Master Agreement 2005 - State Employment Relations Board

Representative or the principal, elect one (1) additional
ABC member and appointone(1) additional ABC
member as provided above, for every additional twenty
(20) teachers or fraction thereof. All members shall serve
by consent. The termofoffice shall be one school year.
202.03 The Association Building Council shall be advisory
only and is intended to assist the principal and the
school staff in developing policies and programs for the
school involved. The ABC shall assume the responsibility
for being knowledgeable about matters in this
Agreement which relate to its functions.
202.04 The ABC shall elect a chairperson at its first meeting
each year. The ABC chairperson shall prepare an
agenda prior to each subsequent meeting, after consultation
with the principal. The ABC chairperson shall
record the business of each meeting and shall make a
written report ofsuch business to the teachers. It shall be
the responsibility of the principal, utilizing the office
staff, to provide each teacher with a copy of the agenda
no later than two (2) days after receiving it from the
ABC chairperson and a copy of the ABC chairperson’s
report no later than five (5) days after receiving it from
the chairperson. The length of the ABC chairperson’s
report is to be no more than five (5) single-spaced typewritten
pages unless a larger report is deemed necessary
by the ABC chairperson and the principal.
202.05 Each professional staff member shall have the right
to have matters placed on the ABC agenda and shall
have the right to speak to the ABC on anitemwhichthe
staff member has initiated unless a majority of the ABC
shall vote to limit the discussion. The ABC’s meetings
shall be open to all teachers in the building, except that a
majority of the ABC may declare executive session.
Article 203
Election of Department Chairpersons
Prior to June 1 of each school year, the teachers in each of
the six (6) designated departments in each regular high
school and the Alternative High Schools may meet and elect
one or more consenting candidates as nominees for the position
of department chairperson in each of their respective
departments. In such an event, the names of the elected
nominees shall be submitted to the building principal. The
building principal shall include consideration of all such
nominees, if any, in the final selection of teachers to serve as
department chairpersons for the following school year. The
selection shall normally be made by the close of the school
year and the selection announced to the department members
by such date.Thebasisforthe selection of department
chairpersons by the principal shall not be arbitrary or capricious.
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