• FA donates $2,500 to SCCC Covid-19 Emergency Donation Fund: The Executive Council voted twice to donate to the college's emergency donation fund for students for a total of $2,500. Knowing that over 1,000 students have outstanding balances of $600 or more, it is the sincere hope of the FA that these donations will enable students to stay at SCCC and continue their education.
  
  
• Stay up to the minute on the news: The FA reminds members that SCCC provides NYTimes.com Pass to employees which includes complimentary access to NYTimes.com and NYT apps. As shown on the SCCC library webpage, SCCC users can use this link to create an account to get access. After clicking the link, log in to SCCC and follow the instructions to create your NYTimes account.
  
  
• FA and Benefit Fund summer hours: While Anita in the FA office and Mary in the Benefit Fund are working remotely, both offices are open this summer. Please continue to call or email with your questions. All six officers are available all summer long as well.
  
  
• Summer 2020 adjunct/overload pay dates: Faculty working during the summer sessions can expect to be paid as follows:
  
  - First five-week session: June 18 and July 2
  - First eight-week session: June 18, July 2, July 16, July 30
  - Second eight-week session: July 2, July 16, July 30, August 13
  - Second five-week session: July 30 and August 13
  
  PA, library and other assignments will be paid on the following five summer payrolls: June 18, July 2, July 16, July 30 and August 13.
  
  Counselors will be paid based on scheduled work assignments using the six summer payroll dates: June 18, July 2, July 16, July 30, August 13 and August 27.
  
  
• 2020-21 holidays: The following represents the paid holidays for counselors, librarians, PAs, specialists and coordinators for the upcoming academic year.
  
  

  Fall 2020
  September 7	Labor Day
  November 11	Veterans Day
  November 26	Thanksgiving Day
  November 27	Day after Thanksgiving
  December 25	Christmas Day
  Spring 2021
  January 1	New Year’s Day
  January 18	Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  February 15	Presidents’ Day
  May 31	Memorial Day
  July 5	Independence Day (twelve-month faculty)

  
  

  In addition, there are three (3) unscheduled holidays for librarians, counselors, coordinators, professional assistants and specialists and three (3) unscheduled holidays for twelve-month faculty. The unscheduled holidays will be added to N or U days, which can be used for religious observances.
  
  The following is a summary of the 2020-21 N and U days:

  Counselors and librarians	37 + 3 = 40 N days
  Ten-month coordinators (lab)	42 + 3 = 45 N days
  Ten-month PAs and specialists	9 + 3 = 12 U days*
  Twelve-month coordinators (instructional)	7 + 3 = 10 U days
  Twelve-month counselors	35 + 3 = 38 N days
  Twelve-month PAs & specialists	7 + 3 = 10 U days
  * See Article IV.A.17

  
  

• Fall 2020 classes start dates: Please note that day, evening and online classes for this fall begin on September 2, Saturday classes begin September 12 and Sunday classes begin September 13.
  
  
• EC meeting dates: EC representatives should plan to attend monthly meetings in the upcoming academic year on the following dates, unless otherwise informed. Most meetings are held on Thursdays at 3:45. We anticipate that we will continue meeting via Zoom for the upcoming academic year.
  
  

  Fall 2020	Spring 2021
  August 27 at 10 am	February 11
  September 17 (if needed)	March 11
  October 8	April 8
  November 12	May 13
  December 10	May 28 at 1 pm

  
  
• Student loan payments and interest suspended due to Covid-19 crisis: Mirkin & Gordon, P.C., our Benefit Fund legal providers, have advised us that as part of the recently passed CARES Act, Congress provided help to federal student loan borrowers, including suspending payments and interest during the 6 1/2 month period from March 13, 2020, through September 30, 2020 on federal student loans (not private loans). We encourage our members to contact their student loan servicer to make sure they have a loan that would qualify for the provisions that might include payments suspended, no new interest accrued or student loan debt collection suspended.
  
  
• Major concern and setback for eldercare planning: Mirkin & Gordon, P.C., our Benefit Fund legal providers, also have advised us about a major concern regarding eldercare planning. A recent change to Section 366 of the New York State Social Services Law to impose a new thirty month look-back period for divestment of personal assets to be eligible for Medicaid coverage of community based long-term care services will impact elderly individuals who previously planned to stay in their homes with help from Medicaid to pay for critical services, but now may have to dip into their own pockets. We encourage our members to contact Mary in the Benefit Fund if you'd like to make an appointment (virtually) with someone at Mirkin & Gordon to discuss this.
  
  

	FA member Claire Rubman volunteered with SCCC students at a Mother's Day food drive. (photo courtesy Claire Rubman)

• FA members contribute to "Mothers for Others" food drive: FA member Claire Rubman was among those from the SCCC community who participated in a contact-less Mother's Day food drive on Sunday, May 10. Rubman worked alongside SCCC students to donate hundreds of food and personal health items to Island Harvest's Food Pantry at St. Cuthbert's in Selden. The event was dedicated to all mothers everywhere but specifically to the memory of Christine Brown, the mother of Lorraine Brown, an SCCC student who lost her mother two years ago.