By Ronnie Grant on Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Board of Trustees is meeting at the Chancellor’s Office on Long Beach on Jan. 27 and 28. Committees start at 9 a.m. on the 27th, and the full Board meets on the 28th at 10 a.m.

Agendas with backup material and minutes from the last meeting attached are available.

The CSU Labor Council traditionally meets on the evening of the first day of each Board of Trustees meeting. CSUEU SLRR Teven Laxer has announced that the CSU Labor Council will meet at 5 p.m. or upon adjournment of the Board of Trustees for that day, at the Renaissance Hotel at Ocean and Pine in Long Beach (111 E. Ocean Blvd.).

By Ronnie Grant on Thursday, January 15, 2009

Quick elections update: Feb. 9 is the deadline for CSUEU HQ to receive your General Council delegate nomination forms. (Postmarks don't count.)

The Chapter nominations form is also online. Submit this form to your Chapter's Nomination Committee.

To find the forms, click Library on the menu of this website, then select the Elections folder.

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By Ronnie Grant on Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Legislative Committee is meeting Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of this week. he Bylaws and Policy File Committee is meeting Thursday, and on Friday a joint meeting of the Bylaws and Policy File Committee and the Committee on the Future will take place. On 1/23, the Classification Committee will be meeting. All of these meetings are in Sacramento.

On Monday, the Board of Trustees is holding a conference call of the Committee on Committees to adjust Trustee committee assignment. CSUEU will have no one in attendance.

By Ronnie Grant on Thursday, January 08, 2009

Here are the documents for today’s conference call:

CSUEU elections handbook <- Link fixed!

Slide presentation – PDF

By Ronnie Grant on Wednesday, January 07, 2009

I have scheduled two open conference calls to to assist you in CSUEU 2009 elections. In each call I will give a 10 minute presentation, followed by 40 minutes of Q&A.

You're welcome to attend any or both of these calls:

- Thursday, Jan. 8 - 12:10 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

- Friday, Jan. 9 - 7:00 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.

A third conference call (probably on a Saturday) will be scheduled later.

To join us:

Call 1-800-704-9804

When prompted, enter conference code 89841439 then press #

International callers can dial (404) 920-6604.

The call will be recorded so I can edit a recording of my presentation and place it online for those that can't make it. The presentation slides are scheduled to be available for download by 11:00 a.m. Thursday at

http://www.csueu.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/80/Default.aspx .

If you won't be near a computer, that's okay - I have designed the presentation so you will be able to follow...

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By Ronnie Grant on Monday, January 05, 2009

As adopted by the CSUEU Board of Directors, the per-diem limits for CSUEU have changed, effective for all travel occurring on or after January 1, 2009. The 2009 rates:

• Breakfast: $10 limit (same)
• Lunch: $15 limit (was $11)
• Dinner: $25 limit (was $19)
• Incidentals for overnight stays: $10 limit (same)

And, of course, the IRS has changed the mileage rate to 55 cents per mile driven.

By Ronnie Grant on Monday, January 05, 2009

From CSEA Manager of Membership Services Jade San Juan: 

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By Ronnie Grant on Thursday, January 01, 2009

A few unrelated things…

Budget: The Department of Finance released an 84 page “preview” of the Governor’s proposed budget yesterday. The full budget (with detail by agencies and the budget bill) is scheduled to be released on Jan. 9. The news conference featuring the Director of Finance is online, and I highly recommend watching it.

2009-10 Governor’s Budget General Find Proposals (PDF)

Finance Director’s news conference (Windows Media stream)

News conference transcript

CSEA Board meeting: Tomorrow (1/2/09) is the deadline for a member of the CSEA Board to submit a non-emergency agenda item for the next meeting. If you have any input on CSEA’s operations, please contact your...

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By Ronnie Grant on Wednesday, December 31, 2008

I’m pleased to update you that the project to host a mailing list server accessible for use by Chapters to directly administer their own lists is progressing. CSEA IT has set up the server (using the Mailman list manager software) and is performing some initial testing. The next step is for CSUEU to identify some pilot Chapters and some statewide committees to participate in January. Once the pilot succeeds and CUEU-specific documentation is complete, general availability to Chapters will be phased in (in a manner to be determined), hopefully complete around the end of the first quarter of 2009.

By Ronnie Grant on Monday, December 29, 2008

(One in an occasional series: “HOWTO” – how to do something.)

At CSUEU’s new 1108 O Street offices, CSEA provides CSUEU complementary parking in CSEA’s parking lot at 11th and Q Streets as part of our agreement to use suite 500.

Daily operation of the lot is managed by CSEA’s Information Technology department. CSUEU employees and the CSUEU President have spaces assigned by CSEA; additional spaces are available on an as-needed basis for visitors by request to CSEA. If you’re planning to be at CSUEU’s offices, follow these steps to secure your visitor space.

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