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>> Our attorney will now provide a report
of what happened in close session.
>> There's no reportable action in close session.
>> Thank you very much.
At this time we will have the pledge of allegiance.
Trustee Brown, would you lead us tonight?
>> Absolutely.
Please stand and put your hand over your heart.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America, and to the Republic for which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you.
>> I'm going to obtain a motion to approve the minutes
of the regular business meeting
of the board held January 14th, 2014?
[Inaudible] We have a motion from Trustee Mann
and a second from Trustee Wah.
Any discussion or corrections?
Advisory vote?
>> Aye.
>> All in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Any abstentions or negative votes?
It's a unanimous vote.
Trustees, are there any introductions
or recognitions this evening?
Dr. Rocha, do you have any?
>> No formal recognitions, but I did want to officially thank
and recognize Bobbi Abram and her team and Valerie Wardlaw
and those beautiful students who sang the national anthem
at the [inaudible] State of the City Address,
all during the great grand opening
of the Center for the Arts.
So, and at a another time when we can get them here,
we'll get everybody up and give them a formal recognition
from the board.
>> Thank you.
This is a time for public comments on non agenda items.
Trustee Wah?
>> Yes. We have one speaker, Kris Pilon.
[ Background Noise ]
>> Good evening, I'm Kris Pilon,
Professor of Graphics Communications Technology here
at PCC.
And board members, you've received a memo
from me last week regarding the use of reassigned time
and stipends on the PCC campus.
I have some concerns about this activity.
For one thing, this activity is not transparent.
There is no clear formal policy or application process
as to how this time is assigned.
Assignments seem to be made directly by dean's
and managers giving them an appearance
of cronyism or favoritism.
How much does the use of reassigned time
and stipends cost the college annually?
Do board members have any idea
of the financial extent of this practice?
I've made a clear request in writing
to both Mark Rocha is Bob Miller for a list
of PCC faculty currently receiving release time
and the percentage of salary paid for this process.
While both have acknowledged the existence
of a readily available list containing this information,
I have not yet received a copy.
I cannot find this information on the website.
I wonder if the board members have been given a copy?
And if it could be found in the board packet?
Please let me know where I can find this list.
Under the terms of the Public Records Act, I believe I
and others have a right to this information.
There's no mention anywhere in the government code or anywhere
in the PCC policies that this information is available only
through capim [phonetic].
It's been both a procedure and a policy by past practice at PCC
to share this kind of information openly.
By withholding information and insisting on delivery only
through capim, the president
and the board are obstructing the reasonable performance
of necessary college business.
Please, show your respect for openness and fairness
by making this information available to anyone
who requests it, immediately.
Thank you.
>> Thank you.
We will now move to the consent items.
Are there any items that trustees would like removed
from the consent calendar for a separate vote?
If not I will
>> [Inaudible] I'd like to just make a comment.
>> Sure.
>> Usually, if people are retiring,
I like to acknowledge them.
But we've had so many people who are retiring, I guess it's part
of the golden handshake.
I would just like to say, we're losing some very dedicated staff
with many years at the college and we appreciate their service.
>> Thank you very much.
We do have two consent items today that have been revised,
that are at your desks.
93 B and 106 B, both are relating to the same vendor.
And you have a brief memo in front of you.
We do have two speakers this evening.
Trustee Wah?
>> I have Jordyn Orozco and Eduardo Cairo.
So, Jordyn Orozco?
[ Background Noise ]
>> Good evening trustees.
As you know, I'm [inaudible] President, Jordyn Orozco.
I just wanted to make a comment.
Associate students took a position of support
for gender neutral bathrooms here on campus last year,
and looking over the board reports on the consent items,
I just want to make sure that the proposal for the upgrades
for the V, the R and the C building, I believe,
do include gender neutral restrooms.
I cannot express how important gender neutral restrooms are
as we have more transgendered students coming
out of the shadows and sort of coming out
and expressing their support,
especially for associate students at this point.
And so, I would like to formally request
that they do include gender neutral restroom upgrades
as well.
So, thank you.
>> Thank you.
>> Mr. Cairo?
>> Good evening everyone.
Thank you for allowing me to speak today.
The item that I'm going to speak
about is consent item number 8T9 [phonetic].
And if the board were to approve this,
all I ask that if you could make the procedures
for applying widely available to everyone on campus.
It's the item to approve staff and professional development,
learning activities for Sassy [phonetic].
Which will allow the majority of those events take place
on campus and some of them maybe half
or whole day worships or retreats.
So, if you do approve on it, please,
if you can include a method of disseminating the information
to all people on campus, that will provide the information
to where to apply, what forms to fill out, who to send them to,
all the procedures necessary for faculty, staff, employees,
everyone to apply to these funds.
Thank you.
>> Okay, thank you.
We'll try to make sure that that is done.
Is there any comments or questions about these items?
Mr. Fraser?
>> Just a couple.
I think that, you know, I'd like to reiterate
on whether we do restroom upgrades,
single stall restrooms are important
for a variety of reasons.
So, I think, you know, especially,
not just for our transgendered population, which would,
I think, fall as part of creating a safe zone.
But also for single mothers, baby changing facilities.
A lot of reasons to have single stall restrooms.
So, I think their importance can't be understated.
And on 107 B, approve/ratify contracts
for student internships, I'd just like to highlight this.
I think it's important that it be shown as one
of the good things that college is doing
in providing more opportunities for internships.
I don't know if Dr. Rocha,
if you'd like to talk a little bit more about this
and what this means for our students.
But I think that providing internship opportunities are
very important and I'm glad to see it on the consent today.
>> Thank you.
I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar.
[Inaudible] we have a motion by Trustee Wah and a second by
>> Second.
>> Trustee Fraser.
Mr. Thomas?
>> In terms of the faculty and other members who are it says,
resignation on the consent item.
I think probably retirement might be a more appropriate term
for that.
But as Dr. Mann pointed out, we're losing some very,
very dedicated
and extraordinarily confident people here.
I hope that we have a plan in place, or will have,
to replace these people because I won't identify names,
but goodness.
I mean, this is going to, I think, create quite a change
in the makeup of the faculty and administration.
>> Thank you for bringing that forward.
Any other comments?
Trustee Mann?
>> Yes. I would like to comment also
on the gender neutral restrooms.
But I would like to call them family restrooms.
They're often referred to as family restrooms,
so you not only have actually had this experience
in the airport, a father taking a little girl into a restroom,
and he was able to take her into a family restroom rather
into the men's restroom.
She was about four years old.
And also, lots of people are care givers for family members
who may be of the opposite gender, who are adults.
They can also go into these single what I would hope
that we don't do is do what they're doing
at the Olympic Village where they have the doubles.
If you've seen pictures of the [chuckles].
So, if possible, I do support students on this.
We had hope there would be some
of these restrooms in the new buildings.
And I think it's really very important.
There's a whole population
who would be served by these restrooms.
And this is in no way not supporting, you know,
the transgender students.
But, there's lots of different groups of people.
And so, I like to refer to them, again, as family restrooms.
>> Okay, thank you.
Mr. Martin?
>> I just wanted to personally call
out in appreciation a few names that are leaving us
because these are people that have worked with me.
Kim Miles, I know Kim's here.
And is part of the [inaudible] committee when we first had
so much problems with all our student aid.
And then Kim came on and all the problems went away,
it seemed like, from the [inaudible] perspective.
And what she's done for many, many students in outreach,
out at other local high schools where I've seen you.
I just shout out to Kim.
Again, [inaudible] committee member, I have to call out Marie
and all the work she's done here the last few years.
Kind of makes me want to vote no.
[Chuckles] Melissa [inaudible],
has been just a dear to me personally.
And Dale Pitman has been a wonderful, wonderful employee
for many, many years close to me.
And many times when I forget something at PCC, even,
because we're neighbors, brings it by.
And then finally, Dina Chase who has just been out and about.
In addition to what she does here, I just see her
at our local high schools and all she's done.
And I'm sure there's others on here that are as equal quality
that I just don't know as well.
But I just have to personally express something to those
that have done, you know, so much for me in my area.
So, thank you.
>> Thank you.
I do have to say that Kim Miles was in my first class
as a professor in my first year.
And I don't know how you're retiring before me.
[Chuckles]
>> You're working for the wrong place.
>> It's been a pleasure to reunite with her since I've been
on the Pasadena Board of Trustees.
>> I'm very, very grateful to the Board
for making those comments.
And I want to assure the Board
that these are just the announcements of resignations
that are effective at the end of the year.
That the management association and the Board will have a moment
to actually officially recognize these individuals
and thank them personally, so.
>> Very good.
We have a motion on the second on the floor
to approve the consent calendar?
Advisory vote?
>> Aye.
>> All in favor, signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Aye; opposed or abstentions.
Motion carries unanimously.
We now turn to our action items this evening,
and the first is the receipt
of the second quarterly financial status report.
And you have in front of you that report
which contains no significant changes from the 2000
or 2013, 2014 adopted budget.
Dr. Rocha, do you have anything to add or?
>> Yes. This is before you for approval.
And if you have any questions,
the Assistant Superintendent Miller will be glad to respond.
>> Are there any questions?
>> Aye to move approval.
>> Motion to approve, is there a second?
>> A receive whatever it is we do.
>> Second.
>> Second.
>> And Trustee Wah is second.
Any further discussion?
All in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Aye; opposed or abstentions.
Motion carries unanimously.
The second action item this evening is to receive instead
of public hearing, regarding the initial proposal
from the Pasadena area community college district
to the Pasadena City College Police Officers Associations
for negotiations for success or agreement, 2014, 2017,
is recommended that the Board receive the initial proposal
for a success or agreement to form
from the Pasadena college district to the PCC,
POA for 2014 and to 2017.
And B, designate the next regular meeting of the Board
of Trustees as a time
for receiving public comments regarding the success
or agreement.
Is there any questions?
Fraser?
>> I'd just like to move to receive
and set the public hearing?
>> We have a motion from Mr. Fraser, a second from?
>> Second.
>> Second.
>> Trustee Wah, any further discussion?
>> All in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Aye; opposed or abstentions.
Motion carries unanimously.
Action item number H this evening is
to set a public hearing regarding the initial proposal
from the Pasadena City College, Police Officers Association
to the Pasadena Area Community College for negotiation
for success or agreement 2014, 2017.
Any comments from the trustees?
If not, we'll entertain a motion to approve.
>> So move.
>> We have a motion from Trustee Martin
and a second from Trustee Brown.
Any further discussion?
All in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Aye; opposed or abstentions.
Motion carries unanimously.
Action item number I this evening is a public hearing
and initial proposal from the Pasadena City College,
California Federation of Teachers,
local 6525 represented classified staff
to the Pasadena Area Community College district for negotiation
for success or agreement 2014, 2017.
And this is the time for public hearing regarding this proposal.
Seeing none, the public hearing is closed.
Action item H today is additions and deletions to the curriculum.
These credit course modifications have been approved
by the Curriculum and Instruction Committee
and have been recommended by the vice president
of instruction for review.
Is there any comments or questions from the Board?
>> What item are you on?
I think you said H.
>> J.
>> J, excuse me.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Yes. I have a question.
>> Dr. Mann?
>> On the credit curriculum courses,
under the rationale it says, add recommended preparation
and add update SLOSPOs and CCOs [phonetic], that is the reason
that we're approving it.
It doesn't mean that this is work that still needs
to be done; is that correct?
>> That's correct.
>> That is correct.
>> All right.
Thank you.
Thank you doctor.
>> Any other comments?
I will entertain a motion to approve.
>> So moved.
>> We have a motion from Trustee Fraser,
a second from Trustee Mann.
Any further discussion?
All in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Aye; opposed or abstentions.
Motion carries unanimous.
Our next item is concerns sabbatical leaves
and it's recommended that the Board
of Trustees grant sabbaticals to those
on the list in front of you.
The Committee received 16 sabbatical leave requests,
two are deemed incomplete.
The remaining 14 requests were ranked on the basis
of total years of employment since the last sabbatical
or date of employment.
Is there any questions or comments?
Mr. Martin?
>> I don't have any issues with any of these sabbaticals.
But I think in for those let me say it this way.
For those who are not academic, who look at the type
of the sabbatical and they see the word travel,
it gives a reference that they're just off traveling.
And it doesn't connect the obvious thing
that all the people inside the college know
that how the travelers related to making
for better instructions.
So, I would hope in the future, when these are presented,
we can just sure up the wording a little bit for those that may,
on the outside in the public, see this
and not get the direct connection.
>> Thank you very much.
Any other comments or questions?
>> I have one question.
>> Trustee Brown?
>> So, this sabbatical, is it for one year or two years?
How long is it for?
>> One year.
>> Thank you.
>> I'll entertain a motion to
>> I have a comment.
>> Trustee Mann.
>> I would just like to comment
that we are approving the maximum amount
that the union contract provides for.
And that throughout the terrible recession,
which the state has gone through,
we have always approved the sabbaticals
because we think it's very important for our faculty
to be able to engage in this research and to keep themselves
up to date so that we can have the best possible engagement
with our students.
So I support this, but I know many, many,
many university's sabbaticals were not approved during
that recent recession and we did.
>> Yeah, thank you for bringing that forward.
Trustee Thomson?
>> I managed to go and speak
with her before the meeting began,
but when I saw the application from Patricia D'Orange Martin,
had gone on a sabbatical for a year, I had a real double take
because I was wondering, what happens to our veteran's program
if she's gone for a year's time, particularly,
in light of the discussions, I understand you head back
in DC recently, I think last week,
with a veterans administration and etc. So, she assured me
that if that happens, she will not take the sabbatical
this time.
So, this is an attentive request
that we are our approval we will be giving will be tentative.
So, I just want to make that clear.
Our veterans need not panic.
>> Do you not to make a substantive motion to deny her?
[Chuckles].
>> It crossed my mind.
After our discussion, I will not do that.
[Chuckles].
>> Sabbaticals are wonderful.
I'm going to obtain a motion to approve?
>> So move.
>> We have a motion from Trustee Wah, second from Trustee Brown.
Any further discussion?
Trustee or student trustee vote.
>> Aye.
>> All in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Aye; opposed or abstentions.
Motion carries unanimously.
At this time we move to information items in the first
of the legislative advocacy report.
Dr. Jeanette Mann.
>> Yes. The Board has the report in their packet.
I will just go over make this very brief.
Two years ago, the Board approved legislative principles,
which is that we would advocate for supported resources
that enhances the college's ability
to accomplish its mission,
provide a high quality academic robust learning environment,
serves the needs of our diverse community.
That we'd engage college
and community stake holders and advocacy.
And that we would reduce and eliminate barriers
to accomplishing the college's goals for student success.
So this has been our priority.
There were three trustees
who actually there were four trustees who attended the who,
at the legislative conference that are simply people.
And February the 24th.
And also Mr. Miller who was there representing
Superintendent President Rocha, met with the representative
from the Governor's Office and from the Department of Finance.
And I would just, real quickly,
would like to just mention the four areas
that we identify these priorities.
The governor's budget including a four percent growth
and stable funding.
The student six equity plan and the 200 million
of the governor's budget for student success,
categorical programs, and focus on basic skills
for underrepresented students.
Promoting, recognize and rewarding innovation.
Opportunities for dual and concurrent enrollment.
Adult and the noncredit education
and the K 14 facilities bond.
And on the K 14 facilities bond was very interesting.
We met with several well,
we met with our assembly person and our Senator.
And one said, that bonds not going to go up,
the other one said, oh there's a good chance.
We kept getting mixed messages.
To kind of depend on who you were talking with.
But no one said, yeah, it's a [inaudible].
But there is a possibility.
So we've pointed out how desperately we need
to get the improvement facilities particularly the
U Building.
And then we are planning, Trustees Fellow, Brown, Mann,
Thomson, and Wah and Fraser are planning on going to Washington,
DC next week to meet with our elected representatives
and department representatives
and different government departments in order to advocate
for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
And also to explore opportunities for grants
that would also improve student success.
>> Thank you Dr. Mann.
Are there any questions or comments to report?
Thank you.
Trustee Wah?
>> Yeah, I just wanted to acknowledge Professor Panella
who was there with about six students.
And, you know, it was really great to see them participate
in the legislative process.
So, thank you very much for being there.
>> Thank you.
This is the time for the superintendent
president's report.
And I believe this evening;
we will be covering a small business development center
update enrollment management report, state chancellor,
state of system report.
AB 880, which is bachelor's degree and an update
on the state facility bond for [inaudible].
Dr. Rocha?
>> I'll do that quickly.
Before I do that, President [inaudible], I'm just going
to briefly refer to our Washington, DC visit last week.
In fact, speaking of travel, Patricia D'Orange Martin
and I traveled to Washington, DC and met with our representative
in Washington [inaudible] City and associates who arranged
for us a very busy day of meetings
with the veterans affairs, [inaudible].
The other units of the Veterans Bureau.
And we had very, very fruitful discussions engaging
in relationships, in fact,
brought back several grant opportunities
that were already at work on.
And we also discussed an emerging proposal the staff is
working on to locate a VA clinic here on campus
that would [inaudible] a VA clinic
with our Veterans Resource Center.
And so that we came back home with a commitment.
You know, to support that.
Something on the order of a quarter of a million dollars.
So, that was a very successful trip.
I did want to thank Patricia especially for traveling.
The high that day was 18 degrees.
And we were [chuckles] we were working that day.
And I did want to briefly thank Assistant Superintendent Miller
for subbing for me at the Sacramento.
I will be very brief on my report item M President Fellow.
I'll say first that there'll be a brief report
from Dean Davala [phonetic] on the SBDC,
the enrollment management report is a written report that's
in your agenda.
And it presents statistics from [inaudible]
on our enrollment stats as we open the semester.
The state chancellor, state of assistant report.
Again, I don't have lengthy comments on that.
I just wanted to call your attention to the fact
that the state chancellor issued the annual scorecard.
And we talked at retreat
about aligning our scorecard with this scorecard.
But PCC is in this.
Okay? So, that is out.
And then, again, without comment,
I'll skip to Sarafian Hall.
There's a very, very good full detailed update
from Rueben Smith and Bob Miller
about where we are with Sarafian Hall.
We are hopeful that the state will put a bond
onto the November ballot.
And if they do, our project is very high on the list
and I'll look for funding.
So, speaking of legislative advocacy, push for that.
And so, that leaves only two oh, and I can dispose
of AD 850, not dispose of it.
This is a bachelor's degree proposal.
There is a bill, ABA 50,
which is winding its way to the legislature.
MacCallum [phonetic] and others tell us that the chances
of passage are all but certain in some version.
And that this would affect all community colleges would be able
to put up a bachelor degrees
if it met certain requirements of the bill.
The academic unit under Dr. Bell, that is most interested
in putting a proposal forward, is our nursing program.
And they look forward to engaging the Senate
and making a presentation to the Academic Senate.
And on that.
And so, just wanted that is a major development
and that will be a major change as we move forward.
But as I said, I just want to signal
to the entire college community that that is all but certain
to be passed by the legislature
and our nursing program advocates it for it strongly.
With that, I've done my report and I would call
to the podium Dean Davala, who will present the update
on the Small Business Development Center,
which has been out in the field doing vigorous activity.
>> Thank you Dr. Rocha.
Good evening Board, I want to thank everybody, first of all,
on this first opportunity to provide an update on SPDC.
And the support that Dr. Bell and Mr. Miller provide
in this new venture for Pasadena City College.
I'm glad to report that over the past 68 months we've been
brainstorming about the various ways that the SPDC can function,
not only for our business environment here
in our local Pasadena area,
but also to help foster the right integrated approach that's
necessary to help it grow.
It's more than just having [inaudible] go
out and knocking doors.
It really is.
It involves me as the Dean of CTE to actually help her
with our various forms.
For example, extension has now been integrated
to offering the right skill set for businesses to be able
to equip themselves as they're going through the SPDC process.
I've been able to help Salvetry [phonetic]
with programmatic ventures of entrepreneurship
across our business schools to actually help lift people
to take advantage of our SPDC internally
through our veterans affairs,
through our ice house entrepreneurship program,
as well as through our credit program as well.
And lastly, what I'm more, sort of, proud of,
is to bring different business activities that are going
to be literally happening here this spring for which she
and I have culminated and secured, PCC,
first and foremost, you know, in the table
with what business developing is here in the city of Pasadena.
And I'm not going to steal her thunder and she's going
to describe that a little bit more.
So, I'll put her [inaudible].
>> Thank you.
So I'd like to first announce that I'm really proud
of the gracious response that we have been given
by our business community.
The business community is completely
and utterly gracious for our services.
And we have been getting an overwhelming response
of gratitude from them.
Just as Solomon mentioned, with some of the ventures
that are being taken place here at PCC.
I'd like to first begin with, you know, the time with the SPDC
and my time specifically, is not just with developing
and cultivating clients and providing services for them.
That's one component.
And the other component is the community outreach.
And really aligning ourselves with partners and/or venues
that lends themselves to sharing and sharing
and educating their network on the SPDC services.
So, as of October, I'm proud to announce
that we have serviced 33 clients.
And that's a pretty big deal [chuckles]
from October till now.
And with that, we have participated with the Board
of equalization workshops.
We have participated with the Alhambra Chamber
Community Reception.
They have been a very gracious in having the SPDC forward
in announcing our services.
As well as the [inaudible] partnership.
And also as a judge at the USC Silicon Beach Competition.
In the future, as Solomon mentioned, I am working
with the USC as well upcoming in March in the spring
with their new venture seed competition that's happening.
Here at PCC we are hosting the following events,
the Women's Business Summit in March that's in conjunction
with the [inaudible] Pasadena, of course, ourselves, PCC,
CTE and the [inaudible].
Also in March, we are hosting a Pasadena hackathon.
In conjunction with the City of Pasadena, SPDC,
CTE [chuckles] these acronyms.
Start up Weekend in April.
Also in conjunction with the Innovate Pasadena group,
SPDC, PCC, CTE.
We are also hosting in March a procurement forum
with in conjunction with Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
and ACA Workshop in conjunction
with the Pasadena Chamber as well.
And then in May, we are working
with Constant Contact during their Small Business Week.
We are hosting an event here
which brings 500 local businesses to our campus.
What that means for us is that we are front and center in front
of these business to provide them the services
and to educate them on what the SPDC can do
for them and work with them.
The other component, and I'll briefly go over this, is,
again the partnerships that we have created
in within our community.
And just to name a few but before I go into that.
A long time ago, a professor told me
that your network equates to your net worth.
And I say this a lot, and I apologize
if you've heard me say it before.
But the network of the SPDC Center directly equates
to the net worth of the center, not necessarily in dollars
but in value, which equates the impact that we have
on the business community.
So by building that network out, by having partners that advocate
on our behalf, educate on our behalf and tell our story,
creates an enormous impact for the center.
Some of the partnerships that we've worked very well
with currently, just to name a few,
and have been extremely gracious with their time
and their individual network, is the [inaudible] partnership,
and VACE, which stands for Valley Area Chamber Executives.
USC and City of Pasadena.
Within the tech community, there is some nice conversation
and dialogue happening between Caltech, Idealab
and Innovate Pasadena.
This particular tech community is very, very important for me
to understand a little better.
And they too have been extremely gracious with their time
and their resources and allowing me
to understand what the tech community means.
They have an enormous support group.
The structure of that community is very solid.
So I'd like to help support some of that within that community.
And they have, again, been very helpful in providing me
with what the means are within that community
for us to help service them.
So in closing, the center continues
to strengthen its infrastructure to meet the demands
of the business community.
Thank you.
>> And thank you both for all the good work you do.
Is there any comments?
Trustee Wah?
>> Yes, thank you for the report.
So I'm glad to hear that we're casting our net wide.
I think that the Board trustees and I know Trustee Thomson
and myself have requested that we put together a business plan,
and that be a presentation at the Board.
And I was wondering you know.
And part of that is it's great that we have these contacts.
And it's great that we have this plan, this casting the net wide.
But we're also worried about what that -
whether or not we'll have longevity in being able
to maintain the center for some period of time.
So, I think, a business plan would be helpful to the Board
to see where we're going and what
that future vision looks like.
So I wonder, do you have an estimated time
of when we could see that business plan?
>> We did have a activity plan to start off with.
And they were six months out.
We have these large I mean hundreds of individuals
for these particular events, coming on board.
And there is actually some fees attached to some
of these activities that [inaudible] is producing.
And we are going to be in discussion with Mr. Miller
about literally a revenue generating account
for which we are going to be bringing
in money for these activities.
Whether it be registration fees or consultant fees
or through extension program,
the registration fee for those courses.
Since that's about to happen, I think I need to have some sort
of baseline metrics to see what projections we can do.
What bandwidth in terms of the amount
of services we can provide, to really say,
this is what we can produce out of our center.
So without a baseline, I wouldn't be able to say,
oh yeah, we're going to make this much money
because I really we're just starting off
to see how much it would actually cost us.
And luckily because of the SPDC housed under the school of CTE,
we can leverage a lot of our funding for our students,
for our grants and including our extension school.
So, I think, I have an activity plan, and I presented it
to Mr. Miller and Dr. Bell.
I think we're executing as we presented it.
And we do need some baseline numbers
to know what's the net worth, if you want to call it that.
>> And what is your projected time for that?
>> It should be by the summer time
because all these activities,
these three major events, are going to be done.
And we've had some consultants already
that were hiring through this spring.
And those consultants cost about $60 an hour.
And each consultant is roughly
about three hours per consultation per week.
So, you know, it is a budgetary concern.
And so we want to make sure these activities do have an
impact for positive net gain in terms of bringing
in the extension courses, the registration for these events
to support these activities.
>> Thank you.
>> Ms. Brown?
>> Yeah. I just have one little question.
And I definitely would like to thank you guys
for the work you're doing.
But my question is, you mention that you serve 33 clients.
I just kind of would like to get an idea of what type
of service did you do for these clients.
>> Sure. The clients ranged from various industries.
And the most common services that we have
that we've been providing
for them is accessing capital, is number one.
Number two would be marketing strategies.
And number three would be legal assistants.
Those are our top three services for them in general
on average out of the 33.
There's other elements too, such as human resources,
developing a strategic plan versus a business plan.
Also import/export.
Believe it or not, there's several clients
that have been very active in that in import and export
to my surprise here within the area.
And so, insisting that, those would be the top three.
>> So, let me just go a little further.
So, have you had any or maybe you have just regular
entrepreneur that come over to your center,
that is totally frustrated and not knowing which way to go,
and you were able to guide them through and put them
in the right direction?
Is that what I'm hearing?
>> You bet.
As far as on average, out of those 33, I would say,
maybe about five of those are startups.
The rest are existing businesses.
And those startups are from start to finish.
Obviously, they haven't just finished just yet,
some are still working on their grand openings or working
on their product development.
But it's everything from how to obtain a DBA to, again,
putting together a strategic plan, cost analysis,
competition, researching the market.
The startup business is very different
from existing businesses as far as services.
>> I may add to that extent.
I almost don't expect for [inaudible] to be involved
with these startup businesses
because they do take a lot of effort.
I've been there to witness that from firsthand.
And that's, the SPD centers have a very difficult metrics
to meet on a monthly basis.
She actually has to meet with clients and provide the access
to financial capital and report
that to the SPDC network in Long Beach.
So these are really metrics that we're trying
to hit month in and month out.
That's why we're partnering with our extension program
so that there is an entrepreneur.
They actually have a way to build
up to actually know what services
to then render from the SPDC.
So there's an educational process for entrepreneurs
which require a little bit more time
and that's why the extension program
in building an executive type
of business entrepreneurship pathway is really important
for me to build.
To take that off her plate and really build them
up so they know what questions to ask.
>> Oh, one more question.
So basically, what I'm hearing then is for an entrepreneur
that needs help, that's not where they need to go?
Or how does that work?
>> Yes. The services will be provided at the SPDC.
So they would go to the SPDC.
I have an idea, I have a widget.
I want to see if it's going to work.
Well, that widget needs to go through patent law clearances.
It needs to be even the logo for that company needs
to be researched and developed.
The licensing of such ideas.
And all these things they don't know.
So workshops are provided that are free
to just provide an individual road map.
But they have to do a lot of the leg work
to actually provide information for [inaudible]
to then bring the right resources.
So, someone has to have some concepts to provide
to the web developer, to the patent law lawyer,
to the fictitious name filing individual.
So, and she can't really handle anyone who comes in to do that.
Just give them the road map.
But they have to do some homework before they come back
and engage.
>> I got it, thank you.
>> Yeah. Mr. Thomson.
>> How do we provide legal services?
>> We have legal consultants that we share with the network.
So currently right now I don't have a consultant,
but our network does, which is at our Long Beach Center.
And they have been very gracious with sharing some
of their consultants over to
>> What does that mean, our network does?
>> So the network there's the SPDC network has
eight locations.
So, it's almost like corporate offices.
So I would go to corporate offices at Long Beach
and they share their consultants with us
at the current moment given our state of our budget.
So we don't have a legal consultant on our grounds.
But we do have it within our network to share
with our clients and make sure
that our clients get the service that they need.
>> Okay. Well, I'm going to go back
to the issue raised by Trustee Wah.
I'm not sure what your activity plan is, but I have experience
with both startup companies and also with an organization
that did things somewhat similar to what I think you're talking
about now or alluding to.
Without a business plan to start with,
I don't know how you're going to get anywhere.
I mean, what is your goal?
What do you want to accomplish?
The death of organizations like this, when you start out with
about 6 or 12 different things you're doing,
you got to focus on something.
So, I don't know how you do this without a business plan.
>> Right. Trustee Thomas, the first thing is
to develop our network.
Because we're starting from 0, we had no connection
with other businesses, with our local chambers,
with our local [inaudible].
And that has been established and has been successfully done.
These three activities that we're planning is really to say,
come over to our home.
They're literally going to be here.
Five hundred companies are going to be here walking our halls
for which we when can provide these services
for which we can then have a baseline how much we can bring
in and charge for the workshops, for the extension courses
and for some of the consultant fees
that we know we need to render.
Without knowing the needs of our client, we don't necessarily,
you know, can project what's the necessary demand.
>> Well, I would go about the other way around.
I would start out saying, what is it we hope to accomplish?
How we are going to do this?
What's our budgets?
What is your budget?
>> There is a budget currently for the SPDC, primarily focused
on the personnel that's supposed to sustain, both the director
and our classified individuals.
I'm leveraging a lot of other funds
from existing [inaudible] funds for business expansion
and entrepreneurship programs.
And of course the extension,
which as you know, is a for fee course.
Which we do have course in our existing extension catalog
with business plan development,
marketing plans and even web design.
So we're leveraging existing resources.
>> Again, what is your budget?
How much money do you need?
What do you spend it on?
>> The total amount?
>> Yes.
>> We have roughly about 193,000 under the SPDC budget.
And the extension is, of course, for a fee.
So whatever money goes in there, we really just use.
And the other leverages that we use from our grants,
is roughly about 10,000 for the events.
The actual consultants themselves is about 15,000
that we have currently budgeted.
But [inaudible] did allude to the fact that as we grow,
that may need to be more depending
on how many clients we serve.
So roughly about less than 250,000.
>> And what's your revenue stream?
>> Well, the revenue stream currently is projected to be
from the events that we're hosting.
So there's a registration fee for these events.
And depending on the nature of the business that comes to us,
a lot of the services are free.
So for example, the 33 clients
that currenngtly were serviced are really free,
because we're leveraging our outside network,
typically from Long Beach City College where a lot
of these services are focused on.
But as we get more as these 33 companies get more refined
with their needs, higher legal advice, higher web development
for their web sites, etc. They will cost a little bit
because of the experts that we need to actually bring in.
So, another homework that we've been doing is bringing
in the right consultants.
Just the other day, I secured a web programmer.
Somebody that [inaudible] can use
to actually help a company program on the back end.
And, you know, they're hard to find.
And we're leveraging, currently, our outside network
through our Long Beach City College,
but we need to have our own consultants for it's similar
to finding adjuncts or faculty for our programs,
which are not easy to render.
>> If I may add, the consultants are excuse me.
The consultants are industry experts themselves.
What I mean by that is that they operate
and own their own businesses.
They're not just fly by night consultants that kind
of walk through the door.
They're screened.
The consultants that I'm currently using
and leveraging the network at Long Beach City College,
these consultants have businesses of their own
and they're paid also by SPDC for their services.
So, when it comes to legal, it's an attorney
who we have hired for assistance.
They have their own practice much like the web developers.
You know, web developers, they have their own businesses.
Human resource agents, you know, etc.
>> I don't doubt that you're consultants are well qualified.
That's not really the point.
I'd like to go I apologize for emphasizing this,
but I ask to have this topic put
on our agenda before you were actually hired
because I anticipated that,
if we did not address some of these things.
We're going to find ourselves months afterwards facing the
same issues.
And so, if again, I have experience
with this type of thing.
I was on board of an organization locally
that started out doing these types of things.
And I know from firsthand experience,
the challenges that you run into.
And if you don't have a revenue to stream,
it's going to be very, very difficult
to be successful long term.
So you got to really focus on these things.
And so, that's why, I think Trustee Wah was on target
in asking you for a business plan including a budget.
And I think you need to have that now,
not six months from now.
>> Okay.
>> Thank you Mr. Fraser.
So, I was at the event opening for the SPDC
and there was obviously a lot of [inaudible] talk.
And so now hearing you, my understanding at the time was
that this is actually some part
of a federal program; is that correct?
That there is some kind of outside funding specifically
for the Small Business Development Center?
>> There's a matching grant.
>> There is a matching grant.
>> Correct.
So we do receive $70,000 from the Long Beach City,
sort of hub SPDC, for which we are a satellite
of this network that's run out of Long Beach college.
>> Okay. And how long will that grant last for?
>> It's renewed every year.
As a matter of fact, I was just asked this week if we want
to increase that amount
for which different strings get attached to more funding.
But I said, well listen, we're just establishing the baseline,
we're doing all the leg work.
I know you like us, but just give us a little bit more time
to grow because even though they're matching grants,
they expect more metrics, right?
The metrics of the SPDR are vast.
They're job attainment, there's job security,
new businesses, growth in revenue.
There's different metrics that [inaudible] is responsible
for that I tend to help.
So, right now, I really am leveraging a lot
of the current Cairo tech budget
to help facilitate these activities.
But the goal is to make it self sufficient.
That is the goal.
We are going to make money.
And that is the intent of our And with these activities,
the money that we're projecting to make
from these is going to get us there.
>> So I think that yeah, I kind of agree with a couple of things
that have been said which is that, seeing it,
maybe having some kind of measurable outcomes
that are bullet pointed that we could see would really help us
really understand what the mission is
and how we're going to accomplish it.
Because otherwise, instead of seeing it on paper,
what is it we're going after?
What are we trying to do?
You know, as I said, we're in an accreditation cycle,
so I think of it in the same way.
Pretend it's being accredited and it get some outcomes.
The final one thing I'll say without trying to add
to your mission is that, you know,
I mentioned at the beginning of the meeting
and that it was great that we had student
internship opportunities.
I was a little concerned to hear
that we're leveraging other monies in the CTE area
for this center because obviously CTE is
such a huge area.
We really need to support all those students
with the grant money we have.
So, two things on that one, I hope we can stop doing that.
And we can actually get this [inaudible]
to be self supporting so that money can really go
to where it's meant to be going because that does concern me.
And the second thing would be, how can we use the center
to leverage connections that can then benefit our students coming
out of our career technical programs and coming
out of other places so we can really make that bridge,
student to workforce even smoother.
>> Right. Well, that's the beauty
of it Dr. Fraser Trustee Fraser, is that the funds that are used
for these events are actually not just to put
on events and to feed people.
The companies are being invited, the roughly 30 for the Hackathon
and the 500 for the Connect and the other 300
for the Startup Weekend.
They're going to be our advisory committee for our programs.
It comes with some strings for them to guide our programs
to update our programs.
So, that's how I'm justifying these costs
because they're actually going to give us career relevant
up to date skill sets for our particulr programs.
>> And, you know, seeing that as one of the outcomes or one
of the results would be fantastic.
You know, so we know what's coming.
Thanks.
>> Ms. Wah?
>> You know, I think that you know the Board is very
supportive of this SPDC and we have a lot of faith in you,
Dean Davala, to make this happen.
So, you know, so not to delay this more,
but since Long Beach has had an SPDC for a long time,
I imagine they have some sort of a business plan.
It might be helpful for us all to look at that
and maybe see what kind of a framework they use.
And that might be something
that helps us envision what we could expect,
maybe down the line as you get your baseline data together.
>> Sure, I'll make sure I give a projected budget
so that we can have a self sufficiency model based on some
of the activities that really have come up this spring
so that we can demonstrate that we do have an effective plan
to make sure that this is, not only integrated
into our programs but also revenue generating
as expected to be.
>> President Rocha.
>> No, I appreciate the questions from the Board.
I did want to just fill in a couple of things
and just provide some guidance
as you develop the business plan.
And I do understand the time it takes
to develop a business plan.
First of all, I remind us that the Board approves this
because it was presented to us by Congresswoman Chu.
Okay, who presented us a rare opportunity
to get the federal funding, and we did have to match.
And so, it does take, in any kind of business time, right?
You're going to lose money the first year,
break even the second year,
the third year you're going to make a profit.
So that's the business plan that I'd like to see.
I never had any expectation that it was going
to be making a profit in its first few months of operation.
But more importantly than that, I would like you
to please put a value in that business plan
to the other ancillary benefits
that are accruing to the college.
Okay? And they are, as such the internships, the networking,
which has enabled you to vastly expand the internships recently.
Number two, the network that enables us
to expand the advisory groups to the CTE programs
that are required by accreditation.
Number three, the fundraising opportunities that we can give
to Bobby and for additional support.
So I do think, although it's hard to, in an adventure
like this, I would like to see some kind of innovative way
that there are benefits.
And finally, you mentioned extension.
Extension is revenue.
You're just starting to get going on that.
And a lot of the revenue will be driven
through our extension program in which you're offering courses
and other kinds of services to the public.
But I think I agree with the Board members that,
I think we would all want to make sure that we're supportive
if you can describe the actual, you know, revenue.
And I don't know whether, you know, there might be a way,
any kind, and so on and so forth.
So I think that's what I take you
to mean when I hear leverage.
Because this is something that if we didn't do it,
we'd have to do it anyway for the sake of this school
of college and technical education mission.
>> Correct.
>> So, anyway.
But that business plan, you can rely will be forthcoming.
>> Absolutely.
>> I think next week, some of the trustees will be meeting
in Washington with Congresswoman Chu.
And I'm sure this issue will come up.
She's talked to me many times about it.
It's very close to her heart.
And I do believe that the trustees would
like to see a business plan and a budget.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
>> You're welcome.
>> If I could follow up with that, I'd like to suggest
that within one month from now, the first meeting we have
in March, this be on the agenda with a business plan
and a budget including a revenue stream
so we know what you're planning on doing, how you're going
to pay for it and where you intend to go with it.
>> Okay. It will happen.
Thank you.
>> Dr. Savvy?
>> This question goes back to the enrollment update Dr. Rocha?
>> Oh yes.
I've had a number of people ask me about the breakdown
of students by ethnicity.
And we've got a break down here.
This is the first page under divider M. And I was wondering
if anybody's ever run these figures, the breakdown
of the ethnicity by students who are in the district,
U.S. students who are outside of the district,
and then what four percent
of our student body is foreign [inaudible] right?
>> What percent is out of district, you mean?
>> Yeah.
>> What I'm asking is, we've got a total of, you know,
in the high 20,000 of students here.
But only, well, less than 40 percent are from the district.
>> That's correct.
>> I'd be interested in what the break down is for our district.
>> The ethnicity break down of students
who are in district students?
>> Right, yeah.
>> Okay. Let me is Director Crolross [phonetic] out there?
Is that something okay.
We can run that report.
>> Now, one other thing to complicate it would be,
and again, this is because I've had people ask me, well,
how does the ethnic rate now compare with our district?
Well, it's not a simple question as that.
I think the appropriate question would be how does the ethnicity
break down compare for the age cohort
that generally makes up the population.
And I that's getting a little bit deeper in the census data,
but we've got some recent data from 2010.
And that might be an even better scale
for how we're doing in that area.
>> No. No question.
We'll get you that information.
>> Okay, thank you.
Mr. Fraser our last question?
>> Just on the and this may probably isn't something
that we can answer tonight.
But on the state of the system report card,
I've looked at this a few times now.
And there's one statistic
on page five I'm having trouble with, which is in 2008, 2009,
participation rate by rate ethnicity per 1,000 populations,
multi race goes from 2 to 120 in the span of four years.
And it looked when I see a shift that that's dramatic,
it's usually, some sort of data normally going on.
So do we know why that happened?
And maybe not necessarily answer now if we don't have one,
but it was just something that's been bothering me
since the CCLC conference.
>> Well, again, I would not know.
I'm assuming that, you know, the reporting
to the state chancellor's office is accurate.
I mean, I infer, obviously, that more
and more individuals are identifying themselves
as multi race.
Crystal, do I have that right?
[Inaudible] right.
[Inaudible]
>> Okay. That answers it.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. Thank you very much.
This is the time we turn to shared governance for 1
or 2 upcoming items to share with the public.
And we'll begin with the Associated Student's President,
Mr. Orozco?
>> [Chuckles] okay so, first I just wanted to say thank you
so much for approving the lobby budget for us to go
to the CCLC Conference.
It was a great experience.
I have some lobby committee members as well
as Professor Panel over here.
It was a wonderful experience.
There were some shocking news to me as well
as some, also empowering news.
And I'm going to be presenting a presentation
to the associate student board soon to see how we can use some
of this information to get it out to our student
and to sort of vet it out.
Information in regards to financial aid,
information in regards to underrepresented students
as well as the numbers in the governor's budget
and how that affects us.
Some of us went to different assembly members.
I talked about different legislations
that concern students.
I visited Jimmy Gomez's office.
I talked to his aid, Freddy Conthana [phonetic]
and we discussed multiple things
which included our pathways programs as well
as our new math program, which are math 450,
math 250 and math 150.
I'm currently enrolled in 150
and getting an A, thank you very much.
I've never gotten an A in math before.
And it's working very great.
I also spoke up about conceptual based learning
versus targeted based learning.
And it's very important to really want to assess that.
And the second thing we want to talk
about is associated students is kicking
into high gear this semester.
Spring 2014 is our busy one.
So you'll be seeing a lot more events on campus.
We recently just had Catching Fire last night,
which is the movie night.
Very successful.
And we have one coming up.
We're going to show Gravity.
So if you haven't seen Gravity,
I recommend you come and join that.
Other than that, I look forward to planning the joint meeting
between us and you guys.
And so, I will be forwarding you an e mail,
President Fellow, pretty soon.
Other than that, I look forward to working
with you guys this semester and thank you.
>> Thank you.
Next we will hear from Classified Staff,
Mr. Alton Neurono [phonetic].
>> I got to put this down a little bit.
There we go.
Good evening.
I just want to say, we've been working on part
of the classified center as far as we've narrowed down our theme
for classified data that I've been announcing since last fall.
Which is work life balance, work smarter, live better.
And we've now done our keynote and workshop person
which is Mr. Robinson,
who is one of the country's most [inaudible] experts
on stress management and work life balance.
So we're excited about that.
That will be coming on May 15th.
We also will be working with associated students,
I'll just have Jordyn, about our class 2014 scholarship
and will be advertising it to the campus soon.
We have a deadline of that for Friday, April 10th.
So we're excited to be able to support students that way.
We also discuss the day the EEO pen that was presented.
And we have some upcoming suggestions
for the college council for the upcoming meeting.
And lastly, we got news from the California Community College
employee of the year, and we took place as far as we spoke
about qualifications, nominee procedures
and possible candidates for the 2014.
So you'll be hearing from the students with that.
Thank you very much.
>> Thank you.
We'll now hear from Academic Senate, Mr. Cairo.
[ Background Noise ]
>> Thank you.
I'll focus on four main points that occurred this week.
Number one, the Senate began its evaluation
of president survey this week.
And what I'd like to mention is
that the process itself has already revealed some issues
that I'd like to bring to your attention, which had nothing
to do with the survey itself.
The Committee members, this [inaudible] committee,
have informed me of the problems that they had with the list
that was provided for us.
And it reveals a discrepancy of the current method of dealing
or stating who is a faculty member.
So we ran into the issue of who is a faculty member.
We ran into an issue that we had a list, an updated list
of the current faculty members that turned out not to be
or that people were on sabbatical
or people were on maternity leave.
So this itself does present a problem.
And I just want to bring it to your attention
that either the staff is overworked
or the information isn't being inputted.
But whatever it is, there's something that needs to be done
to correct that problem to the benefit of the entire school.
Second, it was mentioned earlier regarding the issue
of sabbatical.
I too would prefer you not to approve it simply
because we are going to be losing some fantastic faculty.
So, we'd hate to see that,
but we understand why the faculty choose to resign.
But from our point and from the academic center's point of view,
it does present another issue that we will discuss,
is that we have a [inaudible] reassigned time committee.
And the idea here is, hopefully, that given the fact that faculty
on sabbatical, the big question for us is,
how is that individual going to be replaced?
If we replace that individual with a part timer,
the school benefits, because obviously there'll be less money
paid to that individual and no benefits.
However, at the same time, the students do not benefit
because that Part timer will not provide enough office hours.
That part timer will not be able to participate
in committee work on campus.
So we all would suffer.
So I hope you'd take into consideration and find a way
to replace that sabbatical faculty member
with a temporary one year replacement.
The next item is the discussion regarding the new block schedule
that came out.
And I would just like to bring to your attention
that the issue itself was not presented to the Senate.
It was not vetted through the proper shared
governance committees.
And as a result, when this topic was presented to the Senate,
there were many questions about the actual classes,
how it will not fit the needs of certain faculty.
So, I'd just like to reiterate the fact that it was not vetted
to shared governance and as a result, there are a lot
of problems within the schedule.
Third point, the technical visit, as you all know,
we made a request and I received an e mail
from Dr. Rocha today stating
that he too will submit a request.
And hopefully that is the first step in getting us all back
on board working towards progress for the school.
And finally, I read this week
where Long Beach City College will be implementing very soon,
the two tiered tuition for all students.
And as a representative of all the faculty on campus,
I would like to say thank you to every single one of you
that chose not to have our college participate.
And I thank our students and our faculty and the entire college,
benefits by your decisions.
So thank you very much for saying no.
>> Thank you.
And finally, Dr. Douglas, Management Associations.
>> Thank you President Fellow.
Just a quick save the date
as Doctor [inaudible] mentioned earlier.
We plan to thoroughly honor our management association retirees.
And that will be May 8th, Thursday at 7:30.
And the location will be forthcoming.
So please, we'd love to have you all there.
Thank you.
>> Thank you very much.
Now we'll turn to our trustees, Trustee Martin.
>> No comments, thank you.
>> Trustee Mann.
>> Well, since we met, haven't we didn't we have the opening
for Center of the Arts?
Yes. And so, I just wanted to comment.
I assume other trustees will comment.
I have received nothing but extremely positive response
from the community, from the people that I know.
From the people in my district who were very impressed
with the whole event, with the building.
With being able to see the students working
and interacting.
And they think this is a real addition to the city.
They were so pleased that the mayor chose to give the State
of the City Address there at our new facility.
And I think it was a very, very, very positive experience.
Everyone that I know of or heard in Pasadena is aware
of this except the staff of the Star News
and that's unfortunate.
[Chuckles]
>> I'm glad you brought that up.
Ms. Wah?
>> Well, first I want to wish everyone a happy new year.
Last weekend was the kickoff of the year of the horse
for the lunar new year.
And I had the pleasure
of attending PCC's International Student Leadership event
that celebrated the new year.
It was led by, I guess our new international student leadership
counselor, Jack Yang under Brock Cline [phonetic].
But anyway, it was very well attended.
And people that I brought
from the community were very impressed
with the leadership of our students.
And also the recognition and the celebration
of diversity in our campus.
The other thing I wanted to the say was, I am on the LACSTA,
LA County School Trustees Association Board.
And so, as one of the directors, what I've done is,
I've kicked off roundtables on various discussion items
that are of interest between the K 12's
and the community colleges.
And so last week was the or actually Monday,
was the third round table on the AV86 issue adult education.
Very well-attended.
Riohando [phonetic] was one of the big presenters
of the large [inaudible].
But I had a chance to read Dr. Bell's report.
And I know that Dr. Bell and Dr. Ariano [phonetic] are working
on the adult add.
And I hope that you will from some
of the things I heard I hope that we will also take
into consideration the opportunities to work
with our community stakeholders on AD 86.
And also, you know, it's an opportunity for us not
to just look at the K 12 as our member districts,
but also to partner with the vet centers that also need
with us their constituents also need adult education.
And as Trustee Brown and I have also been very strong advocates
of career technical education and workforce development.
I hope we will look to them as partners in this.
And I also saw on your report
that we might be considering joining forces
with the LACCD [inaudible].
And so, possibly, I know we're not on future items,
but hopefully we could get the Board might get a future study
session, discuss what the adult ed [inaudible]
for PACCD might look like.
>> Thank you.
Trustee Brown.
>> Well, I had the opportunity to attend Sacramento
to the effective trustee workshop.
And I really enjoyed the opportunity of meeting
with the legislators and excellent workshops that we had.
And I'm looking for a word again to attend Washington.
I'm a little scared about that weather but I will be there.
And the thing that I really enjoyed or was encouraging,
when we spoke with the legislators,
is the fact that starting with Governor Brown's budget,
it's encouraging for us as trustees and for the students
at this point as we compare ourselves to previous years.
I see that there's a lot of benefits
that our students can get and our organization if we focus
on the right programs where we can help our students.
And I'm looking forward to seeing that we are able to focus
on the students that need the most help
and do something phenomenal this year for our students.
So, let's just see what will come out of all this.
>> Thank you.
Trustee Thomson
>> I just want to emphasize what Trustee Mann mentioned
about the opening of the Center for the Arts.
Particularly, the two young women from PCC
who sang the national anthem.
They just wowed the entire audience and everything.
But the entire evening was exceptionally well received.
People were just amazed at how beautiful the facility is
and how well the evening was organized and moved along.
So thanks to Valerie and Bobby particularly
for putting all that together.
So, I have a question.
I got a card, as I'm sure everyone else must have too,
about a vision and community workshop for a Saturday morning.
Who is putting this together or planning it
and what's the background of that?
>> Mr. Miller.
>> Yes. Mr. Smith and I and the College Facilities Committee is
working to host two vision and community workshops.
One of which is a full day workshop for staff
and the college, and those that work closely
with us, invitation only.
We have roughly 80 to 100 people coming
to the visioning session on Friday.
And then on Saturday, we have one that is
for the community in general.
It's been advertised fairly heavily through a variety
of print and other media, social media and what have you.
So, we'll have a two day visioning session.
At this visioning session,
our three planning architects will be participating.
Mindy Craig, who you might recall
with the Education Master Plan process now
at Blue Point Planning, will be facilitating this along
with Rueben and others.
So it's a two day event.
And I think in your packets, a week or so ago,
we had these one sheet explanations on it.
Be happy to pass those down to Trustee Thomson
and we can then provide additional information
if you require it.
>> Thank you.
>> Trustee Thomson, so you know the matter has been agendized.
We posted an agenda so that if four of more of you choose to go
and discuss district business,
that it's in compliance with the Brown Act.
>> Right. And both days have been posted.
So, four more board members are there.
>> Mr. Miller, is there any problems with any
of the trustees going to the Friday session?
>> Absolutely not.
We'd be more than happy to have you.
>> Or the Saturday.
>> Or the Saturday, exactly.
[Chuckles] Or both.
Whatever works for you.
>> Thank you.
>> No report.
>> Trustee Fraser?
>> Thank you.
As part of the effective trustee workshop
that was also a triple CT meeting, and a couple
of interesting things came out of that.
We had a discussion with Beth Smith, the President
of the Academic SENATE.
And the biggest statistic that we got from that was
that we've awarded in the last year, 5,000 associate degrees
for transfer statewide.
Only 400 of those have been confirmed
to have led to a CSU transfer.
We don't know whether that means that people took their AAAST's,
transferred to a private or to a UC system, or somewhere else.
We know that that discussion about increasing the way
in which that AAT is portable, especially to the UC system.
So, I'm hoping to hear a little bit more about that.
Statewide as we go through.
And the other thing was that we had an interesting conversation
with the chancellor mainly about the governor's budget
and a couple of different issues that are sort of on the horizon
in adult education and the regional [inaudible].
So, all in all, it was informative.
And I'm looking forward to attending the DC set of sessions
with the rest of the Board.
>> Thank you.
You have in front of you the schedule of future meetings
and future agenda items
that Trustee Thomson has already asked at our next meeting
to have a business and budget plan.
>> March 5th meeting, the next business meeting.
>> Okay. And anything else?
Ms. Wah?
>> Yes. I didn't we just had a brief meeting
of this new committee, the community outreach.
And one of the things that we discussed as well
as at the retreat was the commencement.
And so the Board has indicated we would like to work
with the college staff to give some input
to the section speaker.
So I know you have the college group has a meeting coming up.
And so, if you could let me know,
we'd love to be participating in that.
And then the second item I wanted to bring up,
is something I brought up way in the past.
Is the E board packages.
We have looked at I know we looked at software before,
but Dr. Mann and I have had a chance and Trustee Fraser
and I have had a chance to work
with the triple CT's E board package board docs.
And I know we looked
at it before probably doesn't have everything that we want,
but it's got most of it.
And I think that in the interest of us, saving trees
and also being supportive of sustainability,
which is one of our goals.
I hope that we will look at that.
And I'd like to put that on future discussions.
>> Yeah. Thank you for bringing that up.
About the community outreach and commencement,
it's been suggested too
that these two young ladies should do the national anthem
at commencement, maybe, would be great.
Ms. Brown?
Do you have something?
>> Yes. At the retreat, we discussed having some
of our committee meetings as a notice Brown Act meeting
so we could have more people there.
And I have followed up with President Rocha
about scheduling a meeting at the Policy
and Accreditation Committee.
And do we have a date yet for that?
Are we looking at March Dr. Rocha?
>> The accreditation and board policy review.
>> Right.
>> That, you know -
>> Right, right, right.
>> We're going to shoot for February 19th
for an accreditation and board policy review.
>> Right. And if we do that, would that be
at the same time as the board meeting?
Or would that be conjunction with the board meeting?
>> Well, I'm not aware that the President Fellow has made
an agenda.
I think we were talking about using that February 19th date
for committee meetings.
>> Okay. I just wanted -
>> Which could also subsume the meeting
with the commencement committee.
>> All right.
I just wanted to clarify that.
So, that study session is kind
of like study session slash committee meetings.
Right. So we don't have to separately take any action
as long as we an [inaudible] study session.
But I did want to alert everyone that we are making this change
and we are in an effort to be more transparent
and to give the whole campus community an offer
to participate.
>> Thank you for bringing that up Trustee Mann.
Anything else Mr. Fraser?
>> I'd just like to I've seen the future agenda items
list here.
I'd like to request that perhaps we schedule soon the report
on the students and its class schedule has come
up a couple of times.
And so, maybe just seeing in public where we are with that
and what the timeline is for an implementation,
what the implementation would look like.
And it's on here.
I just think that perhaps now that it's being talked about,
we should schedule it for sooner rather than later.
>> Okay, thank you very much.
And thank you for being here today.
This meeting is adjourned.