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(Gavel.) >> Chair Rayl: The January 17th, 2013, meeting
of the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees is hereby called to order
and we will start with the Pledge of Allegiance. 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.
>> Chair Rayl: The next thing on our agenda is the roll call and recognition of visitors,
and I'll defer to Terri Schlicht for that.
>> Terry Schlicht. Thank you. This evening's visitors include Richard Schroeder.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you. We're now to the Open Forum portion of our meeting. The Open
Forum section of the Board agenda is a time for members of the community to provide
comments to the Board. There will be one Open Forum period each regularly scheduled Board
meeting, comments limited to five minutes unless a significant number of people plan
to speak, in which instance the Chair may limit the
person's comments to less than five minutes. In order to be recognized, individuals must
register at the door at each Board meeting prior to
the Open Forum agenda item. When addressing the Board, registered speakers should be
respectful and civil and should not address matters of a personal nature or related to
individual personnel matters with the college. There
is one registered speaker at tonight's meeting and I
will ask that Frank Syracuse approach the podium, the microphone, if you will. And prior
to beginning your comments, we would just ask
that you state your name and your address, including the city and state.
>> Frank Syracuse: Thank you. Good evening. I'm Frank Syracuse. I live in Paola, Kansas.
Excuse me. I'm an employee here. I teach economics. I have for a little bit over 20 years and
at Johnson County community college. I love it.
Thank you you for the opportunity. I teach the
most interesting subject matter possible, and it's been a lot of fun lately.
(Laughter.) I really wanted to talk to you about a serious
nature, though, and it's all positive, so I'll put
you guys at ease. A little bit of a concern. I've been here for 20 years, this institution
is great. It's handled itself really well. I'm very
proud to tell people, family, friends, that I work here. But
lately I've been a little concerned about what I think is a leadership vacuum that's
developed. We had Dr. Rhinehart retire. Dr. Grove moved
on to another opportunity, and then Dr. Calaway has
announced his retirement. We've got a lot of challenges I think the education community
faces. Last week there was an article in the "Wall
Street Journal" about declining enrollment nationwide. I hope everyone had the opportunity
to read that. We all know what's going on in
the state budgets here and I just don't think it's a great time to have a leadership vacuum.
I think we've got some pressing concerns immediately,
and we're going to have some concerns going forward for a while.
And so I'm here to ask the participants, the leadership of this college to maybe step back
and take another look at things. Dr. Calaway,
I think there's still more for you to accomplish here. I
would like for you to re-consider retiring. That maybe selfish on my part and the institution's
part. I look forward to retiring five years from now. But if I was asked by you to delay
my retirement, I would.
(Laughter.) I don't think that's going to happen, though.
And I'd ask the Board, in all seriousness, to do
what it takes to have Dr. Calaway reconsider. I think it would be for the best of this institution.
I don't come before you too often. I've done
it -- I think this is the third time since I've been here
in 22 years. And I've only done it when I've felt it was very important and I was -- I've
just been thinking about this over Christmas Break,
over the Holiday Break, and it's concerned me enough
to come forward and respectfully ask that all the parties concerned here would take
another look at it. And that's really all I had to say
to you today and I appreciate the job everyone is doing.
So thank you. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you for your comments.
One thing we can certainly all agree on is that
Dr. Terry Calaway has been a tremendous leader for this institution. So thank you for your
comments. >> Madam Chair?
>> Chair Rayl: Yes. >> In previous meetings, Dr. Calaway's wife,
Marlene, has always been here to make sure he
doesn't reconsider. I don't see her in the audience tonight.
(Laughter.) >> Trustee Stewart: So there may be an opportunity
to reverse that decision. >> So moved.
(Laughter.) >> Do I hear a second?
(Laughter.) >> Chair Rayl: Oh. Let's move on and take
Dr. Calaway off the hot seat for the moment and
proceed with awards and recognitions, and I'll defer to you, Dr. Calaway.
>> Dr. Calaway: Well, thank you. And thank you to Frank. He's one of our absolute best
faculty. I'm very humbled by the comments, Frank, that you've made, and if there was
someone who would cause me to think about it, it might
be you. So thank you so much. You're really one
of the best of the best and I appreciate those kind words.
And our awards and recognitions section of the agenda is really part of the best of the
best of Johnson County Community College, and this
month we have the recognition truly of one -- not
only one of the best of the best that's a part of our institution, both an individual
who is one of the best of the best when it comes to nationally
being recognized for the work that he's done, and
that's our esteemed and very recently recognized National Hall of Fame recipient, Coach Kent
Shelley, the coach of our baseball team. For members of the college community, the Johnson
County community certainly, the state of Kansas, and our board, as you know, we've been very,
very blessed to have a person of Kent's talent and leadership here at our college for a number
of years, and Kent was recently inducted into
the National Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame, a very,
very rare recognition of a community college coach, but having had the chance to be there
in Chicago when it happened, I saw the deep esteem
that his friends, his colleagues, his peers have
for him as a professional, as a coach, as a leader of men and students, and we're very,
very lucky to have him recognized, and our college, for
the good work that he's done. It's interesting, as he
prepared his bio, if you will, for the recognition that he received, the first thing that was
mentioned was the annual GPA achievements that his players have had. That was the most
important thing that he mentioned. Later down the line, several people pulled out information
that talked about all of the players that have come through this program in his 26 years
as our coach. He is the winningest coach in our college's
history, one of the all-time leaders in the Jayhawk Conference as far as wins. His record
is 759 wins, 476 losses, and 1 tie. Very, very
high marks for a baseball coach. 759 wins is -- and as you can see, he must have been
12 when he started here, because he's got many years
to go. (Laughter.)
His teams have won conference championships. His teams have gone to the World Series.
He's coached Major League players, a number of players who have gone through the Minor
Leagues, as well as have been successful here and then on to D-I, D-II, D-III schools. He's
just been one of the best of the best and, Kent,
we're so, so honored to have the opportunity to work
with you and to have the chance to celebrate this recognition of your great work, both
inside the classroom and on the field. And when we talk
about leadership, certainly there's no greater leader than our dear friend Kent Shelley.
And, Coach, we congratulate you very deeply for this
recognition. Well deserved. (Applause.)
>> Chair Rayl: You know, Kent and I had the opportunity to visit briefly in the hallway,
and he takes very little credit for his achievements.
He's the first to thank his players and his assistant coaches and to give credit to all
those folks who have been a part of his success. But,
Kent, we are so very proud of you. And certainly you've been a tremendous leader and
tremendous asset for our college. So thank you very much and congratulations.
(Applause.) >> Dr. Calaway: True to form, he's not going
to say a word. (Laughter.)
But I can say this. After the ceremony, the other inductees had two or three people who
had pictures with him. Kent, when Kent went for
his picture, there were about 37 people standing there, and part of his group were former players
and assistant coaches and others who were there
who had -- who supported his nomination. So, again, congratulations, Coach.
>> Kent Shelley: May I say a word? >> Dr. Calaway: Not now. Certainly.
(Laughter.) >> Kent Shelley: My wife says I never turn
down an opportunity when there's a microphone around.
On behalf of my family, I just want to thank the Board of Trustees for the opportunity
you've given to me to coach for 27 years at the greatest
community college in the country. And as I travel the country, I'm the first to tell
everyone about the great things that we're able to
accomplish, both in the classroom and on the athletic field. And none of this would be
possible without your help, your support, and your
encouragement. So it's been a great ride. I do believe
I have a couple more years in me before you guys send me out to pasture. But I really
want you to know how sincere that I am, that I do appreciate
the opportunity that you have provided for me and my family, and I'm just very, very
proud to represent this institution through all my
travels. So, again, thank you very much for this recognition.
(Applause.) >> Chair Rayl: Are you charging for autographs
yet, or can we still get those for free? >> Kent Shelley: They're still free.
>> Chair Rayl: Okay. That takes us to our College Lobbyist Report, and Mr. Carter is
approaching the microphone. >> Mr. Carter: I really would prefer to have
some protection around me. >> Chair Rayl: Are you feeling a little vulnerable?
>> Mr. Carter: Well, it is the legislative season and they have started as of this week.
In fact, not much has happened since the last time
I provided a report to you, and what little has
happened has all happened within the past couple of days. And so let me bring you up-to-speed
with what's happened since the legislature has convened in Topeka for the 2013 legislative
session. It's actually been a rather quiet and normal start compared to some years past.
And I have to say that as someone who has done this
for 20 years, I've become very cynical about the
process, and I'm very encouraged this year, on two -- usually what we do the first week
or so we is do a lot of committee orientations, we
hear a lot of reports from folks. And in two separate
committees, I've heard the committee chair speak to his or her committee and indicate
to them please treat the conferees with respect, and
if you don't we will have a conversation after the
hearing. That is something that we've not seen in the past several years. In fact, I've
never seen a committee chair instruct their committee
to treat those that appear in front of the microphone
with the same dignity and respect that they would appreciate themselves.
And so I think that sort of sets the tone for the dialogue that we plan to have for
the 2013 legislative session. And we are encouraged
by the new class that is upon Topeka. They're very
willing to talk to us about the issues. They're eager to learn and listen to what folks have
to say. With that, the next day, then, was the Governor's
State of the State address, and I don't think that he said anything that we weren't expecting
or that any of us haven't already heard. However, I would say that probably a lot of jaws dropped
when he offered to -- as part of his proposal package -- to put the Kansas Topeka Authority
under the Kansas Department of Transportation. Again, that doesn't have a huge impact here,
but that is going to be a big part of the dialogue that
we will be listening to and participating in in Topeka this year, supposedly that savings
will, by combining the two agencies, will have about
a $25, $30 million savings over a two-year period,
which takes us to the next part, which is the Governor's budget, which he proposed this
goaround as a two-year cycle. Not terribly uncommon
in some states, in some legislatures. We've not done that for a long time in this state,
long before since I can remember. And I think the
important notes from that particular piece, which then was unveiled on Wednesday of this
week, was that higher education and education in
general will be held flat. Now, in 2015 we'll see a little bump for K-12
education. Again, I think you are going to see
some of that conversation play out as a result of the court case that was just announced
around the first of the year, and we'll see an appeal
there. There's going to be an ongoing process about
that. You're going to see some constitutional amendments related to funding of education.
In fact, I think we'll see some other constitutional
amendments as well as part of the conversation this year.
But as it relates to the budget, a few key pieces as it relates to the college are that
the Governor's budget recommendation for 2014
and '15 does not include the second year the $8
million tiered funding formula for the Technical Education Formula, which we worked so hard
to sort of get there. We still have the first 8 million and the first year's worth that
is in the budget recommendations, but there is not an enhancement
that's included for that second year. The -- I guess a couple of pieces in the budget
that maybe don't directly impact but that are
certainly something we should be aware of are the Bioscience Authority will be capped
at $10 million for investment. They will sweep some
of that money, then, into the state general fund to
backfill some of the hole that we know are going to be there as we figure out what the
state's budget looks like. And then another big piece
is that the Governor's budget is built on maintaining that six-tenths of a sales tax
that's set to sunset in June 30th this year. So he's
requesting the legislature to extend that for another two years, as well as another
important piece is the elimination of the mortgage tax credit.
Both of those pieces are critical to the way his
budget is built. We're going to have all kinds of conversations at the legislative level,
both in the Senate and the House.
Ultimately I think we'll get to the point financially where the Governor's budget
recommendations take us. I don't know if those pieces will exactly match up. There may not
be the will in one body or another to pass the
extension of that six-tenths of the sales tax that
generates about $260 million. Again, just for your information, it's about $160 million
that is generated for the state general fund if they
take away the mortgage tax credit. So when you add those two together, you're
closing the gap on what the anticipated deficit will be, or the hole in the budget will be.
It doesn't get them there completely, but those are the
two big pieces for figuring the budget out this year.
Another important piece that sometimes requires a little bit of explanation is a PAYGO
principle. And last year, the House Appropriations Committee adopted a PAYGO rule. This
year, the Senate has followed and they have also adopted that rule. And what that means
is once a budget bill leaves the committee process
and it's either on the floor for general debate or for
final action or in the conference committee process, anytime an amendment is made, and
when we're talking about a budget bill, we're talking
an amendment is made it's financial in nature, if
you make an amendment, you have to take the -- to add dollars or to add a program, you
have to take the same amount somewhere else in the
budget. So it becomes very difficult to begin to
manage the pieces of the budget if something comes up after the budget bill has already
left the committee or for whatever reason.
The other argument you will hear from some people is that that leaves six people in control
of state's budget, because in the conference
committee process, you have three folks from the
Senate side and three folks from the House side sort of working out the differences.
When you're working out the differences across
the table with a PAYGO rule, it becomes very confusing and very complicated. So that's
kind of where we're at as it relates to finances this
year. Not a lot of bills were pre-filed this year.
That's also not typical. Usually we have several bills, a couple of dozen in both chambers
sometimes that will be pre-filed before the legislature
even starts. That's not been the case yet this year. So bills are just now sort of being
filed, being requested by various legislators and folks
that would like to see legislation. So having said that, some of the pieces that
we anticipate that are coming that we've not seen
yet are conceal carry amendment, something we've talked about around this table from
time to time. November local elections, that will
be another bill that will be coming forward very soon.
We'll also be talking about property tax caps. We've talked about the machinery and equipment
argument. They're now turning it in trade fixture definition, and that will be something
that we'll be talking about this session that we probably
won't be doing anything serious about until April.
There's a legislative post-audit study that's scheduled to be presented in April, and so
nothing will be done on that level until April.
And then we'll see a number of constitutional amendments I think attempted. I think it's
going to depend on the issue as to whether or not there are enough votes in the House
to pass a constitutional amendment, which then takes
it to the ballot the next election. So I would stop there. That sort of capsulizes
where we're at. I am anticipating -- while I
didn't say it would be a much smoother session than what we thought, I do think it will be
at least more amicable than maybe what we were thinking
in the beginning. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you, Mr. Carter. Do we
have any questions from the board? Yes, Trustee Musil.
>> Trustee Musil: ***, a couple things. Under the PAYGO rules, you said if the budget says
$100 and I propose something that's going to cost 102, do I have to cut $2 from somebody
else or can I propose $2 in new revenues?
>> Mr. Carter: When you bring your amendment, then you have to figure out where the $102
are going to come from someone else's budget. >> Trustee Musil: I can't propose a reduction
in the deductions in income tax or a .1 -- I mean
is it only cuts, or can -- I mean I understand the chances of revenue enhancements in this
legislature, but I'm trying to figure out the dynamics.
>> Mr. Carter: You could probably propose cuts in some type of -- well, it wouldn't
be an enhancement, though, in sales tax or tax to
make that work. The numbers have to cancel each
other out. >> Trustee Musil: Right. But it could be revenue
or expense cut. >> Mr. Carter: It could.
>> Trustee Musil: Okay. In the Home Rule amendment, is that -- I mean Home Rule is
generally where local governments have the right to do certain things without -- regardless
of whether the State wants to do it, particularly
in non-uniform situations. Does that affect the
college? I'm not aware of our Home Rule. >> Mr. Carter: I don't believe that it does
because community colleges are set up under a
different set of statutes, and so they don't fall under the constitutional protection of
the Home Rule.
>> Trustee Musil: The other thing I would just point out is I appreciate your optimism
and I know you have to do that going into it because
that's your job. The brilliance of what I thought -
- political brilliance of the Governor's State of the State speech was everybody reported
that there's going to be an increase in, for instance,
K-12 as an indication of support for education. Well, 2014, no increase. 2015, $14, or or
.3 -- .3% -- .003, and it gets reported as an increase.
And if that's the kind of thing that we're going to live with, we're going to have to
find lots of ways to do more with less because other costs,
whether it's utilities or healthcare or anything else, are going to continue to go up. So I
guess it was a very good PR move to say -- be able to
say there's an increase of $14, which gets us back to about the base aid per student
from the 1990s. But it's going to be an interesting
session. >> Chair Rayl: Any other questions for Mr.
Carter? Thank you, ***. That takes us to our committee reports and
recommendations, and we'll start with the Management Committee Report and Trustee Stewart.
>> Trustee Stewart: All right. Thank you, Trustee Rayl. Or Chair Rayl, sorry.
We -- the Management Committee met at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 9th. Dr. Bob
Drummond was in attendance at that meeting, and Dr. Sopcich was in Chile. And it's interesting,
Dr. Sopcich prepares notes for me for our meetings for the report and he prepared the
notes from the notes that someone else took at the meeting.
Was it Don? >> Well, a combination of Mitch, Debbie.
>> Trustee Stewart: Okay. Very good. And so he writes these notes and I don't read them
verbatim, but I follow along on the things because it does help, and I noticed that he
did put a sentence in here that I do want to read, and
it said the meeting was extremely efficient, probably
due to Dr. Sopcich's absence. (Laughter.)
So I thought that ought to be important to read in there. So let's get started.
(Laughter.) >> Thank you, Trustee Stewart.
(Laughter.) >> Trustee Stewart: We only have one recommendation
for this evening, and that concerns naming opportunities in the new Hospitality
and Culinary Academy, and the recommendations are -- the recommendation is on Page 1, and
you'll see at the bottom, I'll read the recommendation and then we can talk about
it a little bit. But it is the recommendation of the
Management Committee that the Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College
Administration to approve the following naming opportunities for the Hospitality and Culinary
Academy: one, the Wysong Family Culinary Theatre; two, the Maron J. Moore Hospitality
Library; three, the Regnier Family Dining Room; and, four, the Ball Family Garde Manger
-- Manger, thank you -- Culinary Lab. And I will
make that motion. >> Second.
>> Chair Rayl: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
>> Trustee Stewart: I should probably say that all these naming opportunities are due
to financial contributions from these parties,
significant financial contributions, and we all know
that we have the Regnier Center and the Regnier Foundation has given over $5 million over
the last few years to the college. There was a
specific gift for this of $200,000 for the Hospitality
and Culinary Academy. The Ball Family Charitable Foundation did a specific $200,000 gift to
that campaign. The Maron Moore's gift was $500,000 to that campaign. This is her second
gift to Johnson County Community College. She had
previously given 500,000 before, so she's given over $1 million to the college. And
of course the Wysongs, who established the $750,000
challenge amount to get this started. So they contributed -- they've contributed over $800,000
to the college over the years, and specifically
750 for this project. So based upon that, the facility's
naming committee met and reviewed these and they're recommending and brought those forward
to Management Committee and now Management Committee has recommended those to the
Board. So I'll answer any questions. >> Chair Rayl: Thanks for the explanation.
Any questions for Trustee Stewart? Hearing none, we have a motion and a second. All in
favor say aye. (Ayes.)
>> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries. >> Trustee Stewart: Very good. And that project
is coming along. Rex Hays gave us an update about that. He said -- I asked him
before if he was nervous about the deadline, and a
month ago he said he wasn't nervous, but at the last meeting he's getting a little nervous.
So we'll -- I think we'll get there, but there's always
issues that come up and hopefully we'll make that
deadline. Other agenda items we covered were the fiscal
year 2012-2013 budget reallocations that are in your packet on Pages 2-8, and according
to Board policy, these were reviewed, found to be
reasonable. And on Page 9 you'll see a summary of award of bids between 25,000 and 100,000.
This is just -- these do not have to have specific Board approval, but we bring them
to you so you are informed as to what those are. And Denise
Moore presented a very detailed report on IT
infrastructure plan status, and that is in your packet, and additionally provided capital
structure inventory of four-year replacement plan technology
fund report and, Denise, you and your department are doing a great job and those
are great reports. Then Rex Hays presented his capital acquisitions
and improvement report, and he reported that all projects are on schedule and on budget.
So that was good news. And unless there are questions, this concludes my report.
>> Chair Rayl: Yes, Trustee Cook? >> Trustee Cook: Thank you, Madam Chair. On
the reallocation piece, we had a number of them, there were 43, we approved the budget
on May 10th, and I guess my question is, were a
number of these reallocations due to new information that came about after we approved the
budget? There appear to be a couple that are annual events like the Sustainability Conference
that was added in. So I'm assuming that we had better information after May 10th that
caused us to make the reallocations?
>> Trustee Stewart: I believe that's the case. We could ask Mr. Perkins to address that as
he presented that report.
>> Mr. Perkins: That's exactly the case. These are changes, transfers that occurred well
after the July 1 date with new information.
>> Trustee Cook: Thank you very much. >> Trustee Stewart: And this is fairly normal.
We get these periodically through the years, information changes.
>> Chair Rayl: Any other questions for Trustee Stewart? Thank you very much. That takes
us to the Learning Quality Committee report and Trustee Musil.
>> Trustee Musil: The Learning Quality Committee did not meet in January, and so we did
not specifically discuss the parking policy. I don't know whose that is. I would defer
to staff or I can read the report that was in your packet.
If anybody has any questions, it is a -- it is basically
just a recodification and getting all of our parking policies in one place. So I think
unless somebody has questions, Ms. Wilson would be
able to answer, it is more -- making sure our
parking policies are in the right place in the policy provisions and not dramatically
changing any of those policies. So it is the recommendation
of the Learning Quality Committee that the Board
of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College Administration to approve parking
policy 640.00 as is shown subsequently in the Board
packet and to delete as redundant the following policies: 324.00, student parking; 324.01,
regular; 324.02, handicapped; 324.03, bicycles; 324.04, skateboards and roller blades; and
419.12, employee parking, all of which topics are
addressed in the updated parking policies and procedures, and I would so move.
>> Second. >> Second.
>> Chair Rayl: We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
I did have an opportunity to review these, and it does appear, Tanya, that they're just
a consolidation and clarification of the previous
various policies. Would that be accurate? >> Ms. Wilson: That is accurate. They do incorporate
new language in there for the OHEC building where they have -- (Inaudible). And
there's more detailed information there about towing and how the police department interacts
in that situation. Everything else is just consolidating -- (Inaudible).
>> Chair Rayl: Okay. Thank you. >> Trustee Musil: We left out the exemption
for Trustee Stewart's skateboarding. So he's still
prohibited. (Laughter.)
>> Chair Rayl: Whatever will you do? >> Trustee Stewart: I don't know.
>> Dr. Calaway: Madam Chair, if I might? >> Chair Rayl: Yes, Dr. Calaway.
>> Dr. Calaway: Just one more point of clarification for the Board. The other thing we've
been trying to do is, over the years, we have been going after the challenge that we faced
years ago where we had all of our policies and procedures
married into policy, and part of what we tried to do is also break out the policy side
of our policies and then have our procedures be more
spelled out and more effective and efficient for us. So, you know, creating that reasonable
check and balance and breaking out policy procedure.
So part -- the policy is the statement of the
expectation. The procedure is how, then, administration would carry that out. And so we've
tried to break that up so it's a little more conducive, then, to our general operations.
So this is just, you know, as we're going through that
policy and procedure manual, just kind of this is the
next one in that step, and of course Tanya and others have found that we've -- we had
a lot of redundancy, too, as we kind of went through
this. So that's also part of what this is about.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you. Any further discussion? Hearing none, we have a motion and a
second. All in favor say aye. (Ayes.)
>> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries. >> Trustee Musil: Nothing further to report,
Madam Chairwoman. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you. Since you didn't
meet, that's probably -- no questions for you
either I guess. That takes us to our Human Resources Committee
meeting and Trustee Dr. Cook. >> Trustee Cook: Thank you, Madam Chair. The
committee did meet on January 8th. A number of staff were present, along with Trustee
Sharp. Like the parking policy, we spent considerable time talking about the benefits
policy, and in the tone that Dr. Calaway has suggested breaking out policies and procedures,
simplifying policies that had kind of been added
on. Tanya Wilson had been involved with that, as well as Jerry Zimmerman, who did a lot
of work on the human resource side, and the goal
really, as we've stated in your packet, is to more
prominently convey the Board's authority to approve annual -- to approve, amend, terminate
the college's benefits and leave programs. I would
say that all that action of course is aligned with
negotiated contracts at the various levels and/or Kansas statute. So we do have some
guidelines from which to work. But the intent was to
basically eliminate redundancy, clean up policies, simplify them so that when users access them,
they could more clearly find the policy and, as Dr.
Calaway again said, we tried to break out the procedure from the policy.
So with that in mind, it is the recommendation of the Human Resources Committee that the
Board of Trustees accept the recommendation of the College Administration to approve the
proposed amendments to the following benefit policies: Application of personnel policies
for 411.00 and ii, Employee Benefits and Leaves
policy; 419.00 and the deletion or -- and/or transfer
to the HR Benefits and Leave Summary web page of existing HR benefit and leave policies
as is shown subsequently in the Board packet, and
I will make that motion. >> Second.
>> Trustee Cook: You will notice that, I might say, Madam Chair, that in your packet you
have a lot of those policies that have either been identified as redundant or eliminated
or cleaned up to go to the web page. But I'd be happy
to answer any questions. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you. We have a motion
and a second. Any discussion or questions for
Trustee Dr. Cook? Hearing none, all in favor say aye.
(Ayes.) >> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries.
>> Trustee Cook: In addition, we also discussed the parking policy procedure, which you've
just approved. We had some discussion on the implementation of the Faculty Salary Study.
You'll recall that we -- when we implemented the study applications, we had 14 people,
2 that were over and 12 under the suggested rate.
So we just reaffirmed the position the Board had
taken previously to get that done. We also had a little discussion, performance
reviews are under review process to be more aligned with the college's strategic plan,
similarly to how we evaluate Dr. Calaway. And then
we've asked the staff to review our part-time positions, basically employees under 39 hours,
as we prepare our strategies for the part-time,
particularly medical leave benefits or medical program that will take place. We do have a
large number of part-time employees, so we just
wanted to review who and where and what they're doing and take a look at that.
With that, I would defer to Trustee Sharp, who was in the meeting, and I have no further
comments. >> Trustee Sharp: I have nothing further.
>> Chair Rayl: Any questions for Trustee Dr. Cook or Trustee Sharp? Hearing none, that
takes us to our President's Recommendations for Action and we'll start with the Treasurer's
Report and back to you, Trustee Dr. Cook. >> Trustee Cook: Tab 5 has the Treasurer's
Report. I would state that in November, and it is
for the end of November, a number of scheduled payments were made on unrefunded portion of
series 2002 revenue bonds. Galileo Parking Garage payment number 17 of 47 was made on
the Series 2004 revenue bonds for the Regnier
Center parking debt; payment number 14 of 32
scheduled payments on series 2006 revenue bonds refunding 1998; and payment 3 of 33
scheduled payments on the series 2011 revenue bonds refunding 2002. These payments totaled
$1,421,478 and are reflected in the Plant Fund Section of the Treasurer's Report. Also
during November, the College made payment number
4 of 8 annual payments in the amount of $669,944 on the PEI Loan, Kansas Board of
Regents Post-secondary Educational Institution Infrastructure Finance Program. In addition
to that, the general fund revenues are up a little over
$1 million versus last year over the same period due to some increases in all areas
of the revenue, not large ones, but they did total to be a
million over last year. As of November 30th, the
auxiliary fund is down. This is primarily being driven by the bookstore, which is down
about 15%, and I know that Dr. Sopcich and staff
are really looking at that bookstore operation. Bookstores are facing a lot of challenges
all over with online access, with other access for books,
and so we'll continue to monitor that very, very closely.
There are some encouraging signs in areas that have been a little bit of a challenge.
Dining services is up 7%. Coffee bar is up 13%. And
CafĂ Tempo is up 5%, and whenever you deal with food and beverage, that's always a challenge
to make sure that we're showing some profitability there. So I really want to commend
all of the people that are making that happen. On Page 85 under cash balance report, you
will note that we have a book balance of 74.2 million and change with 28.1 million in outstanding
encumbrances, leaving us with an unencumbered balance of $46.1 million. All
expenditures in the primary operating funds are
within the respective approved budgetary limits. And it is the recommendation of the College
Administration that the Board of Trustees approve the Treasurer's Report for the month
of November 2012 subject to audit, and I'll make
that motion. >> Second.
>> Chair Rayl: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor
say aye.
(Ayes.) >> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries. Anything
further from you? >> Trustee Cook: Nothing further. Thank you,
Madam Chair. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you, Trustee Cook. That
takes us to Dr. Calaway and your monthly report to the Board.
>> Dr. Calaway: Thank you, Madam Chair. And the Board can find my report under Tab 6 in
your Board packet this month. Just a couple of things to report. As you are all aware
and through e-mails that you've received from
me, Dr. Grove -- we're very, very proud for him and
happy for him -- did accept the President's position at Morton College in the greater
Chicago area, going back to Illinois. A great opportunity
for Dr. Grove. He's moving into a college where the last two presidents were terminated
over the last couple of years, and so he's going to
have his hands full in interacting with some of those things, and because of the nature
of some of what was going on, he asked if we would be
open to his moving much more quickly than might
be normal. And so we unfortunately had a little bit less than two weeks notice before Dr.
Grove did need to start. We had a lot of conversation
before he left. But because of the great opportunity for him, we decided it was probably
the right thing for us to agree to. So we wish
him the very, very best. His first official day is this coming Monday, although I think
he had his opening press conference already yesterday.
So they have him hot and running already. As you certainly know, Dr. Rhinehart, Marilyn
Rhinehart retired as of the end of the year. Dr. Anderson is with us today, has stepped
in very ably and to that -- into that role and he has hit
the ground running, and also from an e-mail I got from him last night, a little bit after
midnight, I know he's also hit the ground typing. So we
thank him for his great service and he's done a great
job as their dean of the English Department, and one of the largest areas of the college,
but he's just been a great addition to the cabinet
and we're very lucky to have him on our team. And,
Andy, thank you for your great work. He's agreed to stay in that role as long as we
want him to, or something like that, right? Andy? Something
like that. But we're very, very lucky to have Andy able to step into that role.
We lost two very dear friends of the college since our last meeting on December 26th. We
lost one of our first faculty members and first employees hired at the college, Fred
Krebs, to a massive heart attack. And there was a wonderful
ceremony celebrating his life here at the college over the course of the holidays, and
I guess we had 450 or 500 people here. Andy spoke
on behalf of all of us. I think that was on the 4th of January, that event for him, and
on behalf of the Board, we sent our condolences to the
Krebs family. Then also this week we all lost our very dear
friend Tim Johnson, who was our executive chef
here at the college for a number of years. Tim passed away. He was in hospice at the
very end and passed away this week, and so we send
our thoughts and prayers to Tim's family. And I did
send a note to them on all of your behalf earlier today, and we're having good thoughts
and wishes for the family as they go through this
very, very difficult time. A very young man, and
those of you who knew Tim know the great smile, very infectious smile that he brought to so
many of the events that we have here at the college and we'll miss him very, very much.
I know you've had an update related to the culinary building. It's going along very well.
The baseball field is just about finished, too.
And we are very pleased with the progress that we're
making on that project as well. You have a full report in your packet, but just wanted
to mention some of those very special things. And certainly
would stand for any questions the Board might have.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you, Dr. Calaway. Any questions from the Board? No questions.
Thanks, as always, for your report. We always appreciate you keeping us informed about what's
going on around campus. That takes us to our Clinical Affiliate Agreements,
and I think we have some recommendations, do we not?
>> Dr. Calaway: Yes, ma'am, we do. Under Tab 7 of your Board packet, page 87, we have
one Clinical Affiliate Agreement for the Board to consider today. As you know, each month
or nearly every month we have some type of clinical
agreements that we would ask the Board to consider. We bring these to you regularly.
These Clinical Affiliate Agreements provide our
students opportunities to have real-life work experiences or educational experiences and
across a host of various venues around our community
and around the region. This month's affiliate agreement is one that we're asking you to
consider in collaboration with the Johnson County
Health Department in Olathe. This would be -- this program -- or this internship is for
a dietary manager's program. It's one that helps our
students get ready to do the great work that they do
and learn a little bit about safety and food safety and the like. So it's the recommendation
of the College Administration that the Board of Trustees
authorize the college to enter into an agreement with the Johnson County Health Department
for the clinical experience of a dietary -- for dietary manager's internship, and this
would be for a period of January 18th, 2013, through
June 30th, 2013. >> Chair Rayl: Do I have a motion?
>> So moved. >> Second.
>> Chair Rayl: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor
say aye.
(Ayes.) >> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries.
Anything further, Dr. Calaway? >> Dr. Calaway: That is it.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you very much. That takes us to the Old Business section
of our agenda, and I did want to provide a brief
update on our presidential search because unfortunately at this point Dr. Calaway has
not recanted and so we're continuing to move forward
with our search. We did have the first meeting of the search committee yesterday
morning, and I wanted to just briefly set out the time
table that we've penciled in for how the search will progress, as well as letting everyone
know who the members of that search committee are.
I believe that Dr. Korb has sent something out to
let everyone know, but I thought I'd go ahead and go over the committee here as well.
The Board representatives on the committee are Trustee Dr. Drummond, Trustee Stewart,
and I, and other members of the committee internally
are Terri Schlicht, Dr. Dennis Day, Dave Krug, Bruna Iacuzzi, who is the Student Senate representative,
and I understand that there will be a second faculty member appointed to the committee
within the next few days. The external members of the committee are
the Honorable Peggy Dunn; Damond Boatwright, who is representing the Foundation on the
committee; Marlin Berry, who as you know is the
superintendent of Olathe schools; and Mark McKinzie, who is representing the business
community. He is an attorney with -- help me out -- Wallace Saunders.
Judy Korb is functioning as the facilitator of the committee. She will be responsible
for keeping us all organized. And of course in
attendance at the committee meeting as well was
Preston Pulliams, who is with Gold Hill Associates and is leading us through the search process.
The meeting went very well. We met for a full two hours. Our priority was to discuss what
will be contained in our advertisement so that we can move forward with advertising
the position and begin soliciting applicants. And we anticipate
that we'll be going forward with publishing the advertisement within the next few days,
or that is our goal. I wanted to just briefly lay out in general
terms the timeline. The committee has penciled in
some specific dates, but for our purposes tonight, I just wanted to give you kind of
a general idea of what we think things will be in the coming
months. Our application close deadline will be the
end of the first week of March, and we hope to
discuss the applicants and select the semifinalists in -- and a number is yet to be determined
-- on or about the 12th of March. I would anticipate
that the number of semifinalists we select will be
driven in large part by our analysis of the applications and whether or not there's a
clean break and things of that nature. So we haven't really
set a firm number for the number of semifinalists, but that decision we anticipate will be made
at about that time. We will then conduct interviews of all of
the semifinalists the last week in March with a goal
to trimming that down to a manageable number of finalists, which we anticipate will be
in range of three or so.
Each of those finalists will obviously be given an opportunity to visit the campus here
and we will interview them in great detail. Those
interviews will take place over the first half of April,
and ultimately it is our objective to bring to the Board our recommendation for the top
finalist at the April board meeting.
We view that as a very aggressive timeline, very condensed. But Preston and the members
of the committee feel confident that we can maintain
that schedule, and if we are able to do that, we'll be able to make a final determination
and final vote at the May meeting, before the
semester ends, which would certainly be preferable. So that gives you an idea of where we're at
at this point. I'll defer to Trustee Dr. Drummond and Trustee Stewart if they have anything
to add about what transpired at the committee meeting.
>> Trustee Dr. Drummond: Madam Chair, I think you did an excellent job at summarizing.
One of the things that we talked about is trying to make the process as transparent
as we possibly can. Once we get to the point where we can
seek the permission of the finalists to reveal their
names and places and all that, we want to do that. Prior to that, in order to get the
very best candidates, we need to keep everything confidential
because we need to protect them and where they're at and the process they're going through
at that point. But it is our agreement as a group
to be as absolutely transparent and to involve the campus community as much as we possibly
can through every step of the process. Trustee
Stewart? >> Trustee Stewart: Yeah. One point I'd like
to make is we thought that the timeline, it was
important for us to complete this process in May so that we're doing this during the
semester when staff, faculty, and students are on campus,
and so these interviews can take place when we
have the opportunity to have a lot of attendance at those interviews. And if we delayed the
time frame somewhat, we would have gotten into
the summer and might have had a few members of
the campus community unable to attend and to give their input into that process.
So it's a pretty aggressive timeline, but I think that we really were trying to make
sure that we completed this process during this semester
when we have the most people here available to
provide input and help us make this decision. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you. We will certainly
keep you posted as we move along. >> Trustee Musil: Madam Chair?
>> Chair Rayl: Yes, Trustee Musil. >> Trustee Musil: In your timeline, I want
to make sure it's clear, first of all to me, but also to
our stakeholders. The semifinalists' interviews will be done by the search committee. The
finalist interviews will be done by this Board? >> Chair Rayl: That's correct. At the stage
where we're interviewing the semifinalists, there
are confidentiality issues that Dr. Drummond alluded to. Many of those individuals will
not have revealed to their current employers that
they're in fact interviewing, and so it's essential that
we respect that confidentiality, and so those interviews will be conducted by the search
committee. And in fact, I -- it's not even a given that those will be live interviews. They may be
interviews that are done via Skype or some sort of interface such as that to facilitate
their not having to leave where they are and things
of that nature. >> Trustee Musil: Well, I -- I want to make
sure -- I appreciate Dr. Drummond bringing it up.
I think the confidentiality portion of this is vital, and I've been through this once
with a city manager, and in order to get people to apply
for another job, in most cases they are not prepared
to tell their current employer I'm looking around all over. And so I think that the balance
that we have to make as a Board is our duty to be
transparent and open with the stakeholders on campus
and the taxpayers of Johnson County, but I will frankly tilt to the side of confidentiality
if that's important to get the best candidate, and I
would say at this point that would include all the way
up through the finalists, if necessary. I don't want to pre-judge now that when we get
to finalists you have to disclose your name. I know it's
usually done that way. I just -- I just think it's very
important that we get the absolute best candidates in the pool, and we have a very broad, very
talented search committee, they will keep that confidentiality. This Board will keep
that confidentiality. And there is a point obviously
where the public is entitled to have a role in this,
but the most important thing is to get the right people to apply, and if they -- if there
are people out there that believe we will not keep their
names quiet and there will be a run in the media
about who's applying, we will not get the best people.
So I think it's important for people to think about that upfront because it's different
than how we normally do things, but it's a personnel
matter. Not only do we have I think the right to do it,
I think it's the best thing for this college and the taxpayers of this county.
>> Chair Rayl: Any other comments or questions? Thank you, Trustee Musil.
That ends my discussion of Old Business. I don't believe we have any new business, and
so that takes us to our reports from board liaisons,
and we'll start with Trustee Dr. Cook and the
KACCT report. >> Trustee Dr. Cook: Thanks again, Madam Chair.
The Kansas Association of Community College Trustees did not meet in January.
It does not have a meeting scheduled for January. Our
next meeting will be on February 14th in Topeka in conjunction with Phi Theta Kappa luncheon.
Dr. Calaway and I will be attending. Each and all of you of course are welcome to attend
with us, and we have some meetings that day as
well. That will be followed by a Board retreat in
Dodge City on June 7th and 8th. And if you would like to -- we won't be walking to Dodge
City, Trustee Lindstrom, but if you want to go for
a little drive to the West, put that on your calendar
as well. We're really looking at two issues right now.
We're in the middle of the evaluation of the executive director. I suspect that that's
going to be completed very soon, and so that's underway.
And as Mr. Carter explained, we do have some concerns about funding, as always, but in
that second -- for 2014, that 8 million funding
that's missing, along with some other funding issues
the KACCT will be very focused upon. With that, I will defer to Dr. Calaway if there's
anything else that you have discovered since the meeting
in December. But that's my report. >> Dr. Calaway: Maybe just to piggyback a
little bit on your last comment. Of the $8 million
that would have been earmarked for new funding to community colleges for the tiered formula,
1.2 would be an additional funding amount that would come to our college because of
the size of our enrollment and our current technical program.
So that's real money for us, and so we're going to continue to push *** that one.
Whether we can make a change in that as we go
through the process, who knows, but that is an important piece, and I know that will be
something that you'll hear much more about as we go through the session this year. So
the good news is we continue on with our first year
of funding, so that's a good thing for us. The other thing I might add is that there
continues to be some pretty significant discussion/debate related to geographical
jurisdiction and the ability of colleges to provide
courses and programs around the state and how we interact with each other and the service
area strategy that the Regents have, including
not just us, but also the universities and the technical
colleges. So we're watching that one very closely. And we continue to watch some of
the challenges with the Regents with the whole
performance agreement agenda item. That's going
on there. So we'll keep our hands closely on the pulse of what's going on with them,
but the challenge is certainly KACCT is doing a good
job representing us and we'll keep you all up-todate
as the monthly reports come out. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you, Dr. Calaway. Anything
else from you, Trustee Dr. Cook? >> Trustee Cook: No, thank you.
>> Chair Rayl: That takes us to the Johnson County Research Triangle report and Trustee
Musil. >> Trustee Musil: The Johnson County Research
Triangle did not meet in December. The next meeting will be January 28th at 7:30
a.m. on the KU Edwards Campus, so I have nothing to
report. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you. The Foundation report.
Trustee Sharp? >> Trustee Sharp: Thank you, Chair Rayl.
>> Chair Rayl: Had to do it, didn't you? >> Trustee Sharp: I did. The Foundation Executive
Committee met Tuesday night, two nights ago, and I have a brief report. Michelle
Horaney with McGladrey Pullen is our auditor and they gave us a great audit report. The
Foundation report is obviously very clean, very clear.
Our financials are in excellent shape for the year ending, well, the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 2012. She was very impressed with the Foundation
team for preparing such a -- for all the materials well. Sandy Price reported the Board
Development Committee is evaluating candidates for the new board slate for the
2013-2014 cycle. The recommendation for members and directors will be presented at the director's
meeting in March. There was also discussion that the Foundation
would like to work with the trustees to develop an ongoing list of major gift opportunities
available at JCCC. These giving opportunities would
tie directly to the master plan for capital needs on campus and include strategic goals
of the Foundation, such as support for scholarships,
ongoing consultation with the trustees, President Calaway, other cabinet executives will ensure
all funding is in lockstep with college priorities, and you saw some of that with the culinary
naming opportunities earlier in the agenda. The Foundation will also be holding their
annual employee block party in March. This event
recognizes faculty and staff who donate a minimum of $24 on an annual basis for faculty
and staff to the Foundation. The date and time
will be announced later, but when it comes out, I will
update in the February meeting. And that concludes my report.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you. Any questions for Trustee Sharp?
That takes us to the Faculty Association report, and I see Deb Williams making her way to the
microphone. It's a long journey. >> I might mention, I didn't make the Foundation
Executive Meeting because of work, but if somebody has a big enough gift, we may change
the college strategic priorities if they're not in
lockstep. A big enough gift, we will not worry about the lockstep, right, Dr. Calaway?
>> Dr. Calaway: That's right. >> Okay.
>> Dr. Calaway: We're actually working on a couple of those as we speak. We also have
a number of naming opportunities for buildings,
but we would change names on buildings if we
need to, too. So -- (Laughter.)
Just in case anyone is watching out there who might want to do a major gift for scholarships
or other things, we're very open to that. >> Trustee Sharp: The Sharp Family Community
College. (Laughter.)
Just change the name. (Inaudible.)
(Laughter.) >> Dr.Williams: Hi, I guess I'm up. The last
time we were here, it was a little awkward because it's a new venue. So I'm prepared
tonight. I reviewed the tape and I realized from the
angle I looked like a mass of hair with a nose.
(Laughter.) So it's a pleasure to be here, as always.
And I think -- (inaudible.) >> One of my trustee colleagues just said
I just look like a nose, there's no mass of hair. So
thank you, Trustee Sharp. (Laughter.)
>> Dr.Williams: Well, I usually start with a roll call of faculty members in the audience.
There are several tonight and I hope I didn't miss anyone. But I have -- it looks like we
have -- (Inaudible). We have (inaudible) from English,
Ron Palsic from math. We have (inaudible) from science and Andrea Broomfield from English,
and yours truly from science, I guess. Did I
miss anyone? John Russel from library. So if I missed anyone, I apologize, but I just
really want to call trustees' attention to the diverse
representation here tonight of faculty, and certainly as I've
stated other times, an interest in what's happening here especially now, given all the
changes in store for us.
So part of my report actually is just mentioning we kicked off the semester, as was mentioned
earlier, unfortunately on a sad note with the loss of our long-time faculty member Dr.
Fred Krebs -- or Mr. Fred Krebs and also recently it
was announced -- today it was announced that Chef Tim
Johnson passed away. So on behalf of the faculty, our hearts go out to the families of these
two very important members of our faculty and
college community. Everyone knows I'm sure by
now that Mr. Fred Krebs was a really major mover in the History Department and I know
our campus, the list is extensive of all the contributions
he has made. Perhaps you also remember that Chef Tim Johnson has made a dramatic
impact on our campus. Like I say, personally, he
was one of the key proponents of the Sustainability Movement. He was the chef extraordinaire
that prepared our sustainability dinners, and in my personal opinion, you know, transformed
dining down under into what it is today. Really excellent food is served and variety of food
that's served, and both of these individuals will be greatly missed.
We're continuing our discussion about the Faculty Senate proposal, and at this point
it's been really morphed into something that at least
on paper looks very compatible with our existing groups, including the Educational Affairs
Committee and Faculty Association. There's a lot of
work that was performed by the members of the task force and we've received a lot of
input through online venues, but also town halls
forums that were increasingly attended by faculty. So
I look forward to making future reports about that progress. The intent is to have a vote
later this month, if at all possible, by faculty to see
whether that group will be formally formed and then
they'll get busy with the work of drafting by-laws and getting some initial meetings
underway. There were several faculty that attended two
open forums regarding the presidential search, and I apologize, I was a little late coming
in because I had another meeting directly before this
one, but it's my understanding that Frank made some very compelling statements and from
what I was briefed on briefly, I couldn't probably
have said it any better myself. In fact, I think I have
said some of those things myself to Dr. Calaway, and I would say, you know, again, that there's
overwhelming interest and support for Dr. Calaway to stay on, particularly in this time
of transition and change, and my personal philosophy
about leadership is sometimes leaders step up
and take on tasks, but other times circumstances pick the leader, and this is one where I think
circumstances seem to be pointing the direction of the leader that we have, and so I would
certainly like to make that plea on behalf of faculty that Dr. Calaway consider staying
with us a little longer, seeing us through the storm.
There's a lot of transitions and changes in front of us,
and some stability during that time and having that stability spear-headed by someone with
exemplary leadership as you have shown would be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
But we did have to talk about the hiring committee and the process that's underway with that,
you know, as well. And so, again, we had two open forums and they were pretty well attended
by faculty, and we also videotaped those sessions and I made those available to faculty that
were teaching who had other conflicts and couldn't
attend, and so that information is out there. There's opportunities, again, as we said a
few different ways tonight, there's every effort to make
this process as transparent as possible and as inclusive as possible, and so we look forward
to moving forward with that in that way, or not
if Dr. Calaway chooses to stay on. I think I'll move then into the awards and
events that are planned. There's awards mentioned in the packet tonight. But one that just came
out and I'm sure some of you may not be aware of,
again, I can always count on the Center for Sustainability to have something for me to
mention in my board report, and JCCC is named the Best
of Green Schools by the U.S. Green Building Council. And so there's a little statement
about this on our website, but I've excerpted it here, but
I won't read it all to you. Essentially it's been named -- JCCC has been named to the U.S.
Green Building Council Center for Green Schools
as their Second Annual Best in Green Schools list.
And so the Best in Green Schools highlights school districts, individuals, and communities
working towards a common goal of -- (Inaudible) for all. And, again, so it's a really nice
addition to the lengthy awards that our institution has been receiving, and to have another focus
on the sustainability issue and initiatives on this campus -- (Inaudible) as a member
of the science faculty. So congratulations to us
as an institution and to the Board and to the faculty
who are very involved, and staff, the whole college really. It's been very involved in
that initiative.
And then I'd really like to call your attention, you are going to be hearing more about
throughout February and March something that was also featured recently on our website
called One Billion Rising, and this is -- as a member
of the science faculty, a new science faculty member, Gina Egan, Assistant Professor of
Chemistry, and Diana Kaplan, an adjunct professor of psychology, have teamed up to spearhead
this event on our campus. But the activity is a day
of action coordinated on Valentine's Day. It's a global movement. And the plans call
for -- get this, guys -- a 30-minute dance strike. So
this is to begin at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, February 14th,
in Room 155 in the Commons Building. So participants will dance, sway, or simply be present
and to support ending violence against women around the world. And the name comes from
the statistics, the unfortunate statistics about
how many women each year suffer at the hands of
various types of violences, including *** or domestic abuse. And so it's a way for our
campus to essentially act out against that unfortunate
statistical reality. So that's coming up in February,
and there's another event that's more I guess content-driven that will be featured in March.
So with that, I think that's my report. So if there are any questions, I'd be happy to
take them. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you, as always, for your
report. Do we have any questions for Ms. Williams?
>> Trustee Musil: I just want to speak as one member of this board, and I think we talked
about it a little bit. We heard the leadership vacuum talked about earlier, and you have
also very kindly and I know sincerely asked Dr. Calaway
to stay. I think I probably know that the answer
to that is no. And so I -- all I want to say is that I think having Dr. Rhinehart's position
open and Dr. Grove's position open and our president's
position open makes this a very dramatic time of
transition. But I also think it gives us an opportunity for particularly a potential candidate
for the presidency to come in and say I can -- I can
really, you know, kind of have my team in place, and
that might make this a very attractive position and I'm hoping that that's the case and that
the transition will be smooth. I understand, I
have the same trepidation that everybody else does
about those three positions being open and having to be filled within the next, you know,
six months hopefully. But I'm going to try to
look at it on the half-full side knowing that Marlene
and Terry have made a very calculated and sound choice based on lots of decision -- lots
of reasons. So I think we have an opportunity
that you're going to help us with and the faculty is
and the other stakeholders. >> Dr. Williams: Certainly. And I would certainly
agree with all of that. I had the pleasure of having lunch with Trustee Sharp earlier
this week and I had a conversation with Trustee Rayl
prior to the meeting today, and I think everyone would agree with that sentiment. When
someone makes a decision based on personal motives and that -- (Inaudible) that's what
those motives are really. We have to respect that.
We certainly do. And we don't want to appear to be
disrespectful and, you know, imply that your decision was not well thought out. And so,
again, respectfully, and all things considered, we
all are optimistic that eventually we will find great
leadership. But I really feel compelled on behalf of the faculty and my own personal
opinions that, again, times sometimes pick the leader,
and we have some interesting times and probably an
inflation of factors that are unlike -- I've been told unlike anything this institution
has ever seen. I've only been here seven years, so maybe
I'll see something like this again, but -- if I'm here that
long. But, you know, I will just say, again, I feel from all of the conversations I've
had and what I feel in my own experience, that given the
transitions that are in front of us and the voids that
have been vacated in the positions and faculty and the administration, proven leadership
is what we need, and that's what faculty have asked
me to ask for. >> Chair Rayl: Thank you. Trustee Dr. Cook?
>> Trustee Cook: Thank you. Madam Chairwoman, I would like to just reinforce what
Trustee Musil has said. Having been a school superintendent and having teachers come in
that were going to transfer to another district,
it is always a void and -- and in this case we've got Dr.
Rhinehart, Dr. Grove, and Dr. Calaway who have set a certain benchmark of expectation
and performance, and we have discussed at depth
with Dr. Calaway to stay and change his mind, and
but that decision we believe has been made as it stands. But I just want to say to you
as one trustee and as I visit with the rest of the
trustees on this board, our charge is to find somebody as
good or better than each of those three people. And I think when Dr. Rhinehart, Dr. Grove,
and Dr. Calaway review their legacy here, they
would all concur that that's our charge, to take from
whence we've come and go to the next step. And there's an outstanding search committee,
talented search committee, and I just want to hopefully affirm with you that -- and the
faculty and all the staff -- that that will be our
charge, to find somebody as good or better than we've got
in those positions because this college, as good as it is, still has wonderful days to
see ahead of it, and all together, we can use that old phrase
of raising the benchmark even higher. And there's no
doubt that those three people that are leaving and the two that have deceased recently have
made a tremendous impact on the teaching and learning
process that takes place on this campus every day, along with all of our faculty. And so
we really appreciate your comments and your sincerity
about that. >> Dr. Calaway: Thank you so much.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you. Anything else? >> Trustee Stewart: I might just comment that
this is unusual for the college to go through what we're going through. But this is a trend
in the country as the leading edge of the Baby
Boomers reach retirement age. We are not the only institution in the country that's kind
of going through a leadership change, and in many ways
-- and we see it because this is over 40 years and
we have a lot of -- Dr. Fred Krebs, who has been here from day one. We're going to see
a lot more of this. So the key for us is to, as
Dr. Cook and Greg have said, is to find that right person
to lead us forward and to be able to bring in good people, and I think change is -- I
think that's the name of the game over the future because
if you look around the college, and you've looked
at this, the aging of our faculty and staff, we're going to see a lot of change over the
next few years, and we are not the only institution
that's undergoing this, or the only business that's doing
this now. So we'll do the best we can. >> Dr. Williams: Thank you very much.
>> Chair Rayl: Thank you. That brings us to the Consent Agenda. The Consent Agenda is
an opportunity for us to consider several items
of a fairly routine nature in one motion, and as we
always do prior to the Consent Agenda, I will at this time offer the Board the opportunity
to pull any items from the Consent Agenda that they
wish to consider separately. Do we have anything that we would like to pull? Hearing none,
I will entertain a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Do I have a --
>> So moved. >> Chair Rayl: Do I have a second?
>> Second. >> Chair Rayl: I have a motion and a second.
Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye.
(Ayes.) >> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries.
That brings us to our Executive Session. We do have an Executive Session this evening.
And so I will entertain a motion to go into Executive
Session for the purpose of discussing personnel matters of non-elected personnel in order
to protect the privacy interests of the individual to be
discussed, and consultation with an attorney which would be deemed privileged in the attorneyclient
relationship in order to protect the privilege and the Board's communications with its
attorney on legal matters. I anticipate this session will last 45 minutes. No action will
be taken during this session. We would like to invite
the following individuals to join the Executive Session: Dr. Terry Calaway, Mr. Mark Ferguson,
Ms. Tanya Wilson, Mr. Rex Hays, Mr. Mitch Borchers, Dr. Joe Sopcich, and Becky Centlivre-Meinke.
I'll entertain a motion at this time to go into Executive Session.
>> So moved. >> Second.
>> Chair Rayl: I have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye.
(Ayes.) >> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries. We
will begin our Executive Session at 20 after 6:00, and it will last for a period of 45
minutes. (Executive Session.)
>> Chair Rayl: We have returned from Executive Session. No action was taken, and at this
time I'd like to entertain a motion to extend our Executive Session for the purpose of discussing
personnel matters of non-elected personnel in order to protect the privacy interests
of the individual to be discussed and/or consultation
with an attorney, which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship,
in order to protect the privilege and the Board's
communications with its attorney on legal matters and/or preliminary matters relating
to the acquisition of real property, protecting the
public interest and obtaining the property at a fair
price. This session will last 45 minutes and no action will be taken during this session.
We would like to invite Dr. Terry Calaway, Tanya
Wilson, Becky Centlivre-Meinke, Mark Ferguson, Dr. Joe Sopcich. And I'll entertain
a motion at this time. >> So moved.
>> Second. >> Chair Rayl: I have a motion and a second.
Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye.
(Ayes.) >> Chair Rayl: Opposed? Motion carries. We
will begin our Executive Session at 7:10. (Executive Session.)
>> Chair Rayl: We have returned from our extended Executive Session. No action was
taken, and there being no further pending matters, we stand adjourned.
(Adjournment.)