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03-01-17 Cerritos College BOT 1 >> President Lewis: Goodevening everybody and we willstart out with the invocationand is Vanessa here? Is shehere? In lieu of that we willhave a moment of silence for 10seconds and bow your head andpray in the tradition that isappropriate to yours. Thankyou. And now we will have thePledge of Allegiance done byTrustee MarthaCamacho-Rodriguez. >> Hand over your heart. Ipledge allegiance to the flag tothe United States of America andto the Republic for which itstands, one nation under God,indivisible, with liberty andjustice for all. >> President Lewis: Will theclerk call the roll. >> President Lewis. >> Here. >> Vice President CarmenAvalos. >> Here. >> Member Shin Liu. >> Here. >> Member MarthaCamacho-Rodriguez.>> Here. >> Member John Paul Drayer,absent. Member Marisa Perez. >> Here. >> Member Sandra Salazar isabsent. Student Trustee KarenPatron. >> Here. >> And PresidentSuperintendent Fierro. >> Here. >> President Lewis: Allright. Is there any member ofthe board wishing to change theorder of the agenda? Seeingnone we will move on to itemsfrom the public and arepresentative from Tildon-Coilthat will discuss the issues for 2the committee. >> Good evening and thank you


for allowing me to address thecommittee. As follow up to thebond construction meeting heldand the bond constructionrelated items before you tonightI wanted to provide a quicksummary, kind of a read out ofwhat was discussed and then ifyou have questions or would youlike to discuss more detail I amhappy to address the board atthe appropriate time that yousee fit so before you tonightthere are a number of items.The first large group are bitresults for contracts for theHealth and Wellness Complex.This is a board agenda items 11through 30. There were verystrong bid effort. It obtainedsolid bid coverage and resultsfor the college. Over 405contractors looked at theproject. Ultimately thisresulted in 63 bids receivedacross the 23 bid tradecategories. The bids are about2% under the construction costestimate that was establishedbefore the bid. There are anumber of very familiar names.This is the as you're aware thefirst project that's a part ofthe PLA. Out of the 20categories all of thosecontractors except one are unionshops. One would also sign theup to the PLA and meet all ofits requirements. A lot offamiliar names that have workedhere on campus or with differentdesigns on campus. Verne'sPlumbing, K.A.R. Construction.Anderson Charnesky StructuralSteel, Best Contracting -- Iwon't list them all but allnames that worked in recentyears on various projects on 3campus including the new FineArts and Math buildings andChildren Center and CulinaryArts among others so there are16 of these of the 20 itemsbefore you for approval for the


lowest responsible bidder. Fourof those items therecommendation is to reject allbids for four categories andboard Item 21, 25, 28 and 29.There were clerical issues withhow the bidders filled out andsubmitted their bid forms. Sogiven those four trades we'renot going to have a negativeimpact on the advancement of theproject at this time. Thethought process of facilitiesand purchasing and Tildon-Coilwas to reject those bids, givethe bidders another opportunityto fill it out correctly.Beyond the health and wellnessresults Item 31 is aconsideration to approve thecontract for the shadestructure. The board approveditems category one through fiveand this is category six whichare the panels that make up theshade. The bid came in about10% less than the prior bid sothat was great to see. There'sa notice of completion Item 32for the campus way findingproject and they completed theirobligations. Items 36 and 37are for the special testing andinspections required for theHealth and Wellness Complex.These are project assignmentagreements for consulting firmsthat have Master Agreements withthe district. Cory engineeringand testing as well as converseconsultants. Items 38 and 40are for hall and foreman anotherconsultant with the MasterAgreement. Two are amendments 4for additional surveying workrequired at the mat CIS buildingas well as in preparation forthe stadium turf replacementproject and the third item isfor the design work andengineering to prepare documentsfor a parking lot renovationsaround the campus which would besubmitted to DSA in the future


after prepared. Other than thatthe next meeting is scheduled totake place on March 22 at5:45 p.m.. Thank you. >> President Lewis: Thankyou. I have another cardregarding the 16 week calendar. >> Good evening board andPresident Fierro, everyone.Welcome. Thank you all. I knowyou came to our event for thenew building and again I want toexpress I am here as the finearts division representativeactually. We're saying thankyou. The new building is greatand also they're in completesupport of the 16 week calendar.I'm not going into details. Iknow Faculty President Llewellynwill detail things and we see onthe ground floor, students,students and they're leaving andwe're only one of the campusesleft with the 18 week andthey're not lazy and they'removing on to their lives and the16 week structure helps themtransfer. That is one option.There were discussion about theweeks hurting degrees and Ithink many models of the 16 weekcalendar were brought up lasttime. I remember Robert Herbertcoming to the meeting and wehave a 16 week schedule andeveryone is on board andprolonged and I was at theFaculty Senate and Dr. Fierroconfronted with the same issue 5and we were moving forward withit and has a long history and Iam in support of my colleaguesand the students and I -- like Isaid I went there and Long Beachand Rio Honda and pleaseconsider it for our students.The faculty isn't getting extratime and we're crunching thehours into teaching and pleaseconsider that on behalf of thefine arts division. >> President Lewis: Allright. Thank you. At this time


are there any reports andcomments from constituentgroups? Yeah. Go ahead. >> So the report from theunion and I will try to keep itshort. I haven't been here fora while and I apologize forthat. we do have a lot ofconcerns of what is taking placewith the district. One beingthat evaluations have been usedas a weapon unfortunately andwhat I mean by that the uniondid negotiate -- took about ayear for seniority rights forpart time faculty. It wasprolonged unfortunately but wegot it done mainly in my opinionbecause the state legislaturelegislated that we must havesome senior rights provisionnegotiated. We got it done andthe very first semester after wegot that contract we seeattempts to deny faculty whohave been here in some cases 18years with no negativeevaluations brought up with outof cycle evaluations of studentcomplaints never used before inevaluation from a year ago nowshowing up to deny rights. Ithink it's unfortunate thatfaculty did this to themselvesand the district which has arole in making sure that the 6evaluation process is incompliance with Ed Code thateveryone is doing what they'resupposed to do to make sure thatthe process is fair is compliantor complicit in this process ofusing evaluations as a weapon.I would hope that in the nextround of negotiations that wecould clean up language toensure it doesn't happen anymoreand value faculty and the parttime faculty and speaking ofevaluations we do have asituation where studentcomplaints as I mention read nolonger being followed when itcomes to the process. We're


supposed to have a situationwhere a student complains abouta faculty member that student issent back to the faculty memberso they know about thecomplaint. If the student isunhappy with the Resolution theygo to the Department Chair andthe Dean. We have studentscomplain about a faculty memberand don't find out in some casesuntil a year later in aevaluation. In other situationswe have students complainingabout faculty being sexist orracist and it's not appropriateto send them back to the facultymember but the union is deniedinformation we need to defendagainst these upon charges whichI find inappropriate andunfortunate. If we're going tohave a better work environmentand that's what the union reallyis concerned with then we haveto work together and it seems tome that this pettiness where wehave faculty versus the districtis just not working. At the endof the day if we're here aboutstudents then we need to followthe process that Ed Code gives 7us. Another issue is SLOs.Faculty are willing to do whatwe need to do to be in compliantwith SLOs. Faculty are supposedto design them. Then we'resupposed to develop a tool toaccess them and then deliverthat mechanism, collect data andgive that data to the districtand we have been doing that foryears now. Now there's a newmechanism where faculty arebeing asked after we collectthis data we then have to inputall this data, which in myopinion and our attorney'sopinion is actually the role ofthe district, that we have toinput the data into a centralwarehouse which takes in somecases 30 man hours unpaid. Ifthe district feels that the


faculty have to do more workthan they have to compensate usfor that work. I've reach theout to the ACCJC and theAcademic Senate of Californiaand they're not responsible formore than that. And if the district wants tous do the extra work we need tonegotiate fair compensation. Asa result the union's positionthat the faculty shouldn't domore work than is required inthe contract and that's it.That's my report. Thank you.[Applause] >> President Lewis: Thankyou. Any other reports at thistime? Seeing none we will moveon to an InstitutionalPresentation of the recognitionof Classified Employee of theMonth who unfortunately couldnot make it tonight but we stillrecognize her and thank her forher time and her name is DeborahBuffington who is anAdministrative Clerk. Hey 8Debbie.[Applause]So if you're watching tonightDebbie we appreciate everythingthat you do for our college.Thank you. All right. We willmove on to another InstitutionalPresentation. That being thebond construction update inwhich we will receive apresentation from Felipe Lopezwho will provide a status updateof Measure CC and Measure G BondConstruction Programs. Felipe. >> Felipe Lopez: Thank you.So today I'm going to give youan overview and budget update onboth the Measure CC and MeasureG bonds and currently wherewe're at and where we're headed.Okay. So this is our currentcampus as of 2017. As you seewe have the completion of theMath-CIS building on it as wellas the Fine Arts building. So a couple of accomplishments


that we had and pretty historic.Over the last eight years wehave -- since 2006 we havecompleted eight new buildingssince 2014 we have completedfour new buildings totaling wellover 300,000 square feet ofclassrooms. And so very busy,very active Bond Program since2006. Here is our FacilitiesMaster Plan for 2017 and wherewe're actually headed. If younotice in the red this is ourold performing arts that we havecurrently marked off that wewill be demoing hopefully in thenext 30 days and this projectshould be completed and alsomoving if the board approves thecontracts for the Health andWellness Complex which is inorange. We will beginconstruction on this complex.Again a little bit about the 9Health and Wellness Complex. Itis a total of six buildingsconstructed in two phases. Thefirst phase which is these items-- basically this square here,which is these four buildingswill be constructing with thegoal of occupancy in June of 19and in phase two which willbegin occupancy in August of2020 which would finish thesetwo sections of the complex.Here's our snapshot of ourFacilities Master Plan out to2020. Again this would show theremoval of the old Fine Artsbuilding with the replacement ofthe Performing Arts Center alongwith the completion of the twoadditional buildings in theHealth and Wellness Complex. Asyou heard earlier on the readout on our Health and WellnessComplex this project is thefirst project under the ProjectLabor Agreement. This is alsogoing to be our first certifiedLEED building and requestingapproval on four categories andrejection of all bids.


Here's a summary of thecomplex bids that we'rerequesting the board to approvetoday. Again we're looking at atotal project cost of67.8 million. The originalbudget in 2015 had it at60 million. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Actually -->> What's the main reasonbetween the difference in theraw number and the currentconstruction estimate?>> I do have a number of slidesthat actually talk about that soif I can once I get into that Ican go into more detail of thereasons why. The health andwellness -- again based on the 10bid results we're having thisbudget increase by approximately12.5%. Again here's where ittalks about some of the reasonswhy. The raw budgets that weredeveloped in 2015 have not doneupdated since that time and soas you notice this is theCalifornia Construction CostIndex and so since the last --since 2015 and 2016 constructioncosts have increased total of6.6% over that time since theoriginal budget was developed. So part of that we're facingsome escalation costs. Thisdata shows over the last twoyears we're looking at total of6.6% of construction costsincreases. Probably one of themost telling reasons is also ifyou notice the volume of workhas increased prettydramatically. In 2016 we had257 bond measures that werepassed totaling a little over$27 billion plus we also hadProp 51, the state's bond of$9 billion of which $2 billionis earmarked for communitycolleges also passed in 2016 sothe construction marketenvironment right now is veryhealthy on it and actually has


so much work that you know we'renot necessarily getting as manybids that we want becausethere's so much work out thereand if you drill down a littlebit further in just SouthernCalifornia you can look at theactual bond measures that havebeen recently passed in 2016, soof the K-12 market we had 8.3billion dollars passed and forthe community colleges a littlemore 6.6 billion dollars of bondmoney has passed since 2016, sovery large volumes of work outthere. On top of that we also 11are dealing with AB 219 whichdeals with the concrete deliverylegislation which basically nowrequires prevailing wage to beincluded on the hauling anddelivery of ready mix concrete.We have estimated this increase-- this legislation hasincreased our costs on theHealth and Wellness Complex forabout 3%. So based on thisinformation we're looking atthree projects of increasing theraw budgets from 2015 to 2017approximately 12.5% based on theConstruction Cost Index, basedon concrete increases, and basedon the volume of constructionwork out there. In front of youyou should have a detailedspreadsheets regarding each ofthe Measure CC and Measure G. So I'm going start on MeasureCC first. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Dr. Fierro: There arehyper links at the bottom. >> Got it?>> Dr. Fierro: Yep. >> Felipe Lopez: These arethe project budgets andexpenditures throughSeptember 30, 2016 on theMeasure CC, and for the mostpart we're getting pretty closeof expending all the existingfunds out of this project. Asyou can see the major projects


that are still on here that havesome dollar value still left isthe social science elevatorwhich we're currently workingwith DSA on. We also have somefunds for the press box, studentservices relocation, and thenalso the Math-CIS building onthere. As we get close andactually putting out theretentions this Measure CC would

fund those so even though we 12have the building completingthere are outstanding costs onthat building and again this isdata as of September 30 sothere's some timing issues onthere once we spend out theexisting funds, and so if youlook at towards the bottom ofthe page it will show you thetotal project, and so currentlywe have spent for Measure CC alittle more than $254 million ofexpense of which $32 million ofkeep from State Capitol out layfunds. 1.5 million from donoror other funds and 220 millioncoming from the Measure CC. Thegoal is try to -- I would likethis spent completely by June 30but because of timing issues Idon't know if we will be able tobut the goal is get this entireallotment of funding spent byhopefully by the end of thecalendar year of December 31 andso -- okay. Do we have anyquestions on the Measure CCbefore I transition to MeasureG? I am trying to make this asbig as I can. So Measure G ifyou notice the budgets last timethey were updated was 2015.This is the proposed new rawbudgets for January of 2017 andyou notice these adjustmentsreflect what was in thepresentation. This alsoincludes some State CapitalOutlay Funding. Currently we'reworking with the consultants onfinalizing where we are on theState Capital Outlay Fund but


unofficially our health andscience building is funded andon the list and funded for2018-19. Currently theChancellor's Office hassubmitted a memo askingdistricts to update their plans.

The goal is for the Chancellor's 13Office to submit a spendingplan. I believe it's a threeyear spending plan to theDepartment of Finance so theycan actually fund some projectseven though Prop 51 was passedin the Governor's initial budgetthat was released in January ofthis year you would notice therewere only six projects on thatlist, far short of what theChancellor's Office was hopingso the goal is to have adetailed spending plan and in'18-19 include 24 projects andhoping this health and sciencebuilding would be part of that.The next project we try to geton the State Capital Outlay isthe business education projectand then also if possible theChild Development Center aswell. One of the things I dowant to highlight on this isbased on the projects that wecurrently have on this list asyou can see we're projectingstate funds of about 36 millionwant, Measure C funds at350 million and you will noticethis unidentified number here of25 million so currently we'reabout $26 million short on theseprojects and so as part of thepresentation we're looking atdifferent ways to reengineer,reevaluate some of the needs onthe campus. I think one of theneeds that we can immediatelyaddress and hopefully will takeup most of this short fall isthe business and language artsbuilding. We believe that thisamount that we currently have inthe budget doubles on some spacewe currently already have --


that language arts is includedin another building so we thinkwe can actually value engineer

this building and reduce the 14actual scope of it which wouldreduce this budget hopefully byhalf. If we can accomplish thatthat would pick up the majorityof the unidentified funds.Okay. Again I know it's hard tosee everything on thisspreadsheet, but is there anyquestions on any specificprojects that we have on here?Again this information is as ofSeptember 30, 2016. Thisincludes the adjustments in thebudgets on those three projects. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Terrence please. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Again we're working withthe DSA, Division of StateArchitect, to approve theproject. Our team includingmyself visited DSA to get itkind of -- get the conversationto see where they're at. Theywere at that time unwilling torelease the project on therebecause of some otheroutstanding issues, but I thinkbased on the conversation wehave we feel confident thatthey're going to release the usto move forward on the projectin the near future. I don'tknow necessarily know what dateis because it's really in theirhands so we have been workingwith our consultants and team toprovide them the informationthey need for us to actuallymove forward. The goal is tostart -- we are currently basedon our conversations we'recurrently going to start movingforward on developing the biddocuments to go out to bid inanticipation of the state givingus approval, and I believe weare planning to start thisproject during the summer, this

summer, so that is our goal, and 15


like I said I believe that thestate, the DSA will release itbased on the information that weprovided them, and theinformation we got from them.Okay. >> President Lewis: Any otherquestions from other BoardMembers? Yeah. Marisa. >> Marisa Perez: Thank youvery much for the presentation.In regards to slide number twoon fine arts -- I'm sorry, onthe same presentation. Yes, theG presentation on the Fine Artsbuilding. So with the exceptionof a few close out items itlooks like the project will becompleted on time and on budgetso am I reading that correctly?>> On which?>> Marisa Perez: The Fine Artsbuilding. >> Yes. Let me go back to thepresentation and I think it washighlighted. So yes you'relooking at this so yeah some ofthe accomplishments on the FineArts and Math-CIS building thatwe're able to get it done ontime basically at budget with nodelays, no litigation known andutilizing the multi-primedelivery method, and so we werevery happy on the success ofthis building. Obviously welearned some things regardingthe fast pace of trying to moveequipment if there and we willwork on trying to better planfor implementing and addinglabs, but overall we believe theproject was a success. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Some of the things that wewill continue to do is identifyprojects for value engineering.We work these budgets for allprojects and then continuing

managing building projects out 16to their optimal scope. Againsome of the things we're reallytrying to do is leverage ourdollars with state funding as


much as we possibly can and solike I mention the projects thatwe're going to get on the listthat we're currently working onnext is the building Ed buildingtrying to secure state funding.We've already secured thefunding for the healthmodernization and now movingforward on that building Edbuilding to secure funding onthat. here's a couple ofpictures that were taken fromthe Fine Arts and Math-CISbuilding. And here's some --some of the -- some of thething that's community memberssee and hold on to I believe theway finding project was a greatproject to kind of show case andlook at the directories andnaming of the buildings andsignage, our marquees and ofcourse our Child DevelopmentCenter. Any questions? >> President Lewis: Allright. With no questions thankyou for the presentation andlooking forward to all of thebuildings that are going comingup in the near future. Thankyou. >> Thank you. >> President Lewis: Allright. At this time we willmove on to Consent CalendarItems 6 through 54 werediscussed previously by JimmyRierdon. Is there -->> Marisa Perez: I would liketo -- I'm sorry. I would liketo pull Item 54. >> President Lewis: Is thereany objection to that? Allright. We will pull Item 54.

At this time I will entertain a 17motion for the rest of theitems. >> Marisa Perez: So moved. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Allright. First and second. Isthere objection to the adoptionof the motion? Seeing none Item


6 through 53 is passed. Item54. >> Marisa Perez: I need toabstain so I will go ahead andleave the room. >> President Lewis: Okay. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Is therea second? All right. With asecond any discussion? With nodiscussion any objections to theitem being adopted?Seeing none the item has passedand we can let Marisa back in.All right. We will move on toinformational items number 55College Coordinating Committeeminutes. Is there a motion toreceive and file?>> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Is therea second? All right. Anyobjection to the adoption?Seeing none the motion isadopted. Number 56informational item. Three monthlook ahead schedule of RFP andRFQ solicitations. Is there amotion at the table?>> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Is therea second? Second. Anyobjection? Seeing none the itemis adopted. Next we will go toadministrative matters which isitem Number 57 consideration ofacceptance of Mid-TermAccreditation Report. It'srecommended that we accept thereport as advised no cost to thedistrict. Is there a motion at

the table? 18>> Marisa Perez: So moved. >> Carmen Avalos: Second. >> Marisa Perez: I would liketo request a short termpresentation of the highlightsof what is included inletMid-Term Accreditation Report. >> President Lewis: Okay. >> Thank you. We have had ouraccreditation site visit a fewyears back. We had a fewfindings compliance issues that


we addressed. There were three.There were roughly eightrecommendations total and theway the process works the ACCJCof 11 recommendations by theteam will go through and decidewhat say compliance issue andwhat is not so we were cited forthree if you will. That left afew remaining for us to work on.This report allows us to providean update of thoserecommendations from thevisiting team at that point andtime. The format has changedfrom what this district and mostof California has seen in thepast. The ACCJC is nowrequiring a shorter kind ofdirect version looking at theannual report that we sent inevery year, and speak to trendsand also allow us to say for therecommendations what have wedone with their recommendations,if anything at all, and I amclear on anything at all becausethe report itself does allow forus to say that a recommendationwe either agree or didn't agreebut this report does point toall the changes from therecommendation. >> President Lewis: Is thereany other discussion? Dr.Fierro. >> Dr. Fierro: It's important

to note that we are using a 19hybrid model. The Commission asall of you are probably aware ofhas been going through somechanges and this model ofreporting is actually the resultof some of those changes. Inthe past apparently this reportsseem to be complex and very longand very wordy, but this one isaddressing directly the issues,providing evidence and that'sabout it so it's lesscomplicated to put together andaddress their recommendations.It looks similar to reports fromother original creditors so it


seems to be the accreditationthat ACCJC is moving to adifferent model and we're partof that test group -->> We're the first. >> Dr. Fierro: We're thefirst to use this new model. Iwould like to recognize everyonethat participated putting thisreport together, the reviewslook very good. It was a lot ofhard work by all groups thatparticipated in this report andit seems there is comprehensiveand addresses all therequirements so thank you forthe work. >> President Lewis: Is thereany other discussion from otherTrustees? Seeing none a motionis at the table. Is there anyobjection -->> I would like to add onething. Thank you Dr. Fierro formentioning that and the othergroups. Publicly I would like topersonally apologize. There wasa constituent group that I didnot include. That is my errorand nobody else's error. It'smy error in receiving a newhybrid approach moving thingsthrough realizing that the

recommendations were pointed 20more towards the academic andstudent services end and Ineglected to include classifiedin the way I should and afterthe fact it was brought to myattention and I have apologizedto some of the union leadership,and publicly I would also liketo apologize for my lack ofinclusiveness. >> President Lewis: Thankyou. Any other discussion fromother Trustees or anybody else?Seeing none a motion is at thetable is there objection toadoption of the motion? Seeingnone the motion is adopted andwe move on. >> Thank you. >> President Lewis: Thank you


and we move on to Item 58 whichthe consideration of approval toengage in a major gift campaignwith the Community CollegeFoundation and please be awarethat this item has been revisedas is available at the tableover there. Dr. Fierro. >> Dr. Fierro: Thank youPresident Lewis so for the lastabout 12 months or so we havebeen exploring the possibilityof engaging in major giftcampaign with the foundation.If you recall maybe three, fourweeks ago we had a presentationfrom consultants about thegiving capacity of ourcommunity, and differentstrategies that couldpotentially work to implementmajor gift campaign. If yourecall at the time theconsultant suggested a workinggoal of ten to $12.5 millionover that 30 to 36 month period.This is based on reviews theyconducted with local leaders andpotential donors, an assessment

of the size of our district and 21the giving capacity of thecommunity at large. They arethree main areas identified forthese which are now narroweddown to make the scope of themajor gift campaign a littlemore manageable when one speakswith potential donors and thelargest portion of this is goingto be allocated for studentscholarships. Roughly 50% ofwhat is collected of the moneythat will be earmarked forscholarships will be for theestablishment of a fund to haveare you current expenses in thescholarship so essentially atrust for scholarships for ourstudents, and the second part ofthis will be for immediateexpenses on scholarships. Thenext item will be for facultyand classroom innovations soessentially to fund programs


that are proposed by our facultyor staff that could potentiallylead to innovation and studentsuccess, and the last part willbe to help with establishment ofa corporate college soessentially contract, trainingand a way to serve our community-- to assist your community ineconomic development andretraining of work force that isoutside of the regular forcredit. It is worth noticingthe college has never engaged ina major gift campaign. Thiswill be the first time. Thecollege do not have ascholarship endowment whichessentially is a fund that wewill be creating for students,so this endowment, the idea isit will fund the scholarships inperpetuity long the money isavailable the interest of thatmoney should fund scholarships

over the long-term. So it is 22going to be quite a bit of work,but based on the study it isdoable. The foundation hastentatively agreed to thiscampaign to work with us on thiscampaign but the campaign also-- or the report from theconsultants calls for theexpansion on the capacity of thefoundation so we're asking thefoundation to hire twopositions. One a Major GiftOfficer and the other one anAlumni Relations person. Someof you may have heardconversations in the past aboutcreating an Alumni Associationat Cerritos College that willhelp with different activities.This will have to be essentiallystarted from scratch. We haveat that point don't have that,and the Major Gift Officeressentially will be a personthat will be running theday-to-day operation of thecampaign plus recruitingpotential donors to help us get


to that point. They ask for theboard essentially it's a onetime payment of $500,000 to thefoundation divided into thethree year period that thiscampaign will run. Thefoundation will continue toessentially fund this positionsto a period of six yearsminimum, and obviously thecommitment here is to be able toraise the money that we arehoping to get through the majorgift campaign. We will providereports to this body every sixmonths about the status of thecampaign. Usually when youstart a major gift campaignthere are two phases, somethingcalled the quiet phase, andobviously when you announce.

The quiet phase could last a 23year or sometimes more dependinghow quickly gifts come and thefinal goal of the gift campaignis set when you hit half of thetarget usually needs to happenwithin ten to 20 gifts. In factthe first ten gifts willdetermine whether or not thecampaign will work in the waythat it's projected by theconsultants. To that end theworking goal that is beingproposed here is eight to 12half million dollars then theten to 12 proposed on behalf ofthe consultant. We are takinginto account that the first timethat the college will have acampaign and build from scratchand do the donor association andcultivation from the ground upso it will require more workthat you will find infoundations that have been doingthis work for a while.Obviously the goal will be toraise the money, but mostimportantly the goal will be tochange the structure of thefoundation in the long-term tomake the foundation more of aphilanthropic -- active


philanthropic arm of theinstitution, be more in thecommunity and becoming more of asolicitors or gift rather thanevents, doing events to raisemoney is actually the leastefficient form of raising moneyespecially in an academicinstitution. This will requirethe collaboration of essentiallyeveryone on this table andeveryone on this campus if wewanted to be successful over aperiod of three years or so. SoI will be try to answer anyquestions. >> Marisa Perez: I am

wondering if you could go over 24the changes you're recommendingtoday. You mentioned the itemis revised so if you could goover the changes are?>> Dr. Fierro: Sure. Actuallybefore I do that let me -- withthis MOU we're trying to do acouple of things. Highlight thecommitments and giving thisboard and obviously theFoundation Board the opportunityto hold us accountable to makesure that we implement what wesaid we're going to implement.You know the structure we'redescribing and obviously theavailability of recovering thatcost based on the donations thatare brought up so the firstmodification that was done theMOU has highlighted on the newdocument is to include a goal offundraising goal. The initialMOU didn't include the totalamount. This includes theworking goal of eight to 12 anda half million dollars over athree and a half -- over a threeyear period. It also includestimes of the reports. InitiallyI believe it was a year but itsays we have change it to sixmonths report to make sure it'smore frequent update of theactivities that are takingplace. Last but obviously very


important is we will not be usedGeneral Fund money to cover thecost of operation of thecampaign, and it will not becomea recurrent expense to theinstitution, so essentially thisis a one time cost to be able torun the campaign, but it willnot come from the General Fund.It not become part of theregular expenses of theinstitution in the General Fund.We will be looking at auxiliary

accounts to be able to cover 25these costs. Likely take placein three payments. >> President Lewis: TrusteePatron. >> Karen Patron: Just a quickquestion what were the auxiliaryfunds used before and theCerritos College and what wereyou using it before for Vintage?>> Dr. Fierro: One of thelarge use uses of Vintage wereCerritos Complete andscholarships to students andfees -- not fees but hours ontutoring and so on and there ismoney allocated exclusively forthe students. We don't reallyuse operational costs out ofVintage and given the fact that70% of the money that will beraised here that directly onscholarships and most of therest of the money is spent inthe classroom this could be anappropriate expenditure on thosefunds. >> Karen Patron: Is that thesame for the book store and thevending machine?>> Dr. Fierro: Most of thatmoney is currently going to ASSc and other small expendituresand we have the rental from thestrawberry patch which is not alot but also allocated to coverpart of this. >> Karen Patron: So what ismean for ACSCC does it mean wewill get lower money? >> Dr. Fierro: No.


>> So I have a couple ofrecommendations and in terms ofthe financing for the one timethat we take it out of the bookstore followed by the vendingmachines and lastly the Vintagefunds and if we take it out ofthe Vintage funds I would likethe first amount of money to go

back and pay that fund because I 26think we can do a lot more interms of the campus wideprojects to impact studentsuccess, so I recognize it's aone time deal but if we're ableto put some of the money backand then have it be I guessneutral or no costs in terms ofthat funding, so I don't knowthat is something I am sure wecan do that but I am thinkinglong-term. I want definitelymove forward with the itemtonight but we want need toaddress where the money iscoming from and if it's out ofthe Vintage fund and use forimprovements in the library orthe technology fund that we dida few years ago and basicallypaid the funding for studentsand I don't want to move thatmoney because we're doingimportant things across theboard for all students. >> Dr. Fierro: So on theVintage the money from a majorgift campaign can only be usedfor what the donor says thatmoney can be used so you givethe donor specific buckets andyou essentially sign a contractand the contract says that youonly use it for that, andbecause in theory if they don'tthe donor could ask for thatmoney back so unless someonedonates money unrestricted wecouldn't transfer that moneydirectly. However, one way ofeven our Vintage if it was usedout of that was -- right nowwe're funding up to $250,000 ayear for scholarships out of


Vintage so we can as thescholarship fund grows on theother end and creates that untilthe money is covered and comesback. There is also an

auxiliary account, if you will, 27that we get from the foundation,so when the foundation sellstraining and so on we chargethem back for costs incurred sowe can do one exchange ofservice in that regard, sothey're different pieces and Ithink if we get the differentones we should be able to getthe money without going into theGeneral Fund, and as I said theVintage -- for instance, if weraise the scholarships we couldjust lower what we spend out ofVintage until it's paid backessentially. >> Okay. >> Dr. Fierro: On expenses,yeah. >> Carmen Avalos: I am okaywith that but I would like touse it in the order I requestand the book store and we get acertain amount back and thatwill automatic benefit studentsand two I think whatever the endhaving machine costs is becausethat's always fluctuates and wewouldn't have if we didn't havethe machines to begin with andlastly the Vintage funds andmost of the funds are going toimprove student success acrossthe entire campus and I agreewith reducing the amounts ofscholarship funding from thereif we do the other portion. >> Dr. Fierro: Any preferenceon the income we get from thefoundation? Like at this timeat some point they will have togive us a check based on some ofthe costs so we could also -->> Carmen Avalos: I am okaywith that and try to make it ascost neutral and self funded asmuch as we can possibly can. Ifthat's the intent let's address


it from the beginning and try tofigure it out. Yeah. 28

>> Dr. Fierro: Okay. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Marisa Perez: If I couldadd I think the Vintage fund hasa balance of four to $5 million. >> Dr. Fierro: A little underfive, yeah. >> Marisa Perez: We generate$250,000. >> The rent per year. >> Yes. >> Dr. Fierro: I would sayit's six something I think. >> Marisa Perez: So wegenerate a good chunk every yearand there's a large balance inthere too. >> Yes. >> Ask Marisa Perez: And Ibelieve the Cerritos Complete islimited. >> Two years. >> Marisa Perez: Yeah, sothere's a lot of flexibility inthe fund and a balance and it'sbeen there for a while and moneynot spent and again I think ifwe have to prioritize this Ithink that's fine but I wanteveryone to know there arebalances in that account. >> Dr. Fierro: You're correctand recently when Vintagechanged hands we were able toconflict additional fees andincrease the balance on Vintage.Also we asked the board to spent$250,000 of that and maximizethe expenses and actually returnsome of the unused dollars ofthat, and now obviously we willdo the same thing the next yearso the two year commitment to do250 per year may end up lessthan the 250 per year -- I mean-- yeah, so yeah, there is moneythere. >> President Lewis: Any otherTrustee wishing to speak on this

matter? No? Then a motion will 29be in -->> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic]


>> President Lewis: No. >> Marisa Perez: I move theitem as amended. >> President Lewis: Is therea second?>> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Allright. With a second is thereany objection to adoption to themotion? Seeing none we willdeem it adopted. Thank you andwe look forward to working onthis gift campaign and all thesuccesses that it will bring forour students in the future andit's incumbent on each and everyone of us and not just at thedate but the audience too tomake sure it's done well andeffectively for the students sothank you. >> Dr. Fierro: Thank you. >> President Lewis: Allright. We will move on to Item59 and consideration forauthorization for the districtto begin implementation of the16 week academic calendar andthis has been revised and hasadditional items that are alsoup there on the table. >> Dr. Fierro: Thank you. Sowe're going to attack this withMichelle so we will go over acouple of options on calendarslater on once Michelle has theopportunity to go through someof the modifications andcalendars. I will walk youthrough the report that wasproduced by the Ad Hoc Committeein 2015. This presentation thatwe're going to do here issimilar to the presentationswith it about a year ago on theforums and essentially it'sillustrating the different

possibilities of a 16 week 30calendar will provide studentsand faculty alike onorganization of schedules andMichelle is going to focus a loton pathways for completion andpotential organizations for full


time students, part timestudents, intersession, nointersession, and number ofvariations on arrangements forschedules and after that as Isaid before we're going to goover the report and what thereport highlights are some ofthe pros and cons of going intoa 16 week calendar. Thank you. >> Good evening thank you forgiving me the time to presentthis. Again we did -- I havepresented this to the largercampus and as we get there the16 week calendar lends itselfvery nicely to what Dr. Fierroreferred to as the GuidedPathways so we will changing toa 16 week calendar gives us moreoptions for students to progressin terms of the number ofsessions we have. We're goingto increase this by onepotentially. This would be themost obvious configuration andsummers at six weeks and fourweek intersection and the falland spring at 16 weeks. Howeverwe could move it around as otherschools do offer for examplefour week intersections orsummer sessions or we couldlimit one of the summer sessionsall together but again that'spretty much what we have now isfour sessions in one calendaryear. Health occupations. Notjust at Cerritos but all everyschool has unique challenges interms of getting internships fortheir students and so they wouldlikely stay on an 18 week

calendar and some of our other 31schools in the surrounding areahave done the same, notincluding health occupationsbecause they have special needs-- not special needs. They havespecial designs in theircurriculum that don't reallyallow for a condensed calendar.Some of the benefits of going tothe 16 week calendar are of


course transfer alignment to theCal State which are all on 16weeks and Cal State L.A. in ourarea was the last one to go andthey're on a 16 week semesternow coming from a ten weekquarter and our surroundingcommunity colleges. All thecommunity colleges in our areaare at 16 weeks and so we oftenlose students -- our closestcommunity colleges are at 16weeks. We lose students -- ifthey can't get the class theyneed or in a time ofconstricting enrollment as weare now their class getscanceled. They go to othercolleges and they don't comeback and that's true of othercolleges as well when it happensto students at another collegethey may come to Cerritos andthey're unlikely to go back tothe home college so this wouldhelp really keep us in line withthe surrounding colleges and theCal States as well. In thesummer the biggest problem wehave in the summer for Cal Statestudents needing to come backthey changed their major or pickup units is they cannot takethat first six week session sothey're limited to 16 weeksession in the summer. If wematched closer to what thesurrounding community collegesare doing and the Cal States are

doing then the Cal States as 32well as other college studentshave the opportunity to come toCerritos for the summer andwinter session and theycurrently don't have that openright now. Another issue thatcomes up frequently is forfaculty is that we really don'thave enough time to get thingsdone in the regular semester, sowe're contracted to work a 40hour work week with some time --I did have the number, sevenhours, ten hours of service to


do, and actually I don't thinkit's that much but nonethelessthat becomes very difficultbecause when you do service inthe committee work that createsmore work so it becomesburdensome to do committee work,teaching as well as some of theduties, so what in the 16 weekcalendar would give us though isthe ability to offer a one weekof in service days that we coulddo things that we do in theregular semester we could dothose in one week and notinterfere to serve on committeesand do teaching and the otherthings that we have to do, sosome examples of that would beprofessional development can bedone during these days, ourstudent learning outcomes thatTerrence mentioned. Evenwithout inputting data that's atremendous work to get itthrough. In classes that Iteach for example I have 60students in class. When I teacha full load it's 300 students soto do student outs for thatamount of students is laborintensive. Unit plans can bedone during the in services andsome of the hiring process ifnot the hiring itself could take

place during this time. 33 When we hire there's a processwe go through with committees.Some of the Trustees served onthe presidential committee andthat takes again time out of ourweek to do that which then wehave to make up on the weekends.If we could get some of thecommittee work for hiring doneduring the in service days thatwould save on the regularsemester schedule. We wouldoffer two of these, one inwinter and one in summer andprior to the fall and springsemester. These are the guidedpathways and they're based onArea B for CSU transfer and I


went with the one used mostoften. -- I'm sorry. Plan Band Plan A and C and [INAUDIBLE]that are not included here. Iwent with the one most oftenused by the students at Cerritosand this is outlining what wouldbe an AA for science or AA fortransfer -- I'm sorry, AA fortransfer or AS for transfer andmajor and core courses and eachof the GE areas and Plan B. So this would allow a student.We could guide their pathwaynecessary courses to graduationin just eight semesters which istwo years so it should help usto complete -- help students tocomplete and move thatcompletion project much faster.We can do this in the 18 weeksemester. In order to createthe pathways though it will takeabout a year -- sometimes twoyears to get pathways created sowhile we're changing over to a16 week semester we couldworking on these in ourindividualized departments andworking with the CounselingDepartment and student services

that would need helps up that 34this is going to happen for somemajors and it would just be mucheasier to do when doing it atonce then try to create -- themin the existing schedule andadditional work in the workweek. Yes, you can. >> Marisa Perez: On the fulltime student template so whatthey're gaining by moving to 16week is that they're gaining theability to take this wintersession; right? >> Yes. >> Marisa Perez: Like on thefirst page the winter area andthe next page I assume this isthe second year. >> First and second year.Correct. >> Marisa Perez: And thengaining the elective for winter?


>> Yes. > These are examples anddifferent pathways come outdifferently. The thing that isalso nice about this TrusteePerez while you're bringing thisup and the benefits they get.Right now we're at the 18 weekand doesn't have the wintersession so they have to pick upthe classes in the suggestsession. What is nice about the16 week session and the GuidedPathways are eight and eight --that means they're taking threeclasses at a time and take thethree classes instead of four orfive depending on theirtimeline. Part time studenttemplate. Similar. We canstill get them out in two yearsin -- I'm sorry, four years fora part time student but they'resimilar to the full time studenttaking four years to get out andof course only taking twocourses at a time anyway, so

that's what is happening there. 35Now we have some special issuesat community college. Ourdevelopmental education peoplethat are not -- students notnecessarily ready for collegelevel courses so I did draw up atemplate for that. As you cansee we moved those to five weekswhich would allow them toprogress faster through theircourses while not overwhelmingthem and two courses at a time.They would have 16 week and onethat is five weeks. And I drewout two years of that as well. >> Carmen Avalos: I'm sorry.Can you explain that and I'm alittle lost. I am understandingwhat you're saying and theeducational component of thatbut I don't understand forexample in the developmental Edfull time students explain thata little more because if -- areyou saying you're offering twocourses to those students?


>> No, no. Students thatneeds developmental educationisn't stuck in onlydevelopmental education; right?It's usually English, math thatthey would need to pick upthey're not college ready for soit's only a few of the courses.What I was suggesting on the -->> Carmen Avalos: Okay. Letme stop you quick. When you saya few course what is percentageof our students are we talkingabout? Because we're looking ata large percentage so can youexplain how it's implemented?And if that is the case we willsee our students in thiscalendar and not the one thatlooks more fluid in terms ofstudent progression into a fouryear school so what percentageof students are we looking at

with this program? 36>> I don't know. >> Dr. Fierro: The studentsthat place into developmentalwith at least one classdepending on the semester theyvary from 78% to 80% dependingon the semester and those thatrequire more than one class itcould be as high as 70% so 65 to70% is a good average. As Isaid depending on the semestersometimes it's a bit higher andsometimes it's a bit lower sothe biggest number is ones thatcome with needing only onedevelopmental class. Then thenumber gets a little smaller asthey need more classes and it'seven smaller to those that atleast two levels done but we'retalking about 80 some percent ofthe incoming students needing atleast one. >> Carmen Avalos: So that'sthe incoming students but whatabout those that we have now andthose on campus how manystudents are in this particularsegment of the population? Andwhat is that going to look like


in terms of the impact tell havenot only on the faculty but ifwe're trying to move studentsalong and I think where this isgoing I see this is a drawbackfor those students, andobviously it's at 70% at thelowest number it's 70% so I hopethat's discussed tonight becauseI am going to be very frank withyou. I feel this is going to bean impediment to those studentsfrankly because they're at aloss when they get here in termsof being college ready so Iwould like to see is it going toimpact them and how is it goingto impact other services weoffer the students and support

services and the faculty -- not 37the faculty but the staff thathas to provide additionalservices for that? Because I'mgoing to be honest with you andlooking at this calendar and ohmy God we're in trouble. >> Dr. Fierro: That iscertainly the challenging partof any course set up and one ofthe early successes we're seeingfor instance on the [INAUDIBLE]program and the acceleratedcourses. They are doing quitewell. >> Carmen Avalos: How longare those courses? Eight weeks;right? >> Dr. Fierro: Nine weeks.>> Carmen Avalos: So that iscomparable to other for if theinstitutions that have beendoing this already and in orderto get there we need to makesure they're ready and when Ihear 70% of the student base theconcern is that much moreheightened. >> Dr. Fierro: They'redevelopmental students, yeah,and the numbers we're seeingtheir range anywhere -- correctme if I am wrong and you mightremember them and in some cases70%, 75% success rate which is


in some instances two, threetimes higher than not aimstudents. >> Carmen Avalos: But arethey limited in the number ofunits?>> Dr. Fierro: They arestructured in everything theyhave to do including tutoringhours and showing up to the laband so on. >> Carmen Avalos: Okay. >> So these were just toclarify these suggestions forguided pathways and not what

we're putting in place. It 38would have to be a largerdiscussions but it's to show uphow they can occur and you'reright with for profit schoolsthey have done guided pathwaysand public higher education hasnot before so keen on this ideaand some of that is because ofthe amount of work it takes todo that during a regularsemester. At for profit schoolsthey hire specialists thatcreate these so we don't havethat in the public highereducation but they'reindividualized. A student couldtake this one or a differentone. Depending on the major andhow each department or eachmajor that we have here wants torun that would be conversationsto take place. >> Carmen Avalos: I have todisagree and the highereducation portion. I justfinished a -->> Graduate programs. >> Carmen Avalos: Excuse me.Let me correct you again. Thereis bachelors and Masters throughCal State Northridge and it's apublic higher education of Edand they have it and that's notcorrect because we have publicinstitutions doing it alreadyand the for profits are doing itand Bork for them and the publicinstitutions are behind but


they're doing it so I think it'sone of the things -- whyrecreate the wheel or certainlybest practices and if we'retalking about getting ourstudents through the courses andmaking sure the programs workand we need to look at that welland I am hoping out of thisdiscussion tonight we get someof the things brought back and

we need to address those and in 39terms of partnership for theprograms and align to studentsuccess then we need to look atsome of the factors as well. >> Yeah, I wasn't suggestedthat public education hadn'tdone it but they're behind. >> Carmen Avalos. Yes theyare absolutely. I agree withyou on that. >> So that is two years for astudent that needs to takedevelopmental education courses.CTE is little different. I havelined out a 18 unit certificatehere in a 16 week semester, andagain a guided pathway thatmoves them through the CTEprogram in one year. And that'sit. >> Marisa Perez: Great. Ihave a quick one more question.Going back to the part timestudents. >> Yeah. >> Marisa Perez: Lookingunder the part time studenttemplate I don't see themgaining an additional class likewe talked about the full timestudents that they're given theopportunity to take the winterintersession class so they couldpossibly finish quicker but ourpart time students -- maybe I amreading this incorrectly. Idon't see where they gain. >> Right. So you're right andin this particular template theydo not. They could. The reasonit wasn't put in here -- again Ipresented this to the larger


campus last year the guidedpathways and talking about afour week intersession anddidn't seem practical for astudent for the student and theywould take that four week courseand it's not included but

pathways could be included and 40these are examples how it mightwork. >> Marisa Perez: Okay. Isthere flexibility to give a fourweek intersession based on thisor six week based on this. >> That's decisions ofdepartments as they're createdthe -- as a college we have todecide that. Once that'sdecided it's up to thedepartment to determine how itwould work for their particularmajor. >> Marisa Perez: Okay. Ithink that's an area I wouldlike to explore more becausemost students are here parttime. We know that and theyhave lower success rates. Weknow that too so again if -- Idid read the report and talksabout a 2% increase in studentsuccess, so I think we need toreally focus on that aspect toobecause we need to make surethat the part time students aregiven additional flexibility tocomplete as well so that issomething I would definitely askto continued to looked into. >> Absolutely. >> Carmen Avalos: And I havean additional question. I notedon your report there's severalfolks who are appointed and Ihad specific concerns what itwould look for the NursingProgram and in terms of -- we dohave one of the best NursingPrograms in the state so I amconcerned what impact the 16week will have that onparticular type of careertraining specifically when youlook at the labs there's quite a


few labs that need to be doneand in terms of time if astudent needs to spend more time

on campus on any one given day 41you know they're going to getmore exhausted and that's justyou know being -- you know, abusy student and you know justnatural as they say in thenatural course of the day youget exhausted so what does thatdo in terms of the success forthe students and you'reexhausted and doing the labs andall these things so I am lookingfrom the perspective will theprograms go down in terms ofsuccesses there and when we lookat the areas that need thegreatest need it's the MathDepartment. What's the need ofthe Math Department of studentslearning quicker in 16 weeksversus the 18 week calendar andI was a slow learner and theextra time was great for me. Iwent to school on a 18 weekcalendar and I thought it was alittle bit to my benefit as astudent if I was not asarticulated in the math area tohave the extra hours to spendwith professors to be able tounderstand the material better?So what is it doing to thesegment of that population andthat's the biggest challenge isthe math courses and mathsuccess. >> I would have to let Dr.Fierro answer the questions. Idon't know the answer to thatbut health occupations does haveissues that are exclusive tohealth occupations and stay onthe 18 week schedule. >> Carmen Avalos: Okayknowing that how would that workand have a variety of schedulesand the purpose is beingequitable to all staff dependingon that and how does that work?>> I will let Dr. Fierro answer

that. He has the answer to 42


those. >> Carmen Avalos: All right. >> Dr. Fierro: So I'm goingto walk you through some of thefindings on the report, andbased on some of the commentsjust made by Trustee Avalos andTrustee Perez, and I said thispublicly so I guess this is notmuch of a secret. The gainsthat are somewhat mentioned inthe report really do not mirrorthe data that we have seenconsistently on campus and evena disclosure in the report thatsays the study that wasconducted at [INAUDIBLE] Ibelieve it was it was nonconclusive. The study studied alarge number of results from theChancellor's Office and as youprobably see on the report itsays still it is inconclusive.There's a chart that shows theretention did increase but thestudent success was still a bitinconclusive. The informationpresented by Michelle isactually very helpful in regardsof student success, so I guesswhat I am trying to say withthis is the student success thatwe may see or may not see basedon a potential change it isdetermined mostly as to howefficient and effective are wecreating student pathways tocompletion. Meaning that if wedon't have schedules that leadto completion students are notgoing to finish any faster. Ifwe don't offer the classesaligned to these specifictransfer programs the studentsaren't going to graduate anyfaster that if we have back toback sessions that we need tohave a limit on how many creditseach student takes at any given

time, meaning if you have 43students rotating to a five weekcourse to complete three classesin 15 weeks is probably not thebest idea for the student to


take ten credits every fiveweeks so there has be a seriesof rules that we agree toimplement in order for thepathways to actually translateinto student success rather thanexpecting just a simple changeof a calendar -- I'm not saying"simple" and just a figure ofspeech because it's not thatsimple but a simple change tolead to a change. The changealone really as the results showit is really inconclusive.Essentially the report says atsome point there is not up ordown so it's essentially in theimplementation if it is doneproperly and we all agree tohave pathways to completion andso on we could potentially seegains. Before we go into thereports I would like to give youa little bit of information onwhat I found to be the historybecause obviously I wasn't herein 2009. I think the firstreport on implementation of the16 week calendar was developed.Later on apparently in the fallof 2014 that report was againbrought forward and it was adiscussion that lead to anagreement to explore thepossibility of again revisitingthat 16 week calendar andappointing a committee thatwould produce a report and thatreport would be presented beforeyou to make -- provideessentially direction to thecampus so in that report it wasa report -- a group that hadequal representation from thedistrict, from CCFF and the

members there and they work 44together to put this reporttogether. Their report wasfinished at some point duringthe Spring of 2015, and duringthe fall of 2015 we engaged incampus forums in which primarilyMichelle and I presented thedifferent options to the campus.


The representation as you seethere in that report coversfaculty from the healthoccupations which has been aconcern obviously on theimplementation on the calendar,and a faculty member from thebiological sciences that haveexpressed some concern about theimplementation because ofchanging the length of the labsin particular, so include thatrepresentation, and on the sideof the district obviously we hada couple of Academic Deans. Onebeing the Dean of healthoccupations as well. Later onagain during the fall 15 andSpring '16 the different groupstook positions on these items.Faculty Senate voted in favor ofthe implementation of the 16week calendar. The StudentGovernment also voted in favorof the 16 week calendar. CSEAvoted against it and the Deansalso voted against the 16 weekcalendar, so as you see there is-- they're non consensus amongthe groups at this particulartime, so I'm going to walk youthrough some of the pieces thatare here as they are described,and then I will answer anyquestions you may have from mytake on the conversations that Ihave had with the differentgroups so the first part isobviously the group that work onthis report recommend theadoption of the 16 week calendaras early as practical or as 45early as possible. They alsorecommended the forums which weactually had and they recommendan inter session which isprobably outside of the purviewof this particular body sinceobviously that is at yourdiscretion. The conversationabout having higher performanceon a 16 week calendar versus an18 week calendar as you couldsee in this report really it is


not very telling. It'srelatively inconclusive at thetime so I took it upon myself toget data from Cerritos College.We as you know we offer 18 weekcourses, 15 week courses, nineweek courses and I look at thedata from our own college withour own faculty and our ownstudents, and there is really nochange on academic performancebetween 15 week class or 16 weekclass, 18 week class. What Iwas able to see that the shortersections had a higher retentionrate so more students stay inthe class. The major changethey saw on the data was in someof the nine week courses whichit has been examples of programslike aim and any of ouraccelerated programs like theBusiness Administration programthey run shorter sessions andthey seem to have higherretention and higher performancebut when talking about a shortersession I am talking about nineweek courses rather than 16 weekcourses. The data -- part ofthe data used in this particularreport was from San JoaquinDelta College it and had a smallsample and saw increasingperformance on their students.However, this group recognizedthat sample wasn't large enoughor comparative to Cerritos 46College so they ask theChancellor's Office and lookedat the data of the Chancellor'swebsite, the performance dataessentially of the Chancellor'swebsite, and that data wasdivided within peer groups orwhat this particular task forcetermed or peer groups andGlendale, Pasadena, Mt. SAC andLong Beach and colleges similarin size and population andalready transitioned to a 16week calendar. As you can seeright here the retention rateseem to be relatively strong in


some of those changes but thesuccess rate is about the same,so when you get to the chartright here on success andretention it really shows notsignificant difference on theswitches on the calendar. Now,with that said there are otherbenefits that were outlinedprior to that have to do withthe opportunity of aligningschedules with peerinstitutions, the opportunity ofaligning schedules withtransferring institutions andcompressed pathways forgraduation and opportunity for apotential intersession, theopportunity of havingconsolidated times forprofessional development and inservice or essentially a coupleof weeks a year in which thecollege is essentially down forprofessional development andservice for all constituentgroups. And those are some ofthe benefits that I will expanda little bit when we get to thatpoint. One of theconsiderations this particulargroup took was able to researchis whether or not the curriculumwill have to be modified and the 47answer -- the short answer ofthat is no. The term length aspresented by Michelle providesthe opportunity -->> Marisa Perez: I'm sorry. Ihave a question. I under lineda line for a question. On pagefour and "nurses would need tooffer laboratory or on sitecourses during this time sostudents can get therequirements by accreditedagencies" And I am wonderingwhat that meant?>> Nursing is one of theprograms -- not just nursing andprograms that are not based oncredit hours but in actual clockhours of specific work likehealth occupations and complete


a specific number of hours inlabs and sometimes clinicals.For instance Cosmetology isanother program they have tohave specific number of hours,certified hours, before they cansit for an example and we have anumber of those programs so inorder for students to accomplishthat one of the solutions theyrun a longer term or begin inone term and end in a differentterm or that they have longercontact hours during shorterlength of the term. This istricky to achieve, notnecessarily because theorganization of it, but mostlybecause in order for ourstudents to be able to accessthose hours we need to have theavailable space on campus andthe available space off campus,and we do not control that.That is essentially theprerogative of the receivingentity so for instance if wehave nurses students and have aclinical side and have them onlytwo hours a day that's two hours 48so that in the event that's thedirection we will go it has tobe -- there will be some workthat needs to be done andparticularly to those programsthat have clocked hoursrequirements. Now -->> Marisa Perez: Whatpercentage of students fall inthis category, roughly estimate?>> Dr. Fierro: Rough estimate?I don't want to say they'resmall because they're certainlya representative sample of ourstudents but they're lessstudents than the traditionalcredit programs. Remember mostof our -- or all essentially ofour health care programs arecompetitive entry so we onlyhave a few hundred in eachprogram at any given time, so ifwe count only the headsobviously they're not going to


compare to the rest of theinstitution, but we need to alsoremember these are studentsbefore they're nursing studentsor before they become pharmacystudents they are General Edstudents as well, so they areour students in more than onelevel and make a relativelylarge portion of the number ofunits that are taken on campus.So now that you mention thatit's probably a good time for meto say this will put a burden --I mean speaking with Stephanieobviously she's a team playerand she will work to make itwork if that is the directionwe're going in which we have toespecially like I said beforehave programs that begin in thespring and end in the summer sothey don't begin and end withinthe same semester. They willhave to overflow into the nextsemester to be able to 49accomplish that. That willrequire some managing of how thehours are calculated and how youcollect the apportionmentbecause it's not simply to saywhat the class offer you need toshow that you met a number oftimes to collect apportionmentfrom the Chancellor's Office.It can be done. We're currentlydoing that for some of thecourses for various reasons, butthese will establish -- couldpotentially establish that now.The other thing we haveobviously colleges like SantaMonica and one of the firstcolleges to move into a 16 weekcalendar. They're runningeverything 16. Initially Ibelieve most of it stayed on a18 week calendar but a year ortwo later they migrated to 16and so it's not impossible to dobut takes additional work to getthere and making sure that thesites that we send our studentswill allow the extra time during


the term and that will requiretweaking and work fromadmissions and records andcounseling the technologicalback end to set up the system totrack them because if you havetoo many sections that are overflowing into a different term weneed to be able to track themeffectively because if we don'twe will not be able to collect100% apportionment. YeahTrustee Patron. >> Karen Patron: I had aquestion for the healthoccupation configuration if youcould explain we can't offer awinter session? Does it notwork that way? Because I amlooking -- so they have foursemesters and if we go with theconfiguration and six week fall, 50six winter and spring and summereight weeks I think it wouldwork out but explanation theycan't do winter or what's -->> Michelle on the winter -->> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Dr. Fierro: I'm sorry.Yes. So if they stay on the 18week they can't do an intersession because they'refinishing halfway through thesemester and beginning thesecond week of January likeeveryone else so the semester isactually longer for the regularstudent. If they went to 16weeks then depending whatclasses they could potentiallyaccess an inter session so whatI am trying to say let's sayyou're taking Psychology classyou begin as a 16 week studentand a nursing student and takingpathology and I begin at thesame time as you I will finishtwo weeks after you do. >> Karen Patron: But thehealth occupations need to be on18 weeks like there's no wayaround it?>> Dr. Fierro: No. It will betheir choice. They could do


that. That would requireadditional work from thedistrict to accommodate and beable to track that, but thereare models if they choose toadopt them to operate in 16weeks. The challenge that theyface is they have to be able tomeet on a specific number ofhours. They don't operate inthe same way that the rest ofclasses do with credits. Weaward credits but they need tomeet the number of clock hoursand in order to do that in somecases they have chosen to go tolonger terms to make itmanageable. 51 >> Karen Patron: So thatcan't be done in 16 weeks? >> Dr. Fierro: No. I didn'tsay that. they have to choosethat or otherwise they haveability of not doing that and wehave to use some programming andtracking to be able to collectthe state apportionment. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Dr. Fierro: Okay. So hereis the first mention about coston the report and right heretheir report is calling for anestimate of 250,000 annually onthe implementation on thiscalendar. Most of that will befrom the additional impact thecampus will endure during highertraffic so additionalmaintenance, additional facilitycleaning. Obviously theadditional tracking that willhave to be done if we haveuneven calendars and essentiallysome of the hours that are goingto be extended in order toaccommodate longer courses.When I mean longer courses inthis report you will also seeone of the only ways that youwill have to be able to offerthe same number of sections thatwe offer today in the same weekis by starting earlier andfinishing later in the evening,


so rather than start let's sayclassroom maintenance at9:00 o'clock or 10:00 o'clock wewill starting let's say at 10:30or 11:00 and classroom will haveto be ready to go again next dayat 7:00 a.m. so you will havesome shift differentials therebecause obviously some of thework force will have to be shiftto that particular structure.Now, we go to the 2009 reportsays to eliminate the flex week.We don't really have that 52ability. That's not somethingwe said we would do. It'srequired by the Chancellor'sOffice and asking for that isvery likely that will say no.However, the committee seeshaving the week at the beginningand the week at the end and soon and the flex days could beused as mentioned earlier forprofessional development and soon and so forth, so rather thanlosing flex you will gain a flexweek in which convocations couldhappen, [INAUDIBLE] couldhappen, program review couldhappen and essentially a lot ofthe additional functions we haveto accomplish in order to makesure our programs are compliant.Trustee Perez. >> Marisa Perez: Yes, Ireceived a lot of individualcomments on this from facultyand staff members and one of theconcerns raised was what happensto the two weeks that went from18 week to 16 week calendar whathappens to the two weeks? Wouldfaculty members then be notrequired to be on campus thosetwo weeks or would they berequired? Would the staff whosupport them inside theclassrooms would they have to behere for the two weeks or not behere for the two weeks? And Ithink this ties somehow to theflex time too so if you couldexplain that and address that?


Because I got that comment fromseveral people. >> Dr. Fierro: So there is175 days on contract on thecollege here and essentiallythey're the days our faculty arecontracted to be here, so thisparticular proposal in order toaddress that is proposingweekend college, Friday and 53Saturday courses but the realityis essentially the sound courseof action would be to establishweek before the beginning ofeach semester to call itessentially an in service weekin which all of us will beexpected to be here as part ofmeeting our contractualobligations. >> Marisa Perez: The 175 daysfor ten months and higher amountfor 12 month. >> Dr. Fierro: 210, yes. Andall of the days would still haveto be met just as per thecontract. >> Marisa Perez: So everybodyclassified and faculty have tobe here during the two weekseven if we reduce the schedule?>> Dr. Fierro: Unless it'snegotiated a different way. Myinterpretation of the contractis we're here 175 days. >> Marisa Perez: Okay. Thankyou. >> Dr. Fierro: So as I wasmentioned some of theutilizations and some of theestimates from the report say wehave to start classes as earlyas 7:00 a.m. and end as late as10:45 p.m. to meet the samenumber of classes. Obviously wewould like to make sure thatstudents have the classes theyneed so this will be a variationfor that. In one of the forumsand this is my own comment basedon comments from the forumsomeone mentioned about the deadhour. What happens with thedead hour? And obviously if you


already have classroom impactedmeaning you probably wouldn'thave a dead hour. I don't knowwhat would be the discussion onthat. I haven't had official

discussions on that regard but 54the dead hour is something youcould potentially lose in orderto be able to fit as manyclasses that we currently offerin a shorter calendar. The deadhour essentially is a period oftime on Thursdays -- Tuesdaysand Thursdays that we have --it's not we don't have classesbut we hold fewer classes duringthat time usually there aremeetings that take placethroughout the college, solosing those two hours in orderto be able to feed the extrasessions mean that some of themeetings take place on Friday orat a different time. >> President Lewis: So thatwould affect the ASCC and meeton 2:00 o'clock -->> Dr. Fierro: It's mostlyfaculty and full time facultyfor the most part that offduring that time and when theFaculty Senate meets, the chairsmeetings takes place and thegovernment groups that arefaculty. They have a largecomposition of facultytraditionally meet so if weeliminate that you couldpotentially gain four hours aweek to balance out the numberof courses that are offeredtoday versus in the future when16 week calendar transitionswhich means essentially some ofthe meetings since there is aproposal here of havingadditional classes or activitieson Fridays they could take placeat that particular time ordepending what calendar isadopted essentially. >> Carmen Avalos: So thecomment made -- not the commentbut the item brought up


regarding what faculty is doingyou're saying we already have 55

time for that so that would be anon issue at this point. So yousaid there is dead hour. That'swhat you called it so the deadhour is utilized really tosupport faculty in the variousmeetings that they do throughoutthe semester for variousmatters, correct? So thatwouldn't be a part of thediscussion at least that's whatI am hearing in terms of whatMichelle brought up regardingmore time needed for thesethings because we have timebuilt into the schedule forthat. >> Dr. Fierro: No, this iswhat we talked about on flexweek is for instance thedevelopment of the SLOs, programreviews, unit plans, and so onand so forth. Those happenoutside of these constituentmeetings. >> Carmen Avalos: Okay. >> Dr. Fierro: So if forinstance in the classroomutilization was going to happenif you were to leave everythingthe way they were you willschedule-one less class perclassroom every day soessentially if we not going tostart earlier and finish lateand we wouldn't have any othermodifications in the day thisreport suggests that we willlose one class per classroom perday. >> President Lewis: TrusteePerez. >> Marisa Perez: Yes. Sothat was my question because Iwas trying to get an equationfor the estimated 12% loss inclassroom capacity was so youexplained that. We would loseone less class per day if we

went to this and did not extend 56the hours of classes and or addclasses on Saturday or Friday.


What time do classes currentlystart and what time do theycurrently end on Monday throughThursday?>> Dr. Fierro: Depending onthe department and inmathematics it's from 7:00 a.m.to 10:00 p.m. nonstop, one afteranother and departments lessimpacted could have them startat eight and in athletic itsstarts at six in the morning anddepends on the department andhow impacted the rooms are. >> Marisa Perez: What aboutthe labs?>> Dr. Fierro: The labs --that's a good question. >> Marisa Perez: I hear wedon't have enough hours andBiology. >> Dr. Fierro: That iscorrect. >> Marisa Perez: So they'realready impacted and that's myconcern and this is how Iunderstand it and instead ofteaching three hour lab theyhave to teach a three hour and15 minute lab, or whatever thenumber is and I will pretty surehow we schedule it's back toback to back because space islimited so what happens to thelabs that are already impactedand is there any remedy toaddress this?>> Dr. Fierro: The suggestionbased on the report is offeringmore Friday and Saturday class.Now having before in a Biologylab it's not uncommon but morechallenging for instance ifyou're teaching microbiologyit's good to meet twice a weekand to inoculations today andcome back on Friday cults

cultures have grown but teaching 57on Friday and Saturday you don'tget the same changes if you doit from Friday to a Saturday orFriday to the next Friday.There are ways you can slow thegrowth but requires a number of


additional steps so it will bemore challenging. The otherpart if you leave it that wayfinishing classes at 1045 or11:00 p.m. and it's not possibleand it was my schedule whenadjunct faculty teaching anatomyand used to teach to 10:30 fourdays a week. >> Carmen Avalos: And theywere lively. >> President Lewis: Lastquestion from Terence. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic]whether I was part time I taughtat multiple 16 campuses and Inever seen a schedule at othercolleges that went past9:00 o'clock let alone10:00 o'clock here. How manyclasses do we have for theallotted block times becausewhen you go to the socialsciences building at3:00 o'clock, 4:00 o'clock it'sempty so I think we'reforgetting we have down time forclasses because we've built inthis idea that students don'twant a class past 3:00 o'clockand we're waiting for the nightstudents to come in at 530 andno classes at that time and putclasses there opposed to addingon more time or increasing past10:00 o'clock so in a weird wayif all of the surroundingdistricts and Rio Honda is oneof them and I have a Trustee wecould rely on are implementingthis model we could look at whatthey have done opposed to sayingthis won't work and they did it

and have a solution waiting for 58us and that's our comment. >> President Lewis: At thistime we have to go into closedsession. That will last no morethan one hour as was written inthe agenda that we will startclose sessions at no later than9:00 o'clock so at this time wewill enter close session and beback in no later than one hour.


So will recess this meetinguntil then. Thank you. (closedsession). >> Dr. Fierro: So let mejust essentially jump to whatthe advantages and disadvantagesfor the group are since it'slate and the disadvantages thatyou see there what the reportsays that obviously is thegreatest disadvantage is thecost of the compressed calendaris the actual cost of thecompressed calendar. In thatreport you see there are twopieces of cost. The first oneis the actual implementationcost and range from $600,000 to1 million and 600,000 came fromthis one and the 1 million camefrom the previous CEO. We need to look at what theactual cost of implementation isbut it is around there and thesecond cost the report outlinedan additional $700,000 a year ifoperational increase and sosignificant increase in FTES soessentially what that meansyou're operating the same numberof students at a higher cost.The next concern is students whobenefit from longer semesterwould probably have lowersuccess and retention, but italso says that many of them willnot be harmed by the compressionof the schedule. We alreadytalked about the issues with

nursing and the sciences and 59Cosmetology and other programsthat require clock hours so itwill have to be obviouslyadditional conversations I amassuming from the facultyleadership with these programsto determine a course of actionfor these particular programs.As I mentioned before thecommittee had biological scienceand health care faculty so I amassuming those conversationswill continue to be ongoingbetween the faculty.


There are obviously advantagesthat we also mentioned beforeand aligns with K-12 districtsand the neighboring college toallow better sharing ofresources. Essentially studentsthat go to more than one collegethe other advantage of thatwould be the easy transition tothe CSUs that have shortercalendars and some of the onesthat are not listed here itcould be driving time, right, soif you have a student and haveto come 16 weeks I save twoweeks in gas, two weeks in food,two weeks in child care if thatis something I have to pay with,so from the logistical aspectobviously there are a numberbenefits for the students to beon the 16 week calendar. It wasthe initial statement there, theperformance will increase is notsupported by this report. Ifyou have questions I am happy toanswer them and happy to bequiet and sit down. >> President Lewis: Is thereany discussion at the take?Trustee Patron. >> Karen Patron: I apologizeand I have students that wouldlike to speak on this matter andthey waited for a while.

>> President Lewis: Yes 60quickly, yes please. >> Good evening everyone. Mypoint -- the point I want tomake and I will keep it briefthere are students like me thatthink we try hard, we do well.I am taking more than therecommended course load and I amdoing well in my classes but interms of transferring many willschools especially UCs requirethat you be done by the springso if I needed a math class forexample to transfer by thespring I would definitely enrollin that class over the winterand get that over with insteadof having to come to summer


session or having to wait totake the class in the fall anddelay my transfer by anotheryear. Aside from that for whatI want to do internships reallycount so this year I had to makea choice between taking theclass they need to transfer orparticipating in an internshipso I think -- I just wanted tovoice my opinion and my supportfor this. I am strongly insupport of a 16 week semester.Thank you. >> President Lewis: Thankyou. >> Hi. I am Jackie and a STEMmajor and I am in favor of the16 week course because I want totransfer soon, and this schooloffers many opportunities but Ifeel my education is extendedtoo long and I want to take asmany more classes and a wintersession would mean a lot to getmore classes done and yeah,thank you. >> President Lewis: Okay.Thank you. >> Karen Patron: Anymorestudents that would like to

speak that came here? 61 >> Hi everyone. My name isRod [INAUDIBLE] and a studentleader on campus and the ChiefJustice. I am in favor of the16 week calendar becausespecifically what I want to doas a career going intointernational relations thatrequires more so not just thecourse load to get the degreebut background in some of theclasses and cultural instancesrequired to be proficient in mycareer so at the moment I'm notonly taking courses to be aPolitical Science major but tospeak a third foreign languageand understand culturalreligions and those things thatprivate universities and higherlevel education universitiesrequire and having a winter


semester and I'm not required totake as many classes and haveinternship opportunities andhave club opportunities would beespecially beneficial. I knowthat we try to focus as much aswe can on the students that needhelp but I ask you to focus onthe students that excel well butneed that availability to excelmore in the limits they'recontained by. Thank you. >> President Lewis: Thankyou. >> I have a couple of quickquestions or concerns about theinformation presented. As afinancial professional whennumbers come out and things aregoing to cost a million dollarsor $700,000 and no break downand numbers thrown out I getvery concerned. All I heard wasthe expensive cost yet all ofthe surrounding colleges went toit, so that just doesn't add up.The other piece there was no

revenue component to the 62intersession presented and isthere a revenue component to it?I didn't see it presented. >> Dr. Fierro: That was areport produced by the groupappointed by the facultyleadership and the district andthat's when presented to thedistrict. >> Okay. I guess that's aquestion I have. Is thererevenue that comes in fromhaving intersessions?>> Dr. Fierro: That the part Imentioned that we have toactually have someone look atthe real cost of somethingbecause the numbers there -- Ihave to agree with you. Thereis not a lot of documentation inthe actual report. You know thebackground seems to add towhatever the comments I haveseen before but I agree that thenumbers are not sufficient so weprobably need to have an


independent person come and lookat it and tell us the true costof implementation and a truerevenue in the event there isone. That part is notdefinitely addressed. It is notaddressed in that report so Iagree with you. >> Okay and then just one lastcomment is if all of the othersurrounding colleges are goingto it and we're the one out ofstep with it my experience weshould by sticking forward towhat we're doing should beproducing better results.That's my personal take andcomment on it. Thank you. >> President Lewis: Thankyou. All right. Is there otherdiscussion from the Trusteeshere? >> Karen Patron: As far as

the 16 week calendar I 63understand there aredisadvantages and advantages andother colleges have taken therisk and other colleges havemade it work so I think it'stime we consider this as anoption moving forward. I reallythink that the students willbenefit from a winter sessionand transferring into springinstead of waiting to transferso when considering this feelthere are more advantages thandisadvantages. There are thingsto work out and that means wehave to work together to findthe solutions and not possibleand with that being said I amsupport of this. >> President Lewis: Allright. Is there any otherdiscussion -->> Marisa Perez: I would liketo go ahead and make a motion.First I want thank everyone forbeing here today. I know it'sbeen a long night and Iappreciate everybody here and Iwant to recognize everybody onthe Ad Hoc Committee to make


this recommendation. I know ittook time and energy and Iappreciate everyone being hereand I wanted to acknowledgeTrustee Patrons and the studentsfor being here. Thank you verymuch for sticking with usthroughout the night. Again wealways make decisions with thegoal of trying to serve ourstudents better so thank youvery much for providing thestudents' perspective so Iactually have -- I guess -- Ihave a motion but first I thinkat this point I think I wouldlike to go ahead and proceedwith moving forward with the 16week calendar. However, I am

concerned about the cost related 64to this. Dr. Fierro reminded meagain today that we're facing a$3.6 million operating deficitthis year and continues nextyear and the third year so withthat in mind this would be mymotion, so I would like to amendthe recommendation to authorizethe district to beginimplementation of the 16 weekcalendar once the followingquestions have been answered --I'm sorry, have been addressedto the satisfaction of the Boardof Trustees. First item wouldbe agreement on the academiccalendars for the next fouryears. Number two, independentfinancial analysis on thetransition costs estimated to bebetween $600,000 and $1 million.Number 3, details -- I'm sorry,financial analysis, --independent financial analysisongoing operation cost andrevenue needed to support the 16week calendar. And then let'ssee once negotiations for fall2018 reopen the district willreport back on how the districtwill implement the three weeksof additional annualprofessional development andflex days. Two, how the current


number of sessions offered toour students will be maintained?And three, the proposed academiccalendar configuration. Thatwould be my motion. >> President Lewis: Motion toamend the recommendation is onthe table. Is there a second?>> Karen Patron: I just have aquestion. >> President Lewis: Let meget a second. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic]. >> President Lewis: TrusteePatron.

>> Karen Patron: Is there a 65specific date you want thiscollected or bring back to theboard for an action item onceit's hashed out? That's myquestion. >> Dr. Fierro: Just toclarify saying yes conditiontwo. >> Marisa Perez: Yes. >> Dr. Fierro. Yes, I'msorry. >> Marisa Perez: Yes. >> Dr. Fierro: Okay. Thereis one additional part and Ithink -- I can't remember if Isaid that we have to submitpaperwork to the Chancellor'sOffice to get approval from theChancellor's Office to move thatso even if we say yes right awaythere is the additional step ofgoing through the Chancellor'sOffice, so I think you saidfinancial report, calendars,independent analysis offinances?>> Marisa Perez: Yeah, costand revenue. >> Dr. Fierro: We could dothose items as soon as we canget someone here and submit alsopaperwork, but that is justoutside of -- at theChancellor's discretion. What Iunderstand is one year to get ananswer. >> President Lewis: There's amotion and a second at the


table. Is there any objectionto adopting this motion?>> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Yes. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] --Marisa Perez: Once negotiationsfor fall 2018 reopen thedistrict will report back on howthe district implements thethree week of additional

professional development /flex 66days and next the current numberof sections offered to ourstudents will be maintained andthree was the proposed calendarconfiguration, and I wasreferring to this, what waspresented. Like what would beour calendar? Sounds like wehave a lot of great option andthose items are oncenegotiations would reopen. >> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> Marisa Perez: I don'tknow. Dr. Fierro. >> Dr. Fierro: It will bedelayed regardless because westill have to file the paperworkthrough the Chancellor's Office. >> Shin Liu: Can we submitthe paperwork now?>> Dr. Fierro: You could. Butwhat I am being told you submitlike today and takes almost anyear to get an answer and Ithink you probably mention thesame -- it takes about a year. >> President Lewis: Sothere's a motion and a second atthe table and seeing noobjection the motion is deemedpassed and it was an amendmentto the recommendation so I needa second motion to pass the nowamended recommendation so -->> Marisa Perez: So moved. >> Carmen Avalos: I going toabstain because I think there ismore information to be presentedon the matter so I will abstain. >> President Lewis: Is therea second?>> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic]


>> President Lewis: Do youobject to the motion on therecommendation?>> Carmen Avalos: I'm going toabstain. >> President Lewis: Let therecord show without objection

it's passed with the record of 67abstention from Trustee Avalos.All right. So now we move on toItem 60 a consideration ofappointment to three members ofthe Board of Trustees asEx-Officio Directors of theCerritos College Foundation inwhich we will appoint TrusteeCamacho-Rodriguez and Perez andLewis as Directors. Is thereany discussion? Is there amotion?>> Shin Liu: Motion. >> President Lewis: Okay. Wehave a motion. Is there asecond?>> [INAUDIBLE] [Off Mic] >> President Lewis: Okay. Wehave a motion. Is there anyobjection to the appointment ofthese three? Seeing none theitem is adopted andcongratulations to us three.All right. Thank you. Yes.Thank you. Yes. Thank you.All right. So now we move on toreports and comments fromdistrict officials starting withTrustee Patron. >> Karen Patron: First of allI would like to thank thestudents coming tonight. Thankyou for lasting. It's theirfirst board meeting and thanksthe Dreamers and [INAUDIBLE] andhad a speak against hate todayand very successful and thankprofessors for bringing outclasses and ASCC is working onlegislation and working on abudget and starting meeting andthat will be tedious and workingon the [INAUDIBLE] program andworking with Dr. Fierro and ShinLiu to send students to Taiwanand hopefully we get that passed


and other than that that's it. >> President Lewis: Allright. Trustee Perez.

>> Marisa Perez: Thank you 68for being here today. I want tocongratulate everyone on theopening of the Math-CIS buildingand the people that did the workbehind the scenes and a greatevent and community support andenjoyed the building open andthe students in the building soI wanted to thank everybody forputting that together. It wasfantastic. I also wanted toacknowledge everyone that wentto the Master Plan Charette andgreat feedback and well attendedand thank everybody who did theplanning. I also attended twoState of the Cities and inLakewood where they focused oneconomic development, publicsafety. It's a big issue goingon right now. I also attendedthe Bellflower State of the Citytoo where they also focused oneconomic development along theboor corridors and publicsafety. That seems to be a bigissue right now resonating withall of the cities in regards toincreased crime so that wasinteresting to hear, and again Ialso wanted to thank everybodyfor attending the board retreatwe had a couple of weeks ago.Thank you. I thought it wasbeneficial in some senses and Iwanted to thank everyone forparticipating in what and lookforward to the one meeting inMarch so thank you. >> President Lewis: KarenPatron. >> Karen Patron: Just quick Iattended one of the conferencesin DC and two things on thetable that we want to continueto support is DACA and also thatwe move forward with supportingthe Bridge Act that will alsocontinue support the DACA

students. The other thing was 69


to continue support of the PellGrant for year round so thosewere two things that a lot ofthe colleges are supporting sothat was it. Thank you. >> Carmen Avalos: I want toremind everyone many cities arehaving elections next Tuesdayand six days to count down andit's over and consolidatedelections and on the L.A. Countywebsite and reminding peoplethat the votes matter andparticularly in local electionsand make it a habit to vote andlooking to 8:00 o'clock and onesecond next Tuesday so good luckto all of the candidates. >> President Lewis: Dr.Fierro. >> Dr. Fierro: Thank you forsticking around this long.Tomorrow we have -- thank you.We have the Hall of Fame so hopeyou see you there. Good nightto celebrate the accomplishmentsof our students and some of ourfaculty and formeradministrators and essentially alot of people that havecontributed to the developmentof Cerritos College over theyears so we're looking forwardto seeing everyone there, andhave a night to celebrate. Lastyear I had a good time. Iremember I had some time to chatwith many of you that aresitting in this room after thecelebration, so I hope we get tosee everyone tomorrow there andenjoy each other's company sothat's about it. >> President Lewis: Dr. Liu. >> Shin Liu. The Chinese newhost and host by CerritosCollege and the City of Artesiawas postponed so the date rightnow is March 4, this Saturday,

so we will be at City of Artesia 70and at Pioneer Boulevard sothey're a lot of food, prizes,and come join enjoy a day withus. Thank you so much. Okay.


>> President Lewis: I had theopportunity to attend theNorwalk Mayor's Prayer Breakfasta few weeks ago and of course itwas one of the earliest events Ihave been to at 6:30 butnonetheless it was a fantasticevent, well attended by all inthe Norwalk community and gladto see everyone come out thisearly and thank you to TrusteePatron for making it. Againit's an early time but she madethe dedicated drive all the wayover here and I want to thankher for showing up and showingsupport for our community outhere so thank you Karen andthank you to the Norwalkcommunity for continuing to hostthis great tradition. Also Iattended the charette, planningthe education planning heretoday and participated in a fewof the I guess charettes -- alittle -- I don't know how theplural works with that. It's aforeign term but nonethelessgood discussion by multiplemembers of different aspect ofour community, mostly you knowin some of the places I wentfrom Downey, from the DowneySchool District and theycertainly came out in force.They had their little contingentthere and gave good ideas andalong with our faculty andmembers of the community so I amlooking forward to continuing onthe EMP process and having thefull recommendations brought tothe board at this time and otherthan that I also attended -- orparticipated in the mock

interviews which were held by 71the Norwalk Educational Alliancewhich consists of CerritosCollege, La Mirada Unified andthe City of Norwalk and wehosted I believe about sevendifferent high schools or soincluding La Mirada, Santa Fe,Norwalk, John Glen, et cetera


that all sent students to haveinterviews with differentmembers of our community fromelected officials, to businessleaders to others that basicallyinterviewed them, had a mockinterview, to help them gain theskills necessary to succeed in acompetitive business market andjob market and let me say theywas certainly impressed by eachand every one that at least cameto my table and they were verypoised and they were standingstraight and speaking directlyto the interviewer, and areanswering the questionsdirectly, and I am lookingforward on having them in localjobs so they can continue toserve the community themselvesin the near future. Also Iattended the Falcon LeadershipPanel in which I was one of thepanelists there along withTrustee Patron who basicallytalked about what our job is atthe board and our job at theboard as we each mentioned we'rehere to support the institutionand to make sure that theinstitution continues to do itsduties in helping to bring aboutstudent success and here tosupport you and that's what weran for each of our jobs. Weran for election -- each of uson student success, and thatshould always be at everydecision at the forefront of ourminds and if we continue to do

that I think we will certainly 72make the right decisions.Finally I always attended the LaMirada City Council meetingyesterday in which we hadpresentation from the La MiradaYouth in Government and the LaMirada Youth in Government everyyear comes up with an innovativeplan and how to improve the Cityof La Mirada for the future andone of their ideas was topartner with Cerritos College


and particularly in the CulinaryArts program and offering basiccooking classes to our communityin La Mirada and ostensibly inother communities as well tohelp people become independentand understand how to you knowlive life after high school oreven during high school if theyfind themselves independentbefore a majority age and soit's certainly something that Iam looking forward to havingthem continue to develop theidea and we will reach out tothem. They will reach out to usand hopefully this innovativeidea they have the broughtforward can be brought tofruition. Finally again I amlooking forward to tomorrow theHall of Fame dinner and seeingyou there and with that meetingadjourned.[GAVEL]

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