Special AADL Board Meeting - September 8, 2022

Thu, 09/08/2022 - 1:01pm

When: September 8, 2022

Watch the September 8, 2022 Special Meeting of the AADL Board of Trustees. Select an agenda item below to jump to that point in the transcript. For more information, please see the Board Packet for this meeting.

22-170 I. CALL TO ORDER Jim Leija, President
22-171 II. ATTENDANCE
22-172 III. RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION FOR DISCUSSION OF REAL ESTATE AND LABOR NEGOTIATIONS
22-173 IV. RECONVENE TO SPECIAL MEETING
22-174 V. APPROVAL OF AGENDA (Item of action)
22-175 VI. NEW BUSINESS
22-176 A. RATIFY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH AADL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (Item of action)
22-177 VII. CITIZEN COMMENTS
22-178 VIII. ADJOURNMENT

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Transcript

• [00:00:03] JIM LEIJA: Thank you. Calling us back to order. Returning us from closed session where we discussed labor negotiations. May I have a motion to approve the agenda?
• [00:00:22] DHARMA AKMON: So moved.
• [00:00:23] JIM LEIJA: Thank you.
• [00:00:25] SCOTT TRUDEAU: Second.
• [00:00:26] JIM LEIJA: Thank you. Any discussion of the agenda? Then we will vote all in favor of approving the agenda. Say yes.
• [00:00:42] BOARD MEMBERS: Yes.
• [00:00:43] JIM LEIJA: Any opposed? Agenda passes. We have one agenda item this evening which is to ratify the collective bargaining agreement with the AADL Library Association. I will read the resolution. The board resolves as follows, to approve and ratify the collective bargaining agreement effective September 8, 2022, through June 30th, 2023, between the Library Association and the Ann Arbor District Library and that all resolutions and parts of resolutions that conflict with the provisions of this resolution, are resented. The motion to approve this resolution?
• [00:01:27] ONNA SOLOMON: So moved.
• [00:01:28] JIM LEIJA: Thank you Onna.
• [00:01:30] DHARMA AKMON: Seconded.
• [00:01:31] JIM LEIJA: Thank you. Dharma. Sir, you need to sit down because we're in the middle of a meeting here. [BACKGROUND] Thank you. I believe we have a second from Dharma.
• [00:01:51] DHARMA AKMON: I think so. [LAUGHTER]
• [00:01:52] JIM LEIJA: Thank you. Karen, did you get that?
• [00:01:53] KAREN WILSON: Yeah, I got all that from Dharma.
• [00:01:54] JIM LEIJA: Thank you. Thanks a lot. Discussion, Eli.
• [00:02:04] ELI NEIBURGER: We are happy to bring to your approval. This labor negotiation, the collective bargaining agreement, which has been negotiated with one of the two units. This is an accretion negotiation, which means that this is due to a accretion of a number of new members into the unit and the unit, including the newly accreted members, has already ratified this agreement. That's what we have for you here tonight. The major difference is that we are now offering sick time to part-time employees that will accrue the rate half the full-time employees. Otherwise is very similar to the labor agreement that had been enforce up till this point.
• [00:02:45] JIM LEIJA: Great.
• [00:02:49] ELI NEIBURGER: Any questions? Additional discussion?
• [00:02:57] DHARMA AKMON: How many of the staff does this new agreement?
• [00:03:00] ELI NEIBURGER: This covers approximately 40 staff out of the 220 in the organization and that is up from approximately 15. They've more than doubled the size of this unit. All the remaining staff are in the process of accreting into the other unit and they are just beginning to start their collective bargaining to do the accretion negotiations for that agreement. When that is ready, it will be brought to the board as well.
• [00:03:26] DHARMA AKMON: Thank you.
• [00:03:31] JIM LEIJA: Anything further? This is not a roll call. If I remember. Thank you. Then we shall have a vote. All in favor of approving the resolution, please say yes.
• [00:03:47] BOARD MEMBERS: Yes.
• [00:03:47] JIM LEIJA: Any opposed? There are none. The resolution passes. Congratulations to the staff into the union on reaching a successful agreement. Thank you. That is our only agenda business item on the agenda today and that turns us to citizens comments. Karen..
• [00:04:09] KAREN WILSON: I have not received any [INAUDIBLE]
• [00:04:13] ELI NEIBURGER: Sir, would you like to speak?
• [00:04:15] SAM COPI: Sure.
• [00:04:16] JIM LEIJA: If you can identify yourself and tell us your name and address.
• [00:04:21] SAM COPI: I'm Sam Copi. I'm precinct delegate for precinct 16 in the city of Ann Arbor. I'm looking forward to reading this contract. I tried to look on the website when I asked for someone's help. This guy is very really an opt-in me. When I asked for a paper copy of the contract, I was told none were available. This is quite concerning to me.
• [00:04:45] ELI NEIBURGER: If you'd like to stick around after the meeting, we can bring you print outs.
• [00:04:47] SAM COPI: I wasn't finished. Don't interrupt me, sir.
• [00:04:49] ELI NEIBURGER: I apologize.
• [00:04:49] SAM COPI: Thank you. How long do I have?
• [00:04:55] JIM LEIJA: You have 3 minutes.
• [00:04:56] SAM COPI: Thank you, Chair. My address is 2306 Adair and feel free to send me a paper copy. Have a good day.
• [00:05:13] JIM LEIJA: Thanks. Have we any other citizens comments, Karen?
• [00:05:16] KAREN WILSON: No.
• [00:05:16] JIM LEIJA: Thank you. I want to know that our next board meeting, I believe, is on a Tuesday and then I have a conflict with that time. It's likely I will need to pass chairing responsibilities onto someone and I just want to confirm that we'll have a quorum. Though I am absent. If everyone can just check their calendars really quickly before we--
• [00:05:55] ELI NEIBURGER: It's Tuesday, September 27th.
• [00:05:57] JIM LEIJA: Tuesday, September 27th.
• [00:06:02] JAMIE VANDER BROEK: So [INAUDIBLE].
• [00:06:02] JIM LEIJA: No. This is one I believe I was like, why did we shift this?
• [00:06:05] MOLLY KLEINMAN: It's Rosh Hashanah.
• [00:06:06] JIM LEIJA: That's right. It's Jewish holidays. That's correct. Thank you.
• [00:06:10] JAMIE VANDER BROEK: I'm glad we're talking about this because I hadn't shifted it on my own calendar. [LAUGHTER] We're talking about whether we'll have a quorum on Tuesday evening, the 27th?
• [00:06:20] JIM LEIJA: Yes, we do have plans. I believe we voted for a closed session before the public meeting and then a public meeting at 07:00 P.M.
• [00:06:30] KERENE MOORE: I do have a conflict on the 27th.
• [00:06:35] DHARMA AKMON: I'll be here.
• [00:06:38] MOLLY KLEINMAN: I can be here.
• [00:06:39] JIM LEIJA: Great. Dharma, Molly, Scott.
• [00:06:42] ONNA SOLOMON: I was looking at my calendar. Yes. I can be here.
• [00:06:46] JIM LEIJA: Great.
• [00:06:46] ONNA SOLOMON: Did you say we're going to do a closed session at 06:00?
• [00:06:48] JIM LEIJA: I believe we have voted for [OVERLAPPING] Great. We will indeed have a quorum, though Kerene and I will be absent. If something changes I'll let everyone know. But thank you. Anything else, folks?
• [00:07:06] JAMIE VANDER BROEK: Thank you all.
• [00:07:08] JIM LEIJA: Meeting adjourned.