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arking fees may ouble for students worked through before the planning of the building can proceed. The proposal, which deals with trying to reduce the parking deficit by 2003 (rather than getting into the black), states that with the existing parking fees and maintenance requirements, by the year 2003, the district would be in debt for o ver $1.1 million simply by maintai ning the current parking lots. However, the proposal states that with the hi g he r fees and the new structure, the district would o nly be in de bt by $57,000, almost half of what it would owe with the existing program. The proposal plan s
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million dolIars for the structure, even though no plans for the structure have yet been made. The district plans on paying it off at $550,000 a year for 20 years, at a 6 percent interest rate. As surveys by the facilities committee have shown, one of the biggest concerns of San Jost City College' s students is the lack of adequate available parking. However, few students seem to
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Mary Wright of Counseling had her attention stolen by this adorable plush reindeer. The reindeer was a prize for a drawing held by the
Mari Matsumoto/The Times San Jose City College bookstore Wednesday afternoon. The lucky winner of the drawing would take home one of Santa's finest deer.
Faculty pay increase proposed Kristina Nicholas Assistant Editor A three-year proposal increasing faculty salaries for the 1997-2000 contract period. has been tentatively agreed upon by both the Faculty Association and the San lost/Evergreen Community College District. The FA's deadline to vote on the agreement is 2 p.m., Dec. 8. The proposal includes: • A gradual increase in faculty salaries. • A salary parity model for both full-time and part-time faaulty members. • A revision of Section 15.7, Banking Overload. • Clarifies the language of Article 19, Performance Evaluation-Tenured and Academic Hourly Faculty. • Revision of Article 20, Evaluation of No nTenured Faculty. • Notice of the FA's intent to propose a shortened semester . The proposal would increase contract and parttime salary schedules by 2 percent retroacti ve, since the proposed date of Aug. 14 has passed, and an additional2 percent by January 1998. Salaries would increase again in 1998-1999, at the start of the fall term, by 2.75 percent However, the 1998-1999 percentage will be increased by an additional 1.25 percent if expected growth funds are received from student enrollment For example, if an instructor made $40.11 per hour. at the end of the three year period. he or she would make $43.42 an hour if all expected growth fu nds are received.
The additional 1.25 percent will decrease, however, if the expected growth funds don't come in. If the district receives only 40 percent of the expected growth funds, the faculty salaries will only increase by 40 percent of 1.25 percentage. That would make a .5 percent increase. It was also proposed that a salary parity model be implemented to establish "a formal salary goal to the relative median of other local community college districts," according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Among the college districts used for comparison are: Contra Costa, Foothill/DeAnza, West Valley/ Mission, San Francisco, San Mateo, Chabot-Las Positas, Fremont/Newark and Peralta. The FA also revised Banking Overload, Section 15.7, to meet the restrictions required by an IRS ruling, concerning taxing employees for funds not yet received. The compromise provides "no taxes on money not yet received and ability to extract credit in the form of money in cases of emergency," according to the agreement Although, FA President Elect Spencer Shaw, recommended tha t FA mem bers withhold their votes until "the language of Article 15.7 is re-wrillen and clarified to protect FA interests," in an e-mail. Shaw said, that the language of the section was "extremely confusing and very probably unnecessarily restrictive." Article 20 was revised to allow continuity, consistency and fairness, according to the agreement. Under the changes, a time line was created to let faculty know what occurs during the evaluation proces and that the membership of the evaluation team remains constant for four years.