>> In the audience. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> So, I'm calling to order the Board of Trustees Pasadena Area Community College District's Regular Business Meeting Number 11. Today is Thursday, May the 6th in 2010. It is 5:30 p.m. They are there about, right? And we will move into Open Session. Mrs. Thompson, would you call the roll please. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Present. >> Mr. Thomson. Mr. Baum. >> Here. >> Ms. Brown. >> Here. >> Dr. Fellow. >> Here. >> Dr. Mann. Mr. Martin. >> Here. >> Mr. Abadia. >> Present. >> And I would like to ask Mr. Abadia if you would please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. >> Sure. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Presidents Sugimoto, do you have any introductions? >> Yes, thank you Dr. Bradbury-Huang, I do have two introductions. I'm very pleased and proud to presents the certificates to our All-USA Academic Team winners, and if a Solomon Abdella and also Deanna O'Bryan would come forward around this way. We would like to give you your certificates. These--it says, All-USA Academic Team. Let it be hereby known that Deanna O'Bryan has been nominated by Pasadena City College for the 2010 All-USA Academic Team for community colleges and recognition of scholarly achievements of students enrolled in America's community colleges. And this is presented by the American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and USA TODAY. So Deanna O'Bryan, here is your certificate. [ Applause ] >> Thank you. >> And this is a certificate for Solomon Abdella who is also a member of our All-USA Team. And basically says, Solomon Abdella has been nominated by Pasadena City College for the 2010 All-USA Academic Team for Community Colleges and recognition of scholarly achievements of students enrolled in America's community colleges, and again presented by the American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and USA TODAY. Congratulations to both of them. [ Applause ] >> I have something I wanna say. >> Alright. >> You wanna have it--do you have anything you wanna say or--? >> Why don't you go over to the lectern and that would be wonderful. Then we can capture it on the audio. >> Okay. I just wanna thank you so much for honoring us. Solomon has also worked really hard and it's been just a great experience here at PCC. With all of our classes, we had such great professors and we found it such a great place to grow and find what we really wanna do, what our calling is. So it's such an honor to have the support of the school and other scholarships as we move forward. >> And where are you all going from here? >> I'm transferring to [inaudible] Pacific University in the fall. I'm gonna do the music program there. >> And hopefully I'll be transferring to University of Southern California. [ Applause ] >>So we see an alumni possibly or--but I'll be majoring in business marketing and again I would like to thank the Pasadena City College for these 2 years that I've been here. It's been a great experience. Thank you. >> Very good. [ Applause ] >> Thank you and congratulations to two of our outstanding students and I failed to mention also that Deanna is our Bronze Scholarship winner for Coca-Cola. So congratulations there. I'd like to also introduce David LeClair [phonetic] who works on the Phi Theta Kappa All-USA Team and thank you for your work in identifying the successful candidates for our All-USA Team. Thank you, David. [ Inaudible Remark ] [ Applause ] >> I have many yellow cards but none on non-agenda items therefore we'll go to reports by members of the board. Let's start with Trustee Baum and we'll come back to Trustee Thomson. >> I have a little bit of an extensive report because we had a Board of Governors' meeting this week in Sacramento. It was a very productive meeting of the Board of Governors and lots of people send their greetings to us, but a few things that will be of interest that to the campus community that we're struggling with, one is we did get a system budget update from Vice Chancellor Erik Skinner. And it's looking, you know, the week before--two weeks ago the governor and the heads of each of the systems of higher education in Cal State [inaudible] is you got together to express a unified front saying that higher education is the top priority in the state's budget for the coming year. The governor said he will veto any bill that actually doesn't honor his request or any budget that doesn't honor his request for an increase in funding for higher education. But then the reality is though we're looking forward to the May revise and the budget fund figures had come in a bit stronger in April and January, February, March. But the tax figures that are--the preliminary tax figures for June, the revenue figure at--in April are coming in a little bit below projections. So there is some concern that we may have a very challenging budget situation because of the revenues and that are--that in the big tax month that come in in April may reflect and may revise that we'll again deal a blow to community colleges. The--we did receive a presentation from Chancellor Charles Reed from the Cal State University system about the two items, the crisis and leadership in the Community College and Higher Education System in California and the way the Cal State is setting up the ability to deliver an educational doctorate that will increase the pipeline for leaders in higher education and in community colleges in particular. And the other thing that was very important that we talked about was the CSU and the UC systems are finally getting on board with the demand long requested by the community colleges of simplifying the transfer process and making more efficient the ability for community college students that unified class numbering processes and guaranteed admission to Cal State's once they complete their program of study rather than having to figure out what the program's requirements are different at Cal State Fullerton versus Cal State Northridge versus Cal State LA versus Santiago State. And they're realizing the UCs and the CSU that the heat is on, that the state wants to see this happen and the funding is going to be there for community colleges and they got to get on board to create--to take away these obstacles for community college students to smoothly transfer and also transfer with just the classes that they need, not the classes that they are required to take. There are a number of people that when you go to your community at Cal State, you're gonna have to take multiple classes over again because certain classes we thought transferred might not. And so that's a sign of hope and I know a lot of people here have lobbied for that. The--there are some--we had our first examination of setting up on behalf of the faculty approving a system of prerequisites so that in fact we can enforce a certain--we could find ways that prerequisites can be required for a variety of classes where they're not able to in the past that the faculty can determine the content needs that would lead into a prerequisite as opposed to adjust the data that then actually incentivizes faculty to fail students instead of finding the classes that are required that will actually help students succeed. So I think the faculty will be very involved with that. But a legislative proposal that is of concern though is that--and we're gonna talk to our Senator Lou about this that for funding and encouraging class completion, Senator Lou has a bill before the legislature that's going through that will require funding based on average daily attendance not only taken at the third week but on course completion. And the faculty are very concerned and the system is very concerned because what it might do is penal--force a faculty to not fail a student who might need to--might not be doing so well because they haven't done the records because it will be a financial penalty to the district if students don't complete the classes. And so they're working that way through the legislation is widely concerned on that. I don't know if people know of a PCC alum named Diego James Navarro, Diego Navarro. He made a presentation. He's got a students success program that he presented called the academy for college excellence. And he went to PCC and he's developed a co--he works with [inaudible] quite a bit and has developed a program that was showcased as a hallmark program for student success especially for basic skill students. And then I chimed in about a lot of our programs that are of similar nature here at PCC and we talked about how those programs can be spotlighted and used for models for up and down the state. >> And then the last thing that we talked about was the art report. So I--and that was just issued and we're--I'm looking forward to the results from PCC that gives us a lot of trends that statewide that student's success is indeed growing and I didn't see the PCC numbers but I'm looking for to hearing about how we did on course completions and basic skills attainment and things like that. So that's my report from the board of governors. Three quick items, the Community College League of California concluded its trustees' conference. I'm very proud to announce and the college announced it already. But our own Dr. Jeannette Mann is elected the first vice president for the Community College League of California. She couldn't be with us today. She's still recovering from her surgery but asked that I announce that to everybody and we're very proud of her and we have tremendous representation and leadership in her--her role there on the Community College League. I was pleased to attend one good--she has this representation on communicating the message of budget cuts and lean times and one had the trustees and college presidents. Everybody's spellbound as they talked about strategies for communicating the challenges of budgets. At the--on Tuesday night I was at the annual meeting of the West Pasadena Residents' Association. I only say that because David McCabe and his work providing tutors to the San Rafael School was highlighted as a tremendous community engagement supported by PCC. And I was proud to have David's--get a shout out at that meeting that they and the mayor and the city council members and others represented. And finally, Ms. Brown, Mr. Thomson, I attended a fund--a benefit for the mentoring programs for youth development out of Muir High School that honored Congressman Adam Schiff and Bev Tate [phonetic] is on the board of that organization and it was a really positive program that celebrated incredible work being done to help African-American young men who are enrolled at Muir High School attain their goals of getting an education and going on to the college. That concludes my report. >> Thank you. Trustee Martin. >> I have nothing to report except that a week from today we have a campus ad hoc budget committee and I'm not gonna be able to attend and I believe Dr. Mann may have some difficulty. So, I would ask if there is another board member 2:30 a week from today available to represent the board on that meeting. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> I'll follow up, I'll follow up. >> Okay. >> And I see there's very fulsome meeting information on the website on all those meetings too, which is great. Trustee Fellow. >> Nothing this evening. >> Trustee Brown. >> I have a couple things. On April 24th--sorry, excuse me on my voice. I'm a little sick. The 24th, I attended the [inaudible] Latina event which was really outstanding. We've had approximately over 1500 young women and I was very happy that it was done here. I wanna commend Ms. [inaudible] for helping and cor--helping bring this to Pasadena City College. The conference was very, you know, enlightening. What was encouraging was to see all of these young girls ready to absorb what the program had for them. It is just beautiful and I really would like to see this go on not only for the Latino females but I would like to see that if we could do something for our male. And for African-American, so it's a good thing because it's an opportunity for young women to be empowered for success. They see role models and when you share your life story and at that age it's just something that you wanna do and you wanna achieve. So I applaud them for that. That was beautiful. On April the 30th, I attended the trustee conference in Long Beach which was very, very enriching for me. I've got the opportunity to meet a lot of other fellow trustees engage in dialogues regarding what their schools are doing to, you know, to deal with the issues that we have as far as budget and how they're coping with that accreditation process which is a hot topic for everybody, and how they're transitioning to greener campus. Those are the things that were interest--of interest to me. There were some outstanding workshops and the ones that I chose to attend were the one that I could see also engaging in a conversation eventually. And this was on sustainable environment financing on campus solar electric and partnership for economic growth. So they had several workshops and they sort of encouraged us to have that dialog other schools because sooner or later we will have the dialog. On May 3rd, I attended my first task force 3 meeting and for accreditation and we had a good--we were focusing on the accreditation standard number 4. And we had a good discussion. We're looking at ways to address the issues for the issues and recommendations of the commission, and we will get back to you as we resolve and answer all what we need to do. And that's my report. >> Thank you for all your all service there. Then Trustee Abadia >> Yeah. I just have two points. One of them is a--is I guess, well, an update in socio students. The socio students have decided to apply for a Pepsi-Cola grant. It's 5,000 dollar grant. Jason and Douglas there wrote to us and the we'll most likely be putting those funds towards a geology or biology field trip for PCC students so we will see where that goes. And two Saturdays ago or two weeks ago, the president search committee which we chose on, we met, we interviewed candidates and we spent Friday and Saturday the whole day, agonizing days, interviewing. And I'll show you we have some very formidable candidates to come, so there you go. >> Terrific, thank you, thank you. Mr. Tsay. >> I'll save my reports for item H. but I do you have a couple of quick introductions I'd like to make. Would the forensics team, PCC forensics team please stand up. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Oh yeah, there's-- [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Yeah sure. Sure. That'd be good. >> Yes, I'm sorry. I know it's-- >> These are the folks we hear about on the radio all the time, right? >> I know I'm [inaudible]. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> I'm sorry to [inaudible] a lit bit earlier but I'm Stephanie Fleming and this is instructor Josh Fleming and we're here for two reasons. We represent the speech and debate team, the forensics program here at Pasadena City College and we just wanted to take an opportunity, one, to thank the college and the board for your continued support for our particular program. We thank you very much. And, two, to take this opportunity to brag about some of our fabulous students here at Pasadena City College. The members of the speech team that are here this evening, if you could just stand for a second. All the students that you see standing here have represented Pasadena City College in our many regional, state, and national speech and debate competitions, and we just returned from our national program. And just to give to you a couple of quick highlights, out of over 50 programs at the state competition, we finish 4rth and we had numerous state champions. And also at our national competition where there were 66 other colleges competing, we finished 7th overall and we finished--we took gold in our own division and we had 8 national champions this year, and so we would just like to share that with you. And again, thank you so much for your continued support and thank you very much for letting us present our students that I'm sure we're all very, very proud of. Thank you. [ Applause ] >> I think Stephanie is being rather modest because we would like to congratulate her who was--because she was presented the 2010 Phi Rho Pi service award, and congratulations to you and to the team. >> Thank you, thank you very much. [ Applause ] >> And the second introduction I would like to make is members of the associate student board, associate students lobby committee and members thereof, if you guys will please stand up as well just to be recognized. [ Applause ] >> That would be all. >> And thank you all for being here in our apologies for pushing the time out a little later than we had originally anticipated, so thanks for your flexibility. Mr. Lindemann? >> We have the classified days which was a very good success. Dr. Sugimoto up in her fishing gear to make sure that we could get everything taken care of. [Laughter] But I also like thank Dr. Ben Phelps [phonetic], Bob Miller, Crystal Kolross, Lyle Engeldinger--Engeldinger. I don't know if I pronounced that [inaudible]. [ Laughter ] >> We know who you're referring. >> Anyway, that over there. Thank you. [ Laughter ] >> Sarah Flores and Holly Stewart [phonetic] from the retirees for [inaudible] presenting during classified days. It was a greet meeting. I'd also like to remind everyone that our next meeting is the 19th, that would be at CEC and our general meeting would be on the 20th from 2 to 3:30 in the president's conference room where we will award the scholarship award. Thank you very much. >> Dr. Bickley. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Excuse me. Last board meeting I was not here. I was in Lake Tahoe on vacation and we did not have a representative. I went down a list of 4, 5 names try to get somebody, but everybody was doing something, you know, on vacation. So I said, well, if I couldn't find an officer, I better not push this, okay? So, anyway, tonight I'd like to report on a number of items. We had a very successful presentation on May 4rth Tuesday of this week. Richard Kuller an adjunct faculty member gave a presentation of let's say an ensemble production that he worked on specifically for this production. He wowed us and this is the board of trustees and the senate faculty lecture performance award. He was the winner last year and he did his performance this year and it was quite a success. I'd like to let you know that the senate is in the--I should let you know if you haven't already figured out, the senates from last--not senates, the nanoseconds from--that were passed out at the last meeting had the results of our senate election. I chose not to run for reelection and Edward Martinez, the vice president currently will be the new senate president next year. Now, unlike my three predecessors, including our student colleague over here Ellen Ligons, they stayed 4 years the maximum limits but for health reasons and just because I wanted to kind of pace my self as I approach retirement, I decided to step down and we have a very worthy new senate president who's done a lot of work and has presented to you previously. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> And Ellen points out the first Latino president of our Academic Senate. One final point, Edward--Mr. Martinez and I have been discussing making an all out effort to recruit senate leadership to take more active role in shared governance processes. This includes participating on the senate and senate committees, the curriculum and instruction committee. We hope to see it in place soon. The institutional effectiveness committee, we are required under accreditation guidelines to beat up the proficiency level with respect to the assessment and use of an assessment data with respect to SLO. So we really are going to make an effort to get more faculty involved. We're thinking in terms of possibly giving some kind of incentives. I know I think we joked at one meeting here that maybe monitoring incentives might be helpful. Obviously, we won't go that route but we will try to give some kind of a continuing ed--education credits towards advancement in rank or come up with something creative perhaps to stimulate new blood and a greater participation of the faculty. Thank you. >> Great. Well, we're looking forward to working further with Ed Martinez then. >> Okay. I'll tell him. >> Dean Ligons. >> Yes, I have one short announcement. Please save the date June 17th at 7:30 a.m. we will hold our annual management association retirees breakfast at Brookside. I guess you think all we do is have breakfast. And tomorrow-- [ Simultaneous Talking ] [ Laughter ] >> Is a very big breakfast and while this has nothing to do with the management association, I do want you to know that our president, Dr. Sugimoto will be the keynote speaker for the annual CTE breakfast which is tomorrow morning at Altadena. And even if you haven't responded, feel free to come. You're welcome. >> Thank you very much. And Trustee Thomson. >> Thank you. Three quick things. One is I attended the meeting of the executive committee of the PCC Foundation recently and--or I guess not really the executive committee but a meeting of members of the foundation, the executive committee itself and I think it's-- >> Okay, they say this. Yeah. >> Just wanna double check with my boss over here. [ Laughter ] >> The foundation has approve and it's going ahead with recruiting for an interim person to handle external relations to allow Elaine Chapman after three wonderful long, long years of doing double duty and maybe triple duty with different assignments in the college to go back to at least being eliminated from one of those responsibilities. And so that's going forward and they put together with the help of Morris and Berger, the--an outside consulting firm, a job description and they're gonna go out and try that and see how that functions and then we'll address the issue of a permanent person and then later on after we have a president in place. As Dr. Bickley said, an award was given on behalf of both the board of trustees and the academic senate to Richard Kuller this past Tuesday. I think that Dr. Bickley didn't quite talk up loudly and profusely enough about the quality of the performance. It was outstanding, it was a fabulous performance. You know, what talent we have here at this college and we all ought to be very, very proud of that. It was just a wonderful hour of being entertained by students and Mr. Kuller and his team, so that was fabulous. Finally, I went to an open house of the Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative on Foothill Boulevard held on Monday of this week. Dr. Sugimoto is there as was Bob Miller and this again is something that we can take great pride in because Dr. Wendy Johnston has been so key in creating grant opportunities, getting money, getting a place, a space for startup companies to go and begin their work and it's just a great testimony to the quality again of the people we have here at PCC and the resource that we have and so we should be very pleased, very proud of that as well. >> Perfect. Thank you. President Sugimoto. >> Thank you very much Dr. Bradbury-Huang. And-- [ Inaudible Remark ] >> It's really nice that everyone else has spoken to some of my topics, so we will skip those. And I'm sure Dr. Hales if he were here right now, he would enjoy this announcement. PCC's women's badminton team went to the wire in capturing the college's first Southern California regional championship in this sport by defeating San Diego City College 12-9 at our own Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium, so congratulations to our women's badminton team. And I told him that earlier. [ Applause ] >> I also wanted to let you know that at the Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative, you know, certainly Mr. Thomson was there, Trustee Thomson. I know that Dr. Douglas and Glenna Watterson were there and Dr. [inaudible] and certainly Wendie Johnston was there and it was--it was a wonderful evening. And I appreciated all the support for Wendie from the college has a wonderful evening, and the mayor was there, certainly all of the other board members were present at that evening. Also announcement, the Foundation Mini-Grants and Grants reception will be at 5 pm in the Circadian on--tomorrow, excuse me, on May 7th. And following that in 8 o'clock in Harbeson Hall is our composer in resident Morten Lauridsen, so hopefully all of you will be in attendance. On Thursday, May 20th, we will have our general scholarship awards and if David LeClair still here he knows about this, reception at 6 o'clock here in Creveling Lounge. Friday, May 21st and in your board packet you do have an invitation to the OMD or Omicron Mu Delta tapping and reunion. We have some individuals who are tapped back in 1945, I believe, who have responded positively with their RSVP. So if you are available at 6 p.m. on the 21st, it would be wonderful for you to meet some of these individuals. Many of them are very successful and it would be very nice for them to see our board members. And last but not least and I know Brian's been very modest about this but he just heard from UC Berkeley and he has been admitted for the fall. >> Right. [ Applause ] >> That concludes my report. Thank you very much. >> Congratulations, Mr. Abadia. I also think you wanna make another introduction, right? >> Yeah, I am--I had a couple introductions that I was gonna--I plan on making. First and foremost, I would like to say--I would like to ask Paimon to stand up. Paimon is a very active student here on campus. He is the president of CLAVE. He is a president's ambassador and he's member of AGS. And the--I thought it would be great for him to come by and check out the meeting, so there's Paimon. Right next to him I would like to introduce Moazzam Saleem. He's in the lobby committee and the finance committee. He's also a member of AGS. And in this side of Paimon is Marcus. This is Marcus Valdez [phonetic]. He is the former president of CLAVE as well as an AGS member. And on this side of--or actually also all of you guys know Michael Lance. I know he's very modest about this but he just found out today, he's accepted to the University of Chicago. >> Wow. [ Applause ] [ Inaudible Remarks ] >> And that would be all. >> It's fantastic. I'm very excited. >> You got to be smart to go to Chicago. [ Laughter ] >> So let's a--let's continue with approval of the minutes. May I have motion to approve? >> So moved. >> This is for--we can do them both together or meeting number 9. Then let's do meeting number 9 and 10 together. >> So moved and she seconded. [ Inaudible Remarks ] >> I don't see any hands raised. >> Oh, I better [inaudible] stay a brief typo one on page 2 for congress--Dr. Fellow's report. Congressman Dreier's name is just misspelled. It's D-R-E-I-E-R. >> Very good. All those in favor of approving the minutes-- >> I'm sorry. One question if I can find it, on the [inaudible] side in 154-B-- [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Okay, right. Sorry. Again, I'm sorry. >> And one other. >> Okay. >> I just wanna make clear, on page 5, the motion about the Osher grant. I just wanted to clarify the language and it--and that the motion was to--of the 6 members present to endorse and support the Osher Challenge Grant, endorse and support PC's--PCC's efforts to meet the Osher Challenge Grant goal. I just wanna make it clear that not only are we improving it but we're actually supporting PCC's efforts toward it. >> Got it. Okay, with those minor agenda, let's vote those in favor of approving the minutes say aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Any nays or abstentions, the minutes are unanimously approved. Approval of consent items. >> Motion to approve. >> We have a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. And you had a-- >> I have a question as to 154-B, there is an item on North Valley Biotechnology Center American River College 12,000 dollars to assist the Southern California Biotechnology Hub completing the objectives of the grant. Could someone just briefly explain what that means? What that is? >> Dr. Sugimoto, we're moving with more [inaudible] tonight than usual but I guess that's okay, right? [ Inaudible Remark ] >> And actually since this is the biotechnology hub grant, may I ask Dr. Jacobs if she might be able to address this particular question. >> Okay. Actually the hub is being handled--you want to know actually what the hub is for, what is happening. I know it says North Valley Biotech Center American River. And what they will be doing will be working with the afar helping the Southern California biotech center. >> And how does PCC fit into this? >> We--we're just the--a physical agent. So, a lot of activities go on but we're just the physical agent, that's all. >> Thank you. >> Yes. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> So, I'm gonna have two items, one is 121-P and 154-B. >> 121-P, 154-B. Let's do it. Well, that was 154-B-- >> I have another item on that, another-- >> The other one? >> Alright. >> Okay. So let's--let's come back then. Did I see Trustee Fellow? Let's see another hand here. >> No, I'm-- >> No, okay. Well, let's deal with those then. >> Let's go back to 154-B if we may? >> Yeah, I'm gonna ask for a separate vote on the contract with Royce Carlton? >> Oh, okay. >> And I just--I think it's great to bring in outside speakers. I think the fees are excessive for a one day visit for a speaker, especially a locally based speaker. So I'm gonna vote against that. >> Okay. So when we vote on the minutes, we're going to pull this particular item for a separate vote. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> I have a question. >> What is the item? >> It's 14S. >> 14S. Okay. Let's take care of 121-P then. >> Okay. >> This is employment change of status. >> I just, you know, we've saluted in a number of faculty for their tremendous and lengthy service to the district. I don't recall ever seeing one who's served a half century [laughter] at the district and so I wanted to make sure we acknowledge that and then hear a little about this individual so that we now--we can acknowledge this exceptional services to the district. >> Well, two things, Jay Hern is in our speech and communications department in the performance--performing and communication studies area. He is the longest employed faculty member who has been employed. We do have some others who've been here longer but he certainly has put in the most amount of time with us, 49 years is a very long time. >> Yeah, considering the college is about 80 years or 90 years old. >> Yeah, more than half the time the college has been in existence. >> So, please convey our appreciation and admiration for this extraordinary tenure. >> For his longevity. We will do that. >> Fantastic. >> 14-S, Trustee Brown. >> Yeah, I just needed to understand how the students, I think this is for high school students, to be involved into I guess a trip for--in Northern California. I just would like to know how do students get involved in this? >> In Upward Bound? >> Yes. How do they qualify to be in this program? >> And Stuart is kind of looking, so maybe I should answer this question [inaudible]-- >> I think the qualifications went through me. >> Right. Do you wanna answer this or you want me to take it? >> Well, I can add a little bit answer to it but then the qualifications I don't know off the top of my head. >> I do know those. >> But basically it is a federal program that is to help high school students have experiences they normally wouldn't have access to that helps them move on to college, and part of that is taking them to colleges that they could start targeting to transfer to. I don't happen to know off the top of my head the criteria. >> The qualifications for the students are usually and mostly first generation college students, usually ones who show great potential but may not be showing that in high school. Also, there's a criteria that if they have a disability of sorts that that can also be used, they have to meet the federal poverty guidelines for their families in order for them to qualify to be in the program. >> So that all schools are aware of these programs and they are able to--I just need to know the process. >> When the TRIO--when we go after a TRIO Grant, we have to explain and it is a continuation grant. We have to show that the schools that are involved meet other criteria in terms of their test scores then what the programs do is they do outreach to those high schools to make sure that their students have the information about the programs and then they apply. And once they apply, we also do interviews of the students with their families to ensure that there is support from the family members in the student's involvement. Students are really involved 'cause they have to give not only time after their school in high school but also weekends. This is part of the residential program that occurs during the summer. So once they're done with the residential program which is usually on a university campus and they stay in the dorms, they then go on usually a tour of campuses, whether it's Northern or Southern California to visit campuses and also to get experiences they wouldn't have. >> Okay, so I'm pretty familiar with the processes, how to get to the school, to the campuses. What I'm trying to understand is do--or every--are--okay, let's all schools-- >> No. >> are informed of this? >> No. >> So that's what I wanna know. >> There are particular schools that have to meet certain test guidelines in order for us to submit the application to have them involved. I don't know if-- [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Well, yeah, Cathy is not here. Scott used to--Dr. [inaudible] was one of our Upward Bound individuals before who was the director. I don't know if that might help to have--you come forward to the lectern. >> Yeah, hopefully I can clarify well. >> Thanks. >> Just basically a--the classic Upward Bound is a program that's putting the request. They service Pasadena Blair, Muir and the Royal [phonetic] High Schools. So they funded for 65 students that low income first generation. The program goes out and recruits, so basically they're housed here at PCC, the staff, and they do recruitment to the high schools. They work with high school counselors and administration and setting up classroom presentations, soliciting applications for those students, so those are the schools that are funded to be serviced through our program here at PCC. There're other programs in our district. Cal State LA has Upward Bound programs, talent search programs as well, which are under the Federal TRIO Program umbrella. So there are different higher education institutions at the target high schools and Pasadena City College is one of those servicing the four target schools per the grant. And it's a 4 to 5 year cycle for the grant cycle, so that we have to meet criteria to make sure students are graduating, going to college, so they can be refunded. So that's just I guess an overview of the program and the schools that are targeted. >> Thank you. [ Applause ] [ Laughter ] [ Inaudible Remark ] >> A popular program. Are we ready to vote on consent items? >> We're gonna pull one for separate vote. >> Pulling that one and those--yeah, pulling that one, that we'll come to. So all those in favor of approving the consent items, signal with an aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Any nos or abstentions? So consent items except for what was it, 154-- >> The contract with Royce Carlton. >> half of 154-B. >> Okay, so I'm going to call for a separate vote. This is around providing booking services for guest speaker Jamaica Kincaid for Borders of Diversity Conference which has already--no, will happen on the 25th in the amount of 8000. Do wanna hear a word on that? That's kind of a middling range, a little bit more than usual? >> Well, my--and again I used as a basis our artists and residents program which I think the honorarium was 7500 dollars for an individual spend a week on campus working with multiple classes and multiple students and that actually having a number of public presentations at the end, and so that's why 8000 for one day visit seems high to me. That's my concern. >> President Sugimoto? >> I don't know if you would like anybody to speak to that or-- >> I--no, I just--I just-- >> I would like to. I would like to hear. Do you have someone? >> Beverly, are you willing? Dean [inaudible] is part of the diversity--culture diversity initiative and so she's brought this presenter, this speaker to us. >> Yeah I'm a part of the three groups that are bringing Jamaica Kincaid who's a nationally known writer. We do teach her in our classes. I kind of understand your argument that she's not here for the week but I really do believe that that--that's not a particularly high price when we bought--brought in others speakers. Cornel West, you know, for one night, one day for close to 15,000 if not more. And I honestly think that she's worth it. The student that a diversity--the Borders of Diversity Student Conference is really fabulous. You have students who come in who make paper presentations just like 4-year colleges. And they are able to hear someone who is not only--only a nationally known writer but also who is teaching I think at the local school as a lecturer at Claremont Colleges. I think she's worth it. >> Is it fair to say that people have an asking price? So we really negotiated that much. >> Yes, right. >> And she is very well known. >> Yes. >> It's a middling range. >> Yes, yes. >> Bill Clinton is at 100,000 dollars. [ Laughter ] >> That's just-- >> 2 hours. [ Simultaneous Talking ] >> Alright, so let's--thank you very much. >> And I should say I'm an admirer of Jamaica Kincaid's. I used to work as the assistant vice president of Claremont McKenna College and now--and she's based locally and she's very distinguished, very well respected author. >> You just wish she'd give us a cut, right? >> Yeah, exactly. [ Laughter ] >> That's a worthy thing. Alright, let's--let's vote on this. Those in favor of approving the content item-- >> We need a motion and a second on that. >> As-- >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Please signal with an aye, those ready to consent here. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> And those against? >> No. >> No. >> So, two nos and 1, 2, 3, 4 ayes, the motion carries. >> Thank you. [ Noise ] >> So this is item, item G 4630, policy 4630, student service fund presentation and discussion with possible action. I also have 1, 2, 3, 4 folks who wish to speak to this. So let me invite you to the podium in the following order. Let's start with Mary Ann Laun followed by Jimmy Recinos, Glenna Watterson and Jamie Hammond. And the usual rules apply. We'd invite you to speak for no longer than for 5 minutes. Thank you. Welcome. >> Good evening. I'm Mary Ann Laun. I'm the Dean of Library Services and I'd like to lend my support for the increase in the student activity fee which can be tied to the student service fund. Since 1991, the student service fund has funded a highly successful and very heavily used textbook collection for students. And although this is not a traditional collection that college libraries build, it's proven to be highly valued by our students and heavily used. We originally set it up for emergency or occasional use but we found the collection heavily used by all students, not just those who have financial hardships but those who are unable to purchase textbooks for a variety of reasons. And I just brought three examples to show you. This is the textbook for the logic class. We purchased it in 2008. We just went to a self serve textbook collection this year, so I have data from 2008 and 2009 and it circulated almost 1000 times. If you think that is a lot, the DOS Mundos Spanish textbook, we purchased it in late 2006, two copies and the manuals and it circulated almost 3700 times. And the last one is the pre-calculus book. I don't know how anyone can learn calculus with their own textbook but the reality is students come in, they use these textbooks heavily and this one was purchased in late 2006. So, for 2007, '08 and half of 2009 4000 times, really just phenomenal use. As you can imagine, the wear and tear on these books is significant as well, so often when we get the funding from the students service fund, we're using it to replace worn--our calculus book falls apart at the end of the semester, but also to update to new editions. We now are--we kind of rethought how were going to purchase textbooks we use, so we usually purchase them on demand. But now we look at books that are very expensive, so our average book that we had is [inaudible] is about 88 dollars and we also are looking at--we look at the number of sections, the number students, and the--our people at the circulation desk really know what's going to be used. So, I think this is one example about how, of how the student service fund has really benefited a lot of students and I think the increase in the student activity fee that goes into this fund will continue to hopefully fund these text books for students. [ Applause ] >> Is Jimmy still here? [ Pause ] >> Hi everyone. As stated, my name is Jimmy Recinos. I'm a member of the lobby committee here at school and I just wanted to make some comments and perhaps ask some questions about item G. When I saw it, when I saw the initial proposition of a--of an increase in student funds, we were actually discussing it in one of my classes and I had an idea that--I was under the notion that 10 dollars was gonna be added to ASP representation fees. After discussing this with some of the students who have proposed this, I saw that it's a separate fee. Nonetheless, if I was a student at--if I was a student enrolling in the fall semester of 2010 and I saw an extra 10 dollars, I'd be pretty curious about where the 10 dollars are going. So, just in regards to when the associate student body proposes the initiative, I would just ask that a misconception such as this one be clarified just so that students here, students who may not be familiar with the 10-dollar increase can be further enlightened as in the same fashion that I was regarding what the 10 dollars are for, just so that people understand. I'd also suggest maybe a forum or some form of broad interaction with the students at PCC just so that people don't get the wrong idea, just so that people could see. But nonetheless, I [inaudible] they ask for the student activity fee, I think it's--I think it's got some good things and that's about it [ Applause ] >> Good evening. Thank you for hearing me. I'm Glenna Watterson, I work in the Natural Sciences Division and I am here tonight because I am very passionate about this policy that the students have brought to the board of trustees for another look. I have sat on the student service fund committee for the past 17 years and I can tell you that I am impressed each year by the student's commitment and initiatives toward their clubs, their education and their institution. This fund not only covers mainstay activities such as library books, athletic dues, membership fees and commencement. It covers a plethora of extracurricular activities on and off campus. These opportunities are sometimes as influential as a good instructor because being part of something bigger than themselves, whether it be in sports, club activities or field trip experiences, they learn. Learning to be part of a team, working on projects and events stimulates their growth and helps them to maximize their understanding of the real world. I have been so fortunate to actually observe the transformation of these students who are involved in these activities. I am proud of the students who are bringing this forward tonight. Again, they've done their home work and they deserve a chance to see their work come to fruition. Plus, always taking every students need into consideration, the opt-out option is there for those who feel they cannot afford it or for some other unknown reason that they have that they do not wanna participate. I truly hope the board can see this as I do and then commit to this policy that the students need. Thank you. [ Applause ] >> Hello, hello. My name is Jamie Hammond and I hold a few titles on this campus, but today I wanna speak to you as a student, one who finds the student activity fee to be an issue of great importance. I have spoken to many students on this campus in regards to this fee and recently I've heard the same response over and over again. The students agree that they would like to see an increase in the amount of services available to them. Although an increase in fees can be straining for some students, those that I have spoken to are willing to endure that strain for something that will go back to them and other students like them. And as some of you know, before I was a Lancer I was a Ram at City College of San Francisco, and there I willingly paid the student activity fee three times for three semesters I was there. And I paid that with the full knowledge that my money was going to programs and services that either I or another student can enjoy. The activity fee there funds a variety of diverse programs for their diverse student population. Services like these, in addition to the possibility of longer library hours, more tutors and increase sustainability efforts are essential to student life on the PCC campus. Most importantly, the student activity fee and its [inaudible] benefits provide a framework for student involvement, and I should know because it was at CCSI in the women's research center that led me to the organizations that I became involved in there. And if it wasn't for the program and the student activity fee that powered it, I probably wouldn't be speaking to you from this podium today. So I urge you to consider the student activity fee and what it can do for the students. After all, it directly assists in what we strive for most here at PCC and that's student success. Thank you >> Thank you. [ Applause ] >> So now for the presentation. Shall I turn it over to you, Dr. Sugimoto? >> It's my pleasure to introduce Allen Tsay and also Michael Lance, and Allen as our AS president and Michael Lance as our lobby committee chair and our VP of student justice. >> Good evening. Thank you, Board of Trustees, members of the audience, shared governance groups and students. I'm here to present today a student activity fee that will supplement the student services fund. Now, to give you some brief history and to tell you about our revenue sources, the student services fund was set up to support campus co-curricular activities and events that directly benefit students. Funds are dispersed through a community that includes faculty, management, classified and most all students. The student services fund is funded through bookstore and food service revenues. About 80 percent in their profits from the bookstore goes to the student services fund to support co-curricular programs and 60 percent from food services. And just some background information, in 1985 to 1989 there was an 8-dollar student benefit fee which was discontinued. Now these are some of the recipients for the student services fund. Currently you can see quite a few. I don't bother to name all of them, but transfer and degree services gets a benefit, textbooks and [inaudible] library, our forensics team that was presented today, as well as many other clubs and activities, as well as programs receive direct benefits. Next, the student services fund budget. The budget allocations for the fiscal year of 2009 and 2010 was 348,384 dollars. Unfortunately the funding request for the fiscal year amounted to about 700 to 800,000 dollars. Gathering from this, there is a clear need to increase the student services fund. >> Just to expand on the student service fund and the student activity fee, I'd like to remind the board that this is something that the AS has been working on for 2 years now and we just wanted to talk about the potential as well as some of the hard data that supports our request for this activity fee. First of all, you see on the presentation we have potential to support and expand the following programs. Right here you see mentioned the extended library hours, as well as textbooks and materials for learning labs and the library. As Ms. Laun mentioned, we do support programs like that in the library. We see also here health and nursing program, the academic fieldtrip programs, the cross-cultural awareness activities and events, sustainability efforts on campus, as well as the Metro I-Pass program. So these are all programs that can benefit from the activity fee. The first set of data, the first that we have to present is basically a poll that was conducted by last year's Associated Students. With this polling data, we asked about approximately 800 students what they though of the student activity fee and 2/3 said that they would support the student activity fee. Moving forward towards this year, we had another survey conducted by our institutional research and planning office with Ms. Crystal Kolross and of 1425 students survey, we had approximately 62 percent or 883 students answer in favor of this activity fee and approximately 38 against. Then we also conducted a poll and some comparisons to local community colleges. First we have some similar campuses to ourselves in terms of being large single district community colleges. Citrus College has a 16-dollar student activity fee. Glendale Community College has a 12-dollar student activity fee. Mount Antonio City College has an 11-dollar student activity fee and finally, Santa Monica City College has a 19-dollar activity fee and they actually recently called us. They're looking to increase their activity fee to 20 dollars. So going forward from just a few of these schools that are very similar to ourselves. We have a more comprehensive survey of community college across the state and we surveyed 28 community colleges and 25 of them have a student activity fee of varying amounts. Right here you can see on the vertical axis we have the amount of the student activity fee and the horizontal axis is the corresponding community college name. So, I'll just give you guys a moment to look at that and see some of the other colleges that have implemented a fee like this. Okay, with that, we also had one more thing to mention before we say thank you. I'm sorry, I got a little bit ahead of myself but we do also have endorsements from the shared governance on campus. We brought this as requested last year by the Board of Trustees to the College Coordinating Council who voted to support us. I'd like to thank Dean Ligons for her motion to support the program and with that, we'd like to know if there are any questions or such on the program. >> Well, I have a question. I definitely will support it but I am looking at this policy that I have here and I'm not sure is this the real policy because the first page is good but the other ones are marked off. Is-- >> What happens for the board is the white page is the actual policy. So the first page, that is the recommendation or the background information, then you have the policy. The yellow pages are the procedures, so the board when they approve a policy, they approve the policy, not the procedures. I will also say because the amount of the activity fees embedded in the procedures, the board has the responsibility for approving any student fee, whether it's an increase or decrease or the authorization to start charging fees. So, even though it's embedded in the procedure, if that fee were to be addressed to be increased, it would have to come back to the board. That is part of the student fee requirements for student fees. So, the board is approving the policy but we always bring the procedure. All the cross-outs are because--and Stuart maybe you can explain that because I know we've had this policy in place since 19-- >> 72. >> 72. And as I think Allen mentioned, in 1972 we had a student activity fee and actually it's still in place but the charge of the--I believe at that time was 8 dollars was abandoned. So, perhaps I can ask Dr. Wilcox to explain them more. >> The reason I think what you're referring to is why it look so messy with all these cross-outs. Well that's because in using the yellow pages, the procedures example, those were developed in 1985. The cross-out show what's being deleted from that 1985 procedure and a little bar at the left side will show if there's something being added. So it's just a way to track any changes, so you can see what it was versus what it's becoming. >> Thanks. Okay. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Well, I think the similar question has been answered. One thing I would suggest in the future for all of us is that we have reports like this, it'd be nice to have something in the very beginning telling us what it is you want us to do. >> Well, it's the general item says discussion of possible action. I was hoping that the board would make a motion to approve of the fee and have that passed. >> I move to approve the policy. >> Second. >> I'd like to, I just got--I'm very impressed by this and I'm surprised you didn't do it sooner. I'm surprised you don't even--you have--you should have a lab fee and part of this should go into this. But the days of the state putting more and more money into community colleges and to the state university and UC system are over with, especially for the next 5 years there just isn't the money. And this is--you're gonna have to do this. As you said, there's--you're not gonna have anything, so I think it's very smart. Thank you. >> Okay, Trustee Martin, Trustee Baum. >> Well, I'm gonna repeat what I said when this has come up before. First, my compliments to the students, I actually do believe they do fabulous job with the money they receive. I have tremendous respect for our student leadership who year after year have demonstrated tremendous maturity, tremendous ability in this area. I'm opposed to the fee and I think in particular this is a really difficult time to be raising a fee or a tax on students. Everything in life seems to be going up. Government seems to be asking for higher sales taxes and higher every other way. And so, I appreciate the desire of the students to do more for our students but this fee cuts across 30,000 individuals that come here, some may only take one class, some may only take one class at a remote site. And so, I can't support--as much as I appreciate the good work you're doing with the money you have, I can't support an additional tax on students especially at this difficult time. >> Trustee Brown. >> I had a couple of questions. First off, I wanted to make it clear. So it's 10 dollars per semester because the--does that include so the--when you see Citrus or Glendale, is that 16 dollars or 12 dollars a semester? >> That's correct. >> So that--and it's for any student who's enrolled in one class? >> That's correct. >> So there's a 26-dollar per unit fee plus we have some additional fees and then this would be added on, on top of that. And you're saying that Citrus and Glendale, they do 16 dollars a semester and ours would be 10 dollars, and that's interesting. I am sympathetic to Mr. Martin's point too and I have a similar point that I've said in the past and restated it. I don't approve of the way that we have hidden taxes on the bookstore expenses, the cafeteria expenses and other things like that. And so, I wanna see if I can get a friendly amendment though that if we approve this, it will be brought back to the board in a year because I don't want to hang it up right now but I do wanna see what the actual amount that was paid, how many students agreed to pay the fee, how much was raised and that if we can have at some point maybe have a corresponding elimination of the added expenses charged through the bookstore in vending and other enterprise programs as well, so that perhaps the money can be saved [inaudible] that we can hold down the costs of things at the bookstore and elsewhere. So I just am hoping that if we approve it, we will have a full accounting of the funds a year from now on all the sources of revenue for the student services fee and all the expenditures so that we can see how that was used and if there's any modification or tweaking that needs to be done. >> So you wanna think of this more as an experiment? >> I think so. >> Mr. Thomson. >> That's fine. I think what you're basically asking is that say after a year [inaudible] of a report on that. >> Correct. >> The fee and what it has been used for and accounting, etcetera, so I'll accept that as a [inaudible]. >> Yeah. And now it's saying that it's gonna be contingent on approval for the next year but that the board needs to be informed. For example the last meeting was the first time I'd actually seen from the bookstore the break out in how they use those funds for various purposes and the amount of money that's--the inconsistent funding that AS has gotten as a result of the way we manage funding, and there should be a more stable source of revenue. And then I just wanna say not only my hats off to you and you're the leadership this year. I do want to acknowledge Christina Javier and John Campo from last year and their team who did so much leg work as well and they brought that to us 'cause that was a tremendously--we've really had exceptional leadership from our Associated Students. >> Is that your hand, Trustee Brown? >> No. >> No, okay. Trustee Martin. >> Well, I was gonna comment actually not specifically to this but it seems to me that it would be a better presentation, and this isn't the student's issue, this is the administration, that if there is a part of this policy procedure that is technically policy, which obviously the amount of the fee is and perhaps even the percentage breakdown is, it would be better to include some of that on the white policy sheet that the board is approving and not on the yellow procedural sheets because it's my understanding that the administration could change the yellow procedural sheets from time to time if situations needed--arose needed it but obviously couldn't change the policy sheet. I think you did an excellent job at describing the situation and the students worked so long and hard on this. I certainly don't wanna stop the vote on a technicality like something like that but I'm just saying in the future it seemed--I always thought white was board, yellow was administration. White doesn't change unless the board changes it. Yellow might change sometime without board approval and if when you're bringing those back, you delineated it. That way I think it'd be more consistent. >> And the one thing I'd want to suggest is perhaps also asking for another friendly amendment. Maybe we delineate that in the white saying and the amount of the fee is subject to approval by the board. Is that--did that clarify or is that--? >> Well, I think she did a great job of clarifying it and we all know what we're voting on and it's a requirement by law that we approve this. So I don't want to [inaudible] the water here with this technicality but I think I wanted to use the case to say to the administration, I think you need to think in terms of the white are things you can never change, only the board changes. But the yellow is subject to change based on the administration, so that's the way I thought that was supposed to happen. But maybe that's another discussion for another time. >> Couple of question--couple of question, please. >> Yeah, I think so because--because fees come to us anyway, it does seem more like a technicality. So one friendly amendment will do us [inaudible]. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Yeah, that's fine. I just--you know, I--but--I know Dr. Phelps called for the question. One point of clarification, just like the--that we set the annual fees for out of state or international students, I expect that this will come back to the board for periodic approval when the fees are reviewed and set. >> Very good. So, all those in favor of approving the addition of the student fee currently in the amount of 10 dollars to come back in a year for a relatively close inspection, signal with an aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> All those against, signal with a no. >> No. >> Any abstentions? So the motion carries. [ Applause ] >> Thank you. [ Applause ] >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Welcome, gentlemen. Update from students' presentation and discussion. President Sugimoto. >> Yes, thank you Dr. Bradbury-Huang. Item H which is a presentation on what the students have done and their accomplishments for this past year. And, Dr. Wilcox, would you like to introduce this to the board? >> Actually I would be tossing it back to the president of the Associated Students, Mr. Tsay. >> I'd like to introduce Vice President for Student Services Erica Liang, as well as again Michael Lance to do this presentation. [ Noise ] >> Good evening, Board of Trustees. Thank you for letting us present this. >> So first we just wanted to start with a quick overview of some events that the Associated Students have been involved in or sponsored this semester and we have here a list. We start with the lobby committee trip to Washington DC, the march in March in Sacramento, the Pasadena Collegiate Field Tournament, the Metro I-Pass Student Services Awareness Day, Holiday Angels, and A Taste of the World Cultural Affair. We have a bit more descriptive slide for each of these, so I'll continue and start with lobby the committee Washington DC trip. You see here the lobby committee is pictured with our Congressman Adam Schiff. We were able to meet with him and talk with legislation that was directly related to students at community colleges. And if the lobby committee could please stand, the members that are here. We all attended this meeting. We were able to give a legislative report to each official we met with. Next we also attended a breakfast with Senator Dianne Feinstein. She held this constituent breakfast and talk to us about the state of affairs in California and we were able to also post some questions and give her a copy of our legislative report. Next we have the march in March which the lobby committee sponsored. The one dollar student representation fee helped to pay to send 50 students, Pasadena City College students to Lobby on behalf of community college funding. I have here a shirt for each of the board members. These are the shirts that the students are wearing in the picture. On the front we have Pasadena City College and on the back we have we're the gas that fills the economy. So, we'll be providing each of you with one of these shirts after the meeting. I'm proud to say that all of the good sizes were taken by the students [laughter] because we had so many but we'll give those to you after the meeting. This is a picture of the students participating in the march. A number of students from across the state came to voice their support. These are just some other pictures and we were of course in the courier and mentioned there. Next we had the Pasadena Collegiate Field Tournament, if Jason Herbert [phonetic] would like to come up and talk a little bit about this. Doctor Sugimoto makes me a hamburger and I'm sure Jason will tell you about that. [ Laughter ] >> And so pretty much about 30 students came down. We had the biggest group out of, you know, [inaudible]. And we played against Caltech, Art Center Design, Culinary School, also the Pacific Oaks College, just to name a few big schools. Caltech did win in the end but Allen did mention earlier, we are in for a prank. We have started an alliance with Caltech. We are meeting--me and Michael have met with Caltech's AS president and we are planning future events with Caltech students and also getting them involved with the Metro I-Pass. A couple of--if the Brian Abadia will ever admit to it as a failure, in one of the croquets, we actually lost because of him but [laughter] that's up for debate. >> That's very subtle, Jason. >> That's right. >> That's a--that, you know, you can always ask me about it in the [inaudible]. I'm sure he'll tell you the real truth. But a lot of fun was had by all. The spirit really, really did come out [inaudible]. >> It is something [inaudible] when you see Berkeley and not knowing which way to go. [ Laughter ] >> We decided to keep that quiet so we can go because maybe it's time for them to move on, you know, but we did--the students did a great job. There was a lot of passion, a lot of pride among the--our Lancers, even the mascot there I believe. The mascot is here. Monique, if you could stand up. She was in the costume for the entire time. [ Laughter ] >> What? >> Next slide >> Oh, next slide. Here we go. [Laughter] Sorry. There's a--Dr. Sugimoto, I don't know if you guys know this, but she's really, really, really aggressive when it comes to sports. [Laughter] And across you guys, you can see she's on the big screen. Me and Michael made the--made the little--the grill. Our [inaudible] was called the South Africa. And as soon as we needed somebody to click, she literally--me and Michael all of sudden were like, you know, bounce aside and Dr. Sugimoto is at the grill next to us. But a lot fun was had by all and we had the most students there so it was really--well, we came 2nd, so--but that's because of Brian pretty much. [ Laughter ] >> So the Intercollegiate Field Tournament was a huge success and the next thing we have to mention is the Metro I-Pass. We have right here pictured Mayor Bill Bogaard, Metro CEO Art Leahy, Dr. Sugimoto and Trustee Hilary Bradbury-Huang. They were all able to attend the event and speak to promote the Metro I-Pass. I'm happy to report that it's moving along very well. I'm assured by Mayor Bill Bogaard that Mr. Dock [phonetic] of Pasadena Arts is preparing to bring this before city council so that we can have them on for the fall semester. We also have a memorandum of understanding in the works with Foothill Transit as they're hoping to jump on as well for the fall. And then we are also working again with Metro. They're going to be investing in the campus with an illuminated map and hopefully a trip planning kiosk and we're also hoping that the student activity fee will now supplement this Pass program and help us to sustain it for many years to come. >> Alright. And during the semester, we had student service awareness day. It went really, really well. A lot of students participated. This is earlier in the day, so there are not as many people there, but there were a lot of students and it was a success. >> Okay. >> And Holiday Angels, this is a tradition that has been going on for a while now and it was this past Christmas, we had a Christmas celebration for our students in the Pass program and EOP&S and [inaudible]. So it went really well. There're more pictures. Alright, so Taste of the World, this was last fall and this is basically we had different cultural clubs on campus participate as well and then basically it will teach them a little bit about our culture throughout the world. Here're more pictures. And Earth Week Clothing Swap. This is the first time we're doing this. We did it in the fall as well and we did it again this year. Basically, students brought their clothes here and then they swap clothes and it's completely free and sustainable for our students. Okay, so we have about a month left but we still have a bunch of events, Welcome Week. Well, Welcome Week was this semester, Lancer games, homecoming, talent show, it's coming up. [Inaudible] success, it was this past Monday. It went on really well as well. And self defense day, economic debates, and relaxation week. This is the last week of school, and, yeah. Okay, future event. There's this--these are some more as well. Spring ball, it's coming up. PCC's Got Talent, [inaudible] Sustainability Living Week, Relaxation Week, Visibility Awareness Week, Sustainability Living Week, and UN World Environment Day. This is what we have for the rest of the year, so we're looking forward for this. And AS would like to thank you again for supporting our students. Thank you. [ Applause ] >> That's a lovely update. Thank you very much. We're gonna move forward to item I, Veteran's Presentation. Before doing so, I want to acknowledge that I have nine yellow cards to speak on this item. Our procedures, our protocols are such that any particular item can't last more than 30 minutes at the podium. And as we offer each speaker 5 minutes, you do the math, it's not a happy story. So what I would suggest is, you know, off the top of my head, it could be 3 minutes each, for example, or you might wish to, if you know each other, if you're a group, you might wish to convene and decide maybe just a few of you would wish to speak. So why don't I give you a minute to figure that out and then I'll invite to the podium Christopher Villatoro [phonetic] to start. >> Should we hear the presentation and then get the public comment or--? >> Well, we usually take public comments first, so what we might do is take half and half or something like that. [ Pause ] >> Now, tell us. May I also let the board know that at your desktop is a two-sided document that has information about data on the veterans there. This is Mr. Villatoro. >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. >> So let me just check with you. Is it a 3-minute or a 5-minute? >> Two veterans have dropped. We're gonna allow more time for our veterans to speak at this time. >> You still have too many. You're still gonna go over 30 minutes. So I-- >> We'll try to keep it short, ma'am. >> Okay. >> I'll keep track of the time. >> And I will cut it off at 30 minutes. Alright, go ahead. >> My name is Christopher Villatoro. I'm a, you know, I'm a student here at PCC. I just started this semester. I recently came here from Rio Hondo College. And I'm here to like let the board know, I see a big difference from the time I stepped on the grounds of PCC vice Rio Hondo and the veterans are taking a very active role here at PCC and I see that. After 8 years of military service in the [inaudible] war, at three combats on deployments to Iraq, I believe that, you know, these veterans have built up a camaraderie that is pretty close to what I've seen down in times of hardship as well as in peace time when we are preparing for a war. At this time, many students, you know, really have a hard time adjusting from the military life to civilian life, let alone, student life. It's very hard adjustment to make. Not many people are able to make it. And all I ask for the Board of Trustees do is acknowledge that we are here and we are coming. There are many more of us that are coming. And we need--we, as a college, and you go ahead and reach out, because if we don't reach out, we're just letting them pretty much fail, and we can't do that to our nation's heroes. These men and women have given up a lot to provide a blanket of security that you are currently enjoying. At this time, I would just like to go ahead and extend it out to my other veterans that want to go ahead and say a few words, ma'am. Thank you. >> Thank you. [ Applause ] >> Good afternoon, all. My name is Magdalena Sanchez. I will be replacing Carol as the president of the PCC Veterans Club. I am a US Veteran in the Navy. I served 7 years active duty, 2 years in the reserve, so that's a total of 9 years. I am a lifer. And transitioning to school was probably one of the hardest things I've had to face. Not being able to have a center where I can go to, have everything under one umbrella, has been pretty difficult. You were running around everywhere trying to get all the information from our GI Bill to classes. We don't have, I feel, the appropriate allocated time with the counselor. And I feel that our school can help us a lot more, that they can really step it up. There're other community colleges like Saddleback, Citrus, Long Beach, where they have these resource centers for their veterans. This transition has been probably one of the hardest things that I've had to deal with from coming back and it's not a transition that takes a semester, two semesters. It's an everyday transition. We transition from high school to the military, combat field, and then now to school. And I feel that we just don't have the resources available to help us in this transition. I feel that with the Veterans Club we have the assistance where we have the camaraderie where we feel like we can lean towards each other because we understand what we're going through, we understand what we've all gone through together either on a combat field or what we've been through in our active duty time. And I feel that it would be very appropriate if the school would acknowledge their veterans here at school and give us an appropriate place where we can all feel like we can succeed, where we feel that the school is allowing us to succeed, is enabling us to succeed. Thank you. >> Thank you. [ Applause ] [ Pause ] >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is George Zamora [phonetic]. I am also a returning combat veteran. I'd like to share a little bit about myself before I start and it will give you a little bit of insight of to what we go through on a daily, weekly, monthly basis after we come back from our tour of duty. I joined--I come from a single parent family. I'm a first generation Latino. I joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. I wasn't doing too hot in high school. Went to Iraq with the infantry, came back, and I had the most difficult time adjusting to civilian life. You figure it's easy, you know, you just go there for six months, you do what you gotta do, you come back, and everything's fine, but it's not. On a daily basis, we were under pressure from order attacks, indirect fire. We had people shooting at us indiscriminately down the streets. We had to watch our backs every time we'd walk down anywhere. We had to look at windows and make sure that nobody was gonna shoot us or our brothers next to us. And when I say brothers, I mean brothers, because in combat, in theater, the relationship that you establish with your fellow marines is a brotherhood. And all we ask when we come back is for a little help. You know, we're not asking for thousands of dollars in funds and this and that and, you know, we're willing to put in the work for our Veterans Resource Center. We're--we just need a little help from the board. There are some people here on this campus that say, well, why should we help them, they volunteered. Yes, we volunteered. We were brave enough to step up and say I volunteer to defend my country and my way of life, and we did. Thank you very much. [ Applause ] >> Good evening. My name is Steven Sotto [phonetic]. First off, I'd like to thank the board for allowing us to come up here today. First, I wanna thank the board for giving the veterans priority registration. It's a great benefit, you know, allowing us to do a lot of good things around campus and also allowing us to have a club here on campus. It's great to have something that I could come to when I'm not working. It's great to have this here. First, I would like to say that, you know, when it comes to being part of the Veterans Club here, I would love to have a sense of empowerment here. Right now, we're just a club and I don't think that--you know, I think it should be something more than that. And, you know, my story is just like everyone else here. The toughest time in my life was not going to boot camp or going on deployments but was to transition from--back to civilian life. And thanks to PCC once again. I have a class called Boots to Books which is actually an amazing class, so thank you for that again. But the real thing I wanna stay--to, you know, to say here is that, you know, our little room that's about 8 feet by 12 feet is now my little safe house that I go to to get away, and what I'm asking for is a resource center, somewhere that we could go to with my new band of brothers and sisters here and somewhere where we could go to stay focused, charge hard, 'cause we're all one team with one fight and the same mission, and that's success. So if you give us a house, we'll make it a home. Thank you. [ Applause ] >> Ladies and gentlemen of the board, my name is Cameron White. I was a United States Marine. I served 5 years active duty, two tours in Iraq. First of all, I wanna commend PCC because I think it's an excellent educational institution. I've gone to two other, one college and one university, and I think PCC is outstanding. I've had excellent faculty interactions. Dr. Martin, his wife Patricia, Dr. Ann Davis in the Math Department have all really worked with the veterans to help them be successful. I know that California is having a lot of budget issues, the entire country is, I know that. But I do really wanna press PCC to consider doing what a lot of other schools have done and that's to have a Veterans Resource Center, not--not like they said, not this 8 by 12 room for 700 veterans that go to school here, but something that's larger. >> I don't--I'm not sure if any of you are aware, but the GI Bill has recently changed. We now have a 9/11 GI Bill and they've really amped it up and there really is a lot more money out there. And I think something that the faculty and that the board needs to consider is that we've had a drop in enrolment of about 5000 students between last year and this year. That's according to the Courier. That's what I read. And one of the things that you can guarantee to get veterans to come here is you have guaranteed money because the GI Bill is gonna pay for their education. You don't have to worry about them dropping out for lack of money. So really reaching out to the veterans to get them to come to school here, something like a Veterans Resource Center, would provide that space for them to say, oh, wow, look at the school is doing, they're really here, they're really inviting vets, I'm gonna go on and I'm just--I'm gonna spend my GI Bill money there. I know that PCC has been doing things like cutting classes and cutting curriculum which, I think, is unfortunate. I know that there is sort of like an emergency fund or budgetary money that is set aside for situations where PCC needs to step it up. And I think that right now is that time that they need to step it up. They don't need to be like the other schools cutting. They need to increase the curriculum and expand it so that they're inviting students from other schools who can't get what they want to come to PCC to get to classes that they need, including veterans. Because the way I look at is that if we don't do that, then that's gonna have a negative impact on the community and a negative impact on our economy and we wanna be a school that's gonna provide a resource and it's gonna be somebody who's moving the way forward and not being stagnant because this is a higher education institution, and I think that we need to do that. We need to offer a higher education and not a minimalist education. Thank you. [ Applause ] [ Pause ] >> Hello. My name is Eric Bardallis [phonetic]. I am the Vice President of the Campus Veterans Club. I'm also a Marine combat veteran. I served two tours in Iraq, one in 2005 and one in 2007. First of all, I would like to thank PCC for the large support of network for veterans and for the veteran community that they do have here. I probably wouldn't have been able to make it into my classes had there not been allocations for priority registration and veteran specific counselors to aid me on that route, so I wanna thank PCC for that. I did attend my first classes here while I was actually on active duty. I stepped into my first classroom, my first college classroom ever, six days after I went on terminal leave from the Marine Corps and I didn't know a single person within a 100 mile radius of the campus. So it was a brand new atmosphere, brand new environment, and the only supportive elements at that time were the veteran specific counselors. And I actually enrolled in this college's first semester to incorporate a veteran specific counseling class, Boots to Books, Dr. Martin's class. That was a great help. And we also established in fall 2008 the Veterans Club, or we had reestablished it. I guess it had been around a few years prior but had fizzled out. So with those resources, I was really able to succeed here. In high school I graduated with a 1.6 GPA. Now, I have 3.5. I feel like that is great in part due to the supportive community that I was able to step into. I just want to echo everyone else's plea for a collaboration or a collective place where all these benefits can come together and we can really make the best of the things that we have here. Thank you. >> Thank you. [ Applause ] >> Good evening. >> Good evening. Well, my name is Carol Calandra and I'm president of the Veterans Club. And those wonderful individuals are the reason that I did not do a PowerPoint presentation. I believe their faces and their stories and for you to actually see them is so much better than me standing here clicking a button and giving you pictures. So those are our veterans. Those are our students. I'm sorry. >> I just wanted to know, Carol--thank you for being here. I assume that this is starting your presentation? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And then, of course, I will hand it off to Dr. Martin as well. >> Okay. I didn't want them to start the green light, yellow light. [ Simultaneous Talking ] >> Okay. Thank you, Doctor Sugimoto. Again, those are our students, those are our veterans. We've done some research here recently and the MIS Department at PCC along with the institutional research and, of course, verified through Terry Powell, we have about 700 of them here. They ranged in average age of 22 to 30. For the most part they all have GI benefits. A lot of them are using them here at this college strictly because it's not cost effective for them. It's more cost effective for them to use them at the major universities. There are--we have received 140 percent increase in veteran students that are coming here to PCC from the 2006 to 2009. They're coming. I keep telling you they're coming. The stats from the governor's office are that 35,000 in the next two years will be here. They'll be home. We also have received the stats from the 29th Congressional District that there are 24,622 veterans as of 2008 currently in our district. Now, granted all of those are not of college age students, but even if just 10 percent of them are, then that's roughly 2500 students coming to school here. The Department of Military Affairs Los Angeles County is saying that they currently are processing 1.8 million benefit claims. We also have the statistics from--oh, I did all these. Oh, we did a statistics from Veterans Services here that 48 percent of our veterans were discharged within the last year, 16 percent of them discharged within 6 months or less. That creates a whole bunch of issues when they come home. Eighty five percent of them were deployed either to Iraq or Afghanistan, 39 percent to both wars, and 13 percent 3 and 4 times. So, they're here. They're coming. We need to acknowledge the services that we can provide for them. You've seen their faces. You've heard their stories. What we need to do is be extremely proactive and plan comprehensive veteran services and programs for this very fast and growing population of students that are gonna be coming here. Other community-- >> May I ask just a quick question so I don't get lost. What is OIF or OEF? >> OIF, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. >> Alright, the wars. Okay. >> The wars. Other community colleges with less resources than PCC have created this veterans center that we all speak of, the safe house, the place for them to feel safe for them to have all of their services together, for them to acknowledge their brothers, their sisters where their friends are, they have more information than a lot of us do, how to deal with the transition, how to deal with the PTSD or the TBI, PTSD posttraumatic stress syndrome, TBI traumatic brain injury. Here at PCC, both in--in psych services and over DSPS, as well as in our EOP&S programs, our care programs and our Pass programs, they are all seeing increases of veterans coming needing those services. We need to be ready. Lil--Lilly. Lilly? Lilly Crisman, right, yes. Lilly Crisman over in DSPS graciously started a veterans initiative forum because of the increased soldier veterans coming over there needing their assistance. They did a subcommittee to do a checklist. So, veterans can smoothly transition through PCC. So, those are some of the things that we're seeing here of the population that's coming. The other thing that I'd like to stress is, yes, we are a veterans club, we are 700 roughly strong, we are pretty powerful voice here on campus but we're not like any other service club, there's a greater part to empower these veterans. These students are the ones that have answered the call to honor, to country. They're like no other group of students on this campus and I think we need to go ahead and step forward and do an empowerment program. I think we need the same type of programs like Puente and Ujima have where they have 50 percent time, where they have program directors, where there's a budget, where there are things like that, that this group of students, I feel truly deserve them. You heard many of them speak at the Veterans Center. I think their voices were loud. >> I think they were clear. I think we understand that we need one of those. I just recently rec--got and I didn't have, I have copies here unfortunately but I didn't have time to give to the board, but it is the 2010 Federal Legislation priorities. In section number 2, it says help veterans succeed in college by--and like, by supporting a system wide appropriations request. And it is quoted that the experts on veterans administration--I'm sorry, the expert on veterans education issues note that veterans not only must adjust to civilian life and manage a [inaudible]--a social and health issues but also adapt to life changes on college campuses. During this transition, veterans are well served by having a place to go to interact with other veterans. This proposal fund the outbuild of existing best practices models that offers comprehensive centers where veterans can go to tap an array of services, referrals, peer-to-peer communications, camaraderies needed to succeed as a student. This request includes a data infrastructure to track number of students' services [inaudible] access the academics and training outcomes for veterans at the California Community Colleges and I just printed this less than 5 minutes before I walked in here and I have a copy for everybody if you would like to have. So, those are some of the issues and I want to just talk real briefly about what PCC has done for our veterans. You know, we as a club have done a lot of things. We've done road home symposiums. We've done recognition ceremonies. We had a week long thing in the quad with tanks and speakers. We hosted the second in the state Road Hope Symposium where he had over 300 in attendance. We also hosted a women's veteran event where we had about 250 in attendance. We have a veterans officer come to PCC once a month for one-on-one counseling. We have a PTS support group that is held every Saturday by two leading psychologist volunteers from the Soldiers Project that come here on campus. Numerous outreach programs, tax workshops, the [inaudible] Law Office comes here and volunteers their times for these veterans. We also have started a mentor program. Of course, Dr. Jacobs, the huge victory in the nursing department that allows veterans to have priority into the nursing program. There were--there is one of our ladies over there actually was emailing us while she was still on Iraq as an army medic and is succeeding wonderfully in the nursing program. So, there's one of our success stories back there. And then of course, we received a huge grant from the Sierra Club and the Outward Bound Foundation. We're on spring break. Dr. Martin and myself and 16 other veterans went to Florida. We went sailing for 6 days and it was hard work, it was healing. It was emotional. And on the way back the most rewarding thing that I was told by one of the veterans on the airplane was, she said to me because of the club and because of the successes that PCC has laid out for her and because of that sailing trip, she finally feels like she belongs now with society, with us. So, those are some of things that we're doing, you know and I--okay, I don't wanna make my time brief because I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Martin, but I'd like to thank the board for hearing me today and seeing our soldiers and our veterans that just make it worth it everyday for me. I mean I'm so honored one to be a non-veteran and be the president of their club but I'm more humbled that I'm allowed to call them friend, so. >> Thank you, Carol. [ Applause ] >> Well, Dr. Sugimoto and Dr. Hilary Bradbury-Huang and distinguished board members and fellow veterans, boys and girls of all ages. In a perfect world, the boring part would have come first and then this would have been capped off with the finale but it's apparently not a perfect world. My name is Harold Martin. I'm the adviser to the Veterans Club and I also teach this class that was referenced, the Boots to Books course which is geared to helping new students coming out in armed forces or even if they'd been out for some time, transition into a student environment. I guess my time is up now or how much time do I have? >> Oh, we're pretty--we spent about 25 minutes on these topics and so, you have about 5 minutes. >> Alright. Okay. Well. Alright, well-- >> Tell us what--tell us what you need Dr. Martin. >> Pardon? >> Tell us what you need. >> What do I need? >> How much time would you wish talking? >> Oh. [ Laughter ] >> Well, let's say I need 5 minutes. How's that? Alright. >> That's good. >> I'll try to be brief and be as concise as I can. I'm speaking right now on behalf of not just the veterans that we heard and the ones that you've been worrying about that are on their way. And there are a great deal many of them. I guess my marks--remarks are going to be of a much more general nature. You put a face now with the banners that you've read as you drive here to PCC but I'd like to also let you give--give you some of the reasons why there are some issues that have been voiced here. You know what some of them are, but why. Why are they so pressing? We have now well over one and a half million men and women that served in Iraq and Afghanistan, sometimes multiple tours. This includes over 200,000 women. And while this is a professional force, probably the most professional armed service that we've had in our country's history, 75 percent of these veterans and these armed forces personnel are living after only one tour. The number one reason they gave for enlisting is so they'd be able to go to college and it behooves us to meet that commitment and to sustain that motivation that drew them into the service that first part. Some 5000 men and women have been killed or died so far in these two wars and that's not including 1000 American civilians that have died. The--there's other news as well. The good news is the vast majority of people that are harmed do survived. The bad news is that there are multiple levels in terms of their wellness and wholeness of those that did survived from many--hundreds of thousands of difficult journey back. Nearly 500,000 Iraq and Afghan veterans have sought assistance from the veterans of administration for injuries and disabilities that occurred while they ran a service. Currently, the VA is behind in processing over 1 million claims. So there are needs but they are not being adequately met and of those needs they are extremely significant. About 45 percent of veterans that have sought help have been diagnosed with problems involving mental health conditions. About a fourth of those involved posttraumatic stress disorder. A significant number are suffering from traumatic brain injury also known as TBI and I'd like you to appreciate for the moment that an explosion that has a concussive effect, they can move a 70 ton tank. Imagine what that does to a 3 pound brain inside someone skull. We have nearly 400,000 claims regarding traumatic brain injury. Many of these individuals are on our campus or coming to our campus and our--its questionable whether or not our disabled student services in the VA and our psych services office are fully prepared and adequately staffed to meet these demands. Many of these students don't know until they hit particular subject matters just what the gravity of their illness or injury is. And it's going to be an on-going problem. Once spotted an act to the casualties, I do not want to pathologize today's veterans. The vast majority of veterans did come home and do come home intact. They stand proud. They do not want to be the poster boys and girls that are damaged goods like the Vietnam veterans became. These people met that task, they met the challenges, they did extraordinary well and whether they serve in Iraq or Afghanistan or not, they worked long and hard hours. They did what was asked of them and not only can they be proud, but we can be proud of. My son is currently serving Iraq with the army and--so I speak not only on behalf of the men and women in here but the ones that are over there as well. At any rate, the numbers are huge. There are huge numbers, the statistics. >> You know, hundreds of thousands men or women are coming home in disarray. Those that haven't sought claims also need our help. This has been mentioned. This is a--this is a difficult time [inaudible] at 9 years of war now and whether you have one tour or two tour or three tours, in between your tours and even if you don't get deployed, you're in a state of mind and the mentality that is very difficult from what any of us in this room can imagine. And to move from that type of environment and that type of mindset to suddenly not only become a civilian but become a particular kind of a civilian, a student is asking a great deal in terms of adjustment that's why there are these adjustment issues. It's very difficult to move from an environment where you're surrounded by people 24/7 who are your brothers and sisters and--and--and it's a very supportive environment to suddenly living in a one room apartment in Pasadena by yourself when you are accustomed over several years time period of having people who have your back and who are supportive and encouraging and who know you well. To move from an environment where you're easily recognized for who you are and have a strong sense of identity to suddenly you're what? You're a PCC Lancer? I mean, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm just saying that the trait--the identity that you had for what you're getting here is not an easy shift and that's where a lot of the difficulty comes in. The unaccustomed isolation, the new sense of identity, what we try to do here with our services is to provide students with a--with a transitional period and the kind of social support that's needed. Any mental health professional will tell you the number one way of getting through any types of mental illness or mental impairment or emotional disorder is social support whether it's from your family or from your--from an environment such as this. We can't be the parents to students but we can do whatever we can in our limited capacity to be there for them. The students are very strong in terms of goal orientation, in terms of motivation but they're in a new environment and so anything that we can do to sort of make it acceptable and easier and supportive I'd like to think that we're going to do it. I don't think that a great deal was being asked and what's being asked for is not forever. I mean--I mean I hope we are not looking at endless war. I hope there will be an end. I hope all the veterans will be coming home soon. A lot of our students are feeling that they're unappreciated. Only about 3 percent of the airtime in the media is dedicated to covering either of these wars right now and yet they've spent years of their life supporting this country and they made a lot of sacrifices and, yeah, people say thank you for your service and, you know, some other type of sort of like have a nice day kind of reading or whatever, thanks. But they need tangible things and I'm very grateful the Dr. Sugimoto and others on the staff here who were unstinting in terms of whatever I ask for or the proposal to each class that I'm teaching and that--so that I have no complaints within that regard whatsoever and I appreciate it. But I think that we may be able to and we'll have to do more. Homecoming and getting out of the service and being a student and being a civilian again, that's a process. You can physically transport somebody in 24 hours halfway around the world but emotionally and psychologically you're actually not back here for a long, long time in many instances. And what we can do is accelerate that process and make them feel that they are home and that this is the new identity and this is the new place where they belong. Well let me just close in saying that it's very difficult sometimes for veterans to get over it and to become students and establish [inaudible] identity when these wars are going--on-going, when they have friends and people that they served with that are still on harms way and are still involved there. I lost students this past summer and this past fall who thought they were transferring and going to--go to Cal Poly and Berkeley. We're on Afghanistan right now. So this isn't like other wars where when--when it's--where you're out you're out and your war is behind you. Some of our students cannot forget that easily and make that transition. And so that's all the more reason why this is important need that they have a place and feel a sense of solidarity and brotherhood and camaraderie. Most of the young veterans that I see did not have a full sense of self before they joined the military and the military helped them establish that. Well now that self is gone. There's a trace and a residue of it there and they're still proud. There's an old saying, once a marine always a marine. But you're not--you're not really a marine anymore. You're now going to be something else. What is that something else? That's the uncertainty and the unknown that we're hoping to address here. So these students are on a state of flux, state of change. It's difficult. There are new rules. There were so much structure and so much management before and that's gone and I don't know if you can imagine but you're--they're--they're stepping into a new world and so we're sort of a guide posts and the guide is along that way. And I wanna thank especially Carol and--and Eric Bardallis and a lot of other students for doing what they have on behalf of other students. These students are-- >> I just ask before you end your time-- >> Sir-- >> I really--I really feel your pain but I need to know what do you really need? We're talking about a facility-- >> Right. >> A lounge and I got the impression we need more psychologists or counselors and what I'd like to do is that I'd like to ask the president or--and her staff to comeback and maybe what are the recommendations and how we can do this 'cause I really would want, you know, you should do something but I really need to know what you need -- >> What do you want me to do? It's that you're asking? >> I really know what do you really need? >> Yes. I would second, I would second, ma'am? [ Inaudible Remarks ] >> What--what does that mean? Is it gonna be a separate building, we build a house, we're gonna buy a house, what's gonna be in there, where it's gonna be? [ Inaudible Remarks ] >> But--but--now is not the time to-- >> Yeah, it's really not, may-- >> We need a proposal so we know something specific. >> I was just waiting for Dr. Martin to finish. I was gonna thank you and then it is a--it's something a presentation item. I think you've done a fantastic job-- >> It is. >> And it's almost over. >> In educating us and sensitizing us. But fundamentally, we have to turn to the administration and ask them to work with you and help us understand what are the resources needed for the veterans resource center and I think you can hear from us that your message-- >> Once you comeback to us with something that you propose, we can react to it. >> Well, we wanted to make a--make a claim for the legitimacy of a proposal that we would bring to you and-- >> And you've done that I think very effectively. >> Very legitimate. >> Well, give me 30 seconds more and I'm out of here. [ Laughter ] >> In any rate, I would lastly like to address the fact that there are quite so many claims with regards to emotional and psychological services and those kinds of demands apart from physical demands and that is that we've--we've asked people, young men and women, and put them situation in a situations where they've been exposed to a great deal of physical trauma and threats to themselves and a lot of horror and very naked violence. These are not robots. These are human beings. If they didn't break down and every man and woman has their breaking point and if this haven't happened, I'd really worry about these people. I'd worry about what kind of a generation this is. So, these are people that--they've been tested and some have been hurt and we don't always know which student is or which student has it but that's why we need to be ready for those that are. And for the others, if they need us and if they don't, that's fine. Go ahead and transition and be a civilian right away and, you know, more power to you. But in closing I just--my point here was to raise your awareness and realize the magnitude of the problem. It's just isn't appreciated how deeply impacted a small minority of our community and some of the best member of our community have been impacted and we weren't ready for the. The VA wasn't ready for their coming back. The army and the marine corp were not ready for the war they sent them to. The economy is not ready to receive them and the colleges had nothing in place for them to meet their extraordinary kinds of needs. And admittedly, in [inaudible] and the administrators have stepped up but there will be some additional needs and obviously I don't have the time to present those to you and what I would prefer to do and what my intention was, or our intention was, to meet with you maybe in a more restricted forum and raise specifics. But this--let's say right now it's more of a consciousness raising issue and a dialogue issue and like you put some faces on those banners you drive by. And what we would like is not a building, not an airport or harbor facility or anything. We simply wanted a place that have adequate space and a comfort zone and open enough hours so that people could go there and there are other aspects as well. But as you mentioned, we can't go into all of them right now. But I just wanna win you over. I wanna win your hearts and minds so that when we give you a bill-- >> I think you're--Dr. Martin, I think you're walking through an open door. I think you have accomplished that. Now we were asking sit down in the administration, comeback to us at some future agenda or-- >> We're coming. We will comeback. >>Roughly soon and tell us the specifics of what you like to see accomplished. >> Thank you Dr. Martin. >> We'll do it. Thank you. >> Thank you Carol, thank you Eric, thank you all of you. [ Applause ] >> This concludes the open session mostly focused--entirely focus perhaps on-- >> Are we--we're not going to have some discussion or we're just hearing? >> Well, I think we're referring it to staff to comeback. It's a presentation item. We've heard the presentations. My preference at this point is to--is to move on and when it comes back-- >> I want to just provide some clarity on direction-- >> When it comes back we will have a very detailed conversation about what exactly or how exactly do we extend resources in health. >> Okay. I--I--I just wanted to just make one point again but if--if you wanna just go right in the close session, we'll just do that. >> Okay. I just wanted to make one point. Again, if you wanna just go right in to close session, we'll just do that. >> I just wanna say thank you. I do appreciate what you people have done. I obviously have many close friends in similar circumstances both the current wars and even prior wars. People of exactly [phonetic] my generation who are still suffering from issues from Vietnam and different things and I could tell you those stories. And so, I think what my colleague has said is absolutely right. We are a policy making body. We have to look to the administration to work on this but I want you to hear and I'm sure everyone at this table that we are extremely sensitive and supportive of those who had served this country in the capacity you have. I am tremendously grateful and I--I appreciate hearing the stories. I really do and I think everyone here does. And I just want to have the chance to say that. >> And I--and I just wanted to add just so that folks know, within the state community college system and on the board of governors as one of three system wide priorities is the desire to increase and enhance services to veterans as a unique--a community with unique needs and to establish veterans resources centers, a college that is up and down the state. So you got the support of the state level and clearly you're gonna have support at a local level and we're counting on you working with the administration to comeback to the board with proposals that we can consider. >> Great. [ Applause ] >> Alright. In close session we will discuss three items. Government Code 54957, that's about public employee appointments specifically the college president, Government Code 54957 Employee Discipline, Dismissal, Release and Government Code 54957.6 Labor Negotiations for which Dean Engeldinger will join us. >> Have fun. [ Noise ] >> After this close session, open session will recommence. We will focus on presidential search update, budget update, et cetera. Alright. [ Noise ] >> So alright. >> So we're reconvening an open session. >> Okay. >> Action was taken in closed session. I would like a motion on 122-P in support of, President Sugimoto what it is in support of? [ Laughter ] >> Well, you just want a motion to approve 122-P? >> Yes. >> So I move to approve 122-P. >> Second >> All those in favor of approving 122-P, signal with an aye. >> Aye. >> Any no's or abstentions? The motion carries. So Item J, Presidential Search Update: Discussion with Possible Action. We have with us Dr. Stanton Hales. Would you be so kind, come to the podium, give us a brief update and then I'll turn to my colleague trustee--you there also. [ Laughter ] >> Thank you Madam President. I'm pleased to be back here with you. It's been sometime since I have been in here to speak in an open session and I'm glad to give you a public update on what happened since I was here last. About 6 weeks ago, I met with the screening committee for what we think of as the first screening exercise and that's to take the entire pool of candidates down to roughly 15--about 15 on whom we would then set apart and make reference calls. And then I made about 89 reference calls to the references for these candidates and then 4 weeks ago, the committee reconvene for the second screening meeting to hear the results of those reference call. And as a result of that meeting, the committee reduced down to about 8 people that they wanted to interview at what we think of as the first round of neutral [phonetic] side interviews. And then 2 weeks ago, the screening committee met over a two day period, essentially all day on a Friday and Saturday, to interview those roughly 8 candidates and to come up with a recommendation to the board of trustees as to what smaller number of those 8 should be then entertained at the second round of neutral side interviews with the board of trustees itself. And as a result of that meeting, the--there were 6 names passed on to the board of trustees and the trustees will, in fact, very shortly in their own round of neutral side interviews interview these--interview 6 candidates. And the expectation now, Madam President, can give further detail if you'd like on that the intention as I understand it now. As for the board, as the result of this upcoming interviews of their own is to select a smaller number, on average probably something like three, to come to campus for public presentations and forum in a couple of weeks. And that's where we are. So things are preceded pretty much like back clockwork over the last 6 weeks. >> Glad to hear it. Any questions for Dr. Hales? Alright, well, then we look forward to working with you all day Saturday on the 8th. >> And I should add certainly that at this particular stage, the identity of all these candidates is absolutely confidential. All members of the screening committee have signed a pledge that they will not reveal the identity of any of the candidates to anybody other than themselves on the committee and we feel this is absolutely essential unless we lose any particular candidate for having their identity revealed to the public. However it is the case that once three our pick for the campus interviews and they agree to come for the campus interviews, then all --to put it bluntly, all bets are off about confidentiality because then we undertake reference calls on--way more broadly than we have up to this point on these candidates. And according to a particular schedule, as yet to be precisely determined, their identities will be released to the campus community on a schedule. Again, to be made known to people somewhat later but the identities will not be released until shortly before their campus interviews. >> Yeah, I think it's fair to say because we did send around a draft of dates just so we could begin to hold dates for ourselves. That between the 17th of May and the 27th, we'll be conducting what we're calling those campus forums for, as you say, this number of around 3, 3 to 4 is probably a good number to keep on our heads. I think in my mind is the idea of releasing the first name of the first person around 24 hours in advance. I very not giving much time before the person actually come and we host them as our guest here. So, confidentiality has to remain on for quite some time. Alright, thank you very much Dr. Hales, we'll see you on Saturday. Trustee Thompson, would you like to add anything? >> Just words of thanks to the committee, Brian and Ellen for example, and Stuart Wilcox who have put in yeoman's amount of work and job on the committee and the work of the committee has gone very, very smoothly, very, very effectively and we're very grateful for that. So, thank you very much for a good job, very well done. >> Very good. Let's move to item K. Budget Update Presentation and Discussion, Dr. Sugimoto. >> Yes. Thank you Dr. Bradbury-Huang and this is Dr. van Pelt's item. >> Thank you. Trustee Baum already mentioned a lot of the background as far as what's [inaudible] in Sacramento. Next week we do have a next meeting of the Ad Hoc Budget Committee. We've dealt with the various different funds. Next week we're going to start dealing with the total compensation model and then the day after that, that's next Thursday, next Friday we're expecting [inaudible] revise from the Governor's office which will start to lay out probably like about the second quarter, assuming that we're now on the first quarter. That will lay out the second quarter's worth of information. Thereafter, of course, there's gonna be a lot of negotiations that goes on. However, we do expect further to be far clear direction. With the total compensation model it will comprehensively deal with 90 percent of the budget which is wages, salaries and benefits. So, that will be what's dealt with next time and then certainly ahead of that we will start to distribute that information to the Board of Trustees as well. [ Noise ] >> All right. Thank you Dr. van Pelt. So, next item, item L. Authorization to Transmit Third Quarterly Financial Status Report: Discussion with Possible Action, Dr. Sugimoto. >> Yes. Thank you and this is Dr. van Pelt's topic also so let me give this back to him. >> Okay. This is the third quarter information that's been--that we need to transmit to the chancellor's office. You'll notice that, as has been true in past, the projections that have been made are coming to [inaudible] so this is--I think it's a very perfunctory [phonetic] report that just details full expectations of where we thought that we would be at this time in the third quarter. >> I move that we transmit the report. >> I have a second? >> Second. >> I have one question. >> Go ahead. >> Just on section 3 versus cash, borrowed funds only, is that--and this is projected 10 million dollars. Is that the TRAN? >> That is the TRANs >> And if we need it for deferred income for the state. >> Well and by now it's been--it's--the first part was paid back actually at the beginning of January, half of it. The second half is about to be paid back. That's just the pay back schedule that. >> Okay. >> But nonetheless, it is within the report because we did receive cash. >> So let's go ahead and vote. All those in favor? >> Aye. >> Any abstentions or nays? The motion carries. >> And now we have item M. Goal Setting: Discussion with Possible Action. Our goal here is to set goals for ourselves as Board that will carry us through. Well, we have two choices. We can either set them for a year, hence, or bring ourselves back on to the normal cycle in accordance with our policy. Let's attend first of all to the substance of the matter by -starting up a conversation about what are the goals we wanna set first for ourselves. We have an old copy of the goals in our files. I made some suggestions recently based on the day long meeting that Crystal led us with the strategic planning. And we'll keep in mind also that we're going in to a presidential search interviews. So, with that in mind, I think we'll just start in an orderly fashion by asking people to throw out and build upon what they're hearing from their colleagues. Who would like to start? >> Oh, okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any meeting by 9:15 [inaudible]? [ Laughter ] >> We have a conversation a long time ago, but people didn't want to have that as a goal. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> I'll make it a goal. [ Laughter ] [ Inaudible Remark ] >> I don't have that, no. >> If I have it, I don't know where I-- >> There's a green tab always. >> Green tab, yeah. >> In the folder at the back that says-- >> Well, I saw this. [ Simultaneous Talking ] >> Yours is red, mine is green. Okay. >> So under Board goals it says--board goals? >> I would add a goal just to recruit and transit--transition a new recruit and install outstanding new president for the Pasadena City College. >> I doubt you'll get any argument with that. >> Here we go. Sorry. >> Oh yes. Recruit and facilitate the transition of a new president for PCC. >> I don't think I have it. >> Gracias [phonetic]. [ Noise ] >> And then I would--then I would add all the other goals except, say from--for 2010-2011 as opposed to 2008-2009. [ Noise ] [ Silence ] >> Anybody got anything else to add? >> I have an item that's close to my heart; it's the issue of metrics. I would like a goal that invites metrics specifically on issues of efficiency and effectiveness. Trustee Martin offered an efficiency calculation recently. It may or may not be the right one, but that's the kind of dialogue that I would like us to have. I offered one on effectiveness. I wanna see what really are the numbers on what we transfer if it feels for the years I've been sitting on the Board entirely too unclear. And I think if we could see numbers that the campus themselves feel confident are telling the full story, it would allow us, I think, to have feedback on our decisions and also help us as we move forward, so Trustee Abadia. >> Are you referring to [inaudible] success? Is that the one you're referring to? The metric that Mr. Martin uses to get success? >> Yes. So, I'm calling his an efficiency metric. I'm calling mine an effectiveness metric. But however it wishes to be. >> Okay. >> The issue is I'd like to see some numbers that we can wrap our conversation around numbers on a more regular basis. >> Personally, I think that he has a good metric, I guess to evaluate this. >> Yeah. The issue of whether it's good or bad or--it's simply to us as a Board to say we think it's important to have metrics and therefore to invite them and ask the campus' decision makers to bring to us the ones that they think are the most useful. >> One of the points that the trustee conference that Ms. Brown and I attended in the month, the keynote presentation in addition to calling on--upon trustees to hire presidents who are passionate about student success was the point about building a culture of evidence in decision making, in the decision making process on campus and that's another key aspect that should be raised by trustees. >> That's [inaudible] yeah. >> I wanted to also suggest for number 5 that we extend our own dialog and implementation of board protocols and norms beyond ourselves to those we work with on campus, so extending to work with campus and administration. [ Pause ] >> Okay. So I think we've added to, played with some language, actually board goal number 6, I would love number 7 balance budget over multiyear. I think that's also something that the league is talking about the importance of budgeting in a multiyear perspective. I think it's beginning to happen here at PCC but we don't include that language specifically. [ Noise ] [ Inaudible Remark ] >> And it's tough to budget multiyear when you haven't seen the May revise yet. >> No, I know. [ Laughter ] >>I know. That's what everybody says and yet I think it's important. >> And without multiyear employment contracts, it's really very helpful in multiyear budgeting. >> Yeah, that would be I think one of the fallouts from it, yeah. >> So. >> Shall we close discussion here? >> It will bring back some draft I guess. >> Gonna come back to us that are okay. >> Yup. From this and then we can formally adopt it I guess at our next, next meeting. [ Noise ] >> Item N, public hearing regarding initial bargaining proposal from the Pasadena City College Police Officers Association. President Sugimoto. >> Actually Dr. Bradbury-Huang, you'd open the hearing. >> Okay. >> And you're welcome to do that and open. >> The hearing is now open. Is there anybody here who wishes to address this matter? >> Motion to close public hearing then. >> Second. >> Motion is closed, or the hearing is closed. >> Martin. [ Inaudible Discussion ] >> Then we'll just go to the next one. Really? >> Second so-- >> But you don't even need a motion or second, you just open it and close it. >> Close it. >> So then Item O, public hearing regarding initial bargaining counter proposal from the Pasadena Area Community College District to the Pasadena City College Police Officers Association. Discussion is now open. Does anybody wish to address themselves to this matter? >> Motion to close public hearing. >> Closed. And Item P, public hearing and approval of contract for 2008-'09 between the Pasadena City College Faculty Association and the Pasadena Area Community College District. Discussion with possible action. The discussion--the motion to-- >> Move approval of the contract. >> There's two items here. One is the public hearing. The other one then is the motion to accept the contract. And so I think you need to open and close the public hearing and then we can accept your motion and Trustee Baum. >> The public hearing is now open. Does anybody wish to address this matter? Do you wanna give me your--you've been so helpful. >> Oh please. I have to--I would like to make a comment having come from a city counselor like Bill, when you're dealing with needs of negotiations with police and fire. This is so easy. [Laughter] Because that audience would be packed with police and so I--we'd been here for hours. Motion to close public hearing. >> Second. [ Inaudible Remark ] >> Wonderful. >> So now I need a motion to actually accept the contract I believe. Did you wanna make that [inaudible]? >> Yeah, I move to approve the contract. >> I need a second. >> Second. >> All those in favor say-- >> And I just--I just wanna say something for the record too. This contract as you could see under Tab P provides for considerable enhancement of compensation and benefits for the faculty to the tune of 5 and a half million dollars according to the figures that I have here. >> You might explain the emptiness of the holes. [ Laughter ] >> I should let you know too, this is '08-'09. >> I understand. >> Yeah. And it's really interesting that we are now coming to the--we just received the tentative agreement, the ratification for this. So, they are moving on. And the total estimated benefit is 5 million, the estimated cost is just add it on to it last--the previous year. So that's the total amount of benefits. >> Okay. >> Which is not an additional 5 million. >> Okay, but still with the-- >> It's still-- >> The step [inaudible], it's at least 500,000 plus an increase in the benefit cost so--so that is a--and especially in these times, I'm pleased about the physical management of the institution that we can provide these enhancements to faculty compensation at PCC. >> So all those in favor? >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Any nos or abstention? So the motion carries unanimously. Item Q, future board meeting dates, Saturday May 8th is on our mind, Wednesday May 19th will be a regular board meeting. And then in the meantime, there is the issue of during the campus forums, so between May 17th and 27th, if more than a quorum of us which is to meet at any particular time, we may have to designate those as official meeting dates as well. So I think what needs to happen is we're gonna ask Mrs. Thompson to send around the--you know, who wants to meet at these particular times and if indeed more than four sign up then they will officially take action. >> Just notes. >> May I ask to just for clarification on day 0 which is either the Sunday or Tuesday, you have an arrival welcome reception and dinner with the trustees, so that will be a select number of three trustees for each one of these, not--? >> No, I think that's why I'm asking Mrs. Thompson-- >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> to find out how many wishes to sign up. >> Okay. >> So, I mean they have noticed. >> We have these and then we have forums, so I'm trying to determine, we're talking about these two specifically for get the numbers from. >> Yeah, the-- >> Are we looking at anything specific that has like the specific in my--am I--or am I just looking at--what am I looking at? [ Laughter ] >> What should I be looking? >> Nothing. >> Okay. >> Look at me. [ Simultaneous Talking ] >> Look at me. [ Laughter ] >> So-- >> I'm kind of feeling left out. >> The issue is if we do have a dinner and there's a majority of the board, we would notice it and then it would be a closed session meeting since it is a personnel interview. >> That's right, yeah. But we would need to notice that. I think it's just a formality. >> Right. >> Yeah. Yeah, okay, so that makes sense? >> And one thing that I did point out my regret is that on June 2nd, which would be the first meet--regular meeting after the campus visits, there is a--I don't expect to be in town for that. I expect to be on the East Coast and would ask if we are gonna be deciding on our new president at that meeting, if there is a way to participate remotely if necessary. >> I see that is a housekeeping item and so as president of the board, I would say we would endeavor to invite you in electronically. >> Sure, yeah. >> My suggestion is video Skyping. We can set you up. We have a nice connection in here. >> Okay, so we'll just--I just wanted to announce that publicly that-- >> First it does mean you have to put a door sign on your hotel room door and public meeting, come on in. [ Laughter ] >> But this is just for closed session, I believe. >> Yes. That would be for closed session. >> Okay. >> But still-- [ Laughter ] >> So keep your bedroom door closed. [ Laughter ] >> Do I have to wear clothes for that? >> You can wear your pajamas. >> Please do, pajamas. >> Absolutely. [ Laughter ] >> Future agenda items, item R. >> Yes, Madam President, I just--I wanna offer some praise to President Sugimoto and others. I was reading our packet this week and I do like the format. We have the background, the recommendations and that sort of thing. I was really lost and bothered last week, there were two items that came from the board. We had some great speakers. But I had no idea what the action item was. It's like his evening, I had no idea and tonight we--there were some confusion of the yellow sheets, the white sheets. And what I'd like to do and then Trustee Baum tonight was talking about the trustees meeting with how Santa Monica operates and this sort of thing. For a long time I'm thinking about that maybe we need when we get a new president to have a workshop on agendas, on board procedures. Maybe we need to go to a committee structure like Santa Monica where we have committees for one week and presentations are made to that committee. And then we have a board meeting where it goes like a clock work, because I really feel sorry for some of the administrators. Now they have--there's a meeting tomorrow and then just in the--for efficiency purposes. So my proposal is once we get a new president to have maybe a workshop on a different day where we could discuss board procedures and how agenda should be presented, because I have some ideas having served on many boards and--that's my agenda item. >> Very good. >> I have just one--I just--I'm looking forward to a follow up on recommendations from the administration about the veterans issues that were raised to them tonight. >> Right. Allen. >> Yes, when you guys bring that goal setting for next meeting concerning there's a request from the students to put now in sustainability as one of your, you know, goal--goals but also veteran students as your priority and that's been at least speaking in Santa Monica, it'd be nice if we can beat them in transfers. >> So you're making that as a--? >> Request. Just a request. >> No, but it's a contribution to the board goals specifically, is that what you're saying? >> Yes. >> Okay, okay, when it comes back. Okay great. 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