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York University Faculty Association
Annual General Meeting
Minutes

October 8, 2003
Faculty Club

The meeting followed a luncheon made available to all YUFA members attending the Annual General meeting, convening at 12:53 PM.

  1.  Approval of Agenda:  It was moved by J. Rahn and seconded by Louise Ripley that the Agenda be approved.  The motion carried.

  2. 2002 AGM Minutes Approval:  It was moved by Susan Dimock and seconded by Arthur Hilliker that the Minutes of the 2002 AGM (Attachment 1 of the Agenda) be approved.  The motion carried.

  3. President’s Remarks:  (i) The President introduced YUFA Executive members and YUFA staff attending the meeting.  (ii) Forms for nomination of YUFA Executive members for 2004-2006 have been sent to all YUFA members.  (iii) Most committees are generally well staffed, however, the Grievance Committee needs members from Fine Arts, Glendon and the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.  There are several vacancies not tied to particular faculties on the YUFA Equity Committee.  Members should consider volunteering to serve on one of these Committees.  (iv) Members are also encouraged to participate in the various YUFA Caucuses including the newest Caucus, the DisAbility Caucus as well as the Race Equity and Queer Caucuses.  (v) The President noted that as the new contract is for a three-year period there is more time available for activities other than bargaining.

  4. Motion to Move to Ratification of the T&P Procedures:  Ratification of the housekeeping revisions to Tenure and Promotions Policy, Criteria and Procedures, and to the Alternate Stream document, and of the substantial revisions to the Procedures for Advancement to Candidacy as provided in Attachment 2 of the Agenda was moved by Susan Dimock and seconded by Brenda Spotton Visano.  Walter Whitely moved and Tony Wallis seconded a motion to sever Appendix 1 (Attachment 2 viii) from the motion.  Discussion and vote on the motion to sever Attachment 1 (Advancement to Candidacy) from the rest of the package followed.  The motion was defeated.  Vote on the main motion to move to ratification vote for all three documents was passed.  Vote followed.

  5. Budget 2003/2004:  The 2003/2004 Budget (Attachment 3 of the Agenda) was presented.  It was moved by Susan Dimock and seconded by Marty Thomas that the 2003/2004 Budget be approved.  The motion carried.

  6. Executive Work Reports:  It was moved by Brenda Spotton Visano and seconded by Ellie Perkins that the Executive Officer Work Reports provided in Attachment 4 and as now amended be approved.  The motion carried.  There were two amendments.  The first amendment was to remove from the third paragraph of the Report of the Vice President Internal the name of the Executive Associate who has a prolonged illness.  The second amendment concerned revision of a section of the Chief Stewards Report entitled “Workload of Contractually Limited Faculty”.  The phrase “and in the Division of Social Science since the early 1990’s following the word “inception” on line 6 of the section was deleted and replaced with “and because the Division of Social Science averages out multi-year appointment on a rotation 3, 2 course load basis, which is impossible to do for one-year CLA’s,”

  7. Adjournment:  As there was no further business the meeting adjourned.