This document provides an overview of the Policy Assembly for Small & Rural Schools presented by Kris Boggs. It discusses Kris Boggs' background in education in Alaska, experience with education associations, and introduces the theme and mission of the assembly. It also outlines what the assembly will cover including members, committees, governance, proposed new business items and resolutions from the committees.

1. Policy Assembly
for
Small & Rural Schools
Presented by Kris Boggs
January 17, 2013

2. My Background in Education
• Teacher in Alaska since 1990
• Emmonak, Lower Yukon 1990-1994
• From 1994 to present in Dillingham
• Everything from 4th
grade to High School
Algebra
• Two year stint as Dean of Students

3. Association Experience
• President of Lower Yukon Education
Association 1992-1994
• Board of Directors NEA-AK 1994-96
• President of Dillingham EA, Bargaining Chair,
Building Representative, secretary, etc…
• Mini D.A. / DARSA / PARSA Chair for lots of
years -- too many to remember

4. Most challenging accomplishment
so far…
7000 mile road trip with relatively new
husband…..
In an older RV…

5. With my
kids…
And
KaraNoah

6. Introduce a new friend
• This is…..He/she is from…
• Current position…(how long)
• Biggest achievement/ proudest moment
or dream still aspiring to

7. Welcome to the 57th
Delegate Assembly
and especially to the Policy Assembly for
Small/Rural Asociations
Our theme this year:
“Rising to the Challenge
Leading the Profession”

8. Our Mission:
NEA-Alaska exists to be an advocate for an
excellent public education for each child in
Alaska and to advance the interests of public
school employees.

9. What is it?
Members
Committees
Governance
Staff

10. Members
NEA-Alaska is a diverse organization
of more than 13,000
• teachers and other certificated staff,
• Education Support Professionals
(ESPs),
• retired members, and
• students training to become teachers.

11. Committees
• Goal Team
• Delegate Assembly

12. NEA-AK Goal Team
Committees
• Human and Civil Rights Committee
• Government Relations Committee
• Delegate Assembly Steering and Rules
• Political Action Committee on Education
(PACE)

13. What is Delegate Assembly?
★
• Simply put, it’s an annual meeting held to
give members of NEA-AK a chance to drive
policy, set priorities and be heard

14. What do Delegates do? ★
• Evaluate NEA-AK’s Services to Locals
and propose new action accordingly
(New Business Items, NBI’s);
• Set lobbying priorities for the current
legislative session (Legislative NBI’s);
•Affirm and reaffirm our beliefs…
(Resolutions)
• adopt a budget (every other year);

15. Delegate Assembly
Committees
Section 1 page 1-2.
• Review prefiled motions (Section 4
page 1)
• Edit existing items
• Recommend (related to their goal area)
– New Business Items
– New Resolutions
– Legislative New Business Items

16. Delegate Assembly
Committees
• Governance
• Retirement
• School Funding
• Strong Locals
• Employee Rights
• Collective
Bargaining
• Professional Rights
• Communications
• Special Education
• Government
Relations/Political
Involvement
• Legislative Review*

17. What is PARSA?
80-4 PARSA: NEA-Alaska shall fund a Policy Assembly
(for) Rural (or) Small School Associations (PARSA)
for all delegates from associations with fewer than
150 members and all delegates from all REAA’s.* Any
larger local associations which have one or more
small rural sites will be allowed to seat one delegate
each at PARSA provided the delegate is currently
from a small rural site. The chair of PARSA shall
prepare a report summarizing action taken by the
delegates attending PARSA. The report will be
presented to all delegates at Delegate Assembly.
(Amended by 82-97, 85-26, 89-CA, 90-72, 92-CA and
04-10, 05-49, and 06-14)

18. So how does PARSA impact
Delegate Assembly?
• We generate:
• Legislative Items – promote lobbying priorities
• New Business Items– suggest that NEA-AK
take action or adjust its current action
• Resolutions – define our Rural Perspective on
important issues…
where do we stand?

19. How do we orchestrate change in
Alaska?

21. Another Legislative Item

22. Status of 2012 Legislative
Priorities
• Notebook Section 5
• Page 14

23. How do we make suggestions about how NEA-AK does
business?
We introduce New Business Items (NBI’s)
• NBI’s are mandates from Delegate
Assembly
• Must be acted upon by staff,
leadership, or governance
• They come with a price – a fiscal
note attached

24. Status of 2012 New Business
Items
• Notebook Section 5
• Page 8

25. file://localhost/Users/krisbogg/Desktop/A
1. Delegate Assembly Policies, NBIs that establish
continuing policies for NEA Alaska;
2. NBIs that have a termination date in the future;
3. NBIs with no termination date or termination dates in the
past will be archived with online access as part of NEA-
Alaska history.
11-55: Reorganization of DA NBIs: NEA Alaska shall
reorganize Delegate Assembly NBIs as follows:

26. We Adopt and/or modify
Resolutions
•Resolutions are simply statements of belief
No action is required -- except you need to refer
to your notebooks again. See if you can find it.
•C-3: Closed-Caption Video: NEA-Alaska
believes all training videos produced
and/or purchased should be closed-
caption. (Amended by 89-166, 93-CA, 01-
CA and 07-CA)

27. Another Resolution

28. Why are we at PARSA? ★
PARSA gives us an
opportunity to
• Collaborate with like minded rural and
small school educators and ESPS,
• Discuss rural issues, organize our
thoughts, practice our debate; and
• Compose our collective concerns into
action items and/or resolutions

29. Members of PARSA present a
strong, confident, unified front on the
Delegate Assembly floor
•Caucus each morning to present a unified front
on the Delegate Assembly floor;
•Help each other by being a second for motions;
•Speak in favor or in opposition according to our
caucus; (or sometimes according to our own
hearts), and
•Show up for the Legislative Review Committee
meetings.

30. How do I present my ideas?

31. • RESOLUTION / NEW BUSINESS ITEM / LEGISLATIVE
(circle one)
• Submitted by: Teresa Duncan_______________
• Region ________IV________________________
• Second: Nick Pader (Not required if submitted by committee)
• Title:
• Goal Area Committees
• □ Governance □ Advocacy □ Public Affairs
• □ Advocacy/Organization Development □ EE/Student/HCR
• □ EE/Professional Development/Member Services
•
• STATEMENT OF MOTION:
•

32. • RESOLUTION / NEW BUSINESS ITEM / LEGISLATIVE
(circle one)
• Submitted by: Teresa Duncan_______________
• Region ________IV________________________
• Second: ____Nick Pader___________________ (Not required if submitted by committee)
• Title: FEED PARSA Participants: There is such a thing as a free lunch
• Goal Area Committees
• □ Governance □ Advocacy □ Public Affairs
• □ Advocacy/Organization Development □ EE/Student/HCR
• □ EE/Professional Development/Member Services
•
• STATEMENT OF MOTION:

33. • RESOLUTION / NEW BUSINESS ITEM / LEGISLATIVE
(circle one)
• Submitted by: Teresa Duncan_______________
• Region ________IV________________________
• Second: ____Nick Pader___________________ (Not required if submitted by committee)
• Title: FEED PARSA Participants: There is such a thing as a free lunch
• Goal Area Committees
• □ Governance □ Advocacy □ Public Affairs
• □ Advocacy/Organization Development □ EE/Student/HCR
• □ EE/Professional Development/Member Services
•
• STATEMENT OF MOTION: NEA-Alaska shall provide a buffet
style lunch for PARSA participants.
• The effect of this motion is: This working lunch would allow
us to adjourn earlier so we could possibly go shopping.

34. Debate on the Floor
• Always say your name and your local’s name
• If you’re going to make a motion have a
second ready
• Use red paddle to speak against
• Use green paddle to speak for a motion
• Use either color to close debate
• Use yellow paddle to ask a real question

35. Well, that all sounds a little
scary…

36. See Section 1
• Page 11

37. Prefiled NBI's
submitted prior to DA
Failed NBI's are returned to MAKER
LRC debates priorities
and develops recommendation
LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
forwarded LRC
Fiscal Note Assigned
Edit and Type
Steering & Rules
assigns numbers and route
Goal Area Recorders
submit items to Steering and Rules
DA Goal Area Committees
will propose, amend, or delete NBI's,
resolutions and Legislateive NBI's
Steering & Rules will assign
number and route NBI to appropriate
Goal Area Committee
PARSA
NBI's, Resolutions and or Legislative Items
Other*
Individuals, Critical Issues, Special Interests
Getting An Item to Delegate Assembly
Delegates vote on NBI’s, Resolutions and
LRC recommendations

38. What happens to my NBI if it
fails in committee?
• File it with Steering and Rules
• It will be assigned a number and sent to
the fiscal note committee
• It will be edited and typed
• Delegates will debate & vote on it

39. See Section 1
• Page 3 Standing Rules
• Page 13 Parliamentary Procedures
• Page 12 Definitions

40. A little more information about
“The Notebook”
• Acronyms (Section 1, page 15)
• Map of Hotel (Section 1, page 19)

41. What will we do today?
What time is it over?

42. Committee Work
Volunteer to Take Charge!
Or volunteer to be a recorder!
Group Leader: If you have one or more years
experience as a delegate, help lead the small group
discussion. Please make sure everyone is heard!
First Item of Business:
Hear Everyone at your table
Address concerns --- write a NBI, Legislative
Item or Resolution …. Or beef up what’s on the
books

43. Create NBI’s and Resolutions
• 1. Go around the table and discuss concerns. Once
everyone has had the opportunity to present their
issues to the committee, look in notebook to see if
there is an NBI, Resolution or Legislative Item to
address concern
• 2. If none: write NBI, Resolution or Legislative
Item to present to PARSA (writing is best done in
very small group) while other members continue to
look at existing NBIs

44. Section 3
Delegate Assembly
Documents
• Resolutions
• NBI’s (goldenrod table of context by goal area
and year introduced page 29) Page 39 index
NBI by date introduced
• Legislative Program (green index page 41 by
goal area. Last index page 61 by year
introduced)

45. • 4. Look over Legislative Priorities and
determine if committee has a
recommendation to change priorities
• 5. If your committee has time, it may
be a good idea to review current
NBIs and Resolutions to see if they
need beefed up.

46. What happens next?
When the committees are ready to
present their NBI’s and resolutions,
we’ll practice parliamentary procedure.
We’ll pass or fail your group’s
contributions.

47. • Section 4 -- yellow
• Prefiled motions -- Board recommends
Do Pass
• Can be amended through DA with a 2/3
vote -- must be prefiled by November 1
• PACE guideline changes pink

48. VERY VERY IMPORTANT
• Please give me your NBI’s and
resolutions as soon as you can so they
can be typed
• Don’t hoard them! Our practice D.A.
can’t start until they are typed

49. Time for Committee Work

50. Board of Directors
See Region Map
page 18 Section 1
Region I 2 Directors
Region II 2 Directors
Region III 2 Directors
Region IV 3 Directors (1 vacancy)
Region V 4 Directors
Region VI 8 Directors
Region VII 5 Directors (1 vacancy)
Retired 3 Directors
ESP at Large 2 Directors

51. AS 14.08.031. Regional
Educational Attendance Areas.
• The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development in
consultation with the Department of Education and Early Development and local
communities shall divide the unorganized borough into educational
service areas using the boundaries or sub-boundaries of the regional
corporations established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act, unless by referendum a community votes to merge with another community
contiguous to it but within the boundaries or sub-boundaries of another regional
corporation.(b) An educational service area established in the unorganized
borough under (a) of this section constitutes a regional educational attendance
area. As far as practicable, each regional educational attendance area shall
contain an integrated socio-economic, linguistically and culturally homogeneous
area. In the formation of the regional educational attendance areas,
consideration shall be given to the transportation and communication network to
facilitate the administration of education and communication between
communities that comprise the area. Whenever possible, municipalities, other
governmental or regional corporate entities, drainage basins, and other
identifiable geographic features shall be used in describing the boundaries of the
regional school attendance areas.

54. Committee Representation
• Unless otherwise specified, all goal
teams shall consist of at least eight
members, one representative from each
geographic region except two from
Region VI. Region R will be
represented when specified.