Common use of Organizational Meeting Clause in Contracts

Organizational Meeting. This meeting is to be run by a facilitator(s) and held by September 30 of the school year that negotiations will take place. All members of both negotiating teams are to be present. A. Decision-making Review the decision-making process that is to be used. All agreements are to be by the consensus model chosen by the concentrated negotiations. Development committee--This process should be reviewed by all participants. B. Materials Develop a list of materials needed for the concentrated negotiations. C. Non-Participating Consultants Non-participating consultants may be present at the concentrated negotiations sessions. D. Agenda The agenda for concentrated negotiations will be developed in the following way: 1. The Confederation and administration have already developed separate interests they wish to negotiate. 2. The Confederation and administration will present the interests they have developed. The Confederation presents their interests along with a rationale. The administration will do likewise. The interests will be written on a flip chart. The presenter will verbally explain the interest. Focus will remain on the issue. Some discussion may be needed to assist in the understanding of the interest by team members. If someone begins to offer solutions, the solutions should be noted and kept for a later time. A list of Confederation and administration interests should be developed separately. 3. After all interests have been presented, written on the flip charts and discussed, a common list of interests is to be developed using the consensus decision-making model. Some interests may be combined with others, dropped or may stand alone. 4. The Confederation and the local parish and/or regionally organized school(s) will develop their own respective local issues using steps 1, 2 and 3 above. E. Establish Subcommittees At this time, the chief negotiators who met at the planning meeting will become “part of the group.” Each issue placed on the agenda will be researched by a committee. The number of issues assigned to each committee shall be determined by the depth of the issue. Every person on the negotiating team must be on a committee, and the committees should be balanced as to teacher/administrator ratio.

Organizational Meeting. This meeting is to be run by a facilitator(s) and held by September 30 of the school year that negotiations will take placeJune 20. All members of both negotiating teams are to be present. A. Decision-making making--Review the decision-making process that is to be used. All agreements are to be by the consensus model chosen by the concentrated negotiationsnegotiations development committee. Development committee--This process should be reviewed by all participants. B. Materials Materials--Develop a list of materials needed for the concentrated negotiations. C. Non-Participating Consultants Non-participating consultants may be present at the concentrated negotiations sessions. D. Agenda Agenda--The agenda for concentrated negotiations will be developed in the following way: 1. The Confederation and administration the Office have already developed separate interests they wish to negotiate. 2. The Confederation and administration the Office will present the interests they have developed. The Confederation presents their interests along with a rationale. The administration Office will do likewise. The interests will be written on a flip chart. The presenter will verbally explain the interest. Focus will remain on the issue. Some discussion may be needed to assist in the understanding of the interest by team members. If someone begins to offer solutions, the solutions should be noted and kept for a later time. A list of Confederation and administration the Office interests should be developed separately. 3. After all interests have been presented, written on the flip charts and discussed, a common list of interests is to be developed using the consensus decision-making model. Some interests may be combined with others, dropped or may stand alone. 4. The Confederation and the local parish and/or regionally organized school(s) will develop their own respective local issues using steps 1, 2 and 3 above. E. D. Establish Subcommittees Subcommittees--At this time, the chief negotiators who met at the planning meeting will become “part of the group.” Each issue placed on the agenda will be researched by a committee. The number of issues assigned to each committee shall be determined by the depth of the issue. Every person on the negotiating team must be on a committee, and the committees should be balanced as to teacher/administrator ratioratio whenever possible.