SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT MONTHLY MEETING OF THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO GOUGH STREET CAMPUS 33 GOUGH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPORTED BY: MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 2 1 A P P E A R A N C E S 2 3 4 THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 5 6 NATALIE BERG 7 ANITA GRIER 8 CHRIS JACKSON 9 STEVE NGO 10 JOHN RIZZO 11 LAWRENCE WONG 12 13 14 DR. DON Q. GRIFFIN, CHANCELLOR 15 RONALD LEE, GENERAL COUNSEL 16 JOSHUA NIELSEN, STUDENT TRUSTEE 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 APRIL 29, 2010 3 1 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT ON THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010, 2 COMMENCING AT THE HOUR OF 6:40 P.M. 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 APRIL 29, 2010 4 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE MEETING OF 2 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. WE WILL HAVE A ROLL CALL. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: PRESIDENT MARKS. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: (NO RESPONSE.) 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: VICE PRESIDENT JOHN RIZZO. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: HERE. 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. BERG. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: HERE. 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. GRIER. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: HERE. 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (NO RESPONSE.) 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE NGO. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: HERE. 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE WONG. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: HERE. 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: STUDENT TRUSTEE JOSH 18 NEILSEN. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: (NO RESPONSE.) 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD WE PLEASE RISE FOR 21 THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 22 (PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RECITED.) 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO NOW WE WILL HAVE TEN 24 MINUTES OF PUBLIC COMMENT. I BELIEVE I RECEIVED A FEW 25 CARDS. THESE ARE PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON APRIL 29, 2010 5 1 THE AGENDA. 2 WAS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEMS NOT ON 3 THE AGENDA? 4 SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD. 5 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. WE HAVE TWO SETS OF 6 MINUTES, TRUSTEES, TO APPROVE TONIGHT, THE REGULAR MINUTES 7 OF MARCH 25TH AND THE SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES OF 8 MARCH 11TH. 9 CAN I HAVE A MOTION FOR THE MARCH 25TH MEETING 10 MINUTES? 11 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 14 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, COULD I HAVE A 24 MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE MARCH 11TH MINUTES. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. APRIL 29, 2010 6 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE BERG. 4 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 9 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 12 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. ADOPTION OF 14 THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. LET ME SEE -- 15 ARE THERE ANY CHANGES, DR. LEE? 16 COUNSEL LEE: THERE ARE SOME CHANGES. THERE'S A 17 HANDOUT AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM ENTITLED, "ADDITIONS AND 18 MODIFICATIONS OF THE BOARD AGENDA" DATED APRIL 29, 2010. 19 THERE WERE REVISED RESOLUTIONS F1, F2, F3, AND 20 F5. AND THOSE RESOLUTIONS HAVE NAMES INSERTED INTO THE 21 RESOLUTIONS THEMSELVES. 22 THERE WAS ALSO AN ADDED RESOLUTION B1(A) AND S7. 23 THESE WERE REVISED AND ADDED ON MONDAY SO THAT WAS IN 24 CONFORMITY WITH THE BROWN ACT IN TERMS OF GETTING IN THE 25 NAMES. APRIL 29, 2010 7 1 FURTHERMORE, FOR F4, THERE IS AN AMENDMENT BY 2 INSERTING THE NAME OF ROSE MARIE ROBERSON INTO THE BLANK 3 SPACE OF THE F4 RESOLUTION ITSELF. THE ITEM ITSELF HAD 4 BEEN AGENIZED. IT JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE NAME. SO THE NAME 5 OF ROSE MARIE ROBERSON WILL BE INSERTED. AND THE STEP 10, 6 THE SALARY STEP, THAT'S INSERTED ALSO INTO THE RESOLUTION. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 COUNSEL LEE: DID I MENTION -- I DON'T IF I 9 MENTION THAT THE ADDED RESOLUTION WERE B1(A) AND S7. 10 THOSE WERE ADDED ON MONDAY. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, DR. LEE. 12 OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTIONS 13 AGENDA? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECOND? 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 MR. AMBORT: EXCUSE ME FOR ONE MINUTE, BUT I DO 19 HAVE ONE OF THE CARDS. I WOULD LIKE TO DO MY TWO-MINUTE 20 SPEECH. ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT? 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, I DID CALL FOR 22 THAT. 23 MR. AMBORT: OH, I'M SORRY. MARK AMBORT. MY 24 NAME IS ON THERE. I LEFT THAT UP THERE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: LET US HAVE THIS VOTE AND APRIL 29, 2010 8 1 THEN WE WILL DO THAT. 2 THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE THE 3 RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. 4 ANY DISCUSSION? 5 COUNSEL LEE: AS AMENDED. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AS AMENDED, THANK YOU. 7 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 12 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL RIGHT, SIR, 17 YOU MAY HAVE YOUR TWO MINUTES. 18 MARK AMBERT (SIC). 19 MR. AMBORT: AMBORT. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AMBORT. 21 MR. AMBORT: A-M-B-O-R-T. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 23 MR. AMBORT: SO WHERE IS MR. MARKS? 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: HE IS ABSENT TODAY. 25 MR. AMBORT: WITH THE BOARD, I WAS HERE LAST APRIL 29, 2010 9 1 MONTH. I HAVE EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO YOU MULTIPLE TIMES, 2 AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY I DON'T GET -- AS YOU SAY THE 3 PLEDGE OF A ALLEGIANCE, WHERE IS MY DUE PROCESS? 4 I WANT YOU TO SEE THESE COMPLAINTS THAT TWO 5 GIRLS FILED AGAINST ME. DEPARTMENT CHAIR ANNIE CHEN DOES 6 NOTHING ABOUT IT AND TURNS IT OVER TO TED ALFARO LIKE I 7 EXPLAINED LAST TIME. AND I DON'T GET TO DUE PROCESS. 8 DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 9 I'VE ASKED FOR EIGHT MONTHS FOR AN INDEPENDENT 10 INVESTIGATION, AND I HAVE AMPLE EVIDENCE. WHERE IS MY DUE 11 PROCESS? 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL -- 13 MR. AMBORT: WHERE IS MY TRUTH? WHERE IS MY 14 JUSTICE? WHERE IS THE DUE PROCESS? 15 DON GRIFFIN, I'VE ASKED YOU ABOUT A BILLION 16 TIMES. YOU WON'T EVEN ANSWER ME. YOU WON'T RESPOND TO 17 ANYTHING. 18 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE'VE MET TWICE, RIGHT? 19 MR. AMBORT: YES, I THINK YOU ARE AWARE OF IT. 20 RIGHT. 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO WE'VE HAD CONFERENCES. 22 MR. AMBORT: WHERE IS MY DUE PROCESS? 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE 24 WHAT YOU ARE ASKING. 25 MR. AMBORT: I WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT. APRIL 29, 2010 10 1 AND THERE WAS NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT. I EXPLAINED THIS LAST 2 TIME. THESE ARE COMPLAINTS OF TWO GIRLS THAT WERE IN THE 3 CLASS AND NO ONE INVESTIGATED IT. WHERE IS MY DUE 4 PROCESS? 5 TRUSTEE NGO: SIR, I'M SORRY WHAT WAS YOUR LAST 6 NAME AGAIN? 7 MR. AMBORT: AMBORT, A-M-B-O-R-T. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: WHAT SPECIFICALLY ARE YOU LOOKING 9 FOR? DID YOU WANT A HEARING OR DID YOU -- 10 MR. AMBORT: I WANT AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION 11 LIKE I WAS PROMISED. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 13 MR. AMBORT: INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: INTO WHAT? 15 MR. AMBORT: INTO NO DUE PROCESS, INTO RIGHTS 16 ABUSE, INTO DISCRIMINATION. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 18 MR. AMBORT: RULES, REGULATIONS, POLICY 19 VIOLATIONS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED AND INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR. 20 AND I HAVE LOTS OF INFORMATION AND NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT 21 AND NO ONE WANTS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WHY DON'T YOU STOP 23 BY THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE. 24 MR. AMBORT: I'VE ALREADY STOPPED BY HIS OFFICE 25 TWICE. APRIL 29, 2010 11 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, WE ARE OUT OF TIME 2 FOR THIS AGENDA ITEM. 3 MR. AMBORT: WHEN DO I GET MY DUE PROCESS, DON 4 AND MILTON? 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. WE NEED TO MOVE 6 ON. 7 MR. AMBORT: WHERE IS THE INDEPENDENT 8 INVESTIGATION THAT YOU PROMISED ME? 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SIR, WE NEED TO MOVE ON. 10 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. IF YOU WANT TO STOP BY THE 11 CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE, YOU CAN DO THAT. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: MR. PRESIDENT (SIC). 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: I MEAN MR. CHAIR. 15 MAY I SUGGEST THAT THE GENTLEMAN MAKE ONE MORE 16 EFFORT TO STOP BY THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AND THEN THE 17 CHANCELLOR CAN PERHAPS LET THE BOARD KNOW WHAT PROCESS IS 18 GOING TO BE PUT IN PLACE. HE JUST TOOK OFF. 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S WHAT HE DID LAST 20 TIME. THAT'S WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE COMES TO THE OFFICE. 21 HE RUNS OUT. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: ALL RIGHT. THAT'S FINE. I'VE 23 FINISHED WITH MY COMMENT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 25 THE NEXT ITEM IS THE APPROVAL OF THE -- APRIL 29, 2010 12 1 MS. GAVIN: MY NAME IS THERE TOO. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. 3 AND WHAT WAS YOUR NAME? 4 MS. GAVIN: LYNN. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: LYNN GAVEN? 6 MS. GAVIN: YES. 7 GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN 8 THE AUDIENCE. I'M HERE FOR A VERY HAPPY OCCASION, WHICH 9 IS RARE I KNOW GIVEN MY HISTORY. 10 MY DAUGHTER GRADUATED TWO YEARS AGO AND HER 11 PAPERWORK WASN'T FILED CORRECTLY FOR HER DEGREE. BUT THAT 12 WAS ALL STRAIGHTENED OUT. AND AS OF TODAY, SHE IS A 13 TEACHER FROM 0 TO PRESCHOOL, SO I'M VERY, VERY HAPPY ABOUT 14 THAT. SHE HAS AN EDUCATION FROM THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 15 THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE HAVE TO COME BACK 16 TO THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO GET. SO SHE IS THE FIRST 17 TEACHER IN MY FAMILY. 18 AND I'M HERE BECAUSE ALSO ON BEHALF OF MY SON, 19 BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW I AM KIND OF LIKE ALWAYS HERE FOR HIM. 20 BUT I'M HERE -- I'M VERY HAPPY TONIGHT, AND I WILL 21 EXPEDITE IT. 22 BASICALLY, I AM HERE BECAUSE OUT OF EVERYTHING 23 THAT HE HAS EXPERIENCED, THERE WAS ONE TEACHER THAT HAS 24 ALWAYS BEEN IN HIS CORNER AND WHO HAS NEVER WAVERED IN HIS 25 SUPPORT. AND THAT'S WILLIAM BAPTISTE. HE REALLY DID LIKE APRIL 29, 2010 13 1 MR. BAPTISTE. OUT OF ALL THE CLASSES THAT HE TOOK, I 2 COULD TELL HE WOULD BE REALLY EXCITED TO TELL ME ABOUT THE 3 COMPUTER CLASS. YOU KNOW, I JUST HAD TO LISTEN BECAUSE I 4 AM NOT TECHNICAL. 5 BUT I ACTUALLY TOOK A CLASS WITH MR. BAPTISTE. 6 AND HE WOULD ALWAYS SAY TO THE STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, WHY 7 DON'T YOU COME TO MY OFFICE AND WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT. 8 USUALLY THEY DON'T COME UNTIL AFTER, YOU KNOW, MIDTERMS 9 WHEN THE SEMESTER IS ALMOST OVER. 10 BUT MY SON REALLY GOT TO KNOW HIM WELL. AND 11 ALTHOUGH HE HAS NEVER REALLY SAID THE WORD, IF YOU 12 LISTENED TO HOW HE DESCRIBES HIM, HIS MENTOR. AND SO WHEN 13 IT SEEMS -- AND MR. BAPTISTE KNOWS MY SON WELL. 14 SO WHAT HAS HAPPENED AS THEY HAVE GROWN TO KNOW 15 EACH OTHER, MR. BAPTISTE RECOMMENDED MY SON FOR AN 16 INTERNSHIP WITH NASA. AND MY SON, THOMAS, WAS ACCEPTED. 17 HE WAS ACCEPTED. HE WAS ACCEPTED. 18 SO I DON'T KNOW IF HE IS YOUR FIRST STUDENT TO 19 EVER GET THE INTERNSHIP. THE LETTER IS RIGHT HERE. I DO 20 KNOW THAT OUT OF THE OTHER 36 STUDENTS THAT HE IS GROUPED 21 WITH GOING TO THE MIDWEST AT ONE OF THE RESEARCH 22 FACILITIES, HE IS THE ONLY STUDENT FROM THE COMMUNITY 23 COLLEGE. AND I AM VERY PLEASED BECAUSE SOME OF THESE 24 UNIVERSITIES ARE REALLY PRESTIGIOUS LIKE DARTMOUTH AND ALL 25 THAT. APRIL 29, 2010 14 1 BUT I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT -- 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: EXCUSE ME. YOUR TIME IS 3 UP THOUGH. IF YOU COULD JUST FINISH, YOUR TIME IS UP. 4 MS. GAVIN: YES, I AM. THANK YOU. I WANTED YOU 5 TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A STUDENT WHO HAS HIS DEGREE FROM 6 THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND HE IS ON HIS WAY TO NASA. AND 7 THE LAST SENTENCE SAYS, "WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE LEARNED 8 FROM NASA HEADQUARTERS," WHICH IS WASHINGTON DC, "THAT YOU 9 HAVE ACCEPTED OUR INTERNSHIP." AND SO HE IS GOING TO BE 10 GONE FOR TEN WEEKS THIS SUMMER, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: CONGRATULATIONS. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO, I WOULD 13 LIKE TO SAY TO LYNN -- WHAT'S YOUR LAST NAME? I'M SORRY. 14 WHERE IS SHE? 15 LYNN, YOUR LAST NAME. 16 MS. GAVIN: MY LAST NAME IS GAVEN AND HIS LAST 17 NAME IS (INAUDIBLE). 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU 19 FOR -- BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN BEFORE THIS BOARD AS EARLY AS 20 WHEN I WAS ELECTED ALMOST 11 YEARS AGO, AND SO IT'S GOOD 21 TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE PERSISTENT AND THAT YOU COME WHEN 22 THERE'S BAD NEWS AND YOU COME WHEN THERE'S GOOD NEWS. 23 ALL I WANT TO SAY IS CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND 24 ALSO YOUR DAUGHTER AND YOUR SON. AND WHAT YOU'VE SAID 25 ABOUT MR. BATTISTE, WE KNOW THIS. WE KNOW THAT HE IS A APRIL 29, 2010 15 1 FINE INSTRUCTOR, LIKE MANY OTHER INSTRUCTORS THAT WE HAVE 2 HERE. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK TO GIVE US 3 THE GOOD NEWS WHEN YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN DILIGENT IN TELLING 4 US ALL THE BAD NEWS. 5 I ALSO WANT TO JUST COMMENT ON THE PREVIOUS 6 SPEAKER. I HOPE THAT WE CAN RESOLVE THE ISSUES THAT HE 7 HAS AS WELL. THANK YOU. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. BEFORE WE MOVE ON, 9 IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE 10 AGENDA THAT I MISSED? 11 OKAY, IT LOOKS LIKE NONE. 12 SO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM IS THE APPROVAL OF THE 13 CONSENT ITEMS AS LISTED. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO I GUESS -- 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I GUESS WE ARE VOTING ON 18 THESE NOW. IS THAT RIGHT? 19 TRUSTEE WONG: WE ARE VOTING ON THE CONSENT 20 CALENDAR. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE CONSENT CALENDAR HAS 23 BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: WELL, WE CAN MOVE THE CONSENT 25 CALENDAR ITEMS NOW. APRIL 29, 2010 16 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: SO I MOVE B6. WE ARE GOING TO GO 3 WITH THE B RESOLUTIONS. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE B'S, YES. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY, SO B6 AND B7. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 7 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 12 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THE C'S. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: I MOVE C1, C2, C4. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 19 SECOND? IS THERE A SECOND? 20 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 22 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) APRIL 29, 2010 17 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 6 TRUSTEE WONG: I MOVE G1-5, H1 AND 2, AND N1. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 IS THERE A SECOND? 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: AND FINALLY -- IS THERE A VOTE? 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND S1. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: AND THEN S1 IS THE FINAL CONSENT 22 CALENDAR ITEM. I MOVE THAT. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THAT OKAY -- EVERYONE APRIL 29, 2010 18 1 ON CONSENT. 2 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THE CONSENT ITEMS 12 ARE APPROVED. 13 I THINK WHAT WE WILL DO NOW IS TAKE ITEM 9, THE 14 MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT, OUT OF ORDER. TAKE THAT NEXT 15 BECAUSE I THINK IT HAS A BEARING ON ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE 16 ON THE AGENDA. 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THANK YOU. 18 I THINK I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF POINTS 19 FOR YOUR MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT TONIGHT. PETER 20 GOLDSTEIN, VICE CHANCELLOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION. 21 IN THE CURRENT YEAR 2009-2010, AS WE HAVE 22 INFORMED THE BOARD AND SHARED GOVERNANCE AND 23 REPRESENTATIVE LABOR ORGANIZATIONS PREVIOUSLY, WE ARE 24 CLOSELY MONITORING OUR SPENDING AND INCOME. AND WE ARE 25 FINDING THAT WE ARE DOING A PRETTY REASONABLE JOB OF APRIL 29, 2010 19 1 MAINTAINING OUR OVERALL SPENDING THIS YEAR SO THAT WE WILL 2 NOT HAVE TO SPEND ANY OF THE BOARD DESIGNATED RESERVE THAT 3 WE WERE AUTHORIZED TO SPEND. 4 IT'S NOW THE TIME OF YEAR WHERE WE LOOK FORWARD 5 TO THE COMING FISCAL YEAR, 2010-2011. I SAY THAT ONLY IN 6 A TIME SENSE BECAUSE WE ARE NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO 7 2010-2011. IT WILL BE AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT YEAR. 8 AS I'VE SAID IN SEVERAL FORUMS, THE NUMBERS MAY 9 END UP BEING SMALLER THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH, BUT THE 10 PROBLEM WILL BE LARGER BECAUSE THINGS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO 11 DO TO TRY TO STAY BALANCED IN '09-'10 WILL NOT BE 12 AVAILABLE. 13 I WILL START WITH THE MOST CRITICALLY THE FACT 14 THAT THIS WILL BE A YEAR WHERE OUR ENROLLMENT WILL BE 15 BELOW BASE. THE STATE HAS A ONE-YEAR HOLD HARMLESS 16 PROVISION FOR THAT, WHICH MEANS THAT IF A DISTRICT DOES 17 NOT GET BACK TO ITS BASE ENROLLMENT, WHICH IS SLIGHTLY 18 OVER 36,000 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENTS FOR OUR COLLEGE 19 IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, WE STAND TO LOSE LOTS OF MONEY, 20 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS POTENTIALLY. AND, OF COURSE, WE DON'T 21 WANT TO LET THAT HAPPEN. 22 SO PART OF OUR BUDGET STRATEGY FOR NEXT YEAR 23 REQUIRES US -- THAT'S THE RIGHT WORD. REQUIRES US TO ADD 24 MONEY FOR ADDING MORE CLASSES, BOTH DURING THE FALL AND 25 SPRING AND THE SUMMER. IT WILL NOT BE AS MANY CLASSES AS APRIL 29, 2010 20 1 WE HAD AT OUR HEIGHT, BUT IT WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE 2 CLASSES THAN WE ARE OFFERING THIS YEAR. AND IT WILL COST 3 A LOT OF MONEY AT LEAST $2.5 MILLION. 4 WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OTHER AUTOMATIC 5 COST INCREASES AS WE BUILD OUR BUDGET MODEL. AND WHAT WE 6 FIND WHEN WE LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS, AND I KNOW WE HAVE A 7 BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE BOARD COMING UP VERY SOON 8 WHERE WE CAN GO INTO MORE DEPTH. WE SEE OURSELVES LOOKING 9 AT A NEGATIVE BOTTOM LINE NUMBER FOR NEXT YEAR. THAT 10 SHOULDN'T BE A SURPRISE. 11 EVEN IN THE VERY BEST-CASE SCENARIO, WE WILL BE 12 LOOKING TO CLOSE A GAP OF MORE THAN $4 MILLION. A MORE 13 LIKELY SCENARIO WHERE WE TAKE A COLD HARD ASSESSMENT OF 14 OUR REVENUES NOW THAT TIME HAS GONE BY AND LOOK AGAIN AT 15 WHAT COULD WE REALLY EXPECT TO RAISE THROUGH FUND-RAISING 16 FOR NEXT YEAR. HOW MUCH GROWTH REALLY MIGHT BE AVAILABLE 17 TO THE COLLEGE, VIS A VIS OTHER STATE CUTS? HOW MUCH 18 MIGHT WE RAISE IN OUTSIDE GRANTS? 19 AND FINALLY, WHAT'S A REASONABLE NUMBER OF 20 STUDENTS FROM OUT OF STATE AND OUT OF COUNTRY WHO WILL 21 ATTEND HERE NEXT YEAR AND PAY NONRESIDENT TUITION? 22 WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL THAT TOGETHER AND REASSESS 23 THOSE NUMBERS AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE START OF THE FISCAL 24 YEAR, I BELIEVE A MORE LIKELY SCENARIO IS THE COLLEGE WILL 25 BE FACING A GAP OF BETWEEN $7 AND $8 MILLION AND THAT WILL APRIL 29, 2010 21 1 BE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO SOLVE IN FACT. 2 WE WILL BE WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE 3 REPRESENTATIVE LABOR ORGANIZATIONS SEIU, AFT, THE BUILDING 4 TRADES COUNCIL, THE DCC, AND, OF COURSE, DIRECTLY WITH THE 5 ADMINISTRATOR'S GROUP. IT WILL BE ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE 6 THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM COOPERATION WITH THOSE 7 ORGANIZATIONS IN ORDER TO CLOSE THAT GAP THAT WE HAVE FOR 8 NEXT YEAR. 9 I WILL PAUSE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY QUESTIONS? 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION. I 12 HAVE A STATEMENT. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: PETER, CAN YOU JUST WALK US -- SO 14 NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET DEFICIT, I KNOW WE CAN'T PROJECT OUT 15 TOO MUCH, BUT I KNOW WE ALSO HAVE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT 16 THIS YEAR, BUT WE SHOULDN'T MAKE THIS DECISION IN A VACUUM 17 OBVIOUSLY. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: WE ARE LOOKING AT BEST-CASE 20 SCENARIO AND WORST-CASE SCENARIO IN TERMS OF THE DEFICIT 21 FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. 22 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SURE. WELL, BASED ON THE 23 BUDGET THE GOVERNOR PRESENTED IN JANUARY, WHICH HE WILL 24 REVISE IN MAY IN ABOUT TWO AND A HALF WEEKS. THE RANGE WE 25 PROJECTED OFF OF THAT BUDGET WERE BOTH SHORTFALLS. IN THE APRIL 29, 2010 22 1 BEST CASE $4 MILLION AND THE WORST CASE OVER $12 MILLION. 2 AND THE DIFFERENCE BEING WHAT THE ASSUMPTIONS ARE FOR HOW 3 MUCH REVENUE WE CAN BRING IN FROM THE SOURCES THAT I 4 MENTIONED A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO. THAT WAS THE KEY 5 DIFFERENCE IN THOSE TWO MODELS. 6 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: COULD I JUMP IN ON THIS FOR 7 A SECOND. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLEASE, DR. GRIFFIN. 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: JUST TO PUT THIS IN VERY 10 BLUNT TERMS, LAST YEAR WE HAD TO COME UP WITH 18 MILLION. 11 THIS YEAR 8 MILLION. THAT'S $26 MILLION OVER 24 MONTHS. 12 THE FOLLOWING YEAR ANOTHER 7 MILLION. THE FOLLOWING YEAR 13 ANOTHER 7 MILLION. THAT WOULD BE $40 MILLION ON A BUDGET 14 OF $200 MILLION WITH NO RELIEF FROM THE STATE. THERE IS 15 NO RELIEF IN SIGHT FROM THE STATE. 16 I SPENT ALL DAY UP IN SACRAMENTO WITH LESLIE 17 SMITH. THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT THEY ARE TELLING US. 18 THERE IS NO -- NO DOLLARS ARE COMING. SO WE ACTUALLY ARE 19 IN A CRISIS SITUATION AS FAR AS THE BUDGET IS CONCERNED. 20 TO BE IN DENIAL ABOUT THAT IS A MISTAKE. THE COLLEGE 21 COMMUNITY WE HAVE NOT HAD DIRECT LAYOFFS OF ANYONE AT THE 22 COLLEGE. BUT IN FACT, WE HAVE BEEN LAYING OFF INDIRECTLY 23 PEOPLE THROUGH ATTRITION. IT'S THROUGH ATTRITION. THAT'S 24 ACTUALLY A FACT. 25 GOING FORWARD, $8 MILLION MORE HAS TO BE COME UP APRIL 29, 2010 23 1 WITH THIS YEAR. AND AS SOON AS WE TURN AROUND, WE HAVE 2 GOT TO COME UP WITH ANOTHER 7 MILLION. AND IN THE NEXT 24 3 MONTHS, THE STATE IS TELLING US THAT THEY DO NOT SEE 4 ANYMORE REVENUE COMING TO US. SO THOSE ARE BIG NUMBERS 5 AND WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 6 AND AT THIS POINT THE MESSAGE THE COMMUNICATION 7 TO THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY HAS NOT PENETRATED. WE HAVE NOT 8 BEEN ABLE TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH A HOLE 9 WE ARE IN, AND IT'S MOST LIKELY BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT DONE A 10 GOOD JOB OF COMMUNICATION. 11 SO TO THAT END, WE NEED TO HAVE A DAY LONG OR 12 HALF A DAY BUDGET SESSION WITH EVERYONE IN THE COLLEGE, 13 INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE 14 NUMBERS AND LET PEOPLE BECOME MORE AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE 15 FACING. 16 THE ONLY OTHER THING I WANT TO REITERATE IN 17 TERMS OF WHAT PETER STATED IS THAT IT IS PARADOXICAL AND 18 IT'S COUNTERINTUITIVE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO ADD CLASSES AT 19 THE SAME TIME THAT WE ARE FACING THIS SITUATION. 20 THE REASON WE HAVE TO ADD CLASSES IS BECAUSE 21 THIS YEAR WE ARE UNDER THE BASE. IF WE DO NOT ADD CLASSES 22 NEXT YEAR, WE ARE GOING TO LOSE EVEN MORE MONEY. SO WE 23 ARE GOING TO BE CUTTING IN SOME AREAS, BUT WE HAVE TO ADD 24 CLASSES IN OTHER AREAS. THAT'S VERY PARADOXICAL AS FAR AS 25 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED, BUT IT MUST BE DONE. APRIL 29, 2010 24 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND ON TOP OF THAT, I DO KNOW 3 ON THE AGENDA WE FORWARDED FROM THE BUDGET COMMITTEE A 4 RESOLUTION TO START THE PROCESS OF HIRING A POLLSTER FOR 5 AN ANTICIPATED -- SEEING HOW AN ANTICIPATE PARCEL TAX 6 WOULD WORK OUT. I KNOW WE ARE WATCHING THE SAN MATEO 7 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT VERY CLOSELY. 8 SO WHEN WE GET TO THAT ITEM, I WANT TO IMPLORE 9 MY COLLEAGUES -- IN LIGHT OF THAT NEWS THAT THE CHANCELLOR 10 AND PETER, WHO EVERY TIME I SEE PETER, COMES AND GIVES US 11 BAD NEWS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM GIVE US GOOD NEWS. 12 BUT I DEFINITELY WANT TO IMPLORE THAT EVEN 13 THOUGH WE WILL BE USING SOME GENERAL FUND MONEY TO FUND A 14 POLLSTER THAT IN THE END, YOU KNOW, THIS SITUATION CAN'T 15 GO ON. WE CAN'T CONTINUE TO DO MORE WITH LESS MONEY. I'M 16 TIRED OF THAT. I AM TIRED OF TRYING TO FIND WIGGLE ROOM 17 AND TRYING TO FIND HERE AND THERE AND MAGIC TRICKS TO TRY 18 TO FIND REVENUE AND TRY TO KEEP THIS COLLEGE WHOLE. WE 19 REALLY NEED TO GROW THE PIE, AND WE REALLY NEED TO ASK OUR 20 COLLEAGUES AND OUR NEIGHBORS AND OUR RESIDENTS HERE IN THE 21 CITY TO STEP UP AND TO SUPPORT THEIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND 22 SO I WILL -- 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE, IF I COULD JUST 24 INTERRUPT. WE ACTUALLY -- THAT IS ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM. 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH, I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT APRIL 29, 2010 25 1 IN CONTEXT OF THE COLLEGE BUDGET THOUGH. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I WAS WRAPPING UP. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WAS JUST SAYING IN THAT 6 CONTEXT, I WILL DEFINITELY URGE US TO REALLY LOOK AT OTHER 7 OUTSIDE THE BOX WAYS TO GROW REVENUE INSTEAD OF CONTINUING 8 TO CUT OR FINANCE INSIDE THIS COLLEGE. THANK YOU. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I WOULD JUST CLOSE WITH ONE 10 FINAL THOUGHT. BECAUSE OF THE DECLINE OF THE STATE'S 11 ECONOMY AND OUR BEST EFFORTS TO TRY TO MANAGE OUR 12 INSTITUTION THROUGH IT, WE HAVE BEEN FORCED INTO A 13 POSITION WHERE WE ARE ALREADY DEFICIT SPENDING THIS YEAR 14 AS WE TRY TO COPE WITH THE SITUATION. 15 IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF 16 OUR TOTAL AVAILABLE RESOURCES THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO 17 THE COLLEGE IN AN EMERGENCY, NOT JUST THE BOARD DESIGNATED 18 RESERVE, IT'S SHRINKING FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR. AND 19 IT'S ON A PACE TO SHRINK AGAIN NEXT YEAR. 20 SO I FULLY SUPPORT THE NOTION THAT WE NEED TO 21 HAVE AN IN DEPTH MEETING TO TALK ABOUT OUR OVERALL PLAN 22 FOR SURVIVING THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR AND THE ONE BEYOND 23 THAT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD I ASK -- WOULD YOU 25 CLARIFY WHAT YOU MEANT BY WE ARE BEING FORCED DEFICIT APRIL 29, 2010 26 1 SPENDING, THIS YEAR YOU MEAN? 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IN THE CURRENT YEAR. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE STARTED THIS YEAR -- AGAIN, 5 JUST LIKE A CHECKING ACCOUNT WHERE YOU HAVE SOME MONEY 6 LEFTOVER FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTH THAT ROLLS TO THIS MONTH 7 AS AVAILABLE. WE HAD MONEY LEFTOVER AT THE END OF LAST 8 YEAR THAT ROLLED FORWARD TO THIS YEAR. AT THE END OF THIS 9 YEAR, THAT MONEY WILL BE GONE. THAT'S ESSENTIALLY ANOTHER 10 PART OF WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE OURSELVES TO TIE OURSELVES 11 THROUGH. THAT PIECE OF WHAT WE HAVE HAD AVAILABLE WILL BE 12 GONE AND THAT IS ADDING TO THE CHALLENGE FOR SOLVING NEXT 13 YEAR. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: AND THAT WAS APPROXIMATELY 15 $2.8, $2.9 MILLION THAT WE STARTED -- 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: MORE THAN $2 MILLION, THAT'S 17 CORRECT. 18 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: AND THIS YEAR WE ARE GOING 19 TO START WITH ZERO. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THAT'S CORRECT. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? 23 SEEING NONE, WE CAN MOVE ONTO THE NEXT ITEMS, 24 WHICH ARE THE SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS. FIRST WE HAVE THE 25 COMMUNITY HIRING MONITORS. WE WILL HAVE ANDERS AND ANDERS APRIL 29, 2010 27 1 FIRST AND THEN CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU, SIR. WE NEED TO 3 KEEP IT KIND OF BRIEF TODAY. 4 MR. ANDERS: OKAY. 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO IF YOU COULD KEEP IT IN 6 THE 10 TO 15 MINUTE RANGE, WE WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL. 7 MR. ANDERS: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. GREAT. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 9 MR. ANDERS: CHANCELLOR AND TRUSTEES, I'M TERRY 10 ANDERS OF ANDERS AND ANDERS FOUNDATION. 11 I WOULD JUST LIKE TO TALK ABOUT TWO PARTICULAR 12 INSTANCES THAT HAVE CAME TO MIND THAT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE 13 AT THE COLLEGE. AND IT DEALS WITH TWO DIFFERENT 14 COMPANIES. ONE IS CALLED J.C. MEADOWS AND THE OTHER ONE 15 IS CALLED CASEY-FOGLI. CASEY-FOGLI, WHICH IS A 16 SUBCONTRACTOR TO NIBBI BROTHERS, DEALS WITH CONCRETE. 17 THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT DATES THAT I WANT TO BRING 18 TO MIND. ONE IS FROM THE CERTIFIED PAYROLL OF 4/18 AND 19 THE OTHER ONE IS A CERTIFIED PAYROLL FROM 3/28. 20 IN ALL OF THIS, THERE IS NO SAN FRANCISCO 21 RESIDENTS WORKING. NONE. TO START WITH MARCH 28TH, THERE 22 WERE 15 NON SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS, HISPANIC AND NO 23 WOMEN. AND I PUT DOWN WHERE THEY WERE FROM. ONE WAS FROM 24 HERCULES. SIX WERE FROM HAYWARD. ONE WAS FROM SAN PABLO. 25 TWO WERE FROM SAN JOSE. ONE WAS FROM NEWARK. ONE WAS APRIL 29, 2010 28 1 FROM PITTSBURG. ONE WAS FROM MANTECA. ONE WAS FROM UNION 2 CITY. 3 THE WEEK OF 4/18, FROM 15 THEY WENT DOWN TO TWO. 4 ONE IS FROM HERCULES. ONE IS FROM SAN PABLO. THERE IS 5 STILL NO PEOPLE WORKING FROM SAN FRANCISCO. 6 I FIND THIS VERY DISHEARTENING. AND THE REASON 7 THAT I BRING IT TO YOUR ATTENTION BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT 8 WITHOUT THE CERTIFIED PAYROLL, WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE 9 UNDERSTANDING OF WHO IS WORKING AND WHO IS NOT WORKING. 10 SO THE MONITOR NOT ONLY JUST VERIFIES THE ACTUAL 11 PEOPLE OF TRYING TO PLACE SOME SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS ON 12 THERE, WE ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHO IS ACTUALLY WORKING AND IF 13 THERE ARE ANY SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS WORKING IN THAT 14 PARTICULAR TRADE. 15 ANOTHER ONE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT IS JC 16 MEADOWS. THEY ARE A SAN FRANCISCO BASED COMPANY. THERE 17 ARE NO WOMEN. THERE ARE NO WORKERS FROM OTHER 18 DISENFRANCHISED MINORITY GROUPS. THE CERTIFIED PAYROLL 19 DATE ENDING APRIL 4TH, 2010 IRON WORKER TRADE, THERE IS A 20 MARCH 26TH, 2/10. DURING THAT PARTICULAR TIME, THIS IS 21 THE SAME COMPANY THAT THE TRADE OF IRON WORKERS. THERE'S 22 11 MALE ASIAN. SEVEN ARE FROM SAN FRANCISCO. FOUR ARE 23 NON SAN FRANCISCO. ONE IS FROM THE LAKEVIEW, 94112. 24 THREE ARE FROM VISITACION VALLEY, 94134. ONE IS FROM 25 BAYVIEW, 94124. THE FOUR NON-RESIDENTS, ONE IS FROM DALY APRIL 29, 2010 29 1 CITY, FOSTER CITY, OAKLAND. THREE APPRENTICES. 2 THE ATTENTION THAT I WANT TO BRING IS THE 3 UNDERSTANDING OF OUR VAST DISCONNECT WITH THE DIFFERENT 4 COMPANIES THAT ARE OUT HERE WORKING. WE TALKED WITH THEM. 5 WE EVEN GO TO THEIR OFFICES. AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE 6 TO TAKE NOTE THAT SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE AS WE DEAL WITH 7 TRYING TO SELECT COMPANIES TO DO BUSINESS WITH SAN 8 FRANCISCO, AS FAR AS THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, THAT WE MAKE 9 NOTE THAT IF THERE'S NOT SOME CONCERTED LANGUAGE PUT IN 10 THE FACT OF SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS BEING ABLE TO WORK ON 11 THESE JOBS, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME REAL SERIOUS QUESTIONS 12 ABOUT WHO IS WORKING AND THE DIVERSITY. 13 I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LACK OF DIVERSITY. I 14 THINK THAT ANY COMPANY THAT HAS ONE PARTICULAR GROUP AND 15 EXCLUDING EVERYBODY ELSE, THERE'S A PROBLEM. AND THERE'S 16 BEEN A CONSISTENT PROBLEM WITH NO WOMEN. BUT SINCE WE 17 HAVE BEEN THERE, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BRING WOMEN INTO THE 18 DIFFERENT UNIONS THERE. 19 I'M TRYING TO KEEP MY NOTES BRIEF. I HATE TO GO 20 ON AND ON ABOUT HOW I THINK WE COULD MAKE SOME 21 IMPROVEMENTS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DIFFERENT TIME 22 FRAME WHERE I COULD BRING THAT TO THE TRUSTEES. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD I ASK, LAST MONTH 24 YOU GAVE A PRESENTATION THAT WAS -- THINGS LOOKED A LOT 25 BETTER. WHAT DO YOU THINK CHANGED IN PAST MONTH? APRIL 29, 2010 30 1 MS. KINDER: WELL, YOU WILL SEE SOME LETTERS 2 THAT WE WROTE AFTER WE MET WITH THE COMPANIES. AND THEY 3 TELL US THEY WILL HIRE PEOPLE AND THEN WE HAVE RESISTENCE 4 FROM THEM HIRING, SO WE STARTED WRITING LETTERS 5 DOCUMENTING ACTUAL ACTIVITY WITH THE COMPANIES THAT WE CAN 6 USE TO GIVE YOU WHEN THE JOB IS DONE. SO THEY ARE NOT 7 HIRED AGAIN IF THEY DIDN'T DO WHAT THEY SAID THEY WERE 8 GOING TO DO. SO THAT'S IN YOUR FOLDER AS WELL. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 10 MR. ANDERS: BUT ANSWERING THAT ONE QUESTION, 11 THERE IS A BRIGHT SIDE TO THIS. WE ARE BEING ABLE TO GET 12 PEOPLE WORKING, WHICH IS THE PLUS. BUT I ALSO WANT BE 13 ABLE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME MINUSES GOING ON. 14 AND THEY WILL ALWAYS PAINT A ROSY PICTURE ABOUT ANYTHING 15 THAT IS GOOD, BUT THEN WE WON'T REALLY DEAL WITH A CORRECT 16 PICTURE OF WHAT KIND OF WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE. SO WITH 17 THIS MIND, THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO BRING THIS ASPECT TO 18 YOUR ATTENTION. BUT THERE ARE DEFINITELY SOME BRIGHT 19 MOMENTS GOING ON. 20 MS. KINDER: AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IN THE GRAPH. 21 BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND CERTIFIED PAYROLL 22 SOMETIMES TAKES SIX WEEKS TO GET TO -- 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 24 MS. KINDER: SO IT'S NOT REFLECTIVE. WE'VE PUT 25 SOME WOMEN TO WORK, AND YOU WILL SEE ON HERE IT DOESN'T APRIL 29, 2010 31 1 REPRESENT. BUT WE PUT WOMEN FROM PUBLIC HOUSING TO WORK 2 JUST MOST RECENTLY. I THINK THIS MONTH WE PUT FOUR PEOPLE 3 TO WORK IN APRIL, TWO WERE WOMEN. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: GREAT. 5 TRUSTEE WONG. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: ARE YOU SAYING THAT PRIMES ARE 7 SAYING THAT THEY WOULD HIRE WOMEN AND CONTRACTORS OF COLOR 8 AND SUBS HAVE NOT. IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING? 9 MS. KINDER: THE WORKERS, NOT THE SUBS. THE 10 ACTUAL -- 11 TRUSTEE WONG: YOU ARE SAYING, THE SUBS ARE NOT 12 HIRING. 13 MS. KINDER: CORRECT. WE ENCOUNTERING 14 RESISTANCE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: THEY SAID THEY WOULD. 16 MS. KINDER: CORRECT. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: THEY HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH 18 YOU. 19 MS. KINDER: CORRECT. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: WHERE IS PETER? 21 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I'M RIGHT HERE. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: WASN'T THERE SOMETHING IN PLACE 23 IN TERMS OF WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE HIRES BEFORE WE 24 WOULD MAKE A PAYMENT. THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WE PUT IN 25 PLACE SEVERAL YEARS AGO. APRIL 29, 2010 32 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: (INAUDIBLE). 2 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY. THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT 3 WE PUT IN PLACE. DO YOU REMEMBER? 4 WE WERE TRYING TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. WE PUT 5 SOMETHING IN PLACE, SOME SORT OF MECHANISM. LET'S SEE 6 THIS IS WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO IN TERMS OF 7 PERCENTAGES. 8 I KNOW WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL IN TERMS OF 9 THE LEGAL REASONS. 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AS FAR AS I KNOW -- 11 TRUSTEE WONG: THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HAD 12 IN PLACE. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THERE IS NO LEGAL MECHANISM 14 THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO REQUIRE THESE EMPLOYERS TO HIRE 15 SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS. 16 COUNSEL LEE: THAT IS CORRECT. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: PETER, WE KNOW THAT PART. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING 20 THAT I THINK WE WERE LOOKING AT SOME SORT OF REVIEWING 21 PROCESS. 22 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND THAT'S PART OF -- THERE ARE 23 TWO PARTS OF THAT. ONE IS WE HAVE THE LABOR STANDARDS 24 ENFORCEMENT FOLKS UNDER CONTRACT WHO ARE MONITORING THE 25 PROJECT FOR THEIR OWN PARTICULAR PURPOSES, PREVAILING APRIL 29, 2010 33 1 WAGE, CORRECT JOB CLASSIFICATION. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: AND THAT'S ALL LEGAL. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND ON TOP OF THAT WE HAVE 4 ANDERS AND ANDERS AND IN THE OTHER PROJECTS CAA MONITORING 5 WHO IS ACTUALLY BEING HIRED. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY. WE KNOW ALL THAT. SO THE 7 QUESTION IS: WAS THIS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM ANDERS 8 AND ANDERS? HOW DO WE ADDRESS -- 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, I THINK ANDERS AND ANDERS 10 IS DOING THE JOB THAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO. THEY ARE ON 11 SITE, ON THE GROUND ON A REGULAR BASIS TALKING DIRECTLY TO 12 THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DO THE HIRING ON THE PROJECTS. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: AND IF THEY ARE NOT. 14 MS. KINDER: WHAT WAS THAT? 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AND IF THEY ARE NOT, WOULD YOU DO 16 YOU RECOMMEND? 17 MS. KINDER: WE WRITE LETTERS SAYING THAT IT IS 18 IN THEIR BEST INTEREST FOR FUTURE CONTRACTS TO HIRE 19 COMMUNITY WORKERS. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY. THAT'S WHAT I NEEDED TO 21 HEAR, SOME SORT OF ACTION. 22 MS. KINDER: THAT'S THE ACTION WE HAVE BEEN 23 TAKING. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNOW ALL THIS 25 OTHER STUFF HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS. APRIL 29, 2010 34 1 MS. KINDER: RIGHT. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: WE KNEW THAT EVEN BEFORE YOU GUYS 3 WERE HIRED. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK WE HAVE TRUSTEE 5 NGO AND THEN GRIER AND THEN JACKSON. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: WHAT ABOUT ME? 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND TRUSTEE BERG. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE WILL JUST GO DOWN THE 10 LINE. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK YOU'VE DOING A FANTASTIC 12 JOB, SO THANK YOU FOR -- 13 MS. KINDER: THANK YOU. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: -- KEEPING TRACK AND HOLDING 15 ACCOUNTABLE THESE COMPANIES WHO BRING IN THE WORKERS TO 16 WORK ON THESE JOBS. 17 THE POINT IS, TRUSTEE WONG, IS THAT THEY 18 DOCUMENT THESE HIRES. WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT IF AND WHEN 19 THEY EVER BID FOR A CONTRACT AGAIN, WE CAN ACTUALLY 20 DETERMINE WHETHER THEY ARE IN FACT RESPONSIVE BIDDERS. 21 MR. ANDERS: YES. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: WE HAVE A LOCAL HIRE PROVISION IN 23 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT. THERE IS NO HARD 24 NUMBER. THERE'S JUST A GOAL, RIGHT? 25 BUT THE RESPONSIVE BIDDING REQUIREMENTS IS APRIL 29, 2010 35 1 IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS ACTUALLY BUILDING 2 A CASE FOR ANY FUTURE BIDS. IF THESE COMPANIES COME BACK 3 AND WANT TO BID WITH THE COLLEGE ON ANY PROJECTS, WE WILL 4 KNOW IF IN FACT THEY ARE RESPONSIVE BIDDERS BY LOOKING AT 5 THE RECORD THAT THEY ARE DOCUMENTING. 6 MS. KINDER: CORRECT. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: SO IN THAT SENSE THEY ARE DOING 8 THEIR JOB. SO I AM ENCOURAGED THAT YOU DO THAT AND 9 CONTINUE TO DO THAT. THANK YOU. 10 MS. KINDER: AND IT DOES GET A RESPONSE. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: IT GETS A RESPONSE BECAUSE THIS 12 BOARD TAKES IT VERY SERIOUSLY. I KNOW THAT. AND WE ARE 13 BUILDING THE CASE FOR THESE FUTURE BIDS. AND WE MADE THAT 14 VERY CLEAR IN PREVIOUS -- AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT TRUSTEE 15 WONG WAS REFERRING TO. 16 MS. KINDER: OKAY. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AND ACTUALLY EVEN BEFORE YOU WERE 18 BROUGHT ON BOARD, THAT WAS WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO. DO 19 YOU REMEMBER THIS WAS LIKE TWO YEARS AGO? 20 SO I THINK NOW WE HAVE PROFESSIONALIZED IT MORE 21 AND MADE IT MORE SYSTEMATIC. BUT THAT WAS WHAT I WAS 22 REFERRING TO, SO WE ARE BUILDING UP A RECORD. 23 SO THANK YOU, TRUSTEE NGO, FOR REMINDING US OF 24 THAT. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. APRIL 29, 2010 36 1 WE'LL JUST GO DOWN THE LINE. 2 TRUSTEE BERG: I HAVE A QUESTION. WHO IS DOING 3 THE RECRUITING? 4 MS. KINDER: WE ARE. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: ARE YOU GUYS DOING THE 6 RECRUITING? 7 MS. KINDER: YES. 8 MR. ANDERS: YES, WE ARE. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AND DO YOU HAVE EVIDENCE OF 10 QUALIFIED PEOPLE WHO YOU BROUGHT TO THE CONTRACTOR AND 11 THEY JUST DIDN'T -- 12 MS. KINDER: ABSOLUTELY. 13 MR. ANDERS: YES. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: AND YOU ARE KEEPING RECORDS OF 15 THAT. 16 MS. KINDER: CORRECT. 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AND YOU CAN INDICATE THAT YOU 18 BROUGHT THEM TEN PEOPLE, AND THEY HIRED TWO AND HIRED 19 EIGHT OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT KIND OF 20 RECRUITMENT THAT YOU HAVE QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, 21 THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HIRE WHOMEVER IS QUALIFIED. 22 MR. ANDERS: WE GO TO THE JOB SITE WEEKLY. AND 23 WE MEET WITH BOVIS AND SWINERTON, AS WELL AS MAKING AN 24 EFFORT TO KEEP IN CONTACT WITH THE VARIOUS SUBS THAT'S OUT 25 THERE, SO WE DO HAVE WEEKLY MEETINGS. APRIL 29, 2010 37 1 TRUSTEE BERG: BUT YOU BRING PEOPLE TO THEM. 2 MS. KINDER: YES. 3 MR. ANDERS: YES. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU BRING QUALIFIED PEOPLE. 5 MS. KINDER: AND ON APRIL 21ST, YOU CAN SEE ONE 6 OF THE COMPANIES, SPINITAR, HIS E-MAIL BACK SAYS THE 7 CANDIDATE HAS THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR, AND 8 WE WROTE HIM A LETTER, HOW COME HE'S NOT HIRED? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: GOOD. THANKS. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 12 ONE OF THE COMMENTS I WANTED TO MAKE AND A 13 SUGGESTION. AND THAT IS, AT THE NEXT FACILITY MEETING, 14 WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO INVITE YOU TO THAT MEETING TO GIVE 15 US -- I'M GOING TO ASK FOR SOMETHING VERY SPECIFIC. I 16 THINK THAT WE NEED MORE TIME TO LOOK AT THE INFORMATION 17 YOU'VE BROUGHT TO US AND WE NEED TO CATEGORIZE IT. WE 18 NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE WHO ARE HIRED, WHEN THEY ARE HIRED, 19 AND WE KNOW FROM PAST HISTORY THAT WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT 20 THE LONG TERM BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN INSTANCES WHERE 21 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HIRED, AND THEY ARE ONLY THERE FOR A WEEK 22 OR TWO AND THEN THEY ARE GONE. 23 MS. KINDER: RIGHT. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT 25 CONTINUITY. AND WE NEED TO JUST DIGEST THE INFORMATION APRIL 29, 2010 38 1 YOU'VE BROUGHT TO US. 2 AND SO, VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO, WHAT I WOULD LIKE 3 TO DO IS HAVE THEM AT THE NEXT MEETING OF THE FACILITIES 4 COMMITTEE. IS THAT POSSIBLE? 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND I CAN COME WITH MY QUESTIONS 7 AND RECOMMENDATIONS AND COMMENTS. 8 MS. KINDER: WE WOULD WELCOME THAT. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I WANT TO SAY THAT I 12 REALLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS THAT YOU GUYS AND CHINESE 13 FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ARE DOING. I AM GETTING REAL 14 NUMBERS AND OBTAINING A REAL STORY AND NOT JUST THE 15 ANTIDOTAL STUFF THAT WE THINK WE KNOW, BUT ACTUALLY GIVING 16 US REAL HARD FACTS AND PROOF ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON BECAUSE 17 I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE PRIMES AND SUBS THAT ARE 18 ACTUALLY GOOD. THEY ARE UNION. THEY ARE GOOD. AND THEY 19 BRING ON WORKERS. 20 BUT THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, ARE SUBS AND PRIMES 21 THAT ARE BAD AND THEY REFUSE. YOU GUYS SHOULDN'T EVEN BE 22 FACING RESISTANCE ON THIS. THE FACT THAT THEY WERE A 23 RESPONSIVE BIDDER AND THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO DO 24 THEIR BEST FAITH EFFORTS TO GET TO THAT GOAL. AND YOU 25 GUYS ARE HELPING US IN THE LONG RUN WEED THOSE FOLKS OUT. APRIL 29, 2010 39 1 THE ONES WHO ARE THE BAD CHARACTERS. THE ONES THAT ARE 2 REFUSING TO EVEN DO THEIR BEST FAITH EFFORTS IN TERMS OF 3 HIRING LOCAL FOLKS. 4 AND LIKE TRUSTEE NGO AND I BELIEVE TRUSTEE WONG 5 AND TRUSTEE BERG HAVE SAID, YOU GUYS ARE HELPING US BUILD 6 THAT CASE. SO WHEN THEY COME BACK THE SECOND TIME, 7 BECAUSE THIS ECONOMY IS REALLY BAD AND THE PUBLIC WORK IS 8 THE ONLY REAL WORK THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, THEY WILL 9 BE BACK. AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO BUILD A REALLY STRONG 10 CASE, A WATERPROOF CASE OF WHY THEY WILL NOT BE A 11 RESPONSIVE BIDDER. AND ONCE WE WEED OUT ALL THOSE BAD 12 PRIMES AND SUBS, AND WE ARE DEALING WITH ONLY THE GOOD 13 ONES THAT ARE DOING THE BEST FAITH EFFORTS, THEN THAT'S 14 HOW WE ARE GOING TO BRING OUR FOLKS TO WORK IN THE 15 COMMUNITY. 16 SO I WANT TO THANK YOU. AND I WANT TO THANK 17 CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN ADVANCE FOR THE WORK 18 THAT THEY DOING IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES 19 MEAN A LOT. AND I REALLY DO HEAR IN THE COMMUNITY THAT 20 THEY ARE SEEING CITY COLLEGE OUT THERE MAKING A REAL 21 EFFORT IN TERMS OF DRILLING DOWN INTO THE COMMUNITY, SO 22 THANK YOU. 23 MS. KINDER: THANK YOU. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WANTED TO JUST READ FOR 25 THE PUBLIC THE LETTERS THAT ANDERS AND ANDERS WROTE TO -- APRIL 29, 2010 40 1 THERE WERE THREE COMPANIES. ONE OF THEM WAS CAL PACIFIC. 2 ONE OF THEM WAS SPINITAR AND THE OTHER ONE WAS BLUE SKIES 3 PAINTING. 4 FOR BLUE SKIES PAINTING ACCORDING TO THEIR 5 LETTER, THEY INDICATED THAT ALL THEIR PERSONNEL WERE SAN 6 FRANCISCO RESIDENTS, BUT THAT TURNED OUT NOT TO BE THE 7 CASE. ANDERS AND ANDERS CONCLUDES IN THEIR LETTERS THEY 8 HAVE NOT MADE A GOOD EFFORT TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY HIRES. 9 SO I JUST WANTED TO READ THAT PUBLICLY THAT 10 THESE ARE THE COMPANIES THAT ARE NOT BEING RESPONSIVE TO 11 THE CONTRACTS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN AWARDED. 12 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 13 MS. KINDER: YOU ARE VERY WELCOME. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS CHINESE FOR 15 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HERE? 16 MS. LAM: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JENNY LAM. 17 AND I HAVE MY COLLEAGUE HERE BENITA BENAVIDES. 18 I WANTED TO THANK THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE YOU AN 20 UPDATE AND PRELIMINARY REPORT AROUND THE CHINATOWN/NORTH 21 BEACH CAMPUS AND THE LOCAL HIRING MONITORING. 22 AS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS AWARE, THE 23 CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHINATOWN/NORTH BEACH CAMPUS WAS 24 LAUNCHED NEARLY A YEAR AGO IN APRIL OF 2009. WE 25 EXPERIENCED A SIX-MONTH HAULT TO THE CONSTRUCTION. AND SO APRIL 29, 2010 41 1 THE MAJORITY OF THE HOURS ON SITE, CONSTRUCTION HOURS ON 2 SITE HAS BEEN PRIMARILY IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF THE 3 PROJECT. 4 WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS A PRELIMINARY 5 REPORT TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND OF THE PASSING OF THE 6 WORKFORCE LOCAL HIRING GOAL OF 40 PERCENT. AND WE WANT TO 7 REALLY APPRECIATE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE INCREASE 8 IN 2009 AND REALLY PRIORITIZING LOCAL HIRING FOR THE 9 COMMUNITY AND FOR SAN FRANCISCANS. 10 SO TO DATE, WE HAVE HIRED 15 SAN FRANCISCO 11 RESIDENTS. AND THIS IS IN DEEP PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 12 VARIOUS PARTNERS, INCLUDING BOVIS, SWINERTON, CITY BUILD, 13 CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES. SO IT'S A VARIETY AGAIN OF A 14 BROAD BASE OF THE TRADE UNIONS AND THEIR WORKERS. SO THEY 15 ARE BROAD BASED APPROACH IN OUR LOCAL HIRING EFFORTS. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DO YOU KNOW APPROXIMATELY 17 WHAT PERCENTAGE OF WORKERS THAT IS? 18 MS. LAM: ABSOLUTELY. SO IF YOU LOOK ON PAGE 5 19 FIGURE 1. TO DATE, WE HAVE HAD 14,482 HOURS ON SITE. OUT 20 OF THE LOCAL HIRING OF SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS, IT'S 21 APPROXIMATELY 16 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL HOURS ON SITE. 22 SIMILARLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF SAN 23 FRANCISCO RESIDENTS, THAT 15 OUT OF 148 EMPLOYEES ALSO 24 TRANSLATES INTO 16 PERCENT. SO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS, 25 AS WELL AS THE NUMBER OF THE WORKERS IS AT 16 PERCENT. APRIL 29, 2010 42 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S PRETTY LOW. 2 MS. LAM: IT IS. 3 SO WE ARE EARLY IN THE HIRING PROCESS AND THAT'S 4 WHY IT IS SO KEY FOR CAA, AS THE COMMUNITY MONITOR, TO 5 WORK CLOSELY WITH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WITH THE 6 CHANCELLOR, WITH OUR VARIOUS PARTNERS AND, PARTICULARLY, 7 ALSO THROUGH THE LOCAL HIRING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WILL 8 ALSO BE A KEY VEHICLE TO ENSURE THAT WE WORK VERY CLOSELY 9 WITH BOVIS AND THE SUBCONTRACTORS, AS WELL AS ENSURING 10 THAT WE ARE GOING TO MEET THIS VERY IMPORTANT 40 PERCENT 11 LOCAL HIRING GOAL. 12 ALSO TO NOTE IN FIGURE 6, THAT SIMILARLY WITH 13 THE OTHER CAMPUS IS THAT OUT OF 148 WORKERS, WE HAVE ONE 14 FEMALE THAT HAS BEEN ON SITE. AND THEN AS WELL AS 15 FOLLOWED BY FIGURE 7, WE ARE HAVING SOME INCOMPLETE DATA 16 FROM SOME OF THE PAYROLL THAT'S BEEN SUBMITTED THAT DOES 17 NOT INCLUDE ETHNICITY. 18 MORE RECENTLY IN APRIL, WE HAVE SEEN THAT THE 19 CERTIFIED PAYROLL THAT'S COMING IN IS HAVING MORE 20 ETHNICITY INFORMATION, SO WE HOPE TO CONTINUE ENSURING 21 THAT WE COULD KEEP A CLOSER MONITORING OF THAT STATISTIC 22 AS WELL. 23 SO OVERALL, WHAT ARE SOME INITIAL OBSTACLES FOR 24 THIS LOCAL HIRING GOAL FOR THIS CHINATOWN/NORTH BEACH 25 CAMPUS IS, ONE, CONTRACTOR RESISTANCE. SO ON SEVERAL APRIL 29, 2010 43 1 OCCASIONS, THE SUBCONTRACTORS, WHICH I KNOW HAS BEEN A 2 PRACTICE FOR MANY YEARS, BUT THE SUBCONTRACTORS SIMPLY 3 DON'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE. AND THEY DON'T WANT TO LAY OFF 4 THEIR NON-RESIDENT CORE WORKERS. 5 ANOTHER OBSTACLE IS THAT THE UNION HIRING HALLS 6 HAVE CONDITIONS UPON THEIR OWN DISPATCH AND THAT THE LABOR 7 UNIONS ARE ENCOUNTERING LONG OUT-OF-WORK LISTS. AND THEY 8 ALSO HAVE SET RULES ON THEIR OWN WORKER DISPATCH. AND 9 THEN IN SHORT, THE DISPATCH OF SF RESIDENTS IS NOT A 10 GUARANTEE. 11 ANOTHER OBSTACLE IS DURING THE EARLIER STAGES OF 12 THE CONSTRUCTION, THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT WAS PERFORMED 13 ALSO HAD WIDE GAPS IN REALLY SHORT HOURS. SO AGAIN, YOU 14 WOULD HAVE WORKERS COME ON SITE THERE TEMPORARILY FOR TWO 15 DAYS AND THEN THEY WOULD BE OUT OF WORK FOR MANY MONTHS. 16 FROM THE WORK FROM THE LABOR UNION PERSPECTIVE 17 THEN THAT PARTICULAR WORKER WOULD THEN GO TO THE VERY 18 BOTTOM OF THE CALL LIST SO THAT IS A ADVANTAGE FOR THAT 19 PARTICULAR LOCAL WORKER. 20 SO WHAT ARE SOME INITIAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND 21 THINGS TO CONSIDER FOR THIS PROJECT IS THAT WE REALLY ARE 22 SEEKING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE CHANCELLOR'S 23 LEADERSHIP IN HELPING US PROBLEM SOLVE AND TAKE ACTIONS IN 24 OVERCOMING THESE OBSTACLES. 25 WE ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT THE CONTRACTORS WHO LOOK APRIL 29, 2010 44 1 FOR SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS IN THEIR CORE WORKFORCE AND 2 PLACE THEM IN THIS PROJECT. THIS WAY WE ARE NOT JUST 3 DISPATCHING SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS OUT OF, AGAIN, THE 4 UNION HALL EXAMPLE, HAVE THEM LAID OFF AND THEN BRINGING 5 THEM BACK DOWN TO THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE CALL LIST. 6 AND AGAIN, TO WHICH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES YOU 7 JUST EXPRESSED JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THE 8 RESOLUTIONS TO BE -- TO HAVE THE BEST EFFORTS COVERED BY 9 THE PARTICIPANTS AND ALL THE CONTRACTORS. 10 SO ANOTHER OBSTACLE THAT WE ARE HAVING IS, 11 AGAIN, I MENTIONED IN THE LAST TWO GRAPHS OF THE REPORT, 12 IS HAVING THE DISAGGREGATED DATA FOR THE CERTIFIED PAYROLL 13 AND THEN, AGAIN, OBTAINING AS MUCH COMPLETE INFORMATION, 14 INCLUDING RACE AND GENDER. 15 SO A RECOMMENDATION IN HOW WE CAN MEDIATE THIS 16 INCOMPLETE DATA IS HOW TO SECURE ELATION SOFTWARE SO THAT 17 IT'S WEB BASED. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: I'M SORRY. HOW TO SECURE WHAT? 19 MS. LAM: I'M SORRY. SAY THAT AGAIN. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: HOW TO SECURE -- 21 MS. BENAVIDES: ELATION SOFTWARE. 22 MS. LAM: ELATION SOFTWARE. IT'S A WEB-BASED 23 PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS BASED UPON MANY 24 OF THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE REGISTERED WITH 25 AGENCIES, STATE, AND FEDERAL REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS. AND APRIL 29, 2010 45 1 THIS IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY BOTH THE CONTRACTORS WEBCOR 2 AND CITY BUILD AS WELL. AND THERE IS ALSO TRAINING THAT 3 IS FREE ON HOW TO USE THE ELATION SOFTWARE. 4 SO THOSE, AGAIN, ARE THE INITIAL OBSTACLES THAT 5 AS THE COMMUNITY MONITOR FOR THIS CAMPUS THAT WE ARE 6 ENCOUNTERING. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 ARE YOU TALKING WITH CONTRACTORS ON SITE? 9 MS. BENAVIDES: ABSOLUTELY. WE MAKE AN EFFORT 10 THAT PRIOR CONTRACTORS COME IN ON SITE THAT WE MEET WITH 11 THEM. ON THESE MEETINGS, WE INVITE A REPRESENTATIVE OF 12 CCSF, OF CITY BUILD, REPRESENTATIVES OF OUR PARTNER 13 ORGANIZATION CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES CENTER AND 14 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LABOR UNION AS WELL. 15 IF YOU LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENTS ON OUR REPORT, WE 16 HAVE CREATED WORKFORCE PLANNING, HIRING PLANS, AND ALSO 17 JOB NOTICE FORMS FOR THE CONTRACTORS TO FILL OUT AND 18 SUBMIT UPON THE NEEDS THAT THEY HAVE TO FULFILL THEIR 19 LOCAL HIRING GOALS. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 MS. BENAVIDES: YOU ARE WELCOME. THANKS. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY QUESTIONS? 23 STEVE. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, JUST I WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD 25 BY YOUR FIRST OBSTACLE WHICH WAS THAT SOME CONTRACTORS ARE APRIL 29, 2010 46 1 SIMPLY UNWILLING TO ENGAGE YOU. AND TO ME, THE OBLIGATION 2 IS A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO HIRE LOCALLY. THAT TO ME IS A 3 BREACH OF THE AGREEMENT. AND IF THEY ARE IN BREACH, WE 4 SHOULD NOTIFY THEM THAT THEY ARE IN BREACH. AND WE SHOULD 5 FIND OTHER SUBCONTRACTORS. 6 AND I WELCOME PETER OR RON TO COMMENT ON THIS IF 7 YOU WANT TO, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE IS NO INTEREST AT 8 ALL. AND PART OF THE PACKAGE WAS TO RESPOND TO -- TO BE A 9 RESPONSIVE BIDDER FOR THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, 10 RIGHT? 11 AND THAT PROVISION INCLUDES THAT WE HAVE LOCAL 12 HIRING. AND IF THERE'S NO GOOD FAITH EFFORT WHATSOEVER, 13 THAT SUBCONTRACTOR, THAT CONTRACTOR IS IN BREACH. AND I 14 THINK WE SHOULD CONVEY THAT ACCORDINGLY TO THOSE 15 CONTRACTORS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS BECAUSE -- AND MAYBE THIS 16 IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF LEGAL 17 ACTION, BUT I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT FRAME A LITTLE BIT AS 18 YOU GO FORWARD. 19 AND I AM REALLY DISAPPOINTED BY THESE NUMBERS, 20 ESPECIALLY THAT IN THIS OTHER PROJECT WE ARE LOOKING AT 21 28 PERCENT, 20 SOMETHING PERCENT, RIGHT? 22 SO THERE'S A MARKET DIFFERENCE SOMEHOW DESPITE 23 THE FACT THAT THE PROJECTS ARE IN THE SAME CITY BETWEEN 24 THE PROJECTS IN TERMS OF LOCAL HIRING. AND THAT'S VERY 25 DISAPPOINTING SO -- APRIL 29, 2010 47 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I AGREE. CAA IS OUR 2 REPRESENTATIVE. THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY THE DISTRICT FOR 3 THIS EFFORT. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. 5 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A 6 CONTRACT WITH SWINERTON TO BE ON SITE FOR THE PROJECT. I 7 WILL REINFORCE WITH OUR SWINERTON PERSON ON THIS PROJECT 8 THAT THEY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT CAA GETS ACCESS TO ALL OF 9 THE SUBS ON THIS PROJECT. 10 MR. WESTON: MAY I SAY SOMETHING? 11 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OH, I'M SORRY, ED. 12 MR. WESTON: I'M A REPRESENTATIVE. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THIS IS ED WESTON. 14 MR. WESTON: THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS. 15 FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S GOING TO BE 250,000 MAN HOURS ON 16 THIS PROJECT. I THINK IT IS A LITTLE UNFAIR TO COMPARE 17 THE JOINT USE FACILITY AND OTHER PROJECTS WHICH ARE WELL 18 ON THEIR WAY TO COMPLETION TO THIS PROJECT. THESE FOLKS, 19 WHO I WORK WITH VERY CLOSELY, HAVE REALLY WORKED VERY 20 HARD. 21 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT WEBCOR, WHO HAS 22 HAD THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON SITE SO FAR BECAUSE THEY HAD 23 THE MAJORITY OF LABOR, HAVE ALSO BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST 24 PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROGRAM. WE'VE HAD SOME VERY SMALL 25 SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE, YES, RESISTED OR HAVE NOT APRIL 29, 2010 48 1 PROVIDED THE KIND OF SUPPORT WE WERE LOOKING FOR, SO 2 THAT'S STEP 1. 3 WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. AND AS WE GET FURTHER 4 ALONG, WE WILL HAVE GREATER LABOR ON THE PROJECT ALL THE 5 WAY THROUGH. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET 250,000 MAN HOURS, YOU 6 ARE GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE LABOR. WE ARE AT 25 RIGHT 7 NOW. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 MR. WESTON: SO I THINK WE NEED TO PUT THAT INTO 10 CONTEXT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS AND WHERE WE ARE. 11 THE OTHER THING CONCERNING OUR PARTICIPATION 12 WITH THIS GROUP HAS BEEN DIRECT AND DEFINITE FEEDBACK AND 13 DIRECT AND DEFINITE WITH THE SUBCONTRACTORS, EVERYONE OF 14 THEM. SO BONITA AND MYSELF, SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHE 15 NEEDS TO DO IF SHE HAS TROUBLE WITH ANY OF THEM. AND 16 BOVIS HAS BEEN A GOOD PARTICIPANT AS WELL. 17 SO ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR IS WAIT UNTIL THE 18 LEVELS START TO BUILD UP BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A 19 TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON THAT SITE BY THE TIME 20 SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER ROLLS AROUND. AND THAT THE NUMBERS 21 AREN'T AS WHAT EVERYONE EXPECTS THEM TO BE THEN, YES, WE 22 DO HAVE A PROBLEM. 23 I THINK THE PROCESS IS JUST FINE. I THINK THESE 24 PEOPLE HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB. AND I AM VERY PROUD OF THEM 25 TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. APRIL 29, 2010 49 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL -- 2 TRUSTEE NGO: REALLY QUICKLY. I CERTAINLY THINK 3 THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A LOT MORE WORK TO DO SO -- 4 MR. WESTON: SURE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I WANT TO SAY THAT CLEARLY. 6 AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THEM ON SITE, AND I'M 7 SURE THEY ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. 8 MY QUESTION WAS: IF THERE ARE SUBCONTRACTORS 9 WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY UNWILLING TO ENGAGE IN GOOD FAITH 10 EFFORTS, THEN DON'T YOU THINK WE HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH 11 THOSE CONTRACTORS? 12 MR. WESTON: ABSOLUTELY. AND, YOU KNOW, IF THEY 13 WEREN'T SUCH SHORT-TERM TYPE PEOPLE WHO ARE NEEDED FOR A 14 VERY SPECIAL KIND OF THING -- I COULD GIVE YOU A PERFECT 15 EXAMPLE. 16 ONE IS VIKING WHO HAS PRODUCED NOTHING IN TERMS 17 OF THIS. THEY COME OUT OF SACRAMENTO. THEY ARE VERY 18 HIGHLY SPECIALIZED CONTRACTORS THAT IS TAKING CARE OF ALL 19 THE DEWATERING. THEY WILL PUT SOMEBODY ON SITE FOR A 20 COUPLE HOURS ONE DAY TO COLLECT SOME THINGS, FIX A FEW 21 PUMPS AND THEN THEY GO BACK TO SACRAMENTO. THAT'S ONE 22 EXAMPLE. 23 WEBCOR AND SOME OF THE OTHER CONTRACTORS HAVE 24 SHONE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SUPPORT, SO I WOULD SAY THAT, 25 YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE PRETTY GOOD CONSIDERING WHERE WE ARE APRIL 29, 2010 50 1 AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WE'VE HAD ON THE PROJECT. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. 3 TRUSTEE WONG. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: I UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE FUTURE 5 WE HAVE ABOUT TEN CONTRACTORS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY 6 APPROVED THE CONTRACTS FOR. AND THEY ARE MINORITY 7 CONTRACTORS. AND IT'S ABOUT $5 MILLION. AND I ASSUME 8 THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE MINORITY CONTRACTORS THAT THE 9 WORKFORCE WILL ALSO IN LARGE PART BE MINORITY WORKERS. 10 SO IN RESPONSE TO WHAT MR. WESTON JUST SAID, CAN 11 WE ASSUME THEN THE NUMBERS WILL LOOK A LOT BETTER NEXT 12 MONTH OR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, WE CAN ASSUME THAT. BUT AT 13 THE SAME TIME, WE NEED TO ALSO BE VERY DILIGENT. 14 AND I DO WANT TO REPEAT WHAT TRUSTEE NGO SAID 15 AND THAT THOSE CONTRACTORS WHO ARE NOT IN GOOD FAITH 16 PARTICIPATING IN TERMS OF LOCAL HIRING THAT SOMEHOW WE 17 SHOULD FIND SOME SORT OF MECHANISM TO ADDRESS IT. EVEN TO 18 PERHAPS EVEN USE THEM AS AN EXAMPLE BECAUSE AS THIS 19 PROJECT CONTINUES, AND IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE THROUGH 20 JANUARY 2012, WE NEED TO KEEP ON TOP OF THIS. 21 AGAIN, I KNOW WHAT YOU JUST SAID THIS PROJECT 22 JUST STARTED AND THERE WAS A SIX-MONTH DELAY. AND WE 23 APPROVED LIKE TEN MAJOR CONTRACTS OF ABOUT $5 MILLION. 24 AND, HOPEFULLY, THE NEXT TIME THE NUMBERS WILL REFLECT 25 GREATER PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN AND CONTRACTORS OF COLOR. APRIL 29, 2010 51 1 BUT ALSO CAA, YOU SAID THAT YOU NEEDED 2 LEADERSHIP FROM THE BOARD. CAN YOU BE MORE SPECIFIC IN 3 ADDRESSING YOUR CONCERNS? 4 MS. LAM: I THINK THAT'S ALSO THROUGH THE LHOC, 5 THE LOCAL HIRING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, WILL BE KEY BECAUSE 6 THAT WILL HAVE ALL THE VARIOUS PARTNERS AND PLAYERS AT THE 7 TABLE. AND SO WHEN IT COMES TO REPORTING, PARTICULAR 8 SUBCONTRACTORS ARE NOT WILLING TO ENGAGE AND PARTICIPATE 9 FROM TONIGHT'S COMMENTS AND THAT LEADERSHIP IS SAYING 10 THAT'S AN IMPORTANT ROLE FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN TO STEP UP AND SAY, THE LOCAL HIRING 12 POLICY IS KEY AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS. 13 SO, AGAIN, TO PUT SOME PRESSURE TO THE 14 SUBCONTRACTORS OF HOW ARE THEY GOING TO ENGAGE IN THE 15 PROCESS. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: AND YOU HEARD IT FROM US, SO YOU 17 CAN GO AHEAD AND USE THAT. 18 MS. LAM: THANK YOU. 19 COUNSEL LEE: IF I MAY ALSO, BECAUSE TRUSTEE NGO 20 SOLICITED MY COMMENTS. WE HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THE FACT 21 THAT -- WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT PUSHING THE LOCAL 22 HIRE ISSUE. THERE'S A LOT OF STATUTES THAT GOVERN THAT. 23 THERE'S A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISION WITH REGARD 24 TO THAT, AND SO WE JUST NEED TO BE SURE THAT WE ARE IN 25 OBSERVATION OF THE LAW AS WE MOVE ALONG ON THIS. APRIL 29, 2010 52 1 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, NOT JUST US, BUT ALSO THE 2 SUBCONTRACTORS, CORRECT? 3 COUNSEL LEE: I'M SORRY. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: ALSO THE SUBCONTRACTORS? 5 COUNSEL LEE: ALSO THE SUBCONTRACTORS. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. NOT JUST US, THE BOARD. 7 COUNSEL LEE: YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. EVERYBODY 8 NEEDS TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW. 9 BUT MY POINT IS, YOU KNOW AS THE EMPLOYING 10 ENTITY, WE HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THE LIMITATIONS THAT WE 11 HAVE, AND THERE ARE SOME LIMITATIONS. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON, WE ARE 13 JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME, IF YOU COULD WRAP UP. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I AM 15 VERY MINDFUL OF THE CONVERSATION THAT WE GOING TO HAVE 16 RIGHT AFTER THIS. 17 I JUST WANT TO SAY FIRST, THANK YOU FOR YOUR 18 EFFORTS. YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND IF A SUB OR A PRIME 19 CANNOT ACT -- THEY DON'T HAVE THE ACTUAL ROOM OR HOURS TO 20 HIRE SOMEBODY, BUT THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD NOT ENGAGE YOU 21 GUYS, THAT'S THE PART WHERE I'M LIKE -- I UNDERSTAND IF 22 YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY OR THE SPACE FOR A PERSON, BUT TO 23 NOT ENGAGE, THAT'S BAD. 24 YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE AT THE 25 STARTING POINT OF THIS, BUT WE SEE THIS ALL THE TIME WHERE APRIL 29, 2010 53 1 WE SAY, WAIT, JUST WAIT, JUST WAIT, THE NUMBERS WILL GET 2 BETTER AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE ARE 75 PERCENT THROUGH 3 THE PROJECT AND THE NUMBERS ARE STILL BAD, AND THERE'S 4 NOTHING WE CAN REALLY DO AT THAT POINT. SO I WOULD SAY 5 THAT WE NEED TO START NOW. AND IT IS EASY IN TERMS OF THE 6 LABORERS AND SOME OF THE LOWER-SKILLED WORK. 7 WE ACTUALLY DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF GETTING OUR 8 FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY IN THERE. BUT IT'S ACTUALLY WHERE 9 THE COMMUNITY IS AT IS THE HIGHER SKILLED CRAFTS WHERE WE 10 ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO GET OUR FOLKS IN TERMS OF THE 11 TRADES, WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO GET FOLKS INTO THE 12 PLUMBERS, THE PIPEFITTERS, THE ELECTRICIANS, THOSE ARE 13 WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO GET THE JOBS. 14 SO IF WE DON'T SET THE FRAMEWORK UP NOW TO BE 15 SUCCESSFUL AND TO BE ENGAGING TO THE ARM OF CITY COLLEGE, 16 WHICH IS CAA AND WHICH IS ANDERS AND ANDERS, THEN ALL THE 17 WAY DOWN THE PROJECT WE ARE JUST GOING TO SET THAT 18 PRECEDENT WHERE THEY COULD IGNORE. THEY DON'T HAVE TO 19 ENGAGE. AND I WANT GOOD UNION SUBS AND PRIMES WORKING ON 20 THIS PROJECT. AND THERE ARE SOME EXCELLENT ONES LIKE 21 WEBCOR. BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EXCELLENT 22 FIRMS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROJECT. 23 AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, YOU KNOW, ENSURING 24 THAT WE DO. AND ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU, ANDERS AND ANDERS 25 FOR YOUR WORK TOO. THANK YOU. APRIL 29, 2010 54 1 MS. BENAVIDES: I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS VERY 2 QUICKLY THE CONCERNS OF TRUSTEE JACKSON AND TRUSTEE NGO 3 ABOUT THE CONTRACTORS THAT ARE NOT ENGAGED. WE HAVE 4 RECOGNIZED THAT AS MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THIS IS A 5 PROBLEM THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN THE PAST AS WELL. 6 FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A CONTRACTOR CALLED TUCKER 7 ENGINEERING WHO WAS DISENGAGED IN THE BEGINNING. AND IT'S 8 VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY MONITOR, AS WELL AS THE 9 SUPPORT FOR THE PRIME CONTRACTOR AND SWINERTON TO BE VERY 10 CLEAR ON THE MESSAGE OF WHAT YOU HAVE JUST ASSURED US 11 ABOUT GETTING BIDS IN THE FUTURE. AND I THINK HAVING A 12 SINGULAR MESSAGE TO THE CONTRACTORS ABOUT THIS ENGAGES 13 THEM BACK ON HIRING LOCAL WORKERS. 14 SO, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR TUCKER ENGINEERING, WHEN 15 THEY STARTED, THEY ONLY HIRED ONE LOCAL WORKER. AND THAT 16 IS WHEN BEFORE WE WERE HIRED AS COMMUNITY MONITORS. AFTER 17 THAT WHEN THEY CAME BACK, WE TRIED TO TALK TO THEM AND 18 BEFORE THEY WERE DISENGAGED IN ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE, WE 19 WENT BACK TO THEM AGAIN AND SOMEONE FROM BOVIS AND CCSF 20 TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL HIRING. THAT 21 THEY HAVE RESPONDED BACK TO US. AND IN FACT, IT HASN'T 22 REFLECTED ON THE CERTIFIED PAYROLLS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED 23 YET, BUT THEY HAVE HIRED THREE ADDITIONAL LOCAL HIRES ON 24 THEIR CREW. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. APRIL 29, 2010 55 1 TRUSTEE NGO: GREAT. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: GREAT. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU HAVE VERY MUCH. 4 THANK YOU. 5 MS. BENAVIDES: THANK YOU. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NEXT ITEM IS DISCUSSION 7 ITEM STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GAP. THE CHANCELLOR IS GOING TO 8 GIVE A REPORT. I HOPE WE DON'T SPEND ALL NIGHT ON THIS. 9 THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM. IT IS JUST A REPORT. 10 AND I WOULD REMIND OUR TRUSTEES, WELL, OBVIOUSLY 11 I WAS REMINDED TODAY THAT WHEN WE GO PAST 10:00 P.M. THAT 12 WE PAY OUR TELEVISION CREW OVERTIME. AND WE ARE NOT 13 REALLY IN A GREAT POSITION RIGHT NOW TO BE PAYING A LOT OF 14 OVERTIME. SO IF WE COULD END BY 10:00 THAT WOULD BE 15 PEACHY. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: YES, WE KNEW THIS. THAT'S NOT 17 NEW. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO, DR. GRIFFIN, WHY 19 DON'T YOU TAKE IT AWAY. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: LET ME GIVE THE REPORT ON 21 THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 22 AND FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO SAY THAT IT WAS 23 UNDERSTOOD FOR QUITE A WHILE THAT WE WOULD HAVE A 24 RESOLUTION TONIGHT ON THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND EQUITY. BUT 25 WHAT I AM DOING IN PLACE OF IT IS TO GO THROUGH A PROPOSAL APRIL 29, 2010 56 1 HERE WHICH I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT THAT WE COULD DO. 2 THE PRIMARY THING TO MENTION IS THAT THERE 3 ARE -- THIS IS AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP THAT HAS BEEN HERE 4 CHRONICALLY FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME AT THE COLLEGE. 5 AND IT EFFECTS A LARGE PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS. WE HAVE 6 DATA THAT WE'VE COLLECTED FOR MANY YEARS INDICATING THAT. 7 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR CASE AT ALL. 8 SO IN OUR LAST PERIOD OF TIME, LET'S JUST GO 18 9 MONTHS OR SO, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE DATA, INSTEAD OF 10 US IMPROVING IN TERMS OF NARROWING THE GAP, WE ACTUALLY 11 ARE FALLING BEHIND. 12 AND WHY ARE WE FALLING BEHIND? 13 THERE ARE SOME VERY SPECIFIC REASONS THAT WE 14 COULD LOOK AT THAT I THINK ARE GERMAINE. NO. 1, MANY 15 BASIC SKILLS CLASSES HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM THE 16 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES. MATH CLASSES, ENGLISH CLASSES, AND 17 OTHER BASIC SKILLS CLASSES. 18 IN TERMS OF OUR STUDENT SERVICES, WE HAVE DONE 19 THINGS THAT ADMINISTRATIVELY HAVE BEEN A BIT SLOPPY AND 20 THAT CAN BE CORRECTED. WE HAVE PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES 21 THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED WITHOUT A VERY LARGE COST TO THE 22 DISTRICT. WE HAVE TO DO SOME STRATEGIC THINGS THAT WOULD 23 HELP OUT IN GENERAL. 24 BUT THE IDEA IS THAT IN ORDER FOR US TO REALLY 25 FOCUS IN AND DEAL WITH THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP PROBLEM IN AN APRIL 29, 2010 57 1 EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE 2 THE BEST PEOPLE AT THE COLLEGE WORKING ON A TASK FORCE 3 THAT HAS THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR THE DISTRICT. THAT 4 INVOLVES ALL -- I WOULD SAY ALL THE KEY PLAYERS, INCLUDING 5 REPRESENTATION FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FROM 6 ADMINISTRATION, FROM THE CLASSIFIED STAFF, FROM THE 7 FACULTY, FROM THE STUDENTS. AND THAT AS A COLLEGE AS A 8 WHOLE, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DEDICATE OURSELVES OR 9 REDEDICATE OURSELVES, IF YOU WISH, TO MAKING THIS A VERY, 10 VERY HIGH PRIORITY. 11 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S GOING ON FOR THE LAST 12 18 OR 20 MONTHS IS THAT WE FOCUS SO MUCH ON THE CRISIS AS 13 FAR AS THE BUDGET IS CONCERNED, THAT WE HAVE NOT FOCUSED 14 AS MUCH AS WE SHOULD ON THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. AND WE CAN 15 FOCUS ON BOTH THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND THE BUDGET AT THE 16 SAME TIME. AND IF WE DO NOT DO SO, THEN WE ARE NOT DOING 17 OUR JOBS AS A COLLEGE WITH 60 PLUS PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS 18 HAVING EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TIME DEALING WITH THIS GAP. 60 19 PLUS PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS ARE HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT 20 TIME DEALING WITH THIS GAP. 21 SO THE TASK FORCE, I HAVE NOT GIVEN IN MY 22 HANDOUT A LOT OF DETAIL ABOUT THE TASK FORCE, BUT I NEED 23 TO PUT THAT TASK FORCE TOGETHER WITHIN A WEEK. GET THE 24 MEMBERS THERE, SOLICIT MEMBERSHIP, AND MAKE SURE IT'S 25 BROAD BASED AND THAT IT COVERS THE ENTIRE CAMPUS APRIL 29, 2010 58 1 COMMUNITY, AND THAT WE START TO ENGAGE ON A REAL LEVEL IN 2 REGARDS TO THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE HERE. 3 NOW FURTHER, IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF LOOKING 4 AT THIS AS A COLLEGE AND THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF PEOPLE, A 5 LOT OF DISCUSSIONS. IT INCLUDES THE EQUITY HEARINGS. IT 6 INCLUDES A LOT OF OTHER COMING TOGETHER OF VARIOUS 7 ENTITIES THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE. THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE 8 ALL AGREE UPON AND WE HAVE, I BELIEVE, 100 PERCENT 9 UNANIMITY IN TERMS OF WHAT PEOPLE HAVE STATED IN REGARDS 10 TO THESE ISSUES. 11 AND LET ME JUST KIND OF GO THROUGH SOME OF 12 THOSE. AND I WANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT SOME OF THESE ARE 13 NOT AN EXTRA COST WHATSOEVER TO THE DISTRICT. IT IS A 14 MATTER OF BEING ADMINISTRATIVELY MORE EFFECTIVE AND MORE 15 EFFICIENT AND BEING MORE CREATIVE IN TERMS OF HOW WE DO 16 THINGS. 17 FIRST OF ALL, PLANNING FOR IMPROVING STUDENT 18 ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SUPPORT. EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE 19 INCREASED THE NUMBER OF FOLKS PARTICIPATING IN FINANCIAL 20 AID IN THE PRIOR SEVERAL YEARS, WE HAVE NOT INCREASED IT 21 SUFFICIENTLY TO COUNTERBALANCE MANY OF THE EXPENSES THAT 22 STUDENTS HAVE TO FACE IN THIS ERA. SO THEREFORE, WE ARE 23 GOING TO HAVE TO BE MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE IN SHORTENING OF 24 LINES, BE MORE EFFICIENT IN TERMS OF HOW WE SERVE STUDENTS 25 AS FAR AS FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION. WE HAVE TO HAVE APRIL 29, 2010 59 1 ALTERNATE WAYS IN WHICH STUDENTS CAN GET ANSWERS FOR THEIR 2 QUESTIONS. WE HAVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TECHNOLOGY, 3 THE WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE SUPPORT, PHONE, PLUS STUDENT 4 AMBASSADORS, ET CETERA. 5 AND WE HAVE TO OFFER THE FINANCIAL AID 6 INFORMATION AND SERVICES ADJACENT TO, CLOSE BY THE 7 COUNSELING, THE MATRICULATION, AND OTHER STUDENTS 8 SERVICES. IT'S VERY, VERY CRITICAL THAT PEOPLE DO NOT 9 HAVE TO GO ALL AROUND THE CAMPUS TO BE ABLE TO GET THE 10 CRITICAL FINANCIAL AID ASSISTANCE. 11 IT HAS TO BE A MUCH BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE 12 SYSTEM. WE KNOW THAT WE COULD DO THIS. WE HAVE WORKED IN 13 THE PAST IN TERMS OF MAKING THE FINANCIAL AID SYSTEM MUCH 14 BETTER, AND WE COULD DO THIS. AND OUR TEAM IN THE STUDENT 15 DEVELOPMENT AREA HAS FOCUSED ON THIS OR ARE BEGINNING TO 16 FOCUS ON THIS, AND THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT THIS COMES TO 17 PASS. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO REPORT ON ALL OF 18 THESE ITEMS BACK TO THE BOARD ON A REGULAR BASIS SO THAT 19 WITH HARD DATA AND OBSERVATION AND DATA THAT WE COULD SHOW 20 THAT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS. 21 THE HIRING PROCESS FOR STUDENTS HAS NOT BEEN 22 FAIR. IT HAS NOT BEEN EFFICIENT. IT HAS NOT BEEN 23 EFFICIENT, AND IT HAS NOT BEEN FAIR. WE HAVE TO MAKE THE 24 HIRING PROCESS FOR STUDENT WORKERS AND LAB WORK STUDY JOBS 25 PARTICULARLY AT THE BEGINNING OF A SEMESTER A FAIR AND APRIL 29, 2010 60 1 EFFICIENT PROCESS SO THAT STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR 2 WEEKS TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE A JOB. AND WE 3 HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS VERY, VERY EFFECTIVELY. WE HAVE TO 4 REQUIRE THAT ALL STUDENT JOBS BE ADVERTISED IN ADVANCE SO 5 THAT ALL STUDENTS CAN HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR 6 THESE JOBS. 7 THE TB TESTING HAS TO BE DONE IN A WAY THAT IT'S 8 NOT REDUNDANT AND THAT WE ARE NOT PUTTING INTO PLACE THE 9 PROCESSES FOR TESTING OF TB THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM ANY 10 OTHER WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES. THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TEST 11 SO THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN BE TESTED PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING 12 OF THE SEMESTER OR CERTAINLY BY THE FIRST WEEK OF THE 13 SEMESTER AND NOT HAVE THAT AS A HURDLE. THAT'S CRITICALLY 14 IMPORTANT. 15 TO MOVE ON IN TERMS OF OUR AB-540 IMMIGRANT 16 STUDENTS, THERE'S A REALITY THAT MOST OF US SHOULD BE 17 AWARE OF AND MAYBE WE ARE NOT AWARE OF IS THAT THE 18 DISTRICT DENIES A SIGNIFICANT DOLLAR AMOUNT IN TERMS OF 19 APPORTIONMENT FROM THE AB-540 STUDENTS. HUNDREDS AND 20 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR RELATIVE FROM 21 THOSE STUDENTS. THESE STUDENTS DESERVE TO HAVE THE BEST 22 POSSIBLE SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES AS ALL OF OUR STUDENTS 23 SHOULD HAVE. 24 SO WE HAVE TO WORK OUT A WAY TO ESTABLISH A 25 HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF CAMPUS JOBS THAT ARE PAID BY STIPEND APRIL 29, 2010 61 1 OR SCHOLARSHIPS AS WE KNOW THAT OUR ASSOCIATE STUDENTS 2 CURRENTLY DO. 3 WE HAVE TO INTENSIFY FUND-RAISING EFFORTS IN 4 ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PROVIDING SUFFICIENT 5 SCHOLARSHIPS. AND WE HAVE TO REVIEW OUR POLICIES IN THE 6 SCHOLARSHIP OFFICE TO ENSURE EQUAL ACCESS FOR AB-540 7 IMMIGRANT STUDENTS. 8 I WANT TO REPEAT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, HUNDREDS 9 OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WE GET IN APPORTIONMENT FOR AB-540 10 STUDENTS. THEY ARE NOT IN A SITUATION WHERE WE SHOULD BE 11 TREATING THEM AS LESS THAN OUR OTHER STUDENTS. 12 AND, OF COURSE, I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE ONE-STOP 13 CONCEPT OF HAVING ALL OF OUR STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES AS 14 MUCH AS POSSIBLE CLUSTERED IN A WAY THAT STUDENTS DO NOT 15 HAVE TO DEAL WITH WALKING ALL OVER CAMPUS FOR DOING THIS. 16 WE DO HAVE A VERY LARGE CAMPUS HERE AT OCEAN. IT IS VERY 17 CONFUSING FOR NEW STUDENTS. AND THE ORIENTATION IS LONG. 18 IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO GET ADJUSTED TO AND WHAT'S GOING 19 ON. 20 SO TO THAT END, WE HAVE DEVISED AND COMPLETED A 21 MULTI-USE BUILDING PLAN THAT WILL PLACE MANY OF OUR 22 STUDENT SERVICES TOGETHER IN THE MULTI-USE BUILDING. THAT 23 HAS GONE THROUGH THE FACILITIES REVIEW. IT'S PRETTY MUCH 24 THE PLAN THAT WAS PUT UP AND TALKED ABOUT RELATIVE TO 25 STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND TO THE STUDENTS. AND THAT IS IN APRIL 29, 2010 62 1 REALITY SOMETHING THAT IS THERE, BUT WE CANNOT STOP IN 2 TERMS OF THE ONE-STOP CONCEPT. IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING 3 THAT WE CONTINUE AS A DRIVING FORCE WHEN WE DEAL WITH 4 STUDENT SERVICES. 5 IN TERMS OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT, WE NEED TO TAKE A 6 LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN TERMS OF IMPROVING FIRST-TIME 7 STUDENT ACCESS TO CLASSES. I KNOW THAT IT HAS BEEN A 8 TRADITION AT THE COLLEGE TO SAY THAT CONTINUING STUDENTS 9 GET THE BEST PRIORITY AND THE BEST ACCESS. AND IN SOME 10 WAYS IT MAKES SENSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT AND IN SOME WAYS 11 IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 12 ANYBODY WHO IS A CONTINUING STUDENT WHO HAS HAD 13 TO GO THROUGH THE SEVERITY OF INITIATION INTO COLLEGE IN 14 TERMS OF THEIR INITIAL SEMESTERS WILL SAY, WELL, YOU KIND 15 OF OWE ME BECAUSE I HAD TO GO THROUGH THOSE HURDLES MYSELF 16 AT THE BEGINNING. BUT IF YOU DON'T CHANGE THE SYSTEM NOW, 17 THEN VERY SOON YOU HAVE A PROBLEM BECAUSE WE HAVE 1,000 18 STUDENTS FROM SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT TRYING 19 TO GET INTO BASIC CLASSES AT THE COLLEGE AND NOT BEING 20 ABLE TO GET IN. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 21 THE PLAN THAT I WANT TO DO INITIALLY FOR FALL 22 '10 IS TO RESERVE SEATS FOR FIRST-TIME STUDENTS IN BASIC 23 SKILLS CLASSES. IT'S NOT CHANGING THE REGISTRATION 24 PRIORITY, BUT IT'S MAKING AVAILABLE IN LARGE NUMBERS SEATS 25 IN CLASSES SO THAT THE FIRST-TIME STUDENTS CAN GET INTO APRIL 29, 2010 63 1 CLASSES. IT HAS TO BE A VERY HIGH PRIORITY FOR US AS A 2 COLLEGE. 3 IN APPROVING STUDENT ACCESS TO ENGLISH, MATH, 4 CORE SEQUENCES, AS A MATTER OF FACT OTHER SEQUENCES AS 5 WELL, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING, THIS IS A 6 REALITY THAT ALL OF US HAVE KNOWN ABOUT AT THE COLLEGE FOR 7 A LONG TIME. IT TAKES AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF TIME FOR 8 STUDENTS TO GO FROM -- FIRST OF ALL TO GET INTO THE BASIC 9 SKILLS CLASSES AND THEN GO THROUGH THE SEQUENCE COULD TAKE 10 YEARS. IT COULD TAKE THREE YEARS, FOUR YEARS, FIVE YEARS 11 FOR STUDENTS TO WORK THROUGH. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DEFINE 12 HERE AT CITY COLLEGE AS SUCCESS. WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE 13 DEPARTMENTS TO GET A SEQUENCE THAT WORKS FOR US AT THE 14 COLLEGE. 15 I HAVE MET WITH THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. I HAVE 16 MET WITH THE MATH DEPARTMENT. I HAVE MET WITH THE ESL 17 DEPARTMENT. THE MATH, THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND THE ESL 18 WHERE APPROPRIATE HAVE ENDORSED THE CONCEPT OF WORKING ON 19 SEQUENCES. AND EACH OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS WILL HAVE A PLAN 20 PRIOR TO THE JUNE BOARD MEETING WHICH WE WILL PRESENT TO 21 THE TASK FORCE. AND THAT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD 22 IMPLEMENT IN THE SPRING SEMESTER OF 2011. BUT WE WILL 23 HAVE THOSE PLANS. 24 IF YOU ASK ME THE QUESTION OR IF SOMEONE HAS THE 25 QUESTION WHY AREN'T WE DOING IN FALL OF '10, IT'S SIMPLY APRIL 29, 2010 64 1 BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY PUT OUT THE SCHEDULING AND SO FORTH. 2 BUT IF WE COULD IMPLEMENT THIS WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE 3 MATH AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS IN THE SPRING OF 2011 AND 4 BOTH PUBLICLY AND ALSO PRIVATELY WITH ME, BOTH OF THESE 5 DEPARTMENTS HAVE STATED THAT THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF 6 CREATING SUCH A PLAN THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT AND THAT THEY 7 ARE VERY, VERY HOPEFUL AND WILLING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT 8 HAPPENS EARLY, NOT LATE. SO THIS IS A COMMITMENT FROM 9 THESE KEY DEPARTMENTS. 10 AND KEEP IN MIND WHAT I SAID EARLIER TO PEOPLE 11 REGARDING THE BUDGET. IT SEEMS KIND OF INTUITIVE THAT WE 12 SHOULD BE ADDING CLASSES AT A POINT WHEN WE ARE CUTTING A 13 LOT OF OTHER STUFF AND ASKING PEOPLE TO REDUCE THEIR 14 SALARIES AND SO FORTH. WE HAVE TO ADD THESE CLASSES FOR 15 THE BENEFIT OF THE STUDENTS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO ADD THESE 16 CLASSES FOR OUR FINANCIAL STABILITY AS A COLLEGE BECAUSE 17 IF WE DON'T ADD THESE CLASSES, WE WILL NOT MAKE OUR BASE, 18 WHICH IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR US. 19 SO THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS WHERE IT 20 WORKS FOR US. AND IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO IN TERMS OF 21 THE SEQUENCING. WE HAVE TO BREAK THE BACK OF THOSE FORCES 22 THAT ARE CAUSING AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. AND IN THIS CASE, IT 23 IS NO ONE IN OUR COLLEGE THAT'S CAUSING THIS. I JUST WANT 24 TO BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. 25 THIS IS A RECEIVED PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE AT THE APRIL 29, 2010 65 1 COLLEGE. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GENERATING, 2 BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO FIX AS A COLLEGE. WE 3 HAVE TO FIX THIS AS A COLLEGE, NOT AS A FACTION HERE OR A 4 FRACTION THERE. PEOPLE HAVE TO BE UNITED AS A TOP 5 PRIORITY FOR THE COLLEGE TO DEAL WITH THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 6 NOW IN TERMS OF PLACEMENT, CURRENTLY WE HAVE 7 PLACEMENT TESTS. AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE OF 8 PLACEMENT TESTS AND HOW IT WORKS. AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY 9 ANYTHING TOO NEGATIVE ABOUT PLACEMENT TESTS. BUT THERE'S 10 THE TESTING MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH HAS GONE 11 ON FOR 110 OR 15 YEARS. IT HAD BEEN CRITICIZED BY MANY 12 FOLKS, TESTERS AND SO FORTH. 13 LET'S NOT BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE THE MAGIC ELIXIR 14 IN TERMS OF PLACEMENT AND TESTING. LET'S NOT BELIEVE TOO 15 GREATLY IN THIS WHOLE TESTING AND PLACING PROCESS. LET'S 16 NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU COULD PLACE A PERSON ONCE AND FOR ALL 17 AND THAT'S IT. THAT IT'S NOT A DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENTAL 18 PROCESS IN TERMS OF PEOPLE'S LEARNING AND ABILITY TO DEAL 19 WITH TESTING. SO WE DO AND MUST HAVE A WAY OF PROVIDING 20 PEOPLE WITH CONTINUING PLACEMENT TESTS ON A VERY, VERY 21 REGULAR BASIS SO THAT STUDENTS CAN BE TESTED MULTIPLE 22 TIMES AS FAR AS PLACEMENT IS CONCERNED. 23 AND TO ME IT'S NOT A CONTRADICTION THAT A PERSON 24 TAKES A TEST ONCE AND TAKES THE SAME TEST TWICE AND GETS 25 THE BETTER SCORE. THAT DELTA WOULD NOT BE ACHIEVED UNLESS APRIL 29, 2010 66 1 THE STUDENT HAS LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING, NOT 2 SIMPLY THE TESTING PROCESS. AND SO WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT 3 STUDENTS DO NOT GET LOCKED IN BECAUSE OF A PLACEMENT TEST 4 SCORE WHICH CAN IN MANY CASES LOCK THEM IN FOR YEARS IN 5 TERMS OF THAT. 6 IN REGARDS TO THE GRADING OPTION, THIS OF COURSE 7 IS A FACULTY PURVIEW. BUT THE FACULTY HAS EXPRESSED 8 WILLINGNESS TO LOOK AT GRADING OPTIONS THAT WILL BE PART 9 OF OUR TASK FORCE TO LOOK AT THE GRADING OPTIONS FROM A 10 FACULTY STANDPOINT, GET RECOMMENDATIONS, DATA AND SEE IF 11 WE COULD DO THINGS ABOUT THAT. 12 MY METHOD WOULD SAY WE SHOULD AT LEAST BE 13 WILLING TO IMPLEMENT ON A PRELIMINARY BASIS A FAIRLY 14 SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF CLASSES AND COURSES SO THAT WE HAVE 15 CONCRETE DATA TO SUPPORT GOING FORWARD ON A MORE MASSIVE 16 LEVEL AS FAR AS GRADING OPTIONS. I THINK IT IS NOT 17 INCONSISTENT TO DO THAT. AND THE FACULTY, OF COURSE, HAS 18 TO BE GREATLY INVOLVED IN TERMS OF DOING THIS. 19 NOW THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. 20 AND I'M NOT EVEN ELABORATING ON THOSE AS FAR AS THE 21 DISTRICT IS CONCERNED. MANY HUNDREDS OF GREAT THINGS ARE 22 WORKING AND ARE OUT THERE. BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT 23 ARE INTEGRAL TO THE ELIMINATION OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP 24 THAT WE HAVE TO INCLUDE FOR THE COLLEGE. 25 EQUITY PLAN, WE PUT AN EQUITY PLAN TOGETHER IN APRIL 29, 2010 67 1 2005 WITH MINIMAL PARTICIPATION BY THE BROAD BODY OF THE 2 COLLEGE. THERE ARE SOME GOOD THINGS IN THE EQUITY PLAN, 3 BUT THAT PLAN HAS NOT BEEN FOLLOWED OR IMPLEMENTED TO THE 4 LEVEL THAT IT SHOULD BE FOLLOWED AND IMPLEMENTED. WE DO 5 NEED TO COME UP WITH A NEW EQUITY PLAN, WHICH WE ARE 6 SUPPOSED TO DO ON A REGULAR BASIS. WE NEED TO COME UP 7 WITH A NEW EQUITY PLAN. AND WE HAVE TO PUT TEETH AND 8 OVERSIGHT IN TERMS OF THE GOALS AND TIMELINES FOR 9 IMPLEMENTATION OF WHAT GOES INTO THAT EQUITY PLAN. 10 WE HAVE SOME GREAT PROGRAMS AT THE COLLEGE. I 11 JUST MENTIONED A FEW OF THEM LSN, APASS, PUENTE. WE ARE 12 DEVELOPING A TULAY PROGRAM. WE HAVE MATH BRIDGE. WE HAVE 13 BRIDGE TO BIOTECH. WE HAVE MESA THAT'S COMING ON. WE 14 HAVE THE RIGHT PLACE. AND WE CAN GO ON TO NAME ANOTHER 15 DOZEN OF THESE PROGRAMS. WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT 16 THESE EFFORTS TOWARD ELIMINATING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 17 WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT PROFESSIONAL 18 DEVELOPMENT IS THE KEY MARK IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO HELP 19 THE STUDENTS WHO ARE IN THIS DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATIONAL 20 SITUATION, WHICH MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO GIVE THE PROPER 21 EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYONE 22 INVOLVED, INCLUDING OUR FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS AND 23 OTHERS SO THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY GET THE OUTCOMES THAT WE 24 NEED IN TERMS OF THAT. 25 ALREADY THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE GOING APRIL 29, 2010 68 1 ON. WE HAVE THE DCC SPONSORED. WE HAVE STUDENT LEARNING 2 OUTCOME WORKSHOPS. WE HAVE THE BASIC SKILLS FACULTY 3 COLLOQUIUM. WE HAVE THE MULTICULTURAL INFUSION PROJECT. 4 WE HAVE FLEX ACTIVITIES, BUT THESE ARE NOT ENOUGH. WE 5 HAVE TO DO MORE IN TERMS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. AND 6 WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO DO IT EFFICIENTLY AND 7 EFFECTIVELY WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK, BUT IT HAS TO BE 8 DONE. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COULD NOT BE PLACED ON 9 HOLD FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND EXPECT TO MAINTAIN THE QUALITY 10 OF EXCELLENCE THAT WE HAVE BEEN FAMOUS FOR AT CITY COLLEGE 11 OF SAN FRANCISCO. 12 IDENTIFYING AND SECURING OTHER SOURCES OF 13 DOLLARS, THE COMMUNITY IS LEARNING IN PARTNERSHIP CLIP, 14 WHICH IS A INITIATIVE THAT WE ARE TRYING TO GET FUNDED 15 FROM THE GATES FOUNDATION, WHICH INVOLVES THE SAN 16 FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, CITY AND COUNTY AND SAN 17 FRANCISCO CITY COLLEGE ARE SILENT PARTNERS IN THAT AS WELL 18 AS REACHING OUT TO OTHER FOLKS. IT'S A MUST IN TERMS OF A 19 NEW PARADIGM IN TERMS OF HAVING PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER TO 20 DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS THAT HAVE CAUSED AND CONTINUE TO 21 SUPPORT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR 22 US TO ACHIEVE. 23 AND THEN ULTIMATELY, IT HAS BEEN EXTREMELY 24 HEALTHY, ALTHOUGH STRESSFUL, THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS OF 25 COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE COLLEGE. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT APRIL 29, 2010 69 1 DISAGREE WITH ME, BUT I AM NOT IN DISAGREEMENT ABOUT THIS 2 AT ALL. AS SOMEONE WHO -- I MEAN I SPENT FOUR MONTHS 3 DOING THIS AT SAN FRANCISCO STATE. AT ONE POINT I GOT 4 ARRESTED, THROWN IN JAIL, ET CETERA, ON THE SAME KIND OF 5 PROCESS AS THIS. IT HAD IMPROVED SAN FRANCISCO STATE 6 IMMEASURABLY IN TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENED AT STATE. I WAS 7 ARRESTED AND INVOLVED IN THE FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT AT UC 8 BERKELEY. THAT DIDN'T TURN OUT SO WELL. 9 NONETHELESS, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO 10 THIS. AND I THINK WE ALL REALIZE IT. I THINK WHAT'S 11 REALLY CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO UNDERSTAND IS 12 THAT WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. AND I'M LOOKING TO STRESS, 13 AS WE TAKE OUR ACHIEVEMENT GAP AS A COLLEGE -- AND I DO 14 BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE RIGHT UP THERE WITH OUR FIDUCIARY 15 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 16 IF THOSE TWO THINGS ARE ACHIEVED BY US, THEN WE 17 ARE WINNERS AND WE ARE SUCCESSFUL. BUT WE HAVE TO 18 MAINTAIN RESPECT, COLLEGIALITY, COMPASSION, AND WE HAVE TO 19 SHOW A HIGHER DEGREE OF BOLDNESS THAN WE'VE DONE BEFORE IN 20 TERMS OF DEALING WITH THIS PROBLEM. 21 YES, IT IS A PROBLEM THAT IS NATIONWIDE. YES, 22 IT IS STATEWIDE. AND, YES, IT IS HERE AT CITY COLLEGE OF 23 SAN FRANCISCO. LET'S NOT HIDE FROM IT. LET'S DEAL WITH 24 IT DIRECTLY. AND LET'S DEAL WITH IT IN A WAY THAT HAS 25 PLENTY OF OVERSIGHT, PLENTY OF TRANSPARENCY AND HOLD OUR APRIL 29, 2010 70 1 FEET TO THE FIRE IN TERMS OF DOING THIS. 2 THERE ARE SPECIFIC TIMELINES HERE FOR ALMOST ALL 3 OF THIS. FALL OF '10, IT HAS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. THE 4 SEQUENCING AND PLAN FOR THAT HAS TO BE DONE IN THE SPRING 5 OF 2011. THOSE ARE HARD TIMELINES. THOSE ARE NOT SOFT 6 TIMELINES, SO THAT'S THE LEVEL THAT HAS TO BE THERE THAT 7 WE MEASURE AGAINST AS A COLLEGE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO, TRUSTEES, DO YOU HAVE 9 ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE CHANCELLOR REGARDING THIS AMBITIOUS 10 PROGRAM? 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: IS IT POSSIBLE WE COULD SEE HOW 14 MANY PEOPLE ARE HERE TO SPEAK TO THIS ISSUE SO THAT WE 15 COULD HAVE SOME -- 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'VE GOT SEVEN CARDS. 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE START 18 RIGHT AWAY. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO THERE'S NO COMMENTS 20 FROM TRUSTEES. 21 SO PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS BOARD IS NOT TAKING 22 ACTION ON THIS TONIGHT. THERE'S NO KIND OF VOTE HERE 23 TONIGHT. 24 THE FIRST CARD I HAVE IS HAL HUNTSMAN. 25 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU, TRUSTEES, AND APRIL 29, 2010 71 1 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 2 I JUST WANTED TO AGREE. I DON'T NEED TO ADD A 3 LOT. I THINK, CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN, YOU SAID IT VERY WELL. 4 I WANT TO CONFIRM THAT, FIRST OF ALL, DESPITE 5 STRESS AND A LOT OF CONVERSATION OVER THE LAST SEVERAL 6 MONTHS AND EVEN LONGER, I ALSO HAVE THE SENSE THAT WE HAVE 7 COMPLETE UNANIMITY HERE. NO ONE IS SAYING ANYTHING OTHER 8 THAN THAT. WE HAVE ISSUES THAT WE ARE GOING TO DEAL WITH 9 AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO IT. I THINK THE WILL OF THE 10 FACULTY IS STRONG. WE HAVE ALSO THE ABILITY TO DO IT AS I 11 HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU BEFORE, AND WE WILL DO IT. 12 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AS A FACULTY 13 MEMBER AND THE ACADEMIC SENATE. I THINK WE LOOK FORWARD 14 TO WORKING ON THE TASK FORCE IN WHATEVER FASHION THAT WE 15 CAN. AND WE WILL MAKE PROGRESS. THANK YOU. 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 BRIAN MELENDEZ. 19 BRIAN. 20 MR. MELENDEZ: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS BRIAN 21 MELENDEZ, AND I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL. 22 I WOULD LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE STUDENT 23 TRUSTEE ELECTIONS VOTING THAT WE HAD YESTERDAY. 24 MY CONCERN IS WHO DECIDED TO DO IT BY PHONE LINE 25 BECAUSE I AM THE PRESIDENT, AND I DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY APRIL 29, 2010 72 1 INFORMATION OF HOW TO DO IT. WHEN I SEE THAT THE STUDENT 2 TRUSTEE ELECTION IS GOING TO BE ONLINE, MAYBE -- 3 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT, I DON'T THINK HE IS 4 ADDRESSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. I THINK HE IS ADDRESSING 5 SOMETHING ELSE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT A 7 DIFFERENT SUBJECT? 8 MR. MELENDEZ: YES. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. WHAT IS 10 THE SUBJECT THAT YOU ARE ADDRESSING? 11 MR. MELENDEZ: THE SUBJECT IS OUR SCHOOL ABOUT 12 THE STUDENT TRUSTEE ELECTIONS. SO IF YOU DON'T INFORM US 13 WITH THE LEADER OF THE STUDENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STUDENT 14 TRUSTEE ELECTIONS. THE MISSION STUDENTS DIDN'T KNOW HOW 15 MANY STUDENTS OR HOW TO VOTE ON THAT. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 17 MR. MELENDEZ: SO IF YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO HOW 18 TO CLOSE THAT GAP OF STUDENT ELECTIONS, WE NEED TO WORK 19 TOGETHER AND FIND DIFFERENT WAYS TO ELIMINATE THE GAP OF 20 YOU AND THE STUDENTS. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, 22 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 23 STEPHANIE NUTTMAN. 24 MS. NUTTMAN: HI, MY NAME IS STEPHANIE NUTTMAN. 25 I AM HERE IN MY ROLE AS PRESIDENT OF THE OUR STORIES CLUB. APRIL 29, 2010 73 1 I AM ALSO A STUDENT WORKER IN TWO DEPARTMENTS FOR THE DEAN 2 OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND THE WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER. 3 TONIGHT WE, THE OUR STORIES CLUB, WORKED ON A 4 PROJECT REGARDING THE STUDENT HIRING. WE DID A DVD. WE 5 DID A SURVEY. THE DVD IS CALLED, THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY, 6 STORIES OF STUDENT HIRING. 7 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU JUST A LITTLE HISTORY OF 8 HOW WE STARTED THIS WHICH WAS FOR ME IN 2007 WHEN I CAME 9 AS A STUDENT EMPLOYEE, THERE WERE A LOT MORE FULL CHAIRS 10 AT THE COLLEGE. SO THERE WERE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT WERE 11 THERE THAT HAD INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND WERE AVAILABLE 12 TO HELP US THROUGH THE HIRING PROCESS. NOW THERE'S A LOT 13 OF EMPTY CHAIRS. AND YOU'VE LOST ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT 14 ARE RETIRING OUT AND HAVE ATTRITION AND TOOK INSTITUTIONAL 15 KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM AND WE ALL LOST OUT. 16 SO THE HIRING PROCESS GOT HORRIBLE THIS YEAR, SO 17 BAD HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS WERE COMING TO ME AND OTHER 18 STUDENTS. SO WE PUT TOGETHER THIS PROJECT TO ADDRESS SOME 19 OF THESE ISSUES. WE HAVE A DVD TONIGHT. A COUPLE OF MY 20 COLLEAGUES AND CLUB MEMBERS AND OUR FACULTY ADVISORS ARE 21 HERE TO PASS OUT OUR DVD AND KIND OF ADDRESS THE STUDENT 22 HIRING ISSUE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON THIS. 23 IT'S IMPORTANT -- I WANT TO ADDRESS THE FACT 24 THAT THE STUDENT HIRING HAS THE PROCESS THAT -- I DON'T 25 KNOW IF HE'S DEAN LYNN, SO I WILL JUST SAY HE IS -- PUT IN APRIL 29, 2010 74 1 WHAT I SEE SO FAR IS REALLY GREAT. I REALLY APPRECIATE 2 THE FACT THAT THE SCHOOL HAS HEARD US AND MADE SOME REALLY 3 MAGNANIMOUS CHANGES TOWARD THE STUDENT HIRING PROCESS TO 4 MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE TO ALL STUDENTS. 5 AND I REALLY COMMEND THE COLLEGE FOR WORKING ON 6 THAT, BUT I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME WAYS TO GO. AND 7 ACTUALLY, I AM GOING TO TELL YOU THAT IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME 8 TO VOLUNTEER FOR YOUR TASK FORCE, I WOULD HAPPY TO DO 9 THAT. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 11 MS. NUTTMAN: YOU MAY HAVE TO BUY LUNCH. 12 BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT, AND I THINK WE REALLY 13 WANT TO GET THE STUDENTS ON AN EQUAL FOOTING BECAUSE IT 14 HELPS THE WHOLE COLLEGE. THERE ARE SUPERVISORS THAT ARE 15 SUFFERING. I MEAN LOTS OF PEOPLE GOT BURNT OUT ON THIS 16 PROCESS. 17 SO I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU MY STORY. YOU ARE 18 GOING TO SEE IT ON THE DVD, SO YOU CAN SEE IT FOR 19 YOURSELF. I DON'T WANT TO WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME BECAUSE 20 THEY'VE HEARD IT, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SHAYNII DAVIDSON. 24 MS. DAVIDSON: HI, GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS 25 SHAYNII DAVIDSON, AND I AM A STAFFER AT THE WOMEN'S APRIL 29, 2010 75 1 RESOURCE CENTER AT THE OCEAN CAMPUS FOR CITY COLLEGE. I 2 AM HERE TO ADDRESS THE PAYROLL ISSUES AS MY COLLEAGUES 3 STATED. 4 ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAD BASED ON WHAT THE 5 CHANCELLOR HAD MENTIONED IN HIS STATEMENT. YOU TALKED 6 ABOUT THE TB TESTING, BUT I HAD A SPECIFIC QUESTION AROUND 7 THE ISSUE OF THE DOUBLE TB TESTING. THERE WAS A RECENT 8 INCIDENT THAT JUST HAPPENED WHERE A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUDENT 9 WORKERS HAD TO DO THIS TESTING TWICE AND WAS VERY CONFUSED 10 ABOUT THE PROCESS BECAUSE IT SEEMED UNNECESSARY AND THERE 11 WAS A LOT OF RESISTANCE IN GIVING SOME TYPE OF EXPLANATION 12 AS TO WHY IT NEEDED TO HAPPEN. THERE WERE DIFFERENT 13 EXPLANATIONS COMING FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. AND SO I 14 WANTED TO GET A CLEAR ANSWER AS TO HOW THAT ISSUE WOULD BE 15 RESOLVED. 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: OKAY, WELL, TWO THINGS. 17 NO. 1 IS WITH THE TASK FORCE, PART OF THE PROCESS OR 18 METHOD WE'LL BE GETTING PEOPLE IN WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF 19 THAT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THE ISSUES ARE FROM THEIR 20 PERSPECTIVE. 21 THE BOTTOM LINE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IT'S AN 22 ISSUE AROUND HOW EARLY ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THE 23 TB TESTING SO THAT PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT. BUT WE 24 WILL HAVE A SOLUTION SO THAT AS FAR AS THE HIRING PROCESS, 25 IT WILL NOT BE DELAYED BECAUSE OF THIS. APRIL 29, 2010 76 1 WE HAVE SUNNY CLARK OUR DEAN, OUR ASSOCIATE 2 DEAN, WHO IS GOING TO COME UP FOR A MOMENT AND SAY A 3 COUPLE OF WORDS ABOUT IT. BUT ULTIMATELY, IT'S ON OUR 4 LIST THAT WE HAVE TO FIX FOR THE COLLEGE. WE'VE ALREADY 5 BEGUN A PROCESS THAT INVOLVES THE HIRING, AND THAT'S ONE 6 OF THE STEPS IN IT BECAUSE BEFORE PEOPLE WERE NOT TOLD 7 SUFFICIENTLY EARLY THAT THEY SHOULD BE TESTED. AND SO 8 THEY HAD TO WAIT AND DO THE DOUBLE TESTING, SO WE MIGHT 9 WORK OUT A SITUATION THAT WE DON'T DO AS MUCH DOUBLE 10 TESTING, BUT WE ALSO WORK IT OUT SO THAT THEY GET THEIR 11 TEST PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER. 12 BUT MAYBE SUNNY WOULD LIKE TO SAY A COUPLE OF 13 THINGS TO ANSWER YOU MORE DIRECTLY. 14 SUNNY CLARK. 15 MS. CLARK: SUNNY CLARK, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF 16 STUDENT HELP AND DISTRICT PUBLIC HEALTH. 17 YES, I FEEL VERY BAD FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE 18 SUFFERED THE MISCOMMUNICATION AND MISUNDERSTANDING. WE, 19 AS A DISTRICT WHEN WE DO THINGS, WE TRY TO DO IT CORRECTLY 20 AND OF THE CURRENT BEST PRACTICE. 21 AND THE CVC, WHICH ED CODE INDICATES THAT WE 22 NEED TO ABIDE BY, AND THE TB TEST REQUIREMENT IS BY ED 23 CODE, WHICH STATE THAT EVERY EMPLOYEE WITHIN 60 DAYS OF 24 BEING HIRED, THEIR START DATE, WE HAVE TO HAVE A NEGATIVE 25 TB TEST, BE IT A SKIN TEST OR CHEST X-RAY. ONE OR THE APRIL 29, 2010 77 1 OTHER. 2 WHEN I FIRST CAME TO WORK AT THIS DISTRICT SOME 3 19 YEARS AGO, I USED TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH ACTIVE TB CASES. 4 SOME OF THEM FOUR AND FIVE CASES EACH YEAR, WHICH IMPACTED 5 HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS. AND PART OF THE 6 REASON WAS BECAUSE THE SINGLE STEP TB TEST DID NOT GIVE 7 THE RIGHT AND CORRECT ANSWER. 8 SO THE CURRENT STANDARD OF PRACTICE, WHICH IS 9 DONE BY COLLEGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, COLLEGES AND 10 UNIVERSITIES, UCSF WOULD NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING OTHER THAN 11 TWO STEP. KAISER WOULD NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING OTHER THAN TWO 12 STEP SO THAT IS THE CURRENT STANDARD. 13 WE USED TO DO THIS FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE 50 14 AND OVER. BUT EVIDENTLY, THAT'S NO LONGER THE CASE. WE 15 HAVE TO DO FOR EVERYONE. SO WE NO LONGER JUST DO FOR 16 FACULTY PEOPLE BECAUSE FOR YEARS, FOR 20 YEARS OR MORE IT 17 WAS REQUIRE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE OLDER. BUT NOW, IT 18 HAS BEEN A REQUIREMENT FOR EVERYONE AND THAT HAS BEEN IN 19 PLACE FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO TWO STEP IS PEOPLE GO 21 ONCE AND THEN THEY HAVE TO COME BACK AND -- 22 MS. CLARK: RIGHT. AND THAT IS JUST THE WAY THE 23 SYSTEM FUNCTIONS. IT'S MORE A PHYSIOLOGICAL. 24 WHEN I HAVE -- I TRIED TO SEARCH -- ACTUALLY, 25 THE QUESTION HAS OCCURRED TO ME WITHOUT DIVULGING THE APRIL 29, 2010 78 1 PRIVACY ISSUE OF OUR STUDENTS. NO. 1, WAS THERE WAS 2 MISCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO TOLD THE STUDENTS 3 TO GO GET THE TB TEST BECAUSE WE DO TB TESTS FOR MANY, 4 MANY REASONS, FOR HEALTH REASONS, FOR WORK REASONS, FOR 5 PREPROGRAM REQUIREMENTS VIA NURSING DEPARTMENT OR EMT OR 6 PHARM TECH OR WHATEVER THOSE THINGS ARE. SO WE NEVER 7 QUESTION THE STUDENTS WHAT THE TB TEST WAS FOR. 8 IF WE WERE TO ASK THAT, THEN PERHAPS WE WOULD 9 HAVE CLEARED SOME OF THE MISCONCEPTION BECAUSE WHEN 10 STUDENTS WANTED A TB TEST, WE WOULD DO IT FOR THEM. SO 11 THAT WAS THE NO. 1 ISSUE. 12 THE OTHER ISSUE IS STUDENTS FORGET TO COME BACK. 13 SO WHEN THEY DIDN'T COME BACK, THEN WE HAVE TO START ALL 14 OVER AGAIN. SO IT CAUSES THE CONFUSION. 15 SO I THINK WHAT CHANCELLOR HAS REQUESTED FOR US 16 TO START TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, WE ARE 17 GOING TO OPEN JUST FOR TB TESTS SO THAT THEY WILL BE ALL 18 CLEARED. SO THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL WHEN THEY ARE ABLE TO 19 START WORK, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD THEIR TB TEST CLEARED. 20 WE ALSO HAVE AGREED ON THE FACEBOOK ON THE FRONT 21 PAGE OF THIS EMPLOYMENT NEW AUTOMATED EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM, 22 AS WELL AS STUDENT HEALTH WEB PAGE, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER 23 INSTRUCTIONS WHERE STUDENTS RECEIVE COMMUNICATION ABOUT 24 WORKING. THEY WOULD BE GIVEN A SUGGESTION THAT THEY START 25 TB TEST CONCURRENTLY, AS WELL AS THEIR PAPERWORK. I THINK APRIL 29, 2010 79 1 IF THOSE THINGS GET ALL IMPLEMENTED TOGETHER, I BELIEVE WE 2 WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN MINIMIZING THE CONFUSION. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: ONE QUESTION THOUGH. 4 WITHIN 60 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT, MEANS THAT THE PERSON COULD 5 BE EMPLOYED AS LONG AS THEY GET A TEST WITHIN 60 DAYS. 6 MS. CLARK: RIGHT. 7 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YES. 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO WHAT I AM LOOKING AT IS 9 HOW DO WE DO IT SO THAT WE FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH IT, BUT 10 THAT WE COULD GET PEOPLE STARTED TO WORK WHILE THEIR TB 11 TESTING IS ONGOING. 12 IN OTHER WORDS, IF THE RULES ALLOW FOR WITHIN 60 13 DAYS THEN IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THOSE PEOPLE COULD BE WORKING 14 AND THEN WE ARE VERIFYING THE TESTING SO THAT'S ONE 15 THOUGHT. I'M NOT SAYING -- I'M JUST RAISING IT. 16 THE OTHER THING IS THAT NOT WITH TB TESTING, BUT 17 WITH OTHER -- YOU HAVE TO BE ENROLLED IN A CERTAIN NUMBER 18 OF UNITS. I'M ALSO THINKING THAT THERE SHOULD BE A WAY OF 19 STUDENTS GETTING STARTED BEFORE WE CAN 100 PERCENT VERIFY 20 THE NUMBER OF UNITS WITH AN IDEA THAT, YES, WE CAN VERIFY 21 THAT ONLINE, FIGURE IT OUT, AND IF A PERSON HAS BEEN HIRED 22 AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE UNITS, THEY DON'T HAVE THE TB 23 TESTING WITHIN A CERTAIN TIME FRAME, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO 24 JUST DIS-HIRE THEM. WE JUST HAVE TO UNHIRE THEM BASICALLY 25 AT THAT POINT. BUT THIS WAY IT WOULD NOT CAUSE A APRIL 29, 2010 80 1 BOTTLENECK IN TERMS -- THIS IS JUST SOME IDEAS. I AM NOT 2 SAYING WE HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY. 3 BUT WE NEED TO EXPLORE A DIFFERENT WAY OF DOING 4 IT SIMPLY BECAUSE TOO MANY STUDENTS ARE HAVING A DIFFICULT 5 TIME GETTING INVOLVED IN THE WORK. AND I KNOW IT'S A 6 LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE DO FOR FACULTY AND 7 ADMINISTRATORS BECAUSE WE TEST THEM FIRST AND THEN THEY 8 HAVE TO GET THAT TESTING DONE, RIGHT, BEFORE THEY CAN 9 START WORKING. 10 MS. CLARK: YES. AND THE WORDING OF THE ED CODE 11 SEEMS TO STATE THAT AS WELL, BUT -- 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: MR. CHAIR. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: ACTUALLY WHAT SUNNY SAID IN TERMS 16 OF THE TWO-STEP PROCESS OF TB IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE I 17 WAS A VICTIM OF -- OF COURSE, MANY OF US WHEN WE WERE 18 YOUNG, WE HAD THE TEST AND I TESTED POSITIVE. I ASSUME 19 ALL MY LIVE THAT SOMEHOW I HAD THE VIRUS AND THEN I WAS 20 TESTED AGAIN -- 21 COUNSEL LEE: IF I MAY -- 22 TRUSTEE WONG: -- WITH THE TWO-STEP PROCESS. 23 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING WAS OKAY. 24 COUNSEL LEE: IF I MAY -- 25 TRUSTEE WONG: THE TWO-STEP PROCESS IS APRIL 29, 2010 81 1 IMPORTANT. 2 COUNSEL LEE: THE SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION UNDER 3 THE -- 4 TRUSTEE WONG: I KNOW. I KNOW. I JUST WANTED 5 TO MENTION. 6 COUNSEL LEE: YOU KNOW, WE ARE DISCUSSING THE 7 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GAP, AND WE ARE GETTING OFF WHAT WE 8 WERE TALKING ABOUT. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF WE COULD MAYBE WIND 10 BACK INTO THE -- 11 TRUSTEE WONG: I JUST WANTED TO SAY WHAT SHE 12 SAID IS TRUE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK YOUR TIME IS UP 14 AS WELL. 15 MS. DAVIDSON: OH, I'M SORRY. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, YOUR TIME IS UP, 17 BUT THANK YOU. 18 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SHE DIDN'T EVEN -- 19 TRUSTEE WONG: WAIT A MINUTE. WAIT A MINUTE. 20 WAIT A MINUTE. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: LET HER TALK. I MEAN -- SUNNY 22 TALKED. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, LET HER TALK. 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DOES SHE HAVE A REPORT NOW? 25 TRUSTEE WONG: PLEASE, SHE DIDN'T SPEAK YET. APRIL 29, 2010 82 1 MS. DAVIDSON: OKAY. SO I APPRECIATE WHAT WAS 2 SAID IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION THAT I HAD. I MIGHT BE 3 MISTAKEN, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF MY QUESTION WAS ACTUALLY 4 ANSWERED AS FAR AS HAVING TO TAKE TWO TB TESTS. I KNOW 5 THAT SUNNY SPOKE ABOUT A TWO-STEP PROCESS, WHICH MEANS YOU 6 WOULD BE TAKING THE TEST 1 TIME, BUT YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY 7 GETTING TESTED AND THEN COMING BACK FOR YOUR RESULTS. 8 BUT MY QUESTION WAS ABOUT THE PROCESS OF HAVING 9 TO TAKE THE TEST TWICE WITHIN THE SAME YEAR. AND I'M 10 WONDERING IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY A 11 REQUIREMENT. AND IF SO, WHY? 12 WAS IT JUST A ONE-TIME INCIDENT BECAUSE THERE 13 WAS AN ISSUE ON BEHALF OF CITY COLLEGE? 14 AND IF THAT WAS THE CASE, CAN THERE BE SOME 15 CLARIFICATION AROUND THAT SO THAT STUDENTS ARE AWARE THAT 16 THIS WAS AN ISSUE ON -- 17 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 18 -- THE PART OF CITY COLLEGE. AND IT REALLY 19 ISN'T A REQUIREMENT TO HAVE TO DO THAT TWICE. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NOW YOUR TIME IS UP. THE 21 BELL JUST RANG. 22 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: LET ME ANSWER HER. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF YOU CAN BRIEFLY. IT 24 SEEMS LIKE IT'S AN OFFLINE TOPIC. AND I JUST HOPE WE 25 COULD RESOLVED THIS. APRIL 29, 2010 83 1 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: VERY QUICKLY. NO, YOU 2 SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUCCESSFULLY TAKE THE TB SCREENING 3 TWICE IF THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE ASKING. THERE IS A TWO-STEP 4 PROCESS EACH TIME YOU DO IT. THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY. 5 THERE WILL BE A TWO-STEP PROCESS FOR PEOPLE, BUT WE HAVE 6 TO DO IT IN A TIME SEQUENCE THAT THEY DO NOT LOSE AN 7 OPPORTUNITY TO WORK. BUT YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TESTED 8 TWICE WITHIN ONE YEAR. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 10 SHAYNII DAVIDSON. 11 MS. DAVIDSON: I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ANYMORE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. PLEASE 13 LET'S HEAR SOME MORE. JUST KIDDING. 14 LET'S SEE, KATIE GELARDI. 15 MS. GELARDI: HI, CHANCELLOR, BOARD. 16 I HAVE GREAT NEWS. AND I WAS JUST DELIGHTED TO 17 HEAR WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE AND 18 CONTRIBUTIONS FOR IMMIGRANTS. 19 DESPITE THE EXTRAORDINARY OBSTACLES FACED -- 20 TRUSTEE WONG: YOU NEED TO SPEAK INTO THE 21 MICROPHONE BECAUSE YOU ARE BEING RECORDED. 22 MS. GELARDI: THANKS. DESPITE OUR EXTRAORDINARY 23 OBSTACLES FACED BY OUR DOWNTOWN POPULATION FOR THE 24 ELECTIONS, AS BRIAN HAD ALLUDED TO, WE WENT TO OUR FACULTY 25 REQUESTING THEIR ASSISTANCE. AND I AM DELIGHTED TO LET APRIL 29, 2010 84 1 YOU KNOW THAT THE DOWNTOWN CAMPUS HAS BEEN ABLE TO AVERT 2 THIS INCREDIBLE DISASTER OF STUDENT'S RIGHT TO VOTE, OKAY? 3 THE FACULTY CAME TOGETHER AND THEY TURNED THIS 4 INTO AN INCREDIBLE CIVIC AND COMPUTER LEARNING EXPERIENCE. 5 OUR DOWNTOWN CAMPUS, I AM DELIGHTED TO SAY AND I AM SURE 6 DEAN GLICK WOULD BE AS PROUD AS PUNCH FOR ALL OF THEM, TO 7 HAVE HAD THE MOST HISTORIC TURN OUT DESPITE ALL THE 8 OBSTACLES THAT WERE THROWN IN FRONT OF US. THANK YOU. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 MS. GELARDI: YOU ARE WELCOME. 11 JEAN ISHIBASHI. 12 MS. ISHIBASHI: I'M HERE AS A FACULTY ADVISOR 13 FOR THE OUR STORIES CLUB AND THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER. 14 AND YOU RECEIVED THE DVD'S WHICH IS A COLLECTION OF RAW 15 FOOTAGE OF STORIES OF GOOD, BAD AND UGLY. AND IT DEALS 16 WITH STUDENT EQUITY BECAUSE THE TUTORS WHO APPLIED FOR 17 JOBS WERE PUT ON -- FOR EXAMPLE, ONE STUDENT IN 18 PHILOSOPHY, SHE COULDN'T TUTOR STUDENTS FOR A COUPLE OF 19 MONTHS AND SOME OF THOSE STUDENTS DROPPED OUT OF CLASSES 20 BECAUSE SHE WASN'T ABLE TO GET THROUGH THE TB TESTING 21 REQUIREMENTS AND THE HIRING PROCESS. 22 AS A FACULTY PERSON, I WAS ALSO INFORMED THAT MY 23 COLLEAGUES WITH THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, THE ISHIBASHI 24 FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, THAT IN TRYING TO HIRE STUDENTS TO 25 STAFF, THE CHILDCARE FOR STUDENTS WHO NEEDED CHILDCARE APRIL 29, 2010 85 1 COULD NOT GO THROUGH THE HIRING PROCESS EFFICIENT ENOUGH 2 MANNER THAT SHE COULD GET SOME INCOME. SO SHE HAD TO 3 LEAVE SCHOOL, QUIT, AND THE STUDENTS WHO NEEDED CHILDCARE 4 WERE LEFT WITHOUT CHILDCARE. AND THEY LEFT SCHOOL AS 5 WELL. 6 SO THIS HIRING AND PAYROLL PRACTICE, INCLUDING 7 THE TWO-STEP TB TEST, DID IN FACT TAKE A TOLL AS FAR AS 8 OUR PERSPECTIVE AND MY WITNESSING THE STUDENT EQUITY 9 ACHIEVEMENT GAP. AND I'M CONCERNED NOW THAT FACULTY AND 10 STAFF MAY BE PUNISHED BECAUSE TRYING TO EQUALIZE THE WHOLE 11 IDEA, THE TWO TB TESTS, I'VE HEARD RUMOR THAT THEY MAY TRY 12 TO -- OR CCSF MAY TRY TO IMPOSE A TWO-STEP PROCESS FOR 13 FACULTY AND STAFF AS WELL -- 14 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 15 -- WHICH I FEEL IS VERY UNFAIR. AND THE -- 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S YOUR TIME. 17 MS. ISHIBASHI: WELL, OKAY. AND I HAVE HERE 18 FROM USF WHO IS REQUIRED TO TAKE A TWO TB TEST. AND THE 19 ED CODE DID NOT REQUIRE A TWO TB TEST. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 MS. ISHIBASHI: AND WE HAVE THE DATA HERE. AND 22 IF YOU TALK TO ANY OF THE TB CLINICS, THEY REQUIRE ONLY 23 ONE. ALL RIGHT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 25 CHRIS LLOYD. APRIL 29, 2010 86 1 MR. LLOYD: GOOD EVENING, DR. GRIFFIN AND 2 TRUSTEES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 3 I AM HERE AS PART OF A STAFF MEMBER, A STUDENT 4 MEMBER, A STUDENT WORKER AT THE CAREER RESOURCE CENTER AT 5 OCEAN CAMPUS. AND I'M ALSO PART OF THAT DVD THAT YOU GOT, 6 THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY. 7 DR. GRIFFIN, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FIRST OFF 8 BECAUSE THIS IS BIG. YOU ARE TACKLING A LOT OF ISSUES WITH 9 THE GAP. 10 ONE THAT I WANTED TO TOUCH ON THAT WAS PRESSING 11 TO ME IS THIS HEALTH CENTER WILL BE CLOSED OVER THE SUMMER 12 BECAUSE OCEAN CAMPUS WILL BE CLOSED OVER THE SUMMER. 13 THEREFORE, STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET THE 14 TWO TB TESTS. AND LET ME CLARIFY WHAT THE TWO TB TEST 15 MEANS. IT DOESN'T MEAN TWO TESTS IN ONE YEAR. IT MEANS 16 YOU GO GET YOUR RIGHT ARM PRICKED. YOU COME BACK THE NEXT 17 WEEK. THEY CHECK THAT. THEY PRICK YOUR LEFT ARM, AND YOU 18 COME BACK THE FOLLOWING WEEK AND GET THAT CHECKED. THAT'S 19 WHAT WE ARE REFERRING TO AS A TWO-STEP PROCESS. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: CAN I DO A POINT OF 21 INFORMATION JUST REAL QUICKLY. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE 22 STUDENT HEALTH CENTER, THE STAFF WILL STILL BE THERE, 23 RIGHT? OR AM I INCORRECT ON THAT? 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: VERY LIMITED HOURS, RIGHT, 25 SUNNY? APRIL 29, 2010 87 1 MS. CLARK: WE ARE COMPLETELY CLOSED. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: COMPLETELY CLOSED, OKAY. 3 THANK YOU. 4 MR. LLOYD: SO THEREFORE, WE ARE GOING TO FALL 5 INTO THE SAME DILEMMA WE FELL IN OR I PERSONALLY FELL 6 UNDER AS YOU WILL HEAR IN MY SUMMER AT THE BEGINNING OF 7 FALL 2009 OR EXCUSE ME 2010 LAST FALL. 8 STUDENTS WILL BE COMING TO THE COLLEGE -- FIRST 9 TIME STUDENTS WILL BE COMING TO THE COLLEGE AND HAVING TO 10 GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE COLLEGE. AND IF THEY DO LOOK 11 ONLINE TO SEE THE JOBS, THEY WILL FIND THE JOBS, BUT THEY 12 WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET THEIR TB TESTS UNTIL THE FIRST 13 WEEK OF SCHOOL. THAT WILL TAKE TWO WEEKS. I UNDERSTAND 14 YOU ARE STREAMLINING THE SYSTEM. THAT IS OUTSTANDING, BUT 15 THAT WILL PROBABLY STILL ADD ANOTHER WEEK BECAUSE IF IT'S 16 GOING TO CONTINUE THE SAME, THAT'S THREE WEEKS INTO THE 17 SEMESTER THAT STUDENTS WON'T BE HIRED. THAT'S THREE WEEKS 18 INTO THE SEMESTERS THAT LAB AIDES WON'T BE FILLED. TUTORS 19 WON'T BE FILLED. AND THIS IS WHY I AM ENCOURAGING YOU. 20 I KNOW THIS IS NOT A VOTE TONIGHT. BUT I AM 21 ENCOURAGING YOU TO RECONSIDER THE TWO-STEP TB TEST AND 22 BRING IT TO A ONE STEP. NOWHERE ELSE, AS YOU HAVE HEARD 23 FROM DR. ISHIBASHI, REQUIRES THE DOUBLE TEST. IT IS ALL 24 ONE TEST OR A CHEST X-RAY. SO WITH THAT, I WILL SAY, 25 THANK YOU. APRIL 29, 2010 88 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 2 LAURA MEDINA. 3 MS. MEDINA: DR. GRIFFIN AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 4 WELL, I JUST WANT TO PERSONALLY THANK YOU GUYS 5 FOR ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF AB-540 STUDENTS AND INCLUDING 6 THAT IN THIS REPORT BECAUSE AS AN AB-540 STUDENT, I DO 7 REPRESENT A COMMUNITY THAT BECAUSE OF THE STIGMA 8 ASSOCIATED WITH THE STATUS OF BEING AB-540 OR IMMIGRANT, 9 WE OFTEN GO UNDER REPRESENTED OR UNREPRESENTED IN ANY SORT 10 OF CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL. 11 THESE GOALS ARE OUTLINED HERE ARE GREAT. AND I 12 THINK THAT THEY WILL REALLY BEGIN TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF 13 THE STUDENTS. BUT WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO SEE ARE NOT JUST 14 GOALS, BUT WE NEED TO SEE RESULTS. 15 SO WHAT I WANT FROM YOU GUYS IS JUST FOLLOW 16 THROUGH BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PROGRAMS. I 17 KNOW COUNSELORS, STUDENTS, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH 18 EXPECTING CHANGE AND WILLING TO BE PART OF THE CHANGE. 19 AND THAT GOES FOR EVERYTHING OUTLINED IN HERE, NOT JUST 20 THE AB-540 STUDENTS, BUT EVERYTHING OUTLINED HERE. THERE 21 NEEDS TO BE FOLLOW THROUGH AND THERE NEEDS TO BE RESULTS 22 BECAUSE NOW THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED WHAT THE STUDENTS NEED 23 AND OUTLINED POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO IT, WE NEED TO SEE REAL 24 CHANGE, SO THANK YOU. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. APRIL 29, 2010 89 1 KATIE GELARDI. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: SHE JUST SPOKE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SHE JUST SPOKE, OH. 4 GEORGE RUSH. 5 MR. RUSH: GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, CHANCELLOR, 6 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 7 DAN AND I ARE HERE ON BEHALF OF OUR STUDENT 8 ATHLETES. AND AS THE EQUITY RESOLUTION AND SOME OF THE 9 PROPOSALS DIRECTLY EFFECT THEM BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE DON'T 10 REALIZE THAT OUR STUDENT ATHLETES, NOT ONLY HAVE TO MEET 11 THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COLLEGE IN ORDER TO TRANSFER TO 12 DIVISION ONE SCHOOLS, THEY ARE NOW REQUIRED TO HAVE TWO 13 COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSES AND COLLEGE LEVEL MATH TO BE 14 ELIGIBLE FOR SCHOLARSHIP. SO THE BAR HAS BEEN RAISED 15 MUCH, MUCH HIGHER THAN EVEN THE COLLEGE IS REQUIRING. 16 OBVIOUSLY THE STUDENTS THAT ARE IMPACTED THE 17 MOST ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE THE LEARNING ISSUES AND A LOT 18 OF ABILITIES. 19 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TWO THINGS. ONE, TO MY 20 FELLOW FACULTY MEMBERS IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, IN 21 PARTICULAR, WHO HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY HELPFUL TO US IN 22 ATHLETES AS RECENTLY AS TODAY PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR 23 PLACEMENT TESTING FOR PEOPLE TO ADVANCE IN ENGLISH TO OUR 24 STUDENT ATHLETES AND I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT. 25 BUT THE COLLABORATION THAT THE CHANCELLOR IS APRIL 29, 2010 90 1 SPEAKING OF THE FACULTY AND STAFF TO BRING THIS TOGETHER 2 TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO A SOLUTION THAT'S FAIR 3 AND THAT'S EQUITABLE. AND MOST OF ALL, WE ARE LESS 4 CONCERNED WITH THE PROCESS, BUT WE ARE CONCERNED WITH 5 RESULTS. 6 YOU KNOW, BROKEN DREAMS AND DISAPPOINTMENT WOULD 7 TRUMP PROCESS. AND I THINK WE ARE ON THE PATH TO HAVING 8 THAT HAPPEN. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY TO THE 9 CHANCELLOR AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OUR ENTIRE 10 FACULTY THAT YOU HAVE OUR ABSOLUTE 100 PERCENT SUPPORT IN 11 YOUR EFFORTS FROM THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT. 12 MR. HAYES: I WANT TO ECHO WHAT GEORGE SAID. 13 THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT -- WELL, I WILL GIVE THE PROCESS 14 SIDE OF THIS. THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT OUR DEPARTMENT HAS 15 WANTED ON THE TABLE FOR A LONG TIME. IT REALLY IS. AND I 16 CAN'T TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM AND WE ARE. WE ARE WHERE 17 WE ARE. AND WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A STRONG PLAN AT A 18 RAPID PACE. AND THIS IS GOING TO BE ADDRESSED REAL SOON. 19 AGAIN, A LOT OF THE STUDENTS THAT WE WORK WITH 20 CAN CREATE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEMSELVES. BUT MANY 21 TIMES OVER THE YEARS, SO MANY FEEL THAT THE STEPS ON THE 22 LADDER TO GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GET IN ENGLISH AND 23 MATH ARE ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE. 24 AND THE CONCERN THAT I KNOW THAT I HAVE HAD, AND 25 WE'VE HAD IN OUR DEPARTMENT, IS A LOT OF THEM TURNED TO APRIL 29, 2010 91 1 ONLINE CLASSES OR ATTENDING OTHER INSTITUTIONS TO SATISFY 2 THIS ENGLISH REQUIREMENT. AND IT'S NOT A HEALTHY PLACE 3 FOR THEM TO GO. 4 AND ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE IN A TIMELY FASHION 5 AND AS STRONG AS WE ARE GOING TO ADDRESS THIS IS GOING TO 6 KIND OF BRING THAT ALL BACK IN. ALL THESE STUDENTS ARE 7 GOING TO BE WHERE THEY NEED TO BE GOING THROUGH THE STEPS 8 AND HAVING A REALISTIC CHANCE TO ACHIEVE A DREAM IN A 9 REALISTIC AMOUNT OF TIME. I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU AND 10 PLEASE KEEP CHARGING. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 INGRID WYNN. 13 MS. WYNN: GOOD EVENING, DR. GRIFFIN AND THE 14 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 15 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU FOR 16 ALL THE WORK THAT YOU PUT IN TO THIS PLAN FOR THE 17 ACHIEVEMENTS GAP. BUT ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT I HAVE AS 18 PRESIDENT OF EVANS CAMPUS IS EVEN THOUGH WE STILL HAVE A 19 GAP IN COMMUNICATION, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHAT 20 LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK. WHEN A PARENT SAYS TO YOU, AFTER MY 21 COURSES ARE DONE, BECAUSE EVANS IS A TRADE SCHOOL. BUT 22 AFTER THEIR COURSES ARE DONE WITH JANITORIAL, 23 CONSTRUCTION, I DO UNDERSTAND WHEN A MOTHER COMES UP TO ME 24 AND SAYS, HEY, SHE DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH WELL, BUT WHEN 25 SHE SAYS JOB, KIDS, WE NEED TO EAT. IT IS A CONCERN. APRIL 29, 2010 92 1 I APPRECIATE THAT YOU WANT TO CENTRALIZE THE JOB 2 PLACEMENT CENTER, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW AT 3 EVANS. SO AS FAR AS THE STUDENTS BEING SERVED, IT'S A 4 REAL ISSUE THERE BECAUSE WE HAVE A COLLABORATION WITH CITY 5 BUILD. AND FOR THE STUDENTS THAT COME IN AND BE A PART OF 6 THIS PROGRAM, IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM. BUT FOR THE PEOPLE 7 THAT'S ACTUALLY THERE FOR THEIR CONSTRUCTION CLASSES, 8 JANITORIAL CLASSES, AND EVEN AUTOMOTIVE CLASSES, BEYOND 9 THAT, THERE SHOULD BE A JOB PLACEMENT CENTER TO SAY, HEY, 10 YOU KNOW WHAT, WE DIDN'T OVERLOOK THE SEMESTERS THAT YOU 11 GUYS ACTUAL PUT IN. WE APPRECIATE THAT YOU GUYS ARE 12 TAKING ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING AND ALL THE OTHER GREAT 13 CLASSES THAT WE OFFER FOR PEOPLE TO GO INTO THE WORK 14 FIELD. 15 BUT WE NEED THE SERVICES TO ALSO BE PROVIDED 16 THERE. THAT'S ONE OF THE CAMPUSES I THINK WHEN WE TALK 17 ABOUT THE CENTRALIZING, WE SHOULD HAVE SOME TYPE OF 18 SERVICE THERE. OR IF YOU WANT TO, I MEAN OUR CAMPUS CAN 19 ACTUALLY COMPLY WITH ACTUALLY HAVING A JOB CENTER, A 20 RESOURCE CENTER FOR THESE PEOPLE TO GO TO WHEN THEY ARE 21 DONE WITH THEIR CLASSES. 22 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 23 MS. WYNN: THANK YOU SO MUCH. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. THAT WAS THE 25 LAST CARD. APRIL 29, 2010 93 1 TRUSTEES. 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: ACTUALLY, THERE'S ANOTHER 3 SPEAKER. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER. 5 MR. PADILLA: I SUBMITTED A CARD. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. I THOUGHT 7 THIS WAS FOR ANOTHER SUBJECT. 8 MR. PADILLA: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS RUDY 9 PADILLA. I'M A NONCREDIT INSTRUCTOR AT THE DOWNTOWN 10 CAMPUS. I AM FULL-TIME BASED AT THE DOWNTOWN CAMPUS. I 11 ALSO WAS A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. I SERVED FOR 12 THREE YEARS. 13 AND I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROCESS ON THE 14 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. AND I THINK THERE ARE FACULTY MEMBERS 15 WHO ARE ETHICALLY CHALLENGED. AND HAVING BEEN THERE AND 16 OBSERVED FOR THREE YEARS, AS AN OUTSIDE AND NONCREDIT 17 OUTSIDE OF THE OCEAN CAMPUS, I LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS IN 18 TERMS OF VOTER TURNOUT. AND, OF COURSE, MANY OF YOU KNOW 19 THAT LESS THAN A QUARTER OF THE FACULTY VOTE FOR PEOPLE TO 20 SERVE ON THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. AND THAT'S BEEN ONGOING 21 FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS, EXCEPT FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS 22 WHERE THE NUMBERS HAVE ACTUALLY GONE UP. 23 I WITNESSED FIRSTHAND INDOCTRINATION, 24 GROUP-THINK MENTALITY. IT'S INTIMIDATING. IT'S ALSO 25 INTIMIDATING WHEN DCC MEMBERS WHO HAVE FULL PRIVILEGES AND APRIL 29, 2010 94 1 RIGHTS TO SERVE ON THE ACADEMIC SENATE ARE THERE WHEN YOU 2 HAVE PART TIMERS AND TENURE TRACK PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF HAVE 3 HAVING TO SIT THERE AND BE INTIMIDATED BY THEM. 4 AND I ASK A QUESTION OF YOU IS I DON'T THINK THE 5 BROWN ACT IS ENOUGH. I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE 6 SUNSHINE ORDINANCE AND WE NEED TO DEBATE IT. I KNOW THAT 7 FACULTY DON'T WANT IT BECAUSE IT PUTS STUDENT RECORDS AT 8 RISK. BUT I THINK THAT IT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH WITH THE 9 BROWN ACT BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME UNETHICAL STUFF GOING ON. 10 AND YOU GUYS HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE. 11 I WORKED AT THE HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE MEDICAL 12 CLINIC WHEN THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE FIRST STARTED. AND IT 13 WAS IMPLEMENTED WITH US. AND I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY WE 14 DON'T HAVE IT BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY LIMITED TRANSPARENCY 15 AND ACCOUNTABILITY WITH THE BROWN ACT. 16 SO I WOULD LIKE YOU TO THINK ABOUT IT, DEBATE 17 IT, OR EVEN ASK YOU THE QUESTION WHAT KIND OF DISCUSSIONS 18 HAVE YOU HAD ON IT, AND I'LL TAKE THAT QUESTION OFF THE 19 PODIUM. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE A SUNSHINE POLICY WITH 22 REGARDS TO MEETINGS THAT WE PASSED LAST YEAR. 23 IS THERE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS ON THIS TOPIC FROM 24 THE PUBLIC? 25 OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. AND WE WILL APRIL 29, 2010 95 1 START WITH TRUSTEES. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WOULD LIKE TO FIRST START BY 4 THANKING THE CHANCELLOR, ALSO THANKING MY COLLEAGUE 5 TRUSTEE NGO ON THIS EFFORT. 6 YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER BACK LAST APRIL. WE WERE 7 BACK AT THE JOHN ADAMS CAMPUS. IT WAS VERY COLD. IT WAS 8 VERY LATE. AND WE HAD THIS FIRST RESOLUTION JUST CALLING 9 FOR A REPORT. AND I REMEMBER THE KIND OF EXCITEMENT, AND 10 I REMEMBER THE KIND OF HOPE THAT WE ALL HAD IN TERMS OF 11 FINALLY ADDRESSING AND ACKNOWLEDGING AS AN INSTITUTION 12 THAT, YES, WE DO HAVE AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. YES, IT IS A 13 REAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP. IT IS NOT ONE THAT WE CREATE. IT 14 IS ONE THAT WE ARE RECEIVING FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS AS 15 SOCIETAL FACTORS. BUT WE DO HAVE ONE, AND WE DO THINK 16 THAT WE WANT TO FIRST RESEARCH THAT GAP. 17 I'M HAPPY THAT WE'VE NOW COME TO WITH THE SECOND 18 STEP. AND THIS IS NOT THE LAST STEP. THIS IS THE SECOND 19 STEP IN THIS PROCESS. NOW WE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WE 20 HAVE AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. AND NOW WE ARE TAKING STEPS TO 21 SERIOUSLY ADDRESS IT. 22 AND, YOU KNOW, THE CHANCELLOR CAN'T BE THANKED 23 ENOUGH FOR HIS LEADERSHIP ON THIS EFFORT IN TERMS OF 24 UNITING OUR INSTITUTION AROUND THIS. I'M PROUD THAT WE 25 FOUND A HAPPY SPACE TO TALK ABOUT THIS EFFORT. I THINK APRIL 29, 2010 96 1 THIS MAKES OUR -- I THINK EVEN THOUGH WE FOUGHT, FOLKS 2 HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS OF THIS ISSUE. I THINK WE ARE A 3 STRONGER INSTITUTION BECAUSE WE'VE ACTUALLY TALKED TO EACH 4 OTHER. WE'VE YELLED AT EACH OTHER. WE'VE SENT ANGRY 5 E-MAILS AT EACH OTHER. WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING UNDER THE 6 SUN TO EACH OTHER, BUT I THINK NOW THAT WE ARE AT THIS 7 SPACE WHERE WE CAN FINALLY SITDOWN AND GO OVER POLICY 8 AROUND THIS ISSUE IN A POSITIVE CONSTRUCTIVE WAY, WE ARE A 9 STRONGER CAMPUS. AND WE ARE BETTER CAMPUS BECAUSE OF 10 THAT. 11 AND SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO WAS 12 INVOLVED IN THIS EFFORT. YOU KNOW TO HOLD THE BOARD 13 ACCOUNTABLE AND TO HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUR 14 EFFORTS BECAUSE AS WE'VE ALL SAID THAT WE DO THIS ALL NOT 15 FOR OURSELVES, BECAUSE MOST OF US HAVE GRADUATED, BUT WE 16 DO THIS FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WE WANT TO SEE GRADUATE AND 17 WALK DOWN THE ISLE AND TRANSFER TO FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES OR 18 GO GET A JOB OR GET CERTIFIED. WE DO THIS FOR THE 19 STUDENTS. 20 THERE ARE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT I DO HAVE, 21 LIKE WHEN DOES THIS TASK FORCE START? IS A TASK FORCE 22 PUBLIC? WHAT ARE THE DATES AND DEADLINES OF THE POLICY 23 RECOMMENDATIONS? AND WHAT IS THE FINAL PROCESS FOR 24 IMPLEMENTATION OVERSIGHT? AND DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE 25 ENFORCEMENT? APRIL 29, 2010 97 1 AND MY LAST QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE INTEGRATION 2 WITH OUR CURRENT COLLEGES'S STATE EQUITY PLAN, WHICH WE 3 HAD IN 2005? HOW IS THAT EQUITY PLAN WHICH IS PASSED AND 4 RECERTED? HOW IS THAT INTEGRATED? BECAUSE THAT'S ALREADY 5 A CAMPUS WIDE EQUITY PLAN. HOW IS THAT INTEGRATED INTO 6 OUR CURRENT PLAN OR THE CURRENT POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS 7 THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FROM THIS TASK FORCE? 8 I DON'T EXPECT ALL THOSE QUESTIONS TO BE 9 ANSWERED RIGHT NOW. BUT THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT I WANT 10 TO PUT OUT THERE WHEN WE ARE MOVING FORWARD INTO THIS TASK 11 FORCE. I LOOK FORWARD TO PARTICIPATING. AND I LOOK 12 FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE ENTIRE INSTITUTION ON MOVING 13 THIS EFFORT FORWARD BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT NONE OF US 14 INDIVIDUALLY HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT TOGETHER WE COULD 15 REALLY TACKLE THIS ISSUE. 16 SO ONCE AGAIN I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES ON 17 THE BOARD FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP, ESPECIALLY TRUSTEE NGO AND 18 THE CHANCELLOR ON THIS ISSUE, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR, DO YOU HAVE 20 ANSWERS TO ANY OF THOSE? 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE HAVE TO HAVE A VERY 22 AGGRESSIVE TIMELINE. AND WE HAVE TO GET THE CHIEF PLAYERS 23 AT THE COLLEGE WHO ARE GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS. 24 MY REPORT CAN BE SEGMENTED TO SOME 25 ADMINISTRATIVE THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE VERY, VERY QUICKLY APRIL 29, 2010 98 1 WITH THE REPORTS TO THE BOARD. I'M JUST SAYING THAT THIS 2 EQUITY GAP SHOULD BE ON THE BOARD ON A MONTHLY BASIS FOR 3 SEVERAL MONTHS. AND THEN AFTER THAT IF WE ARE MAKING 4 SUFFICIENT PROGRESS, OF COURSE, LOOKING AT THE OVERSIGHT 5 AND JUDGING THIS, THEN IT SHOULD BE ON THE BOARD ON A 6 QUARTERLY BASIS FOR A REPORT ON EACH OF THE ELEMENTS THAT 7 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. 8 IN TERMS OF THE SEQUENCING, THE GREAT OPTIONS 9 AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, WE HAVE TO GET THE DEPARTMENTS 10 REALLY INVOLVED. THEY ARE ALREADY GETTING STARTED SO WE 11 COULD HAVE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE PLANNING FOR THE SPRING 12 TERM COMING TO THE BOARD BEFORE THE JUNE -- BY THE JUNE 13 BOARD MEETING AT LEAST. SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FIVE 14 WEEKS OR SO, REALLY AGGRESSIVE. GETTING TOGETHER, 15 PLANNING, LOOKING AT THIS AND COMING UP WITH A PLAN FOR 16 EACH ELEMENT, WHETHER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT STUDENT HIRING 17 OR WHETHER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SEQUENCING, ET CETERA. SO 18 THAT WILL COME BACK TO THE BOARD, AND WE WILL PUT IT INTO 19 ACTION SO THAT YOU CAN THEN LOOK AT IT AND SAY IN THE FALL 20 TERM, IS THIS WORKING? OR IS THIS IS NOT WORKING? AND 21 IT'S NOT WORKING, THE ACCOUNTABILITY IS RIGHT HERE. 22 I MEAN IT'S KIND OF SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS TALKED 23 ABOUT EARLIER IN TERMS OF THE MONITORING OF THESE 24 PROJECTS. WE HAVE TO HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF MONITORING. 25 IT'S RIGHT HERE GOING ON. AND IT'S JUST GOING TO BE THAT APRIL 29, 2010 99 1 INTENSE IN TERMS OF DOING IT. IT NEEDS THE PRIORITY FOR 2 THE BOARD. THE BOARD NEEDS TO SAY TO THE COLLEGE, THIS IS 3 OUR NO. 2 PRIORITY IN THE COLLEGE. THE ONLY ONE THAT'S 4 HIGHER IS TO BE FINANCIALLY SOLVENT. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 6 TRUSTEE NGO. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK THIS IS A FANTASTIC 8 DOCUMENT. I DO WANT TO COMMEND YOU, CHANCELLOR, FOR YOUR 9 LEADERSHIP, YOUR BOLD LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE THAT'S BEEN 10 PLANNED FOR SOME TIME. 11 I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF HAVING TO 12 WORK THIS THROUGH AND BRINGING IT TO BARE, NOT JUST FOR 13 THE BOARD TO SEE, BUT ALSO FOR THE STUDENTS TO REALLY SEE 14 THE IMPACT, THE FULL IMPACT. 15 I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, THE 16 MATH AND ENGLISH IN PARTICULAR FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP IN 17 ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE BOLDLY AND WITH THE AGGRESSIVENESS I 18 THINK SIGNALS THE VALUE OF THE COLLEGE IN DEALING WITH 19 THIS PROBLEM. AND IT TAKES LEADERSHIP TO DO THAT. AND I 20 WANT TO COMMEND THEM FOR THAT. 21 I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND THE FACULTY MEMBERS WHO 22 HAVE REALLY BEEN A VOICE FOR CHANGE. AND MAKING SURE THAT 23 WE LOOK AT A PROBLEM AND ACTUALLY TRY TO SOLVE IT. AND 24 HAVING THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE AND PERSIST THROUGH THAT 25 AND HAVE RESULT IN THIS DOCUMENT, AGAIN, SOMETHING VERY APRIL 29, 2010 100 1 BOLD AND STUDENT CENTERED. 2 AND BY THE WAY, ALSO BASED ON SOUND RESEARCH AND 3 DATA. AND I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO SAY. SO THAT 4 LEADERSHIP IS VERY IMPORTANT AND I WANT TO COMMEND YOU, 5 CHANCELLOR, FOR THAT. 6 THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK FOR, 7 OBVIOUSLY, FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, IT'S BEEN QUITE 8 CONTROVERSIAL THIS ISSUE. AND, YOU KNOW, THE MOTTO OF OUR 9 COLLEGE IS THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE. AND I THINK AT 10 TIMES I FELT LIKE THE MOTTO OF THE COLLEGE WAS (INAUDIBLE) 11 ACTUALLY WAS RULING IN SOME PARTS OF THIS DISCUSSION. 12 AND THAT QUESTION I THINK IS A VERY IMPORTANT 13 ONE TO ASK WHICH IS THE TRUTH HERE OF THIS DOCUMENT HAS 14 BEEN PLAYING FOR A WHILE. AND I'M ENCOURAGED THAT WE CAN 15 CONFRONT IT AND ACTUALLY DEAL WITH IT IN AN AGGRESSIVE 16 WAY. 17 AND I WANT TO THANK THE CHANCELLOR FOR THAT, AND 18 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH HIM ON THESE ISSUES 19 AND DO AS HE ASKS, WHICH IS HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE AND THE 20 COLLEGE ACCOUNTABLE. 21 THE STUDENTS, OF COURSE, THEIR VOICES AS WELL 22 SHOULD BE COMMENDED BECAUSE IT'S FROM THEM THAT WE LEARN 23 WHAT THE ISSUES ARE AND WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE. 24 AND THOSE PROBLEMS ACTUALLY ARE ALSO GROUNDED IN 25 RESEARCH AND WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT. THAT WHATEVER THEY APRIL 29, 2010 101 1 ARE EXPERIENCING IS ACTUALLY REAL, AND THAT THE DATA OUT 2 THERE SUPPORTS IT. WE KNOW WHAT THOSE FACTORS ARE. AND 3 THIS DOCUMENT AND THE PLAN OF ACTION AGGRESSIVELY 4 ADDRESSES IT. AND I'M VERY PLEASED WITH THAT. 5 AND SO I CONCUR WITH TRUSTEE JACKSON THAT THIS 6 IS PART OF THE WAY THERE. AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO 7 FULL IMPLEMENTATION AT A CERTAIN POINT. 8 BUT AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR 9 LEADERSHIP. AND, OF COURSE, THE TRUSTEES WHO HAVE BEEN 10 VERY FIRM IN MAKING SURE THIS GETS HEARD. 11 AND IN FACT, ONE OF THE TWO HIGHEST PRIORITIES 12 OF THE COLLEGE IS ACADEMIC IN THIS YEAR AND, HOPEFULLY, IS 13 SUCCESSFUL. 14 SO, CHANCELLOR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER TRUSTEES? 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO 18 SAY REALLY BRIEFLY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS REPORT 19 THAT CAME OUT FROM THE CHANCELLOR TODAY. I KNOW I SPOKE 20 WITH HIM BRIEFLY MAYBE LAST WEEK ABOUT THIS. AND I WAS 21 REALLY NERVOUS ABOUT THE CONTENT THAT WAS IN THIS REPORT. 22 AND I REALLY APPRECIATE NOW THAT WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF TIME 23 LINE, AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SEQUENCING, EVERYTHING 24 THAT A LOT OF FOLKS FELT AT FIRST WERE CONTROVERSIAL. AND 25 NOW WE ARE PUTTING IT ON THE TABLE. IT'S NOT JUST THE APRIL 29, 2010 102 1 ADMINISTRATORS OR THE FACULTY, IT EVEN WENT DISTRICT WIDE 2 TO THE STUDENTS AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 3 I DO WANT TO SAY I KNOW TOMORROW I AM GOING TO 4 BE FINDING OUT WHERE I GO TO SCHOOL. AND I ONLY HAVE ONE 5 BOARD MEETING LEFT THAT I HAVE TO DO. BUT I WILL SAY IF 6 THIS DOESN'T FOLLOW THROUGH AND IF THERE IS NO TYPE OF 7 IMPLEMENTATION ALONG THE ROAD, I WILL COME BACK. AND I 8 WILL SPEAK BEFORE YOU GUYS. AND I WILL MAKE SURE -- 9 BUT I DID WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TOO SOMEBODY 10 BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION ABOUT FOLLOWING UP. WE SHOULD 11 HAVE SOME CONTINUING EQUITY MEETINGS AT THE OCEAN CAMPUS 12 OR VARIOUS OTHER CAMPUSES. AND MAYBE WE COULD HAVE THAT 13 IMPLEMENTED BY THE TASK FORCE THAT WE HAVE NOW. I GUESS 14 SOMETHING IN PLACE ABOUT WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO WITH THIS 15 PLAN TO INCREASE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. I THINK THAT'S 16 SOMETHING WE SHOULD WORK ON. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER TRUSTEES 18 COMMENTS? 19 I WILL JUST BRIEFLY ADD THAT I LIKE THIS 20 DOCUMENT. IT IDENTIFIES ISSUES AND PROPOSES SOLUTIONS. 21 AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD WORKING DOCUMENT TO MOVE FORWARD 22 WITH, SO THIS IS A VERY POSITIVE SIGN. THANK YOU. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: COULD I MOVE S4 OUT OF ORDER. APRIL 29, 2010 103 1 THERE'S A GUEST HERE WHO IS ELDERLY, AND I WANTED TO MAKE 2 SURE SHE IS ABLE TO SPEAK BEFORE 3:00 O'CLOCK IN THE 3 MORNING. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK WE COULD DO THAT, 6 YES. 7 "THE CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES TO PEOPLE, 8 LIVING OR DECEASED, WHO WERE FORCED TO LEAVE HIS OR HER 9 POSTSECONDARY STUDIES AS A RESULT OF FEDERAL EXECUTIVE 10 ORDER 9066. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: SO THIS RESOLUTION, TRUSTEES, I AM 12 HAPPY AND HONORED TO HAVE FELLOW TRUSTEES THAT COSPONSORED 13 IT WITH ME. THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO AB-37, WHICH WAS 14 PASSED BY SENATOR FURUTANI AND HAS SIGNED INTO LAW WHICH 15 IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STUDENTS WHO WERE FORCED TO LEAVE 16 THEIR EDUCATION AT CITY COLLEGE, ACTUALLY ALL COMMUNITY 17 COLLEGES IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DURING WORLD WAR II 18 BECAUSE THEY WERE INTERNED UNJUSTLY. 19 WE ARE HONORING THEM AND GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO 20 EARN THESE DEGREES FOR THE WORK THAT THEY COULD HAVE 21 FINISHED OR WOULD HAVE FINISHED BUT FOR THAT GREAT 22 INJUSTICE THAT HAPPENED HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. AND I MOVE 23 IT WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND HUMBLY ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: I SECOND IT. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. APRIL 29, 2010 104 1 ANY DISCUSSION? 2 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS MOTION? 3 HAL HUNTSMAN. 4 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU. 5 I JUST WANTED TO SAY BRIEFLY THAT THE ACADEMIC 6 SENATE FULLY SUPPORTS THIS RESOLUTION, AND WE ARE VERY 7 HONORED TO BE AT THE COLLEGE. WE WILL BE CONFERRING THESE 8 DEGREES. AND SO I THANK THE TRUSTEES FOR BRINGING IT 9 FORWARD. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 11 OTHER SPEAKERS? 12 COULD YOU PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. 13 MR. CHIU: GOOD EVENING, CHANCELLOR, BOARD OF 14 TRUSTEES. MY NAME IS JEFFREY CHIU. I'M A PROJECT 15 COORDINATOR FOR THE CALIFORNIA NISEI COLLEGE DIPLOMA 16 PROJECT. OUR PROJECT IS MEANT TO PROVIDE CRITICAL 17 OUTREACH FOR THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF AB-37. 18 MY COLLEAGUE COURTNEY KAWAHARA IS ACTUALLY 19 PASSING OUT A PACKET THAT WE PREPARED THAT HAS MATERIALS 20 ON OUR PROJECT, AS WELL AS AN EXPLANATION OF THE BILL AND 21 HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS. 22 BUT BEFORE I ACTUALLY SPEAK, I WOULD LIKE TO 23 INTRODUCE KIM NAWAGUMA. SHE IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST NISEI 24 HONOREE TO RECEIVE AN HONORARY DEGREE AND A CITY COLLEGE 25 OF SAN FRANCISCO HONOREE AS WELL. APRIL 29, 2010 105 1 MS. NAWAGUMA: I WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL FOR 2 HONORING ME WITH A DEGREE LAST MAY 22ND. AND I'M VERY 3 HAPPY TO BE HERE TO THANK YOU ALL AGAIN. 4 IN SPRING OF 1942, I WAS A STUDENT HERE WHEN WE 5 WERE FORCED TO LEAVE AND SENT TO CAMPS. AND I WAS BROUGHT 6 UP DURING THE DEPRESSION YEARS BY MY WIDOWED MOTHER. AND 7 SHE WAS SENDING MY BROTHER THROUGH SCHOOL. AND ALTHOUGH 8 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN IN THE BACK OF MY MIND TO FINISH SCHOOL, 9 I WASN'T ABLE TO DO SO BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL AND FAMILY 10 CONDITIONS. 11 SO I WAS VERY HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THIS 12 HONORARY DEGREE. AND ALSO HAPPY THAT AB-37 PASSED IN 13 CONGRESS, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ENABLING OTHER STUDENTS 14 TO RECEIVE THEIR DEGREES AND SORT OF A CLOSURE I THINK FOR 15 THIS UNHAPPY TIME IN OUR LIFE. THANK YOU. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 17 MS. INU: HI, MY NAME IS INA INU. I'M RECENT A 18 COLLEGE GRAD AND A WORKER OF THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN 19 COMMUNITY. 20 I'M QUITE ACTUALLY FRUSTRATED WITH HOW CITY 21 COLLEGE HAS BEEN RESPONDING TO AB-37. THE FORMER 22 INCARCEREES HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR OVER 67 YEARS TO RECEIVE 23 SOME KIND OF RECOGNITION FOR THEIR COLLEGE EDUCATION. AND 24 FOR THE CAMPUS TO NOT TAKE ACTION, EVEN AFTER BEING 25 OFFERED SUPPORT BY THE COMMUNITY WHEN THE BILL HAS ALREADY APRIL 29, 2010 106 1 BEEN PASSED IS HONESTLY LIKE A TEASE FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS 2 AND THEIR COMMUNITY. 3 THE COMMUNITY'S HOPES WERE UP, BUT NOW WE ARE 4 EMBARRASSED THAT OUR LOCAL COLLEGE WON'T PARTICIPATE WHEN 5 OTHERS AROUND THE STATE HAVE BEGUN THE PROCESS ALREADY. 6 WE ARE THE GRANDSONS AND DAUGHTERS OF 7 INCARCEREES. PLEASE DON'T MAKE US FEEL LIKE IT WAS A 8 PRIVILEGE FOR US TO HAVE GRADUATE COLLEGE. PLEASE HELP US 9 HONOR THEIR SACRIFICES TOGETHER WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND 10 OTHER CAMPUSES IN CALIFORNIA. THANK YOU. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 MS. KAWAHARA: GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 13 THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TONIGHT AT YOUR 14 MEETING. MY NAME IS COURTNEY KAWAHARA, AND I AM ONE OF 15 THE PROJECT COORDINATORS FOR THE CALIFORNIA NISEI COLLEGE 16 DIPLOMA PROJECT. I'M A YONSEI OR FOURTH JAPANESE-AMERICAN 17 BORN AND RAISED IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. 18 ONE YEAR AGO I KNEW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT 19 JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMPS, OTHER THAN IT HAPPENED 20 AND MY FAMILY WAS SENT TO ROHWER, ARKANSAS. I GREW UP IN 21 A PREDOMINATELY CAUCASIAN AREA LEARNING VERY LITTLE ABOUT 22 JAPANESE-AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY, INCLUDING 23 INTERNMENT. EVEN IN SCHOOL, I DIDN'T LEARN ABOUT THE 24 TOPIC. I REMEMBER SEEING A QUARTER OF A PAGE IN A HIGH 25 SCHOOL TEXTBOOK, BUT WE SKIPPED RIGHT OVER IT. SO I WAS APRIL 29, 2010 107 1 NEVER ABLE TO REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS. 2 I ONLY WISH I KNEW EARLIER IN MY LIFE JUST HOW 3 SIGNIFICANT THE INTERNMENT EXPERIENCE WAS SO I COULD HAVE 4 SPOKEN TO MY OWN GRANDPARENTS ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES 5 BEFORE THEY PASSED AWAY. 6 NINE MONTHS AGO I WAS PRIVILEGED TO BECOME ONE 7 OF THE PROJECT COORDINATORS FOR THE CALIFORNIA NISEI 8 COLLEGE DIPLOMA PROJECT. SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO 9 LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT THE INTERNMENT EXPERIENCE AND TO HEAR 10 SO MANY INTERESTING STORIES FROM THE NISEI HONOREES ABOUT 11 WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH. 12 I HAVE SPOKEN WITH A NUMBER OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF 13 NISEI WHO SAY THEY NEVER EVEN NEW THEIR PARENTS OR 14 GRANDPARENTS WENT TO COLLEGE BEFORE THE WAR. THE NISEI 15 ARE CONSIDERED THE SILENT GENERATION AND MANY HAVE NEVER 16 TALKED ABOUT THAT PART OF THEIR LIFE. SO A LOT OF THE 17 STORIES ARE JUST NOW BEING TOLD. 18 I KNOW THERE ARE MANY MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE LIKE 19 ME WHO NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO LEARN ABOUT THE 20 JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT EXPERIENCE OR EVEN THEIR OWN 21 FAMILY'S HISTORIES. 22 CCSF HAS TO PASS THE RESOLUTION TO GRANT 23 HONORARY DEGREES. NOT ONLY TO HONOR THE NISEI, BUT TO 24 HELP EDUCATE THEIR FACULTY AND STAFF, THEIR STUDENTS, AND 25 THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT PART OF AMERICAN APRIL 29, 2010 108 1 HISTORY. THANK YOU. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 MR. CHIU: GOOD EVENING. AGAIN, I'M JEFFREY 4 CHIU. I AM ONE THE PROJECT COORDINATORS FOR THE 5 CALIFORNIA NISEI COLLEGE DIPLOMA PROJECT AND ALSO A 6 YONSEI, A FOURTH GENERATION JAPANESE AMERICAN. THANK YOU 7 FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TONIGHT. 8 67 YEARS, FOR 67 YEARS THE DREAMS OF THE NISEI 9 SECOND GENERATION JAPANESE AMERICANS HAVE BEEN DEFERRED. 10 FOR MANY NISEI, THEY WERE THE FIRST TO GO TO COLLEGE AND 11 REPRESENT THE HOPES AND DREAMS THAT THEIR ISSEI FIRST 12 GENERATION JAPANESE-AMERICAN PARENTS CARRIED FROM JAPAN. 13 THOSE DREAMS WERE DASHED BY A COUNTRY FUELED BY A RACIAL 14 HYSTERIA AND RESULTED IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST VIOLATIONS OF 15 CIVIL RIGHTS FOR AN ENTIRE ETHNIC COMMUNITY. 16 THE NISEI RELINQUISHED THEIR DREAMS IN THE HOPE 17 THAT THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN COULD FULFILL THE 18 DREAMS OF THE ISSEI. IN REALITY, THE DREAMS OF TWO 19 GENERATIONS WERE BROUGHT TO AN END. I NEVER REALIZED HOW 20 MUCH THEY HAD SACRIFICED UNTIL NOW. 21 RECENTLY WHILE WORKING ON THE CALIFORNIA NISEI 22 COLLEGE DIPLOMA PROJECT, I STARTED TO IDENTIFY HONOREES 23 THAT ARE MY FAMILY MEMBERS OR RELATED TO FAMILY FRIENDS. 24 THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED WHY THERE WAS SO MUCH EMPHASIS 25 PLACED ON MY EDUCATION. IT WAS THEIR WAY OF MAKING THEIR APRIL 29, 2010 109 1 DREAMS COME TRUE. AND THE DREAMS OF THE ISSEI HAVE BEEN 2 TAKEN UPON THE NISEI AND PLACED UPON US TO SEE THAT THEIR 3 ASPIRATIONS COME TO FRUITION. 4 TODAY I AM HERE TO SEE THAT THE DREAMS OF THE 5 ISSEI AND THE NISEI COME TRUE. AND AS THEY FOUND 6 SACRIFICE FOR ME, I AM GOING TO DO THE SAME. 7 I ASK THAT THE CCSF BOARD OF TRUSTEES PASS A 8 RESOLUTION TO HAVE CCSF HONOR ALL THEIR NISEI WHO WERE 9 FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR COLLEGE EDUCATION. THEY DESERVE THE 10 RIGHT AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WALK ACROSS THE STAGE 11 HOLDING A COLLEGE DEGREE. 12 YOU CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN. AND THOUGH THEY ARE 13 PASSING AWAY QUICKLY, IT IS NOT TOO LATE FOR YOU TO HONOR 14 THESE NISEI. 67 YEARS, AFTER 67 YEARS THE DREAMS OF THE 15 NISEI WILL NOT BE DEFERRED TO US. THEIR DREAMS WILL BE 16 THEIRS TO COME TRUE. IT IS NOT TOO LATE. THANK YOU. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 IS THERE ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 19 OKAY, PUBLIC COMMENT IS CLOSED. 20 DID WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THIS? 21 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, IT WAS MOTIONED AND 22 SECONDED. I DO WANT TO COMMENT. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: IT IS SAID THAT IF WE DON'T WRITE 25 OUR OWN HISTORY, THEN OTHERS WILL WRITE IT FOR US OR WRITE APRIL 29, 2010 110 1 US OUT OF HISTORY. AND I DO WANT TO THANK THE JACL AND 2 ALL THOSE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN 3 THIS. AND IT JUST BRINGS TO MIND ALSO WHAT FORMER TRUSTEE 4 RODEL RODIS HAD DONE FOR MANY YEARS ON THIS BOARD IN TERMS 5 OF BRINGING EQUITY TO THOSE FILIPINOS WHO FOUGHT DURING 6 WORLD WAR II WHO WERE PROMISED COMPENSATION. THE 7 GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY RENEGED AND DID NOT COMPENSATE THEM. 8 AND FINALLY, A LAW WAS PASSED TO COMPENSATE, OF COURSE, 9 THE FILIPINO SOLDIERS. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF THEM 10 HAD PASSED ON. 11 AND IN A WAY, THIS IS SIMILAR IN TERMS OF THE 12 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO SOMEHOW 13 WERE DENIED. AND IT'S VERY GRATIFYING TO SEE THE YOUNGER 14 MEMBERS OF A GENERATION WHO HAVE FOUND A VOICE FOR THE 15 OLDER GENERATION AND TO SPEAK UP BECAUSE YOU ARE AN 16 INSPIRATION. 17 AND WE NEED TO CONTINUE AS PEOPLE OF COLOR, AS 18 WOMEN, TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP BECAUSE THERE IS STILL SO 19 MUCH INEQUITY OUT THERE THAT WE NEED TO WRITE OUR HISTORY 20 THE WAY IT OCCURRED AND BE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT WRITTEN 21 OUT OF HISTORY AND TO RECOGNIZE ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DONE SO 22 MUCH TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WEALTH AND TO THE GREATNESS OF 23 THIS COUNTRY, SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER COMMENTS BY 25 BOARD MEMBERS? APRIL 29, 2010 111 1 IN THAT CASE, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD. 2 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE RESOLUTION. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 12 OKAY, THE RESOLUTION CARRIES. 13 THE NEXT ITEM ARE THE REPORTS FROM THE 14 CONSTITUENCY GROUPS. WE WILL FIRST HAVE THE CLASSIFIED 15 SENATE PRESIDENT ATTILA GABOR. 16 MR. GABOR: GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES. MY NAME IS 17 ATTILA GABOR. I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE CLASSIFIED 18 SENATE. 19 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO HEAR EARLIER TONIGHT 20 ABOUT THE PAST POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF OUR CHANCELLOR AT 21 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY. I AM PROUD TO TELL YOU AS 22 A NEXT GENERATION STUDENT LATE IN THE 80'S, I WAS PART OF 23 THE STUDENT GROUP THAT SUCCESSFULLY SUED SAN FRANCISCO 24 STATE UNIVERSITY WITH THE HELP OF THE ACLU FOR NOT 25 OBSERVING THE ACADEMIC FREEDOM. I CAN SEE THE STUDENTS APRIL 29, 2010 112 1 CURRENTLY STILL JUST AS ACTIVE IF NOT MORE THAN WE WERE SO 2 THAT'S NICE. 3 WE HAD A VERY TOUGH MONTH, THE CLASSIFIED. AND 4 NOT JUST US, BUT MOST OF THE DISTRICT BY LOSING A VERY 5 DEAR COLLEAGUE, FRIEND, A SISTER OF OURS, DEBBIE PORTER. 6 NOT LONG AGO WE HAD A MEMORY FOR HER. 7 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE TRUSTEES TO ADJOURN 8 TONIGHT IN HER MEMORY. SHE WAS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL 9 EMPLOYEE. AND DEFINITELY HAD OUR DISTRICT IN MANY WAYS 10 PROBABLY THAT IN OUR VERY CONTROVERSIAL DISTRICT THE ONLY 11 PERSON THAT NO ONE EVER, EVER COULD SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE 12 ABOUT HER. 13 AND I'M GOING TO KEEP -- THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL 14 THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. 15 I AM GOING TO YIELD THE FLOOR TO MY COLLEAGUE 16 ANGELA THOMAS FROM THE SEIU. AND SHE CAN SPEAK A FEW MORE 17 WORDS. THANK YOU. 18 MS. THOMAS: I WILL BE QUICK BECAUSE I 19 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE CONDUCTING A STUDY ON HOW NOT TO 20 SPEND THE NIGHT HERE TONIGHT. I WILL HAPPILY PARTICIPATE. 21 AS YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD ME SAY IN THE PAST, SEIU 22 HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY, CONSTANTLY, CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THE 23 BUDGET. AND NOT TO TAKE UP A LOT OF TIME, I LEAVE ALL OF 24 YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO ME AND OUR MEMBERS ABOUT 25 THIS MORE OFFLINE IN DETAILS, SO YOU CAN GET THE DETAILS. APRIL 29, 2010 113 1 BUT I AM JUST GOING TO TELL YOU AN INCIDENT THAT 2 CAME UP THIS PAST WEEK. AS WE WERE GOING OVER THE BUDGET 3 NUMBERS BECAUSE FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER WE ARE LOOKING 4 AT THE BUDGET AT LEAST ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK IN SOME 5 CAPACITY. AND WE FOUND THAT THERE IS A REQUIREMENT WHO 6 HAS A LOT OF SUBSTITUTE WORKERS. THE ISSUE WITH THAT IS 7 AFTER A SUBSTITUTE WORKERS WORKS 1,040 HOURS, YOU GUYS ARE 8 ON THE HOOK FOR PAYING THEIR BENEFITS -- I MEAN THEIR 9 RETIREMENT. 10 WE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT IF YOU GUYS ARE ALSO 11 ON THE HOOK FOR PAYING THEIR MEDICAL. NOW THIS IS A 12 SUBSTITUTE WORKER. THIS IS NOT A PERMANENT, PART-TIME, 13 FULL TIME. THIS IS BLEEDING UNNECESSARY BLEEDING OF THE 14 CLASSIFIED BUDGET. AND IT IS OF GREAT CONCERN TO US 15 BECAUSE AS YOU ALL KNOW, NUMBERS CAN CHANGE FROM ONE WEEK 16 TO THE NEXT TO NO FAULT OF ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE 17 ARE ON THE RECEIVING END FROM THE STATE. 18 BUT THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO 19 BE. AND IT MAKES US ANGRY, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HEAR ABOUT 20 THE NUMBERS AROUND CLASSIFIED STAFF AND THE MONEY BECAUSE 21 WE HAVE -- I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO OUR NUMBERS, BUT WE 22 HAVE CUT AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF OVERTIME. WE HAVE THE 23 ATTRITION. WE HAVE 31 LESS PEOPLE. WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF 24 THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE NEED AROUND HERE. SOME OF YOUR 25 NEEDS AREN'T GETTING MET BECAUSE CLASSIFIED AREN'T HERE TO APRIL 29, 2010 114 1 MEET THEM, BUT THAT'S ANOTHER SUBJECT FOR ANOTHER DAY. 2 BUT THIS ISSUE, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S 3 IMPORTANT AND I'M BRINGING IT TO YOU BECAUSE IF SOME OF 4 THESE CHAIRS COME TO YOU WITH THEIR PROJECTS, THAT'S NOT 5 GOOD BECAUSE THEY WILL SIT THERE WITH US AND TELL US TO 6 OUR FACE, WELL, I WILL JUST TALK TO SO AND SO. YOU ARE 7 CREATING A BILL THAT IS UNNECESSARY. 8 AND THAT'S WHY I AM BRINGING IT HERE BECAUSE I 9 AM GOING TO FIGHT FROM MY SIDE AND SAY THAT THAT IS 10 INAPPROPRIATE. WE CAN'T HAVE THESE FLUCTUATIONS IN THE 11 NUMBERS. AND I WILL BE BEFORE YOU EVEN MORE AS THESE 12 TYPES OF THINGS ARE EXPOSED TO US BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I 13 SAW THE NUMBERS FOR BENEFITS ACROSS THE COLLEGE, IT WAS 14 LIKE $45 MILLION. 15 TO EMPLOY CLASSIFIED IS 39 MILLION, BUT BENEFITS 16 ACROSS THE COLLEGE IS RUNNING $45 MILLION. IT'S A CONCERN 17 TO US WHEN SOMEONE WHO IS NOT A REAL -- I DON'T WANT TO 18 SAY A REAL EMPLOYEE, BUT THEY ARE NOT A PERMANENT FIXTURE 19 HERE IS GETTING LIFETIME MEDICAL. 20 SO I WOULD LIKE TO ADHERE FOR YOU TO GO HOME 21 EARLY, SO I AM GOING TO SIT DOWN. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU FOR BRINGING 23 THAT TO OUR ATTENTION. WE REALLY CAN'T DISCUSSES IT HERE 24 AS BOARD MEMBERS, BUT I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD 25 BE TALKING ABOUT AS A COST SAVINGS. AND I REALLY APRIL 29, 2010 115 1 APPRECIATE YOUR MENTIONING THAT. THANKS. 2 I THINK WE HAVE HAL HUNTSMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE 3 ACADEMIC SENATE. 4 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU, TRUSTEES AND 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 6 FIRST I JUST WANT TO ADD MY HEARTFELT 7 CONDOLENCES TO THE COLLEGE. IT'S A REAL LOSS. DEBBIE 8 PORTER WAS A REAL CONTRIBUTOR TO THE COLLEGE. I ALSO WANT 9 TO ADD MY HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES AS WE CLOSE THE MEETING IN 10 HER HONOR. 11 I DON'T NEED TO ADD A LOT MORE IN TERMS OF THE 12 THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON IN THE COLLEGE FROM THE 13 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE. BUT I THINK THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, THE 14 BUDGET, THOSE TWO PRIORITIES THAT THE CHANCELLOR 15 IDENTIFIED HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN FOREMOST IN THE FACULTY 16 MINDS OVER THE LAST FOUR MONTHS -- 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: AND MY MIND. 18 MR. HUNTSMAN: AND THE CHANCELLOR'S MIND, YES. 19 YOU KNOW, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A STRATEGIC 20 PLANNING PROCESS. AND I THINK THESE PRIORITIES ARE GOING 21 TO BE HIGH IN THAT PROCESS, AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE 22 THAT. 23 AND I JUST WANT TO STRESS SOMETHING THAT I TRIED 24 TO TALK ABOUT LAST TIME WHEN I WAS HERE WITH YOU LAST 25 MONTH. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO WORK APRIL 29, 2010 116 1 WITH EACH OTHER. AND THAT'S BEEN STRESSED HERE TONIGHT. 2 AND I THINK WE ARE BEGINNING TO SEE SOME REAL PROGRESS ON 3 ISSUES THAT ARE DIFFICULT, AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE ARE GOING 4 TO WORK TOGETHER ON THEM. 5 I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT IN THE NEXT YEARS AND 6 MONTHS AND WEEKS, BUT THAT IS REALLY THE KEY. AND I AM 7 JUST GOING TO STOP THERE. 8 AND I DON'T KNOW -- IS THERE IS A COLLEAGUE OF 9 MINE FROM AFT WHO WANTS TO -- 10 MR. MURRAY: YES. 11 MR. HUNTSMAN: OKAY, VERY GOOD. 12 OKAY, ED. 13 MR. MURRAY: ED MURRAY, VICE PRESIDENT OF AFT 14 2121. I ALSO WANTED TO EXPRESS SYMPATHY ON BEHALF OF AFT 15 2121 TO THE FAMILY OF DEBBIE PORTER AND ALSO ESPECIALLY, 16 THE SEIU 1021 CHAPTER AT CITY COLLEGE. THEY LOST A 17 TREMENDOUS ASSET TO THEIR UNION, AND WE FEEL FOR HER, AND 18 WE ALSO FEEL FOR THE SEIU FAMILY. 19 I DID WANT TO COMMENT ON WHAT CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN 20 SAID AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. AND THAT IS, 21 WE ARE IN THE WORST-BUDGET CRISIS THAT THIS COLLEGE HAS 22 EVER SEEN. AND I THINK IT'S TIME THAT PEOPLE REALLY 23 STARTED ACTING LIKE IT. 24 THERE'S BEEN A BIT OF INATTENTION TO THIS. 25 PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT UP IN OTHER THINGS. NOT THAT APRIL 29, 2010 117 1 THEY ARE BAD THINGS TO DO, BUT WE REALLY NEED TO PUT OUR 2 EYE ON THE BALL AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ADDRESS THIS. 3 WE HEARD TONIGHT THAT THE PROGNOSIS FROM THE 4 STATE IS THAT WE CAN'T GO THERE TO GET ADDITIONAL HELP. 5 AND IF WE DON'T GET HELP FROM SOMEONE ELSE, WE ARE GOING 6 TO BE OPERATING WITH 20 PERCENT LESS OF THE BUDGET IN THE 7 TWO YEARS THAT WE HAD JUST TWO YEARS AGO. THAT IS A CUT 8 THAT WE CANNOT AFFORD. WE CAN'T DO IT. WE CANNOT DO OUR 9 JOB IF WE CAN'T GET THE FUNDING SOMEWHERE. 10 THE BOARD HAS A SPECIAL ROLE HERE. YOU ARE CAN 11 DO SOME POSITIVE THINGS, AND I WANT YOU TO DO THAT. AND I 12 EXPECT YOU TO DO THAT. 13 YOUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS REALLY TO 14 EXPLORE A PARCEL TAX IN A SERIOUS WAY. AND NOT TO LET 15 POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS OR OTHER THINGS GET IN THE WAY. 16 YOU ARE THE BOARD THAT IS EITHER RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING IT 17 WORK AT CITY COLLEGE OR YOU'RE THE BOARD THAT'S GOING TO 18 SAY ON OUR WATCH, WE WATCHED CITY COLLEGE GO DOWN THE 19 TUBES. THAT IS HOW IMPORTANT THIS ISSUE IS TO US. WE 20 NEED THE PARCEL TAX. 21 AS YOU KNOW, AFT 2121 HAS ALWAYS SUPPORTED BOND 22 MONEY AND DIFFERENT POLITICAL THINGS. WE'VE WORKED AS 23 HARD AS WE CAN AT SACRAMENTO. AND WE ARE GOING TO 24 CONTINUE. WE ARE NOT GIVING UP THE FIGHT TO CHANGE THINGS 25 IN SACRAMENTO, BUT YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THINGS APRIL 29, 2010 118 1 LOCALLY WHICH WAS SORT OF THE FOCAL POINT FOR SOME OF THE 2 BOARD MEMBERS WHEN THEY CAME ON HERE, SO I HOPE YOU 3 REMEMBER THAT. WE NEED THE LOCAL MONEY BECAUSE THAT'S 4 WHERE WE CAN GET IT. 5 THE SECOND THING IS YOU NEED TO GO TO THE 6 FOUNDATION. AND YOU NEED TO TELL THEM WE ARE IN A 7 TERRIBLE CRISIS AND WE NEED THE MONEY. 8 I'M HEARING THAT IT'S POSSIBLE THAT WE WILL GET 9 SOME RELIEF FROM THEM, AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT WE WON'T. 10 IT'S UP TO THE BOARD TO DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO CONVINCE 11 THE FOUNDATION THAT THEY HAVE TO COME THROUGH NOW. 12 OTHERWISE, WE CANNOT DO THE JOB THAT WE ARE HERE TO DO 13 WHICH IS TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS. 14 YOU ALSO NEED TO GO OUT AND DO A JOB AS FAR AS 15 GETTING DONATIONS. AND YOU NEED TO GET GIFTS FROM THE 16 COMMUNITY FOR OUR COLLEGE. THAT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO 17 POSITIVELY. AND I HOPE YOU WILL DO IT. AND I EXPECT THAT 18 YOU WILL DO IT. BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, WE ARE SUNK HERE. 19 WE NEED YOU TO GET OUT THERE AND DO YOUR POLITICAL WORK. 20 THIS IS YOUR AREA OF EXPERTISE. YOU ARE THE POLITICIANS. 21 I THINK IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU UNDERSTAND 22 THIS MESSAGE AND IT DOESN'T GET LOST IN A LOT OF OTHER 23 STUFF THAT'S BEEN GOING ON HERE THIS YEAR. WE NEED TO 24 TAKE A SERIOUS LOOK. 25 I WAS SHOCKED. WE HAD THE FIGURES THAT CAME IN APRIL 29, 2010 119 1 IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS ABOUT THE BUDGET, AND IT IS VERY, 2 VERY GRAVE. AND THERE'S SOME PEOPLE AT THE COLLEGE IN OUR 3 COMMUNITY WHO JUST ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION, AND IT'S TIME 4 TO PAY ATTENTION. THANK YOU. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: ED, COME BACK FOR -- 6 I KNOW THAT WITHIN THE CITY THAT -- WE WERE 7 TALKING ABOUT THIS AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE -- THAT THERE'S 8 COALITION THAT'S WORKING TOWARDS PUTTING REVENUE MEASURES 9 THIS NOVEMBER. THEY ARE WORKING ON PUTTING UP A REVENUE 10 MEASURE. AND I KNOW THAT WHEN WE LEFT, WE ASKED -- WE 11 GAVE AFT SOME HOMEWORK IN TERMS OF ASKING, YOU KNOW, 12 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHAT'S THAT LOOK 13 LIKE, AND WHETHER THERE ARE POSSIBILITIES OF US ATTACHING 14 OURSELF TO THAT REVENUE COALITION AS TRYING TO PUT REVENUE 15 MEASURES ON THE BALLOT. 16 DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON WHAT'S GOING ON 17 WITH THOSE FOLKS? 18 MR. MURRAY: WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A RESOLUTION 19 BEFORE THE BOARD TONIGHT TO COMMISSION A POLL -- 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH. 21 MR. MURRAY: -- TO SEE WHETHER A PARCEL TAX IS A 22 GOOD THING TO DO HERE. WE NEED TO GET THAT INFORMATION. 23 AS FAR AS AFT IS CONCERNED, IF THERE'S A GOOD 24 CHANCE FOR IT TO PASS, THEN WE WILL WORK WITH ANYBODY. 25 AND WE ARE HOPING THAT THE BOARD HAS ALREADY BEEN WORKING APRIL 29, 2010 120 1 WITH PEOPLE, BUT WE WILL DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO HELP YOU. 2 WE ARE ENCOURAGING YOU TO COMMUNICATE WITH, FOR 3 EXAMPLE, PEOPLE IN THE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PEOPLE 4 IN THE CITY TO GET IT DONE. WE ARE ALL FOR IT. WE JUST 5 WANT YOU TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: OKAY. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 IS RYAN VANDERPOL HERE FROM THE ASSOCIATED 9 STUDENTS? 10 MS. CAREW: NO. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 12 MR. SCOTT: THERE'S A POINT IN RESPONSE TO 13 CHRIS' QUESTION. CONNIE FORD OF THE LABOR COUNCIL -- 14 TRUSTEE WONG: WE CAN'T HEAR YOU. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WILL HAVE TO COME UP. 16 MR. SCOTT: THIS IS JUST TO ADD SOMETHING. WE 17 GOT A REPORT THE OTHER NIGHT. CONNIE FORD FROM THE LABOR 18 COUNCIL IS ONE OF THE KEY PEOPLE WORKING ON GETTING SOME 19 OF THESE ISSUES GOING FORWARD. SO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS 20 ABOUT THE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, YOU SHOULD DIRECT THEM TO 21 CONNIE FORD. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND CAN YOU STATE YOUR 23 NAME FOR THE RECORD. 24 MR. SCOTT: RODGER SCOTT. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. APRIL 29, 2010 121 1 OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE OTHERS -- 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: THERE'S A STUDENT HERE 3 FOR RYAN VANDERPOL. 4 MS. CAREW: I AM FILLING IN. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: GREAT. THANK YOU. 6 MS. CAREW: MY NAME IS LENA CAREW. I AM THE 7 STUDENT CHAIR GOVERNANCE COORDINATOR FOR OCEAN CAMPUS. 8 I HAVE ACTUALLY THREE THINGS THIS EVENING AND 9 THEN I HAVE TWO ASSOCIATED STUDENT PRESIDENTS FROM OTHER 10 CAMPUSES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO YIELD TO CONTRIBUTE. 11 SO FIRST, I WILL START OFF WITH THE GOOD NEWS. 12 THE OCEAN CAMPUS IS GOING TO BE HAVING UNITY DAY ON 13 MARCH 12TH (SIC), WHICH WILL BE A REALLY FUN COLLECTION OF 14 CLUBS AND FOOD AND MUSIC. 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: MAY. 16 MS. CAREW: MAY 12TH. AND I THINK IT WILL HAVE 17 US END THE SEMESTER REALLY, REALLY STRONG. SO I THINK WE 18 ARE ALL VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 19 THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS, I FEEL IT'S BEEN 20 MENTIONED EARLIER THIS EVENING ABOUT THE STUDENT 21 ELECTIONS. WE JUST HAD THEM. WE ARE WAITING TO FIND OUT 22 THE RESULTS. AND THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ISSUES SURROUNDING 23 THAT, WHICH IS TO BE EXPECTED WHEN THIS IS THE FIRST TIME 24 WE'VE GONE ONLINE FOR OUR ELECTIONS. 25 SO I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THAT, BUT I AM GOING APRIL 29, 2010 122 1 TO YIELD TO OTHER STUDENT PRESIDENTS SO THAT YOU CAN GET A 2 LITTLE MORE OF A WELL-ROUNDED VIEW OF WHAT'S GOING ON, NOT 3 JUST AT OCEAN CAMPUS, BUT AT OTHER CAMPUSES AS WELL. 4 AND THEN THIRD, I WANTED TO MAKE A SUGGESTION 5 AND MAYBE OPEN UP A DIALOGUE ABOUT HAVING STUDENTS A 6 LITTLE BIT MORE INVOLVED OR HAVE STUDENTS INVOLVED IN 7 MAYBE THE HIRING PROCESS FOR INTERN DEANS AND TEAMS. 8 I THINK IT IS REALLY AWESOME THAT WE HAVE SEATS 9 IN THE HIRING PROCESS FOR THE ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENT 10 ACTIVITIES. WE ARE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, BUT THERE 11 ARE SOME OTHER POSITIONS AVAILABLE. ME AND OTHER STUDENT 12 LEADERS WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO HAVE 13 MORE INVOLVEMENT IN OTHER HIRINGS AS WELL. 14 SO, I AM GOING TO YIELD THE FLOOR TO VICKI 15 GERMAN WHO IS THE ITERUM ASSOCIATE STUDENT PRESIDENT OF 16 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. 17 MS. GERMAN: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS VICKI 18 GERMAN, AND I AM PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHEAST STUDENT 19 COUNCIL. I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU THE GOOD NEWS FIRST. 20 SO I HAD AN IDEA OF HAVING A CAMPUS-WIDE PICNIC 21 ON SATURDAY MAY 15TH. IT'S STILL PENDING APPROVAL FROM 22 THE HEAD OF THE P.E. DEPARTMENT AND THE GROUNDS PEOPLE, 23 OKAY? 24 THIS IS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE STUDENTS AND 25 STAFF AND FACULTY OF CITY COLLEGE. WE ARE INVITING APRIL 29, 2010 123 1 EVERYBODY FROM THE CAMPUS, THEIR FAMILIES, KIDS, 2 BOYFRIENDS, GIRLFRIENDS, EVERYBODY. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHERE? WHAT'S THE 4 LOCATION? 5 MS. GERMAN: HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER PENDING 6 APPROVAL. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. GREAT. 8 MS. GERMAN: SO I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE 9 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS A LITTLE BIT. SO SOUTHEAST CAMPUS HAS 10 VERY UNIQUE NEEDS. WE NEED A LOT OF SERVICES THERE THAT 11 WE DON'T HAVE. WE NEED TO EXPAND DAYS AND TIMES OF 12 FINANCIAL AID AND COUNSELING. I WOULD LIKE TO BRING IN 13 THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, THE PEP PROGRAM, WHICH IS THE 14 PARENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM. 15 THE PARENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM IS A FREE CHILDCARE. 16 THE STUDENTS NEED 60 UNITS TO ENTER THE PROGRAM. AND 17 WHILE THEY ARE IN CLASS, THEY CAN BRING THEIR CHILDREN IN 18 FOR FREE CHILDCARE. AND IN EXCHANGE, THEY HAVE TO 19 VOLUNTEER TWO HOURS FOR IT, OKAY? 20 THE NEXT ONE WE NEED MORE CLASSES, MORE 21 TRANSFERABLE CLASSES AT SOUTHEAST. 22 AS FAR AS THE ELECTIONS GO, FOR EXAMPLE AT 23 SOUTHEAST, WE DID NOT HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN ONLINE AND 24 PAPER BALLOTS FOR STUDENT TRUSTEES, OKAY? 25 THERE WAS A BIG PROBLEM WITH THAT. SO EVERYBODY APRIL 29, 2010 124 1 THAT WAS INVOLVED. 2 THAT'S ABOUT IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 4 OKAY, WE ARE READY FOR OUR RESOLUTIONS. 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THERE'S ONE MORE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, WE'VE GOT ONE MORE. 7 OH, I'M SORRY. 8 MS. WYNN: I'M SORRY. GOOD EVENING, AGAIN. 9 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS AMISS WITH THIS 10 AGENDA IS THAT ALL CAMPUSES ARE ALLOWED TO SPEAK AT THIS 11 TIME AND NOT JUST OCEAN CAMPUS. I AM THE A.S. PRESIDENT 12 FOR THE EVANS CAMPUS. 13 AS VICKI HAD MENTIONED, AT THE SOUTHEAST SECTOR 14 WE NEED VARIOUS STUDENT SERVICES. WE DO HAVE A FINANCIAL 15 AID REPRESENTATIVE. BUT FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS, YOU HAVE TO 16 GO TO THE MAIN CAMPUS AS FAR AS CLASSES ARE CONCERNED AT 17 SOUTHEAST. 18 ONE OF THE STUDENTS THERE THAT TAKE CLASSES 19 IN -- FOR OUR FACILITY, IT'S HUGE. BUT TO ACTUALLY HAVE 20 CLASSES THAT CAN COMMENT TO THE COMMUNITY OUT THERE THAT'S 21 GOING TO HELP TRANSFER YOU TO A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE OR TO 22 HELP YOU EVEN GET YOUR DEGREE IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY 23 IMPORTANT. 24 WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR ACHIEVEMENT GAP, ONE OF THE 25 THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THAT IS THERE'S NOTHING APRIL 29, 2010 125 1 AGAINST THE FACULTY, ESPECIALLY IN THE MATH AND ENGLISH 2 DEPARTMENT. IT'S SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE COUNSELORS. 3 IT'S SOMETHING TO SAY TO MY COMMUNITY. AND MY COMMUNITY 4 IS A HUGE FACTOR. 5 IT'S HARD FOR ANYBODY WHO CANNOT READ TO 6 ACTUALLY COME BACK TO SCHOOL AFTER SO MANY YEARS. TO SAY 7 THAT THEY NEED HELP -- IT'S HORRIBLE TO COME IN AND THEN 8 YOU SEE EVERYBODY ELSE AND THEY ARE DOING AT A MEDIOCRE 9 EXCEPTION, BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT EVERYBODY AS A WHOLE. 10 IT'S HARD WHEN YOU ARE 37 YEARS OLD, AND YOU CAN'T READ, 11 AND YOU COME BACK, AND YOU ARE JUST FRUSTRATED. AND SO WE 12 NEED TO LOOK AT THINGS THAT'S GOING TO HELP EVERYBODY AS A 13 WHOLE. 14 WE NEED COUNSELORS. THAT'S GOING TO TAKE THE 15 TIME TO SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOUR NAME IS INGRID WYNN, 16 AND I WON'T SEE YOU AS A STUDENT OR A NUMBER. I SEE YOU 17 AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS UNIQUE LIKE THE MANY OF THOUSANDS 18 OF STUDENTS WE HAVE ALL OVER. 19 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HELPED ME, DR. CLARK. HE 20 IS ONE OF THE COUNSELORS THAT YOU GUYS ACTUALLY HAVE AT 21 THE OCEAN CAMPUS AND HE IS AN EXCEPTIONAL MAN BECAUSE HE 22 TOOK TIME. HE MADE ME A FOLDER. AND WHEN I SEE HIM, IT'S 23 LIKE A MUD BATH. BUT HE IS ABLE TO SAY, HEY, HOW'S YOUR 24 KIDS DOING? HOW IS EVERYTHING GOING WITH THEM IN HIGH 25 SCHOOL? HE ADDRESSES ME AS AN INDIVIDUAL. APRIL 29, 2010 126 1 WHEN I FIRST CAME IN, HE LOOKED AT MY 2 TRANSCRIPTS. AFTER THE MANY COUNSELORS I ACTUALLY SPOKE 3 TO WHO SAID, THOSE CLASSES ARE NOT TRANSFERABLE. YOU HAVE 4 TO START ALL OVER. THAT WAS A PROBLEM. IT WASN'T ABOUT 5 THE PLACEMENT TESTS. IT WAS ABOUT TAKING TIME OUT TO 6 IDENTIFY SOMEONE AND NOT JUST OKAY, HERE'S ANOTHER 7 STUDENT. WE'VE GOT 30 MINUTES. LET'S KEEP IT MOVING. 8 WE NEED PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY REALLY APPRECIATE 9 THEIR JOBS TO TAKE TIME AND GO IN AND LOOK AT SOMEBODY AND 10 SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED OR THIS IS THE CLASS THAT 11 YOU CAN TAKE. AND NOT TAKE 10,000 CLASSES THAT DON'T EVEN 12 MATTER. THAT'S SOME OF THINGS WE NEED. 13 AT EVANS CAMPUS AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, JOBS, AT 14 THE END OF SOME OF THESE CLASSES, THESE TRADE CLASSES, IF 15 WE CAN HAVE SOMEBODY THERE TO SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, NOW 16 THAT YOU GRADUATED AND GOT YOUR CERTIFICATE, WE HAVE 17 SOMETHING LINED UP. 18 IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE HAVE MANY DOING 19 CONSTRUCTION. WE HAVE LENNAR DOING CONSTRUCTION. WE HAVE 20 LOWE'S. WE ALSO HAVE ALL THESE STUDENTS THAT ARE TAKING 21 THE COURSES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THESE JOBS. SO HOW COME 22 WE CAN'T HAVE SOMEBODY COME OUT AND SAY, HEY, LET ME GIVE 23 YOU A HAND AND AN OPPORTUNITY. LET ME HELP YOU TAKE CARE 24 OF YOUR FAMILY. WE NEED THAT. WE NEED SERVICES TO SAY, 25 OKAY, HEY, YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO GO TO OCEAN. WE ARE APRIL 29, 2010 127 1 RIGHT HERE. WE NEED SOMETHING HALFWAY. 2 THEY ARE TAKING THE TIME TO COME OUT AND DO WHAT 3 THEY HAVE TO DO TO BETTER THEMSELVES TO BETTER THEIR 4 FAMILIES. WE NEED THAT SAME TURN AND RESPECT TO SAY, HEY, 5 WE ARE HERE. WE ARE GOING TO MEET YOU HALFWAY. WE ARE 6 GOING TO BRING YOU JOB OPPORTUNITIES. WE ARE GOING TO 7 SERVICE YOUR NEEDS. 8 SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT FINANCIAL AID. IT'S NOT 9 JUST ABOUT JOBS. IT'S ABOUT BEING A HUMAN AND REMEMBERING 10 THE REASON WHY WE ALL HAVE JOBS BECAUSE WE HAVE STUDENTS. 11 AND WE NEED TO SERVICE THEIR NEEDS. THANK YOU. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 OKAY, RESOLUTION B1. IT'S "RESOLUTION 14 AUTHORIZING AND IMPROVING THE BORROWING OF FUNDS FOR 15 FISCAL YEAR 2010-2011; THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF 2010-2011 16 TAX AND REVENUE ANTICIPATION NOTE THEREFOR AND 17 PARTICIPATION IN THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE 18 FINANCING AUTHORITY TAX AND REVENUE ANTICIPATORY NOTES 19 PROGRAM." 20 BASICALLY, THIS IS THE BORROWING OF $40 MILLION. 21 AND IF YOU COULD TELL US WHY WE'VE ALREADY -- 22 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SURE. IT'S ABSOLUTELY 23 CRITICAL. JUST TO CUT RIGHT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER SO 24 THAT WE COULD MEET OUR PAYROLL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 25 YEAR. THIS COVERS CASH FLOW NEEDS. IT'S A SHORT-TERM APRIL 29, 2010 128 1 LOAN THAT WE REPAY IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD. WE ARE ONE OF 2 MANY, MANY COLLEGE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE THAT DOES THIS 3 NOW THROUGH THE POOL SPONSORED BY THE LEAGUE. 4 IT'S VERY MUCH RELATED -- IT WAS ORIGINALLY 5 RELATED TO THE FACT THAT PROPERTY TAX COMES IN TWICE A 6 YEAR INSTEAD OF SMOOTHLY THROUGH THE YEAR. BUT NOW WE 7 BORROW MUCH MORE THAN WE USED TO BECAUSE THE STATE OF 8 CALIFORNIA HAS TURNED SCHOOL AND COLLEGE DISTRICTS INTO 9 ITS BANKER AND DOESN'T PAY US ON TIME. THEY PAY US LATER 10 AND LATER. SO WHILE THEY PAY US, WE NEED TO BORROW THE 11 CASH SO THAT WE CAN COVER OUR EXPENSES UNTIL THE STATE 12 PAYS US BACK. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU SAY "THIS IS A 14 SHORT-TERM LOAN" -- 15 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- HOW LONG IS IT? 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: USUALLY IT'S PAID WITHIN EITHER 18 12 OR 13 MONTHS OF THE DATE THAT THE MONEY IS BORROWED. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 20 WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MOVE B1. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE B1. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 24 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 129 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 9 B1 PASSES. 10 B1(A), WHICH IS "AUTHORIZATION TO CONTRACT WITH 11 GODBE RESEARCH FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $33,110 TO 12 CONDUCT A PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL 13 SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION OF A POTENTIAL PARCEL TAX, THE 14 PUBLIC'S AWARENESS OF THE DISTRICT'S FINANCIAL NEEDS, AND 15 THE OVERALL FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A PARCEL TAX THAT 16 CAN WIN VOTER APPROVAL." 17 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SOME OF US HAVE BROUGHT 18 TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. IT IS A POSSIBLE WAY TO RAISE 19 FUNDS. 20 I HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ASSESSOR PHIL 21 TING ABOUT IT. AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK INTO TO SEE 22 IF WE COULD LOOK INTO IS A PROGRESSIVE PARCEL TAX TO LOOK 23 AT A PROGRESSIVE PARCEL TAX SO THAT, YOU KNOW, A HOME 24 OWNER DOESN'T PAY THE SAME FLAT AMOUNT AS, YOU KNOW, A 25 CORPORATE OWNER OF A BILLION DOLLAR HIGH-RISE DOWNTOWN. APRIL 29, 2010 130 1 AND SO I DID FORWARD A SPREADSHEET WITH NUMBERS 2 THAT WOULD -- AND THIS IS JUST A ROUGH PROPOSAL, NOT 3 SOMETHING THAT I PUT FORWARD TODAY OR ANYTHING, BUT IT 4 WOULD GENERATE $10 MILLION A YEAR. THE HOMEOWNERS WOULD 5 BE ABOUT $20. AND I THINK THE C3 DOWNTOWN WOULD BE 6 SOMETHING LIKE $3,000. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: TRUSTEE RIZZO, CAN I PUT THIS 8 RESOLUTION ON THE TABLE SO WE CAN DISCUSS IT? 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. SURE. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: SO I AM MOVING THE RESOLUTION. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I SECOND THAT. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: NOW GO AHEAD WITH YOUR 14 DISCUSSION. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU KNOW, THIS RESOLUTION 16 IS FOR A POLL TO SEE IF THE VOTERS WOULD GO FOR IT. BUT I 17 THINK THAT WHEN THE POLL IS BEING DEVELOPED THAT WE THROW 18 THIS INTO THE MIX WHETHER A PROGRESSIVE TAX LIKE THIS 19 WOULD BE BETTER TO THE VOTERS. I THINK IT WOULD BE FAIRER 20 FOR ONE THING, BUT I AM IN FAVOR OF THIS. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: I HAVE A QUESTION TOO. I DON'T 22 KNOW THIS FIRM. I WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME INFORMATION ON 23 THE RESEARCH FIRM. 24 CAN SOMEBODY, PLEASE, DISCUSS IT? 25 MS. SMITH: I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE APRIL 29, 2010 131 1 PRESIDENT OF THE FIRM ROBERT GODBE. HE IS HERE TO ANSWER 2 ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. 3 I THINK YOU CAN INTRODUCE YOURSELF BETTER THAN I 4 CAN. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MAYBE YOU CAN TELL US 6 SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR FIRM. 7 MR. GODBE: THANK YOU, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, 8 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. I AM PLEASED TO 9 BE HERE TONIGHT REPRESENTING MY FIRM. 10 WE ARE NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME. WE ARE IN THE 11 POLLING BUSINESS. BUT IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, WE'VE RAISED 12 $21 BILLION IN TAXES FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 13 PEOPLE WHO DO WHAT I DO ARE NOT EVER IN A 14 HOUSEHOLD NAME. WE'VE WON TAX MEASURES FROM THE 15 ENTERPRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT TO THE COUNTY OF SAN 16 DIEGO, WHICH IS A VERY BIG COUNTY. AND TO GET TWO-THIRDS 17 THERE IS A QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT. 18 FROM HERE, MY FIRST TAX MEASURE WAS A BOND 19 MEASURE FOR THE MOSCONE EXPANSION BACK IN 1986 IN SAN 20 FRANCISCO TO SOUTH LAKE TAHOE AND THE FAR EAST. SO WE 21 HAVE DONE 109 REVENUE MEASURES IN THE LAST TEN YEARS AND 22 ANOTHER 75 BEFORE THAT. AND BY THE TIME THIS ELECTION IS 23 OVER THIS NOVEMBER, WE WILL HAVE EXCEEDED 200 MEASURES 24 THAT WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITH. 25 WE CAN TALK MORE ABOUT MY TRACK RECORD. I HAVE APRIL 29, 2010 132 1 BEEN DOING SURVEY RESEARCH FOR 26 YEARS PERSONALLY. AND 2 THE FIRM WAS ACTUALLY FOUNDED IN 1990 AFTER I SPENT FOUR 3 YEARS BUILDING A RESEARCH DEPARTMENT IN A PROMINENT SAN 4 FRANCISCO PR SHOP AS WELL. SO THAT'S THE SHORT STORY. 5 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 6 AND WITH THE POLLSTERS OF RECORD FOR THE FIRST 7 PARCEL TAX ON THE BALLOT IN THE 21ST CENTURY FOR COMMUNITY 8 COLLEGES IN SAN MATEO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT. WE ALSO 9 DID POLLING FOR SAN JOSE EVERGREEN ON A BOND MEASURE, BUT 10 INCLUDED A PARCEL TAX. AND WE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF 11 GOING INTO THE FIELD WITH A PARCEL TAX POLL FOR FOOTHILL 12 DE ANZA. SO VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE PARCEL TAX POLLS THAT 13 HAVE BEEN DONE FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES HAVE BEEN DONE BY 14 US. 15 I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG, DOES THAT 17 ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? 18 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON AND THEN 20 TRUSTEE GRIER. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY, 23 THOUGH I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH THIS POLLING FIRM, IT SOUNDS 24 LIKE YOU HAVE A REMARKABLE REPUTATION. I ALSO RESPECTED 25 THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS THAT LESLIE AND THE CHANCELLOR APRIL 29, 2010 133 1 AND THAT PETER AND THE REST OF THE FOLKS HERE AT CITY 2 COLLEGE DO. 3 AND IF YOU ARE DOING THE FIRST ONE AND YOU GUYS 4 ARE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES FOR THE SAN MATEO PARCEL TAX, 5 THEN SOMETHING MUST BE RIGHT. AND, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY 6 NEED TO GET THIS DONE. WE NEED TO START THIS PROCESS NOW. 7 AND IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU KNOW -- WE WENT OVER THE PARCEL TAX 8 THAT TRUSTEE RIZZO PUT FORTH. 9 THE EVEN MORE DEPRESSING FACT WAS WHEN WE 10 ACTUALLY HAD THE BUDGET HEARING AND WE PUT FORTH TRUSTEE 11 RIZZO'S PROPOSAL, IT WAS TOLD TO US THAT WITHIN A YEAR AND 12 A HALF TO TWO YEARS THAT THAT MONEY WOULD ACTUALLY BE 13 GONE. THE EXTRA $10 MILLION THAT WE RAISED WOULD BE GONE. 14 AND A PARCEL TAX DOESN'T ALLOW YOU -- IT'S MONEY. IT 15 DOESN'T INCREASE. 16 AND SO I WAS SHOCKED THAT IF WE WOULD GO THROUGH 17 A PARCEL TAX AND RAISE $10 MILLION, IT WOULD BE GONE 18 WITHIN TWO YEARS WITH THE CURRENT BUDGET CLIMATE. AND SO 19 I DEFINITELY WANT TO INCLUDE A PROGRESSIVE PARCEL TAX IN 20 SOME OF OUR POLLING. AND I'M SURE THAT THAT'S ALSO A 21 THOUGHT PROCESS, BUT I ALSO WANT SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO 22 WIN. AND I DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, IN STRONG FAVOR OF 23 RAISING REVENUE BECAUSE AS YOU HEAR FROM THESE STUDENTS, 24 THEY ARE SAYING THAT HEY, WE ARE HERE IN THE SOUTHEAST AND 25 WE NEED SERVICES. WE NEED CLASSES. APRIL 29, 2010 134 1 AND LIKE I SAID, I'M TIRED OF DOING MORE AND 2 TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS ACCESS, EQUAL ACCESS 3 WITH LESS AND LESS MONEY. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN'T DO 4 IT. YOU CAN'T RETAIN TEACHERS. YOU CAN'T RETAIN 5 CLASSIFIEDS WITH LESS AND LESS MONEY. IT PITS ALL OF US 6 AGAINST EACH OTHER AND THE WORST ANGELS OF OURSELVES COME 7 OUT WHEN WE ARE REDUCING THE POOL OF MONEY. 8 SO I AM IN STRONG FAVOR OF STARTING THIS 9 PROCESS. AND, YOU KNOW, GOOD LUCK. THANK YOU. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 12 I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS. JUST THE FIRST ONE 13 HAS TO DO WITH WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE A LOCAL SAN 14 FRANCISCO OFFICE. 15 MR. GODBE: WE DO NOT HAVE A SAN FRANCISCO 16 OFFICE. WE HAVE A VARIETY OF PARTNERS THAT WE WORK WITH 17 HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO. OUR OFFICE IS IN SAN MATEO. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: SAN MATEO. 19 MR. GODBE: WE ALSO HAVE AN OFFICE IN NEWPORT 20 BEACH AND ONE IN BELLVIEW, WASHINGTON. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. I REMEMBER WHEN WE WENT 22 OUT FOR A BOND, AND I KNOW A PARCEL TAX IS DIFFERENT THAN 23 A BOND, BUT I THINK THAT LOCALLY PEOPLE HERE MIGHT 24 REMEMBER MORE ABOUT OUR BOND THEN WE WOULD LIKE FOR THEM 25 TO. APRIL 29, 2010 135 1 AND SO WITH THAT, HOW IS IT THAT YOU CAN 2 DIFFERENTIATE AND BE CONVINCING IN TERMS OF A BOND AND A 3 PARCEL TAX? 4 MR. GODBE: WELL, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S ABOUT WHAT 5 THE TWO FUND. AND CLEARLY, BONDS FUND FACILITIES AND WITH 6 THE ADVENT OF PROP 39, IT BECAME MUCH EASIER TO PASS 7 BONDS. 8 BUT TO YOUR QUESTION, THEY ARE ABOUT FACILITIES 9 BRICKS AND MORTAR. AND WHILE THOSE FACILITATE EDUCATIONAL 10 PROGRAMS, THE WAY THAT MOST BONDS, EVEN WITH THE PROP 39 11 55 PERCENT MAJORITY PASS, IS THEY TALK ABOUT THE PROGRAMS 12 THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THOSE FACILITIES. SO IT'S A 13 SECONDARY PROCESS. 14 THE ADVANTAGE THAT PARCEL TAXES HAVE, EVEN 15 THOUGH THEY ARE TWO-THIRDS AND SEEMINGLY MORE DIFFICULT, 16 WE WOULD LOVE TO GET THE 55 PERCENT MAJORITY PASSED. BUT 17 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT'S NOT COMING OUT OF THE 18 LEGISLATURE, AND THAT'S FROM ONE OF MY COMMUNITY COLLEGE 19 DISTRICT CLIENTS THAT HAS CHECKED RECENTLY WITH SENATOR 20 SIMITIAN'S OFFICE. 21 PARCEL TAXES ARE ABOUT THE PROGRAMS. AND THE 22 WAY YOU PASS A BOND MEASURE IS BY EQUATING THE FACILITY TO 23 THE PROGRAM. WE DON'T HAVE THAT EXTRA STEP HERE. WE ARE 24 JUST TALKING ABOUT THE PROGRAMS. WE HEARD A LITTLE ABOUT 25 THOSE EARLIER THIS EVENING IN VERY PASSIONATE TERMS. WE APRIL 29, 2010 136 1 CAN TALK DIRECTLY ABOUT THOSE PROGRAMS AND THE PROCESS 2 THAT WE GO THROUGH. IN OUR SURVEY IS WHERE WE START WITH 3 A COLD ASSESSMENT OF WHAT THAT BALLOT QUESTION WOULD LOOK 4 LIKE, NO INFORMATION AND FIND OUT WHERE YOU ARE. 5 IN SAN MATEO'S CASE THEY WERE IN THE HIGH 60'S 6 AND THEN WE LOOK AT LISTS OF ALL THE PROGRAMS YOU MIGHT 7 SPEND THE MONEY ON, AND WE TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT ARE THE 8 PRIORITIES AMONG THE COMMUNITY. AND IT'S RELATIVELY EASY 9 TO WORK WITH STAFF AND WITH MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF 10 TRUSTEES THAT ARE APPOINTED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT 11 IMPORTANT LIST IS AND THEN PRIORITIZE THEM. AND THEN GO 12 THROUGH A SERIES OF ARGUMENTS BOTH PRO AND CON. ALSO TALK 13 ABOUT HOW MUCH IS AFFORDABLE AS TRUSTEE JACKSON REFERENCED 14 AND WHAT IS WINNABLE ULTIMATELY AND THEN WE COME BACK TO A 15 SECOND TASK OF THAT INITIAL SURVEY QUESTION AND THE 16 INITIAL BALLOT QUESTION. AND THAT PROCESS IS THE WAY WE 17 FIND OUT WHAT IS WINNABLE AND ALSO WE USE IT TO FIND OUT 18 WHAT SERVICES ARE A PRIORITY FOR THE VOTERS. 19 AND HOPEFULLY, THERE'S A GOOD OVERLAP BETWEEN 20 THE PRIORITIES OF YOUR BOARD, AS WELL AS THE PRIORITIES OF 21 THE VOTER, BUT IN MAKING SOMETHING FEASIBLE, IT IS THE 22 OVERLAP, THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN THOSE TWO THAT HELPS 23 THESE THINGS WIN. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND I HAVE JUST A COUPLE MORE 25 QUICK QUESTIONS. APRIL 29, 2010 137 1 I ALSO WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BIDDING PROCESS. 2 IS THERE NOT A BIDDING PROCESS IN TERMS OF THE COLLEGE 3 SELECTING SOMEONE TO DO A POLL? IS THAT SOMETHING? 4 MR. GODBE: WE ELECT A STAFF. DO YOU WANT TO 5 ADDRESS THAT? 6 MS. SMITH: WE WROTE UP AN RFP. AND WE PUT IT 7 THROUGH THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT. AND THEY SENT IT OUT 8 TO BOTH THE PRESS AND THEN TO ACTUALLY ALL THE FIRMS THAT 9 THEY COULD LOCATE. BASICALLY, THERE WERE ABOUT FIVE 10 FIRMS. AND THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRMS ACTUALLY DID NOT 11 RESPOND. 12 I CALLED AND THE ONE THAT ANSWERED, THEY SAID 13 THAT THEY WERE BOOKED THROUGH NEXT YEAR. SO I DIDN'T WANT 14 TO SAY -- THE TWO FIRMS THAT DID RESPOND, I DON'T WANT TO 15 SAY IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM THAT WHEN WE CHECK THEIR RECORDS 16 IT'S FOR BOTH FIRMS THAT RESPONDED. THEIR REFERENCES WERE 17 EXCELLENT, EVERY SINGLE PERSON. THEY'VE BEEN MAINLY 18 DEALING WITH SUPERINTENDENTS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR 19 CHANCELLORS OF THE COLLEGE DISTRICTS. EVERY SINGLE 20 REFERENCE WAS EXCELLENT OR ABOVE. IT WAS WITHOUT 21 QUALIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS. 22 WE INTERVIEWED BOTH FIRMS. PETER, RON LEE, AND 23 MYSELF INTERVIEWED. AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION ABOUT THE 24 SELECTION. 25 THE FAMILIARITY WITH THE NUANCES OF THE APRIL 29, 2010 138 1 COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEMS, THEY ARE EXPERIENCED WITH SAN 2 FRANCISCO. THEY ARE EXPERIENCED IN THIS AREA. AND GOING 3 OUT FOR PARCEL TAX FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES IS SOMEWHAT NEW, 4 AND THEY ARE AHEAD OF THE GAME ON THIS, SO IT WAS REALLY 5 NOT A QUESTION OF HOW TO SELECT. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. AND I GUESS THIS QUESTION 7 WILL COME ABOUT LATER. BUT IT HAS TO DO WITH WHAT VICE 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO SAID ABOUT A PROGRESSIVE FORMAT IN TERMS 9 OF LOOKING WHO'S IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND WHAT THEY CAN 10 AFFORD. I'M SURE THAT WILL COME LATER, BUT I THINK THAT'S 11 AN IMPORTANT PIECE. 12 MS. SMITH: YES. I THINK THAT AS THE POLLING 13 FIRM HAS TALKED ABOUT, IT'S ONE THE PROCESSES THAT YOU GO 14 THROUGH. I MEAN HE DETAILED KIND OF HOW -- HE DIDN'T 15 DETAIL EXACTLY HOW SAN MATEO BUILT. I MEAN SAN MATEO WENT 16 IN WITH AN IDEA. THEY POLLED ON IT. AND THEY FOUND THEY 17 NEEDED TO MODIFY THEIR IDEA TO GET THE STRONGEST RESPONSE. 18 AND SO I THINK THAT I'M GOING TO ASSUME THAT THE 19 BOARD WILL TAKE IT TO THIS PASS, TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN 20 THE DESIGNING OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE WHERE THOSE KINDS OF 21 QUESTIONS CAN BE SPECIFICALLY EXPLORED AS TO WHAT AGAIN, 22 WHAT PROGRAMS, WHAT FINANCIAL THRESHOLD, HOW LONG THE 23 PARCEL TAX. ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE POLLED ON 24 AND THEN THE CHOICE NEEDS TO BE MADE AS TO WHERE AND HOW 25 TO GO FORWARD FOR THAT CHOICE TO BE DETERMINED. APRIL 29, 2010 139 1 BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING WHAT WE NEED AND 2 MAKING SURE WE GET IT ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: ACTUALLY, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN 6 THREE BOND MEASURES HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. THE FIRST ONE 7 WAS A COMBINATION OF CITY COLLEGE AND UNIFIED SCHOOL 8 DISTRICT. AND ACTUALLY ALL THREE OF THOSE BOND MEASURES 9 INVOLVED CAPITOL VOTING PROJECTS. ACTUALLY, THIS IS GOING 10 TO BE THE FIRST POLLING THAT'S GOING TO BE DEALING WITH 11 PROGRAMMING. 12 AND ACTUALLY, THE QUESTION THAT I WAS GOING TO 13 ASK WAS JUST ANSWERED. WE NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 14 CREATION OF THOSE POLLING QUESTIONS BECAUSE THAT'S GOING 15 TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. 16 BUT I THINK YOU SAID THAT THE TAX BONDS DEAL 17 WITH PROGRAMMING AND NOW IT DEALT WITH CAPITOL BUILDING 18 PROJECTS. 19 MR. GODBE: MOST BONDS ARE SOLD BY EQUATING THE 20 FACILITY WITH THE PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE 21 FACILITY. SO IT IS A CAPITOL BOND THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE. 22 BUT THE WAY YOU SELL A BOND IS TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT'S 23 GOING TO GO ON INSIDE THAT BUILDING. 24 AND SO THE ADVANTAGE THAT PARCEL TAXES HAVE IS 25 THEY ARE WHAT'S GOING TO GO ON INSIDE THAT BUILDING. APRIL 29, 2010 140 1 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, IT'S JUST THE PROGRAM. 2 MR. GODBE: IT'S JUST THE PROGRAM, RIGHT. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: RIGHT. 4 MR. GODBE: THE TWO ARE CLEARLY DIFFERENT. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: RIGHT. 6 MR. GODBE: BUT IT'S JUST A MATTER OF HOW YOU 7 MESSAGE IT. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: GOOD. INTERESTING TO GET THE 9 RESULTS. THANK YOU. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I HAD SOME QUESTIONS EARLIER IN 12 THE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY 13 WERE ADDRESSED OR NOT, BUT WE WERE NOT SURE WHETHER OR NOT 14 WE COULD IN FACT DO A PROGRESSIVE TAX, PARCEL TAX, OR 15 WHETHER IT WOULD HAVE TO BE FLAT RATE ACROSS THE BOARD. I 16 DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE AN ANSWER ON THAT. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, ASSESSOR TING SEEMS 18 TO THINK WE CAN. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: DO WE HAVE AN OPINION, A LEGAL 20 OPINION ON THIS? 21 COUNSEL LEE: WELL, IT'S PRELIMINARY AT THIS 22 POINT. AND IT NEEDS MORE LEGAL RESEARCH IN TERMS OF 23 LOOKING AT THE STATUTES, SO I AM NOT PREPARED. I HAD SOME 24 DISCUSSION WITH THE SAN MATEO PERSON, BUT NOW HE IS AWAY 25 AND SO WE HAVE NOT FINISHED THAT DISCUSSION. APRIL 29, 2010 141 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT AS SOON 2 AS POSSIBLE GIVEN THAT THE TIMELINE HAS BEEN JUST THE 3 NATURE OF WHERE WE ARE AT THIS POINT. THE TIMELINE IS 4 QUITE SQUEEZED SO THAT FACTOR OF WHETHER IT'S GOING TO BE 5 PROGRESSED OR FLAT. WE NEED TO KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 6 BECAUSE IF WE PUT THIS ON A FAST TRACK, WE SHOULD ALSO -- 7 THE LEGAL QUESTION SHOULD ALSO BE RESOLVED AS QUICKLY AS 8 POSSIBLE. 9 YOU KNOW, FOR ME THE ISSUE WAS WHAT OUR 10 PRIORITIES WERE OR WHAT THE PLAN WAS FOR THE FUNDING 11 BECAUSE AS YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT, WE'VE GOT A DEFICIT 12 THAT'S JUST NOT THIS YEAR. I DON'T WANT US TO PANIC, BUT 13 THE REALITY IS THE DEFICIT IS GOING TO BE NEXT YEAR AS 14 WELL AND THE YEAR AFTER. IT LOOKS LIKE THAT. SO WE CAN'T 15 MAKE A JUDGEMENT OR PUT A PARCEL TAX OUT THERE WITHOUT 16 REALLY THINKING THROUGH WHAT REALLY WILL -- IT'S NOT JUST 17 TO SUSTAIN THE COLLEGE, BUT REALLY ADD VALUE TO THE 18 INSTITUTION, RIGHT? 19 AND YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT THE FINANCIAL AID 20 OFFICE. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I SAY THE COUNSELOR RATIO TO 21 STUDENTS IS 4,000 TO 1. SO PART OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IS 22 REALLY A BUDGET CAP, RIGHT? 23 IT'S PARTLY THE SAME. IF YOU HAVE STUDENTS IN 24 LINE WAITING HOURS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ONE COUNSELOR FOR 25 4,000 STUDENTS, THAT'S AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP ISSUE. IT'S APRIL 29, 2010 142 1 ALSO A BUDGET ISSUE, RIGHT? 2 SO I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A PROPONENT OF FINDING MORE 3 REVENUE. THE QUESTION IS: ARE WE DOING IT IN A SMART 4 WAY? DO WE HAVE A PLAN? ARE THE PRIORITIES THAT ARE IN 5 PLACE TO FUND THIS CONTEMPLATING THE LONG TERM AND NOT 6 JUST TRIAGE? 7 AND SO I THINK GOING FORWARD IT'S IMPORTANT TO 8 DETERMINE THAT AND FIND OUT REALLY WHERE THOSE PRIORITIES 9 ARE GOING TO BE. AND I HOPE THAT IT'S GOING TO BE MADE 10 CLEAR TONIGHT THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE AN HONEST AND OPEN 11 DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT THOSE PRIORITIES ARE WITH THIS OR 12 WHAT THOSE PRIORITIES SHOULD BE AT LEAST FROM THE BOARD AS 13 WE PUSH THIS THING FORWARD. SO I THINK THOSE ISSUES HAVE 14 BEEN ADDRESSED FOR ME. 15 THE ONLY ISSUE REMAINING IS OBVIOUSLY WHETHER OR 16 NOT THE RUSH OF PARCEL TAX OR REVENUE MEASURES IN THE FALL 17 WILL SOMEHOW CLOUD THE DISCUSSION ON THE PARCEL TAX THAT 18 WE ARE GOING TO PUT OUT. I DON'T THINK SAN MATEO HAS ANY 19 OTHER REVENUE MEASURES RIGHT NOW OUT THERE IN JUNE ON THE 20 BALLOT. DO THEY? 21 MR. GODBE: NO. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: SO IF WE ARE GOING TO PUT A BALLOT 23 MEASURE OUT THERE TO SEEK REVENUE, AND IT'S GOING TO BE IN 24 WITH THE CAP OF OTHER REVENUE MEASURES -- 25 MR. GODBE: RIGHT. APRIL 29, 2010 143 1 TRUSTEE NGO: -- WE HAVE TO REALLY THINK ABOUT 2 THAT. 3 MR. GODBE: ABSOLUTELY. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AND IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO HAVE AN 5 HONEST DISCUSSION. IT MIGHT HELP THE COLLEGE ACTUALLY TO 6 HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS WHEN THERE ISN'T THAT KIND OF 7 CLOUDING OF REVENUE. WHEN YOU CAN HAVE AN ELECTION IN 8 JUNE, A VERY FOCUSED DISCUSSION AND DEBATE ON A PARCEL TAX 9 JUST ABOUT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 10 IF WE ARE GOING TO GO IN THERE AND HAVE A 11 DISCUSSION WITH UNIFIED AND THE COUNTY, IT'S NOT GOING TO 12 MAKE -- WE HAVE TO GET THROUGH TO THE VOTERS THERE. AND 13 THAT'S WHY I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT RUSHING THIS AND 14 FOR MEASURING IN THE FALL -- TO DO A POLL FOR THE FALL AND 15 NEXT YEAR IT CAN BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 16 BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH WHILE TO PURSUE BECAUSE, 17 AGAIN, I LOOK AT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND THE ACHIEVEMENT 18 GAP IS IN PART THE BUDGET GAP. AND WHEN WE HAVE THAT 19 RATIO, WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS. 20 SO I WOULD SAY THAT. I ENCOURAGE US TO GET THE 21 LEGAL QUESTIONS RESOLVED, COUNSEL. 22 AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE HAVING A DISCUSSION 23 TO HAVE A PLAN FOR THE REVENUES IF WE IN FACT GO FORWARD 24 WITH THE PARCEL TAX. 25 AND I THINK I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE APRIL 29, 2010 144 1 VERY CLEAR ON THE GUIDELINES AS YOU DO THE POLLING THAT 2 YOU'RE NOT VENTURING IN THE AREA OF ADVOCACY. THAT THE 3 RULES ARE PRETTY CLEAR. I KNOW YOU'VE DONE THIS BEFORE, 4 BUT I WANT TO EXPRESS THAT PERSONALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE 5 ARE NOT CROSSING A LINE THERE. 6 SO WITH THOSE ASSURANCES, I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT 7 ABOUT GETTING THIS THING THROUGH AND SEE WHERE WE ARE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND IN TERMS OF -- AND I AGREE 10 WITH TRUSTEE NGO IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING A PROGRAM, 11 DEVELOPING A PLAN IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY WANT TO 12 FUND. I KNOW AT OUR NEXT PLANNING AND BUDGET HEARING, 13 THIS IS AN ONGOING CONVERSATION IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY 14 HAVING, YOU KNOW, WHAT PROGRAMS ARE WE ACTUALLY GOING TO 15 BE FUNDING FOR THIS. I MEAN IS THIS FOR CLASSES? 16 ARE WE GOING TO DO A WHOLE BASIC SKILLS THING? 17 ARE WE GOING TO DO CLASSES AND PROGRAMS? WHAT ARE WE 18 ACTUALLY GOING TO DO? 19 AND THAT'S THE KIND OF CONVERSATION THAT I'M 20 HAPPY TO START AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. 21 I'M ALSO HAPPY -- YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN SAYING 22 THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WE NEED TO HAVE A RETREAT. AND 23 I THINK THAT A RETREAT SETTING WOULD ACTUALLY BE A VERY 24 WONDERFUL PLACE WHERE WE HAVE OUR FACULTY, OUR STAFF, OUR 25 TWO LABOR REPRESENTATIVE UNIONS THERE, AND THE BOARD, AND APRIL 29, 2010 145 1 THE CHANCELLOR, AND ADMINISTRATION TO ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT 2 THAT TOO. 3 SO THOSE ARE TWO SETTINGS WHERE I'M HAPPY TO 4 HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WE ACTUALLY ARE GOING TO 5 FUND BECAUSE IT'S NOT MONEY FOR MONIES SAKE. IT'S 6 ACTUALLY MONEY TO SAVE JOBS. IT'S MONEY TO PROMOTE MORE 7 CLASSES WHICH BRING IN MORE REVENUE, WHICH WE CAN ACTUALLY 8 FUND FOR OTHER THINGS. IT ACTUALLY IS A SPIRAL UP 9 PROCESS. 10 I WOULD ASK COUNSEL TO MAYBE ASK THE ASSESSORS 11 LAWYERS AND MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE A BETTER -- IF WE CAN'T 12 FIND THE ANSWERS OURSELVES, WHICH I KNOW WE HAD TWO WEEKS 13 TO FIND THOSE ANSWERS. IF WE CAN'T FIND ANSWERS 14 OURSELVES, LET'S ASK THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE. LET'S ASK 15 THEIR ATTORNEYS IF THIS IS A DOABLE WAY BECAUSE THE 16 ASSESSOR HAS ALREADY WEIGHED IN AND SAID, YES, WE CAN. SO 17 LET'S JUST ASK HIS LEGAL COUNSEL AND MAKE SURE THAT THE 18 ASSESSOR IS ACCURATE IN THAT. 19 BUT, YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THIS AS A CRITICAL 20 FIRST STEP. WE NEED A PLAN. WE WILL DEVELOP A PLAN 21 WITHIN MY COMMITTEE AND THEN, HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW DO SOME 22 MORE OF THAT DREAMING AND SCHEMING THROUGH OUR RETREAT, SO 23 THANK YOU. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER COMMENTS, 25 QUESTIONS? APRIL 29, 2010 146 1 TRUSTEE NGO: CALL THE QUESTION. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU DON'T HAVE TO CALL 3 THE QUESTION. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 15 OKAY, THE MOTION CARRIES. 16 MR. GODBE: THANK YOU. I LOOK FORWARD TO 17 WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THESE NEXT FOUR 19 RESOLUTIONS WERE VETTED AT THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE, WHICH 20 PASSED THEM WITH RECOMMENDATION. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE ALL FOUR. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK WE HAVE TO DO 23 THEM ONE AT A TIME. 24 THE FIRST ONE, B2, IS AN AUTHORIZATION FOR TEN 25 CONTRACT MODIFICATIONS; EIGHT -- IT'S 20 CONTRACT APRIL 29, 2010 147 1 MODIFICATIONS IN TOTAL FOR VARIOUS SITES. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WOULD SAY IN THE FUTURE CAN 5 WE PUT THESE ON CONSENT CALENDAR. AND IF WE HAVE ANY 6 PROBLEMS WITH THEM, CAN WE JUST PULL THEM OFF BECAUSE WE 7 HAVE A LOT OF THESE INFRASTRUCTURE STUFF AND WE ALWAYS 8 JUST END UP PASSING. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DON'T THINK WE CAN. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WE CAN'T PUT THEM ON CONSENT 11 CALENDAR? 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DON'T THINK SO. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 16 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 17 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 22 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) APRIL 29, 2010 148 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT MOTION CARRIES. 2 CAN I HAVE A MOTION FOR B2? 3 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU MEAN B3. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. B3. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE B3. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A SECOND? 7 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 9 ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? 10 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: B4 IS A CONTRACT AWARD OF 20 THE BALBOA RESERVOIR WEST CAMPUS SITE NOT TO EXCEED 21 $302,000. 22 IS THERE A MOTION FOR -- 23 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ANY DISCUSSION? APRIL 29, 2010 149 1 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 2 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: B5 IS AN AWARD OF A 12 SUBCONTRACT -- BOVIS FOR THE NEW CHINATOWN/NORTH BEACH 13 CAMPUS $1,485,000. 14 IS THERE A MOTION? 15 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 17 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 19 DISCUSSION? 20 PUBLIC COMMENT? 21 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 22 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) APRIL 29, 2010 150 1 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 6 THE NEXT ONE IS HUMAN RESOURCES, F RESOLUTIONS. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: WAIT. WAIT. B8. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID I SKIP? 9 OH, B8, THANK YOU. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: MOVE B8. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 12 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AUTHORIZATION TO EXTEND 14 AN AGREEMENT WITH DONALD ORTEZ FOR SERVICES RELATED TO -- 15 IT DOESN'T LIST IT HERE. 16 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 17 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 18 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 19 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 23 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 151 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 3 MOTION CARRIES. 4 NOW WE ARE UP TO THE F RESOLUTIONS. THESE ARE 5 APPOINTMENTS FOR INTERIM DEANS. 6 THE FIRST ONE, F1, "ADMINISTRATION EDUCATIONAL 7 APPOINTMENT: INTERIM DEAN, SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND 8 MATHEMATICS." 9 IS THERE A MOTION? 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: MOVE F1. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 12 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECOND, OKAY. 14 ANY DISCUSSION ON F1? 15 ANY QUESTIONS ANYONE HAS? 16 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 17 ALL IN FAVOR OF F1. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 22 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) APRIL 29, 2010 152 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 2 OKAY, F2, IS THE APPOINTMENT OF INTERIM DEAN, 3 SCHOOL OF BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. 4 IS THERE A MOTION? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE F2. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY COMMENTS OR 9 QUESTIONS? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: I ACTUALLY DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: NO, I'M SORRY. I DON'T HAVE ANY 13 QUESTIONS. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU DON'T, OKAY. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: THANK YOU. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MY QUESTION IS: DO YOU 17 HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? 18 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON F2? 19 SEEING NONE, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 24 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 153 1 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 4 F2 PASSES. 5 F3, IS APPOINTMENT OF INTERIM DEAN, FACILITIES 6 (SIC) SUPPORT SERVICES, COURSE/ROOM SCHEDULING. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: FACULTY SUPPORT SERVICES, RIGHT? 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: INTERIM DEAN, FACULTY 9 SUPPORT SERVICES, YES. THANK YOU. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND 13 A SECOND. 14 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 15 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 16 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED. APRIL 29, 2010 154 1 THE MOTION CARRIES. 2 F4, IS THE APPOINTMENT OF INTERIM DEAN, 3 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND RETENTION PROGRAMS. 4 IS THERE A MOTION FOR THAT? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: EXCUSE ME. DO YOU WANT TO FILL 6 IN THE BLANK? 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: DO WE HAVE NAME? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: WE HAVE TO PUT THE NAME IN THERE. 9 COUNSEL LEE: YEAH. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S RIGHT HERE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, IT'S A BLANK OUT. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S A HANDOUT. 13 COUNSEL LEE: IT'S A HANDOUT AND I MENTIONED IT 14 ON THE -- 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: VERY GOOD. 16 TRUSTEE BERG: I'M MOVING F4. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: IT'S ROSEMARY. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE F4. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE IS A HANDOUT. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: IT'S THIS ONE (INDICATING). 22 TRUSTEE WONG: ROSEMARY ROBERSON, RIGHT? 23 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO IT'S ROSEMARY ROBERSON 25 FOR INTERIM DEAN, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND RETENTION APRIL 29, 2010 155 1 PROGRAMS. 2 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE THAT. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S BEEN SECONDED. 5 ANY DISCUSSION? 6 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST QUICKLY. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT THESE INTERIM 9 APPOINTS. I DO WANT TO CONVEY THE FACT THAT WE DO NEED TO 10 MAKE PERMANENT APPOINTMENTS. I THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO 11 TRUST THE CHALLENGES THAT WE ARE FINDING. ALSO NOT JUST 12 MAINTAINING THE WORK THAT WE DO, BUT ALSO ALL THAT IS 13 REQUIRED OF US IN THE COLLEGE GOING FORWARD. IT GETS VERY 14 IMPORTANT. 15 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT AS THOSE PERMANENT 16 APPOINTMENTS COME UP, AND I EXPECT THEM TO COME UP SOON. 17 THESE OUR INTERIM, NOT PERMANENT. 18 FOR ME, THE QUESTION I WILL BE HEARING, GIVEN TO 19 ALLOW THESE POSITIONS TO HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY IN HOW WE 20 ADDRESS THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, SO I WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT 21 VERY CLOSELY. 22 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I THINK IT'S PERHAPS 23 MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAT WE SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE CONDUCT 24 THAT DOES NOT SPEAK TO THE WORST ANGELS HERE AT THIS 25 INSTITUTION AND THAT WE ENDORSE AND SUPPORT CONDUCT BY APRIL 29, 2010 156 1 PEOPLE IN THIS DISTRICT WHO DO CONVEY THE RESPECT OF 2 COLLEGIALITY THAT IS EXPECTED OF ALL OF US. AND I WOULD 3 KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WELL AS WE GO FORWARD TO MOVE ON 4 THESE PERMANENT POSITIONS. I UNDERSTAND THESE INTERIM, 5 BUT WHEN THOSE PERMANENT POSITIONS COME UP, THOSE THREE 6 ISSUES WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME WHEN WE GET PERMANENT 7 APPOINTMENTS TO ALL THAT WE HAVE FOCUSED ON THE 8 ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND EQUITY. AND THAT WE HAVE FOCUS ON HOW 9 WE TREAT EACH OTHER. I EXPECT THAT FROM EVERYONE. NOT 10 JUST THIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES, BUT EVERYONE IN THE COLLEGE 11 COMMUNITY HOW WE RELATE TO EACH OTHER. I WILL KEEP THAT 12 IN KEYLINE AS WE GO FORWARD. I JUST WANTED TO EXPRESS 13 THAT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND TO THE CHANCELLOR. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR. 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IN TERMS OF THE INTERIM 16 APPOINTMENTS, THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS TO POINT OUT. 17 ONE IS THAT THE PROCESS FOR HIRING INTERIMS IS 18 VERY, VERY ABBREVIATED, AND IT DOES NOT INCLUDE A WIDE 19 GROUP OF THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY. AND THE DESIGN HERE IS TO 20 HAVE THESE POSITIONS IN A SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME. WE DO 21 NOT WANT INTERIMS TO BE AROUND FOR MORE THAN A FEW MONTHS. 22 SO TO THAT END IN THE FALL TERM, WE WOULD ACTUALLY START 23 FILLING THESE POSITIONS ON A PERMANENT BASIS. 24 SO KEEP IN MIND THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE 25 PROCESS WAS BRIEF. IT DID NOT INCLUDE A LOT OF FOLKS. IT APRIL 29, 2010 157 1 WAS ACTUALLY ONLY THREE PEOPLE, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE 2 FACULTY, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, AND A 3 REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE CLASSIFIED. SO THAT'S NOT BROAD 4 ENOUGH. USUALLY WITH HIRING, IT'S MUCH BROADER. THESE 5 POSITIONS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 6 EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY, THE COLLEGE 7 COMMUNITY SHOULD HAVE MORE OF A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN ON 8 THESE REALLY VERY, VERY IMPORTANT POSITIONS. IF WE ARE 9 GOING TO MAKE OUR ACHIEVEMENT GAP DEAL WITH IT, WE ARE 10 GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE ADMINISTRATORS THAT ARE DEVOTED TO 11 THAT. THAT'S OUR PRIORITY. WE ARE TO HAVE THAT DEVOTION. 12 AND SO THAT'S GOING TO BE PART OF THE CRITERIA FOR LOOKING 13 AT THESE POSITIONS GOING FORWARD IN THE FALL. 14 IN TERMS OF LACK OF RESPECT AND SO FORTH, YES, 15 AS WE LOOK INTO THIS, THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. 16 WE HAVE TO HAVE ADMINISTRATORS THAT ARE GOING TO BE 17 RESPECTFUL TO STUDENTS, TO CLASSIFIED, TO OTHER 18 ADMINISTRATORS, AND TO THE BOARD. AND SO IF THAT'S GONE, 19 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE DISRESPECT COMING OUT. IT'S AN 20 ISSUE. 21 BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GO FORWARD WITH THESE 22 INTERIMS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO RUN THE COLLEGE, AND IT WILL 23 HELP US VERY MUCH TO DO THAT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ANY FURTHER 25 DISCUSSION ON F4? APRIL 29, 2010 158 1 NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. 2 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON F4? 3 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 8 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 13 OKAY, MOTION CARRIES. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: MOVE F5. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: F5. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE'S A MOTION FOR F5. 18 IS THERE A SECOND? 19 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S THE INTERIM DEAN, 21 SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AT CASTRO/VALENCIA CAMPUS, BOB 22 DAVIS. 23 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: I DO. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. APRIL 29, 2010 159 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK 2 AS FAR AS BOB DAVIS IS CONCERNED. I KNOW I SPOKE WITH YOU 3 GUYS BRIEFLY AT THE LAST BOARD OF TRUSTEES' MEETING. 4 THERE WAS A SPECIAL ACADEMIC HEARING THAT WAS 5 HELD AT CITY COLLEGE AT THE OCEAN CAMPUS AT DIEGO RIVERA. 6 AND I JUST FELT IT WAS VERY INAPPROPRIATE. THIS 7 PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL THAT WHEN I SAY THAT SOMEBODY TOLD 8 ME WITHIN THAT ENTIRE CROWD, WHICH WAS ABOUT 100 FACULTY, 9 WHICH IS LESS THAN 10 PERCENT OF THE ENTIRE FACULTY 10 POPULATION. BUT THE INDIVIDUAL STATED TO ME TO "GO AWAY." 11 AND THIS INDIVIDUAL HAS ALSO CALLED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 12 "FASCISTS" AS FAR AS SOME THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN TRYING TO 13 BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE COLLEGE. 14 AND I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THAT TO THE BOARD. 15 IF WE ARE GOING TO APPOINT SOMEBODY AS AN INTERIM DEAN, I 16 THINK IT SHOULD BE THOUGHT OUT IF THIS PERSON IS ACTUALLY 17 QUALIFIED TO BE IN THIS POSITION IF IT'S GOING TO BE 18 WORKING WITH STUDENTS. AND IF IT IS, I AM REALLY 19 CONCERNED BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL LIKE THIS PERSON IS BEST 20 FIT TO BE IN THAT POSITION. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS? 22 TRUSTEE WONG: YES. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: I'VE KNOWN BOB DAVIS FOR 16 25 YEARS, AT LEAST 16 YEARS. AND HE IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE APRIL 29, 2010 160 1 MOST DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS WORKING AT CITY COLLEGE. AND 2 ONE OF THE MOST COURAGEOUS. THAT'S FOR SURE. AND I THINK 3 THAT WE SHOULD SUPPORT HIM. 4 I KNOW HE HAS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO DO WHAT HE 5 NEEDED TO DO TO MAKE CITY COLLEGE AND THE VARIOUS 6 POSITIONS THAT HE'S BEEN IN AS BEST AS POSSIBLE. AND TO 7 ME, I SEE HIM AS ONE THE STELLAR STARS OF CITY COLLEGE. 8 AGAIN, I'VE KNOWN HIM FOR 16 YEARS, AND I HAVE 9 NO DOUBT OR QUALMS ABOUT HIM. I THINK IT IS UNFORTUNATE 10 PROBABLY WHAT HAPPENED. I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT'S AN 11 EXCEPTION TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HIM 12 LIKE THAT AT ALL. SO THAT'S UNFORTUNATE IF THAT'S TRUE. 13 I WILL SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: LET'S SEE TRUSTEE JACKSON AND 16 THEN ME, PLEASE. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YOU KNOW, I WANT TO SAY THAT, 18 YOU KNOW, CHARACTER MATTERS. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY 19 HARD TO GET STUDENTS TO BE ACTIVE ON ANY COLLEGE SETTING. 20 IT'S JUST TOUGH. 21 I KNOW, LESLIE, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT. YOU WORK 22 WITH STUDENTS IN TRYING TO SHIP THEM UP TO SACRAMENTO. 23 AND WE WERE ACTUALLY ONE OF THE GOOD CAMPUSES. AND 24 KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE ALLEGATION TO BE TOLD TO "GO 25 AWAY" YOU KNOW MANY OF STUDENTS WOULD HAVE LISTENED AND APRIL 29, 2010 161 1 WENT AWAY AND WOULD NOT EVER SHOW UP AGAIN. 2 NO MATTER HOW YOU FEEL ON A CERTAIN ISSUE, I'VE 3 ALWAYS TRIED TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN LEVEL OF DECORUM AND 4 TRY TO BE AT LEAST RESPECTFUL TO FOLKS WHO MIGHT DISAGREE 5 WITH WHAT I SAY. 6 THERE ARE CERTAIN ISSUES, AND YOU GUYS KNOW THE 7 ISSUES WHERE I GET VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT SPECIFICALLY 8 AROUND THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS AND EVANS CAMPUS AND THE 9 SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES THAT CAMPUS SERVES. BUT EVEN THOSE 10 IN THOSE -- AND I HAVE BEEN TOLD SOME HORRIBLE THINGS. 11 AND I HAVE BEEN TOLD SOME VERY WONDERFUL THINGS. BUT EVEN 12 IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS, I'VE TRIED TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN 13 LEVEL OF CHARACTER. 14 AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE 15 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GAP, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 16 THESE IMPORTANT ADMINISTRATIVE -- NOT JUST ADMINISTRATOR, 17 THESE ARE LEADERS WITHIN OUR COLLEGE. AND I DON'T KNOW, 18 YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF A MESSAGE, WHAT DO WE SEND WHEN WE 19 ARE PROMOTING LEADERS THAT HAVE CONDUCTED THEMSELVES IN 20 THIS WAY. 21 AND I DO NOT ENJOY THAT RELATIONSHIP OF 16 22 YEARS. AND, TRUSTEE WONG, I KNOW THAT YOU'VE KNOWN HIM 23 AND I TRUST YOUR JUDGEMENT, TRUSTEE WONG. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: WE'VE SPOKEN DOZENS AND DOZENS OF 25 TIMES BEFORE. APRIL 29, 2010 162 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YES, BUT IN THIS ONE DEBATE 2 WHERE HE HAD A POLICY DIFFERENCE. INSTEAD OF SIMPLY 3 SAYING, NO -- 4 TRUSTEE WONG: HE IS NOT HERE TO RESPOND TO 5 THAT. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: DO YOU WANT TO PULL IT THEN, THE 7 RESOLUTION? 8 TRUSTEE WONG: NO. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WOULD LIKE TO PULL THE 11 RESOLUTION SO THAT HE COULD BE HERE AND HE COULD DIALOGUE 12 WITH US. BUT IF WE ARE GOING TO BE FORCED TO VOTE FOR IT, 13 LET'S VOTE. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: WHAT'S THE TIMELINE? 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. 16 TRUSTEE BERG: YES, I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK. I DO 17 NOT KNOW THIS GENTLEMAN, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THAT 18 PARTICULAR MEETING WAS HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS WITH A LOT OF 19 THINGS GOING ON AT ONCE. AND I HAVE TO ASSUME THAT SINCE 20 THIS GENTLEMAN WENT THROUGH A SCREENING COMMITTEE AND WAS 21 VETTED BY HIS COLLEAGUES AND THE ADMINISTRATION, THAT I 22 WILL TRUST THEIR JUDGEMENT. 23 THIS IS A TEMPORARY POSITION. IT IS NOT A 24 PERMANENT POSITION. AND TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, FRANKLY. 25 THESE POSITIONS REALLY NEED TO BE FILLED. I WOULD JUST APRIL 29, 2010 163 1 TRUST THE JUDGEMENT OF THE PEOPLE WHO PROMOTED HIM. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK FIRST TRUSTEE 3 GRIER WAS IN THE CUE. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: WELL, I THINK MAYBE THE 5 CHANCELLOR WILL DO WHAT I AM ABOUT TO REQUEST. AND THAT 6 IS JUST TO REITERATE THE PROCESS, THE NUMBERS ON THE 7 SELECTION COMMITTEE, AND THE LENGTH OF THE INTERIM PROCESS 8 OR THE INTERIM APPOINTMENT. 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE HAD A VERY GOOD PROCESS. 10 WE DID ADVERTISE THE POSITION. WE GOT PEOPLE WHO CAME IN 11 AND APPLIED FOR THE POSITION. IN THE PROCESS OF DOING IT, 12 THE COMMITTEE, BY A VERY WIDE MARGIN, SAW BOB DAVIS AS THE 13 PERSON THAT THEY WANTED TO PUT FORTH TO LEVEL. 14 I HAD A VERY FRANK CONVERSATION AND INTERVIEW 15 WITH HIM AND WAS EXTREMELY SATISFIED WITH THE RESPONSES 16 THAT I WAS GETTING. I DID PUT IT FORTH TO THE BOARD AS I 17 CONSIDERED TO BE MY RIGHT TO DO IN TERMS OF AN INTERIM. 18 I'VE ALREADY POINTED OUT THAT THE PROCESS WAS NOT AS WIDE 19 AS WE DO WITH PERMANENT. 20 I ALSO WOULD SAY TO YOU THAT I AM PERFECTLY 21 WILLING TO PUT THE JOB ANNOUNCEMENT OUT IN AUGUST FOR A 22 PERMANENT POSITION IN WHICH ALL THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY, 23 LOTS OF FACULTY, LOTS OF CLASSIFIED ADMINISTRATORS, AND SO 24 FORTH CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS. 25 I REALLY DO NEED THE BOARD'S SUPPORT IN TERMS OF APRIL 29, 2010 164 1 GOING FORWARD BECAUSE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IT'S NOT 2 SIMPLY A MATTER OF THIS PARTICULAR PERSON WHO MAY OR MAY 3 NOT MADE SOME REMARK IN SOME SETTING. IT'S ABOUT THE 4 PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH. IT'S ABOUT HOW WE DO 5 BUSINESS. 6 AND IF THERE'S A LITMAN'S TEST IN TERMS OF 7 SOMEBODY SAYING THAT SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING OR DID NOT 8 BEHAVE IN A CERTAIN WAY IN A CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCE, THAT 9 REALLY IS APART FROM THE PROCESS THAT WE HAVE BEEN THERE. 10 WE WILL HAVE WIDER, DEEPER, BROADER PROCESS IN THE FALL 11 FOR THE PERMANENT. 12 SO I REALLY WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY TO 13 SUPPORT ME AND THE ADMINISTRATION IN MOVING THIS POSITION 14 FORWARD WITH THE OTHER INTERIM POSITIONS BECAUSE IT SENDS 15 A VERY STRONG MESSAGE TO THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF 16 PROCESS AND RESPECT FOR PROCESS AT THE COLLEGE AS FAR AS 17 THESE INTERIM POSITIONS ARE CONCERNED. OTHERWISE, WE ARE 18 LOOKING AT A SITUATION. 19 AND BY THE WAY, THE PEOPLE THAT I GOT ON THE 20 COMMUNITY WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE GIVEN TO ME BY THE 21 CLASSIFIED SENATE, THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE ACADEMIC 22 SENATE. AND IN CONSULTATION WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE 23 ASSOCIATION, WE HAD AN ADMINISTRATOR ON THERE. SO IT WAS 24 VERY BROAD IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE SITTING ON THESE HIRING 25 COMMITTEES. AND IT WAS PUT OUT FOR ALL THE COLLEGE TO BE APRIL 29, 2010 165 1 ABLE TO GO OUT AND APPLY FOR THE POSITION. 2 I AM VERY TROUBLED IF ONE OF OUR PERSONS IS 3 DOING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT OKAY. BUT IN THE LONG RUN, WE 4 WILL BE ABLE TO FIND THAT OUT. AND THE LONG RUN IS NOT 5 LONG BECAUSE WE ARE REALLY TALKING ABOUT A MATTER OF JUST 6 A FEW MONTHS. FIRST, THE APPOINTMENTS FOR JULY 1. IN 7 AUGUST WE WILL A JOB ANNOUNCEMENT OUT FOR THE PERMANENT 8 POSITION. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, TRUSTEE JACKSON. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I AM NOT NECESSARILY OPPOSED 11 TO THIS, BUT I WOULD LIKE IS SOME SORT OF MEETING BETWEEN 12 OUR STUDENT TRUSTEE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT 13 MEETING WAS SUPERCHARGED, TRUSTEE BERG. I UNDERSTAND THAT 14 MEETING WAS VERY SUPERCHARGED, BUT THEN WHAT HAPPENED -- 15 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE E-MAILS WHERE SOME OF US WERE CALLED, 16 "FASCISTS?" 17 THAT'S WHERE I'M LIKE -- OKAY, ONE TIME YOU WERE 18 PASSIONATE, I UNDERSTAND. BUT THE SECOND TIME? AND IT'S 19 WRITTEN DOWN. THAT'S WHERE I GET KIND OF TAKEN BACK. 20 BUT I ACTUALLY JUST WANT THIS INDIVIDUAL TO SIT 21 DOWN WITH OUR STUDENT TRUSTEE, EVEN THOUGH HE IS ON HIS 22 WAY OUT, TO LITERALLY MEET WITH HIM AND ENGAGE WITH HIM 23 AND TALK TO HIM. I'M NOT GOING TO EVEN SAY APOLOGY 24 BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHOSE SIDE WE ARE ALL ON, BUT I THINK 25 THERE SHOULD BE SOME SERIOUS DIALOGUE AND A TEACHABLE APRIL 29, 2010 166 1 MOMENT FOR EACH OF THOSE FOLKS TO ACTUALLY SEE WHERE THE 2 OTHER PERSON IS COMING FROM ON A ONE-ON-ONE SETTING AND 3 NOT IN SUCH A SUPERCHARGED MEETING WHERE THERE WERE 4 HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AT. 5 AND SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD 6 HAPPEN AS A COMPROMISE, BUT TO JUST TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN 7 WITHOUT THAT IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO. BUT I WANT THAT 8 PROCESS TO HAPPEN. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. I WILL JUST REMIND 10 EVERYONE THAT WE ARE NOW PASSED 10:00 AND ON OVERTIME 11 FOR -- 12 TRUSTEE BERG: YES, I WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TO 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 14 BEING CALLED A "FASCISTS" AND BEING CALLED 15 EVERYTHING ELSE UNDER THE SUN JUST COMES WITH THE 16 TERRITORY OF BEING AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN THE CITY OF SAN 17 FRANCISCO. SO I WOULDN'T TAKE ANY OF THIS SERIOUSLY. 18 THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ANY OTHER COMMENTS 20 FROM THE BOARD? 21 WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS. WE ARE GOING TO OBSERVE 22 THE TIME LIMIT. THE FIRST ONE IS RODGER SCOTT. 23 MR. SCOTT: GOOD EVENING. THIS IS A TOUGH CALL. 24 I AM ALWAYS AN ADVOCATE OF DUE PROCESS. AND I THINK THE 25 PROCEDURE THAT BROUGHT THIS PERSON'S APPOINTMENT TO YOU APRIL 29, 2010 167 1 WAS LEGITIMATE. AND I WOULD NOT ARGUE AGAINST DEFEATING 2 THAT. 3 HOWEVER, AND I DON'T SEE IT AS VERY SERIOUS YOUR 4 BEING CALLED, "FASCISTS" EITHER. I THINK WE ARE CALLED A 5 LOT OF NAMES IN LIFE AND SOMETIMES THE ATTACKS FROM SOME 6 PEOPLE ENHANCE THEIR REPUTATION RATHER THAN DETRACT FROM 7 IT. 8 I ALSO THINK THOUGH THAT SOMETHING -- I THINK IT 9 WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO GO FORWARD TONIGHT ON THIS 10 APPOINTMENT. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT TABLED FOR ONE MONTH 11 IN ORDER FOR SOME MEETING TO TAKE PLACE INVOLVING THE 12 CHANCELLOR AND THIS INDIVIDUAL THAT -- I DON'T KNOW THE 13 PERSON BY THE WAY AND THE STUDENT TRUSTEE. 14 I THINK WHEN PEOPLE MAKE THE KIND OF CHARGES 15 THAT ARE MADE TONIGHT FOR WHEN AN INTERIM APPOINTMENT IS 16 ABOUT TO BE MADE, I DON'T THINK IT'S -- I WOULD THINK IT 17 IS WRONG OF YOU TO REJECT THE APPOINTMENT BASED ON THE 18 COMMENTS MADE. HOWEVER, I THINK TO DO NOTHING AND TO NOT 19 TAKE IT SERIOUSLY AND DELAY THE PROCESS FOR A MONTH WOULD 20 NOT BE THE RIGHT THING EITHER. THANK YOU. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MADELINE MUELLER. 22 MS. MUELLER: MADELINE MUELLER, CHAIR OF THE 23 MUSIC DEPARTMENT. 24 I HAVE KNOWN MISS BOB 35 YEARS OR SO. I KNOW 25 HIS DEVOTION TO STUDENTS IS ABSOLUTE. HIS DESK IS LIKE APRIL 29, 2010 168 1 ONE INCH AWAY FROM MINE. AND THE STUDENTS WHO COME INTO 2 OUR OFFICE AND OUR COUNSELED BY HIM, THE GAY, LESBIAN AND 3 ESPECIALLY THE TRANS STUDENTS. HE IS AN ISLAND OF SENSE 4 AND SENSIBILITY TOWARDS THEM. 5 IN THE BIG MEETING, YES, HE TOLD ME. HE TELLS 6 ME EVERYTHING. HE'S NEVER -- BY THE WAY, I DON'T KNOW 7 WHAT KIND OF E-MAILS YOU GET, BECAUSE I'VE NEVER HEARD THE 8 WORD "FASCISTS" PASS HIS LIPS AND WE GOSSIP ALL THE TIME. 9 SO THAT'S SURPRISING TO ME. I WILL SURE ASK HIM ABOUT IT. 10 BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING HE IS YELLING AROUND IN THE OFFICE. 11 I WILL TELL YOU THAT. 12 AND AT THE MEETING, IF THIS IS THESE TWO 13 INCIDENTS, YES, IF YOU REMEMBER, JOSH, WE WERE TRYING TO 14 START A MEETING. AND YOU WERE AT THE MICROPHONE. AND 15 THERE WAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF LOTS OF CONFUSION. AND HE 16 DID TELL ME HE WANTED FOR YOU TO GET AWAY FROM THE 17 MICROPHONE SO WE COULD START THE MEETING. AND THAT WAS 18 THE CONTEXT OF THE REMARK. AND I THINK IF YOU LISTEN TO 19 THE TAPE, YOU WILL HEAR THAT VERY CLEARLY. 20 SO TO TAKE SOMEBODY WITH THIS MUCH DEVOTION AND 21 TORTURE HIM FOR A MONTH IS, I THINK, UNCALLED FOR. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 ATTILA GABOR. 24 MR. GABOR: I JUST WANT TO MAKE A CORRECTION 25 ABOUT WHAT THE CHANCELLOR SAID EARLIER WHICH IS ACTUALLY APRIL 29, 2010 169 1 GOING TO MAKE THE CHANCELLOR'S CASE STRONGER. IT WAS 2 ACTUALLY THE SEIU WHO NOMINATED THE CLASSIFIED. SO IT WAS 3 SEIU. THAT MAKES THE PRESENCE A LITTLE BIT STRONGER. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 FRANCINE PODENSKI. 6 MS. PODENSKI: I AM CONCERNED HERE. I THINK 7 THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I AM CONCERN ABOUT HERE IS 8 THERE WAS A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE. AND 9 THERE WERE STUDENTS THAT WERE NOT PLEASED WITH THE WAY 10 THAT MEETING WAS RUN. AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF 11 UNRESOLVED ISSUES PERHAPS BETWEEN STUDENTS AND FACULTY 12 THAT WE HAVE NOT SAT DOWN AND TALKED. AND TO SELECT ONE 13 FACULTY MEMBER WHO WAS THERE OUT OF THAT MIX, I THINK IS 14 UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE IT IS A BIGGER ISSUE. AND PERHAPS IT 15 WOULD BE GOOD FOR ALL THE FACULTY INVOLVED WITH THAT 16 MEETING AND THE STUDENTS WHO ARE CONCERNED TO SIT DOWN AND 17 HAVE A CONVERSATION. THERE WERE OVER 100 FACULTY IN THE 18 ROOM. AND THERE WAS A LOT OF PASSION I WOULD SAY AT THE 19 TIME. 20 MY EXPERIENCE WITH MISS BOB HAS BEEN -- I HAVE 21 NOT KNOWN HIM FOR A LONG TIME. BUT FOR THE YEARS I HAVE 22 KNOWN HIM, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS OFTEN FLOCKING 23 AROUND HIM. HE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE COLLEGE, 24 PASSIONATE ABOUT THE STUDENTS. AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY 25 STUDENTS AROUND HIM UNHAPPY. IN FACT, THEY SEEM TO BE APRIL 29, 2010 170 1 ALMOST AT TIMES FANS OR SOMETHING OF HIM AS A TEACHER. HE 2 IS TRULY PASSIONATE. 3 AND I KNOW FROM TALKING WITH HIM THAT HE HAD TO 4 MAKE A VERY TOUGH CHOICE, EVEN CONSIDERING THIS POSITION 5 BECAUSE IT MEANT LEAVING THE CLASSROOM. HE WAS LITERALLY 6 IN TEARS ONE DAY OVER THAT THOUGHT, SO I WOULD HOPE -- I 7 THINK DELAYING THIS IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THE PERSON, BUT OUR 8 SCHOOLS LIBERAL ARTS, WHICH I AM A PART, IS GOING TO BE 9 LEFT HANGING BECAUSE OUR CURRENT DEAN IS MOVING TO NEW 10 YORK AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. AND WE WON'T HAVE THAT 11 TRANSITION. WE NEED A TRAINING PERIOD. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 MS. PODENSKI: WE REALLY DO. I WOULD IMPLORE 14 YOU TO VOTE ON THIS TONIGHT AND TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: LISA ROMANO. 16 MS. ROMANO: GOOD EVENING. I'M LISA ROMANO, 17 FORMER ACADEMIC SENATE PRESIDENT, ALSO COCHAIR OF ASIAN 18 COALITION. AND IN MY EVERYDAY JOB, COUNSELOR IN THE NEW 19 STUDENT COUNSELING DEPARTMENT AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 20 FRANCISCO HERE. 21 I WANT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF MISS BOB DAVIS. 22 WE'VE TALKED ON MANY OCCASIONS ABOUT COUNSELING STUDENTS. 23 AND IN PARTICULARLY, COUNSELING TRANSGENDERED STUDENTS 24 BECAUSE THEY FEEL THE MOST DISFRANCHISED IN OUR SCHOOL. 25 YOU KNOW, I HAVE MET WITH SEVERAL TRANSGENDERED APRIL 29, 2010 171 1 STUDENTS, AND WE TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES. AND I 2 THINK THAT IN SUPPORTING -- AND I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT IN 3 SUPPORTING THIS APPOINTMENT, WE ARE SENDING A CLEAR 4 MESSAGE TO OUR TRANSGENDERED STUDENTS THAT WE VALUE 5 DIVERSITY. SO PLEASE, PLEASE VOTE "YES" ON THIS 6 APPOINTMENT. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 CHRIS LLOYD. 9 MR. LLOYD: I'M DONE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU ARE DONE, OKAY. 11 GOOD. 12 LENA CAREW. 13 MS. CAREW: OKAY, SO I WAS THERE AT THE SPECIAL 14 HEARING THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. AND FIRST OFF, I WOULD 15 SAY THAT JOSHUA NEILSEN WAS ASKING FOR A POINT OF PROCESS 16 AT THE TIME THAT HE WAS YELLED AT. HE WAS ASKING ABOUT 17 THE PROCESS WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK. HE WASN'T 18 TRYING TO INTERRUPT ANYTHING ACTUALLY. HE WAS ACTUALLY 19 TRYING TO BE A PART OF IT. 20 AND MISS BOB'S BEHAVIOR THAT DAY -- AND I GUESS 21 I SHOULD START OFF BY SAYING THAT I DON'T WANT TO DISCOUNT 22 HIS CAREER AS A FACULTY. I MEAN I AM SURE HE'S HELPED SO 23 MANY STUDENTS IN THE PAST. 24 UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVEN'T HAD THAT GREAT 25 EXPERIENCE THAT OTHER STUDENTS HAVE BENEFITTED FROM. MY APRIL 29, 2010 172 1 EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN YELLED AT. AND SO I FEEL THAT IT'S 2 VERY DISHEARTENING THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR 3 AND BEING GIVEN THIS POSITION WOULD BE CONDONING HIS 4 BEHAVIOR WHEN NO APOLOGY HAS BEEN MADE. 5 I AM VERY FRUSTRATED BY THIS. AND THAT'S 6 ACTUALLY WHY I BROUGHT IT UP EARLIER THAT I THINK THAT WE 7 SHOULD BE A PART OF THE HIRING PROCESS WHEN IT COMES TO 8 INTERIM DEANS AND ASSOCIATE DEANS. I KNOW THAT MIGHT BE A 9 LITTLE BIT FRUSTRATING FOR SOME PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, BUT 10 IT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE WE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO DEAL 11 WITH THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE ADVISING. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO 12 BE OUR SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND TO HELP US THROUGH OUR ACADEMIC 13 CAREER. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. 14 AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MAYBE MISS BOB HAS A 15 REALLY LONG STANDING REPUTATION OF HELPING A LOT OF 16 PEOPLE, AND I RESPECT THAT. BUT TO THE LEVEL OF 17 DISRESPECT AND VERY RECENTLY, IT SHOULDN'T BE OVERLOOKED 18 AND IT SHOULDN'T BE IGNORED. 19 I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR JOSH TO TALK 20 TO MISS BOB MAYBE IN SOME SORT OF SETTING, BUT WE CAN'T 21 IGNORE HIS BEHAVIOR. IT'S UNACCEPTABLE. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 SAMMY -- I CAN'T READ THE LAST NAME. I'M SORRY. 24 MS. RAMIREZ: RAMIREZ. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: RAMIREZ. APRIL 29, 2010 173 1 MS. RAMIREZ: HI, GOOD EVENING. 2 I WAS ALSO PRESENT AT THAT SPECIAL ACADEMIC 3 SENATE MEETING. AND I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT I WAS 4 EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED AT THE BEHAVIOR OF THE FACULTY. 5 I LOVE CITY COLLEGE. I AM A CITY COLLEGE 6 AMBASSADOR. I GO OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AND I RAVE ABOUT 7 CITY COLLEGE. AND HERE I AM LOOKING AT THE TEACHERS BE 8 DISRESPECTFUL AND BE SO HOSTILE AND JUST RUDE. AND NEVER, 9 EVER, EVER SHOULD THIS BE ACCEPTED. 10 I AM A STUDENT. YOU GUYS HAVE A JOB. THE 11 TEACHERS HAVE A JOB BECAUSE OF ME. AND I HAVE NEVER MET 12 MR. BOB, BUT I DO REMEMBER HIM AND HIS ATTITUDE. AND I 13 WILL NEVER FORGET THAT. AND THE STUDENTS SHOULD NEVER 14 FEEL LIKE THAT. 15 AND SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE NEED TO BE A 16 PART OF HOW YOU GUYS PUT PEOPLE INTO POWER BECAUSE HE 17 SHOULDN'T HAVE THAT POSITION IF HE EVER MADE A STUDENT 18 FEEL LIKE WE FELT THAT DAY. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 20 ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 21 OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. 22 TRUSTEE WONG. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IN ALL 24 THE YEARS THAT I'VE KNOWN MISS BOB AND ALL THE YEARS THAT 25 HE APPEARED BEFORE THIS BOARD, I DON'T THINK I HAVE SEEN APRIL 29, 2010 174 1 HIM COME ONE TIME WITHOUT BEING SURROUNDED BY A CADRE OF 2 STUDENTS AND HIS SUPPORTERS OR HIS FANS AS YOU SUGGESTED. 3 HE IS THAT BELOVED. 4 I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THAT EVENING, BUT I 5 WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION BECAUSE I 6 THINK HE WOULD BE -- WOULDN'T HE BE THE FIRST TRANSGENDER 7 ADMINISTRATOR AT CITY COLLEGE? I'M NOT SURE. 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: WOULDN'T HE BE IN THE HISTORY OF 10 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO? 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: IT SENDS A VERY STRONG MESSAGE 13 BECAUSE I HAVE DEALT WITH TRANSGENDERS. WHEN I WAS ON THE 14 HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO AND AT THAT 15 TIME TRANSGENDERS WERE OPEN TARGETS. THE POLICE COULD 16 SHOOT -- BEAT THEM UP WITHOUT ANY REPERCUSSIONS. WE'VE 17 COME A LONG WAY, BUT WOULDN'T IT BE EXCITING IF CITY 18 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO WOULD APPOINT THE FIRST 19 TRANSGENDER ADMINISTRATOR. 20 I ALSO WOULD GO ALONG WITH TRUSTEE JACKSON FOR 21 MISS BOB AND THE STUDENTS TO GET TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT 22 THIS ONE EPISODE. I THINK IT IS AN EXCEPTION OF ALL THE 23 YEARS THAT I'VE KNOWN HIM. AND THIS IS AN EXCITING 24 OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE MISS BOB, AGAIN, I MEAN OUT OF ALL THE 25 YEARS HE'S SPOKEN BEFORE THIS BOARD, THIS BODY, ALWAYS APRIL 29, 2010 175 1 SURROUNDED BY HIS FANS, HIS STUDENTS, HE IS SO BELOVED, 2 AND I AM KIND OF SHOCKED TO HEAR, JOSH, WHAT OCCURRED AND 3 I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A DISCUSSION BETWEEN YOU TWO. 4 I MOVE THE QUESTION. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK IT WAS MOVED. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: CALL THE QUESTION. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU ARE CALLING THE 8 QUESTION. CALLING THE QUESTION REQUIRES A VOTE. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, THAT'S FINE. LET'S VOTE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: IF PEOPLE ARE READY, LET'S VOTE. 11 IT'S UP TO YOU. YOU ARE THE CHAIR. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I HAVE JUST 30 SECONDS. LIKE 13 I SAID, I WOULD LIKE -- I WOULD LOVE FOR MISS BOB AND JOSH 14 TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CONVERSATION. 15 I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU MANDATE THAT THROUGH THIS 16 RESOLUTION, BUT THEY DO SERIOUSLY NEED TO TALK. THEY NEED 17 TO TALK SOON BECAUSE IT SENDS ONE MESSAGE TO HAVE THE 18 FIRST TRANSGENDER ADMINISTRATOR. I AM PROUD TO BE VOTING 19 ON THAT. 20 BUT IT ALSO SENDS ANOTHER STRONG MESSAGE FROM 21 WHEN YOU BEHAVE LIKE THAT TO A STUDENT AND THEN THEY GET 22 EVALUATED EVEN IF WE ARE TEMPORARY. THAT SENDS ANOTHER 23 MESSAGE THAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT. SO THEY REALLY NEED TO 24 HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: I WILL CONVEY THAT MESSAGE TO APRIL 29, 2010 176 1 HIM. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: THE CHANCELLOR WANTS TO SAY 4 SOMETHING. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 6 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I WOULD BE VERY HAPPY TO 7 SIT DOWN WITH THEM AND HAVE THIS CONVERSATION AFTER HE IS 8 OR SHE IS APPOINTED TO THE POSITION. 9 BUT I ALSO HAVE KNOWN MISS BOB FOR A LONG TIME, 10 AND I HAVE ALSO OBSERVED UNDER MANY CIRCUMSTANCES. AND I 11 DON'T HAVE A SINGLE EXAMPLE TO COUNTER THAT'S NEGATIVE TO 12 PUT OUT THERE. 13 SO I AM JUST PLEADING WITH THE BOARD TO GO 14 FORWARD WITH THIS BECAUSE IT SENDS A MUCH STRONGER MESSAGE 15 SAYING, "NO" TO THIS APPOINTMENT THEN IT DOES THE OTHER 16 WAY. 17 IF THIS WERE A PERMANENT APPOINTMENT, I WOULD BE 18 100 PERCENT WITH YOU ON THAT. THIS IS NOT A PERMANENT 19 APPOINTMENT. THIS IS AN INTERIM APPOINTMENT. THE 20 INTENTION IS FOR THIS TO BE SHORT TERM. YOU WILL HAVE 21 PLENTY OF TIME TO ASSESS. AND I WILL SIT ON TOP OF THE 22 SITUATION. AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING UNTOWARD REMEMBER WE 23 CAN TERMINATE THE INTERIM APPOINTMENT JUST LIKE THAT IF 24 WE'VE GOT SOMETHING THAT'S NOT WORKING AS FAR AS THE 25 INTERIM APPOINTMENT IS CONCERNED. APRIL 29, 2010 177 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: JUST REAL BRIEFLY. I'VE HEARD 3 SEVERAL THINGS. AND I'M JUST A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT IT 4 SEEMS LIKE FROM THE FACULTY'S VIEW POINT AND FROM THE 5 STUDENT'S VIEW POINT THAT THERE IS A RIFT. THERE IS A 6 PROBLEM WITH THE CITY COLLEGE FAMILY THAT SHOULD BE 7 ADDRESSED. 8 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD HOLD UP THE VOTE 9 FOR MISS BOB BECAUSE I THINK -- A WONDERFUL PERSON. BUT I 10 AM ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE. AND IF 11 WE VOTE, WHAT IT WILL DO IN TERMS OF THEIR CONFIDENCE AND 12 IN TERMS OF THEIR BEING IGNORED. SO IT'S AN ISSUE THAT 13 HAS TO BE ADDRESSED. THE PROBLEMS THAT OCCURRED, THEY 14 NEED TO BE TALKED OUT LIKE A FAMILY AND RESOLVED, SO WE 15 NEED TO DO THAT. JUST HOW WE CAN DO IT, I'M NOT SURE, BUT 16 I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER -- 17 TRUSTEE BERG: THE CHANCELLOR JUST OFFERED TO DO 18 IT. LET'S GET ON WITH THE VOTE. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: THANK YOU. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE. I 22 HAVE NOT BEEN ASKING THE STUDENT TRUSTEE FOR HIS VOTE 23 FIRST, BUT I WILL DO THAT NOW. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): I AN GOING APRIL 29, 2010 178 1 TO VOTE, "NO." 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. NOW FOR THE BOARD, 3 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 8 TRUSTEE NGO: NAY. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 12 TRUSTEE NGO: NAY. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THAT ONE "NAY?" 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON: NO. I AM GOING TO STAY WITH 16 THE "AYE." 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I AM GOING TO TRUST THAT 19 CONVERSATION HAPPENS. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I AM GOING TO TRUST THAT 22 WHEN THIS IS A PERMANENT POSITION THAT WE SERIOUSLY HAVE 23 THAT CONVERSATION -- 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: -- AND WIDEN THE POOL OF APRIL 29, 2010 179 1 APPLICANTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE -- 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. LET'S MOVE 3 ON, PLEASE. 4 RESOLUTION F6, IT'S RENAMING THE VICE 5 CHANCELLOR'S TITLE. 6 CAN I HAVE A MOTION FOR THAT. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 10 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 11 SEEING NONE, STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN. 12 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THE BOARD. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 18 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 22 OKAY, F7, IS A TRANSFER OF DEAN OF FACILITY 23 (SIC) SUPPORT SERVICES/COURSE/ROOM SCHEDULING. 24 IS THERE A MOTION? 25 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. APRIL 29, 2010 180 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 4 ANY DISCUSSION? 5 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 17 OKAY, MOTION CARRIES. 18 (TRUSTEE WONG LEAVES THE MEETING.) 19 POLICY, NOW WE HAVE FOUR POLICY RESOLUTIONS. 20 THIS IS THE SECOND READING OF THESE. THESE HAVE BEEN 21 HEARD IN COMMITTEE. THEY HAVE BEEN PASSED BY THIS BOARD 22 PREVIOUSLY AT FIRST READING. 23 CAN I HAVE A MOTION FOR P1. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? APRIL 29, 2010 181 1 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY DISCUSSION? 3 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 4 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 11 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 15 MOTION CARRIES. 16 P2, IS THERE A MOTION FOR P2? 17 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE'S A MOTION. 19 IS THERE A SECOND? 20 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 22 STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 182 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 8 MOTION CARRIES. 9 RESOLUTION P3, IS THERE A MOTION? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECOND? 12 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 14 ANY DISCUSSION? 15 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 19 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 23 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) APRIL 29, 2010 183 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOTION CARRIES. 2 P4, IS THERE A MOTION FOR P4? 3 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 5 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ANY COMMENTS? 7 DISCUSSION, PUBLIC COMMENT? 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL IN FAVOR. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 19 RESOLUTION P4 PASSES. 20 WE ARE NOW UP TO THE S RESOLUTIONS. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: S2. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: S2, OKAY, LET'S SEE HERE 23 IS THERE A MOTION FOR IT? 24 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. APRIL 29, 2010 184 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE'S A MOTION AND A 2 SECOND. 3 RIGHT, "EVALUATION OF EXPANSION OF ACCESS TO 4 CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR ENGLISH AS A 5 SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS." 6 TRUSTEE NGO, DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I HAVE SOME COMMENTS. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK TRUSTEE BERG HAD SOME 10 COMMENTS. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: I DO. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: I WANT TO THANK TRUSTEE JACKSON 15 FOR COSPONSORING THIS RESOLUTION. ESL IS AN AREA THAT'S 16 OFTEN IGNORED WITHIN THE LARGER COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY OUR 17 ROLE, CITY COLLEGE'S ROLE IN EDUCATING STUDENTS WHO ARE 18 LAP. AND WE EDUCATE ABOUT 40,000 STUDENTS A YEAR. OF 19 COURSE, NOT ONLY DO WE EDUCATE THEM, WE DON'T GET FUNDING 20 IN A WAY THAT WE SHOULD GET FUNDED. 21 THIS PROGRAM REALLY -- THIS RESOLUTION REALLY 22 BUILDS ON THE LOCAL HIRING RESOLUTION. AGAIN, WE ARE 23 TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO GET CERTAIN STUDENTS WHO HAVE 24 ISSUES STOPPING OUT OF ESL TO GET IN THE PATHWAY TO CTE TO 25 THE CTE DEPARTMENT AND GET THEM PREPARED FOR JOBS. APRIL 29, 2010 185 1 THIS OFTEN HELPS WITH LOCAL HIRING THAT WE 2 DISCUSSED EARLIER, WHICH IS HOW WE CREATE ACCESS FOR THE 3 40,000 STUDENTS THAT WE SERVE AND ALIGN THEM AND ASSIST 4 THEM MAYBE TO COMPETE FOR SOME OF THESE JOBS THAT DO 5 REQUIRE SPECIAL TRAINING, VOCATIONAL TRAINING. 6 I KNOW TRUSTEE BERG HAS SOME ISSUES WITH THE 7 BOARD'S ROLE ON THIS MATTER. AND I AM HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT 8 WITH HER. BUT I THINK IT IS ALSO SOMETHING WHERE THE 9 COMMUNITY IS OFTEN UNDESERVED, BUT ALSO A POLITICAL AND 10 DISEMPOWERED. 11 AND THE IDEA THAT WE CAN HAVE EVEN RAISING UP AN 12 ISSUE FOR THOSE POPULATIONS TO GIVE THEM ACCESS TO THE 13 INSTITUTION IN A WAY THAT GETS THEM THROUGH A SYSTEM AND A 14 PATHWAY, TO HAVE THEM FIND A BETTER JOB AND LOCATION IS 15 WORTH RAISING OR AT LEAST HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT AS 16 WELL. 17 SO I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR SUPPORT. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. 19 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, I DO. MY PROBLEM WITH THIS 20 IS THAT I CONSIDER IT TO BE TOP DOWN. I DON'T THINK IT'S 21 THE -- I REALLY DON'T THINK IT IS THE JOB OF THE BOARD OF 22 TRUSTEES TO TELL THE FACULTY WHAT TO DO. 23 I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT I THINK A MISIMPRESSION. 24 ESL IS HUGE. IT IS HUGE IN THIS COLLEGE. WE HAVE A VERY 25 LARGE POPULATION FOR ESL. THERE'S VERY LARGE FUNDING. I APRIL 29, 2010 186 1 THINK THAT ITS AN AREA THAT IS WELL, WELL REGARDED IN THIS 2 INSTITUTION AND VERY WELL TAKEN CARE OF. 3 YOU KNOW, I WILL JUST ALWAYS OBJECT TO ANYTHING 4 THAT I FEEL THE BOARD IS OVERSTEPPING. AND I THINK THE 5 BOARD IS OVERSTEPPING. I THINK AN EVALUATION OF THE 6 PROGRAM SHOULD BE DONE BY THOSE INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM. 7 IT SHOULD NOT BE DONE BY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SITTING WHO 8 ARE ELECTED TO OVERSEE POLICY OF THE DISTRICT. WE ARE NOT 9 ELECTED TO MICROMANAGE THE DISTRICT. AND I BELIEVE THAT 10 THIS IS MICROMANAGEMENT. SO I WILL OPPOSE IT ON THAT 11 ISSUE, NOT THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF THIS, BUT THE ISSUE 12 INVOLVED. I THINK THAT THE BASIS OF THIS SHOULD BE GIVEN 13 TO THE FACULTY AND THE DEPARTMENT. I THINK IT IS 14 APPROPRIATELY VESTED THERE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, TRUSTEE JACKSON. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND WHEN I LOOK AT THIS, YOU 17 KNOW, I SEE THIS AS AN EXTRA POLICY. AND I THINK THAT'S 18 WHERE WE HAVE A CLEAR DIFFERENCE OF WHERE THAT LINE OF 19 DEMARKATION IS. 20 THIS RESOLUTION ASKS US AND IT CREATES POLICY TO 21 EXTEND. AND WE JUST HEARD ONE OF THE YOUNG WOMEN WHO IS 22 THE PRESIDENT OF EVANS CAMPUS SAY, YOU KNOW, I TALKED TO A 23 WOMAN WHO IS LIMITED IN ENGLISH. AND SHE SAID, JOB, JOB 24 AFTER HER CLASS. THAT'S WHAT THIS RESOLUTION SPEAKS TO. 25 IT'S EXTENDING OUR CAREER AND TECHNICAL PROGRAMS TO FOLKS APRIL 29, 2010 187 1 WHO ARE LIMITED TO ENGLISH. AND THAT SETS A POLICY. 2 AND THAT'S THE KICK START OF CONVERSATION WITHIN 3 THE COLLEGE. WE, AS ELECTED OFFICIALS, HAVE TO LEAD. WE 4 HAVE TO LEAD. I BELIEVE IN BOTTOM UP SOLUTIONS, YES. AND 5 I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SETS A POLICY GOAL FOR WHAT 6 WE WANT THIS INSTITUTION TO DO. AND IT SETS A FRAMEWORK 7 FOR HOW WE ARE GOING TO DO IT AND THEN WE ARE IMPLORING ON 8 THE INSTITUTION TO ACTUALLY DO IT. 9 I SEE THIS AS LEADERSHIP. AND I SEE THIS AS A 10 POLICY. WE CAN'T MAKE EDUCATIONAL POLICY ON THIS BOARD A 11 POLICY SAYING THAT WE ARE GOING TO EXTEND OUR CURRENT 12 TECHNICAL EDUCATION TO ESL STUDENTS. I QUESTION THE ROLE 13 THAT WE HAVE ON THIS BOARD. THIS IS EDUCATIONAL POLICY, 14 AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY I SEE IT. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: I WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TO THAT. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: CAN I? 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: THIS IS A POLICY, BUT WHETHER OR 19 NOT IT'S AN APPROPRIATE POLICY FOR US IS ANOTHER QUESTION. 20 REMEMBER SOMETHING, WHEN YOU EXPAND ONE PROGRAM, 21 YOU ARE GOING TO SHRINK ANOTHER ONE. AND YOU ARE NOT 22 TAKING -- IN THIS KIND OF DECISION, WE ARE NOT TAKING A 23 WHOLE PICTURE IN VIEW. AND THAT'S THE POLICY THAT THE 24 BOARD IS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 25 LOOKING AT THE OVERALL. APRIL 29, 2010 188 1 IN MY OPINION WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING AT 2 THE OVERALL PROGRAM. IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL IS 3 DEFICIENT, IT SHOULD BE DONE. THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED IN 4 OPEN SESSION AFTER WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WITH THE PROGRAM 5 BY THE FACULTY AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE CLOSEST TO THAT 6 AND WITH THE CHANCELLORS DIRECTION. 7 I DON'T THINK IT IS APPROPRIATE POLICY FOR THE 8 BOARD JUST TO DECIDE THAT THERE'S A PROGRAM THAT FOR ONE 9 REASON OR ANOTHER WE THINK IS IMPORTANT OR SHOULD BE 10 EXPANDED. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE 11 VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS PROGRAM THAT SHOULD BE EXPANDED. 12 SO REMEMBER AS YOU DO THIS, YOU ARE SHRINKING 13 SOMETHING ELSE. AND IT ISN'T THOUGHT OUT. IT SHOULD ALL 14 BE DONE AS ONE WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING. YOU 15 DON'T JUST DECIDE TO EXPAND ONE PROGRAM AND WHO IS GOING 16 TO MAKE THE DECISION THAT ANOTHER ONE GETS CUT? 17 THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. THERE'S NO 18 MONEY. WE HAVE BEEN SITTING HERE ALL NIGHT LONG TALKING 19 ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE DEAD BROKE AND HOW ARE WE GOING 20 TO COME UP WITH FUNDS. 21 AND THAT'S MY ONLY PROBLEM WITH THIS. THIS IS 22 NOT IN CONTEXT. IT'S A PARTICULAR PROGRAM THAT'S BEING 23 PICKED OUT BECAUSE IT HAPPENS TO BE A VERY GOOD PROGRAM. 24 I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT. 25 YOU KNOW, I STARTED OUT MY CAREER AT CITY APRIL 29, 2010 189 1 COLLEGE AS AN ESL TEACHER. I AM VERY CONVERSANT WITH ESL. 2 SO I JUST FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT 3 SHOULD BE COMING UP TO US AND NOT BEING PROMOTED BY US. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST WANT TO HAVE A 5 COMMENT QUICKLY THAT WHEN I READ THIS OVER THE WEEKEND, AT 6 FIRST I THOUGHT, OH, THIS SHOULD BE A P RESOLUTION. BUT 7 THEN I DON'T THINK IT IS A POLICY BECAUSE IT JUST SAYS, 8 "THAT THE DISTRICT SHALL EVALUATE THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING 9 THESE THINGS." 10 IT DOESN'T MANDATE THAT THESE THINGS BE DONE. 11 IT'S JUST SAYING, GO LOOK AT IT AND SEE IF IT'S POSSIBLE. 12 SO I DON'T THINK THAT IS SETTING A POLICY. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE RIZZO. 15 I AM JUST WONDERING WHY OR IF THIS WAS AN 16 OMISSION. WAS THE SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW MADE ON THIS? 17 MR. HUNTSMAN: CAN WE SPEAK? I HAVE A COMMENT. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO, LET'S LET THE 19 TRUSTEES SPEAKS FIRST. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST REALLY QUICKLY. THIS IS NOT 21 AN EXPANSION OF ANY PROGRAM. THIS IS JUST AN EVALUATION 22 OF A POSSIBLE EXPANSION OF A PROGRAM. IF THERE'S MONEY, 23 WE CAN FIND MONEY. IT'S NOT EVEN -- I MEAN, IT'S NOT EVEN 24 IMPLEMENTING ANYTHING BUT FOR US TO LOOK AT SOMETHING AND 25 HAVE DISCUSSION ABOUT IT. APRIL 29, 2010 190 1 SO I CAN TEST THE IDEA THAT ADOPTING THIS 2 RESOLUTION SOMEHOW MEANS WE ARE GOING TO SHRINK SOMETHING 3 ELSE. IT'S WE ARE HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER WE 4 SHOULD OR HOW WE SHOULD OR HOW CAN WE IF WE SHOULD LOOK AT 5 THIS PROGRAM. WE EDUCATE A LOT OF STUDENTS WHO ARE 6 LEARNING ENGLISH, AND HOW WE SET A PATHWAY FOR THEM INTO 7 CTE. AND I THINK IT IS A LITTLE -- IT'S NOT TRUE WHAT 8 YOUR STATEMENT IN TERMS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS 9 RESOLUTION. 10 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT IS THAT THIS IS A 11 TOP-DOWN MEASURE. I MEAN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH WAS PUT IN 12 THERE EXPLICITLY TO SAY, IT WAS NOT TOP DOWN. AND IT WENT 13 THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PROCESS JUST TO EVEN START AN 14 EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM. IT'S NOT EVEN ACTUALLY ANY 15 PROGRAM. SO I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT YOUR 16 IMPRESSIONS ARE OF THIS RESOLUTION. 17 A LOT OF THIS LANGUAGE WAS VETTED BY THE FOLKS 18 IN THE ESL AS IT STATES HERE IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH, SO I 19 DON'T THINK IT'S TOP DOWN. IT'S BEEN PROPERLY VETTED. 20 AND AGAIN, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE FEARFUL 21 ASKING US TO LOOK AT SOMETHING. WE ARE NOT ASKING PEOPLE 22 TO EXPAND ANYTHING. IF WE CAN'T EVEN START CONVERSATION, 23 I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO 24 RAISE THESE ISSUES. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR ANY EXPANDING. 25 WE ARE ASKING FOR US TO LOOK INTO ONE. APRIL 29, 2010 191 1 SO IF YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH THIS RESOLUTION, YOU 2 HAVE ISSUES WITH THE SECOND CHANCE RESOLUTION. YOU HAVE 3 ISSUES WITH THE LOCAL HIRE RESOLUTION. YOU HAVE ISSUES 4 WITH ANY OTHER RESOLUTION THAT ACTUALLY ASKS THE DISTRICT 5 TO LOOK AT SOMETHING. 6 I MEAN IF YOU WANT TO SINGLE THIS PARTICULAR ONE 7 OUT, YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE WELCOME TO. BUT I THINK 8 IT'S A LITTLE INCONSISTENT TO LOOK AT THIS RESOLUTION AND 9 SAY THAT WE ARE HAVING A TOP DOWN ACTION HERE. AND, YOU 10 KNOW, WE PASSED A RESOLUTION TODAY ASKING THE DISTRICT TO 11 NOT EVALUATE, BUT TO ACTUALLY PURSUE AND IMPLEMENT A 12 CEREMONY FOR FORMER INTERNEES. THAT'S ASKING THE DISTRICT 13 TO DO SOMETHING. WE AREN'T ASKING THE DISTRICT TO DO 14 ANYTHING. WE ARE ASKING THEM TO LOOK AT A PROGRAM. 15 SO I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT YOUR IMPRESSION 16 OF THIS RESOLUTION, BUT I TAKE YOU AT YOUR WORD AND THAT 17 YOU HAVE JUST PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES OF WHAT WE SHOULD 18 DO. BUT IT REALLY IS JUST A RESOLUTION TO START A 19 CONVERSATION, EVEN THAT HAVING TO GO THROUGH A RESOLUTION 20 AND TO GO THROUGH THIS VETTING PROCESS. 21 SO I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS, TRUSTEE 22 GRIER, BUT I'M SURE IT CAN. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU MEAN BERG. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: NO, TRUSTEE GRIER, HAD A QUESTION 25 ABOUT THE SHARED GOVERNANCE. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING APRIL 29, 2010 192 1 ABOUT. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: YOU ANSWERED THAT QUESTION ABOUT 3 THE SHARED GOVERNANCE? 4 TRUSTEE NGO: I HOPE SO. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I JUST HAD A CLARIFICATION. I 7 MEANT POLICY STATEMENT, NOT POLICY. I WILL APOLOGIZE FOR 8 THOSE COMMENTS. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ANYONE ELSE ON THE 10 BOARD -- 11 TRUSTEE BERG: NO, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR -- 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST WANTED TO LET THE 13 BOARD MEMBERS HAVE THEIR PIECE, OKAY. 14 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU. 15 WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS RESOLUTION -- HAL 16 HUNTSMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE. 17 WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS RESOLUTION AT THE AGENDA 18 REVIEW, I HAD SOME OF THE SAME CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN 19 RAISED HERE THIS EVENING. IMMEDIATELY I THOUGHT, WOW, 20 WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? 21 AND I IMMEDIATELY TALKED TO THE CHANCELLOR ABOUT 22 IT, AND WE ACTUALLY CALLED THE CHAIR OF ESL. AND HE CAME 23 TO AGENDA REVIEW. AND I WAS QUITE SATISFIED THAT HE WAS 24 HAPPY WITH THE RESOLUTION. AND THAT HE HAD BEEN CONSULTED 25 AND THAT THE DEPARTMENT WENT THROUGH A PROCESS. AND AT APRIL 29, 2010 193 1 THAT POINT I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH THE RESOLUTION GOING 2 FORWARD BECAUSE I DO THINK THE POINTS THAT TRUSTEE NGO IS 3 MAKING ABOUT THIS IS INITIATING A CONVERSATION ARE 4 CORRECT. AND I ALSO BELIEVE THE ESL DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN 5 APPROPRIATELY CONSULTED. 6 GREG, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT TO THAT? 7 MR. KEECH: DO YOU WANT ME TO COMMENT NOW? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU 9 THOUGH IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE ESL 10 DEPARTMENT. 11 MR. KEECH: I WILL. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: I DEFINITELY HAVE A QUESTION. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: YOU ARE SAYING THAT THE SHARED 14 GOVERNANCE WAS -- DID INTERACT. HOW DOES THE ESL 15 DEPARTMENT -- 16 MR. HUNTSMAN: AND AS WELL AS THE CTE 17 DEPARTMENTS OR CTE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED. IT 18 IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SHARED GOVERNANCE PROCESS BECAUSE THIS 19 IS A CONVERSATION. THIS IS A SORT OF A EVALUATION 20 PROPOSAL, RIGHT? 21 IT IS NOT AN ACTUAL POLICY THAT'S COMING 22 FORWARD. IF THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME FUTURE, SAY, PROGRAM 23 CHANGE OR BUDGETARY IMPACT, THEN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE 24 APPROPRIATE SHARED GOVERNANCE BODY INVESTIGATE THAT. 25 BUT AT THIS POINT, THE PROGRAMS AND DEPARTMENTS APRIL 29, 2010 194 1 THAT ARE INVOLVED ARE THE ONES THAT SHOULD SPEAK TO THE 2 ISSUE, SO THAT'S MY -- 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: SO ESL AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER 4 ONE? 5 MR. HUNTSMAN: AND THAT WOULD ALSO INVOLVE THE 6 CTE PROGRAMS. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: GOT IT. OKAY. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: I HAVE A QUESTION I NEED TO ASK. 9 MR. KEECH: GREG KEECH, THE CHAIR OF THE ESL 10 DEPARTMENT. 11 I WANT TO START BY AGREEING THAT THE PROCESS 12 COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. BUT WE WORK TOGETHER TO TRY TO 13 MAKE SURE THAT THE PROCESS WAS AS INCLUSIVE AS POSSIBLE. 14 AND WE MAY NOT HAVE HAD A PERFECT PROCESS, AND THIS MAY 15 NOT BE EXACTLY THE TYPE OF POLICY STATEMENT THAT THE BOARD 16 SHOULD OR WANTS TO BE DOING, BUT THE ISSUE OF BEGINNING 17 ESL STUDENTS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ONE TO THE COLLEGE AND TO 18 THE CITY. IF THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT RESOLUTION FOR THAT, 19 THEN WE CAN WORK ON THAT LATER. 20 WHAT WE HAVE BEGUN IS THE DISCUSSION WITH THE 21 CONSTITUENCIES THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED IN TRYING TO FIGURE 22 OUT AN ANSWER TO THE CONFOUNDING QUESTION OF HOW 23 80 PERCENT OF NONCREDIT STUDENTS WHO TEST INTO ESL AND 24 BEGIN IN LITERACY OR LEVEL 1 CAN BE PREPARED FOR THE 25 WORKFORCE AND FOR CTE PROGRAMS AT CITY COLLEGE BECAUSE WE APRIL 29, 2010 195 1 DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. WE KNOW WHO THE 2 CONSTITUENCIES ARE IN THE COLLEGE. 3 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S IN THIS RESOLUTION THAT 4 I FEEL IS ACTUALLY AN IMPORTANT DYNAMIC PIECE OF IT -- AND 5 AGAIN, I CEDE TO THE BOARD ANY PROCESS ISSUES. WE DON'T 6 KNOW VERY MUCH AT ALL ABOUT THE BEGINNING ESL STUDENTS 7 PRIOR EDUCATION. WE DON'T COLLECT THAT INFORMATION IN OUR 8 NONCREDIT APPLICATION. THAT INFORMATION DOES NOT EXIST IN 9 BANNER. 10 WE ALSO DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH AT ALL ABOUT WHAT 11 HAPPENS WHEN A STUDENT STOPS OUT. WE KNOW THAT STUDENTS 12 COME. SOME OF THEM FOR AS LITTLE AS EIGHT HOURS OF 13 INSTRUCTION. SOME FOR A LITTLE MORE. THEY LEAVE. THEY 14 MAY COME BACK AFTER TWO YEARS. THEY MAY TEST A LEVEL OR 15 TWO HIGHER. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THE INTERIM. 16 WE WOULD LIKE TO DO SOME RESEARCH. WE KNOW THE 17 QUESTIONS WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK. THIS IS RESEARCH ABOUT AN 18 AREA WHERE NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE 19 ACTUALLY DELVED. WE KNOW THAT SOME FOLKS IN SOUTH SAN 20 FRANCISCO AT A COMMUNITY CENTER HAVE GOTTEN A GRANT FROM 21 THE SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND HAVE STARTED 22 IN THIS DIRECTION, SO THERE IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT OF A 23 DIRECTION STARTED OUT HERE. 24 THE CONVERSATION SHOULD INCLUDE SOME PEOPLE 25 BEYOND WHAT WE'VE GOTTEN SO FAR. IN FACT THE BACKGROUND APRIL 29, 2010 196 1 INFORMATION HERE IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE GROUP OF 2 CONSTITUENTS WITHIN THE COLLEGE. I WOULD EXPAND THAT TO 3 INCLUDE NEW AND CONTINUING STUDENT COUNSELING, THE CTE 4 COMMITTEE AND CHAIRS OF OTHER CTE DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE 5 NOT YET BEEN CONSULTED. 6 THESE ARE OUR ISSUES. I'M NOT SURE THIS 7 ADDRESSES THESE ISSUES IN THE MOST CORRECT WAY. BUT IF 8 THEY ARE BEING ADDRESSED IN A REAL WAY AND IN A WAY 9 WHERE -- WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS WE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO 10 HAVE THIS DISCUSSION HAPPEN. AND WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND 11 OUT THOSE THINGS WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT OUR MOST BEGINNING 12 STUDENTS. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: MAY I? 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SURE. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOU 16 WANTING TO EVALUATE. I THINK YOU SHOULD. I THINK THAT'S 17 APPROPRIATE. CLEARLY, YOU KNOW A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN WE 18 KNOW. THERE'S PROBABLY ONLY MYSELF AND MAYBE THE 19 CHANCELLOR WHO HAVE EVEN HAD EXPERIENCE WITH ESL. I DON'T 20 KNOW ABOUT TRUSTEE GRIER. 21 PRESIDENT GRIER: I HAVE. 22 TRUSTEE BERG: BUT WE HAVE LIMITED EXPERIENCE OF 23 ESL. AND MY WHOLE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT THIS SHOULDN'T 24 HAPPEN, BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING AT THIS LEVEL. IT 25 SHOULD BE HAPPENING AT YOUR LEVEL. YOU ARE THE ONE THAT APRIL 29, 2010 197 1 HAS THE EXPERTISE. WE HAVE NO EXPERTISE. 2 AND IF YOU FEEL THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE ESL 3 DEPARTMENT TO GET THIS INFORMATION FOR THE GOOD OF YOUR 4 PROGRAM, AND I TRUST THAT IS ABSOLUTELY THE CASE, THEN YOU 5 SHOULD BE DOING THAT. I THINK THAT THE ESL DEPARTMENT IS 6 WHERE IT SHOULD APPROPRIATELY START, APPROPRIATELY SHOULD 7 BE CARRIED OUT AND APPROPRIATELY WE SHOULD GET THE FINAL 8 RESULTS. 9 SO MY QUESTION IS TRUE. IT IS A PHILOSOPHICAL 10 QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE BOARD, AND WHAT IS 11 THE ROLE OF THE DEPARTMENT? 12 AND IT JUST SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS SO CLEARLY 13 THE ROLE OF THE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE IT REALLY HAS TO DO 14 WITH YOUR CONSTITUENCIES. AND YOU ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE 15 GROUND. YOU KNOW IT. THIS IS YOUR EXPERTISE. THIS IS 16 NOT OUR EXPERTISE. AND THAT'S MY QUESTION WITH THIS. IT 17 IS NOT AT ALL QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT IT IS IMPORTANT. 18 I THINK IT'S EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT. 19 AND AS I SAID, I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE ESL 20 DEPARTMENT. THAT'S MY PROBLEM. MY PROBLEM IS THAT IT 21 SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY COMING FROM AND WITHIN YOUR 22 DEPARTMENT. 23 MR. KEECH: I DON'T THINK THAT'S A QUESTION FOR 24 ME. I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION FOR THE BOARD. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR APRIL 29, 2010 198 1 YOU. WHY DID IT COME TO THE BOARD? SOMEBODY -- DID YOU 2 ASK THAT THE BOARD CARRY THIS FORWARD? 3 AND IF SO, WHY? 4 THIS IS JUST A QUESTION FOR OWN EDIFICATION. 5 MR. KEECH: I DID NOT INITIATE IT. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: SO WAS IT INITIATED BY YOUR 7 DEPARTMENT OR DO YOU KNOW? 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I INITIATED IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT 9 IT WAS AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION TO HAVE. WE EDUCATE -- 10 40,000 OF OUR STUDENTS ARE ESL STUDENTS. AND WE SERVE 11 THOSE PEOPLE. OUR INSTITUTION SERVES THOSE PEOPLE. 12 AND, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A POLITICAL BODY THAT 13 EXISTS HERE, IT'S THIS BODY. AND IF WE WANT TO RAISE IT 14 AS AN ISSUE, PEOPLE WHO ELECT US, WHO SERVE US, THAT'S WHY 15 WE ARE HERE. I CAMPAIGNED ON IT. I WORKED ON IT. IT'S 16 IMPORTANT TO ME. 17 I DISPUTE THE FACT THAT ONLY YOU AND CHANCELLOR 18 GRIFFIN KNOW WHAT ESL IS ABOUT. MY MOTHER WAS A ESL. MY 19 WHOLE FAMILY WAS ESL. I UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE 20 IN THOSE COMMUNITIES TO KNOW WHAT STOP OUT MEANS AND 21 WHETHER THEY GOING OR THEY ARE NOT GOING. THERE'S OTHER 22 EXPERIENCE THAT MATTERS. 23 THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERIENCE IS IN HIS HANDS. 24 I DIDN'T DRAFT THIS RESOLUTION THINKING I KNEW THE ANSWER. 25 I ASKED HIM BECAUSE I WANTED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION BECAUSE APRIL 29, 2010 199 1 IT IS IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY. I BELIEVE IT IS 2 IMPORTANT TO THIS SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY BECAUSE I DO 3 BELIEVE THEY ARE UNDERSERVED. I DO BELIEVE THEY ARE 4 IGNORED IN THIS TOWN. THEY LACK POLITICAL POWER. THEY 5 CAN'T SPEAK OUT LIKE THEY WANT TO. AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO 6 DO THE WORK DAY TO DAY WHO SERVE THEM. 7 AND SO I APPROACHED THEM. I APPROACHED JOANNE 8 LOW AND I SAID, WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THIS? 9 I DIDN'T SAY LET'S MAKE A POLICY. I WANT TO 10 CHANGE THIS. I SAID, HOW DO WE GET HERE? 11 AND I ENGAGED IN THIS DISCUSSION. AND HE SAID, 12 WELL, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS WHOLE PROCESS. 13 AND I SAID, OKAY, LET'S GO THROUGH THIS WHOLE 14 PROCESS AND THEN HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE. 15 SO I THINK IT'S A LITTLE DISTURBING HERE HOW WE 16 ARE SEEING THIS QUESTIONED. I THINK IT IS OUR ROLE TO SAY 17 WE BELIEVE THIS IS IMPORTANT. AND TO ASK PEOPLE TO DO THE 18 WORK, HOW DO WE GET THIS DONE? 19 I TALKED TO THE CHANCELLOR. I TOLD THE 20 CHANCELLOR AT THE SAME TIME I TALKED TO THE DEPARTMENT 21 CHAIR. HEY, DON, I'M WORKING ON THIS. YOU SHOULD JUST 22 KNOW ABOUT THIS. AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT. WE SHOULD 23 SERVE THIS COMMUNITY. I WANT TO KNOW HOW WE CAN MAKE IT 24 BETTER AND THEN WORK WITH IT. 25 THE STANDARD THAT WE ARE APPLYING HERE, AGAIN, I APRIL 29, 2010 200 1 DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WOULD DO. THAT SAME STANDARD WOULDN'T 2 SUPPORT SECOND CHANCE. THE SECOND CHANCE RESOLUTION WOULD 3 NOT HAVE COME UP. WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD A DISCUSSION 4 ABOUT SECOND CHANCE, BUT FOR THE BOARD SAYING, HEY, HOW 5 CAN WE MAKE SECOND CHANCE BETTER. WE ARE ASKING THE SAME 6 QUESTION HERE. AND IT'S NOT EVEN AN ACT. WE ARE JUST 7 ASKING THEM TO START A DISCUSSION ON IT, SO WE CAN FIGURE 8 OUT WHEN THEY DO THIS RESEARCH, WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE 9 THINGS BETTER. 10 AND IF IT REQUIRES MONEY AND A BUDGET, TELL US 11 WHAT THE MONEY REQUIRES, AND WE WILL FIND A WAY SOMEWHERE. 12 I AM NOT SAYING WE ARE GOING TO FIND IT HERE. I AM SAYING 13 HOW CAN WE CUT DOWN THIS MONEY AFTER THEY COME BACK WITH A 14 PROPOSAL THAT'S DRIVEN BY THEM, NOT ME. POLITICALLY IT'S 15 DRIVEN BY ME BECAUSE I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE RAISE 16 THAT ISSUE, BUT IT'S DRIVEN BY THEM. 17 AND WHEN THEY CAME BACK AND THEY SAY, THIS IS 18 WHY STOP OUTS HAPPEN. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE COME INTO ESL 19 AND THEY DROP OUT. THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO TELL ME. 20 I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. I DON'T KNOW THE 21 ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION TO A LOT OF THE EXTENT. THAT'S 22 ALL THIS RESOLUTION IS. 23 YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I THINK THERE IS A 24 PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCE, BUT I WELCOME IT BECAUSE I THINK 25 WE SHOULD HAVE A DISCUSSION. AT LEAST WE COULD TALK ABOUT APRIL 29, 2010 201 1 SOMETHING. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE 3 FORWARD ON THIS ITEM. I WILL POINT OUT THAT EACH -- EVERY 4 RESOLVED CLAUSE STARTS OUT WITH "THIS EVALUATION" OR "THE 5 EVALUATION." I MEAN THE EVALUATION COULD COME BACK AND 6 SAY, NO, THAT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA OR THAT'S NOT A -- FOR 7 EACH ONE OF THESE IF THE PROFESSIONALS IN THE STAFF SAY 8 THAT THAT'S WHAT IT IS. 9 MY QUESTION TO THE CHANCELLOR IS THE FINAL 10 RESOLVED CLAUSE SAYS, "THE EVALUATION SHOULD BE COMPLETED 11 BY SEPTEMBER 2010." 12 DO YOU THINK THAT'S POSSIBLE? 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NOT REALLY. SEPTEMBER 14 THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER STUFF TO DO AND WE HAVE TO MAKE 15 SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY HIT THESE DEADLINES. IT'S VERY 16 IMPORTANT TO THE RESOLUTION. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A TIME OR 18 DEADLINE THAT YOU THINK YOU COULD GET IT DONE IN? 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I WOULD HAVE TO WORK WITH 20 THE CHAIR TO KIND OF WORK ON THAT BECAUSE I AM NOT THE 21 AREA. 22 MR. KEECH: IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT A 23 CLASSROOM RESEARCH PROJECT WOULD LOOK LIKE, WE COULD HAVE 24 THAT VERY QUICKLY. IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE RESULTS OF 25 DISCUSSIONS WITH ALL OF THE FOLKS THAT WERE OUTLINED HERE, APRIL 29, 2010 202 1 THAT'S NOT SEPTEMBER 2010. THAT WOULD TAKE LONGER. AND 2 WE HAVE ALREADY BEGUN THOSE DISCUSSIONS, BUT THEY ARE NOT. 3 THEY ARE IN PROGRESS. AND I THINK IT WOULD TAKE PROBABLY 4 LONGER THAN THAT. SO THOSE ARE TWO SEPARATE PARTS. 5 ONE COULD BE DONE BY THE END OF THE SEMESTER. 6 THE OTHER ONE COULD BE DONE LATER IN THE FALL SEMESTER. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: CAN I AMEND MY RESOLUTION -- 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OF COURSE. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: -- TO SAY DECEMBER 31ST, 2010. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: WOULD THAT BE ACCEPTABLE? 12 MR. KEECH: YES, I THINK THAT'S QUITE DOABLE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO MOVED. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THAT'S A MOTION. 15 AND THAT'S A SECOND. I WILL TAKE THAT. 16 SO NOW WE HAVE AN AMENDMENT. ARE THERE ANY 17 FURTHER COMMENTS? 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I WANT TO COMMENT ON MY AMENDMENT. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK THE REASON WHY I PUSHED IT 21 TO SEPTEMBER BECAUSE SEPTEMBER IS WE ARE LOOKING AT A 22 PARCEL TAX POSSIBLY, RIGHT? 23 AND PART OF THE ISSUE IS THAT ESL JUST DOESN'T 24 GET FUNDED THE WAY IT SHOULD GET FUNDED. AND THE REASON 25 WHY I APPROACHED THEM LAST YEAR WAS BECAUSE I WANTED TO APRIL 29, 2010 203 1 FIND SOME REVENUE STREAM FOR IT. THAT'S WHY -- THAT'S 2 CERTAINLY IN THE BOARD PURVIEW, THE REVENUE PIECE. 3 AND MY (INAUDIBLE) HERE ON THIS ISSUE IS DRIVEN 4 BY THAT IDEA. AND IF WE GET THIS THING SO LATE, IT MIGHT 5 NOT TIE INTO THE PARCEL TAX ISSUE THE WAY IDEALLY WE WOULD 6 LIKE IT BECAUSE IF IT'S THE ISSUE OF COUNSELORS, NOT 7 ENOUGH ESL TEACHERS, WHATEVER IT IS, WE WANT TO KNOW THAT 8 SO THAT IF WE COME TO THE CITY WITH A PARCEL TAX MEASURE 9 EITHER IN THE FALL OR NEXT YEAR, WE HAVE A CASE TO MAKE 10 WITH THE CITY. AND THAT'S WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL 11 ALONG TO THE ESL DEPARTMENT AND CTE. AND THAT'S WHAT'S 12 MOTIVATING THIS RESOLUTION AT THIS POINT. 13 SO DECEMBER 31ST, IS FINE. 14 MR. KEECH: AS I SAID, BEFORE THE END OF THE 15 SEMESTER IF IT'S TALKING ABOUT A RESEARCH PROTOCOL, A 16 RESEARCH PLAN. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER COMMENT ON 18 THE AMENDMENT? 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH, OKAY, CALL THE QUESTION. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE 21 AMENDMENT? 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, HOW DO YOU VOTE ON THE 23 AMENDMENT? 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. APRIL 29, 2010 204 1 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 11 MS. LOW: ON THE RESOLUTION, THERE'S TWO SPOTS 12 WHERE YOU MENTION "CONTINUING STUDENT COUNSELING 13 DEPARTMENT." AND IN REALITY, IT ALSO SHOULD MENTION "THE 14 NEW COUNSELING DEPARTMENT" BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE 15 COUNSELORS THAT WE WORK WITH AT THE CAMPUSES. 16 SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY, IF IT'S POSSIBLE, CAN 17 WE ADD THE OTHER DEPARTMENT IN THERE AS WELL. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: MAY I MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE 19 RESOLUTION. 20 PRESIDENT BERG: YOU CAN'T. IT WAS JUST PASSED. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: NO, WE PASSED THE AMENDMENT. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO, THE AMENDMENT TO 23 CHANGE THE DATE TO DECEMBER. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO WE ARE MAKING A SECOND 25 AMENDMENT. APRIL 29, 2010 205 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE 2 RESOLUTION ACCORDINGLY. WHEREVER THERE IS A PHRASE THAT 3 STATES "CONTINUING STUDENT COUNSELING" THAT WE INSERT 4 BEFORE THEM "NEW AND" THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? 7 MS. LOW: THANK YOU. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: WHEREVER THERE IS A PHRASE 9 "CONTINUING STUDENT COUNSELING," WE INSERT BEFORE THAT 10 PHRASE "NEW AND" N-E-W AND THE WORD A-N-D THROUGHOUT THE 11 DOCUMENT. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S BEEN MOVED AND I 13 HEARD A SECOND. 14 IS THERE A DISCUSSION ON THAT MOTION? 15 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THAT MOTION? 16 MR. SCOTT: I WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE SUPPOSED 17 TO DO THIS. THE RESOLUTION HAS ALREADY PASSED. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE RESOLUTION IS NOT 19 PASSED. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: THE RESOLUTION WASN'T PASSED. 21 THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS PASSED. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: FOR THE DATE BEFORE THAT. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. I TAKE IT THERE'S 24 NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AMENDMENT. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. APRIL 29, 2010 206 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE 3 AMENDMENT. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 8 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THE AMENDMENT IS 12 PASSED. SO NOW WE ARE BACK TO THE FULL MOTION. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: TRUSTEE RIZZO, REALLY QUICKLY, 14 I THINK THERE'S ALSO, NOT JUST PARCEL TAX REVENUE OUT 15 THERE, I THINK THERE'S WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DOLLARS OUT 16 THERE FOR THIS KIND OF WORK, ESPECIALLY I KNOW I'VE HEARD 17 SUPERVISOR CAMPOS TALK ABOUT THIS WORK. I'VE HEARD 18 BUILDING TRADES TALK ABOUT THIS WORK. 19 AND SO I REALLY THINK IN TERMS OF US TALKING 20 ABOUT HOW DO WE BRING SIGNIFICANT REVENUE INTO THIS 21 COLLEGE BEYOND THE STATE, I THINK PARCEL TAX IS ONE. BUT 22 I THINK USING OUR EXISTING ROBUST WORKFORCE SYSTEM WITHIN 23 THE CITY FOR FUNDING IS A SECOND OPTION. 24 THESE ARE THE TYPES OF RESOLUTIONS THAT SPUR US 25 TO BRING IN THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT PHYLLIS MCGUIRE IS APRIL 29, 2010 207 1 SO ADEQUATE AND DELIGHTFUL INTO GETTING INTO OUR 2 INSTITUTION, SO YES. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: TRUSTEE RIZZO, ONE LAST POINT. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES, TRUSTEE NGO. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: ON TRUSTEE JACKSON'S LAST POINT IS 6 THAT THIS RESOLUTION WAS ALSO CRAFTED IN ANTICIPATION OF 7 GRANT MONEY THAT THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC WORKFORCE 8 DEVELOPMENT CITIES WORKFORCE DEPARTMENT IS ACTUALLY 9 APPLYING FOR RIGHT NOW FOR THOSE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES 10 THAT THEY ARE APPLYING FOR THIS MONEY. SO I AM TRYING TO 11 TIE THAT INTO THIS GRANT THAT'S BEING APPLIED FOR RIGHT 12 NOW. THAT WAS JUST SENT OUT THIS PAST WEEK. THAT COULD 13 COME IN AND THAT COULD BE AWARDED ANYTIME THIS SUMMER. 14 SO IT'S NOT JUST THE PARCEL TAX BUT, YES, 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON IS CORRECT. THIS WAS ALSO CONTEMPLATED 16 WITH THE IDEA IN MIND THAT THERE'S OTHER MONEY OUT THERE 17 THAT IN FACT IS REAL THAT WE'VE ACTUALLY APPLIED FOR AND 18 WE CAN TIE THIS PROGRAM INTO. WE ARE TRYING TO DO SOME 19 GOOD STUFF HERE. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 21 ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? 22 OKAY, STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. APRIL 29, 2010 208 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 8 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE HAVE ONE "NO." THANK 10 YOU. 11 THE NEXT ITEM IS RESOLUTION S3, "EXPANSION OF 12 SUPPORT SERVICES FOR VETERANS." 13 TRUSTEE NGO, WOULD YOU -- 14 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M HAVING A SIDEBAR HERE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: S3, "EXPANSION OF SUPPORT 16 SERVICES FOR VETERANS." 17 TRUSTEE NGO: OH, YEAH, RIGHT. THIS, OF COURSE, 18 CAME OUT OF THE EQUITY -- 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE 20 IT? 21 TRUSTEE NGO: OH, I'M SORRY. MOVED, SO MOVED. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST REAL QUICKLY, THIS CAME OUT 25 OF THE EQUITY HEARINGS. WE HEARD SOME TESTIMONY FROM APRIL 29, 2010 209 1 STUDENT VETERANS WHO SPOKE OF THE NEED FOR SPECIAL 2 SERVICES FOR THEM, GIVEN THEIR EXPERIENCE AND, OF COURSE, 3 THEIR SACRIFICE. 4 AND WE DISCOVERED A PORTION THAT WAS PASSED THAT 5 WAS ALREADY UNDERWAY THAT WAS LED BY COACH RUSH AND, OF 6 COURSE, AUTHORIZED BY CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN TO MAKE SURE THAT 7 WE REALLY TAKE CARE OF THEM AND THAT THEY ARE NOT 8 FORGOTTEN. AND WE CAN TREAT THEM IN THE VARIOUS DIFFERENT 9 WAYS THAT THEY NEED. 10 SO THIS RESOLUTION COMES OUT OF THOSE HEARINGS. 11 IT'S ANOTHER BI-PRODUCT OF THE EQUITY HEARING AND THE 12 EQUITY EFFORT. AND I'M HONORED TO HAVE THE CO-SPONSORSHIP 13 OF MY FELLOW TRUSTEES. AND I ENCOURAGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR 14 ADOPTION. 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON: QUICK POINT. I KNOW THAT OUR 16 FORMER TRUSTEE BOB VARNEY, ROBERT VARNEY, IS ALSO WORKING 17 ON THIS ISSUE. HE FIRST TOLD ME ABOUT THIS AT OUR LAST 18 BASIC SKILLS LUNCH. AND I WAS BLOWN AWAY. AND I KNOW 19 THAT THE CHANCELLOR EVEN DESIGNATED SPACE AFTER SOME OF 20 THESE PROGRAMS MOVE INTO THE JOINT-USE FACILITY. HE'S 21 ACTUALLY FOUND SOME SPACE IN THE LAST DRAWINGS I SAW THAT 22 HAD SPACE FOR VETERAN SERVICES, SO I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A 23 BIG PRIORITY FOR THE CHANCELLOR. I KNOW IT'S BEEN A BIG 24 PRIORITY WITHIN THE INSTITUTION. AND I KNOW THAT EVEN OUR 25 FORMER TRUSTEES ARE WORKING ON THIS ISSUE. I BELIEVE HE APRIL 29, 2010 210 1 IS WORKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. 2 SO, YOU KNOW, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THIS. WE 3 HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS. WE HAVE A LOT OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN 4 COMING BACK FROM ARMED SERVICES. AND WE REALLY NEED TO 5 FIGURE OUT A WAY TO TAKE CARE OF THEM IN ALL THEIR 6 EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. THANK YOU. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 8 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 9 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 20 OKAY, THE MOTION CARRIES. 21 WE ARE NOW ON S5, "SUPPORT FOR STUDENT AID AND 22 FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT." 23 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. APRIL 29, 2010 211 1 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST REALLY QUICKLY, AGAIN, WE ARE 2 TALKING ABOUT REVENUE. AND THE FACT IS THAT THIS BILL WAS 3 PASSED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. IT WAS 4 ESSENTIALLY HELD UP IN THE SENATE, AND WE LOST ABOUT 5 $13 MILLION. COMMUNITY COLLEGES NATIONWIDE LOST 6 $13 MILLION. 3 MILLION OF THAT MONEY WAS GOING TO GO 7 TOWARDS FACILITIES, TO GREEN OUR FACILITIES. AND THE REST 8 OF IT WAS GOING TO GO TOWARDS EQUITY PROGRAMS. PROGRAMS 9 THAT ACTUALLY FOCUSED ON HOW TO GET STUDENTS THROUGH AND 10 GRADUATE INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS, SUCH AS -- INNOVATIVE 11 PROGRAMS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAS INTERESTED IN 12 FUNDING. AND WE LOST A LOT OF THAT IN THE SENATE DESPITE 13 THE EFFORTS OF THE HOUSE. 14 WHAT WE DID GET, HOWEVER, WAS THE LARGE 15 EXPANSION IN THE PELL GRANT PROGRAM. NOT AS LARGE AS WE 16 WANTED, BUT LARGER THAN USUAL. AND THERE WAS SEVERAL 17 BILLION DOLLARS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR MONEY THAT'S 18 FOCUSED ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. SO THIS RESOLUTION 19 ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY SUPPORTS THE STUDENT AID 20 AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT. 21 BUT I ALSO ENCOURAGE THE DISTRICT OR ASK THE 22 DISTRICT TO LOOK INTO THAT MONEY AS FUNDING SOURCES AT A 23 FEDERAL LEVEL AND ALSO TO COMPLY WITH THE FEDERAL STATUTE, 24 WHICH JUST PASSED, THAT ASKS EVERYONE TO GO OFF SUBSIDIZED 25 LENDING OR PRIVATE LENDING INTO DIRECT LENDING, WHICH IS APRIL 29, 2010 212 1 GOING TO BE THE LAW, WHICH IS ACTUALLY ALREADY A LAW BY 2 JULY 1ST. AND JORGE BELL CONFIRMED THAT THAT WAS 3 POSSIBLE. 4 ANOTHER ONE OBVIOUSLY IS WELLS FARGO, WHICH WAS 5 ONE OF THE BANKS THAT OPPOSED ENDING THE SUBSIDY THAT WENT 6 TO STUDENT LENDERS TO FUND PELL GRANT INCREASES. AND THEY 7 WERE VERY OPEN ABOUT THEIR OPPOSITION TO IT. 8 I WITHDRAW LANGUAGE THAT ASKS US TO INITIATE AN 9 RFP FOR OUR BANKING SERVICES, BUT IT'S NOT -- IT'S 10 CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT I INTEND TO BRING BACK ALONG WITH 11 THE BIGGER PACKAGE OF -- ALONG WITH THE LARGER POLICY ON 12 ISSUES SUCH AS THAT. AND THAT I DO EXPECT THAT WE WILL 13 ISSUE AN RFP AT SOME POINT. AND I WILL BRING FORWARD 14 WHATEVER RESOLUTION THAT WE NEED TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. 15 AGAIN, THIS IS TO SUPPORT THE BILL THAT JUST 16 PASSED AND BECAME LAW, BUT ALSO TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE 17 REVENUE SOURCES OUT THERE THAT I HOPE WE CAN PURSUE. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 19 ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 20 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 21 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 24 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 213 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 3 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 7 OKAY, MOTION CARRIES. 8 S7, WHICH IS "REQUEST THAT THE SAN FRANCISCO 9 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS" -- 10 COUNSEL LEE: YOU MISSED S6. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID I SKIP S6? 12 COUNSEL LEE: YEAH. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DID. THANK YOU VERY 14 MUCH. I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT OVERSIGHT. 15 "RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SAN 16 FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT RECEIVING ACTUAL COST 17 INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF 18 2010 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS." 19 SO THIS CAME FROM THE CHANCELLOR, I BELIEVE. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: ON THE LAST PAGE ARE THE ACTUAL 21 COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SALE OF THE BONDS. IT STARTS 22 WITH "BOND COUNSEL" UP AT THE TOP. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 24 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE RESOLUTION I GUESS WAS 25 ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY BOND COUNSEL. IT IS A REQUIREMENT APRIL 29, 2010 214 1 THAT WE DISCLOSE THIS. THERE ARE NO COSTS IN HERE THAT 2 ARE OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR A BOND SALE, NOR IS THE RANGE 3 OF THE COST OUT OF THE ORDINARY. IT IS SIMPLY A 4 DISCLOSURE. THESE FEES ARE PAID OUT OF THE PROCEEDS OF 5 THE SALE. THEY ARE NOT PAID OUT OF THE OPERATING FUND OF 6 THE COLLEGE OR THE PREVIOUS BOND FUND. 7 I SHOULD POINT OUT THAT OUR BOND COUNSEL GOT 8 MORE CONSERVATIVE THIS TIME. I'M NOT TOTALLY CLEAR ON 9 WHY. BUT PREVIOUSLY, THESE COSTS WERE PAID AND THE 10 COLLEGE RECEIVED THE FULL PROCEEDS OF THE FACE AMOUNT IN 11 BONDS. NOW THE FACE AMOUNT OF THE BONDS IS DEDUCTED BY 12 THIS AMOUNT, WHICH DOESN'T COME INTO OUR FUND FOR BUILDING 13 PROJECTS. IT GOES TO PAY THE FEES. 14 THEY REINTERPRETED OR A JUDGE HAS REINTERPRETED 15 THE WAY THE FEES HAVE TO BE PAID. AND THIS WAS THEIR 16 ADVICE AND SO, OF COURSE, WE FOLLOWED THAT. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE S6. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 22 FURTHER DISCUSSION? 23 PUBLIC COMMENT? 24 STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 215 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 2 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 6 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 10 S6 PASSES. 11 S7. 12 COUNSEL LEE: TRUSTEE RIZZO, YOU MIGHT NOTE FOR 13 THE RECORD THAT TRUSTEE WONG IS GONE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG IS GONE. 15 COUNSEL LEE: JUST IN TERMS OF COUNTING THE 16 VOTES. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 18 S7, IS A "REQUEST OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF 19 SUPERVISORS CALL UPON THE LENNAR CORPORATION TO ISSUE A 20 FORMAL, WRITTEN APOLOGY TO MEMBERS OF THE STOP LENNAR 21 ACTION MOVEMENT (SLAM) AND THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN 22 FRANCISCO FOR IRRESPONSIBLE AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS 23 BEHAVIOR." 24 DO I HAVE A MOTION? 25 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. APRIL 29, 2010 216 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DISCUSSION? 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YOU KNOW, I GOT THIS 4 RESOLUTION, THIS MOVEMENT, FROM A COALITION OF COMMUNITY 5 MEMBERS. IT WAS IN THE CHRONICLE AND IN THE EXAMINER. 6 THERE WAS AN ARMED PRIVATE SECURITY GUARD THAT WAS BROUGHT 7 INTO OUR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION WHERE A MEETING WAS BEING 8 HELD IN REGARDS TO POLITICAL EDUCATION. AND IT WAS 9 DISCLOSED THAT A PRIVATE SECURITY OFFICER CARRIED A GUN, A 10 CONCEALED GUN AND WAS FORCED TO BE, YOU KNOW, DETAINED AND 11 REMOVED FROM THE MOSQUE. 12 YOU KNOW, AS A RELIGIOUS PERSON MYSELF, AS A 13 CATHOLIC, I WOULD NEVER EVER IMAGINE SOMEONE BRINGING IN A 14 CONCEALED WEAPON TO A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. AND JUST AS 15 A PERSON WHO IS INVOLVED IN OTHER COMMUNITY GATHERINGS, I 16 JUST WORKED ON THE EFFORT TO SAVE THE GEORGE WASHINGTON 17 CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHERE THEY WERE FACING CLOSURE 18 AND REMOVAL OF THEIR PRINCIPAL, WHICH IF YOU CLOSE THE 19 SCHOOL, YOU ARE REMOVING THE PRINCIPAL ANYWAY. 20 WE HAD MANY COMMUNITY MEETINGS WITH THEIR 21 PARENTS AND NOT ONCE DID SOMEONE -- I MEAN I HAD THE 22 CHILLING EFFECT OF SENDING AN OFFICER IN WITH A WEAPON, A 23 DEADLY WEAPON. IT IS EGREGIOUS. AND IN A COMMUNITY THAT 24 WE STRIVE FOR HAVING POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNITY 25 INVOLVEMENT, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE APRIL 29, 2010 217 1 DEVELOPMENT TO THE COMMUNITY. 2 SO IT'S NOT SAYING WE ARE ANTI-LENNAR. WE ARE 3 ANTI-REDEVELOPMENT. IT'S SIMPLY SAYING THAT THIS ACTION 4 WAS WRONG BY ANY PRIVATE CORPORATION TO SEND A PRIVATE 5 ARMED PERSON OF AUTHORITY INTO A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. 6 THAT'S WRONG. THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT BEHAVIOR. 7 AND AS CITY COLLEGE, AS A COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 8 THAT HAS TWO CAMPUSES IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, WE REALLY 9 SHOULD STAND UP AND ASK FOR A FULL FLEDGED APOLOGY FOR 10 THIS ACTION. THANK YOU. 11 AND I WOULD LIKE TO ACTUALLY ASK RODGER SCOTT TO 12 COME AND PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT BECAUSE I KNOW 13 THAT HE TEACHES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FOLKS THAT RUN 14 THAT RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. 15 MR. SCOTT: RODGER SCOTT. 16 ACTUALLY, TRUSTEE GRIER, WARREN MAR, AND I WERE 17 IN THE AUDIENCE THAT NIGHT. WE HAD NO IDEA ALL THIS WAS 18 GOING ON. AND OBVIOUSLY, I'M PREACHING TO THE ANNOTATED. 19 I'M SURE YOU WILL PASS THIS BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE 20 MOST IRRESPONSIBLE AND OUTRAGEOUS THINGS I'VE EVER 21 WITNESSED IN MY HUNDRED YEARS OF LIFE. 22 BUT FOR THE PERSON TO -- FIRST OF ALL, HE DID 23 MORE THAN TAKE A CONCEALED WEAPON INTO A MOSQUE, INTO A 24 PUBLIC MEETING, HE ALSO WAS TAPING PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR 25 PERMISSION. AND HE ALSO GAVE A FICTITIOUS NAME AND APRIL 29, 2010 218 1 NON-EXISTENT ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER. 2 THE ONE THING YOU SHOULD DO THOUGH IS TO CHANGE 3 THE RESOLUTION. IT SHOULD COMMEND -- THE BOARD OF 4 SUPERVISORS PASSED THIS RESOLUTION ALREADY. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE DID. 6 MR. SCOTT: THEY PASSED IT LAST WEEK. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH. 8 MR. SCOTT: SO I WOULD URGE YOU TO JUST COMMEND 9 THE BOARD FOR PASSING IT. IT WAS VERY STRANGE. 10 IT WAS HANDLED VERY WELL BECAUSE THE PEOPLE IN 11 THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS TAKING 12 PLACE. AND OUR GREAT NEWS MEDIA FAILED TO MENTION THAT 13 THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER THAT EVENING WAS WILMA SUBRA, WHO IS 14 THE RECIPIENT OF THE MACARTHUR GRANT, THE SO CALLED GENIUS 15 GRANT FOUNDATION. SHE'S INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN AND 16 RESPECTED. IT WASN'T SOME REVOLUTIONARY CELL OR JIHADIS 17 MEETING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 18 THERE WERE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE CITY. THE 19 PEOPLE THERE LOOKED LIKE PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO. THERE 20 WERE ENVIRONMENTALISTS. THERE WERE DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE, 21 LIKE TRUSTEE GRIER AND OTHERS. IT WAS JUST TOTALLY 22 OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE FURTHER 24 DISCUSSION? 25 I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I'VE VISITED THAT APRIL 29, 2010 219 1 FACILITY WHERE HIS TOOK PLACE, ALTHOUGH NOT ON THAT NIGHT. 2 AND GOT A TOUR ACTUALLY, A VERY INFORMATIVE TOUR OF THE 3 WHOLE AREA, THE SHIPYARD AND SPECIFIC THINGS. THERE'S A 4 LOT OF CRAZY STUFF GOING ON THERE. 5 MR. SCOTT: THERE WERE MANY CHILDREN IN THE 6 AUDIENCE THAT NIGHT. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, OH, BOY. 8 SO WE HEAR THAT THIS BOARD HAS PASSED THIS. DO 9 WE WANT TO CHANGE THIS TO COMMEND THEM OR LEAVE IT AS IS? 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I'M HAPPY TO ADD A LAST CLAUSE 11 SAYING, "WE COMMEND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR THEIR 12 COURAGE IN APPROVING THIS MEASURE AS WELL." 13 I THINK WE SHOULD JUST ADD THAT LINE IN THERE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT SAYS, "WE ARE ASKING 15 THE BOARD TO ASK LENNAR TO ISSUE AN APOLOGY." 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THEY BEAT US TO THE PUNCH. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT 18 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES COMMEND THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF 19 SUPERVISORS FOR CALLING UPON AND THEN THAT WOULD -- 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO MOVED. 21 MR. SCOTT: (INAUDIBLE) TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL 22 SLAM (INAUDIBLE) ORGANIZATION IS THE CENTER FOR 23 SELF-IMPROVEMENT. THAT'S PART OF IT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, SO THERE'S A MOTION 25 FOR THAT CHANGE. APRIL 29, 2010 220 1 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: DID YOU GET ALL THAT, RON? 3 COUNSEL LEE: IT WILL READ, "THE SAN FRANCISCO 4 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT COMMENDS THE SAN FRANCISCO 5 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR CALLING UPON THE LENNAR 6 CORPORATION" ET CETERA, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THAT WORKS. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SEEING NO FURTHER 10 DISCUSSION, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE 13 AMENDMENT, SAY "AYE." 14 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 18 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 22 NOW ON THE MOTION, S7, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. APRIL 29, 2010 221 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 8 OKAY, MOTION CARRIES. 9 I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE MORE, WHICH IS W1. THIS 10 IS OUR LAST RESOLUTION FOR THE EVENING, I BELIEVE. 11 DOES SOMEONE WANT TO MOVE IT? 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO MOVED. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON: IS THERE A REASON THIS DIDN'T 16 GO THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE? DOES IT NOT NEED TO -- 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: IT IS BASICALLY PART OF OUR 18 (INAUDIBLE) FOR THAT FACILITY -- 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: OKAY. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- THE CASTRO/VALENCIA. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS JUST FOR PUBLIC'S 22 KNOWLEDGE AS WELL. 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH, I FIGURED THEY WOULDN'T 24 ACTUALLY KNOW. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: JUST TO IDENTIFY IT, APRIL 29, 2010 222 1 "AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH THE SAN 2 FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PAY AN ADDITIONAL 3 $25,000 A YEAR TO GO TO EVERETT MIDDLE SCHOOL" AND SO ON. 4 THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND. 5 IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 6 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 7 OKAY, STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: (ABSENT.) 14 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 18 THE MOTION CARRIES. 19 WHAT'S NEXT? 20 THAT WAS OUR LAST RESOLUTION. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I THINK WE HAVE REPORTS. 22 CHANCELLOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES' REPORTS. WHY 23 DON'T WE START AT THIS END. 24 DO YOU HAVE A REPORT, TRUSTEE JACKSON? 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: VERY BRIEFLY, I WANT TO THANK APRIL 29, 2010 223 1 DAVID. I ALWAYS CALL HIM DAVID THE ARCHITECT. IN TERMS 2 OF HELPING SET UP, WE WERE HAVING OUR FIRST MEETING FOR 3 THE PLANNING, THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS PLANNING COMMITTEE IS 4 GOING TO BE MAY 3RD AT THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. I DON'T 5 RECALL THE TIME, BUT THAT COMMITTEE IS HAPPENING. 6 AND I'M HAPPY THAT WE HAVE STUDENTS FROM THE 7 SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY FROM EVANS CAMPUS AND FROM THE 8 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS TO COME HERE AND TALK ABOUT THOSE ISSUES 9 BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING FOR ME TO CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT 10 THE NEED, BUT IT'S THE OTHER THING FOR THE END USERS TO 11 ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL CLASSES, AND 12 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS, AND ADDITIONAL TEACHERS, AND WHAT'S 13 SO NOT. 14 IT ALSO HELPS US ADVOCATE WHEN WE ARE GOING FOR 15 OUR PARCEL TAX, THIS IS WHAT THIS MONEY GOES TO. WHEN WE 16 ARE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING A NEW FULL-SERVICE CAMPUS, THIS 17 IS WHAT THAT GOES TO. 18 SO I WANT TO COMMEND THE STUDENTS FOR COMING OUT 19 AND TURNING OUT AND ACTUALLY GIVING A REPORT ABOUT WHAT 20 THE NEEDS ARE BECAUSE IT'S MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EVEN A 21 TRUSTEE TALKING ABOUT THAT. AND SO I THINK I'VE SAID 22 ENOUGH AT THIS MEETING, AND I WILL CONCLUDE MY REPORT. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER, DO YOU HAVE A REPORT? 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: I DON'T KNOW IF TRUSTEE BERG HAD APRIL 29, 2010 224 1 ASKED THAT WE CLOSE IN MEMORY OF AUGUST LONGO. 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND ALSO ADDED TO THAT LIST 4 WOULD BE DOROTHY HEIGHTS, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER. 5 AND, UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF 6 THE -- ONE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE LORRAINE 7 HANSBERRY THEATER. HIS LAST NAME WAS EASTER. HE PASSED 8 AS WELL TODAY. SO I DON'T KNOW HIS FULL NAME, AND I 9 APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, BUT -- 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: -- CLOSE IN MEMORY OF THE THREE 12 PEOPLE I JUST MENTIONED. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: DEBBIE PORTER AS WELL. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: I'M SORRY, WHAT? 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DEBBIE PORTER, RIGHT? 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: YES. AND BECAUSE IT IS 17 11:15 P.M. I HAVE NO REPORT. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 19 TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: I WILL TRY TO BE 21 BRIEF. I JUST WANTED TO DO A REPORT ON THE ELECTIONS FOR 22 THE ENTIRE STUDENT TRUSTEE DISTRICT-WIDE. I HAD A LOT OF 23 CONCERNS. EVERYBODY HAS VOICED SOME CONCERNS AS WELL FROM 24 THE VARIOUS CAMPUSES. 25 THE THING THAT REALLY RAISED THE BIGGEST CONCERN APRIL 29, 2010 225 1 IS BASICALLY THE OPTIONS THAT STUDENTS DID NOT HAVE DURING 2 THIS ELECTION PROCESS. THE STUDENT TRUSTEE, AS YOU GUYS 3 KNOW, SITS WITH YOU GUYS FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. AND IT'S A 4 CRUCIAL POSITION WE ALL KNOW. BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, AT THE 5 TIME THE INTERIM DEAN OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES TOOK THE 6 LIBERTY TO STATE THAT STUDENT ELECTIONS IS ONLY GOING TO 7 BE VOTING ONLINE. 8 NOW I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT SOME CAMPUSES ARE 9 NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS, AND THEY DON'T HAVE AS MUCH ACCESS AS 10 WE DO AT THE OCEAN CAMPUS, PRIMARILY MISSION, SOUTHEAST, 11 EVANS. SO THIS WAS REALLY A CONCERN THAT THE ONLY WAY 12 THEY COULD VOTE FOR STUDENT TRUSTEE WAS ONLINE. WE DID 13 NOT PROVIDE THEM AN ADDITIONAL OPTION, WHICH IS PAPER 14 BALLOT. THAT'S A HUGE CONCERN FOR ME AND EVERYBODY ELSE 15 THAT WAS ON THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WHICH RESIDES -- WHICH 16 IS A.S. PRESIDENT FOR EACH CAMPUS. 17 I FELT LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED WITH 18 US PRIOR TO MAKING THIS ACTION OR WITHOUT DELIBERATING 19 WITH US. IT'S OUR ELECTION. I THINK IT GOES BY THE 20 BYLAWS WITH THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO CONSULT WITH THE 21 VARIOUS STUDENTS REGARDING AN ELECTION PROCESS. AND I 22 THINK THIS WAS VERY UNFAIR. AND I WOULD EVEN QUESTION THE 23 VALIDITY OF THIS ENTIRE ELECTION PROCESS FOR STUDENT 24 TRUSTEE. 25 ASIDE FROM THAT, I DO WANT TO TELL -- I'M PRETTY APRIL 29, 2010 226 1 SURE YOU GUYS HAVE ALL HEARD ABOUT ARIZONA. I DON'T KNOW 2 IT'S REALLY JUST MESSED UP DOWN THERE AS FAR AS THEY ARE 3 TECHNICALLY LEGALLY ALLOWED IT SEEMS LIKE TO RACIALLY 4 PROFILE PEOPLE DOWN THERE ASKING THEM FOR THEIR PAPERWORK. 5 AND IF FOLKS ARE INTERESTED, I THINK YOU SHOULD 6 GO OUT MAY 1ST. I KNOW THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO LAWSUITS IN 7 PLACE RIGHT NOW IN ARIZONA. AND OBAMA'S HAVING SOME CIVIL 8 RIGHTS ATTORNEYS LOOK AT IT TO SEE IF IT'S ACTUALLY LEGAL. 9 BUT IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA MAY 1ST IN DOLORES PARK, IT 10 WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 TRUSTEE BERG HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: YES. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: TRUSTEE RIZZO, I HAVE NO REPORT 16 TONIGHT. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 18 I WILL GIVE MY REPORT. I HAVE BEEN GIVING 19 REPORTS ON WHAT THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE HAS BEEN DOING IN 20 ADDITION TO THE RESOLUTIONS THAT WERE ON THE AGENDA. 21 THERE'S SOME ITEMS THAT WE ARE TRACKING EVERY 22 MONTH. AND THERE'S SOME ISSUES THAT CAME ACROSS. ONE WAS 23 THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. WE MOVED FORWARD WITH THE CREATION 24 OF A EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE FOR A NEW FACILITY TO LOOK AT 25 THAT. WE WERE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT NEXT MONTH AT THE APRIL 29, 2010 227 1 MAY FACILITIES COMMITTEE AND TALK ABOUT NAMES OF PEOPLE 2 WHO MIGHT POSSIBLY BE ON THERE. I THINK WE ALREADY HAD A 3 FEW NAMES. I KNOW I FORWARDED ONE. 4 WE TALKED ABOUT THE MITIGATION MEASURES FOR THE 5 MASTER PLAN EIR WHICH NEVER GOT DONE. THEY WERE REQUIRED 6 BY LAW TO DO THEM, BUT THAT'S ONE OF THE ONGOING ISSUES. 7 WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT NOW, BUT 8 WE REALLY CAN'T FORGET ABOUT IT. 9 ONE PIECE OF BAD NEWS WITH THE MULIT-USE 10 BUILDING THAT WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF MONEY FOR OUR 11 FURNITURE. ALTHOUGH, I THINK I HEARD EARLIER TODAY, PETER 12 GOLDSTEIN SAID THAT THAT'S ACTUALLY EASED UP THAT PROBLEM. 13 WE ARE BUYING SOME USED FURNITURE FROM THE CHRONICLE. 14 PETER CALLED IT, "THEIR GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE," BUT 15 THAT LOOKS LIKE -- 16 THE SITE PREPARATION BUDGET IS PROBLEMATIC. IT 17 IS INSUFFICIENT. PETER TOLD US. SO THAT'S SOMETHING. 18 THEY DIDN'T HAVE NUMBERS THAT DID NOT HAVE NUMBERS FOR US 19 AT THE MEETING. AND AT THE NEXT MEETING, THEY WILL HAVE 20 NUMBERS I'M TOLD. 21 AND CHINATOWN IS ACTUALLY SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF 22 SCHEDULE DESPITE BEING DELAYED FOR EIGHT WEEKS BECAUSE OF 23 THAT DEBACLE WITH THE CITY. SO THAT'S VERY GOOD NEWS. 24 SO THAT'S MY REPORT. 25 CHANCELLOR, DO YOU HAVE A REPORT? APRIL 29, 2010 228 1 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I HAVE NONE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 3 CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS. 4 COUNSEL LEE: YES, I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 5 I WANT TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE BOARD MET TODAY, 6 APRIL 26TH, 2010 IN CLOSED SESSION AND TOOK THE FOLLOWING 7 ACTION: 8 REGARDING THE APPEAL INVOLVING THE DISCHARGE OF 9 A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE IN A CUSTODIAL POSITION, THE BOARD 10 DELIBERATED ON THE MATTER AFTER REVIEWING THE RECORD, 11 INCLUDING (A) THE APPEAL SUBMITTED BY THE HUMAN RESOURCES 12 DIRECTOR; AND (B) THE SUBMISSION BY UNION COUNSEL KERIANNE 13 STEELE, ON BEHALF OF THE EMPLOYEE. 14 THE BOARD DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 15 (A), THE BOARD AFFIRMS AND ADOPTS THE 16 RECOMMENDED FACTUAL FINDINGS OF THE ARBITRATOR. 17 (B), THE BOARD REJECTS THE RECOMMENDED PENALTY 18 AND IN THE EXERCISE OF ITS JUDGEMENT, AFFIRMS THE PENALTY 19 OF TERMINATION. 20 THE VOTE WAS AS FOLLOWS: 21 THE TRUSTEES WHO VOTED "YES" WERE BERG, GRIER, 22 NGO, AND RIZZO. 23 ABSENT TRUSTEES WERE JACKSON, MARKS, AND WONG. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 25 FINAL ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS "REQUESTS TO SPEAK." APRIL 29, 2010 229 1 WE HAVE ONE FROM ATTILA GABOR. 2 MR. GABOR: I JUST WANTED TO SAY IT IS VERY 3 UNFORTUNATE. WE ALSO STARTED, THE CLASSIFIED SENATE, WITH 4 OUR FIRST ONLINE NOMINATION. WE ARE IN THE NOMINATION 5 PROCESS, BUT WE MADE SURE THAT WE IDENTIFIED THOSE 6 CLASSIFIED WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO E-MAIL. AND WE 7 ACTUALLY GAVE THEM THE OPTION TO VOTE BY -- I MEAN 8 NOMINATE BY PAPER, SO I'M SORRY THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN YOUR 9 CASE. 10 ALSO IN CASE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR NEXT TIME 11 IS GOING TO HAVE SOME FORMAL RESOLUTION REGARDING -- THERE 12 IS ANOTHER STATE OF ARIZONA. JUST PLEASE BEAR MOST IN 13 MIND THAT THERE ARE MANY SUFFERING NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS 14 THERE, SUCH AS NAVAJO, HOPI, APACHE, AND OTHERS. SO 15 SOMEHOW PLEASE INCLUDE THAT ONE IN THE RESOLUTION THAT 16 THEY WOULDN'T BE PENALIZED FOR THEIR ARIZONA GOVERNMENT. 17 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PHRASE IT. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 ANY OTHER REQUESTS TO SPEAK? 20 SEEING NONE, WE WILL ADJOURN IN MEMORY OF -- 21 TRUSTEE GRIER, THAT WAS EASTER? 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: YEAH, EASTER. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: EASTER, AUGUST LONGO, 24 DEBBIE PORTER, AND DOROTHY HEIGHTS. 25 (A MOMENT OF SILENCE OBSERVED.) APRIL 29, 2010 230 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE ADJOURNED. 2 (MEETING ADJOURNED AT 11:30 P.M.) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 APRIL 29, 2010 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: MAY 21, 2010 ______________________________ MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 STATE OF CALIFORNIA