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January 8, 2020 Governing Board...
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Good evening, and welcome to the
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 annual and regular Governing Board
meeting.
I'd like to call the meeting to order. We're going to begin with
the Pledge of Allegiance. This evening's Pledge of Allegiance will
be led by Dr. Hay.
(Pledge of Allegiance.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Next is roll call. Mr. Silvyn?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Demion Clinco?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Meredith Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Present.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mark Hanna?
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Maria Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Present.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Luis Gonzales?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mr. Chair, pleased to report all board
members are present.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you. I'd like it take a moment of
silence for the January 8 tragedy and acknowledge the individuals who
were impacted by that. If you could please join me for a moment.
(Moment of silence.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you.
Now, before we move to new business, I'm going to move item
-- which number is it, Chancellor Lambert? 8.2. We are going to
move item 8.2 and adopt the proclamation declaring Pima Community
College a Purple Heart College.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Good evening, everybody. It's my honor and
pleasure to ask that Hector Acosta to come up here and to introduce
this action item for us.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: I think before we do, Mr. Silvyn, if you
could read the recommendation and then we could have a motion and
then Hector.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: The Chancellor Lambert recommends that the
Governing Board issue a proclamation recognizing Pima Community
College as a Purple Heart College. The proposed form of proclamation
accompanies the board report.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Do I have a motion to approve the
recommendation?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion? Chancellor Lambert?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Go ahead.
>> SPEAKER: Good afternoon, everyone. Chairman Clinco, members
of the board, Chancellor Lambert, staff, friends, welcome.
I have the distinct pleasure of introducing to you the command
leadership and staff members of the Military Order of the Purple
Heart for the Tucson chapter.
We want to formally acknowledge proclamation declaring this
institution, this college, as a Purple Heart institution. They are
going to explain to you what this signifies and what this represents.
At this time, let me introduce to you who's here. I have the
commander, Michael Dyer, who is an Army veteran. He served in
Vietnam. That's where he received two of his Purple Hearts.
I have David B. He's the senior vice commander. He's a Navy
Marine veteran. Also served in Vietnam where he was wounded and
received his Purple Heart.
We have John Moore, adjutant, Army veteran. Served in Vietnam
where he also received two Purple Hearts. We have John Grand,
sergeant at arms, an Army veteran, and he also has two Purple Hearts.
(Applause.)
>> SPEAKER: We have one more. We have Johnny Thompson. He's
the Veteran Administration and Veterans Affairs representative, Army
veteran. Also received his wounds in Vietnam War, and he has more
than two Purple Hearts. They were making fun about the fact that he
doesn't know how many he has. But he has a lot of Purple Hearts.
So at this time I'd like to turn the podium over to Commander
Dyer.
(Applause.)
>> SPEAKER: Thank you very much, Mr. Acosta, board and Pima
people. Thank you so much for having us. I can't tell you how
excited we are to be able to work with Pima College and as a Purple
Heart College.
We have already worked some with Pima College. You have vets on
campus who tutor veterans in English and math, and we have given them
several thousand dollars to have Pima tutoring and at Central Arizona
College. So we are just excited to continue that.
When Mr. Acosta and Ms. Mendoza called and wanted to get together
and could form a partnership, we are so excited. We have 190 members
in Tucson, and you see half the organization that works. There is 12
of us at work. We raise money every year with our Purple Heart Golf
Classic. This year it's April 4 at Tucson National.
In five years we have raised over $400,000. All of it goes to
veterans in the Tucson area. And I say Tucson area. We had, during
Christmastime in December, a lady in Sierra Vista was going to be
evicted, and they asked for help. Their organization didn't have any
money. We paid. She didn't get evicted.
So we help, because there are veterans at Central Arizona, we
help them. But we say Southern Arizona. But a veteran is a veteran.
We are going to help whoever the veteran is. We are proud that we
raise money to help veterans all over the Tucson area and to serve
our country again and continue on.
The Purple Heart is one -- initially George Washington in 1782, a
badge of merit to four different men. There was only men in the war
then. Then in 1932 congress made it an official recipient award.
The Purple Heart was then the only medal approved by congress. It's
one of the most respected.
There are, you know, Medal of Honor, other medals people get.
But the Purple Heart is one of the most respected because we were
with the 600,000 men and women that have served their country that
died. We were there with them. But the difference is we bled with
them, and we were lucky to come home.
We are just proud. And this working relationship we are going to
have, you'll have veterans, men and women, on your campuses that only
talk and only speak one language. We breathe the same air as they
do, and we speak the same language they do. We can't wait to work
with them.
If you promise not to tell JoAnne and Hector that Women's
Warriors -- took us a long time to get a women's organization that we
could help women. And so she asked, can we have several thousand
dollars, and we said, no, we only give as it comes.
So we said we will give you up to $1,500, and that's what Hector
asked for. Well, the difference is JoAnne asks us every month and
she's probably received $5,000 this year to help women who need help.
So if you don't tell Hector and JoAnne, they won't be calling us
every month. We will be okay. But if you have a veteran that needs
help, we're there. If they need someone to talk to, the same
language, we're there. We have not very many men. One woman who is
in Yuma, and we have one associate woman. But we're there to help
you, and we're just so excited for this opportunity to work with Pima
College, because it's such a great organization. We think that we
can add to and help and serve veterans.
Thank you so much for having us here. We have the one on the
bottom, certificates for all the board, and this is for the
chancellor. So if he wants to post it somewhere, he can do that. So
it's a little bit different, separated.
We also have a Challenge Coin. Somebody's sitting down and not
bringing them.
We'll do the Challenge Coins later, Dave. Sorry.
I love this parking spot. I can't wait -- I'm not going to take
any classes. I'm done. I will never take another class. I love
that parking place. Thank you very much.
We appreciate the opportunity.
>> SPEAKER: While you're up here, we'll be holding on to this
and get a copy to you, but on behalf of the college and the Board of
Governors, we wanted to -- we will provide you a formatted
proclamation for you to put in your hall to know that this
institution respects all of your service, all of your sacrifices, and
that now we're going to be supporting all the Purple Heart and all
veterans in this institution.
>> SPEAKER: And all veterans.
>> SPEAKER: All veterans.
(Applause.)
>> SPEAKER: So with this event, we're going to be posting,
creating parking, reserved parking spaces for all Purple Heart
recipients in all our campuses. They're going to look like this.
Bill Ward was actually just waiting for your approval, and then
he's ready to go. We'll get them in all our campuses to include
District Office. They're open to all Purple Heart recipients.
Most Purple Heart recipients get state Purple Heart plates, so
you'll be knowing there is a recipient of honor here, a real hero in
one of our institutions.
We don't have an actual (indiscernible) recipients we have that
are students, but just as a tale, a story, we had one young man that
was at our vet center Downtown Campus that had two Purple Hearts, and
he wouldn't wear them because he lost his best friend as he got those
two medals awarded. So he would not wear them. But he has them in
his record. That's how we knew we had two Purple Hearts. He was in
the automotive program here. He completed it at Downtown Campus.
Next I would like to ask the chancellor and the Board of
Governors to please step forward.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Why don't we complete the vote? Then
we'll come forward.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye?
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Opposed?
Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously.
>> SPEAKER: Thank you, sir. This time what's going to happen is
the chancellor is going to present the college's Challenge Coin to
all of the military owners of the Purple Heart.
Just a brief history and tradition of the coin, it was originally
presented -- there is a lot of historian footprints. Some say it
happened during the age of the Roman Wars, and some say it first
started in World War I. All I can tell you is the tradition is very
healthy and very well respected within the U.S. military.
Basically, you have a coin. You're supposed to have it with you
at all times. For example, we have mine.
The coin is usually from your unit, and the tradition is you step
next to someone that you recognize from the military, and you either
declare it or you slam it on a bar. That person better produce their
coin. If they don't, then that person owes you and everyone else in
the bar a drink. If he produces his coin and everybody else at the
bar has their coin, you owe everybody else a drink.
So that is the tradition among the enlisted personnel is still
very healthy. Now our presidents give these out. Agencies give
these out. Fire departments and a lot of clubs give out Challenge
Coins through their members usually for a deed well done or excellent
work or (off mic).
So with that, the chancellor will now present the coins. As with
tradition -- first let's give...
(Applause.)
>> SPEAKER: Some units exchange coins. In this event, the
Military Order of the Purple Heart commander wants to give coins to
the chancellor and Board of Governors.
So with this, we'd like to get a picture before you all sit down,
if you could all get together.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: I would just like to thank the board for
this day and recognizing that Pima be a Purple Heart College. This
recognition is very important as it symbolizes our college's
commitments to our veterans in general, but specifically to our
veterans who have been wounded in combat or wounded in service, and
for that, we are forever thankful to all of you and to all the
members of our services.
On a personal note, my father is also a Purple Heart recipient,
as well. So again, thank you very much. We are very proud and
honored to be a Purple Heart College, and we hope we can live up to
that commitment to all of you. Thank you for your sacrifices.
(Applause.)
(Standing ovation.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you. Okay. Next we're going to
return to our annual board meeting. We have new business. The
election of the Governing Board officers 2020.
Do I have a motion for the role of president?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Yes, I would like to nominate Demion Clinco
as board chair and president.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Second?
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Any discussion?
Okay. Hearing none, all in favor, signify by saying aye?
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed?
Hearing none, the motion carries unanimously.
Next we have the election of the vice-chair, and I would nominate
Dr. Hay to that role.
Is there a second?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: From Ms. Garcia. Any discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed?
Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously.
Next is 2.2, election of the Arizona Association Community
College Trustees 2020 representatives.
Is there any motion from the floor to nominate anyone to the role
of the association representative?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: I'd like to nominate Mr. Hanna. Is that
all right?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: So currently I have been serving in the
role, as well, as Mr. Hanna's been serving as the alternate, and we
have both been attending the meetings.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Let's be clear on this. This is a voting
representative.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: This is the voting representative. Okay.
Is there a second to the motion?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion? All in favor of the motion
signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed?
Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously.
Do we need a motion for the alternate, Mr. Silvyn?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: I would suggest the board go ahead and
designate an alternate. That way there won't be any issue in the
event that Mr. Hanna is unable to attend a particular meeting.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: I'd like to nominate Demion Clinco as
alternate.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Any discussion?
All in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed?
Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Mr. Chair, I just need to let the board know
that I have also been appointed to the Pacific region nominating
committee for the AACCT. So that's a new position. I don't think we
really need to vote on it, but I just want to make the board aware.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Congratulations.
Next we have 2.3, election of the advisory committee board
representatives.
So currently Ms. Garcia and I serve on the finance and audit
committee, and Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Hanna are serving on the human
resources committee. Dr. Hay is not serving on a role of a
committee.
I think we could probably do this -- is everybody comfortable
continuing in their roles?
Okay. Then I would make a motion that the slate of committee
members be retained for an additional term.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Any discussion?
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Discussion? You're sure you don't want to be
on one of these committees?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: I wouldn't want to take you from that
responsibility.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: No other discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed?
Hearing none, that motion passes unanimously.
We are now in recess, and we are now going to reconvene the open
session of the regular meeting.
Okay. So the first item on our agenda is public comment and call
to the audience. We have two items. I'll just read.
The Pima Community College Governing Board welcomes
public comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the college.
Generally the total time for public comment will be limited to 45
minutes, and comments will be limited to 3 minutes per individual.
These time limits may be modified by the board or board chair.
Individuals sharing comments are expected to communicate with
decorum and respect. Individuals who engage in disorderly conduct or
use divisive or insulting language may have their time reduced or
concluded by the board chair.
At the conclusion of public comment, individual board members may
respond to criticism made by those who addressed the board, may ask
staff to review a matter, or ask that a matter be put on a future
agenda. Members of the board, however, may not discuss or take legal
action on matters raised during the public comment unless matters are
properly noticed for discussion and legal action.
Finally, be advised that internal college processes are available
to students and employees for communication.
Matej is our first speaker. Welcome back and Happy New Year.
The board received your e-mail.
>> MATEJ BOGUSZAK: Thank you. Thanks.
Good evening, Chair Clinco. Congratulations on your re-election.
Governing Board members, Chancellor Lambert, and guests.
I'm Matej Boguszak, and I serve as president of PCCEA.
This should be an exciting year and a decade even for Pima
Community College as we are building great new facilities, investing
in long-term infrastructure since we can't invest in people right now
due to expenditure limitations. Seems pretty smart. And 2020 might
finally be the year when we have a more user friendly website with
up-to-date information, so that will be amazing.
The faculty are excited to start another semester, meet our new
students next week, and continue to improve the ways in which we help
them reach their goals.
We also truly appreciate all the hard work being done by
administration and staff at all levels who are helping us improve how
we serve our students and how our organization works.
It is not an easy task, and we are still in very difficult
territory financially and organizationally facing considerable head
winds, and it's really important to steer clear of those as we chart
our way forward here.
I shared some survey results with you this morning, and we will
post full results by All Faculty Day, but allow me to rattle off some
uncomfortable statistics to illustrate where we stand. We had 149
full-time faculty respond, about half of the faculty body.
30.4% are satisfied with base compensation, and that's compared
to 67.4% six years ago. The six years ago was the last time we asked
this particular question. 19.6% are satisfied with their morale
compared to 38.1% two years ago and 49.7% three years ago.
20.6% are satisfied that they have meaningful input in
college-wide decisions. Three years ago this number was 44.8%.
Only 18.8% are optimistic about the general direction and outlook
for the college over the next five years, and a full 63.9% are
considering leaving the college, and of those 62.9% are considering
teaching at another institution.
So obviously years of stagnant wages have taken their toll and
there is no meaningful career and salary progression in sight right
now for our faculty. During a period of economic growth and progress
for education and educators elsewhere, steps were suspended and pay
inequities have grown at Pima.
We understand we are in a really difficult spot with expenditure
limitations, but we do not understand certain budget priorities and
certain administrative decisions that have strained faculty
confidence.
For example, the faculty is unwilling to honor the Step
Progression Plan that you, the board, just approved a couple years
ago in 2017. And, Chancellor, you called it merit-based at the time,
so we are kind of confused as far as what's happening. Without a
Step Progression Plan, our whole salary schedule becomes meaningless
and misleading to current and future faculty, and no premier faculty
will want to make their career here.
Meanwhile, more of us than ever feel that we don't have the
appropriate voice when it comes to college decisions. Many of us
have been needlessly antagonized by various policy tweaks over the
last year, and the worst example is the new section that was added to
the code of conduct over the summer.
I notice I'm out of time. May I have a couple more minutes,
please? Thank you.
I shared it and won't read the section due to time, but the
language is far too broad to be fairly and consistently applied.
That's the problem. We all agree on the general principle, but the
language is just overbroad here.
Its focus is negative and reactionary, following probably some
criticism that was made last year. And PCCEA views it as violating
free speech rights under the 1st Amendment. It induces a chilling
effect on employees wishing to express their views on matters of
public concern.
Based on cursory research, I couldn't find anything similar at
all at the U of A, at ASU or at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
There are other ways to hold employees to the highest standards of
integrity, ethics, and transparency. I don't think we need this
particular passage.
After numerous meetings with our chancellor's representatives, we
have been unable to come to mutually acceptable language and have
sent a letter to a legal office outlining our views in more detail.
It's our hope that we can have a follow-up meeting and come to
some kind of resolution here, and we ask for your support in this
endeavor to really find replacement language that affirms and
protects free speech rights of students, faculty, and staff.
It should not be that hard to meet the administration's interest
in holding people accountable to high standards, which PCCEA shares,
but while also recognizing something as basic as freedom of
expression on a college campus, right?
Pima needs an engaged active board that asks questions, listens
to constituents and stakeholders when it comes to weighty policy
decisions. And I thank you. You have been really constructive in
engaging us and everybody at the college so far.
Although you have delegated the Meet and Confer process to the
chancellor as the final decision-maker, the faculty, employees, and
students need you to step in at an impasse like this one and help us
work through this and ensure that the policies of our college that
our college is built on are really in the best long-term interests of
our students and our community.
Thank you very much.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Thank you.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Thank you, Chairman Clinco.
I'd just like to ask the chancellor to please follow up on this
particular request about this wording in this statement and that to
ensure that all input was really considered in doing this.
Matej, I would just like to say that I am personally concerned
about the numbers on this survey. I would welcome you to continue as
you have been coming to this board and enumerating the exact issues
that you feel are the most important of faculty so that we might be
aware of them and try to help address them.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Okay. Next we have Matthew T.
>> SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Matt T. I work for DPR
Construction. We are one of the largest construction firms in the
country. We do commercial construction and healthcare and higher ed
all over the country and in Europe.
I really only have two easy points to make today. I just want to
express my excitement and gratitude to Pima College for the work that
you're doing with your center of excellence and the graduates that I
see Pima having the potential to put out and ones that you have done
so far. We hire so many people who work in the fields that become
Pima graduates, and we're really excited to have the opportunity to
work with them. I just wanted to say thank you and express my
excitement for all the new things that are coming up, the new
buildings, new automotive center, the aviation center, and everything
that's going to come along with that and how that's going to benefit
the workforce in Tucson and make our community so much better.
That was the first thing.
The second thing is also easy. I'm on the board of directors of
the Foundation. The gala is coming up on March 9 -- April 9, excuse
me. And I just want to get the message out there that we are still
selling sponsorships and it's going to be a great event, benefit the
Earn to Learn scholarship, which is an amazing program that's going
to reach out to so many students. It's a great thing. So come to
the gala, be a sponsor, and keep up what you're doing at Pima
College, because it's really benefiting our community. It's
benefiting my company.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Okay. That
concludes our public call to the audience.
Next we have remarks by the Governing Board, and I would just say
Happy New Year, and welcome to the spring semester.
Again, thank you, everybody, for all your hard work and continual
attendance of our meetings. It's always good to see familiar faces
out there, hanging on our every word.
Dr. Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: How do you follow that (smiling)?
Happy New Year, everybody. As usual, I cede my time to my friend
on my left.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Thank you, Dr. Hay.
Happy New Year to all of you. Also welcome back to staff and
administrators and I guess faculty will be back shortly if they
aren't already, and certainly our students who will be back here
shortly, as well.
Earlier today and actually earlier in this meeting we held a
moment of silence recognizing those victims of the January 8, 2011
tragedy.
The college held a moment of silence this morning at 10:10 in
memory of those who died and were injured in the attack in Tucson
that took the lives of six people and injured 13 others, including
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
The six people's names who passed away are Christina-Taylor
Green, Judge John Roll, Gabe Zimmerman, Phyllis Schneck, Dorothy
Morris, and Dorwan Stoddard. To the injured, as you well know, are
Gabby and Ron Barber.
The perpetrator of this horror had been a student at this
institution who exhibited mental health issues and had been suspended
from attendance, thanks to the reporting and actions of faculty,
staff, administrators, and our campus police.
This college recently made the decision to reduce the number of
full-time counselors from 18 to 10, a decision that while not happy
about, I did not vehemently oppose based on assurances that mental
health services would continue to be available to students in a
variety of options and locations.
I strongly urge the chancellor to ensure that this is happening
and that our entire staff and faculty continue to receive training on
recognizing, assisting with options, and reporting when necessary
those individuals they come in contact with who exhibit mental health
issues that could be harmful to themselves or others.
As a student-centered and community-based educational
institution, we have the responsibility, especially in these
uncertain and troubling times for all of us.
That's all. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you, Mr. Hanna.
Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Welcome, everyone. Happy New Year. I'm
really looking forward to another great year and hoping that we move
forward in a much faster pace.
Again, thank you.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: The same. Happy New Year to everybody.
As mentioned before, I look forward to another year here with you,
but more important, I want to commend all the educators out there
through Pima that the students out there, they are there for the
college, but more important we're there for their lives as well, too.
I think with this 2020 new year, there is going to be a lot of
changes, but positive changes. I think we can look forward to many
events that's going to be happening.
In fact, I have one scheduled event. In two weeks I'm going to
be meeting with EMT graduates from the Pascua Yaqui tribe, and it's
positive when the community but also more importantly the service
they are going to be going into will impact the whole community as
well, too. Be it on the reservation or within the City of Tucson, as
well, too.
But I thank you all, and Happy New Year, and I hope every one of
you and also your family have a great year. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Next we have
reports, 45 minutes set aside.
First is administrative reports, beginning with Allied Health,
David Dor�, campus president.
We have five minutes set aside for this presentation by Mr. Dor�.
>> DR. DOR�: Thank you, Chair Clinco, members of the Board of
Governors, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues and guests. Happy New Year
to all of you.
I'd like to give the board a brief update on our planning for the
center of excellence for health professions this evening.
I also want to just acknowledge the core team that will be
working on this project. I want to acknowledge Bill Ward and his
team and particularly Ernie Federico who will be the project manager
on this project. Also campus vice president of West Campus, Aubrey
Conover, and Dean Joe Gaw, our dean of healthcare and of course the
faculty and staff that have already been much involved in this.
I'd like to just lay out again, as you know our vision for all of
the centers of excellence, next slide, really, they are focused
around speed, convergence and adaptability. Now, the plan is to
co-locate all of the health professions into one location, one
building, with the exception of dental hygiene, which we have already
invested a lot of finances into in facilities and then vet tech. All
the other ones would be co-located.
This facility we are really looking at taking us to the next
generation of healthcare. I really want to commend the faculty in
our health sciences. They have really embraced innovative
technology, and this facility will be able to incorporate much more
technology.
Also allow us for future growth and expansion. Also convergence.
Both convergence of disciplines, so we are having all of these
disciplines co-located, really be able to do a lot of
cross-convergence but then most importantly convergence with our
industry partners, bringing them onboard, as well.
And then adaptability. We are really planning a facility that
will be viable certainly ten years out and even further, like we are
doing with all of our spaces, designing them with a lot of
flexibility and to enhance scheduling, as well.
Next slide. So the project is, we are looking at a 70,000 square
foot facility. It will house all of our health professions.
We have already completed an extensive programming study. The
architectural firm BWS and Bill's team and all of our faculty and
staff were involved in the programming for that.
Then we did a pretty extensive location study. We looked at all,
a number of possible locations. Did really a SWOT analysis on those.
I think the board would have access to all of that information. That
study resulted in West Campus as the best location for the
free-standing, new multi-story building.
Next slide. So if you will look on the bottom right of the
campus plan, that is where the proposed location is of the new health
building, health professions building.
Next slide. So we have, based upon really some of the latest
technology, knowing that a health care facility is more expensive, we
basically budgeted a pretty extensive amount. This will include
everything, and that is about $500 per square foot. So that includes
technology. That includes all of the equipment, and so forth, that
would go into this facility.
So like I say, that budget will include fixtures, furniture,
equipment, all of our architectural fees and any contingency
planning, as well.
So that is our update. Do you have any questions about our
planning on this facility?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I have a question. I saw that you had
public clinic listed on one of the buildings. What is that?
>> DR. DOR�: So the public clinic, we are in negotiation with
the possibility of being able to house -- I don't want to really
speak out of turn, but we have had some discussions, for example,
with El Rio, and so that is a proposal that we could add on.
Now, that is not what we are proposing to build at this point.
And I think that was the point about the opportunities for future
expansion, so that we could house that health clinic at one of our
campuses.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Actually, I had a follow-up question to
that, which is almost the same question. We had talked about
developing some very strategic policies around public/private
partnerships, and I wanted to sort of get a little update on how that
is looking for projects like this to be able to go out and solicit
partners to be able to build part of these buildings.
>> DR. DOR�: So I will give one real concrete example for this
space. So we have a meeting planned, for example, with Northwest
Medical Center that would really like to partner with us. Rather
than them building their own simulation center and lab, they would
like to partner with us on that.
So we will really be, you know, pursuing all of those types of
partnerships. And I know Dean Gaw is in conversation with a number
of our healthcare institutions, as well.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Okay, great. Maybe we could schedule a
study session in the coming months to really look a little bit more
closely at the funding formula and how we see partnerships being able
to reduce our percentage share of the 35 million.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Thank you, and I will save some of my
questions for that study session, especially around funding.
A couple of questions, though. On the drawing, there is a new
general education building. Is that because some classes are being
displaced?
>> DR. DOR�: That building was in the programming study for a
future potential long-term plan for the campus. I think since then
there has been some discussion about whether that's the best location
and so forth.
But that would be really far out in terms of planning, and we
have no plans at this point to build a new building.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Yeah. You know, I continue to be concerned,
considering our enrollment, that we don't continue to build buildings
hoping that they will come.
Now, you know, I certainly -- certainly the center of excellence
focuses on specific career fields that we know are in demand. I
don't have a problem with that. But I am concerned about building to
overcapacity.
>> DR. DOR�: Just to be clear, Board Member Hanna, the only
projects that we are deeming that are priorities in terms of the West
Campus moving forward, are the renovations of the science spaces and
then the building of this new facility.
So as I said, that was -- you know, the architectural firm kind
of listens to people and kind of gives some vision for what people
want, but we have no intensity point of building another general
education building.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: All right, good.
All right. Study of the medical professions that are especially
in need right now or will be coming, you know, so things are changing
just as rapidly in the medical field as they are in every other field
across technology. So have retain a look at what programs we offer
now that may not be viable or new programs?
>> DR. DOR�: Yes, we are doing extensive program viability and
Provost Duran-Cerda and the team is really looking at all of our
programs.
As you well know, we are really looking at adapting to the
future. This facility is really being planned and constructed with
the future in mind.
And I want to say, again, that I think our health science faculty
are some of the most innovative in terms of really responding to and
adapting to the new technologies in healthcare.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: I am also assuming you're working with the
employers in the region in terms of exactly what type of healthcare
professionals they need?
>> DR. DOR�: Exactly.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: And as we go forward, I assume that will
evolve over time. So I'm pretty confident that you're working with
the CEOs of the hospitals and other units to make sure they -- what
they need and --
>> DR. DOR�: Absolutely. And I myself am working with some of
the CEOs, as well.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: I have one more question before the witness
is excused. (Laughter.)
So I get it with the dental, we just spent a lot of money and did
that. The vet tech is at the East Campus currently?
>> DR. DOR�: Correct.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Why...
>> DR. DOR�: We put a lot of money into that facility, and we
feel that that can actually run pretty effectively as a stand alone.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Okay. Any additional questions? Okay.
Thank you, President Dor�. We really appreciate all your work to
really move this project along. We really look forward to all of the
upcoming updates on this project.
Thank you.
Next we have our fiscal year '19 comprehensive annual financial
report with Dr. Bea, executive vice chancellor for finance and
administration.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Chairperson Clinco, members of the board,
Chancellor Lambert, colleagues and guests. I'm very pleased to
provide you tonight with a high level summary, quick summary of the
college's annual financial report which was published in December.
A copy of the report was sent directly to the members of the
board and to the finance audit committee. That's sent directly from
the auditor general's office to you all. That's a normal procedure.
Tonight I'm going to be just summarizing some of the high-level
overview of the information. There is a lot of rich information
about the college's financial status, as well as some statistical
information, so you can go back in time and see how things have
changed. Tonight I will just sort of boil it down, do mostly a
year-over-year comparison, but I'm going to highlight a couple of
things about some of the significant changes that we have made in the
last five years, just to highlight a few things of how our finances
have been, have improved over the last five years.
The annual financials represent a snapshot in time. So they are
what the financial picture is of the college as of June 30th. That
information is then compiled by our staff and then the auditor
general's office spends a lot of time testing the information,
verifying that in their opinion the information is accurate.
And so one of the things in there is that it includes the auditor
general's opinion. It's an unmodified opinion, that's exactly what
we are looking for. Basically what it says is it is presented fairly
in all material respects and is accurate from all the fieldwork they
have done. Again, that's a multi-month process where staff from the
auditor general's office is working with our staff, checking on
different transactions and so forth.
To focus first on revenues, the picture was positive on the
revenue side of the ledger with total revenues increasing year over
year by $7.5 million.
Our operating revenues, which are primarily tuition, contract
revenue, and commissions, rents, those kinds of things, were pretty
much flat year over year. Tuition went down. Recall that this
fiscal year 2019 was when we made some of the changes to the loading
or the credit equivalency for some of the science classes, and our
enrollment dropped as a result of that.
So our tuition went down as a result of enrollment declines from
the number of credits taken. Overall, the operating revenues was
relatively flat.
On the positive side, what makes up the big difference for the
$7.5 million is on the nonoperating revenue that is in planned
revenues, so we expected property taxes to grow. The board approved
a tax levy increase and we have growth in new property so our
property taxes went up about $4.8 million and then investment income
went up about $3.7 million.
That's a function of the college having more money to invest and
then being much more aggressive with its cash management and its
investments. We have talked with the board about that. That helped
us a lot in the fiscal year '20 budget. You can see it here just how
dramatically the improvement shows up in this. So overall revenues
went up 7.5 million.
On the expense side...
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Before you leave revenues, contracts were up
a million dollars. What's that?
>> DR. DAVID BEA: That's primarily a function of what is going
on in our workforce area. So the contract instruction, things like
that, I can give you, if you want, a little more breakdown. I can
follow up after tonight with more detail in terms of what it is.
But that primarily would be educational services provided through
contracts, whether it's subrecipient contracts or direct contracts.
Some of the things you know about would be Caterpillar, things like
that.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: State grants, I don't see the 15 million for
the aviation. Is that next --
>> DR. DAVID BEA: That will be in the next, yeah.
It's weird because we are sort of looking back in time, right?
This is what the status of our finances was, how they finished last
June.
Okay. On the expense side. It shows an even more favorable
picture. It really reflects the college's diligent efforts we have
taken to reduce expenditures over the last number of years, the
three-year plan. This would be the second year of the three-year
plan to reduce our expenses for expenditure limitation.
As you can see, we dropped a total expenses by $6.5 million, and
even more clearly the operating expenses went down by $7.7 million.
This is one of the points where I want to stop and give you even
a broader context, that beginning in fiscal year 2015, when we
recognized that we needed to reduce expenses, we have reduced our
operating expenses by about $32 million. That's from a starting
point of about $200 million reduced by $32 million. That is from
extremely diligent work on the part of staff here and has impacted
everybody through reduced positions, things like that. About $20
million of that reduction is in the personnel side of the budget.
So again, this is where you start to see the budget is the plan
to reduce. This is where you're seeing it's actually working.
So overall, we had expenses decrease of $6.5 million, so matched
with the revenue increase of $7.5 million, and expense reduction of
$6.5 million, there is an overall net improvement that is
significant, and I'll get into that in just a second in terms of how
that makes things look overall.
When you look at the year-over-year changes by category, again,
one of the things we have been hammering home is that we need to
reduce on the personnel side. As you can see, the biggest reduction
did happen, has happened in the personnel side of the budget.
Employee compensation and benefits went down year over year, a little
bit under $9 million.
Again, that's due to the reduced positions, being really diligent
about when positions become vacant, closing those we can close,
reallocating resources to where we need them to be, that sort of
thing.
Okay. The net position is basically the longer-term perspective
of the college. How is the college positioned? Where are our assets
located? Are they in buildings? Do we have investments? Do you
have cash flow, that sort of thing.
So overall, the picture here is very favorable. Cash and cash
equivalence are at, and I'll point out what number I'm talking about,
the $63 million, and short- and long-term investments are at $147
million.
Again, we have talked about that, that a lot of that is our cash
management, taking money from cash that doesn't return significant
amounts in terms of investment return, putting, investing as much as
we can, planning out when we'll need that money, putting it in
longer-term investments so we can generate a little bit more money.
So that also reflects the fact that we had issued the bonds last
year. A lot of the bond revenue came in, $6 million came in. We
haven't spent -- the majority of that money hasn't been spent yet.
Certainly hadn't been spent, very little had been spent by the end of
fiscal year '19, so that's the other reason for the big increase
there.
Total assets, and actually let me shift down to -- the total
liabilities is, this is what we essentially owe, right? So the big
increase there from last year was $147 million to the total
liabilities went up to 201 million. The majority of that, that
change, in fact more of that change is the result of the fact that we
issued the bonds and now we have the debt from the bonds that we have
to carry forward until we pay that off.
The good news is is if you look at that, the change is 54
million. I just mentioned we issued bonds that were greater than 54
million. The reason for that is our pension liability is going down
and has been going down, so that's another good thing. A sign that,
a function of the fact that we have fewer people working for us, and
so our pension liability that we are tracking year over year is also
going down.
Net position improved about $30 million. Again, that's partly
from that pension liability change. And then from the 20 or so
million dollars of operating improvement that I just mentioned.
The other thing I want to point out in this is our unrestricted
net position is now at minus $3.5 million. That, just to give some
context, going back to fiscal year '15, which is when the GASB change
occurred when we had to start showing that pension liability, the
first year that we had to start showing that pension liability, our
unrestricted net position was negative $50 million.
Over the last five years, we have now gotten to the point where
we are almost positive in our unrestricted net position, again the
result of very diligent work, very positive returns in terms of our
financial performance and something that we should all recognize is
very favorable results over the last few years.
This is the quick and dirty overview of the financials. I got
into more detail, but this is the summary of it. Total operating
performance, again, the revenues were flat. Operating expenses went
down. The net operating loss improved a little bit.
Total net nonoperating revenues, again, that's property tax,
mostly property tax, and then our investments improved. So the
overall performance went up. Our net bottom line from an annual
performance was about $30 million, an improvement of about $14
million year over year.
Just to quickly summarize from a contextual sort of qualitative
standpoint, the good news here is that we received the unmodified
opinion. We will be following up in detail with the finance audit
committee. We invite the auditor to come in, talk about how the
audit process went, if there are any concerns.
The initial indications in terms of are there going to be any
findings, we actually so far have a very good indication that we will
have very good results in terms of compliance findings which we will
follow up with more on the board when those reports come out, but we
are looking forward to a very favorable, complete audit report this
year to go along with our great financial performance.
Again, just to quickly summarize, we really have made a lot of
progress financially. We decreased total expenditures, particularly
in personnel as we have needed to. That was driven by expenditure
limitation, we have had to do it.
It has placed the college in a very advantageous financial
position. It enables us to have reserves so that should the board,
and we will be talking about this as we develop the budget, should
the board want to invest in that Allied Health facility using
accumulated reserves, that we are actually in a healthy position to
do so.
We have accumulated a lot of reserves, and we will be talking
with the finance audit committee about that as well as with the board
going forward as we set the budget and start really formalizing how
are we going to approach that building.
The significant investment revenues are, we have really improved
our cash management and how we are investing the good work in ago
news minus area in particular has made a big difference to the
college and to the budget process in general.
And then generally our financials have improved dramatically and
we are in solid financial position. I wish I could say that that
translated into great budget news, but expenditure limitation is the
thing that is driving the budget decisions and really constrains how
much money that we can invest in our personnel, and we are working
diligently to try and get relief on that standpoint with the
legislature.
With that, again, to recognize the folks who do a lot of work in
prep for this, their names are up there, and then I'll ask if the
board has any questions.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: I want to personally thank you, David, for
your hard work and your exemplary leadership for the financial
stewardship of this institution, along with Chancellor Lambert. But
we have a real champion here. He's done an enormous, very hard job,
and I want to thank you personally. Thank you.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Thank you.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: I would just like to echo that, Dr. Bea. You
and your whole team, I know you have been awarded the whatever the
award is for the CAFR and the production of this thing for 50 years
in a row or something (laughter). But it's because of the hard work
of you and your team.
We very much appreciate it. This board, you know, obviously has
the fiduciary responsibility to run this college in a way that serves
the taxpayers, serves our students, and be able to move forward with
these new and exciting things we're talking about.
We couldn't do that without the good information that you bring
us. So thank you.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Great. I really appreciate what you're saying
about the good work of the staff, and I'm going to actually make sure
that they see the video here tonight.
Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much.
Next we have item 5.2, reports by representatives to the board.
We have 10 minutes set aside for this, 5 minutes for each
representative.
The first is Michael Lopez.
>> SPEAKER: Chairman Clinco, Chancellor Lambert, Governing Board
members, esteemed colleagues and guests.
Happy New Year, to begin with. Good seeing everyone. I have
kind of got a recharge over the break. I was able to get up to the
Seattle area and see Chancellor Lambert's stomping grounds over there
with the Seattle Seahawks coming through in the playoffs, I've got a
new team now because I have a Seahawk jersey for a Christmas gift
from my son who lives up in the Seattle area.
Who also went to Pima, went to University High, went to Pima,
took the honors program at Pima, finished up at the U of A in, you
know, record time, taking all the holiday when we had the holiday
sessions. He's up there, and I have two grand daughters. It was
great to see them.
I'm feeling good about that. A couple of things, though,
tonight. What I got from the faculty report or from the association,
you know, the results of that survey, the numbers don't sound very
enthusiastic.
David Bea is our liaison to the staff council, and he does a
great job with us and keeping us abreast and making sure that we are
well-communicated, but right now there's a strain on our college, and
I hear it at the faculty level, I hear it through staff from staff
that have been there for years, new staff that are coming in, and the
report right now that was offered down and dirty, pretty quick, quick
and dirty, it's dirty in a way because you're not just talking about
dollars and cents. You're talking about people.
The people that are still working at Pima are here and loyal to
Pima, like I am and my family and the people that I know that, you
know, were at Pima from the beginning.
So the step increases, those type of things that we haven't had,
we haven't seen at the staff level or at the faculty level, it is
important that those types of concerns are addressed as much as the
buildings that are being built. If we could get numbers -- our next
staff meeting is Friday. If we could get some numbers of what the
staff, what the faculty would look like in year 2030 and, you know,
some type of feeling of, you know, what we're really looking towards
and what we should be expecting, because right now there is a lot of
uncertainty, there is a lot of strain, and I just, more of this will
be dealt with once we see some numbers and we get some understanding
of the reorganization and how that all fits for staff.
Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much.
Next we have Jim Craig.
>> SPEAKER: Chairman Clinco, distinguished board, Chancellor
Lambert, representatives, PCC family and friends.
Happy New Year.
On behalf of the administration, we want to acknowledge the
Governing Board for your leadership and your support and empowerment
for Chancellor Lambert. The chancellor has been a transformational
and inspiring leader to all of us, which could only be possible with
your support.
As board members, you have shown direct support for our students,
faculty, and staff with your many visits to our centers of
excellence, summits, ground-breaking ceremonies, and other
significant events and celebrations.
Through Chancellor Lambert's leadership, we have a strong vision
of becoming a premier college with many challenging goals and
initiatives to get us there.
We are excited and ready for the new year. The administration
would like to thank you for your ongoing leadership and commitment to
student, college, and community success.
That concludes my report.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much, Mr. Craig.
Now, before we move to the chancellor's report, I had forgotten
that there was a request to move item 6.1 information on fiscal year
'20 enrollment revitalization funds second quarter, a short report by
Lisa Brodsky to the administrative reports.
There was no report.
So why don't we do that now and we will get to the chancellor's
-- I apologize, Lisa, for putting you on the spot. You were aware?
I just didn't know when.
>> LISA BRODSKY: I wasn't sure either so fortunately I brought
some notes.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: We have about five minutes.
>> LISA BRODSKY: No worries.
Sorry. I had to get my thoughts together there for a second.
Chair Clinco, members of the board, Chancellor Lambert,
colleagues and guests. So I wanted to address a little bit the
issues you talked about, use of the one-time funding in both
advertising and in the other efforts related to this.
So I think I mentioned last time I was able to present to you
that we're using a significant amount of these funds, more than
$600,000 to support the brand rollout and enrollment-related
advertising.
So for our spring campaign, for example, we're putting $250,000
toward the summer and fall push. What is significant about that is
normally we wouldn't start our major push until July. Now we're
going to start it much earlier in the spring. So we're going to have
a four-and-a-half, five-month rollout. So it's really telling.
Today, I will mention this, as well, Stamats is in town right
now, we're meeting with them about how to begin to market PimaOnline
more effectively, but they showed us some data, it was a five-year
look at Google Analytics that hits to our website. You could see
clearly those couple of months before each semester when we do our
big push. Every time we would do a big push, we get reaction. When
we don't have that advertising, it drops.
So it's going to be interesting to see, take a look back a year
from now, since we've got to keep the annual advertising going at a
strong level, we suspect that support and those visits to our website
are going to continue very strongly.
As I mentioned, we have allocated $200,000. That's going to
support some research into our online program, our students, their
motivations, what interests them, and then they're building out an
advertising campaign for us.
There is a lot of good -- I'm eager to talk, I hope we have an
opportunity to talk in more detail sometime, but what they are coming
back with is really fascinating, good stuff, and I think we are going
to make a significant difference.
We were already telling Michael that you're going to need more
resources. We're going to do a wonderful job for you with this
one-time money.
And then signage, we are working toward that. While $325,000 is
a lot of money, it sounds like a lot of money, when you look at five
campuses, it didn't go very far.
So we're going to do two things. We were able to purchase a wide
format printer for our in-house print shop, and that's allowing us to
do a lot of the internal signage ourselves at a much, much discounted
rate. So we're going to use that to do a lot of our internal
signage.
We're going to save the one-time money for street banners, so
it's very visible from the street and when people are on campus, and
then for some window graphics. So those will also be very visible as
you approach the campus. It's the kind of thing, you look at a
window, you can see the image, but when you're on the inside it
doesn't look any different.
So it's a cool effect, but it also has the advantage of really
taking our branding and extending it throughout the campuses.
So that's what I had. I hope that's what you were looking for.
Any questions?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I have a question. Are you using students
to do any of the signs? Do we have a shop?
>> LISA BRODSKY: We have an in-house shop. I mean, we have
professional designers and printers that we use for that work. Yeah,
so we're lucky there, very fortunate to have that resource.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: And could you tell us when we should
expect the website live, as long as we have you here?
>> LISA BRODSKY: We're this close. I'm always nervous about
putting a date on it, but we're shooting very, very, very hard for
either the end of this month or right at the beginning of February.
So we'll be doing some communication before that so people know
exactly what to expect when it rolls out. The work is not going to
stop obviously when it comes live. There will be more work behind
it, but we are getting excited.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: So I just want to thank you for the efforts
that you have -- I mean, it's just obvious the kinds of things that
are going on in your area and throughout the community. It's
visible.
So I know these efforts are paying off, and sometimes it's hard
to see it quantitatively, but we know it's happening.
I just am concerned about the fact that this was a one-time, what
do we do when the one-time money runs out.
So I think that the board, I think you need to be proposing to
us, we need to be thinking seriously about how we move forward after
we have spent the money that we have, you know, for this one-time
thing, because we know that it's an ongoing battle.
>> LISA BRODSKY: Thank you for that. We are able to do a lot of
measuring right now so we know what tools are most effective. Coming
out of this process with Stamats we are going to be even stronger
because we're looking at even more tools, will be able to present
something really strong for you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: And I would echo Mr. Hanna's comment. Be
bold in your request to this board for funding for these marketing
strategies. I think that we really are seeing outcomes in terms of
stable or slight increases as opposed to the hemorrhaging that we saw
for a long time.
We know that it's a comprehensive and institutional-wide effort,
but, I mean, we are able to put data behind this.
Thank you very much.
>> LISA BRODSKY: Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Next we have our Chancellor Lambert's
report, item 4.3. Chancellor Lambert.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Happy New Year's, everybody. Happy New
Year.
Welcome to not only a new year but to a new decade. I think this
decade will become a defining decade not only for Pima Community
College but really for higher education.
I think we're going to see so much change at an accelerated pace
that we may have not yet experienced, and yet it seems like we have
experienced a lot of change leading up till now.
Why do I say that? Michael Amick will tell you that it's
anticipated that online education will be about 75% of all
enrollment. Think about that.
Right now it's the opposite here. So if 75% goes all online,
we're going to have to really seriously look at why do we have five
campuses?
I think that's a hard reality we're going to have to face.
Also, I have a letter here from a young person from our
community. I think this letter illustrates her message to us at Pima
Community College.
She says -- the subject is a future message. Dear Pima Community
College, have you heard Augmented Reality Sandbox? Well, it's a
hands-on sandbox with 3D visualization applications created by
researchers at UC-Davis. You should install this to help students to
learn more stuff and new ways. If you don't, won't, that's okay. By
the way, keep going at teaching students about stuff in the future.
She dates it, signs this as a future -- I won't mention her name.
So by the writing and et cetera, I think she's somewhere in the
middle elementary school age.
So I sent her a letter and have invited her to come and visit
with us so we can show to her some of the things that we are doing
that are future-oriented, but I think she's sending a message to us
that's not just a message from her but from many of our youth, and
that is it's a new reality and we need to step up to that new
challenge.
A lot of things that we have been doing here at the college has
been talking about the future of work. Not only have we been talking
about the future of work, many of you sat in on a presentation
recently where I talked about this, but we have been talking about
this with the community.
You're probably also aware that University of Arizona is also
talking about the future of work. David Dor� is going to sit on a
panel on Friday at the U of A, talking about the future work and what
Pima is doing as it relates to that.
So it's going to be an exciting decade. It's going to be a
transformative decade. As long as I'm your chancellor, I'm going to
ensure that we rise to the challenge.
It will be disruptive. It will be difficult at times. But it
will be exhilarating at times, too.
If we can hopefully stabilize enrollments, then I think that puts
us in a better position to address some of the concerns that our
employees have mentioned tonight, the single one being, single
biggest one being the compensation issue. We are very mindful of
that, and I want to figure out ways to do that.
So we will be bringing you proposals. But at the end of the day,
the only way that's going to happen, whether we're talking the
marketing or compensation, is there has got to be a revenue source
for that, and there is not too many options in that regard.
Also, I want to remind you, the vision is working. I have only
been here now six-and-a-half years, and the college has been
recognized twice now as a top 150 community college by the Aspen
Institute. Not many colleges get recognized as the top 150 community
colleges in the nation.
We are now up for two Bellwether awards. As you all have heard
me say before, that's akin to the Heisman Trophy of community
colleges. And we're up for two in two separate categories.
So thank you, Demion, for agreeing to join us in San Antonio as
we make our final push to hopefully bring home one if not both of
these final awards in the Bellwether category.
These are examples of the fact that our peers are recognizing
Pima as back on the map again. We are now a leading institution.
People are calling us, asking us, how are you doing all of this? And
it feels good to be in that position. It feels good to be in a
community where people are talking about us now in a positive way.
I have every confidence that we are going to continue to do this
and much more in this upcoming decade.
So Happy New Year. And welcome to another exciting end of our
last semester of this academic year, but leading into this new
decade.
Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much, Chancellor Lambert.
Next we have our information items. Mr. Silvyn, if you could
read the information items minus 6.1.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Thank you Mr. Chair.
The information items -- these are items that were presented to
the board in preparation for this evening's meeting -- include the
second quarterly report on enrollment revitalization funds, the
October 2019 financial statements, employment information including
hires, separations, appointments, and retirements.
The list of individuals who have been certified with the
appropriate credentials to serve as adjunct faculty at Pima College.
Some data on the positions and new wage rates as a result of the
annual increase in the Arizona minimum wage.
Finally, the '20/'21 academic calendar.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Next we have item 7, consent agenda.
Mr. Silvyn, if you could read the consent agenda.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The items on the consent agenda for this evening are 7.1, that's
the minutes from the November 13, 2019 executive session. 7.2 are
the minutes from the November 13, 2019 regular meeting.
Item 7.3 is a recommendation to appoint community member Kenneth
Marcus to the govern board's finance and audit committee.
7.4, an intergovernmental agreement for three years for
educational services for the Alpine Fire District.
Item 7.5 is a five-year intergovernmental agreement for
concurrent enrollment with the Pima joint educational district to
provide services at the Downtown Campus and Aviation Technology
Center.
And item 7.6 is an amendment to the intergovernmental agreement
for dual enrollment with Tucson Youth Development to add a writing
course at the Ace Charter High School.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank very much. Do I have a motion to
approve the consent agenda?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I have a question.
(Off microphone.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Could you talk into the microphone for the
camera?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay. So on the JTED where it talks about
financial considerations, I would like to know if will these students
be eligible for any financial aid assistance?
Because for each student enrolled, Pima JTED will pay college for
tuition fees for each student enrolled. Invoice by college at the
conclusion of each semester shall be based on the official college
tuition rate approved by the board for the respective fiscal year,
and then costs of books and supplies of students are not covered and
will be the responsibility of Pima JTED.
So again, my question is the courses they are taking are probably
going to be fairly expensive, so will they be eligible for financial
assistance?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Why don't we do this. Why don't we remove
this from the consent agenda. Let's vote on the agenda and then
we'll vote on it separately.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Can I just make a comment, and someone
correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe JTED pays those tuition. So
it's the same as the dual enrollment with other districts. The
student doesn't pay anything for the classes.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay. So they pay all fees, as well?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: We don't charge the students for dual
enrollment, okay?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay. Well, let's leave it...
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Unlike some of our colleague districts.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Okay. So your question is answered?
Okay.
Did we take a motion to approve the consent agenda? No. That
has not yet happened.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Not yet.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Is there a motion to approve the consent
agenda?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Any additional discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor of approving the consent agenda,
signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed? Hearing none, that motion
passes unanimously.
Action item 8 -- 8.1, board policy changes, final reading.
Mr. Silvyn, if you could read the recommendation.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: This is the final reading of proposed
changes to board policy 3.30 on student success.
The chancellor recommends that the Governing Board approve the
recommended changes to board policy 3.30, the proposed changes are
specified in the attachments to the board report.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Do I have a motion to approve the
recommendation?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Is there a second?
>> MR. MARK HANNA: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion? Mr. Hanna?
>> MR. MARK HANNA: I would just like to thank everyone involved
in the rewrite of this board policy.
I think this is if not "the" most important board policy we have,
very close to the top. It's about student success. One of the
things that got added to it was the encouragement and mandate from
this board to reduce the cost to our students in every way possible,
including the online resources and whatever other possibilities there
are to reduce costs to our students.
So I suggest that we continue to look for additional ways to
improve our student success board policy and review this on maybe
even more frequent basis than our normal policy review timetable.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Is that an amendment to the motion? No?
That's just a recommendation. Okay.
Any additional discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed?
Hearing none, the motion passes unanimously. Finally we have
item 9, request for future agenda items.
Hearing none, the meeting is adjourned.
(Adjournment.)
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