Agency Fee Payer – Member Sign-up Plan

SPFT

March 4, 2015

Saint Paul Federation of Teachers currently has 522 fair share or agency fee payers out of our three bargaining units. SPFT will be assigning Nick Faber to lead a team of six members over the months of March-July to sign-up these fee payers to be members. The Officers of SPFT will select a team of six: 2 teachers, 2 EA and 2 S&CSP to do this work as laid out in this plan.

Key elements that will help us be successful:

  • Simplifying the membership forms so that less time is required to sign the paperwork. There are currently 4 pieces of paperwork new members are asked to sign and it takes a minimum of 8-10 minutes to complete.
  • Securing release time for our team of members to go into targeted sites and ask fee payers to sign-up.
  • Training the team.

Current Numbers:

Teachers: 311

EAs: 127

S&CSP: 84

Timeline: March 2015-July 2015

March:

  • Simplify membership forms for fee payers switching to members.
  • Assemble team packets for each school with necessary materials.
  • Create building charts, contact sheets, and reporting sheets.
  • Steward committee to review list of fee payers with executive board and stewards—gather information on fee payers and assign e-board and stewards to make asks in the month of March.
  • Identify six team members.

April:

  • Goal for month: 236 sign ups (90% of folks at target sites)
  • Train team of 4 to start doing school visits and home visits to sign-up members.
  • Give team one week of release time to do school visits and home visits – April 13-17 (April 17 is EA PD day).
  • The team will target the following schools for site visits in April (a total of 262 fee payers):
  1. Wellstone
  2. Washington
  3. Student Placement Center
  4. Ramsey Middle
  5. Obama Elementary
  6. Murray Middle
  7. Linwood Monroe
  8. Journey’s
  9. Humboldt
  10. Homecroft
  11. Harding
  12. Farnsworth Upper
  13. EXPO
  14. Crossroads
  15. Central
  16. Ben Mays
  17. Battle Creek Middle
  18. 360 Colborne
  19. 271 Belvidere.
  • Team members will be paid a stipend of $25 per hour for each additional hour they work after the week of release to continue signing up members. Team members will be required to debrief with the team lead each time they do additional work.

May:

  • Goal for month: 175 sign-ups (90% of target sites)
  • Give team another week of release time to do school visits and home visits.
  • The team will target the following schools for site visits in May (a total of 196 fee payers):
  1. Adams
  2. ALCs
  3. Bridge View
  4. Bruce Vento
  5. Como Park Elementary
  6. Como Senior
  7. Creative Arts
  8. Center for Professional Development
  9. Eastern Heights
  10. ECSE
  11. Focus Beyond
  12. Four Seasons
  13. Frost Lake
  14. Hazel Park Prep
  15. Highland Middle
  16. Highland Senior
  17. Horace Mann
  18. Hubbs Center
  19. Johnson Senior
  20. L’Etoile Upper
  21. Mississippi
  22. Parkway
  23. Phalen Lake
  24. Randolph Heights
  25. RiverEast
  26. Riverview
  27. St. Anthony Park
  28. SPMA
  29. The Heights
  • Continue to pay team members a stipend for each additional hour they work to sign up members after school and on weekends.

June/July:

  • Goal for June and July: 90 members
  • Team members will continue to work for hourly stipend doing home visits until each agency payer has been asked to sign-up as a member.
  • We anticipate an additional 100 contacts will still need to be made.

Budget:

  • Cost to simplify forms:
  • Hire a FileMaker Pro (SPFT data base program) programmer to create a membership form that automatically generates current fee payers’ information.
  • Cost: $200
  • Release Time costs:
  • Teachers, $120 per day for subs = $2400
  • EAs—dependent on who is selected, cost per sub per day
  • Additional Hours Costs Projection ($25/hour)
  • April: 6 hours per week, per team member= $1000
  • May: 6 hours per week, per team member=$1000
  • June/July: 100 hours=$2500