welcome to the continuationof our board meeting for october 28th, 2014. first item on the agenda is thepledge of allegiance. mr. lumm, would you lead us. i pledge allegiance to theflag of the united states of america, and to therepublic for which it stands, one nation undergod, indivisible, with liberty andjustice for all. thank you, sir.
the substitutes fortonight, we only have one and that is briannabendotti from the corporate collegerepresenting gene giovannini. welcome. we'd also like to welcomea group of students from asu from dr. mariahesse's class. we'd like to have youall stand and say hi. amazing what you canaccomplish when you got a grade attached to it, huh?
moving on. we'll do student lifereports from glendale community collegeassociation of student government, rico. rico moran. yes. good evening members ofthe governing board, dr. glasper, presidents,and dr. kovala. we are the association ofstudent government from
glendale community collegeand i am the president for this academic school year. we are thankful for thisopportunity to talk to you about our past andwhat will lie ahead. we are too concerned with-- about enrollment trends dwindling or insufficientresources, completion agendas, studentengagement, and strategic direction from astudent's perspective. our student government ishoused within the student
leadership center and thislast year from alone we touched the lives ofover 33,000 stakeholders internal and external. last year alone -- or wecould like -- we would like to share some of ourexperiences and insight with you this evening. please allow me tointroduce my vice president buddie lee. student governance atglendale community college
is more than merely afunding source for our student organizationsand campus events. we serve on many internalcommittees, such as, permanent hire committees,and serve on district councils, such as,the one for men. we helped plan andfacilitate the men conference that we hadthis past spring at glendale communitycollege. please allow me tointroduce our treasurer
victoria moreno. student life at gcc is robustand vibrant with possibility. our student organizationsplan trips that have meaning, such as,competition, conferences, and conventions, and hostevents that engage our student and employeepopulations and activities and causes that reach far beyondthe borders of our college. most recently, ouramnesty international has partnered to presenta week long series of
activities to addressthe issues of human trafficking. one of the reasons behindtheir creativity and innovation in the caliberof their activities is our unique funding structureand generosity of our campus leadership and invaluing their engagement by making us a priorityof the college. as a participant in thestudent public policy forum i can attest to theopportunities that are made available tostudent leaders.
please allow me to introduce oursecretary jessica mateo. participating in districtinitiatives play a large role in what we do,everything from supporting in breath easy,participating in ignite, encouraging completionamongst our peers, supporting andparticipating in men, chapter activities,and initiatives to sustainability andenvironmental concerns to reducing our carbon footprintsin support through ashrae.
in addition to all thesethings, we have our own events, activities, andinitiatives at our college level, and even withinour own group. as if that isn't enoughto keep us busy, we are students first. academics come firstbecause our one true goal is to come out on theother right side of this educational journeyas educated. that said, i would liketo introduce our public
relations officerjohn garduno. several years ago when thestudent leadership opened its doors there were 23student organization on campus and a studentgovernment that struggled to obtain and retaina full student board. six years later there are60 clubs and a thriving and engaged studentpopulation, and our student government now hasno trouble holding a full student board well abovethe 2.0 gpa requirement.
we have grown from merelyattending conferences, workshops, and retreats tohosting and facilitating them. most recently weparticipated in planning the execution of athree-day leadership retreat where wefacilitated the opening games, a full workshop,community service project, and served as staffthroughout the weekend. to conclude ourpresentation this evening i would once againlike to introduce our
president rico moran. thank you. i would like to thank youagain for allowing us this opportunity to talk do youabout our past year and to welcome you to attendour annual civility week series week ofpresentations and activities. civility week at gccaddresses what it means to be a global citizen livingwithin civil society in today's complicated world.
unfortunately, we didforget our schedules. so they are located on ourgcc website, so you guys can look them up on there. and we would like to leaveyou with one last parting thought and that's as weshare as we head toward the spring semester withall that it holds in lightning speed, mayeveryone's journey be problem free and clear sailing. and we look forward to seeingyou guys in the spring semester.
and i looked that up andyour schedule for the week is on your internet site. very good job. i mean, you guys are wellorganized and did a good presentation and actuallygot the schedule on the e-mail too, sowe're aware of it. next on the agenda underitem 4.1 dr. shari olson from south mountaincommunity college and the recognition for an award.
thank you, president saar. may i at this time ask ourtwo faculty members to approach the podium. i want to introduce twoof our business faculty members who havebeen instrumental in dramatically increasingsouth mountain community college's entrepreneurialpresence both locally and nationally, bruce mchenryand maria benson-bailey. bruce has been thelynchpin in securing tens
of thousands of dollarsworth of grants for smcc's entrepreneurship programand did so yet again at the nacce conferenceearlier this month where he and i successfullysecured another $15,000 coleman foundation grantto develop even more student entrepreneurialopportunities at south mountain. maria joined smcc just twoyears ago and in addition to learning the maricopaway in teaching state-of-the-art businessclasses has already
dedicated countlesshours to student pitch competitions andnetworking events for our local community. bruce and maria, wouldyou share the good news. good evening, presidentsaar, members of the board, dr. glasper,members of the cec, and guests. i'm here tonight as thebarrier of excellent news. my name is mariabailey-benson and i am residential businessfaculty at south mountain
community college. and the good news that ihave to share is that two weeks ago today the nacceconference was held here in phoenix, arizona, thenational association of community collegeentrepreneurship. and of the four awardsthat were granted for student entrepreneurs, wereceived three of those awards. so we took second placewith a bookkeeping service by the name oflady d bookkeeping.
she's a student that wasa member of our spring cohort from the colemangrant; unfortunately, she's unable to be here tonight.she's traveling. and we also tooksecond -- i'm sorry. we took 3rd place. we had two ties for 3rd place. one of which is herewith us tonight. i have gus barnes. could you standplease, gus?
gus barnes is the ownerof az -- i'm sorry. az180.com. and az180.com is a referralservice for small businesses. and then we also hadanother winner who also could not be here tonightand that is lovelyn omari who owns abraiding service. so we are very proudof our students. and it's an honor to be of hereto discuss their success. president saar, members ofthe board, dr. glasper,
members of the cec, andhonored guests, i am bruce mchenry economics facultyat south mountain i am the entrepreneurshipchampion on that campus, and i have twopieces of good news. as dr. olson said, we hadanother grant opportunity at this year'snacce conference. it was an interestingopportunity in that it required directinvolvement of the president. so dr. olson and i made apitch together for about
ten minutes to a panel ofjudges from the coleman foundation and wesuccessfully won our fourth grant at the lastthree nacce conferences, another $15,000 grantthat we will use to continue to supportstudent entrepreneurship. so on that one,congratulations again to all of the folks here. i have one finalannouncement that in addition to that grant,dr. olson was named as the
nacce 2014 entrepreneurialpresident of the year. so please recognize that. and a final note, i washere last year, i had the privilege of telling the boardabout winning last year's grant. that grant last yearfunded a small venture capital fund in which wegave out seed money awards to students. those three students thatyou heard about tonight were three of the studentsin that spring cohort.
that is the impact of thatmoney driving forward to create businesses. diana monell of lady dbookkeeping has told us she launched six months ago. she's already goingto hire somebody. we call that workforcedevelopment. so that's the impactof entrepreneurship. thank you verymuch for your time. i attended that conferenceas well, and it's always
amazing to see how muchcommunity colleges can do in the entrepreneurshipin starting new small businesses along with alot of other things we do here for that. that's a big plusso congratulations. one of the things i wantto thank you too by the work that you do. you are the americandream builders. that is theamerican dream.
you go back in history --as a library cardholder for the library ofcongress, i've gone back and read a lot of history. and you go back and readdiaries and letters and the opportunities and theattitudes about what the first definition of theamerican dream, it had nothing to do with workingfor a big box store. it had nothing to do withany of the things that some people think it meant.
it did not mean a white -- ahouse with a white picket fence. it did not mean a car in thedrive and a car in the garage. it meant being able tobe your own boss and set your own destiny. this is it. nobody does it betterthan community colleges. remember that asu students. there's a start. thank you very much.
next on the agenda isthe citizen's interim. we have several ofthem here tonight. remember we got a fiveminute limit and i'll call on the first one iscleopatria martinez. president saar,can you hear me? members of the governingboard, chancellor glasper, members of the cec,honored guests, and members of the community,on august 13th, 2014, i e-mailed you a grievance.
as of today, i have heardnothing in response. according to the rfp,grievances at your level need to be responded towithin 30 days of receipt. i request that the matterof my suspension be an executive session item at the nextmeeting of the governing board. the reason i'm pursuingthis matter is that it is the most recent example ofthe conduct that i have been experiencingsince 2009. and i'm -- in januaryi will have been with
maricopa communitycolleges for 30 years. in august of 2013the phoenix college administration attempted toterminate me for copyright violations,cash handling violation, and insubordination. i appealed pursuant to theresidential faculty policies. that's the rfp. in december of 2013, themccd internal termination hearing committee foundthat mccd had not met its
burden of proof withrespect to copyright violation and cashhandling violation and recommended that inot be terminated. the chancellor thensuspended me in march 2013 without pay for over 14 monthsfor my alleged insubordination. in may 2014, i applied forunemployment compensation. mccd advised thedepartment of economic security, des, that i should be denied unemployment compensationbecause -- benefits
because i had walked offthe job in anticipation of termination and becausei had been suspended for gross misconduct; both untrue. initially, the des deniedmy claim, but on appeal the des administrative lawjudge decided in my favor. among other things, theadministrative law judge wrote in his decisionthat, one, i did not sell the documents or otherwisemake a profit, which was an allegation made; theorder to return the money
to students was notreasonable; and three that i was discharged, notsuspended, as contended by mccd; and four, i was notdischarged for willful or negligent misconduct. consequently, mccd'sclaims of copyright violation, cash handling violation,and insubordination have notbeen substantiated by either independentreviewing authority, that is, mccd's own intentionaltermination hearing
committee or the desadministrative law judge. in order to right thiswrong, in july 2014 i attempted to follow thegrievance process, which requires that i firstpresent the grievance to the vice president ofacademic affairs, the vpaa. the vpaa secretary advisedthat i could only speak to human resources, hr,about the grievance. hr told me i couldnot file while i was suspended. although, i could file thegrievance upon my return
in august of 2015,some 12 months away. on august 13, 2014, isubmitted my grievance to the vice chancellorfor human resources, the chancellor, and thegoverning board members, no one has responded. there are no substantiatedclaims, no substantiated claims, against me, but iremain suspended without pay. my grievous hasnot been addressed. the governing board is the finaldecisionmaker in the district.
i respectfully requestthat the board immediately make me whole by reinstatingme to my former position with backpay to the day iwas suspended, reimbursing me for attorney fee andcosts, and pay me the dollar value of any andall other benefits i lost as a result of the the prejudicial,damaging suspension. and i think also thepolicy needs to be rewritten so it would not beas dictatorial as it is with respect to the personmaking this decision.
there's a fiduciary --this has been fiduciarily irresponsible, i think,and it must be eliminated. this is not howmaricopa operates. so i ask again, i requestthat the matter of my suspension be an executivesession item at the next meeting of thegoverning board. thank you very much,members of the governing board. if you have any questions,i'm willing to answer them. and we have the documentsthat you brought.
i'll make sure that that'spart of the record tonight and we'll follow up on it. okay. i do want technical,no conversation, just technical. suspension was? you were suspendedon what date? initially on march 1st,2013, and then it was changed to april 15, 2013. that's without pay.
march of 2013? and then it was changedto april of 2013. so were you paid duringmarch to that april? when it was changed,then i was paid. and my without pay beganon april 15, 2013. and the suspensionwas for one year? until august of 2015,so more than a year. without pay? without pay.
and the administrative law judgesays that's not suspension. that's a termination.it's too long. and that document isavailable to you. you're welcome. next is santos vega. welcome, mr. vega. president saar anddr. glasper and board of directors and fellowcitizens, i came here to speak on behalf ofmathematics professor
cleopatria martinez whotaught for 30 years in phoenix college. she lost her teachingposition based on accusations thatsubsequent investigations and judgments found hernot guilty of any one of the accusations. evidence proved her innocent. therefore, to continueto keep her from working is an injustice.
she appealed heraccusations and the district did notfind her guilty. during the time of thisordeal that she was suspended, she applied forunemployment to pay for her home and her food. she went to court and hercharge was unsubstantiated, yet, the governing boardwon't hear her case. this is like an unjusttermination without adequate cause.
the suspension hasgone for over a year. it should be ended. and professor cleopatriamartinez should be reinstated to her formerposition immediately. i petition you to do whatis fair, the right and just thing to do. students need herback in the classroom. thank you, mr. vega. next is dr. charles townsel.
mr. president, i think thelast time i was here i told you i was sick. i'm still sick, buti'm concerned about an injustice to dr. martinez. i didn't know anythingabout dr. martinez when i first came to this board. i came to this boardbecause i had looked at television one night andi didn't see one black presidentsitting up there.
i still don't seeone black president. now, some of you mightsay, well, that's racism. well, it is racism,because there are no blacks sitting upthere as a president. you got 12 colleges, ithink, in this community college system and notone black president. and i've been working toget blacks involved all of my life, includingthe chancellor. i've been in this town for30 years and have worked
to make certain thatblacks were included in administrative positionsall over this county. and it is a disgrace fora community college, an institution of highereducation, to be so prejudicial that you can'tfind one black president. i didn't come here tonight totalk about the president. i came here to talkabout two other things. there's a book that i discoveredcalled "policies of deceit." it talks about maricopacommunity college district
and other districts in thecounty and across this nation. it is the most revealingbook that i have ever read about education, and i have beenin education all of my life. i'm 80 years old. i probably am on my death bedwith congestive heart failure, but i'm not goinguntil i have had the opportunity and i may haveit tonight to speak my last breathabout injustice. i was trying to talk tomr. saar, president saar,
a few moments ago and twoother board members got up and walked away. and somebody said, well,you got to talk to the attorney. the voters in maricopa countydidn't vote for an attorney. they voted for you hoping thatyou would carry your own head. i called the facultyrepresentative, i believe his name was keith hefner. he may be the new one. do you know, is he thenew one or the old one?
new one. he's the new one. i called him and told himthat i wanted to talk with him about dr.martinez's situation. he e-mailed me. i had to leave -- first ofall, i had to leave the message on the phone. and he said the best wayto get in touch with me is through e-mail.
so anyway i e-mailed him. i e-mailed him and said i'd liketo a talk with him about dr. martinez's case. he e-mailed me back andsaid his attorney told him that he couldn't discussdr. martinez's case with me. i wrote him back and isaid, well, dr. martinez has given me theauthority to discuss it. i never heard from him. and somebody saidsomething about the board
not responding. this board oughtto respond. you don't respondto anything. i have asked you torespond to me a thousand times and you won'teven respond to me. it is an injustice. and all of you people whoare sitting around here, you may befaculty members. it can happen to you one day.
and these people herewho are here from asu i imagine they are ineducation wanting to see how an educationalinstitution operates. well, this is theworst place to be. if you want to see how agood board operates, you don't need towatch this one. now, i don't want to be-- i don't want to be too cantankerous about whati'm saying about the board. you guys are goodpeople up there.
most of them upthere are good. the last thing i want tosay tonight, in district 5 back in the summer therewere two people who indicated an interestto serve on this school board. two people. at the close ofregistration, two people, one black young man --and that's another thing. you don't have any blackboard members up there. one black man and onehispanic applied or got
their petitions signed sothey could run for co on this board. the hispanic gentlemendecided that he would file a charge against thisblack person, because the black person failed toindicate on his petition that the date that thisposition would be final. that was the extentof that petition. you had to put on therethe date that this position would end.
so what happens when youfile a claim against one of your advisories? youhave to go to court. so you got toget an attorney. he went to an attorney andthe attorney told him $5,000. if he had to take it tothe supreme court, it would cost youanother $5,000. now, here's a young man hedoesn't have $5, let alone 5,000, to run for a seatfor this governing board, because here we have aseasoned, a seasoned,
politician who knows allthe ends and ropes of how you get elected. so now what do wehave in district 5? we have one person. and i submit to youthat that person is illegitimate to serve onthis school -- on this board, illegitimate. now, if i were --one minute, please. yes, sir, one minute.
now, if i were running andthere were only two, i would think that since iam a seasoned politician, i would win. this person hadn'trun for anything. and he's going to sit onthis board and represent me, because i'm in district 5. i should have run for it myself. probably if i hadn'tbeen sick, i would have. the board needs to havesome training,
and you need to stronglyconsider what your duties are to your employees,including the chancellor. at some point in time youmight end up firing him, because we liketo fire people. i read in the paper nottoo long ago you fired somebody who was incharge of technology or something; just firingpeople all the time. i asked somebody, howmany suits have you entertained? they have entertained somany lawsuits they can't
even keep up with them. okay. i'll be back. i'm not going any place. the lord is with me. appreciate your comments. and i think that thesepeople ought to be advocates to get blackfolks sitting up there and sitting down here. thank you, mr. townsel.
we have to move on to itemnumber 6.1 and we have chancellor's award. mr. chair, members of theboard, it is my pleasure today to follow up on thecomments made about shari olson in terms ofreceiving her award. that was part of myscript, so -- but what i'd like to do is ask dr.olson if she would take a few minutes inrecognition of her being the recipient of theentrepreneurial president
of the year award fromnacce, the national association for communitycollege entrepreneurship. so just talk about theactivities that led to your nomination and thepresentation of this award. i think the board would beinterested to hear about your hands-onapproach to that. if you could take a momentto do that, please. i think probably theevidence that was with us in the faculty and thestudents that are actively
engaged in entrepreneurialopportunities at the college probably speaksto the reason why i was honored with the award. i didn't really --i didn't know i was nominated and i wassurprised that i received a call late this summerabout being the recipient. we've been focusing onproviding opportunities for our students that aregoing to college to not only attend college, butto have an opportunity to
experience businessin a new way. and we're creating anopen learning lab for our students that enroll inentrepreneurial classes to be learning togetherand developing their businesses together. and as you saw, the oneyoung man was here, but we also had two others thatwon national awards at this conference. it's just supportingstudents in having an idea
and seeing their idea tofruition, in supporting them. and our faculty are, youknow, very engaged in providing theseopportunities, and i'm just supporting them, so. well, thank you. the south mountaincommunity entrepreneurial center was designed toengage community and students entrepreneurs. and i think the work thatis going on in south
mountain is one that weshould take note of. we have had a numberof presidents who were involved. i know dr. bustamante wasinvolved in the nacce conference, dr.giovannini and dr. olson. and as we look atthe footprint of entrepreneurship and ourrelationship, i think it would bode us well to see what'sgoing on around our country. over the last month i'vehad an opportunity to visit a number ofcities and towns.
and i will tell youone of the leading themes that's going on is smallbusiness development. it's a notion ofleading cities to work understanding therelationship of community colleges and their role inbringing about economic change and development,and understand that it's built aroundrelationships, but it is also built aroundpartnerships. and regardless of where youare, the themes are the same.
and i believe the themesare more than just domestic. they are internationalin nature. and when we look at what'sgoing on at some of our universities, there aremore and more centers around workforce,entrepreneurship, engagement, self-help,self-development. and i ask our board as webegin to think about the outcomes in our goals andour relationship also to our workforce boardoutcome, but also the
civic engagement in how thatworks in terms of connecting. one of the aspects thatwe are finding in our community is that many ofour employers are looking for this notion of soft skills. they're saying that we doa good job in terms of technical skills, butthey're really looking for individuals who comewith the basic level of technical skills and ifthey will continue to work with them and enhancetheir technical skills,
but they need individualswho are able to seek solutions, arecritical thinkers. and i ask us to thinkabout our curriculum in the aspects of -- and i'll usefor an example cyber security. cyber security,engineering, energy, we currently have acouple of grants. and i'll pick on estrellamountain with the t-act grant on cyber security and energywhere we're talking about stackable credentials ofa line worker eventually
moving to a bachelor's degreefrom a four-year institution. the steps are betweensix and eight. you can come in and outof the workplace and get certificates that arestackable and eventually move on to abachelor's degree. i think we need to look atthat curriculum and see where we can infuse thenotion of soft skills, whether they come throughthe areas of humanities and expanding areasof liberal arts.
but i believe that thatcan be our footprint if we can define soft skills ina way that we can actually apply it, deliver it, andconvince employers that that is a space that theycan be feel comfortable that we will deliver andthat in many cases they can rely upon. because i think we do anexcellent job in terms of technical skills. and by doing that i alsothink we can exemplify the
notion of leading citiesto work and being a primary leader not only inarizona but nationwide. so i want to congratulateour presidents who were involved in the nacceconference and again dr. olson for thework that she's done. and i ask all of us toshare more about the work that we're doing, becauseall of our presidents are doing great work. thank you, chancellor.
there's no fec report tonight, but we'll moveon to the adjunct faculty association andmr. leo valverde. president saar, membersof the board, chancellor glasper, members of thecec, guests, i am leo valverde. i'm pulling doubleduty tonight. i am president ofthe adjunct faculty association and also amember of dr. hesse's community college class at asu.
i don't think i'm gettingany extra credit though. tonight i am pleasedto report on a few happenings with the afa. and specifically, i'mpleased to introduce two college representatives,dr. wilfred mcfadden from estrella mountain andahmad daniels from south mountain community collegewho couldn't be present tonight, but both of thegentlemen have provided contributions not just tothe college level but also
at the district level andmost importantly to the community for years, whichi think everyone in this room is very proud to say. in addition, the afa isalso looking to recruit some collegerepresentatives from phoenix college, mesacommunity college, and scottsdale, as the currentrepresentatives move on to other opportunities. the afa is currentlyworking in conjunction
with mcli for the creationof a district-wide online orientation for newadjunct faculty hires. this is not meant toreplace any college orientation. it is meant to supplementthose, particularly in the situation when an adjunctfaculty member is hired the day before classstarts, an hour before the class starts or sooner andalso as a resource for them throughout the year. it is our hope that wewill have that canvas
class up and running bythe fall of next year. and it will also mirrorvery closely the residential faculty online-- or the residential faculty orientation aswell so that we're not getting mixed signals. lastly, the afa hassubmitted a proposal for a panel presentation at the academic innovationsnation-wide conference, which is coming to phoenixand the topic of which is
adjunct faculty andthe district is also a partnering institution. again, the topic isadjunct faculty. and it is our intentionto have a panel of administrators as well asadjunct faculty and other faculty members. so if you see any ane-mail from me or telephone call, chancesare i might be asking for your help as itrelates to that.
next from the crafts,we've got mr. ted georgas. good to seeyou back again. well, it's alwaysgood to be here. president saar, members ofthe board, mr. chancellor, members of cec, and allyou good folks that come here this evening tohelp conduct business pertaining to maricopa. ted georges is here onbehalf of the unified crafts association, and idon't do speeches well.
i had a speech -- iremember years ago i came in for a speech, i finallydropped it and said i just can't do that. so i usually let theflavor of this proceedings help guide me in what i'mgoing to say, but i am here this evening totalk about excellence. now, anybody who isexcellent doesn't think of themselves as excellent. they're just, you know, regularfolks that do a little extra.
it's always been veryimportant to me to watch what goes on at maricopa,to be allowed to stand up here and speak on behalfof an organization so if you cut us, we bleed maricopa. we take great pride in ourwork, but we also take a greater pride inmaricopa as a whole. and i know a lot of youfolks out here, and the people that i don't know,i want to thank you for being here, becauseyou may not think your
special, but i thinkyou're all excellent. and since this is going tobe a quick meeting, i'm going to get on with it. therefore, on behalfof the unified crafts association, it's myprivilege to make a donation to the maricopafoundation for student scholarships in the nameof the maricopa county -- that's a third c, youknow, they kept adding that c. remember when we firststarted it was only cc.
but now it's the maricopacounty community college district governing board. you better give it to --well, thank you, sir. we appreciate that. thanks, kids. i can't reach you, sir. thank you. thank you. thank you foryour service. i appreciate you all, really do.
we appreciate what thecrafts people do too. we don't get a chance totalk to them that much, so you did a goodrepresentation for them. and we'll make sure thatthis money is well used. not by us, by -- movingon to the order of the agenda. do i hear amotion to approve? so move. second. motions been made andseconded to approve. any discussion? hearing none.
all those infavor, say aye. aye. opposed nay. motion passes unanimously. does anyone wish to removeany items from our consent agenda for this evening? hearing none. motion made and seconded. under the nonconsentagenda, we have 13.1 the
approval of proposedpolicy changes 4.9 to the board committee structure. this is our second read. and we have threecommittees -- subcommittees that havebeen establish: board policy subcommittee,budget and finance, and those subcommittee for thecharter schools that we have within our district. and the scope of work iswhat we've added to the policy.
is there a motion? i move we acceptthis item. second. motion been made andseconded any discussion? for the audience, i remindyou again that we hold a few first meeting of themonth where we review this entire agenda and have anopportunity to speak not only amongst ourselves butto the staff that's there to answer questionsthat we may have.
so this agenda has beenthoroughly vetted over the course of the lastcouple of weeks. this is a board item. hearing no other questions,all those in favor, say aye. aye.opposed nay. item number 13.2, theapproval of authorization of expenditures oflegal fees, dr. glasper. mr. chair, members of theboard, it is recommended that the governing boardauthorize the expenditure
of legal fees and expensesin the amount 1.726850 -- 1,726,850 through december31st, 2014, to pay for legal fees and expensesincurred with the law firm of greenburg traurig,llp for consultation and representation related todata security issues that arose with the securityissue of 2013. do i hear a motion? i move preschool. motion by mr. burke.
who did i getthe second from? all right. any discussion? next item underconsideration tonight is item 14.1 approval of --conceptual approval to the john paul theater atphoenix college, ms. thompson. mr. president, members ofthe board, this is a one of the remaining projectsin a large initiative by which the district hasbrought on performing art
centers at paradisevalley, chandler-gilbert, south mountain and soonestrella mountain. and we'll also work onrenovations at some of our older packs includingphoenix college. and we recommend itsapproval to bring some improvements tothat facility. motion's been made andseconded to approve this. moving on to 14.2 approvalof job order contracting purchase order to replacemechanical system, fan
coil units, in the northgym at phoenix college, ms. thompson. mr. president, members ofthe board, this is another significant project atphoenix college and it will replace fan coil units thatare used to air condition the gym; obviously veryimportant to have our gym be air conditioned. the gym was originallyconstructed in 1968 and there are many issues withthese fan coil units, so
repair andreplacement is needed. it will result in someasbestos removals, insulation of highefficiency fan parts and lower energy use. i would guess theimprovements in energy efficiency have improvedover that period of time, i would think. and do i hear a motion? motion's beenmade and seconded.
14.3 approval of a partialgrantee maximum price number one phase onesite work for the new integrated learningbuilding at paradise valley community collegeblack mountain campus, mr. president, membersof the board, this is an additional build out atthe black mountain campus of paradise valley and itis part of our planned projects for our2004 bond program. and we recommendits approval.
hearing none. all those infavor, say aye. monitoring reports forthis evening the first one is the budget analysisreport fund i, ms. thompson. mr. president,members of the board, this is the budget analysis reportfor the general fund for the firstquarter of the fiscal year through september 30th. as i've reported in thepast, we're seeing our expenditures be in thesame kind of pattern as in
prior years and that'sbecause payroll, which is every two weeks, ourrevenues collections are similar to prior yearsbecause our revenues are mostly very cyclical, andwe should see a pretty big pick up of revenuecollections in october when the first large paymentfor property taxes comes in. any questions orcomments from the board? we'll move on to the nextone, which is a 2004 general obligation bondseries a through d and
series '13, '04, '13for the 2004 capital development plan summaryas of as of september 30th,2014, ms. thompson. mr. president, members ofthe board, this is one of our quarterly reports ongeneral obligation bond expenditures throughthe june -- through the september period. we have issued all ofour proceeds and we have remaining either that'snot been expended or
incumbered about 127.8million that's available. so we are into our finalseries of bonds and we're expecting to expend all ofour proceeds within the next couple of years. comments orquestions the board? no. hearing none. moving down to 15.3 is thebudget analysis report for the unrestricted fund forthe 12 months ending last june 30th, 2014.
this is thefinal unaudited. mr. president, members ofthe board, back in july we provided the board witha preliminary budget analysis report for june,but at that time there were many closingadjustments that hadn't been made, so it wasjust preliminary. we're at the -- movingtowards the end of our audit for fiscal '13-14,so we do have final numbers, and they'reincluded in this final
report for thefull fiscal year '13-14. our reports during theyear and even in the preliminary june are verysimilar to this final report where we haverecognized almost 90% of expenditures that werebudgeted, about 96% of revenues, and we have anincrease of fund balance of about $4.1 million. so we did meet ourfinancial stability requirement. comments or questions?
hearing none. let's move onto the june 30th, 2014, report on the 2004general obligatoin bond. mr. president, membersof the board, this is a report for the full fiscalyear as of june 30, 2014, at that point in time wehad $155.3 million that had not been expendedor was not incumbered. so that compares with127.8 in the september period. so we increased ourspending or our incumbrances by about $30million or a little short.
so you can see some ofthe pace that we have in spending resourcesfrom the bond. i'll move down to thecommunity linkage where we have our governingboard reports. and first ofall, mr. burke. let's see, i was pleasedto attend an event at rio salado about a week ago,dr. rita cheng from northern arizonauniversity brought some administrators and staffto rio and a number of
people from the districthad lunch with them and talked about thepartnership with northern arizona university. it's a very strongpartnership. we're very pleased to beable to meet the new president, dr. cheng, and tojust support that relationship. the second meeting was thestudent success conference last friday; wonderfulevent with lots of people there looking at ways tohelp students succeed
in our classes. and then on fridaymr. lumm and i attended the dedication of theperforming arts center at mesa community college. beautiful new building460 seat auditorium. it's been a longtime coming. and the faculty in musicand dance were very pleased to finally beable to move into that building. mr. gutierrez.
mr. chairman, i attendedthe acct conference in chicago. i had the opportunityto go to various presentations andseminars, some of them i think were very, very helpful:developmental ed on -- frankly, the comingtsunami of change in executive leadership incommunity college across the country as aconsequence of age. it happens. and it's apparentlyhappening to us too.
and so, therefore, we'llexpect dramatic change in community colleges acrossthe country, but obviously in maricopa as well. it was an interestingseminar anticipating what the future holds. mr. lumm. i attended the samemeeting as doyle mentioned. i want to congratulatemesa for the new seats, for the new art center.
and it's just a beautifulfacility with 460 seats, i think, were contributingto that. and the mesa art to thatbeautiful community trying to build up thefiesta mall area. so that's nice. and my congratulations todr. harper-marinick for the success conference. that was awesome. i attended two of theworkshops and stopped in
at a few others. and i just -- i wish icould have attended ten more. they're all at the sametime, they're so interesting. what a dynamic conference. it was the best ever. and congratulations toyou and your staff and everybody who worked on it. i spent last week inchicago at the acct conference as well.
and as mr. gutierrez saidwe learned lots of things that we heard before,but more importantly we learned about what'shappening throughout the country when it comes toeverything that community colleges do. i spent most of my time inthose classes regarding occupational andworkforce development. so the poor chancellor anddr. harper-marinick have been listening to me forthe last couple days
with all these ideas. so we'll see what happensover the next year as to how much of those ideasand how much of those success stories that weheard we can implement here in maricopa. it's an area i think we'vegot room for improvement, so i'll keep pushing. i want to alsocongratulate mesa community college onthe opening of their
performing arts center. we weren't able to attend,because we were in chicago. but i plan on stopping byand checking that out. and more importantly thananything else about that building, youhave 460 seats. that's nothing for mesa. and last but notleast, ms. pearson. i also attended acctand it was kind of an emotionalexperience for me.
i have been the pacificregional representative for the -- anyway, it'sthe alaskan, asian, native american, pacific islanderserving institutions. and -- thank you. and then i was also thechair for the organization at acct for the past sixyears and i'm no longer any of those. i resigned -- or was heldelections and was replaced and so that was aninteresting experience.
some of the courses that iattended were dealing with poverty and education,which they were discussing efforts that they aredoing in certain schools around the country for beginningthings like dual enrollment. and so it was really neatto have the opportunity. and this is one of thethings that i feel is most important about theseconferences is it serves as a mirror to help you tosee where you fit in the scheme of things.
and i think it helpsto create also an appreciation and a respectfor all the good that we're doing here. and it makes you take sometime and reflect and just appreciate all the goodwork that goes on here. i think that we alwaysneed to take that time. and always celebrate allthe good things that are happening and all the goodthings that are done. now having said that, theawards for entrepreneurial
i kind of have to be alittle bit of a snot and say to all the facultyand those that when i mentioned this a fewyears ago about needing a greater focus onentrepreneurial naner-naner, so anyway. and the resistance,we really need to do something about thisresistance to change, really need to dosomething about this resistance to ideas.
and i would really like tothank south mountain for stepping out and steppingup, and especially in this area, because this issomething that community colleges can dobetter than anyone. and we are the only onesthat really can do right in a way that it needsto be done for making a difference in people'slives that are going to be our small businesses. entrepreneurial doesn'tneed to just be business though.
we can teach people inart how they can use that talent to make money andmusic to start their own businesses, in tutoring,in technology, civic engagement. you name it. there is nothing, no classthat is being held that can't encourage someonewho is good at english how to set up atutoring business. have you ever thoughtabout how you can make a living with just english?
have you ever thought aboutwriting and being a writer? these are entrepreneurialopportunities that we are wasting with every daythat faculty resists. the thing i would like totalk about and i would like to challenge, i amnot taking a position. i will not takea position. do not care. not because i don't carein my heart about people, but because i don'tfeel that it's my
responsibility as a boardmember and i find and have great deal of sensitivityto the integrity of the division of ourresponsibilities and of our obligations in this districtfor respect for protocols. having said that, i do --and i don't want details. i don't want to talk aboutdetails of any particular one case. but having said that, iwould like to request that this board secureoutside counsel, outside
independent counsel, withinstructions that there can be no conversationsbetween the same and the district legal. due to a lawsuit thatrecently this district has been engaged in that we asa board did not know about and a ruling has beenreceived and handed down, based on that ruling,and because this board, majority of this board,has not found it appropriate to have an hrcommittee to take a more
serious stand and lookat our positions or activities in thisdistrict in regards to hr. in compliancewith our statutory responsibilities, ibelieve that we need to have outside counsel comeand review all of the findings of this lawsuit. and the reason i feel thatit needs to be independent with no conversation orcommunication is because the bias position ofdistrict legal -- not that
that's inappropriateor unethical. as a matter of fact,to the contrary. it's to be expected,because that's their job in defending thisdistrict, but it now does not represent where theboard should ethically be reviewing withoutbias to the situation. the board must bereviewing if there is an acceptable and appropriatetime frame for suspensions as a district policy.
and/or if suspensions areused to circumvent due process through attrition,tactics, or if the current practice is customary andin the best interest of the district whilerespecting the legislative intent statutory obligations asa board in hr matters. next item is 17.1, thevice chancellor's report. tonight we are looking tolisten to a presentation headed by dr. mariaharper-marinick. thank you, mr. saar,members of the board,
chancellor glasper, ceccolleagues, and guests it is my pressure to welcometonight the 2014 class of wlg mentor program. and as a reminder, we havethe program in place to support the professionaldevelopment of the women of maricopa. this year we'recelebrating the 15th year of the program. we have 34 menteesrepresenting all of the
colleges in thedistrict office. and since the inception ofthe program we've had 369 graduatesof the mentoring program. it's a great program. a lot of people devotetime and effort on a volunteer basis tomake it a reality. so i would like the 2014class of the wlg program to stand so that wecan welcome them. and thank you forparticipating.
thank you, mr. saar. thank you, dr.harper-marinick. thank you for attending. it's a good program. we listen to it every yearand there's been success in not only gettingthrough the year, but also using what you've learnedto advance through the colleges. so congratulations fortaking on the opportunity. external communityreports.
we'll hear from mr.burke on the aadgb. i have no report. mr. lumm, for the schoolboards association. no report. i'll talk about theassociation acct. came back from chicagosafe and sound. and again, it was wellworth the time there. we had some great sessionsas the board mentioned earlier. we look forward to going towashington d.c. next february.
next and certainly notlast, ms. dawn wallace has got a report for us ongovernment relations. good evening, letme cue this up. so good evening, mr.president, members of governing board, cec,guests in the audience. thank you for allowingme to give you a brief governmentrelations update. i'm going to first startwith the november 4th elections, whichare next week.
as you all know,all of our u.s. house seats areup for election. we have ninecongressional districts. six out of the nineare pretty predictable outcomes. we have three districts,cd-1, cd-2, cd-9 that have historically beencharacterized as swaying us. so we'll have some senseof what happens in those districts come november 4th. moving on to ourstatewide elections.
obviously for thisdistrict, the governor's seat, the superintendentfor public instruction, and the attorney generalare all offices that we will watch closelyover the next week. moving on to thelegislative offices. most of the legislativeoffices in maricopa county are some what predictable. however, there are someraces that we believe will have potentially someimpact should they go a
different direction to themakeup of the legislature and specificallythe senate. we have in maricopa countytwo districts: ld18 and ld28, which are currently haverepublicans seated. should those seats move todemocrat offices and an independent ld6 beelected, that could potentially move thesenate into a 15/15 configuration, which someprecedent has -- would lead us to believe thatthe senate would then be
co-managed by republicanand democrat leadership. so that is certainly aninteresting phenomenon should that happen. we have county seats, thecounty assessor, superior court judges, thegoverning board of this district, and there's a$935 million bond for the maricopa integrated healthsystems, which is on the ballot. after the elections, oncethe secretary of state has canvassed the election,my office will post the
election resultson my website. so if anyone does have aninterest in seeing exactly how all the races workedout, they can have one central location to find them. moving on there are threestate ballot propositions: 122 and 303, which wereboth referendums from the legislature, andproposition 304, which was referred to the ballot bythe commission for -- on salaries for electedstate officers.
and what that would do isincrease the legislative salary from $24,000to $34,000 a year. moving on, a few monthsago i reported to you on the state budget outlook. earlier this month atthe financial advisory committee at the statelegislature met and did downgrade the budgetoutlook just slightly. these were some pointsthat i felt were pertinent from the conversation.
first, part of the reasonthat the state budget outlook has been downgraded isbecause 2014 revenues came in below projections. that's important. a point that i should makeis that there was not negative revenue growth. it's just that when abudget is created there's an assumption thatrevenues will come in at a certain amount.
revenues did not comein at projections. in fact, corporate incometax decreased by 13.1%. that's significant. that's one of the four mainrevenue drivers for the state. some possibilities to whyare that corporations have been using tax credit,especially r&d credits, pretty significantly. many state -- manycorporations over the course of the recessionhad accumulated
liabilities, which areallowed to be carried over from year to year,which would decrease their tax obligation. and something that i'msure you've heard of in the newspaper, which isthat the 2011 tax cuts are coming to fruition. and what the budgetanalyst have determined is a fiscal impact of $226million that would be recognized over athree budget period.
so bringing all of thatinto perspective you could see why possibly corporateincome tax would be down. what further has, youknow, increased the concern over revenues isthat the first quarter revenues from this fiscalyear have not been fantastic. and the final item is thek-12 litigation, and while that's not a revenuedraw, it is definitely an expenditure draw. and so if you haverevenues decreasing and
you have this liability,you potentially have a significant budget deficit,which i will show you now. these are the estimatesthat were produced by the joint legislativebudget committee. and really the mostsignificant number is that middle point, whichis the october update. you will see that fiscal 2015 isalmost a $200 million deficit. what's even worse is thatin 2016 it rises to the level of $670 million.
if you'll look at thethird bullet point, you'll see that encompassesk-12 lawsuit reset. it does not include theretroactive payments. so that is essentiallywhat the legislature will be starting out with comejanuary in terms of where they're going to theirstart budget preparation. just talking about thek-12 lawsuit a little bit, the reset of the per pupilfunding is about $336 million a year.
the retroactive paymentsare potentially 1.3 million. today was the first day ofthe five-day hearing on whether or not the statewould be potentially obligated to payback theretroactive payments. there is some discussionabout settlement, but any -- as you can see from theprevious slide, even if you were to reduce that $336million or to somehow draw that 1.3 billion overseveral years, you still have the deficit owing tothe revenue projections.
having said all of that,there are a lot of solutions that thelegislature can use to solve the 2015 problemand the 2016 problem. the first tool thatthey'll use, the first solution, will likelybe the rainy day fund. they've accumulated about$460 million in this fund that can be appliedto the deficit. the problem is it's onetime and not permanent. so if you think about it,it will just solve one
year and then it will pushthe cost into the next year. debt financing: again,that's a solution, a remedy, that the stateused during the recession of 2009 where theyessentially mortgaged all of the state buildings. they have acquired thestate capital back, but a lot of the other buildingsare still in a financing -- are tied up in financing. however, there's onesolution in there, which
is lottery revenue. and they've used thatremedy before where they have -- they havebasically borrowed against lottery revenue andused that for operating expenses, but againit's one time. there's revenue enhancements,and that's generally where you're goingto see your creative solutions. for example, i've heardthat the legislature may be considering sweepingsome of the corpus and the
permanent state land fund,which is essentially where all the money is depositedwhen state trust lands that are held in benefitof k-12 are sold and that money gets put into thiscorpus and then interest earning from this corpusare used to take care of m&o for public schools. so if they're consideringhitting that fund, i mean, that's an constitutionalsolution, you'd have to take it to the ballot,but that is a somewhat
creativerevenue enhancement. permanent budgetreductions: again, that is where we aremost vulnerable. rollovers: this is aclever accounting gimmick where you take yourcurrent year expenditures and you shift them to thefirst day of the next fiscal year, and youbasically save some money. right now the state hasabout $900 million in rollovers in k-12,200 million to the
universities, but theycould potentially use des funds or ahcccs fundsto do more rollovers. and finally, the tax increase,which we've all heard about. even if it were to go tothe ballot, it would only partially solve 2006,because the revenue wouldn't start untilthe next fiscal year. so moving on, i'd liketo tell you a little bit about what we requestedwhen we submitted our formal budgetrequest to the state.
we have a net increase ofabout $10 million that we're asking for. and that's primarily inour stem workforce line. as you can see, in the2015 appropriation, we did get our $1.4 million. i'm assuming that we arekeeping it for 2016. if we don't, then, youknow, obviously these numbers would change. our goal is to work withall of our colleges to put
together a package of stemand workforce related projects that would totalthe amount of our request so that we can accompanya very generic request to the governor and to thelegislature with very specific items that we canjustify to them that we are using them toproduce, you know, more individuals, more jobs,and people who are ready for potentially advanced,post-secondary, or for a career. so this is what our planis for the next session.
so one of the things i'venoticed in the last year since i've started workingfor you is that you seem to like presentations andso i thought that i would take this portion of mypresentation where i just tell you all theactivities that our office have been involved in andactually present them in a pictorial. so i want to start firstwith our very successful candidate forums.
we held them in themonth of september. thank you to all of our collegeswho hosted those events for us. they were just lovely. and what i have here isessentially the links to all of the filming thatwas done for each of the candidate forums. i will tell you that wehave these links on the center for civicparticipation's website. so if anybody would liketo go look at them.
we also sent out adistrict announcement where we includedthese links so that staff could look as they'reconsidering who they would be voting for inthe next election. moving on, mesacommunity college hosted congresswoman kyrstensinema on the 5th of september. she was able to meet withstudents at the veterans center. she touredthe rose garden. and i believe she also gotto visit the c4 wall, dr. pan?
and the feedback from hercamp was that she really enjoyed her visit. so kudos to mesacommunity college. moving on, my officefunded a group of students from glendale communitycollege along with the vice president of studentaffairs and their faculty advisor to attend aspeaking engagement with vincente fox, and myunderstanding is the students reallyenjoyed them.
so i'm glad theywere able to do that. the chandler-gilbertcoyote grand opening. as you can see fromthe dignitaries in the picture, we have --certainly mayor lewis is there, supervisor barney. i see mr. burke,mr. gutierrez, the chancellor. forgive me. i can't see. but we certainly had-- congratulations.
it was a very wellattended event, and unfortunately i couldn'tbe there, but as you can tell everyone was veryhappy at the ribbon cutting. scottsdale communitycollege held the marshall trimble tribute whereyou'll see that we got a visit from senator mccain. so that's wonderful. you might not recognizethese two gentlemen, but they are very importantto this district.
they are budget analysts. they are our legislativeanalyst tom ritland and our governor's budgetanalyst brandon nee, and they visited us. they visited gateway. thank you,president gonzalez. you definitelyhosted very nicely. we visited cei and thehealth science building and then we came back tothe district and they met
with the chancellor anddr. harper-marinick and also gaye murphy. and they just sort of gotthe district perspective. you're wonderingwhy the pictures. we did not take anypictures of the event. so i made themsend me selfies. and they seemedvery happy to do so. paradise valley communitycollege hosted its first annual veteran's summit.
and you'll see vice mayor jimwaring in this picture along with president dale, thelieutenant general findley and mr. torres. and mr. waring usedto be a member of the legislature years ago. my office hosted -- did atable sponsorship at the arizona chamber ofbusiness & manufacturing summit. this is a very wonderfultable, because it was a true collaboration betweenmaricopa and its
industry partner. you'll see randy kimmensthere with his guest joe rubio from valleyinterfaith, leah palmer the manufacturinginstitute in mesa as her guest. dr. clay goodman fromestrella mountain has mr. edington from aps. brianna is sitting nextto me with her guest mr. wright fromrepublic services. so it was a wonderful day.
it was a realcollaboration between us and our industry partnersand i think they all enjoyed themselves. the hoop of learningprogram, we coordinate a capital tour for the students. they visited the capitalfor the first time and met with representativepeshlakai. and reports from them isthat they are planning to go back next year.
so they had avery good time. along with our budgetanalyst -- and mr. gutierrez and ms.pearson, you'll know this, the people whodo the work at the legislature are reallyresearch staff. and so we wanted them toget -- we wanted them to get to know us a littlebit better, so we hosted a tour at the mesa communitycollege virtual incident command center, and we gotten legislative staffers,
the research analyst. these are the folks whowrite the fact sheets, who write the bills. they draft amendments. they present your bills and theyget you in to see legislatures. they visited and we wereable to get the two research directors, whowere also the staffers for appropriation. they had a wonderful time.
thank you to mesacommunity college. you're a wonderful host. and they said that, youknow, truly they didn't realize what community collegesdo in the 21st industry. they didn't realize thatthis is the type of facility that we have. so it was a great,great opportunity. can you send me that listof those names of the staff people that you metor had with and whether
they're in the senateor house staff, please? yes. lovely. i don't know if it wasmr. burke who mentioned the luncheon for dr. ritacheng, the nau president. you'll see the chancellorand dr. cheng and dr. maria harper-marinick. again, rio salado hostedcongresswoman sinema, mayor mitchell,councilwoman robin arredondo-savage, andcouncilman corey woods at
the east valley veteranscenter during the clinic. they appear to havehad a wonderful event. last friday the arizonaget into energy expo hosted at the arizonascience center. you'll see dr. lara withrepresentative dial, mr. bement and mr.froetscher from aps. and this is a wonderfulevent at the science center. it's a fair for studentsto come in and learn about energy education -- energycareers, and i was lucky
to have been invited. so that was awonderful event. and as you all mentioned,we had the mesa community college performingarts center opening. you'll see pictures wheremayor giles from mesa. we have councilman denniskavanagh, councilman luna. representative olsonis in there as well. and i was -- i have totell you i was equally impressed atthe 460 seats.
it's a gorgeous facility. that concludesmy presentation. i thought you mightlike to see that. if you'll indulgeme one thing. as i was leaving thatperforming arts center, i had sort of a deja vumoment, and i realized that when i was a youngerperson right out of college, i was working asa financial analyst, and not a job where you reallyhave to talk to a lot of people.
and i realized that in mycareer progression i was going to have to learn todo this type of activity. and so i didn't rememberthis until the parking lot, but i took a class atmesa community college, a communications class. and about a year afterthat i was hired by the governor's office and i startedmy career in public service. so i realized after a yearof talking about student success, i was actually asuccessful student of
maricopa communitycolleges. so thank you for the opportunityto tell that lovely story. and if you have anyquestions, i'd be happy to answer them, mr.president, members. at acct one of the coursesthat i went to, one of the meetings that i went wason the federal legislative issues and legal issuesfor community colleges. in the one meeting thediscussion about the reauthorization -- haveyou spoke to us about that
or do you follow up onwhat we're doing and where we are and the issues thatthey're having as well at a federal level likegetting us, like, on the different boards thatare creating all of the standards andthe measurements and all of the differentthings of that nature? how close are you workingwith our federal lobbyists and acct's lobbyists? mr. president, members ofthe board, ms. pearson,
that is actually the mainfocus of our federal advocacy plan is to workon the issues that are present in the reauthorization ofthe higher education act. and what we're trying todo is to go through the act, pull out issues areasthat are most impactful to maricopa and findways to work with our congressional delegationto highlight those issues. and so our goal is to workwith our federal lobbyist in district, utilize theresources of cec and the
chancellor incollaboration with outside organizations like acctor the higher learning commissioner alsointerested in some of the key components of thereauthorization and find ways to advocate on behalfof the those issues here in district, as opposed togoing to d.c. on sort of individual issues. so, yeah, we areabsolutely actively following that legislationand building it into our
federal advocacy plan. mr. chairman, members ofthe board, dr. glasper, dawn, they really madea strong plea for us as board members to go backto our district, and while i don't want to put downwhat has been done, but to change our focus fromphoto opts to actually engaging in politicalconversations with these people at all levels andto get more engaged in campaigns knowing where-- and asking direct
questions and get familiarwith where they are on community college issueslike reauthorizations, hail, and these things,that we have got to start there. and i even want to say we gotto start with this board too. and shame on anyone inthis room that is not engaged in making surethat this board isn't represented by people whohave a passion and a love for community colleges andthe work that it does. and the same needs to beapplied to every person
elected to our legislatureand every person that is elected to our congress. if theydon't pass that test, shame onyou if they get elected. you have got to engage. and for the reauthorization,all of these things. find out these issuesfrom dawn and get involved in making sure the peoplethat are going to be getting elected andrepresenting you
understand them as well. any other questions? and just to kind ofthank you so much, dawn. i love presentations. and obviously mesadid a good job. but the thing that i wantto bring up i think is sometimes missed is howmuch in the last year or two that we've reallydone a good job through the chancellor and randykimmens of bringing in the
industry partners. i mean, you broughtseveral of them up there. and that was certainlydone over the years, but it is really a focus rightnow to get those partners in our camp. and i applaud all thosethat are working on it and randy's departmentespecially. and of course thechancellor is out there knocking on doors andasking for money, but it's
so important to have themanother on our side as we progress into the future,maybe another bond election. so thanks for bringingthat to our attention. i was impressed by all theactivities this month and how hard you're workingand we appreciate that. i think we ought to givems. wallace the rest of the night off. thank you very much, dawn. i'm about to giveeverybody the night off
here, but before i do,we've got a lot of meetings coming up herein the next few weeks and i'll just identify thefact that november 13th we've got an orientationfor the newly elected board members as wellas our existing board members. that's on the 13th. on the 18th, we'll haveagenda review and in all likelihood we'll holdthat meeting at the rio conference center as wewill the following meeting
in that same date willbe the annual outcomes monitoring retreat. that's allpublic meetings. the monitoring report is oneof the more important meetings of the year so we inviteyou to attend that meeting. on november 25th we'llhave agenda review and the regular board meeting. that may or maynot be held here. we're going to try,but we'll post it.
look on the website tofind out exactly where it's going to be. it's either going to be inthis room or over at the rio conference center. december 4th will beanother board orientation. that will be held at therio conference center. and on december 9th, wehave our regular board meeting, probably be heldhere as well, but check the website to findout the locations.
we're going to do someremodeling stuff here in our board roomsduring that time. so thank you very muchfor attending tonight. this meeting is adjourned.
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