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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.) ********************************************* DISCLAIMER: THIS CART FILE WAS PRODUCED FOR COMMUNICATION ACCESS AS AN ADA ACCOMMODATION AND MAY NOT BE 100% VERBATIM. THIS IS A DRAFT FILE AND HAS NOT BEEN PROOFREAD. IT IS SCAN-EDITED ONLY, AS PER CART INDUSTRY STANDARDS, AND MAY CONTAIN SOME PHONETICALLY REPRESENTED WORDS, INCORRECT SPELLINGS, TRANSMISSION ERRORS, AND STENOTYPE SYMBOLS OR NONSENSICAL WORDS. 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