SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT MONTHLY MEETING OF THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 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 DR. ANITA GRIER 7 CHRIS JACKSON 8 MILTON MARKS III 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 SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 3 1 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2 2011, COMMENCING AT THE HOUR OF 6:45 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 SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 4 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE REGULAR MEETING OF 2 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 3 CAN WE PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 4 (PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RECITED.) 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, CAN WE HAVE THE ROLL 6 CALL, PLEASE. 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: PRESIDENT JOHN RIZZO. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HERE. 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: VICE PRESIDENT CHRIS 10 JACKSON. 11 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: HERE. 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. NATALIE BERG. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: ABSENT. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. ANITA GRIER. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: HERE. 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE MILTON MARKS. 17 TRUSTEE MARKS: HERE. 18 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE STEVE NGO. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: HERE. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE LAWRENCE WONG. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: HERE. 22 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: STUDENT TRUSTEE JEFFREY 23 FANG. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: HERE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 5 1 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, CAN I HAVE A MOTION FOR 2 THE MINUTES OF -- WE HAVE TWO MINUTES. WE WILL TAKE THE 3 FIRST ONE AS THE REGULAR MEETINGS OF AUGUST 25TH. 4 IS THERE A MOTION? 5 WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MOVE APPROVAL OF THE 6 MINUTES? 7 NO? 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DOES ANYBODY WANT TO MOVE 9 THE MINUTES? 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DOES SOMEONE WANT TO MOVE THE 11 MINUTES? 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I WILL MOVE IT. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, MOVED BY TRUSTEE 14 JACKSON. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 17 ANY DISCUSSION? 18 OKAY, NO DISCUSSION. 19 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE MINUTES? 20 ALL RIGHT. STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 23 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 6 1 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 6 THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 25TH ARE APPROVED. 7 AND NOW WE HAVE THE MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL 8 MEETING OF AUGUST 31ST. 9 IS THERE A MOTION FOR THOSE MINUTES? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 12 IS THERE A SECOND? 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 16 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): I ABSTAIN 19 BECAUSE I WASN'T THERE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY 21 MUCH. OKAY. 22 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 23 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 7 1 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 6 OKAY, THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 31ST ARE APPROVED. 7 SO NOW WE MOVE ON TO ITEM IV, APPROVAL OF THE 8 CONSENT ITEMS AGENDA. 9 I WILL TAKE A MOTION FOR THE B RESOLUTIONS, B1, 10 B2, AND B3. 11 IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO REMOVE THAT FROM 12 THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 13 OR ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WOULD LIKE TO 14 REMOVE ANY OF THOSE FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 15 OKAY, I WILL THEN TAKE A MOTION FOR B1, B2, AND 16 B3. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG; 20 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 21 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 22 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 8 1 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 6 OKAY, B1, B2, AND B3 ARE APPROVED. 7 B5, IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM WHO WOULD LIKE 8 TO EITHER -- IN THE AUDIENCE OR ON THE BOARD WHO WOULD 9 LIKE TO TAKE B5 OFF THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WOULD? 12 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE B5 OFF. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, SO B5 IS OFF THE CONSENT 14 CALENDAR. 15 OKAY, WE HAVE C1, C2, AND C3. WOULD ANYONE ON 16 THE BOARD OR IN THE AUDIENCE LIKE TO TAKE ANYTHING OFF OF 17 THAT CONSENT CALENDAR, RESOLUTION C1, C2, C3. 18 HEARING NONE, IS THERE A MOTION FOR THOSE 19 RESOLUTIONS? 20 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 22 SECOND? 23 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 25 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 9 1 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 10 C1, C2, AND C3 ARE APPROVED. 11 COUNSEL BATTISTE: MR. PRESIDENT. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I'M SORRY I FORGOT. DID YOU 14 WANT TO DO ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA AND HAVE 15 THE -- 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID I SKIP THAT? 17 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YEAH, I HAVE THE ADDITIONS 18 AND WHATNOT READY. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WELL, WE'LL PAUSE ON 20 THIS. WE ARE AT THE F'S -- WE ARE AT THE G'S. 21 OKAY, WE'LL GO TO ITEM V, ADOPTION OF THE 22 RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. 23 ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS? 24 COUNSEL BATTISTE: WELL, YES, MR. PRESIDENT, 25 THERE ARE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 10 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 2 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, AS TO 3 REVISED RESOLUTIONS, THERE'S B7, WHICH IS THE ADOPTION OF 4 THE ANNUAL 2011-2012 BUDGET WHICH IS NOW THE FINAL BUDGET. 5 AS TO ADDED RESOLUTIONS, THERE'S P1, AMENDING 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD POLICY 7 2435, EVALUATION OF THE CHANCELLOR. 8 P2, WHICH IS AMENDING THE POLICY MANUAL TO ADD 9 BP 3050, INSTITUTIONAL CODE OF ETHICS. 10 P3, AMENDING THE POLICY MANUAL TO EXISTING 11 POLICY MANUAL OF BP 2745, BOARD SELF-EVALUATION. 12 P4, AMENDING THE POLICY MANUAL OF PM 1.15, CODE 13 OF ETHICS. 14 RESOLUTION P5, AMENDING EXISTING BOARD POLICY BP 15 3052, CONFLICT OF INTEREST. 16 P6, AMENDING THE POLICY MANUAL OF PM 1.07, 17 POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD. 18 P7, AMENDING THE POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD 19 POLICY 6550, SURPLUS PROPERTY. 20 AND THEN S5, WHICH IS THE HEALTHY AND 21 SUSTAINABLE BEVERAGE CHOICES IN VENDING MACHINES. 22 AS TO SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTIONS, THERE ARE NONE. 23 WITHDRAWN RESOLUTIONS, THERE ARE NONE AT THIS 24 TIME. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL POINT OUT, TRUSTEES, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 11 1 THAT THE P RESOLUTIONS WERE ALL HEARD AT THE POLICY 2 COMMITTEE AND FORWARDED. 3 IS THERE A MOTION FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE 4 RESOLUTIONS AGENDA? 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO MOVED. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 9 IS THERE DISCUSSION? 10 AUDIENCE COMMENTS ON THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA? 11 SEEING NONE, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY "AYE." 12 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 21 OKAY, THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA IS ADOPTED. 22 AND I ALSO SKIPPED OVER ITEM III, WHICH IS 23 PUBLIC COMMENT. SO MY APOLOGIES FOR THAT. I DO HAVE ONE 24 CARD FOR THAT. 25 MR. BRAD LONGSTRETH. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 12 1 MR. LONGSTRETH: THAT'S CORRECT. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 IF YOU COULD COME UP AT THIS TIME. 4 MR. LONGSTRETH: I AM A FULL-TIME STUDENT AT THE 5 COLLEGE, AND I AM DISABLED. AND I AM AWARE OF DOZENS OF 6 STUDENTS WHO ARE ALSO IN MY POSITION WITH HOUSING NEEDS 7 WITH STUDENTS WHO ARE WITH DISABILITY. 8 CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE CITY DO NOT 9 PROVIDE US PROPERLY. THEY GIVE US RUNAROUNDS. WE ARE 10 STUCK TRANSITION TO TRANSITION AND HAVE TO SPEND ALL OF 11 OUR TIME IN THE LIBRARIES TO DO OUR STUDYING BECAUSE 12 THERE'S NOT AN ADEQUATE PLACE WHERE THEY PLACED US TO DO 13 OUR STUDYING. 14 AND I JUST THOUGHT MAYBE THERE MIGHT BE 15 SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS COULD GUIDE US OR HELP US DO OF 16 GETTING HOUSING BECAUSE THAT'S A BIG ISSUE HOUSING FOR 17 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. 18 AND I JUST THOUGHT I -- I WAS TOLD -- CHRIS FROM 19 HARTS, THEY HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY HELPFUL FOR ME THERE. 20 AND HE ADVISED ME TO COME HERE AND BRING IT TO THE BOARD'S 21 ATTENTION, AND I GUESS TAKE IT FROM THERE. I'LL GET BACK 22 WITH HIM AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP, BUT IT'S -- 23 I'M IN A TRANSITION WITH LIKE 22 GUYS IN A SMALL 24 HOUSE. AND IT'S LIKE -- IT'S INCAPABLE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DON'T WE HAVE HOUSING IN SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 13 1 STUDENT SERVICES SOMEWHERE, PEOPLE THAT HELP WITH HOUSING 2 OR AM I MISTAKEN? 3 I THOUGHT WE DID. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE HAVE THE PROGRAM CALLED, 5 "HARTS." 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HARTS, OH, OKAY. 7 MR. LONGSTRETH: RIGHT. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 MR. LONGSTRETH: AND THEY PROVIDED ME WITH THE 10 REFERRALS THAT I ALREADY HAVE FROM VARIOUS AIDS 11 ORGANIZATIONS. THAT'S MY DISABILITY. IT'S FULL-BLOWN 12 AIDS. AND IT'S JUST PUSHING ME THROUGH ONE TRANSITION TO 13 ANOTHER TO ANOTHER. AND THEN THEY SAY, OKAY, YOU ARE 14 PROPERLY HOUSED. I AM LIKE, NO, I'M NOT. I HAVE TO SPEND 15 MOST OF MY TIME OUT OF THE HOUSE JUST TO GET STUDYING 16 DONE. 17 LIKE I SAID, THERE'S 22 PEOPLE IN A HOUSE THAT I 18 AM LIVING IN THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE PLACED ME, BUT 19 YET THEY ARE GETTING $2,000 OF FUNDING -- 20 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 21 MR. LONGSTRETH: -- FOR MY SPOT IN THERE. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: EXCUSE ME. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, TRUSTEE WONG. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: ARE YOU SAYING THAT OUR PROGRAM 25 NEEDS TO HAVE A LARGER SPACE FOR OUR STUDENTS? IS THAT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 14 1 WHAT YOU ARE ASKING? 2 MR. LONGSTRETH: OR JUST RESOURCES OR A 3 ORGANIZATION THROUGH MAYBE HARTS THAT WILL HELP US. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: BECAUSE I THOUGHT HARTS WAS -- 5 MR. LONGSTRETH: THEY HAVE -- THEY JUST PROVIDED 6 ME WITH A REFERRAL LIST. AND THAT'S WHAT MY DISABILITY 7 PROGRAM PROVIDES ME WITH THE SAME -- 8 TRUSTEE WONG: I THINK WE JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR 9 EXACTLY. WHAT ARE YOU ASKING FOR EXACTLY? 10 MR. LONGSTRETH: FOR ASSISTANCE WITH, YOU KNOW, 11 HOUSING. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: ASSISTANCE -- 13 MR. LONGSTRETH: FOR FINDING -- 14 TRUSTEE WONG: -- WITH HOUSING. 15 MR. LONGSTRETH: -- HOUSING, PROPER ADEQUATE 16 HOUSING. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: ALL RIGHT. OKAY. 18 MR. LONGSTRETH: BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS 19 STICKING MOST OF THE DISABLED STUDENTS INTO THESE 20 TRANSITION HOMES, AND IT'S LIKE WAIT A MINUTE -- 21 TRUSTEE WONG: OH, ALL RIGHT. OKAY. 22 MR. LONGSTRETH: IT'S INADEQUATE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: I THINK THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE 24 AT LEAST IS AWARE OF IT NOW, SO THANK YOU. 25 MR. LONGSTRETH: OKAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 15 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2 MR. LONGSTRETH: THANK YOU. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I HAVE A NUMBER OF CARDS. THE 4 ORGANIZATION IS S.A.F.E. 5 ARE THESE FOR ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE 6 AGENDA -- TOPICS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA? 7 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT, MY UNDERSTANDING IS 8 THAT -- 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OR IS THAT FOR ANOTHER AGENDA 10 ITEM? 11 TRUSTEE NGO: -- IS FOR THE BUDGET. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THEY ARE FOR THE BUDGET, OKAY, 13 THANK YOU. 14 AND THEN THERE'S SOMEONE -- THERE'S ELSA RAMOS. 15 IS THAT ALSO FOR AN ITEM THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA OR IS 16 THAT FOR AN AGENDA? 17 MS. RAMOS: THAT'S FOR THE BUDGET. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S FOR AN AGENDA ITEM. 19 OKAY, THANK YOU. 20 OKAY, I THINK THERE'S -- IF THERE'S NO OTHER 21 PUBLIC COMMENT, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER CARDS. WE WILL 22 MOVE ON TO OUR AGENDA. 23 WE WILL GET BACK TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. SO WE 24 ARE NOW AT HUMAN RESOURCES G1-12, H1-3 AND N1 AND 2. 25 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO REMOVE ANY OF THOSE ITEMS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 16 1 FROM THAT CONSENT AGENDA, EITHER ON THE BOARD OR IN THE 2 AUDIENCE? 3 SEEING NONE, I WILL TAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG; 7 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 8 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 18 OKAY, THE G'S, H'S, AND N'S ARE APPROVED. 19 NOW I HAVE Q1 AND Q2. 20 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO REMOVE THOSE FROM THE 21 CONSENT CALENDAR? 22 ALL RIGHT. I WILL TAKE A MOTION FOR Q1 AND 2. 23 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO MOVED. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 25 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 17 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON; 2 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 6 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 7 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 9 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 15 Q1 AND 2 ARE APPROVED. 16 OUR LAST BATCH ARE S1, S2, S3, AND S4. 17 IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM OR ON THE BOARD WHO 18 WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE ANY OF THOSE FROM THE CONSENT 19 CALENDAR? 20 ALL RIGHT. I WILL TAKE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. 21 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO MOVED. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 23 IS THERE A SECOND? 24 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL SECOND IT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 18 1 TRUSTEE FANG. 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 4 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 5 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 12 OKAY, THE S1, 2, 3, AND 4 ARE APPROVED. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, TRUSTEE WONG. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: WE HAVE NO DISCUSSION ITEMS. AND 16 I KNOW THERE ARE AT LEAST 12 SPEAKERS HERE FOR B4, WHICH 17 IS THE AUTHORIZATION TO REALLOCATE $5 MILLION FROM THE 18 2005 GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND ISSUED FROM THE JOINT USE TO 19 CHINATOWN NORTH BEACH. 20 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT DID GO THROUGH THE 21 FACILITIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE WHICH 22 RECOMMENDED THE PASSAGE OF B4. 23 SO, MR. PRESIDENT, AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO 24 MOVE B4. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. I -- SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 19 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- AGREE. WE CAN TAKE THAT 3 OUT OF ORDER. 4 B4 IS MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 5 IS THERE A SECOND? 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 8 LET'S SEE, IS THERE DISCUSSION? 9 NO DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD. 10 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 11 OKAY, NO PUBLIC COMMENT. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: I THINK THERE'S PUBLIC COMMENT. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE? 14 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 15 NO? 16 TRUSTEE MARKS: THERE IS PUBLIC COMMENT. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I AM ASKING PEOPLE IF THEY 18 WANT PUBLIC COMMENT. 19 TRUSTEE MARKS: YES, THERE IS. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO ONE HAS COME FORWARD. AND 21 NO ONE HAS GIVEN ME A CARD. 22 TRUSTEE MARKS: DALE SHIMASAKI. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS HE HERE? 24 TRUSTEE MARKS: I WANT YOU TO ASK DALE SHIMASAKI 25 TO COME TO THE -- TO COME TO THE MICROPHONE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 20 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S A DIFFERENT RESOLUTION. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S A DIFFERENT RESOLUTION. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S A DIFFERENT RESOLUTION. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: I PULLED THAT RESOLUTION. THAT 5 WASN'T -- THIS IS B4, RIGHT? 6 TRUSTEE WONG: THIS IS B4. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS B4. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I PULLED B -- 9 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT WAS A DIFFERENT RESOLUTION. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: I PULLED B5. 11 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, THAT'S B5. 12 SO I CALL FOR THE QUESTION, MR. PRESIDENT. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THERE'S NO DISCUSSION. 14 NO PUBLIC COMMENT. THAT WAS A DIFFERENT ONE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SO HE PULLED B5. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: THE QUESTION HAS BEEN CALLED. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 TRUSTEE MARKS: (INAUDIBLE.) 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CALL FOR THE QUESTION REQUIRES 20 A VOTE. I DON'T THINK THAT'S NECESSARY. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: ALL RIGHT. I WILL WITHDRAW IT 22 THEN. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE 24 IN FAVOR? 25 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 21 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 9 TRUSTEE WONG: LET THE RECORD REFLECT IT'S 10 UNANIMOUS. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S UNANIMOUS. ALL RIGHT. 12 THANK YOU. 13 LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORDER, THE REGULAR ORDER. 14 B5, WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO B5? 15 TRUSTEE NGO: I PULLED B5. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU PULLED B5. THAT IS THE 17 NEXT ONE ACTUALLY. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, ACTUALLY -- 19 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ACTUALLY -- 20 TRUSTEE NGO: -- WE HAVE THE BUDGET REPORT I 21 THINK, DON'T WE, AND THE SPECIAL REPORTS FROM CONSTITUENT 22 GROUPS. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I DON'T HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT OF 24 ORDER. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M -- I'M -- THAT'S WHAT I AM SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 22 1 ASKING. 2 WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE B5 OUT OF ORDER? 3 I KNOW, TRUSTEE MARKS, DOES HAVE SOME TIME 4 CONSTRAINTS. AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THAT OUT OF 5 ORDER AND HAVE MR. SHIMASAKI COME UP, IF THAT'S OKAY. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: I DIDN'T SEE HIM. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS HE HERE? 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: NO, I'M SORRY. THAT'S MY 9 RESPONSIBILITY. I DID NOT ASK MR. SHIMASAKI TO ATTEND 10 THIS EVENING. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 12 IN THAT CASE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE IT OUT OF 13 ORDER OR -- 14 TRUSTEE NGO: NO. 15 TRUSTEE MARKS: NO. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WE WILL GO TO THE 17 REGULAR RESOLUTION ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS. 18 SO WE HAVE REPORTS FROM CONSTITUENT GROUPS. THE 19 FIRST IS CLASSIFIED SENATE. I THINK -- YES, JAMES ROGERS. 20 MR. ROGERS: JAMES ROGERS, PRESIDENT CLASSIFIED 21 SENATE. GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE TRUSTEES, DR. GRIFFIN. 22 THE SENATE MET YESTERDAY, AND AMONG OTHER ITEMS, 23 WORKED ON THEIR FEEDBACK FOR THE ACCREDITATION SELF-STUDY, 24 AND WE ARE FORWARDING OUR OBSERVATIONS TO THE STEERING 25 COMMITTEE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 23 1 THE CLASSIFIED CONTINUED TO WATCH AND 2 PARTICIPATE IN THE BUDGET PROCESS. AS WE ALL KNOW, IT IS 3 VERY DIFFICULT. WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE 4 WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THE SAVINGS THAT ARE NEEDED TO 5 GET THROUGH THESE DIFFICULT TIMES. 6 IN ANOTHER OBSERVATION, WE ARE CONCERNED BY SOME 7 OF THE INFORMATION WE ARE HEARING FROM THE CALIFORNIA 8 COMMUNITY COLLEGE TASK FORCE ON STUDENT SUCCESS. WE ARE 9 ENCOURAGED BY SOME OF THEIR GOALS, BUT ARE CONCERNED THAT 10 THIS MODEL IS MOVING TOWARDS RATIONING EDUCATION AND 11 ELIMINATING SECOND CHANCE OPPORTUNITIES. 12 THERE ARE TOO MANY TALENTED AND MOTIVATED PEOPLE 13 OUT OF WORK FOR THE STATE TO BE HEADING TOWARDS 14 ELIMINATING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRAINING. 15 NICE TO SEE EVERYONE TONIGHT. THANK YOU. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 17 WE HAVE -- NEXT IS THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS. WE 18 HAVE VICTORIA HAGEMAN FROM JOHN ADAMS CAMPUS. 19 IS THAT THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION? 20 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: ACTUALLY, SHE IS THE FORMER 21 PRESIDENT -- 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, THIS IS NEWER. 23 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: -- FOR JOHN ADAMS. THERE 24 WAS A NEW ELECTION. SHE IS NO LONGER THE PRESIDENT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, COULD YOU -- WELL, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 24 1 WHAT'S YOUR NAME THEN? 2 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: MY NAME IS ALEXANDRIA 3 GRIFFIN-HEADY, AND I AM THE SECRETARY FOR JOHN ADAMS 4 CAMPUS. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 6 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: THIS IS MY FIRST SEMESTER 7 ATTENDING JOHN ADAMS. SPEAKING FOR THE STUDENTS, I FEEL 8 VERY STRONGLY ABOUT GIVING -- I'M SORRY. SPEAKING WITH 9 THE STUDENT BODY, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT GIVING THE 10 STUDENTS A SENSE OF PRIDE AND JOY IN ATTENDING THE SCHOOL. 11 A LARGE NUMBER OF THE STUDENT BODY AT THAT 12 CAMPUS ARE WORKING TO RECEIVE THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR 13 GED. THE NO. 1 THING WE RECOGNIZE IS THAT IF THE STUDENTS 14 AREN'T EXCITED ABOUT THEIR EDUCATION AND THE GOAL TO 15 RECEIVE A DIPLOMA, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 16 THEY HAVE ALSO CONTACTED ME DIRECTLY SPEAKING TO 17 ME IN THE OFFICE ABOUT SUPPORT GROUPS FOR NA, AA, AND 18 FAMILY SUPPORT. 19 THIS IS I FEEL LIKE A REALLY BIG DEAL FOR OUR 20 STUDENTS BECAUSE IF THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE 21 ABUSE OF ANY KIND OR HAVING HOME DIFFICULTY OF ANY KIND, 22 THERE'S NO WAY ANYBODY COULD EVER EXPECT THEM TO SUCCEED 23 IN SCHOOL. WE ARE BEGINNING A FEW SUPPORT GROUPS LIKE 24 THAT. 25 WHAT ELSE ARE WE DOING? SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 25 1 THERE WAS JUST RECENTLY, THERE WAS A STUDENT 2 BODY ELECTION. WE HAVE RECEIVED MULTIPLE LOCAL MA AND PA 3 BUSINESSES SUPPORTING OUR CAMPUS AND THE REST OF THE SAN 4 FRANCISCO CITY COLLEGE. IF THEY COME WITH THEIR STUDENT 5 ID, THEY GET A VERY SMALL DISCOUNT. 6 WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO PROMOTE MANY DIFFERENT 7 ETHNIC GROUPS OR ETHNIC FUNCTIONS. SAN FRANCISCO IS SUCH 8 A LARGE ETHNIC -- I THINK IT COULD REALLY HELP BRING THE 9 COMMUNITY. AND THE LOCATION OF JOHN ADAMS IS VERY CLOSE 10 TO HAIGHT -- HEIGHT. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HAIGHT. 12 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: IT'S SO MANY -- 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU'RE NEW HERE. 14 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: I AM NEW TO SAN FRANCISCO. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE COULD TELL. 16 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: SO ANOTHER THING THAT WE ARE 17 REALLY PROUD THAT WE ARE STARTING IS A HUMAN AND SEX 18 TRAFFICKING AWARENESS. WE HAVEN'T REALLY FIGURED OUT HOW 19 WE ARE GOING TO DO IT, BUT WE ARE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT. 20 THE INCREASING LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE 21 BROUGHT TO SAN FRANCISCO CITY ITSELF THAT ARE COMING FROM 22 OTHER STATES, OTHER COUNTRIES, OTHER CONTINENTS THAT ARE 23 FORCED TO BE EITHER PROSTITUTES OR A SLAVE IS ALARMING. 24 MANY YEARS AGO, PEOPLE WORKED REALLY HARD TO GET 25 CIVIL RIGHTS. AND IT'S SHOCKING THAT IT IS STILL SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 26 1 HAPPENING HERE. AND IT IS MAINLY IN SAN FRANCISCO WHEN IT 2 COMES TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. SO WE ARE LOOKING TO DO 3 DIFFERENT THINGS WHETHER IT BE DANCES, ANYTHING WE COULD 4 FUND MONEY FOR, FUND RAISE, DOING AWARENESS, SPEECHES, 5 WALKS, ANYTHING WE COULD DO FOR THEM. 6 AND SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME, YOU KNOW, THE VOICE 7 OF A MILLION IS GREATER THAN ANY COMMUNITY. AND THE 8 COMMUNITY OF A STUDENT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN AN EARTHQUAKE 9 ITSELF. SO IF WE CAN GET THE REST OF THE CAMPUSES FOR SAN 10 FRANCISCO CITY COLLEGE TO JOIN IN ON IT, IT COULD REALLY 11 MAKE A BIG IMPACT. 12 AND AS YOU ALL FIGURED OUT, I AM NEW TO SAN 13 FRANCISCO. AND I AM A NEW STUDENT FOR CITY COLLEGE. AND 14 SO I AM REALLY EXCITED FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES. AND I AM 15 REALLY HAPPY TO SPEAK HERE TODAY. 16 ONE OTHER THING THAT THE STUDENTS AT JOHN ADAMS 17 ARE REALLY UPSET ABOUT -- NOT UPSET, BUT FEEL IT SHOULD BE 18 ANNOUNCED IS THAT OUR CAMPUS IS WHAT THEY'RE REFERRING TO 19 AS THE "LOST CAUSE CAMPUS." IT LOOKS ALMOST LIKE A MENTAL 20 WARD, VERY COLD, VERY DRY, VERY EMPTY. 21 AND IT'S ALMOST AS IF WE ARE ADULTS OF THE 22 COMMUNITY WHO FOR WHATEVER REASON DID NOT RECEIVE A 23 DIPLOMA WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO, IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WELL, 24 THAT'S JUST WHERE WE SEND THEM. AND IT'S KIND OF WHAT IT 25 LOOKS LIKE TOO. YOU GO TO OUR CAMPUS, IT'S VERY DEAD. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 27 1 IT'S VERY DEAD. 2 SO MAYBE HELPING WITH GETTING SOMETHING TO GET 3 IT A LITTLE MORE UPBEAT WILL REALLY HELP THE STUDENTS FEEL 4 MORE PRIDE AND EXCITEMENT ABOUT THEIR EDUCATION. 5 SO THAT IS ALL I HAVE TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF YOU COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS 7 ABOUT JOHN ADAMS ALONG THE LINE OF WHAT YOU THINK, LET US 8 KNOW. 9 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: THE DISABLED AND HANDICAPPED 10 DEPARTMENT THERE IS ACTUALLY DOING A HUGE MURAL WHICH YOU 11 PAY $35 AND YOU GET A 5-FOOT SQUARE. LIKE, YOUR NAME 12 WOULD GET PUT ON IT. SO STUDENT COUNCIL -- WE ARE EACH 13 DOING THAT IN THE STUDENT COUNCIL. AND MR. MBOLO IS 14 ACTUALLY DOING IT AS WELL, THE HEAD OF OUR STUDENT 15 COUNCIL. 16 BUT WE ARE NOT -- WE WILL LOOK INTO IT. AND WE 17 WILL DEFINITELY BRING IT BACK. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 THERE'S ANOTHER STREET THAT INTERSECTS HAIGHT 20 CALLED ASHBURY THAT YOU COULD -- 21 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: I WAS TRYING TO GET MY 22 GRANDMA TO PICK ME UP -- 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- TAKE A WALK OVER THERE. 24 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: -- AND I WAS LIKE I DON'T 25 KNOW WHERE AM I, HAYES AND MASONIC. ALL RIGHT. THANK SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 28 1 YOU. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, TRUSTEE GRIER. 5 TRUSTEE GRIER: I WANTED TO ASK THE STUDENT A 6 QUESTION. 7 IF YOU COULD COME BACK, I DIDN'T GET YOUR NAME. 8 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: MY NAME IS ALEXANDRIA 9 GRIFFIN-HEADY. ALEX. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. MY -- IT'S NOT A 11 QUESTION. THE COMMENTS YOU'VE MADE I'VE HEARD BEFORE. 12 AND I'VE HEARD SOME OF THE SAME COMMENTS ABOUT THE 13 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. 14 SINCE YOU ARE NEW TO THE COLLEGE, IT WOULD 15 PROBABLY BE A GOOD IDEA FOR YOU TO TALK TO SOME OF THE 16 STUDENTS AT THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS WHO ARE HAVING SOME OF 17 THE SAME PROBLEMS, SOME OF THE SAME ISSUES, AND MAYBE 18 TOGETHER YOU COULD COME UP WITH A PLAN TO BRING MORE 19 EXCITEMENT, BRING MORE COURSES, MAKE IT MORE STUDENT 20 ORIENTED. 21 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: WELL, ONE THING SOMEBODY 22 BROUGHT UP IS SPORTS TEAMS. 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: YEAH, OKAY. 24 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I AM 25 NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW WE WOULD DO THAT. I AM ALSO NEW TO SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 29 1 THE STUDENT COUNCIL. SO I WOULDN'T BE EXACTLY -- I AM NOT 2 ENTIRELY SURE WHERE OR WHAT WE WOULD DO WITH THAT. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 4 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: BUT SPORTS TEAMS WAS THE 5 BIGGEST THING BROUGHT UP TODAY IN OUR MEETING. EVERYBODY 6 WAS SAYING, SOCCER, FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, 7 ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL, TENNIS, CROSS COUNTRY. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. AND ALSO KEEP US 9 INFORMED. 10 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY: YES, I WILL. THANK YOU. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 13 AND THE NEXT STUDENT JUAN CANDEJAS FROM MISSION 14 CAMPUS. 15 DO WE HAVE A STUDENT FROM MISSION CAMPUS? 16 SOUNDS LIKE -- IT LOOKS LIKE NO. 17 ROBERT ARENAS FROM OCEAN CAMPUS. 18 MR. ARENAS: GOOD EVENING, BOARD, CHANCELLOR, 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO. 20 ALL RIGHT. SO SOME THINGS WE HAVE BEEN GOING 21 THROUGH FOR THE PAST MONTH OR SO. THE MARCH IN MARCH WAS 22 ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAME UP WITH. WE DECIDED ULTIMATELY 23 THAT WE DID NOT WANT TO GO WITH THE SSCCC'S MASTER PLAN 24 FOR MARCH IN MARCH. THE MAJORITY OF THE CAMPUS FELT THAT 25 IT WAS NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS IT COULD BE, ESPECIALLY AS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 30 1 BEING A MASSIVE EXPENDITURE AS IT IS. 2 BUT WE ALSO BROUGHT IT TO OUR STUDENTS. WE WANT 3 TO GIVE OUR STUDENTS A CHANCE WHERE THEY COULD UTILIZE 4 THEIR CREATIVITY. GET OUT THERE AND ACTUALLY GET TOGETHER 5 AND NOT LET IT ONLY BE A DECISION UP TO THE A.S. COUNCIL. 6 ACTUALLY, OPEN IT UP TO EVERYBODY. 7 AND WE'VE COME UP WITH DIFFERENT IDEAS, MAYBE 8 PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE ALL-STAR TEAM OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 9 FUTURE MAJORS, MAYBE LIKE 10, 20 GET UP THERE AND ACTUALLY 10 HAVE A POLITICAL FORUM, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 11 WHILE ACTUALLY BRINGING THE OTHER HALF OF THE 12 BUS TO ACTUALLY GET LOUD AND BE OUT THERE WITH EVERYBODY 13 ELSE AS WELL. BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE ARE LOOKING AT. 14 ALSO THE COMCAST CONTRACT, IT LOOKS LIKE FOR THE 15 REST OF THE YEAR AFTER THE CONTRACT IS OVER WHICH WITH -- 16 ACTUALLY, WE SHOULD BE OVER WITH NOW, THEY WILL NOT BE 17 SHOWING UP AT THE CAMPUS FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. WE 18 DECIDED THAT WE WANTED TO SEVER ALL TIES WITH THE 19 CORPORATE CONGLOMERATES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. AND I THINK 20 THAT DEFINITELY GOES WITH THE TREND OF CCSF. 21 WE HAVE A NEW SENATOR TO WELCOME ON BOARD. WE 22 JUST PICKED A NEW ONE. SHE IS A GREAT PICK. SHE RAN FOR 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE LAST YEAR. SHE HAS A LOT OF HEART. WE 24 ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT SHE CAN BRING TO 25 THE TABLE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 31 1 AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN LOOKING INTO SOME 2 FUNDRAISING AND HALLOWEEN EVENTS. SOMETHING THAT COULD 3 STILL INCREASE AWARENESS ON THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES FEE AND 4 MAKE SURE WE ARE GETTING THAT $5. 5 AND THEN I GUESS LASTLY, JUST TO TOUCH A LITTLE 6 ON THE AB-540 ISSUE. I SEE THAT A LOT OF THE AB-540 7 BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE HERE TONIGHT. AND THE ONLY THING 8 I WANT TO SAY IS THAT WHEN ONE PIECE OF OUR COMMUNITY IS 9 HURTING, WE ARE ALL HURTING AS A COMMUNITY. 10 AND JUST LET US NOT LEAVE OUR BROTHERS AND 11 SISTERS OUT IN THE RAIN. LET'S DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO HELP 12 THEM AND GET THEM PAID. THAT'S IT. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I HAVE ONE COMMENT. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 WE HAVE A QUESTION, MR. ARENAS, IF YOU COULD -- 16 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I'VE GOT ONE COMMENT 17 AND ONE QUESTION. 18 MR. ARENAS: YEAH. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: FIRST, I JUST WANT TO 20 THANK YOU GUYS ON THE ADVOCACY FOR AB-540 STUDENTS. I 21 WANT TO ESPECIALLY THANK TRUSTEE NGO FOR THIS LEADERSHIP 22 ON THIS ISSUE. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND IT'S A 23 COMMUNITY THAT CONTRIBUTES A LOT TO OUR COLLEGE CULTURE 24 BUT IS REALLY KIND OF LEFT OUT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF 25 FINANCING OF, YOU KNOW, COLLEGE. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 32 1 GUYS FOR ALL OF YOUR ADVOCACY ON ALL THAT. IT REALLY 2 SHOWS WHAT STUDENT POWER CAN REALLY DO WHEN THEY ARE 3 REALLY ORGANIZED AND COORDINATED. 4 AND THE SECOND THING, I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHO 5 ACTUALLY -- WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE STUDENT THAT JUST GOT 6 ADDED AS A STUDENT SENATOR. 7 MR. ARENAS: CHANELLE WILLIAMS (PHONETIC). 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OKAY. 9 MR. ARENAS: CHANELLE WILLIAMS. 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: ALL RIGHT. 11 MR. ARENAS: THANK YOU SO MUCH. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 THE NEXT REPORT IS THE ACADEMIC SENATE, KAREN 14 SAGINOR. 15 MS. SAGINOR: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ACADEMIC 16 SENATE PRESIDENT, KAREN SAGINOR. I AM SO UNUSED TO 17 GETTING TO DO THE REPORT SO EARLY IN THE EVENING. IT KIND 18 OF TOOK ME BY SURPRISE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE COULD PUT YOU AT A LATER 20 TIME IF YOU WOULD LIKE. 21 MS. SAGINOR: WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD 22 SINCE BEFORE THE SEMESTER BEGAN, NOT SURPRISINGLY. 23 BESIDES ALL THE TEACHING AND SO FORTH THAT FACULTY DO, WE 24 HAVE BEEN, OF COURSE, WORKING ON ACCREDITATION. AND WE 25 ARE PRETTY MUCH ON SCHEDULE FOR THAT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 33 1 THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS ANOTHER MEETING 2 TOMORROW. I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE, PRESIDENT RIZZO. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'LL BE THERE. 4 MS. SAGINOR: AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE 5 ARE WORKING ON. IT'S MOVING ALONG. AND I HOPE YOU GUYS 6 HAVE ALL READ THE REPORT AND ARE GOING TO BE GETTING YOUR 7 COMMENTS IN SOON. 8 ONE OF THE WORKGROUPS THAT I'VE WORKED ON, ALONG 9 WITH OTHER FACULTY, IS THE WORKGROUP ON THE 10 INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED AND NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME OF 11 COMING UP WITH GETTING BETTER INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. AND 12 WE ARE LOOKING TO DO WORK THAT WILL LAST IN TERMS OF 13 HAVING SOMETHING SO THAT NEXT YEAR AND THE YEAR AFTER WE 14 WILL HAVE A BETTER SYSTEM IN PLACE. AND SO IT WILL NOT BE 15 DIFFICULT TO GET THESE FIGURES. BUT THIS TIME AROUND, WE 16 ARE REALLY HAVING TO STRUGGLE WITH THOSE. AND WE WILL 17 CONTINUE ON THAT. 18 WE HAVE DONE WORK ON SOME OF THE PARTS OF THE 19 STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE ANNUAL PLAN. AND INTERIM VICE 20 CHANCELLOR PHYLLIS MCGUIRE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO COME TO ONE 21 OF OUR MEETINGS TO TAKE OUR FEEDBACK. THANK YOU. WE ARE 22 GRATEFUL FOR THAT. 23 THE MAIN THING I REALLY DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT 24 TONIGHT THOUGH IS THE STATEWIDE STUDENT SUCCESS TASK FORCE 25 THAT PRESIDENT ROGERS COMMENTED ON. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 34 1 THIS IS -- THE DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE 2 SUPPOSED TO COME OUT VERY SOON. I DON'T KNOW, THE END OF 3 THIS WEEK, THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. AND I WILL BE 4 SENDING AN E-MAIL TO ALL OF YOU AS SOON AS THEY ARE UP 5 DIRECTING YOUR ATTENTION TO THEM. 6 THE OTHER OVERALL THRUST IS, AS PRESIDENT ROGERS 7 SAYS, TO RATION EDUCATION. THEY DON'T ACTUALLY PUT THAT 8 IN WRITING, BUT THAT'S HOW THEY TALK ABOUT IT. THEY SAY 9 THERE ISN'T ENOUGH TO GO AROUND. WE HAVE TO RATION IT. 10 WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO SUCCEED 11 GET THE OPPORTUNITIES. AND THOSE WHO ARE -- THEY DON'T 12 SAY THOSE WHO ARE LESS LIKELY TO SUCCEED, BUT THEY SAY WE 13 DON'T TO PUT MONEY INTO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T SUCCEEDING. 14 AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST LISTENING TO 15 MS. GRIFFIN-HEADY FROM THE JOHN ADAMS CAMPUS ABOUT SOME OF 16 THE STRUGGLES THAT THE STUDENTS THERE HAVE ABOUT SOME OF 17 OUR STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN PUT IN THE "YOU ARE NOT A 18 SUCCESS" CATEGORY. AND THIS BASICALLY IS DESIGNED TO PUT 19 MORE PEOPLE IN THOSE KINDS OF CATEGORIES TO TAKE MONEY 20 AWAY FROM THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES. AND, PARTICULARLY, TO 21 TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM THE STUDENTS WHO ARE STRUGGLING. 22 SO I AM JUST VERY, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE 23 THIS IS GOING. SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE TO DO 24 WITH IF YOUR -- THE GRADE POINT AVERAGE FALLS BELOW A 25 CERTAIN GRADE POINT, THEN THEY TAKE AWAY THE BOG FEE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 35 1 WAIVER, AND YOU HAVE TO PAY FULL PRICE. 2 IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH BASIC SKILLS, AGAIN, 3 YOU KNOW, WELL, MAYBE THEY SHOULD PAY FULL PRICE. YOU 4 KNOW, THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE LEAST ABILITY TO GO OUT AND 5 MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THEY TALK ABOUT 6 PUTTING IN THIS KIND OF CATEGORY. 7 IT'S A VERY -- ANOTHER AREA OF RECOMMENDATION 8 HAS TO DO WITH ENCOURAGING ALL STUDENTS TO HAVE AN 9 EDUCATIONAL PLAN WHICH IS A GREAT THING. BUT THEY HAVE A 10 VERY -- THERE'S A VERY PUNITIVE EDGE TO THE KIND OF 11 RECOMMENDATIONS THEY ARE MAKING. THAT IF YOU BASICALLY 12 STRAY OFF YOUR EDUCATIONAL PLAN. 13 IF, FOR INSTANCE, YOU COME TO COLLEGE SAYING, 14 YOU KNOW, I AM GOING TO BE A MUSIC MAJOR BECAUSE I AM 15 GOING TO BE A ROCK STAR. AND THEN AFTER A FEW YEARS YOU 16 SAY, WELL, AFTER THE END OF TWO SEMESTERS, YOU SAY, WELL, 17 MAYBE NOT. OR THE OTHER WAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE I AM 18 GOING TO BE AN ECONOMICS MAJOR AND THEN YOU COME HERE AND 19 YOU GET ALL FIRED UP ABOUT MUSIC, IT'S LIKE, FORGET THE 20 ECONOMICS, THIS IS REALLY WHERE MY HEART IS. THIS IS WHAT 21 I WANT TO DO. 22 I MEAN I THINK SEVERAL OF US WENT TO COLLEGE NOT 23 REALLY KNOWING WHAT WE WANTED TO DO AT THE BEGINNING OF 24 OUR FIRST YEAR. 25 AND, AGAIN, IF YOU CONTINUE TO TAKE COURSES, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 36 1 RIGHT, THAT WEREN'T ON YOUR EDUCATIONAL PLAN OR BEYOND THE 2 NUMBER OF HOURS THAT THEY WANT TO ALLOCATE TO YOU, THEN, 3 YOU KNOW, WELL, THEN WE CAN'T SUBSIDIZE THAT. WE HAVE TO 4 MAKE SURE THAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE PAYING FULL FARE. 5 THIS IS A VERY -- ITS -- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 6 MAKES ME VERY UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT IT WAS THAT -- YOU KNOW, 7 ON SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, AS I SAID, THEY DON'T 8 SOUND VERY GOOD TO ME, BUT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE, 9 YOU KNOW, REALLY PUSHING THIS TO HAVE SOME -- THINK THIS 10 IS REALLY GOOD. 11 I WENT TO ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS LAST WEEK, A 12 WEEK AGO ON WEDNESDAY. AND I FOUND AT THE MEETING THE 13 PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE TASK FORCE ARE AN EXTREMELY 14 QUALIFIED GROUP OF EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONALS. PEOPLE WHO, 15 YOU KNOW, THEY KNOW EVERY -- THEY KNOW SO MUCH MORE ABOUT 16 EDUCATION THAN I DO. 17 SO YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT THE WORK OF THE TASK 18 FORCE WOULD BE GOOD. WE'VE GOT THESE EXPERTS. WE WILL 19 PUT SOME STUFF OUT HERE. LET'S GET THEM TALKING ABOUT 20 THESE THINGS, THINKING ABOUT THESE THINGS, GIVING US THEIR 21 RECOMMENDATIONS. 22 THE WAY IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS BEING CONDUCTED 23 WAS VERY DISTURBING TO ME. THERE WAS A -- ONE OF THE 24 RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WAS PUT UP FOR A VOTE WAS A 25 RECOMMENDATION -- THE TASK FORCE HAD BEEN ASKED TO SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 37 1 CONSIDER PERFORMANCE BASED FUNDING, RIGHT. THAT IF 2 YOUR -- IF YOU DON'T -- AREN'T DOING AS WELL, WE WILL TAKE 3 MONEY AWAY FROM YOU AND GIVE IT TO COLLEGES WHERE THE 4 STUDENTS ARE DOING BETTER. IT'S REALLY THE NO CHILD LEFT 5 BEHIND MODEL. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THERE A TIME LIMIT FOR 7 PRESENTATIONS? 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. THERE'S NO TIME LIMIT. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THERE NORMALLY A TIME LIMIT FOR 10 ANY OF THE REPORTS? 11 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THESE ARE REPORTS FROM 13 CONSTITUENT GROUPS. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: I KNOW. IS THERE A TIME LIMIT 15 USUALLY? 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NOT THAT I KNOW OF. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M JUST -- 18 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. I WAS JUST WONDERING. I AM 20 JUST NOT SURE HOW -- 21 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I HAVE -- 22 MS. SAGINOR: I GAVE YOU A VERY SHORT REPORT IN 23 AUGUST. AND I WARNED YOU THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE MORE TO 24 SAY THIS -- 25 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 38 1 MS. SAGINOR: THIS HAS A BIG EFFECT ON THE 2 FUTURE OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: I GUESS IT'S ABOUT TIMING, BUT I 4 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MOVING ALONG. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: MR. PRESIDENT, I JUST 6 HAVE ONE POINT. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THIS IS NOT A -- 8 MS. SAGINOR: MAY I FINISH MY REPORT? 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. LET ME JUST SAY -- 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: OH, I JUST HAVE A 11 QUESTION. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- THAT THIS IS NOT AN 13 AGENDIZED DISCUSSION ITEM, SO WE REALLY CAN'T HAVE A LOT 14 OF BACK AND FORTH, BUT YOU CAN ASK A QUESTION. 15 MS. SAGINOR: COULD I FINISH MY REPORT? 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 17 MS. SAGINOR: OKAY. I REALLY -- WHAT I SAW 18 THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT I REALLY FEEL I NEED TO SPEAK OUT 19 ABOUT WHICH WAS THAT THE PERFORMANCE BASED FUNDING, THE 20 RECOMMENDATION THAT THEY HAD CONSIDERED WAS AGAINST 21 PERFORMANCE BASED FUNDING, SAYING, NO, WE DON'T WANT IT. 22 WE DON'T THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. IT SHOULD NOT BE 23 PURSUED AT THIS POINT. 24 AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MEETING SAID, WELL, 25 HOW ABOUT IF WE ADD ON TO IT SOMETHING SAYING WE DON'T SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 39 1 THINK WE SHOULD DO IT AT THIS POINT, BUT WE SHOULD TO TALK 2 ABOUT IT. WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO CONSIDER THIS FOR THE 3 FUTURE. 4 AND THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ON THE TASK FORCE SAID, 5 BUT WE DISCUSSED THAT LAST TIME. AND WE SAID, NO, WE 6 DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE IT FOR THE FUTURE. WE JUST WANT TO 7 SAY, THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. BUT IT WAS SAID, YES, BUT 8 WE WANT TO VOTE ON IT AGAIN BASICALLY. AND SO THEY DID. 9 THEY ADDED THAT TO IT. AND BECAUSE THERE WERE FEWER 10 PEOPLE AT THAT MEETING LAST WEEK THAN THERE HAD BEEN IN 11 AUGUST, IT PASSED BY ONE VOTE. SO IT'S LIKE, OKAY, GREAT. 12 THAT'S THE END. 13 I HAVE TO SAY I'VE NEVER SEEN A MEETING RUN WITH 14 LESS FAIRNESS TO IT. IT WAS NOT IN MY VIEW AT ALL A FAIR 15 MEETING. AND SO -- 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY THE MEETING WAS -- 17 MS. SAGINOR: BUT IT ALSO MADE ME FEEL MORE 18 UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS, RIGHT. IF THESE ARE 19 GREAT RECOMMENDATIONS AND THESE THIS IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE 20 WHO HAVE A LOT OF EXPERTISE IN EDUCATION, GIVEN THESE 21 RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY WOULD RECOGNIZE, YES, THESE ARE 22 GREAT RECOMMENDATIONS. WE WANT THESE THINGS. 23 SO I REALLY THINK THIS IS AN AGENDA THAT IS 24 BEING PUSHED ON THE STATE. AND IT HAS THE POTENTIAL OF 25 REALLY, REALLY ALTERING WHAT WE CAN OFFER TO OUR STUDENTS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 40 1 AND I THINK FOR THAT REASON, IT WAS WORTH TAKING SOME TIME 2 TO TALK ABOUT IT TO YOU. 3 OKAY, SO I'M SORRY IF I TOOK UP TOO MUCH OF YOUR 4 TIME TONIGHT, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HOLD ON. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON HAD SOMETHING TO STAY. 7 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND I WANT TO SAY I 8 HEARD SOME, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE BOG WAIVERS ISSUE. 9 THEY'VE COME OUT WITH SOME PRELIMINARY NUMBERS. AND IT 10 WOULD AFFECT 47 PERCENT OF ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT 11 ATTEND COMMUNITY COLLEGES. AND IT WOULD AFFECT 33 PERCENT 12 OF LATINOS THAT ATTEND ALL COMMUNITY COLLEGES. 13 MS. SAGINOR: EXACTLY. EXACTLY. 14 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND SO I MEAN YOU ARE 15 TALKING ABOUT A LARGE, YOU KNOW, POPULATION OF COMMUNITY 16 COLLEGE STUDENTS EFFECTIVELY JUST DENIED EDUCATION. 17 AND, YOU KNOW, I ALSO WANT JUST FOR THE PUBLIC 18 TO KNOW, HOW MUCH IS THE FULL FEE IF A STUDENT WAS KICKED 19 OFF A BOG'S WAIVER OR MADE TO PAY THE FULL FEE. WHAT IS 20 THE FULL FEE? 21 MS. SAGINOR: IT WOULD BE THE SAME AS WHAT 22 OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS PAY. 23 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND -- 24 MS. SAGINOR: I'M SORRY. I DON'T HAVE THAT 25 NUMBER IN MY HEAD. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 41 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: 170 SOMETHING PER CREDIT. 2 MS. SAGINOR: PER CREDIT. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: 187 PLUS 36. 4 MS. SAGINOR: YES, A VERY DESPERATE IMPACT ON 5 UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS. 6 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH, AND SO THAT'S WHY 7 IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE IMPACT. BECAUSE WHEN YOU JUST 8 SAY, FULL FEE, PEOPLE ARE LIKE OKAY. BUT WHEN YOU FIGURE 9 OUT THAT THAT'S THAT MUCH MONEY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, I 10 THINK THAT'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY IMPORTANT. 11 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR 12 COMING AND TALKING ABOUT THIS REPORT. 13 MS. SAGINOR: THE ACADEMIC SENATE IS GOING TO BE 14 WORKING ON A RESOLUTION ON THIS. 15 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YES. 16 MS. SAGINOR: ONE OF THE FEW AREAS IN WHICH WE 17 HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME INFLUENCE IS AT THE STATE 18 ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING IN EARLY NOVEMBER. 19 I AM HOPING TO GO THERE WITH A RESOLUTION FROM 20 OUR LOCAL ACADEMIC SENATE. AND I AM ALSO HOPING THAT I 21 MIGHT GO THERE WITH A RESOLUTION FROM YOU, FROM THE BOARD 22 OF TRUSTEES. I AM GOING TO -- WHEN I HAVE MORE 23 INFORMATION ABOUT IT EXACTLY WHAT'S IN THERE, I WILL BE 24 SENDING IT TO YOU. 25 BUT I AM REALLY HOPEFUL THAT THIS MIGHT BE A SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 42 1 PROJECT THAT WE MIGHT WORK ON TOGETHER -- 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND I LOOK -- 3 MS. SAGINOR: -- BECAUSE I THINK IT'S SOMETHING 4 WE CAN RECOGNIZE AS A PROBLEM FOR ALL OF US. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I AM SURE WE ALL LOOK 6 FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ON THIS ONE. 7 MS. SAGINOR: THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: I -- CERTAINLY I APOLOGIZE FOR 10 HAVING TO RUSH YOU ALONG. I JUST KNOW THERE'S LOT OF 11 PEOPLE HERE, AND THERE'S A LARGE AGENDA. I JUST WANT TO 12 MAKE SURE THAT WE ALLOCATE OUR TIME WELL. 13 I CERTAINLY THINK STUDENT SUCCESS IS A VERY 14 IMPORTANT ISSUE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE BOARD. SO I WOULD 15 WELCOME YOU TO COME BACK ANYTIME AND GIVE EVEN A BROADER 16 PRESENTATION WHEN IT'S AGENDIZED, AND WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE 17 A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT. EVEN IN COMMITTEE, I THINK THAT 18 WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA. 19 MS. SAGINOR: THANK YOU. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: I WANT TO ADD THOUGH THAT I AM 21 ASSUMING THAT -- DO YOU HAVE A VOTE ON THIS COMMITTEE, 22 STUDENT SUCCESS COMMITTEE OR HOWEVER IT IS PHRASED, THIS 23 BODY? 24 MS. SAGINOR: THE STUDENT SUCCESS COMMITTEE WAS 25 AN APPOINTED COMMITTEE. I THINK IT HAS 20 SOME MEMBERS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 43 1 THAT WAS SET LIKE A YEAR AGO. THERE ARE SOME FACULTY WHO 2 ARE APPOINTED BY THE STATE ACADEMIC SENATE -- 3 TRUSTEE NGO: MY QUESTION IS: DO YOU HAVE A 4 VOTE ON THIS COMMITTEE OR -- 5 MS. SAGINOR: AT THE STATE LEVEL, OH, NO, NOT AT 6 ALL. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. OKAY. 8 MS. SAGINOR: NOT AT ALL. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: SO, BUT YOU ARE THERE I IMAGINE TO 10 REPRESENT THE COLLEGE AND JUST TO SHARE YOUR CONCERNS OR 11 ISSUES. 12 MS. SAGINOR: I WAS THERE TO GET INFORMATION SO 13 THAT -- WHERE I DO HAVE A VOTE IS AT THE STATEWIDE 14 ACADEMIC SENATE IN -- 15 TRUSTEE NGO: I SEE. 16 MS. SAGINOR: -- NOVEMBER THAT WE WILL BE 17 LOOKING AT THESE RESOLUTIONS. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 19 MS. SAGINOR: AND THERE I HAVE ONE VOTE OUT OF 20 ABOUT 160. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, SO I'M JUST GOING TO ASSUME 22 THAT YOU ARE ALSO SOLICITING STUDENT FEEDBACK ON THESE 23 MEASURES AS YOUR -- 24 MS. SAGINOR: I AM GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT IT 25 TO ASSOCIATED STUDENTS AT THE OCEAN CAMPUS NEXT WEEK. AND SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 44 1 I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE STUDENT TRUSTEE. AND I AM 2 HOPING -- AS I SAID, AS SOON AS I GET A LITTLE MORE 3 INFORMATION TO BE GETTING IT OUT THERE TO ASSOCIATED 4 STUDENTS AT ALL THE CAMPUSES. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, AS LONG YOU ARE GETTING 6 STUDENT FEEDBACK. 7 MS. SAGINOR: YEAH, OH, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO 8 US. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. 10 MS. SAGINOR: THANK YOU. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: PRESIDENT SAGINOR, THE 15 ACCREDITATION MEETING TOMORROW, COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT 16 TIME AND WHERE? 17 MS. SAGINOR: SURE. IT'S FROM 12:30 TO 2:30 IN 18 MUB. THE ROOM NUMBER I WILL GET IT FOR YOU IN A MINUTE. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. 20 MS. SAGINOR: SO IT'S THE STEERING COMMITTEE 21 THAT'S BEEN MEETING TO KEEP THE PROCESS MOVING ALONG. AND 22 YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME TO IT. 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 24 MS. SAGINOR: THAT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU COULD 25 COME. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 45 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: ALL RIGHT. 2 MS. SAGINOR: 12:30 TOMORROW, MUB 171. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 4 MS. SAGINOR: MUB 171, ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO 5 COME IS WELCOME TO COME. THANK YOU. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 7 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO -- 8 MS. SAGINOR: ONE MORE THING. I AM SO SORRY. 9 ALLAN FISHER, FROM AFT 2121 WOULD LIKE TO GIVE 10 YOU A LITTLE REPORT FROM AFT 2121. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I 11 AM SO SORRY. 12 MR. FISHER: GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. MOST OF 13 YOU ALREADY KNOW ME. BUT FOR THOSE WHO DON'T, I AM ALLAN 14 FISHER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF AFT 2121 PRESENTLY ON THE 15 EXECUTIVE BOARD. 16 OUR PRESIDENT ALISA MESSER CAN'T BE HERE THIS 17 EVENING, SO SHE ASKED ME TO GIVE A SHORT REPORT HERE. 18 AFT 2121 IS HOLDING A MAYORAL FORUM ON 19 OCTOBER 5TH AND EXPECTS TO HAVE EIGHT OF THE SAN 20 FRANCISCO'S MAYORAL CANDIDATES IN ATTENDANCE TO TALK ABOUT 21 EDUCATION ISSUES, AMONG OTHER THINGS. 22 MEMBERS WILL BE VOTING ON THE UNION'S 23 ENDORSEMENT AT THE END OF THE FORUM. BUT THE WHOLE 24 COLLEGE COMMUNITY IS INVITED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT AT MUB 25 140 STARTING AT 2:30 ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, ENDING AT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 46 1 4:30. 2 TONIGHT OUR PRESIDENT OF AFT 2121, ALISA MESSER 3 IS AT AN EVENT FOR THE UC BERKELEY CENTER OF LABOR 4 RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. THIS EVENING HONORING, AMONG 5 OTHER AWARD RECIPIENTS, STUDENT ACTIVISTS WHO HAVE WORKED 6 TO SUPPORT THE DREAM ACT. 7 THIRTEEN OF CITY COLLEGE'S AB-540 DREAM 8 ACTIVISTS WILL BE HONORED IN FRONT OF GOVERNOR JERRY 9 BROWN. 10 AFT 2121 IS DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING DREAM ACT 11 ELIGIBLE STUDENTS. AND WE ARE GLAD THAT CITY COLLEGE IS 12 TOO. WE CONTINUE TO BE CONCERNED, HOWEVER, ABOUT 13 DETAINMENTS AND DEPORTATIONS OF DREAM ACT ELIGIBLE 14 STUDENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY, DESPITE THE OBAMA 15 ADMINISTRATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW POLICY THAT ASKS ICE 16 NOT TO TARGET STUDENTS FOR DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS. 17 AS A REMINDER, IT IS ONLY GOVERNOR BROWN'S 18 SIGNATURE THAT IS HOLDING UP THE ENACTMENT OF THE SECOND 19 HALF OF THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT AB 131. HE HAS TWO WEEKS 20 LEFT TO SIGN THE BILL INTO LAW. AND WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE 21 TO CALL BROWN TO EXPRESS SUPPORT OF AB 131 AT 22 (916)455-2841. 23 AND WE CONTINUE TO LOOK TOWARDS NOVEMBER 2012 AS 24 AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR GAINING NEW REVENUE FOR THE 25 COLLEGE AND THE STATE. AND WE KNOW THAT WE WILL ALL BE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 47 1 HAVING QUITE A BIT OF CONVERSATION TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN 2 SOON. 3 I ALSO WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT AFT 2121 HAS 4 ENDORSED THE NEW PRIORITIES CAMPAIGN AS HAS THE ASSOCIATED 5 STUDENTS AT OCEAN CAMPUS LAST SEMESTER AND THE MISSION 6 CAMPUS ASSOCIATED STUDENTS. AND THE NEW PRIORITIES 7 CAMPAIGN WHAT THE PRIORITIES ARE IS TO END THE WARS IN 8 AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN THE PENTAGON 9 BUDGET, AND IMMEDIATE AND SIGNIFICANT INCREASE INVESTMENT 10 IN THINGS LIKE JOBS, INFRASTRUCTURE, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, 11 EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, EFFECTIVE 12 SOCIAL SAFETY NET, DEFENSE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE 13 FROM THREATENED CUTS, AND ALL OTHER EFFORTS TO ENHANCE THE 14 COMMON GOOD OF OUR SOCIETY. 15 FOR MORE INFORMATION, YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE, 16 NEWPRIORITIESCAMPAIGN.ORG AND YOU CAN SIGN ON THERE. WE 17 ARE TRYING TO GET A LOT OF PEOPLE INVOLVED. THIS BODY 18 COULD ENDORSE THOSE OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES. AND THAT 19 IS SEEN AS A WAY TO GET OUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION 20 TO TAKE A STRONGER STAND ON THE ISSUE OF THE, YOU KNOW, 21 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING WASTED FOR COUNTERPRODUCTIVE 22 WARS. THEY COULD BE USED FOR THINGS LIKE CITY COLLEGE. 23 SO WITH THAT, OH, ONE OTHER QUICK ITEM. WE ARE 24 GOING TO BE MOBILIZING OUR FACULTY TO GO TO THE REBUILD 25 THE DREAM DEMONSTRATION ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15TH. IT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 48 1 STARTS AT ONE O'CLOCK AT A RALLY AT LANEY COLLEGE. AND A 2 2:30 MARCH IN OAKLAND TO THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN FRANK 3 OGAWA PLAZA. THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS TAKE B5 NEXT OUT OF 6 ORDER AND THEN B7, WHICH IS THE BUDGET, AFTER THAT IF 7 THERE'S NO OBJECTION. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE B5. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, MOVED -- 10 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE'S A MOTION BY TRUSTEE 12 NGO; SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 13 MR. GOLDSTEIN. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: B5 WOULD AUTHORIZE ESSENTIALLY 15 A PARTIAL YEAR CONTRACT WITH STRATEGIC EDUCATION SERVICES. 16 THE PRINCIPLE, DALE SHIMASAKI, IS A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE 17 COLLEGE MANY YEARS AGO. THIS WOULD BE FOR REPRESENTATION 18 ON STATEWIDE ISSUES IN SACRAMENTO AT A COST OF $5,000 A 19 MONTH FOR NINE MONTHS. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. IT WAS ALREADY 21 MOVED. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WAS ALREADY MOVED. 23 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I'VE GOT A -- 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD YOU READ -- 25 COUNSEL, COULD YOU READ THE ITEM. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 49 1 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ABSOLUTELY. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY. I FORGOT TO. 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: THAT'S OKAY. 4 YES, MR. PRESIDENT, B5 IS THE AUTHORIZATION TO 5 CONTRACT WITH STRATEGIC EDUCATION SERVICES FOR SPECIAL 6 SERVICES AND ADVICE RELATED TO MONITORING STATE 7 LEGISLATION THAT MAY AFFECT CITY COLLEGE AND TO REPRESENT 8 CITY COLLEGE IN SUCH MATTERS AT A TOTAL COST OF $5,000 PER 9 MONTH FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER 1ST, 2011 THROUGH JUNE 30TH, 10 2012, TOTAL COST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 NOT TO EXCEED 11 $45,000, AND WITH AN OPTION TO RENEW FOR AN ADDITIONAL 12 FISCAL YEAR AT A MONTHLY COST OF $5,000. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: LET'S HAVE THE CHANCELLOR 14 SPEAK AND THEN TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: A COUPLE OF THINGS. PETER, 16 AUDIENCE, DOUG -- I MEAN DALE SHIMASAKI HAS ACTUALLY BEEN 17 ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLLEGE FOR MANY YEARS. HIS FIRM 18 ACTUALLY HAS BEEN WORKING ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY WITH THE 19 COLLEGE. THERE WAS A BRIEF HIATUS OF PROBABLY WHAT THREE 20 MONTHS WHERE HE HAS NOT BEEN UNDER CONTRACT. WE FEEL THAT 21 THESE SERVICES ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY AS WE GO FORWARD 22 LOOKING AT THE PARCEL TAX. HE'S -- ACTUALLY, HE WAS VERY 23 INSTRUMENTAL IN TERMS OF US PASSING DOLLARS FOR THE SALES 24 TAX MANY YEARS AGO. AND AS YOU KNOW, WE GET APPROXIMATELY 25 $15 MILLION PER YEAR FOR THE SALES TAX. HE HAS BEEN A SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 50 1 VERY EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE COLLEGE. 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I COMPLETELY AGREE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, TRUSTEE JACKSON. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I AM GOING TO TURN IT 5 OVER MY -- ME AND STEVE ARE GOING TO SWITCH. HE IS GOING 6 TO TALK FIRST AND THEN I WILL TALK. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I PULLED IT OFF CONSENT NOT 8 BECAUSE OF DALE SHIMASAKI'S VALUE. I CERTAINLY DO -- I 9 THINK HE ALSO WAS HERE FOR -- INITIATED THE SALES TAX 10 MEASURE IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN THAT WE -- 11 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: HE WAS ONE OF THE PRINCIPLES IN 12 MOVING THAT FORWARD, YES. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. AND THAT'S BASICALLY HAS 14 GIVEN US $15 MILLION A YEAR ON AVERAGE SINCE THEN. SO I 15 COMMEND HIM FOR HIS WORK. AND I AM GOING TO 16 WHOLEHEARTEDLY VOTE FOR THIS RESOLUTION. I DIDN'T PULL IT 17 BECAUSE I HAD ISSUES WITH HIS QUALITY OF HIS SERVICES. I 18 PULLED IT BECAUSE I WANT TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF WHETHER WE 19 ARE DOING REDUNDANT WORK. 20 WE HAVE AN OFFICE HERE THAT IS A GOVERNMENT 21 RELATION'S OFFICE. AND I AM WONDERING TO WHAT EXTENT 22 THIS -- BECAUSE MR. SHIMASAKI IS SO GOOD, WHETHER THIS 23 RESOLUTION MAKES OTHER WORK THAT WE DO AT THE COLLEGE 24 REDUNDANT. 25 AND IN MY OPINION, I THINK THAT IT RAISES SOME SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 51 1 GOOD QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT. SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE 2 BOARD. I CERTAINLY WILL DO THIS IN BUDGET COMMITTEE TO 3 EVALUATE HOW VALUABLE THAT FUNCTION IS, ESPECIALLY IF WE 4 ARE ALREADY PAYING -- I AM GOING TO DO THE MATH HERE, FIVE 5 TIMES 12 IS 70 (SIC). 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: $60,000. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: $60,000 A YEAR. SO AS CHAIR OF 8 THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I DID KNOW 9 THAT. 10 SO I THINK WE SHOULD -- I THINK WE GET VERY GOOD 11 VALUE FOR DALE SHIMASAKI'S SERVICES. AND IT MAY BE ENOUGH 12 IN MY OPINION. AND WE CAN GET IT FOR EVEN GREATER VALUE 13 IF WE REEVALUATE HOW WE DELIVER OUR SERVICES HERE AT THE 14 COLLEGE. 15 SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE FOR 16 B5 AND TO CONTINUE TO RAISE THIS ISSUE OF REDUNDANCY AND 17 OVERALL INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS GOING FORWARD. THANK 18 YOU. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 20 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND I SHARE THE SAME 21 SENTIMENTS WITH MY COLLEAGUE TRUSTEE NGO, BUT I GET TO A 22 DIFFERENT DIRECTION. 23 YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A POSITION THAT 24 WE PAY FOR FOR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, AND WE ARE IN A 25 BUDGET CRUNCH, YOU KNOW, PART -- YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD TO GO SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 52 1 OVER VERY HORRIBLE THINGS. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT CLOSING 2 DOWN THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT CLOSING 3 DOWN GRACE CHILD CARE FACILITY. YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED 4 ABOUT DOING SOME FAIRLY AWFUL STUFF TO SPECIFICALLY 5 MARGINALIZE COMMUNITIES. WE'VE CUT CLASSES. YOU KNOW, 6 I'VE HEARD THAT 10,000 STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, WERE DENIED 7 ACCESS TO, I BELIEVE, ENGLISH CLASSES FROM JUST CITY 8 COLLEGE. 9 AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A PERSON WHOSE POSITION 10 IS TO DO THIS. AND FOR ALL ACCOUNTS, I BELIEVE, LESLIE 11 DOES DO A DECENT JOB OF COORDINATING OUR STATEWIDE 12 ADVOCACY. YOU KNOW, I MEAN JUDGING HER ON -- 13 TRUSTEE WONG: (INAUDIBLE). 14 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: NO. NO. WHAT I 15 AM TRYING -- SAY IT AGAIN. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: (INAUDIBLE). YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED 17 TO DO THAT. 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I MEAN WHAT THIS IS 19 LEADING ME TO IS, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE A POSITION -- FINE, 20 I WON'T USE NAMES. IF WE HAVE A POSITION THAT DOES THIS 21 JOB -- DOES IT FOR, YOU KNOW, ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES 22 COORDINATES PEOPLE TOGETHER TO DO STATEWIDE ADVOCACY WORK, 23 YOU KNOW, THEN WHY DO WE NEED TO PAY $45,000 -- I DON'T 24 KNOW HOW THAT EQUALS 45 BECAUSE IT'S FIVE TIMES 12, BUT 25 WHATEVER THAT MATH IS WHY DO WE HAVE TO SPEND THAT MONEY SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 53 1 WHEN THAT MONEY COULD BE SPENT WITHIN THIS COLLEGE. 2 IF WE HAVE SOMEONE WHOSE JOB IS TO DO THIS 3 COORDINATION AND FOR WHAT I KNOW, SHE DOES DO THE 4 COORDINATION AND ADVOCACY. THEN IN THESE TOUGH BUDGETARY 5 TIMES, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DOING VERY DRACONIAN THINGS, 6 NOT BECAUSE WE WANT TO, BUT BECAUSE THE BUDGET NUMBERS ARE 7 JUST FORCING US TO. WHY DO WE NEED TO SPEND AN ADDITIONAL 8 $45,000 TO LOBBY A BODY, THE STATE THAT HAS NO MONEY? 9 I MEAN THAT'S WHERE I AM GETTING TO. IF WE 10 LOBBY FOR THE STATE FOR ESSENTIALLY MONEY, WHICH I THINK 11 THAT'S THE CRUX OF IT AND THEY HAVE NONE, THEN WHAT IS OUR 12 $45,000 GOING TO BECAUSE ALL THEY ARE GOING TO SAY IS WE 13 HAVE NO MONEY. 14 AND I KNOW LESLIE DOES A DECENT JOB WITH THE 15 UPDATES AND A POLICY. I KNOW KAREN HAS -- 16 TRUSTEE WONG: DON'T SAY NAMES. 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I KNOW KAREN HAS TALKED 18 ABOUT A LOT OF THE STATEWIDE, YOU KNOW, OTHER POLICY 19 MATTERS. AND I KNOW WE DO A GOOD JOB OF KIND OF 20 MONITORING THEM WITH THE FACULTY WE HAVE, WITH THE 21 POSITION WE HAVE FOR THAT. SO WHY DO WE NEED TO SPEND AN 22 ADDITIONAL $45,000? 23 AND I DO BELIEVE IT IS REDUNDANT. AND, YOU 24 KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD SUPPORT THAT BECAUSE OF THE 25 OTHER STUFF THAT WE TALKED ABOUT THAT THIS BUDGET IS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 54 1 FORCING US TO CUT. WHEN 10,000 STUDENTS CANNOT GET INTO A 2 AN ENGLISH CLASS, YOU KNOW I HAVE A HUGE ISSUE WITH THAT, 3 AND I HAVE TO OPPOSE IT ON THAT MATTER. 4 NOT THAT I DON'T BELIEVE DALE IS AN EXCELLENT -- 5 DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB, HE DOES. BUT IN THESE TOUGH 6 BUDGETARY TIMES, I JUST DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW, IT WARRANTS 7 THIS ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURE OF MONEY. THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON, I ACTUALLY 9 HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU HERE. THIS DOESN'T EVEN SAY, 10 "LOBBYING." IT JUST SAYS, "MONITORING STATE LEGISLATION." 11 AND WE DO HAVE A PERSON WHO DOES DO THAT. WE GET E-MAILS. 12 WE JUST GOT AN E-MAIL THE OTHER DAY OF A LIST OF STATE 13 LEGISLATION AND WHERE IT WAS. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT DOES SAY, "LOBBYING." 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DOES IT SAY, "LOBBY?" 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, OH, OH, OKAY, IN HERE ALL 18 RIGHT. OKAY, I STAND CORRECTED. 19 BUT I THINK THE OPINION IS THE SAME I THINK 20 THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE TRYING TO CUT DOWN ON CONSULTANTS. 21 AND WE HAVE CUT DOWN A LOT OF CONSULTANTS. WE'VE SAVED 22 QUITE A BIT OF MONEY, SO I JUST DON'T THINK WE NEED TO ADD 23 ANOTHER ONE. AND I THINK TRUSTEE JACKSON MADE A LOT OF 24 OTHER POINTS WHICH I ALSO AGREE WITH. 25 ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 55 1 OKAY, WE WILL HAVE -- 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: MAY I? 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, OF COURSE. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I WANT TO EMPHASIZE A 5 COUPLE OF THINGS. NO. 1 IS THAT DALE SHIMASAKI HAS 6 CONTINUOUSLY WORKED FOR US AND DELIVERED EXCELLENT AND 7 UNIQUE SERVICES AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. AND IT'S NOT 8 JUST ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE STATE LEVEL, BUT IT'S 9 ALSO HAPPENING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. CERTAINLY THE SALES 10 TAX WAS A LOCAL THING THAT HE WORKED ON. HE WAS THE 11 PRIMARY PERSON THAT HELPED US ACHIEVE THAT. 12 WE WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT WE ARE GOING FOR A 13 PARCEL TAX. A PARCEL TAX WOULD BE LOCAL. IT'S VERY 14 IMPORTANT TO HAVE SOMEONE OF HIS UNIQUE SET OF SKILLS, 15 CONTACTS. SO I THINK WE ARE CONFOUNDING TWO POSITIONS AND 16 WE SHOULD NOT CONFOUND THOSE TWO POSITIONS. 17 BASICALLY THIS MAN, HIS FIRM HAS DONE A 18 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT. WE'VE ACTUALLY CUT IN HALF WHAT WE 19 WERE PAYING DALE SHIMASAKI. AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, AS 20 PART OF AN OVERALL STRATEGY, WE'VE ELIMINATED MORE THAN 21 $700,000 OF CONSULTANTS. AND WE ARE DOWN TO PERHAPS ONLY 22 A HANDFUL NOW. THIS ONE BEING ONE OF THE FEW THAT WE HAVE 23 LEFT. 24 BUT IF WE TAKE OUT OF OUR ARSENAL EVERY TOOL 25 THAT WE HAVE IN TERMS OF DEALING WITH POLITICAL SITUATIONS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 56 1 AND THE CONTACTS WE NEED IN TERMS OF LOBBYING, WE ARE IN 2 TROUBLE. 3 SO I BELIEVE THAT IF WE ARE GOING TO DISCUSS 4 THIS, WE SHOULD NOT DISCUSS IT IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT 5 OTHER OFFICES ARE GIVING OR NOT GIVING. WE SHOULD LOOK AT 6 IT IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT THIS PERSON AND HIS FIRM HAS 7 CONTINUOUSLY GIVEN THE COLLEGE OVER A NUMBER YEARS WHICH 8 HAS BEEN VERY, VERY EXCELLENT ADVICE. AND IT HAS ALLOWED 9 US TO DO SOME VERY IMPORTANT THINGS AT THE STATE LEVEL TO 10 BE SURE, BUT ALSO LOCALLY. AND WE ARE TRYING TO GO LOCAL 11 AS MUCH AS WE CAN. WE NEED THIS QUALITY OF ASSISTANCE. 12 AND IF WE APPROVE THIS, IT WOULD BENEFIT THE COLLEGE A 13 GREAT DEAL. 14 I'D BE VERY HAPPY TO LOOK AT THE BUDGET AND TRY 15 TO FIND A LIKE AMOUNT IF THERE EXISTS IN TERMS OF 16 CONSULTANTS TO BE ELIMINATED, BUT THIS ONE IS EXTREMELY 17 IMPORTANT IN MY OPINION. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE ANY COMMENT OR 19 FURTHER DISCUSSION? 20 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT, WE ARE -- I THINK 21 IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE AS THE CHANCELLOR SAID 22 THAT THE VALUE OF THESE SERVICES SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED 23 RELATIVE TO THE OFFICES THAT MAY CARRY THE FUNCTION AT THE 24 COLLEGE. 25 MY POINT EARLIER WAS THAT IF WE ARE TO DO THESE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 57 1 THINGS IN GENERAL, WE SHOULD REEVALUATE OUR STRATEGY AS AN 2 INSTITUTION. I'M CERTAINLY NOT UNDERMINING THE WORK THAT 3 HE HAS DONE. I DO THINK IT IS VALUABLE. 4 SO, AGAIN, I WOULD URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO ENDORSE 5 THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE MARKS. 7 TRUSTEE MARKS: COULD I ASK TRUSTEE -- PRESIDENT 8 RIZZO WHETHER HE HEARD OF HIM AND HAS HE EXPRESSED AN 9 UNCLARITY, A LACK OF CLARITY WHETHER HE HAD HEARD OF HIM, 10 SO HE HADN'T HEARD OF HIM, SO -- 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I UNDERSTAND. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: THAT'S WHY I ASKED HIM AGAIN. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 14 WE HAVE ONE CARD. WE WILL OPEN UP PUBLIC 15 COMMENT NOW. 16 KAREN SAGINOR. 17 MS. SAGINOR: I HEARD MY NAME MENTIONED AS A 18 SOURCE OF INFORMATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN SACRAMENTO. 19 AND CLEARLY, I HAVEN'T BEEN CITING ALL MY SOURCES. MY 20 MAIN WAY OF KNOWING WHAT'S GOING ON IN SACRAMENTO IS FROM 21 LESLIE SMITH. 22 IN TERMS OF THE STUDENT SUCCESS TASK FORCE, I 23 CERTAINLY KNEW IT WAS OUT THERE, BUT THEY HAVE NOT POSTED 24 THEIR MEETINGS FAR IN ADVANCE. THEY HAVE NOT POSTED WHERE 25 THEY WERE MEETING FAR IN ADVANCE. THEY HAVE NOT POSTED SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 58 1 THEIR DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS. LESLIE WAS THE PERSON WHO 2 WAS ABLE TO GET ME ALL OF THAT INFORMATION AND HAS 3 CONTINUED IN OTHER ISSUES THAT I DON'T BRING TO THE 4 BOARD'S ATTENTION TO KEEP ME INFORMED OF WHAT'S HAPPENING 5 UP IN SACRAMENTO THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT US IN THE FUTURE. 6 THANK YOU. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I JUST HAVE A COMMENT. 9 AREN'T YOU A LIBRARIAN? SO YOU GUYS CITE YOUR 10 SOURCES ALL THE -- I'M JUST KIDDING. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY 12 FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 13 ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 14 ALL RIGHT. STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR VOTE, 15 PLEASE. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY "AYE." 19 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ONE, TWO, THREE. 24 ALL THOSE OPPOSED, SAY "NO." 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: NAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 59 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. 2 TRUSTEE MARKS: NO. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A 3-3 VOTE. 4 SO THE MOTION FAILS. 5 OKAY, THE NEXT ITEM IS B7. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE 6 B7 OUT OF ORDER. IT'S THE -- I WILL JUST READ IT. IT'S 7 THE ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL 2011-2012 BUDGET. 8 THIS IS THE FINAL BUDGET. WE DID THE 9 PRELIMINARY BUDGET IN -- EXCUSE ME. WE DID THE 10 PRELIMINARY BUDGET IN JUNE. AND THIS IS THE FINAL BUDGET. 11 TRUSTEE WONG: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, TRUSTEE WONG. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT WAS A 3-3 VOTE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT WAS A 3-3 VOTE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AND MAY I KNOW WHO VOTED "AYE" 16 AND WHO VOTED "NAY." 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: LET'S JUST DO A ROLL 18 CALL VOTE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: RATHER THAN SPEND TIME ON 20 THIS, I COULD TELL YOU THE "NO" VOTES WERE MYSELF, TRUSTEE 21 JACKSON, AND TRUSTEE MARKS. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: OH, OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF I'M SOMEONE CAN CORRECT ME. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND I WANT PUT FOR THE 25 RECORD THAT THE CHANCELLOR CAN PUT FORTH AN EQUAL AMOUNT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 60 1 OF CUTS AND, YOU KNOW, THEN MAYBE WE CAN RECONSIDER IT 2 NEXT MONTH, BUT YOU KNOW. I WOULD BE WILLING TO 3 RECONSIDER, BUT AT THIS POINT -- 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 5 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, VICE CHANCELLOR 7 GOLDSTEIN, GIVE US THE GOOD NEWS ON THE BUDGET. 8 WELL, I -- 9 TRUSTEE WONG: WAS THERE A MOTION FOR B7? 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: B7, LET'S TAKE A MOTION. 11 IS THERE A MOTION FOR B7? 12 TRUSTEE NGO: MOVE B7. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: SECOND. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 15 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 16 VICE CHANCELLOR. 17 WELL, THE ONLY GOOD NEWS I CAN THINK OF IS THAT 18 IT'S SEPTEMBER, AND WE HAVE A FINAL BUDGET RESOLUTION IN 19 FRONT OF YOU. 20 THERE'S ALSO A HANDOUT ON THE BACK TABLE THAT 21 LOOKS LIKE THAT (INDICATING) AND SAYS, "ANNUAL BUDGET" ON 22 IT. I BELIEVE THE TRUSTEES ALL HAVE A COPY. 23 THE RESOLUTION ITSELF, OF COURSE, SPEAKS TO THE 24 FACT THAT THE BOARD HAS CONDUCTED SEVERAL HEARINGS IN THE 25 FORM OF ITS BUDGET COMMITTEE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 61 1 IN ADDITION TO THAT, OF COURSE, SHARED 2 GOVERNANCE THROUGH THE COLLEGE'S PLANNING AND BUDGETING 3 COUNCIL HAS CONDUCTED NUMEROUS MEETINGS TO DISCUSS THE 4 BUDGET. 5 THERE IS A SUMMARY, SUPER SUMMARY ON PAGE 2 OF 6 THE RESOLUTION THAT SHOWS YOU AGAIN IN HIGHLIGHTED MANNER 7 THAT IF THIS BUDGET IS APPROVED, IT WOULD BE FOR 8 $191,214,577. AND WE ARE SUGGESTING BACK TO YOU THAT THIS 9 WOULD BE A BALANCED BUDGET AS ADOPTED, BUT I WANT TO 10 EXPAND ON THAT FOR JUST A BIT. 11 THE WAY THE COLLEGE HAS PURSUED THIS YEAR'S 12 BUDGET IS IN MANY WAYS SIMILAR TO THE PAST FEW YEARS. 13 WHERE IN SPITE OF HORRENDOUS REDUCTIONS IN STATE REVENUE 14 FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND, FRANKLY, THE BIGGEST CUT IS 15 THIS YEAR. WE'VE TRIED TO PURSUE A BALANCED BUDGET AT OUR 16 COLLEGE WITHOUT LAYING OFF MEMBERS OF OUR WORKFORCE. WE 17 ARE TRYING TO SQUEEZE DOWN ON NON-PERSONNEL SPENDING AS 18 MUCH AS WE CAN. 19 AND WITH TRYING TO PROTECT TO THE EXTENT 20 FEASIBLE, STUDENT SERVICES FROM CUTS THAT HAVE ALREADY 21 BEEN LEVIED BY THE STATE IN PREVIOUS YEARS, THOSE ALL 22 REMAIN KEYSTONES OF THE STRATEGY THAT THE CHANCELLOR 23 ENDORSED FOR THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. 24 IN ADDITION, WE HAVE SOME RATHER BROAD STROKE 25 SAVINGS STRATEGIES EMBEDDED IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET THAT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 62 1 WE'VE DISCUSSED AT BOTH OF THE FORUMS I MENTIONED BEFORE. 2 THEY INVOLVE REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SPENDING THE COLLEGE 3 INCURS FOR NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. THERE IS SOME DETAIL 4 THAT HAS CHANGED IN THAT PART OF THE RESOLUTION IN 5 SECTION -- PART 4, SECTION 4. I WILL GO BACK TO THAT IN A 6 SECOND. 7 IT INVOLVES A LIMITED REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF 8 CLASSES THAT WE OFFER, $1.9 MILLION, WHICH IS VERY MUCH 9 LESS THAN THE AMOUNT OF ENROLLMENT THAT THE STATE IS 10 DEFUNDING. AND IT INVOLVES SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR 11 ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ATTRITION IN THE CLASSIFIED WORKFORCE 12 AND THE ADMINISTRATORS WHO WORK FOR THE COLLEGE. 13 AND SO ALL OF THESE ASSUMPTIONS -- I SAY THEM IN 14 A LISTED MANNER, MUST PRODUCE THE DESIGN SAVINGS FOR THE 15 BUDGET TO REMAIN BALANCED. AND WE DISCUSS THIS NOW AT A 16 VERY REGULAR BASIS IN EVERY COLLEGE FORUM. 17 THERE ARE SEVERAL SECTIONS IN THE RESOLUTION 18 THAT ARE ITEMS THAT THE BOARD TOOK ACTION TO MODIFY. THEY 19 START WITH THAT PART 4, BOARD OF TRUSTEES BUDGET 20 MODIFICATIONS. 21 THE SECTION BELOW THAT, INCLUDING REFERENCES TO 22 THE AMOUNT OF CLASSES THAT COULD BE REDUCED. THE SALARY 23 SCHEDULE FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND CREATION OF AN INNOVATION 24 FUND TO THE AMOUNT OF $300,000. 25 THE SECTION ON NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME WHICH NOW SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 63 1 HAS A SET OF SPECIFIC CATEGORIES WITH SPECIFIC AMOUNTS 2 NEXT TO THEM THAT TOTAL $3.19 MILLION. THEY ARE LISTED 3 BECAUSE THERE IS NOW AN ACTIVE COMMITTEE PUT TO WORK BY 4 THE CHANCELLOR THAT IS LOOKING AT THIS ISSUE IN GREAT 5 DETAIL. THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THESE CATEGORIES, WHICH I 6 WILL JUST RATTLE OFF: HOURLY, LIBRARIANS, COUNSELORS, AND 7 STUDENT HEALTH PERSONNEL, OFFICE HOURS FOR PART-TIME 8 FACULTY, TENURE REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS, AND LAB MONITORS THAT 9 DIRECTLY GENERATE FTES. 10 WHAT WE ARE SUGGESTING TO YOU IN THIS REVISED 11 LANGUAGE IS THAT $3,191,000 IS NOT WHAT WILL BE CONTINUED 12 TO BE REVIEWED FOR REDUCTIONS AND NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. 13 IT IS THE REMAINING AMOUNT WHICH WILL KEEP CHANGING AS 14 THAT COMMITTEE CONTINUES TO DO ITS WORK THAT WE LOOKED AT 15 FOR SAVINGS. 16 AND I THOUGHT THE LANGUAGE SHOULD REFLECT THE 17 FACT THAT IF THERE WAS A THOUGHT THAT SAVINGS IN THIS AREA 18 COULD SOMEHOW EXCEED $1.5 MILLION, IT SHOULD BE 19 ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IS TOO ROBUST OF A GOAL. WE ARE 20 CONTINUING TO PURSUE THE GOAL OF $1.5 MILLION. 21 WE WILL REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD, NO LATER THAN 22 NOVEMBER 30TH, WITH A SPECIFIC ACCOUNTING OF ALL 23 NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. AND WE WILL 24 COME BACK TO THE BOARD WITH A POLICY OR A PROTOCOL 25 GOVERNING THE ASSIGNMENT OF THESE TYPES OF FUNDS NO LATER SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 64 1 THAN YOUR DECEMBER BOARD MEETING. SO THERE ARE TWO MORE 2 PIECES, IMPORTANT REPORTS THAT WE WILL BE GIVING TO THE 3 BOARD ON THIS ISSUE. 4 CONTINUING ON, THERE'S $150,000 SET ASIDE FOR 5 THE SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM. AND THEN THERE'S SOME AMENDED 6 LANGUAGE COMPARED TO THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IN SECTION 6, 7 WHICH SPEAKS TO $200,000 THAT IS GOING TO BE USED BY THE 8 OFFICE OF MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING. 9 AND THEN THERE'S SOME LANGUAGE AT THE END THAT 10 SPEAKS TO ENSURING THAT WE ARE IN LEGAL COMPLIANCE IN THE 11 MANNER THAT WE USE THAT MONEY. SO THOSE ARE THE MAIN 12 HIGHLIGHTS THAT I WOULD OFFER. 13 A COUPLE OF MORE IMPORTANT THINGS. THE BOARD 14 HAS ADOPTED A TENTATIVE BUDGET, BASED ON THE INFORMATION 15 WE HAD AT THAT TIME. 16 THIS FINAL BUDGET, OF COURSE, IS BASED ON THE 17 FINAL STATE BUDGET AND PRESUMES OR BUILDS IN THE 18 ADDITIONAL CUTS THAT WILL BE INCURRED IF THE STATE'S 19 "AUTOMATIC" -- IMPORTANT WORD, "AUTOMATIC" TRIGGERS ARE 20 PULLED BASED ON THE NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER REVENUE 21 ESTIMATES THAT WILL RESULT IN AUTOMATIC REDUCTIONS FOR 22 COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN JANUARY. 23 SO THE ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN RECOMMENDING TO 24 SHARED GOVERNANCE, TO THE BOARD'S BUDGET COMMITTEE THAT 25 THE WISE COURSE OF ACTION IS TO ASSUME THAT THOSE TRIGGERS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 65 1 WILL BE CUT, WILL BE PULLED, AND THE ADDITIONAL CUTS WILL 2 HAPPEN BECAUSE SO FAR STATE REVENUE NUMBERS ARE NOT GOOD. 3 AND FOR THOSE TRIGGERS TO NOT BE PULLED, THE STATE'S 4 REVENUE MUST COME UPWARD DRAMATICALLY FROM WHERE IT IS 5 RIGHT NOW. 6 IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE'S A SECTION WE 7 HAVEN'T INCLUDED BEFORE THAT BASICALLY JUST REFERENCES THE 8 FACT THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE GANN ACT. I 9 BELIEVE THAT WAS CREATED BY JARVIS-GANN YEARS AGO. AND WE 10 ARE WELL WITHIN THAT. IT SPEAKS TO A TOTAL APPROPRIATION 11 WE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR FROM A FEW DIFFERENT SOURCES. AND WE 12 ARE AT A FRACTION OF THAT WHEN YOU ADD THE MONIES THAT 13 COUNT TOWARD THAT. 14 HAVING SAID ALL THAT, I JUST WANT TO ALSO 15 ACKNOWLEDGE THE VERY LONG DILIGENT HARD WORK PERFORMED BY 16 MANY PEOPLE TO TRY TO GET THIS BUDGET TOGETHER. THIS WAS 17 NOT EASY, GIVEN THE KINDS OF ASSUMPTIONS WE ARE TRYING TO 18 EMBED AND ALSO TRYING TO INCORPORATE ALL THE CHANGES THAT 19 THE BOARD WAS INTERESTED IN. IN PARTICULAR, OUR CFO JOHN 20 BILMONT HAS WORKED VERY LONG HOURS ON THIS BUDGET, AS WELL 21 AS HAS SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF. 22 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 24 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS AMONG THE BOARD? 25 TRUSTEE NGO. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 66 1 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND THE 2 ADMINISTRATION FOR GETTING THIS DOCUMENT TOGETHER, NOT 3 JUST FOR SEPTEMBER THIS FINAL ADOPTION, BUT ALSO IN JUNE 4 AND ALL THE WORK OVER THE SUMMER, OF COURSE, TO MAKE IT 5 ALIGN AND PRESENTABLE FOR THE BOARD'S REVIEW. 6 I DO HAVE A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS, BUT I -- AS THE 7 BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIR, I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THE 8 BUDGET THAT WE ARE ADOPTING. I THINK IT REFLECTS AN 9 INVESTMENT IN OUR STUDENTS IN AN ERA WHERE WE ARE 10 DIVESTING FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION. 11 IT'S NOT THE PERFECT BUDGET BECAUSE WE ARE -- 12 WELL, I THINK THERE COULD BE MORE INVESTMENTS MADE, BUT I 13 THINK ON BALANCE IT'S RELATIVE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE 14 STATE AND ELSEWHERE. IT ACTUALLY REFLECTS QUITE WELL THE 15 VALUES OF THIS BOARD, MANY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND ALSO 16 I KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY AND COUNTY. 17 MY SERIES OF QUESTIONS ACTUALLY GOES ALONG 18 SEVERAL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BUDGET, SO MAYBE I WILL 19 JUST START WITH THE BEGINNING, WHICH IS THE PART 4 OF THE 20 BOARD OF TRUSTEES BUDGET MODIFICATIONS. 21 SO I SEE THERE IN SECTION 1 -- I'M SORRY. PART 22 4. WHAT I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS WHY SECTION 1 IS NOT 23 IN BOLD AND THE REST ARE BECAUSE I THINK THAT SOME OF 24 THESE AMENDMENTS WERE ADOPTED IN JUNE, INCLUDING THE 25 SECTION 1 OF PART 4. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 67 1 IS THERE A REASON WHY YOU'VE DRAWN A DISTINCTION 2 OR IS THIS A TYPO? 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I THINK IT IS JUST A TYPO. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. SO THERE IS IN EFFECT THE 5 1.9 MILLION GOING BACK TO CLASSES IS STILL THERE? 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: CORRECT. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 8 SO LET'S GET TO SECTION 4 THE NON-INSTRUCTIONAL 9 TIME. AGAIN, I KNOW IT'S TAKEN A LOT OF WORK FOR FOLKS ON 10 THE COMMITTEE TO REALLY CLEAR THIS UP. AND I THINK IT 11 SPEAKS ACTUALLY TO THE VERY NATURE OF THE PROBLEM AND WHY 12 THE BOARD WANTED SOME SORT OF ACCOUNTING FOR IT IN THE 13 FIRST PLACE. THAT THERE'S JUST BEEN SOME CODING ISSUES 14 AND ACTUAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TIME THAT I THINK I AM GLAD 15 THAT WE ARE FINALLY GETTING SOME SENSE OF WHAT THIS 16 TECHNICALLY CALLED, NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME ITEM IS BECAUSE 17 IT WAS AT 6.5 OR 6.3 CUT DOWN TO 4.8 I BELIEVE. 18 AND NOW YOU'RE -- WE ARE STARTING -- AT LEAST 19 THE BOARD IS STARTING TO DEFINE A LITTLE BIT MORE, THE 20 COLLEGE ITSELF IS STARTING TO DEFINE A LITTLE BIT MORE 21 WHAT THIS NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME IS. AND IT LOOKS LIKE A 22 LARGE PART OF IT ACTUALLY IS INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED, SO 23 THE HEADING IS A LITTLE MISLEADING. AND I AM GLAD THAT 24 NUMBER IS GETTING LOWER IN TERMS OF WHAT'S NOT BEING SPENT 25 ON INSTRUCTION. SO IT SEEMS THAT IT'S INSTRUCTION SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 68 1 RELATED, WHICH IS GOOD THING. 2 I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET TO THE BOTTOM 3 OF THE REMAINING 2.375 BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THE FIRST 4 FOUR CATEGORIES THERE UNDER WHAT I BELIEVE YOU'VE PULLED 5 OUT FROM THE NON-INSTRUCTIONAL BUDGET, WHICH IS HOURLY 6 LIBRARIANS, OFFICE HOURS, PART-TIME FACULTY, TENURE REVIEW 7 ASSIGNMENTS, AND LAB MONITORS THAT DIRECTLY GENERATE FTES. 8 SO AS FAR AS I UNDERSTAND, WHAT YOU ARE TELLING 9 US TO DO IS AUTHORIZE THOSE FUNDS WHICH ARE TECHNICALLY IN 10 THAT ACCOUNT, BUT THOSE ITEMS YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE TO BE 11 INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED. 12 IS THAT RIGHT? 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE ARE BEING VERY SPECIFIC 14 ABOUT THE FOUR CATEGORIES AND THE AMOUNTS THAT HAVE BEEN 15 IDENTIFIED SO FAR. AND WE ARE SAYING THAT THE BOARD 16 SHOULD AUTHORIZE THOSE CATEGORIES AND THOSE AMOUNTS. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE BALANCE, THE 2.375, WE ARE 19 CONTINUING TO EVALUATE. AND WE WILL BE BRINGING BACK MORE 20 INFORMATION TO THE BOARD ABOUT HOW MUCH OF THAT WE 21 RECOMMEND SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE PROVIDED AND HOW MUCH OF 22 THAT CAN BE REDUCED. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. AND SO DO YOU HAVE ANY 24 SENSE OF WHAT 2.375 IS? 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT'S A PRETTY WIDE VARIETY OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 69 1 THINGS. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: LET ME ASK IT DIFFERENT. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: SO WHEN YOU PRESENTED THIS NUMBER 5 OR THESE -- PRESENTED THIS NON-INSTRUCTIONAL BUDGET IN THE 6 SENSE OF WHAT ACTIVITIES WE'RE FUNDING. ONE OF IT WAS 7 LIKE AN ESL NEWSLETTER. THE OTHER ONE WAS ACCREDITATION 8 OF STUFF, RIGHT? 9 I DON'T KNOW -- I KNOW WE DO -- I DON'T KNOW IF 10 THE ACADEMIC SENATE HAS NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. AND IF WE 11 PAY THE CLASSIFIED SENATE THE SAME OR HAVE SOME OF THE 12 SAME ARRANGEMENTS IN NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME, WHETHER THAT 13 FALLS UNDER THE 2.375. WHERE DO SABBATICALS GO? 14 IT'S TECHNICALLY NOT INSTRUCTIONAL, BUT YOU GUYS 15 PUT IT UNDER -- 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE SABBATICALS ARE NOT IN THE 17 2.375. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. AND THAT'S CERTAINLY 19 GOVERNED BY THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT -- 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S CORRECT. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: -- SO I RECOGNIZE THAT. 22 IS IT YOUR BELIEF THAT THOSE ITEMS LIKE 23 NEWSLETTER WRITING, AND THE ACCREDITATION TIME, AND MAYBE 24 SHARED GOVERNANCE OR ACADEMIC SENATE AND/OUR CLASSIFIED 25 SENATE TIME IS IN THE 2.375 THAT YOU HAVE YET TO GO SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 70 1 THROUGH? 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I WOULD PREFER IT SO THAT I 3 DON'T END UP JUST ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE ANYWAY TO SEE IF 4 THE LEADER OF THE WORKGROUP, VICE CHANCELLOR MCKNIGHT 5 MIGHT BE ABLE TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT 6 THEY HAVE BEEN FINDING SO FAR. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BEFORE YOU DO, COULD I ASK YOU 8 A QUESTION? 9 WHY ARE THESE FOUR ITEMS IN NON-INSTRUCTIONAL? 10 WHY ARE THEY OFF LIMITS FOR CUTS WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE IS 11 BEING CUT IN THE DISTRICT. WE HAVE 80 CLASSIFIED STAFF 12 POSITIONS BEING ELIMINATED, BUT THESE ARE NOT BEING 13 TOUCHED. WHY IS THAT? 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, IN PART BECAUSE OF THE -- 15 WELL, THERE ARE DIFFERENT REASONS FOR DIFFERENT ITEMS. 16 LET ME SAY THAT. OFFICE HOURS FOR PART-TIME FACULTY ARE 17 IN THE AFT CONTRACT RIGHT NOW. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 19 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ALTHOUGH WE WILL CONTINUE TO 20 REVIEW THAT AS WELL. TENURE REVIEW, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE 21 RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING TENURE FOR FACULTY WHO ARE 22 COMING UP FOR THAT, WE HAVE TO HAVE COMMITTEES THAT ARE 23 LOOKING AT THEIR PROGRESS. AND TENURE REVIEW IS ALSO IN 24 THE AFT CONTRACT AS A PAID FOR ACTIVITY RIGHT NOW. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 71 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SO THAT'S THOSE TWO. 2 LAB MONITORS THAT GENERATE FTES, THAT'S ONE 3 LABEL YOU COULD PUT ON IT. AND ANOTHER LABEL IS THAT WE 4 HAVE CLASSES THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE SCHEDULE AND THERE 5 ARE ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS THAT GO HAND IN HAND WITH SOME 6 OF THOSE CLASSES. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT WE ARE CUTTING $1.9 8 MILLION OF CLASSES. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT THIS CATEGORY CAN'T BE 11 TOUCHED. 12 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, NOT FOR THE FALL, NOT 13 WITH THE CLASSES THAT HAVE ALREADY STARTED AND ARE MOVING 14 FORWARD. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OF COURSE. OF COURSE NOT. 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: BUT CERTAINLY AS WE LOOK TO 17 WHAT CLASSES CAN WE OFFER VERSUS WHAT CLASSES WE CAN'T 18 AFFORD TO OFFER IN THE SPRING, SOME OF THOSE SITUATIONS 19 COULD BE REVISITED. 20 AND THEN FINALLY WITH RESPECT TO HOURLY 21 LIBRARIANS, COUNSELORS AND STUDENT HEALTH PERSONNEL, THOSE 22 ARE THE ASSIGNMENTS THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED IN THE PAST TO 23 KEEP THOSE SERVICES AT THE LEVEL THEY HAVE BEEN AT. SO 24 THEY, YOU KNOW, TO REDUCE THEM MEANS A DIRECT REDUCTION IN 25 THOSE SERVICES FOR STUDENTS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 72 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AGAIN, WE ARE REDUCING $1.9 2 MILLION WORTH OF CLASSES FOR STUDENTS. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES, WE ARE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION I WANT 6 TO ASK UNTIL WE GET AN ANSWER ON THAT REMAINING. 7 INTERIM VCSD MCKNIGHT: SO THE COMMITTEE HAS -- 8 TRUSTEE NGO: FIRST OF ALL, GOD BLESS YOU FOR 9 DOING THIS WORK. 10 INTERIM VCSD MCKNIGHT: I HAD NO IDEA WHEN THE 11 CHANCELLOR ASKED ME TO DO THIS WHAT I WAS GETTING INTO, 12 BUT IT IS A MONSTER. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR 14 THE RECORD, PLEASE. 15 INTERIM VCSD MCKNIGHT: YEAH, INTERIM VICE 16 CHANCELLOR OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT LINDY MCKNIGHT. 17 AS HAS BEEN INDICATED, THERE ARE MANY CODING 18 PROBLEMS. AND WHAT WE ARE FINDING IS THAT WE HAVE SEVERAL 19 CODES, SUCH AS COLLEGE MISCELLANEOUS, AND THERE'S ABOUT 25 20 SUBCATEGORIES IN THAT. 21 NOW ESL NEWSLETTER IS IN THE LIST, BUT ACCORDING 22 TO THE CHAIR OF THAT DEPARTMENT, THEY HAVEN'T PAID ANYONE 23 TO DO A NEWSLETTER IN ALMOST A DECADE. SO THE CATEGORIES 24 ARE ALSO NOT UP TO DATE. 25 THE COMMITTEE IS -- LAST WEEK WE SENT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 73 1 SPREADSHEETS TO EVERY DEPARTMENT CHAIR FOR THEM TO LOOK AT 2 EACH INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT AND TO INDICATE TO US WHAT THE 3 TRUE ACTIVITY WAS. SO WE ARE GETTING -- WE ARE NOT THERE 4 YET, BUT WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO BE ABLE TO BREAKOUT, NOT 5 ONLY THE MAJOR CATEGORIES OF HOW MUCH MONEY IS IN COLLEGE 6 MISCELLANEOUS. BUT SAY IT'S 100,000, WE WILL BE ABLE TO 7 COME BACK AND SAY, 25,000 IS BEING PAID TO INSTRUCTORS WHO 8 ARE TAKING HONOR STUDENTS INTO THEIR COURSES, SO THAT'S 9 ONE SUBCATEGORY. 10 THE HONORS PROGRAM IS VERY CRITICAL OF OUR 11 SCHOOL. IT IS ONE OF THE MAIN TRANSFER VEHICLES TO GET 12 INTO UCLA. IT HAS INCREASED OUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR 13 STUDENTS AT UCLA BECAUSE THEY TAKE THESE HONORS PROGRAMS. 14 THEY HAVE TO DO EXTRA WORK IN THE COURSE. THE FACULTY 15 DOES A LOT OF EXTRA WORK; THEREFORE, WE PAY THEM SOME 16 NON-INSTRUCTIONAL STIPEND TYPE MONEY. 17 SO THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS WE ARE FINDING. 18 WE WILL BE ABLE TO MEET YOUR DEADLINE. WE ARE HOPING TO 19 MEET YOUR DEADLINE EARLIER. BUT AT THIS TIME, I CAN'T 20 REALLY BREAK DOWN ANYTHING ELSE IN MORE DETAIL. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I CAN JUST ASSUME THAT IF THE 22 ACCREDITATION NON-INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS ARE NOT ITEMIZED, 23 THEY HAVE TO BE IN THE REMAINING 2.375 OR YOU PUT THEM 24 SOMEWHERE ELSE I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 25 I'M ALSO GOING TO ASSUME THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 74 1 NOT ITEMIZED IN THE FOUR LINE ITEMS YOU HAVE DELINEATED, 2 THAT THE ACADEMIC SENATE IF THERE IS -- IF THERE ARE 3 OFFICERS THAT GET NON-INSTRUCTIONAL TIME OR SOME RELEASE 4 TIME AND OR THE CLASSIFIED SENATE, IF THAT'S TRUE FOR 5 THEM. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE FOR THEM OR NOT, BUT 6 THAT HAS TO BE IN THE 2.375. 7 I THINK THE LARGER ISSUE IS THAT YEAR AFTER YEAR 8 THIS BOARD HAS ADOPTED A BUDGET WHICH INCLUDED CLASS 9 SECTION CUTS, AND WE HAVE NOT LOOKED AT THIS CATEGORY AT 10 ALL. AND WE ARE FINALLY LOOKING AT IT. AND I THINK IT'S 11 PROGRESS THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND 12 GET A SENSE OF WHAT THIS FUNDING INCLUDES. 13 I WILL SAY THAT THE ISSUE ISN'T NECESSARILY 14 WHAT'S IN THIS CATEGORY. IT'S THAT WE HAVE SOME SORT OF 15 SYSTEM OF REGULATING IT. I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW WE MANAGED 16 TO ALLOCATE OR ASSIGN THESE TIMES. SO FOR THE SAKE OF 17 JUST PURE OPERATING PRINCIPLE, WE SHOULD HAVE SOME SORT OF 18 MECHANISM THAT CAN ACCOUNT FOR THESE TIME, ESPECIALLY IN 19 THESE TIGHT BUDGET TIMES. 20 WE ARE ASKING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS TO 21 MAKE SACRIFICES. WE ARE ASKING STUDENTS TO MAKE 22 SACRIFICES. AND YET, SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON THIS BOARD, WE 23 HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THIS $6.5 MILLION LINE. SO -- 24 INTERIM VCSD MCKNIGHT: I THINK -- 25 TRUSTEE NGO: -- I WANT TO THANK YOU. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 75 1 INTERIM VCSD MCKNIGHT: -- WE ALL AGREE WITH 2 YOU. AND THE ACADEMIC SENATE PRESIDENT EARLIER SAID THAT 3 GOING FORWARD WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A MUCH BETTER HANDLE ON 4 THIS. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR 6 ALL YOUR WORK. AND MAYBE YOU ARE GETTING RELEASE TIME FOR 7 THIS. I DON'T KNOW. 8 INTERIM VCSD MCKNIGHT: NOT IN THE BEST WAY. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MY QUESTION TO FOLLOW UP ON 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO'S QUESTION, PETER, IS THAT ON THE FIRST 11 ITEM HOURLY, LIBRARIANS, COUNSELORS, AND STUDENT HEALTH 12 PERSONNEL. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A LOGICAL REASON WHY 13 THEY ARE LUMPED TOGETHER. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S THE WAY I RECEIVED THE 15 INFORMATION FROM THE COMMITTEE, BUT THEY ARE SEPARATE 16 ITEMS ACTUALLY. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: SO I THINK AS A POLICY ISSUE, THE 18 BOARD SHOULD KNOW HOW MUCH WE ARE SPENDING ON 19 LIBRARIANS -- 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: -- COUNSELORS, AND STUDENT HEALTH 22 PERSONNEL. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND IN THE NOVEMBER 30TH 24 REPORT, WE WILL GIVE YOU THAT DETAIL AND MORE. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: GOOD. OKAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 76 1 MY LAST QUESTION IS THE DRAFT ANNUAL PLAN AND 2 LINKAGES. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: I KNOW THIS IS A DRAFT. 5 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES, IT IS. 6 AND IN FACT, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I WOULD LIKE TO 7 MAKE SURE WE GET ON THE RECORD THAT QUALIFYING LANGUAGE ON 8 THE COVER THAT SAYS, BY VOTING FOR THIS BOARD -- FOR THIS 9 BUDGET RESOLUTION, THE BOARD IS NOT ENACTING -- 10 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. 11 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- THE ANNUAL PLAN. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: GOOD. BUT SINCE IT IS HERE, WE 13 MIGHT AS WELL TALK ABOUT IT -- 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: -- JUST REALLY QUICK. I JUST HAVE 16 ONE QUESTION. 17 I DON'T -- I'VE OFFERED EDITS TO, I BELIEVE, 18 PAMELA MERY ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND ALSO THE ANNUAL 19 PLAN. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: ONE OF MY EDITS WAS -- THERE WAS 22 IN THE EQUITY HEARING, WE HAD A DEBATE ABOUT WHY THINGS 23 WERE NUMBERED A CERTAIN WAY WHETHER ONE OBJECTIVE WAS -- 24 WHY WAS IT LISTED ABOVE ANOTHER? 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 77 1 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I HEARD CONFLICTING TESTIMONY 2 THAT AT FIRST IT DIDN'T MATTER. SO THEN IF IT DIDN'T 3 MATTER, THEN WHY NOT CHANGE THE ORDER. AND YET -- 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I REMEMBER THAT. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: -- I OFFERED TO CHANGE THE ORDER. 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AND IT'S STILL NOT -- APPARENTLY 8 IT MATTERS. SO LET'S LOOK AT PAGE 32. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: NOW I UNDERSTAND AN ANNUAL PLAN IS 11 A FLOW FROM THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND THAT FROM WHAT THE 12 CHANCELLOR HAS TOLD ME IN OPEN SESSION ON THE RECORD THAT 13 THESE ITEMS ARE REALLY SUPPOSED TO DRIVE BUDGET DECISIONS 14 AND WHERE WE TAKE THE COLLEGE. 15 OBVIOUSLY, ONE OF THE MECHANISMS THAT WE ENACT 16 POLICY IS THROUGH THE BUDGET. AND I DON'T THINK YOU 17 DISAGREE WITH THAT. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I DO NOT. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. AND I THINK THAT MAKES 20 SENSE WHEN YOU ALIGN -- WHEN YOU ALIGN THE ITEMS ON PAGE 21 29, I WANT TO IMPLORE MY COLLEAGUES TO REALLY THINK ABOUT 22 AS WE GO FORWARD, BECAUSE I AM GOING TO AGENDIZE A 23 STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE ANNUAL PLAN IN THE BUDGET 24 COMMITTEE, THAT THESE POLICIES ARE REALLY GOING TO DRIVE 25 OR AT LEAST SHAPE THE WAY WE LOOK AT FUNDING GOING FORWARD SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 78 1 AS IT SHOULD. THAT'S WHAT PLANS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, 2 OTHERWISE THEY ARE NOT PLANS. 3 SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT 29, REALLY IN THEORY YOU ARE 4 SUPPOSED -- I'M SORRY. IT STARTS ON PAGE 28. BUT IN 5 THEORY, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE LINKAGES. YOU ARE 6 SUPPOSED TO LINK AN ITEM AND A STRATEGIC PLAN -- 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: -- AND AN ANNUAL PLAN TO AN ACTUAL 9 BUDGET ALLOCATION BECAUSE YOU ARE SHOWING THAT YOU ARE 10 ENACTING THE PLAN. YOU ARE CARING IT OUT. 11 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO 12 WORK. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT CAME UP IN 14 EQUITY -- IN THE EQUITY HEARINGS WAS ON PAGE 32(A1) FOR 15 WHATEVER REASON, THIS HAD TO BE -- (A1) HAD TO BE FIRST. 16 "RECOGNIZE ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND COLLEGIAL PROFESSIONALISM 17 AS CENTRAL TO THE COLLEGE." 18 I COULD NOT GET AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THAT'S 19 ACTUALLY A STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE. IT'S JUST LAW. I 20 MEAN IT'S -- WELL, NOT LAW, BUT IT'S LEGAL -- THERE'S 21 LEGAL GROUNDING FOR THAT. 22 TRUSTEE MARKS: WHAT I WANT TO DO IS HAVE A 23 LINKAGE FROM -- TO THAT TO A DISCUSSION FROM -- 24 TRUSTEE NGO: FAIR ENOUGH. FAIR ENOUGH. BUT 25 THIS IS WHAT I THINK IS INHERENTLY KIND OF PROBLEMATIC SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 79 1 WITH AN OBJECTIVE LIKE THIS. IT IS NOT REALLY AN 2 OBJECTIVE. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU IMPLEMENT -- HOW DO YOU 3 FUND SOMETHING LIKE THIS? 4 AND I THINK YOU AGREE WITH ME BECAUSE IF YOU 5 LOOK ON PAGE 29 (AIA) OR (AI) I THINK DOES NOT REQUIRE A 6 BUDGET. 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S RIGHT. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: THERE'S NO LINKAGE, SO I DON'T 9 KNOW HOW YOU WOULD FUND SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 10 AND I WILL SAY, THIS AGAIN IS AN ISSUE 11 BETWEEN -- AGAIN, I THINK WE ARE PLAYING POLITICS WITH 12 THIS DOCUMENT LIKE WE HAVE WITH THE SELF-STUDY, AND WE ARE 13 DOING IT WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS WELL. 14 THIS -- IF WE ARE GOING TO RECOGNIZE ACADEMIC 15 FREEDOM AND COLLEGIAL PROFESSIONALISM AS ESSENTIAL TO THE 16 COLLEGE. IT'S ALSO EQUALLY TRUE THAT THE BOARD 17 ULTIMATELY, ACCORDING TO TITLE V AND THE ED CODE, IS 18 ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIDUCIARY AND OTHER 19 FUNCTIONS OF THE COLLEGE ULTIMATELY. WE APPROVE THE 20 BUDGETS. WE SET POLICY. 21 SO IF WE ARE GOING TO PUT (AI) OR (A1) OR 22 HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DESCRIBE THAT, ON PAGE 32, WE MIGHT AS 23 WELL THROW THE REST OF THE ED CODE IN THERE TOO. IT JUST 24 DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT WE ARE RESTATING PRINCIPLES AS 25 OPPOSED TO OBJECTIVES. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 80 1 SO AGAIN, WE ARE TRYING TO THRUST POLITICS INTO 2 A LOT OF OUR BASIC SERIOUS PLANNING DOCUMENTS. 3 I'VE ASKED PAMELA MERY TO LOOK AT THIS. WE 4 DISCUSSED IN EQUITY HEARINGS WHY IT SHOULD BE THERE. 5 THERE'S NO RHYME OR REASON HOW AND WHY AN OBJECTIVE LIKE 6 THAT, IF IT'S AN OBJECTIVE, CAN GUIDE OUR FUNDING 7 PRIORITIES, UNLESS WE ARE GOING TO FUND ACADEMIC FREEDOM 8 AND COLLEGIAL PROFESSIONALISM TO THE COLLEGE. 9 SO I TAKE ISSUE WITH -- JUST FOR THE RECORD, I 10 TAKE ISSUE WITH THAT DRAFT PLAN, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE 11 BOARD, AT LEAST THROUGH MY E-MAIL TO MS. MERY, ASK THAT 12 EITHER BE TAKEN OUT OR THAT WE INTRODUCE THE BOARD'S LEGAL 13 AUTHORITY AS WELL TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE THINGS. 14 AND I WANT TO IMPLORE MY COLLEAGUES TO REALLY 15 LOOK AT THE ANNUAL PLAN AND THE STRATEGIC PLAN BECAUSE THE 16 BOARD REALLY -- OR THE COLLEGE REALLY SHOULD MAKE THEIR 17 COLLEGE BUDGET DECISIONS FLOW FROM THESE PLANS. AND I 18 DON'T THINK WE'VE TAKE THEM -- WE'VE REALLY TAKEN IT TO 19 TASK. WE HAVEN'T DONE IT IN AN EARNEST FASHION. AND 20 WITHOUT THAT, JUST LIKE THE SELF-STUDY, THERE'S JUST 21 THINGS THAT END UP IN HERE THAT REALLY I THINK REFLECTS 22 POLITICS AND NOT REALLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. 23 I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S BEEN IN OUR PREVIOUS 24 STRATEGIC PLANS OR NOT OR ANNUAL PLANS. IT JUST DOESN'T 25 MAKE SENSE TO ME, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE DISCUSSION WE HAD SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 81 1 AT THE EQUITY HEARINGS AND ALSO AS REPRESENTED BY THE 2 CHANCELLOR AT THAT HEARING. 3 SO I AM NOT GOING TO MOVE TO TAKE IT OUT, BUT I 4 WOULD SAY THAT WE EITHER KEEP IT IN, WHICH I DON'T 5 NECESSARILY OPPOSE, OR WE BE CONSISTENT AND INVEST THAT 6 ULTIMATE AUTHORITY WITH THE BOARD IN THE DOCUMENT. 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. LET ME OFFER THIS AS A 8 BRIEF RESPONSE. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: FIRST, THE BOARD HAS NOT YET 11 APPROVED THE STRATEGIC PLAN. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND THIS ANNUAL PLAN IS BASED 14 ON THAT DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN. SO THE WAY THE DOMINOS ARE 15 STACKED, WE ARE NOW ONE STEP FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD WITHOUT 16 HAVING HAD THE BOARD ENDORSE THE STRATEGIC PLAN. 17 BUT, YOU KNOW, TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, WE ARE 18 DOCUMENTING AN EFFORT TO TRY. AND AT THIS POINT, IT IS 19 JUST THE ADMINISTRATION -- IT'S NOT THE BOARD YET BECAUSE 20 YOU HAVEN'T VOTED -- TO LINK BUDGETING AND PLANNING 21 BECAUSE WE WANT TO SHOW THAT WE ACTUALLY TRY TO DO THAT, 22 AND WE WANT TO DOCUMENT THAT FOR OUR ACCREDITATION REVIEW, 23 INSTEAD OF JUST ASKING SOMEONE TO BELIEVE US. 24 AND SO THE BOARD WILL STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY 25 TO AMEND AND THEN APPROVE THE STRATEGIC PLAN, AND THEN SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 82 1 ALSO THE ANNUAL PLAN. ALTHOUGH, I WOULD HOPE THAT WOULD 2 NOT BE THAT FAR DOWN THE ROAD BECAUSE AN ANNUAL PLAN 3 SHOULD BE FAIRLY EARLY IN THE YEAR -- 4 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. 5 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- NOT LATE IN THE YEAR. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: LIKE I SAID, I WILL AGENDIZE IT IN 7 BUDGET BECAUSE WE SHOULD TAKE IT UP. I THINK THAT LINE IS 8 ALSO IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT IS. YES, IT IS. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: I KNOW. SO, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW 11 WHY, BUT WE SHOULD BE CONSISTENT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 12 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I AM GLAD THAT WE ARE FINALLY 14 LINKING IT. I KNOW WE DID IT SEVERAL YEARS BACK, BUT I'M 15 GLAD WE ARE TAKING IT UP AGAIN. 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE ARE. AND I'VE ALREADY 17 GOTTEN SOME FEEDBACK FROM THE SHARED GOVERNANCE BUDGET 18 COUNCIL ASKING FOR SOME MODIFICATIONS IN THAT LINKAGE 19 CHART WHICH I WILL BE DOING IN TIME FOR YOUR NEXT REVIEW 20 WHEN THIS ANNUAL PLAN IS BACK IN FRONT OF THE BOARD. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: ONE LAST POINT IS THAT FOR THE 22 FIRST TIME -- I AM VERY PROUD OF THIS BUDGET ON THESE 23 GROUNDS. FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE ARE ALLOCATING FUNDS TO 24 FUND OUR LONG-TERM LIABILITIES, OUR OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT 25 BENEFITS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 83 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I'M GLAD YOU POINTED THAT OUT. 2 I NEGLECTED TO SAY THAT. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: CAN I -- 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: BUT THAT'S CORRECT. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT HAS BEEN 6 STARING AT THIS BOARD FOR A LONG TIME. WE ARE SEEING 7 THESE COST DRIVE A LOT OF THE DEFICIT QUESTIONS THAT WE 8 HAVE YEAR AFTER YEAR. AND I AM GLAD THAT THE BOARD AND 9 THE ADMINISTRATION ARE FINALLY TAKING IT SERIOUSLY AND 10 PUTTING DOWN A HEFTY SUM THIS YEAR AND PLAN TO DO IT 11 THROUGH THE SAME IF NOT FOR A GREATER SUM NEXT YEAR. SO I 12 WANT TO COMMEND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THAT AS WELL. 13 AND I AM GLAD WE ARE FINALLY TAKING ON THE 14 ISSUE. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO US REALLY GETTING INTO THE 15 PROBLEM AS THIS NEXT BUDGET CYCLE -- 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: -- COMES AROUND. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT IS AN IMPORTANT FIRST STEP. 19 AND YOU ARE RIGHT, IT IS THE VERY FIRST TIME WE'VE 20 ALLOCATED ANY MONEY TOWARD THAT LIABILITY. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE HAVE 24 A NUMBER OF CARDS OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SPEAK. SO I AM 25 GOING TO START PUBLIC COMMENT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 84 1 WHAT I AM GOING TO DO IS WE WILL HAVE PUBLIC 2 COMMENT. EVERYBODY WHO WANTS TO SPEAK SHOULD FILL OUT A 3 CARD. SPEAK NOW, AND THEN I AM GOING TO CLOSE PUBLIC 4 COMMENT, AND WE WILL HAVE NO FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT AFTER 5 THAT. AND THEN WE WILL GO ON TO DEBATE IF THERE'S ANY TO 6 BE HAD AND THEN A VOTE. 7 SO LET ME TAKE SOME OF THESE HERE. THERE'S JUAN 8 SEGUNDO. 9 MR. SEGUNDO: MY NAME IS JUAN SEGUNDO, AND I AM 10 HERE REPRESENTING S.A.F.E. WHICH IS STUDENTS ADVOCATING 11 FOR EQUITY AND S.M.A.C. STUDENTS ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE. I 12 AM HERE TO REPRESENT THOUSANDS OF LOW INCOME STUDENTS THAT 13 ATTEND CITY COLLEGE. 14 WE WANT TO EXPRESS OUR SUPPORT FOR THE OMSL 15 PROGRAM AND THE CHAIN FROM LAB AIDE TO SCHOLARSHIP FOR 16 THIS PROGRAM, WHICH IS IN SECTION 6 OF THE BUDGET. 17 S.A.F.E. AND S.M.A.C. SUPPORT THE CHANGE BECAUSE 18 IT WILL BENEFIT ALL LOW INCOME STUDENTS. THIS PROGRAM 19 WILL PROVIDE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TO THESE STUDENTS 20 BECAUSE FOR MANY OF THESE STUDENTS, THIS IS THE ONLY 21 OPPORTUNITY THEY WILL GET. 22 THIS SWITCH FROM LAB AID TO SCHOLARSHIP, WE 23 ENCOURAGE MORE STUDENTS TO BECOME CIVICALLY ENGAGED IN 24 THEIR COMMUNITIES. AND THESE COMMUNITIES WILL BENEFIT 25 FROM THE RICH AND UNIQUE IDEAS THESE STUDENTS PROVIDE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 85 1 THIS PROGRAM WILL PUT, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY BACK 2 IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE. THANK YOU. AND I HOPE YOU GUYS 3 SUPPORT IT. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 THE NEXT SPEAKER IS STEPHANIE OH. 6 MS. OH: GOOD AFTERNOON. MY IS STEPHANIE OH. I 7 AM A THIRD YEAR STUDENT AT CCSF. 8 LAST SPRING I HAD THE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO 9 STAND ALONGSIDE MY CLASSMATES TO CAMPAIGN AND RUN FOR 10 SENATOR. 11 THIS SUMMER I HAD THE WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE OF 12 SERVING ON THE OCEAN CAMPUS AS A SENATOR. AND TODAY I 13 STAND HERE WITH MY COLLEAGUES AS THEIR NEW VP OF CULTURAL 14 AFFAIRS ASSOCIATED STUDENT COUNCIL OCEAN CAMPUS. 15 AT THE END OF THE DAY, I TAKE OFF MY BADGE, AND 16 I AM AN EVERYDAY ORDINARY STUDENT LIKE SO MANY OF US HERE 17 WORRYING ABOUT THE RAISING TUITION, COST OF TEXTBOOKS, AND 18 THE $75 PARKING TICKET I JUST GOT FOR NOT FEEDING THE 19 METER ON TIME. 20 I AM AN ORDINARY STUDENT, EVERYDAY STUDENT THAT 21 COMES -- YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE DAY, I JUST COME DOWN 22 TO A STUDENT. AND ALSO, I AM AN UNDOCUMENTED STUDENT. 23 AS I SIT IN THE OFFICE, IN MY OFFICE AT THE 24 MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER FREEZING BECAUSE OF THE 25 BROKEN HEATER. I START TO SEE AND HEAR THESE SMALL SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 86 1 MOVEMENTS IN THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING. THESE MOVEMENTS 2 ARE NOT SMALL AFTER ALL. IT COMES FROM A TINY ROOM IN THE 3 CORNER OF THE FIRST FLOOR WITH A SIGN THAT SAYS, 4 "V.I.D.A." V.I.D.A. STANDS FOR VOICES OF IMMIGRANTS 5 DEMONSTRATING ACHIEVEMENT. 6 THESE WERE THE VOICES OF UNDOCUMENTED, AKA 7 AB-540 STUDENTS ACTIVELY WORKING AND RESEARCHING, 8 ORGANIZING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER. THESE WERE 9 THE MOVEMENTS OF MY VERY OWN FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, 10 CLASSMATES THAT VOTED ME INTO OFFICE. THESE ARE THE 11 SOUNDS OF MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 12 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. 13 MS. OH: CCSF COULD BOAST OF HAVING THE VERY 14 FIRST IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER IN A COLLEGE IN THE 15 NATION. 16 AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 17 TODAY TO FEEL THIS TINY MOVEMENT THAT'S HAPPENING AT OCEAN 18 CAMPUS. PLEASE CONSIDER THESE -- 19 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY 21 MUCH. 22 CARLOS MARTINEZ. 23 MR. MARTINEZ: HI, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS CARLOS 24 MARTINEZ. AND I AM REPRESENTING S.A.F.E., S.M.A.C, 25 V.I.D.A, AND ALL THE STUDENTS THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 87 1 HARDSHIP RIGHT NOW. 2 I AM GOING TO ADDRESS -- STEVE LI ASKED ME TO 3 ADDRESS THE BOARD WITH THIS LETTER THAT HE WROTE. SO IT 4 GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 5 "DEAR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, I AM WRITING IN SUPPORT 6 OF THE AMENDMENT NO. 110922-B1, AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD 7 SUPPORT FINANCIALLY NEEDY STUDENTS AND ALSO INCLUDE AB-540 8 STUDENTS. TO RECEIVE STIPENDS OR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 9 MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING ACTIVITIES. 10 "MANY STUDENTS STRUGGLE AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 11 FRANCISCO BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT -- THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO 12 AFFORD THEIR EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY AB-540 STUDENTS, WHO 13 OFTEN WORK FULL-TIME, GO TO SCHOOL FULL-TIME, AND ORGANIZE 14 AROUND THE DREAM ACT IN ORDER TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS. 15 "THIS AMENDMENT OPENED MANY DOORS FOR STUDENTS 16 WITH FINANCIAL NEEDS. AND AB-540 STUDENTS TO STAY AND 17 SUCCEED IN SCHOOL. IT WOULD ALSO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO 18 GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY. 19 "PASSING THIS AMENDMENT WOULD MEAN THAT CITY 20 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO IS A LEADER IN EDUCATION GIVING 21 THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES TO ALL STUDENTS. AND WE WILL ALSO 22 BE IMPLEMENTED WITH THE HELP OF THE NEWLY PASSED LAW 23 AB-130, WHICH ALLOWS UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS TO ACCESS 24 PRIVATE SCHOLARSHIPS. 25 "THANK YOU. STEVE LI, A.S. COUNCIL SENATOR AT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 88 1 OCEAN CAMPUS. ALSO PART OF A.S.P.I.R.E., ASIAN STUDENTS 2 PROMOTING IMMIGRANT RIGHTS THROUGH EDUCATION." 3 AND I HAVE A COPY FOR ALL OF YOU HERE, BOARD. 4 THANK YOU. THAT WAS FROM STEVE LI. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 6 ELSA RAMOS. 7 TRUSTEE RAMOS: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ELSA 8 RAMOS, AND I AM ALSO HERE TO SUPPORT THE OMLS PROGRAM. 9 SO I AM A STUDENT OF CITY COLLEGE. I HAVE BEEN 10 HERE FOR THREE YEARS NOW. AND I AM HOPING TO TRANSFER 11 INTO THE UC SYSTEM SOON. AND I AM ALSO A LOW INCOME 12 STUDENT. AND I COME FROM THE MISSION DISTRICT. AND I 13 COME FROM A GREAT HARD WORKING FAMILY OF EIGHT. AND I 14 FEEL LIKE WITH ALL THESE RISING TUITION AND BOOKS AND 15 EVERYTHING, ALL THOSE FINANCES HAVE BECOME JUST AS 16 STRESSFUL AS THE CLASSES THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE AND THE 17 HOMEWORK THAT WE ARE DOING. 18 AND I REALLY WANT TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM 19 BECAUSE I AM A PART OF THE S.A.F.E. AB-540 CLUB AT CITY 20 COLLEGE. AND I AM ALSO PART OF THE V.I.D.A RESOURCE 21 CENTER. AND I FEEL LIKE THIS IS A VERY UNIQUE PROGRAM 22 THAT WILL NOT ONLY BENEFIT THE STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOL, 23 BUT IT WILL ALSO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITIES AROUND THIS BY 24 HAVING THIS REALLY GOOD EXPERIENCE AND REALLY NICE CHANGE 25 OF PACE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 89 1 AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF IT IS THAT IT BE 2 AVAILABLE TO AB-540 STUDENTS FROM LAB AIDE TO INTERNSHIPS 3 AND SCHOLARSHIPS BECAUSE THOUGH I AM NOT UNDOCUMENTED, I 4 AM AN ALLY OF THE UNDOCUMENTED COMMUNITY. AND I FEEL LIKE 5 IF I AM ABLE TO GET THESE OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP ME WITH MY 6 COLLEGE EDUCATION, SO SHOULD ANYBODY ELSE, SO SHOULD EVERY 7 OTHER PERSON REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS. 8 SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. AND I REALLY HOPE 9 THAT YOU COULD HELP US SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 11 EDBER ZAMUDIO. 12 MR. ZAMUDIO: SO FIRST, LET ME THANK ALL OF YOU 13 GUYS FOR HAVING SOME TIME FOR US. I KNOW I HAVE LESS THAN 14 FIVE MINUTES, SO I AM GOING TO MAKE THIS QUICK. 15 I ACTUALLY TRANSFERRED FROM CITY COLLEGE TO SAN 16 FRANCISCO STATE. SO, YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH CITY 17 COLLEGE. I SPENT THREE YEARS OF LIFE OF GOING AND GETTING 18 MY CLASSES, AND ALSO I MET AB-540 STUDENTS BECAUSE I AM 19 LIKE THEM. I SUFFER. I STRUGGLE EVERY YEAR OR SEMESTER 20 TO PAY MY TUITION. 21 AND THEN WHEN I TRANSFERRED TO SAN FRANCISCO 22 STATE, I TALKED TO MY FELLOW AB-540 STUDENTS, AND THEY 23 SAID, OH, YEAH, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO ACTUALLY 24 HAVE INTERNSHIPS, AND THAT'S GOING TO DEVELOP OUR FUTURE 25 CAREER PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT, RESUME, YOU NAME IT. SO I WAS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 90 1 REALLY HAPPY. 2 I WAS LIKE I SUPPORT YOU GUYS. I UNDERSTAND I 3 NEED THAT TOO AS WELL AS YOU GUYS. AND IF YOU GUYS HAVE A 4 CHANCE TO DO IT, YOU SHOULD DO IT, PLEASE. AND THEN THE 5 MOMENT THEY SAID, OH, WE HAVE SOME ISSUES THAT WON'T BE 6 ABLE TO WORK WITH US ANYMORE, I WAS LIKE WHAT HAPPENED 7 WITH CITY COLLEGE SUPPORTING STUDENTS? 8 I BELIEVE THAT ALL OF US DESERVE THE SAME 9 SUPPORT EQUALLY, REGARDLESS OF OUR IMMIGRATION STATUS. WE 10 PAY TUITION LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. WE GET A'S. WE GET B'S. 11 WE ARE LIKE THE SAME. 12 I BELIEVE THAT IF YOU GUYS SUPPORT US, THEN YOU 13 GUYS ARE SPENDING THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA OR ACTUALLY THE 14 NATION BECAUSE CALIFORNIA IS NOT THE ONLY STATE THAT HAS 15 AB-540 STUDENTS. ACTUALLY, EVERY YEAR WE HAVE AB-540 16 STUDENTS COMING TO CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, YOU NAME IT. 17 SO I JUST WISH THAT YOU GUYS SUPPORT THIS 18 PROGRAM THAT WILL HELP US AB-540 STUDENTS FOLLOW OUR 19 CAREER, GET AN EDUCATION, GET SOME EXPERIENCE IN THE 20 FIELD, IN THE WORKING FIELD. THANK YOU. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 KAREN SAGINOR. 23 MS. SAGINOR: KAREN SAGINOR, ACADEMIC SENATE 24 PRESIDENT. 25 I WANT TO THANK TRUSTEE NGO FOR HIS MENTIONING SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 91 1 EARLIER THAT THE TERM "NON-INSTRUCTIONAL" IS A VERY 2 BEEN -- HAS BEEN APPLIED TO A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE 3 INSTRUCTIONAL. AND THERE'S SOME OTHER LANGUAGE IN HERE, 4 REALLY IT'S THE 50 PERCENT LAW THAT MAKES THAT 5 DISTINCTION. 6 THE OTHER DAY I GAVE A WHOLE CLASS OF STUDENTS 7 NON-INSTRUCTION IN HOW TO DO RESEARCH AND SO FORTH BECAUSE 8 THAT IS WHAT IT IS. 9 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. AND I KNOW WE 10 ARE GOING TO WORK FURTHER ON THAT ISSUE. 11 ON THE SORT OF LOOKING AHEAD TO SOMETHING YOU 12 ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT LATER THIS EVENING IN P5 -- P6, 13 RATHER, THE RESOLUTION ABOUT THE POWERS AND DUTY OF THE 14 BOARD. THERE'S A SENTENCE IN THERE THAT SAYS THAT YOU 15 WILL DELEGATE AUTHORITY IN ALL ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS TO 16 THE CHANCELLOR. AND THAT'S KIND OF AN ACCREDITATION THING 17 ALSO, DELEGATING THINGS TO THE CHANCELLOR. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SORRY. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT 19 WHEN WE GET TO THAT AGENDA ITEM. 20 MS. SAGINOR: YES, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION IT 21 BECAUSE HERE IN SECTION 6, THE STUDENTS ARE TALKING 22 ABOUT -- IT'S A GREAT SECTION. ACTUALLY SECTION 5 ABOVE 23 THAT WHERE IT SAYS, "THERE WILL BE AN ALLOCATION OF 24 $150,000 FOR STUDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR THE SECOND CHANCE 25 PROGRAM." I AM VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT IN HERE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 92 1 SECTION 6, I AM VERY HAPPY TO SEE THIS IN HERE, 2 BUT WHAT I AM WONDERING ABOUT IS THE PART OF THE SENTENCE 3 THAT SAYS, "SUCH FUNDS WILL BE RESERVED FOR" -- HOLD ON A 4 SECOND. 5 "SUCH FUNDS WILL BE RESERVED AND USED FOR" -- 6 AND THEN IT SAYS, "OTHERWISE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE OF 7 MONITORING SERVICE LEARNING." SO IT'S THAT ADMINISTERED 8 PHRASE IN HERE. I AM WONDERING IF YOU REALLY NEED THAT 9 AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE TALKING ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE 10 GOING TO BE ADMINISTERED. 11 YOU CAN HAVE THAT SAY, SUCH FUNDS SHALL BE 12 DESIGNATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF SCHOLARSHIPS 13 FROM TRUST FUNDS AND SO FORTH AND GET AT YOUR PURPOSE 14 WITHOUT SAYING, HERE'S HOW IT IS GOING TO BE ADMINISTERED 15 AND PUTTING THAT IN A BOARD POLICY, RATHER THAN DELEGATING 16 THAT TO YOUR CHANCELLOR. THAT'S MY SUGGESTION. THANK 17 YOU. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: SO DO YOU DISAGREE WITH -- 20 MS. SAGINOR: I'M SORRY. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: DO YOU DISAGREE WITH THE TERM 22 "ADMINISTERING" OR "ADMINISTRATION" OR "ADMINISTER" IN 23 ANY -- ON ANY PAGE OF THE BUDGET? 24 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 25 MS. SAGINOR: I'M SORRY. I'M OUT OF TIME. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 93 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. NO. NO. 2 MS. SAGINOR: IN GENERAL -- 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GOOD ONE. 4 MS. SAGINOR: -- ANY PLACE WHERE IT SAYS, HERE'S 5 HOW WE WANT TO ADMINISTER. WE WANT TO BE ADMINISTERED 6 THROUGH THIS OFFICE OR THROUGH THAT OFFICE. WE WANT THIS 7 PERSON TO ADMINISTER IT OR THAT THAT PERSON TO ADMINISTER 8 IT. I THINK ALL THAT SHOULD BE CLEANED UP IF IT'S IN 9 OTHER PLACES. 10 THERE'S A WORD "ADMINISTRATION," "ADMINISTER" OR 11 "ADMINISTRATING," IT SHOULD BE STRICKEN FROM THE BUDGET 12 RESOLUTION OR ANY RESOLUTION THAT WE ADOPT BY THE BOARD OF 13 TRUSTEES, IS THAT YOUR SUGGESTION? 14 MS. SAGINOR: I CAN'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION YES, 15 NO. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: I KNOW. 17 MS. SAGINOR: DO YOU WANT ME TO CONTINUE TO TALK 18 ABOUT THIS, PRESIDENT RIZZO, OR ARE WE COULD TALK ABOUT 19 THIS ANOTHER -- 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU CAN ANSWER THE TRUSTEE'S 21 QUESTION. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, SURE. 24 MS. SAGINOR: ANY PLACE IF YOU ARE SAYING IT 25 SHOULD BE ADMINISTERED THROUGH THIS OFFICE. IT SHOULD BE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 94 1 ADMINISTERED IN BY THESE PERSONS, THEN THAT SEEMS TO ME 2 THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THE CHANCELLOR IS MAKING THE 3 DECISIONS ON HOW THINGS ARE ADMINISTERED. 4 YOU KNOW, THE LEGAL COUNSEL IS REALLY THE PERSON 5 WHO CAN GO THROUGH THE DOCUMENT WITH YOU WORD BY WORD TO 6 LOOK AT THAT. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, YOU ARE SUGGESTING WE DELETE 8 THE LANGUAGE NOW. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE 9 MAKING A CONSISTENT ARGUMENT THAT EVERYWHERE IN THE 10 DOCUMENT AND IN ANY RESOLUTION WE ADOPT GOING BACK IN TIME 11 AND IN THE FUTURE SHOULD NEVER INCLUDE ANY FORM OF THAT 12 WORD. 13 MS. SAGINOR: YOU CAN USE THAT WORD WITHOUT 14 SAYING, I AM SAYING THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE ADMINISTERED. 15 YOU COULD SAY, FOR INSTANCE, TO BE ADMINISTERED 16 BY THE CHANCELLOR, WHICH I THINK IS WHAT YOU DO IN THE 17 INNOVATION FUND SECTION. WHERE YOU SAY, WE WANT FUNDS SET 18 ASIDE FOR INNOVATION. AND WE ARE ASKING THE CHANCELLOR TO 19 ADMINISTER IT. THERE YOU ARE USING THE WORD IN AN 20 ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE WAY. 21 DOES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION? 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: NOT REALLY, BUT -- 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ELSA RAMOS. 25 TRUSTEE RAMOS: I'VE ALREADY SPOKEN. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 95 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, YOU WERE. OH, I'M SORRY. 2 RENDI CISNEROS. 3 MR. CISNEROS: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS RENDI 4 CISNEROS. I COME FROM GUATEMALA. I WAS NOT BORN HERE. I 5 AM AN AB-540 STUDENT. AND I HOPE TO MAJOR IN ARCHITECTURE 6 GOING TO A FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY CAL POLY IN SAN LUIS 7 OBISPO. 8 A LOT OF US PEOPLE ARE IMMIGRANTS. YOU KNOW, WE 9 SUFFER FROM A LOT OF THINGS AT HOME. WE, AS IMMIGRANTS, 10 DON'T MAKE IT AROUND EASILY ANYWHERE. IT'S VERY HARD FOR 11 US. 12 UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ISN'T A LEGAL SOURCE FOR US 13 TO WORK. WE ALL HAVE TO JUMP IN TRUCKS. WE ALL HAVE TO 14 GO CESAR CHAVEZ AND ASK FOR A JOB. 15 AND FOR ME, THAT'S A CASE I HAVE TO FIND PLACES 16 AND, YOU KNOW, GET CONNECTIONS, YOU KNOW. I WORK AS 17 CONSTRUCTION. I WORK AS CLEANING. I WORK AS ANYTHING I 18 CAN TAKE. AND I'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR TWO YEARS ALL 19 SEMESTER LONG. 20 IT'S HARD, YOU KNOW. I GET TIRED. AND IT'S ALL 21 FOR MY TUITION. IT'S LIKE THIS EVERY SEMESTER. AND, YOU 22 KNOW, PASSING THIS -- YOU KNOW, PASSING THIS PROPOSAL 23 WOULD GREATLY CONTRIBUTE TO MY FAMILY. IT WILL GREATLY 24 CONTRIBUTE TO MY TUITION, ESPECIALLY. AND I HOPE THAT 25 THIS WILL PASS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 96 1 I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THIS JUST A WHILE AGO, AND 2 YOU OFFER A LOT OF THINGS. AND, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO 3 TRANSFER TO A FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY, THIS WOULD GREATLY 4 CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WISHES AND AS WELL AS LIFELONG LEARNING. 5 WE ALL HOPE FOR THAT. AND IT'S NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THIS 6 PASSING. THANK YOU. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NINA BARRIERE (SIC). 8 MS. BARRIERE: (INAUDIBLE.) 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. 10 MS. BARRIERE: IT'S COMPLICATED. IT'S BEEN LIKE 11 THAT SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL. IT'S COOL. 12 GOOD EVENING, CHANCELLOR, PRESIDENT, BOARD. I'M 13 DINA. I AM PART OF S.A.F.E. 14 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I THINK IN THIS 15 ECONOMICAL STRESSING TIME FOR ALL OF US, I DON'T THINK 16 IT'S A TIME TO BE SELFISH. I THINK IT'S TIME WHERE WE 17 NEED TO CONSIDER EVERYONE. 18 AND I THINK THAT THIS PROPOSAL WOULD ACTUALLY 19 HELP, NOT JUST AB-540, BUT IT WOULD ALSO HELP THE WHOLE 20 COMMUNITY. IT WOULD HELP EACH STUDENT TO CONTRIBUTE TO 21 THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO HELP THEMSELVES TO, YOU KNOW, 22 PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR THEIR FIELD WHERE THEY ARE GOING 23 INTO. 24 FOR EXAMPLE, I AM GOING INTO TEACHING. I WOULD 25 LIKE AN INTERNSHIP WHERE I COULD PRACTICE WHAT I AM GOING SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 97 1 INTO. 2 I THINK THAT PASSING THIS PROPOSAL WOULD 3 ACTUALLY HELP A LOT OF STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE. PEOPLE LIKE 4 ME WHO ARE AB-540, LOW INCOME, LIVES IN A FIVE-PERSON 5 FAMILY, UNEMPLOYED PARENTS. YOU NAME IT. I GET TO SCHOOL 6 HOWEVER I CAN. I GET MONEY TO GO BACK HOME HOWEVER I CAN. 7 I AM FROM THE EAST BAY, AND I COMMUTE EVERY DAY JUST TO 8 GET MY EDUCATION. 9 I FEEL THAT I WANT TO HELP MY COMMUNITY. AND I 10 WANT THIS TO PASS BECAUSE I FEEL THAT THIS WAY I CAN HELP 11 MY FAMILY. I CAN HELP MYSELF. 12 AND I HOPE THAT YOU GUYS CAN HELP US, EACH ONE 13 OF US TO GET OVER THIS OBSTACLE THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE I 14 KNOW THAT EVERYONE OF YOU KNOWS THAT MONEY DOESN'T GROW ON 15 TREES SO I CAN'T JUST GO PICK IT OUT OF MY BACK YARD AS 16 MUCH AS I WOULD WANT TO. 17 SO I HOPE YOU GUYS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THIS 18 PROPOSAL. AND MAYBE YOU COULD PASS IT AND HELP US OUT. 19 THANK YOU. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 DIAMOND DAVE. 22 DIAMOND DAVE: COME ON, ONE MORE TIME AROUND THE 23 SUN. HERE WE ARE AGAIN. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST FOR THE RECORD. I DON'T 25 THINK I'VE EVER SEEN ANYONE FIST BUMP PETER GOLDSTEIN SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 98 1 BEFORE. 2 DIAMOND DAVE: WELL, I LIKE TO MAKE HISTORY, 3 HERSTORY, AND HIPSTORY. AND I KNOW ANOTHER SIDE OF PETER 4 GOLDSTEIN WHICH ALLOWS ME TO FIST BUMP HIM LIKE THIS 5 (INDICATING). 6 THEY GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO BEFORE HE WAS BORN. 7 IT WAS CALLED, THE FIRST DAYS OF -- FOLK MUSIC BOB DYLAN 8 AND BEYOND. 9 JUG BANDS, IS THAT RIGHT, PETER? 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I DON'T REMEMBER. 11 DIAMOND DAVE: I KNOW HOW TO REVEAL WHAT I 12 SHOULDN'T. WELL, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE HERE. 13 AND ONCE AGAIN, I AM SAYING I AM STILL 14 FINANCING. I AM SAYING IT BETTER. TIGHTENING YOUR BELT 15 YEAR AFTER YEAR. AND YOU CAN TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS SO MUCH 16 THAT YOUR HEAD EXPLODES. 17 AND WE ARE HEARING ALL THIS STUFF. I AM HEARING 18 PETER'S (INAUDIBLE) AND OH, MY GOODNESS. OH, MY GOODNESS, 19 WE'VE NEVER GONE AFTER THAT. HOW DO WE GET THAT CAN 20 OPENED AND EMPTY IT OUT? 21 NOW WE HAVE THIS NEW PROGRAM. A PROGRAM, A 22 POSITIVE PROGRAM. 23 AND, OF COURSE, ANOTHER PETER KNOWS THAT THEY 24 ARE NOT PUTTING ON -- I BELIEVE, AS AN ECONOMIST HE KNOWS 25 THAT WE ARE THE VICTIMS OF -- WE ARE THE VICTIMS OF A SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 99 1 WORLD WIDE ECONOMIC CRISIS THAT WE ARE JUST BEGINNING TO 2 SEE AFTER SOME YEARS. WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW FAR BACK IT 3 WENT. IT GOES REALLY FAR BACK, AND STILL WE ARE HERE, AND 4 IT JUST KEEPS ON ROLLING. LIKE A ROLLING STONE, ROLLING 5 RIGHT OVER US. AND EVERY YEAR THE CUTBACKS CONTINUE. 6 I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE A COUPLE PAGES SAYING 7 WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. WHAT THIS SAYS IN THE WORLD -- AND 8 CERTAINLY, OUR AB STUDENTS HERE, OUR DREAM ACT STUDENTS 9 ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS WHICH IS 10 WORLDWIDE. 11 NOBODY HAS TO BE HERE, BUT HERE WE ARE. HERE WE 12 ARE WORKING TOGETHER. HERE WE BETTER HAVE A GLOBAL 13 VISION. 14 I SAID, "A GLOBAL VISION." 15 THESE BORDERS ARE UNOFFICIAL, AND WE ARE RISING 16 ABOVE. TAKE DOWN THE WALLS, OPEN THE DOORS, AND WE ARE 17 TALKING ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE BORDERS HERE. FAMILIES, 18 BANDS, TRIBES, COMMUNITIES, COLLECTIVES, INTERNS, I 19 BELIEVE IN THAT, BUT BORDERS ARE JUST A LINE ON THEIR MAP. 20 SO HERE WE ARE. SO THIS PROGRAM THAT THEY ARE 21 TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS GETTING SOME MONEY WHICH HAS JUST 22 BEEN SITTING THERE. 23 IS THAT RIGHT? 24 WHICH HASN'T BEEN USED AND USED CREATIVELY. IN 25 THIS TIME TOO OF INCREASING JOBLESSNESS WHEN THE ONLY JOBS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 100 1 THAT THE BROTHER IS SPEAKING ARE JOBS THAT ARE CLOSE TO 2 SLAVE JOBS. AND YOU ARE TRYING TO GO TO SCHOOL AT THE 3 SAME TIME. START CREATING SOME JOBS. 4 OBAMA HIMSELF TALKS ABOUT JOBS. IT'S ALL ABOUT 5 JOBS. IT'S ALL ABOUT CREATING JOBS. 6 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 7 DIAMOND DAVE: WELL, I THINK THIS INTERN PROGRAM 8 WILL NOT ONLY -- 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 10 DIAMOND DAVE: -- WILL BE CREATING JOBS AS WELL. 11 SO BROTHERS AND SISTERS LET'S GO FOR IT. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 EDBER ZAMUDIO. 14 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: HE ALREADY WENT. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HE ALREADY WENT, OKAY. THANK 16 YOU. 17 RENE ONAMEROS. 18 MR. ONAMEROS: HELLO, BOARD. HOW ARE YOU DOING? 19 MY NAME IS RENE ONAMEROS, AND I AM HERE 20 REPRESENTING MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS. ONE BEING I AM A 21 DISTRICT 9 YOUTH COMMISSIONER. AND SO PART OF OUR TASK, 22 AS BEING ON THE YOUTH COMMISSION, IS TO IDENTIFY THE UNMET 23 NEEDS OF OUR CHILDREN AND YOUTH. 24 AND ONE UNMET NEED, AND I AM REALLY URGE YOU TO 25 SUPPORT IS WE NEED ROLE MODELS IN OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 101 1 WE NEED COLLEGE ROLE MODELS IN OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS. 2 WHO IS GOING TO TEACH THESE YOUTH BETTER THAN A 3 COLLEGE ROLE MODEL THAT COULD OFFER WAY MORE INFLUENTIAL 4 ADVICE TO THEM, AND WHO COULD RELATE TO THEM, WHETHER IT'S 5 WHATEVER DEMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND THEY HAVE. SO I FEEL THAT 6 IS VERY IMPORTANT. 7 AND IF YOU ARE PROMOTING LEADERSHIP ON YOUR 8 BOARD, IF YOU ARE PROMOTING THAT AT CITY COLLEGE, THEN WHY 9 NOT START HERE. I THINK THIS IS A GENIUS PROGRAM TO START 10 WITH. AND I THINK THE QUESTION AT HAND SHOULD BE, WHY NOT 11 INCREASE THIS BUDGET? $200,000 IS A MODEST REQUEST. 12 AND I BELIEVE COMPARED TO THE ISSUES THAT WERE 13 AGENDIZED EARLIER. WE WERE TALKING 2 MILLION, 3 MILLION. 14 THIS IS $200,000 THAT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CHANGE 15 NUMEROUS PEOPLE'S LIVES. AND IF YOU ARE NOT -- IF YOU'RE 16 THAT FAR AWAY FROM YOUR PAPERWORK, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO 17 SEE THAT DIRECT INFLUENCE, THEN THERE'S A PROBLEM. 18 AND THE NEXT THING IS I ALSO SUPPORT -- I'M FROM 19 YA BASTA. AND WHAT WE ARE IS WE PROMOTE HIGHER EDUCATION. 20 WE ARE STUDENT-RUN CLUB IN CITY COLLEGE. AND WHAT WE DO 21 IS BY PROMOTING EDUCATION, WE UNDERSTAND AN OBSTACLE ON 22 ACHIEVING YOUR HIGHER EDUCATION IS A FINANCIAL BURDEN IN 23 WHICH WE ALL ARE PRETTY SURE THAT WE CAN AGREE ON IS 24 UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS, FINANCIAL BASED STUDENTS, THAT IS 25 ULTIMATELY A HIGHER BURDEN FOR THEM TO ACHIEVE WHILE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 102 1 TRYING TO CONTINUE AND GO TO SCHOOL. 2 SO I FEEL IF YOU WERE ABLE TO PASS THIS BUDGET, 3 WHICH I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO DO SO, IT WOULD NOT ONLY 4 INCREASE YOUR OWN STATISTICS OF TRANSFER AT OUR CITY 5 COLLEGE LEVEL BECAUSE WHY IS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE 6 CREDIT OF THOSE TRANSFERS, BUT NOT AT LEAST TRY TO 7 IDENTIFY AND HELP OUT AND ALLEVIATE SOME OF THOSE BURDENS 8 THAT THEY ARE FACING AT THE TIME. 9 SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO STRONGLY URGE THAT. 10 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 11 MR. ONAMEROS: THANK YOU. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 RAUL BARRERA. 14 MR. BARRERA: HI, EVERYONE. GOOD NIGHT. GOOD 15 AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS RAUL BARRERA, AND I JUST CAME FROM 16 CLASS. I HAD A CLASS, AN ASTRONOMY CLASS ON OCEAN CAMPUS. 17 AND I JUST CAME TO SUPPORT THE AMENDMENT THAT 18 WOULD ALLOW UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS, INCLUDING MYSELF TO GET 19 SCHOLARSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS. 20 I FEEL THAT EVERYONE IN HERE, LIKE THINKS THAT 21 OR APPROVES THAT THIS JOBS ARE NOT ONLY -- WELL, THEY ARE 22 NOT JOBS, THEY ARE INTERNSHIPS. THESE INTERNSHIPS ARE FOR 23 STUDENTS THAT HAVE -- ARE SUFFERING FROM LIKE FROM 24 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL -- THEY HAVE POLITICAL AND 25 ECONOMICAL OPPRESSION. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 103 1 AND FOR ME, LIKE TO HAVE THIS INTERNSHIP AND 2 THIS SCHOLARSHIP, WOULD ALLOW ME TO PAY FOR TUITION THAT 3 KEEPS INCREASING. 4 AND NOT ONLY FOR ME, BUT ALL LOW INCOME STUDENTS 5 TOO. THIS IS NOT AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD ALLOW AB-540 6 STUDENTS TO GET THESE INTERNSHIPS OR SCHOLARSHIPS. AND I 7 ALSO WOULD INCLUDE LOW INCOME STUDENTS. 8 ALL I WANTED TO SAY IS THAT I REALLY SUPPORT THE 9 AMENDMENT. AND, HOPEFULLY, YOU GUYS APPROVE IT BECAUSE 10 THIS IS NOT ONLY AT SCHOOL -- THIS IS NOT AT SCHOOL LEVEL. 11 THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE. AND YOU -- AND I'M PRETTY 12 SURE THAT YOU GUYS SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS. 13 AND TO HAVE THESE JOBS FOR US WOULD ALLOW US TO 14 KEEP COMING TO COLLEGE AND TO KEEP ACHIEVING OUR HIGHER 15 EDUCATION, OUR EDUCATION GOALS. AND I, HOPEFULLY, 16 ENCOURAGE EVERY HERE TO VOTE FOR IT. AND IF YOU GUYS 17 DON'T AGREE WITH THIS -- 18 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 19 MR. BARRERA: WE WILL BE BACK. WE WILL COME 20 BACK, AND WE WILL FIGHT FOR THIS UNTIL THIS IS DONE. 21 UNTIL THIS IS LIKE PASSED. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE ANY MORE PUBLIC 23 COMMENT? 24 CAN YOU FILL OUT A CARD? 25 MS. CASTENEDA: I DID. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 104 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. DID I SKIP 2 YOU? 3 MS. CASTENEDA: (INAUDIBLE.) 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, COME UP, AND STATE YOUR 5 NAME FOR THE RECORD. 6 MS. CASTENEDA: GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES 7 AND CHANCELLOR. MY NAME IS GRECIA CASTENEDA. I AM 8 PRESIDENT OF S.A.F.E. 9 AND I AM HERE TO URGE YOU GUYS TO VOTE FOR THIS 10 PROPOSAL THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED BECAUSE AS UNDOCUMENTED 11 STUDENTS, WE FACE A LOT OF STRUGGLES. AND YOU GUYS, AS 12 THE BOARD MEMBERS OF CITY COLLEGE, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF 13 OPENING MANY DOORS TO US. 14 AND I JUST CAN'T EMPHASIZE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS 15 FOR US TO GET THE INTERNSHIPS BECAUSE AS STUDENTS, WE WILL 16 BE ABLE TO GROW IN THE CAREERS THAT WE ARE MAJORING IN. 17 AND I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO KNOW THAT WE 18 APPRECIATE THAT YOU ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO US AND THAT YOU 19 ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 20 AND AS UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS AND LOW INCOME 21 STUDENTS, WE ARE GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY THAT OTHER 22 COLLEGES WOULDN'T GIVE US. 23 SO I AM HERE TO ASK YOU GUYS TO PLEASE VOTE FOR 24 THIS PROPOSAL. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS 25 YOU GUYS KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST FOR AB-540 STUDENTS, IT'S FOR SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 105 1 LOW INCOME STUDENTS. 2 AND, YOU, KNOW PROGRAMS LIKE GUARDIAN 3 SCHOLARSHIPS, SECOND CHANCE WILL BE BENEFITTED FROM THESE 4 INTERNSHIPS BECAUSE STUDENTS THAT ARE IN THOSE PROGRAMS 5 WILL BE WORKING WITHIN THIS INTERNSHIP. AND THEY WILL BE 6 ABLE TO GO OUT THERE, GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND AT 7 THE SAME TIME GIVE BACK TO CITY COLLEGE. AND I THINK IT'S 8 JUST REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US STUDENTS TO BE GIVEN THAT 9 OPPORTUNITY. 10 AND I JUST WANT TO CLOSE BY SHOWING YOU HOW MANY 11 PROGRAMS LIKE FOR WERE THERE, YOU KNOW, THE YOUTH SUMMIT 12 AT CITY HALL ARE HERE TO SUPPORT US, AND THEY ARE FOR IT. 13 AND THEY ARE HELPING US. 14 SO I WILL ASK -- I WILL WANT TO ASK EVERYONE WHO 15 IS HERE TO SUPPORT US TO PLEASE STAND UP, SO THEY COULD 16 SEE. 17 (SUPPORTERS STAND.) 18 WITH THAT, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE 19 RESOLUTION THAT YOU HAVE PUT IN TO BE VOTED ON TODAY. AND 20 I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO -- YOU MIGHT THINK THAT IT'S NOT A 21 BIG DEAL, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN YOU VOTE TODAY, 22 YOU ARE GOING TO BE MAKING A BIG CHANGE IN OUR LIVES. 23 THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE ANY MORE 25 PUBLIC COMMENT? SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 106 1 PUBLIC COMMENT IS CLOSED. 2 I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY NOT 3 VOTING ON THIS. THIS IS NOT AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET. 4 THIS IS IN THE BUDGET DOCUMENT. SO THIS IS NOT AN 5 AMENDMENT THAT WE ARE VOTING ON. WE ARE VOTING ON THE 6 WHOLE BUDGET. 7 IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO VOTE ON THIS, THEY WOULD 8 HAVE TO MOVE TO PULL IT OUT OF THE BUDGET, WHICH I DON'T 9 THINK ANYONE IS GOING TO DO. SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY 10 THAT. 11 WHAT WE HAVE BEFORE US IS THE BUDGET THAT 12 INCLUDES THAT THIS IS $200,000 WHICH IS PART OF A 13 $1.191 MILLION BUDGET. SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE VOTING ON. 14 TRUSTEE FANG. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I ACTUALLY WOULD LIKE TO 16 OFFER AN AMENDMENT TO THAT SPECIFIC -- 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, NOW -- 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: -- SECTION, A LITTLE BIT 19 OF A CHANGE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 21 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I WANT TO SAY 22 SOMETHING. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, NO. HE HAS THE FLOOR. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THE AMENDMENT IS ACTUALLY 25 THAT SAME SECTION 6, LINE 8, RIGHT AFTER "OFFICE OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 107 1 MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING." 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY. WHAT PAGE ARE YOU 3 ON? 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I'M ON PAGE 5 OF B7. I'M 5 ON THE RESOLUTION ITSELF. I AM NOT IN THE BUDGET BOOK. 6 IF THE LANGUAGE -- 7 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S PAGE 23 ON THE BUDGET BOOK. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WHAT ARE YOU PROPOSING? 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THAT WILL BE 23 IN THE 11 BUDGET BOOK I SUPPOSE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH. SO WHAT I AM 14 PROPOSING IS IN SECTION 6 ON PAGE 23 OF THE BUDGET BOOK 15 THAT AFTER THE WORDING, "OTHERWISE ADMINISTERED BY THE 16 OFFICE OF MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING, I WOULD LIKE TO 17 INSERT "COMMA, LEARNING ASSISTANCE CENTER AND, COMMA, 18 EOPS." THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE AS AN 19 AMENDMENT. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN YOU REPEAT WHERE THAT IS? 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: IT'S -- 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECTION 6. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECTION 6. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WHICH LINE? 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: IT'S ONE, TWO, THREE, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 108 1 FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, THE EIGHTH LINE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND WHAT LANGUAGE WOULD YOU -- 3 ARE YOU MOVING TO INSERT? 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: RIGHT AFTER THE WORDING 5 OF "MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING," I WOULD LIKE TO 6 INSERT ADDITIONAL -- I WOULD LIKE TO INSERT LAC, LEARNING 7 ASSISTANCE CENTER, AS WELL AS EOPS." 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? 9 IT LOOKS LIKE THERE IS NO SECOND. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: I WILL SECOND IT. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, YES. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK 13 THESE STUDENTS FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S 14 A LOT OF EXAMPLE OF COURAGE IN OUR TIME. AND THERE'S A 15 LOT OF EXAMPLES OF COURAGE IN THIS GENERATION, INCLUDING 16 THAT COURAGE THAT WE SEE ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 17 I THINK ONE OF THOSE EXAMPLES OF COURAGE IS FOR 18 STUDENTS WHO ARE LITERALLY VULNERABLE AT EVERY SINGLE 19 MOMENT OF THE DAY IN THIS COUNTRY, WHO HAVE THE COURAGE TO 20 ACTUALLY SPEAK OUT, AND SPEAK TO THEIR RIGHT TO NOT JUST 21 BE HERE, BUT TO DEMAND THE SAME THINGS THAT THEIR FELLOW 22 CALIFORNIANS AND SAN FRANCISCANS ALSO GET, AND TO DO SO AT 23 A PUBLIC MEETING. IT TAKES IMMENSE COURAGE TO DO THAT. 24 AND I CANNOT IMAGINE BEING IN THEIR SHOES. AND IT'S NOT 25 JUST HUMBLING, BUT IT'S ALSO INSPIRATIONAL TO ME. SO I SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 109 1 WANT TO THANK THEM FOR DOING THAT. 2 I KNOW IT'S NOT A SMALL FEAT TO EXPOSE 3 YOURSELVES HERE AT THIS MEETING IN A PUBLIC SETTING TO SAY 4 THAT YOU ARE UNDOCUMENTED AND UNAFRAID. BUT I WANT YOU TO 5 KNOW THAT IT'S NOT LOST ON ME AT LEAST THAT IT TOOK AN 6 IMMENSE EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF COURAGE FOR YOU TO DO 7 THAT. 8 SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THAT. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, WHAT'S ON THE TABLE 10 IS -- 11 TRUSTEE NGO: LET ME -- I KNOW. I AM GOING TO 12 ADDRESS THAT. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLEASE LET ME FINISH MY 14 SENTENCE. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT 17 ON PAGE 23. 18 TRUSTEE NGO. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE 20 CHANCELLOR WHO HAS BEEN AN ADVOCATE IN MANY WAYS PEOPLE 21 DON'T KNOW FOR AB-540 UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS. AND I KNOW 22 THAT THERE MAY BE SOME QUESTION ABOUT MICROMANAGING AND 23 ALL THAT STUFF, AND IT'S NOT NEW THAT THE BOARD HAS HEARD 24 THESE COMPLAINTS. 25 BUT THIS PROPOSAL HAS ACTUALLY BEEN WORKED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 110 1 FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS AT LEAST. AND IT WAS VETTED BY 2 THE CHANCELLOR HIMSELF, AND ACTUALLY THE AGENCY OF THE 3 OFFICE THAT IS GOING TO BE ADMINISTERING THE PROGRAM. I 4 DON'T KNOW IF LAC OR EOPS EVEN KNOW THAT THEY ARE GOING TO 5 BE GIVEN THIS PROJECT. 6 I AM SURE PEOPLE WHO WOULD OPPOSE MICROMANAGING 7 WOULD NOT LIKE ANYONE FROM THE BOARD TELLING THEM THAT 8 THEY ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE A PROGRAM THEY HAVE TO 9 ADMINISTER. 10 AND I AM SURE BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN 11 CONSISTENT WITH CRITICISM OF OTHER BOARD MEMBERS FOR DOING 12 THE SAME THING WILL ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT, THERE IS AN 13 INCONSISTENCY WITH THAT WITH SUPPORTING SUCH AN AMENDMENT. 14 I WANT TO THANK ALSO MY COLLEAGUES PRESIDENT 15 RIZZO AND CHRIS JACKSON FOR THE HONOR OF CO-SPONSORING 16 THIS AMENDMENT THAT WAS INTRODUCED AND REVISED AT BUDGET 17 COMMITTEE MEETING. 18 THEY ARE EQUALLY SUPPORTIVE IN MANY WAYS THAT 19 PEOPLE DON'T KNOW OF AB-540 STUDENTS, SO I WANT TO THANK 20 THEM FOR THAT. 21 NOW ONE OF MY CRITIQUES WITH THIS AMENDMENT IS 22 OBVIOUSLY -- AND I MENTIONED THIS TO YOU YESTERDAY, 23 TRUSTEE FANG, WHEN WE HAD THE POT STICKER EATING CONTEST. 24 AND I AM GLAD THAT YOU WON. BECAUSE I THINK IF I WON, I 25 WOULD HAVE DIED. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 111 1 BUT THE POINT IS THAT I ENCOURAGED YOU WITH YOUR 2 CRITICISM OF THIS PROGRAM. AND I KNOW THERE MAY BE SOME 3 PERSONAL ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE WITH SOME PEOPLE WHO MAY BE 4 SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION TONIGHT, BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW 5 THAT WHAT I ASKED YOU TO DO YESTERDAY WAS TO TALK TO THE 6 ADMINISTRATORS THAT YOU BELIEVE MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN 7 THIS PROGRAM, AND TO RUN IT UP THE SAME ADMINISTRATIVE 8 KIND OF PROTOCOL THAT HONESTLY EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS 9 COLLEGE AND FELLOW TRUSTEES HAVE ASKED US TO DO, TO NOT 10 SURPRISE ADMINISTRATORS ON ANY KIND OF PROGRAM. AND I'VE 11 ASKED YOU TO DO THAT. 12 AND I ASKED YOU TO ADDRESS ANY OF YOUR CRITICISM 13 OF THIS AMENDMENT TO THE ACTUAL ADMINISTRATORS WHO WOULD 14 BE CHARGED WITH AND APPROVED THIS LANGUAGE. IT DIDN'T 15 COME OUT OF THIN AIR. 16 SO I ASKED YOU TO TALK TO THE CHANCELLOR WITH 17 ANY CONCERNS THAT YOU HAVE. I ASKED YOU TO TALK TO LINDY 18 MCKNIGHT, WHO WOULD OVERSEE THE PROGRAM AS VICE 19 CHANCELLOR. I ASKED YOU TO JESSICA WILLIAMS, WHO ACTUALLY 20 RUNS OMSL TO SEE WHAT SHE THOUGHT OF IT. 21 I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS THAT THIS 22 MAYBE SOME SORT OF SLUSH FUND. BUT IN ALL HONESTY, IT'S 23 NOT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT -- IT'S A PROGRAM THAT'S 24 SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON COMMUNITY SERVICE AND MENTORING. 25 AND ANY DEPARTMENT IN THE COLLEGE, AS THE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 112 1 CHANCELLOR PROBABLY WILL SAY OR ANYONE ELSE WILL SAY. ANY 2 DEPARTMENT CAN ACCESS THESE FUNDS. THESE HAVE TO BE 3 COMPETITIVELY APPLIED TO THOUGH. THESE ARE SCHOLARSHIPS, 4 SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT CRITERIA IS THERE. 5 BUT I THINK THAT -- I'M HOPING FOR A LITTLE 6 ENCOURAGEMENT FROM MY FELLOW TRUSTEES AND SOME MEMBERS OF 7 THE FACULTY WHO HAVE CRITICIZED US FOR YEARS ABOUT NOT 8 RUNNING THINGS UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, NOT GOING THROUGH 9 PROPER CHANNELS AND SURPRISING PEOPLE WITH LANGUAGE. 10 AND I HOPE THAT, I AM ASSUMING THIS WAS NOT 11 DISCUSSED WITH LAC OR EOPS OR THE CHANCELLOR OR ANYONE 12 ELSE, BUT ASSUMING THAT IT WAS, THAT'S FINE. BUT I WOULD 13 HOPE THAT WE ARE -- YOU ARE ENCOURAGING THE BOARD TO DO 14 WHAT YOU'VE ACTUALLY ASKED US TO DO WHICH IS TO RUN THINGS 15 UP THROUGH THE PROPER CHANNELS, WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE DONE. 16 SO I AM GOING TO HAVE TO OPPOSE THE AMENDMENT 17 VEHEMENTLY. IT IS NOT FRIENDLY. UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU 18 WANT TO ADD MONEY TO IT. SO I KNOW THAT THERE'S $1 19 MILLION THAT DEPARTMENT CHAIRS ARE HOLDING IN RESERVE, 20 THAT HAS NOT BEEN TOUCHED, EVEN WHEN WE CUT SUMMER 21 SESSION, $4.1 MILLION. EVEN WHEN WE CUT SECTIONS IN THE 22 LAST TWO YEARS, THAT MONEY HAS NOT BEEN TOUCHED. 23 SO IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT AND ADD 24 MONEY AND ADD THOSE PROGRAMS, I AM WILLING TO WORK WITH 25 YOU. IT WILL BE -- IT WILL THEN BE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 113 1 I AM HOPING MY COLLEAGUES -- AND I KNOW THIS MAY 2 HAVE CAUGHT YOU BY SURPRISE ALL THESE PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT. 3 BUT THIS AMENDMENT WILL GIVE -- WILL NOT JUST ENCOURAGE 4 AND FOSTER COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SERVICE LEARNING AND 5 MENTORING FOR ALL STUDENTS, ALL ARE ELIGIBLE. 6 BUT IT WILL ALSO GIVE A CHANCE TO THOSE STUDENTS 7 WHO WERE ELIGIBLE THROUGH THIS COMPETITIVE PROCESS WHO 8 HAPPEN TO BE AB-540 TO GET SOMETHING. THEY DON'T GET ANY 9 FINANCIAL AID AT ALL, NOTHING. THEY CAN'T WORK. THEY 10 DON'T GET CAL GRANTS. THEY DON'T GET BOG WAIVERS. THEY 11 DON'T GET PELL GRANTS. THEY GET NOTHING. 12 AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE MAKING POLITICAL HAY 13 OUT OF THIS BODY, THESE SET OF STUDENTS WHEN THEY HAVE 14 NOTHING TO ME MAKES -- IT'S VERY DISAPPOINTING THAT WE ARE 15 MAKING THIS A POLITICAL CONTROVERSY. IT SHOULD NOT BE 16 CONTROVERSIAL. 17 HAVING SAID THAT, THIS IS WHAT I WILL SAY -- 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: EXCUSE ME. CAN WE NOT HAVE 19 HISSING AND BOOING FROM THE AUDIENCE. IT'S REALLY NOT -- 20 NOT PROPER DEMEANOR. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 22 HAVING SAID THAT, I -- JUST TO GIVE THE BOARD 23 SOME BACKGROUND. THIS IS WHY THIS WAS PROPOSED, AND IT 24 HAD BEEN ADOPTED IN COMMITTEE. IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED BY A 25 QUORUM, A MAJORITY OF THE QUORUM IN COMMITTEE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 114 1 SO IF YOU WANT TO CRITIQUE IT ON PROCESS, IT 2 ALSO WENT THROUGH THE BOARD PROCESS, AT COMMITTEE LEVEL, 3 AND IT WAS HEARD THERE, AND IT WAS VOTED, AND FORWARDED TO 4 BE A PART OF THIS BUDGET, WHICH I AM PROUD OF. 5 SO THAT'S WHY THESE STUDENTS ARE HERE TONIGHT. 6 THEY ARE JUST HOPING FOR A CHANCE. THEY ARE HOPING FOR 7 SOMETHING. THIS DOESN'T -- NOT ALL THE MONEY GOES TO 8 THEM. IT'S JUST IF THEY ARE ELIGIBLE, WE MAKE IT SO THAT 9 SCHOLARSHIPS -- THESE SCHOLARSHIPS WHICH ARE COMING FROM 10 DISTRICT TRUST FUNDS THAT ARE HELD BY -- THAT HAVE BEEN 11 WITH THE FOUNDATION MAKE THEM AVAILABLE TO THEM. AND IT 12 CONFORMS TO AB-130 WHICH WAS PASSED AND SIGNED INTO LAW. 13 SO IT'S NOT -- IT'S A LEGAL PROGRAM, AND WE SHOULDN'T BE 14 CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. 15 AND EVEN IF IT WASN'T, I THINK THAT THE COURAGE 16 THAT WE SAW TONIGHT FROM THESE STUDENTS SHOULD EMBOLDEN US 17 A LITTLE BIT TO FIGHT FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, NOT JUST 18 THE FEW. 19 SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO REJECT THE AMENDMENT 20 AND OVERALL TO ADOPT THE ENTIRE BUDGET. IT IS A GOOD 21 BUDGET FOR THE REASONS I DISCUSSED. THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 THE CHANCELLOR WANTED TO SPEAK. I WANT TO GIVE 24 EVERYONE A CHANCE TO SPEAK BEFORE WE GET BACK TO YOU, 25 TRUSTEE FANG, JUST OUT OF FAIRNESS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 115 1 THE CHANCELLOR AND THEN TRUSTEE JACKSON WANTED 2 TO SPEAK. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I THINK I APPRECIATE -- 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY, TRUSTEE FANG. I 5 THINK WE NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: POINT OF PERSONAL 7 PRIVILEGE, THE COMMENT WHILE IT WAS TAKEN, SOME OF THE 8 POINTS ARE VALID. I FELT VERY PERSONAL. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, TRUSTEE FANG, WE NEED TO 10 GO IN ORDER -- 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- OF THE PEOPLE -- 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK 14 YOU. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- THAT RAISED THEIR HAND. 16 CHANCELLOR. 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU TO 18 ALL THE SPEAKERS WHO CAME TONIGHT TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF 19 THIS. 20 SECONDLY, THE OFFICE OF SERVICE LEARNING AND 21 MENTORING WAS AN OFFICE THAT WAS SELECTED BY THE 22 ADMINISTRATION. WE DID A VERY CAREFUL THOUGHT PROCESS IN 23 TERMS OF WHERE THIS WOULD BE BEST ADMINISTERED. AND WE 24 SUGGESTED THAT. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S COMING FROM 25 THE BOARD IN TERMS OF THAT SUGGESTION. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 116 1 I FIND IT A LITTLE BIT TROUBLING THAT PEOPLE ARE 2 VERY SELECTIVE IN SAYING WHICH OFFICE SHOULD DO WHAT, WHAT 3 SHOULD THE CHANCELLOR DO OR NOT DO WHEN I MAKE A VERY 4 CONCRETE AND SPECIFIC SUGGESTION IN REGARDS TO WHERE IT'S 5 BEST TO BE ADMINISTERED, THEN I AM NOT REALLY HAPPY ABOUT 6 BEING SECOND AND TRIPLE GUESSED ABOUT THIS KIND OF STUFF. 7 YOU WANT ADMINISTRATION TO ADMINISTER THESE 8 FUNDS. I'VE SAID SPECIFICALLY HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE. WE 9 HAVE OVERSIGHT FROM ME TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR, LINDY 10 MCKNIGHT, THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, JESSICA WILLIAMS. IT'S A 11 DEFINITE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR 12 ALL OF THESE DOLLARS. WE HAVE BEEN VERY CAREFUL ABOUT HOW 13 WE ADMINISTER DOLLARS, HOW WE MONITOR THOSE DOLLARS. 14 TO COME TO SAY THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE DOING 15 THIS IN A CORRECT MANNER, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DISTURBING. 16 IT'S ALSO A LITTLE BIT DISTURBING, AS CHANCELLOR OF THE 17 DISTRICT, THAT I WOULD BE SORT OF TOSSED UP HERE LIKE A 18 FOOTBALL IN TERMS OF WHETHER OR NOT I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY 19 TO ACTUALLY MAKE THESE KINDS OF DECISIONS. 20 IT'S QUITE DISTURBING BECAUSE WE DO IT ALL THE 21 TIME IN TERMS OF OTHER PROGRAMS WHY IS IT BEING 22 CENTRALIZED IN TERMS OF THIS PARTICULAR SET OF MONIES OR 23 PROGRAMS. I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC OR THE 24 REASONING OF IT. BUT MORE THAN THAT, IT'S REALLY SAYING 25 THAT THE ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO ACTUALLY BE VOTED ON IN SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 117 1 TERMS OF HOW WE ADMINISTER PROGRAMS WHERE WE HAVE MONIES 2 ATTACHED. AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S CORRECT. AND WE HAVE 3 IN MANY CASES TALKED ABOUT WHAT IS THE BEST OFFICE FOR 4 DOING THIS. 5 THIS OFFICE HAS A TRACK RECORD OF MORE THAN 15 6 YEARS OF PUTTING OUT DOLLARS, PUTTING OUT APPLICATIONS FOR 7 DEPARTMENTS TO UTILIZE THE FUNDS. WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN IS 8 THIS NOW BEING QUESTIONED IN TERMS OF AN OFFICE? 9 THAT'S WHAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT BECAUSE WHEN WE 10 DID THIS FOR 15 YEARS AT THE COLLEGE, AND WE PUT OUT THESE 11 APPLICATIONS THROUGHOUT MANY DEPARTMENTS, I WOULD BET YOU 12 THAT MORE THAN A HUNDRED DEPARTMENTS HAVE HAD APPROVAL AT 13 ONE TIME OR ANOTHER FOR APPLICATIONS THROUGH THIS PROGRAM. 14 THIS IS A VERY WELL-RUN PROGRAM. IT'S A VERY 15 WELL-RESPECTED PROGRAM. AND IT WILL BE VERY CAREFULLY 16 MONITORED BY MY OFFICE, BY LINDY'S OFFICE, AND EVERYONE 17 INVOLVED. 18 SO I DON'T CONSIDER ANY KIND OF AMENDMENT TO THE 19 BUDGET THAT INSERTS ITSELF AROUND A PARTICULAR PROGRAM IS 20 VERY, VERY GOOD IN TERMS OF OVERALL MICROMANAGING BY THE 21 BOARD. 22 THIS WOULD BE -- PUTTING THIS -- INSERTING 23 LANGUAGE TO SAY, EOPS LEARNING ASSISTANCE CENTER OR ANY 24 OTHER ENTITY IS REALLY A MICROMANAGEMENT. AND THERE'S 25 NOBODY AT EOPS OR IN THE LEARNING CENTER THAT WOULD BE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 118 1 SAYING TO ME, LET'S NOT HAVE IT IN THIS OFFICE. LET'S 2 HAVE IT IN ANOTHER OFFICE. THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 3 SO I'M NOT GOING TO QUESTION ANYBODY'S INTENTION OR 4 MOTIVE, BUT WE SHOULD NOT AMEND THE BUDGET IN THIS MANNER. 5 IF YOU ARE GOING TO START DOING THAT, WE MIGHT 6 AS WELL HANG IT UP AND JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, JUST AMEND 7 EVERYTHING. JUST PUT EVERYTHING UP FOR GRABS IN TERMS OF 8 HOW WE ARE DOING BUSINESS. WE CAN'T DO THAT. THAT'S WHY 9 THE BASIC BOTTOM LINE, NO CHANGES. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AND AT FIRST I JUST 13 WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING OUT AND, YOU KNOW, YOU 14 GUYS ARE A LOT BRAVER THAN I AM BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA 15 WHAT IT'S LIKE TO STAND IN YOUR SHOES AND, YOU KNOW, COME 16 OUT AND ACTUALLY SAY, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW I AM AN AB-540 17 STUDENT WITH THE CONSTANT FEAR. 18 YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY EASY FOR ME TO SUPPORT 19 THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I AM ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, MY WIFE 20 IS AN AB-540 STUDENT OR WAS AN AB-540 STUDENT. YOU KNOW, 21 I AM PART OF AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY. 22 AND WHY I TELL EVERYBODY I WORKED, YOU KNOW, MY 23 WAY BY LOADING UPS TRUCKS THROUGH COLLEGE. YOU KNOW, MY 24 WIFE, YOU KNOW, WORKED THREE JOBS, YOU KNOW, WORKING FOR 25 VARIOUS RESTAURANTS UNDER THE TABLE TO PAY AN ABSORBITANT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 119 1 AMOUNT MORE FOR EDUCATION, YOU KNOW, THAN I DID. AND SO, 2 YOU KNOW, THE REASON I NEVER SKIPPED TOO MANY CLASSES IS 3 BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, MAN, SHE WANTS IT SO BAD. AND, YOU 4 KNOW, HOW BAD WOULD I LOOK FOR JUST SKIPPING OUT ON A 5 CLASS. 6 AND SO NOW I AM GOING TO ADDRESS THE AMENDMENT. 7 THE REASON, YOU KNOW, I SUPPORT THIS GOING TO THE OFFICE 8 OF SERVICE LEARNING IS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THAT, YOU KNOW, 9 THE RIGHT WING ALWAYS SAYS, IMMIGRANTS ARE ALWAYS TAKING, 10 TAKING, TAKING FROM THIS COUNTRY. THEY ARE TAKING OUR 11 JOBS. THEY ARE TAKING OUR EDUCATION. THEY ARE TAKING, 12 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING. THEY ARE TAKING OUR WAY OF LIFE AND 13 CULTURE. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE. 14 BUT YOU KNOW BY PUTTING THIS PROGRAM FOR FOLKS 15 WHO ARE AB-540 STUDENTS INTO THE SERVICE LEARNING, WE ARE 16 ACTUALLY MAKING A POINT BY SAYING, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS ARE 17 ACTUALLY GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. AND OUR FOLKS ARE 18 STUDENTS NO MATTER WHERE THEY COME FROM, THEY DON'T TAKE. 19 THEY DO GIVE BACK. AND IT MAKES A STRONG STATEMENT. AND 20 IT HELPS PUT OUR STUDENTS OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL 21 IN SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM AN AB-540 STUDENT, I'M 22 HELPING YOUR COMMUNITY CENTER. I AM AN AB-540 STUDENT, 23 AND I AM WORKING IN YOUR DEPARTMENT. IT MAKES A STRONG 24 STATEMENT BY HAVING STUDENTS GO OUT THERE AND DO THIS 25 SERVICE LEARNING. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 120 1 AND SO THAT'S WHY I AM A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF IT 2 BE BEING IN THE OFFICE OF SERVICE LEARNING, NOT BECAUSE OF 3 THE PEOPLE, NOT BECAUSE OF THE PERSON WHO RUNS IT OR NOT 4 BECAUSE OF ANY OF THE VARIOUS POLITICS. I DON'T WANT TO 5 GET THESE STUDENT CAUGHT UP IN THE POLITICS BECAUSE THEY 6 ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE POLITICS ALREADY BY RIGHT WING AND 7 PEOPLE TRYING TO DENY THEM EDUCATION. 8 NOW FOR US TO GET THEM CAUGHT UP BECAUSE, YOU 9 KNOW, BECAUSE OF VARIOUS STUFF, I DON'T WANT TO GET THEM 10 CAUGHT UP. THERE'S AN OLD SAYING, AN AFRICAN SAYING, IS 11 WHEN THE ELEPHANTS FIGHT, THE GRASS IS THE ONE THAT 12 LOSSES. AND I DON'T WANT TO STEP ON THESE FOLKS. 13 AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO SEPARATE WHAT'S GOING 14 ON BETWEEN VARIOUS PEOPLE AND JUST PASS THIS. LET THESE 15 STUDENTS BE ABLE TO HAVE A SERVICEABLE INTERNSHIP THAT 16 GIVES BACK TO VARIOUS COMMUNITIES, PARTICULARLY 17 COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, AND LET'S MOVE ON WITH THIS, AND 18 LET'S SHOW THIS -- 19 YOU KNOW, THERE'S VERY FEW, YOU KNOW, BRIGHT 20 SPOTS IN THIS BUDGET. THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW BRIGHT SPOTS 21 IN THIS BUDGET, AND LET'S NOT RUIN THAT. LET'S MOVE 22 FORWARD. LET'S GET THIS STARTED, AND LET'S CONTINUE TO 23 MOVE AND GROW. 24 AND I AM MINDFUL THAT SOME OF OUR TRUSTEES HAVE 25 TO GO, SO I AM GOING TO STOP. BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT I AM SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 121 1 IN FULL SUPPORT, AND I WOULD, YOU KNOW, RESPECTFULLY -- 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ARE YOU IN SUPPORT OF TRUSTEE 3 FANG'S -- 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: NO. NO. I AM IN FULL 5 SUPPORT OF IT BEING IN THE OFFICE OF SERVICE LEARNING. 6 AND I RESPECTFULLY SAY, YOU KNOW, TRUSTEE FANG, 7 THAT I HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST THIS AMENDMENT. BUT I LOOK 8 FORWARD TO CONTINUE TO DIALOGUE WITH YOU ON HOW YOU CAN 9 EVENTUALLY BE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM BEING AT THE 10 OFFICE OF SERVICE LEARNING. THANK YOU. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WE HAVE TRUSTEE GRIER. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: NO. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP? 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: MY HAND WAS NOT UP. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: I AM GOING TO LET TRUSTEE FANG 16 SPEAK AND THEN I WILL SPEAK. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: OKAY. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU FOR WAITING. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME 21 FINALLY SPEAK, PRESIDENT. 22 FIRST OF ALL, TRUSTEE NGO, OUR CONVERSATION 23 YESTERDAY I WOULD LIKE TO JUST LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS 24 NOT PERSONAL AT ALL. THE FACT THAT YOU ALREADY -- THERE 25 IS AN AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OUT THERE THAT THIS IS PERSONAL SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 122 1 OR THAT THIS IS SOME KIND OF OBJECTION FOR NO REASON, IT'S 2 SIMPLY FALSE. 3 I MADE THIS AMENDMENT, NOT BECAUSE I WANT TO 4 DENY ANYONE, IT IS BECAUSE IT IS FOR, AS I WAS TOLD, 5 VEHEMENTLY BY THE WAY, BY STUDENTS THAT THIS IS FOR ALL 6 STUDENTS, NOT JUST AB-540, ALL STUDENTS, LOW INCOME, 7 ANYONE. 8 SO THAT'S WHEN I STARTED THINKING, IF THIS IS 9 FOR ALL STUDENTS, EOPS IS IN GREAT NEED -- EOPS OBVIOUSLY 10 DOES A LOT FOR STUDENTS AS WELL. AND I PERSONALLY KNOW -- 11 AND YES, I HAVE SPOKEN TO EOPS. I WILL APOLOGIZE TO 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN FOR NOT SPEAKING TO HIM TODAY. YET 13 TODAY IS VERY SHORT. I HAVEN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO. 14 HOWEVER, THE THING IS THE TUTORING OF THAT -- OF 15 STUDENTS TO EACH OTHER ON CAMPUS PROVIDES GREAT BENEFIT 16 FOR STUDENT SUCCESS FOR TRANSFERRING AS WELL. 17 I THINK IF ANYTHING IN TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT AND 18 JOBS, THIS IS A WIN-WIN. IF WE CAN ALSO ADD THESE TWO 19 OFFICES TOO SO THAT THEY COULD POSSIBLY HAVE AB-540 20 STUDENTS IF IT MAY BE AND LOW INCOME STUDENTS THAT WANTS 21 TO HAVE A JOB AND BY TUTORING OTHER STUDENTS TO HELP EACH 22 OTHER BE SUCCESSFUL. THAT IS NOT A BAD THING. SO THAT'S 23 WHY I OFFER THIS. 24 NOW, YOU KNOW, I WILL LET THE ACCUSATION OF 25 MICROMANAGE AND EVERYTHING ELSE COME ON TO ME AND I WILL SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 123 1 LET IT SLIDE, BUT THE THING IS THIS IS NOT ABOUT THAT. I 2 AM NOT TRYING TO DENY ANYONE. IF THERE ARE ANY PERCEPTION 3 OF SUCH, IT IS SIMPLY FALSE. IT IS FALSE, THEREFORE TO 4 EXPAND AND TO HAVE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT'S IN SCHOOL THAT 5 DOES GREAT THINGS FOR STUDENTS TO ALSO BE ABLE TO GET TO 6 EMPLOY STUDENTS THROUGH THOSE OFFICES WILL BE GREAT. I 7 THINK THAT'S BENEFICIAL. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO 10 ECHO THE COMMENTS OF MY COLLEAGUES IN OUR ADMIRATION FOR 11 ALL OF YOU WHO CAME UP TO SPEAK, THE UNDOCUMENTED 12 STUDENTS. 13 I'M LIKE THE DINOSAUR ON THIS BOARD BECAUSE I 14 REMEMBER THE TIME WHEN -- AND IT WAS CALLED, NOT ICE, BUT 15 THE INS WHERE THEY WANTED CITY COLLEGE TO REPORT 16 UNDOCUMENTEDS. AND THEY WANTED ANY STUDENTS WHO DID NOT 17 HAVE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS TO BE REPORTED. AND THAT'S 18 WHEN I INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO SAY, NO WAY. THAT'S 19 WHEN I INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO SAY, WE ARE GOING TO 20 HAVE -- WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. 21 WE ARE JUST GOING TO HAVE ID NUMBERS TO PROTECT OUR 22 UNDOCUMENTED. THIS WAS WHAT, 12, 13, 14 YEARS AGO WHEN 23 HALF OF YOU WERE STILL AT HOME CHILDREN BASICALLY. 24 SO CITY COLLEGE HAS A HISTORY OF SUPPORTING 25 UNDOCUMENTS. AND THERE IS NO DOUBT, NO DOUBT THAT WE ARE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 124 1 SUPPORTIVE OF AB-540. 2 EVEN IF THIS ALL DIDN'T COME ABOUT, AND EVEN IF 3 YOU WERE ALL NOT HERE, THIS WOULD HAVE PASSED EASILY 4 BECAUSE THAT IS OUR HISTORY. THAT IS OUR TRADITION. AND 5 WHO WAS IT WHO SAID THAT IT'S A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE, THE 6 LAST STUDENT WITH THE PONYTAIL. IT IS A HUMAN RIGHTS 7 ISSUE. MAKE NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. EDUCATION IS A HUMAN 8 RIGHTS ISSUE. 9 NOW I AM GOING TO SPEAK TO TRUSTEE -- STUDENT 10 TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AB-540 11 STUDENTS AND WE TALK ABOUT LOW INCOME STUDENTS, I 12 UNDERSTAND WHERE HE'S COMING FROM IN TERMS OF KIND OF 13 OPENING IT UP A LITTLE BIT IN TERMS OF EOPS AND LEARNING 14 ACCESS CENTER. IT JUST OPENS IT UP A LITTLE BIT, AND I 15 UNDERSTAND THAT. I UNDERSTAND WHERE HE IS COMING FROM. 16 IT PROVIDES A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORT LEVEL. AND SO I 17 WILL BE SUPPORTING HIS AMENDMENT. I DON'T THINK THAT'S 18 GOING TO BE TAKING AWAY ANYTHING FROM WHAT WE ALL -- IF 19 THE CORE ISSUE HERE WHICH IS THAT WE NEED TO SUPPORT ALL 20 OF OUR STUDENTS, UNDOCUMENTED, LOW INCOME, WHATEVER. THAT 21 HAS BEEN THE HISTORY. 22 AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT I WAS THE FIRST TRUSTEE 23 IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COLLEGE THAT CAME OUT PUBLICLY IN 24 SUPPORT OF UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS WHEN AT THAT TIME WHEN 25 THIS COUNTRY WAS SO ANTI IMMIGRANT BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 125 1 SITUATION. 2 AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU -- AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT 3 WHENEVER THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IS BAD IN THIS COUNTRY, 4 WHO ARE THE TARGETS ALWAYS? IT'S THE UNDOCUMENTED. IT'S 5 ALWAYS LIKE THAT. 6 SO, YEAH, WE ARE GOING TO SUPPORT THIS, BUT I 7 ALSO UNDERSTAND WHERE TRUSTEE FANG IS COMING FROM. AND I 8 AM GOING TO ALSO SUPPORT TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: VICE PRESIDENT, CAN I HAND YOU 10 THE GAVEL BECAUSE I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING. 11 (PRESIDENT RIZZO HANDS THE GAVEL OVER TO VICE 12 PRESIDENT JACKSON.) 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT, BUT I DO WANT TO SUPPORT 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG ON THIS. 16 HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO MOVE TO AMEND THE BUDGET. 17 WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE. I DON'T THINK THIS IS MICROMANAGING 18 TO PUT IN AN OFFICE IN HERE BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE THAT 19 TRUSTEE NGO WROTE AND THAT I CO-SPONSORED SPECIFIES AN 20 OFFICE IN TO, YOU KNOW, TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THIS OFFICE 21 OF MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING. 22 SO IF TRUSTEE NGO AND I CAN INSERT THE OFFICE OF 23 MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING, STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG CAN 24 CERTAINLY INSERT OR MOVE TO INSERT ANOTHER OFFICE. 25 SO I THINK YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. EITHER, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 126 1 YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T HAVE ANY OFFICES IN HERE OR HE HAS A 2 PERFECT RIGHT TO DO IT. 3 SO I DON'T SUPPORT THE AMENDMENT, BUT I SUPPORT 4 WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT TO DO THIS. I 5 DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT. AND SO I 6 WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO KEEP DOING WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. 7 (TRUSTEE MARKS LEAVES THE MEETING.) 8 (VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON HANDS THE GAVEL BACK TO 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO.) 10 TRUSTEE. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT 12 RIZZO. 13 I ALSO WANT TO ADDRESS A REMAINING ISSUE I THINK 14 KNOWING THE WAY THE STUDENT POLITICS ON CAMPUS DOES PLAY 15 OUT SOMETIMES, I NEED TO TAKE THIS MOMENT AND ADDRESS IT 16 RIGHT NOW THAT I AM A SUPPORTER. IN FACT A STRONG ONE, IF 17 I CAN CALL MYSELF, OF AB-540 BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE BILL 18 THAT CAME TO MY ATTENTION THAT'S STATEWIDE THAT'S PUSHING 19 DREAM ACT AB-130, EVERYTHING I ACTUALLY ADVOCATE FOR IT, 20 AND I WORKED WITH ALL THE STATEWIDE SYSTEM PARTNERS, THE 21 ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS, STUDENTS OR FACULTY OR CLASSIFIED 22 TO SUPPORT IT. 23 SO I JUST WANT THE RECORD TO SHOW THAT THIS 24 IS -- THIS AMENDMENT -- THE PURPOSE IS SO THAT THERE'S 25 MORE OPPORTUNITIES. IT OPENS IT UP, NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 127 1 AWAY FROM ANYONE. I PERSONALLY SEE IT AS THIS IS OKAY, 2 HOWEVER, I UNDERSTAND WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING. BUT IF WE 3 GO HOME TONIGHT AND THERE'S A START OF A PERCEPTION OF ME 4 BEING AN ENEMY OVER ANY PARTICULAR GROUP, THAT IS NOT 5 TRUE. THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: (INAUDIBLE). 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A BRIEF 9 COMMENT. I'VE LISTENED TO EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID 10 AND WITH EQUAL IMPORTANCE TO EVERYONE WHO HAD TO SAY WHAT 11 THEY HAD TO SAY. 12 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK THAT'S MISSING 13 FROM THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION, AND YOU MAY NOT BE TOTALLY 14 AWARE OF IT, AND THAT IS THE PROCESS. THE PROCESS THAT WE 15 GO THROUGH IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A BUDGET. WE MAKE A LOT OF 16 CHANGES. AND CHANGES ARE MADE AS A RESULT OF MONIES THAT 17 WE THOUGHT WE HAD, MONIES THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD OR 18 FOUND MONEY. SO IT'S A LONG PROCESS. 19 THE WHOLE IDEA IS THAT YOU COME TOGETHER AND YOU 20 DEVELOP SOMETHING FOR THE GOOD OF EVERYONE. YOU ALSO HAVE 21 OPPORTUNITIES TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. YOU ALSO HAVE 22 OPPORTUNITIES TO DISAGREE AND YOU ALSO HAVE THE 23 OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE FINAL SAY. 24 I THINK WE ALSO NEED TO REMEMBER WHAT THE 25 CHANCELLOR HAS SAID IN TERMS OF THIS WHOLE PROCESS. HE IS SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 128 1 THE LEADER HERE IN TERMS OF THIS COLLEGE AND I WOULD LIKE 2 TO SAY HE HAS BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB. 3 WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THINK THAT EVERYONE ON 4 THIS BOARD WILL VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE. AND I DO 5 APPRECIATE ALL THE STUDENTS WHO CAME OUT TO MAKE THEIR 6 COMMENT. 7 YOU KNOW CITY COLLEGE IS A WONDERFUL PLACE. WE 8 CERTAINLY DO BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH AND FIRST AMENDMENT 9 RIGHTS. WE TAKE THE LEADERSHIP. 10 AS I GO TO DIFFERENT CITIES AND STATES, THE 11 QUESTION ALWAYS IS WELL, WHAT IS SAN FRANCISCO DOING? 12 WHAT IS CALIFORNIA DOING? WE CERTAINLY DO LEAD THE WAY. 13 AND WITH THAT IN MIND, I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE 14 THE VOTE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST TO CLARIFY, MR. PRESIDENT, I 17 DON'T THINK I HAVE BEEN INCONSISTENT WITH WHAT I SAID 18 ABOUT MY POINTS EARLIER. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DIDN'T SAY THAT. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. YEAH. SO MY ISSUE WAS NOT 21 WITH WHETHER OR NOT TRUSTEES FANG'S CAN INSERT AN OFFICE 22 IN THE RESOLUTION. MY ISSUE WAS WITH, WHICH I THINK IS 23 SOUND, WHICH IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED AND 24 ENCOURAGED, AND I THINK IT IS SOUND, TO ACTUALLY TALK AND 25 RUN THROUGH THE CHAIN WITH THE CHANCELLOR, OUR DELEGATE, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 129 1 AND OTHER ADMINISTRATORS BEFORE WE PRESENT SOMETHING AT 2 THE BOARD. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT. I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT 3 FOR THREE YEARS I HAVE BEEN ON HERE. AND I AM TRYING TO 4 KEEP TO THAT, ESPECIALLY BY OTHER TRUSTEES WHO TOLD ME THE 5 SAME THING. 6 SO IT'S NOT THAT HE PROPOSED THOSE OFFICES. IN 7 FACT I WOULD ENCOURAGE HIM IF HE WANTS TO EXPAND THE 8 PROGRAM TO THOSE OFFICES, THAT WE WORK IT UP AND MAYBE 9 EVEN MIDYEAR WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. IT'S UP TO YOU. 10 BUT LIKE I SAID TO YOU YESTERDAY, AND AGAIN, I 11 APOLOGIZE IF I COME ACROSS, YOU KNOW, IN THE WAY THAT YOU 12 MAY TAKE OFFENSE. BUT LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, I HAD 19 POT 13 STICKERS LAST NIGHT IN THREE MINUTES SO SOME OF THAT MAY 14 BE RESIDUE FEELINGS THAT HAVE COME OUT IN MY ACTUAL 15 PRESENTATION TO YOU. 16 WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS THAT YESTERDAY I TOLD 17 YOU THAT WE CAN DO POLITICS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF MATH 18 SYMBOLS. WE CAN DO POLITICS WITH THE DIVISION SYMBOL OR 19 THE PLUS. AND I THINK WHAT I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO IS THAT 20 IF YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE ON A FIGHT, YOU TAKE ON THE FIGHT 21 WITH PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE POWER AND NOT PEOPLE WHO 22 DON'T HAVE POWER. 23 AND FOR YEARS, WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED THE 24 DEPARTMENTAL RESERVE AND WE'VE TAKEN AWAY MONEY FROM 25 STUDENTS. SO IF YOU WANT TO ADD TO THIS PROGRAM AND DO SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 130 1 THE POLITICS OF ADDITION, I AM WITH YOU. IF YOU WANT TO 2 DO THE POLITICS OF DIVISION, I CAN'T STAND WITH YOU, 3 ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE GOING AFTER PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE 4 ANYTHING. 5 RIGHT NOW IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT AND 6 ADD MONEY FROM THE DEPARTMENTAL RESERVES, I'M HAPPY TO 7 SUPPORT YOU, SO LONG AS WE WORK THAT ISSUE UP THROUGH THE 8 CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AND NOT THROUGH THIS PROCESS. JUST 9 FOR THE SAME REASONS I DISCUSSED EARLIER. 10 SO WITH THAT, I WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR 11 INITIATIVE AND YOUR INTEREST IN THE ISSUE. AND I LOOK 12 FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN'T 13 SUPPORT YOUR AMENDMENT TONIGHT. THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COUNSEL, I WANT TO ASK YOU A 15 QUESTION. DO WE NEED -- SINCE THIS AMENDMENT WAS MOVED 16 AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT CLOSED, DO WE NEED TO OPEN IT UP TO 17 PUBLIC COMMENT TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A CHANCE TO COMMENT ON 18 THIS -- ON TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT. 19 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OH, I SEE. HE MADE THE 20 AMENDMENT AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT. 21 MR. PRESIDENT, I DON'T BELIEVE THIS AMENDMENT 22 WAS SECONDED. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: IT WAS. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG SECONDED IT. 25 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. NO. NO. TRUSTEE FANG SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 131 1 PROPOSED THE AMENDMENT AND THEN -- 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, TRUSTEE WONG SECONDED IT. 3 I'M SORRY. 4 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 5 OKAY, YEAH, IF PEOPLE WANT TO -- IF THE PUBLIC 6 WANTS TO COMMENT ON THE AMENDMENT. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WE WILL OPEN UP PUBLIC 8 COMMENT. WE ARE -- I AM GOING TO STRICTLY ENFORCE THAT 9 YOU MUST SPEAK ON TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT AND ONLY HIS 10 AMENDMENT AND NOTHING ELSE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE TOPIC 11 IS RIGHT NOW. WE'VE ALREADY HAD PUBLIC COMMENT ON BUDGET 12 SO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AND, MR. PRESIDENT, YOU ARE GOING 14 TO CUT THEM OFF -- 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: -- IF IT'S NOT RELATED TO THE 17 AMENDMENT. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. YES. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: LINDY MCKNIGHT. 21 VCSD MCKNIGHT: LINDY MCKNIGHT, VICE CHANCELLOR 22 STUDENT DEVELOPMENT. I OVERSEE TWO OF THE OFFICES THAT 23 ARE IN THE AMENDMENT, THE LEARNING ASSISTANCE CENTER AND 24 THE OFFICE OF MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING. 25 I WOULD LIKE TO JUST STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 132 1 THE LEARNING ASSISTANCE CENTER IS NOT EQUIPPED TO 2 ADMINISTER THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM. 3 AS THE CHANCELLOR SAID, THE OMSL OFFICE WAS 4 PICKED FOR A VERY SPECIFIC REASON. MUCH THOUGHT WENT INTO 5 THIS. THIS IS A PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS TO DEVELOP 6 LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY IN CIVIC 7 ENGAGEMENT. IT'S CRITICAL THAT IT BE HOUSED IN THIS 8 OFFICE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 11 MS. PALACIOUS: YES. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 13 WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND STATE YOUR NAME INTO 14 THE MICROPHONE. THANK YOU. 15 MS. PALACIOUS: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DORA 16 PALACIOUS. I AM A STUDENT. I AM A PARENT. I'M A 17 GRANDPARENT. I CAME 40 YEARS AGO FROM EL SALVADOR. AND I 18 KNOW THE STRUGGLE THE STUDENTS ARE GOING THROUGH BECAUSE I 19 WENT THROUGH THAT. I BATTLED ALL THE THINGS THAT I HAVE 20 TO BATTLE. 21 AS A SINGLE MOTHER, I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING. I'VE 22 BEEN AN ACTIVIST AT CITY COLLEGE AGAINST THE BUDGET CUT. 23 AND I REALLY FEEL LIKE MR. FANG IS DOING THE RIGHT THING 24 BECAUSE I THINK MY STUDENTS, MY FRIENDS HERE, I FEEL LIKE 25 THEY REALLY NEED THE SUPPORT FROM YOU. AS THEY SAY -- SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 133 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: EXCUSE ME. ARE YOU SPEAKING 2 IN FAVOR OF TRUSTEE FANG'S AMENDMENT OR -- 3 MS. PALACIOUS: YES. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU ARE? 5 MS. PALACIOUS: YES. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU ARE, OKAY. 7 MS. PALACIOUS: YES. YES. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 MS. PALACIOUS: I WANT HIM TO WITHDRAW. AND I 10 THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT STUDENTS HERE ARE BEING CRAVING 11 FOR THIS SERVICE. AND NOW IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO 12 BE PART OF THAT PROGRAM AND BE ABLE TO SUCCEED IN LIFE 13 WITH ALL THEY NEED, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE EDUCATION FOR ME IS 14 VERY IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, STATE 15 LEGISLATORS ARE PLAYING THIS GAME. I DON'T UNDERSTAND 16 THAT THE MONEY SOMEHOW IS THERE. 17 AND LIKE YOU SAY, IT'S UP TO THE CHANCELLOR TO 18 DO WHATEVER DECISION IS NEEDED IN THIS CASE. BUT I ALSO 19 FEEL EMPATHY. AND MY HEART IS SORROW EVERY NIGHT. I GO 20 HOME AND THINK ABOUT MY FRIENDS WHEN SOMETIMES THEY DON'T 21 HAVE BUS FARE. THEY DON'T HAVE FOR LUNCH. THERE'S TIME 22 THAT I HAVE TO GIVE ME $2 OR $5 I HAVE. 23 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 25 MS. PALACIOUS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 134 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: LET ME JUST CLARIFY. WHAT WE 2 ARE TALKING ABOUT IS THE AMENDMENT TO ADD ANOTHER OFFICE 3 TO THIS -- TWO OFFICES, EOPS AND ANOTHER OFFICE TO THE 4 OFFICE OF MENTORING AND SERVICE LEARNING, OKAY. SO THAT 5 IS WHAT WE ARE SPEAKING TO. 6 WE ARE NOT SPEAKING TO THIS PROGRAM AT ALL. WE 7 ARE NOT SPEAKING TO THE BUDGET. WE'VE ALREADY HAD THAT 8 PUBLIC COMMENT. SO IF YOU ARE SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY 9 WHETHER YOU WANT TO OPPOSE OR SUPPORT ADDING THE EOPS AND 10 THE OTHER OFFICE TO THIS LANGUAGE, THAT'S WHAT YOU SHOULD 11 BE SPEAKING ABOUT. THANK YOU. 12 COME ON UP AND STATE YOUR NAME. 13 MS. MELGAREJO: GOOD NIGHT. IT'S ALREADY PRETTY 14 LATE. MY NAME IS LAURA MELGAREJO. I AM A COMMUNITY 15 ORGANIZER WITH PODER, ONE OF THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 16 THAT'S REALLY HAPPY TO HAVE THE STUDENTS. 17 WITH THE AMENDMENT, I'M AGAINST THAT AMENDMENT 18 THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED JUST BECAUSE I KNOW THAT ALL THESE 19 STUDENTS THAT HAVE TALKED TO YOU TONIGHT HAVE BEEN WORKING 20 VERY, VERY HARD TO GET JUST A LITTLE BIT OF ALL THE MONEY 21 THAT'S OUT THERE. 22 I CONGRATULATE ALL THE PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE 23 BEING VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE WORK. I THINK THAT THEY 24 DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND AND RECOGNIZE HOW DIFFICULT IT IS 25 FOR AB-540 STUDENTS JUST LIKE ME THAT GRADUATED FROM SAN SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 135 1 FRANCISCO STATE AND IS WORKING ON MY MASTERS TO GO BACK TO 2 SCHOOL AT UC BERKELEY. 3 AND NOT HAVING RESOURCES, NOT HAVING EVEN 4 SOMETIMES AS SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT. 5 AND ADDING TWO MORE OFFICES IS GOING TO CUT THE 6 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH AND FOR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO GET 7 BETTER OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 8 JUST LIKE MY -- LIKE THE ONE THAT I AM WORKING FOR. 9 I BELIEVE THAT AMENDMENT SHOULD BE ADDED ONLY IF 10 WE ADD RESOURCES. I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH SOME GREAT 11 LEADERS AND ADVOCATES THAT I SEE ON THIS BOARD THAT ARE 12 REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT EDUCATION. SOME OF OUR STUDENTS 13 ALREADY TALK ABOUT HOW EDUCATION IS NOT -- IT'S AN ISSUE 14 THAT IT SHOULDN'T BE A PRIVILEGE. WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT 15 TO BE ABLE TO GO TO SCHOOL REGARDLESS OF OUR STATUS. 16 AND I DO WANT TO UNDERSTAND FOR THOSE OF YOU 17 THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT IFFY ABOUT THIS ISSUE, PLEASE THINK 18 OF ALL THE ROOT CAUSES. THINK OF ALL THE ROOT CAUSES WHY 19 ALL OF US HAVE TO COME TO THE STATES. SOMETIMES WE DON'T 20 HAVE A CHOICE. MOST OF THE TIMES, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE 21 TO BE HERE. 22 SO PLEASE, IF YOU WANT TO ADD THINGS TO THE 23 PLAN, IF THE AMENDMENT HAS TO BE CHANGED, IF AN AMENDMENT 24 HAS TO BE ADDED, CONSIDER THAT THERE'S LITTLE OR NOTHING 25 RESOURCES. WHY DO WE WANT TO SPLIT IT UP EVEN AMONGST SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 136 1 MORE ORGANIZATIONS OR OUT IN MORE DEPARTMENTS WITH -- THIS 2 TINY LITTLE BIT OF MONEY FOR STUDENTS THAT THEY ARE NOT 3 ASKING FOR ANYTHING THAT THEY CANNOT CONTRIBUTE BACK TO 4 THE COMMUNITY. 5 SO PODER WILL BE ONE OF THE BENEFICIARIES 6 ORGANIZATIONS THAT WILL BE GREATLY BENEFIT FROM GREAT 7 STUDENTS THAT WILL BE ABLE TO WORK WITH US. THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NANCY VARGAS. 9 MS. VARGAS: MY NAME IS NANCY VARGAS, AND I AM A 10 COUNSELOR AT CITY COLLEGE. I HAVE BEEN WORKING AS A 11 COUNSELOR SINCE 2007 FOR CITY COLLEGE, BUT I'VE WORKED AT 12 MANY OTHER COLLEGES. I HAVE ABOUT 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS 13 A COUNSELOR. I AM VERY ENCOURAGED TO HEAR ABOUT ALL THE 14 SUPPORT FOR AB-540 STUDENTS. 15 ONE OF THE THINGS I DO AT CITY COLLEGE IS I AM 16 CO-CHAIR FOR THE AB-540 TASK FORCE. AND ONE THING I AM 17 HEARING IN COMMON IS A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS WHO 18 DON'T HAVE ANOTHER MEANS OF WORKING. 19 ONE OF THE THINGS I HAVE DONE AT OTHER COLLEGES 20 IS WORK AS AN EOPS COUNSELOR. AND I KNOW -- AND IT 21 DOESN'T REALLY MAKE SENSE TO ME TO SUGGEST THAT EOPS 22 SHOULD BE ADMINISTRATING THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE BY 23 DEFINITION, THE HARDEST THING I DID AS A COUNSELOR FOR 24 EOPS IS HAVE TO SAY "NO" TO STUDENTS LIKE AB-540 STUDENTS 25 BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ELIGIBLE. THEY HAVE TO BE ELIGIBLE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 137 1 FOR FINANCIAL AID IN ORDER TO BE QUALIFIED FOR EOPS. 2 SO IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME TO SUGGEST THAT 3 EOPS WOULD BE AN OFFICE TO ADMINISTER FUNDS. IT COULD 4 INCLUDE EVERYONE, INCLUDING AB-540. 5 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE 6 LAC. I KNOW THAT THEY ARE WONDERFUL RESOURCE. AND EOPS 7 IS A WONDERFUL RESOURCE TOO, BUT NOT EVERYONE IS ELIGIBLE 8 TO WORK FOR EITHER OF THOSE PROGRAMS. AND THAT'S WHAT I 9 WANTED TO SAY. THANK YOU. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 11 DIAMOND DAVE. 12 DIAMOND DAVE: WELL, JUST TWO SENTENCES. 13 THAT IF EOPS AND THE STUDENT LEARNING CENTER 14 NEEDS SOME ENDURANCE, NEEDS SOME PEOPLE TO WORK THERE, 15 THEY COULD APPLY TO THE MENTORING AND SERVICE CENTER JUST 16 LIKE ANY OTHER GROUP, AND PUT A PROGRAM TOGETHER AND SAY, 17 WE NEED A COUPLE OF PEOPLE. I DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY 18 THEY NEED TO BE ADMINISTRATORS. WE HAVE AN ADMINISTRATOR. 19 ONE ADMINISTRATOR THAT PEOPLE CAN GO TO WHO WILL DEVELOP A 20 WAY, A PROGRAM, A PROTOCOL, A WAY IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN GET 21 CONNECTED WITH JOBS IN THE COMMUNITY OR WHEREVER. 22 AND I SUGGEST -- I OPPOSE THE FANG AMENDMENT AND 23 SUGGEST YOU CONTINUE TO VOTE FOR THE PROGRAM ITSELF. 24 THANK YOU. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: JUAN. I CAN'T REALLY READ SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 138 1 THIS LAST NAME -- 2 MR. SEGUNDO: SEGUNDO. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SEGUNDO, OKAY. 4 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: JUST FOR THE RECORD 5 (INAUDIBLE). 6 MR. SEGUNDO: SO I'M AGAINST THE AMENDMENT 7 PRESENTED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE WONG -- I MEAN FANG AND 8 TRUSTEE WONG. I FEEL THAT THIS IS JUST A STRATEGY TO PIT 9 STUDENTS AGAINST STUDENTS, MORE SPECIFICALLY AB-540 10 STUDENTS AGAINST EVERYONE. AND IT'S NOT FAIR. THIS IS 11 FOR EVERYONE, LOW INCOME STUDENTS. IT SHOULDN'T HAVE A 12 FACE. 13 I MEAN SURE AB-540 STUDENTS WILL BENEFIT, BUT 14 EVERYONE ELSE WHO IS LOW INCOME WILL BENEFIT, SO ADDING 15 MORE PROGRAMS WILL NOT HELP. IT'S PITTING STUDENTS 16 AGAINST STUDENTS FOR $200,000. THAT'S NOT ENOUGH BECAUSE 17 AT THIS POINT EVERYONE IS LOW INCOME STUDENT, AND IT'S NOT 18 FAIR. THANKS. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: STEPHANIE OH. 20 MS. OH: I JUST WANTED TO SAY I AM SO VERY 21 GRATEFUL THAT I AM HERE TONIGHT AND WITH ALL YOUR SUPPORT 22 FROM ALL THE TRUSTEES. 23 I ESPECIALLY WANT TO THANK TRUSTEE FANG AND 24 TRUSTEE WONG FOR THEIR SUPPORT. AND I, AS A STUDENT, 25 UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM. I KNOW THERE ARE A SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 139 1 COUPLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DIFFICULTIES IN PASSING THE 2 AMENDMENT, BUT I DO WANT TO SHARE THAT I UNDERSTAND AS A 3 STUDENT THAT ALL THEY ARE TRYING TO DO IS OPEN UP 4 ACCESSIBILITY. 5 HONESTLY, BEFORE TONIGHT AND BEFORE YESTERDAY 6 HEARING ABOUT THIS ISSUE, I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THE OFFICE 7 OF MENTORING WAS. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT EXISTED. 8 WHEREAS, 40,000 PLUS STUDENTS THAT GOES TO OCEAN 9 CAMPUS, THEY KNOW WHERE LAC IS. SO WHATEVER GETS PASSED 10 TONIGHT, I JUST WANTED TO SAY WE NEED TO BE TRANSPARENT 11 AND OPEN UP THE ACCESSIBILITY SO THAT STUDENTS CAN REALLY 12 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS BECAUSE NOT A LOT OF STUDENTS WILL 13 BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THAT THIS EVEN GOT PASSED. 14 SO WHATEVER YOU GUYS PASS ON, PLEASE MAKE IT 15 ACCESSIBLE TO STUDENTS SO ALL THE DOORS ARE OPEN. NOT 16 JUST ONE DOOR, BUT MULTIPLE DOORS. THANK YOU. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE ANY FURTHER PUBLIC 18 COMMENT? 19 MR. BARRERA: YES. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WHY DON'T YOU COME UP. 21 THANK YOU. STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD, 22 PLEASE. 23 MR. BARRERA: HELLO, MY NAME IS RAUL BARRERA. 24 AND I ALSO DISAGREE WITH THE AMENDMENT. THE 25 REASON IS THE SAME THING IS WE DON'T WANT TO SPLIT THE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 140 1 MONEY THAT IS GOING TO BE FOR LOW INCOME STUDENTS TO 2 PROGRAMS THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW A CERTAIN POPULATION OF THE 3 LOW INCOME STUDENTS. 4 EOPS LIKE DOESN'T -- AB-540 STUDENTS DON'T APPLY 5 TO EOPS, AND WE DON'T WANT THAT. WE DON'T WANT TO EXCLUDE 6 A POPULATION THAT ALSO GETS AFFECTED BY NOT HAVING ANY 7 RESOURCES. 8 WHAT I -- THANKS FOR THAT YOU PROPOSED 9 SOMETHING. BUT IF YOU WANT TO PROPOSE SOMETHING, I WOULD 10 LIKE TO HEAR THAT YOU WANT TO BRING THE $3,000 THAT -- THE 11 $300,000 THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED, NOT THE 200,000. 12 I JUST WANT TO HEAR PROPOSALS THAT WOULD ALLOW 13 OTHER STUDENTS TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE INTERESTED 14 AND PEOPLE WHO CAN EARN SCHOLARSHIPS. 15 THANKS FOR YOUR PROPOSAL, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO 16 HEAR PROPOSALS THAT WOULD ALLOW ALL LOW INCOME STUDENTS TO 17 HAVE BENEFITS. THANKS. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 IS THERE ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 20 MR. MARTINEZ: OKAY, SO JUST ONE QUESTION TO OUR 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 22 SO I HEARD STEVE NGO SAY THAT THIS AMOUNT OF 23 MONEY IS JUST SITTING THERE. 24 ARE YOU GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT TO BRING 25 MORE MONEY TO THIS PROGRAM IF YOU WANT TO SPEND AND HAVE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 141 1 MORE DOORS? 2 THAT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU. HOPEFULLY, YOU WILL 3 ELABORATE MORE AND WORK MORE TO BRING MORE MONEY TO THE 4 PROGRAM. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 6 IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 7 OKAY, PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS IS CLOSED. 8 IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD? 9 COUNSEL BATTISTE: MR. PRESIDENT. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. YES. 11 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW 12 THAT BECAUSE THIS NEEDS TO BE PASSED -- THE BUDGET NEEDS 13 TO BE PASSED BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE. IT NEEDS TO BE A 14 UNANIMOUS VOTE OF ALL OF THE TRUSTEES THAT ARE PRESENT. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FOR THIS AMENDMENT? 16 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. NO, NO, NO, FOR THE 17 BUDGET. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FOR THE ENTIRE BUDGET? 19 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR 21 CLARIFYING THAT. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE, ON THE 24 AMENDMENT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, YOUR AMENDMENT. EXCUSE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 142 1 ME. 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, MY AMENDMENT, OF 3 COURSE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 6 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: WHAT ARE WE VOTING FOR? 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: MY AMENDMENT. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE STUDENT TRUSTEE'S 11 AMENDMENT, NOT THE BUDGET. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO TRUST GRIER AND WONG ARE 14 "AYE." 15 ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: NO. 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: NO. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: NO. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: NO, I DIDN'T SAY "AYE." 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU DIDN'T SAY "AYE." I'M 22 SORRY. OKAY, I THOUGHT YOU DID. I'M SORRY. 23 ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: NO. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 143 1 TRUSTEE NGO: NAY. 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: NAY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THANK YOU. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: DID YOU GET THE VOTE? 5 COUNSEL BATTISTE: (INAUDIBLE.) 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TWO, I THINK. WASN'T IT TWO? 7 TRUSTEE NGO: TRUSTEE FANG, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU 8 COUNT HIM IN THE VOTE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. TECHNICALLY -- 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I SEE. 12 OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO NOW WE ARE BACK TO THE 13 BUDGET ITSELF. 14 ARE THERE ANY TRUSTEES QUESTIONS? 15 I DO, TRUSTEE JACKSON. 16 (PRESIDENT RIZZO HANDS THE GAVEL OVER TO VICE 17 PRESIDENT JACKSON.) 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE 19 BUDGET, NOT THIS SECTION WHICH I CO-AUTHORED -- NOT 20 CO-AUTHORED, BUT CO-SPONSORED AND SUPPORTED AND VOTED TO 21 PUT IN THE BUDGET, BUT THE BUDGET. 22 I WAS GOING TO VOTE AGAINST THE BUDGET AS A 23 WHOLE, BUT I AM NOT BECAUSE COUNSEL HAS INFORMED US THAT 24 THAT WE NEED A UNANIMOUS VOTE. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF 25 HOLDING IT UP. I DON'T FEEL THAT STRONGLY. SO I WILL SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 144 1 VOTE "YES" FOR THE BUDGET. 2 BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE PROBLEMS 3 THAT I HAVE WITH THIS BUDGET. I THINK THAT FIRST OF ALL, 4 WE HAVE A LOT OF AREAS THAT ARE STILL FUZZY. WE DON'T 5 KNOW HOW MUCH IS BEING SPENT, AND THEY ARE OFF LIMITS. 6 THEY ARE OFF LIMITS TO CUTS. WE STARTED SAYING EVERYTHING 7 HAS TO BE CUT, BUT THEN WE HAVE THESE AREAS THAT ARE 8 SACRED COWS. 9 WE ARE CUTTING $1. MILLION OF CLASSES PEOPLE. 10 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE CLASSES THAT 11 YOU WANT. THIS SEMESTER WE HAD 20,000 INSTANCES OF 12 STUDENTS WHO COULD NOT GET INTO A CLASS. WE HAD TO SAY 13 "NO" 20,000 TIMES TO STUDENTS WHO WANTED TO GET INTO A 14 CLASS. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. WE ARE CUTTING 15 HUNDREDS OF CLASSES IN THIS BUDGET. 16 HUNDREDS OF CLASSES, YET, THINGS LIKE THIS 17 MYSTERIOUS POT OF MONEY IS OFF LIMITS. THESE FOUR -- 18 THESE ITEMS WE IDENTIFIED THIS -- YOU KNOW, THIS FIRST 19 LINE, $1.5 MILLION, THAT'S OFF LIMITS. WE ARE CUTTING 60 20 CLASSIFIED WORKERS. WE ARE CUTTING MORE CUSTODIANS, MORE 21 COMPUTER TECHNICIANS, MORE OFFICE WORKERS. THAT'S NOT OFF 22 THE TABLE. THAT'S ON THE TABLE. AND THOSE CUTS ARE 23 HAPPENING, BUT THESE AREAS ARE OFF THE TABLE. THEY ARE 24 NOT BEING CUT. 25 WHAT GETS CUT FIRST, CLASSES. WE ONLY HAD SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 145 1 20,000 STUDENTS WHO COULDN'T -- WHO WE HAD TO SAY "NO" TO. 2 LET'S HAVE SOME MORE. SO THIS IS WHAT I OBJECT TO. I 3 REALLY OBJECT TO THIS. WE ARE NOT -- WHEN WE SERVE OUR 4 STUDENTS, THE BEST WAY TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS IS TO GET 5 THEM INTO CLASSES. AND THIS IS WHAT I OBJECT TO. 6 AND I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR THIS BECAUSE I DON'T 7 WANT TO HOLD IT UP. AND I THINK IT'S A PRETTY SERIOUS 8 THING. IT'S A PRETTY SERIOUS THING TO NOT PASS A BUDGET, 9 THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH A VERY, VERY SERIOUS 10 PROCESS. I AM NOT THERE. I AM NOT THERE AT ALL. 11 I JUST WANTED TO PROTEST THAT I THINK -- I DON'T 12 THINK THIS IS RIGHT. I THINK -- I KNOW EVERYONE HAS 13 WORKED REALLY HARD. I UNDERSTAND THAT. AND THE FINANCIAL 14 OFFICE HAS DONE AMAZING WORK, PUT IN A LOT OF HOURS ON 15 THIS. 16 SO I AM NOT CRITICIZING ANYBODY. I AM JUST 17 SAYING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THESE AREAS. WE CAN'T HAVE 18 ANYTHING OFF LIMITS. WE JUST CAN'T. WE JUST CAN'T SAY 19 "NO" WE ARE NOT GOING TO CUT THIS. AND WHILE AT THE SAME 20 TIME CUTTING HUNDREDS OF CLASSES. 21 SO THAT'S ALL I WILL SAY. THANK YOU. 22 IS THERE ANY -- 23 I WILL TAKE THAT BACK. THANK YOU, MR. VICE 24 PRESIDENT. 25 (VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON HANDS THE GAVEL BACK TO SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 146 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO.) 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER COMMENT? 3 OKAY, WE ARE VOTING ON THE BUDGET. 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): ON THE BUDGET? 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE, ALL RIGHT. 9 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY "AYE." 10 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 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 OKAY, SO THE BUDGET IS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY. IT 19 LOOKS LIKE COUNSEL STEPPED OUT OF THE OFFICE. 20 ALL RIGHT. SO, COUNSEL, THAT WAS A UNANIMOUS 21 VOTE FOR THE RECORD. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I'M SORRY. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT WAS A UNANIMOUS VOTE, 24 JUST FOR THE RECORD. 25 COUNSEL BATTISTE: SORRY. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 147 1 TRUSTEE NGO: 6-0 OF THE -- NO, 7-0. NO 6-0. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO GETTING BACK TO THE -- 3 DO WE HAVE A MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT? 4 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, YOU DID, MR. PRESIDENT. 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE DID IT. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ALREADY DID IT? 7 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 8 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YES, WE DID IT. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 10 SO WE WILL GET BACK TO THE RESOLUTIONS THEN. 11 B4, COUNSEL, WOULD YOU PLEASE DO THE HONORS. 12 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ACTUALLY, MR. PRESIDENT, YOU 13 ALL VOTED ON B4. I THINK WE ARE ON B6 NOW. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: B4 WAS NOT PART OF THE CONSENT 15 CALENDAR. 16 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NOPE, BUT -- 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: WE MOVED IT UP -- 18 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OH, YOU ARE RIGHT. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. WE MOVED B5 UP. 20 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE'VE ONLY DONE B5 AND B7. WE 22 HAVE NOT DONE B4. 23 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YOU ARE RIGHT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: HEY, LAWRENCE, WE 25 DIDN'T DO B4? SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 148 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THAT CORRECT? AM I 2 CORRECT? 3 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: WE DID B4. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE DID B4? THE GENERAL 5 OBLIGATION BOND ISSUE? 6 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: YEAH, BECAUSE -- 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, THAT WAS THE FIRST ONE. 8 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. YOU VOTED ON IT. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I APOLOGIZE. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. NO. I WAS RIGHT. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN WE HAVE SOME ORDER HERE? 12 WE NEED TO CONTINUE OUR MEETING. THANK YOU. 13 ALL RIGHT. SO B6? 14 COUNSEL BATTISTE: B6. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 16 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OKAY. OH, RIGHT. LET ME 17 JUST GET THAT. 18 AND I DO APOLOGIZE, MR. PRESIDENT, FOR BEING IN 19 THE RESTROOM WHEN YOU ALL TOOK YOUR VOTE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, COULD YOU READ B6? 21 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, I WILL. 22 B6, MR. PRESIDENT, IS THE AUTHORIZATION TO 23 APPROVE NEW CONTRACTS AND MODIFY EXISTING CONTRACTS. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR 25 B6? SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 149 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: SO MOVED. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 3 IS THERE A SECOND? 4 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 6 OKAY, THIS IS ONE OF THE RESOLUTIONS THAT THE 7 FIT COMMITTEE APPROVED. 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: (INAUDIBLE). 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH. OH. OH. 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ACTUALLY, THIS PROBABLY SHOULD 11 HAVE BEEN ON CONSENT. I CAN'T THINK OF ANY REASON WHY IT 12 WASN'T. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 14 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON B6? 15 ANY DISCUSSION? 16 OKAY, TRUSTEE FANG. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, 19 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 20 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 24 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 150 1 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 3 MOTION CARRIES. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE OUT OF 7 ORDER, BECAUSE I HAVE A LITTLE EMERGENCY, AND I NEED TO 8 GET GOING. AND I WANT TO VOTE ON -- I WOULD LIKE FOR US 9 TO CONSIDER F2, WHICH IS THE CHANCELLOR'S RESOLUTION AND 10 ALSO -- 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN SOMEONE SHUT THOSE DOORS? 12 TRUSTEE WONG: AND ALSO THE -- F1 AND F2, 13 ACTUALLY. SO LET'S START WITH F1. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THEY WERE ALL CONSENT 15 (INAUDIBLE). 16 TRUSTEE WONG: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE -- 17 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ACTUALLY, TRUSTEE WONG, THOSE 18 WERE THE NEXT IN LINE. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: OH, OKAY. SHOWS HOW MUCH I'M 20 PAYING ATTENTION. ALL RIGHT. 21 SO I MOVE F1. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 23 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OKAY, ONE SECOND, 24 MR. PRESIDENT. 25 YES, MR. PRESIDENT, F1 IS THE HUMAN RESOURCES SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 151 1 ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT, THE DEAN OF 2 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND RETENTION PROGRAMS. 3 AND I BELIEVE IT WAS MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: YES AND SECONDED. 5 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND 7 SECOND. 8 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 9 ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 10 OKAY, TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR VOTE. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY 13 "AYE." 14 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 17 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 18 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 22 F1 IS APPROVED. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: MOVE F2. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG; SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 152 1 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO SECOND IT JUST 3 BECAUSE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WILL THIRD IT. 5 OKAY, COUNSEL. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, F2 IS 7 RATIFYING THE NEW EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT WITH DR. DON Q. 8 GRIFFIN TO SERVE AS CHANCELLOR FOR THE PERIOD JULY 1ST, 9 2012 TO JUNE 30TH, 2013. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON 11 THIS ITEM? 12 IT LOOKS ALL RIGHT. 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE SHOULD GET CHRIS IN 14 HERE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, WE SHOULD. SHOULDN'T 16 WE? 17 CAN SOMEONE GET TRUSTEE JACKSON? 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I KNOW WHERE HE IS. I WILL GET 19 HIM. 20 DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS? 21 WE HAVE A QUORUM THOUGH. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YOU DO HAVE A QUORUM. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION FOR F2 24 AND A SECOND. I ASKED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. THERE'S NO 25 PUBLIC COMMENT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 153 1 LAST CHANCE? 2 OKAY, NO PUBLIC COMMENT. 3 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 4 NO DISCUSSION. 5 OKAY, TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR VOTE. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 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 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 17 OKAY, WE HAVE A CHANCELLOR FOR ANOTHER YEAR. 18 (TRUSTEE WONG LEAVES THE MEETING.) 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU ARE LEAVING? WE ARE GOING 20 TO LOSE QUORUM THEN IF YOU LEAVE. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: WE HAVE FOUR STILL. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE DON'T HAVE IF TRUSTEE GRIER 24 LEAVES. WE WILL LOSE QUORUM, AND WE HAVE OTHER AGENDA 25 ITEMS. WE HAVE SEVERAL POLICIES. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 154 1 COUNSEL BATTISTE: SEVEN POLICIES AND ONE S 2 RESOLUTION LEFT. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 4 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ALL RIGHT. MR. PRESIDENT, P1 5 IS AMEND THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD 6 POLICY 2435, EVALUATION OF THE CHANCELLOR. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS IS OFF THE FIRST READING, 10 RIGHT? 11 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE FIRST READING. 13 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: WHO SECONDED IT? 14 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I BELIEVE IT WAS TRUSTEE 15 GRIER. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: I DID. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THIS WAS -- ALL THESE 18 RESOLUTIONS WERE FORWARDED BY POLICY COMMITTEE. 19 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 20 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD? 21 TRUSTEE FANG. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 24 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 155 1 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 3 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 7 OKAY, P1 IS APPROVED, FIRST READING. 8 P2. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: SO MOVED. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECOND. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS 14 TO AMEND THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD 15 POLICY BP 3050, INSTITUTIONAL CODE OF ETHICS. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE FIRST READING. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: DID THE ACADEMIC SENATE HAVE A 18 POSITION ON THIS BECAUSE I REMEMBER US TAKING UP A CODE OF 19 ETHICS IN AUGUST 2010 IN WHICH YOU ALL OPPOSED IT? 20 MS. SAGINOR: MAY I? 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. PLEASE COME UP AND -- 22 MS. SAGINOR: THE ACADEMIC SENATE DID DISCUSS 23 THIS. WE DID NOT TAKE A VOTE ON IT. IT WAS APPROVED IN 24 COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL. AND I SPOKE TO THE FACULTY 25 CONCERNS THERE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 156 1 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THE ACADEMIC SENATE PLANNING ON 2 TAKING A POSITION ON IT? 3 MS. SAGINOR: THE ACADEMIC SENATE IS OKAY WITH 4 THIS AS IT IS. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: REALLY? OKAY. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK THERE WAS A CODE OF 7 ETHICS THAT WAS KILLED -- 8 MS. SAGINOR: I'M SORRY. WE DIDN'T TAKE -- 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- BECAUSE THE ACADEMIC'S -- 10 MS. SAGINOR: I'M SORRY. WE DIDN'T TAKE AN 11 OFFICIAL POSITION ON IT. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT DO YOU PLAN TO? 13 MS. SAGINOR: IT WAS NOT -- I -- WE HAVE SO MUCH 14 WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS SEMESTER. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. 16 MS. SAGINOR: I -- THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE THAT 17 MADE US FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO TAKE A POSITION ON IT AT THIS 18 POINT. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I GUESS MY -- TO BE MORE 21 DIRECT. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL. I CAN ADDRESS IT. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, YOU WILL ADDRESS IT. 24 MS. SAGINOR: WE, WE -- I'M SORRY. WE ARE 25 EXPECTING THAT AFT 2121 WILL BE LOOKING AT THIS. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 157 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M SURE. AND I KNOW THEY OPPOSED 2 IT BACK THEN TOO. 3 MY ISSUE WAS THAT WHEN YOU GUYS OPPOSED OUR 4 PROPOSAL, OUR CODE OF ETHICS, YOU GUYS HAD SEVERAL ISSUES 5 WITH IT. ONE OF WHICH WAS THERE WERE NO SANCTIONS FOR NOT 6 OBEYING THE CODE OF ETHICS. THAT WAS ITEM -- THAT WAS 7 REASON THREE WHY YOU GUYS OPPOSED IT. 8 SO I AM WONDERING, IF YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE THE 9 SAME POSITION BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SANCTIONS IN THIS ONE, 10 THAT YOU ARE ALSO GOING TO OPPOSE IT. 11 I HAVE THE MINUTES RIGHT HERE, THE TRANSCRIPT. 12 DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? 13 MS. SAGINOR: THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO MY 14 ATTENTION. I WILL TAKE IT BACK TO THE ACADEMIC SENATE 15 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. THANK YOU. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL JUST SAY, MR. PRESIDENT, 19 THE OTHER REASONS THEY OPPOSED IT WAS THERE WAS NO 20 DEFINITION OF WHAT ETHICS MEANT. AND I KNOW THERE IS 21 SOMEWHAT -- THERE'S DEFINITELY A DEFINITION OF ETHICS IN 22 HERE. THE REASON IS THAT THERE IS NO REASON TO 23 SPECIFICALLY ASK EMPLOYEES TO ABIDE BY DISTRICT POLICY. 24 IT'S LIKE -- BECAUSE THAT'S ALREADY THE CASE. BUT YET, WE 25 INCLUDE THAT LANGUAGE IN THIS BOARD POLICY, AND THEY SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 158 1 DON'T -- I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT EITHER. 2 I'M WONDERING WHY WE COULDN'T TAKE CARE OF THIS 3 BUSINESS BACK IN AUGUST 2010 FOR WHATEVER REASON. AND 4 YET, WE HAVE BASICALLY A MORE SPELLED OUT BOARD POLICY 5 THIS TIME ON ETHICS. THE SAME ISSUES ARE THERE. 6 ONE, THERE'S NO PENALTY FOR NOT OBEYING THE CODE 7 OF ETHICS. 8 AND TWO, THERE'S A PROVISION IN THIS POLICY THAT 9 SAYS WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE AND ABIDE BY DISTRICT POLICIES 10 AND PROTOCOLS. 11 AND YOU OPPOSED -- WELL, THE ACADEMIC SENATE AND 12 AFT 2121 OPPOSED IT BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS REDUNDANT 13 THAT WE ALREADY DO THAT. 14 I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THAT POSITION IS GOING TO 15 CHANGE FOR THE SECOND READING? 16 AND IF NOT, WHY WE WASTED BASICALLY A YEAR TO 17 GET THIS POLICY PASSED. THAT'S MY COMMENT. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 I HAVE A QUESTION PERHAPS, TRUSTEE NGO -- WE HAD 20 PUT FORWARD A POLICY ON NEPOTISM AT ONE POINT THAT ALSO 21 DID NOT PASS. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: CORRECT. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND I'M WONDERING IS THAT 24 SOMETHING THAT YOU THINK SHOULD BE IN HERE. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LOVE FOR IT TO BE IN HERE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 159 1 ALTHOUGH, I THINK WHEN I DID THE RESEARCH ON IT, ON THE 2 NEPOTISM POLICY, THE MODEL POLICY, AND ALSO THE POLICY 3 THAT GENERATED THIS, I THINK THIS LANGUAGE AND THE OTHER 4 LANGUAGE IS THAT IT WAS A SEPARATE POLICY ON NEPOTISM. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT I DON'T SEE WHY WE CAN'T -- 7 THE REASON WHY THE NEPOTISM POLICY I THINK RAN INTO SOME 8 TROUBLE WAS THAT WE DIDN'T DEFINE REALLY WHAT IT WAS, 9 AGAIN, DEFINITION. I THINK IF WE HAD ACTUALLY SIMPLER 10 LANGUAGE, THERE SHOULD NOT BE NEPOTISM. MAYBE THAT WILL 11 PASS MUSTER. BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WILL 12 HEAR ABOUT WHY WE WOULD OPPOSE A NEPOTISM POLICY. 13 FOR A SECOND READING, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO JOIN 14 YOUR COMMITTEE THE POLICY -- OR TRUSTEE BERG'S COMMITTEE 15 AND MAYBE DISCUSS IT IN MORE DETAIL THERE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GREAT. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S BEEN PROPOSED. IT'S OUT 18 THERE. AND IT JUST HASN'T MOVED. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 23 OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P2, PLEASE SAY 24 "AYE." 25 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 160 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, COUNSEL, COULD YOU READ 9 P3, PLEASE. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, P3 IS TO 11 AMEND THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICY MANUAL BY AMENDING EXISTING 12 BOARD POLICY B4 2745, BOARD SELF-EVALUATION. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 16 IS THERE A SECOND? 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 19 LET'S START, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 20 OKAY, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 21 BOARD DISCUSSION? 22 ALL RIGHT. STUDENT TRUSTEE IS NOT HERE. 23 SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY "AYE." 24 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 161 1 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 3 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 8 OKAY, P3 PASSES. 9 COUNSEL. 10 COUNSEL BATTISTE: P4 IS TO AMEND THE SAN 11 FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT POLICY BY AMENDING 12 EXISTING BOARD POLICY PM 1.15, CODE OF ETHICS. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 16 IS THERE A SECOND? 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 19 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON P4? 20 OKAY, IS THERE A DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD? 21 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 24 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 162 1 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 3 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 7 P4 IS APPROVED. 8 COUNSEL, P5. 9 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, P5 IS TO 10 AMEND THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT POLICY 11 MANUAL BY AMENDING EXISTING BOARD POLICY BP 3052, CONFLICT 12 OF INTEREST. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE P5. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 15 IS THERE A SECOND? 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 18 PUBLIC COMMENT? 19 DISCUSSION? 20 TRUSTEE NGO: I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH P5 -- 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: -- BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A 3052. 23 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO, THIS IS AN AMENDMENT. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, IT'S NOT AMENDING WHAT WE 25 ACTUALLY ADOPTED. THAT'S THE PROBLEM. SO I HAVE A P5 -- SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 163 1 I HAVE A 3052 THAT WAS PASSED LAST YEAR THAT LOOKS 2 DISTINCTIVELY DIFFERENT EVEN IN PRE-AMENDED FORM THAN WHAT 3 YOU ALL HAVE RIGHT NOW. 4 SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WANT TO RECONCILE IT, 5 BUT BASICALLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE EXISTING P -- HERE IT IS. 6 THIS IS P5, FIRST READING. 7 THE ONE PASSED ON -- LET ME PULL IT UP. THE ONE 8 PASSED -- THAT'S NOT IT. 9 IN ANY CASE, WE DID PASS -- HERE IT IS. 10 AUGUST 20 -- THAT'S NOT IT EITHER. 11 I'M SORRY. LET ME TELL YOU WHEN WE PASSED 12 A P -- THIS CONFLICT OF INTEREST BECAUSE IT IS NOT THE 13 SAME. 14 WE PASSED IT IN JULY 2010. THAT BP 3052 DOES 15 NOT LOOK LIKE THE ONE WE ARE AMENDING TODAY. 16 COUNSEL BATTISTE: WELL, TRUSTEE NGO -- 17 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 18 COUNSEL BATTISTE: -- I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, 19 YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS WAS FIRST DRAFTED, I WAS ASKED BY THE 20 CHANCELLOR TO DRAFT THIS. AND BASICALLY, WHATEVER YOU SEE 21 IN BOLD IS ADDED TO WHAT WAS ALREADY EXISTING. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, SO FOR EXAMPLE, I HAVE A 23 DOCUMENT UP HERE THAT WAS PASSED IN AUGUST 2010. THE 24 FIRST PARAGRAPH SAYS, "THE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY TO 25 ENSURE DISTRICT COMPLIANCE." SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 164 1 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OH. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: YOU SEE THAT? THAT'S 3052, 3 CONFLICT OF INTEREST. AND THE P1 THAT WE -- THE P THAT WE 4 HAVE BEFORE US NOW DOESN'T BEGIN THAT WAY. 5 IT BEGINS WITH, "NO TRUSTEE, OFFICER, OR 6 EMPLOYEE SHALL MAKE" -- 7 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I SEE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: SO WE ALREADY HAVE A CONFLICT OF 9 INTEREST POLICY. AND EVEN IF YOU WANT TO AMEND IT, YOU 10 ARE NOT AMENDING. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE CORRECT ONE. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: RIGHT. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: SO I WOULD JUST REFER THIS BACK TO 15 COMMITTEE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. IS THAT OKAY? 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S OKAY. 19 IS THAT ALL RIGHT? 20 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. YEAH. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, SO THIS IS REFERRED BACK 22 TO COMMITTEE. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: YEP. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE MOTIONS ARE WITHDRAWN. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: YEP. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 165 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COUNSEL, P6. 2 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, P6 IS TO 3 AMEND THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT POLICY 4 MANUAL BY AMENDING THE EXISTING BOARD POLICY OF PM 1.07, 5 POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECOND. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 10 BY STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 11 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON P6? 12 IS THERE A DISCUSSION ON P6? 13 OKAY, SEEING NONE, STUDENT TRUSTEE YOUR VOTE. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 16 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 18 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 20 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 24 OKAY, P6 IS APPROVED. 25 P7, COUNSEL. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 166 1 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ONE SECOND. P7 IS TO AMEND 2 THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT POLICY MANUAL 3 BY ADDING BOARD POLICY 6550, SURPLUS PROPERTY. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, A MOTION? 5 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 7 SECOND? 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SECOND. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 10 PUBLIC COMMENT? 11 BOARD DISCUSSION? 12 OKAY, TRUSTEE FANG. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 15 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 23 THE MOTION IS APPROVED. 24 I THINK WE HAVE ONE MORE. 25 COUNSEL BATTISTE: S5. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 167 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: S5. 2 COUNSEL BATTISTE: LET ME GET THERE. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND IF YOU CAN READ THAT, 4 COUNSEL. 5 COUNSEL BATTISTE: OKAY, I GOT IT. HOLD ON JUST 6 A SECOND. 7 S5, MR. PRESIDENT, IS THE HEALTHY AND 8 SUSTAINABLE BEVERAGE CHOICES IN VENDING MACHINES. 9 IS THERE A MOTION FOR S5? 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: MOVE S5. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 14 I WILL JUST INTRODUCE IT. THIS IS SOMETHING I 15 WROTE AND TRUSTEE NGO CO-SPONSORED. OUR TEN-YEAR VENDING 16 MACHINE CONTRACT IS COMING UP. AND IN DISCUSSIONS WITH 17 THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE AND MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED 18 STUDENTS AND VARIOUS DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DON NEWTON, THE 19 CHANCELLOR, PETER GOLDSTEIN, WE THOUGHT PEOPLE SEEMED TO 20 BE OKAY WITH THE IDEA OF REQUIRING AT LEAST SOME HEALTHY 21 BEVERAGES THAT DON'T HAVE HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND 22 THOSE VARIOUS THINGS IN THEM. 23 SO THERE'S AN RFP BEING PREPARED ALREADY ALONG 24 THESE LINES, AND THIS WOULD JUST -- THIS PUTS US ON RECORD 25 THAT THE BOARD IS WANTING THIS TO HAPPEN. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 168 1 SO IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 2 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: I JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR 5 YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE. I THINK IT'S BEEN A LONG 6 TIME COMING. I AM HONORED TO CO-SPONSOR IT. I LOOK 7 FORWARD TO IT PASSING. 8 AS WE DISCUSSED, I HOPE WE CAN WORK ON AN ACTUAL 9 GLOBAL POLICY GOVERNING BIDS FOR ANY TYPE OF FOOD 10 ACTUALLY, NOT JUST BEVERAGE, BUT I THINK IT'S A GOOD -- 11 I'M GLAD THAT THE MOVEMENT IS PICKING UP SOME STEAM. AND 12 I'M GLAD THAT THERE'S LEADERSHIP ON BOARD TO CARRY IT 13 FORWARD WITH WHAT RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, SO I LOOK 14 FORWARD TO SUPPORTING IT. AND THANK YOU, AGAIN, FOR 15 INTRODUCING IT. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I ALSO WANT TO MENTION THAT 17 THE WORD "SUSTAINABLE" IN THE TITLE HAS TO DO WITH THE 18 IDEA OF PLASTIC BOTTLES AND WASTE THAT IF WE CAN WE WOULD 19 LIKE TO ENCOURAGE APPLICANTS, VENDING MACHINE APPLICANTS, 20 TO SEE IF THEY COULD CUT DOWN ON PLASTIC BOTTLES AND THAT 21 THING. AND THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE AND SHARED 22 GOVERNANCE IS ACTUALLY VERY STRONG ON THAT. 23 OKAY, SO IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 24 DID I ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? I CAN'T REMEMBER. 25 MS. SAGINOR: NO. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 169 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 2 MS. SAGINOR: KAREN SAGINOR, ACADEMIC SENATE 3 PRESIDENT. 4 THIS IS NOT AN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTER, 5 BUT FOR THE SAKE OF BEING CONSISTENT, I DON'T WANT TRUSTEE 6 NGO TO ASK ME WHY I DIDN'T ASK THIS QUESTION. 7 I UNDERSTAND YOU -- I BELIEVE YOU'VE PROBABLY 8 ALREADY MADE UP YOUR MINDS, BUT IT'S VERY ODD IN THE 9 PROCESS FOR THE TRUSTEES TO BE PUTTING FORWARD A 10 RESOLUTION ABOUT AN RFP PROCESS THAT'S IN PLACE. I JUST 11 COMMENT ON THAT, BUT HOWEVER -- 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 13 FURTHER DISCUSSION? 14 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 17 TRUSTEE BERG: (ABSENT.) 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 25 OKAY, S5 IS APPROVED. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 170 1 THANK YOU, TRUSTEE GRIER FOR STICKING AROUND. 2 (TRUSTEE GRIER LEAVES THE MEETING.) 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE'VE LOST OUR QUORUM, BUT WE 4 CAN CONTINUE WITH OUR SORT OF NON BUSINESS -- THE NEXT 5 ITEM WOULD BE THE TRUSTEE REPORTS. 6 TRUSTEE NGO. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. I DON'T HAVE ANY REPORTS. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, I THOUGHT I DID, BUT 10 I DON'T. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 12 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I JUST WANTED TO -- AND 13 JANE IS WALKING OUT, BUT I WANTED TO REPORT THAT WE ARE 14 WORKING STEADILY ON OUR GED INITIATIVE OF A LOT OF 15 STAKEHOLDERS. THIS GED INITIATIVE, YOU KNOW, IS TO REALLY 16 BOOST, YOU KNOW, GED PREPAREDNESS AND ATTAINMENT, 17 ESPECIALLY IN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES THAT CITY COLLEGE 18 SERVES. GED IS A MAJOR BARRIER TO A LOT OF PEOPLE GETTING 19 TO WORK. 20 AND, YOU, KNOW I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING OUR 21 WORK, YOU KNOW, WITH VARIOUS VICE CHANCELLORS. WE HAVE 22 TWO OF THEM IN THE BACK THAT ATTENDED. JANE IS LEAVING, 23 BUT SHE HAS BEEN A DRIVING FORCE IN THIS. AND I LOOK 24 FORWARD TO CONTINUING THOSE CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE IT'S 25 REALLY IMPORTANT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 171 1 WE ARE RUNNING INTO SOME ISSUES WITH THE PUC AND 2 THEIR POTENTIAL SUPPORT OF THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. 3 ENROLLMENT, I HAVE BEEN TOLD, THE INITIAL ENROLLMENT 4 NUMBERS, THESE AREN'T FINAL, BUT THE INITIAL ENROLLMENT 5 NUMBERS PUT SOUTHEAST CAMPUS AT ABOUT 1200 PEOPLE, 1200 6 STUDENTS OF ENROLLMENT WHICH IS A DRASTIC INCREASE OVER 7 PAST YEARS. 8 THE PUC HAS SLATED TO PUT -- AND WE HAD VICE 9 CHANCELLOR JORGE BELL, BILL SHIELDS, CHAIR OF LABOR 10 STUDIES AND A LOT OF OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES FOLKS MEET 11 WITH THE PUC ON TUESDAY. THEY PROPOSED THAT THE SOUTHEAST 12 CAMPUS BE PUT -- PLACED ON THE 4TH FLOOR OF THE SOUTHEAST 13 FACILITIES, AND THAT THEY WILL INVITE VARIOUS NONPROFITS 14 AND THEN HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY TO HAVE 10,000 SQUARE FEET 15 OF THE PLACE. 16 OUR VISION IS TO HAVE A CULINARY ACADEMY, IS TO 17 HAVE -- IS TO HAVE INCREASED NURSING CLASSES. AND IT 18 ACTUALLY HELPED PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, GET THEIR EDUCATION AND 19 ACTUALLY IMPROVE THEMSELVES AND GET JOBS. 20 AND RIGHT NOW, WE ARE AFRAID THE PUC IS TRYING 21 TO TRAP PEOPLE INTO THE SAME OLD HUMAN SERVICES WHICH IS 22 REALLY JUST CALWORKS AND, YOU KNOW, THE NONPROFIT CYCLE. 23 AND WE ARE LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONE CYCLE THAT REALLY 24 GETS THEM AND EMPOWERS PEOPLE AND GETS SOME JOBS AND 25 EDUCATION AND MOVES THEM FORWARD. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 172 1 AND THERE'S ANOTHER CYCLE THAT'S THE SAME OLD 2 CYCLE THAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE SOUTHEAST FOR THE LAST THREE 3 DECADES. AND SO WE ARE REALLY PUSHING BACK ON THE PUC. 4 AND WE ARE GOING TO BE GOING OUT TO OUR VARIOUS COMMUNITY 5 ALLIES, SUCH AS THE SAN FRANCISCO LABOR COUNCIL. 6 YOU KNOW, ACORN WHICH IS NOW ACE AND OTHER 7 GROUPS TO HELP SUPPORT OUR VISION, YOU KNOW, FOR THE 8 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS TO REALLY MAINTAIN OUR FOOTPRINT AT 9 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS JUST WHEN WE ARE MAKING REAL CHANGE 10 THERE. 11 AND LASTLY IS I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH, 12 YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT KAREN SAGINOR, AND THE PRESIDENT OF 13 THE CLASSIFIED SENATE AS WELL. AND, YOU KNOW, CRAFTING A 14 BOARD RESPONSE TO SOME OF THIS, QUOTE UNQUOTE, "STUDENT 15 SUCCESS TASK FORCE" STUFF. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING 16 WITH YOU GUYS ON THAT RESOLUTION. AND, HOPEFULLY, WE 17 COULD HAVE SOMETHING READY FOR NEXT MONTH. 18 SO WITH THAT, I WILL CONCLUDE MY REPORT. AND, 19 YOU KNOW, THANKS FOR STICKING AROUND GUYS. I REALLY 20 APPRECIATE IT. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE, DO YOU HAVE A REPORT? 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I HAVE THREE 24 THINGS. I WILL TRY TO BE AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. 25 FIRST, EARLIER -- IN THE PAST MONTH, I HAVE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 173 1 ATTENDED TWO EVENTS THAT'S RATHER SIGNIFICANT THAT I THINK 2 SHOULD MAKE A NOTE OF IT. 3 NO. 1, THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION NOW IN THE 4 COMMUNITY CALLED, NGC. IT IS NOW GENERATION CHINESE. 5 THEY RECENTLY, ON THEIR OWN, A NO-NAME NONPROFIT ORGANIZED 6 A SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR A STUDENT TO COMPLETE 7 HER GRADUATE EDUCATION IN A PRESTIGIOUS IVY LEAGUE MUSIC 8 SCHOOL. 9 AND I JUST THINK THAT THERE IS A VIBRANCY IN 10 COMMUNITY THAT I FEEL HONORED TO BE INVITED TO THAT I 11 COULD SEE THAT IN ECONOMIC HARD TIMES THAT EVERYBODY IS 12 BEING CREATIVE IN TRYING TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT. 13 NO. 2, THERE'S -- THERE WAS AN OPENING AT THE 14 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR LATIN MUSIC, AMERICAN 15 SABOR I THINK. I AM NOT PRONOUNCING IT RIGHT AT ALL, BUT 16 IT'S AN EXHIBITION ON THE SIXTH FLOOR, I BELIEVE, OF THE 17 PUBLIC LIBRARY OPEN TO ALL FOR EIGHT WEEKS. IT'S GREAT. 18 YOU SHOULD ALL CHECK IT OUT. 19 NO. 3, SINCE EVERYBODY -- SINCE ALL THE STUDENTS 20 WHO GOT TO SPEAK WAS BEING BRAVE OR AT LEAST BRANDED AS 21 BRAVE IN THE MEETING TODAY, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT 22 WHETHER ANY STUDENTS HERE ARE WATCHING OR NOT, I THINK THE 23 BOARD ALSO NEEDS TO KNOW I TRULY CAN EMPATHIZE ALL THE 24 STUDENTS FROM WHAT THEY ARE SAYING WHETHER THEY AGREE WITH 25 ME OR NOT. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 174 1 AND I WANT THE BOARD TO KNOW THAT I WAS HOMELESS 2 AT ONE TIME FOR A VERY SHORT PERIOD. I AM BROKE 3 CONSTANTLY IN THE PAST YEAR -- EVEN THOUGH I WEAR A SUIT 4 TO THIS MEETING EVERY MONTH. 5 OKAY, I GO TO ALL CLASSES. ALL THE STRUGGLES 6 THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED. IT'S NOT JUST THE GROUP THAT IS 7 SUFFERING THAT HAVE NOTHING. I HAVE -- I DON'T HAVE VERY 8 MUCH AT ALL EITHER. WE ARE ALL FIGHTING. EVERY ONE, 9 100,000 STUDENTS HERE ARE ALL SCRAPPY FIGHTING TO HAVE 10 THEIR EDUCATION AND MOVE ON. 11 SO IT'S -- I CONGRATULATE THE BOARD IN PASSING A 12 BUDGET THAT IS IN DIFFICULT TIMES STILL TRY TO MAKE THE 13 BEST COMPROMISE FOR ALL STUDENTS. BUT PLEASE UNDERSTAND 14 THAT THERE IS NO ONE GROUP OF STUDENTS AGAINST OTHER. 15 I SPEAK HERE. I SPEAK MY MIND. IT'S NOT 16 BECAUSE THESE STUDENTS CAME TODAY, BUT THERE ARE MORE 17 STUDENTS WHO CAN'T MAKE IT HERE BECAUSE THEY NEED TO 18 STUDY. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 20 AT THE FACILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY 21 COMMITTEE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE VENDING MACHINE ORDINANCE 22 THAT WE JUST -- VENDING MACHINE ISSUE THAT WE JUST VOTED 23 ON. AND WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT SMOKING ON CAMPUS. 24 WE TALKED ABOUT RESTRICTING SMOKING. AND SO I 25 JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I HAD BROUGHT THIS TO THE FIT SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 175 1 COMMITTEE. AND I'M NOT GOING TO BRING ANY POLICY FORWARD, 2 ANY PROPOSAL FORWARD UNTIL WE HAVE A THOROUGH, THOROUGH 3 CONVERSATION WITH, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WHO WANTS TO HAVE A 4 CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. SO I AM NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, 5 SHOW UP NEXT MONTH WITH A RESOLUTION. 6 BUT IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING DISCUSSION. WE 7 HAD -- I ASKED AN ANTI-SMOKING ADVOCATE TO COME AND TELL 8 US SOME THINGS. WE HAD SUNNY CLARK FROM OUR HEALTH 9 SERVICES. WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE, STUDENTS, FACULTY, 10 STAFF TESTIFY IN FAVOR OF FURTHER LIMITING SMOKING. 11 PEOPLE WHO HAVE ASTHMA WHO ARE ENDANGERED BY SMOKING. 12 SO I JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE THAT WE ARE 13 GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS. AND ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO 14 TALK TO ME ABOUT IT OR YOU HAVE A GROUP THAT YOU WANT ME 15 TO TALK TO, JUST LET ME KNOW I WILL COME AND -- BUT I AM 16 GOING TO BE GOING TO VARIOUS GROUPS TO GET INPUT ON THIS 17 BEFORE ANYTHING IS WRITTEN DOWN. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE 18 THAT CLEAR. 19 I HAD THE PLEASURE TO ATTEND THE BASIC SKILLS 20 LUNCHEON THIS WEEK WHICH WAS VERY MOVING FOR SEVERAL OF 21 THE SPEAKERS. THE STUDENT SPEAKERS AND THEN OUR HONORED 22 GUESTS IN PARTICULAR. 23 WE HAD TWO STUDENTS WITH JUST AMAZING STORIES OF 24 HOW CITY COLLEGE HELPED THEM. AND ONE OF THEM WAS -- IT 25 WAS HEARTBREAKING. THIS WOMAN, WHO WAS AN EMANCIPATED SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 176 1 MINOR AT 17 AND STRUGGLED TO GET INTO A COLLEGE. SHE GOT 2 INTO A COLLEGE. SHE HAD TO DROP OUT OF COLLEGE BECAUSE 3 SHE COULD NOT AFFORD TO BE IN COLLEGE. TO ME, THAT IS THE 4 SADDEST THING. A STUDENT WORKING AND SUCCEEDING AND THEN 5 HAVING TO DROP OUT. 6 SHE COULD NOT AFFORD TO GO BACK TO COLLEGE. AND 7 SHE GAVE UP FOR TEN YEARS. AND THEN SHE FOUND CITY 8 COLLEGE, AND SHE STARTED AGAIN. AND SHE IS GOING TO UC 9 BERKELEY NOW AFTER HAVING GIVEN UP HER HOPES OF A COLLEGE 10 EDUCATION. AND IT WAS JUST A VERY MOVING STORY. 11 THE OTHER SPEAKER WAS OUR HONOREE, JOHN DEBS. 12 AND JOHN DEBS GAVE A MILLION DOLLARS TO THE FOUNDATION FOR 13 SCHOLARSHIPS IN MEMORY OF THIS MOTHER, HIS LATE MOTHER. 14 AND SO THIS GUY HAS SOME MONEY, RIGHT. SO HE WAS 15 TALKING -- HE WAS A VERY GOOD SPEAKER. HE TALKED ABOUT 16 HELPING PEOPLE AND DOING -- YOU KNOW, DOING WHAT YOU CAN 17 ON YOUR PERSONAL LEVEL, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, BUT HE TOUCHED 18 ON SEVERAL THINGS. 19 ONE THING THAT MOVED ME WAS THAT HE SAID THAT WE 20 WEALTHY DON'T PAY ENOUGH TAXES. SO IT WAS JUST A 21 WONDERFUL LUNCHEON, SO I WILL CLOSE WITH THAT. 22 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: I WOULD LIKE TO ADD IN 23 MEMORY -- IS THAT THE TIME? 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GO AHEAD, TRUSTEE JACKSON. 25 VICE PRESIDENT JACKSON: -- OF MS. ELOUISE SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 177 1 WESTBROOK. SHE PASSED AWAY AT THE END OF LAST WEEK. AND 2 WE HAD A SERVICE FOR HER ON TUESDAY. AND SHE WAS CALLED, 3 BAY VIEW'S ULTIMATE WEAPON. SHE, YOU KNOW, WAS VERY 4 ACTIVE IN THE 50'S, 60'S, 70'S, AND 80'S. AND SHE FOUGHT 5 FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND SHE FOUGHT FOR ACCESS TO 6 HEALTHCARE, NOT JUST IN THE BAYVIEW, BUT SHE HELPED 7 ORGANIZE TENANTS IN THE CHINATOWN PUBLIC HOUSING SITES AND 8 IN SOUTH OF MARKET TO HAVE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE. AND IT 9 REALLY SHOWS THAT SHE WAS REALLY AN ACTIVIST THAT KNEW NO 10 BORDERS. 11 SHE WENT TO WASHINGTON DC IN THE 1970'S AND GOT 12 $30 MILLION FROM HUD, FROM THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION, TO 13 SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES IN SAN 14 FRANCISCO. AND IT WAS RUMORED THAT SHE WAS THE FIRST AND 15 ONLY PERSON TO WALK THROUGH THE OVAL OFFICE WITH HER SHOES 16 OFF. AND I THINK SHE WAS JUST AN AMAZING, AMAZING, YOU 17 KNOW, ACTIVIST IN THE COMMUNITY WHEN ACTIVIST WERE REALLY 18 ACTIVIST. SHE REALLY DOES PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE FOR, YOU 19 KNOW, HOW WE CAN REALLY ADVOCATE AND, YOU KNOW, PUSH FOR 20 THINGS THAT WE LOVE, LIKE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND 21 HEALTHCARE. 22 SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY 23 OF MS. ELOUISE WESTBROOK. THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THANK YOU. WE ARE NOT 25 QUITE READY TO ADJOURN. SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 178 1 CHANCELLOR. 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO REPORT. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO REPORT FROM THE CHANCELLOR, 4 OKAY. 5 COUNSEL, ARE THERE CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS? 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THERE IS. 7 ON SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2011, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 8 OF THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT VOTED TO 9 AUTHORIZE STUDENT -- A STUDENT'S DISCIPLINE OR DISMISSAL. 10 THE VOTE WAS AS FOLLOWS: 11 BERG: YES. 12 GRIER: YES. 13 JACKSON: YES. 14 MARKS: YES. 15 NGO: YES. 16 RIZZO: YES. 17 WONG: YES. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK? 20 ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE, WE WILL ADJOURN IN THE 21 MEMORY OF ELOUISE WESTBROOK. WE WILL JUST TAKE A MOMENT. 22 (A MOMENT OF SILENCE OBSERVED.) 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WE ARE ADJOURNED. 24 (MEETING ADJOURNED AT 11:00 O'CLOCK.) 25 SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER I, THE UNDERSIGNED, A DULY AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING PROCEEDINGS WERE TAKEN DOWN BY ME IN STENOTYPE AND THEREAFTER TRANSCRIBED INTO TYPEWRITING BY COMPUTER, UNDER MY DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION, AND THAT THIS TRANSCRIPT IS A TRUE RECORD OF THE SAID PROCEEDINGS. DATED: OCTOBER 23, 2011 ______________________________ MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 STATE OF CALIFORNIA