SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT MONTHLY MEETING OF THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2011 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO GOUGH STREET CAMPUS 33 GOUGH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPORTED BY: MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 2 1 A P P E A R A N C E S 2 3 4 THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 5 6 NATALIE BERG 7 CHRIS JACKSON 8 ANITA GRIER 9 STEVE NGO 10 JOHN RIZZO 11 LAWRENCE WONG 12 13 14 DR. DON Q. GRIFFIN, CHANCELLOR 15 LEILANI BATTISTE, GENERAL COUNSEL 16 JEFFREY FANG, STUDENT TRUSTEE 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 JUNE 23, 2011 3 1 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT ON THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2 2011, COMMENCING AT THE HOUR OF 6:50 P.M. THEREOF, AT CITY 3 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, 33 GOUGH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, 4 CALIFORNIA, BEFORE ME, MICHELE M. SHEA, A CERTIFIED 5 SHORTHAND REPORTER FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THE 6 FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 JUNE 23, 2011 4 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE REGULAR MEETING OF 2 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF CITY COLLEGE. 3 CAN WE PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 4 (PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RECITED.) 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN WE HAVE ROLL CALL, PLEASE. 6 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: PRESIDENT JOHN RIZZO. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HERE. 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: VICE PRESIDENT CHRIS 9 JACKSON. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: HERE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DR. NATALIE BERG. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: HERE. 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. ANITA GRIER. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: HERE. 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE MILTON MARKS. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: ABSENT. 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE STEVE NGO. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: HERE. 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE LAWRENCE WONG. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: HERE. 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: STUDENT TRUSTEE JEFFREY 22 FANG. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: PRESENT AND STILL AWAKE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 25 WE NOW HAVE TEN MINUTES OF PUBLIC COMMENT FOR JUNE 23, 2011 5 1 ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA. IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO 2 WISHES TO SPEAK, PLEASE FORWARD A CARD, A YELLOW CARD. 3 IS THERE ANYONE? 4 WE DO HAVE SOMEONE. 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: OH, I'M SORRY. HERE YOU 6 GO. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, OKAY. THANK YOU. 8 DENISE LOUIE. 9 MS. LOUIE: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DENISE 10 LOUIE. I AM A MEMBER OF THE CITY COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY 11 SUBCOMMITTEE. AND TONIGHT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BOARD 12 OF TRUSTEES TO PAY SOME ATTENTION TO THREE ISSUES I WOULD 13 LIKE TO BRING UP. 14 THE FIRST ONE IS THE REMOVAL OF INVASIVE WEEDS 15 FROM ALL CITY COLLEGE PROPERTIES WHETHER THEY'RE OWNED OR 16 LEASED, WHATEVER WE MAINTAIN. FOR EXAMPLE, THE PAMPAS 17 GRASS AND FRENCH BROOM NEXT TO THE BOOKSTORE ANNEX. THAT 18 WOULD BE ONE EXAMPLE. 19 THE PRINCIPLE OF REMOVING AND AVOIDING INVASIVE 20 WEEDS IS ON PAGE 9 OF THE "SUSTAINABILITY PLAN, PART 1," 21 BUT APPARENTLY, IT APPLIES ONLY TO NEW CONSTRUCTION. 22 I BELIEVE, AND CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG, THE 23 INTENTION IS TO APPLY THAT PRINCIPLE TO ALL OUR 24 PROPERTIES. AND SO FAR THE SUSTAINABILITY SUBCOMMITTEE 25 HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO PREVAIL ON THAT. JUNE 23, 2011 6 1 OKAY, SECONDLY, I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU A 2 PETITION THAT I HAVE. I HAVE OVER 100 SIGNATURES FROM 3 STUDENTS, STAFF OF CITY COLLEGE, NEIGHBORS OF CITY 4 COLLEGE, AND TAXPAYERS OF SAN FRANCISCO, VOTERS OF SAN 5 FRANCISCO, WHO ARE SUPPORTING MY PROPOSALS THAT I AM 6 DISCUSSING TONIGHT. 7 SO MY QUESTION TO YOU WOULD BE IF YOU WANT ME TO 8 TURN THIS INTO A LONGER PETITION, THAT WOULD BE FINE. I 9 CAN EASILY DO THAT, BUT THAT WOULD MEAN MORE PEOPLE WOULD 10 KNOW WHAT CITY COLLEGE PRACTICES ARE, OKAY? AND RIGHT 11 NOW, THEY NEED IMPROVEMENT. 12 MY SECOND ISSUE IS ABOUT THIS PETITION, WHICH 13 ALSO ASKS THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENT 14 PLEASE STOP USING INVASIVE PLANTS, REMOVE INVASIVE PLANTS 15 FROM THAT CORNER OF THE CAMPUS, AND TEACH THE STUDENTS 16 ABOUT SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES, LIKE NEED OF PLANTS, SOIL, 17 COMPOST -- I MEAN THEY HAVE TWO COMPOSTERS THEY ARE NOT 18 USING. THEY CAN USE THEM. YOU KNOW, DO SOME HANDS-ON 19 EDUCATION OF SOIL COMPOSTING. THEY CAN TEACH RAINWATER 20 CATCHMENT AND ACTUALLY INSTALL CATCHMENT SYSTEMS OFF THE 21 GREENHOUSES; ISSUES LIKE THAT FOR SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING. 22 AND THIRDLY, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK -- 23 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF YOU JUST -- 25 MS. LOUIE: COULD I HAVE ANOTHER -- JUNE 23, 2011 7 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- WRAP IT UP VERY BRIEFLY. 2 MS. LOUIE: VERY BRIEFLY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 4 MS. LOUIE: I THINK THAT THE NEW BUILDINGS AND 5 GROUNDS HEAD HIREE SHOULD BE INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH 6 INVASIVE PLANTS AND NATIVE PLANTS SO THAT THE APPROVAL 7 PROCESS FOR PLANT REMOVAL AND PLANTINGS CAN BE STREAMLINED 8 WITH SOMEONE WHO IS INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH INVASIVE AND 9 NATIVE PLANTS. THANK YOU. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 11 ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE 12 AGENDA? 13 OKAY, SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON. 14 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. 15 DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? 16 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 19 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 20 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 21 IS THERE ANY COMMENT FROM THE AUDIENCE? 22 OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 23 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 8 1 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 7 THE MINUTES ARE APPROVED. 8 ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. 9 DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONS TO THE AGENDA? 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. 11 AS TO REVISED RESOLUTIONS, THERE'S B1, "ADOPTION 12 OF THE TENTATIVE ANNUAL 2011-2012 BUDGET." IT'S THE 13 PRELIMINARY BUDGET. 14 AS TO ADDED RESOLUTIONS, THERE'S B1(A). IT IS 15 THE "AMENDMENT TO TENTATIVE ANNUAL 2011-2012 BUDGET." 16 AGAIN, IT'S THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET. 17 THERE ARE NO SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTIONS AT THIS 18 TIME. 19 AND THERE ARE NO WITHDRAWN RESOLUTIONS AT THIS 20 TIME. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 22 DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTIONS 23 AGENDA? 24 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG. JUNE 23, 2011 9 1 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 3 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 4 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 5 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 6 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 15 THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA IS ADOPTED. 16 APPROVAL OF CONSENT ITEMS AS LISTED. LET'S GO 17 THROUGH THESE. UNDER "CAPITAL OUTLAY," WE HAVE ONE, 18 B4(A). 19 IS THERE ANYONE ON THE BOARD OR IN THE AUDIENCE 20 WHO WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THAT OFF THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 21 OKAY, HEARING NONE, I WILL TAKE A MOTION FOR 22 B4(A). 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: MOVE B4(A). 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 25 IS THERE A SECOND? JUNE 23, 2011 10 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL SECOND IT. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: YES. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: B3 IS ALSO CONSENT. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT SAYS, "CONSENT," YES. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: B3 IS CONSENT. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 9 ALL IN FAVOR? 10 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 14 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 19 OKAY, B4(A) IS APPROVED. 20 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ACTUALLY, MR. PRESIDENT, I'M 21 SORRY. TRUSTEE NGO JUST POINTED OUT THAT B3 IS ALSO ON 22 CONSENT. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, B3. OH, I'M SORRY. 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IS ALSO. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS ALSO A CONSENT. THERE'S JUNE 23, 2011 11 1 A -- THE HOLE PUNCH IS PUNCHED RIGHT IN THERE ON MY COPY. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: HOLE PUNCH PROBLEM. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HANGING CHAD. 4 ALL RIGHT. WELL, WHY DON'T WE JUST MOVE B3 AS 5 ANOTHER CONSENT ITEM, UNLESS ANYONE WANTS TO REMOVE IT. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECOND. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 9 BY STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 10 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 20 OKAY, B3 IS APPROVED AS A CONSENT ITEM. 21 UNDER, "GRANTS AND CONTRACTS," WE HAVE JUST ONE, 22 B8. 23 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO MOVE THAT? 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: MOVE B8. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVE B8. JUNE 23, 2011 12 1 IS THERE A SECOND? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE GRIER; 4 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE YOUR VOTE, PLEASE. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. EVERYONE ELSE, ALL 8 THOSE IN FAVOR? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 17 B8 IS APPROVED. 18 UNDER, "HUMAN RESOURCES," THE CONSENT CALENDAR 19 CONSISTS OF G1-13 AND RESOLUTIONS H1-3. 20 IS THERE ANY OF THOSE THAT A MEMBER OF THE BOARD 21 OR A MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE FROM THE 22 CONSENT CALENDAR? 23 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULDN'T LIKE TO REMOVE IT, BUT 24 I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE IT FOR ADOPTION. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WOULD LIKE TO MOVE IT FOR JUNE 23, 2011 13 1 ADOPTION, OKAY. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: TOGETHER AS CONSENT ITEMS. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AS CONSENT ITEMS, OKAY. YEAH, 4 I HEAR NO OBJECTION TO THAT. 5 IS THERE A SECOND? 6 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 8 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY "AYE." 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 18 OKAY, THOSE CARRY. 19 AND UNDER -- 20 COUNSEL BATTISTE: S9. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- "SPECIAL," WE HAVE LOOKS 22 LIKE ONE, WHICH IS S9. 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: MOVE S9. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVE S9 BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 25 IS THERE SECOND? JUNE 23, 2011 14 1 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 3 THERE'S NO ONE I ASSUME THAT WANTS TO REMOVE 4 THAT AS A CONSENT ITEM. I DON'T HEAR ANYONE. 5 OKAY, TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR -- 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 12 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 16 OKAY, S9 PASSES. 17 SO THAT IS OUR CONSENT CALENDAR FOR THE EVENING. 18 DISCUSSION ITEM, WE HAVE ONE DISCUSSION ITEM AND 19 THAT IS A DISCUSSION OF THE PARCEL TAX POLLING RESULTS. 20 THIS -- THE BOARD AUTHORIZED AN EXPENDITURE FOR 21 A POLL TO BE DONE OF SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS. AND SO WE HAVE 22 THE POLL RESULTS HERE. 23 I THINK PART OF THE POLL WAS THE QUESTION OF -- 24 NOT A QUESTION, BUT IT LOOKED AT THE FEASIBILITY OF DOING 25 A POLL TAX THIS YEAR AS OPPOSED TO NEXT YEAR. SO THAT'S JUNE 23, 2011 15 1 ONE OF THE ISSUES WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT. THIS 2 IS A DISCUSSION ITEM ONLY TONIGHT. 3 GO AHEAD. 4 MS. MCGUIRE: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, BOARD OF 5 TRUSTEES -- 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN YOU -- I'M SORRY. CAN YOU 7 STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE -- 8 MS. MCGUIRE: OH, I'M SORRY. YES, PHYLLIS 9 MCGUIRE, INTERIM VICE CHANCELLOR OF POLICY AND RESEARCH. 10 AND AS YOU SAID IN JANUARY, THE BOARD PASSED A 11 RESOLUTION TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC OPINION, A POLL. WE 12 RELEASED AN RFP IN MAY. AND TULCHIN RESEARCH WAS SELECTED 13 TO CONDUCT THAT POLL. AND THEY POLLED APPROXIMATELY 1,500 14 SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS. AND THIS WAS DONE IN EARLY JUNE. 15 AND BEN TULCHIN OF TULCHIN RESEARCH IS HERE TO 16 REVIEW THE FINDINGS OF THIS POLL. SO WE HAVE A POWERPOINT 17 PRESENTATION. IF YOU'LL JUST GIVE US A MINUTE, WE ARE 18 GOING TO MOVE THE LAPTOP AND BEN WILL WALK US THROUGH THE 19 FINDING. 20 MR. TULCHIN: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 21 THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION. 22 FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO SAY, IT'S AN HONOR 23 TO BE HERE AND TO DO WORK FOR THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 24 FRANCISCO. AS A RESIDENT OF THE CITY, YOU KNOW, I KNOW 25 IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT INSTITUTION FOR THE CITY OF SAN JUNE 23, 2011 16 1 FRANCISCO. SO IT'S AN HONOR TO PROVIDE THE WORK FOR YOU. 2 I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND THE MEMBERS OF THE 3 POLLING COMMITTEE AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SURVEY. 4 I'VE DONE DOZENS AND DOZENS OF POLLS FOR EDUCATION 5 INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE STATE. AND I HAVE TO ADMIT THE 6 POLLING COMMITTEE OF CCSF WAS THE MOST INFORMED, 7 PASSIONATE, AND ENGAGED IN ANY POLL I'VE EVER DONE FOR AN 8 EDUCATION DISTRICT. SO IT MADE MY LIFE A LITTLE HARDER, 9 BUT I THINK WE GOT A BETTER SURVEY PRODUCT OUT OF IT. 10 SO HERE'S WHAT WE DID. IF YOU GO TO "SURVEY 11 METHODOLOGY," SO WE INTERVIEWED 1,500 LIKELY NOVEMBER 2012 12 VOTERS. THAT IS, VOTERS WHO ARE LIKELY TO VOTE IN THE 13 NOVEMBER 2012 GENERAL ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT AND OTHER 14 STATEWIDE OFFICES. 15 WE SPLIT THE SAMPLE INTO THREE PARTS, THREE 16 EQUAL PARTS, 500 PER SEGMENT TO TEST 3 DIFFERENT DOLLAR 17 AMOUNTS. $49, $68 AND THE $95 FOR EACH DIFFERENT PROPOSED 18 PARCEL TAX AMOUNT. 19 WE FIELDED THE SURVEY FROM JUNE 4TH TO 20 JUNE 13TH. SO THESE ARE VERY, VERY CURRENT RESULTS, 21 CURRENT DATA. WE USE LIVE TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS. 22 INTERVIEWERS CALLING BOTH LANDLINES AND CELLPHONES TO 23 MAXIMIZE COVERAGE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ELECTORATE. WE DID 24 INTERVIEWS IN ENGLISH, CHINESE, AND SPANISH. AGAIN, TO 25 MAXIMIZE THE RESPONSE RATE AS WELL AS ENSURE ACCURACY OF A JUNE 23, 2011 17 1 REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF THE VERY DIVERSE SAN FRANCISCO 2 ELECTORATE THAT WE HAVE. 3 THE OVERALL MARGIN OF ERROR FOR THE 1500 4 INTERVIEWS IS PLUS OR MINUS 2.5 PERCENT, SO THAT'S QUITE 5 LOW. THE MARGIN OF ERROR FOR THE INDIVIDUAL DOLLAR 6 AMOUNTS THAT WE TESTED AT 500 INTERVIEWS EACH SEGMENT IS 7 PLUS OR MINUS 4.4 PERCENT, SO DO KEEP THAT NUMBER IN MIND. 8 SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE WE TESTED, I 9 WON'T READ EVERY WORD. BUT ESSENTIALLY, THIS WAS THE 10 LANGUAGE WE TESTED TO PROVIDE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 11 FRANCISCO LOCAL FUNDS THE STATE CANNOT TAKE AWAY IN OFF 12 STATE BUDGET CUTS. WE TALKED ABOUT ENSURING QUALITY 13 AFFORDABLE EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS KEEPING LIBRARIES OPEN 14 AND PREPARING STUDENTS FOR FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITIES AND 15 OTHER KEY SERVICES. 16 AND THEN THE $49, $68, $95, SO EACH -- SO ONE 17 RESPOND -- EACH RESPONDENT ONLY GOT ONE DOLLAR AMOUNT. 18 SO IF YOU GO TO THE RESULTS, THEY ARE VERY, VERY 19 ENCOURAGING, OKAY. YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY AT THRESHOLD. 20 REMEMBER THRESHOLD IS TWO-THIRDS VOTE TO PASS A PARCEL 21 TAX. AND SO AT DIFFERENT DOLLAR AMOUNTS, THERE'S SLIGHT 22 DIFFERENCES. BUT STATISTICALLY, THERE'S NO SIGNIFICANCE 23 WITH EACH DOLLAR AMOUNT WE TESTED, WHICH IS VERY 24 ENCOURAGING. SO ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY EVERY 25 DOLLAR AMOUNT IS AT OR ABOVE THRESHOLD. JUNE 23, 2011 18 1 YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT SUPPORTS A LITTLE SOFT. 2 YOU SEE THE INTENSITY, A DEFINITE "YES" IN THE DARK BLUE 3 AT $49 IT'S 27 PERCENT. AT $68 IT'S 30 PERCENT. $95, IS 4 27 PERCENT. 5 AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY STATISTICALLY, THERE'S NO 6 DIFFERENCE, BUT IT'S A LITTLE LOWER THAN WE WOULD LIKE TO 7 SEE AT THE OUTSET OF AN EFFORT LIKE THIS. BUT IF YOU LOOK 8 AT THE OPPOSITION, THE INTENSE OPPOSITION IS QUITE LOW 9 TOO, SO THERE ISN'T REALLY A STRONG BASE OF OPPOSITION TO 10 OPPOSE SUCH A THING. 11 IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, HERE IS COMPARING 12 THE TWO ELECTORATES, NOVEMBER 2012 AND NOVEMBER 2011. 13 NOVEMBER 2011, OBVIOUSLY, IS THIS NOVEMBER. IT'S A 14 MAYORAL ELECTION, BUT WE DON'T EXPECT THE TURNOUT TO BE 15 QUITE AS HIGH AS IT WOULD BE FOR NEXT NOVEMBER, A 16 PRESIDENT ELECTION. 17 AND THE REASON WE CHOSE NOVEMBER 2012 VERSUS SAY 18 JUNE 2012, WHICH IS A PRIMARY, IS THAT WE EXPECT TURNOUT 19 TO BE LOWER NEXT JUNE VERSUS THIS NOVEMBER. SO WE WANTED 20 TO LOOK AT A BROADER ELECTORATE AND SLIGHTLY NARROW 21 ELECTORATE. 22 AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS ESSENTIALLY IDENTICAL 23 RESULTS IN NOVEMBER 2012. THE COMBINED OF ALL 24 THREE DOLLARS -- EXCUSE ME, $68 WAS 69 PERCENT SUPPORT, 25 19 PERCENT OPPOSED. AND NOVEMBER 2011 68 PERCENT SUPPORT, JUNE 23, 2011 19 1 20 PERCENT OPPOSED. THAT'S STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT, 2 SO THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE TO GO IN NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR 3 VERSUS NEXT. 4 IN OTHER SURVEYS I'VE DONE, I'VE SEEN A FOUR OR 5 FIVE POINT DROP OFF WHERE IT REALLY BEHOOVES A DISTRICT TO 6 WAIT AND GO IN A BETTER ELECTION. BUT IN THE CASE OF SAN 7 FRANCISCO, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. 8 SO IF WE GO -- LOOK AT -- WHAT WE DID IN THE 9 COURSE OF THE SURVEY IS WE GAVE -- SIMULATED A CAMPAIGN 10 WHERE IT EXPOSED RESPONDENTS TO BOTH POSITIVE INFORMATION 11 ABOUT A PARCEL TAX AS WELL AS SOME NEGATIVE INFORMATION, 12 BASICALLY WHAT YOU WOULD SEE IN A BALLOT PAMPHLET THAT THE 13 CITY PUTS OUT. 14 AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS -- THIS IS WHERE WE SAW 15 DIVERSION BETWEEN $49, $68 AND $95. BECAUSE INITIALLY AS 16 YOU RECALL, WE STARTED OFF ROUGHLY AT THE SAME AMOUNT. 17 BUT AFTER POSITIVE/NEGATIVE INFORMATION, WE HAVE SEEN $49 18 GAINED SUPPORT. $68 PARCEL TAX GAINED SUPPORT. $95, 19 ESSENTIALLY DROPPED A COUPLE POINTS, BUT ESSENTIALLY 20 STAYED EVEN. AND SO THAT WHAT IT TELLS US IS THAT $49 AND 21 $68 PERFORMED SIMILARLY, RIGHT, WHERE $95 IS A HIGHER 22 DOLLAR AMOUNT. THERE ARE SOME VOTERS OUT THAT AREN'T AS 23 ENTHUSED ABOUT SUPPORTING A HIGHER DOLLAR AMOUNT. SO IT 24 TELLS US $68, YOU KNOW, HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF PASSING 25 THAN $95. JUNE 23, 2011 20 1 SO THE NEXT SLIDE YOU WILL SEE THE INTENSITY. 2 IN THE INITIAL VOTE AT $68 WAS 30 PERCENT DEFINITE "YES," 3 LIKE I MENTIONED. A LITTLE BIT LOW, YOU HAVE 8 PERCENT -- 4 9 PERCENT, EXCUSE ME, WERE LEANING TOWARD "YES." YOU 5 KNOW, THAT'S A LITTLE HIGH AND A LOT OF THOSE LEANING 6 "YESES" IN SAN FRANCISCO WILL VOTE YOUR WAY, BUT THEY ARE 7 NOT ALL GUARANTEED TO VOTE YOUR WAY SO YOU DON'T WANT TO 8 GO INTO ELECTION DAY WITH 69 PERCENT WITH 9 PERCENT AS 9 LEANERS. 10 BUT WE SEE AFTER AN ENGAGED CAMPAIGN AND 11 EDUCATING PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT A PARCEL TAX WOULD DO AND A 12 FUND, YOU SEE A 74 PERCENT TOTAL "YES" AND A SIGNIFICANT 13 INCREASE IN THE DEFINITE "YES" TO 40 PERCENT. THAT'S A 14 THRESHOLD THAT WE FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH RECOMMENDING 15 MOVING FORWARD IF YOU CAN REACH THAT THRESHOLD AND THE 16 8 PERCENT LEANING. 17 SO IN OTHER WORDS BETWEEN THE DEFINITE AND THE 18 PROBABLE "YESES" AFTER INFORMATION, YOU ARE AT 67 PERCENT. 19 SO YOU ARE AT THRESHOLD. THAT'S A SOLID "YES" AT 20 THRESHOLD, WHICH YOU ARE IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION. 21 IN THE "NO," YOU SEE NO INCREASE IN THE "NO" 22 SUPPORT. NO SIZEABLE INCREASE IN "NO" SUPPORT. SO THAT 23 TELLS US YOU HAVE VOTES TO PICK UP. YOU HAVE TO GO EARN 24 THEM AND GO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THIS. SO YOU ARE 25 NOT DONE YET. YOUR JOB IS NOT DONE YET. THIS IS ANOTHER JUNE 23, 2011 21 1 GOOD INDICATOR THAT YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF PASSING IT 2 IF YOU WERE TO PUT IT ON THE BALLOT FOR THIS NOVEMBER. 3 SO IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO BASED ON OUR 4 ANALYSIS OF THIS DATA, IT IS OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU 5 CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE $68 PARCEL TAX FOR 6 NOVEMBER 2011. THAT'S THIS YEAR. AS THE DATA SHOWS, 7 THERE'S SOLID SUPPORT AT THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT, BOTH 8 INITIALLY AND AFTER AN ENGAGED CAMPAIGN. 9 $68 PERFORMS NEARLY AS WELL AS $49 AND BETTER 10 THAN $95. SO IF THAT'S -- SO YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY CHOOSING 11 BETWEEN $49 AND $68. AND BASED ON THE SURVEY, THERE'S NO 12 REAL DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE. SO IN THAT CASE, GIVEN 13 YOUR BUDGET CHALLENGES AND THE AMOUNT OF DEFICIT AND THE 14 SIZE OF THE DEFICIT YOU ARE FACING AND THE UNCERTAINTY 15 WITH THE STATE BUDGET SITUATION, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, IT 16 WOULD BENEFIT THE DISTRICT TO MAXIMIZE THE BANG FOR THE 17 BUCK GIVEN THE PARCEL TAX AND TRY TO COLLECT AS MUCH 18 REVENUE TO BALANCE YOUR BUDGET AS YOU CAN. 19 THE FACT THAT A PARCEL TAX IN NOVEMBER 2011 DOES 20 AS WELL AS ONE FOR NOVEMBER 2012, INDICATES TO US THAT YOU 21 CAN MOVE FORWARD THIS YEAR IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO 22 SO, HOWEVER, WITH A CAVEAT. WHICH IS, YOU CANNOT JUST PUT 23 THIS ON THE BALLOT AND WALK AWAY. YOU NEED TO GO OUT 24 THERE AND WORK TO GET PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THIS. THE FACT IS 25 THAT YOU HAVE A LOW INITIAL INTENSITY AT 30 PERCENT JUNE 23, 2011 22 1 DEFINITE "YES." THAT'S LOWER THAN WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE 2 AND NORMALLY SEE FOR A SUCCESSFUL PARCEL TAXES. AND THE 3 FACT THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO MOVE PEOPLE AFTER THEY HEAR 4 INFORMATION, SHOWS YOU HAVE VOTES THAT YOU HAVE TO GO GET. 5 SO YOU WILL NEED, IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO THIS, 6 AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE SERIOUSLY. YOU HAVE TO UNDERTAKE A 7 STRONG PUBLIC EDUCATION OUTREACH EFFORT AND THEN YOU HAVE 8 TO RUN A REAL CAMPAIGN. AND YOU HAVE TO GET AS MANY 9 PEOPLE -- BUILD AS BROAD A COALITION AS YOU CAN TO GET AS 10 MANY PEOPLE WORKING IN SUPPORT OF THIS AS POSSIBLE. 11 BECAUSE IF THERE'S TENSION, REAL OPPOSITION TO DO THIS, IT 12 WOULD SEVERELY THREATEN YOUR ABILITY TO PASS IT THIS 13 NOVEMBER. 14 SO OUR POLL SUGGESTS YOU CAN PASS IT, BUT IT'S 15 NOT A SLAM DUNK. THE ODDS ARE VERY GOOD IN YOUR FAVOR OF 16 PASSING IT, BUT YOU STILL HAVE WORK TO DO IF YOU ARE GOING 17 TO GO FORWARD AND DO THAT. AND I WOULD CONSIDER, YOU 18 KNOW, BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO DO IT, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE 19 THAT YOU DO HAVE THE ABILITY, RESOURCES, AND COALITION OUT 20 THERE AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. 21 AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION, SO THANK 22 YOU. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, MR. TULCHIN. 24 MR. TULCHIN: OKAY. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: LAWRENCE HAS A QUESTION. JUNE 23, 2011 23 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: FOR MR. TULCHIN. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHY DON'T WE START WITH 4 QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD AND BRING MR. TULCHIN BACK UP 5 HERE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: THANK YOU, MR. TULCHIN. THAT'S 8 YOUR FIRM? 9 MR. TULCHIN: YES. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY, YEAH, OKAY. 11 YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THREE BOND 12 MEASURES, CAMPAIGN MEASURES FOR CITY COLLEGE SINCE I HAVE 13 BEEN ON THE BOARD. AND I'M KIND OF SURPRISED THAT YOUR 14 FIRM DIDN'T ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT IF THERE WERE OTHER 15 BOND MEASURES ALSO IN NOVEMBER 2011 OR NOVEMBER 2012, THEN 16 WHAT WOULD YOUR RESPONSE BE? 17 BECAUSE MANY TIMES IT WOULD BE DEPENDENT ON 18 WHETHER OR NOT THERE WERE OTHER BOND MEASURES THAT WOULD 19 BE ASKING ALSO THE ELECTORATE FOR THEIR SUPPORT. THAT'S 20 ONE THING. 21 WELL, WHAT WHY DON'T I ALLOW YOU TO ANSWER THAT 22 FIRST. IS THAT -- IS THERE A REASON WHY THAT QUESTION WAS 23 NOT INCLUDED IN YOUR SURVEY? 24 MR. TULCHIN: NO, THAT'S A FAIR QUESTION. ONE, 25 IS WE HAD LIMITED TIME TO ADDRESS ALL THE QUESTIONS WE HAD JUNE 23, 2011 24 1 ABOUT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 2 TWO, MY EXPERIENCE IN THESE KINDS OF MEASURES IS 3 THAT VOTERS WILL SUPPORT A MEASURE FOR ITS MERITS OR NOT, 4 RIGHT, EVEN IF THERE ARE OTHER ITEMS ON THE BALLOT. 5 SO, YOU KNOW, IF THEY SUPPORT COMMUNITY -- THE 6 MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO MEASURE SUPPORT FOR YOUR PARCEL 7 TAX BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE PAYING ME TO FIND OUT. 8 THE OTHER IS, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL 9 BE ON THE BALLOT, NONE OF US DOES. AND I DON'T THINK THE 10 MAYOR OR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS KNOWS YET. SO IT'S HARD 11 FOR US TO, YOU KNOW, TEST HYPOTHETICALS IN A SURVEY WHEN 12 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL BE ON THE BALLOT. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: I MEAN. I THINK IT'S BEEN DONE 14 IN THE PAST WHERE IT'S HYPOTHETICALLY BECAUSE USUALLY 15 THERE ARE OTHER BOND MEASURES. AND ALSO IN THE PAST, WE 16 HAVE CONSULTED WITH THE CURRENT MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF 17 SUPERVISORS AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PLANNING. ARE 18 YOU GOING TO HAVE A HOSPITAL BOND MEASURE ON LAGUNA HONDA? 19 HOW IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT US IF CITY COLLEGE ALSO HAS A 20 BOND MEASURE? 21 THAT PROVIDES A LITTLE MORE OF A REALISTIC 22 PICTURE. SO I THINK TAKING THIS IN ISOLATION LOOKS VERY 23 ROSY, BUT WE ALSO -- I THINK THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE FOR 24 THE DISTRICT THEN TO CONSULT WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THE 25 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BECAUSE IF THERE'S GOING TO BE JUNE 23, 2011 25 1 COMPETING BOND MEASURES AND WHAT YOU SAY HAS A DEGREE OF 2 TRUTH TO IT THAT PEOPLE DO IN GENERAL SUPPORT EDUCATION, 3 BUT THEN WE ARE LIVING IN DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES NOW. 4 AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT THESE THINGS DIFFERENTLY, EVERY 5 DOLLAR COUNTS. SO THAT'S A QUESTION. 6 AND A STATEMENT I JUST WANT TO MAKE IS THAT CITY 7 COLLEGE ITSELF IS GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT 8 WE ARE PREPARED FOR A FULL FLEDGED EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN 9 BECAUSE IT'S NOT EASY. AND IT'S ONE THING TO SAY, WE ARE 10 GOING TO BE IN A CAMPAIGN. AND IT'S ANOTHER THING FOR US 11 TO COMMIT. IT'S NOT EASY. 12 AND BY THE WAY, THERE'S ALWAYS OPPOSITION. 13 THERE'S ALWAYS OPPOSITION. IT MAY BE A TOKEN OPPOSITION, 14 BUT THERE'S OPPOSITION BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO CONNECTION 15 WITH CITY COLLEGE WHO FIGURE THEIR GRANDKIDS ARE ALL GROWN 16 AND IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH US AND WE DON'T WANT -- SO 17 THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE OPPOSITION. 18 SO YOU ARE RIGHT. THE EDUCATION PART IS VERY 19 IMPORTANT. AND I THINK A VERY STRONG COMPONENT OF THAT IS 20 WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO 21 CAMPAIGN VERY, VERY HARD, YOU KNOW, IN THIS ECONOMIC 22 CLIMATE, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ANY OTHER TRUSTEES? 24 TRUSTEE GRIER. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO. JUNE 23, 2011 26 1 YOUR FIRM CAME HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR US, SO I 2 AM REAL PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS YOU FOUND. 3 MY QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH NEXT STEPS IN TERMS 4 OF THE PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGN THAT WE MUST LODGE AND 5 GO FORWARD AND ALL THE OUTREACH THAT'S NEEDED. 6 SO THE CONTRACT WE HAVE WITH YOU, DOES IT END 7 WITH YOUR REPORT? DO WE GET SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS OR 8 ANY OTHER KIND OF ASSISTANCE AS WE GO FORWARD WITH THIS 9 PARCEL MEASURE? 10 MR. TULCHIN: YEAH, SO TECHNICALLY MY CONTRACT 11 ENDS WITH PRESENTING THE RESULTS, BUT I AM -- AND TO GIVE 12 YOU GUIDANCE IN TERMS OF THE SIZE OF THE AMOUNT OF THE 13 PARCEL TAX AND WHETHER YOU CAN GO FORWARD 14 NOVEMBER 2011-2012. BUT HONESTLY, AS A RESIDENT OF SAN 15 FRANCISCO, I MEAN I WILL OFFER TO HELP ANY WAY I CAN TO 16 GET THIS OFF THE GROUND AND GUIDE YOU BECAUSE IT'S TWO 17 TRACKS. 18 IT'S WHAT THE COLLEGE CAN DO ON ITS OWN THIS 19 SUMMER. AND THEN ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO DO A 20 SEPARATE TRACK OF A CAMPAIGN, HIRING A CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT 21 RUNNING A FULL-FLEDGED CAMPAIGN. NOW MY FIRM DOESN'T DO 22 THAT, SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO HIRE A SEPARATE FIRM TO DO 23 THAT. BUT, AGAIN, I CAN -- I'M HAPPY TO PROVIDE AS MUCH 24 GUIDANCE TO YOU WITHIN THE SCOPE OF MY CONTRACT OR EVEN AS 25 I CAN. JUNE 23, 2011 27 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND JUST AS A REMINDER, TRUSTEE 2 WONG, REMEMBER THE PAST BONDS THAT WE HAVE PASSED, WE'VE 3 ALWAYS HAD THE HELP OF LABOR, CONSTITUENT GROUPS, AND 4 STUDENTS, AND A LOT OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT. SO WE DO HAVE 5 THAT. AND WE WILL BE COUNTING ON THAT KIND OF SUPPORT 6 AGAIN. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: WE WOULD NEED IT. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: YES, THANK YOU. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 ANYONE ELSE? 11 TRUSTEE NGO? 12 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ANSWERED 13 THIS QUESTION, BEN, BUT HOW MUCH IS THAT SUPPOSED TO 14 GENERATE, THE $68 PER UNIT PARCEL TAX FOR THE DISTRICT. 15 MR. TULCHIN: DOES SOMEONE -- 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: 13.5. 17 MR. TULCHIN: 13.5. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: 13.6. 19 MR. TULCHIN: 13.6 MILLION A YEAR. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: 13.6, AND USUALLY -- AGAIN, I'M 21 NOT SURE IF YOU ARE THE ONE TO ANSWER THIS, BUT HOW LONG 22 IS THAT -- WHAT'S THE EXPIRATION DATE ON IT? 23 MR. TULCHIN: SO THE EXPIRATION -- WE DIDN'T 24 TEST A SPECIFIC LENGTH. BUT BASED ON PRECEDENT, YOUR 25 CHANCE OF SUCCESS INCREASE THE SHORTER THE PARCEL TAX IS JUNE 23, 2011 28 1 BECAUSE YOU ARE ASKING VOTERS TO FUND -- TO ADDRESS BUDGET 2 CUTS. AND SO THEY KIND OF FIGURE OUT, WELL, IF YOU ARE 3 ASKING FOR A PERMANENT INCREASE, THAT'S NOT ADDRESSING A 4 SHORT-TERM NEED. 5 BUT TYPICALLY, FOUR YEARS, SIX YEARS, YOU CAN GO 6 AS LONG AS EIGHT, BUT THE SHORTER IT IS, THE HIGHER YOUR 7 CHANCES ARE OF PASSING. AND AS A REMINDER -- AS A POINT, 8 IT'S ALWAYS EASIER TO PASS AN EXTENSION IF YOU NEED 9 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES DOWN THE ROAD AFTER SIX OR EIGHT 10 YEARS. IT'S EASIER TO GET VOTERS TO APPROVE AN EXTENSION 11 BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO LOSE WHAT THEY HAVE, VERSUS 12 IT'S VERY HARD TO PASS A LONG-TERM PARCEL TAX, SO DO KEEP 13 THAT IN MIND. THAT'S BASED ON PAST PRECEDENT. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: AND IS THERE GOING TO BE A COST 15 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE WIN OR NOT FOR THE ACTUAL 16 ELECTION THAT WE HAVE TO PAY OUT OF POCKET? 17 MR. TULCHIN: I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN ANSWER THAT. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 19 MR. TULCHIN: IF YOU ARE ON AN EXISTING CAMPAIGN 20 I DON'T THINK IT IS, BUT I AM NOT AN EXPERT. I MEAN I'M 21 NOT -- 22 TRUSTEE NGO: SOMEONE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION 23 CAN ANSWER IT. 24 MR. TULCHIN: I THINK THE DISTRICT WOULD 25 PROBABLY HAVE TO -- THERE'S NO COST TO THE DISTRICT -- JUNE 23, 2011 29 1 TRUSTEE NGO: NO, WOULD WE BE CHARGED 2 ESSENTIALLY -- ANY RELATED COST TO PUT THIS ON THE BALLOT? 3 MAYBE, PETER, YOU CAN -- 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT COST 5 ACTUALLY. 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I DON'T RECALL THE SPECIFIC 7 AMOUNT, BUT WE WOULD CERTAINLY BE ASKED TO BEAR A SHARE OF 8 THE COST OF THE ELECTION RUN ON FOR NOVEMBER. AS 9 SIMILARLY WE ARE ASKED TO BEAR OUR SHARE OF THE COST WHEN 10 THE TRUSTEES ARE ON THE BALLOT CURRENTLY EVERY OTHER YEAR. 11 IF YOU WIN THE MEASURE, THEN YOU CAN USE 12 PROCEEDS FROM THE MEASURE TO PAY THAT COST. BUT OF 13 COURSE, IF YOU DON'T WIN, THEN THE COLLEGE'S OPERATING 14 BUDGET WOULD ABSORB THE COST. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: WHAT ARE THEY TYPICALLY, A 16 BALLPARK? 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT 18 THEY CITED US FOR. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR, DO YOU WANT TO SAY 20 SOMETHING? 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I BELIEVE -- 22 TRUSTEE NGO: SO -- 23 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I'M SORRY. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: GO AHEAD. 25 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I BELIEVE IT WAS IN THE JUNE 23, 2011 30 1 NEIGHBORHOOD OF $300,000 FOR THE REGULAR TRUSTEE ELECTION. 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT -- 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WOULD BE MORE, WOULDN'T IT? 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT COULD BE MORE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BECAUSE YOU HAVE MORE PAGES IN 7 THE BALLOT BOOK WITH THE BOND MEASURE. 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT DEPENDS ON -- THE WAY THEY 9 DO -- THEIR METHODOLOGY DEPENDS ON WHAT ELSE IS ON THE 10 BALLOT THAT DAY AND THEN THEY PRORATE IT -- BASED ON HOW 11 MUCH IS ON THE BALLOT. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, SO I'M NOT DONE YET WITH THE 13 QUESTIONS FOR -- 14 ACTUALLY, PETER, YOU PROBABLY SHOULD ANSWER THIS 15 QUESTION. SO WE ARE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY 13.6 MILLION 16 OVER "X" AMOUNT OF YEARS. AND DO WE KNOW WHAT OUR 17 STRUCTURAL COSTS WOULD BE NEXT YEAR AND YEARS AFTER? 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH, WELL, CERTAINLY WE HAVE 19 COSTS THAT WILL INCREASE EVERY YEAR FOR THIS RANGE OF 20 YEARS RELATED TO HEALTH INSURANCE FOR CURRENT AND RETIRED 21 EMPLOYEES. AND WE ARE FULLY EXPECTING COST INCREASES FOR 22 THE SAN FRANCISCO RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF POSSIBLY FOR STRS 23 AT SOME POINT AS WELL, BUT THEY DO VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR 24 DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH THOSE INCREASES ARE. AND WE DON'T 25 KNOW ANYTHING SPECIFIC, OTHER THAN THE CURRENT YEAR JUNE 23, 2011 31 1 INCREASES. 2 BUT BASED ON THAT EXPERIENCE, YOU WOULD EXPECT 3 HEALTH CARE COSTS TO GO UP ANYWHERE FROM ONE TO $2 MILLION 4 IN A GIVEN YEAR. AND THE PENSION INCREASE JUST FOR THE 5 CLASSIFIED SIDE WAS A MILLION AND A HALF THIS YEAR. AND 6 OF COURSE, IF WE HAD A PENSION INCREASE FOR CERTIFICATED 7 EMPLOYEES, IT COULD BE THAT MUCH OR MORE, BUT THAT'S AN 8 UNKNOWN RIGHT NOW. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: SO WE ARE LOOKING AT BASICALLY, 10 JUST BASED ON YOUR -- WELL, FOR THIS YEAR AND MAYBE THE 11 TREND EVEN, WE ARE LOOKING AT THREE TO FIVE -- WELL, FIVE 12 TO -- FOUR TO 5 MILLION DOLLARS NEXT YEAR THAT WOULD COME 13 OUT OF ANY PARCEL TAX REVENUE. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY OUR 15 BENEFIT COST TO INCREASE BY AT LEAST BY THAT MUCH. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: SO THE REAL NET OF THIS PARCEL TAX 17 IS NOT 13.6. IT WOULD BE 13.6 MINUS THOSE COSTS THAT ARE 18 GOING UP THAT HAVE NO ATTRIBUTABLE REVENUE TIED TO IT 19 WHICH IS ABOUT FOUR TO 5 MILLION DOLLARS. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE COST WE DISCUSSED A MOMENT 21 AGO DON'T HAVE ANY SPECIFIC REVENUES THAT WILL NECESSARILY 22 APPEAR TO COVER THEM, HOWEVER, THE COLLEGE WOULD EXPECT 23 SOME REVENUE INCREASE NEXT YEAR IN GENERAL. AND AGAIN, 24 THAT NUMBER IS INDETERMINED -- INDETERMINATE RIGHT NOW. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT MAKE THE CASE JUNE 23, 2011 32 1 FOR A PARCEL TAX IF WE ARE EXPECTING REVENUE NEXT YEAR, 2 RIGHT? 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I AM THINKING ON A SMALL -- A 4 RELATIVELY SMALL SCALE ANNUAL INCREASE FOR SALES TAX, 5 LOTTERY, NONRESIDENT, THINGS WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT 6 LATER. WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S ANY STATE MONEY FOR GROWTH 7 OR COLA A YEAR DOWN THE ROAD, IS KIND OF JUST UNKNOWN 8 RIGHT NOW. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I MEAN I THINK THE LARGER 10 POINT IS THAT WE HAD A NEIGHBORING DISTRICT THAT WENT 11 THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS. 12 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SAN MATEO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: SAN MATEO. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AND THEY PUT A PARCEL TAX OUT 16 THERE LAST YEAR. AND I THINK THEY GOT $8 MILLION FOR IT 17 AND PASSED IT. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AND FELL INTO DEFICIT AGAIN 20 BECAUSE OF THESE BUDGET CUTS AND OTHER STRUCTURAL COSTS. 21 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: THE QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT WE 23 ARE BEING SMART ABOUT WHY AND HOW WE ARE TRYING TO GET 24 REVENUE GIVEN ALL THE CAPITAL WE HAVE TO SPEND, ALL THE 25 HUMAN CAPITAL AND TIME AND ENERGY WE HAVE TO SPEND WITH JUNE 23, 2011 33 1 THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS HERE AT THE COLLEGE, AND WHAT WE 2 ARE ASKING FOR VOTERS TO GIVE US NEXT YEAR IF THIS PARCEL 3 TAX PASSES. 4 BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS THE LANGUAGE IS CORRECT IN 5 THEORY, THE REASON WHY WE ARE GETTING THE PARCEL TAX 6 REVENUE, BUT NOT ALL THE MONEY THE REVENUE IS GOING TO 7 GENERATE IS GOING TO GO IN FACT TO THOSE THINGS. 8 AND I THINK IT'S -- I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT -- NO 9 OFFENSE TO THE POLLSTER. I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS 10 CONVERSATION AROUND PARCEL TAX HAS BEEN TOO PREMATURE. I 11 STILL THINK IT IS TOO PREMATURE. 12 AND I THINK WE HAVE TO REALLY, REALLY THINK 13 ABOUT WHY AND WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH REGARD TO ANY 14 REVENUE, ANY ATTEMPTS TO GET REVENUE WHEN WE ARE ASKING 15 TAXPAYERS TO FORK OVER THEIR MONEY TO THIS PROCESS, TO 16 THIS PROJECT ACTUALLY AND NOT NECESSARILY BE COMPLETELY 17 THOROUGH ABOUT WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY ASKING THEM TO GIVE US 18 AND WHAT THEY ARE GETTING IN RETURN. 19 SO I AM HIGHLY SKEPTICAL STILL OF THE PARCEL TAX 20 REVENUE, BUT NOT SKEPTICAL TO THE POLLING RESULTS AND THE 21 WORK THAT THE POLLSTER HAS DONE. I APPRECIATE HIS WORK 22 CERTAINLY. SO THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. THANK YOU. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND I JUST WANT TO JUNE 23, 2011 34 1 PREFACE BY SAYING, YOU KNOW, GOOD JOB ON THE POLL. I AM 2 ACTUALLY STILL SHOCKED THAT SOMEHOW 2011 IS THE SAME AS 3 2012. BUT I GUESS IF THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS GOT, THAT MAKES 4 SENSE TO ME. 5 YOU KNOW, THIS PARCEL TAX IN SOME WAYS IS A 6 MORALE BOOSTER FOR -- YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT IT IS A MORALE 7 BOOSTER FOR OUR INSTITUTION. YOU KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH 8 SO MUCH. WE'VE CUT MUCH. WE'VE REDUCED SO MUCH. WE HAVE 9 NOT INTENTIONALLY, BUT JUST BY BUDGET CUTS, WE'VE DENIED 10 ACCESS TO SO MANY BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, CLASSES. TEACHERS 11 HAVE PUT IN, YOU KNOW, 50 PEOPLE TO A 30-PERSON CLASS. 12 THAT HAS AN IMPACT. 13 I JUST HEARD, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE DAYS AGO 14 TRUSTEE GRIER TALKING ABOUT OUR JANITORIAL STAFF TAKING ON 15 ADDITIONAL WORKLOADS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT FILLING IT. 16 AND I HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF A 17 TRUSTEE, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE BOARD FOR, YOU KNOW, GOING 18 ON THREE YEARS NOW AND NEVER HAVING HAD A BUDGET, YOU 19 KNOW, THAT WAS ANYTHING -- WE ARE CLOSE TO BEING ADEQUATE 20 TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. 21 YOU KNOW, THIS I WOULD SAY IS AT LEAST AN EFFORT 22 IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, BRINGING THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY 23 TOGETHER TO SAY, WELL, WE ALL HAVE TO STEP IN AND STEP UP 24 AND SUPPORT OUR COLLEGE. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S TOUGH TIMES, 25 BUT THE VALUE OF HAVING ACCESS TO CITY COLLEGE IS MORE JUNE 23, 2011 35 1 THAN $68 IN MY OPINION OR AN EXTRA $68. YOU KNOW, A 2 WEEK'S WORTH OF COFFEE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF PAYS FOR, YOU 3 KNOW, THE UPKEEP OF OUR INSTITUTION. 4 YOU KNOW, WHERE I LIVE, YOU KNOW, HAVING ACCESS 5 TO CLASSES IS, YOU KNOW, VITAL AND IT'S LIFESAVING, AND 6 IT'S LIFE AFFIRMING FOR A LOT PEOPLE. AND WHEN THEY DON'T 7 HAVE ACCESS TO EVANS CAMPUS AND THEIR VOCATIONAL TRAINING, 8 WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS AND 9 THEIR ACADEMIC PORTIONS, A LOT OF THESE FOLKS DON'T HAVE 10 ANY TYPES OF OPPORTUNITY PERIOD. 11 AND SO IF, YOU KNOW, IF ANYTHING I COULD DO TO 12 GIVE AN EFFORT TO BRING IN MORE REVENUE SO WE CAN STOP 13 DENYING ACCESS TO PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, I'M HAPPY TO BUILD, 14 YOU KNOW, BRIDGES. I'M HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH THE 15 ENTIRE INSTITUTION TO DO THAT BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS 16 SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY USE ON TEAM -- THIS 17 INSTITUTION USES A LOT OF TEAM-BUILDING EXERCISES. 18 AND I THINK THIS IS ONE THING THAT WE CAN DO TO 19 WORK TOGETHER TO SHOW THAT WE CARE ABOUT THIS INSTITUTION 20 AND TO REALLY BE SUPPORTED BY THE COMMUNITY. 21 WE VERY RARELY ASK THE COMMUNITY TO ACTUALLY GO 22 OUT AND SUPPORT US. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DID. I MEAN THEY 23 HAD -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY, KAHUNAS, BUT I JUST SAID IT. 24 BUT THEY WENT OUT THERE AND SAID, HEY, SUPPORT US PLEASE. 25 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT AND JUNE 23, 2011 36 1 THEY SUPPORTED THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND GAVE THEM A -- GAVE 2 UP SOME MONEY FROM THEIR PARCEL TAXES AND SUPPORTED THE 3 SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND WE HAVE TO REALLY BE OUT THERE AND 4 SAY, WELL, WE AT LEAST DO THE SAME AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT 5 DOES. WE PROVIDE CLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LOW INCOME. 6 WE PROVIDE GED. WE PROVIDE ESL TO PEOPLE. WE ARE ONE OF 7 THE LARGEST INSTITUTIONS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. WE 8 SHOULD BE GOING OUT THERE AND ASKING OUR COMMUNITY FOLKS 9 FOR A LITTLE HELP BECAUSE THE STATE SURE ISN'T GOING TO 10 HELP US. AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HASN'T HELPED US. 11 AND SO I MEAN -- AND THE CITY, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T 12 HAVE ANY MONEY EITHER, SO IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO ASK OUR 13 COMMUNITY FOLKS, AND WE DON'T FEEL STRONG ENOUGH TO ASK 14 OUR COMMUNITY FOLKS TO SUPPORT US, THEN I MEAN ARE WE 15 EVEN -- I MEAN THAT'S THE IDEA OF IT. AND SO I SEE IT AS 16 A TIME FOR CHOOSING AND SAYING, HEY, COMMUNITY, PLEASE 17 COME OUT AND SUPPORT THIS COLLEGE. 18 SO I HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU ARE 19 RIGHT, TRUSTEE NGO, AND OTHER FOLKS. YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE 20 TO SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT OUT OF THIS PARCEL 21 TAX AND WHAT ARE OUR DELIVERABLES. AND THAT'S A 22 CONVERSATION THAT TOTALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN. 23 BUT I DON'T THINK THAT PRECLUDES US FROM GOING 24 OUT AND ASKING THE COMMUNITY TO PLEASE SUPPORT US FOR 68 25 BUCKS. I THINK YOU GET A HECK OF A LOT VALUE THEN WHAT WE JUNE 23, 2011 37 1 ARE ASKING THE COMMUNITY TO PUT IN. AND SO THAT CONCLUDES 2 MY COMMENTS. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 TRUSTEE BERG, YES. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: I ACTUALLY JUST WANT TO SAY, 7 THANK YOU FOR GETTING THIS DONE SO QUICKLY AND SO 8 EFFICIENTLY. 9 AND ALSO SAY TO EVERYBODY WHO IS IN THE AUDIENCE 10 WHO IS GOING TO REPRESENT THE WORKHORSES OF THIS CAMPAIGN, 11 IT'S TOUGH. IT'S VERY BRIEF. IF THE CAMPAIGN IS IN 12 NOVEMBER, MANY OF YOU AREN'T GOING TO BE AROUND IN THE 13 SUMMERTIME. IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT TO 14 MOBILIZE. AND WE REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO GET THAT DONE. 15 THIS ISN'T ATTACHED TO YOUR WORK. THIS IS 16 ATTACHED TO WHAT OUR FUTURE IS AT CITY COLLEGE, SO IT'S 17 REALLY IMPORTANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS. WE'VE GOT TO 18 MOBILIZE IT AND WE'VE GOT TO GET IT DONE. 19 AND I CAN'T -- I REALLY CAN'T EMPHASIZE THAT 20 ENOUGH BECAUSE IT'S NOT MUCH TIME. I MEAN CAMPAIGNS ARE 21 TIME CONSUMING. AND THEY TAKE A LOT OF TIME TO PLAN. AND 22 THEY TAKE A LOT OF GRUNT WORK. AND WE REALLY NEED TO DO 23 THAT. 24 SO I AM GIVING EVERYBODY A HEADS UP IN SAYING, 25 YOU KNOW, FOR THE -- HOWEVER WE GET, THE $13.6 MILLION JUNE 23, 2011 38 1 WHICH IS GOING TO EASE YOUR BURDEN TREMENDOUSLY WHEN WE 2 GET IT. IT REALLY IS. IT'S GOING TO BE JUST A GODSEND 3 FOR US, SO BE PREPARED BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO BE CALLING 4 ON ALL OF YOU AND THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR WORK. 5 AND THANK YOU, BEN, I APPRECIATE IT. 6 MR. TULCHIN: THANK YOU. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? 9 THANK YOU, MR. TULCHIN. 10 DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS ISSUE? 11 PLEASE COME UP AND GIVE US A CARD. 12 MS. THOMAS: YES, THIS IS NOT A HAPPY FACE. 13 THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY. I WILL IMPLORE YOU 14 AGAIN JUST FOR THIS ONE STATEMENT RIGHT HERE. 15 "CCSF WILL NEED TO UNDERTAKE A STRONG PUBLIC 16 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM REGARDING THE NEED FOR A 17 TAX FOLLOWED BY A FULL CAMPAIGN TO ASSURE PASSAGE." 18 I PERSONALLY, AND SEIU TOTALLY AGREE. AND WE 19 HAVE BEEN ON RECORD MORE THAN ONCE SAYING SEIU IS NOT 20 ANTI-PARCEL TAX. WE ARE ANTI-LOSING. 21 AND WHAT YOU BROUGHT UP, HOW MANY HOGS ARE GOING 22 TO THE TROUGH TO BEG FOR MONEY? THAT'S A AN ISSUE. 23 THAT'S A REAL ISSUE. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S A REAL ISSUE. 25 MS. THOMAS: BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THINGS ARE WON JUNE 23, 2011 39 1 IN THIS CITY, OKAY? EVERYBODY CAN'T GO AT THE SAME TIME 2 BECAUSE EVERYBODY ONLY HAS A DOLLAR THAT THEY ARE DIVYING 3 UP. 4 WE CAN'T VOTE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A SHORT 5 TIMEFRAME. WE CAN'T VOTE IN NOVEMBER. NOVEMBER IS NOT A 6 MONTH THAT WE USE. WE VOTE IN NOVEMBER. WE VOTE AT THE 7 BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER, SO NOVEMBER IS OUT. THIS IS JUNE. 8 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GETTING SOME OF THIS LANGUAGE AND ALL 9 OF THIS OTHER KIND OF STUFF STRAIGHT NEXT MONTH, OKAY? SO 10 WE HAVE AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, AND OCTOBER. WE HAVE 90 DAYS. 11 AND I FEEL -- I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS HOW I FEEL 12 ADEQUATELY BECAUSE THIS IS EXACTLY WHERE WE WERE LAST YEAR 13 TALKING ABOUT THIS 90 DAYS. ALL OF YOU HAVE CAMPAIGNED. 14 YOU CAMPAIGNED MORE THAN 90 DAYS. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY WE 15 HAVE THIS BUMP IN THE ROAD THAT NOBODY REALLY WANTS TO 16 DISCUSS ADEQUATELY. 17 I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE. I LOOK AT THESE BUDGETS 18 TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH. AND I'M NOT PETER, BUT I'M LOOKING AT 19 THE BUDGET. AND IT'S LIKE, I KNOW WE NEED THE MONEY. I 20 UNDERSTAND THE STATE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. I 21 UNDERSTAND THAT STUDENTS ARE GETTING TURNED AWAY FROM MATH 22 AND ENGLISH AND THEIR CORE CLASSES. I GET IT. 23 ASIDE FROM THE CUSTODIAL ISSUE, I ACTUALLY LIKE 24 SCHOOL. PERSONALLY, I THINK IT'S GREAT. I DON'T THINK 25 IT'S GREAT FOR US TO STAMPEDE OFF A CLIFF LIKE A BUNCH OF JUNE 23, 2011 40 1 PIGS. I DON'T THINK THAT'S GREAT. 2 I WANT TO WIN. I BELIEVE WE CAN IN 2012 BECAUSE 3 WHAT IS THE CAMPAIGN? WHAT IS THE EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH? 4 WHAT IS IT? 5 THAT'S A CONVERSATION WE NEVER HAVE. I WANT TO 6 KNOW WHAT IT IS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT'S GOING TO MAKE US OR 7 BREAK US. EVERYBODY BELIEVES IN SAN FRANCISCO CITY 8 COLLEGE. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS HERE WE DON'T HAVE TO 9 ARGUE ABOUT. WE BELIEVE WE ARE GREAT. WE BELIEVE WE DO A 10 GOOD JOB. WE BELIEVE WE HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB. WE BELIEVE 11 WITH THE RESOURCES WE CAN GET. EVEN WITH THE CURRENT 12 RESOURCES WE HAVE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO A GREAT JOB. 13 THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE. WE'VE GOT GOOD PEOPLE WORKING. 14 THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE. WE'VE GOT GREAT STUDENTS. THAT'S 15 NOT THE ISSUE. AND WE ALL AGREE ON THAT. 16 WHAT WE DON'T AGREE ON IS HOW WE ARE GOING TO DO 17 THIS BECAUSE WE AGREE WE NEED THE MONEY. WE AGREE WE 18 SHOULD DO A PARCEL TAX. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WE AGREE 19 ON. MORE THAN MOST. BUT WE DON'T AGREE ON THAT. 90 20 DAYS, YOU GUYS, 90 DAYS. WE HAVE TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT 21 THIS. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: BEFORE YOU -- 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: EXCUSE ME -- 24 TRUSTEE WONG: I WANT TO ASK -- 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- EXCUSE ME, TRUSTEE WONG. JUNE 23, 2011 41 1 COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE -- 2 MS. THOMAS: OH, ANGELA THOMAS. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 4 ARE YOU SPEAKING FOR YOURSELF OR ARE YOU 5 REPRESENTING YOUR ORGANIZATION? 6 MS. THOMAS: I AM REPRESENTING SEIU, AND I AM 7 SPEAKING FOR MYSELF ALSO. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 MS. THOMAS: I AM. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: ANGELA. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: LET ME ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: 13 WHAT IS PUBLIC EDUCATION? AND WHAT IS OUTREACH? 14 WHAT THAT IS IS RAISING MONEY, ENOUGH MONEY TO 15 WAGE A CAMPAIGN TO REACH VOTERS. SO THAT IS A MAJOR 16 CONCERN BECAUSE WE NEED TO RAISE A LOT OF MONEY. RAISING 17 MONEY IS NOT EASY. IT IS NOT EASY. I MEAN WE'VE ALL BEEN 18 THERE AS CANDIDATES. 19 AS I SAID, I HAVE BEEN THROUGH THREE BOND 20 MEASURES, MAJOR, MAJOR EFFORT IN RAISING HUNDREDS OF 21 THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR A CAMPAIGN. SO THAT'S WHAT IT 22 MEANS, PUBLIC EDUCATION BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO GET STUFF 23 IN THE MAIL, CAMPAIGN LITERATURE THAT COSTS, PRINTING, 24 MAILING, OUTREACH MEANS ALL OF US GO TO OUR COMMUNITIES TO 25 MEETINGS. AND ALSO WITH SOMETHING IN HAND, PRINTED WHICH JUNE 23, 2011 42 1 COSTS. 2 SO IN PART -- IN LARGE PART, OUTREACH, PUBLIC 3 EDUCATION MEANS RAISING MONEY. AND 90 DAYS TO DO THAT. 4 MS. THOMAS: 90 DAYS. BECAUSE SEE WHEN WE 5 GOSSIP ABOUT THIS OVER AT THE LOCAL, WE SAY, WHERE ARE THE 6 MEDIA ADS? WHERE ARE THE NEWSPAPER ADS THAT SAY, BECAUSE 7 I WENT TO SAN FRANCISCO CITY COLLEGE AND I RE-SKILLED 8 MYSELF, NOW I CAN REENTER THE JOB MARKET THAT THREW ME 9 OUT. WHERE IS ALL THAT? ALL OF THAT. 10 WE FEEL THAT IT IS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING BECAUSE 11 WE WANT TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OVER THE MONEY THAT WE GET 12 FROM THE PUBLIC. SO WE CAN ASK AGAIN BECAUSE SAN 13 FRANCISCO CITY COLLEGE IS GOING TO OUTLIVE ALL OF US THAT 14 ARE SITTING HERE. AND WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN SOME 15 TIME OR ANOTHER WHETHER WE ARE ALIVE TO SEE IT. WE ARE 16 GOING TO DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME SO WE CAN PREPARE FOR THE 17 NEXT TIME. 18 EVERYTHING WE DO, YOU GUYS, IS STEPPING STONES 19 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO COME BEHIND US. WE 20 HAVE TO DO THINGS RIGHT BECAUSE IN THIS ECONOMY ALL OF OUR 21 CREDIBILITY ARE ON THE LINE. 22 AND I AM NOT FUSSING AT YOU. I REALIZE MY VOICE 23 MAY SOUND A LITTLE EDGY, BUT I JUST WANT US TO DO THIS 24 RIGHT. AND I HAVE SAID THIS I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES. 25 I SAID THIS LAST YEAR WHEN WE TRIED THIS WITH THE SAME 90 JUNE 23, 2011 43 1 DAYS. AND I AM JUST LIKE YOU. I AM SURPRISED THAT THE 2 POLLING IS FLAT WHERE IT'S THE SAME AS THIS YEAR AND NEXT 3 YEAR. I WANT TO KNOW IF SOME OF THEM WAS ON THEIR 4 MEDICINE WHEN YOU CALLED, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THAT JUST 5 BLOWS MY MIND. YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S GOOD THING. 6 BUT DON'T GET -- I DON'T WANT TO USE THAT 7 WORD -- SWAYED BY THE FACT THAT OUR NUMBERS ARE SO HIGH 8 BECAUSE THEY WERE HIGH BASED ON A FOCUSED QUESTION. 9 PEOPLE CAN CHANGE BECAUSE THEIR ECONOMIC STANDING CAN 10 CHANGE. AND IT'S GOING TO CHANGE THEIR OPINION. 11 BUT IF WE HONESTLY MARKET WHO WE ARE, THAT IS 12 SOMETHING THAT IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE. IF WE CAN MARKET 13 WHAT GOOD WORK WE'VE DONE, IF WE TELL THE TRUTH, BECAUSE 14 THAT'S ALL WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS THE TRUTH OF WHAT 15 THIS COLLEGE DOES TO ENOUGH PEOPLE IN A TIMELY FASHION, I 16 BELIEVE WE WILL WIN. I REALLY, REALLY DO. I DO. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 MS. MESSER: ALISA MESSER, AFT 2121. 19 YOU'VE HEARD FROM US OVER THE LAST WHAT YEAR, 20 MORE THAN A YEAR THAT WE SUPPORT A PARCEL TAX THAT WE WANT 21 TO DO IT RIGHT. 22 I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH ANGELA THAT ONE OF THE 23 QUESTIONS IS WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN PULL TOGETHER A 24 CONCERTED AND A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN. I THINK THESE 25 NUMBERS ARE REALLY GOOD. AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE US MOVE JUNE 23, 2011 44 1 FORWARD IF WE CAN PULL TOGETHER AND PLAN OUT AND REALLY 2 THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT CAMPAIGN MIGHT BE. 3 SO I KNOW THIS IS A DISCUSSION ITEM, BUT I WOULD 4 HOPE THAT WE WOULD GET TOGETHER AN EXPLORATORY CAMPAIGN 5 COMMITTEE TO BEGIN THINKING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S 6 POSSIBLE. BECAUSE IF IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO RUN A CAMPAIGN 7 AND DO THE FUNDRAISING AND THE OUTREACH ON THE SHORT 8 TIMELINE THAT ANGELA IS DESCRIBING, I AGREE WE SHOULDN'T 9 GO FORWARD. BUT THE HOPE IS THAT WE CAN DO THAT. 10 13 MILLION IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. 11 IT'S NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS. AND IT'S 12 NOT GOING TO EVEN SOLVE THE BUDGET GAP THAT WE HAVE RIGHT 13 NOW. WE REALLY NEEDED $95. 14 BUT WE DO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT GAP AND WE HAVE A 15 WHOLE LOT OF THINGS TO TAKE CARE OF IN ORDER TO SERVE OUR 16 STUDENTS AND TO BAND TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. AND I THINK 17 THAT NOW IS REALLY THE TIME TO START TALKING ABOUT AND 18 REALLY TRULY EXPLORE WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN DO IT. 19 I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT WE HAD A LOT OF 20 CONVERSATION ABOUT A PROGRESSIVE TAX. AND THAT'S BEEN 21 SOMETHING THAT AFT 2121 WAS REALLY CONCERNED TO SEE 22 HAPPEN. THE POLLING HASN'T REALLY SUPPORTED THAT. IT 23 DIDN'T THIS TIME. SO THAT'S A BIT OF A DISAPPOINTMENT. 24 AND THE ONE OTHER CONCERN THAT WE HAD WAS THAT 25 THERE IS NO SENIOR EXEMPTION IN THE WAY THAT THIS THING JUNE 23, 2011 45 1 HAS BEEN DONE. AND WE KNOW THAT WE GET A -- AT LEAST 2 ACCORDING TO MR. TULCHIN, WE GET A BOOST FROM A SENIOR 3 EXEMPTION. PLUS WE, RIGHT, ARE NOT HOLDING OUR FIXED 4 INCOME SENIORS TO -- AND ASKING THEM TO DO THAT WORK. 5 SO THAT'S A COMPLICATED ISSUE AND SOMETHING THAT 6 NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT MORE BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME LEGAL 7 QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. BUT WE WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO SEE A 8 SENIOR EXEMPTION INCLUDED AS WELL. THANKS. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS? 11 TRUSTEE WONG: JUST -- 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: I WAS JUST TALKING TO NATALIE, 14 AND I WAS WONDERING HOW MUCH WE HAD TO RAISE FOR OUR -- AT 15 LEAST THE LAST TWO BOND MEASURES BECAUSE THE FIRST ONE I 16 WAS INVOLVED WAS CONNECTED WITH THE UNIFIED SCHOOL 17 DISTRICT WHERE WE GOT A SMALL PERCENTAGES AS YOU ALL 18 REMEMBER. 19 I THINK WE RAISED ABOUT 350 TO 400,000 FOR THOSE 20 TWO LAST BOND MEASURES. I MEAN EACH BOND MEASURE. IT'S 21 LOT OF MONEY THAT WE HAD. WE PLANNED FAR IN ADVANCE ALSO. 22 SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. I AM NOT SAYING I AM 23 FOR OR AGAINST. IT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BECAUSE 24 CAMPAIGNS ARE BASED ON MONEY. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: CAN I ASK A POINT OF JUNE 23, 2011 46 1 INFORMATION? 2 WHEN DID YOU GUYS START PLANNING FOR THE BOND 3 ITSELF? 4 TRUSTEE WONG: IT WAS -- WE HAD -- WE GAVE 5 OURSELVES QUITE A BIT OF TIME. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH. WE HAD ALMOST A YEAR. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: A YEAR. IT WAS NOT THREE MONTHS. 8 IT WAS A YEAR. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, CAN I SAY SOMETHING? 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, TRUSTEE BERG. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: THE TIMELINE IS SHORT. THERE'S 12 NO QUESTION THE TIMELINE IS SHORT. THERE'S NO QUESTION 13 THAT WE HAVE TO BE FOCUSED AND MOVE. 14 BUT IN ORDER TO GET IT DONE, AND I THINK IT IS 15 DOABLE BECAUSE THE POLLING SHOWS THAT PEOPLE ARE IN FAVOR, 16 THAT THE $68 FIGURE IS DOABLE. IF YOU WANT TO GO TO $95, 17 WHICH IS REALLY WHERE WE WANT IT TO GO AND COULDN'T MAKE 18 IT WORK, THAT'S ALL IN OUR FAVOR. 19 IF YOU START A CAMPAIGN WHERE YOU ALREADY HAVE A 20 SOLID BASE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN IT FOR AN INSTITUTION, 21 THEY ALREADY KNOW, THEY ALREADY SUPPORT, THAT'S A LOT 22 BETTER. 23 $68 TRULY IN THE LONG RUN FOR MOST OF THE 24 HOMEOWNERS IS NOT GOING TO BREAK THE BANK. I MEAN SURE 25 THESE ARE BAD ECONOMIC TIMES. THAT MEANS THAT WE GO INTO JUNE 23, 2011 47 1 THIS EFFORT WITH A LOT OF POSITIVES THAT YOU DON'T HAVE 2 WHEN -- LIKE WHEN WE DO A BOND MEASURE, WE DID THE 3 POLLING. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WITH A BOND MEASURE. A BOND 4 MEASURE IS QUITE A DIFFERENT THING FROM A PARCEL TAX. SO 5 I WOULDN'T BE QUITE SO NEGATIVE. 6 I THINK THAT THE QUESTION THAT WE NEED TO ASK 7 OURSELVES IS ARE WE WILLING TO DO THE WORK IN A SHORT 8 PERIOD OF TIME AND A TIME WHEN YOU ARE NOT NECESSARY AT 9 THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, AT THE COLLEGE CAMPUS. IT 10 REQUIRES A COMMITMENT. AND IF WE ARE NOT READY TO MAKE 11 THAT COMMITMENT, WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW THAT UP FRONT 12 BECAUSE THERE IS NO POINT IN GOING TO IT. AND THEN WE 13 JUST DELAY FOR A YEAR. 14 SO WHAT I AM HEARING IS THAT EVERYONE IS VERY 15 SKEPTICAL AND THEY ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT IT. I THINK 16 THAT WE PROBABLY SHOULD TAKE SOME TIME LIKE DURING THE 17 WEEK BECAUSE TIME IS SO PRECIOUS FOR THIS EVENT, THAT WE 18 SIT DOWN AND SEE REALLY IS IT DOABLE. 19 I THINK -- KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE ARE POSITIVES 20 IN THIS. WE ARE NOT GOING INTO THIS NOT KNOWING THAT 21 PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THIS. WE ARE GOING INTO 22 IT WITH A GOOD BASE OF SUPPORT. THAT'S HALF YOUR BATTLE. 23 I MEAN HALF THE BATTLE THAT WE RUN WHEN WE RUN 24 CAMPAIGNS IS TO CONVINCE SOMEBODY THAT THEY REALLY WANT TO 25 SUPPORT THIS. I MEAN THAT'S HOW WE GET ELECTED. IF JUNE 23, 2011 48 1 PEOPLE DON'T LIKE US, WE ARE NOT GOING TO WIN. I DON'T 2 CARE MUCH MONEY YOU PUT INTO IT, IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO 3 HAPPEN, SO THINK ABOUT THAT. 4 THINK ABOUT IT TONIGHT. I THINK WE SHOULD TRY 5 TO START, YOU KNOW, ORGANIZING MEETINGS OF THOSE OF YOU 6 WHO ARE AROUND AND SEE WHERE WE CAN GO AND TALK TO THE 7 UNIONS AND SIT DOWN. 8 AND I THINK THAT OUR COMMITTEE THAT WAS FORMED 9 JUST TO DO THIS PROBABLY SHOULD MOBILIZE AND START TALKING 10 TO ALL OF THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS IF YOU COULD SET UP THE 11 MEETINGS FOR US TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A LEGITIMATE 12 DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS. AND I THINK THE DISCUSSION IS 13 NECESSARY. 14 BUT KEEP IN MIND, THAT THERE ARE MANY POSITIVES, 15 AND THEY ARE NOT ALL NEGATIVES. AND IF YOU START OUT WITH 16 A LOT OF POSITIVES, IT'S A LOT MORE DOABLE. BUT IT TAKES 17 A LOT OF GROUNDWORK. IT MEANS YOU REALLY HAVE TO BE ON 18 THE GROUND, AND YOU REALLY TO BE WILLING TO DO IT. 19 AND BECAUSE THE TIME IS SO SHORT, WE ARE GOING 20 TO HAVE TO DO IT HARDER THAN YOU WOULD NECESSARILY DO IT 21 IF YOU HAD SIX OR EIGHT OR TEN MORE MONTHS. BUT IT'S NOT 22 UNDOABLE. AND IT'S MONEY THAT WE REALLY NEED. AND WE 23 REALLY COULD USE. AND THE SOONER WE GET IT, THE BETTER IT 24 IS. 25 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO COME JUNE 23, 2011 49 1 SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE. IN THE FUTURE AT ANOTHER 2 ELECTION, YOU ARE GOING TO RUN AGAINST THE SAME KINDS OF 3 THINGS OF MANY, MANY ASKS. EVERYBODY HAS SOMETHING THAT 4 THEY WANT. AND THIS MIGHT BE GOOD. 5 WE SHOULD -- I AGREE WITH LAWRENCE THAT WE 6 ABSOLUTELY SHOULD GO AND SEE IF WE CAN'T FIND OUT WHAT'S 7 GOING ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT. AND THAT WILL HELP GUIDE US 8 TO WHAT WE WANT TO DO. BUT DON'T CROSS IT OFF. I AM JUST 9 ASKING NOT TO CROSS IT OFF. KEEP A POSITIVE VIEW. AND 10 LET'S DISCUSS IT. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: MR. PRESIDENT. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: STUDENT TRUSTEE. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I WOULD JUST LIKE TO PUT 14 ONE QUESTION TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS THE BOARD. 15 CAN WE WAIT? 16 THAT'S REALLY THE QUESTION. BECAUSE I KNOW FOR 17 A FACT STUDENTS ARE SCRAMBLING TO GET INTO CLASSES ALL THE 18 TIME, AND THEY KNOW THERE ARE LESS SECTIONS. AND THAT IS 19 TO PUT IT SIMPLY, DEMORALIZING. CAN WE WAIT ANOTHER YEAR? 20 CAN WE WAIT ANOTHER SIX MONTHS? 21 WELL, I WOULD SAY WE COULDN'T. LAST YEAR, IF 22 YOU'D ASKED ME, I WOULD SAY WE COULDN'T WAIT ALREADY. SO 23 THAT'S SOMETHING FOR THE BOARD TO REALLY THINK ABOUT. 24 THE REASON I SAY THIS IS BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT 25 WE SAY HERE IN PUBLIC -- WHATEVER THE PUBLICS SAYS OR JUNE 23, 2011 50 1 WHATEVER I SAY, ULTIMATELY, IT'S THE BOARD MEMBER WHO HAS 2 THE AUTHORITY TO GO FORWARD WITH WHETHER TO DO THIS OR 3 NOT. AND IT'S TIME FOR THE BOARD TO REALLY THINK ABOUT 4 BEING A LEADER OF THIS INSTITUTION. 5 ARE YOU READY TO GO FOR THAT STEP AND MAKE SURE 6 THAT THE STUDENTS ARE SERVED, THAT WE HAVE THE FUNDING 7 SOURCES THAT WE NEED TO OPERATE? 8 NOW, AGAIN, I SAY WE ARE THE ONLY COLLEGE UP AND 9 DOWN THE STATE THAT'S DOING AN AUSTERITY MEASURE THAT'S 10 TRYING TO SURVIVE AS A WHOLE, AS A FAMILY. AND IN TIMES 11 OF HARDSHIPS, FAMILY HELPS EACH OTHER OUT. 12 IF THIS IS A POSSIBLE AVENUE LIKE TRUSTEE BERG 13 SAID, DON'T CROSS IT OFF. LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. AND 14 LET'S -- THIS TIME LET'S ACTUALLY ACTIVELY TALK ABOUT IT 15 IN THE OPEN WHERE IT'S FITTING, WHERE IT'S CONSISTENT WITH 16 THE LAW, OF COURSE, AND LET'S HAVE THE BOARD MEMBER TALK 17 ABOUT IT TOO, SO LET'S NOT CROSS IT OFF, PLEASE. AND KEEP 18 A POSITIVE VIEW BECAUSE THE NUMBER DOES COME IN GOOD. 19 AND, AGAIN, I THANK YOU, BEN, FOR DOING THE 20 WORK. 21 SO DO THINK ABOUT IT. THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 23 TRUSTEE WONG. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: JUST TO REITERATE, I AM NOT 25 SAYING THAT WE SHOULD CROSS IT OFF, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO JUNE 23, 2011 51 1 GO INTO THIS IN AN INFORMED WAY. AND SO WE DO NEED TO 2 HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS BECAUSE 3 WHEN WE HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS, 4 IT WILL HELP THE BOARD THEN TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION 5 ON WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD PROCEED OR NOT. 6 IT SOUNDS LIKE WE HEARD FROM AT LEAST TWO 7 CONSTITUENT GROUPS OR PERHAPS THERE NEEDS TO BE A FURTHER 8 DISCUSSION WITH THOSE GROUPS. 9 BUT, NO, I THINK WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE HERE. 10 WE JUST NEED TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. WE KNOW WE 11 HAVE THE POWER, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. 12 SO I AGREE -- BASICALLY, I AM AGREEING WITH 13 TRUSTEE BERG. WE NEED TO TALK TO OUR GROUPS. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT 15 THAT I THINK WHAT WE ARE ALL TALKING ABOUT IS THIS YEAR 16 VERSUS NEXT YEAR. THAT'S WHAT THE POLL, YOU KNOW, TALKED 17 ABOUT. AND NOT SO MUCH "YES" OR "NO" BUT THIS YEAR OR 18 NEXT YEAR. I THINK MOST PEOPLE ARE ON THAT PAGE. 19 BUT WHAT -- FROM THE PRESENTATION, ONE OF THE 20 THINGS THAT STRUCK ME WAS THAT MR. TULCHIN POINTED OUT 21 THAT THERE WAS LOW INITIAL INTENSITY OF SUPPORT, A LOW 22 INITIAL INTENSITY OF SUPPORT, WHICH MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO 23 DO -- IT HAS TO BE A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN. IT CAN'T BE A 24 NON-VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN. IT HAS TO BE A VERY STRONG 25 CAMPAIGN. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE ISSUE. AND IF IT'S JUNE 23, 2011 52 1 NOT, IT COULD LOSE EVEN THOUGH THESE POLL NUMBERS ARE 2 FAVORABLE. SO I WANT TO PUT THAT IN EVERYONE'S MIND. 3 MY CONCERN IS THAT WE REALLY CANNOT AFFORD TO 4 LOSE AN ELECTION BECAUSE OF THE COST TO THE DEPARTMENT OF 5 ELECTIONS. WE ARE GOING TO BE VOTING ON A BUDGET, A VERY 6 PAINFUL BUDGET IN A SHORT WHILE THAT, YOU KNOW, WILL CUT 7 HUNDREDS OR ELIMINATE HUNDREDS OF CLASSES MORE AGAIN THIS 8 YEAR. 9 AND IF WE GO FORWARD, EITHER NEXT YEAR OR -- I 10 MEAN THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN OUR 11 RESOLUTION TO DO IT IDENTIFIED WHERE IF THE BALLOT MEASURE 12 LOSES WHERE IS THAT 300, 400, $500,000 GOING TO COME FROM? 13 WHAT IS GOING TO BE CUT? 14 BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME BEFORE I 15 VOTE TO PUT THIS ON THE BALLOT THAT IF WE LOSE -- AND I 16 THINK PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW. PEOPLE NEED TO SEE IF WE LOSE, 17 WHAT ARE GOING TO LOSE? 18 AND SO THAT WOULD BE JUST MY COMMENT. 19 ANYONE ELSE? 20 ANYONE FROM THE AUDIENCE? 21 OKAY, I THINK WE WILL MOVE ON WITH OUR AGENDA. 22 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. TULCHIN. IT WAS MUCH 23 APPRECIATED. 24 OKAY, I THINK WITH THE BOARD'S INDULGENCE, I 25 WOULD LIKE TO TAKE OUT OF ORDER REALLY THE MAIN TOPIC OF JUNE 23, 2011 53 1 TONIGHT'S MEETING IS THE ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET. AND 2 THOSE ARE RESOLUTIONS B1 AND B1(A). SO IF THERE'S NO 3 OBJECTION, WE WILL TAKE THAT UP NOW. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: MOVE B1. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY B1 IS MOVED. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY -- MOVED BY 8 TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 9 COUNSEL, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE TITLE. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. 11 B1 IS THE "GENERAL FUND, ADOPTION OF A TENTATIVE 12 ANNUAL 2011-2012 BUDGET." THIS IS THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 14 AND FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T AWARE, PRELIMINARY 15 BUDGET BY STATE CALIFORNIA LAW, COMMUNITY COLLEGES ADOPT A 16 PRELIMINARY BUDGET IN JUNE AND A FINAL BUDGET AT THE END 17 OF SEPTEMBER. SO THAT'S WHY THIS IS CALLED A 18 "PRELIMINARY" BUT FOR -- WE'VE HAD DRAFTS BEFORE, BUT 19 THIS -- IT'S PRELIMINARY, BUT THIS IS THE BUDGET, SO -- 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: VERY GOOD. I WAS GOING TO SAY 21 THAT BUT -- 22 FIRST I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE MANY BOARD 23 MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN A MUST BE A RECORD SETTING 24 NUMBER OF PLANNING AND BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETINGS OF THE 25 BOARD THIS YEAR. AT LEAST SIX, I DIDN'T KEEP A TOTAL JUNE 23, 2011 54 1 COUNT, BUT WE WENT INTO A LOT OF DETAIL ON THE BUDGET 2 INITIALLY JUST AS A WAY OF RECAP, LOOKING AT COSTS BY WAY 3 OF LOCATION. WE LOOKED AT NON-PERSONNEL COSTS. WE LOOKED 4 AT PERSONNEL COSTS. WE LOOKED IN DETAIL AT HOW MUCH THE 5 STATE WOULD BE TAKING AWAY FROM US. WE LOOKED AT ALL OF 6 OUR OTHER REVENUES ONE AT A TIME. 7 AND THEN WE DISCUSSED AT SOME LENGTH THE 8 STRATEGY THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAD PRESENTED TO THE 9 COLLEGE'S PLANNING AND BUDGET COMMITTEE THAT THAT 10 COMMITTEE ENDORSED AND PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. 11 AND THEN FINALLY THE BOARD, THROUGH THE 12 COMMITTEE, MADE SEVERAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE BUDGET, WHICH 13 ARE INCORPORATED IN THE RESOLUTION THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT 14 OF YOU THIS EVENING. 15 SO ON THE BUDGET ITSELF, WE ALL KNOW THIS IS NOT 16 A GOOD YEAR. WHILE THIS IS NO FINAL STATE BUDGET YET AS 17 THE GOVERNOR VETOED THE PLAN THAT CAME OUT OF THE 18 LEGISLATURE, THAT PLAN WE WERE TOLD, WOULD PUT US MORE IN 19 THE BEST CASE SCENARIO, A CUT IN THE RANGE OF EIGHT AND A 20 HALF TO PERHAPS $9 MILLION. 21 THAT MOMENTUM CERTAINTY DISAPPEARED WHEN THE 22 GOVERNOR VETOED THE BUDGET, I BELIEVE, THE NEXT DAY. AND 23 SO THE GOVERNOR BY ALL ACCOUNTS IS TRYING TO WORK ON 24 DEVELOPING A NEW PLAN PRIOR TO THE LAST DAY OF JUNE. SO 25 HE STILL DOES HAVE A FEW DAYS TO GO, BUT THERE'S NOT A LOT JUNE 23, 2011 55 1 OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE AS TO EXACTLY WHAT THAT PLAN WILL 2 BE. 3 SO IN OUR BUDGET, AS YOU MAY RECALL, OUR 4 ASSUMPTION ABOUT HOW MUCH WE WOULD LOSE FROM THE STATE HAS 5 RANGED OVER TIME, BUT THE BUDGET THAT WE BUILT FOR YOUR 6 CONSIDERATION AS OUR TENTATIVE BUDGET FOR THE COLLEGE, 7 ASSUMES A $14 MILLION REDUCTION IN STATE FUNDING. 8 AND WHILE, AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE WILL 9 END UP. THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT IT WILL BE LESS 10 THAN $14 MILLION BECAUSE BY THE ESTIMATES OF THE COMMUNITY 11 COLLEGE LEAGUE, A CUT OF THAT SIZE WOULD REQUIRE A 12 SUSPENSION OF PROP 98. AND THERE DON'T SEEM TO BE THE 13 VOTES IN THE LEGISLATURE TO SPEND IN PROP 98 RIGHT NOW. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN I ASK BEFORE YOU GET INTO 15 THAT, QUESTIONS WITH AN A AND B. 16 PROCEDURALLY, WHAT HAPPENS IF IT TURNS OUT IN A 17 MONTH OR TWO FROM NOW THAT THE CUT IS SMALLER THAN WE HAD 18 PLANNED FOR? DO WE GET TO GO BACK AND DECIDE WHAT TO 19 RESTORE? 20 MAY BE IT'S QUESTION FOR THE BOARD. 21 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES, IN ESSENCE, YES. WE WOULD 22 COME WITH A REVISED PLAN. AND THEY WANT TO HAVE A FEW 23 MORE MEETINGS OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AND THEN BACK TO THE 24 FULL BOARD TO ADOPT THE FINAL BUDGET IN SEPTEMBER, 25 MID-SEPTEMBER. JUNE 23, 2011 56 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, AND THOSE CHANGES WOULD 2 BE IN SEPTEMBER. 3 SIMILARLY, IF IT CAME OUT THAT THE CUTS WERE 4 MORE THAN WE ANTICIPATED, IT WOULD BE THE SAME KIND OF 5 DEAL SEPTEMBER THE FINAL -- WE CERTAINLY HOPE THAT'S NOT 6 THE CASE -- 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE CERTAINLY HOPE THAT'S NOT 8 THE CASE, BUT -- 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- THAT THE BOARD WOULD VOTE ON 10 THOSE CHANGES AS WELL. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 12 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 14 IF YOU COULD CONTINUE, THANK YOU. 15 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ALL RIGHT. THOSE ARE GOOD 16 QUESTIONS. 17 AND WE HOPE TO KNOW THAT BY THE END OF JUNE. 18 BUT, OF COURSE, WE ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO KNOW THAT AT THAT 19 TIME. 20 SO BY WAY OF RECAP, IN THE BUDGET BOOK THERE IS 21 A SUMMARIZED VERSION OF THE MAIN FACTORS IMPACTING THE 22 BUDGET ON PAGE 38; WHERE YOU SEE SOME DETAIL ON THE COST 23 INCREASES WE ARE EXPERIENCING THIS YEAR FOR DENTAL, SAN 24 FRANCISCO EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, HEALTHCARE FOR 25 CURRENT EMPLOYEES, HEALTHCARE FOR RETIREES" -- A TOPIC JUNE 23, 2011 57 1 THAT WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT MORE LATER IN THE YEAR. 2 STEP INCREASES FOR ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT 3 EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS AN INCREASE IN WORKERS' COMP THAT IS 4 RELATED TO OUR ADDRESSING OUR PREVIOUS AUDIT FINDING SO 5 THAT THE FUND WILL NOT HAVE AN UNFUNDED LIABILITY AS WE 6 CHANGE THE INTERNAL RATE. 7 IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE WERE SAVINGS IN THE 8 CURRENT YEAR. IT'S STILL THE CURRENT YEAR, DUE TO 9 COOPERATION FROM LABOR UNIONS AND ALSO BY ACTION OF THE 10 BOARD THAT RESULTED IN REDUCTIONS AND COMPENSATION FOR 11 VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE COLLEGE WORKFORCE. THOSE ARE ALL 12 EXPIRING AT THE END OF THE MONTH. 13 SO THE BUDGET MODEL BUILT BACK IN THOSE EXPIRING 14 REDUCTIONS AS COSTS RETURNING AS WELL AS THE INCREASED 15 COSTS OF THE FRINGE BENEFITS THAT WE BASICALLY DON'T GET 16 TO CONTROL. 17 AND THEN ON THE REVENUE SIDE, WE'VE SPENT A LOT 18 OF TIME TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH HELP WE WOULD GET BECAUSE 19 THOSE COST CHANGES, AS WELL AS THE CHANGE IN STATE 20 FUNDING, AND OF COURSE -- 21 IS THAT PICTURE UP? 22 CFO BILMONT: NO. (INAUDIBLE.) 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY, WELL, WE WILL JUST TALK 24 FOR A WHILE THEN. 25 WE ESTIMATED THE RANGE OF THE PROBLEM FROM 16 TO JUNE 23, 2011 58 1 22 MILLION AT ONE POINT. WE'VE NARROWED THAT A LITTLE BIT 2 TO 16 TO 21 AND A HALF. WE DO HAVE SOME REVENUES THAT ARE 3 HELPING US, SO I THINK WE CAN FIND AN ALTERNATE TABLE THAT 4 HAS THAT. WE DO HAVE IT. 5 CFO BILMONT: WE DO HAVE IT. 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ALL RIGHT. IF WE COULD GO WITH 7 HALF THE LIGHTING, THAT WOULD BE PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. 8 IT'S STILL LITTLE HARD TO READ, BUT IT IS ON 9 PAGE 38 OF YOUR BOOK. AND STARTING ON LINE 34, CONTINUING 10 DOWN THROUGH LINE 42, YOU SEE PRIMARILY ITEMS THAT ARE 11 HELPING US IN THE BUDGET. 12 NO. 1, I SHOULD PAUSE THERE FOR A MOMENT. 13 "ENROLLMENT GROWTH," WE HAVE MODIFIED OUR ASSUMPTION ABOUT 14 2010-2011 AND NOW BELIEVE WE WILL GET THE FULL AMOUNT OF 15 MONEY ENTITLED -- THE DISTRICT IS ENTITLED TO BY 16 INCREASING ENROLLMENT IN 2010-2011. 17 IN FACT P2 CAME OUT THIS WEEK, WHICH SHOWED THE 18 COLLEGE LEARN EARNING $3.776 MILLION ENROLLMENT GROWTH IF 19 I AM NOT MISTAKEN. 20 BY THE WAY, A FOOTNOTE, P2 HAS THE SAME TYPE OF 21 ERROR IN IT THAT P1 HAD. IF ANYONE LOOKS AT IT, YOU WILL 22 FIND YOU CAN'T RECONCILE THAT NUMBER WITH WHAT WE SAY OUR 23 BASE FUNDING IS HEADING INTO 2011-2012. WE HAVE GOTTEN 24 ONE WRITTEN CONFIRMATION FROM THE STATE CHANCELLOR'S 25 OFFICE AGAIN THAT THEY ARE IN ERROR. AND THEY WILL FIX IT JUNE 23, 2011 59 1 THE RECALCULATION. WHY IT HAPPENED AGAIN IS REALLY STILL 2 UNCLEAR. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AM I READING THAT 5 RIGHT? SO FUNDRAISING IS AT MILLION? 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT REPRESENTS A CHANGE. 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: BECAUSE I THOUGHT I SAW 8 2 MILLION SOMEWHERE. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE TOTAL GOAL FOR FUNDRAISING 10 IN THE BUDGET THAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO ADOPT IS 2.75 11 MILLION -- 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: 2.75, YEAH. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- WHICH YOU WOULD COMPARE TO 14 THE BUDGET WE HAD FOR THIS YEAR, WHICH WAS 1.75 MILLION. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OH -- 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S A MILLION MORE THAN THE 17 BUDGET -- 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: -- OKAY. 19 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- YOU ADOPTED THIS YEAR. 20 FUNDRAISING IS ONE PIECE OF THE STRATEGY. 21 GROWTH IS BY FAR THE BIGGEST THING THAT'S HELPING US ON 22 THE REVENUE SIDE. WE EXPECT SALES TAX AND LOTTERY TO 23 START TO GROW AGAIN A LITTLE BIT BETTER NEXT YEAR 640 AND 24 617. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I'M SORRY TO KEEP JUNE 23, 2011 60 1 INTERRUPTING. 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 3 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND SO I'M ASSUMING 4 THIS QUESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN ASKED, BUT GIVEN THE AMOUNT 5 OF CLASSES THAT WE HAD THAT WE CUT AND THINGS LIKE THAT, 6 LIKE HOW DID WE CLOSEOUT WITH LIKE A $2.7 MILLION SURPLUS. 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. THAT ONE I CAN SAY IN 8 ONE WORD, GROWTH. 9 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OH, OKAY. 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT'S BECAUSE WE ARE EARNING 11 $3.77 MILLION IN GROWTH AS COMPARED TO A BUDGET ASSUMPTION 12 WE ADOPTED THIS YEAR OF 1.5 MILLION, THAT'S A LOT OF 13 ADDITIONAL REVENUE INTO THE COLLEGE THIS YEAR THAT WE 14 HADN'T COUNTED. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: IS THERE A WAY THAT 16 LIKE SOMEWHERE DURING THE BUDGET WHEN WE SEE THAT WE HAVE 17 MORE GROWTH, THAT WE CAN ADD MORE CLASSES? 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE DID. WE ADDED A LOT MORE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND, I KNOW THE SHORT 20 CLASSES HAPPENED, YEAH. 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO. 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OH, I'M TALKING ABOUT 23 -- OH, SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT -- 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YEAH, WE ADDED -- WE 25 ACTUALLY ADDED CLOSE TO 100 SECTIONS JUST FOR THE SUMMER JUNE 23, 2011 61 1 SCHOOL ALONE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH, OKAY. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: AND WE ALSO ADDED -- 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SHORT-TERM -- 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: HOW MANY -- 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- CLASSES. 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SHORT-TERM CLASSES DURING 8 THE SPRING. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO THAT WAS -- WE HAD THE 11 LARGEST SPRING AND THE LARGEST SUMMER ACTUALLY IN THE 12 HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE -- 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: -- BECAUSE WE ADDED 15 CLASSES. 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SO WE DID HAVE A JOINT STRATEGY 17 OF ADDING CLASSES AND EARNING GROWTH AND BOTH HAVE WORKED 18 OUT IN THE CURRENT YEAR. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: ARE WE PROJECTING AS 20 LARGE OF A CLOSEOUT THIS TIME? 21 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: NEXT YEAR? 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: NO. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: BECAUSE WE WANT TO KIND 25 OF -- JUNE 23, 2011 62 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I WILL SHOW YOU THAT -- 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A PEAK. 4 ON PAGE -- 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: IT'S NOT SUPER 6 IMPORTANT. I WILL FIND IT. 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. WE WILL COME BACK TO IT. 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: THAT'S GOOD. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ALL RIGHT. SO JUST ROUNDING 10 OUT OUR REVENUE ASSUMPTIONS FOR THE COMING YEAR. WE 11 TALKED ABOUT "SALES TAX AND LOTTERY, NON-RESIDENT 12 TUITION." THE BOARD APPROVED A SMALL INCREASE AS WE WERE 13 BASICALLY REQUIRED TO BY LAW. 14 AND NEXT YEAR THERE WILL BE THE ADVANTAGE OF 15 HAVING THREE SEMESTERS COUNTED FOR NON-RESIDENT AS OPPOSED 16 TO IN THE CURRENT YEAR WHERE WE WERE ONLY ABLE TO COUNT 17 TWO SEMESTERS BECAUSE REMEMBER LAST SUMMER, THERE WAS NO 18 SUMMER. 19 "VATEA FUNDING FOR CLASSES," THAT'S MONEY THAT 20 COMES TO US THROUGH THE VATEA GRANT; THAT WE WOULD USE TO 21 OFFSET THE COST OF SOME CLASSES $300,000. 22 "ADDITIONAL GRANTS," THAT IS A PLUG NUMBER, BUT 23 THAT'S ON THE LOW SIDE GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF NEW GRANT FUND 24 WE WERE ABLE TO RAISE EACH YEAR AND THE GRANT STAFF FEELS 25 CONFIDENT IN THAT. JUNE 23, 2011 63 1 "FUNDRAISING," WE JUST DISCUSSED. 2 THE "CLOSEOUT" IS MUCH LARGER. YOU ARE RIGHT. 3 THAT IS HELPING US FOR NEXT YEAR THOUGH. THAT'S MONEY 4 THAT WE'RE PUTTING RIGHT INTO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET. 5 AND THEN WE HAD SOME ONE-TIME MONEY THIS YEAR 6 THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET NEXT YEAR, PRIMARILY 7 INSURANCE REBATES FROM THE SWACC PROGRAM. 8 SO THERE'S OVER $9 MILLION IN REVENUE INCREASES 9 NEXT YEAR IF THIS FULL SET OF ASSUMPTIONS IS ACCURATE. 10 AND THE BIGGEST ONE IS ACCURATE ALREADY, THE 3.7 MILLION 11 IN GROWTH. AND THE NEXT BIGGEST ONE, THE CLOSEOUT, WE ARE 12 FEELING PRETTY CONFIDENT ABOUT ALREADY AS WELL. 13 SO THE ONES THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW AT THIS 14 DATE BECAUSE THEY COME IN DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, 15 THOSE ARE OUR ESTIMATES, BUT WE BELIEVE THEY ARE 16 REASONABLE ESTIMATES. 17 NOW, ON THE SPENDING SIDE, STARTING ON LINE 47 18 GOING DOWN, YOU WILL SEE "ADMINISTRATOR, CLASSIFIED, AND 19 FACULTY ATTRITION ESTIMATES." THOSE ARE SAVINGS WE SEE AS 20 WE LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY LEFT THE 21 WORKFORCE OR WILL BE LEAVING THE WORKFORCE SHORTLY. 22 AS WELL AS THE "SALARY DELTA" WHICH MEASURES THE 23 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIGH SALARY OF SOMEBODY AT THE END 24 OF THEIR CAREER VERSUS THE REPLACEMENT PERSON WHEN WE DO 25 REPLACE THEM AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR CAREER AT A LOWER JUNE 23, 2011 64 1 SALARY. 2 WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR A MILLION DOLLARS ON 3 LINE 53 IN "ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS TO NON-PERSONNEL." 4 THAT'S BEYOND WHAT WE'VE ALREADY REDUCED NON-PERSONNEL 5 WHICH IS GETTING TO BE QUITE PAINFUL. 6 AND THEN ON LINE 54, "$1,500,000" THAT IS THE 7 REVISED NUMBER FOR NON-INSTRUCTIONAL SAVINGS PRIMARILY. 8 AND THAT IS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT THE BOARD DISCUSSED AT 9 LENGTH ACTUALLY IN THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. 10 WE ARE ASKING FOR THE BOARD TO AUTHORIZE, AND 11 I'M ON LINE 58. BY THE WAY, THOSE ARE $9.6 MILLION WORTH 12 OF EXPENDITURE REDUCTIONS. WE ARE ASKING FOR THE 13 AUTHORITY TO ALLOCATE 2 MILLION FROM THE RESERVE WITH 14 AGAIN A STATED GOAL TO NOT SPEND THAT PRIOR TO THE END OF 15 THE YEAR AS WE SUCCESSFULLY DID IN THE CURRENT YEAR. 16 ALL THOSE SOLUTIONS TOGETHER COME TO 17 $20.7 MILLION. THAT 850 THERE ON THE SIDE IS A FOOTNOTE 18 THAT SAYS, "FUNDRAISING NEXT YEAR GENERATES ASSISTANCE TO 19 OTHER FUNDS" AS WE DID THIS YEAR. YOU MAY REMEMBER A 20 SCHEDULE WE HANDED OUT AT A RECENT COMMITTEE MEETING. WE 21 WOULD ELIMINATE THAT REMAINING DEFICIT. 22 THAT'S A LONG WAY OF SAYING, WE'VE RAISED OTHER 23 MONEY, NOT JUST UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND MONEY THIS YEAR, 24 680 FROM THE ORFALEA GROUP, SOME MONEY FOR BASIC SKILLS -- 25 CFO BILMONT: ROSENBERG. JUNE 23, 2011 65 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ROSENBERG. I'M SORRY FROM 2 ROSENBERG FOR THE LIBRARY. AND SO IF WE WERE ABLE TO 3 REPEAT THAT OTHER KIND OF FUNDRAISING THEN THAT 850 NUMBER 4 WOULD BE GONE AS WELL. 5 ALL RIGHT. GOING BACK TOWARD THE BEGINNING OF 6 THE BOOK, I DON'T THINK THAT SHOWS THE CLOSEOUT TO 7 2011-2012. WELL, YOU WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT TWO PAGES 8 JOINTLY. JUST A SECOND. 9 WELL, I CAN SHOW IT TO YOU IN TWO PLACES, 10 ACTUALLY. IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE 8, COLUMN F, "TENTATIVE 11 BUDGET ESTIMATED REVENUE FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR." THIS IS 12 THE SET OF REVENUES WE ARE ASKING THE BOARD TO ADOPT. 13 ON LINE 58 IN TERMS OF TOTAL MONEY AVAILABLE TO 14 SPEND $190,892,260. 15 AND THEN IS IT THE 190,794,117, THAT'S OUR 16 NUMBER, RIGHT? 17 CFO BILMONT: THAT'S CORRECT. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ON PAGE 16, YOU SEE AN 19 ABBREVIATED SCHEDULE OF THE EXPENDITURES WE ARE PROPOSING 20 FOR 2011-2012. IN COLUMN K THE TOTAL IS 190,794,117. 21 THAT'S A VERY SMALL DIFFERENCE FROM THE TOTAL RESOURCES WE 22 SAY WE HAVE AVAILABLE, LESS THAN $100,000, THANK YOU. 23 SO RIGHT NOW, THE DIRECT ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION 24 REQUEST, TRUSTEE JACKSON, IS THE PROJECTED CLOSEOUT FOR 25 2011-2012 IS $98,000. BUT EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE BETWEEN JUNE 23, 2011 66 1 NOW AND THEN, THE SPENDING AND THE REVENUE. AND WE WILL 2 KEEP YOU ABREAST OF THAT AS THE YEAR GOES BY. 3 I WANT TO POINT OUT A FEW THINGS THAT ARE 4 DIRECTLY TIED TO THE ACTIONS THAT THE BOARD TOOK. IN THE 5 RESOLUTION WHICH IS IN THE BOOK, LEST'S START ON PAGE 21. 6 YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS I WAS JUST REFERENCING UNDER THAT 7 ONE LONG SPREADSHEET TYPE PAGE. 8 TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUE AND RESOURCES 9 $190,892,260. TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES $190,794,117. 10 AND THEN THERE IS THAT CLOSEOUT PROJECTED AT $98,000 BELOW 11 THAT. 12 IF YOU CONTINUE TO PAGE 23, YOU WILL FIND IN 13 BOLD THE ACTIONS THAT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED, SO 14 WE WILL TAKE A MOMENT TO GO THROUGH THOSE FIVE SECTIONS. 15 THE FIRST ONE WAS NOT AT THE MOST RECENT BUDGET 16 COMMITTEE MEETING, BUT WAS AT THE ONE HELD ON JUNE 2ND 17 WHICH REQUIRES THE COLLEGE TO REDUCE ITS ESTIMATED SAVINGS 18 FOR REDUCING CLASSES FROM 3.8 MILLION BACK TO 1.9 MILLION. 19 ANOTHER WAY TO SAY THAT WOULD BE "RESTORE HALF 20 THE CLASSES THAT WERE PROPOSED TO BE ELIMINATED." AND IT 21 GIVES THE CHANCELLOR THE DISCRETION TO DETERMINE HOW THAT 22 SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED. 23 SECTION 2, STATED THAT BEFORE THE FINAL BUDGET 24 IS ADOPTED, AND AGAIN WE WOULD EXPECT THAT TO BE IN 25 SEPTEMBER, THE COST EFFECTIVE SALARY SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 23, 2011 67 1 ADMINISTRATORS THAT WOULD TAKE EFFECT IN THE NEW FISCAL 2 YEAR WOULD BE PART OF THAT FINAL BUDGET OR CONNECTED TO 3 THAT FINAL BUDGET. 4 THE NEXT ONE SPOKE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN 5 INNOVATION FUND. I BELIEVE THIS WAS FROM TRUSTEE NGO, 6 WHICH SHALL BE RESERVED SOLELY FOR INSTRUCTIONAL OFFERINGS 7 THAT MEET THE CRITERIA THAT ARE LISTED BELOW. 8 AND THEN ON THE NEXT PAGE, IT GOES ON TO SAY 9 THAT THERE WOULD BE $300,000 AVAILABLE FOR THOSE ITEMS. 10 AND THEY WOULD COME FROM THE $1.9 MILLION IN CLASS 11 RESTORATIONS THAT WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED BY SECTION 1 OF 12 THIS PART OF THE RESOLUTION. 13 IS THAT CLEAR? 14 OKAY, SECTION 4, SPEAKS TO THE NON-INSTRUCTIONAL 15 CHANGES. AND I THINK I CAPTURED THIS THE WAY IT WAS 16 STATED THAT DAY. IT'S THE BOARD'S INTENTION TO NOT HAVE 17 ANY MONEY, ZERO DOLLARS AVAILABLE IN THE 1,000 CATEGORY 18 FOR NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012. 19 BUT ADD TO THAT, THAT IN THE FINAL BUDGET WE 20 WILL BRING BACK TO THE BOARD A POLICY GOVERNING THE 21 ASSIGNMENT OF THAT TIME AND A SPECIFIC ALLOCATION FOR THAT 22 TIME FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR. 23 SO IT'S KIND OF A HOLDING PLACE AT ZERO UNTIL 24 THE ADMINISTRATION BRINGS THAT PLAN AND THAT POLICY TO THE 25 BOARD FOR ADOPTION AS PART OF THE FINAL BUDGET. JUNE 23, 2011 68 1 SECTION 5, SPEAKS TO AN ALLOCATION OF $150,000 2 TO PROPERLY PLAN FOR ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN STUDENTS 3 ELIGIBLE FOR THE SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM DUE TO CHANGES 4 HAPPENING AT THE STATE LEVEL REGARDING STATE PRISONS. 5 AND SO THOSE FIVE IN BOLD WERE THE CHANGES THAT 6 THE BOARD BUDGET COMMITTEE ADOPTED, EITHER AT TWO MEETINGS 7 AGO OR AT THE MOST RECENT MEETING, SO THEY ARE NOW ALL 8 PART OF THE TENTATIVE BUDGET THAT THE BOARD IS BEING ASKED 9 TO VOTE ON. 10 I KNOW I AM GOING ON FOR A WHILE HERE. SO I 11 WILL JUST WRAP UP BY SAYING THAT WE'VE ALSO INCLUDED, AND 12 I WILL SAY THIS UP FRONT TO HELP US WITH OUR FACE-TO-FACE 13 INTERVIEWS IN ACCREDITATION, A SECTION THAT LINKS THE 14 "DRAFT," THE UNDERLYING, "DRAFT," THE STRATEGIC PLAN WITH 15 OUR BUDGET STRATEGY FOR THE YEAR. THIS IS IN NO WAY AND 16 THERE IS LANGUAGE IN THE RESOLUTION THAT IN ANYWAY 17 INDICATES THE BOARD IS ADOPTING THE STRATEGIC PLAN, IT IS 18 STILL A DRAFT. 19 BUT THIS IS SOMETHING TO SHOW THAT WE'VE TRIED 20 TO INCORPORATE PLANNING INTO THE BUDGET DEVELOPMENT 21 PROCESS. IT IS OUR GOAL FOR THE FINAL BUDGET TO HAVE AN 22 ANNUAL PLAN WHICH IS GOING TO TAKE SOME QUICK WORK 23 AVAILABLE FOR THE BOARD. AND WE WILL TRY TO LINK THAT 24 ANNUAL PLAN TO THE FINAL BUDGET INSTEAD OF THE DRAFT 25 STRATEGIC PLAN. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. JUNE 23, 2011 69 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, VICE CHANCELLOR. 2 DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? 3 TRUSTEE NGO. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I WANT TO COMMEND THE 5 ADMINISTRATION FOR GETTING THIS BUDGET TOGETHER. THIS HAS 6 BEEN A VERY THOROUGH BOARD LEVEL BUDGET PROCESS. AND I 7 APPRECIATE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO WORK WITH US AND PROVIDE 8 DATA. 9 I KNOW IT WAS HARD TO GET THIS INFORMATION AS 10 HISTORICALLY, WE HAVE NOT ASKED FOR IT. BUT I THOUGHT 11 EVERYONE WHO WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS WAS EDUCATED AS TO 12 HOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY AND PERHAPS TO SOME IDEAS AS TO HOW 13 WE CAN SPEND IT BETTER. SO I WANT TO EXPRESS MY 14 APPRECIATION TO YOU FOR THAT, CHANCELLOR, AND THE FINANCE 15 TEAM. 16 I ALSO KNOW THAT YOU ARE UNDERSTAFFED. SO GIVEN 17 WHERE YOU WERE, IT WAS SOMEWHAT BUMPY GIVEN SOME OF THE 18 THINGS WE ASKED FOR. WE DIDN'T GET THE SECOND READING 19 QUITE ON TIME, BUT WE DID HAVE TWO READINGS INEVITABLY. 20 SO THIS HAS BEEN IN MY OPINION, SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE ON 21 THIS BOARD, THE MOST TRANSPARENT BUDGET PROCESS THAT WE'VE 22 HAD. AND I THINK THAT SHOULD NOT GO WITHOUT NOTICE TO THE 23 PUBLIC. 24 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: CAN I SAY SOMETHING BEFORE YOU 25 GO ON. JUNE 23, 2011 70 1 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I WANT TO -- EVERY YEAR IT IS A 3 TEAM EFFORT STARTING WITH THE CHANCELLOR. THIS YEAR YOU 4 ARE RIGHT. WE WERE DOWN SOME DOWN SOME KEY POSITIONS. I 5 AM HAPPY TO SAY WE ARE REALLY CLOSE TO BRINGING IN A NEW 6 CONTROLLER, HOPEFULLY NEXT WEEK. 7 BUT IN THIS YEAR IN PARTICULAR, OUR CFO JOHN 8 BILMONT WORKED ESPECIALLY HARD TO GET THIS DONE. AND I 9 THINK IT IS WORTHY OF A SEPARATE CALL OF ATTENTION. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: SO NOTED. AND I'LL SECOND THAT, I 11 GUESS, COMMENDATION. AND THANK YOU, JOHN BILMONT. 12 I ALSO WANT TO SAY I WANT TO THANK MY FELLOW 13 BOARD MEMBERS WHO SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE. THESE 14 RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE BOARD, NOT JUST THE PROCESS AND 15 THE UNDERTAKING, THE REVIEW ESSENTIALLY THE OVERSIGHT THAT 16 THE BOARD EXHIBITED AND EXERCISED THROUGHOUT THE PAST FOUR 17 OR FIVE MONTHS, I THINK HAS BEEN UNPRECEDENTED. AND I 18 THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING; THAT YOU HAVE A BODY THAT'S 19 ASKING QUESTIONS, TOUGH QUESTIONS IN THESE FISCAL TIMES. 20 THE PARTICIPATION OF THE BOARD MEMBERS AS WELL 21 AS ON THIS COMMITTEE I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND AND THANK THEM 22 FOR THEIR WORK. IT WAS A LOT OF TIME. WE DID HAVE A LOT 23 OF HEARINGS. AND A LOT OF THEM SHOWED UP AND ASKED GOOD 24 QUESTIONS FOR A LONG TIME AT EACH MEETING. AND WE WENT 25 THROUGH THESE DOCUMENTS PAINSTAKINGLY. IT MAY NOT HAVE JUNE 23, 2011 71 1 BEEN AS PAINFUL FOR US AS IT WAS FOR YOU, BUT IT WAS TIME 2 THAT WE SPENT THAT I THINK THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW ABOUT 3 AND WAS WORTHWHILE. 4 I BELIEVE THAT THIS BOARD COMMITTEE -- AND I 5 ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE REST OF MY COLLEAGUES LOOKED AT THIS 6 BUDGET PROCESS AND, ESPECIALLY, WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT 7 THIS BUDGET WOULD NOT FALL ON THE BACKS OF STUDENTS. I 8 THINK THAT WAS EXPRESSED THROUGHOUT THE COMMITTEE PROCESS. 9 I THINK THAT'S BEEN EXPRESSED IN FULL BUDGET MEETINGS. 10 AND I THINK WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS NOT PERFECT BECAUSE WE DO 11 HAVE A DEFICIT THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH FROM THE STATE. 12 BUT I THINK WHAT YOU SEE IS AN ENGAGED BOARD 13 THAT HAS TRIED TO DO WHAT IT CAN TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS 14 ARE GIVEN AS MUCH ACCESS AS POSSIBLE TO THESE CLASSES. 15 IT'S NOT PERFECT BY ANY MEANS, BUT I THINK YOU'VE SEEN A 16 BUDGET RESULT THAT HAS LARGELY MET THOSE VALUES THAT THE 17 BOARD HAS OVER TIME EXPRESSED THAT THEY WANT TO SEE IN THE 18 BUDGET. 19 AS TO THE SPECIFIC BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS THAT 20 ARE IN PART 4, THESE -- WELL, THE FIRST SECTION ACTUALLY 21 IS ONE INDICATION OF WHAT I JUST SAID THAT WE DID NOT WANT 22 TO BALANCE THE BUDGET ON THE BACKS OF THESE STUDENTS. AND 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO, ACCORDINGLY, MADE AN AMENDMENT TO RESTORE 24 $1.9 MILLION WORTH OF CLASSES BACK IN THIS BUDGET THAT WAS 25 NOT THERE BEFORE. AND THAT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER JUNE 23, 2011 72 1 AS YOU LOOK AT THIS BUDGET. 2 THAT SECTION, ALONG WITH SECTION IN PART 4, WAS 3 PASSED OUT OF COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY WITH AT LEAST FOUR 4 VOTES. I THINK SECTION ONE WAS PASSED OUT WITH THREE 5 VOTES, BUT WE HAD A QUORUM OF THE BOARD AND THE ENTIRE 6 COMMITTEE VOTE FOR THESE AMENDMENTS. 7 I WANT TO RAISE AN ISSUE WITH -- A PROCEDURAL 8 ISSUE IN THAT, MR. PRESIDENT, WE HAVE AN ITEM HERE 9 RESOLUTION B1(A). IT'S LISTED AS A SEPARATE RESOLUTION, 10 BUT IT WAS MY INTENT THAT IT WOULD BE RAISED AS AN 11 AMENDMENT. AND OBVIOUSLY, IT IS LISTED HERE AS AN 12 AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET. BUT I WOULD RATHER WE -- I WOULD 13 RATHER MOVE THIS AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET AND TAKE 14 CARE OF B1 AND B1(A) AT THE SAME TIME. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK THAT'S APPROPRIATE. 16 THE REASON FOR THE TRUSTEES WHO WERE NOT AT THE 17 BUDGET COMMITTEE, THE REASON B1(A) IS A SEPARATE 18 RESOLUTION IS BECAUSE AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, WE JUST RAN 19 OUT OF TIME. WE HAD BEEN AT IT FOR SEVERAL HOURS, AND WE 20 NEEDED TO ADJOURN. AND SO THAT WAS JUST ONE AMENDMENT 21 THAT WE DID NOT GET TO. 22 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO I AGREE THAT WE CAN MOVE 24 THAT AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE WHOLE BUDGET BEFORE PASSING 25 THE WHOLE BUDGET. JUNE 23, 2011 73 1 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I WILL AT A POINT WHERE 2 EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE TO SPEAK ON THE BUDGET PROPER. BUT 3 I THINK WE ALSO HAVE TO MOVE IT AS AN AMENDMENT BECAUSE 4 IT'S LISTED HERE AS HAVING ONE ORIGINATOR. AND YOU NEED 5 TWO ORIGINATORS TO AGENDIZE A FULL RESOLUTION. 6 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I WILL -- 7 TRUSTEE NGO: SO I'M ASKING -- AND TRUSTEE 8 JACKSON HAS AGREED TO DO THAT, BUT IT WAS NOT LISTED IN 9 THE AGENDA AS HAVING TWO COSPONSORS. 10 IN ANY CASE I DO PLAN TO ASK THE BOARD TO -- I 11 WILL BE MOVING TO AMEND THE BUDGET, RESOLUTION B1 WITH 12 B1(A). 13 AND IN THE MEANTIME, AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK THE 14 ADMINISTRATION AND, OF COURSE, THE EFFORTS OF THE COLLEGE, 15 THE ENTIRE COLLEGE COMMUNITY, AND MY FELLOW COLLEAGUES ON 16 WORKING THROUGH THIS VERY THOROUGH PROCESS IN WHAT HAS 17 BEEN, AGAIN, ANOTHER DIFFICULT YEAR FINANCIALLY FOR THIS 18 INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING. AND WITH THAT, I WOULD 19 URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO ADOPT B1. THANK YOU. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK 21 TRUSTEE NGO FOR ALL OF THE WORK HE PUT INTO CHAIRING THE 22 BUDGET COMMITTEE. HE DID EXPEND A LOT OF TIME OFF HOURS, 23 OFF AT THE COMMITTEES, BUT ALSO IN BETWEEN THE COMMITTEE 24 MEETINGS. AND I THINK HE SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED FOR THAT. 25 WE DID ASK A LOT OF THE ADMINISTRATION I THINK JUNE 23, 2011 74 1 THIS YEAR. AND WE ASKED FOR A LOT OF CHANGES TO THE WAY 2 THAT THE BUDGET HAD BEEN HANDLED. WE ASKED FOR NEW TYPES 3 OF INFORMATION. AND THE TYPES OF INFORMATION THAT THEY 4 REALLY HAD NOT PULLED TOGETHER BEFORE AND HAD TO DO QUITE 5 SOME WORK TO PULL IT TOGETHER. 6 I THINK THERE WERE -- I THINK SOME OF THE TIMES 7 WE WEREN'T REALLY SURE WHAT WE WERE ASKING FOR. WE HAD AN 8 IDEA OF WHAT WE WANTED TO SEE, BUT WE WEREN'T EXACTLY 9 SURE. AND THEY REALLY HELPED US ON THAT. AND SO IT 10 WASN'T PERFECT, BUT I THINK THEY REALLY PUT IN A LOT OF 11 WORK, AND I JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE ALL OF YOU GUYS. 12 SO I ALSO WANT TO SAY, I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR 13 THE BUDGET. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS FOR -- THIS IS THE 14 RESULT OF MANY MONTHS OF DISCUSSION AND VOTES AND WHATNOT. 15 I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I STILL FIND IT A VERY 16 DIFFICULT VOTE, A VERY PAINFUL VOTE. IT DOES ELIMINATE UP 17 TO 400 CLASSES. IT DOES ASSUME THINGS LIKE CONTINUED 18 HIRING FREEZE IN THE CLASSIFIED AREA WHERE WE HAVE, YOU 19 KNOW, FACILITIES WE ARE HAVING TO UPKEEP TO -- THE UPKEEP 20 OF OUR BUILDINGS WITH A MUCH SMALLER STAFF. AND NOT ONLY 21 THE UPKEEP, BUT ALL THE WORK THAT'S DONE TO RUN THE 22 INSTITUTION WITH A MUCH REDUCED STAFF. THAT IS ALSO 23 PAINFUL. 24 BUT I THINK THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENT THAT WE 25 COLLABORATIVELY COULD HAVE COME UP WITH. IT'S NOT JUNE 23, 2011 75 1 EVERYTHING I WANTED PERSONALLY, BUT I AM -- I CAN ACCEPT 2 THIS FULLY, AND I THINK IT IS THE BEST -- THE MANY IDEAS 3 THAT DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE, I THINK THIS IS A VERY GOOD 4 AMALGAM OF THAT, SO I WANT TO SAY I AM HAPPY WITH IT. 5 I AM UNHAPPY WITH IT BECAUSE OF ALL THE 6 $20 MILLION OF HOLE THAT WE HAD TO FILL, BUT I AM WITH THE 7 PRODUCT. I THINK IT'S A GOOD PRODUCT, AND I JUST WANT TO 8 CONGRATULATE EVERYONE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO. 11 VICE CHANCELLOR GOLDSTEIN, COULD YOU COME UP. I 12 HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. 13 I AM LOOKING AT PAGE 24, SECTION 4 THAT TALKS 14 ABOUT -- LET'S SEE -- THE NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. 15 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND I THOUGHT IN OUR COMMITTEE 17 MEETING, WE -- I HAD ASKED FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION 18 BECAUSE I THOUGHT BASED ON WHAT WAS STATED, THAT SOME OF 19 THE INFORMATION WASN'T CURRENT, WASN'T COMPLETE, WASN'T 20 ACCURATE. 21 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, SPECIFICALLY, NOT THE 22 MOST RECENT BUDGET COMMITTEE BUT THE ONE BEFORE THAT, 23 THERE WAS A SLIDE THAT I PUT UP THAT I RECEIVED FROM THE 24 OFFICE OF INSTRUCTION THAT WAS JUST A LIST OF LABELS. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: RIGHT. JUNE 23, 2011 76 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SOME OF WHICH ARE OUT OF DATE 2 AND NOT USED ANYMORE. AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS NO SENSE 3 OF ANY SCALE IN THERE IN TERMS OF WHICH ACTIVITIES WE DO A 4 LOT OF AND WHICH WE DON'T DO A LOT OF. 5 IS THAT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT? 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: YES, WE ARE. 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: YEAH. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND SO WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW IS 10 TRYING TO ASSEMBLE THE VERY DETAIL DATA ABOUT 11 NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. IN SOME CASES WE WILL HAVE TO GO 12 RIGHT DOWN TO THE ASSIGNMENT SHEET TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT THE 13 ACTIVITY IS AND TAKE A FAIRLY QUICK, BUT VERY DILIGENT 14 LOOK AT WHAT THAT MONEY IS BEING SPENT ON AND MEET OUR 15 GOAL OF SAVING A 1,500,000 IN TIME FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE 16 FINAL BUDGET BECAUSE WE WANT TO FULFILL THE LANGUAGE 17 THAT'S HERE WHICH SAYS, BRING BACK TO THE BOARD A PLAN AND 18 A POLICY FOR SPENDING THAT MONEY OR THE BOARD IS NOT 19 APPROVING ANY OF IT AFTER JANUARY. AND, OF COURSE, WE 20 WANT TO HAVE A FULL YEAR'S WORTH OF PLAN IN THE SEPTEMBER 21 BUDGET. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND JUST EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID 23 IS WHAT I REMEMBERED, BUT -- AND I GUESS IT'S CAPTURED 24 HERE, BUT IT'S NOT REAL CLEAR. 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. JUNE 23, 2011 77 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: BUT THAT WAS THE PLAN -- 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: -- THE WAY YOU DESCRIBED IT. 4 AND I ALSO THOUGHT, TRUSTEE NGO, THAT THE ZERO 5 AMOUNT FOR THE CATEGORIES WAS GOING TO BE DETERMINED BASED 6 ON THIS INFORMATION AND NOT TOTALLY ZERO AMOUNT FOR THE 7 NON-INSTRUCTIONAL ITEMS. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S HALF-CORRECT IN THAT THE 9 LANGUAGE ITSELF CARRIES OUT EFFECTUATES WHAT YOUR INTENT 10 IS. MEANING THAT THE BUDGET WE'LL ADOPT IN SEPTEMBER 11 ACTUALLY WILL HAVE A POLICY GOVERNING HOW WE ASSIGN THIS 12 TIME. WE WILL ALSO HAVE A BUDGET FOR SPRING 2012 THAT 13 ACTUALLY HAS A NUMBER WE CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT AND ADOPT. 14 RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT WE -- IN MY 15 OPINION, THE WAY WE ASSIGN THIS TIME, AND THE WAY IT'S 16 CATEGORIZED, THE WAY WE KEEP TRACK OF IT, IT'S ZERO 17 BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE ANY AUTHORITY FOR SPRING TO 18 CARRY OUT THESE ASSIGNMENTS. 19 BUT BY SPRING IN FACT, WE WOULD HAVE A BUDGET. 20 WE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE THE BUDGET BY SEPTEMBER; THAT WE 21 CAN LOOK AT AND REVIEW AND SCRUTINIZE. AND THAT NUMBER IN 22 THEORY IN SEPTEMBER WOULD NOT REALLY BE ZERO. IT WOULD 23 PROBABLY BE SOMETHING ELSE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY 24 WHERE IT WOULD COME FROM. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS 25 LIKE. JUNE 23, 2011 78 1 THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM -- THAT'S PART OF THE 2 PROBLEM WITH HAVING KIND OF GENERAL LANGUAGE -- WELL, 3 THAT'S PART OF THE NEED FOR HAVING GENERAL LANGUAGE 4 BECAUSE THERE'S NO REAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MONEY IS 5 SUBJECT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, WHICH MONEY IS REALLY 6 ASSIGNED TO THE FALL, WHICH WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED. AND HOW 7 MUCH OF THAT IS FALL AND HOW MUCH OF IT IS SPRING. 8 SO IT'S ZERO FOR NOW, BUT ONLY BEGINNING IN 9 JANUARY 2012. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT 11 CLARIFICATION. AND FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T AT THE COMMITTEE 12 MEETING, I THINK THAT IT'S TRUE TO SAY THAT THE ONGOING 13 WORK THAT THE ACCREDITATION GROUP IS DOING IS ONGOING. 14 AND THEN I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION, VICE CHANCELLOR 15 GOLDSTEIN. IT HAD TO DO WITH -- WHAT WAS IT -- YES, WHERE 16 DO WE FIND IN THE BUDGET THE CONCERN I HAD AND OTHERS HAD 17 ABOUT THE CUSTODIANS AND THE DOUBLE DUTIES THAT THEY ARE 18 DOING. 19 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SURE. WELL -- EXCUSE ME. 20 THERE IS ACTUALLY IN THE VERY DETAILED VERSION OF THE 21 BUDGET 2,000 ACCOUNT DOLLARS ALLOCATED FOR CUSTODIAL 22 SALARIES AND 3,000 ACCOUNT FOR THEIR BENEFITS. THAT'S NOT 23 THE LEVEL OF DETAIL WE HAVE HERE. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S MORE LIKE THIS. BUT I JUNE 23, 2011 79 1 CAN TELL YOU SPECIFICALLY, WE ARE ALREADY MOVING FORWARD 2 TO FILL EIGHT OF OUR CUSTODIAL VACANCIES. AND WE WOULD 3 EXPECT -- OF COURSE WE WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE CITY 4 WHEN WE ARE HIRING CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS TO HAVE THOSE 5 NEW CUSTODIANS ON STAFF AND WORKING BEFORE THE END OF 6 SUMMER SCHOOL. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 9 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND I TOO WANT TO 10 COMMEND FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND TRUSTEE NGO AND THE 11 CHANCELLOR ON A BUDGET. 12 YOU KNOW, THAT DOES A FAIRLY GOOD JOB, YOU KNOW, 13 IN THE CONTEXT OF A TOUGH BUDGET AND IN THE CONTEXT THAT 14 OTHER DISTRICTS ARE LAYING FOLKS OFF AND SLASHING CLASSES 15 AND TOTALLY ZEROING OUT THEIR NO SUPPORT SERVICES. I 16 THINK WE'VE DONE THE BEST JOB THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN TO, YOU 17 KNOW, NOT BALANCE THIS BUDGET ON THE BACKS OF FOLKS WHO 18 HAVE THE LEAST. 19 AND, YOU KNOW, I AM VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS 20 PROCESS. THIS HAS BEEN A VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS. IT 21 HAS BEEN A VERY OPEN PROCESS. 22 AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT IS A BUDGET THAT WE 23 CAN BE PROUD OF IN CONTEXT OF, YOU KNOW, MILLIONS AND 24 MILLIONS DOLLARS OF HITS ON OUR INSTITUTION. 25 ONE THING BEFORE SEPTEMBER, HOPEFULLY IN THE JUNE 23, 2011 80 1 NEXT FEW MONTHS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BUDGET THAT IS 2 CAMPUS BY CAMPUS. IT IS REALLY HARD FOR ME TO INFORM THE 3 COMMUNITY ON HOW MUCH THIS INSTITUTION IS INVESTING IN 4 VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS IF WE DON'T HAVE A CAMPUS BY CAMPUS 5 BUDGET. 6 I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MULTIPLE TRUSTEES 7 HAVE TALKED ABOUT. I KNOW THERE'S STAFFING ISSUES. I 8 KNOW THERE'S CAPACITY ISSUES, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE 9 HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR FOR A WHILE. AND IT REALLY HELPS US 10 INFORM, YOU KNOW, THE TYPE OF DECISIONS THAT WE ARE 11 MAKING, SO WE KNOW SPECIFICALLY HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, 12 RESOURCES -- I MEAN CLASSES SUPPORT SERVICES ARE GOING TO 13 BE INVESTED IN SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES AND I THINK THAT'S 14 VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL. SO IT'S SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO 15 SEE BETWEEN NOW AND SEPTEMBER. 16 OF COURSE, I AM GOING TO SUPPORT THIS BUDGET, 17 BUT I REALLY DO THINK IT IS SOMETHING THAT I NEED TO SEE 18 BEFORE, YOU KNOW, I FEEL COMFORTABLE SUPPORTING THE FINAL 19 BUDGET. 20 BUT WITH THAT SAID, I WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS, 21 EVERYONE INVOLVED. I SAT ON THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. BUT I 22 WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED WITH THIS PROCESS 23 BECAUSE I THINK IT WAS A HEALTHY PROCESS, A TRANSPARENT 24 PROCESS. AND I THINK WE DID THE BEST WITH, YOU KNOW, THE 25 BUDGET CUTS THAT WE HAD, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. JUNE 23, 2011 81 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, MAYBE, TRUSTEE NGO, YOU 2 COULD -- 3 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- MOVE YOUR AMENDMENT. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: I WANT TO SAY JUST QUICKLY. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON, THE FINANCE TEAM DID PUT 7 TOGETHER A DRAFT OF THE CAMPUS BY CAMPUS BUDGET. ITS -- 8 THE URL IS CCSF.EDU/BUDGET. AND IT'S THE APRIL 21ST 9 PRODUCTION. IT'S HERE. IT'S NOT -- WITH ALL THE 10 DOCUMENTS WE GOT DURING THE COMMITTEE, THEY ARE CAVEATS, 11 BUT IT'S A GOOD START. 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL SEND THAT TO YOU OR YOU CAN 14 LOOK THAT UP ONLINE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I WAS TOLD THE NUMBERS 16 AREN'T TOTALLY ACCURATE, SO -- 17 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS. 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AND SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT'S 20 THERE, AND I AGREE WITH YOUR CONCERN TO HAVE MORE ACCURATE 21 DATA. IN FACT I WOULD WELCOME -- I WOULD ACTUALLY BE 22 WILLING TO COSPONSOR A POLICY CHANGE WITH YOU TO REQUIRE 23 THAT THE BUDGET IS ADOPTED. THAT THERE IS A COMPONENT OF 24 CAMPUS BY CAMPUS -- 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. JUNE 23, 2011 82 1 TRUSTEE NGO: -- BUDGET. 2 I ALSO WANT TO SAY QUICKLY ON THE BUDGET IN 3 GENERAL, ONE OF THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES WE HAVE BESIDES NOT 4 HAVING THE BUDGET BALANCED ON THE BACKS OF STUDENTS WAS 5 THAT WE WANTED TO CUT SMARTER AND SPEND SMARTER. AND I 6 THINK WITH SOME OF THE PROPOSALS BY THE ADMINISTRATION, 7 BUT CERTAINLY IN SOME OF THE AMENDMENTS THAT YOU SEE BY 8 THE COMMITTEE THAT WE TRIED TO DO THAT. IT'S NOT PERFECT, 9 BUT I THINK WE ARE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 10 THAT'S PARTLY WHY WE ARE ASKING FOR A 11 CAMPUS-BASED BUDGET BECAUSE WE WANTED TO KNOW HOW WE WERE 12 SPENDING MONEY, NOT JUST ON THE ACTUAL OFFICIAL CAMPUSES, 13 BUT ON SITES, ON A SITE-BY-SITE BASIS AS WELL. AND I 14 THINK WE ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS, AND SO I WANTED TO 15 MENTION THIS AS WELL. 16 I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE B1(A) AS AN AMENDMENT TO 17 B1. B1(A) THERE IS, JUST TO BE CLEAR WITH EVERYONE ON THE 18 BOARD, THERE IS NO NEW MONEY THAT THIS RESOLUTION CALLS 19 FOR. IT'S ALREADY -- IT'S A REVENUE NEUTRAL AMENDMENT. 20 IT ONLY APPLIES TO WHAT'S ALREADY ALLOCATED TO THIS LINE 21 ITEM, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY STUDENT LAB AIDE MONEY. 22 FOR 2011-2012, THE BUDGET ALLOCATION FOR LAB 23 AIDE IS $1.6 MILLION. THIS IS I THINK -- THIS IS 24 ESSENTIALLY DISTRICT-BASED WORK STUDY THAT THE COLLEGE HAS 25 TO OFFER TO OUR STUDENTS. AND I THINK IT'S AN INVALUABLE JUNE 23, 2011 83 1 OPPORTUNITY, NOT JUST TO GIVE STUDENTS A CHANCE TO EARN 2 MONEY AND WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH SCHOOL, BUT ALSO TO -- TO 3 ALSO HAVE GOOD WORK EXPERIENCE WHILE THEY ARE HERE AND 4 ALSO GET MENTORING AND TRAINING FROM FACULTY. 5 WHAT I WANT TO DO IS DO TWO THINGS WITH THIS 6 FUND, THE 1.6. NO. 1, I WANT TO PROVIDE MORE FLEXIBILITY 7 FOR THE DISTRICT IN HOW THEY CAN PAY WORK STUDY LAB AIDE 8 STUDENTS. 9 RIGHT NOW, IT'S ALL GENERAL FUND MONEY, BUT IF 10 WE WERE TO SOURCE THE LAB AIDE BUDGET. THIS PORTION HERE 11 I'M ASKING FOR $300,000 WITH THE 1.6 TO SALES TAX REVENUE. 12 IT WOULD GIVE THE DISTRICT, GIVEN THE LANGUAGE AND THE 13 SALES TAX BALLOT MEASURE MORE FLEXIBILITY IN HOW IT CAN 14 PAY STUDENTS, NOT NECESSARILY HOURLY, BUT IN FACT BY 15 STIPENDS. ALL OF THIS WOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE 16 FEDERAL AND STATE LAW, OF COURSE. BUT THAT IS THE GENERAL 17 CONCEPT. THAT'S PART 1 OF THE CHANGE. 18 PART 2 OF THE CHANGE IS BECAUSE MORE STUDENTS 19 WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS FUNDING, IT WOULD BE BASED ON 20 NEED. BUT BECAUSE MORE STUDENTS WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS 21 FUNDING, THE OTHER PRINCIPLE IS THAT THE WORK ITSELF WOULD 22 BE ALLOCATED TO THE PART OF OUR COLLEGE THAT I THINK CAN 23 DO A BETTER JOB. 24 AND THAT IS, TO REFERENCE ANGELA THOMAS' POINT 25 EARLIER. I THINK THE BEST CAPITAL, THE BEST RESOURCE THAT JUNE 23, 2011 84 1 WE HAVE TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE CITY ABOUT THE JOB WE 2 ARE DOING AND THE TALENT WE HAVE IS THE STUDENTS 3 THEMSELVES. 4 AND THE FACT THAT WE CAN GET SOME OF THESE 5 STUDENTS OUT INTO SERVICE PROJECTS IN THE CITY, WHETHER 6 WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS OR DOING VOLUNTEER WORK UNDER 7 THE GUIDANCE OF OR ADVISEMENT OF A FACULTY MEMBER IN THE 8 CITY ITSELF, I THINK SERVES NOT JUST TO PROVIDE A 9 CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY AT LARGE AND THE BODY POLICY AT 10 GET LARGE, BUT IT ALSO GIVES THE STUDENTS A CHANCE TO 11 HAVE -- TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND 12 ENGAGEMENT WITH THEIR COMMUNITY. 13 IT ALSO, AS A BY-PRODUCT OF THAT -- NOT A 14 BY-PRODUCT, BUT INTENTIONAL PRODUCT OF THAT IS TO REMIND 15 THE CITY THAT THESE STUDENTS ARE HERE. THEIR TALENT AND 16 THEIR SKILL AND THEIR ENERGY IS HERE, AND WE CAN DEVOTE 17 THEM TO THE WORK -- THE GOOD WORK THAT THE CITY CALLS ON 18 ALL OF US TO DO. AND THAT'S WHY -- THAT IS WHY -- THAT IS 19 PART 2. AND PART IN PARCEL WHY I AM ASKING THE BOARD TO 20 ADOPT THIS AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET. 21 AGAIN, THIS IS A REVENUE NEUTRAL AMENDMENT. 22 THERE IS NO NEW MONEY THAT WE ARE ASKING FOR. WE ARE JUST 23 ASKING THAT OF THE $1.6 MILLION THAT THE DISTRICT JUST 24 FUNDS IT DIFFERENTLY. THAT'S NO. 1. 25 AND NO. 2, THAT WE DEVOTE THAT MONEY, FLEXIBLE JUNE 23, 2011 85 1 MONEY, TO PROJECTS THAT SERVE ALL OF SAN FRANCISCO WITH 2 THE GUIDANCE OF OUR OUTSTANDING FACULTY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A SECOND TO THE 4 MOTION? 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: TO THE AMENDMENT. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, TO THE AMENDMENT TO THE 8 MOTION TO MOVE THE AMENDMENT. 9 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON SECONDED IT. 11 IS THERE DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD? 12 I HAVE A CARD. KAREN SAGINOR. 13 MS. SAGINOR: KAREN SAGINOR, ACADEMIC SENATE 14 PRESIDENT. 15 I AM ACTUALLY ASKING A PROCESS QUESTION. FOR 16 THE OTHER B RESOLUTIONS, I SEE THE STATEMENT THAT SAYS 17 WHETHER IT GOT SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW OR DID NOT GET 18 SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW. I DIDN'T SEE SUCH A STATEMENT 19 ON THIS ONE. 20 SO I WAS JUST ASKING, DID IT GET SHARED 21 GOVERNANCE REVIEW? AND IF SO, WHY -- WHAT COMMITTEE? 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DO WE KNOW THE ANSWER? I 23 DON'T THINK IT DID. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: CAN I ASK A QUESTION. 25 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT WENT THROUGH THE BUDGET JUNE 23, 2011 86 1 COMMITTEE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: (INAUDIBLE). 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH, CAN I ASK A 5 QUESTION. 6 LIKE IF IT DOESN'T HAVE TO GO, LIKE I HAVE A 7 RESOLUTION S10. AND I AM NOT SURE THAT'S A SHARED 8 GOVERNANCE, YOU KNOW, PROCESS. BUT IT SAID, "SHARED 9 GOVERNANCE AND "X" NO." 10 SHOULD IT NOT HAVE THAT THERE BECAUSE IT MAKES 11 IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S NOT LIKE -- IT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE IT 12 WENT THROUGH -- I TRIED TO GO AROUND THE PROCESS THAT 13 REALLY WASN'T APPROPRIATE FOR THE S RESOLUTION. LIKE IT 14 IS JUST A RESOLUTION, YOU KNOW, OPPOSING AB 515. AND IT 15 SAYS, "NO" ON THERE LIKE I DIDN'T WANT TO GO THERE EVEN 16 THOUGH TECHNICALLY IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO GO THERE. 17 SO IF IT -- LIKE FOR TRUSTEE NGO'S RESOLUTION, 18 IF IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO GO TO SHARED GOVERNANCE, 19 DO YOU HAVE TO PUT THAT -- DID IT GO TO SHARED GOVERNANCE 20 "YES" OR "NO" ON THE DOCUMENT ITSELF? 21 I AM HAPPY TO GET AN ANSWER FROM ANYBODY BECAUSE 22 I KNOW MINE HAD "NO," BUT YET, IT IS JUST A RESOLUTION 23 PUTTING THE BOARD IN A POSITION AGAINST AB 515. 24 AND THEN SINCE YOU BROUGHT THAT QUESTION UP, IT 25 WAS JUST REALLY RELEVANT TO THAT. JUNE 23, 2011 87 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I ACT UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF STATE 2 LAW WHICH GIVES US BROAD AUTHORITY TO APPROVE BUDGETS. WE 3 HAVE A BROAD AUTHORITY THAT WE SHOULD EXERCISE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: TEN PLUS ONE DOESN'T GIVE 6 JURISDICTION TO THE PARTICIPATORY OR SHARED GOVERNANCE 7 BODIES ON EVERY SINGLE BUDGETARY DECISION OR AMENDMENT 8 THAT COMES BEFORE THE BOARD. 9 SO, NO, IT DID NOT. 10 MS. SAGINOR: THE PRACTICE -- 11 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT -- 12 MS. SAGINOR: -- OF THE COLLEGE -- 13 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT LET ME FINISH -- 14 MS. SAGINOR: SURE. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT IT WAS PROPERLY -- THERE WAS A 16 HEARING AND -- 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MULTIPLE HEARINGS. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: WE HAD MULTIPLE HEARINGS 19 THROUGHOUT THE -- SINCE FEBRUARY. AND PEOPLE HAD A CHANCE 20 TO EXPRESS THEIR OPPOSITION OR SUPPORT OF ANY OF THESE 21 SECTIONS. 22 MS. SAGINOR: THE PRACTICE OF THE COLLEGE HAS 23 BEEN TO USE THIS FORM AS AN INFORMATIONAL FORM. MARKING 24 "NO" DOES NOT MEAN YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG, NOT AT ALL. 25 IT IN FACT IT ACTUALLY SAYS, "A NEGATIVE JUNE 23, 2011 88 1 RESPONSE INDICATES THE REVIEW WAS NOT NECESSARY." 2 SO IT'S AN INFORMATIONAL -- THERE HAS BEEN SOME 3 TALK THAT MAYBE THIS PARTICULAR FORMAT OF IT ISN'T -- WE 4 MAYBE SHOULD LOOK AT CHANGING THE FORMAT OF HAVING THAT 5 INFORMATIONAL STATEMENT, BUT IT IS AN INFORMATIONAL 6 STATEMENT. 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: BUT IF IT'S NOT IN THE 8 TEN PLUS ONE, SHOULD IT JUST BE ON -- SHOULD IT BE ON 9 THERE ANYWAY? 10 LIKE, I GET IF IT'S A TEN PLUS ONE THING, I 11 TOTALLY GET THAT. 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: BUT IF IT IS NOT A TEN 14 PLUS ONE THING, HOW COME IT'S ON THERE? 15 MS. SAGINOR: CAN I GIVE A ONE SECOND RESPONSE 16 TO THAT. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I WANT TO WRAP THIS -- 18 MS. SAGINOR: TEN PLUS ONE -- 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- LINE IS A LITTLE OFF THE 20 MARK. 21 MS. SAGINOR: -- HAS TO DO WITH ACADEMIC SENATE. 22 ACADEMIC SENATE IS ONLY ONE PART OF SHARED GOVERNANCE. 23 THERE'S OTHER PARTS OF SHARED GOVERNANCE. SO TEN PLUS ONE 24 IS NOT THE ONLY THING HAVING TO DO WITH SHARED GOVERNANCE, 25 BUT THAT'S A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER DAY, SO THANK YOU VERY JUNE 23, 2011 89 1 MUCH. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT ON B1(A) WHICH 4 IS THE AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET? 5 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST REALLY QUICKLY -- 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: QUESTION. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: LET'S HEAR WHAT TRUSTEE 8 FANG -- 9 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK TRUSTEE FANG HASN'T SPOKEN 10 YET. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, JUST ONE QUESTION 12 HERE BECAUSE THIS -- I JUST WANT TO GET -- CLARIFY THIS. 13 IS $300,000 TO BE ALLOCATED FOR STUDENT LAB AIDE 14 POSITION TO -- AVAILABLE FOR THIS OFFICE OF MENTORING 15 SERVICE LEARNING ONLY TO CREATE MORE LAB AIDE POSITIONS. 16 IS THAT THE INTENT OF THE RESOLUTION? 17 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, THE INTENT OF THE RESOLUTION 18 IS I THINK WHAT YOU JUST SAID, WHICH IS YOU READ OFF THE 19 RESOLUTION. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: FOR THAT SPECIFIC OFFICE. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S WHAT THAT SAYS, "YES." 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: JUST THAT OFFICE ONLY 23 SO -- 24 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, LET ME BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT 25 YOUR IMPLICATION IS. JUNE 23, 2011 90 1 THE OFFICE ITSELF, YES, WE'VE RECEIVED THAT 2 ALLOCATION. BUT THE WAY THE OFFICE WORKS DOES NOT 3 PROHIBIT OR FORBID ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT FROM ACTUALLY 4 HAVING A SERVICE OR MENTORING PROJECT THAT'S RUN OUT OF 5 THAT OFFICE. SO IT'S NOT JUST LAB AIDE POSITIONS FOR 6 MENTORING IN THAT OFFICE. AND SERVICE IN THAT OFFICE IS 7 ACTUALLY POSITIONS FOR MENTORING AND SERVICE THAT IS 8 THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE. IT'S JUST ADMINISTERED FROM THAT 9 OFFICE. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S RIGHT. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: BUT IT IS FOR MENTORING 12 SERVICE ONLY TO FIT THE MISSION OF THE OFFICE, OF COURSE, 13 RIGHT? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S WHAT THE RESOLUTION SAYS, 15 YES. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK 17 YOU. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 19 ANY OTHER DISCUSSION FROM THE BOARD? 20 OKAY, WE ARE READY TO VOTE. ON THE AMENDMENT 21 B1(A), WHICH IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE, OKAY. 25 OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY "AYE." JUNE 23, 2011 91 1 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 9 OKAY, THIS B1(A) IS NOW AMENDED TO THE BUDGET. 10 SO NOW WE ARE ON THE BUDGET ITSELF. ARE THERE 11 ANY -- IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION FROM THE BOARD ON 12 ITEM B1, THE BUDGET FOR THIS COMING YEAR? 13 IS THERE ANY FURTHER FINAL COMMENTS FROM THE 14 AUDIENCE? 15 CFO BILMONT: JOHN BILMONT, CHIEF FINANCIAL 16 OFFICER. 17 JUST A POINT OF CLARIFICATION, THE AMENDMENT 18 B1(A) WILL RESULT IN A REDUCTION IN THE SALES TAX 19 UNRESTRICTED REVENUE, UNRESTRICTED PORTION OF THE SALES 20 TAX AND A SPECIFIC TRANSFER OVER TO A DESIGNATED INTERNAL 21 SERVICE FUND OF A SIMILAR AMOUNT IN ITS REVENUE NEUTRAL, 22 BUT I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT INTO THE RECORD. 23 ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DIDN'T FOLLOW. COULD YOU -- 25 CFO BILMONT: SURE. THE AMENDMENT B1(A) -- JUNE 23, 2011 92 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: RIGHT. 2 CFO BILMONT: -- IS REVENUE NEUTRAL. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 4 CFO BILMONT: BUT WHAT IT DOES IS IT TAKES OUR 5 UNRESTRICTED SALES TAX NUMBER, WHICH IS CURRENTLY 6 FORECASTED AT $14,765,000 I BELIEVE. IT WILL TAKE 7 $300,000 OF THAT AND PUT IT INTO A DESIGNATED INTERNAL 8 SERVICE FUND. AND THAT -- WHICH IS A RESTRICTED CATEGORY. 9 BUT IT'S CONSOLIDATING BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. 10 IT'S REVENUE NEUTRAL, BUT IT IS MAKING A SMALL 11 MODIFICATION IN THE NUMBERS. I JUST DON'T WANT US TO 12 THINK WE ARE REDUCING REVENUE OR INCREASING IT. IT'S 13 REVENUE NEUTRAL. 14 DOES THAT -- 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK -- 16 TRUSTEE WONG: JUST THE DESIGNATION HAS CHANGED. 17 CFO BILMONT: IT IS. BUT IT WILL REDUCE OUR -- 18 ON THE REVENUE SCHEDULE ON PAGE L, THE SALES TAX WILL GO 19 DOWN BY $300,000. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I SEE. SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT 21 WHEN YOU PRODUCE THE FINAL WITH THIS, THAT NUMBER WILL BE 22 SMALLER. 23 CFO BILMONT: THAT IS CORRECT. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, I SEE. 25 SPEAKER UNKNOWN: (INAUDIBLE.) JUNE 23, 2011 93 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD YOU -- WHAT DID HE 2 SAY -- 3 TRUSTEE NGO: THE NUMBERS WILL CHANGE BOTH ON 4 THE REVENUE SIDE AND THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, SO IT'S EVEN. 5 IT'S NET ZERO. 6 CFO BILMONT: RIGHT. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT 8 OUT. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT, I DO HAVE A 10 QUESTION THOUGH -- 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: -- NOT ON THE AMENDMENT, BUT ON 13 THE BUDGET AT LARGE. 14 SO I ASKED THIS QUESTION BY E-MAIL THIS WEEK, 15 BUT WE ESTABLISHED A VETERANS FUND, A REVOLVING FUND -- 16 CFO BILMONT: YES. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: -- FOR HOUSING AND AID AND OTHER 18 THINGS -- 19 CFO BILMONT: RIGHT. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: -- IN THE AMOUNT OF $103,000 LAST 21 OCTOBER. 22 CFO BILMONT: YES. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: I RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ALREADY WAS 24 AN EXISTING ACCOUNT FOR $30,000 THAT WAS GENEROUSLY 25 CREATED AND ESTABLISHED BY WELLS FARGO. I WANT TO KNOW JUNE 23, 2011 94 1 WHERE THAT MONEY IS LOCATED. 2 CFO BILMONT: SURE. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER YET? 4 CFO BILMONT: YES. YES, I WENT THROUGH -- 5 THERE'S FOUR DIFFERENT VETERANS SUPPORT FUNDS IN THE 6 DISTRICT. THE ONE THAT YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT WHERE THE 7 $150,000 SHOULD BE IS IN FUND TYPE 73, SO THERE'S A 8 PAGE -- LET ME GRAB THIS REALLY QUICK. 9 ON PAGE 4 OF THE BUDGET BOOK, UNDER -- IT'S 10 ACTUALLY UNDER, "FUND TYPE 72, THE GENERAL TRUST." FAR 11 RIGHT COLUMN UNDER "BUDGET FOR 2011-2012 $604,000." IT'S 12 LUMP SUM IN THAT NUMBER AT THIS TIME. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: IT IS. 14 CFO BILMONT: YES. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AND SO THAT'S REFLECTED -- BECAUSE 16 I REMEMBER WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT IT THIS WEEK, I BELIEVE 17 THE CHANCELLOR HAD NOT BEEN MADE YET, BUT I WANT TO MAKE 18 SURE THAT IT'S REFLECTED IN THIS BUDGET, MEANING I DON'T 19 HAVE TO -- WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK AND ESTABLISH IT 20 AGAIN. 21 CFO BILMONT: NO, WE WON'T. I PULLED THE BOARD 22 RESOLUTION, AND I DID LOOK AT THAT. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. SO IT WAS IN "72, THE 24 GENERAL TRUST." 25 CFO BILMONT: THAT IS CORRECT. JUNE 23, 2011 95 1 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 2 CFO BILMONT: ALL RIGHT. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 4 CFO BILMONT: AH-HUH. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YES, THANK YOU, 8 MR. PRESIDENT. 9 I KNOW THEY MAY BE ASKING FOR A CALCULATION 10 HERE, BUT JUST TO FOLLOW UP SINCE B1(A) HAS NOW AMENDED 11 B1. $300,000 THAT CHANGED. HOW MANY LAB AIDE POSITIONS 12 WOULD THAT CREATE, STUDENT LAB AIDE POSITIONS. 13 CFO BILMONT: I THINK A LAB AIDE EARNS ABOUT 14 MAYBE LIKE 2500 -- 15 MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE: $9 AN HOUR. 16 CFO BILMONT: RIGHT. AND FIFTEEN HOURS A WEEK 17 AND 17 WEEKS IN A SEMESTER. SO I WAS GOING TO SAY ABOUT 18 2500 A SEMESTER. 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: 5,000 A YEAR IS WHAT WE 20 USE. 21 CFO BILMONT: OKAY. 22 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: 60 -- 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: ROUGHLY 60. 25 CFO BILMONT: OKAY, SO -- JUNE 23, 2011 96 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THANK YOU. JUST I NEED 2 TO KNOW THAT SO AT LEAST THE STUDENTS CAN ALSO REFERENCE 3 AND NOTE THAT'S 60 MORE POSITIONS. 4 CFO BILMONT: OKAY. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. I THINK WE ARE READY TO 6 VOTE ON THIS. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M SORRY. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, SORRY. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: TRUSTEE FANG, IT'S NOT MORE 11 POSITIONS. 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO, IT'S NOT MORE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: THERE ARE ALREADY 60 POSITIONS 14 THAT'S ALLOCATED. WE'RE NOT ADDING POSITIONS. THEY ARE 15 JUST BEING ADMINISTERED IN A DIFFERENT COST. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO WE ARE NOT INCREASING 17 THE AMOUNT THAT'S ALLOTTED TO STUDENTS, OKAY. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I THOUGHT I MADE CLEAR THAT THE 19 BUDGET WAS REVENUE -- THIS AMENDMENT WAS REVENUE NEUTRAL. 20 THERE WAS NO ADDITION TO THE BUDGET. IT'S NOT GOING FROM 21 1.6 TO 1.9. IT'S JUST A DESIGNATION FROM THE 1.6. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO I STAND CORRECTED. 60 23 POSITIONS FROM THAT OFFICE, OKAY. THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. OKAY. I THINK WE 25 ARE READY TO VOTE. JUNE 23, 2011 97 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE -- 2 ARE YOU SPEAKING ON THE BUDGET, OKAY. 3 WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND SPEAK AND THEN FILL 4 THAT OUT. 5 MR. PIONTKOWSKI: MY NAME IS DENNIS PIONTKOWSKI, 6 AND I AM CHAIR OF THE MATH DEPARTMENT. 7 AND I JUST WANT TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF 8 CLARIFICATION ABOUT THIS $300,000. MANY DEPARTMENTS HAVE 9 STUDENT LAB AIDE WORKERS WHO WORK WITHIN THE DEPARTMENTS 10 AS TUTORS AND IN VARIOUS OTHER WAYS THAT IS THE KIND OF 11 WORK THAT'S VERY CLOSE TO INSTRUCTION AND VERY SUPPORTIVE 12 TO OTHER STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE. 13 AND I AM JUST A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT THE 14 $300,000 THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS GOING TO BE TAKEN 15 AWAY FROM SOME OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL DEPARTMENTS THAT RELY 16 ON LAB AIDE WORKERS TO WORK AS TUTORS AND IN OTHER AREAS. 17 SO I JUST WANT ASSURANCES THAT DEPARTMENT'S 18 INDIVIDUAL LAB AIDE BUDGETS WILL NOT BE CUT BECAUSE OF 19 THIS CHANGE. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S CORRECT. THEY WILL 21 NOT. 22 MR. PIONTKOWSKI: OKAY. THANK YOU. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I WILL ADD TO, DENNIS, THIS 24 WAS BASED -- THAT NUMBER WAS BASED ON THE HISTORICAL USE 25 OF LAB AIDE POSITIONS. SO I LOOKED AT THE 2009-2010 JUNE 23, 2011 98 1 BASELINE. AND IT WAS AT -- I THINK IT WAS 2009-2010 WHERE 2 THE NUMBER WAS ACTUALLY 1.3. AND IT KIND OF -- 3 MR. PIONTKOWSKI: SO THIS AMOUNT IS NOT BEING 4 TAKEN AWAY FROM -- 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S RIGHT. 6 MR. PIONTKOWSKI: -- FUNDS THAT HAVE 7 TRADITIONALLY OR IN RECENT YEARS BEEN ALLOCATED TO 8 INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS, LAB AIDE BUDGETS. 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S CORRECT. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. 11 MR. PIONTKOWSKI: THANK YOU. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 13 ALL RIGHT. STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG, ON THE 14 RESOLUTION, B1, THE BUDGET FOR THE NEXT YEAR. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 25 OKAY. IT'S -- THE RESOLUTION PASSED. JUNE 23, 2011 99 1 WE'LL GO BACK TO -- OUR NEXT ITEM IS THE REPORT 2 FROM CONSTITUENT GROUPS. FIRST IN LINE IS ACADEMIC SENATE 3 PRESIDENT, KAREN SAGINOR. 4 MS. SAGINOR: GOOD EVENING. ACADEMIC SENATE 5 PRESIDENT, KAREN SAGINOR. 6 HAPPY PRIDE WEEK TO ALL OF YOU. I HOPE YOU ARE 7 PLANNING TO PARTICIPATE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IN THE 8 EVENTS OF THIS COMING WEEKEND. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: WE ARE. 10 MS. SAGINOR: I WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE YOU THERE. 11 I DON'T HAVE A LONG REPORT TONIGHT. I THINK 12 IT'S GOING TO BE A PLENTY LONG EVENING WITHOUT A LONG 13 REPORT FROM ME. 14 ONE THING I DO WANT TO COMMENT ON HAS TO DO WITH 15 THE ACADEMIC SENATE'S ROLE IN REGARDS TO BUDGET 16 INFORMATION. AND THAT IS THAT THE FINDING OF MONEY TO 17 SUPPORT EDUCATION IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO 18 LEAVE TO THE ADMINISTRATION. WE REALLY -- IT'S NOT AN 19 ACADEMIC SENATE MATTER OF MONEY ISSUES GENERALLY SPEAKING. 20 HOWEVER, WHEN THE MONEY ISSUES START TO MAKE A 21 REALLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, 22 THEN IT DOES BECOME SOMETHING THAT WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT. 23 SO FOR INSTANCE, A PROPOSAL THAT WOULD ELIMINATE 24 EITHER INTENTIONALLY OR AS A SIDE EFFECT OF DOING 25 SOMETHING ELSE, IF IT WERE TO ELIMINATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR JUNE 23, 2011 100 1 STUDENTS TO TAKE PARTICULAR KINDS OF COURSES, RIGHT, THEN 2 IT WOULD BE AN ACADEMIC SENATE MATTER. 3 OBVIOUSLY, ANY TIME WE HAVE TO CUT THE BUDGET, 4 WE ARE SAYING, OKAY, THERE'S NOW LESS OPPORTUNITY FOR 5 STUDENTS TO TAKE PARTICULAR CLASSES BECAUSE WE ARE ONLY 6 GOING TO OFFER TEN SECTIONS OF THE CLASS INSTEAD OF 12 7 SECTIONS OF THE CLASS OR WHATEVER, BUT THAT WE WON'T 8 QUIBBLE ABOUT THAT. BUT IF IT GETS TO WHERE THERE'S GOING 9 TO BE NO SECTIONS OF A CLASS ADDED AND, PARTICULARLY, IF 10 THOSE ARE COURSES THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR CERTIFICATE OR 11 FOR A PARTICULAR KIND OF PROGRAM, THEN IT BECOMES A 12 CONCERN OF THE SENATE. 13 AT CITY COLLEGE, WE DO HAVE SOME PROCESS IN 14 PLACE FOR ELIMINATING COURSES. YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME WE 15 ADD A NEW COURSE, IT GOES THROUGH CURRICULUM. IF WE ADD A 16 NEW PROGRAM, IT REQUIRES THE SIGNATURE OF THE SENATE AND 17 SO FORTH. 18 WE DON'T HAVE THE SAME KIND OF STRUCTURE IN 19 PLACE IF WE DECIDE TO GO THROUGH A PROCESS TO GET RID OF 20 PROGRAMS. AND I THINK IT IS SOMETHING WHERE WE DO NEED TO 21 WORK ON PUTTING TOGETHER AN APPROPRIATE PROCESS IF WE ARE 22 GOING TO ACTUALLY TAKE AWAY PROGRAMS. WE DON'T EVER WANT 23 TO ACTUALLY TAKE AWAY PROGRAMS, BUT SOMETIMES THAT CAN 24 BECOME NECESSARY. AND WE NEED TO BUILD A BETTER PROCESS 25 IN PLACE FOR THAT. JUNE 23, 2011 101 1 BUT IN THE MEANTIME, SINCE WE DON'T HAVE SUCH A 2 PROCESS, IT IS INDEED AN ACADEMIC SENATE CONCERN IF 3 PROGRAMS ARE GOING TO BE ELIMINATED. 4 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK ON 5 THE BUDGET. AND I WANT TO, OF COURSE, THANK ALL THE 6 FACULTY WHO HAVE KEPT ME INFORMED AND PROVIDED INFORMATION 7 WHEN I REQUESTED IT, HAVE HELPED TO KEEP THE BOARD 8 INFORMED COMING TO MANY OF THE BUDGET MEETINGS THAT WERE 9 HELD. AND THAT I AM VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT WE'VE GOT A 10 PRELIMINARY BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR, WHICH IS NOT NEARLY AS 11 BAD WE FEARED AT ONE TIME. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR 12 THAT. 13 AND THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAVE TO REPORT ON AT 14 THIS POINT. AND I DO WANT MY COLLEAGUE FROM AFT 15 PRESIDENT, ALISA MESSER. 16 MS. MESSER: THANKS, KAREN. 17 I THINK WE -- THIS IS A TRULY EXCEPTIONAL 18 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT. I MEAN I KNOW -- I HEARD 19 ANGELA SPEAKING TO THAT EARLIER. I KNOW I'VE HEARD ALL OF 20 YOU SPEAK TO IT, BUT THIS IS A PRETTY EXCEPTIONAL PLACE. 21 AND WE DO EXCEPTIONAL WORK FOR OUR STUDENTS. AND I AM 22 REALLY PLEASED THAT THE WHOLE COLLEGE HAS COME TOGETHER TO 23 DO SO MUCH TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE BUDGET CUTS ARE NOT ON 24 THE BACKS OF STUDENTS. AND I THINK WE'VE ALSO BEEN 25 WORKING VERY HARD TO SEE THAT THEY ARE NOT ON THE BACKS OF JUNE 23, 2011 102 1 OUR EMPLOYEES AS WELL. WE HAVEN'T -- RIGHT? 2 THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF SACRIFICES. SO WE'VE 3 PROTECTED STUDENT SERVICES. WE'VE WORKED HARD TO PROTECT 4 STUDENT ACCESS. NONE OF THIS DONE SUCCESSFULLY, RIGHT, IN 5 ITS ENTIRETY, BUT I THINK WE HAVE BEEN VERY CAREFUL AND 6 VERY THOUGHTFUL, AND WE ARE TRYING REALLY HARD. 7 WE ARE CONTINUING TO FIND WAYS TO INNOVATE FOR 8 INCREASED STUDENT SUCCESS. AND AT THE SAME TIME, THIS 9 RIGHT NOW AS WE MOVE INTO JULY, SOME OF THE CONCESSIONS 10 THAT EMPLOYEES HAVE SEEN ARE SUNSETTING. AND SO WE ARE 11 BEGINNING TO SORT OF DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER. 12 BUT I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T REMIND THE 13 BOARD THAT THERE IS ONE PARTICULAR -- THERE ARE MANY 14 SACRIFICES THAT FOLKS HAVE MADE. BUT I WANTED TO REMIND 15 THE BOARD THAT TWO YEARS AGO, A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF 16 FACULTY DID MAKE -- A LARGE GROUP OF FACULTY DID MAKE A 17 SACRIFICE THAT'S STILL ONGOING. AND THAT'S THE STEP THAT 18 WE FROZE THAT IS STILL MISSING. I HAVEN'T MENTIONED IT IN 19 THE WHILE. IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD MOMENT TO MENTION IT. 20 THAT'S ABOUT HALF OF OUR FULL-TIME FACULTY AND 21 NEARLY 75 PERCENT OF OUR PART-TIME FACULTY WHO ARE ON 22 STEPS. IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'VE EVER DONE A SACRIFICE 23 LIKE THIS THAT IS ONGOING. WE DON'T HAVE AN END DATE FOR 24 IT. AND SO RIGHT NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT $2400 A YEAR OR 25 A PROPORTIONATE AMOUNT FOR PART-TIME FACULTY. JUNE 23, 2011 103 1 BUT THAT DOES MEAN THAT SOME FACULTY COULD LOSE 2 IF WE DON'T RIGHT THAT AT SOME POINT; THAT SOME FACULTY 3 COULD LOSE MORE THAN $30,000 OVER THE PERIOD OF 15 YEARS. 4 SO I JUST DIDN'T WANT US TO FORGET THAT THAT'S THERE. 5 AND, OF COURSE, IT'S NOT THE ONLY SACRIFICE 6 THAT'S BEEN MADE. IT'S JUST ONE THAT I WANTED TO MENTION 7 THIS EVENING. 8 SO OBVIOUSLY, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO WORK ALSO 9 ON THE STATE LEVEL TO TRY TO HAVE A MORE HUMANE BUDGET FOR 10 ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND FOR THE WHOLE COLLEGE COMMUNITY 11 AND HAVE SMARTER PRIORITIES THAT WILL HELP US FUND THE 12 KIND OF CALIFORNIA WE WANT TO BE A PART OF. 13 WE HAVE A LOT OF STRUCTURAL ISSUES AND PROBLEMS 14 WITH CALIFORNIA MOVING IN THE DIRECTION THAT IT'S MOVING. 15 IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO DO MUCH TO CHANGE THAT. SO WE 16 ARE GOING TO NEED TO CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE TO BACKFILL FOR 17 THE EXTRAORDINARY CUTS THAT WE'VE HAD TO FUNDING TO 18 STUDENT SERVICES, FOR LESS FUNDING FOR OUR FTES, EVEN 19 WHILE THE ACTUAL FUNDING THAT WE ARE GETTING BEGINS TO 20 DECLINE AND CONTINUES TO DECLINE. AND WE ARE GOING TO 21 NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CARE FOR OUR CURRENT AND RETIRED 22 EMPLOYEES UNDER A TRULY DYSFUNCTIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AS 23 WELL. 24 SO ALL OF THAT IS JUST -- RIGHT, WE ARE MOVING 25 FORWARD IN SOME VERY GOOD WAYS. AND I FEEL THE JUNE 23, 2011 104 1 CONVERSATION ABOUT THE PARCEL TAX IS REALLY PROMISING, BUT 2 IT'S ALSO -- IT'S A DIFFICULT TIME. 3 AT THE SAME TIME I WANTED TO MENTION AB -- 4 THERE'S A RESOLUTION, S10. THANK YOU FOR S10 FOR THE 5 TRUSTEES WHO PUT THAT FORWARD OPPOSING AB 515, WHICH WOULD 6 REALLY DAMAGE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM WE FEEL AND 7 WOULD TURN -- WOULD CREATE EXTENSION CLASSES THAT WOULD BE 8 HIGH COST EXTENSION CLASSES FOR FOLKS WHO COULD PAY FOR 9 THEM OR WHO COULD BORROW IN ORDER TO PAY FOR THEM. SO 10 REALLY A WRONG TURN FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES. 11 AND SINCE THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE, MANY 12 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS HAVE ACTUALLY TAKEN APPOSED 13 POSITIONS, SO I HOPE THAT THIS EVENING YOU WILL JOIN 14 LOS ANGELES, SAN JOSE, EVERGREEN, SAN DIEGO, GROSSMONT, 15 CUYAMACA AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF LABOR COUNCILS AROUND THE 16 STATE IN OPPOSING AB 515, WHICH ACTUALLY GOES TO THE 17 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE NEXT WEDNESDAY. 18 SO IF ANYBODY WANTS TO JOIN ME IN TESTIFYING 19 NEXT WEDNESDAY AT THE STATE CAPITOL, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. 20 THANKS. HAVE A GOOD SUMMER. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 NEXT WE HAVE THE CLASSIFIED SENATE, ATTILA 23 GABOR. 24 MR. GABOR: GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES, CHANCELLOR, 25 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. ATTILA GABOR, PRESIDENT OF THE JUNE 23, 2011 105 1 CLASSIFIED SENATE. 2 THE MOST EXCITING THING FOR US, THE SENATE, 3 HAPPENED THAT WE HAD ELECTIONS. WE HAVE A NEW 4 PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE SENATE. IT'S GOING TO BE -- THOSE 5 OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE WORKED WITH HIM. 6 IT IS GOING TO BE JAMES ROGERS. 7 SINCE HE WAS THE IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT OF THE 8 CLASSIFIED SENATE, I JUST REFERRED TO HIM AS JAMES THE 9 SECOND. SO ANYWAY, HE IS GOING TO COME ON BOARD AFTER OUR 10 FLEX DAY IN AUGUST. SO I AM GOING TO BE STILL GIVING YOU 11 A REPORT IN JULY AND INTRODUCE HIM IN AUGUST. 12 AND THAT PROBABLY CONCLUDES MY REPORT. I ASKED 13 ANGELA, SHE ALREADY SPOKE HER MIND. SO I THINK I JUST 14 YIELD TO YOU AND THEN TO THE STUDENTS. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 16 SO WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS. I THINK ELIZABETH 17 WEINBERG OF OCEAN CAMPUS HAD TO LEAVE. SHE MAY COME BACK 18 SHE SAID. IF SHE DOES COME BACK, I THINK WE'LL HEAR HER 19 REPORT. 20 I HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHER NAMES. IS MIMI RAPO OF 21 CIVIC CENTER HERE? 22 MANDI LAM OF THE DOWNTOWN CAMPUS. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: UNABLE TO MAKE IT TODAY. 24 DIDN'T HAVE A -- DIDN'T GET A RIDE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ANY OTHER STUDENT JUNE 23, 2011 106 1 REPRESENTATIVES FROM ANY CAMPUSES HERE? 2 OKAY, THANK YOU. 3 THE NEXT ITEM IS THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT. 4 IS THERE ANYTHING TO ADD THAT YOU HAVE THAT WE 5 HAVEN'T -- 6 CFO BILMONT: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO. 7 FOR THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT THIS MONTH, WE 8 ARE GOING TO -- WE'VE DONE THE BUDGET ALREADY, BUT WE ARE 9 ALSO GOING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON CASH FLOW AND ON CASH 10 AND WHERE WE ARE GOING WITH THAT AS PART OF THE BUDGETARY 11 PROCESS. 12 DO ALL OF THE TRUSTEES HAVE THIS LETTER RIGHT 13 HERE? 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, WE DO. 15 CFO BILMONT: THERE ARE COPIES ON THE TABLE IN 16 THE BACK. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 18 CFO BILMONT: WELL, EVERY YEAR FOR ALL OF US 19 THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, WE ALWAYS GO 20 OUT IN JUNE OF EACH YEAR AND PARTICIPATE IN THE CALIFORNIA 21 COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEAGUE TAX REVENUE AND ANTICIPATION NOTE 22 PROGRAM. 23 THIS YEAR THE LEAGUE MOVED THE SALE DATE FOR 24 THESE NOTES OUT TO AUGUST OF 2011. AND SO THE RESULT OF 25 THAT IS WE ARE ON SCHEDULE FOR THAT SALE, BUT IT HAS JUNE 23, 2011 107 1 CREATED A LARGER THAN EXPECTED GAP IN OUR CASH FLOW. 2 WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS IS WORKED 3 WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY TO MAINTAIN OUR LINE OF CREDIT. 4 AND THE LETTER THAT'S BEFORE YOU NOW, I JUST WANTED TO 5 DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO PARAGRAPH 2, WHICH ESSENTIALLY 6 INDICATES THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAVE BEEN INFORMED 7 THAT WE ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE LINE OF CREDIT FOR -- 8 DO YOU -- 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: WE HAVE IT. 10 CFO BILMONT: YOU HAVE IT? 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 12 CFO BILMONT: THAT WE ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE 13 POOL LINE OF CREDIT THROUGH AUGUST 15TH OF THIS YEAR. AND 14 THE AMOUNT THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE BORROWING IS 15 $55 MILLION. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME, 16 I WILL BE GLAD TO ANSWER THOSE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THIS THE SAME TYPE OF LOAN 18 THAT THE $80 MILLION EARLIER THIS YEAR WAS OR IS THIS A 19 DIFFERENT -- 20 CFO BILMONT: IT'S DIFFERENT. THE $80 MILLION 21 THAT THE BOARD APPROVED A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IS FOR THE 22 TAX REVENUE ANTICIPATION NOTE PROGRAM. AND THAT'S THE 23 AUTHORIZATION THAT WE WILL BE USING TO BORROW. 24 THE BORROWING THAT WE ARE PARTICIPATING WITH THE 25 CITY AND COUNTY IS SHORT TERM. AND FOR 2010-2011, WE JUNE 23, 2011 108 1 ACTUALLY HAD AN ANNUAL PERIOD THAT WE PARTICIPATED IN THIS 2 PROCESS. THIS YEAR WE'VE SHORTENED IT TO AUGUST 15TH 3 BECAUSE WE WOULD LIKE TO GET ALL OF OUR BORROWING INTO ONE 4 INSTRUMENT, WHICH IN THIS CASE WOULD BE THE TAX REVENUE 5 AND ANTICIPATION NOTE PUBLICLY SOLD IN THE MARKETPLACE AND 6 A SINGLE BORROWING AS OPPOSED TO DAILY BORROWING WITH THE 7 CITY AND COUNTY. 8 INTEREST RATES, THE INTEREST RATES WITH THE CITY 9 AND COUNTY ARE COMPETITIVE AND THEY ARE EFFECTIVE. AND OF 10 COURSE, THEY HAVE BEEN VERY GENEROUS WITH US IN TERMS OF 11 EXTENDING THE LINE, BUT WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO A DUAL 12 AUTHORIZATION. THERE'S A COUPLE OF RULES IN THE 13 CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION THAT MAKE IT TRICKY TO MANAGE 14 THAT. AND SO THE SAFEST COMPLIANCE POSITION IS TO GO WITH 15 THE FULL BORROWING ON THE TAX REVENUE ANTICIPATION NOTE IN 16 MY OPINION. 17 IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS, THEN THAT'S OUR 18 MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 20 OKAY, WE ARE NOW UP AT ACTION OF THE REST OF THE 21 RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. 22 THE FIRST ONE IS B2. 23 COUNSEL, WOULD YOU MIND READING B2 TITLE. 24 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO PROBLEM, MR. PRESIDENT, 25 SORRY ABOUT THAT. JUNE 23, 2011 109 1 YES, MR. PRESIDENT, B2 IS THE "AUTHORIZATION TO 2 CONTRACT WITH THE FIRM PERRY-SMITH, LLP, FOR THE 3 DISTRICT'S ANNUAL AUDIT SERVICES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011, 4 2012, AND 2013, AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $176,000 FOR 5 FISCAL YEAR 2011, $176,000 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012, AND 6 $182,000 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013; AND TO PROVIDE SPECIAL 7 AUDITING SERVICES AS NEEDED AS REQUIRED BY THE DISTRICT ON 8 A PER FEE BASIS." 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 DO I HAVE A MOTION FOR B2? 11 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 13 IS THERE A SECOND? 14 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 16 DID THE -- I BELIEVE THE AUDIT COMMITTEE 17 APPROVED THIS. DID IT NOT? 18 TRUSTEE NGO: THE AUDIT COMMITTEE DID NOT -- 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID NOT. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: -- APPROVE THIS. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: PARTLY BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IT 23 WAS READY AT THAT TIME. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WASN'T READY AT THAT TIME. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT I COULD BE MISTAKEN. JUNE 23, 2011 110 1 CFO BILMONT: THIS RESOLUTION WAS DISCUSSED AT 2 THE BUDGET COMMITTEE ON MONDAY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUDGET COMMITTEE ON MONDAY. 4 BECAUSE I DO REMEMBER DISCUSSING THIS IN SOME COMMITTEE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: WE DID. THANKS FOR JOGGING MY 6 MEMORY. I ASKED ABOUT THE EXTRA $6,000 IN FISCAL YEAR 7 2013. BUT IT WAS NOT AUDIT, IT WAS BUDGET. 8 CFO BILMONT: RIGHT. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: IT WAS RECOMMENDED OUT OF 10 COMMITTEE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT DOESN'T STATE THAT ON 12 THE -- 13 CFO BILMONT: THAT'S A GOOD POINT. PERHAPS WE 14 SHOULD OFFER THAT AS A MODIFICATION TO THE RESOLUTION 15 TONIGHT THAT IT WAS FORWARDED OUT OF THE COMMITTEE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, IT'S JUST AN INFORMATION 17 THING. WHEN THINGS COME OUT OF THE FIT COMMITTEE, FOR 18 INSTANCE, IT SAYS, THE FIT COMMITTEE FORWARDED WITH 19 RECOMMENDATION OR WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION. 20 CFO BILMONT: OKAY. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S A GOOD INFORMATIONAL 22 THING TO HAVE ON HERE SO WE KNOW IT'S ALREADY BEEN 23 DISCUSSED AND APPROVED, PRE-APPROVED. 24 CFO BILMONT: OKAY. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. JUNE 23, 2011 111 1 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 2 OKAY, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR VOTE. 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 6 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 14 B2 CARRIES. 15 THE NEXT ONE IS B4(B). 16 COUNSEL. 17 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, B4(B) IS 18 AN "AUTHORIZATION FOR ONE CONTRACT MODIFICATION TOTALING 19 $66,500 FOR SPECIAL SERVICES CONTRACTS AND CONSTRUCTION 20 CONTRACTS." 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND AS NOTED, THIS WAS 22 DISCUSSED AT THE FIT COMMITTEE. THE FIT COMMITTEE -- WE 23 DID NOT HAVE A QUORUM, SO THERE WERE NO VOTES, BUT THESE 24 WERE HEARD. I PERSONALLY DID NOT SEE ANY PROBLEM WITH 25 THEM -- WITH THIS ONE. JUNE 23, 2011 112 1 IS THERE A MOTION? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 6 ANY DISCUSSION? 7 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 8 ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEE FANG. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: AYE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 19 B4(A) IS ADOPTED. 20 THE NEXT ONE IS B5. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, LET'S HAVE HER READ IT 23 FIRST. 24 COUNSEL BATTISTE: THANK YOU. 25 YES, MR. PRESIDENT, B5 IS THE "AUTHORIZATION JUNE 23, 2011 113 1 GIVEN TO CONTRACT WITH KA GROUP, DOING BUSINESS AS 2 GUERILLA CAFE TO LEASE THE SPACE IN THE MULTI-USE BUILDING 3 FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS WITH ONE FIVE YEAR OPTION TO 4 RENEW, TO OPERATE A CAFE FEATURING ORGANIC FOODS, TO SERVE 5 THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT." 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION? 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 9 IS THERE A SECOND? 10 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 12 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 13 TRUSTEE NGO: WHERE -- THIS IS GOING TO BE 14 LOCATED ON THE CORNER CLOSEST TO THE PARKING LOT ENTRANCE. 15 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH, IF YOU ENVISION THE 16 MULTI-USE BUILDING, IN THE NORTH END OF THE BUILDING, 17 THERE IS AN EMPTY SPACE THAT WAS DESIGNED JUST FOR THIS 18 PURPOSE. IT STILL DOES NEED SOME OUTFITTING. IT'S 19 BASICALLY JUST THE UTILITIES ARE STUBBED BEHIND THE WALL. 20 AND SO THE BUSINESS COMING IN WOULD BE PAYING 21 FOR THOSE COSTS TO GET IT READY. THE COLLEGE WOULD NOT BE 22 DOING ANY ADDITIONAL OUTFITTING OF THE SPACE. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 24 KATHY HENNIG, OUR SENIOR PURCHASER, WHO IS 25 HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THIS RFP, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER JUNE 23, 2011 114 1 QUESTIONS SHE CAN ANSWER. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO THE RENT IS A DAILY RENT, 3 AND IT'S $3 A DAY? 4 MS. HENNIG: KATHY HENNIG, PURCHASING MANAGER 5 FOR THE COLLEGE. 6 YES, IT IS. THIS IS TYPICAL ACTUALLY OF ALL OF 7 OUR RENTS. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 MS. HENNIG: IT ACKNOWLEDGES THE FACT THAT THE 10 TRAFFIC THROUGH THE SCHOOL VARIES DRAMATICALLY, ESPECIALLY 11 IN THE SUMMER, AND IT RECOGNIZES THAT FACT. 12 ADDITIONALLY, THIS PROPOSAL PROVIDES THE SMALL, 13 THE SMALL-MINORITY OWNED BUSINESS PERSON SOME RELIEF FOR 14 THE FIRST YEAR'S RENT BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF 15 EXPENSES WITH OUTFITTING THAT BLANK SPACE. 16 AS YOU RECALL THE MULTI-USE BUILDING IS A BRAND 17 NEW FACILITY. THERE'S NO FURNISHINGS IN THAT CORNER 18 CURRENTLY FOR ANY FOOD SERVICE OPERATION OUTSIDE THE 19 UTILITIES BEING ROUGHED IN. SO THERE WILL BE EXTENUATING 20 COSTS GETTING IT UP AND RUNNING, BUT WE ARE MOTIVATED TO 21 GET SOMEBODY IN THERE TO SERVE THAT PART OF THE COMMUNITY. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT THIS IS -- JUST A QUICK 23 CALCULATION, FOUR DAYS A WEEK, 52 WEEKS A YEAR, $650 A 24 YEAR -- 25 MS. HENNIG: FOR THE FIRST YEAR ONLY. JUNE 23, 2011 115 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- RENT. WOW. 2 MS. HENNIG: YEAH. IT'S A GOOD DEAL. BUT IF 3 YOU LOOK AT HOW SMALL THAT SPACE IS ACTUALLY BY SQUARE 4 FOOTAGE, IT IS ACTUALLY SMALLER THAN A SUBWAY SANDWICH 5 SHOP. AND IT'S GOING TO BE A HARD PRESS TO GET SOMETHING 6 IN THERE TO GET MOTIVATED. 7 THEY CAN'T DO FRYING, FOR EXAMPLE. THEY WON'T 8 BE ABLE TO DO COOKING PER SE. SO IT IS GOING TO BE 9 DEFINITELY A SALAD, SANDWICH COFFEE KIND OF OPERATION 10 BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE SPACE AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE 11 VENTING REQUIREMENTS THERE IN THE MULTI-USE BUILDING. 12 SO NOT EVERY RESTAURANT COULD GO IN THERE. SO 13 IT WAS A DIFFICULT PRESS TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO COULD 14 PROVIDE FOOD SERVICE, THAT WAS ORGANIC, THAT WAS 15 ACCEPTABLE, THAT COULD FURNISH THE OUTFITTING EXPENSES FOR 16 THE FIRST YEAR. 17 SO RATHER THAN GIVING THEM FREE RENT, IT'S A 18 PAYMENT TO COVER EXPENSES TO THE DISTRICT FOR THE FIRST 19 YEAR UNTIL THEY GET UP AND OPERATING WITH SOME KIND OF 20 CASH FLOW TO STAY THERE FOR THE OTHER FOUR. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 22 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE ALSO HOPE TO BE CONSTRUCTING 23 A NEW FACILITY NEXT DOOR BREAKING GROUND, HOPEFULLY, 24 BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR, WHICH WOULD MAKE THAT SITE 25 MORE DUSTY IN TRAFFIC DURING THE FIRST YEAR AS WELL. SO JUNE 23, 2011 116 1 IT WOULD BE A VERY DIFFICULT FIRST YEAR FOR WHOEVER IS IN 2 THERE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WHY A FIVE YEAR LEASE? 4 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. CHAIR, I THINK WE DON'T HAVE A 5 QUORUM ANYMORE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: NO, WE DON'T. 8 WHERE DID LAWRENCE GO? 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, SO WE WON'T BE ABLE TO 11 VOTE ON THIS. 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: ANITA'S OUT THERE. WE NEED 14 ANITA. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT 16 THOUGH. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I GUESS WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: DISCUSSIONS CAN CONTINUE. 19 COUNSEL BATTISTE: WE CAN CONTINUE TO DISCUSS, 20 BUT NOT FOR LONG. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: WE'LL WAIT. WE CAN'T MOVE 22 ANYTHING ELSE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID TRUSTEE JACKSON LEAVE FOR 24 THE EVENING OR -- 25 TRUSTEE NGO: HE IS HERE IN THE HALLWAY. JUNE 23, 2011 117 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN -- 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: MAY I ASK A QUESTION. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: DID TRUSTEE WONG LEAVE? 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, GO AHEAD. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND 6 ASK THE QUESTION. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: IS TRUSTEE WONG STILL HERE? OKAY, 8 THERE'S DR. GRIER. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: THEY ARE COMING. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: DURING THE PROCESS OF 11 GETTING THE VENDOR AND THE CONTRACT CASHED OUT, WAS THERE 12 ANY DISCUSSION OR ANY PARTICIPATION FROM THE ASSOCIATED 13 STUDENTS IN TERMS OF REVENUE STREAM THAT BEING AVERTED TO 14 THE ASSOCIATED STUDENT, IF POSSIBLE. 15 MS. HENNIG: THEY EXPRESSED THEIR OPINION ABOUT 16 THEIR PREFERENCE, AND THAT WAS RAISED. AND PER THE 17 RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU, THE REVENUE STREAM WILL GO BACK TO 18 THE DISTRICT. WE ARE BLEEDING MONEY LIKE CRAZY. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. THANK YOU. 20 MS. HENNIG: AND AS YOU SEE THE REVENUE STREAM, 21 THE $600 OVER A YEAR, AIN'T GOING TO TAKE ANYBODY OUT FOR 22 DINNER. IT'S NOT MUCH MONEY TO BEGIN WITH. SO IT'S 23 NOTHING REALLY LOST TO BE HONEST. AND THERE ARE EXPENSES 24 TO THE DISTRICT REGARDING THE FACT THAT THERE'S GOING TO 25 BE EXTRA CUSTODIAL REQUIREMENTS AS FAR AS THE TRASH. AND JUNE 23, 2011 118 1 ALSO THE POWER AND WATER INVOLVED WITH THE FOOD SERVICE 2 OPERATION. THERE IS NO EXTRA INCOME FROM THIS TO SHARE 3 AMONGST THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY UNFORTUNATELY. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: EXCUSE ME. NO EXTRA 6 WHAT AGAIN? 7 MS. HENNIG: REVENUE -- 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: REVENUE, OKAY. 9 MS. HENNIG: -- TO SHARE WITH DIFFERENT 10 CONSTITUENT GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. WE ARE 11 BARELY GOING TO BE COVERING THE ELECTRICAL BILLS WITH THE 12 FIRST -- WITH THE RENTS TO GET STARTED. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID THIS GO OUT TO COMPETITIVE 14 BID? 15 MS. HENNIG: TWICE. I HAVE MORE DATA ON THAT IF 16 YOU WOULD LIKE IT. IT WAS ADVERTISED. IT WENT TO I THINK 17 27 VENDORS THE FIRST TIME. 18 OF THOSE WERE IN SAN 18 FRANCISCO. WE REJECTED THAT AND RE-WENT OUT TO BID. WE 19 WENT OUT TO 34 VENDORS, PERSONALLY CONTACTED THEM TO 20 ENCOURAGE SMALL BUSINESSES TO PARTICIPATE. 22 WERE SAN 21 FRANCISCO BASED. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND DO WE PAY THE UTILITIES? 23 MS. HENNIG: WE PAY UTILITIES BECAUSE THE COST 24 OF SUBMETERING THAT SPACE -- 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WOULD BE TOO -- JUNE 23, 2011 119 1 MS. HENNIG: -- IS COST PROHIBITIVE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, OKAY. 3 MS. HENNIG: I ALREADY INVESTIGATED THAT, AND 4 IT'S JUST -- I WISH WE COULD. DANG. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I MEAN YOU CAN'T RENT A GARAGE 6 FOR $600 A YEAR. 7 MS. HENNIG: I THOUGHT ABOUT MOVING IN THERE 8 MYSELF. BUT THE GOAL HERE IS TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE FOOD 9 SERVICE THAT'S HEALTHY FOR THE STUDENTS. THAT'S 10 AFFORDABLE. 11 AND LET ME TELL YOU TRYING TO BALANCE THE COST 12 OF GETTING A SMALL BUSINESS GOING WHILE TRYING TO GET 13 SOMETHING A STUDENT CAN AFFORD FOR LUNCH WITHOUT HAVING 14 VENTING WITH HAVING SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO ONLY HAVE 15 TRAFFIC FIVE DAYS A WEEK, IT WAS PRETTY INTERESTING. I 16 THINK THIS IS A GOOD DEAL. IT'S GOING TO GIVE US A 17 HEALTHY ALTERNATIVE. AND THE FOOD THEY ARE OFFERING IS 18 NOT GOING TO CONFLICT WITH THE OFFERINGS OF OUR OWN 19 CAFETERIA. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE FIVE YEAR OPTION TO RENEW, 21 IS THAT AT THE SAME RATE? 22 MS. HENNIG: OH, NO. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 24 MS. HENNIG: EVERYTHING IS UP AFTER FIVE YEARS. 25 WE WANT THEM TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND TO BE A HEALTHY SMALL JUNE 23, 2011 120 1 BUSINESS. WE WANT THEM TO GROW. EVERYTHING IS UP IN FIVE 2 YEARS. THE ECONOMY COULD IMPROVE. WE MIGHT DECIDE WE 3 WANT TO GO TO POP-UP FOOD SERVICE TRUCKS. WE DON'T KNOW. 4 WE MIGHT NEED THAT SPACE FOR EXPANDED ACADEMIC PROGRAMS. 5 SO EVERYTHING IS RENEGOTIABLE IN FIVE YEARS. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE -- 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: PRESIDENT RIZZO, I HAVE A 8 QUESTION. 9 WHERE IN THE MU BUILDING WILL THE CAFE BE 10 LOCATED? 11 MS. HENNIG: THIS IS ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND 12 CORNER CLOSE AGAINST THE ONE CORNER THAT'S GLASSED IN. 13 AND IT'S CLOSEST TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE STOPLIGHT. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: OH, OKAY. I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE 15 IT IS. THANK YOU. 16 MS. HENNIG: AND THERE WILL FINALLY BE FOOD AND 17 COFFEE THERE FOR YOUR BOARD MEETINGS. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: YEAH. 19 TRUSTEE BERG: OH, GOOD, THANK YOU. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 21 MS. HENNIG: YES, SIR. 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: DID YOU GUYS LOOK AT 23 THE FOOD PRICES OR DID YOU GUYS COVER THAT ALREADY? 24 MS. HENNIG: WE WENT OVER THAT AD NAUSEAM. I 25 HAVE THE MENU IF YOU WOULD LIKE IT. JUNE 23, 2011 121 1 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. 2 MS. HENNIG: THE GOAL WAS TO PROVIDE LUNCHES FOR 3 $5 OR LESS FOR THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY WHICH IS A HECK OF A 4 DEAL. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I AGREE. 6 MS. HENNIG: WE -- THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE 7 HAD TO EXCLUDE SOME PEOPLE. THEY WANTED TO PROVIDE US 8 LOVELY LUNCHES FOR $12.95. AND IT'S LIKE -- THERE'S 9 NOBODY HERE THAT CAN AFFORD THAT RIGHT NOW. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I AGREE. AND I WANT TO 11 THANK YOU FOR FINDING A VENDOR THAT WAS LOW COST FOR 12 STUDENTS BECAUSE I KNOW HOW MUCH -- I MEAN I KNOW HOW BAD 13 IT IS TO BE A STUDENT. AND YOU HAVE LIKE A COUPLE OF 14 BUCKS IN YOUR POCKET AND BAGEL COSTS LIKE $4.50, $7.00 FOR 15 A BAGEL AND CREAM CHEESE. SO I MEAN THANKS FOR FINDING A 16 VENDOR THAT ACTUALLY WAS COST SENSITIVE TO STUDENTS. 17 MS. HENNIG: ALSO FOR OUR STAFF THAT WORKS 18 NIGHTS, THERE'S NOT MANY FOOD OPTIONS ON CAMPUS. 19 ANYTHING ELSE I CAN ANSWER FOR YOU? 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YES, WHAT ARE THE HOURS? 22 DO YOU KNOW? 23 MS. HENNIG: THEY ARE GOING TO START OFF FROM 24 7:00 A.M. TO 4:00 P.M. AS ACTIVITIES START HAPPENING, 25 THEY ARE GOING TO EXPAND TO 7:00 P.M. AT NIGHT. BUT SINCE JUNE 23, 2011 122 1 THAT IS A BUSINESS DECISION, I AM NOT -- 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. 3 MS. HENNIG: -- CAUSING THAT BECAUSE I DO NOT 4 NEED TO TELL A SMALL BUSINESS HOW TO RUN THEIR BUSINESS. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO -- 6 MS. HENNIG: WE GAVE THEM -- WE EXPRESSED OUR 7 OPINIONS ABOUT THAT. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO 9 KNOW SO THAT I KNOW THERE'S ANOTHER OPTION AFTER 4:00 P.M. 10 OR BEFORE 4:00 P.M. 11 MS. HENNIG: THEY ARE MOST ANXIOUS TO 12 ACCOMMODATE US BECAUSE THAT MAKES THEM SUCCESSFUL, BUT WE 13 REALLY CAN'T TELL THEM HOW TO RUN THEIR BUSINESS. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU. 15 MS. HENNIG: ANYTHING ELSE? 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER FURTHER COMMENT? 17 ANY COMMENT FROM THE AUDIENCE? 18 ALL RIGHT, STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN 21 FAVOR, SAY "AYE." 22 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) JUNE 23, 2011 123 1 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL VOTE "NO." 5 OKAY, THE NEXT ITEM. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: JUST REAL QUICK, TRUSTEE NGO, 7 DID YOU VOTE "NO" OR "YES"? 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I VOTED, "YES." I VOTED, "YES." 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: LET'S SEE. B6. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, B6 IS THE 11 "AUTHORIZATION BE GIVEN TO CONTRACT WITH INTERSCOLA AND 12 PROPERTYROOM.COM FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR WITH TWO 13 ONE-YEAR OPTIONS TO RENEW, TO CATALOG, ADVERTISE, AND 14 AUCTION THE DISTRICT'S SALVAGE AND SURPLUS ITEMS, AT NO 15 UPFRONT COST TO THE COLLEGE." 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR 17 B6? 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE B6. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 21 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 22 ANY DISCUSSION? 23 TRUSTEE NGO: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLEASE, GO AHEAD. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: I AM LOOKING FOR THE ACTUAL JUNE 23, 2011 124 1 COMMISSION RATE. IS IT IN HERE? 2 12.5 PERCENT I SEE. IS THAT RIGHT? 3 MS. HENNIG: YES, AND ON ITEMS OVER $1,000 THEN 4 25 PERCENT TO 28 PERCENT THEREAFTER. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THAT IN THE RESOLUTION. 6 MS. HENNIG: NO. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK IT SHOULD BE. THE 8 "CONTRACT SPECIFICS," IT SAYS, "CONTRACT TERM: ONE YEAR 9 WITH TWO ONE-YEAR OPTIONS TO RENEW; INITIAL UPFRONT COST 10 $0; ONE-TIME TRAINING COST $0; TOTAL FIXED COST $0." AND 11 IN THE PARENTHESIS YOU HAVE, "COMMISSIONS TAKEN FROM 12 PROCEEDS." 13 MS. HENNIG: RIGHT. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THERE A REASON WHY THEY'RE 15 ASSIGNED TO FIXED COSTS AS OPPOSED TO VARIABLE COSTS? 16 MS. HENNIG: THE IDEA IS IF YOU HAVE -- WHATEVER 17 IT IS -- WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE JUNK IS THAT WE ARE GOING 18 TO BE TRYING TO SELL. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. 20 MS. HENNIG: THEREFORE THERE'S NO WAY TO 21 DETERMINE WHAT -- 22 TRUSTEE NGO: I UNDERSTAND -- 23 MS. HENNIG: -- IT WOULD BE. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: -- THAT. BUT SO WHAT I AM TRYING 25 TO FIGURE OUT IS SO IS THERE A REASON WHY YOU DIDN'T JUNE 23, 2011 125 1 DELINEATE THE VARIABLE RATE WHICH APPLIES TO THOSE THINGS 2 THAT YOU DON'T KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO SELL YET TO THE 3 CONTRACT TERM SPECIFICS. 4 SO WHAT I SEE HERE IS -- I DON'T SEE ANY 5 PERCENTAGE, EXCEPT IN THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH WHICH IS 6 12.5. AND WHAT YOU'VE MENTIONED THIS TIERED RATE IS NOT 7 IN THE RESOLUTION ITSELF. 8 AM I RIGHT? SHOULD IT NOT BE? 9 MS. HENNIG: YOUR STATEMENT IS CORRECT. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. SO ARE WE AUTHORIZING ONLY 11 THE 12.5 PERCENT AND NOT THE TIERED RATE? 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT APPEARS TO BE THE CASE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THERE ANOTHER TIERED RATE 14 BESIDES THE ONE YOU JUST MENTIONED THAT IS NOT IN THE 15 RESOLUTION. 16 MS. HENNIG: NO. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THERE ANY OTHER TERM THAT'S IN 18 THE CONTRACT THAT YOU HAVE NOT MENTIONED THAT'S NOT IN THE 19 RESOLUTION THAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? 20 MS. HENNIG: NO. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 22 MS. HENNIG: AND THERE IS NO COST TO THE 23 DISTRICT UNLESS THEY SELL SOMETHING. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S CLEAR. 25 MS. HENNIG: ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS MAKING MONEY JUNE 23, 2011 126 1 ALBEIT SMALL OFF THE STUFF RIGHT NOW THAT WE ARE BASICALLY 2 PUTTING IN THE TRASH -- 3 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH -- 4 MS. HENNIG: -- OR RECYCLING. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE 6 CONTRACT ITSELF, THE IDEA. AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S 7 COMMISSION BASED AND THAT WE ARE GETTING BENEFIT AND THEY 8 ARE GETTING A CUT. 9 WHAT I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH IS THE PROCESS BY 10 WHICH WE'RE WELL -- WELL, TECHNICALLY WHAT WE ARE 11 AUTHORIZING HERE, RIGHT. 12 AND IT'S NOT -- IT'S NOT CLEAR. EVEN THOUGH 13 IT'S CLEAR IN THE PARAGRAPH, IT IS NOT CLEAR IN THE 14 CONTRACT SPECIFICS. ONE, THAT IT'S 12.5 PERCENT. AND 15 TWO, THAT IT'S TIERED. SO THAT'S WHAT I HAVE AN ISSUE 16 WITH. 17 I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE STRUCTURE OF IT. 18 I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH HOW WE'RE BEING SPECIFIC ABOUT WHAT 19 WE ADOPT, AND WHAT WE ARE AUTHORIZING YOU TO APPROVE BY 20 CONTRACT. 21 SO I SUGGEST WE AMEND IT TO REFLECT ONLY -- TO 22 REFLECT WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM YOU, THE ONLY TERMS, 23 MATERIAL TERMS THAT ARE NOT IN HERE IN THE RESOLUTION. 24 AND THAT IS, THE ADDITIONAL TIERED RATE. AND THERE'S NO 25 OTHER TERM, MATERIAL TERM THAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THAT'S JUNE 23, 2011 127 1 NOT IN HERE. 2 AND I WOULD WELCOME A SECOND TO THAT AMENDMENT. 3 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THERE'S AN AMENDMENT ON 5 THE FLOOR. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: THE WORDING -- SO WHAT IS A SECOND 7 TIERED COMMISSION RATE? 8 MS. HENNIG: 25 TO 28 PERCENT ABOVE $1,000. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. SO I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT 10 WHERE WE COULD PUT IT. 11 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: MAY I SUGGEST AT THE END OF 12 THAT SENTENCE WHERE IT SAYS, "TAKEN FROM SALE PROCEEDS, 13 HOWEVER COMMISSION IS" -- 14 TRUSTEE NGO: "HOWEVER FOR SALES ABOVE $1,000 15 THE RATE -- THE COMMISSION SHALL BE PAYMENT OF THE 16 COMMISSION SHALL BE 12 -- 25 TO 28 PERCENT." 17 IS THAT YOUR SUGGESTION? 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 20 AND THERE'S NO OTHER MATERIAL TERM. THAT'S IT. 21 IS THAT AMENDMENT CLEAR? 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: COUNSEL. 24 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RESTATE IT. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. SO WE ARE LOOKING AT THE JUNE 23, 2011 128 1 BOTTOM OF THE FIRST PAGE OF THE RESOLUTION. AND IT IS 2 THE -- ACTUALLY, THE LAST PARAGRAPH -- NO, THE SECOND TO 3 LAST SENTENCE BEGINNING WITH THE WORD, "PAYMENT." 4 "PAYMENT IS A COMMISSION OF 12.5 PERCENT PLUS 5 TOWING AND DOCUMENTATION FEES TAKEN FROM THE SALE 6 PROCEEDS." 7 I WOULD SAY, SEMICOLON, "PAYMENT IS A COMMISSION 8 OF 25 TO 28 PERCENT FOR ANY SALE ABOVE $1,000, PLUS TOWING 9 AND DOCUMENTATION FEES," PERIOD. I'M SORRY. 10 "DOCUMENTATION FEES, COMMA, TAKEN FROM SALE PROCEEDS," 11 PERIOD. 12 IT'S BASICALLY A REPLICATION OF THAT PARA -- 13 SENTENCE -- 14 COUNSEL BATTISTE: UH-HUH. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: -- ADDING THE TWO CONDITIONS, THE 16 PERCENTS AND THE PERCENTAGE RANGE AND ALSO THE THRESHOLD 17 SALE PROCEED OF $1,000. 18 IS THAT CLEAR? 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THAT CLEAR TO 20 EVERYONE OR ACCEPTABLE? 21 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: IT'S ACCEPTABLE. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S THE CONTRACT TERM I GUESS. 23 IT HAS TO BE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S ACTUALLY PART OF THE 25 CONTRACT. JUNE 23, 2011 129 1 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. YES. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE NGO. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THIS CONTRACT AVAILABLE 5 SOMEWHERE ONLINE TO ACTUALLY REVIEW? 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 ANY DISCUSSION ON THE AMENDMENT? 9 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AMENDMENT? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: DID ANYONE SECOND IT? WAS IT 11 SECONDED? 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WAS SECONDED. 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: WE RENDERED A SECOND. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR 17 VOTE. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: ON THE AMENDMENT? 19 TRUSTEE BERG: ARE WE VOTING ON THE AMENDMENT? 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ON THE AMENDMENT. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG 23 SAYS, "AYE." 24 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT? 25 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 130 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE AMENDMENT CARRIES. 8 NOW DID WE MOVE B6? 9 I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF WE MOVED B6. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YEAH. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE DID MOVE B6. 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OKAY. 13 ON THE MAIN MOTION TO ADOPT B6, IS THERE ANY 14 FURTHER DISCUSSION? 15 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 19 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 21 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 23 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 131 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 2 B6 IS ADOPTED. 3 B7. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: MOVE B7. 5 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OH, OKAY. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 7 IS THERE A SECOND FOR B7? 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL SECOND IT. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COUNSEL. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS 11 A -- B7 IS THE "AUTHORIZATION TO APPROVE CONTRACTS AND 12 CONTRACT MODIFICATIONS." 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. 14 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I JUST HAD A QUESTION 16 ABOUT "A." SO WE PAY $50,000 TO YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER TO 17 PROVIDE GED TESTING OR VICE VERSA, SO THEY PAY US 18 $50,000 -- 19 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, THEY PAY US. 20 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: -- TO PROVIDE -- OKAY, 21 GOT IT. YEAH, THAT -- OKAY, THANKS, GUYS. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHAT IS THIS ITEM N -- NO, IT 23 WASN'T "N." ONE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO STATE, I SAW WAS A 24 REVERSE GRANT. IS THAT "M" -- NO. WHERE DID I SEE IT 25 NOW? JUNE 23, 2011 132 1 WHAT'S A REVERSE GRANT? 2 DID I READ THAT WRONG MAYBE? 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I DON'T SEE IT. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I DON'T SEE IT EITHER. 5 ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 6 THIS RESOLUTION? 7 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I GUESS I JUST WANT TO 9 THANK THE FOLKS WHO DO THE GRANT WRITING FOR BRINGING IN 10 ALL THESE GRANTS. I APPRECIATE IT. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: CAN I LOOK CAN AT ITEM R. SO 12 THERE ISN'T -- IT'S KIND OF AN OPEN-ENDED CONTRACT. I 13 UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT WHAT WAS THE AMOUNT LAST YEAR, THE 14 TOTAL? DO WE KNOW? 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF 16 MY HEAD BECAUSE THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL I DON'T THINK 17 UTILIZED MR. SLOAN'S FIRM AS MUCH AS THE -- 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: (INAUDIBLE.) 19 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S IN THE -- I KNOW IT'S 4,000 20 ACCOUNT -- 21 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YEAH. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: -- RIGHT, 5,000 ACCOUNT. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: 5,000 ACCOUNT. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I BELIEVE WE PROVIDED THE JUNE 23, 2011 133 1 BUDGET COMMITTEE WITH AN EXHIBIT ON THE EOPS DURING ONE OF 2 YOUR HEARINGS. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I DON'T HAVE THAT WITH ME. 5 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND THAT NUMBER WOULD HAVE BEEN 7 IN THERE. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 9 CALL THE QUESTION. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IF THERE'S NO FURTHER 11 DISCUSSION, STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 12 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY. IS THERE ANY 14 PUBLIC COMMENT? 15 NO PUBLIC COMMENT. 16 OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY "AYE." 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 25 OKAY, B7 IS ADOPTED. JUNE 23, 2011 134 1 LET'S MOVE ON. 2 F1, COUNSEL. 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS 4 AN "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT FOR THE DEAN OF 5 SCHOOL IN BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES." 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION FOR F1? 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO MOVED. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 9 IS THERE A SECOND? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 12 ANY DISCUSSION? 13 PUBLIC COMMENT? 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 25 OKAY, F1 CARRIES. JUNE 23, 2011 135 1 F2. 2 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, F2 IS THE 3 "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT FOR THE DEAN OF 4 THE DOWNTOWN CAMPUS AND SCHOOL OF BUSINESS." 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: WAIT. CAN I JUST -- 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: -- BACK UP FOR ONE MINUTE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEP. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: I WILL MOVE IT. BUT I WANT TO 11 CONGRATULATE THESE PEOPLE. THIS IS VERY EXCITING. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, OKAY. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: I SECOND. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE IS HERE, 15 BUT -- 16 TRUSTEE WONG: NEXT TIME. 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: THEY WILL BE HERE NEXT TIME. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: OH, THEY WILL BE HERE NEXT TIME, 19 OKAY. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: THEY NEVER SHOW UP JUST IN CASE 21 IT DOESN'T PASS. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE F2. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO THAT'S A MOTION BY TRUSTEE 25 BERG. JUNE 23, 2011 136 1 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 3 DISCUSSION? 4 PUBLIC COMMENT? 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 12 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 16 IT CARRIES. 17 F3. 18 COUNSEL BATTISTE: MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS 19 ANOTHER "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT FOR THE 20 ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR REGISTRATION AND RECORDS." 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION? 22 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 24 SECOND? 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. JUNE 23, 2011 137 1 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE -- 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: JACKSON. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: JACKSON. HE BEAT YOU TO THE 5 PUNCH. 6 DISCUSSION? 7 AUDIENCE COMMENTS? 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 19 F2 CARRIES. 20 F4. 21 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS 22 "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT FOR THE DEAN OF 23 FACULTY SUPPORT SERVICES AND COURSE/ROOM SCHEDULING." 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR 25 F4? JUNE 23, 2011 138 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 5 DISCUSSION? 6 PUBLIC COMMENT? 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO -- HOLD ON. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 9 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: F7 WE ARE APPROVING TWO 10 PEOPLE? 11 TRUSTEE WONG: THIS IS F4. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE ON F4. 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: F4. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO F7 YET. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OH, OKAY, I AM A LITTLE 16 FASTER THAN YOU GUYS. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I APOLOGIZE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 23 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 139 1 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 6 F4 IS ADOPTED. 7 F5. 8 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, F5 IS AN 9 "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT FOR THE ASSOCIATE 10 DEAN, CONTRACT EDUCATION/CONTINUING EDUCATION." 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 12 IS THERE A MOTION? 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 17 DISCUSSION? 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I KNOW -- AND FOR THE 19 OFFICE OF CONTRACT, THAT I THINK MAYBE A YEAR AND A HALF 20 AGO, TWO YEARS AGO, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT JUST 21 RESTRUCTURING THAT OFFICE. 22 HAS THAT RESTRUCTURING HAPPENED WITHIN THAT 23 OFFICE YET? 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES. THAT, AS YOU MAY 25 RECALL, WE HAD A DEAN OF CONTRACT ED. THIS POSITION IS AN JUNE 23, 2011 140 1 ASSOCIATE DEAN OF CONTRACT ED. IT'S UNDER THE DIVISION OF 2 POLICY AND RESEARCH, SO IT'S PART OF THE RESTRUCTURE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 5 ANY FURTHER COMMENT? 6 PUBLIC COMMENT? 7 TRUSTEE FANG. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL IN FAVOR? 10 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 14 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 18 F5 CARRIES. 19 F6. 20 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS 21 THE "ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRACT RENEWALS FOR THREE-YEAR TERMS 22 FOR A NUMBER OF ADMINISTRATORS." 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: 28 TO BE EXACT. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. JUNE 23, 2011 141 1 IS THERE A SECOND? 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 4 DISCUSSION? 5 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: COUNSEL, I'VE A QUESTION. 8 IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO AMEND F6 TO ESSENTIALLY 9 AMEND OUT ONE ADMINISTRATOR WITHOUT VIOLATING ANY PRIVACY 10 RIGHTS OR OTHER APPLICABLE STATE EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS, 11 FOR EXAMPLE? 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, YOU CAN. YOU CAN AMEND 13 IT IN A RESOLUTION. I DON'T THINK THERE WOULD BE A -- 14 TRUSTEE NGO: IN THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION I 15 CAN AMEND IT? I CAN AMEND AN ADMINISTRATOR OUT. 16 COUNSEL BATTISTE: WELL, I THINK YOU NEED TO 17 EXPLAIN -- 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD BE HAPPY TO EXPLAIN IT. 19 MY ISSUE IS WHETHER WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THIS DEBATE ABOUT 20 A PARTICULAR ADMINISTRATOR IN PUBLIC OR NOT. 21 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I THINK IF YOU ARE GOING TO 22 HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT ANYONE IN PARTICULAR EMPLOYMENT OR 23 PERFORMANCE, THAT HAS TO BE DONE IN CLOSED SESSION. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THESE 25 BLANKET -- FIRST OF ALL, JUST SO EVERYONE IS CLEAR. I AM JUNE 23, 2011 142 1 FINE WITH ALL BUT ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATORS IN THIS 2 RESOLUTION. I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE ADMINISTRATION THE 3 IMPRESSION THAT I AM UNHAPPY WITH THE WORK OF THIS 4 PARTICULAR GROUP OF FOLKS, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S 5 PRODUCTIVE FOR US TO ADOPT IT, ADOPT ALL OF THESE 6 RESOLUTIONS IN TOTAL, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ACTUALLY 7 APPOINTMENT THEM, WE ADOPTED PER ADMINISTRATOR. 8 I HAVE SOME SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE PERFORMANCE 9 OF ONE OF THESE ADMINISTRATORS. NOT JUST PERFORMANCE, BUT 10 HIS OR HER RELEVANCE IN THIS CONTEXT TODAY WITH OUR 11 COLLEGE. 12 AND I AM GOING TO VOTE "NO" ON THIS. WELL, I 13 WILL VOTE "YES" ON THIS RESOLUTION WITH THAT CAVEAT. AND 14 I WILL TAKE UP THESE OTHER ISSUES IN DUE TIME THAT I'VE 15 RAISED. 16 I JUST DON'T THINK IT IS A GOOD POLICY TO ADOPT 17 ALL OF THESE, TO REAPPOINT, ESSENTIALLY -- THE 18 ADMINISTRATORS. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: 22. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: THE ADMINISTRATORS I THINK -- 21 UNLIKE THE FACULTY AND CLASSIFIED I THINK HAVE A 22 PARTICULAR DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO THE BOARD OF 23 TRUSTEES TO CARRY OUT OUR POLICIES. AND IT'S NOT -- I 24 THINK EFFECTIVE FOR THE BOARD TO EVALUATE THESE 25 ADMINISTRATORS IN TOTAL. JUNE 23, 2011 143 1 AND SO PERHAPS, WE WILL HAVE A POLICY TO ENSURE 2 THAT THESE ADMINISTRATORS ARE REAPPOINTED INDIVIDUALLY. I 3 DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A POLICY THAT SAYS WE CAN APPOINT 4 THEM IN TOTAL ANYWAY, BUT I AM JUST GOING TO RAISE THAT 5 OBJECTION AND ADOPT THIS RESOLUTION ANYWAY. THANK YOU. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: CAN I JUST -- CAN I ADD 7 SOMETHING -- 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: -- AND ADDRESS THAT. 10 THIS IS A PERSONNEL ISSUE. AND A PERSON'S 11 EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT, IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF 12 SOMEBODY, THAT IS A PERSONNEL ISSUE AND IT GOES THROUGH A 13 VERY LENGTH, WELL-ESTABLISHED PROCEDURE, AND IT SHOULD NOT 14 BE DISCUSSED IN OPEN SESSION IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM 15 HERE. 16 AND SO IF, YOU KNOW, YOU WILL HAVE TO SPEAK 17 OFFLINE IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS. BUT EVERYONE OF THESE 18 PEOPLE IS ENTITLED TO A FULL PROCEDURE. IF WE DECIDE -- 19 IF THE DISTRICT DECIDES, THAT -- IT IS NOT OUR PURVIEW TO 20 SAY, WE CAN OR CAN'T. THEY HAVE A PROCEDURE -- 21 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: WELL, POINT OF 22 INFORMATION. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: -- AND THAT PROCEDURE HAS TO BE 24 FOLLOWED. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I JUST HAVE A POINT OF JUNE 23, 2011 144 1 INFORMATION. SO WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS 2 RESOLUTION, PERIOD? 3 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU PASS IT. YOU 4 PASS THE RESOLUTION. AND IF THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH ONE OR 5 MORE OF THE CANDIDATES ON THIS, DISCUSS IT WITH THE 6 CHANCELLOR AND THEN -- 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: BECAUSE I'M NOT 8 NECESSARILY SAYING -- 9 TRUSTEE BERG: -- IT GOES THROUGH -- 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: -- I DON'T HAVE A 11 PROBLEM WITH ANYBODY ON HERE. I AM JUST SAYING, WHAT IF 12 YOU DID? 13 TRUSTEE BERG: I AM TELLING YOU. THIS IS WHAT 14 YOU DO. YOU PASS IT, AND THEN YOU DISCUSS IT WITH THE 15 CHANCELLOR AND GO THROUGH A REGULATED PROCESS. 16 AND THERE HAS TO BE A REASON TO DO THAT. YOU 17 CAN'T JUST NOT LIKE THE PERSON. 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I DON'T THINK 19 ANYBODY -- I DON'T THINK WHAT TRUSTEE NGO SAID HAD 20 ANYTHING TO DO WITH LIKING OR NOT LIKING ANYBODY. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: TECHNICALLY, IF THESE RESOLUTIONS, 22 THESE OTHER F RESOLUTIONS WERE ACTUALLY APPOINTING THESE 23 ADMINISTRATORS, WHICH I AM HAPPILY GOING TO ADOPT OR VOTE 24 FOR. 25 DO WE NOT DEBATE THE MERITS OF THOSE RESOLUTIONS JUNE 23, 2011 145 1 IF THEY ARE UP ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AT AN OPEN SESSION 2 OR SHOULD ALL THESE F RESOLUTIONS BE THEN BECAUSE YOU DO 3 SINGLE OUT INDIVIDUAL ADMINISTRATORS OR POTENTIAL 4 ADMINISTRATORS IN THESE OTHER F RESOLUTIONS. DO YOU 5 ALWAYS DISCUSS THEM IN CLOSED SESSION? 6 AND IF SO, WHAT I THINK I AM HEARING FROM YOU, 7 TRUSTEE BERG, WHICH I UNDERSTAND WHICH IS WHY I DIDN'T 8 MENTION THE ADMINISTRATOR BY NAME. IF I HAD AN ISSUE WITH 9 ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS IN F1 OR F2 OR F3, 10 WHICH I DON'T. IF I DID, YOU ARE SAYING WE CAN'T HAVE A 11 PUBLIC DISCUSSION ABOUT IT HERE. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: WHICH IN MY MIND BEGS A QUESTION 14 OF WHETHER WE SHOULD IN FACT HAVE THESE RESOLUTIONS 15 BROUGHT UP IN OPEN SESSION. ALL THESE DISCUSSIONS THEN 16 SHOULD BE HELD IN CLOSED SESSIONS, EVEN THE RESOLUTIONS 17 THEMSELVES SHOULD BE IN CLOSED SESSION. 18 IF THEY ARE UP FOR DEBATE AND THEY ARE OPEN 19 SESSION, I THINK IT'S UNCLEAR WHETHER A BOARD CAN ACTUALLY 20 CRITICIZE EVER THE ADMINISTRATION OR AN ADMINISTRATOR OR 21 AN APPOINTMENT OF AN ADMINISTRATOR. SO WE SHOULD PROBABLY 22 CLARIFY WHETHER WE CAN OR SHOULD NOT DO THESE APPOINTMENTS 23 IN OPEN SESSION. 24 HAVING SAID THAT, I RECOGNIZE A PROCESS THAT YOU 25 LAID OUT, WHICH IS WHY I ASKED COUNSEL FOR THAT ADVICE AND JUNE 23, 2011 146 1 WE WILL DEAL WITH IT IN ANOTHER WAY THAT RESPECTS THOSE OR 2 THAT EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, IT'S A LITTLE MORE THAN THE 5 RIGHT TO PRIVACY. IT'S A LOT MORE WITH THE PROCEDURE. I 6 MEAN THERE IS A PROCEDURE THAT HAS TO BE FOLLOWED AND 7 EVERYBODY IS ENTITLED TO IT. EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THIS 8 AGENDA IS ENTITLED TO THAT PROCEDURE. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: AND I GUESS WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS 11 THAT IT'S THE ASSUMPTION FOR ALL OF US THAT EVERY ONE OF 12 THESE PEOPLE IS QUALIFIED TO DO WHATEVER HIS OR HER 13 POSITION IS AS STIPULATED ON THIS RESOLUTION. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT MY ISSUE, TRUSTEE BERG, WAS 15 WHETHER OR NOT WE COULD -- WE HAD TO ESSENTIALLY AGGREGATE 16 ALL THE 20 SOMETHING ADMINISTRATION INTO ONE RESOLUTION, 17 RATHER THAN HAVING INDIVIDUAL RESOLUTIONS. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, 19 BUT I AM SAYING THAT THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PRESENTED, AND 20 THEREFORE, ASSUME THAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH AND 21 BEEN VETTED A PROCESS WITH THE DISTRICT. AND THAT 22 DISTRICT HAS SHOWN THEM ALL TO BE AT LEAST SATISFACTORY OR 23 BETTER. OTHERWISE, YOU WOULDN'T BE SEEING IT HERE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND SO I HAVE ANOTHER 25 POINT OF INFORMATION. SO IF THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN VETTED JUNE 23, 2011 147 1 AND WE SHOULD DO JUST ASSUME THAT THEY ARE QUALIFIED, THEN 2 WHY DO WE VOTE ON IT THEN? 3 TRUSTEE BERG: THEN WHAT? 4 COUNSEL BATTISTE: BECAUSE THE BOARD HAS THE 5 POWER TO APPOINT. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT WE 7 ARE PART OF THE PROCESS, SO WE ARE JUST ONE STEP IN THE 8 PROCESS. 9 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: WELL, I MEAN WHAT I 10 JUST HEARD IS THAT WE AREN'T REALLY PART OF THE PROCESS. 11 AND SO I AM NOT SAYING I HAVE ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE WITH 12 ANYBODY ON HERE. I AM JUST SAYING IF IT GOES IN FRONT OF 13 THE BOARD FOR A VOTE, REASONABLY WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK 14 ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC. 15 IF YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC, THEN IT 16 SHOULD BE IN CLOSED SESSION. CLOSED SESSION PRIVATE TALK, 17 OPEN SESSION PUBLIC TALK. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL -- 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO YOU ARE BASICALLY 20 SAYING WE HAVE TO RUBBER STAMP THIS. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT WE ARE 22 NOT PART OF THIS PROCESS. THIS IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE 23 PROCESS THAT'S REGULATED BY THE ED CODE. AND EVERYONE 24 HAS -- AND EVERY ONE OF THESE PEOPLE IS ENTITLED TO THAT 25 PROCESS. JUNE 23, 2011 148 1 AND WHAT WE DO AS A BOARD, WE HAVE THE ABILITY 2 TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE. AND IF WE DISAPPROVE, IT 3 BECOMES A PERSONNEL MATTER, AND THAT IS NOT DISCUSSED IN 4 PUBLIC. ALL OF THESE ARE PERSONNEL MATTERS. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: SO IN THEORY, TRUSTEE BERG, IF WE 6 HAD -- IF A MAJORITY VOTE DID NOT CARRY ON ANY ONE OF 7 THESE RESOLUTIONS, AND LET'S SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, F WHATEVER 8 FOR ADMINISTRATOR WOULD FAIL. IT WOULD FAIL THREE TO 9 FOUR. AT THAT POINT WE CAN'T DISCUSS WHY WE ARE VOTING, 10 "NO." WE JUST HAVE TO VOTE "NO" AND THEN IT GOES TO 11 CLOSED SESSION. 12 CORRECT? 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S CORRECT. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN I SUGGEST THAT WE MOVE ON 17 THIS NOW AND TAKE UP THE ISSUE OF THAT ONE ADMINISTRATOR 18 THAT TRUSTEE NGO TALKS ABOUT -- WE TAKE THAT UP IN OUR 19 NEXT CLOSED SESSION MEETING JUST TO -- SO WE COULD HAVE A 20 DISCUSSION ABOUT IT. 21 DOES THAT SOUND REASONABLE? 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I JUST WANT TO PREFACE 23 MY COMMENTS. I AM NOT SAYING I HAVE ANY PROBLEMS. I AM 24 JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT PROCESS IS. 25 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, TRUSTEE BERG, FOR KIND OF JUNE 23, 2011 149 1 ELABORATING WHAT THE PROCESS IS. 2 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU ARE WELCOME. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WHY DON'T WE MOVE THEN. 4 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ONE? 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL IN FAVOR? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 12 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 16 OKAY, THAT'S F6. 17 F7. 18 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, F7 IS THE 19 "INITIAL ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRACT RENEWALS FOR TWO 20 ADMINISTRATORS." 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FOR TWO ADMINISTRATORS. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE F7. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 25 IS THERE A SECOND? JUNE 23, 2011 150 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I WILL SECOND IT. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE 3 FANG. 4 DISCUSSION? 5 PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 MS. SAGINOR: (INAUDIBLE.) 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, YES, PLEASE. 8 MS. SAGINOR: AGAIN, WE WILL PASS THAT THING 9 AROUND THE SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW STATEMENT. 10 THE ADMINISTRATIVE EVALUATION OVERSIGHT 11 COMMITTEE IS A GREAT COMMITTEE, BUT IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A 12 SHARED GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. IT'S A PARTICIPATORY 13 GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, SO I THINK IT PROBABLY SHOULD NOT 14 HAVE BEEN LISTED THIS WAY, BUT I WASN'T HERE FOR AGENDA 15 REVIEW, SO I WOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT THEN. 16 AND THAT'S TRUE OF F8 ALSO. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE 19 BETWEEN A PARTICIPATORY COMMITTEE AND SHARED GOVERNANCE 20 COMMITTEE? 21 MS. SAGINOR: THE REAL QUICK ANSWER IS THAT THE 22 SHARED GOVERNANCE IS A PARTICULAR SET OF COUNCILS AND 23 COMMITTEES AND SUBCOMMITTEES. IT'S LAID OUT IN THE SHARED 24 GOVERNANCE HANDBOOK. THE PARTICIPATORY ARE OTHER KINDS OF 25 THINGS THAT INVOLVE LOTS OF PEOPLE, BUT ARE NOT PART OF JUNE 23, 2011 151 1 THE SYSTEM. 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: THANK YOU. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 4 ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 12 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 16 F7 IS APPROVED. 17 F8. 18 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, F8 IS AN 19 "EXEMPT, A 12 MONTH APPOINTMENT FOR EXEMPT GRANT FUNDED 20 ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS EXTENDING APPOINTMENTS." 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION FOR 22 F8? 23 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE F8. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED JUNE 23, 2011 152 1 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 2 ANY DISCUSSION? 3 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE, PLEASE. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 7 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 9 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 11 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 15 F8 CARRIES. 16 ALL RIGHT. WE ARE UP TO S1. 17 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, S1 IS THE 18 "APPROVAL OF EARLY TENURE STATUS FOR SELECTED FACULTY 19 MEMBERS." 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION FOR S1? 21 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEES BERG AND 24 JACKSON. 25 IS THERE A DISCUSSION? JUNE 23, 2011 153 1 PUBLIC COMMENT? 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF S1? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 9 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 13 S1 CARRIES. 14 S2. 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, S2 IS 16 "RECOGNIZING MIMI RAPO FOR HER OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO CITY 17 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO." 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION? 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO MOVED. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECOND. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON; 22 SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 23 DISCUSSION? 24 PUBLIC COMMENT? 25 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. JUNE 23, 2011 154 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 11 S2 CARRIES. 12 S3. 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, S3 14 "RECOGNIZES MANDI LAM FOR HER OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO CITY 15 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO." 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION FOR 17 S3? 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO MOVED. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECOND. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON AND 21 SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 22 DISCUSSION? 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YES. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEP, GO AHEAD. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: JUST WANTED TO THANK JUNE 23, 2011 155 1 MANDI FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF PERSEVERANCE AND 2 WORK THAT SHE PUT IN OVER THE YEARS AS A PRESIDENT OF THE 3 DOWNTOWN CAMPUS BECAUSE, HONESTLY, SHE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE 4 MOST IMPRESSIVE STUDENT LEADERS THAT I HAVE HAD THE HONOR 5 TO WORK WITH SO FAR. SHE'S ALWAYS DEDICATED, ALWAYS 6 READY, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A LEARNING CURVE FOR HER, BUT 7 SHE NEVER BACKED AWAY FROM TRYING TO GET IT DOWN. SO SHE 8 DESERVED THIS VERY MUCH. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 10 ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? 11 PUBLIC COMMENT? 12 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE, I ASSUME YOU ARE A "YES" 13 VOTE. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. 16 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 25 S3 CARRIES. JUNE 23, 2011 156 1 S4. 2 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, S4 IS "RECOGNIZING 3 INGRID WYNN FOR HER OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO CITY COLLEGE." 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO I WILL JUST MENTION FOR THE 5 AUDIENCE. THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL STUDENT LEADERS IN THE 6 STUDENT GOVERNMENT FOR THE VARIOUS CAMPUSES THAT WE ARE 7 RECOGNIZING. 8 IS THERE A MOTION FOR S4? 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG; 12 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 13 DISCUSSION? 14 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I GUESS I WILL SAY A 15 COUPLE OF WORDS. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SURE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I KNOW INGRID'S BEEN A 18 HUGE, YOU KNOW, PROPONENT OF MORE SERVICES AND CLASSES OUT 19 AT THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS AND EVANS CAMPUS. AND, YOU KNOW, 20 SHE HAS REALLY BROUGHT KIND OF A VOICE AND A PRESENCE, YOU 21 KNOW, TO THE STUDENT POPULATION THERE AND THE ADVOCACY 22 THAT JUST NEVER -- IT WAS JUST NEVER THERE BEFORE SHE GOT 23 THERE. SHE IS A VERY STRONG AND PASSIONATE PERSON. AND I 24 REALLY APPRECIATE HER ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF STUDENTS. SHE 25 DOES A VERY WONDERFUL JOB OF REPRESENTING THEIR WANTS, JUNE 23, 2011 157 1 NEEDS, AND ASPIRATIONS. AND SO I JUST REALLY WANT TO 2 SPEAK HIGHLY OF HER. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: I WOULD LIKE TO CONCUR WITH 7 TRUSTEE JACKSON ABOUT INGRID WYNN'S HARD WORK AND 8 PERSEVERANCE AND HER OUTSPOKENNESS. 9 I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND OTHERS WHO ARE 10 RECEIVING THESE OUTSTANDING SERVICE REWARDS. AND I LOOK 11 FORWARD TO SEEING INGRID AND FOR HER TO DO HER WORK AT THE 12 GAY PRIDE PARADE ON SUNDAY. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: JUST ONE MORE COMMENT. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, SIR. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: INGRID, AGAIN, DESERVES 17 THE CREDIT OF RAISING THE ISSUE OF HAVING ALL THE CAMPUS 18 PRESIDENTS IN THE CONSTITUTE REPORT LAST YEAR. 19 AND I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO NOT 20 ONLY THANK HER, BUT THANK THE BOARD FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN 21 AS WELL, SO THAT'S IT. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 23 PUBLIC COMMENT? 24 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 158 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 6 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 10 S4 CARRIES. 11 S5. 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, S5 IS 13 "RECOGNIZING MICHAIL PUSEY AND VICTORIA HAGEMAN FOR THEIR 14 OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO." 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR 16 S5? 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 19 IS THERE A SECOND? 20 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 22 ANY DISCUSSION? 23 PUBLIC COMMENT? 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 159 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 6 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 10 S5 CARRIES. 11 S6. 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, S6 IS 13 "RECOGNIZING JUAN CANDELAS FOR HIS OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO 14 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO." 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION? 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEES FANG AND 19 JACKSON. 20 DISCUSSION? 21 PUBLIC COMMENT? 22 OKAY. 23 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I HAVE A QUESTION, 24 MR. PRESIDENT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEP. JUNE 23, 2011 160 1 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ON THE SORT OF THE SCHEDULE 2 OF JUAN CANDELAS AND ON THE ACTUAL RESOLUTION, IT'S 3 CENDEJAS. 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THE ACTUAL RESOLUTION IS 5 CORRECT. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OKAY. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU FOR ASKING 8 THAT. 9 PUBLIC COMMENT? 10 ALL RIGHT, STUDENT TRUSTEE. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 13 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 17 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 21 OKAY, S6. 22 NOW BEFORE WE GET TO S7, I WANT TO BRING THE 23 AGENDA ITEM THE REPORT FROM THE OCEAN CAMPUS PRESIDENT. I 24 THINK I SEE HER IN THE AUDIENCE. WE HELD THIS ITEM, AND 25 SHE'S HERE NOW, SO WE CAN HAVE THIS ONE. JUNE 23, 2011 161 1 MS. WEINBERG: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE 3 RECORD. 4 MS. WEINBERG: ELIZABETH WEINBERG, FROM THE 5 OCEAN CAMPUS, A.S. PRESIDENT. AND GOOD EVENING, 6 CHANCELLOR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND THE COLLEGE 7 COMMUNITY. 8 IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE. THIS WILL BE MY LAST 9 TIME SPEAKING TO YOU AS THE A.S. PRESIDENT OF 2010-2011 10 SCHOOL YEAR. SO IT'S AN HONOR, ONCE AGAIN, TO BE HERE AND 11 SPEAK TO ALL OF YOU. 12 I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING 13 HERE IN THE COUNCIL. THE 2010-2011 COUNCIL IS GOING TO BE 14 PASSING THE TORCH FORWARD TO THE INCOMING COUNCIL 15 2011-2012 ON JULY 1ST. AND WE HOPE TO SEE SOME OF THE NEW 16 COUNCIL MEMBERS COMING AT OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING. 17 WE HAVE SOME TRANSITIONAL PROJECTS THAT ARE 18 GOING TO BE CARRYING FORWARD. WE HAVE THE CCSF ORGANIC 19 FARMER'S MARKET. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON VENDING 20 SELECTION, ISSUES SUPPORTING TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY, AND 21 SUPPORTING THE BOOK LOAN PROGRAM, THE SMOKE-FREE OR 22 DESIGNATED SMOKING AREAS AT THE CCSF CAMPUS. I AM LOOKING 23 TOWARDS A POLICY REGARDING THAT. 24 OUTREACH PLAN, REACHING OUT TO STUDENTS AS MUCH 25 AS POSSIBLE IN THE UPCOMING YEAR. WE ARE GOING TO JUNE 23, 2011 162 1 CONTINUE. SOME OF OUR OUTGOING COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE GOING 2 TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH THAT 3 WE STARTED THIS YEAR. 4 THERE'S AN ONGOING STUDENT BILL OF RIGHTS 5 MOVEMENT THAT'S BEEN IN PROGRESS, AND THAT WILL BE 6 CONTINUING IN THE COMING YEAR. 7 WE ALSO WILL BE ENCOURAGING MORE AND MORE 8 STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN SHARED GOVERNANCE AS THAT'S VERY, 9 VERY IMPORTANT PART OF STUDENT LEADERSHIP. WE WILL BE 10 CONTINUING TO EXPAND AND SUPPORT ALL OF OUR A.S. PROGRAMS. 11 AND NEXT WEEK, I WILL BE WORKING TO COMPLETE OUR 12 ANNUAL REPORT. WE ARE DOING A FIRST TIME EVER ANNUAL 13 REPORT, AS FAR AS I KNOW, FOR THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS AT 14 OCEAN CAMPUS. AND HOPEFULLY, TO BE INCLUSIVE OF THE OTHER 15 CAMPUSES AS WELL. 16 I JUST ADD THIS AS A NOTE. I JUST RETURNED FROM 17 WASHINGTON FOR THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 18 MEETING. AND I HOPE THAT IN THE COMING YEAR I WILL BE 19 ABLE TO ENCOURAGE AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE TO GET 20 INVOLVED WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER OF THE UNITED 21 NATIONS ASSOCIATION. 22 AND I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO 23 THANK ALL OF YOU, EVERYONE HERE TONIGHT, AND IN PARTICULAR 24 THE CHANCELLOR, THE BOARD, AND THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY, 25 ENTIRE COLLEGE COMMUNITY, FOR CONTINUING SUPPORT. I FEEL JUNE 23, 2011 163 1 THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT. 2 AND IT'S MUCH APPRECIATED. 3 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO JUST MENTION THAT THIS 4 COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS BASICALLY IN MY OPINION AN EXEMPLARY 5 MODEL OF LEADERSHIP AND COOPERATION. AND THAT'S WHAT 6 MAKES THIS COLLEGE, CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, 7 COMPLETELY UNIQUE. 8 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 9 THANK ALL OUR DEAN, SAMUEL SANTOS FOR ALL THE WORK HE HAS 10 DONE THIS YEAR. I DON'T THINK HE IS HERE TONIGHT, BUT I 11 WILL THANK HIM ALSO IN PERSON. 12 I WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU, TO THE 2010-2011 13 COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK AND ALSO FOR 14 OUR ASSISTANCE AND COORDINATORS. 15 TO THE A.S. PROGRAMS AND ALL OF THE STAFF, TO 16 THE STUDENTS ACTIVITIES STAFF, AND THE STUDENT -- ALL OF 17 THE STUDENT UNION WORKERS OF THE STUDENT UNION, EVERYONE 18 WORKING TOGETHER MAKES IT AN INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY, AND WE 19 ARE ABLE TO DO SO MUCH. 20 I SHOULD SAY IN DIAMOND DAVE'S WORDS, MORE 21 TOGETHER THAN WE CAN DO ON OUR OWN. 22 LASTLY, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK THE 23 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS. IT'S BEEN AN HONOR SERVING AS THE 24 ASSOCIATED STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT THIS YEAR. AND I 25 LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING AS MUCH AS I CAN OF ALL OF YOU IN JUNE 23, 2011 164 1 THE FUTURE. BEST TO EVERYONE. GOD BLESS AND GOOD NIGHT. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK -- JUST ONE SECOND. I 6 THINK I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF AN ANNUAL REPORT 7 ACCOUNTABILITY FROM THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT. I HOPE THAT 8 ONE STICKS AND CONTINUES EVERY YEAR. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO. 11 I WANTED TO JUST THANK ELIZABETH FOR ALL OF HER 12 HARD WORK. AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK HER A QUESTION. 13 WHERE ARE YOU, ELIZABETH? 14 MS. WEINBERG: OH, OVER HERE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: COME BACK. 16 EACH BOARD MEETING WE HEAR YOUR REPORT, AND WE 17 ARE VERY MOVED BY ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE OVER THE 18 YEAR. AND I AM JUST WONDERING IF THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE 19 WILL SEE YOU AT THE COLLEGE, NOT ONLY THE LAST TIME IN 20 THIS ROLE BECAUSE I THINK TRUSTEE BERG AND I SPOTTED YOU 21 AT THE GRADUATION WITH YOUR MOM. 22 SO DOES THAT MEAN YOU ARE GRADUATING AND YOU ARE 23 MOVING ON TO ANOTHER COLLEGE? 24 MS. WEINBERG: I DID GRADUATE, BUT I AM ALSO IN 25 A CERTIFICATE PROGRAM THAT I HOPE TO COMPLETE IN THE NEXT JUNE 23, 2011 165 1 YEAR AND A HALF. SO YOU WILL BE SEEING SOME MORE OF ME. 2 I WILL BE AROUND THE CAMPUS. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 4 MS. WEINBERG: THANK YOU FOR ASKING. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. 6 TRUSTEE WONG. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: DO WE NEED TO MOVE AND SECOND 8 BEFORE WE -- 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S RIGHT. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: -- HAVE COMMENTS. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE HAVE TO -- OUR NEXT ITEM 12 IS -- 13 TRUSTEE WONG: FOR ELIZABETH. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- FOR ELIZABETH, RIGHT. IT 15 DOES NEED TO BE MOVED. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY, I WILL MOVE IT THEN BEFORE 17 I SPEAK. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I WILL SECOND. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG IS MOVING S7 AND 20 TRUSTEE FANG IS SECONDING. 21 COUNSEL, IF YOU COULD READ IT. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: S7 IS "RECOGNIZING ELIZABETH 23 WEINBERG FOR HER OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO CITY COLLEGE OF 24 SAN FRANCISCO." 25 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY, MAY I? JUNE 23, 2011 166 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE DISCUSSION? 2 THERE IS, OKAY. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: NOT DISCUSSION, BUT A STATEMENT. 4 ELIZABETH WEINBERG, REMEMBER THAT NAME BECAUSE I 5 HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH ELIZABETH WEINBERG 6 AT DIFFERENT LEVELS, INCLUDING THE UNITED NATIONS 7 ASSOCIATION, OF COURSE, AND HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. AND I 8 HAVE TO SAY THAT SHE HAS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ME. SHE 9 HAS. AND IF YOU'VE MET HER MOTHER, HER MOTHER WAS SITTING 10 RIGHT THERE LAST MONTH, YOU WILL KNOW WHERE SHE GOT HER 11 ENTHUSIASM. 12 BUT REMEMBER THE NAME ELIZABETH WEINBERG BECAUSE 13 YOU KNOW, I AM ALWAYS THINKING, I AM THINKING THIS IS A 14 FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, A FUTURE 15 AMBASSADOR. 16 I SEE GREAT AND WONDERFUL THINGS IN YOUR FUTURE 17 BECAUSE YOU ARE ALREADY DOING GREAT AND WONDERFUL THINGS 18 AT YOUR VERY YOUNG AGE. AND I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE 19 YOU GET THE ENERGY. 20 SHE IS INVOLVED IN SO MANY THINGS THAT SHE HAS 21 THIS CART THAT SHE PULLS WITH ALL HER FILES AND ALL HER 22 THINGS. AND SHE GOES FROM PLACE TO PLACE TO PLACE. AND I 23 GIVE HER A RIDE HOME FROM TIME TO TIME. 24 BUT, ELIZABETH, YOU ARE TRULY AN INSPIRATION. 25 YOU DESERVE TO BE RECOGNIZED. THERE IS NO FEAR ABOUT THE JUNE 23, 2011 167 1 FUTURE WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE ELIZABETH WEINBERG, YOUNG 2 PEOPLE LIKE HER, SO CONGRATULATIONS. 3 MS. WEINBERG: THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, I WANT TO -- 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: NO, I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. 8 I SECOND WHAT TRUSTEE WONG SAID. 9 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT YOU ARE INSPIRATIONAL TO 10 THE STUDENTS. THAT YOU'VE BEEN A ROLE MODEL TO THE 11 STUDENTS AND SHOWN THEM WHAT THEY CAN DO IN THEIR TENURE 12 AT CITY COLLEGE. 13 AND THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE NOBODY 14 REALLY PAYS THAT KIND OF ATTENTION TO THE STUDENTS, SO I 15 JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR THAT BECAUSE IT'S A LEGACY 16 THAT YOU ARE LEAVING THAT WILL BE THERE FOR YEARS AND 17 YEARS AND WILL STAY WITH THESE PEOPLE FOR YEARS AND YEARS 18 AND FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. YOU REALLY NEED TO BE 19 COMMENDED AND THANKED FOR THAT, AS WELL AS FOR THE SERVICE 20 THAT YOU'VE PROVIDED FOR THE COLLEGE IN GENERAL, SO THANK 21 YOU. 22 AND I KNOW WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE YOU 23 BECAUSE -- YOU ARE ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT IS NOT GOING TO 24 GIVE UP AND WILL STILL HERE AND STILL BE TELLING US WHAT 25 WE ARE NOT DOING RIGHT. GOOD LUCK, REALLY. JUNE 23, 2011 168 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG. 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I JUST -- MIRRORING 3 ALL THE COMMENTS SO FAR, AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD THAT 4 ELIZABETH AND I HAVE HAD THE FORTUNE TO WORK TOGETHER FOR 5 A YEAR. ACTUALLY RAN FOR ELECTION AND GOT TO KNOW EACH 6 OTHER THROUGH THAT. SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY THOROUGH. 7 SHE DOES HER HOMEWORK. SHE IS CONSISTENT IN THAT REGARD. 8 AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT AS A ROLE MODEL AND 9 WORTHY OF IMITATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO STEADFAST 10 DETERMINATION TO DO RESEARCH AND TO BE RIGHT. 11 SO THANK YOU, ELIZABETH, FOR HELPING ME TO LEARN 12 ALL THAT I LEARNED THIS YEAR FROM YOU AS WELL. 13 MS. WEINBERG: THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 15 I WANT TO AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES ON THIS 16 MOTION. ELIZABETH HAS BEEN THE MOST ENGAGED OCEAN CAMPUS 17 A.S. PRESIDENT THAT I HAVE KNOWN. NOT ONLY DOES SHE COME 18 TO EVERY BOARD MEETING, SHE COMES TO THE SPECIAL BOARD 19 MEETINGS. SHE COMES TO THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. 20 AND, YOU KNOW, I SEE AS -- YOU KNOW, WE SEE AS 21 MUCH OF ELIZABETH AS WE SEE OF EACH OTHER. AND THAT IS 22 JUST VERY IMPRESSIVE. SHE REALLY KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON IN 23 THE DISTRICT. AND SHE IS ABLE TO CONVEY THAT TO THE 24 STUDENT LEADERS, AND THAT IS JUST VERY IMPRESSIVE. SO I 25 WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THIS. JUNE 23, 2011 169 1 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 2 YES, I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T SEE YOUR CARD OR I 3 FORGOT ABOUT YOUR CARD. 4 MS. SAGINOR: THAT'S FINE. 5 KAREN SAGINOR, ACADEMIC SENATE PRESIDENT. 6 ELIZABETH HAS DONE A WONDERFUL JOB AS EVERYONE 7 HAS BEEN SAYING. ONE ASPECT THAT I HAVEN'T HEARD 8 COMMENTED ON THAT I WILL COMMENT ON IS THAT SHE IS 9 ENCOURAGED -- SHE HERSELF HAS PARTICIPATED WITH FACULTY 10 AND WITH ADMINISTRATORS AND ALL THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS IN 11 ALL THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORK OF SHARED GOVERNANCE AND 12 ACCREDITATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING. SHE GAVE US VERY, 13 VERY THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS ON STRATEGIC PLAN. THERE ARE 14 SEVERAL PIECES IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT I CAN PICK OUT 15 AND SAY, WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE ELIZABETH TOLD US THAT NEEDS 16 TO BE THERE. 17 AND SHE'S ALSO ENCOURAGED OTHER STUDENTS BOTH 18 FROM THE OCEAN CAMPUS AND FROM FOLKS AT OTHER CAMPUSES TO 19 ALSO GET INVOLVED AND GET ENGAGED AND WORK AS PART OF THE 20 TEAM IN THIS WAY, SO THAT'S BEEN WONDERFUL. 21 I ACTUALLY WAS TEMPTED TO STAND UP AND SPEAK 22 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ALL THE ASSOCIATED STUDENT 23 PRESIDENTS BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS A WONDERFUL 24 ORGANIZATION AND HAVING A PRESIDENT AT EACH CAMPUS IS 25 REALLY A GREAT WAY TO DO, BUT I DID WANT TO PARTICULARLY JUNE 23, 2011 170 1 PRAISE ELIZABETH SINCE SHE'S HERE TO HEAR IT. 2 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ELIZABETH. 3 MS. WEINBERG: THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 IS THERE FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG YOUR VOTE, PLEASE. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 17 THERE BETTER NOT BE. 18 S7 CARRIES. 19 S8. 20 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES MR. PRESIDENT, S8 IS 21 "RECOGNIZING AL YATES AND CARLOTTE CALDWELL FOR THEIR 22 OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO." 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GREAT. IS THERE A MOTION FOR 24 S8? 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. JUNE 23, 2011 171 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 2 IS THERE A SECOND? 3 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE -- I'M 5 SORRY, BERG. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 7 DISCUSSION? 8 TRUSTEE FANG. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, UNDOUBTEDLY ALL THE 10 PRESIDENTS SO FAR ARE COMING TO THE LAST -- ALL OF THE 11 A.S. PRESIDENTS RESOLUTION HONORING THEM. AND AL AND 12 CARLOTTE HAVE BEEN STAUNCH ADVOCATE FOR THEIR SOUTHEAST 13 CAMPUS. AND THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, JUST AS ALL 14 THE OTHER A.S. PRESIDENTS ARE. 15 BUT I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE 16 FOR PUTTING THESE RESOLUTION TOGETHER. QUESTIONS HAVE 17 BEEN RAISED. AND LAST MONTH BY A STUDENT LEADER, WHETHER 18 THIS IS DONE ON A CONSISTENT BASIS. AND MY RESEARCH 19 INDICATED THAT IT WASN'T, BUT -- AND ONLY UNTIL LAST YEAR 20 THAT WE STARTED DOING IT FOR ALL THE OUTGOING PRESIDENTS. 21 AND SO THANK YOU, CHANCELLOR, FOR MAKING THIS 22 HAPPEN. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 24 ANY FURTHER COMMENT? 25 ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? JUNE 23, 2011 172 1 PUBLIC COMMENT? 2 ALL RIGHT STUDENT TRUSTEE. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 9 TRUSTEE NGO: (ABSENT.) 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 13 OKAY, S8, IS CARRIED. 14 S10 IS OUR LAST RESOLUTION OF THE EVENING. 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: AND THIS IS A RESOLUTION. 16 S10, IS A "RESOLUTION OPPOSING ASSEMBLY BILL 515." 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION? 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 22 DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING, TRUSTEE JACKSON? 23 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SURE. AND I ALSO WANT 24 TO THANK MY TWO COSPONSORS, PRESIDENT RIZZO AND TRUSTEE 25 WONG FOR BEING WITH ME ON THIS. JUNE 23, 2011 173 1 AND, YOU KNOW, THIS GOES TO THE HEART OF ACCESS 2 QUESTIONS AND ACCESS ISSUES. AND THIS IS WHY I STARTED MY 3 ADVOCACY SINCE I'VE BEEN 19 ON HIGHER EDUCATION ISSUES. 4 YOU KNOW, TO -- YOU KNOW, TO ALLOW FOLKS WITH RESOURCES TO 5 HAVE GREATER ACCESS TO CLASSES, YOU KNOW IS JUST WRONG ON 6 A FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL AND REALLY KIND OF INCREASES A 7 DIVERSION FROM WHAT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM AND THE 8 HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM OF CALIFORNIA HAS ALWAYS STOOD 9 FOR, MEANING NO MATTER HOW RICH OR POOR YOU ARE, YOU HAVE 10 EQUAL ACCESS TO CLASSES. IT ONLY MATTERS HOW SMART YOU 11 ARE. IT ONLY MATTERS HOW DEDICATED YOU ARE. 12 THIS REALLY GOES SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE IF YOU 13 HAVE MORE MONEY, YOU CAN GET THROUGH THE SYSTEM FASTER. 14 AND, YOU KNOW, I CALL THIS THE LEXUS LANE OF HIGHER 15 EDUCATION. 16 AND SO, YOU KNOW, I AM HAPPY, YOU KNOW, AND I 17 WANT TO AT LEAST MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF 18 COMMUNITY COLLEGES ARE NOW, YOU KNOW, PUSHING BACK AGAINST 19 THIS. AND SO WHEN I FIRST CREATED THIS RESOLUTION, THEY 20 HADN'T YET COME ON BOARD. AND SO IT'S REALLY A HAPPY 21 MOMENT TO SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY REALIZING THAT THIS 22 IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO GO AND THAT THERE ARE BETTER WAYS. 23 AND IN REALITY, THIS HAS LET THE STATE OFF THE 24 HOOK FOR THEIR CONTINUED DEFUNDING OF EDUCATION. THE 25 ANSWER TO ACCESS ISSUES IS NOT CREATING A SPECIAL LANE FOR JUNE 23, 2011 174 1 RICH FOLKS. THE ANSWER REALLY IS DEMANDING THAT THE 2 STATE, YOU KNOW, RETURN THEIR INVESTMENT BACK TO COMMUNITY 3 COLLEGES AND HIGHER EDUCATION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT STILL 4 HOLDS TRUE EVERY DOLLAR YOU PUT INTO THE SYSTEM, IT BRINGS 5 BACK $4 INTO THE ECONOMY. AND NOTHING, NOT EVEN A 6 WALLSTREET SLICKSTER CAN REALLY GET THAT MUCH OF A VALUE 7 BACK. SO MAYBE BERNIE MADOFF CAN, BUT BESIDES THAT, THIS 8 IS REALLY THE INSTITUTION THAT REALLY PUMPS UP THE 9 ECONOMY. 10 SO I WILL ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME IN JUST 11 OPPOSING THIS GOD AWFUL BILL, EVEN THOUGH ASSEMBLYMEMBER 12 BROWNLEY IS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD PERSON. 13 I ACTUALLY WAS THIS CLOSE TO WORKING INSIDE HER 14 OFFICE TOO, SO I KNOW SHE IS ACTUALLY A GOOD PERSON. BUT 15 ON THIS ISSUE, I THINK SHE MAYBE GOT IT A LITTLE BIT 16 WRONG. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS ISSUE. 17 BUT I ALSO WANT TO THANK LESLIE AND AFT 2121 FOR 18 HELPING ME CRAFT THIS RESOLUTION AS WELL. THANK YOU. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FURTHER DISCUSSION? 20 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS? 21 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE HAS STEPPED OUT OF THE 22 ROOM. AND SO WE WILL JUST COMMENCE WITH THE VOTE. 23 OH, YOU ARE THERE, OKAY. YOUR VOTE, STUDENT 24 TRUSTEE. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. JUNE 23, 2011 175 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 6 TRUSTEE NGO: (ABSENT.) 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 10 OKAY, S10 IS APPROVED. 11 SO WE NOW HAVE OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES' REPORTS. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: NO REPORT. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER, DO YOU HAVE A 15 REPORT FOR US? 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: A VERY SHORT REPORT BECAUSE OF 17 THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR. 18 I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE ALL OF THE 19 GRADUATES AT THE COMMENCEMENT THAT WAS HELD ON MAY 22ND IN 20 THE FOOTBALL AREA, THE FOOTBALL FIELD. IT WAS WONDERFUL 21 TO SEE SO MANY STUDENTS, BUT IT WAS ALSO WONDERFUL TO HAVE 22 CONGRESSWOMAN PELOSI GIVE THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH. IT WAS 23 WONDERFUL. THE WEATHER WAS COOPERATIVE. THE GRADUATES 24 WERE HAPPY. THE FAMILIES WERE HAPPY. AND EVERYONE WAS 25 THERE WAS JUST JOYFUL ABOUT THE EVENT. JUNE 23, 2011 176 1 SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADUATES AND TO THE 2 COLLEGE FOR DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB IN GRADUATING SO MANY 3 WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL STUDENTS. 4 THANK YOU, FACULTY AND STAFF, FOR ALL OF YOUR 5 HARD WORK. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 7 TRUSTEE BERG. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: I WANT TO -- I AGREE WITH TRUSTEE 9 GRIER ABOUT THE GRADUATION AND ALSO TELL ALL OF YOU, YOU 10 KNOW, IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE HERE FOR THE SUMMER, THANK 11 YOU FOR BEING HERE FOR THE SUMMER. 12 AND REALLY YOU'VE DONE AN EXEMPLARY JOB. IT WAS 13 A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL GRADUATION AND A VERY INSPIRATIONAL 14 SPEAKER. AND SHE WAS REALLY SO IMPRESSED WITH CITY 15 COLLEGE. SHE THINKS THAT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM IS 16 REALLY THE WAY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. 17 YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT TESTIMONIAL TO ALL OF YOU 18 OF WHAT YOU DO. THE STUDENT LEADERS ARE ALSO A PRODUCT OF 19 YOUR LEADERSHIP AND WHAT YOU TEACH THEM. AND I THINK 20 THAT'S SOMETHING FOR ALL OF YOU TO TAKE HOME WITH YOU AND 21 TO THINK ABOUT THIS SUMMER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THINGS 22 ARE -- I KNOW THINGS ARE GOING PELL MELL FOR THE WHOLE 23 SUMMER, AND THAT'S GREAT. I AM GLAD TO SEE EVERYBODY 24 WORKING AND, YOU KNOW, BACK IN THE CLASSROOM AND GETTING 25 SOME MONEY. BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU DO A GREAT JOB. YOU ALL JUNE 23, 2011 177 1 DO A REALLY, REALLY GREAT JOB. AND THESE STUDENT LEADERS 2 ARE A PRODUCT OF THAT JOB. IT'S REALLY GREAT. 3 SO I WANT TO SAY, HAVE A GREAT SUMMER. I THINK 4 WE WILL ALL BE AROUND TOGETHER. WE WILL PROBABLY BE 5 WORKING TOGETHER. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING 6 YOU DO. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO. 9 FIRST OF ALL, HAPPY PRIDE TO EVERYBODY. HAPPY 10 PRIDE WEEK, HAPPY PRIDE WEEKEND. 11 CITY COLLEGE AS YOU ALL KNOW, OR YOU SHOULD 12 KNOW, HAD ONE OF THE FIRST IF NOT THE FIRST LGBT STUDIES 13 DEPARTMENT. THIS YEAR WE ARE STARTING A MAJOR IN LGBT 14 STUDIES. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BOOTH AT CIVIC CENTER 15 THIS WEEKEND. WE ARE GOING TO DO OUTREACH, WHICH IS 16 PERFECT, WHICH IS INCREDIBLE. 17 THE UNITED NATIONS, BY THE WAY, PASSED THE 18 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF LGBT RIGHTS. IT'S PRETTY 19 HISTORICAL. THAT'S THE UNITED NATIONS. SO I AM VERY, 20 VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. I AM VERY PROUD OF THAT. 21 AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR OWN NATALIE BERG 22 WHO WAS SWORN IN BY CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI ON 23 MONDAY -- 24 TRUSTEE BERG: THANK YOU. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: -- TO THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY JUNE 23, 2011 178 1 COLLEGE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. 2 A BIG HAND. 3 (APPLAUSE GIVEN.) 4 TRUSTEE BERG: THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: AND I JUST WANTED TO ECHO WHAT MY 6 COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. IT'S BEEN 7 A DIFFICULT YEAR, BUT IT'S ALWAYS DIFFICULT, ISN'T IT? 8 IT IS JUST ALWAYS DIFFICULT. SOME YEARS MORE SO 9 THAN OTHERS. THE PAST TWO YEARS IT'S BEEN EXTREMELY 10 DIFFICULT. BUT I KNOW ALL OF YOU AND SOME OF YOU FOR 11 QUITE A FEW YEARS. I KNOW THE WORK YOU DO, THE DOUBLE 12 DUTY THAT YOU DO, I DO. I MEAN I JUST WANT TO LET YOU 13 KNOW THAT YOU ARE APPRECIATED. SOMETIMES YOU MAY THINK 14 YOU ARE NOT APPRECIATED, BUT YOU ARE. BUT YOU MAKE US 15 LOOK GOOD. AND YOU HELP OUR STUDENTS, AND IT'S A GOOD 16 THING. IT'S -- I THINK IT GIVES TREMENDOUS PURPOSE TO 17 ONE'S LIFE TO BE A PART OF WHAT WE DO IN EDUCATION. 18 SO I AM JUST -- I FEEL VERY GRATEFUL AND BLESSED 19 TO KNOW ALL OF YOU AND HAVE A HAPPY SUMMER. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I WANT TO TALK -- AGAIN, 23 OF COURSE, EVERYBODY DESERVES A BIG THANKS. BUT THIS 24 COMING YEAR, IT'S NOT ONLY JUST US THANKING YOU OR A 25 STUDENT THANKING YOU, IT'S WE NEED TO WORK TO HAVE JUNE 23, 2011 179 1 SOLUTIONS TO CONTINUE TO HAVE CREATIVITY AND THE 2 POSITIVITY TO WORK TOGETHER SO THAT IT'S NOT JUST WE KNOW 3 WE APPRECIATE EACH OTHER, BUT WE WORK TOGETHER TO GET 4 SOLUTIONS, SOMETIMES ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS TO FACE THE 5 PROBLEMS THAT IN TERMS OF FUNDING AND ALSO ORGANIZATION 6 THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. 7 WITH THAT SAID, THE COMING YEAR, AT LEAST IN THE 8 IMMEDIATE MONTH, I WILL BE -- I AM PUTTING TOGETHER THE 9 PLAN, ACTION PLAN FOR THE ASSOCIATED STUDENT EXECUTIVE 10 BOARD, WHICH I AM THE CHAIR OF. AND I WILL WORK WITH 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO TO CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF 12 A JOINED ASSOCIATED STUDENT EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING WITH 13 THE TRUSTEES. OF COURSE, IT WILL BE PUBLIC. BUT I THINK 14 TOGETHER, THAT WILL OFFER A GOOD FORUM FOR STUDENTS TO 15 LEARN, AS WELL AS THE COLLEGE AS A WHOLE AND THE TRUSTEES 16 TO SEE HOW DEEP OUR COOPERATION IS AND THE SENSE OF FAMILY 17 GOES. THANK YOU. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 I JUST HAVE ONE THING TO REPORT. I THINK I WILL 20 JUST TO GET A JUMP ON THE CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS. I 21 WANTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN ITS 22 CLOSED SESSION UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT OF 23 DR. GRIFFIN FOR A YEAR, FOR THE YEAR OF 2012-2013. 24 (APPLAUSE GIVEN.) 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK WE ARE VERY GLAD THAT JUNE 23, 2011 180 1 HE'S WILLING TO DO IT. IT WASN'T A VERY HARD DECISION. 2 THAT LEADS US TO THE CHANCELLOR'S REPORT. SO IF 3 YOU WANT TO TAKE IT AWAY. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I THINK THAT IN MANY WAYS 5 THIS YEAR HAS PROBABLY BEEN THE MOST REMARKABLE YEAR THAT 6 I CAN RECALL IN 42 YEARS. WE'VE -- WE HAD SOME CHALLENGES 7 THAT WERE REALLY KIND OF AMAZING. I THINK THE PEOPLE WORK 8 TOGETHER TREMENDOUSLY AS A TEAM. IT WASN'T JUST ABOUT THE 9 MONEY BECAUSE WE WERE FACING AT ONE POINT WE THOUGHT WE 10 WERE GOING TO HAVE $37 MILLION HOLE TO FILL, SO IT LOOKS 11 LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE 20 MILLION. 20 MILLION IS STILL A 12 LOT OF MONEY. BUT I THINK EVERYBODY IN THE COLLEGE 13 REALIZED THAT THE ONLY WAY THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE AS 14 SUCCESSFUL AS WE HAVE BEEN AND CONTINUE TO BE IS ALL WORK 15 TOGETHER. SO THAT'S FROM THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, 16 CLASSIFIED, ADMINISTRATOR, BOARD. I THINK ALL OF US SAW 17 THE SITUATION THAT WE ARE IN. IT'S STILL A VERY SERIOUS 18 SITUATION. WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER. IT'S 19 BEEN A LOT OF EXCITEMENT AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF PAIN IN 20 TERMS OF TRYING TO FIGURE EACH OTHER OUT AND WORK 21 TOGETHER. 22 I THINK OVERALL THAT CITY COLLEGE IS PROBABLY 23 THE BEST COLLEGE THAT ANY OF US HAVE ENCOUNTERED. AND I 24 THINK I CAN SAY THAT WITHOUT A DOUBT. AND I THINK WE'VE 25 WENT TO SOME VERY FINE INSTITUTIONS. BUT WHEN YOU START JUNE 23, 2011 181 1 REALLY GOING DOWN THROUGH THE LAYERS OF THIS COLLEGE, YOU 2 CONTINUE TO BE AMAZED EVERY DAY IN TERMS OF BEING HERE. 3 SO THIS IS REALLY A WORTHWHILE THING TO DO IN 4 TERMS OF OUR SACRIFICE. IT'S NOT JUST A SACRIFICE BECAUSE 5 I THINK YOU CAN JUST SEE PEOPLE KIND OF ACQUIRE SORT OF A 6 GLOW IN THE PROCESS BECAUSE I THINK THEY REALIZE THAT THIS 7 IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE FOR MOST OF US, AND 8 THAT IT'S WORTHWHILE. 9 AND I THINK THAT THE PROBLEM THAT A LOT OF 10 PLACES HAVE THAT WE DON'T HAVE IS THAT WE ARE 100 PERCENT 11 ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY COMMITTED TO STUDENT SUCCESS. AND I'VE 12 NEVER ENCOUNTERED -- THIS IS A STRANGE THING TO SAY, BUT 13 I'VE NEVER ENCOUNTERED, AT LEAST IN THE LAST 40 YEARS, ANY 14 ONE WORKING AT CITY COLLEGE THAT WOULDN'T SAY THAT 15 STUDENTS ARE NO. 1 AND THAT WE WANT STUDENT SUCCESS MORE 16 THAN ANYTHING ELSE. 17 AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE THAT DR. BERG, THROUGH HER 18 GOOD OFFICE AND HER RELATIONSHIPS, WAS ABLE TO GET NANCY 19 PELOSI AS A SPEAKER. AND WE HAVE BEEN ON A HIGH EVER 20 SINCE THAT GRADUATION. MOST OF US HAVE JUST HAVE BEEN SKY 21 HIGH. 22 IF YOU WERE THERE AT THE GRADUATION, YOU KNOW IT 23 WAS REALLY A VERY, VERY AMAZING EXPERIENCE. IT HAD TO BE 24 THE BEST GRADUATION THAT I'VE EVER ATTENDED. ALTHOUGH 25 I'VE ONLY GONE TO ABOUT 15. BUT IT HAD TO BE THE BEST, JUNE 23, 2011 182 1 RIGHT? 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I MEAN IT WAS SUPER. IT 5 WAS INCREDIBLE. AND THE RAPPORT THAT SHE ESTABLISHED WITH 6 THAT CROWD OF PEOPLE IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WAS 7 AMAZING TO WATCH. 8 AND SHE ACTUALLY GREETED MANY OF THE GRADUATES. 9 AND THEY GOT PICTURES OF THEMSELVES WITH HER, WHICH JUST 10 KIND OF THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN 11 THEIR LIVES, FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, TEN YEARS FROM NOW, 20 12 YEARS FROM NOW. THAT'S JUST KIND OF AN INDESCRIBABLE 13 EXPERIENCE. 14 ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO JUST POINT TO IS 15 THAT IN -- I THINK IT WAS FALL SEMESTER WHEN THE FALL 16 SEMESTER WAS OVER. 17 WHEN IS THE FALL SEMESTER OVER, DECEMBER? 18 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THE 17TH. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I WAS IN A BIG PANIC IN 21 DECEMBER. PEOPLE OUT THERE KNOW. THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT MY 22 PANIC. I WAS IN A PANIC BECAUSE I LOOKED AT THE 23 ENROLLMENT NUMBERS, AND I WAS LIKE, OH, MY GOD. AND I 24 THOUGHT IT COULDN'T BE DONE, BUT I DID SAY, IF WE ALL WORK 25 TOGETHER, WE COULD DO IT. JUNE 23, 2011 183 1 AND I THINK EVERYBODY IN THE COLLEGE, THE 2 STUDENTS, AND I THINK JEFFREY WOULD ATTEST TO THIS. THE 3 STUDENTS, THE FACULTY, WE PULLED TOGETHER, AND WE ACTUALLY 4 TOOK WHAT WOULD BE A SUBPAR YEAR BASED UPON THAT FALL 5 ENROLLMENT NUMBERS, AND WE TOOK THAT TO JUST AN AMAZING 6 THING SO THAT WE WILL ACTUALLY GET, AS PETER HAS POINTED 7 OUT, $3.776 MILLION IN ENROLLMENT GROWTH. AND YOU HAVE TO 8 DOUBLE SOME OF THAT MONEY SO THAT WAS AN AMAZING 9 ACHIEVEMENT. 10 I THINK IT'S BECAUSE EVERYONE IN THE COLLEGE, 11 STUDENTS, FACULTY, CLASSIFIED, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, 12 ADMINISTRATORS, WE ALL PULLED TOGETHER. SO IT'S NOT 13 IMPOSSIBLE TO PULL TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE REALLY GREAT 14 THINGS. 15 AND THIS WAS REALLY WORTHWHILE BECAUSE WE HAD 16 LOST THE SUMMER LAST YEAR. WE DIDN'T DO A SUMMER LAST 17 YEAR, AND NOW WE HAVE THE LARGEST SUMMER IN THE HISTORY OF 18 THE COLLEGE. AND I THINK THE STUDENTS HAVE REALLY SHOWN 19 THEIR APPRECIATION FOR IT. 20 AND IF YOU LOOK AT ACROSS THE STATE, THERE ARE 21 SO MANY COLLEGES THAT ARE IN MUCH WORSE CONDITION THAN WE 22 ARE WHO ARE CANCELING THEIR SUMMERS AND LOOKING TO CUT 23 HUNDREDS OF CLASSES. 24 AND I BELIEVE THAT OUR BOARD HAS BEEN VERY 25 COURAGEOUS IN THE SENSE THAT THEY'VE SAID, STUDENTS FIRST, JUNE 23, 2011 184 1 AND THAT WE GIVE THEM A BUDGET THAT SAYS $3.8 MILLION THAT 2 NEED TO BE REMOVED FOR CLASSES, THEY SAID, "NO." AND I 3 THINK WE ARE ALL DEDICATED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT 4 CUTTING EVEN THE 1.9 MILLION THAT WE LEFT IN THERE. 5 BUT I THINK THAT TOOK LEADERSHIP AND GUTS ON THE 6 PART OF THE BOARD INSTEAD OF JUST ROLLING OVER AND SAYING, 7 OKAY, WE WILL DO IT BECAUSE THEY SHOULDN'T ROLL OVER. 8 THEY SHOULD PROVIDE THAT LEVEL OF LEADERSHIP. AND SO THAT 9 WAS REALLY GRATIFYING TO SEE AS WELL. 10 AND SO THAT'S JUST ONE EFFORT THAT EVERYBODY IN 11 THE COLLEGE PULLED TOGETHER. AND EVERYBODY IN THE COLLEGE 12 KNEW THAT THEY WERE PULLING TOGETHER. AND EVERYBODY IN 13 THE COLLEGE CAN ENJOY IT AS A SUCCESS FOR THE WHOLE 14 COLLEGE AND ALSO A PERSONAL SUCCESS. 15 AND SO I AM GOING TO LEAVE YOU WITH THAT 16 ENJOYABLE THOUGHT. AND HOPEFULLY, IT IS ENJOYABLE. AND 17 TAKE A VACATION FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. 18 (APPLAUSE GIVEN.) 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS. 20 IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE OR DID I STEAL YOUR 21 THUNDER? 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO, MR. PRESIDENT, I THINK 23 YOU JUMPED AHEAD THERE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 25 ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK? JUNE 23, 2011 185 1 OKAY, THEN WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. 2 (MEETING ADJOURNED AT 10:15 P.M.) 3 4 5 6 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 7 8 9 I, THE UNDERSIGNED, A DULY AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED 10 SHORTHAND REPORTER, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING 11 PROCEEDINGS WERE TAKEN DOWN BY ME IN STENOTYPE AND 12 THEREAFTER TRANSCRIBED INTO TYPEWRITING BY COMPUTER, UNDER 13 MY DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION, AND THAT THIS TRANSCRIPT IS 14 A TRUE RECORD OF THE SAID PROCEEDINGS. 15 16 17 DATED: JULY 18, 2011 18 19 20 ______________________________ MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 21 STATE OF CALIFORNIA 22 23 24 25 JUNE 23, 2011