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>> This recording is copyrighted by Johnson County Community College for the private use
of our audience. Any other use of this recording without consent from Johnson County Community
College is prohibited. >> United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all. >> Chairman Weiss: We'll turn to Terri Schlicht
for roll call and recognition of visitors. >> This evening's visitors include Matt Jensen,
Zach Luca, Tim Ryan, and Ann Arnott. >> Chairman Weiss: All right. Thank you. This
is our first Petitions and Communications section of the Board agenda and it's a time
for members of the community to provide their comments to the Board. Comments are limited
to five minutes unless a significant number of people plan to speak. In that instance,
the Chair may limit a person's comments to something less than five minutes. Presenters
may choose to speak at either the first or second Petitions and Communications section,
but not both. And prior to beginning comments, we'd ask that you state your name, address,
city and state. And do we have anyone who would like to address the Board at this time?
All right, seeing none, we will close the Petitions and Communications section. We will
have another one towards the end of the agenda for this evening.
And that moves us to awards and recognition, and Dr. Grove?
>> Trustee Grove: Thank you, Chair Weiss. First of all, we'd like to recognize the student
Maxwell Matite. Is Maxwell here tonight? Oh, outside. We want to bring him inside.
(Laughter.) Now, okay, he's coming. Very good. Mr. Maxwell
Matite, and we want to recognize him tonight because he was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Foundations
Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. And these scholarships honor academic excellence and
need, and they help send 60 of the top students in the -- community college students in the
country to four-year colleges, top level four-year colleges. He's going to be receiving up to
$30,000 per year for three years in order to complete his bachelor's degree. Maxwell
is only the second Johnson County Community College student to receive such an award.
Congratulations, Maxwell. (Applause.)
Thank you. >> If I might, Mr. Chairman, before Maxwell
leaves. Every once in awhile we have a very special students who come across our college
campus and we have the chance to work with them and see them in action, and Mr. Matite,
he has shown his skill and his talent in our Model U.N. program and Honors Program and
Student Government, just in a host of things around our college campus. Several of you
had the chance to meet Maxwell a couple months back when he was
recognized here at the Board meeting as one of our All-Kansas Academic Team members, one
of two from our college that went on -- went on that All-Kansas team. Maxwell is one of
those very, very special people who's made us a better college. Maxwell, we're so lucky
to have you on our campus and we've been blessed to have you here for two years and we know
you'll go off and make so many of us very, very proud. We thank you for all you've done
here, all your voluntarism, all the things that you've worked on and certainly your hard
work in the classroom, with Model U.N. and Honors and all those other programs we mentioned.
Thank you so much for all that you've done and congratulations.
>> Maxwell, where are you going to go? (Inaudible.)
>> Very good. >> Dr. Calaway: Congratulations.
(Applause.) >> Chairman Weiss: Next, recently at a ceremony
in New York City, Dr. Jay Antle accepted the Silver Edison Green Award for Johnson County
Community College. The Edison Green Award recognizes institutions that are committed
to sustainable solutions in green business models, and in particularly, they look at
institutions that are committed to reducing their carbon footprint and increasing green
jobs and improving community health. Last year, as a matter of fact, the city of Greensburg,
Kansas, excuse me, won the Gold Award. So we're honored to follow in their footsteps.
And in particular, our storm water treatment project was noted, and Dr. Antle of course
spearheaded that effort. So congratulations and thank you.
(Applause.) (Speaker off mic, inaudible.)
>> What award is that, Jay? (Speaker off mic, Inaudible.)
>> Dr. Calaway: If I might just say, Jay and his team have done a great job with working
with the students related to the sustainability fee and the storm water project, and after
all is said and done, this is not about awards. This is about making our campus a better place
and our world a better place for those who are with us now and who also are going to
follow us. And, Jay, we thank you for all you've done. We have all kinds of neat projects.
I know that the students group has -- is working on this year and with a lot of leadership
from Jay, we know we're going to see a lot of good things coming down the pike. So congratulations
on all that you do. (Speaker off mic, inaudible.)
>> Trustee Grove: Finally, we'd like to recognize Associate Professor of History Dr. Jim Leiker,
if you'd approach the podium. As we know, Johnson County Community College is one of
19 community colleges in the nation that comprised the Board for the League for Innovation in
Community Colleges. And every year each one of those 19 community colleges are awarded
an Innovation of the Year Award, which recognizes projects that have been innovative and have
achieved a high level of success. And then they are published and they serve as models
for the other community colleges in the nation. Dr. Leiker championed and is now the director
of the Kansas Studies Institute. And as far as we -- it's a very rare -- it's very rare
that community colleges host regional institutes like this. And we could only find one other
community college in the nation that has another regional
institute. So, Dr. Leiker, thank you and congratulations. (Applause.)
>> Dr. Calaway: Mr. Chairman, as you return to your seat, I'd just like to recognize Jim
for one other project, although we could probably recognize him for dozens because he's one
of those very special people who kind of steps out all the time and has great ideas. But
Jim is also the person who kind of had the brainchild for our Faculty Scholars Program
and has brought the best and brightest talent from amongst our faculty. Those faculty do
research around special projects and talents and then present those to our community and
to our region. And Jim's done just a great job with that as well. And along with Jay,
they've led the Kansas trip and we've just had some wonderful, wonderfully rich and robust
conversations and discussions as a result of the work Jim does. We thank you for that
extra effort beyond the call of duty. Congratulations. >> Trustee Grove: That concludes my report.
>> Chairman Weiss: Thank you, Dr. Grove. Do you have a College Lobbyist Report for us
this evening? >> Mr. Carter: Yeah, Mr. Chairman. Thank you
for having me over this evening. Recently, my reports, the content and delivery were
described as exciting as watching paint dry. (Laughter.)
So with that in mind, I've decided to shorten my report to seven pages.
(Laughter.) And I pledge to you not to miss a beat reading
it line by line. I do plan to touch on some of the highlights, though.
Everything in the report is applicable to the college, some more than others. And so
I'll probably skip a few areas and allow you some evening reading time later on, after
the meeting. But I did want to just touch on the way the
session left us at the end of the year, some of the major accomplishments that occurred
and sort of what we're anticipating as we move into the 2012 legislative session and
the interim session that leads up to it. The 2011 session ended at about sunrise on Friday
the 13th. It seems only appropriate that it ended on that morning. The session was marked
with a broken computer system that made it very difficult to follow what was going on,
and for those that actually write the bills, you've heard me talk about it before, to actually
produce the material that the legislature needs to conduct their business. Also marked
with new rules, contentious debates, unscheduled meetings and a private agenda. I suppose that's
pretty common terminology when you are talking about legislative bodies. But it seems more
so this year than ever before, and what we witnessed in the way the two bodies worked
together and in and amongst themselves. It certainly gave a new meaning to transparency
at its best as far as those that were involved in the process and sort of watching what was
going on are concerned. Folks will be back on June 1st for the formal closure of the
legislative session called Sine Die. At that time, should the Governor have vetoed any
particular item or bill, that is the legislature's last attempt to override such vetoes. I don't
believe there's going to be anything -- there may be one issue and I'll talk about it a
little bit later. I don't know if it will garner enough votes, should there be a veto
or not, to override the Governor's decision-making power. But we'll talk about that a little
bit later in the report. The session that was supposed
to be all about the budget ended up really being 80 days of being in Topeka and about
10 days of getting down to brass tacks and getting the budget done. It makes it very
frustrating for those of us that are trying to protect the interests that we represent,
whether it's supporting a piece of legislation or trying to keep a piece of legislation away.
The other thing that we saw this year, and it's very concerning to me, is as we move
forward, was a new way of doing business. We always have a conference committee process
that trues up the differences in a bill, if you will. This year we saw more and more bills
with different issues dumped into single conference committee reports. I don't recall the number,
but simply because I don't track the committee a whole lot, but there was a judiciary bill
that I believe had more than 13 bills placed in it. That becomes a nightmare, not only
when you are trying to track the bills themselves, but for those that write the legislation,
it's a recipe for disaster and mistakes all across the board. And we find ourselves revisiting
those issues year after year to clean up the messes and the mistakes that were made.
The budget was indeed what this was all about. We knew going into the session that there
was a $500 million shortfall. Out of the chutes, the House came out with a budget that would
be in the neighborhood of an $80 million cut. So essentially they found $580 million within
the existing resources to put a budget together that would not require a tax increase. That
was not the final analysis, but when we started looking at the ball game at the beginning,
that's where we were at. The Senate was in a much different position. Some of their initial
numbers were in the low two-digit numbers, in the 12 to $14 million surplus range. The
governor had indicated that he wanted a $7.5 million ending
balance in his budget recommendations. In the final analysis, the magic number that
really -- and I talked about this during my last report. There was no get-out-of-town
plan when folks went home in April. The magic number that became the get-out-of-town plan
was $50 million. It's a rather arbitrary number. It's not tied to anything specific. But the
House sort of stuck their feet in the sand and said we will settle for nothing less than
$50 million of an ending balance and that's what it takes to get out of town. It took
us several days to -- and several negotiation periods and I think finally the Governor started
calling folks into his office to let them know, look, folks, we need to get our business
done and get out of here on the 90th day and that sort of became one of the closing points
was the $50 million ending balance. At one point, though, I think you should be
aware because these are things we have to look forward to next year, there are some
in the House that wanted to cut an additional $100 million out of the budget, and, again,
that's a significant amount when you are talking about items that large, whether you spread
it across state government or whether you were to just zero out a state university,
for example, it would be a good one that might receive that type of funding.
We're billing this as a first time the budget has been cut in a number of years. That in
effect is true. However, this year's budget spends about 6% more than last year's budget.
It's a $14 billion all funds budget. And we're still billing it as a reduced services, reduced
budget. May and June revenue predictions are looking
good at this point. Should we end up with extra dollars at the end of fiscal year 2011,
that money will be added to the $50 million ending balance. That could cause some problems
for legislators because there are serious discussions going on right now and serious
cuts were made not only to K-12 schools, but across the board. When you are talking about
closing an institution like the Kansas Neurological Institute or when you are talking about not
funding the market wage adjustment component for state employees, that's only worth about
$7.5 million across the state, those start presenting big problems to lawmakers when
they have to address the budget if there's a major surplus at the end.
For higher education, the ultimate cuts system wide was about $11.1 million. A portion of
that came from a floor amendment in the House that stuck during the conference committee
process that tapped higher ed for about 8.7, 8.8 million. Then in the final hours of budget
negotiation, there was another $2.4 million of state general fund cut that will be spread
across the system. So I don't know that the Board has determined how they're planning
on distributing those cuts. But my guess is it would be along the lines of the formula
driven process that would be equal based on the amount that each institution or each organization
or each higher education level gets through the Board process.
A couple of good things to note. There's a $500,000 Economic Development Initiatives
Fund grant, competitive grant process that was scheduled to be administered through the
Department of Commerce. That will be administered through the Board of Regents. It's a one-for-one
matching grant program designed to produce programs that will produce jobs. I think we're
in a good position to put together some grants that will bring some of those dollars to this
campus. The other thing that I think is worth noting
is the work that went into the Post-Secondary Technical Education Authority,
the committee work there along with the approval of the Board of Regents and the look from
the Legislative Educational Planning Committee, that bill was passed. There's no dollars with
it, but the accounts have been created so that when the money is available, the tiered
funding system will be put into place and will work just fine. Again, this has no direct
applicability to our budget, but I think it's something you need to be aware of. One of
the other cuts in the final analysis of the budget was to impose -- I guess you could
call it, it's not a cut necessarily; if it was out of my paycheck, I would call it that
-- will be that a 2.5% surcharge will be added to state employee health premiums for the
2012 plan year, and the overage of those proceeds will go to the state general fund. So they're
not even necessarily going to pay for the health plan themselves. It's sort of a strange
process the way it's being billed. So I mentioned that just so that you are aware of the type
of things that we're doing in Topeka. The first time in a long time that K-12 education
has been cut, the base state aid per pupil was cut around $232. That takes them back
to an approximate 1996 level is what some folks are saying in Topeka. That's a fairly
significant cut. But that particular branch of government has not been hit as hard as
some of the others. The good news, or the flip side of that is the legislature also
passed a bill that approved some flexibility in spending some of their dollars that they
have in reserve that typically are not allowed to be spent for certain things.
I'm going to skip over workers' compensation. That's one of those things that it's important
for us to know what changes were made because we have employees, too. But I think we ought
to focus on a few other things. I will touch briefly on the Public Employee Retirement
System. There were several meetings, little work produced with KPERS changes. There will
be an interim committee or study group that meets over the course of the summer and fall
and they will produce a report that goes to the legislature on our before January 6th
of next year. It would be my estimation that there will be some significant recommendations
in that report that help direct the future of what KPERS look like. There were some cap
changes as far as employee and employer contributions and I've included a web link to the conference
committee report in your report, if you'd like to go look at those. It's just too detailed
to talk about and to put into a report of this nature. I do think, though, and those
changes really don't go into effect until fiscal year 2013. So we're talking yet another
year away that gives us some time to plan. This is important, though. The Board of Trustees
for KPERS is waiting another month or two before they make some changes to their projections
for what they believe their return on their investment will be. Currently they have in
their returns about an 8% number that is what they get back on their investments. If they
lower that number, the $7.7 billion gap between the amount of money in there and the amount
of money that needs to be paid out grows. So that will -- that will further cause problems
for retirees and folks in the public system. I shouldn't say it will cause problems for
retirees. It causes problems for those that are making the decisions of what needs to
be done, because I believe earnestly that the decisions will be made where those that
are in the system through the year 2033 I think is right about where the program goes
defunct and those new employees, those new hires that will probably come in during the
new plan, they'll be taken care of. It's just going to be a very
difficult process to get to that point. I'm not going to talk about the taxation and
economic development incentives. However, they are important to us from the standpoint
that they're all work force driven, work force related. And along with that comes training
and that's where we come into the picture. There are significant dollars that will be
made available through some of the economic development incentives that were part of the
Governor's plan. That is, if you will, part of his thumbprint on changing what economic
development looks like moving forward. I'll let you read those at your leisure. One quick
thing before we move on. There was a higher education catch-all conference committee report.
Again, there were a number of bills dumped into that, one of which was Senate Bill 28.
That's the JCERT authority to keep the interest earnings locally. That did pass. That is law.
And the amount for fiscal year 2012 is a little over $4,000.
Another thing that I reported on last month that we need to keep our eyes on for next
year is what we're terming a Taber-like bill. And that is a look back provision that caps
state spending at the prior year's revenues and any overage from the prior year is returned
back through income tax and corporate tax windfalls, if you will. It would then further
limit any future state spending without some type of significant action by the legislature.
KTEC has been rolled into Department of Commerce, as has Kansas, Inc., (phonetic). Both economic
development agencies are folks that our college work with on a number of levels and the functions
will continue to be there. It's just going to look a little different as they get their
feet set in the ground once they move over to the Department of Commerce. Very quickly,
a few other issues of importance, House Bill 2353 did not go anywhere. That's the bill
that would allow for concealed carry in public buildings, if not appropriately x-rayed or
metal detectored. That bill will move up the priority list for next year. Did not see a
lot of action. It came out later in the session. But you can rest assured that there will be
attempts to go after that next year, as will there be immigration issues. The in-state
immigrant attempts to repeal the law that was passed in 2004 was halted in the Senate.
However, I think that immigration issues will once again rise to the top next year.
The other thing that is just of interest to note is with the emerging criminal investigation
of the Kansas Bioscience Authority, late in the game the Governor made the recommendation
that they move the bonding authority for NBAF and some of the other projects funded through
the KBA over to the Department of Administration. It simply is an agency move. Nothing changes
to the program as far as that's concerned. But, again, it's one of those things that
we sit in that corridor where we're going to benefit from some of the activities that
occur. The final thing, then, is redistricting and
reapportioning will become the topic of the summer. And with the mega wins by the very
conservative members of the legislature, you can be certain that the districts in the region
this year will have that component in place. The one final thing, then, and there may be
a couple of final things, and I know, Dr. Calaway, you plan to talk a little bit about
what occurred at the Board of Regents meeting yesterday, so I won't talk about the Chair
stepping down, and I don't know when you plan to talk on that. But I had that in my notes.
The other item is, as you know, Trustee Mitchelson worked very closely with
Linda Fund and with the passing of her husband, it was his wishes and her intent to fill or
run for and fill out his legislative seat, the 50th district that serves the north part
of Topeka on up through Jackson County. That central committee election was held last night
and she lost by one vote and a young man who has served in some staffer positions in the
Senate will be serving. His name is Trent LeDoux. He'll be serving in that capacity.
He'll be sworn in probably on June 1st at Sine Die. I'll stop there and see if there's
any questions. I did include a chart at the back of your report that just sort of shows
where the overall funding for higher education is and how that compares over the past several
years. >> Chairman Weiss: Trustee Cook?
>> Trustee Cook: Thank you, Chairman Weiss. It may be a question for Dr. Calaway. With
the elimination of the Kansas Arts Council, this campus has been very involved with its
commitment to art. Does the elimination of the Kansas Art Council affect our commitment
in any way? >> Dr. Calaway: Great question. We are keeping
our eye on that issue. We do think that they'll -- because we have a great relationship with
the Commission. They've been a strong help to us as far as getting information out related
to some of the projects and programs that we work on here at the campus. There clearly
will be some impact. While we didn't think it was appropriate for us to be involved from
the lobbying perspective related to it, there will be some impact clearly on us.
It probably will mean some expansion of our marketing and information distribution. But
there will be clearly some impact on us, yes. >> Your notes kind of imply that the Kansas
Art Council is -- still has a future in some shape, whether it's private
funding or not. What are your thoughts about that?
>> Mr. Carter: Yeah. I think it's going to -- if the Governor makes the determination
to line item veto the amount -- first of all, just very quickly, the legislature did not
approve his executive reorganization order to do away with the Arts Commission. They
overturned that. They also put the funding back in at the 2011 level for the Arts Commission,
which is not quite $700,000. So those two items are in place and have passed. If the
Governor chooses not to fund at the $700,000 level, I think activities will cease for about
a year because the other action that also occurred was the appropriations committee
zeroed out the 200-some thousand dollars that was set aside for the non-profit corporation
to sort of get them started under the umbrella of the history museum -- or the Kansas State
Historical Society. There is not a provision in the budget for state finance council funding
to come through. So if he zeros out the $700,000, there is zero funding for one year. He sent
a letter to the five employees of the Arts Commission before the session had concluded
relieving them of their duties and those positions are not scheduled for the next fiscal year.
So -- >> That's effective June 10th, I believe.
Is it not? The termination of those positions? >> Mr. Carter: I don't recall the specifics
on that. That could be true. They're simply on administrative leave.
>> Dr. Calaway: It is true the Governor has a bill of line item out that --
>> Mr. Carter: That is I believe his intent. >> Chairman Weiss: Trustee Mitchelson?
>> Trustee Mitchelson: Senate Bill 143 and Post-Secondary tiered technical state aid
and non-tiered. And I understand the money isn't there. But my memory is hazy on how
much money we need to get to where we could actually implement this tiered system. Is
it several hundred million? >> Mr. Carter: I don't believe it's several
hundred million. I believe that the -- I want to say that the Technical Education Authority
was going to ask for around 100 million. >> Dr. Calaway: 58 million.
>> Mr. Carter: Was that the final number they decided on?
>> Dr. Calaway: 58 million. And the plan is that -- I had conversations yesterday at the
meeting yesterday, we had discussion about billing that strategy at our retreat in June
and then how we might move forward with that. We also discussed the need for a strategy
with the expectation that it won't be fully funded of where we go from there, if in fact
there's any funding at all. There are a couple of schools who think we should fund a tier
at a time and we've been pushing the issue -- of course that's focused around where their
programs fell, of course. Because we have programs across the board, and most colleges
do, across each of the proposed tiers, it's our recommendation and we're going to push
it pretty hard that if partial funding comes in, it should fund all tiers at a certain
level. >> All or none.
>> Dr. Calaway: 10%, 20%, whatever it might be. But we do have the funding minus whatever
reduction will be, which I'll get to in a second, through our existing funding through
the State. So it's being redistributed into general education and into basically the post-secondary.
>> Trustee Mitchelson: So if the 58 million were to magically appear, we would be the
beneficiary to the tune of 7 -- or 2.5 million? >> Dr. Calaway: No. I think out of the 58,
we were up for about 20% of that. So, right, it was 10 or $12 million that will come to
us, the major portion of that. >> Chairman Weiss: Does the Board have any
other questions? Mr. Stewart? >> Trustee Stewart: Yeah. Under the budgetary
item affecting higher education, the last bullets. Those 2.5% on surcharge on state
employee health premiums. You are just talking about -- when you say the Board, are you referring
is it the Board of Regents office? >> Mr. Carter: It's all state employees. It
will be state university employees, as well as the board office. It does not apply to
us. I just wanted to mention it. >> Trustee Stewart: But it's all state employees,
2.5% of their health premium? >> Mr. Carter: That's correct.
>> Trustee Stewart: That's going to go back into state general fund? Yeah. I didn't understand
the way it was written. I thought it was just affecting a few, but it's all.
>> Chairman Weiss: Anything else from Mr. Carter?
>> Dr. Calaway: If not, maybe I could just fill in a couple of the items that Mr. Carter
mentioned. One is we have received notice from the State, in fact received it the day
before yesterday, that it appears that we'll be looking at a 1.193% cut, which should be
somewhere in the ballpark of about $300,000 for us coming from the State. Conversations
with Don Perkins, we have the capacity to absorb that within our current
existing budget without having to go back in and make any adjustments. So we were expecting
that we would see some kind of cut from the State. So we have the -- we have the flexibility
within our existing budget. Actually, it's probably a little less than we thought we
would get. We have the capacity to deal with that 300,000 or so reduction that we'll be
getting from the State. So we do have that in hand. We have an expectation that that
will go through once the full action is taken by the legislature. So we think that that's
probably what we should expect to see. As *** mentioned, there could be some other
changes, but we don't expect that that will happen.
Also, it was mentioned and you saw in my e-mail this morning related to resignation of Regent
Chair Gary Sherrer from Overland Park. He did resign yesterday literally in the middle
of the meeting and it was a very emotional, but also very poignant kind of time discussion.
Without going too deep in all the details, and I think he would want us not to do that,
there were clearly some disagreements between he and other members of the Regents. He had
one more meeting to go, and so I plan to send a note to him and if you'd like, I can send
it on behalf of the board thanking him for his service. He was a huge supporter, proponent
of our college and community and a person who has done an awful lot of work, good for
us. So if the Board is of the mind, I certainly would like to do that on your behalf as well.
>> Chairman Weiss: Yes. >> Dr. Calaway: It was a pretty dramatic moment.
He came in and started the meeting, went through the minutes and then basically thanked everyone
for the good work and talked about how much he enjoyed working with the students
and then handed the gavel to the vice chair, who had no clue that he was resign -- or had
resigned already. And the president of the Regents, Andy Tompkins, didn't have a clue,
either. He literally got up, took his briefcase, and walked out. So a very difficult time.
So if that's comfortable for you, I'll probably send a note on behalf of the Board and the
College and thank him for his good work. Certainly a lifetime of commitment to our state and
he's been a great friend of our college. >> Chairman Weiss: All right. Thank you. Anything
else before we move on? All right, Trustee Drummond, that brings us to Management Report.
>> Trustee Drummond: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sure it's not going to be as exciting
or as informed as the report from our lobbyist and president, but I'll move on with it. If
you would turn behind Tab 2, 1 through 22, you'll find minutes from last time, the materials.
And then turn to the recommendations, which are found on Pages 6 through 14. I will go
through these as quickly as I can. I've been told by my colleagues brevity is never important,
so I'll try and live up to that. First recommendation pertains to an extension of a lease we have
with King's Cove Place. It's a lease that we've had for some time. It's renewal and
extension of this lease, you can see in the material there. Just one highlight and that
is they've agreed to an allowance of up to $20,000 for additional security equipment
to make our facility as secure as possible. As you see, its renewal term will be $13.25
per square foot. We think that's an excellent price with this market. We try and take advantage
of the market as much as we can. The programs that are there now will move out to Olathe
Health Education Center and programs from Bishop Miege will relocate to the facility.
That's the sequence of events that will be taking place.
And we'll touch on some other pieces of that in a later recommendation. So it is the recommendation
of the Management Committee that the Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the
College Administration to renew the King Coves lease agreement at $13.25 a square foot based
on 9393 square feet for a total of $124,457.25 per year for the duration of the lease, and
I would so move that, Mr. Chair. >> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion. Do we
have a second? >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any discussion? >> Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask
a couple questions. How long are we obligated to stay at King's Cove?
>> Trustee Drummond: I think this takes the lease another two years.
>> March 31st. Two years. >> And we're going to incorporate what's now
out at Bishop Miege that's sort of northeast Johnson County over at I-35 and 75th? And
that's sort of -- is that anticipated to be an interim solution?
>> Dr. Calaway: Very much an interim solution. >> Trustee Drummond: Two years.
>> Dr. Calaway: Right. In my monthly report, unless you'd like, I can chat about that now.
But we do believe that as good as the folks at King's Cove have been, that's probably
not our permanent solution, that portion of the county. We did see in the papers this
week that Tom Valenti and the Gateway project have been postponed again. Tom's missed the
deadline that -- Joe Sopcich and I met with him, Dr. Grove met with him a couple months
back and asked him to meet some needs for us related
to what we needed if we were going to look at Gateway as being a viable and realistic
option for us related to serving students in that portion of the county. That timeline
that we agreed he would respond to us in went flying past with no response. So it's kind
of our sense that that project is a dead project, and so Dr. Grove and I chatted this week and
we're going to start to explore some other options that look very, very appealing to
us in that part of the county which we think will give us more visibility and more opportunity.
And we're also talking about the potential actually of looking at some partners who might
also want to look at that type of an arrangement. So I think, quite frankly, we've given Tom
every opportunity, and the Gateway project every opportunity to be a go. It's clear that
we're not a high priority and so we just think it's time for us to move on. I've had a conversation
with Mark this week as well, as far as what our next steps might be related to that. You
know, we don't want to use good money chasing after bad money. But there are some damages
that we experienced as a result of their bad faith efforts when they closed us down with
no notice basically. And so we intend to pursue that pretty aggressively.
The folks at Bishop Miege were tremendous, you know, in working with, but the reality
of life was that was just a bad location for the institution. I know there was a lot of
conversation prior to my arrival related to that. I think the predictability for that
was right on target. So we really do need to take a look at what our best options are.
And I know a couple of you might be interested in kind of joining us on some touring. And
so Dr. Grove will be gone for a little bit of time through the remainder of the month.
When he's back, we'll be starting to arrange some conversation
about where we go next. But it's just time for us to start -- accept the reality of -- I
think we all knew, which is that just really is a project that's probably not going to
happen anywhere in the near future, so, and certainly not in a mind-set where we'd be
considered a prime client. >> As a resident of northeast Johnson County,
I really hope we have a highly visible location someday and a hope for what they were calling
the Gateway Center would have been that had we been able to come back to where the old
Mission Mall was. And despite the deep disagreement between me and Trustee Stewart, I'm not going
to pick up my briefcase and leave. (Laughter.)
The next to the last meeting, I would have stayed and continued to talk about this. I'm
disappointed we have to go out to I-35 and 75th to try to take care of students in the
northeast or those who live up there, but at least we've got some place for them to
go in the interim. And I hope -- I will continue to urge as a private citizen that we find
a place in Northeast Johnson County where we have visibility and where students can
find us and adults can come for all the education courses we offer. We're just under-served
in that geographic area. >> Dr. Calaway: Well, we clearly are. You
know, six years ago we were at 2,000 students at that Mission Mall site. We're now down
to 400 in that general area. We're just not coming close to serving students the way we
would or should or could. And the damages that came as a result of the bad faith efforts
I think are things that we really need to discuss. But I also think there's some great
opportunities in that area. And so we've explored some possibilities.
It's time now I think for us just to say -- and we've given them every opportunity to try
and make the Gateway thing go and it just doesn't seem like, A, we're a priority, and,
B, you know, I don't know that it will happen in the first place. So I think we've got to
just move forward and accept the fact that we gave it our best shot, tried to make it
work and just -- if we had more control of the situation, we'd have a better solution.
But in the case of this Gateway project, it's just not going to happen.
>> Does he have fee title to that property do we believe? Or does he just have an option?
Does anybody really know? >> Dr. Calaway: Mark, do we know?
(Speaker off mic.) >> Dr. Calaway: I don't know that we know.
It's very difficult to get a real straight answer. And quite honestly, promises that
are made are fairly regularly just not kept. So I'm not sure if he even -- if we even heard
whether we'd know what the facts were. But I think it's time for us to move forward.
So that would be our plan. >> Chairman Weiss: Speaking of moving forward,
we have a motion and a second on the floor, in case anyone has forgotten. If we have in
other discussion, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
>> Aye. >> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes.
Trustee Drummond, please continue. >> Trustee Drummond: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The second bid pertains to the Billington Library Renovation. I just might highlight
that in this bid you'll find renovation space between Rooms 232 and 234 of the Carlsen Center,
which would allow for the storage of Fashion Merchandise and Design Program collection
that has been at Bishop Miege. So we need to remodel that and bring those clothes back
over to campus. With all of that, I would recommend the Management Committee and the
Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College Administration to approve the
low bid of $276,300 from Miller Building Services, Inc., plus an additional $13,700 to allow
for contingencies for possible unforeseen costs. The total expenditure not to exceed
$290,000 for the Billington Library Renovation. This particular company is kind of new to
us. We have done our due diligence and checking references and making sure that everything
will be up to snuff with them. I feel very comfortable with their bid, which is much
lower than others, that this would be the right company for us to go with. With all
that being said, it would be my recommendation, Mr. Chairman to accept this statement.
>> Second. >> Chairman Weiss: And we have a motion and
a second. Any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
>> Aye. >> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes.
>> Trustee Drummond: The third bid is the annual contract for beverages. This is an
arrangement that will allow for us to have more efficiencies in our dining services area.
This is really the first time we've done a beverage exclusive, which allows us some efficiencies
that we haven't had in the past. There were five firms that bid for this. We ended up
with one firm of course. With that, if you'll allow me to recommend the Management Committee's
suggestion that the Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College
Administration to approve this establishment of an annual contract for beverages with Pepsi
Beverages Company at the annual expenditure not to exceed $200,000. And I would so move
that. >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
>> I did ask the question, are there Coke products available on campus? And I was told
you can buy them in the bookstore. Is that right?
>> Uh-huh. Convenience store. >> Convenience store. I'll go along with it
since you can still have that option. (Laughter.)
>> Chairman Weiss: That's good news for us Coke drinkers. All those in favor, please
signify by saying aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Opposed? Motion passes. >> Trustee Drummond: Mr. Chairman, the fourth
bid is the annual contract for printing of education schedule. We have significantly
reduced the number of schedules we print, and I suspect we'll continue moving in that
direction. But we're still going to have to print 100,000+ of those. It's the recommendation
of the Management Committee that the Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the
College Administration to approve the low bid of $127,376.64 from the O'Dell Publishing
Company, plus an additional $12,750 to allow for printing overruns for a total expenditure
not to exceed $140,126.64 for an annual price contract for the printing of the continuing
education schedules. I would so move that, Mr. Chair.
>> Second. >> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion and second.
Any discussion? Trustee Cook? >> Trustee Cook: Thank you, Chairman Weiss.
I'm assuming that the overrun fee was not included on any of the other bids? Or did
any of the other bids include an overrun amount? (Speaker off mic, inaudible.)
>> Trustee Cook: Thank you. >> Chairman Weiss: Any other discussion? All
those in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Trustee Drummond: Mr. Chair, the fifth
bid was the VMWare software and maintenance bid. This purchase includes new software and
maintenance, as well as maintenance on existing software for a period from May 20th, 2011,
through August 31st, 2012. It supports our existing license on a virtual server and there
were several vendors involved in. It's the recommendation of the Management Committee
that the Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the college administration to approve the
bid of $113,002.90 from En Pointe Technologies for the purchase of VMWare software and maintenance.
I would so move that, Mr. Chair. >> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion. Do we
have a second? >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: All those in -- any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying
aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Trustee Drummond: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Moving to the sixth bid, furniture for our Olathe Health Education Center. We had several
entities bid on this and we decided the best bid for us was recommendation -- was the one
we ended up with here. It's our recommendation of the Management Committee that the Board
of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College Administration to approve the low
bid of $77,737.02 from BA Designs, LLC, for the purchase of furniture for the Olathe Health
Education Center. I would so move that. >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion and second. I do have one question on this. Does this
furniture have ratings that help us towards the LEED rating on this building?
>> Trustee Drummond: Yes, it does. >> Then I would question, this was a process
-- this was a re-bid. We had one vendor that was not happy with the process of the original
bid and so we took the step and went and re-bid this, and that vendor chose not to submit
a bid. Is that correct? >> That's correct.
>> Dr. Calaway: If I might also, I'm not sure if -- I think it's appropriate to maybe indicate
maybe as a follow-up to the last two questions, we do have one vendor from Olathe who has
not been happy with our process. We've tried to make sure that this process is fair and
equitable and equal to everyone, providing everyone the opportunity to provide us good
input and the like. The vendor that I'm speaking of also made calls
to our colleagues at Olathe Medical Center to try and have them influence us, and as
far as where we go. I just find that to be deplorable kind of behavior. I know he's suggested
-- there's been some suggestion that the process wasn't fair or maybe even rigged, which I
take real offense to. But I do think that if there are any issues or questions, we do
need to have that individual provide any information to us so that we can carry that forward. The
reason I mention it here in the open board meeting is I think it's important for our
community to know that when we do have questions and issues, we'll deal with them very, very
directly. And I think that working with Mitch's team, and they work diligently to make sure
that all of our bid processes are fair and open and accept all kinds of feedback and
input. I know in this case we've had an individual who's called several of you. But when you
start to reach out to our partners and to say, you know, we don't like what they're
doing and can you influence that, that's really wrong. And just want to make sure that that's
open there as well to this whole process. I do think Mitch's group has done an outstanding
job making sure the process is fair and explained to this vendor why maybe they're, you know,
they were not selected as the low bid in the past. So I know we are looking at some issues
related to the LEED certifications. We gave them every opportunity to resubmit it, and
they did not, as I understand. Is that true, Mitch? So --
>> And I've met with the individuals you refer to and we'll set up another meeting to further
go through this with them, with Mitch and Joe and myself.
>> Dr. Calaway: I think the more we can do those kinds of things, I think it helps them
the understand process. But, also, if there's any evidence of there being a problem, they
need to let us know that. And if there's not, I
think we have to accept that because we will turn it over to campus police and let them
conduct an investigation if there's some kind of inappropriate behavior going on. Those
of us who know Mitch and his team know that that's just ludicrous. But we always want
to make sure that we do our due diligence, too. And so we would make sure that, you know,
we protect all of our taxpayers. This is one that I think we really need to take a hard
look at. But, quite frankly, I think reaching out to our colleagues at Olathe Med Center
to try and get them to put pressure on us was just really inappropriate. So just a personal
comment. I just find that to be despicable behavior on the part of a vendor.
>> Trustee Stewart: I have a lot of confidence in Mitch Borchers and his process that he's
doing best for the college and the taxpayers and there is some thought that maybe we should
always buy local regardless of the price. I still think we have a duty to make sure
we're being very efficient with the tax dollars, and all things being equal, I'd love to do
business local. But if that's not the case, then we need to do what is the lowest price
and with the same quality. >> Dr. Calaway: One of the things I mentioned,
to Trustee Stewart's point, is we work very hard at bringing in local vendors and discussing
with them how they can be more involved at the institution and being better connected.
I think that's -- Mitch is to be commended for that kind of work and behavior. We really
do want to do work locally and as much as we can provide as much business locally. We
are supported by our businesses and our taxpayers and we should do that. But at the same time,
we also have a responsibility to have the best cost, too. And so I appreciate Trustee
Drummond really going way beyond the call of duty this month and that kind of support.
We really do appreciate it. And I know that, you know,
future conversations with the vendor may help. So we really appreciate your extra efforts
in that regard. And we'll continue to provide the best information we can. But I felt it
was important for the Board to be aware that we do have one vendor who -- and you probably
all are aware that we do have one who's not happy with us. But Mitch's team has done -- has
really done a good job making sure that this is a fair and equitable process.
>> I just echo what the president said. I met with Mitch's team before the board meeting.
We went through the process one more time. I brought some questions up. They were answered
beautifully. I think we have a very fair process, it's
very equitable. It's very open. And I think we can always improve everything we do. But
we're doing pretty doggone well. So I'm very comfortable about that. We'll just continue
moving in that direction. >> Chairman Weiss: All right. Dr. Calaway
and the board members, I appreciate your comments on this subject. It's an important one, should
not be treated lightly. Any other discussion? All right, all those in favor, please signify
by saying aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Trustee Drummond: Mr. Chairman, the bid
you are looking for, which is the last one, Olathe Health Education Center Medical Equipment
and Supplies. There were several different items here listed and we've had a chance to
read through those. So it's the recommendation of the Management Committee that the Board
of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College Administration
to approve the lowest acceptable bids of $24,233.35 from Direct Supply, Inc., $1,204.14 from Medline
Industries, and $584.88 from Ocelco, Inc., and $8,359.85 from Prime Source Services,
and $25,400.96 from Products Unlimited, for a total expenditure of $59,783.18 for the
purchase of medical equipment and supplies for Olathe Health Education Center. And I
would so move that, Mr. Chair. >> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion. Do we
have a second? >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
>> Aye. >> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes.
And, Dr. Calaway, can you refresh our collective memories on when we expect Olathe Health Education
Center to become operational? >> Dr. Calaway: Our plan would be that our
doors will be open in full service for the fall term, although we will be receiving the
keys for that building sometime in mid to late June. We are starting to, you know, the
terrazzo flooring is complete. For the most part, the building is -- we're kind of just
almost getting down to punch list items. We'll be starting to ship, I believe, Mitch, some
of the equipment that the Board has approved the last couple of meetings in. In fact, I
think some of the technology is already starting to arrive and be loaded towards some of the
classrooms. So it will take us about a month to get all of that, you know, fully up and
in the right places and functioning. We'll probably be open for business closer to mid-July,
first of August. But the first of the semester, we'll be in full swing.
>> Chairman Weiss: Very good. Thank you very much.
>> Trustee Drummond: I would just highlight, Mr. Chairman and the Board, on Pages 16 and
17 the capital acquisitions and improvements. We reviewed all the projects, as we always
do. They all appear to be on schedule and on budget. Page 18 through 20, network infrastructure
and equipment services, report prepared by our CIO, Denise Moore. And you'll find that
we're making great progress on our infrastructure and other technology challenges and moving
along very, very well. So with that, I would close the report.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. Thank you. Trustee Sharp, Learning Quality Report.
>> Trustee Sharp: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The committee met on Monday, May 2nd, and
had a couple of presentations. The first was from Shannon Ford, the director of Academic
Technology Services, on the TurningPoint Technology Student Response System. And if you've ever
-- I don't know if any of the trustees have seen this system live, but it's pretty cool.
It's -- if you want to talk about meeting students where they are, technologically,
it's a great way to increase student involvement in a class, really keep their attention. And
what I thought was cool about it was all of the -- all the people on the committee were
passed out a clicker. It's a little -- looks like a calculator, and there were a series
of questions put up on the display board, general history questions. And you had to
answer them and you could -- they would give you a certain amount of time to answer the
question, and then they would log, you know, who got it right and -- well not who, but
how many people got it right, how many people got it wrong, the time that it took you to
answer the question. So you had a live running total of clicker number one got 90%, clicker
number two got 10%. It was a really interesting way to gauge student understanding
of coursework. I think it would be a fun way to start pretty much each class, almost like
a pop quiz, but in a fun way and almost anonymous way. I think you could probably reveal who
had which clickers, but you didn't have to. So it was interesting to see what technology
is out there to enhance student learning. We also talked about the Solar Technologies
program, which is just being launched, and course relations for Automotive Technology.
You'll see the Solar Technologies coursework under Tab 10.
We also talked about -- had a significant conversation about our cooperative agreements
with Metropolitan Community College, mostly in the area of Allied Health, and how we share
those resources. The cost of Allied Health classrooms, supplies, all of that sort of
thing, it helps us when we work with other community colleges, other neighboring schools,
to save on some of that money. Those courses are under Tabs 6 and 7.
We had a quick conversation about a new Professor Emeritus designee, Dr. Burgess Burch in Engineering
Technology, who is retiring. And Dr. Grove updated us on the tobacco-free policy, which
is in effect on August 1st. And I know that many of you received an e-mail from Mindy
Manes in the -- who is an administrative assistant that does a lot of interviewing with students
and their perspective on the college. She wrote us a really nice e-mail that basically
said that she talked to a lot of students about what they like, what they don't like
about the college, and most students that have anything to say, everything is kind of
okay, they don't really have a lot of comment. But two in the last month, two students in
the last month were grateful that this campus would soon be smoke-free, that they don't
like having to leave a building and being inundated by smoke, which you are not
supposed to be when you leave a building anyway. But in designated areas it's hard to walk
by those areas. So I thought that was nice just anecdotal support for that policy.
The next meeting will be on Monday, June 6th, in 270. So if you have any -- if anybody has
any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. >> Chairman Weiss: Nobody said anything about
parking? >> Trustee Sharp: No. Well, in those interviews,
she didn't specifically mention that. But... >> Good news.
>> Chairman Weiss: Thank you, Trustee Sharp. >> Trustee Sharp: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
>> Chairman Weiss: I will cover very briefly the audit report and then end up with the
recommendation for renewal of financial audit services. The Audit Committee met on May 9th.
And some of the things that were considered and discussed were public safety training
center outside instructor practices. I won't go into details of these. You can read these
in your board packets. A lengthy discussion of bookstore cash control processes, which
the committee benefits I think very greatly from Trustee Stewart's experience in the banking
world in that regard. The College is seeking to adopt an IRS "127" plan which will allow
the College Tuition Assistance Program for graduate level classes to be offered to full-time
regular staff on a tax exempt basis, which I think is a terrific thing for us to do.
Some other discussions regarding information security, emergency preparedness and so on.
I do want to draw your attention to the end of the report of the Ethics Report Line Update.
Between January 29 and May 5, 13 reports were received via the
Ethics Report Line. In three of those cases, the reporter wished to remain anonymous. All
but one of the cases were received via the Internet. Seven cases were entered by a college
staff member on behalf of another individual. And of the 13 issues reported, as of May 5,
9 were reviewed and appropriately addressed. Four cases are currently in process. The related
cases, it actually consists of three separate issues, and of all the cases previously reported
as being in progress, those have all been addressed. And, again, I do want to emphasize
that this is a part of the Audit Committee that Trustee Stewart and I take very, very
seriously and encourage anyone that has an issue with the College that they believe needs
to be addressed, if it's appropriate, to use the Ethics Report Line update. And I'd like
to finish my report with a recommendation. Is it the recommendation of the Audit Committee
that the Board of Trustees accept the College Administration's recommendation to renew the
contract for annual financial audit services for the college's fiscal year ending June
30th, 2011, with McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, at an amount not to exceed $88,305. So I make
that motion. >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any discussion on this item? Trustee Cook.
>> Trustee Cook: Thank you, Chairman Weiss. How often do we review the bid process for
these services? >> What year are we in now? This is the fourth
of the five-year. >> Trustee Cook: Thank you.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any other discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
>> Aye. >> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes.
And -- >> Trustee Mitchelson: Mr. Chairman, may I
make a comment about the Ethics Report Line? >> Chairman Weiss: Yes.
>> Trustee Mitchelson: I just want to congratulate you and Trustee Stewart and I'm so pleased
we have an anonymous reporting system that we're all very serious about and there is
an opportunity for anybody on campus who has a complaint to make that complaint known and
let it come through to the Audit Committee the way it does. So thank you for your work
on that. I think this college is light years ahead of where we were five years ago when
we didn't have that. And I appreciate that. >> Dr. Calaway: Maybe just to Trustee Mitchelson's
comments related to the -- to that. In the report, you did speak to the issue of seven
of the cases were entered by staff members. Oftentimes that happens. In fact I'd say generally
those reports happen -- when we receive a report, it could be through to my office,
it could be to HR, it could be to the auditing office, Janelle, in Janelle's area, where
a complaint or a concern comes in and when we become aware of is one that we believe
ethics complaint. (Inaudible.) So even if the individual chooses not to report it in
that way, we still put it into the Ethics Line report so that, in fact, you know, we
continue to use that process and we actually report it in there for them. So we try and
encourage everyone to go that route, but oftentimes when you'll hear that those -- that cases
were entered by an employee on behalf of somebody, it's generally happening that way. And we
think it's really important that the institution continue to support that. Sometimes we have
issues that don't seem to belong there. But for the most part, those issues do really
come through and get clearly -- all of them get the scrutiny they deserve. But if they
don't belong there, we find the right pathway for them. And sometimes if they're not in
there, we get them in there for them. >> And then I'd like to commend our Janelle
Vogler. She does an excellent job of being very persistent on these and communicating
with Trustees Don and myself, keeping us in the loop and then asking for our input until
these are resolved. They're not always resolved satisfactorily to the person that submitted
them, but we always resolve -- we always respond back with what we think is the appropriate
response. But I think Janelle does an outstanding job in the communication process with us,
and I think with them, the reporters. Thank you, Janelle.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. That moves us to the Human Resources Committee report, and
Dr. Cook. >> Trustee Cook: Thank you, Chairman Weiss.
The committee did not have its meeting in May. We have no report.
>> Chairman Weiss: Thank you. Would anybody else like to give a report like that?
(Laughter.) Thank you. All right. Then in that case, that
moves us to the President's Recommendations for Action, and we will begin with the Treasurer's
Report. Dr. Drummond. >> Trustee Drummond: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If you would turn to behind Tab 5 on Page 29 through 40, you'll find the Treasurer's
Report. Just to highlight a couple things, probably most exciting about a Treasurer's
Report is the receipts. And we received $1,336,857 from
tax paid from the county during the month of March. Also, you might see as you look
through that we made some payments on some bonds. We made a payment of 13 of 19 payments,
semi-annual payments of Series 2004 Certificates of Participation. That covers the Renier Center
and Nerman Museum. We also made payment 3 of 20 semi-annual payments on Series 2009
Certificates of Participation, which funded the construction of Olathe Health Education
Center. I think that's kind of exciting. We've made two payments and haven't moved in yet.
You'll also see on Page 40 the fund balances, and between all of us here, we're glad to
answer any questions you might have. And with all this, I'm pleased to say to you that we
are in very, very good standing financially, continue to do very well, continue to track
very well. And with that, it is the recommendation of the College Administration and myself that
the Board of Trustees approve the Treasurer's Report for the month of March 2011, subject
to audit. >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
>> Chairman Weiss? >> Chairman Weiss: Yes.
>> Two items. On Page 31, under the Adult Supplemental Education Fund, on tuition and
fees, I realize it's through March, but we're at 44.8%. Do we have a forecast of where we
think that will end up in terms of revenue? >> Trustee Drummond: I'll turn to one of my
colleagues. I do not know the answer to that. >> We're down about half, so I'm just wondering
what our forecast might be. Obviously we haven't received the tuition we'd anticipated.
>> I can speak to that. I think we are what you see before you is probably end of March.
It's probably 75% of what we expected to see. (Speaker off mic.)
>> Okay. Good. Thank you. And then on Page 40, Trustee Drummond, under the outstanding
commitments, we list about 22 million, if I read that properly. What's the timeline
of those commitments? Is that by end of fiscal year? Or are those commitments -- I guess
what's the ending date of those commitments? >> Trustee Drummond: I think Bob can help
us with that one. >> Well, if any of those commitment dates
are still open June 30th, they'll roll forward -- (speaker off mic, inaudible.)They won't
all be liquidated by June 30th. >> Trustee Drummond: Would you say, Bob, that
most of them would be, though? >> Well, most of them, but not all.
>> Trustee Drummond: Some will carry over. >> And the reason they wouldn't be completed
would be because of contractual completion of certain projects? Is that -- or --
>> Bob: Like the Olathe Center is one of those commitments. And I'm sure they'll still owe
money (speaker off mic, inaudible.) >> Thank you very much.
>> Chairman Weiss: It appears there's no other discussion. All those in favor of accepting
the Treasurer's Report, please signify by saying aye.
>> Aye. >> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes.
And that moves us to Dr. Calaway and your portion of the President's Recommendation
for Action. >> Dr. Calaway: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under
Tab 6 and 7, you'll see this month the College's proposal that the Board
consider, A, a new cooperative agreement with our colleagues with Metropolitan Community
College. As you know, we've had a relationship with Metropolitan for a number of years where
our students are able to start programs with us and then complete their degree programs
in select areas at Metropolitan Community College and pay our tuition and fee rate and
not pay out-of-state rates. Conversely, there are students who start at Metropolitan Community
College and finish here in some select programs. The whole dynamic behind that is because of
the proximity of our campuses. But the -- by the way, we have similar agreements with Kansas
City Kansas Community College. The rationale behind that is where there's the need in the
community for only one program, rather than having us competing with each other, we try
to work collaboratively related to curriculum and student -- support students and the like,
and also support students receiving their education within their local fee structure.
So we have one program that we propose to the Board that we add for the upcoming year.
It's a surgical technology program that's been added at Metropolitan Community College.
Students would start with us and take some of the preliminary courses as listed in your
packet and then would finish up at Penn Valley in surgical technology.
And then under -- that's under Tab 6. Under Tab 7 would be the renewal of the collaborative
agreements between our college and Metropolitan. You'll see those programs range from Biotechnology
to Interior Merchandising, Polysomnography, Respiratory Care and the like. Programs that
work with us and then certainly programs where we send students there. We could handle all
this if you'd like in one motion, both the new and the renewed collaborative
agreements, or if you'd like we could handle those separately. But it would be my recommendation
that on behalf of the administration that we do approve and accept these cooperative
agreements between Johnson County Community College and Metropolitan Community College
District. >> Chairman Weiss: Does anybody object to
handling them in one? >> Second.
>> Well, I think it's got to be made first. >> I'll make the motion.
>> I'll second the motion. >> Chairman Weiss: All right.
>> We're doing that as though they're all approved at one time.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. >> And these cooperative agreements would
run July 1, 2011, through June 30th, 2012. >> Chairman Weiss: Any discussion? All those
in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes. Please continue.
>> Dr. Calaway: Thank you. Under Tab 8 this evening you'll see Clinical Affiliate Agreements
that we're asking the Board to consider this evening. And we do have one Clinical Affiliate
Agreements with the Olathe Medical Services for our phlebotomy program. This is a program
that's run through our work force in continuing education area. It's the recommendation of
the College Administration that the trustees authorize the College to enter into an agreement
with Olathe Medical Services, Inc., for clinical experiences and
phlebotomy for the period of May 19th, 2011, through June 30th, 2012.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. Anyone care to make that motion?
>> Dr. Calaway: I'll make the motion. >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
>> One of the great things about being a trustee is you get to learn lots of things. Two years
ago I didn't know what phlebotomy was. (Laughter.)
But I still remember now. >> Chairman Weiss: So for the benefit of our
viewers at home -- >> Taking of blood.
>> And can you spell it? >> I'd have to -- (laughter.)
>> Chairman Weiss: All those in favor please signify by saying aye.
>> Aye. >> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes.
>> Dr. Calaway: I've completely forgot where we're at. We're under Tab 9. Thank you. Under
Tab 9 you'll find the 2011-2012 Management Budget Proposal. And as you'll remember in
April, we had our budget workshop where Don Perkins and the administration proposed a
budget for next year. It is our recommendation that the Board consider our budget with a
mill levy that reflects a flat millage of 8.799, which would be the same as the prior
year. I would just note that this is the fifth year in a row where we've either been flat
or down in our proposed budget for the community. We deeply appreciate the
cost that our community members pay as taxpayers to our college and we think particularly in
this economic time it's important to be good citizens and stewards of the public fund.
And so I'm proud to be, on behalf of the administration and the institution, recommending that we
maintain our mill levy at the same level for next year. Just a couple of other highlights
that I would share with you. We do at this time not believe that you will
see any new full-time positions for next year. We're going to continue to operate within
the structure that we brought forward last month. And while we may be moving some positions
around, the total number will not increase. As you also know, we've been working towards
a reduction in the administrative staffing and personnel. We've not reduced the number
of faculty positions at the institution. In fact, we've worked hard to commit to increase
the numbers of faculty as a group in support of where we go. But it would be all within
the total number of positions that the Board has approved through your staffing table.
Through our budget process, we've worked through a mechanism that we call PBS model, which
is prioritizing our budget strategically and connecting our budget to the strategic plan
for the college and the institution. It's basically putting our money towards the things
that we say are important to us. And Don Perkins and Joe Sopcich and all the team in the finance
area has really done a tremendous job of helping work through that strategy and then the cabinet
and all the members of the leadership team have helped us do that prioritization. We
believe that we have a budget that we can work with. You'll note also at the bottom
of Page 47, we are predicting at this stage an assessed valuation to decline by 1.25,
which is down from the 3% originally we proposed, or projected. We do expect that student credit
hours will increase about 2% and we're going to keep our eye very closely on that. Our
early numbers are a little below that 2% number. So we're keeping our eyes on what happens
with that, with that figure. With all that in mind, I'd certainly be open
for any questions if you might have any. But it is the recommendation of the College Administration
that the Board of Trustees approve the 2011-12 Management Budget as has been presented to
the Board in our workshop and the document before you this evening. It would be subject
to adjustments required when the final beginning balance and assessed valuation amounts have
been determined and finalized by the assessor. We do expect that there tends to be a very,
very minor decimal point up and down, but our proposal is that we maintain that mill
levy as it stands and that would be the recommendation we present to you this evening.
>> Second. >> Chairman Weiss: Can we have a motion first.
>> He can't make a motion. >> I'll make a motion.
>> Chairman Weiss: We have both a motion and a second. Any further discussion?
>> I have a question. Roughly, Don Perkins, remind me what 1.75 times the assessed valuation
represents in dollars to us in terms of revenue. If we're reducing the amount of decrease by
-- from 3% to 1.25, there's a 1.75 difference there. And what is that amount?
>> As far as the reduction will go, the assessed valuation decrease and the impact on the budget.
For every percent, it's about $650,000. >> Okay. Thank you. So it's about $1 million
that we're talking about here? So we think we're going to get $1 million more than we
originally thought we were going to get? >> Dr. Calaway: Right. And we've been tracking
very closely the original projection of 3%, actually started at 4%, and those numbers
came directly from the county assessor as we were working through the process starting
in November. And as the numbers started to come in, it looked better than we all projected.
The final numbers that we received in preparation for our April meeting called for and showed
and determined that in fact assessed value is up a very, very small amount, less than
1%, but with the appeals process, the expectation would be that there would be some appeals
that would be accepted, and so the assessed value, while preliminarily is ahead, probably
will be behind. To be conservative we've projected 1.25, which is consistent with what the county
is projecting for their budget countywide for assessed values.
So we think that that's a pretty good projection, and it still gives us a conservative approach
to where we're going. Paul Welcome's suggestion was probably the appeals would take us to
somewhere near flat, but we wanted to have a little bit of a buffer, hence the 1.25.
Just for comparison purposes, the county is actually using 1.29. We think that 1.25 is
pretty reasonable and we've asked him is this a good, strong projection but also on the
conservative side, and his answer was yes. >> Chairman Weiss: Trustee Rayl.
>> Trustee Rayl: I just wanted to mention, this board made a commitment of sorts to the
taxpayers to make every attempt to hold the mill levy steady during this economic time
and we challenged the administration of the college to
formulate a budget that was going to be relying on a decrease in assessed valuation revenues.
And the administration met that challenge in an exemplary fashion and is certainly to
be commended for meeting that challenge. And I just want to point out that while the mill
levy remains steady, there's actually a tax decrease to the taxpayers of something over
1%. And so congratulations to the administration for being able to follow through on our challenge,
and moving forward I just think it's important to remember that mill levy's remain steady,
taxes have gone down, and we still have one of the best colleges in the country. So well
done. . >> Chairman Weiss: Trustee Cook.
>> Trustee Cook: Chairman Weiss, thank you. I would echo that, Trustee Rayl. It's a very
remarkable process that the whole team has been through.
Question for Don. I know that we're projecting the delinquency rate for the next five years
to be 3%. I don't recall in our board retreat what the historical. Have we been about 3%
for the past few years of delinquency tax rate?
>> We have experienced probably a little less than 3%.
>> We used to be at 4%. We lowered that to 3% a couple three years ago. Correct?
>> That's absolutely correct. >> Trustee Cook: Thank you.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any other discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please signify
by saying aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Dr. Calaway: Thank you. Under Tab 10 you'll
find my monthly report. This evening I know you've had a chance to read through that in
detail, so I won't go through each and every item with that, but I just would point out
one or two highlights. You have the opportunity this evening to meet Maxwell Matite, and Maxwell
was our All-Kansas All-American and also received the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, which is
a scholarship that will provide him with $30,000 a year as he works on his upper division courses
at American University. We're very proud of him. I would remind you that tomorrow evening
is our graduation, although this whole week has been graduation exercise for us it seems.
We graduated our GED program on Tuesday night. The keynote speaker was Dr. Grove. He also
received an award, one of only four recipients in 26 years, an award in support of the program.
Very, very well deserved. Those of you who know Dr. Grove know his commitment to the
GED program and we congratulate him and he did a great job in his keynote speech. Last
evening we had graduation for two programs, our nursing program and respiratory therapy.
Had a chance to stop in both and we did have just a great experience in both of those events
last evening. And congratulate the faculty in those programs and all the students who
will be finishing up. This evening we have three graduations. And while time will not
allow us to do all those, we congratulate all the students in the programs all throughout
this week as they complete their exercise. Tomorrow we do have our college wide graduation
to be held in the field house starting at 7:30. Hopefully be here by about, what, 6:00
or so. We'll have an opportunity to kind of get all set up and maybe some photos taken
before we move into that graduation exercise. Our graduation speaker this year is Senator
Jerry Moran, who brings some I think great messages to our students
and will be highlighting on some of our students and he's done an amazing job of researching
the institution and some of our students. We look forward to that graduation experience.
I did mention the State cut that we're looking to see finalized somewhere in the next several
days. And we do, through working with Tom -- or I'm sorry, with Don, we do have a way
and a strategy to deal with that without having to go back into the budget and make more cuts,
as you are aware. And we thank the Board for their recognition of the tough work that all
the members of the college team have put into this budget. But we did cut about $5 million
out of the budget this year and we've continued to see our students do very, very well and
everyone is kind of tightened up, but we've gotten to the place where we can't do more
with less, and we just had to make some tough decisions this year and continue to move forward
and hopefully provide the best educational experiences our students need.
And then, finally, I want to recognize Julie Haas and all the team that worked on Free
College Day. We had 1300 individuals from around our community who came in to take classes
for free. Julie did a great job of coordinating that. Maybe most particularly I'd like to
recognize our faculty who came and volunteered their time for those free classes and kind
of giving the opportunity for our community to come in and actually see what a class might
be in the various disciplines that were made available, kind of extra time out of their
hives and we really do appreciate our faculty stepping up and volunteering to support those
1300 individuals from our community who came in for Free College Day. We actually had 27
seats or participant seats used. Everyone it seems participated in two or three activities,
which is really exciting, too. So, Julie, thank you and the whole team. Particularly
thanks to our faculty and counselors and all those folks who were here to support that
day and the staff members who were here. It was a great event. And thank you for your
good leadership there. >> Dr. Calaway, if I might interrupt. I found
it very interesting. I probably had five or six people that just in passing thanked the
College for doing that. It was a tremendous public relations, and I don't know about the
other trustees, but I rarely get somebody to stop and say a spontaneous comment when
something went really well. It's usually a problem. But I would echo that I guess that
got my attention, that they thought that was a really, really a nice gesture.
>> Dr. Calaway: A really outstanding day. And this was our second or third? Second one.
And so we keep saying to Julie this is going to be the second annual event and we'll have
the third one and fourth one. But it takes a lot of work and, again, it's a lot of people
coming in on a Saturday on their off hours to do something special and to help us with
those kinds of information recruiting activities. With that, excuse me, I conclude my report
to the Board. Although, if you have any questions, I certainly would be pleased to answer any
of those questions you may have. >> Chairman Weiss: Any questions? Discussion?
All right. Thank you, Dr. Calaway. I don't believe we have any old business to
bring before the Board. And I don't think we have any new business as well. So we'll
move to reports from board liaisons and begin with the Student Senate and Mr. Paris.
>> Mr. Paris: Good evening, everybody. It's good to see all of you here once again. As
last month, I had mentioned that the Student Senate Executive Board would participate in
a pie throwing contest during campus craze. And on May 4th, 2011, a day that will forever
live in infamy, we delightfully greeted all members of our faculty, staff and also administration,
Dr. Day, and most importantly our students to throw a pie in our face for one dollar.
All of the proceeds of course went to the family of Kyle Schutt, who lost his life in
a terrible car accident a few weeks ago. With the help of an interest group, we also doubled
what we had raised. And so we raised a little bit over $200, and that check was signed today
and also sent over to the Schutt family. So I'm very happy to report that the pies not
only made its mark on the executive board physically, but the executive board has a
newfound appreciation for the population of cows in the United States. Last month I also
reported that the former treasurer, excuse me, the now former treasurer spearheaded a
fundraiser to raise funds and also awareness on behalf of our senate to aid the relief
efforts for the country of Japan. Now, we did not release the amount before of how much
the former treasurer and his committee made, but we can now proudly say that we've raised
over $400, and that has been donated to the American Red Cross, which they will see that
it gets to where it needs to be. The Scholarship Committee, as I'd also mentioned,
is releasing the names today of the two recipients who would receive $1,150 out of the out-of-state
and international scholarship. We congratulation Bruna Iacuzzi and Ondrej Pazdirek as they
bested a crowd of -- a crowded field of applicants to be awarded the scholarship. And we are
very proud of them in all of their endeavors. A continuation of the initiatives in which
we have done and started and began this year, we'll continue next year as far
as some of our findings with the Student Senate tabling, the idea in which we set up tables
around campus and speak one-on-one with members of the student body. Some of our findings
have found that a lot of students would like for the college to lobby against Dream Act.
Also, construction -- this answers Trustee Drummond's question about special parking
spots for motorcyclists so they won't take up many of the regular parking spots, which
I am in strong support of I might say. Someone also mentioned and asked that we would ban
all smoking and those who are caught must pay a fine, and more town halls and, more
importantly, more town halls with the administration and also the Board of Trustees and Dr. Calaway
and in cooperation with the Student Senate would be liked to have been seen.
There was one special one which I thought should be brought to the attention of the
Board. Become active to reinstate the course material advisory committee. That has been
talked about time and time again and the old textbook advisory committee. They said that
the leverage of internal resources, the academic administration's bookstore, Student Senate,
that we all should get together and look at the course material options leveraging what
works best in various scenarios. So that is what some of the student members of our student
body are saying and what they would like to see happen on campus within the next year.
And as that concludes most of my report, I would personally like to take this time to
thank each and every one of you to allow for me to take the chance to report to you the
state of our senate throughout the course of this year. It's meant very much to me to
have received this humbling experience time and time again. As I've reported great things
in the past, I look forward to reporting even greater things in the future.
And in recent weeks our senate has bid a sad farewell to the previous executive board,
but also a very happy welcome to the new executive board as they are eager to jump into new initiatives
and new opportunities. I think to sum up how I feel about the senate in the past year is
that we have all realized that great leaders have one characteristic in common, and that
is the willingness to confront equivocally the major anxiety of the people that we serve
and of that time, and much else -- not much else matters and because of that, that is
true essence of leadership. I thank you and I would also like to thank personally Pam
Bassett for all of her hard work and guidance towards the Student Senate, and Mindy in her
absence. And I look forward to working with each and every one of you in the coming year.
Thank you. >> Chairman Weiss: Does the Board have any
questions of Mr. Paris? Thank you, sir. >> Mr. Paris: Thank you.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. The next report is on the Kansas Association for Community
College Trustees. And Trustee Mitchelson? >> Trustee Mitchelson: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
KACCT will have a retreat and we've moved the location from Ft. Scott to Kansas City,
Kansas. I think most everybody is aware of that. It will be on Friday, the 10th of June,
and Saturday, the 11th. And on the 10th of June there will be an opportunity for everybody
who comes to play golf at Painted Hills. I hope a number of our trustees will take the
opportunity to do that. As Dr. Sopcich will attest, it's a great way to get to know everybody
around the state, play golf with them and get acquainted with what's going on at KACCT.
As you all know, Linda Fund's husband, Rocky, passed away from cancer, sadly, and so she's
returned to her executive leadership role of KACCT and she's done a tremendous job,
in my opinion. I think Dr. Calaway shares that opinion and this would be a good time
to lend her some support. So those meetings are on the 10th, Friday,
and on the 11th, Saturday, in Kansas City, Kansas. And that community college is undergoing
a presidential search right now and Dr. Jeff Hockaday, who helped us find Dr. Calaway,
is leading that search, and I haven't had an update. Do you know anything as to what
-- where they stand? >> Dr. Calaway: I know they had 75 candidates.
They've -- which is about double what they expected. They think they've narrowed that
search to 22 just over the last day or so. And beyond that, not much -- not much more.
>> Trustee Mitchelson: Obviously we have a lot of reasons to cooperate with Kansas City,
Kansas. Both districts, or both community colleges fall within the 3rd congressional
district and we're represented by Representative Yoder. So there's a lot of ways we can cooperate
and if they were to get a leader who was compatible with Dr. Calaway, I think that would be -- go
a long way to making us even stronger, so. I encourage everybody to show up, if you can
make it, on the 10th and 11th. >> Chairman Weiss: All right. If you can continue,
please, with the Johnson County Research Triangle report.
>> Trustee Mitchelson: The Research Triangle, to put a date in your calendar for the next
meeting, we have scheduled a meeting that will be held this time at the K-State campus.
I think some of you attended the Open House on the 26th of April that was at the new K-State
building for Animal Health and Food Safety, and it is indeed a beautiful building near
the intersection of K-7 and College Boulevard. The next meeting would be at 8:00 a.m. on
the 13th of June. And then later, on the 27th of June, we have a luncheon scheduled with
Dan Richardson to try to further acquaint members of Johnson County Community College
with K-State. We have an ongoing excellent working relationship with the Edwards Campus
and KU. We don't know the K-State administration nearly as well, and so we're -- the idea behind
this lunch is to promote a higher level of cooperation between our campus and this new
campus, which is certainly impressive and will contribute to work force development,
new jobs, and higher level of education I think in Johnson County. So that's what's
going on with JCERT. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
>> Trustee Sharp: I have a quick question. Is there any update about the fire? Their
best building caught fire last night. >> Yeah. I got an e-mail today. It was just
on the roof and they were investigating it. >> Dr. Calaway: Other than what I sent you
all this morning, they were able to contain it. It was contained to the roof. They haven't
determined -- as of the last conversation or communication I had with Bob, they haven't
determined what the cause was, but they were able to contain that. And apparently it burned
for about 45 minutes. The good news is predominantly it was the concrete deck. But, you know, something
happened to cause that to be a problem. So they did proceed on with all of their classes,
as well as our classes where we had finals today. And it seemed as though everything
was progressing as best as possible. But haven't heard anything else from Bob.
>> Trustee Mitchelson: The Best Building is quite a ways away from where
the classes are being offered now in the Regnier Building. So I wouldn't expect it to slow
down the completion of that building. >> Dr. Calaway: No. Well, because it was predominantly
the deck, hopefully it was, you know, contained early enough where there wasn't a big problem.
>> Trustee Mitchelson: And you saw the report from Nick Carter that we've added to the annual
anticipated income in the neighborhood of 14 to 15 million another $4,000 by virtue
of the State passing the law that lets us capture the interest that we otherwise might
have given to the State. So that's a big deal. >> Chairman Weiss: Thank you, Trustee Mitchelson.
And our Foundation report? Trustee Sharp? >> Trustee Sharp: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Next Tuesday, May 24th, the Foundation's annual luncheon will be held on the student lounge
in the commons. The focus of the luncheon will be on the people who work throughout
the year contributing to the Foundation's success by raising funds for student assistance
and visual and performing arts. The volunteers which are community leaders, students, faculty
and staff will be recognized for contributions throughout the year. And I hope that you're
planning to attend that event. And then, finally, on behalf of the Foundation
and the College, I wanted to publicly thank Sandy Price, and I kind of wish she was here
tonight, for such an outstanding job. She just finished a two-year tenure as chairman
of the Foundation board and has done a fantastic job. Since 2000, Sandy has led the Foundation
-- that's not right. Since -- not 2000. >> 2009?
>> Trustee Sharp: Yeah. Sandy has led the Foundation through the strategic planning
process that will take us to the year 2015. Another area of focus
for Sandy has been making sure the Foundation scholarships end up in the hands of students,
which she has certainly made a huge mark. She's been a staunch supporter of improved
processes within the Foundation and financial aid department to make this happen. And as
a result, I believe, of her leadership, financial aid has made more than $1 million in foundation
scholarships available this year and actually dispersed 875,000 of that $1 million to 794
students, more students than have ever received scholarships here. And that number, that $875,000
number also eclipses our previous total by more than $230,000. So, you know, how many
students are going -- are coming here now who might not have been able to come here?
Just a significant impact. And then obviously that $230,000 just goes
into the College's bottom line. So our sincere thanks to Sandy for her work and to the entire
team in financial aid and the Foundation office who have really made all this happen for the
last year. And we look toward another great year for the Foundation.
>> Chairman Weiss: Thank you. Trustee Rayl, do you have a Collegial Steering Committee
report? >> Trustee Rayl: Chair Weiss, as a matter
of fact, there is no report. The committee did not meet.
>> Chairman Weiss: Then we move to the Faculty Association. Mr. Anderson?
>> Mr. Anderson: Good evening. I hope that we'll have a Collegiate Steering Report next
month. We'll get together and try to type something up on that one.
So I'll try to keep my report tonight a little shorter than Mr. Carter's here.
(Laughter.) >> Chairman Weiss: Thank you.
>> Mr. Anderson: We'll try to work through this here. Tomorrow is graduation, as we all
know. I wanted to spend a little time tonight just talk about significant points that we
hit along the way this past year as the faculty, the Faculty Association. So a couple things
that stood out in my mind when I was putting this list together, we put together two joint
task force to work on a couple of significant issues here. One was looking at the benefits
package here and also another one is workload. And we did the work this year and we achieved
the results and although the work force task force will continue on I believe in the coming
year, there's still a lot left to do with that, and it's a fairly thorny issue. And
so there's a lot of details to work through that one, so. But I wanted to thank Judy Guzzy,
who co-chaired the joint task force on the benefits. I wanted to thank Jim McWard, who
co-chaired the task force on the workload. This past year we also saw a significant growth
in our membership through the association. So I'm happy to report that. And hopefully
we'll continue to see those numbers go up next year as we continue our recruiting efforts.
We're in the process of working on the salary reclassification for faculty who have this
MFA degree and that's the issue I'm hoping that we can get tied up next month at the
Collegial Steering. So that I think is an important step that we've been working on
there. We've also been working on revising our by-laws as an association. They were last
updated in 1999. So they're long overdue. And so you get into those things and it's
a multi-page document and it's pretty dry reading and you go through it and it was kind
of a task to actually get through it and to get these things updated. So I want to thank
the folks who had volunteered their time to do that
because it was kind of a labor intensive process to pull that together.
So they're up for a vote right now and I think we'll get the necessary votes to make them
pass and put them in place. So... Also, we're in the process of looking at different
affiliation options for Faculty Association. Historically we've been connected with NEA
and KNEA. We're looking at other options that are out there that we could look to tie to
and just, for example, some of them might -- some would include the American Association
of University of Professors, some other ones we've been looking at, too. So we want to
explore that. And if we can find ways for them to provide similar service, similar support
and at a rate that's less money and somewhat political-free, we might have even stronger
membership in our organization. So that's something we'll be looking at in the coming
year. Faculty evaluation has been happening this
semester. There's still some details that need to get worked out with that, but I'm
happy to see that it's going forward. And I think we're getting very close to having,
you know, a good product there. So... There's been numerous personnel issues this
semester that I've dealt with. Some of them have been relatively unpleasant to deal with,
but at the same time have been pretty serious. One I'm disappointed with the action that
really wasn't taken in a case, but that goes back to the -- to the first semester we had
here, back in the fall semester. But I'm still working through that one.
We've had -- the Emeritus Program has been suspended for this coming year and I'm getting
quite a bit of lowback from the Emeritus faculty on that one. And I imagine some of you guys
have been hearing about that, too. I'm hoping that we can work out some kind of an arrangement
to get this thing back on track again and move forward with that.
We also helped elect -- I guess we can take credit for this -- we helped Don, Jon and
Greg get elected to the Board of Trustees here recently, so that was a highlight certainly.
And then, finally, I wanted just to announce that we're having a party tomorrow night after
graduation at the Quivira Falls clubhouse. So I want to invite all you guys to attend.
Actually it starts at 4:00. (Laughter.)
>> Remind me again what time graduation starts? (Laughter.)
>> Mr. Anderson: If you want to get a head start it starts at 4:00. We'll have dinner
there and we'll have drinks. Traditionally we get together before and then break and
then a lot of people come back afterwards to celebrate and such. Again, you are all
welcome to come and would love to see you there, so. Any questions?
>> Chairman Weiss: Thank you. We're at the second Petitions and Communications section
of the board agenda. It's a time for members of the community to provide comments to the
Board. Comments are limited to five minutes unless a significant number of people plan
to speak, in which case the chairman will limit a person's comments to less than five
minutes. Presenters may choose to speak at the first or second petitions, but not both.
Prior to beginning of the comments, we ask that you state your name, your address, city
and state. And do we have anybody at this time that would like to address the Board?
And seeing none, we will close that section of the agenda and move to
the last item on our agenda for this evening, which is the Consent Agenda. The Consent Agenda
is -- it takes in one motion a number of items which are considered to be routine by the
Board. And at this time, do we have any member of the Board that would like to pull any of
the Consent Agenda items to be considered separately? All right, seeing none, I will
entertain a motion to approve the Consent Agenda at this time.
>> So moved. >> Chairman Weiss: We have a motion. Do we
have a second? >> Second.
>> Chairman Weiss: All right. Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor, please signify
by saying aye. >> Aye.
>> Chairman Weiss: Any opposed? Consent Agenda passes. And that does bring us to the end
of our agenda for this evening. There will be no executive session. So we are adjourned.
(Adjournment.)