GCEA Director’s Meeting June 2025
GCEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held on June 18, 2025, in person in the Perkins Room and via Teams. Meeting was called to order by Patty Mundo, Vice President at 12:10 pm. Roll was called. Guests in attendance: Anna Osborne, CEA
MEETING AGENDA APPROVAL:
Motion was made by Patty Mundo to accept the printed agenda for the June meeting. Motion seconded by Steve Morris. Motion carries.
FINANCE REPORT:
The May Profit and Loss report was reviewed by the Finance committee and approved via email. The report will be distributed with approved June Minutes. Profit and Loss was sent to directors prior to meeting.
MINUTES APPROVAL:
May Meeting Minutes were approved via voting buttons. The minutes may now be posted in your department if you have not already done so.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT AND DISCUSSION:
· Sean Toro, President is out on vacation for three (3) weeks returning July 8. Patty Mundo Vice President will be conducting the meeting.
· Matt Mancini and Gerald Mendoza will be acting Vice President’s during the absence of Sean Toro with Patty Mundo stepping in as acting President.
· Currently there is a GCEA member who needs assistance due to house damage during fires. HR sent an email asking if the associations could assist with some immediate financial assistance. Patty is going to confirm that the person requesting assistance is a GCEA member. If so, the board agrees to donate $500 from the scholarship budget line to assist the member. We will wait until after the 24th of June to make sure we do not have applications for scholarships, then a check can be issued. Patty Mundo will follow up on membership of individual.
· The city deficit update is currently at 13 million.
· Patty received an application form from CEA. She will check with the CEA as to why we received this form. This form is not usable for the GCEA in its current state.
· Sean wanted Patty to convey that due to the political climate there should be no talk of politics in the workplace.
VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT:
· Matt Mancini and Gerald Mendoza will be acting as VP’s during the absence of Sean Toro.
· Matt discussed the health care insurance increase for members. Asking if we can revisit collective bargaining for health care. Joe Palos went over the history of this issue and it is currently not an option for the city; however, Joe will revisit the issue with HR.
· Gerald Mendoza brought up the issue with management aggressively going after employees. He suggested that we have a meeting with management and CEA regarding management overstepping. Anna Osborne, CEA agreed there should be a meeting.
· According to Anna, witnesses do not have the right to representation by CEA however they can have a GCEA representative with them in a meeting.
· There is a representation request form that needs to be filled out if someone is requesting assistance.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Community Alliance – Joe Palos, Chair will set a meeting for the committee to discuss service opportunities.
Political Action – Patty Mundo, Chair will set a meeting for the committee.
Benefits – Joe Palos, Chair had nothing to report other than previously mentioned item regarding the health care increases.
Social Media (Digital Communications) –
· Elisabeth Bergman, Chair reported that the committee decided to change the committee’s name.
· We will be launching a new discount site called Member Deals. This is exclusive to members only and will be hosted on our website. Members will need to log in to access the site. Stephanie will send out an email regarding the new program. Should any member have questions, direct them to Elisabeth or Stephanie.
· FAQ’s have been updated on the website.
· Directors and Committee members now have a separate tab on the website making it easier to locate the needed information.
· Greg Asaturian has launched our new LinkedIn site.
Employee Assistance – Patty Mundo, Chair reported we have one (1) new loan application.
Scholarship - Leslie Fox, Chair reported that we have had no applications, and we have extended the deadline to June 24th.
New Employee Orientation – Kerri Zelenak, Chair reported that the next onboarding meeting is scheduled for July 17th. Kerri will reach out to HR to make sure that they are still planning to hold the meeting.
Bylaws – Stephanie Kinnison in absence of Sean Toro reported that we plan to submit the bylaws for a vote in July.
OLD BUSINESS:
Directors need to sign up to serve on at least one committee.
Wage Conference – Joe Palos, Bertha Albright, Patty Mundo, Kerri Zelenak, and Sean Toro would like to attend WAGE. Stephanie will send out registration information.
NEW BUSINESS:
None to report
Motion to adjourn made by Bertha Albright; Seconded by Elisabeth Bergman
Meeting adjourned at 1:11 p.m.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Stephanie Kinnison
