Association of Professional Administrators

Minutes 2022-09

Date/Time: 10:00 am Friday, September 16, 2022

Location: Zoom

Present

APA Statewide

  • Seth Bean, President
  • Susan McNeil, Vice President
  • Mark Powers, Secretary
  • Aaron Childs, Membership Coordinator (Non-voting)
  • Gerol Petruzella, Web Manager (Non-voting)
  • Catherine Santiago, MTA Field Representative (Non-voting)

APA Chapter Presidents

  • Seth Bean, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
  • Renee Bernier, Bridgewater State University
  • Brian Cahillane, Westfield State University
  • Jane Decatur, Framingham State University
  • Peter Fenuccio, Worcester State University
  • Sherry Horeanopoulos, Fitchburg State President
  • Susan McNeil, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
  • Rosa Taormina, Salem State University
  • Edward Vacha, Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Guests

  • none

Absent

APA Statewide

  • Maria Brunelle, Treasurer (Non-Voting)
  • Roberta James, MTA Field Representative (Non-voting)

APA Chapter Presidents

  • none

Call to Order

  • 10:15 am

Approval of Minutes

  1. Friday, June 17, 2022
  • Amendments: attendance
  • Motion to approve membership report as amended made: by S. McNeil
  • 2nd by: S. Horeanopoulos
  • Vote: 8-0-1
  • Action: Motion Carries

Public Comments

  • None.

President’s Report

  1. Summer 2022 Negotiations with Management Regarding MOAs for Mask and for Vaccine Mandate
  • Motion 2022.09.16-01
  • Move to amend Mask MOA to include language stating unit members with previously approved
  • mask exemptions not be required to re-apply for the exemption.
  • Moved by: S. Horeanopoulos
  • 2nd by: S. McNeil
  • Vote: 4-6-0
  • Action: Motion Fails
    • No changes to Mask Mandate (Appendix A)
    • Vaccine Mandate – latest revised version (Appendix B1. & B.2) to send to Management
  1. Final Signed Version of July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023 APA CBA
    Still missing signature of BHE Commissioner.
    Printing hard copies for each campus and the E-Board – to be done by MTA
  1. MTA Report – Catherine Santiago
  • Fair Share Amendment – available to come to campuses to explain
  • Financial Training
  • Invite Heather LaPenn, Regional Manager for Higher Education, to October 2022 APA Exec Board meeting.

Treasurer’s Report – Maria Brunelle

  1. Payroll due on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 by 12:00pm.
  2. Approval of June 2022, July 2022, & August 2022 Treasurer’s Report
  • Amendments: None
  • Motion to approve membership report as presented/amended made by: S. McNeil
  • 2nd by: J. Decatur
  • Vote: Unanimous
  • Action: Motion Carries

Membership and Data – Aaron Childs

  1. 1317 Overall Membership since June 2022. A decrease of 29.
  2. 158 Non-Dues Paying Members. An increase of 7 since June 2022.
  3. Our new dues are still aren’t being deducted from our paychecks. Seth reached out to Michael last week, hopefully they’ll have the new rates in the first paycheck in October.
  4. Susan asked for membership totals of the MTA and the NEA. I’m waiting for Tony at the MTA to get back to me with those numbers.

Website – Gerol Petruzella

  1. 1 June – 30 June 2022
    1. Website Overview – Users. During June 2022, maapa.org saw a decrease in users, but an increase in sessions, relative to May 2022 (Figure 1). The most popular days/times for users to visit the site were Thursdays between 8a and 10a ET (Figure 2).
    2. Website Overview – Traffic. Traffic to maapa.org was predominantly direct traffic or the result of a Google search (Figure 3). The top 10 most visited pages are indicated (Figure 4).
    3. Website Overview – Other. 
      • I performed content updates on the site including:
        1. Updated meeting minutes.
      • On 26 June, Google Analytics notified that the current “Universal Analytics” product (which we use for maapa.org) will sunset on 1 July 2023. Web managers are encouraged to move to their new product, Google Analytics 4, as soon as possible. This will require a property setup process to implement and transition, to maintain data continuity. (link to Google’s blog post about the analytics transition.)
      • I continued to maintain an internal WordPress instance of the site in parallel with the “live” Drupal instance. As the Drupal instance falls further behind in security updates, I continue to recommend transitioning to the WordPress CMS as soon as possible. I also suggest that aligning the CMS transition with the Analytics transition will minimize both labor and disruption.
  1. 1 August – 31 August 2022
    1. Website Overview – Users. During August 2022, maapa.org saw increases in both users and sessions relative to July 2022 (Figure 1). The most popular days/times for users to visit the site were Mondays between 11a and 4p ET, then Tuesdays between 10a and 3p ET (Figure 2).
    2. Website Overview – Traffic. Traffic to maapa.org was predominantly direct traffic or the result of a Google search (Figure 3). The top 10 most visited pages are indicated (Figure 4).
    3. Website Overview – Other. 
      • I performed content updates on the site including:
        a. Updated meeting minutes.
      • On 26 June, Google Analytics notified that the current “Universal Analytics” product (which we use for maapa.org) will sunset on 1 July 2023. Web managers are encouraged to move to their new product, Google Analytics 4, as soon as possible. This will require a property setup process to implement and transition, to maintain data continuity. (link to Google’s blog post about the analytics transition.)
      • I continued to maintain an internal WordPress instance of the site in parallel with the “live” Drupal instance. As the Drupal instance falls further behind in security updates, I continue to recommend transitioning to the WordPress CMS as soon as possible. I also suggest that aligning the CMS transition with the Analytics transition will minimize both labor and disruption.

Health and Welfare Fund Report – Susan McNeil

  1. There are 4 to 5 months on reserves. Still with MetLife
  2. Next meeting is October ??, 2022

Committee Reports

Budget Committee – Rosa Taormina & Seth Bean

  • No report.

Working Committee for Employee Relations Committee

  • No report.

Professional Development – Sherry Horeanopoulos & Ed Vacha

  • No report.

Special Committees:

  1. Committee on Legislative Action – Susan McNeil, Seth Bean, & Sherry Horeanopoulos
    1. No report.
  2. Committee on Health & Safety – Renee Bernier & Susan McNeil
    1. No report.

Negotiations – Contract Committee

  1. Employee Relations Committee – Brian Cahillane, Jane Decatur, & Rosa Taormina
  • Topics for next round of negotiations:
    • Salary Compression
    • Longevity
    • Workload

Old/New Business

  1. FAQ of the Month for the Website for October
    Covid Agreement
    State-wide meeting in November
  2. Approval of Exec Board minutes within 7 days of meeting (M. Powers)
    Asking for the Exec Board to vote on the minutes once they are sent to them.
  3. Leadership Directory (M. Powers). – excel spreadsheet in Google Docs. Will re-post and ask all chapter presidents to provide contact information for their chapter positions.
    A revised version will then be shared with Catherine to provide to MTA for updating the MTA website.

Institutional Issues

Announcements

None.

Adjournment

  1. Motion to Adjourn made at 1:50pm by: S. Horeanopoulos
  2. 2nd by: S. McNeil
  3. Vote: Unanimous
  4. Action: Motion Carries

Next APA Meetings:

EventTimeDateFormatLocation
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, October 21, 2022VirtualZoom
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, November 18, 2022HybridZoom/Salem State University
Annual State-Wide Membership12:00pmFriday, November 18, 2022HybridZoom/Salem State University
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, December 16, 2022In-PersonWorcester MTA Office
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, January 20, 2023VirtualZoom
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, February 17, 2023VirtualZoom
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, March 17, 2023VirtualZoom
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, April 21, 2023VirtualZoom
APA Executive Board10:00amFriday, June 16, 2023In-PersonTBD
upcoming 2022-2023 APA Board meeting dates

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