RSEA Rules of Governance

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GOVERNANCE RULES OF THE ROSEVILLE

SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION CTA/NEA

I. The name of this Association shall be the Roseville Secondary

Education Association CTA/NEA.

II. The primary purpose of this Association shall be:

1. To represent its members in their relations with the Roseville Joint

Union High School District, and to seek to be the exclusive

representation of appropriate units of school employees in all

matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee

relations including, but not limited to, wages, hours, and or other

terms and conditions of employment.

2. To form a representative body capable of development of group

opinion on professional matters including but not limited to

employment conditions, professional development and curricular

issues and to ultimately to speak with authority for teachers.

3. To provide an opportunity for continuous study and action on

problems of the profession.

4. To promote professional and collegial attitude and ethical conduct

among members.

5. To encourage cooperation and communication between the

profession and the community and

6. To foster professional relationships among teachers.

III. Affiliation with the California Teachers Association and the

National Education Association.

1. The Roseville Secondary Education Association (RSEA) shall be an

affiliated local association of the National Education Association

(NEA).

2. The Roseville Secondary Association shall be a chartered chapter of

the California Teachers Association (CTA).

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IV. Membership

1. The Active membership class shall be open to any person who is

engaged in or who is on limited leave of absence from professional

education work.

2. Membership may be granted upon payment of RSEA, CTA, and

NEA dues appropriate to the class of membership.

3. The right to vote and to hold elective office or appointive positions

shall be limited to Active members.

4. All members shall be eligible to receive special services, to obtain

assistance in the protection of professional and civil rights, and to

receive reports and publications of the association.

5. An individual who is serving as a negotiator for a public school

employer shall not be eligible for membership in the Association.

6. Active members shall adhere to The Code of Ethics of the Education

Profession.

7. The rights to and privileges of membership shall not be abridged in

any way because of: age, sex, race, color, ethnic group, or national

origin.

8. No member of the Association may be disciplined without due

process hearing which shall include the established appellate

procedure.

9. The membership year shall be that period of time from September 1

of a given calendar year through August 31 of the following calendar

year, inclusive.

10. Active membership will not be allowed for any member who

assumes an assignment that requires an evaluative role, in an

administrative fashion, over another member.

V. Dues, Fees, and Assessments

1. The basic annual dues level for Active members, and representation

fee for non-members represented in the bargaining unit, shall be

sufficient to cover the operating expenses of the Association, the dues

of CTA and the dues of NEA.

2. The Associations portion of the basic annual dues and the

representation fees for non-members shall be established by action

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of the membership by a simple majority secret ballot vote of the

Association.

VI. Policy-Making Body

1. The policy-making body of the Association shall be the Executive

Voting Board Members. The Executive Voting Board derives its

powers from and shall be responsible to the membership.

2. The Executive Voting Board shall be composed of the following :

a. President, who shall have been elected by the

membership at large to the position of President

Elect and served in that capacity in the prior year.

b. President-Elect, who shall be elected by the

membership at large.

c. Site Chairs, one of which shall be elected exclusively by

the members of their high school, and serve a two-year

term. In an attempt to ensure that some members of

the Executive Voting Board shall have at least a year of

experience, elections will be staggered with

approximately half of the comprehensive schools

electing their Site Chairs on even years and half on odd

years. Granite Bay, Oakmont, Adelante, and Antelope

High Schools will elect their site chairs on even years;

Roseville, Woodcreek, and Independence High Schools

will elect their site chairs on odd years(*all sites will

elect their site chairs in the first year of the acceptance

of these bylaws (year 2004); odd year elections will be

held again the following year in order to establish our

staggering of terms).

1. Adelante and Independence High Schools will

each elect their own representatives but will

each be allowed one half of a single vote

allocated to the alternative schools as a whole.

2. Site chairs are required to attend monthly

School Board meetings

d. Non-voting Committee Chairs, will be appointed to one

year terms by the Executive Voting Board after their

assumption of duties. Chairs may be reappointed to an

unlimited set of potentially, consecutive one-year terms

by each subsequent Board based on their own

discretion.

1. SIG/Health Care Chair

2. Treasurer

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3. Recording Secretary

4. Chief Negotiator

5. Faculty Advocate Chair

6. Membership Chair

7. Calendar Chair

8. Communications Chair

9. PAC Chair

10. Website Chair

11. Negotiation Support Chair

3. The Executive Voting Board shall:

a. Manage the business of the RSEA in an administrative capacity,

with all the responsibilities thereof.

b. Establish Association policies and objectives, including, but not limited

to the proposing of any changes to dues levels.

c. Adopt the Annual Budget of the Association on or before the first

Association meeting of the school year.

d. Approve the establishment or discontinuance of committees.

4. The Executive Voting Board shall meet once a month during the school year

at the discretion of the board usually following the Tuesday Board of

Education meeting, the place and time of meeting to be decided by the

President with all effort to move the meetings to each comprehensive site at

least once a school year.

5. Executive Voting Board meetings will be open to all active members. A

closed session may be called at the end of any monthly meeting for the

purposes of deciding specific negotiation strategies.

6. Special meetings of the Executive Voting Board may be called by the

President or by petition of twenty percent of the membership.

7. A quorum for all meetings shall consist of not less than 50% of the

members of the Executive Voting Board.

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VII. Officers Responsibilities1. Officers shall be elected for a term of one calendar year,

commencing on May 1 of any calendar year and ending the last day

of April of the following calendar year.

2. A vacancy shall be deemed to exist in the case of death, resignation,or inability to serve in any of the offices of the Association. In the

event of a vacancy occurring in the office of the President, the

President- Elect shall assume office. In the event a vacancy occurs in

the other offices, the Representative Council shall elect successors to

fill the unexpired term(s) at the next regularly scheduled meeting .

3. The President shall be the chief executive of the Association and its

policy leader. The President shall:

a. Preside at all meetings of the Association and

Executive Voting Board.

b. Prepare the agenda for the meetings of the Associationand the Executive Voting Board

c. Be the official spokesperson for the Association at all

school board meetings.

d. Familiarize himself/herself with the governance

documents of the Association.

e. Be a member of the Negotiating Team.

f. Appoint Chairpersons and members of committees

with the approval of the elected officers of the

Association.

g. Cosign all checks, with the Treasurer, drawn upon the

treasury.h. Call meetings of the Association and the Executive

Voting Board suggest policies, plans, and activities for

the Association and be held responsible for the work

and progress of the Association.

i. Attend other CTA-NEA meetings as required.

j. Attend meetings of the Service Center Council of

which the Association is a part, and

k. Attend School Board meetings.

4. The President-Elect shall:

a. Serve as an assistant to the President in all duties of thePresident.

b. Assume the duties of the President in the absence of the

President.

c. Be responsible for the formation and distribution of

the Associations calendar of activities.

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5. The Recording Secretary shall:

a. Keep a careful and accurate record of the proceedings

of each meeting, regular or special, of the Association

and the Representative Council.

b. Be responsible for the distribution of all notices,

agendas, and minutes of meetings to members of the

Council and to the membership when appropriate.

c. Keep an accurate roster of the membership of the

Association in coordination with the Membership

Chairperson and of all committees created by the

Association.

d. Carry on the correspondence pertaining to the affairs

of the Association as directed by the President.

e. This position is an elected position with a 3 year term.

6. The Treasurer shall:

a. Receive all funds belonging to the Association and be

responsible for their safekeeping and accounting.

b. Pay out such funds upon orders of the President and

co-sign with the President all checks drawn upon the

treasury

c. Prepare a written financial report when requested by

the Representative Council and/or the President.

d. Be responsible for an annual audit of the books of the

Association, and;

e. Submit membership and financial reports to CTA,

NEA or other agencies as required by law.

f. This position is an appointed position with a 1 year

term.

VIII. Negotiating Team shall consist of five members as follows:

President or designee, President-Elect, Chief Negotiator, Financial

Analyst, and Recording Secretary (three of these members terms

shall be staggered in terms of 2 years duration).

1. The Negotiating Team members and such alternates as deemed

necessary shall be nominated by the President and approved by the

Executive Board.

2. The Chief Negotiator of the Negotiating Team shall be elected fromand by its members for a 2 year term; the President of the RSEA

shall not be eligible to be the chairperson.

3. The Executive Voting Board shall adopt rules setting forth its

selection procedures for the negotiating team at-large members,

including terms of office and criteria for election.

4. Vacancies created by resignation or inability to serve shall be filled

by the Executive Voting Board from the list of alternates.

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5. The Executive Voting Board by a two-thirds majority, may remove a

member of the Negotiating Team from the list of alternates.

6. The duties of the Negotiating Team are to represent and to bargain

for the members of the unit.

7. Responsibility and authority for directing the negotiating process

shall be approved by Association members.

8. Employees in the bargaining unit shall be surveyed to determine

content of proposed contract demands, and contract proposals shall

be approved by the Association members.

9. The Negotiating Team shall report its activities to the Executive

Voting Board in such form and with such frequency as the Board

may require.

10. Agreements reached between the Negotiating Team and the school

board and/or its representatives shall be considered tentative and

not binding upon the Association until such agreements have been

ratified by the membershipunless such ratification shall have been

specifically waived or otherwise delegated by the membership.

11. The Executive Voting Board shall provide for the dissemination of

information regarding bargaining and the activities of the

negotiating team to the general membership.

12. Members of the Negotiating team shall be reimbursed to cover the

expenses of holding office.

IX. Site Chairpersons1. Site Chairperson shall:

a. Conduct constant and ongoing liaison between the

Voting Board Members Council and the members of

the unit.b. Serve as the official channel through which written

communications and publications can be easily and

quickly transmitted between the Association and the

members.

c. Represent the views and input of the Active

membership of the faculty in votes taken in the Voting

Board Members Council, conducting frequent and

regular polls of such membership for this purpose.

d. Perform such additional duties as prescribed by the

Voting Board Members Council.

e. Attend all School Board meetings.

X. Reimbursement

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1. The RSEA shall reimburse its members when they are on

Association business at the same rate as the current CTA

reimbursement. Expenses for reimbursement shall be preauthorized

by the Voting Board Members.

XI. Faculty Advocate Processing

1. The Executive Voting Board Members shall adopt the procedures for

grievance processing.

2. These procedures shall include but not be limited to the following:

a. Provide for representation to assist all members of the bargaining

unit in processing grievances;

b. The name of any Active member may be placed in nomination, with

his/her consent by another member of the Association.

c. Evaluation of the Associations advocate policies and procedures.

XII. Nominations and Elections

1. Nominations for office shall be made as follows:

a. Any active member at his/her request shall have his/her name placed

upon the ballot for an office of the Association.

b.The name of any Active member may be placed in nomination, with

his/her consent by another member of the Association

2. Election of officers, State Council representatives, NEA delegates shall be

conducted at the designated times by secret ballot of the general membership.

3. Faculty Advocate Representatives shall be elected by open nominations

and secret ballot by and from the Active members who are assigned to that

faculty. They shall serve a term of one year and are eligible for reelection.

4. School Chairpersons shall be elected by open nominations and secret ballot

by and from the Active members who are assigned to that faculty. They

shall serve a term of two years, are eligible for reelection, and serve as

voting members of the Executive Voting Board.

5. The Executive Voting Board shall adopt standing rules setting forth

procedures for conducting elections.

XIII. Recall Elections

1. A recall of any person in an elective position may be initiated by a

petition signed by not less than one third of the active membership. A

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statement of the reasons for the proposed recall shall be part of the recall

petition.

2. Each person named in the recall petition shall have the right to make

a rebuttal statement which shall be distributed to their constituency at least

seven (7) days before the recall election.

XIV. Parliamentary AuthorityRoberts Rules of Order, newly revised, latest edition, shall be followed at all

meetings of the Association and the Executive Voting Board.

XV. PAC(Political Action Committee) formation

A PAC (Political Action Committee) was formed for the purpose of supporting

activities involving local RJUHSD School Board elections and bond measures

as well as provide for a committee to work on keeping the membership and

board members abreast of the issues affecting us. This would not be used forthe purpose of supporting other political activities beyond those named above.

XVI. AmendmentsThese Governance Rules may be amended by two-thirds vote of the Executive

Voting Board at any regular or special meeting of the Executive Voting Board

provided notice in writing of the proposed amendment shall have been

submitted to the Secretary and made available to all members of the RSEA.

Notice to amend must be submitted in writing 10 days prior to this event.

FINAL DRAFT: changes made at Executive Board Meeting, 4/7/10; amended

4/8/10.

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