College District Has Commission Vacancy

The Ventura County Community College District hopes to entice someone to serve on its three-member personnel commission, and the district is willing to pay.

The person would ensure that the rules governing classified personnel--anyone who isn’t faculty, such as maintenance staff or receptionists--are followed properly. For example, the commission oversees promotions, performance evaluations, disciplinary actions and overtime regarding the nonacademic employees.

The term is three years and begins Dec. 1. Commissioners must attend monthly meetings, where they will be paid $50.

Deadline for submission is July 18. The board of trustees will review resumes and make its nomination to the state chancellor.

After a controversy last year, Social Services Union Local 535 will be given the opportunity to have candidates considered for the post. Union spokesman Greg Cross said that last year the union was not included in the commissioner search.

In a series of letters to the state chancellor’s office beginning in September, Cross wrote that the union was “completely shut out of the [selection] process” for a new personnel commissioner. He accused the board of being the “antithesis of the open, collegial process [its] guidelines . . . call for.”

Barbara Buttner, the college district’s spokeswoman, said the board’s exclusivity was “not intentional.” She said it didn’t dawn on board members to include union members last year.

To request an application, call the college district’s human resources department at 654-6426.