sent for distribution.
President’s Report:
· Nothing to report
Vice President’s Report
· Nothing to report
Committee Reports:
CAC - Nothing to report
PAC – Nothing to report
Benefits – Nothing to report
Social Media – Released new website to membership. Elisabeth Bergman has put a redirect on our old site.
EAC – Ronnie reported there is one (1) loan decision to be made, and one (1) loan was denied for this month.
Scholarship Committee – Nothing to report
Vendor - Nothing to report
Disciplinary – Working on MOU issues with Fire but nothing on discipline per Ronnie.
NEO – there is a meeting tomorrow, October 17th and Elisabeth will be presenting for Kerri Zelenak.
Bylaws – continuing with updates but committee suggests we put the bylaws on hold until January with the transition of President and Vice President.
Discussion and Comments:
Matt Mancini asked about the Christmas Eve Holiday time off. Only employees considered operational are required to work.
Matt had a meeting regarding the 12 salary positions with Paula Adams and Ando Vardanyan. The City Manager said no to all the positions being evaluated. According to Paula, the city will be hiring a consultant who will conduct a city-wide survey of all positions in 2025.
Ronnie will be forwarding an email regarding information on the park name change.
Maurice Daniels has volunteered to set up our technology for our in person/Teams monthly board meetings going forward.
New Business:
The nominating committee nominated Matt Mancini for President and Gerald Mendoza for Vice President.
Matt declined the nomination for President.
Gerald declined the nomination for Vice President.
The nominating committee requested more time to bring forth additional nominations.
Sean Toro asked if his email message stating that he is interested in serving as President was received and if there was a reason for not being considered by the Nominating Committee. Iris Moreno Hernandez stated that Sean’s statement was received and that the Nominating Committee acknowledged receipt via email. She said that he was considered, but not nominated at this time due to how new he is to the board. She added that the Nominating Committee will reconsider him as a possible candidate when they reconvene. Discussion ensued.
Ronnie spoke to the time commitment of the President and Vice President and stated that some municipalities pay the wage of the President and Vice President allowing them to devote 100% of their time to the association; for this to happen for GCEA, the association would need to bargain for it during the next MOU negotiation.
Matt Mancini suggested the creation of an Executive Board of 5 people. An executive board would replace the President and Vice President roles and would distribute the workload among the five board members instead of two. James Fagen, CEA said this is something that could be explored within the board.
Discussion ensued about changes that could be made to the GCEA in the future.
It was the consensus to withhold floor nominations until the nominating committee has had additional time to decide on other nominees. The board can decide to take a vote to waive the two-year requirement at the next special called meeting if needed. A called meeting will be held the last week in October.
Motion to adjourn made by Sean Toro
Motion seconded by Elisabeth Bergman
Minutes respectively submitted by Stephanie Kinnison
Meeting adjourned 1:00 p.m.
