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Revised
February 1, 2007
TEMECULA
VALLEY EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
BYLAWS
I.
NAME
AND LOCATION
The name of this Association shall
be the Temecula Valley Educators
Association (
TVEA
) in Riverside County, California.
II.
PURPOSES
The
primary purposes of this Association
shall be:
A.
To
represent its members in their
relations with their employers and to
be the
exclusive representative 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 other terms and
conditions of employment;
B.
To
form a representative body capable of
developing a group opinion on
professional matters to speak
with authority for members;
F.
To
encourage cooperation and
communication between the
profession and the community; and
G.
To
foster good fellowship among
members.
A.
The
Temecula Valley Educators
Association (
TVEA
) shall be a chartered
chapter of the
California Teachers Association
(CTA).
B.
The
Temecula Valley Educators Association
(
TVEA
) shall be an affiliated local
association of the National Education
Association (NEA).
IV.
MEMBERSHIP
A.
Membership
shall be open to any certificated
person who is engaged in or
who is on limited leave
of absence from professional
education work, is an
employee of the
Temecula Valley Unified School
District or retired
from said
district, and whose
primary assignment is such as not to
hold supervisory
responsibility over
other certificated employees to such
an extent as not to be
represented in the
negotiations process by the
association bargaining unit.
B.
Membership
may be granted upon initiation of
payroll deduction or upon
payment of annual
TVEA
/CTA/NEA dues.
C.
Active
members shall be eligible to vote in
all elections, hold elective
office
or appointive position, receive
special service, obtain assistance
in the protection
of professional and civil rights,
and receive reports and publications
of the
Association.
D.
An
individual who is serving as a
negotiator for a public school
employer shall not be eligible for
membership in the Association.
E.
Active members shall adhere
to The
Code of Ethics of the Education
Profession.
(CTA Bylaws Article III, 5).
F.
The rights and privileges
of membership shall not be
abridged in any way because of
age, gender, race, ethnic group,
marital status, national origin,
or sexual orientation.
G.
No member of the Association
may be disciplined without a due
process
hearing, which shall include the established
appellate procedure.
H.
The
membership year shall be that
period of time from July 1 of any
given calendar year through June
30 of the following calendar year,
inclusive.
V.
DUES,
FEES AND ASSESSMENTS
A.
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, dues of CTA, and
the dues of NEA.
B.
The
Association’s portion of the basic
annual dues shall be established
by
action of the Leadership
Council’s first regular
meeting of the school year.
C.
Local
dues shall be a percentage equal
to the percentage contracted.
A.
The
policy-making body of the
Association shall be the Leadership
Council.
The Leadership
Council, comprised of Site
Leaders and Leaders
At-Large, derives its powers from
and shall be responsible to the
membership.
B. The Leadership Council shall be composed of the following active members:
1.
Executive
Board, non-voting;
2.
Site
Leaders
elected on the basis of one-person
one-vote;
3.
Leaders
At-Large at the Association’s
discretion to include, but not limited
to:
a.
Elected
Service Center Council Representatives
when not already serving on the Leadership
Council in another
capacity, non-voting;
b.
Committee
Chairpersons, non-voting;
c.
CTA
State Council Representatives when not
already serving on the Leadership
Council in another capacity,
non-voting; and
d.
NEA
Delegates when not already serving on
the Leadership
Council in another capacity,
non-voting.
C.
The Leadership
Council shall:
1.
Establish
Association policies and objectives;
2.
Adopt
the annual budget of the Association
on or before the first meeting of the
school year;
3.
Approve
the establishment of or discontinuance
of committees; and
4.
Establish
the dues of the Association.
D.
The
Leadership
Council shall meet at least once
during each school
month; the number, place and time
of meetings to be decided by the
Executive Board.
E.
A
quorum for all meetings of the Leadership Council shall consist of a
majority
of all voting members of the Council.
There shall be no voting
by proxy.
F.
The
Executive Board shall meet prior to
the Leadership Council at least once a month to
plan for the Leadership
Council Meeting.
G.
The
budget of the Association shall be
adopted by the membership on or before
the first regular meeting of the
school year.
H.
Special
meetings of the Leadership
Council or Executive Board may be
called by the President, the Executive
Board, or by petition containing
signatures of twenty percent (20%) of
the membership.
I.
Special
meetings of the Leadership Council or Executive Board shall be called for a
specific purpose and no business other
than that for which the meeting is
called may be transacted.
J.
Notices
and agendas for all meetings of the Leadership Council and/or Executive Board
shall be sent to all members of the Leadership Council, Executive Board, and made
available for posting at least two (2)
days prior to the date of the meeting.
K.
For
emergency meetings of the Leadership Council or the Executive Board during crisis
situations, the Board shall adopt
procedures to notify members of
meeting dates, places, and times.
VII.
SITE
LEADERS
A.
Site
Leaders
shall be elected by and from the
membership at each school site.
Such elections shall be by open
nominations and by secret ballot.
B.
The
term of a Site Leader
shall be one (1) year.
C.
Each
school site shall be entitled to at
least one (1) Leader and shall have one Leader
for each (20) certificated staff
members.
1.
Members
who are not represented through an
individual school faculty group shall
be counted as a special faculty group
entitled the same representation on
the Leadership Council as individual school
groups.
2.
Elected
Service Center Council Representatives
shall sit on the Leadership
Council as non-voting members;
3.
Elected
State Council Representatives and/or
NEA Delegates shall sit on the Leadership Council as non-voting members.
D.
Site
Leaders
shall:
1.
Conduct
constant and ongoing liaison between
the Executive Board and members of the
school site;
2.
Serve
as the official channel through which
written communications and
publications can be easily and quickly
transmitted between the Association
and its members;
3.
Represent
the views and input of the membership
of the school site in votes taken in
the Leadership Council and conduct frequent and
regular polls of such membership for
this purpose; and
4.
Perform
such additional duties as prescribed
by the Executive Board.
E.
Vacancies
may be filled by properly elected or
appointed replacements.
F.
A
Site Leader
shall not conduct an election in which
he/she is a candidate.
VIII.
AREA
REPRESENTATIVES
A.
Area
Representatives shall be elected
At-Large by and from the membership
within each designated area.
B.
Area
Representatives shall:
1.
Serve
on the Executive Board as voting
members;
2.
Serve
on the Leadership Council as non-voting members; and
3.
Be
responsible for coordinating grievance
processing at each appropriate elected
level.
C.
At-Large
members of the Executive Board shall
be elected with open nominations and
by secret ballot.
D.
At-Large
members of the Executive Board shall
be elected for a term of two (2) years
commencing on July 1 of any calendar
year.
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