SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT MONTHLY MEETING OF THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2010 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO OCEAN AVENUE CAMPUS 50 PHELAN AVENUE 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 MILTON MARKS III 10 STEVE NGO 11 JOHN RIZZO 12 LAWRENCE WONG 13 14 15 DR. DON Q. GRIFFIN, CHANCELLOR 16 LEILANI BATTISTE, GENERAL COUNSEL 17 JOSHUA NIELSEN, STUDENT TRUSTEE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MARCH 25, 2010 3 1 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT ON THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2010, 2 COMMENCING AT THE HOUR OF 7:00 P.M. THEREOF, AT CITY COLLEGE 3 OF SAN FRANCISCO, 50 PHELAN AVENUE, 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 MARCH 25, 2010 4 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'D LIKE TO CALL TO ORDER THE 2 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SAN FRANCISCO 3 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 25TH, 2010. 4 WE ARE MEETING IN THE WELLNESS CENTER OF 50 PHELAN AVENUE 5 IN SAN FRANCISCO. 6 I WILL TAKE THE ROLL. 7 TRUSTEE WONG. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: HERE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. I'M HERE. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE BERG. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: HERE. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: HERE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: MILTON MARKS, I'M HERE. 16 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: HERE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: HERE. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: HERE. 22 IF YOU COULD RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, 23 PLEASE. 24 MR. SCOTT: SOME DAY. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE MARCH 25, 2010 5 1 BEGINNING OF OUR MEETINGS ON SUBJECTS THAT ARE WITHIN THE 2 JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD, BUT NOT ON OUR AGENDA TONIGHT. 3 PEOPLE ARE LIMITED TO TWO MINUTES. IF PEOPLE CAN TALK 4 LESS THAN TWO MINUTES OR FEWER THAN TWO MINUTES, IT WILL 5 ALSO HELP BECAUSE I HAVE SEVEN CARDS, INSTEAD OF FIVE. 6 THE FIRST PERSON IS KAREN SAGINOR. 7 MS. SAGINOR: MY NAME IS KAREN SAGINOR. I'M A 8 MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE. 9 GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT MARKS, MEMBERS OF THE 10 BOARD, CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 11 A MONTH AGO A DRAFT RESOLUTION WAS PRESENTED TO 12 THE PUBLIC WITH AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT IT WOULD BE 13 CONSIDERED TONIGHT. THE ACADEMIC SENATE UNDERSTOOD THAT 14 DOCUMENT TO BE A DRAFT FOR WHICH YOU WANTED FEEDBACK 15 WITHIN A MONTH THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE. 16 NOW YOU OFTEN HEAR ABOUT RESOLUTIONS FROM THE 17 ACADEMIC SENATE THAT WERE VOTED ON IN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 18 AND MANY PEOPLE USE THE TERM "ACADEMIC SENATE" WHEN 19 TALKING ABOUT THOSE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 20 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. HOWEVER, THE ACADEMIC SENATE IS THE 21 BODY COMPOSED OF ALL FACULTY. FULL TIME, PART-TIME, 22 CREDIT, NONCREDIT, ALL FACULTY. 23 SPECIAL MEETINGS OF THE SENATE MAY BE CALLED BY 24 PETITION OF AT LEAST 100 MEMBERS. MORE THAN 200 MEMBERS 25 SIGNED PETITIONS TO CALL A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC MARCH 25, 2010 6 1 SENATE TO QUOTE, "CONSIDER, DELIBERATE, AND TAKE ACTION" 2 REGARDING THE DRAFT POLICY RESOLUTIONS THAT YOU PRESENTED 3 A MONTH AGO. 4 I WAS ASKED BY THE PETITIONERS TO FACILITATE. 5 THAT MEETING WAS HELD ON TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK AT WHICH 6 POINT WE KNEW THAT THE RESOLUTION WOULD NOT BE ON YOUR 7 AGENDA TONIGHT. 8 HOWEVER, THE ISSUES IT ADDRESSED ARE OF GREAT 9 IMPORTANCE TO ALL OF US. WE ASSUME THAT THE BOARD STILL 10 SEEKS URGENT ACTION CONCERNING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND 11 STUDENT EQUITY AND STILL WANTS RESPONSES FROM THE SENATE. 12 SO I AM HERE TO DELIVER THE ACADEMIC SENATE 13 RESOLUTION. IT WAS APPROVED BY 73 PERCENT OF THIS SPECIAL 14 MEETING. AND TO ASK YOU TO ACCEPT ITS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 15 FUTURE BOARD RESOLUTIONS AS APPLICABLE. 16 I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT ACTIONS THAT 17 FACULTY ARE ALREADY TAKING TO ADDRESS EQUITY ISSUES, SUCH 18 AS CURRICULUM WORK THAT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN 19 ENGAGED IN, THE INCORPORATION OF ACHIEVEMENT DATA INTO 20 PROGRAM REVIEW AND SO FORTH, BUT THERE ISN'T TIME FOR 21 THAT. INSTEAD WE ARE GOING TO READ A PORTION OF THE 22 SENATE'S RESOLUTION. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. ARE THOSE PEOPLE 24 WHO FILLED OUT CARDS AS WELL? 25 MS. SAGINOR: YES. MARCH 25, 2010 7 1 MS. BOSSON: GOOD EVENING. I'M JUST GOING TO BE 2 READING EXCERPTS FROM THE "WHEREAS" SECTION. I SHOULD 3 TAKE MUCH LESS THAN TWO MINUTES. 4 MY NAME IS MONICA BOSSON, AND I'M A MEMBER OF 5 THE ACADEMIC SENATE. 6 "WHEREAS, FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION, CLASSIFIED 7 STAFF, AND STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 8 FRANCISCO RECOGNIZE THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF AN 9 ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN EDUCATIONAL GOAL COMPLETION THAT 10 INCLUDES PRE-COLLEGIATE SEQUENCE COMPLETION, CERTIFICATE 11 COMPLETION, DEGREE COMPLETION, AND TRANSFER FOR MANY 12 GROUPS OF STUDENTS AT CCSF; AND, 13 "WHEREAS, FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION, AND 14 CLASSIFIED STAFF THROUGHOUT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO 15 HAVE WORKED DILIGENTLY, CREATIVELY, AND CONTINUOUSLY TO 16 SUPPORT THE SUCCESS OF ALL OUR STUDENTS OVER A PERIOD OF 17 DECADES AND CONTINUE TO DO SO; AND. 18 "WHEREAS, ASSEMBLY BILL 1725 AND STATE EDUCATION 19 CODE ESTABLISHES THAT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY HAVE 20 PRIMACY IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTERS." 21 AND, I AM NOW SKIPPING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE 22 TO THE LAST "WHEREAS." 23 "WHEREAS, MANY FACULTY BELIEVE THAT THE PROPOSED 24 DRAFT BOARD RESOLUTION, IF PASSED, WILL CREATE AN UNFUNDED 25 MANDATE DURING A TIME OF UNPRECEDENTED FINANCIAL CRISIS IN MARCH 25, 2010 8 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT." 2 THE NEXT PERSON WILL PRESENT THE EXCERPTS OF THE 3 RESOLVES. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS THAT FRED TETI? 5 MS. BOSSON: YES. 6 MR. TETI: FRED TETI, MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, 7 CITY COLLEGE ACADEMIC SENATE. 8 GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES. 9 THE BODY OF THE RESOLUTION BEGINS AS FOLLOWS: 10 "THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, THAT THE ACADEMIC 11 SENATE RECOMMENDS THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PERMANENTLY 12 REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO THE FOLLOWING FROM THE PROPOSED 13 DRAFT BOARD RESOLUTION, 'RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE 14 ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND EQUITY' CO-SPONSORED BY TRUSTEES 15 JACKSON, NGO, AND MARKS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ON 16 FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010." 17 WE THEN PROCEED TO LIST 17 OF THE PARAGRAPHS 18 THAT INVOLVE ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTERS. 19 THE BODY OF THE RESOLUTION CONCLUDES: 20 "BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, THAT THE ACADEMIC 21 SENATE SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE COLLEGIAL EXAMINATION OF 22 ACHIEVEMENT GAPS AT CCSF, AS WELL AS TIMELY IMPLEMENTATION 23 OF FACT-BASED AND DATA-DRIVEN INITIATIVES THAT IDENTIFY, 24 NARROW, AND ELIMINATE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS THROUGHOUT THE 25 COLLEGE COMMUNITY." MARCH 25, 2010 9 1 TRUSTEES, YOU MAY WONDER WHY WE'VE GONE THROUGH 2 ALL THIS TROUBLE TO ADDRESS AN ITEM THAT'S OFF TONIGHT'S 3 AGENDA. SIMPLE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO US. WE HEAR SOME OF 4 YOU HAVE MISGIVINGS ABOUT THE SPECIAL SENATE MEETING LAST 5 TUESDAY. PLEASE DON'T LET THAT PREVENT YOU FROM HEARING 6 THE VOICE OF A CLEAR MAJORITY OF THE FACULTY. 7 ALL THE CCSF FACULTY CARE DEEPLY ABOUT EQUITY. 8 WE CARE ALSO ABOUT CORRECT PROCESS AND ABOUT OUR PRIMACY 9 IN THE TEN PLUS ONE TITLE V ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL 10 MATTERS. 11 WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, TRUSTEES, WE ARE THE 12 EXPERT EDUCATORS AT THIS INSTITUTION. PLEASE, THE NEXT 13 TIME YOU ARE CONSIDERING DRAFTING A RESOLUTION IN THE TEN 14 PLUS ONE AREAS, ASK OUR OPINION BEFOREHAND, THEN WE CAN 15 WORK TOGETHER COLLEGIALLY TO IMPROVE THE COLLEGE AND THE 16 QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION OUR STUDENTS RECEIVE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 18 DARLENE ALIOTO. 19 DR. ALIOTO: THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 21 MADELINE MUELLER. 22 MS. MUELLER: (INAUDIBLE.) 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN WANTED 24 TO SAY SOMETHING. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: YEAH. THANK YOU, MARCH 25, 2010 10 1 MILTON MARKS. 2 IN REGARDS TO THIS ACADEMIC SPECIAL HEARING THAT 3 JUST WENT ON THIS PAST TUESDAY, I DO WANT TO POINT OUT 4 THAT ORIGINALLY THE ACADEMIC SENATE DID PASS THIS 5 RESOLUTION WITH RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON INPUT FROM HAL 6 HUNTSMAN. AND THIS IS THE ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT THEY 7 HAVE WITHIN THE FACULTY DEPARTMENT. 8 NOW I DO WANT TO COMMENT AS FAR AS WHAT I'VE 9 OBSERVED THROUGH THIS ACADEMIC SENATE SPECIAL HEARING THIS 10 PAST TUESDAY. 11 NOW I REALLY FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SOME SUBVERSIVE 12 TACTICS WITHIN THIS ENTIRE PROCESS THAT WENT ON ON 13 TUESDAY. STUDENTS HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE END. THE PROCESS 14 THAT WAS STATED WITHIN THIS SPECIAL HEARING WAS THAT 15 FACULTY HAD PRIORITY OVER ALL STUDENTS TO SPEAK. THIS 16 IMPACTS US. THIS CONCERNS US. AND THE FACT THAT WE 17 DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK REALLY CONCERNS ME. 18 YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, THE FREEDOM OF 19 SPEECH. WE HAVE THE ABILITY AND RIGHT TO DO SO. 20 IN REGARDS TO THAT, I SPOKE WITH THE INDIVIDUAL 21 WHO FACILITATED THIS MEETING, WHICH WAS KAREN, AND SHE 22 STATED TO ME THIS WASN'T DUE TO ROBERTS RULE OR THE BROWN 23 ACT, BUT IT WAS DUE TO THE CONSTITUTION WITHIN THE 24 ACADEMIC SENATE. 25 NOW I HAVE THIS ACTUALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. MARCH 25, 2010 11 1 AND I'VE REFERENCED THIS VARIOUS TIMES. AND I'VE NEVER 2 SEEN ANYTHING IN THIS LANGUAGE WHATSOEVER THAT STATES 3 FACULTY HAVE PRIORITY OVER STUDENTS. 4 THE STUDENTS THAT WERE IN THIS MEETING WERE VERY 5 DISRESPECTED. I CAME THERE RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING, AND I 6 ASKED JUST FOR POINT OF PROCESS, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, 7 DO STUDENTS HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE END? 8 I HAD -- THERE WAS OVER 100 FACULTY IN THAT 9 ROOM. AND THEY ALL STATED TO ME, "NO." AND I WAS JUST 10 LIKE SO YOU ARE STATING, "WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL EVERYTHING 11 IS DONE?" IF THAT'S THE CASE, "YES." 12 SO I HEARD EVERYBODY AROUND ME SAY, "NO." AND 13 EVEN A FACULTY MEMBER TOLD ME TO "GO AWAY." THAT'S 14 RIDICULOUS THAT STUDENTS DON'T EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY 15 TO VOICE THEIR CONCERN WHEN IT AFFECTS THEM PRIMARILY. 16 I WAS APPALLED AS A STUDENT TO SEE FACULTY, A 17 LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I'VE SEEN WITHIN THE INSTITUTION WHO 18 PROVIDE MY EDUCATION. AND NOW I'M SEEING THAT THEY REALLY 19 DON'T VALUE WHAT THE STUDENTS REALLY WANT OUT OF AN 20 EDUCATION. 21 IN REGARDS TO THAT, WE ONLY HAD ONE STUDENT 22 SPEAKER IN THE BEGINNING, AND IT WAS RYAN VANDERPOL, THE 23 PRESIDENT OF THE OCEAN CAMPUS. NOW I REALLY WORK WELL 24 WITH RYAN VANDERPOL. HE IS A GREAT COLLEAGUE OF MINE, BUT 25 HE WAS ONLY AT ONE EQUITY HEARING. HE HAS NEVER BEEN AT MARCH 25, 2010 12 1 ANY OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE MEETINGS, NOR ANYTHING, SO I 2 DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY TYPE OF SECONDHAND INFORMATION 3 THAT WAS FLOATING AROUND OR WHAT THE CASE WAS. 4 I ASKED, "WHY WASN'T ANY OTHER PRESIDENT FROM 5 ANY OTHER CAMPUS INVITED TO SPEAK IN REGARDS TO THIS 6 EQUITY RESOLUTION" WHEN IT OBVIOUSLY AFFECTS ALL CAMPUSES. 7 THEY STATED TO ME THAT WOULD TAKE WAY TOO MUCH 8 TIME. THEY DIDN'T COME TO ME. BUT IN FACT, THEY WENT TO 9 RYAN. SO IT REALLY FELT THAT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS WAS 10 CIRCUMVENTED FOR THEIR OWN BENEFICIAL GAIN AS FAR AS WHAT 11 THEY WERE TRYING TO DO. 12 I REALLY FEEL THIS WAS A COMPLETE DISSERVICE TO 13 STUDENTS. I HOPE THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. THIS IS 14 RIDICULOUS THAT WE HAVE THESE TYPE OF FORUMS HERE WITHIN 15 THE COLLEGE CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, AND THE STUDENTS DON'T 16 EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK WHEN IT CONCERNS THEM 17 DIRECTLY AND AFFECTS THEM, SO THANK YOU. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 19 THE NEXT CARD I HAVE IS FROM JIM KNUDSTRUP. 20 AND AFTER MR. KNUDSTRUP, IT WILL BE RITA GROVE. 21 MR. KNUDSTRUP: GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. MY NAME 22 IS JIM KNUDSTRUP, AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE CCSF 23 VETERANS ALLIANCE. IT IS THE STUDENT VETERANS 24 ORGANIZATION HERE ON CAMPUS. 25 I'VE BEEN HERE AT CITY COLLEGE A COUPLE OF YEARS MARCH 25, 2010 13 1 NOW. AND WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING 2 THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING ON MY OWN. JUST BEING A VETERAN 3 AND COMING BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN, I FELT LIKE I WAS -- 4 WELL, I FELT LIKE I WASN'T REALLY A PART OF THIS 5 INSTITUTION WHEN I'M HERE AT THE SCHOOL. 6 I WENT DOWN TO THE BASE TO MAKE SURE I WAS 7 GETTING MY PAY AND THEN I CHECKED OUT. IT WASN'T UNTIL 8 AFTER I HAD BEEN HERE AWHILE THAT I STARTED TO BUMP INTO A 9 LOT OF OTHER GUYS WHO WERE ON CAMPUS. AND WE ALL JUST 10 TALKED ABOUT, WELL, ISN'T IT A SHAME THAT IT'S ALL VERY 11 COINCIDENTAL. AND SO WE GOT TOGETHER AND WE BEGAN TO 12 ORGANIZE. 13 BUT WHAT I DIDN'T REALIZE AT THE TIME WAS THAT 14 WE HAD BEEN GOING THROUGH -- THERE'S BEEN AN EXPLOSION IN 15 THE LAST FEW YEARS OF VETERAN ENROLLMENT AT CITY. SO JUST 16 A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO, WE HAD MAYBE 50 VETERANS ON CAMPUS. 17 AND OUR LAST COUNT RECENTLY PUT US AT 500. THAT'S JUST IN 18 THE LAST FEW YEARS. 19 WE OWE A LOT OF THAT TO THE NEW GI BILL THAT HAS 20 MADE IT POSSIBLE TO GO TO SCHOOL HERE. BUT WITH THAT 21 SAID, THE ENROLLMENT IS INCREASING. AND IT'S NOT JUST 22 HERE AT CITY, BUT IT'S ALL AROUND THE BAY. SO I HAVE BEEN 23 IN TOUCH WITH STUDENT VETERAN LEADERS FROM BERKELEY AND 24 FROM USF. 25 THE STORIES ARE THE SAME ACROSS THE BOARD. AT MARCH 25, 2010 14 1 LEAST FROM A NUMBERS PERSPECTIVE, IT DOES SEEM LIKE HERE 2 AT CITY WE'VE GOT THE STRONGEST VETERAN CONSTITUENCY OF 3 ANY COLLEGE IN THE BAY. AND SO IF IT IS NOT AT THIS TIME, 4 IT WILL CERTAINLY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLEGE FOR 5 VETERANS IN THE BAY. AND TO THAT END, TAKING CARE OF ALL 6 THESE GUYS COMING BACK IS GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF AN 7 EFFORT BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF CHALLENGES IN COMING 8 BACK AND READJUSTING. 9 WELL, I MEAN FOR A LOT OF US IT WAS OUR FIRST 10 TIME. IT WAS OUR FIRST TIME GOING THROUGH A LOT OF THIS 11 AS ADULTS. JUST GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AND COMING HERE FROM 12 BEING AT A DIFFERENT PLACE IN OUR LIVES. AND A LOT OF 13 THESE GUYS NEED HELP. 14 WE KNOW THE LAST GENERATION OF RETURNING 15 VETERANS FROM VIETNAM DIDN'T GET THE SUPPORT THAT THEY 16 NEEDED. A LOT OF THEM ENDED UP IN JAIL. WE KNOW THAT A 17 THIRD OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION HERE IN THE CITY ARE 18 VETERANS, AND SO WE REALLY HOPE NOT TO SEE THAT AGAIN. WE 19 REALLY HOPE TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT THIS TIME AROUND. 20 AND SO THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE ARE WORKING 21 ON THAT WE WOULD LIKE YOUR SUPPORT ON IN THE FUTURE. WE 22 APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE VETERANS CENTER THAT'S 23 BEEN PROPOSED FOR THIS FALL. WE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO 24 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US IN THIS. 25 IN ADDITION TO THIS, THERE IS THE MATTER OF WHAT MARCH 25, 2010 15 1 WE ARE GOING TO DO OVER THE SUMMER BECAUSE WE'D ALL BEEN 2 COUNTING ON THE GI BILL THIS SUMMER TO HELP US PAY FOR 3 ENROLLMENTS. AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, THAT'S NOT GOING TO 4 HAPPEN BECAUSE THE SUMMER SESSION IS GONE. 5 IN THE INTEREST OF SOME KIND OF JOB PLACEMENT OR 6 SOME KIND OF PROGRAM TO AT LEAST INTEGRATE US INTO SOME OF 7 THE OTHER SCHOOLS AROUND THE BAY THAT WILL STILL BE 8 OPERATING THAT WOULD BE PRETTY HELPFUL. 9 BESIDES THAT, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE 10 COMING TOGETHER AT THIS TIME, NOT JUST WITH THE VETERANS 11 CENTER, BUT SOME OF THE TEACHERS ARE WORKING ON DEVELOPING 12 SOME NEW CLASSES TO PUT IN THE CURRICULUM. WE'VE HAD 13 INTEREST FROM SOME TEACHERS POTENTIALLY DEVELOPING SOME 14 VETERANS SPECIFIC CLASSES. WE'VE ALSO HAD INTEREST IN 15 DEVELOPING SOME KIND OF -- I DON'T WANT TO CALL THEM 16 SIMULATION, BUT JUST INTEGRATION CLASSES LIKE THE TYPE 17 THAT THEY'VE GOT OVER AT BERKELEY. 18 THEY HAVE CLASSES OVER THERE AT BERKELEY SET UP 19 SPECIFICALLY FOR VETERANS. BUT THE THING IS BY THE TIME 20 THEY GET TO BERKELEY, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT THEY'VE 21 ALREADY BEEN AT CITY FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. AND IF WE CAN 22 GET THAT GOING ON HERE AT CITY, WE COULD GET MORE HELP 23 WHERE IT'S NEEDED MOST. 24 AND SO I JUST WANTED TO GET UP HERE AND SPEAK MY 25 CASE AND JUST LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT WE APPRECIATE THE WORK MARCH 25, 2010 16 1 THAT'S BEEN DONE ON OUR BEHALF BY SOME OF YOU HERE. AND 2 WE WOULD APPRECIATE THAT IN THE FUTURE AS WELL. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU FOR YOUR 5 SERVICE. I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. 6 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: AMEN. 7 MS. GROVE: HI, I'M RITA GROVE. I'M A 8 CLASSIFIED WORKER IN THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE, SECRETARY FOR 9 THE CLASSIFIED SENATE, AND A PROUD UNION MEMBER. 10 WELL, GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, I JUST BRIEFLY 11 WANTED TO REMIND YOU WHAT MAKES A GOOD DOLLAR, FOUR 12 QUARTERS, RIGHT? 13 SO IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD COLLEGE, YOU NEED 14 ALL FOUR OF THE COMPONENTS, THE ADMINISTRATORS, THE 15 TEACHERS, THE STUDENTS, AND THE CLASSIFIED. IF WE ARE NOT 16 HERE TO EMPTY YOUR GARBAGE AND PUT YOUR GRADES IN THE 17 COMPUTERS, THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE MUCH OF A COLLEGE. SO I 18 WANTED YOU TO KEEP THAT IN MIND. BECAUSE WE, THE 19 CLASSIFIED, WANT A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE TOO. YOU KNOW, WE 20 LOVE WORKING HERE. I DO ANYWAY. 21 DON'T DISCOUNT US. AND WE DON'T WANT TO GO 22 BACK, AND YOU DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THE '98 STRIKE. SO 23 THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION AND DON'T FORGET. THANK 24 YOU. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: MARK AMBORT. MARCH 25, 2010 17 1 MR. AMBORT: GOOD EVENING. 2 MR. CHANCELLOR, MR. MARKS, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW 3 WHY SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF LAST SEMESTER, TWO STUDENTS IN 4 THE RN PROGRAM ACCUSED ME OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT. THERE WAS 5 NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT. 6 WHY I WAS INTERROGATED BY TED ALFARO AND NOT 7 TOLD THE TRUTH BY DEAN SANTOS, NOT TO MENTION MARK 8 ROBINSON, NOT TO MENTION ANNIE CHEN. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW 9 WHY THERE'S NO TRANSPARENCY, NO RESPONSIBILITY, NO 10 ACCOUNTABILITY AT CITY COLLEGE. 11 I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW ALL OF YOU -- I'VE SENT 12 ALL OF YOU E-MAILS, OKAY? 13 I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. I AM GOING TO TAKE IT ALL 14 TO THE MEDIA BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF YOU SHOULD JUST 15 RESIGN. I HAVE BEEN CIVILIZED. I WANT THE TRUTH. I WANT 16 TO KNOW WHY YOUR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS DO NOT HAVE TO 17 BE ACCOUNTABLE. CAN YOU ANSWER THAT TO ME? 18 YOU TOLD ME THE LAST TIME I MET YOU, 19 MR. CHANCELLOR, THAT YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT 20 INVESTIGATION. CAN YOU TELL ME WHEN THIS IS GOING TO 21 HAPPEN, MR. CHANCELLOR? 22 CAN YOU TELL ME, MR. MARKS -- 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: PARDON ME, MR. AMBORT, YOU 24 HAVE A RIGHT TO SPEAK. AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE 25 HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS AND A LOT OF E-MAILS. AND YOU MARCH 25, 2010 18 1 WILL GET YOUR ANSWER. 2 KOVAK WILLIAMSON, PLEASE. 3 MR. WILLIAMSON: KOVAK WILLIAMSON, MEMBER OF THE 4 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO. I 5 AM A PROUD MEMBER AND TREASURER OF LOCAL AFT 2121. 6 LET'S CLOSE THE EQUITY AND ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 7 EDUCATION IS THE PASSPORT TO THE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE 8 BELONGS TO THOSE WHO PREPARE FOR IT TODAY. 9 I JUST HEARD ON THE WAY HERE THAT THE STATE OF 10 TEXAS WANTS TO TAKE CERTAIN PEOPLE OUT OF THE TEXTBOOKS. 11 DR. KING, CESAR CHAVEZ, THEY WANT TO TAKE CHIEF JUSTICE 12 THURGOOD MARSHALL OUT OF THE TEXTBOOKS. THURGOOD MARSHALL 13 ARGUED BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT THE BROWN VERSUS THE BOARD 14 OF EDUCATION CASE THAT LED TO EQUALITY AND EDUCATION BY 15 THE LAW. WE HAVE MANY THINGS WHERE EDUCATION IS COMING 16 UNDER ATTACK, SO LET US FIND COMMON GROUND. 17 I AM NOT HERE TO SCOLD THE BOARD. I AM NOT HERE 18 TO SCOLD THE ACADEMIC SENATE. I AM NOT HERE TO SCOLD ANY 19 ONE. I AM HERE TO APPLAUD THE ACTIVISM OF THE BOARD. THE 20 ACTIVISM OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE. I AM HERE TO APPLAUD THE 21 ACTIVISM OF MY LOCAL UNION LOCAL 2121. I KNOW WE DON'T 22 HAVE A CONSENSUS YET, BUT LET'S CONTINUE TO DELIBERATE 23 THIS PURPOSEFULLY. I WANT TO SAY LET US FIND THE COMMON 24 GROUND. 25 I WANT TO SAY TO STUDENT TRUSTEE JOSH, YOU ARE MARCH 25, 2010 19 1 AN EXCELLENT ADVOCATE FOR STUDENTS HERE AT SAN FRANCISCO. 2 I APPLAUD YOU. 3 WHEN WE FIND THE COMMON GROUND, WE CAN CLAIM IT. 4 WE CAN TILL IT. WE FERTILIZE IT. WE CAN NURTURE IT. AND 5 THEN WE CAN REAP THE HARVEST OF THE WONDERFUL SEEDS THAT 6 THE STUDENTS PLANTED IN BRINGING THIS GORILLA IN THE ROOM 7 INTO PUBLIC DISCUSSION. 8 THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IS REAL. WE KNOW IT FROM K 9 THROUGH 12 THROUGH CITY COLLEGE, UC, CSU AND ALL LEVELS OF 10 EDUCATION AND IN OTHER ASPECTS OF OUR -- 11 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 12 -- SOCIETY. 13 WHEN WE FIGHT TOGETHER, WE WIN. THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 15 THE LAST CARD I HAVE IS FROM DARLENE ALIOTO. 16 DR. ALIOTO: GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES. 17 I JUST WANT TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO SET THE 18 RECORD STRAIGHT WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO OUR STUDENT 19 TRUSTEE, MR. NEILSEN. 20 AND THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT YOU ARE 21 SPEAKING FROM THE HEART. I MEAN, I HAVE BEEN WITH YOU ON 22 MANY A COMMITTEE. AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE BEST 23 INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS IN YOUR HEART AS A PRIORITY. 24 BUT I DO WANT TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT THAT 25 THE MEETING THAT THE FACULTY HELD THE OTHER DAY -- AND MARCH 25, 2010 20 1 MR. NEILSEN IS QUITE RIGHT. THE STUDENTS WERE KEPT 2 WAITING UNTIL THE END OF THE MEETING BEFORE THEY SPOKE. 3 MUCH LIKE YOU OFTEN KEEP PEOPLE WAITING UNTIL THE END OF 4 YOUR MEETING FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION. 5 THE MEETING OF THAT FACULTY GROUP, THE MEETING 6 OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE, WAS NOT A MEETING TO DISCUSS THE 7 ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND EQUITY RESOLUTION. WE HAVE YET TO GET 8 THERE AND WE NEED TO. 9 THAT MEETING WAS A GOVERNANCE MEETING. IN THE 10 HISTORY OF ACADEMIC SENATES, THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, THE 11 ELECTED BODY THAT REPRESENTS THE ENTIRE FACULTY AT CITY 12 COLLEGE, THEIR PRIME ROLE IS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE 13 FACULTY IN ALL MATTERS OF ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONALISM. 14 THAT INCLUDES CURRICULUM AND GRADING AND TEXTBOOKS AND 15 SHARED GOVERNANCE AND THE WHOLE STATE SENATE TEN PLUS ONE 16 AREAS. 17 IF THE FACULTY FEEL THAT THEIR ELECTED 18 REPRESENTATIVES DID NOT REPRESENT THEM IN THE WAY THEY 19 FELT THEY SHOULD BE, THEY CALLED A MEETING TO DISCUSS 20 WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THE 21 FACULTY DIDN'T THINK THAT A RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE 22 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WENT FAR ENOUGH. IT WAS A GREAT 23 BEGINNING. THE FACULTY FELT MORE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 24 INCLUDED IN THAT RESOLUTION. 25 AND SO THAT MEETING WAS A MEETING TO DISCUSS MARCH 25, 2010 21 1 WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED ANOTHER RESOLUTION THAT INCLUDED 2 MORE THAN WHAT HAD BEEN GIVEN. AND THAT'S WHAT WE WERE 3 THERE TO VOTE ON. 4 AND SO WE REALLY -- IT WASN'T AN AREA WHERE WE 5 WERE DISCUSSING -- 6 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 7 -- AN EQUITY RESOLUTION WHERE, OF COURSE, THE 8 STUDENTS WOULD HAVE HAD PRIMACY IN THAT DISCUSSION, BUT 9 RATHER A GOVERNANCE ISSUE, OKAY? 10 JUST TO SET IT STRAIGHT. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 12 THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY AT THE END OF OUR 13 MEETING FOR MORE PUBLIC COMMENT THAT ISN'T LIMITED BY 14 TIME. 15 THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE 16 MINUTES FROM OUR FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010 MEETING. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECOND. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: BEFORE I DO THAT, ARE THERE 20 ANY CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS TO THE MINUTES? 21 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, SIR. YES, 22 MR. PRESIDENT, THERE ARE MANY REVISED ADDITIONS. 23 THE FIRST IS THE ADDITION OF F1 FOR THE 24 "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT OF THE INTERIM 25 ASSOCIATE DEAN, REGISTRATION AND RECORDS" -- MARCH 25, 2010 22 1 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. THESE ARE THE 2 MINUTES OR THE AGENDA? 3 TRUSTEE WONG: THE AGENDA. 4 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ARE YOU DOING -- 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO, JUST THE MINUTES. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I'M SORRY. I'M TERRIBLY 7 SORRY. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: THAT'S FINE. 9 IF THERE AREN'T ANY, COULD I HAVE A MOTION TO 10 APPROVE THE MINUTES? 11 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECOND. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WAS NOT IN ATTENDANCE AT THE 15 MEETING. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO MOVED. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT IT'S ALREADY BEEN -- 19 TRUSTEE WONG: IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IT'S MOVED BY TRUSTEE -- 21 TRUSTEE WONG: NGO. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- NGO. AND SECONDED BY 23 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 24 MAY I HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE VOTING IN FAVOR OF 25 APPROVING THE MINUTES, PLEASE SAY "AYE." MARCH 25, 2010 23 1 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 10 NOBODY OPPOSED. THE MINUTES ARE APPROVED. 11 NOW COUNSEL BATTISTE, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR 12 CHANGES TO THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA AS DISTRIBUTED? 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THERE ARE 14 MANY IF YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME. 15 THE FIRST IS THE ADDITION OF F1. IT IS THE 16 RESOLUTION FOR THE "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENT 17 INTERIM ASSOCIATE DEAN OF REGISTRATION OF RECORDS, 18 NONCREDIT DIVISION." I BELIEVE THE APPOINTMENT IS FOR 19 MONIKA LIU. 20 F2 IS THE "ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL 21 APPOINTMENT INTERIM ASSOCIATE DEAN, CONTRACT 22 EDUCATION/CONTINUING EDUCATION. THE APPOINTEE IS KIT DAI. 23 THERE'S THE REVISION OF G1-G4, "ACADEMIC 24 EMPLOYEES CREDIT PROGRAM/NONCREDIT PROGRAM -- DISTRICT 25 FUNDED CITY COLLEGE EMPLOYEES, TEMPORARY HOURLY MARCH 25, 2010 24 1 ASSIGNMENTS. ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES: GENERAL FUND, 2 UNRESTRICTED AND AMENDING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED LEAVES OF 3 ABSENCE." 4 THERE'S A REVISION TO H1, "ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES 5 CREDIT PROGRAM/NONCREDIT PROGRAM -- CATEGORICALLY FUNDED. 6 CITY COLLEGE TEMPORARY HOURLY ASSIGNMENTS." 7 THERE'S A REVISION TO P1, "NOTICE OF INTENTION 8 TO AMEND SFCCD POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD POLICY 9 BP 6340, (III) (D), CONTRACTS." THIS IS A SECOND READING. 10 THIS WAS APPROVED BY THE FIT COMMITTEE AND FORWARDED TO 11 THE BOARD. 12 THERE'S A REVISION TO P2, WHICH IS "THE 13 INTENTION TO AMEND SFCCD POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD 14 POLICY BP 6341, FOR INFORMATION ONLY, AGENDA ITEMS." THIS 15 WAS REVIEWED BY THE FIT COMMITTEE ON MARCH 3RD AND 16 FORWARDED TO THE FULL BOARD. 17 THERE'S -- 18 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF INFORMATION. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. NO. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT WAS THE "POLICY 21 IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE" THAT DID THAT. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, I'M SORRY. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: YOU SAID, "FIT." 24 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, I'M SORRY. IT'S BEEN A 25 LONG DAY. MARCH 25, 2010 25 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I UNDERSTAND. 2 COUNSEL BATTISTE: ALL RIGHT THEN. 3 THERE IS P3, WHICH IS THE "NOTICE OF INTENTION 4 TO AMEND SFCCD POLICY BY ADDING BOARD POLICY BP 6343, 5 NOTICE OF RATIFICATION." THIS IS THE FIRST READING. THIS 6 WAS FORWARDED FROM THE POLICY LIMITATION COMMITTEE ON 7 MARCH 3RD WITH RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL. 8 THERE'S REVISIONS TO P4, "NOTICE OF INTENTION TO 9 AMEND SFCCD POLICY BY ADDING BP 6344, VIOLATIONS 10 RATIFICATION." THIS IS ALSO A FIRST READING. IT IS ALSO 11 RECOMMENDED BY THE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION TO THE FULL 12 BOARD. 13 THERE IS A REVISION OF P5, "NOTICE OF INTENTION 14 TO AMEND THE SFCCD POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BP 6346, 15 VIOLATIONS CHANGE ORDERS." THIS WAS ALSO FORWARDED TO THE 16 FULL BOARD BY THE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE ON 17 MARCH 3RD. 18 THERE IS ALSO REVISION TO P6, "POLICY MANUAL, 19 NOTICE OF INTENTION TO AMEND THE POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING 20 THE FOLLOWING PROPOSED POLICIES: BP 1100, BP 2340, 21 BP 2431, BP 2432, BP 2435, BP 2010, BP 2100, BP 2110, 22 BP 2200, BP 2210, BP 2305, BP 3410, BP 3420, BP 3430, 23 BP 3440, PB 3505, PB 3510, PB 3516, PB 3518, BP 3540, AND 24 BP 6660." ALL FORWARDED FROM THE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION 25 COMMITTEE TO THE BOARD ON OCTOBER 13TH, 2009 AND MARCH 25, 2010 26 1 NOVEMBER 5TH, 2009. 2 AND ALSO P7, "AMENDING BOARD POLICY 1200, 3 DISTRICT VISION AND MISSION." THIS IS THE FIRST READING. 4 AND IT WAS ALSO FORWARDED FROM THE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION 5 COMMITTEE ON MARCH 3RD, 2010." 6 AS FAR AS ADDED RESOLUTIONS, THERE'S S6, 7 "APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED MASTER AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SAN 8 FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT AND THE FOUNDATION OF 9 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO." 10 AS FAR AS SUBSTITUTION RESOLUTIONS, THERE ARE 11 NONE AT THIS TIME. 12 AND WITHDRAWN RESOLUTIONS IS P8, "NOTICE OF THE 13 INTENTION TO AMEND THE POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING 14 SECTION 2.08, PUBLIC ACCESS SUNSHINE POLICY." 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 16 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YOU ARE WELCOME. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF I COULD A MOTION TO A ADOPT 18 THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA AS AMENDED. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT'S BEEN MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO 22 AND SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 23 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE RESOLUTIONS 24 AGENDA AS AMENDED? 25 IF NOT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY "AYE." MARCH 25, 2010 27 1 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 10 THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA IS ADOPTED. 11 BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I WANTED TO THROW OUT A 12 SUGGESTION TO MY COLLEAGUES. EVERY BOARD MEETING WE GET A 13 FULL BOARD PACKET THAT COMES TO OUR HOMES. THIS IS 14 BASICALLY -- ALL THIS PAPER (INDICATING). AND THEN WHEN 15 WE COME HERE, WE HAVE AN ENTIRE SECOND SET OF PAPER. 16 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST WOULD BE TO 17 ELIMINATE THE DELIVERY OF THE FIRST SET TO US. TO HAVE IT 18 ACCESSIBLE FOR US AND ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE 19 WEBSITE FOR US TO PRINT OUT IF WE NEED THEM. AND THEN FOR 20 CLOSED SESSION AGENDAS AND OTHER MATERIALS TO BE 21 ACCESSIBLE TO THE BOARD WITH A PASSWORD. 22 WE CAN'T NECESSARILY VOTE ON IT, BUT I WANT TO 23 JUST THROW IT OUT AS A SUGGESTION BECAUSE THIS JUST SEEMS 24 QUITE WASTEFUL AND A LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY FOR PEOPLE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: OR -- MARCH 25, 2010 28 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE WONG. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: -- MR. PRESIDENT, IT WE CAN BE 3 THE OTHER WAY AROUND WHERE WE GET THE INFORMATION IN 4 ADVANCE, SO WE CAN STUDY THAT INFORMATION. WE DON'T NEED 5 THE ADDITIONAL PACKET IN FRONT OF US. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: I UNDERSTAND, TRUSTEE WONG. 7 AND I SAID THE SAME THING. THE PROBLEM IS THAT PEOPLE 8 FORGET IT. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: WELL, I MEAN OUR TRUSTEES HAVE TO 10 BE RESPONSIBLE AND REMEMBER TO BRING THEIR MATERIALS. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: ONE OF THE TWO I THINK NEEDS 12 TO TAKE PLACE. THANK YOU. 13 WE HAVE APPROVAL OF CONSENT ITEMS ON OUR 14 CALENDAR. RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE MARKED BY AN ASTERISK AND 15 ANYBODY ON THE BOARD OR ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC CAN PULL 16 THESE OFF OF OUR CONSENT AGENDA AND HAVE US DISCUSS IT AND 17 VOTE ON IT INDIVIDUALLY. 18 SO IF THERE ARE ANY -- 19 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF INFORMATION. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST A CLARIFICATION, CAN YOU 22 SAY -- WHAT IS THE STANDARD FOR CONSENT ITEMS? 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: HOW DID THEY GET ON TO THE 24 CONSENT AGENDA? 25 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. MARCH 25, 2010 29 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: WELL, THESE ARE PUT ON -- THEY 2 ARE MARKED THIS WAY AND THEY ARE CONSIDERED TO BE 3 APPROPRIATE FOR CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS MORE OFTEN THEN NOT 4 WHEN IT GOES THROUGH THE PROCESS THROUGH THE CHANCELLOR'S 5 OFFICE. THESE TEND TO BE AGENDA ITEMS THAT ARE NOT 6 PARTICULARLY CONTROVERSIAL AND ARE EXPECTED TO GET PASSED 7 BY THE BOARD AS A MATTER OF LAW AND COURSE, BUT NOT 8 NECESSARILY THINGS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO A LOT OF 9 DISCUSSION. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IF ANYBODY WANTS TO REMOVE 12 B2, B7, OR B8 FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FROM THE PUBLIC OR 13 ON THE BOARD? 14 IF NOT, COULD I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE 15 RESOLUTIONS B2 -- 16 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- B7, B8. 18 MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND SECONDED BY TRUSTEE 21 JACKSON. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, YOUR VOTE ON B2, B7, 23 AND B8. 24 COUNSEL BATTISTE: MR. PRESIDENT, HE JUST LEFT 25 THE ROOM. MARCH 25, 2010 30 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR 2 OF B2, B7, AND B8, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 12 THOSE RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED. 13 DOES ANYBODY WANT TO PULL C1 OR C2? 14 IF NOT, COULD I HAVE A MOTION FOR THOSE TWO. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG AND 18 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 19 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF C1 AND C2, PLEASE SAY 20 "AYE." 21 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 31 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 5 C1 AND C2 PASS. 6 DOES ANYBODY WANT TO REMOVE FROM THE CONSENT 7 CALENDAR G1-4, H1, THE HUMAN RESOURCES. 8 IF NOT, COULD I HAVE A MOTION FOR THOSE, PLEASE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 13 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF G1-4 AND H1, PLEASE SAY 14 "AYE." 15 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 24 THOSE PASS. 25 AND WE HAVE ONE MORE ITEM ON THE CONSENT MARCH 25, 2010 32 1 CALENDAR, AND THAT IS S1 IF ANYBODY WANTS TO REMOVE THAT. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF NOT, MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 6 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF S1, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 7 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY: (ABSENT.) 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 16 S1, PASSES. 17 OKAY, NOW BEFORE -- I'M GOING TO TRY TO CHANGE 18 THE ORDER A LITTLE BIT ON THIS OUT OF CONSIDERATION FOR I 19 THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE FOR SPECIFIC 20 RESOLUTIONS. I'M JUST WONDERING IF PEOPLE CAN INDICATE BY 21 RAISING YOUR HANDS WHAT YOU ARE HERE FOR. THAT WILL HELP 22 US FIGURE OUT WHICH ONES TO PUT -- WE CAN CLOSE OUR EYES. 23 ARE PEOPLE HERE FOR B1(A)? 24 MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE: YES. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY, AND B1(B) I KNOW. MARCH 25, 2010 33 1 S6, WHICH IS THE FOUNDATION. 2 ARE THERE ANY OTHER RESOLUTIONS THAT PEOPLE 3 WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE COULD CONSIDER NOW RATHER THAN 4 LATER. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE WAS THE ONE ON 6 THE -- 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: TELL ME WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE FOOTBALL FIELD. 9 COUNSEL BATTISTE: THAT'S B1(B). 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: B1(B). 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: B1(B), OH, OKAY. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IF WE ACTUALLY COULD DO 13 B1(B) FIRST AND THEN WE'LL -- 14 SO IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR B1(B), PLEASE. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL MOVE IT. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG AND 18 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: CHANCELLOR, DID YOU WANT TO 21 TALK ABOUT THIS OR PERHAPS COACH RUSH? 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE HEARD THIS AT THE 23 FACILITIES COMMITTEE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO TRUSTEE RIZZO, DID YOU WANT 25 TO TALK ABOUT THIS BEFORE COACH RUSH DID? MARCH 25, 2010 34 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, I WAS JUST GOING TO 2 SAY THAT THIS WAS HEARD AT THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE. THE 3 COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED THE RESOLUTION. 4 AND I WILL LET COACH RUSH -- I SEED MY TIME TO 5 COACH RUSH. 6 MR. RUSH: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE RIZZO. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS, CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN, BOARD OF 8 TRUSTEE MEMBERS. 9 BRIEFLY, AS YOU KNOW, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A 10 SYNTHETIC FIELD ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. AND IT HAS A LIFE 11 SPAN OF EIGHT TO TEN YEARS. WE PLAYED EIGHT FULL SEASONS 12 ON IT. IN ADDITION, IT'S BEEN USED 24/7. 13 WHAT'S OCCURRED IS THE FIBERS, THE BLADES OF 14 GRASS, THAT SHOULD STAND UP SO IT LOOKS LIKE GRASS NO 15 LONGER EXIST. IT'S A FIRST GENERATION SYNTHETIC FIELD. 16 THE RUBBER INFILL IS NOW ON THE SURFACE. AND IT'S CREATED 17 A HEALTH SITUATION AND POSSIBLY A HAZARDOUS SITUATION FOR 18 OUR STUDENT ATHLETES, AS WELL AS ANY OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC 19 THAT MAY BE USING IT. 20 SO WHAT WE DID IS WE TRIED TO DO OUR HOMEWORK 21 AND INVESTIGATE WHAT ALTERNATIVES THERE WERE TO RUBBER 22 INFILL. AND MONDO, WHICH IS A COMPANY WHO IS FAMOUS FOR 23 INNOVATION IN SPORT SURFACES, CAME UP WITH A GREEN 24 SUSTAINABLE, 100 PERCENT RECYCLABLE FIELD. AND IT'S BEEN 25 IN THE UNITED STATES FOR ABOUT THREE TO FOUR YEARS NOW. MARCH 25, 2010 35 1 IT'S HIGHLY USED IN EUROPE. 2 THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A MARQUEE INSTITUTION TO 3 PLACE THIS FIELD IN. THEY'RE WILLING TO PUT THIS FIELD IN 4 AT $150,000 LOWER THAN THEY'VE EVER PUT ANY OTHER FIELD IN 5 THIS COUNTRY. IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY'VE MADE SOME VERY 6 STRONG CONCESSIONS IN TERMS OF HOW THIS WOULD BE FINANCED 7 AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 8 AS I'VE SAID, THE INFIELD IS SUSTAINABLE. IT'S 9 GREEN. THERE'S NO LEAD IN IT. THE BACKING HAS NO 10 URETHANE IN IT. IT PASSES THE VERY, VERY HIGHEST 11 STANDARDS BY THE US GOVERNMENT AND IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE 12 OF CALIFORNIA IN TERMS OF REGULATING TOXICITY IN FIELDS, 13 SO I THINK IT IS THE IDEAL FIELD FOR US. 14 WE ARE REALLY GETTING THE BARGAIN OF THE 15 CENTURY, IF YOU WILL, IN THE PURCHASE. AND THE TRADE OUT 16 FOR THEM IS, OBVIOUSLY, THEY WANT TO USE US AS THEIR 17 MARQUEE FIELD ON THE WEST COST WHEN THEY PROMOTE THEIR 18 FIELD WHICH IS GOOD FOR US. SO THAT'S KIND OF IT IN A 19 NUTSHELL. 20 IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS, I WILL BE HAPPY TO 21 ANSWER THEM. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE MARKS. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ONE OF THE KEY ELEMENTS 25 OF THIS FIELD IS THAT IT'S NOT MADE OUT OF RECYCLED TIRES, MARCH 25, 2010 36 1 WHICH OUR CURRENT FIELD IS MADE OUT OF RECYCLED TIRES AND 2 MOST OF THEM ARE. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH 3 THOSE KINDS OF FIELDS, INCLUDING OUR CURRENT FIELD, WITH 4 HAVING HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD AND ZINC AND OTHER HARMFUL 5 MATERIALS IN IT. 6 AND IN FACT I HAD THIS FIELD TESTED BY A 7 NONPROFIT WHO DID SOME TESTING FOR A CASE THAT ATTORNEY 8 GENERAL JERRY BROWN MADE AGAINST SOME OF THE MANUFACTURERS 9 AND OUR OLD FIELD TURNED UP WITH HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD. SO 10 THIS BRAND MONDO IS NOT MADE OUT OF RECYCLED TIRES. AND 11 WE FEEL IT'S VERY CLEAN, HEALTHY FOR OUR ATHLETES TO BE 12 ON, SO I THINK WE ARE -- I'M PRETTY EXCITED WITH THE 13 PROSPECT OF GETTING A MUCH BETTER FIELD. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 15 TRUSTEE NGO. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: MY UNDERSTANDING TOO IS THAT THERE 17 WILL BE SOME KIND OF REBATE OR REFUND PROCESS OR RECYCLING 18 PROCESS IN THIS. 19 IS THAT TRUE, TRUSTEE RIZZO? 20 MR. RUSH: THAT IS ACCURATE. BECAUSE IT IS 21 RECYCLABLE, MONDO WILL -- WHATEVER THE FIELD IS WORTH AT 22 THE END OF THE LIFE OF THE FIELD, THEY WILL REIMBURSE US. 23 THEY WILL PAY US FOR TAKING THE FIELD OUT AND RECYCLE THAT 24 MATERIAL AND USE IT IN A FUTURE FIELD ELSEWHERE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. MARCH 25, 2010 37 1 TRUSTEE BERG: TRUSTEE MARKS. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE BERG. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS 4 FIELD IS REALLY QUITE DANGEROUS, THE CURRENT FIELD. SO 5 THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT IT IS RATHER THAN HAVE THE LIABILITY 6 ISSUES WITH SOMEBODY GETTING INJURED ON THAT FIELD, THAT I 7 WOULD REALLY URGE THAT WE JUST GO FORWARD WITH THE NEW 8 FIELD. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: CALL FOR THE QUESTION. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IF THERE ARE NO OTHER 11 QUESTIONS, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR B1(B), PLEASE SAY "AYE." 12 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): (ABSENT.) 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 21 B1(B) PASSES. THANKS VERY MUCH. 22 MR. RUSH: THANK YOU. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR 24 B1(A), PLEASE. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: I WILL MOVE THAT. MARCH 25, 2010 38 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: I'LL SECOND. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 4 I'M NOT CERTAIN -- TRUSTEE JACKSON. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (INAUDIBLE). 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WOULD LIKE YOU TO INTRODUCE 7 THIS. WE COULD TAKE THE FOUNDATION MASTER AGREEMENT 8 INSTEAD. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (INAUDIBLE). 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO, OKAY. 11 ACTUALLY, I MISTAKENLY OVERLOOKED ONE OF THE 12 CARDS I HAD FROM GLEN VAN LEHN. 13 COME ON DOWN, SIR. I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. THIS 14 IS FOR B1(B) SO -- 15 MR. VAN LEHN: MY NAME IS GLEN VAN LEHN. I AM A 16 NETWORK ENGINEER FOR THE CAMPUS, FOR THE DISTRICT. I HAVE 17 BEEN WORKING HERE 30 YEARS, WORKING MOSTLY IN I.T.S. 18 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE 19 ALREADY VOTED. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE COULD ALWAYS VOTE TO 21 RESCIND OUR VOTE AND THEN VOTE AGAIN. 22 MR. VAN LEHN: IT DOESN'T MATTER. WHAT YOU NEED 23 TO HEAR HERE IS ABOUT PRIORITIES. WE HAVE $90,000 A YEAR 24 BEING SET. SOME PEOPLE CAN SAY THAT'S SIX CLASSES. THEY 25 CAN SAY WE'VE GOT A LIABILITY CASE. I UNDERSTAND THAT MARCH 25, 2010 39 1 FULLY. 2 BUT I WOULD LIKE THE BOARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT 3 TONIGHT THE COMPUTER ROOM FOR THE ENTIRE DISTRICT IS 4 RUNNING WITH A COUPLE KENMORE PORTABLE AC HUMIDIFIERS TO 5 KEEP THE HUMIDITY IN THE COMPUTER ROOM GOING. WE HAVE 6 TURNED ON A COUPLE OF PORTABLE AC'S TO KEEP THE AIR 7 CONDITIONING LEVEL THROUGH THE BREAK. 8 THEN WE HAVE ALL OF OUR 1300 FIBERS THAT ARE THE 9 AORTA OF YOUR DATA DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF YOUR WEBSITE 10 ACCESSIBLE DOCUMENTS RUNNING THROUGH A SET OF CONDUITS 11 THAT WAS COMPROMISED BACK IN LATE AUGUST BY THE REMOVAL OF 12 THE RETAINING WALL FOR THE DRIVE IN LOADING DOCK. IT WAS 13 CRUMBLED. WE'VE GOT ROADBLOCKS UP SO IT'S NOT BEING USED 14 RIGHT NOW. BUT THE WEATHER THIS WHOLE WINTER HAS BEEN 15 UNDERMINING THE GRASS. THAT IS ALL THE DATA CONNECTIVITY 16 FOR EVERY BUILDING TO OUR CENTER FOR ALL OF THE ENTERPRISE 17 OUT TO THE INTERNET FOR ALL OF YOUR E-MAILS, EVERYTHING. 18 I DESCRIBED THE SITUATION IN DETAIL TO 19 MR. LIGGETT, TO MR. BLOMQUIST, THE FACILITIES REVIEW A 20 COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. THEY SAID, "NO PROBLEM. WE WILL 21 TAKE CARE OF IT." THIS IS WHAT WE GOT. 22 SO WHEN WE SET PRIORITIES, HAVING WORKING AC AND 23 POWER IN THE COMPUTER ROOM THAT IS THE HEARTBEAT OF ALL 24 THESE THINGS WE WANT TO DO. IT IS THE ONE PRIORITY THAT 25 HAS BEEN IGNORED CONTINUOUSLY FOR THE LAST DECADE. AND WE MARCH 25, 2010 40 1 CONTINUE -- 2 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 3 -- AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE OUR AORTA COMPROMISED 4 WITH NO -- IT'S LIKE, OH, IT'S AN ABANDONED STREET OF 5 CONCRETE AND WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY SUPPORT TO IT. AND 6 THAT'S WHAT I HAVE TO SAY. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: I WANT TO SPEAK. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: NOT FOR THIS. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: NOT FOR THIS ONE? 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: I HAD NEGLECTED TO CALL HIS 12 CARD. I WANT TO KNOW NOW THAT MR. VAN LEHN HAS SPOKEN IF 13 THERE'S ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO MOVE TO RECONSIDER WHAT WE 14 VOTED ON ALREADY FOR THE FIELD. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE -- 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE CAN DO IT. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DON'T KNOW. WHAT ARE 18 YOU REFERRING TOO? 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: B1(B), THE INSTALLATION OF A 20 NEW FIELD. BECAUSE I FORGOT TO CALL HIS CARD -- 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: UNDERSTOOD. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT WE 23 ARE LISTENING TO WHAT HE HAD TO SAY AND IF ANYBODY FEELS 24 THE NEED TO CHANGE A VOTE TO HAVE US RE-VOTE ON B1(B), I 25 WOULD JUST LIKE TO ENTERTAIN THAT MOTION IF SOMEONE WANTS MARCH 25, 2010 41 1 TO DO IT, OTHERWISE WE WILL MOVE ON. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: CAN I COMMENT ON HIS COMMENT OR IS 3 THAT NOT -- 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: SURE. GO AHEAD. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK THOSE ARE SOME OBVIOUSLY 6 VERY LARGE CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISED. I DON'T KNOW WHAT 7 THE PROCESS HAS BEEN IF THIS HAS BEEN RAISED TEN YEARS AGO 8 OR I'M NOT SURE AT WHAT PARTICULAR TIME FRAME HE 9 MENTIONED, BUT I IMAGINE IT WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH THE 10 PROCESS OF THE PBC AND SOME OTHER -- AND THROUGH A 11 COMMITTEE FIRST OF ALL. AND THIS IS THE FIRST I AM 12 HEARING OF IT SO PERHAPS WE CAN EXPLORE THOSE CONCERNS OR 13 MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ADDRESS THEM AT SOME POINT THE ISSUES 14 THAT YOU'VE RAISED AT SOME POINT. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE BERG WANTED TO SAY 16 SOMETHING. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: I DO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. I 19 WANT TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO THIS RESOLUTION. 20 FIRST OF ALL -- 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. WE ARE 22 STILL TALKING ABOUT B1(B). 23 TRUSTEE WONG: WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT -- 24 TRUSTEE BERG: I'M SORRY. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: I JUST WANTED TO MAKE CERTAIN MARCH 25, 2010 42 1 THAT PEOPLE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THIS AND THEN 2 MOVE ON TO B1(A). 3 TRUSTEE BERG: ALL RIGHT. GO AHEAD. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE WONG. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T 6 THINK THE ISSUES ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. CLEARLY, WE NEED 7 TO HAVE A -- I THINK THAT WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE 8 RECOVERING OF THE FOOTBALL FIELD. THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT 9 THAT. 10 BUT I WOULD LIKE THE ADMINISTRATION TO RESPOND 11 AS TO WHY IT HAS TAKEN THIS LONG OR HAS GOTTEN TO THIS 12 POINT REGARDING THE COMPUTER LAB. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE LAB. 14 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE MAIN ROOM WHERE THE MAIN SERVERS 15 ARE IN BATMALE HALL. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY. WELL, I THINK WE NEED A 17 RESPONSE. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND THE CONCERNS MR. VAN LEHN 19 ARE RAISING ARE GENUINE. I WANT TO SAY THAT FIRST. 20 WE DO HAVE A PLANNED PROJECT. WE HAVE SET ASIDE 21 SOME OF THE REMAINING MONEY IN THE BOND ISSUE, 22 SPECIFICALLY TO UPGRADE THAT CENTER. 23 I WAS JUST CONFERRING WITH DAVID LIGGETT ABOUT 24 THE STATE OF THE PROJECT. WE HAVE ARCHITECTS THAT WE HAVE 25 SELECTED AND SO WE CAN DISCUSS THIS AT MORE LENGTH AT A MARCH 25, 2010 43 1 FIT MEETING, BUT WE ARE NOT IGNORING THE PROBLEM. 2 ALTHOUGH I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE SOME 3 URGENCIES FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD MORE QUICKLY THAN WE 4 HAVE. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND IT WILL BE ON THE NEXT 7 AGENDA -- 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- OF THE FACILITIES 10 INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE ON APRIL 8TH. 11 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY, GOOD. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE AN 13 OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT IT THEN. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO WE'VE ALREADY HAD B1(A) 16 MOVED AND SECONDED. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON, YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS 18 RESOLUTION. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: OKAY. AT OUR LAST BUDGET 20 COMMITTEE MEETING WE TALKED ABOUT, IN TERMS OF THIS 21 BUDGET, WE WANT TO HAVE A CLEAR SENSE OF PRIORITIES WITH 22 THE BOARD. I THINK THIS HAS BEEN THE MOST CONSTRUCTIVE 23 PROCESS IN TERMS OF THE BOARD BEING KNOWLEDGABLE AND 24 ACTUALLY WORKING WITH ADMINISTRATION AND THE INSTITUTION 25 WITH THE BUDGET. MARCH 25, 2010 44 1 WE DECIDED IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE THAT 2 WE WOULD SET -- THAT WE WOULD ACTUALLY, AS A BOARD, SAY 3 WHAT IS OUR ACTUAL PRIORITIES IN TERMS OF THIS UPCOMING 4 BUDGET. 5 YOU KNOW, MONEY IS IN VERY SHORT SUPPLY, BUT IT 6 REALLY IS NOT ABOUT MONEY. IT'S ABOUT THE DIRECTION THAT 7 WE WANT OUR INSTITUTION TO GO IN AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO 8 MAKE DUE WITH LESS, TO BE CLEARLY HONEST, AND WHAT ARE THE 9 KEY PRIORITIES OF THE BOARD AND OF THE EDUCATIONAL 10 LEADERSHIP IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET AND THE BUDGET PROCESS 11 AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD. 12 SO WE ACTUALLY APPROVED DRAFT BUDGET PRIORITIES 13 TO FORWARD TO THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION SO THAT WE WOULD 14 ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO 15 THE PUBLIC THIS IS WHAT CITY COLLEGE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 16 AND FOLKS THAT YOU ELECTED, THIS IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO 17 BE PRIORITIZING IN TERMS OF OUR NEXT BUDGET. 18 I MEAN IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, FOR THE 19 FOLKS, FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOLKS TO KNOW WHAT WE WANT. 20 THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO SEE OUR BUDGET PROCESS GO. I 21 THINK IT IS A MUCH MORE TRANSPARENT PROCESS. I THINK IT 22 IS A MUCH MORE OPEN PROCESS AS WELL. AND IT HAS A LOT OF 23 SUNSHINE. THESE ARE THE PRIORITIES. 24 I HAVE ONE AMENDMENT TO MAKE TO THIS. AND I'M 25 SURE OTHER TRUSTEES ARE GOING TO ADD THEIRS. I WANT TO, MARCH 25, 2010 45 1 YOU KNOW, I MEAN WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT DRAFTS A LOT FOR 2 THE LAST MONTH OR TWO, SO I JUST WANT TO REITERATE THAT 3 THIS IS PROPOSED BUDGET PRIORITIES AND THINGS SHOULD BE 4 ADDED, THINGS CAN ALSO BE SUBTRACTED, BUT WE REALLY OWE IT 5 TO THE COMMUNITY TO TELL FOLKS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO 6 PRIORITIZE. 7 ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A SUMMER SCHOOL NEXT 8 BUDGET? WE'VE SAID WE WERE GOING TO HAVE IT, BUT IT'S 9 IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE OUT IN PUBLIC. 10 THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE GOING TO 11 PRIORITIZE. WE ARE GOING TO PRIORITIZE SUMMER SCHOOL. WE 12 ARE GOING TO PRIORITIZE STUDENT EQUITY. WE ARE GOING TO 13 PRIORITIZE THE FULL RETENTION OF FULL-TIME FACULTY AND 14 STAFF. THAT'S THE AMENDMENT. 15 AND, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE OUR VALUES AND THAT'S 16 WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LOOK TO PUSH DURING THAT BUDGET 17 PROCESS. AND SO THAT'S WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM. THAT'S 18 THE SPIRIT THAT IT'S COMING FROM. IT'S COMING FROM A 19 SPIRIT OF OPENNESS, TRANSPARENCY AND REALLY BEING ON THE 20 UP AND UP WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT WE HAVE THE PLEASURE TO 21 SERVE. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THAT AS 23 AN AMENDMENT? 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: OR MOTION. MARCH 25, 2010 46 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH, ON THE SECOND BULLET 2 POINT I MEANT -- I MEAN WE MEANT RETENTION OF FULL-TIME 3 FACULTY AND STAFF. 4 THE FIRST BULLET POINT WAS FULL-TIME RETENTION 5 OF FACULTY BECAUSE I ACTUALLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT 6 DOWN WITH THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AFT. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, I WANT TO 8 MAKE CERTAIN WE HAVE A SECOND. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL SECOND. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IT WAS SECONDED BY TRUSTEE 11 RIZZO. 12 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 13 NOW YOU -- 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT 15 DOWN WITH THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AFT TO GET THEIR 16 ACTUAL -- YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THEIR BUDGET PRIORITIES. 17 AND WITH THAT, WE USED THAT TO CRAFT THIS 18 DOCUMENT. WE DID NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN 19 WITH TEN TO ONE, THE BARGAINING UNIT FOR CLASSIFIEDS. SO 20 THAT'S WHY THAT WAS LEFT OUT. 21 I DID HAVE THE CHANCE TO TALK WITH 22 REPRESENTATIVES, AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE PUTTING THIS SMALL 23 AMENDMENT IN THERE. 24 AND LIKE I SAID, THIS IS DEBATABLE. THIS IS BY 25 NO MEANS SET IN STONE. BUT I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A MARCH 25, 2010 47 1 CLEAR SENSE IN TERMS OF THE BOARD'S HANDLING OF THE BUDGET 2 AND THE BUDGET PROCESS. WHAT ARE THE PRIORITIES OF THIS 3 BOARD? 4 AND LIKE I SAID, IT'S REALLY ABOUT MAKING SURE 5 THAT WE COMMUNICATE TO THE COMMUNITY WHAT WE ARE GOING TO 6 BE PUSHING, WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE PRIORITIZING AND WHAT 7 THIS BUDGET IS ACTUALLY GOING TO LOOK LIKE. 8 FOR THE NEXT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING, WE ARE 9 GOING TO BE HAVING -- I AM GOING TO BE PLANNING A SERIES 10 OF EVENTS. I WANT TO HAVE TOWN HALL MEETINGS. NOT JUST 11 WITHIN THE CAMPUS, WHICH I DO PLAN ON HAVING TOWN HALL 12 MEETINGS ON CAMPUS. I WANT TO HAVE TOWN HALL MEETINGS IN 13 THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THERE IS NUMEROUS 14 FOLKS THAT DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE CUT TO THE SUMMER SCHOOL. 15 AND I FELT YOU KNOW I FELT PERSONALLY SADDENED BY THE FACT 16 THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION. 17 NOW DID WE PROVIDE IT? WE PROBABLY DID. BUT 18 DID THEY RECEIVE IT? NO. SO IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATION, 19 WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT. 20 AND SO, YOU KNOW, I PLAN ON HAVING A SERIES OF 21 TOWN HALL MEETINGS OF SESSIONS SO FOLKS COULD UNDERSTAND 22 THE BUDGET, KNOW THE BUDGET SITUATION THAT WE ARE IN. 23 THIS SPURS ADVOCACY. THIS SPURS GRASSROOTS. THIS SPURS 24 INVOLVEMENT IN THE BUDGET PROCESS. AND I THINK THAT WE 25 HAVE A BETTER BUDGET PROCESS THAT WAY. SO THIS IS JUST A MARCH 25, 2010 48 1 FIRST STEP IN TERMS OF LETTING THE COMMUNITY KNOW WHERE WE 2 AS A BOARD STAND IN TERMS OF OUR PRIORITIES, AND WHAT WE 3 ARE GOING TO BE ASKING THE CHANCELLOR AND THE 4 ADMINISTRATION TO WORK WITH FACULTY AND STAFF ON. AND 5 THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THE SPIRIT AND THE HEART THAT WE ARE 6 COMING FROM. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND SO, YES, THIS IS A 9 DIFFERENT BUDGET PROCESS THAN IN THE PAST WHERE SOMETIMES 10 WE WERE NOT INVOLVED VERY MUCH. THIS IS A DIFFERENT 11 PROCESS, BUT DIFFERENT IS NOT ALWAYS BAD. DIFFERENT IS 12 SOMETIMES GOOD. 13 AND IN MY CASE FROM MY COMMUNITY, WHERE WE ARE 14 USUALLY DIFFERENT, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD. SO I WILL SAY THAT. 15 AND I WILL LEAVE IT TO THE REST OF MY TRUSTEES TO TALK 16 ABOUT THIS. THANK YOU. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING 18 TO SAY OR ANY COMMENTS ON THE AMENDMENT ITSELF? 19 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: JUST ON THE AMENDMENT. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: ON THE AMENDMENT? 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: RIGHT. BY ADDING THE WORDS 23 "AND STAFF" ON THE SECOND BULLET POINT. 24 TRUSTEE BERG: NO. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WANT TO DEAL WITH THAT FIRST MARCH 25, 2010 49 1 AND THEN MOVE ONTO THE -- 2 I HAVE YOUR CARD, ED. 3 BUT DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE AMENDMENT OR 4 ABOUT THE FULL RESOLUTION ITSELF? 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND SO I JUST WANT TO 6 REITERATE THAT THE NEW SENTENCE IS GOING TO SAY, 7 "RETENTION OF FULL-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF." THAT'S THE 8 NEW SENTENCE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 10 MR. MURRAY: OKAY. MY NAME IS ED MURRAY, AND I 11 AM VICE PRESIDENT OF AFT 2121. 12 AND IT'S TRUE THAT CHRIS CAME TO TALK TO OUR 13 EXECUTIVE BOARD ABOUT TEN DAYS AGO. 14 BUT WE DIDN'T SEE A DRAFT OF THIS RESOLUTION 15 ABOUT SETTING THE PRIORITIES. AND I WOULD LIKE YOU, IF 16 POSSIBLE, TO JUST ADD "PART-TIME FACULTY" BECAUSE THAT IS 17 A BIG GAP. 18 LAST YEAR WE SPOKE WITH THE CHANCELLOR ABOUT 19 TRYING TO PROTECT EVERYONE'S JOB AT THE COLLEGE TO THE 20 EXTENT POSSIBLE. AND THE CHANCELLOR AGREED THAT WE SHOULD 21 DO THAT. AND THE BOARD ENDORSED THAT. AND AS A RESULT, 22 WE HAD TO LAY OFF VERY, VERY FEW PART-TIMERS. AND THAT'S 23 NOT THE CASE IN THE REST OF THE STATE. 24 I WENT TO OUR CFT, CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF 25 TEACHERS, CONVENTION LAST WEEKEND AND THE STORIES WERE MARCH 25, 2010 50 1 TERRIBLE ABOUT ALL THE PART-TIMERS THAT WERE GETTING LAID 2 OFF AND CLASSES CUT AND STUDENTS CAN'T GET CLASSES. 3 WE'VE DONE A REMARKABLE JOB KEEPING THE CLASSES. 4 AND ALSO KEEPING OUR PART-TIMERS EMPLOYED. SO I WOULD ASK 5 YOU TO AMEND AGAIN AND PUT IN "PART-TIME FACULTY" AND ALL 6 FACULTY AND ALL STAFF, ALL EMPLOYEES AT THE COLLEGE 7 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO. AND I THINK 8 THAT'S A GREAT GOAL IF WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT. THANK YOU. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I 10 TAKE THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. AND I AM HAPPY TO ADD 11 THAT IN THERE. AND I WOULD LIKE TO REITERATE WHAT ED DID 12 SAY THAT I TALKED TO MY COLLEAGUES AROUND JUST THE BAY 13 AREA WHERE WE CONSIDER VERY LIBERAL, VERY PROGRESSIVE 14 LEANING. 15 AND IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY DO, I MEAN IT'S JUST 16 LIKE LITERALLY THEY GO STRAIGHT FROM CLASSIFIEDS AND THEY 17 WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS. THEY GO TO 18 CLASSIFIEDS, PART-TIME FACULTY, FULL-TIME FACULTY, AND 19 THEN IF THEY GET AROUND TO IT, THEY DO ADMINISTRATION. 20 THAT'S HOW THE CUTS HAPPEN, AND THAT'S THEIR FORMULA. 21 AND I'VE TALKED TO MANY OTHER TRUSTEES AT OTHER 22 DISTRICTS. AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO JUST THANK THIS BOARD 23 IN TERMS OF THEIR VALUES AND IN TERMS OF VALUING WORKERS 24 AND VALUING OUR STAFF AND FACULTY, PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME 25 IN TERMS OF THIS PROCESS. MARCH 25, 2010 51 1 AND, YOU KNOW, AS CHAIR OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, 2 IT IS MY PRIORITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE NO LAYOFFS 3 WITHIN THIS PROCESS, AND THAT WE RETAIN FULL TIME. 4 BECAUSE WE NEED OUR FACULTY AND STAFF PART-TIME AND 5 FULL-TIME MORE NOW THAN EVER WITH ALL THE TAX AND CUT 6 BACKS WITHIN OUR INSTITUTION. 7 NOW I'M VERY HAPPY THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 8 IS GOING TO HAVE THE NEW STUDENT LOAN AND THE PELL GRANTS 9 AND EVERYTHING, SO THAT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT IS GOOD 10 FOR OUR INSTITUTION, BUT WE STILL NEED TO RETAIN OUR 11 WORKERS AND THE FOLKS THAT MAKE THIS INSTITUTION GO 12 FORWARD. AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE IN THE BEST WORDS 13 THAT I COULD POSSIBLY EXPRESS, THAT IS ACTUALLY OUR 14 VALUES, AND THAT'S WHERE THIS BOARD COMES FROM. 15 I CONSIDER THIS BOARD THE MOST PRO-WORKER, 16 PRO-UNION BOARD IN THE ENTIRE STATE IF YOU LOOK AT THE WAY 17 WE HAVE EMPLOYMENT. IN TERMS OF THE WAY WE WANT TO 18 PROTECT FOLKS, SO I LOOK AT IT THAT WAY. 19 SO THOSE ARE THE VALUES. IF WE DON'T HAVE THE 20 RIGHT WORDS, HELP US, PLEASE. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON, DID YOU WANT 22 TO ADD "AND PART-TIME" IN HERE OR HOW DID YOU WANT TO 23 CHANGE IT? 24 I WANT TO GET THE LANGUAGE SET. AND TRUSTEE 25 RIZZO, WHO SECONDED IT TO AGREE BEFORE WE MOVE ON. MARCH 25, 2010 52 1 WE JUST HAVE -- 2 MR. MURRAY: ALL EMPLOYEES. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL, WE ARE ACTUALLY CUTTING 4 DOWN ON ADMINISTRATORS. I MEAN AND NO OFFENSE TO 5 ADMINISTRATORS. I KNOW THAT THE CHANCELLOR HAS A 6 REORGANIZATION THAT ACTUALLY DOES CUT DOWN ON SOME OF 7 THEM. SO I DON'T KNOW IF ALL EMPLOYEES WORKS AS WELL. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: I JUST HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING. 9 WE CAN'T VOTE ON IT UNLESS WE HAVE THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL, "RETENTION OF ALL 11 FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF." 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY, TRUSTEE RIZZO, YOU ARE 13 OKAY WITH THAT. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY, THAT'S MOVED AND 16 SECONDED. 17 SO DOES SOMEBODY -- SO, KAREN, DID YOU WANT TO 18 TALK ABOUT THE AMENDMENT. 19 MS. SAGINOR: KAREN SAGINOR, ACADEMIC SENATE. I 20 JUST WANT TO THANK TRUSTEE JACKSON FOR MAKING THAT CHANGE. 21 I HAD THOSE CONCERNS AS WELL. 22 OFTEN WE MAKE PEOPLE SPEAK UP FOR THEMSELVES. 23 I'M FULL-TIME FACULTY, BUT I WAS VERY DISTRESSED THAT IT 24 DIDN'T INCLUDE PART-TIME FACULTY, AND IT DIDN'T INCLUDE 25 PART-TIME STAFF. SO PLEASE, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR MARCH 25, 2010 53 1 MAKING THOSE CHANGES. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YES. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS 5 ON THE AMENDMENT TO THE RESOLUTION? 6 GO AHEAD. 7 MR. GABOR: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ATTILA 8 GABOR. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE CLASSIFIED SENATE. 9 I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT ACCORDING TO THE 10 CALIFORNIA ED CODE, STAFF INCLUDES CLASSIFIED STAFF AS 11 WELL AS ADMINISTRATORS. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 13 SO IF THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMENTS ON THE 14 AMENDMENT -- 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE 18 AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THE SECOND BULLET POINT TO "RETENTION 19 OF FULL TIME" -- 20 TRUSTEE BERG: WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- "AND PART-TIME FACULTY AND 22 STAFF." 23 TRUSTEE BERG: EXCUSE ME. I WANT TO ADDRESS THE 24 MAIN ISSUE. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT -- MARCH 25, 2010 54 1 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, YOU CAN'T VOTE ON THE 2 AMENDMENT AND THEN YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON IMMEDIATELY ON THE 3 MAIN -- 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE ARE VOTING TO AMEND THE 5 RESOLUTION. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK TRUSTEE BERG IS 7 CORRECT THOUGH THAT THE MAIN RESOLUTION HAS TO BE MOVED 8 AND SECONDED. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT WAS. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: WE AREN'T READY TO VOTE. I MEAN 11 YOU HAVE TO VOTE -- 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT WAS. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: BEFORE -- I INTERRUPTED IT FOR 15 MR. VAN LEHN TO SPEAK. IT WAS. 16 TRUSTEE BERG: TRUSTEE MARKS. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT WAS MOVED. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: IN ALL DUE RESPECT, IF YOU VOTE 19 ON THE AMENDMENT, THEN YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON THE MAIN 20 MOTION. AND I WANT TO ADDRESS THE MAIN MOTION BEFORE THAT 21 VOTE IS TAKEN. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO YOU ARE SAYING -- SO HOW DO 23 WE AMEND THE RESOLUTION? 24 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU JUST HOLD IT. TRUSTEE 25 JACKSON CAN MAKE THE AMENDMENT AND IT CAN BE SECONDED. MARCH 25, 2010 55 1 JUST HOLD ON TO IT. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY, TRUSTEE BERG. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE BERG, GO AHEAD. 5 WE ARE JUST PROCEEDING THIS WAY THAT TRUSTEE 6 BERG WOULD LIKE US TO DO. 7 TRUSTEE BERG. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: GO AHEAD. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU WANT ME TO MAKE MY COMMENTS? 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: YES. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: I STARTED TO SAY EARLIER THAT I 13 WILL OPPOSE THIS AMENDMENT -- THIS RESOLUTION AND HERE ARE 14 MY REASONS. 15 FIRST OF ALL, THE BOARD WAS NOT CONSULTED. TWO 16 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD DRAFTED THIS RESOLUTION. THE PROCESS 17 IN THE PAST HAS BEEN FAR MORE FULL OF SUNSHINE. 18 WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST IS WE HAVE HAD A 19 MEETING OF THE WHOLE. IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. WE HAVE 20 MET AND WE HAVE HAD EVERY CONSTITUENCY IN THIS COLLEGE, 21 INCLUDING THE NEIGHBORS AND ANYBODY ELSE AND ANY COMMUNITY 22 MEMBER WHO WAS INTERESTED CAME AND ADDRESSED THE BOARD. 23 AND WE LISTENED TO THE PRIORITIES OF THE ENTIRE 24 CONSTITUENCY. WE DIDN'T JUST DECIDE WHAT THOSE -- WE 25 OURSELVES DID NOT DETERMINE WHAT THE PRIORITIES WERE FOR MARCH 25, 2010 56 1 ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE INSTITUTION. AND WE LISTENED TO THE 2 PROS AND CONS AND THEN AS A BOARD IN TOTAL, WE CAME UP 3 WITH THE MEASURES THAT WERE GOING TO SET OUR BOARD 4 PRIORITIES FOR THE YEAR. 5 AND I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT WE CONTINUE 6 THAT PROCESS. IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL. IT'S OPEN. IT'S 7 TRANSPARENT. AND IT'S STRATEGIC. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE -- 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AND THIS HAS JUST BEEN PRESENTED 10 TO US AND NONE OF US NEVER LAID -- EXCEPT FOR THE TWO 11 PEOPLE WHO AUTHORED IT. NONE OF US SAW THIS UNTIL WE GOT 12 THE AGENDA. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE WONG. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT MARKS. 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON, I THINK WHAT YOU SAID WAS THIS 16 WAS MORE OR LESS KIND OF A OPENING OPPORTUNITY TO START 17 THE DISCUSSION IN TERMS OF PRIORITIES. 18 HOWEVER, WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID AND THE WAY 19 IT'S WRITTEN, THERE IS A DIVERGENCE BECAUSE THERE IS 20 LANGUAGE HERE THAT SAYS, "THE ANNUAL BUDGET SHALL 21 INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING PRIORITIES," WHICH MEANS IF WE 22 VOTE ON IT, IT'S SET IN CONCRETE. 23 I JUST WANT TO ELABORATE ON WHAT TRUSTEE BERG 24 JUST SAID. IN THE PAST WE HAVE HAD A RETREAT WHERE ALMOST 25 THE ENTIRE TWO, THREE HOURS IN THE RETREAT WAS OPEN TO ALL MARCH 25, 2010 57 1 CONSTITUENT GROUPS AND TO THE PUBLIC AND, YES, TO 2 NEIGHBORS, PEOPLE WHO LIVED AROUND OUR VARIOUS CAMPUSES. 3 AND FOR TWO TO THREE HOURS, WE WOULD JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT 4 THE PRIORITIES OF THE BOARD SHOULD BE. 5 SO THIS IS A DIFFERENT PROCESS. I AM JUST 6 WONDERING IF PERHAPS THE PREVIOUS PROCESS MIGHT HAVE BEEN 7 A LITTLE BIT MORE INCLUSIVE. 8 AND I JUST WONDER ALSO WHETHER OR NOT SHARED 9 GOVERNANCE WAS REALLY CONSULTED OR FELT LIKE THEY WERE 10 ABLE TO PARTICIPATED IN THIS WHOLE PROCESS BECAUSE, AGAIN, 11 IT'S THE LANGUAGE. 12 I APPLAUD YOU FOR ACTUALLY SUGGESTING MANY OF 13 THESE PRIORITIES WHICH ARE IMPORTANT. THERE'S NO DOUBT 14 ABOUT THAT. BUT AGAIN, THERE'S THE ISSUE OF THE PROCESS 15 WHICH IS THE KIND OF ISSUES THAT WERE ALSO BROUGHT UP 16 REGARDING THE STUDENT EQUITY RESOLUTION THAT WAS PULLED 17 FROM THE AGENDA TONIGHT. 18 SO I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS ALTHOUGH -- 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: ACTUALLY, TRUSTEE WONG, IT WAS 20 NEVER ON THE AGENDA, SO IT WASN'T PULLED. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT WAS NEVER ON THE AGENDA. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: IT WAS CONSIDERED. 24 I THINK THAT PERHAPS THE PROCESS NEEDS TO BE A 25 LITTLE BIT MORE FLUSHED OUT AND INCLUSIVE, SO I MARCH 25, 2010 58 1 PROBABLY -- NO, I WILL NOT BE IN SUPPORT OF THIS 2 RESOLUTION AT THIS POINT IN TIME. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON, TRUSTEE NGO, 4 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I WANT TO SAY THAT YOU 6 KNOW MY FIRST YEAR ON THE BOARD CANDIDLY YOU GAVE ME A 7 BUDGET FIVE DAYS BEFORE -- EVERYBODY HAD SEEN IT, EXCEPT 8 MYSELF AND A COUPLE OF OTHER TRUSTEES. EVERYBODY HAD SEEN 9 IT, AND YOU ASKED ME TO VOTE ON IT. I MEAN THAT WAS THE 10 PROCESS. I LITERALLY GOT THROWN A BUDGET, AND THEY SAID, 11 HERE, VOTE FOR IT. AND I HAD FIVE DAYS TO LOOK THROUGH 12 IT. AND THAT INCLUDED NOT HAVING A SUMMER SCHOOL. THAT 13 INCLUDED A LOT OF STUFF THAT I KNOW THAT A LOT OF FOLKS IN 14 THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T SUPPORT AND DIDN'T ACTUALLY LIKE. 15 IN TERMS OF -- THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 16 BOARD PRIORITIES AND BUDGET PRIORITIES. AND I KNOW THAT 17 THAT PROCESS IN TERMS OF RETREAT WAS HOW WE DEVELOPED 18 BOARD PRIORITIES. 19 AND I'VE BEEN ONE OF THE MAIN FOLKS POUNDING 20 SAYING, MR. PRESIDENT, PLEASE HAVE A RETREAT. I HAVE BEEN 21 ASKING FOR THAT. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: YOU HAVE. 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I HAVE ASKED FOR THAT PROCESS 24 AS WELL. THAT IS A PROCESS THAT I WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN. 25 BUT IN TERMS OF BUDGET PRIORITIES, THERE IS A MARCH 25, 2010 59 1 DEADLINE. AND I KNOW THAT FOLKS IN THE CONSTITUENCY 2 GROUPS AND IN ADMINISTRATION ARE WORKING ON A BUDGET NOW. 3 AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR FOLKS WITHIN THIS 4 INSTITUTION TO KNOW WHERE THE BOARD, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE 5 BOARD'S OPINION IS IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET. 6 I ALSO THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO KNOW 7 WHERE THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE IN TERMS OF THE BOARD 8 PROCESSES. THIS DOESN'T DETERMINE -- I MEAN, IT'S CALLED 9 A PRIORITY. IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY TO DO IT, I MEAN 10 IT'S JUST NOT THERE. 11 BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF OUR 12 VOICE. I MEAN THIS WAS AN OPEN PROCESS. IT WAS A 13 COMMITTEE MEETING WITH ALL THREE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THERE 14 PARTICIPATING. IT DID TAKE ABOUT THREE HOURS TO DO THIS. 15 AND WE HAD REPRESENTATIVES FROM FACULTY. WE HAD 16 REPRESENTATIVES FROM STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION THROUGHOUT 17 THIS ENTIRE PROCESS. AND SO I THINK IT WAS A VERY 18 CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESS AND INCLUSIVE PROCESS. WE DIDN'T 19 HAVE COMMITTEES. NOW WE HAVE COMMITTEES. AND SO IF WE 20 ARE GOING TO HAVE A BUDGET COMMITTEE, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO 21 USE THE BUDGET COMMITTEE IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING THE BUDGET 22 PARTS. 23 NOW IF THERE'S THINGS YOU DISAGREE WITH, YOU 24 GUYS CAN SAY, HEY, I DON'T AGREE WITH THIS, SO LET'S CROSS 25 THAT PART OUT. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HAVE A MARCH 25, 2010 60 1 DIALOGUE ABOUT. BUT THIS KILL THE BILL PROCESS, I CAN'T 2 DO THAT. 3 IF YOU DON'T LIKE EQUITY AND OFFERING CLASSES 4 ACROSS ALL CAMPUSES, THAT'S NOT A VERY SEXY BULLET POINT. 5 YOU CAN CROSS THAT OUT. I MEAN, I'M HAPPY TO HAVE THAT 6 CONVERSATION, BUT THIS BOARD NEEDS TO HAVE A VOICE AND 7 IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT WE DO WANT 8 TO RESTORE SUMMER SCHOOL AND THAT IS OUR PRIORITY. 9 IT IS IMPORTANT FOR OUR CONSTITUENCY GROUPS TO 10 KNOW AND OUR LABOR UNIONS TO KNOW THAT WE WILL WORK OUR 11 DAMNDEST TO HAVE RETENTION OF FULL-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF, 12 PART-TIME AND FULL TIME. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO KNOW 13 THAT THAT'S WHERE OUR VALUES ARE, AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE 14 GOING TO PUSH IN THESE REALLY HARD TRYING ECONOMIC TIMES. 15 FOLKS ARE STRESSING OUT. FOLKS ARE RUNNING. AND FOLKS 16 ARE REALLY CONFUSED, ANGRY, MAD, AND SOMETIMES 17 DISAPPOINTED IN US. AND I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A VOICE 18 AND SO THIS IS JUST -- 19 TRUSTEE WONG: IT'S THE PROCESS. I DON'T HAVE 20 ANY PROBLEMS WITH PRIORITIES. IT'S THE PROCESS. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: I WANT TO ADDRESS THE PROCESS 23 ISSUE BECAUSE I'VE HEARD A LOT THIS ENTIRE YEAR AND THREE 24 MONTHS I HAVE BEEN ON THIS BOARD. AND THAT SAME PROCESS 25 THAT YOU HAVE CONCERNS WITH, WE HAD CONCERNS WITH LAST MARCH 25, 2010 61 1 SUMMER WHEN WE WERE GIVEN A BUDGET SEVERAL DAYS BEFOREHAND 2 EXPECTED TO JUST ADOPT IT, WHICH INCLUDED BY THE WAY, 3 SUBSTANTIAL CUTS IN SECTIONS AND THE DELETION OF PROGRAM 4 OVER THE SUMMER. AND YOU WANT US TO OWN THAT BUDGET WHEN 5 WE SEE IT FIVE DAYS BEFORE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO VOTE ON IT. 6 THE PROCESS TO ME, AT LEAST IN MY FIRST YEAR, 7 HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT DYSFUNCTIONAL FROM THE BOARD'S POINT OF 8 VIEW. THERE HAS BEEN CERTAIN TALK ABOUT PRIMACY IN 9 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTERS WHICH IS PLAIN IN THE 10 STATUTE IN THE EDUCATION CODE IN TITLE V. WHAT'S ALSO 11 PLAYING IN TITLE V AND THE STATUTE IS THAT WE HAVE THE 12 AUTHORITY TO ADOPT A BUDGET. THAT IS IN OUR PURVIEW. 13 THAT IS CLEAR. 14 NOW THAT PROCESS WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ADDRESS, 15 NOW WE ARE A LITTLE LATE TO -- WHICH MIGHT EVOKE SOME 16 CONCERNS, AND I WANT TO LEGITIMATELY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. 17 THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION THAT WAS DRAFTED, NOT 18 NECESSARILY BY THE TRUSTEES, BUT BY THE ADMINISTRATION IN 19 RESPONSE TO OUR CONVERSATION WITH CHANCELLOR AND OTHER 20 PEOPLE, OTHER STAFF, AND ADMINISTRATORS, TOOK PLACE DURING 21 A THREE-HOUR CONVERSATION THAT WAS NOTICED UNDER BROWN. 22 OKAY, THAT WAS RECORDED. WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT. 23 AND WE DEBATED IT. IT WAS ALWAYS INTENDED THAT WE WOULD 24 PRESENT THIS RESOLUTION AS AN ITEM TO BE DEBATED BY THIS 25 BOARD IN A VERY PUBLIC MANNER WITH APPARENTLY EVERYONE IN MARCH 25, 2010 62 1 THE COLLEGE HERE TO OFFER THEIR FEEDBACK ON. 2 THE PROCESS THAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR THIS 3 RETREAT. WE ESSENTIALLY HAVE EVERYONE HERE. THIS INVITES 4 YOU TO DEBATE ABOUT IT, TO DISCUSS IT. IF YOU DON'T THINK 5 THAT THE AMENDMENT THAT TRUSTEE JACKSON IS OFFERING TO THE 6 RESOLUTION IS ACCEPTABLE, LET'S DEBATE ABOUT IT. LET'S 7 HAVE DISCUSSION ABOUT IT. 8 BUT YOU CAN'T SAY THAT THIS PROCESS IS NOT 9 TRANSPARENT. IT WAS AGENIZED. IT'S BEEN RECORDED. IT'S 10 UNLIKE THE PROCESS WE HAD LAST YEAR WHERE WE JUST GOT THIS 11 BUDGET FOUR OR FIVE DAYS BEFOREHAND AND EXPECT TO ADOPT IT 12 NOW. 13 THESE PRIORITIES, I WANT TO JUST CLARIFY BECAUSE 14 I WAS AT THAT MEETING, THESE ARE INTENDED AS WE DISCUSSED 15 IT OPENLY ON THE RECORD WITH THE CHANCELLOR, WAS TO ALLOW 16 THE ADMINISTRATION TO START WORKING WITH SOME FACTORS, 17 SOME PRINCIPLES. THEY ARE NOT LISTED AS A MATTER OF 18 PRIORITY, BUT THEY ARE MEANT TO BE TAKEN BY THE 19 ADMINISTRATION AS PRINCIPLES TO OPERATE AND TO WORK 20 THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE AND THE PLANNING AND BUDGET 21 COMMITTEE TO COME UP WITH A BUDGET THAT WE HAVE IN JUNE 22 THAT WE WILL ADOPT PRELIMINARY. 23 BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 24 PROCESS AND PRIMACY, AND PRIMACY RESTS OBVIOUSLY AMONG 25 FACULTY. THE BUDGET IS CLEARLY IN OUR -- THE BOARD'S MARCH 25, 2010 63 1 DOMAIN. IT IS THERE BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC 2 DOLLARS. THIS IS A BUDGET THAT WILL EFFECT EVERYONE IN 3 THIS COMMUNITY, CONSTITUENTS THAT WE REPRESENT. WE HAVE 4 TO KNOW WHAT OUR PRIORITIES WERE WHEN WE GO BACK TO OUR 5 CONSTITUENTS AND EXPLAIN THAT TO THEM. WE HAD TO EXPLAIN 6 THE ISSUE WHY WE CUT SUMMER SCHOOL. WE HAD TO EXPLAIN WHY 7 WE CUT ALL THESE SECTIONS. 8 THIS IS A PROACTIVE STEP TO ENGAGE 9 ADMINISTRATION, TO GIVE THEM SOME DIRECTION, AND NOT 10 MICROMANAGE, BUT TO GIVE THEM SOME DIRECTION, SOME FACTORS 11 THAT WE HAVE THAT WE CONSIDER IMPORTANT, THE BOARD 12 CONSIDERS IMPORTANT. THE TRUSTEES OF THIS COLLEGE 13 CONSIDER IMPORTANT AND TO HAVE A DEBATE ON IT. NONE OF 14 THEM ARE MEANT TO BE IN STONE, TO BE FINALIZED, OR TO BE 15 INDELIBLE IN THIS RESOLUTION AT ALL. 16 BUT THAT DEBATE YOU ARE ASKING FOR, THAT 17 OPENNESS, WE WANT IT RIGHT NOW. I KNOW IT WILL EXTEND THE 18 MEETING, BUT THE POINT OF OUR JOB IS TO SET AND TALK ABOUT 19 THESE PRIORITIES GOING FORWARD BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF 20 NERVOUS PEOPLE OUT THERE ABOUT THE BUDGET. AND A 21 DISCUSSION AMONG THE STUDENTS ESPECIALLY IS WHETHER 22 SECTIONS WILL BE THERE AND SUMMER CLASSES WILL BE THERE 23 OVER THE SUMMER. 24 SO LET'S HAVE A DISCUSSION RIGHT NOW. EVERYONE 25 IS HERE. LET'S DEBATE IT OPENLY. LET'S ENGAGE IN THIS MARCH 25, 2010 64 1 PROCESS AND LET'S HAVE A VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS. I'M 2 ALL FOR THAT. TRUST ME. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE NGO. 4 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG, I HERE WHAT 6 YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT PREVIOUS YEARS USING RETREATS. BUT 7 YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT WE DISCUSS AT THE RETREATS ARE BOARD 8 PRIORITIES. AND WE ARE STILL GOING TO DO THAT AS FAR AS I 9 UNDERSTAND IF WE EVER HAVE A RETREAT. THESE AREN'T BOARD 10 PRIORITIES, THIS RESOLUTION. THIS IS THE BUDGET 11 PRIORITIES. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE 12 BEFORE. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: ITS CONNECTED. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S CONNECTED, BUT IT'S 15 SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT DONE BEFORE. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: IT'S CONNECTED. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE NOT ADOPTING A 18 BUDGET TONIGHT. WE ARE ADOPTING A SERIES OF GUIDELINES 19 FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO GO IN COORDINATION WITH SHARED 20 GOVERNANCE TO CREATE A BUDGET. AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE 21 HAVEN'T DONE BEFORE. THE CHANCELLOR -- WE HAD A FRANK 22 DISCUSSION WITH THE CHANCELLOR AT THE MEETING IN PUBLIC, 23 AND HE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A GOOD APPROACH TO TAKE. 24 RATHER THAN THE BOARD AT THE BEGINNING GIVING 25 SPECIFICS, YOU KNOW, THIS EARLY PROCESS SAYING, WE WANT MARCH 25, 2010 65 1 "X" DOLLARS HERE AND WE WANT "X" DOLLARS THERE. WE ARE 2 SAYING THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT THE BOARD'S -- WE THINK 3 ARE IMPORTANT. AND, CHANCELLOR, YOU GO AND SEE WHAT YOU 4 COULD COME UP WITH. 5 NOW TONIGHT WE CAN CHANGE THIS. PEOPLE CAN ADD 6 THINGS. AND I HOPE WE GET SOME FEEDBACK ON WHAT SHOULD OR 7 SHOULD NOT BE IN HERE, BUT I THINK THIS IS A GOOD PROCESS. 8 WE ARE THREE MONTHS AWAY FROM ACTUALLY ADOPTING A PROCESS. 9 THE TIMING, I THINK, IS GOOD. WE ARE NOT REALLY RUSHED 10 INTO IT. WE COULD COME BACK, YOU KNOW, ANY TIME AND 11 CHANGE WHAT WE ADOPT TONIGHT. 12 SO I THINK THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO PROCEED, AND I 13 THINK WE SHOULD TRY IT. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: I CALL THE QUESTION ON THE 15 AMENDMENT. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: HOLD ON ONE SECOND. I WOULD 17 LIKE TO JUST. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU HAVE SPEAKERS, DON'T YOU? 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: BEFORE YOU DO THAT, TRUSTEE 20 NGO. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: DON'T HAVE YOU SPEAKERS? 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: PARDON ME? 23 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU HAVE SPEAKERS. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: I KNOW. I KNOW. I WANTED THE 25 CHANCELLOR TO SAY SOMETHING. AND WE ALSO HAVE STUDENT MARCH 25, 2010 66 1 TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND THEN I WOULD LIKE TO GET TO THE PUBLIC 2 CARDS AND THEN COME BACK TO THE BOARD. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: CHANCELLOR. 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: PROBABLY MOST OF YOU 6 UNDERSTAND HOW DIFFICULT THE SITUATION THAT WE ARE IN AS 7 FAR AS THE COLLEGE IS CONCERNED. I'VE CERTAINLY TRIED TO 8 REMIND YOU OF THIS FOR THE PAST 12, 18, 20 MONTHS WHATEVER 9 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON. 10 WE HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION. AND THAT IS 11 IN ORDER FOR US TO HAVE THE COLLEGE COME UP WITH A BUDGET, 12 WE HAVE TO ENGAGE THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY. AND THAT'S WHAT 13 WE'VE ACTUALLY STARTED TO DO. 14 WHEN I CAME TO THE COMMITTEE TO TALK TO THEM 15 ABOUT THE PRIORITIES, IN FACT MOST OF THESE PRIORITIES 16 THAT ARE LISTED HERE ARE PRIORITIES THAT I'VE ACTUALLY 17 SUGGESTED TO THE BOARD IN TERMS OF BEING VERY CRITICAL. 18 AND I THINK THAT I WANTED TO GET A FORMAL 19 RATIFICATION FROM THE BOARD IN TERMS OF THE PRIORITIES 20 BECAUSE OTHERWISE WHEN WE MEET WITH THE COLLEGE'S PBC, AND 21 WE ARE TRYING TO LOOK AT DIRECTION FOR THE COLLEGE IN 22 TERMS OF THE BUDGET, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY DIRECTION 23 FROM THE BOARD. SO THESE BOARD PRIORITIES ARE REALLY, 24 REALLY CRITICAL. 25 AND IF YOU TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK ABOUT THEM, MARCH 25, 2010 67 1 SOME OF THEM ARE INHERENT IN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING FOR 2 THE LAST 24 MONTHS AS FAR AS THE COLLEGE IS CONCERNED. 3 NO. 1, WE HAVE TO BE SOLVENT. AND IF WE'RE NOT 4 SOLVENT, WE ARE ALL GOING TO GO DOWN THE DRAIN, SO THAT'S 5 GOT TO BE A VERY, VERY HIGH PRIORITY FOR ALL OF US. 6 NO. 2, THIS WAS THE THING THAT I HAVE BEEN 7 SAYING TO YOU FOR 24 MONTHS. WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP ALL OF 8 OUR EMPLOYEES IN TACT AT THE COLLEGE. THE WAY I EXPRESSED 9 IT WAS NO LAYOFFS. THIS IS SAYING IT SLIGHTLY 10 DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT'S BASICALLY THE SAME CONCEPT. 11 IF WE LOOK AT THE SUMMER SCHOOL, PEOPLE DON'T 12 UNDERSTAND THE ENROLLMENT PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE AT THE 13 COLLEGE. BUT IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT'S FINE. 14 I DO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS REALLY CRITICAL TO 15 HAVE A SUMMER SCHOOL. WE PURSUED AN ENROLLMENT STRATEGY 16 ON PURPOSE TO GAIN THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF DOLLARS FOR THE 17 COLLEGE. IT ALLOWED US IN THE LAST TWO YEARS IN A MOST 18 DIFFICULT TIME WHEN WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY MONEY WHATSOEVER 19 FROM THE STATE TO EARN APPROXIMATELY $6.5 MILLION WITHOUT 20 WHICH WE WOULD BE IN TROUBLE. 21 SO WE CONSCIOUSLY PUT IN FRONT OF THE COLLEGE A 22 VERY DIFFICULT CHOICE FOR THIS COMING SUMMER NOT TO HAVE A 23 SUMMER SCHOOL. IT'S BEEN VERY PAINFUL, VERY UGLY, VERY 24 DISTURBING FOR ALL OF US. WE KNOW THAT ABSOLUTELY IN 25 ORDER TO REACH THE BASE ENROLLMENT FOR OUR COLLEGE, WE MARCH 25, 2010 68 1 MUST HAVE SUMMER IN SUMMER '11. WE MUST HAVE A SUMMER. 2 IT IS NOT EVEN AN OPTION ABOUT HAVING A SUMMER. WITHOUT 3 THE SUMMER, WE CANNOT GENERATE ENOUGH ENROLLMENT IN FALL 4 AND SPRING TO MAINTAIN THE SOLVENCY OF THE COLLEGE. SO 5 WE'VE GOT TO HAVE A SUMMER SCHOOL REGARDLESS OF WHAT 6 ANYONE THINKS IN REGARDS TO IT. 7 IN TERMS OF REDUCING THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT, 8 WE'VE TALKED FOUR YEARS HERE ABOUT A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT AT 9 THIS COLLEGE. BASICALLY, WE DO NOT GET ENOUGH REVENUE IN 10 TO COVER OUR EXPENDITURES. AND BASICALLY, WE HAVE BEEN 11 TRYING TO DEAL WITH THAT AND CHANGE IT. IF WE DON'T DEAL 12 WITH THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT, ULTIMATELY, THE COLLEGE WILL 13 BE INSOLVENT BECAUSE THAT'S THE DIRECTION THE STRUCTURAL 14 DEFICIT IS DRIVING US IN. WE COULD TALK SPECIFICALLY 15 ABOUT THIS AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE, BUT IT HAS TO BE 16 ADDRESSED. 17 IN TERMS OF CREATING NEW REVENUE STREAMS, WE 18 HAVE BEEN TALKING HERE CONSTANTLY ABOUT HOW TO GET MORE 19 MONEY INTO THE COLLEGE. HOW CAN WE GET REVENUE IN THAT WE 20 HAVE NOT HAD IN BEFORE? 21 IF WE DO NOT CREATE NEW REVENUE STREAMS WHEN WE 22 ARE GETTING LESS AND LESS FROM THE STATE, IT'S PROBLEMATIC 23 THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THE COLLEGE THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN 24 OPERATING. WE MUST HAVE NEW REVENUE STREAMS. IT'S NOT 25 EVEN A QUESTION ABOUT CAN WE OR CAN WE NOT HAVE NEW MARCH 25, 2010 69 1 REVENUE STREAMS. 2 IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH, AND 3 COMMUNICATION, WE'VE SAID THAT IN ALL OF OUR STRATEGIC 4 PLANNING DOCUMENTS, ALL OF OUR ANNUAL DOCUMENTS, ALL OF 5 OUR DOCUMENTS THAT IT'S REALLY CRITICAL FOR US TO 6 COMMUNICATE AND LET OTHER PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING 7 WITH THE COLLEGE. HOW CAN YOU REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, 8 SERVE THE COMMUNITY IF YOU ARE NOT COMMUNICATING WITH THE 9 COMMUNITY? 10 SO AS I LOOK AT THIS IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE 11 OTHER OBJECTIVES, AND THERE'S A COUPLE THERE THAT YOU 12 MIGHT WANT TO TALK ABOUT. BUT MOST OF THESE PRIORITIES 13 HERE ARE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE IN ORDER TO GO 14 FORWARD. SO YOU CAN HAVE A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT ADDING 15 PRIORITIES. YOU CAN TALK ABOUT REMOVING THESE. BUT IF 16 YOU DISARM US IN TERMS OF MOST OF THESE PRIORITIES, YOU'VE 17 GOTTEN A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT SOLVENT -- ALMOST AN 18 INSOLVENT SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT. 19 SO THE BOARD SAID LAST TIME, THEY CLEARLY TOLD 20 US. WE SPENT WEEKS AND MONTHS WITH THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS 21 COMING UP WITH A BUDGET. THE BOARD TOLD US WITHOUT ANY -- 22 I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ON THIS WHOLE BOARD SAID, "NO." 23 THEY SAID, WE WANT TO KNOW IN ADVANCE SO WE CAN PLAN WITH 24 YOU AS FAR AS THE BUDGET. WE SAID THAT WE WILL COME TO 25 YOU IN ADVANCE AND WE'LL ASK FOR THAT. WE CAME TO THE MARCH 25, 2010 70 1 COMMITTEE, AND WE SAID WE NEED PRIORITIES, GIVE US 2 PRIORITIES. WE MADE RECOMMENDATIONS. THIS IS WHAT YOU 3 GET IN TERMS OF RECOMMENDATIONS. 4 THERE MAY BE SOME -- ONE OR TWO OF THESE YOU 5 MIGHT WANT TO CHANGE. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO 6 CHANGE MUCH OF THIS, PLEASE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO BEFORE TRUSTEE WONG, WE 8 HAVE STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO THE 9 PUBLIC COMMENTS AFTER THAT AND THEN WE TRUSTEE JACKSON, 10 TRUSTEE WONG FOLLOWING UP IF THAT'S OKAY. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: WHAT ABOUT ME. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND THEN TRUSTEE GRIER AS 13 WELL. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WILL GO AFTER TRUSTEE GRIER 15 BECAUSE SHE HAS -- 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: BUT YOU ARE NOT GOING UNTIL 17 AFTER THE PUBLIC SPEAKS. 18 SO TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND THEN THE PUBLIC. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: OTHERWISE, TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND 20 THEN MYSELF AND THEN THE PUBLIC. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: NOPE. TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND 22 THEN THE PUBLIC. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK 24 REALLY BRIEF. DESPITE CRITIQUING THE PROCESS THAT'S AT 25 HAND, I THINK THE MATTER IS THE CONTENT WITHIN THIS MARCH 25, 2010 71 1 RESOLUTION. 2 NOW, LAWRENCE WONG, YOU SAID IT YOURSELF THAT 3 YOU FAVOR THE INTENT, BUT THE PROCESS IS YOUR ULTIMATE 4 CONCERN. I THINK THIS RESOLUTION IS TO ENFORCE THE 5 QUALITIES THAT ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN IT. BUT LATER DOWN THE 6 LINE, THAT'S WHEN WE CAN ACTUALLY DISCUSS WHAT TYPE OF 7 IMPLEMENTATIONS NEED TO BE MADE IN ORDER TO MAKE THESE 8 POLICIES ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO 9 BE DOING FOR THE COLLEGE. 10 I HEARD IT JUST PREVIOUSLY. ED MURRAY JUST 11 STATED TO US AN AMENDMENT THAT HE WANTED TO SEE. AND I 12 THINK IT WAS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. I THINK VARIOUS 13 STUDENTS HERE THAT ARE HERE BEFORE YOU AND THE 14 CONSTITUENCIES AND THE COMMUNITY WE REPRESENT AS THE 15 ELECTED OFFICIALS, I HOPE WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS. 16 AND JUST LIKE DR. GRIFFIN WAS SAYING, IF YOU 17 GUYS HAVE ANY TYPES OF CONCERNS REGARDING THIS RESOLUTION 18 AS FAR AS IT SHOULD BE ON OR NOT, I THINK IT IS VERY VITAL 19 THAT YOU ADDRESS YOUR CONCERN. I THINK THIS IS A GREAT 20 START TO ENFORCE POLICY. 21 AS FAR AS IMPLEMENTING IT AND HOW WE ARE GOING 22 TO DO THAT, THAT'S THE FURTHER DISCUSSION. BUT THIS IS 23 EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED IN CLEAR WRITING SO THAT WHEN WE 24 REFERENCE EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO DO, AS A BOARD, WE NOW 25 HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE TO DO SO. MARCH 25, 2010 72 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY, THANK YOU. 2 THE FIRST CARD I HAVE IS FROM ANGELA THOMAS. 3 MS. THOMAS: HOW IS EVERYONE? 4 I'M UP HERE ON BEHALF OF SEIU. AND THERE ARE 5 TWO THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO SAY. 6 I'M GLAD THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT ORIGINALLY WAS 7 ATTACHED TO THIS HAS BEEN TAKEN OUT BECAUSE THAT'S THE 8 PART THAT KIND OF INCITED US TO RIOT A LITTLE BIT. AND I 9 DON'T WANT TO INCITE PEOPLE TO RIOT, EVEN THOUGH I KIND OF 10 LOOK LIKE ANGELA DAVIS TONIGHT. 11 AND I APPRECIATE TRUSTEE RIZZO FOR VOTING 12 AGAINST THIS IN THE COMMITTEE. 13 MY CONCERN IS ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS THAT I 14 REPRESENT IS THAT SEIU HAS BEEN SITTING WITH THE 15 CHANCELLOR, WITH SEVERAL OTHERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION 16 TALKING ABOUT BUDGET SINCE THE FALL OF '08. WE HAVE 17 BUDGET FATIGUE. WE ARE SICK OF BUDGET. WE HATE IT. 18 THE REASON WE HATE IT IS BECAUSE WE GET TO SEE 19 UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHAT THE IMPACT 20 IS ON PEOPLE AND THEIR LIVES. AND EVEN WITH THE 21 BARGAINING SESSION WE HAD TODAY, LOOKING AT THE COST OF 22 RETIRING MEDICAL, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN THE FUTURE. 23 SO HAVING SAID THAT AND HAVING HAD INTIMATE 24 KNOWLEDGE, MORE INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE THAN I WOULD LIKE TO 25 HAVE OF A BUDGET THAT'S NOT MY OWN. I NEED YOU GUYS TO BE MARCH 25, 2010 73 1 ABLE TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH SOME 2 OF THE IDEAS GOING FORWARD BECAUSE WE ARE WALKING A 3 TIGHTROPE. IT'S LIKE PLAYING CHESS DEALING WITH THIS 4 BUDGET. 5 I AM SO GLAD THIS MAN UNDERSTANDS HOW TO DO THE 6 NUMBERS, TO MOVE THEM FROM ONE SEMESTER TO ANOTHER TO GET 7 THE HIGHEST AMOUNT. AND I HOPE -- I KNOW IT, AS WELL AS 8 HE DOES BY THE TIME HE DECIDES TO RETIRE, BECAUSE IT IS 9 CRITICAL TO BALANCING A BUDGET, JUST MOVING THINGS FROM 10 ONE SECTION AND ONE TIME FRAME TO ANOTHER. AND THAT'S 11 WHAT IS CONCERNING TO US. WE ARE SEEING AND WE ARE TAKING 12 THIS VERY SERIOUSLY. 13 HONEY, WE WANT YOU TO BE EDUCATED. LIKE I TOLD 14 MY MEMBERS TODAY, I DON'T WANT YOU TALKING CAVEMAN IN 15 2020. I DON'T. I DON'T. I WANT YOU TO BE AS ARTICULATE 16 AS POSSIBLE, BUT THIS IS SCARY. 17 WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE STRUCTURAL 18 DEFICIT, CREATING A NEW REVENUE STREAM. WE WOULD LOVE TO 19 HAVE ONE. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS GOING TO COME FROM 20 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE TAXED OUT. PEOPLE ARE TIRED. THEY 21 DON'T KNOW. WE DON'T HAVE ANY BRIGHT IDEAS. 22 SO WHEN -- AND I'M CAUGHT BEING THERE EVEN 23 THOUGH I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO. SO WHEN WE SEE 90,000 OUT 24 HERE AND ANOTHER 500,000 OUT HERE AND WITH THE DOLLAR 25 AMOUNT OF WHAT THIS ORIGINALLY WAS, YOU GET A TURNOUT. MARCH 25, 2010 74 1 YOU GET PEOPLE SHOWING UP. YOU GET PEOPLE WEARING 2 STICKERS BECAUSE YOU SEE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WEARING A 3 STICKER. I'M TALKING TO ALL OF YOU. 4 ALL OF THESE PEOPLE REALLY DO CARE. AND SOME OF 5 THIS STUFF THAT YOU GUYS GOT GOING ON WITH HOW IT WAS DONE 6 AND HOW IT WASN'T DONE AND ALL THIS OTHER KIND OF STUFF. 7 I DON'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE MY HISTORY IS YOU GOVERN HIM, 8 BUT NOT ALL OF THIS OTHER STUFF, BUT THAT'S YOUR BUSINESS. 9 BUT THIS BUDGET IS A DAILY CONCERN TO EVERYBODY 10 THAT IS UNDER THE EMPLOY OF THIS COLLEGE. AND THE 11 STUDENTS ARE A DIRECT CONNECTION TO THAT. IF WE ARE NOT 12 HERE, THEY ARE NOT HERE. AND TO SOME DEGREE, IF THEY'RE 13 NOT HERE, WE ARE NOT HERE. WE ARE SO INTERCONNECTED, IT 14 IS NOT EVEN FUNNY. 15 SO SOME OF THIS FIGHTING HAS TO STOP. AND WE 16 ALL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THIS THING WORK AND WE 17 ARE DOING IT. WE ARE SITTING DOWN. WE ARE SITTING HERE 18 CRYING OVER THESE NUMBERS MAKING PETER -- I'M NOT GOING TO 19 TALK ABOUT PETER. BUT STRESSING OUT SOME OF THESE FOLKS 20 WITH NUMBERS AND STATISTICS AND SHOW ME THE MONEY. 21 YOU KNOW, WE ARE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ON A 22 DAILY BASIS AND WE ARE SACRIFICING. SEIU SAID, FREEZE OUR 23 STEPS. SEIU SAID, CUT OUR OVERTIME. SEIU SAID, DON'T 24 BACKFILL. YOU NEED TO SEE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN 25 '11-'12 FROM ALL THE ATTRITION AND US NOT BACKFILLING. MARCH 25, 2010 75 1 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANY MONEY BECAUSE YOU ARE 2 NOT GOING TO HAVE ANYBODY HERE TO PAY. 3 THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. 4 AND I'M GLAD WE CAN LAUGH BECAUSE IT KIND OF TAKES SOME OF 5 THE PRESSURE OUT. AND THIS IS MY WAY, BUT THIS IS VERY 6 SERIOUS. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T LIKE TO HAVE TO COME AND FEEL 7 LIKE WE ARE BEATING PEOPLE UP BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING 8 POLITICAL DECISIONS. 9 I AM A JC BABY. I FINISHED PROGRAMS AS A 10 PARALEGAL. WHEN I TOOK OVER THE FAMILY BUSINESS, I DID 11 PROGRAMS AT LANEY FOR SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. I DID 12 MUSIC AND ART AND VOICE TO ENTERTAIN MYSELF. I LOVE JC. 13 I WANT TO SEE YOU GUYS BE HERE. I REALIZE THE 14 FACES MAY CHANGE ALL OVER THIS ROOM, BUT SAN FRANCISCO 15 CITY COLLEGE NEEDS TO BE HERE AT THE END OF THE DAY. 16 THANKS. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: ED MURRAY. 18 MR. MURRAY: (INAUDIBLE.) 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: NOPE. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: GUS GOLDSTEIN. 21 MS. GOLDSTEIN: NO, THAT WAS (INAUDIBLE). THAT 22 WAS FOR THE AMENDMENT. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I SEE. 24 KAREN SAGINOR. 25 MS. SAGINOR: WE ALL SPOKE. MARCH 25, 2010 76 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. 2 FRANCINE PODENSKI. 3 MS. PODENSKI: OKAY. 4 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: THAT'S THE DISPERSE 5 PILE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MILTON HANDED IT TO ME. 7 MS. PODENSKI: THAT'S A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW. 8 I JUST WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE BOARD FOR THE 9 AMENDMENTS SO FAR OR THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. 10 AND ALSO TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU HAVE INCREDIBLE 11 RESOURCES. SOMETIMES I FEEL YOU UNDERUTILIZE, AND THAT IS 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. HE KNOWS THIS PLACE. HE UNDERSTANDS 13 THE NUMBERS. HE UNDERSTANDS HOW REVENUE IS GENERATED AND 14 HOW TO MOVE THINGS AROUND. AND SOMETIMES I THINK SOME 15 PEOPLE ON THE BOARD FORGET THAT. 16 SO I JUST WANT TO STAND HERE AND ENCOURAGE YOU 17 TO RECOGNIZE THE GEM YOU HAVE HERE AT THIS ROUGH HORRIBLE 18 TIME WE ARE IN. 19 ONE OF THE REASONS WE SUPPORTED THE CHANCELLOR 20 BECOMING THE CHANCELLOR IS BECAUSE HE HAS OUR CONFIDENCE. 21 HE CAN GIVE US THE WORSE POSSIBLE NEWS AND WE WILL BELIEVE 22 HIM. WHEREAS, SOMEBODY ELSE WE MIGHT SAY, YEAH, RIGHT, WE 23 ARE GOING TO CHECK ON THAT. 24 SO REALLY JUST REMEMBER THAT HE IS SOMEBODY THAT 25 YOU SHOULD TREASURE EVEN MORE THAN YOU MAY THINK YOU ARE MARCH 25, 2010 77 1 TREASURING HIM NOW. AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT. 2 NOW ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LIKE IS SOME OF THE 3 THINGS THAT THE CHANCELLOR DID MENTION I THINK ARE REALLY 4 IMPORTANT PRIORITIES IN MY UNDERSTANDING. MAINTAINING 5 FISCAL SOLVENCY, RETENTION OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES OR 6 HOWEVER YOU WANT TO PHRASE THAT. SUMMER SCHOOL HAS TO 7 HAPPEN. ACTIONS TO ADDRESS THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT, AND 8 CREATING NEW REVENUE STREAMS. AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF SOME 9 SORT OF TOWN HALL OR OPEN MEETING. 10 THEN WHEN IT GETS TO DEVELOPMENTAL OBJECTIVES, 11 WHICH I THINK SOME OF THESE OTHERS ARE, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE 12 TO AFFORD THEM. IT MIGHT BE A NICE IDEA TO LIST THEM, BUT 13 MY UNDERSTANDING IS NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE WORSE THAN 14 THIS PAST YEAR. AND THIS PAST WORSE WAS REALLY TOUGH. 15 SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US MAYBE HAVE TWO KINDS 16 OF OBJECTIVES. ONE IN WHICH WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IF WE 17 COULD FIND SOME MONEY. AND I THINK IF IT IS FRAMED THAT 18 WAY, WE WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE -- THE COMMUNITY IS 19 GOING TO FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT BECAUSE WHEN WE 20 SEE THINGS THAT WE KNOW COST A LOT OF MONEY AND WE DON'T 21 KNOW HOW WE ARE GOING TO MAINTAIN WHAT WE HAVE, MAKES 22 PEOPLE REALLY NERVOUS. SO IF THERE'S SOME WAY TO FRAME 23 THAT, I THINK IT WOULD HELP. THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 25 DARLENE ALIOTO. MARCH 25, 2010 78 1 DR. ALIOTO: THANK YOU. 2 TRUSTEES, YOU ASKED FOR INPUT AND I WOULD LIKE 3 TO GIVE YOU INPUT AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT 4 CHAIR PERSON COUNCIL. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON ISN'T HERE AT THE MOMENT, BUT 6 MAYBE TRUSTEE NGO AS A CO-WRITER OF THE RESOLUTION, I AM 7 NOT SURE YOU TOTALLY HEARD THE COMMENT MADE BY ATTILA 8 GABOR EARLIER. 9 BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION 10 THE WORDING THAT HE SUGGESTED ON YOUR AMENDMENT WHICH WAS 11 "THE RETENTION TO FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME FACULTY AND 12 CLASSIFIED STAFF." I DON'T THINK YOU HEARD THE WORD 13 "CLASSIFIED" BECAUSE HE WAS TRYING TO TELL YOU THERE WAS A 14 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STAFF AND CLASSIFIED STAFF. 15 I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT IN YOUR CLAUSE 16 ABOUT "SUMMER SCHOOL" THAT YOU DROP THE PERCENTAGE. 17 40 PERCENT OR ABOUT 40 PERCENT IS I THINK THE WAY YOU ARE 18 WORDING IT. MICROMANAGING, HOW ABOUT "RESTORE SUMMER 19 SCHOOL TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE." MAYBE WE COULD GO MORE 20 THAN 40 PERCENT, BUT I THINK THE SPIRIT WOULD BE THERE 21 WITHOUT THE ACTUAL PERCENTAGE. RESTORE AS MUCH AS WE CAN. 22 RESTORE TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE. 23 YOUR CLAUSE THAT REGARDS "EQUITY AND OFFERING 24 CLASSES ACROSS ALL CAMPUSES," WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH YOU. 25 WE HAVE A UNION CONTRACT WITH YOU. THAT'S OUR JOB AS MARCH 25, 2010 79 1 DEPARTMENT CHAIRS. SO HOW ABOUT "DIRECT THE CHANCELLOR TO 2 WORK WITH DEPARTMENT CHAIRS TO INCREASE CLASS OFFERINGS 3 ACROSS ALL CAMPUSES AS APPROPRIATE." 4 EQUITY ACROSS ALL CAMPUSES IS ABSOLUTELY 5 IMPOSSIBLE, NOT JUST FROM A FUNDING POINT OF YOU VIEW, BUT 6 NOT ALL CAMPUSES HAVE LABORATORIES. NOT ALL CAMPUSES HAVE 7 LIBRARIES. NOT ALL CAMPUSES HAVE COMPUTER LABS. SO IT'S 8 TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE AND WHERE APPROPRIATE AND WORKING 9 WITH YOUR DEPARTMENT CHAIRS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THAT. 10 AND YOU HAVE ONE GLARING OMISSION FROM YOUR LIST 11 OF PRIORITIES. AND I CAN'T SAY THIS STRONGLY ENOUGH. ONE 12 OF YOUR PRIORITIES, BUDGET PRIORITIES MUST BE TO RESTORE 13 THE CLASSES THAT WERE CUT IN THIS LAST YEAR. YOUR ONLY 14 SOURCE OF REVENUE -- AND I'M GOING TO SAY THIS ONE MORE 15 TIME. YOUR ONLY SOURCE OF REVENUE IN THIS DISTRICT IS 16 FROM THE CLASSROOM FACULTY. IT IS ONLY YOUR CLASSROOM 17 FACULTY THAT GENERATES REVENUE. 18 WE PAY FOR THE SALARY OF THE FACULTY, THE 19 CLASSIFIED, THE LIBRARIANS, THE COUNSELORS, EVEN YOUR 20 STIPEND. EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE CLASSROOM. IF YOU 21 DON'T RESTORE THE CLASSROOM YOU ARE ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO 22 BANKRUPTCY. AND YOU WILL NEVER RECEIVE SOLVENCY, SO I 23 THINK YOU'VE GOT TO RESTORE THE VIABLE CLASSES THAT WERE 24 CUT BECAUSE IT REALLY IS A GLARING OMISSION AND IT'S GOT 25 TO BE IN YOUR RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. MARCH 25, 2010 80 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 2 SO WHAT I HAVE -- TRUSTEE JACKSON, ALTHOUGH HE 3 IS NOT HERE, AND TRUSTEE WONG AND TRUSTEE GRIER. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: WELL, FIRST OF ALL I THANK ALL OF 5 YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. 6 AGAIN, I WANT TO REITERATE BECAUSE THE 7 CHANCELLOR SPOKE SO PASSIONATELY ABOUT ALL THE PRIORITIES 8 THAT WERE LISTED. AND MY CONCERN AND MY COMMENTS WERE NOT 9 DIRECTED TO THE PRIORITIES WHICH I AGREE UPON. IT WAS 10 JUST THE PROCESS. AND I WANT TO MAKE THAT VERY, VERY 11 CLEAR. 12 AND I'M HEARING NOW THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN 13 CURRENT LEVEL WITH THE PROCESS AND THAT MAKES ME MORE 14 COMFORTABLE IN TERMS OF ADDRESSING THIS PARTICULAR 15 RESOLUTION. 16 SO I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IN TERMS OF THE 17 BOARDS RETREATS, HOPEFULLY, WE COULD HAVE A BOARD RETREAT 18 SOON BECAUSE THE BOARD PRIORITIES ARE USUALLY VERY CLOSELY 19 CONNECTED TO THE BUDGET PROCESS AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT 20 ALSO. 21 THE IDEA THAT THIS RESOLUTION IS A STARTING 22 POINT WHERE WE THINK WE CAN CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION, 23 BECAUSE WE HAVE WHAT ANOTHER THREE MONTHS OR SO, IS VERY 24 IMPORTANT ALSO. 25 I DO WANT TO REITERATE, CHANCELLOR, BECAUSE YOU MARCH 25, 2010 81 1 SPOKE SPECIFICALLY TO THE PRIORITIES AND YOU ARE WERE SO 2 PASSIONATE ABOUT IT, MY CONCERN WAS NOT ABOUT THE 3 PRIORITIES, WHICH I AGREE UPON THAT WE HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT 4 AT OTHER MEETINGS HERE AND IN COMMITTEES. IT WAS ONLY 5 ABOUT THE PROCESS, WHICH I NOW HAVE A CERTAIN COMFORT 6 LEVEL BECAUSE I AM HEARING COMMENTS FROM YOU. 7 HAVING SAID THAT, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR ME TO 8 MAKE AN AMENDMENT INCORPORATING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 9 PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT CHAIRS COUNCIL DARLENE ALIOTO 10 TO INCORPORATE THIS INTO THE AMENDMENT. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: I THINK THAT'S A WISE THING TO 12 DO. BUT UNLESS WE HAVE THEM ALL WRITTEN OUT, IT IS GOING 13 TO BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO KNOW -- 14 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- EXACTLY WHAT WE VOTED ON 16 SO -- 17 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IF YOU COULD DO THAT -- 19 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- AND THEN -- 21 TRUSTEE WONG: SHE HAS IT -- 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. I THINK -- DO WE 24 HAVE TO VOTE ON TRUSTEES JACKSON'S AMENDMENT FIRST BEFORE 25 WE OFFER OTHER AMENDMENTS. I WOULD PREFER THAT WE DO MARCH 25, 2010 82 1 THAT. I THINK IT WOULD BE CLEARER. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: I THINK WE DO TOO. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: WHAT WAS YOUR AMENDMENT? 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: THE AMENDMENT WAS -- 5 TRUSTEE WONG: OH, THE -- 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT MAY NEED TO BE AMENDED 7 AGAIN. SO IF YOU COULD JUST HOLD OFF ON THAT. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: SURE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND WE'LL -- 10 TRUSTEE WONG: DARLENE WILL PROVIDE THE 11 LANGUAGE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. I DON'T HAVE A LOT TO SAY 15 ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN SAID BECAUSE YOU'VE SAID IT VERY WELL. 16 IN TERMS OF WHAT THE RESOLUTION NEEDS, IT REALLY 17 IS A FIRST STEP. IT REALLY IS A START. WHEN WE GOT THE 18 COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE, DARLENE ALIOTO, WE GOT THE 19 COMMENTS FROM ATTILA GABOR. WE GOT THE COMMENTS FROM VERY 20 CLEAR ANGELA THOMAS. WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS TO INCLUDE ALL 21 OF THOSE IDEAS. 22 THE OTHER THING THAT WAS MISSING LIKE IT WAS 23 STATED BEFORE WAS THE CHANCELLOR'S COMMENTS. AND NOT ONLY 24 THAT, HE BROUGHT LIFE AND REALITY TO ALL THE BULLETS ON 25 THIS RESOLUTION. IT BECOMES CLEAR WITH THE PHRASES AND MARCH 25, 2010 83 1 THE SHORT SENTENCES WHAT THE BIG JOB IS, WHAT THE GOAL IS, 2 HOW LONG HE HAS BEEN WORKING AND TALKING TO US ABOUT WHAT 3 WE NEED TO DO. 4 THE BOARD IS READY TO FOLLOW THE CHANCELLOR, THE 5 BUDGET COMMITTEE AND TO GIVE INPUT AND EXPERTISE TO THE 6 DIFFERENT COMMITTEES THAT WE WORK ON AND THE INFORMATION 7 THAT WE GET FROM THE COMMUNITY AND FROM ALL OF YOU. 8 SO WHAT THIS RESOLUTION HAS BECOME IS A REALITY, 9 A PLAN OF ACTION. AND SO I'M READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH 10 THE NEXT STEPS. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK 13 FOLKS FOR THEIR COMMENTS. 14 I WANT YOU GUYS TO LOOK AT THIS BUDGET 15 PRIORITIES AS A WAY TO HOLD THE BOARD ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE 16 I MEAN IT'S SEARED INTO MY MIND. YOU KNOW, I WAS GOING 17 THROUGH THE COMMUNITY AND FOLKS SAID, "HEY, CHRIS, I HEARD 18 SUMMER SCHOOL IS NOT THERE. HEY, DID YOU VOTE FOR THAT." 19 AND I WAS LIKE, "YEAH, I DID." 20 AND THEY WERE LIKE "HOW COULD YOU?" 21 AND, YOU KNOW, YOU SIT THERE AND YOU ARE LIKE, 22 "WELL, I'M SORRY WE DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY. BUT YOU CAN'T 23 HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE I NEVER SAID I NEVER SUPPORTED 24 SUMMER SCHOOL." 25 SO BY HAVING THESE BULLET POINTS, YOU KNOW WHAT MARCH 25, 2010 84 1 WE ARE GOING TO PUSHING FOR. SO IF ANY WAY THAT WE FAIL 2 OR FLIP FLOP OR WE DECIDE WE DON'T CARE, LIKE IF WE START 3 SAYING YOU KNOW WHAT -- IF WE START ACTING LIKE OTHER 4 DISTRICTS AND START JUST ADDING UP OUR BUDGET DEFICIT IN 5 SEEING HOW MANY FACULTY AND STAFF THAT EQUALS THAT WE NEED 6 TO FIRE, THEN HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE. HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE AS 7 A BUDGET CHAIR. 8 YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T RESTORE SUMMER SCHOOL, I 9 HOPE THE COMMUNITY JUST DOESN'T ELECT ME ANYMORE BECAUSE 10 I'M NOT NEVER GOING TO EVER VOTE FOR NOT HAVING A SUMMER 11 SCHOOL AGAIN. THAT IS JUST NOT IN MY VALUES. 12 I WANT YOU GUYS TO BE ABLE TO HOLD ME 13 ACCOUNTABLE, BUT YOU CAN'T HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE IF WE DON'T 14 TELL YOU WHAT WE BELIEVE IN. 15 TRUSTEE WONG, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR ISSUES ARE 16 WITH THE PROCESS. AND I RESPECT THAT. I REALLY DO 17 RESPECT THAT. BUT I ALSO HOPE YOU RESPECT THAT MY FIRST 18 YEAR I HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE PROCESS. I DIDN'T LIKE THE 19 PROCESS. I FELT THAT I WAS DISEMPOWERED. AND BY ME BEING 20 DISEMPOWERED, MY ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS DISEMPOWERED FROM 21 THAT BUDGET PROCESS. 22 I WANT TO ALSO SAY THAT AS CHAIR OF THE BUDGET 23 COMMITTEE, I DECIDED THAT SINCE MYSELF, MY COMMUNITY, AND 24 OTHER TRUSTEES FELT SO DISEMPOWERED FROM THIS PROCESS, 25 THAT LET'S CREATE A PROCESS WHERE IT EMPOWERS THE BOARD, MARCH 25, 2010 85 1 EMPOWERS THE COMMUNITY. AND WE HAD A PUBLIC MEETING. 2 FOLKS WERE THERE. WE DON'T EXCLUDE ANYBODY FROM A PUBLIC 3 MEETING. IT'S ILLEGAL. AND THAT'S HOW WE CAME UP WITH 4 THIS PROCESS. 5 NOW WE CAN GO BACK INTO THE RETREAT AND CREATE 6 ANOTHER PROCESS, BUT THIS IS THE PROCESS THAT'S SET UP 7 RIGHT NOW. AND I THINK IT IS A PRETTY FAIR ONE. IT IS AN 8 EMPOWERING ONE. IT'S ONE THAT HELPS HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE. 9 I MEAN BECAUSE IT'S EITHER THE FRONT END OR THE BACK END 10 THAT WE ARE GOING TO MAKE OUR CHANGES. 11 LIKE TRUSTEE NGO SAID, WE HAVE PRIMACY OVER THE 12 BUDGET. SO I MEAN WE COULD HAVE A PROCESS WHERE WE JUST 13 GET IT IN FIVE DAYS IN ADVANCE. WELL, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 14 A BUDGET AMENDMENT. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TWO, THREE, FOUR, 15 FIVE, SIX MAYBE TEN BUDGET AMENDMENTS. YOU ARE GOING TO 16 SEE BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND THEN FOLKS ARE NOT GOING TO BE 17 HAPPY ABOUT THAT PROCESS BECAUSE THEY'VE DONE SO MUCH WORK 18 ON THE FRONT END AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE TRUSTEES ARE 19 GOING TO CHANGE UP ALL THAT WORK. 20 THERE WAS A LOT OF FOLKS UPSET ABOUT A 6 PERCENT 21 CUT TO ADMINISTRATOR'S SALARIES, BUT HAD WE BEEN IN THE 22 PROCESS AND SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE WANT TO PRIORITIZE 23 FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF OVER 24 ADMINISTRATORS MAYBE. THAT PROCESS MAYBE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE 25 TO HAPPEN. WE WOULD HAVE ALREADY EMPOWERED THE CHANCELLOR MARCH 25, 2010 86 1 TO MAKE THE 6 PERCENT CUT. 2 WHEN I WANTED TO EXPAND THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, 3 AND I JUST SAID, FIND $50,000 TO DO IT AND PUT IT IN THE 4 SOUTHEAST AND PUT IT IN THE MISSION, SOME PEOPLE WERE 5 SUPPORTIVE OF THAT. SOME PEOPLE WEREN'T AS SUPPORTIVE 6 WITH THAT. I UNDERSTAND THAT. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO PUT 7 IN MY BUDGET PRIORITIES SAYING, HEY, IF WE HAVE THE MONEY, 8 LET'S LOOK AT EXPANDING THAT. 9 SUMMER SCHOOL, WE VOTED NOT TO HAVE A SUMMER 10 SCHOOL. THAT IS UN-SAN FRANCISCAN, ESPECIALLY THE FACT 11 THAT SF UNIFIED HAS NO SUMMER SCHOOL. SO WHERE I AM FROM, 12 WHEN YOU HAVE NO SUMMER SCHOOL AND YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, 13 STUFF HAPPENS. AND IT'S NEVER EVER GOOD. AND THE ONLY 14 TIME IT ENDS UP IN THE NEWSPAPER IS WHEN IT'S BAD. THAT'S 15 JUST MY REALITY. AND THAT'S THE FOLKS I HAVE TO BE 16 RESPONSIBLE TO AS WELL. IT'S NOT JUST THE FOLKS HERE. 17 AND SO WHAT I AM JUST SAYING ABOUT THIS BUDGET 18 PROCESS IS HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE. THIS IS WHERE OUR VALUES 19 ARE. AND IF YOU WANT TO ADD MORE STUFF, COME TO THE 20 PODIUM AND ADD STUFF. 21 ED ADDED SOMETHING. AND I SAID, THAT'S A 22 FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO ME BECAUSE I REALLY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW 23 ABOUT IT. I FORGOT TO PUT THAT THERE. AND SO I ACCEPTED 24 IT. IF YOU GUYS HAVE ISSUES, JUST COME TO THE PODIUM AND 25 ADD THEM, SUBTRACT THEM. IT'S OKAY TO BE INVOLVED IN A MARCH 25, 2010 87 1 PROCESS. BUT LET'S NOT JUST SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE THING 2 JUST BECAUSE WE DIDN'T TECHNICALLY LIKE WHAT WAS GOING ON. 3 SO I WILL END IT WITH THAT. AND I WOULD JUST 4 LIKE TO SAY IN TERMS OF THIS BUDGET PROCESS, YOU KNOW, THE 5 TOP OF OUR PRIORITY IS MAINTAINING FACULTY AND STAFF, 6 FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME. THAT IS DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT 7 THAN ANY OTHER DISTRICT IN THIS ENTIRE STATE THAT LIKES TO 8 CUT FOLKS. SO I JUST WANT TO PUT IT OUT THERE. AND I 9 WILL CONCLUDE MY COMMENTS. 10 MS. EVANS: MR. JACKSON, I JUST WANT TO TELL 11 YOU. I AM NOT GOING TO ARGUE WITH YOU OR ANYTHING, BUT I 12 WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. YOU SEE, COMMUNITY WORK 13 DOESN'T REQUIRE THAT YOU GET OUT AND TALK ABOUT IT. IT 14 REQUIRES THAT YOU DO THE WORK. 15 AND I WANT YOU ALL TO SEE THIS JACKET. YOU SEE 16 THIS JACKET HERE? 17 THIS IS COMMUNITY, SEIU. I AM A CHAIR OF THE 18 COMMUNITY OF SEIU 1021, WHICH RIGHT NOW IS PROBABLY 19 850,000 MEMBERS. 20 AND MY MOM JUST PASSED. MY MOM WAS A COMMUNITY 21 ACTIVIST, BUT SHE WAS A PASTOR. AND NO MATTER IF WE GET 22 ALONG OR NOT, WE MUST WORK TOGETHER FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. WE 23 DON'T HAVE TO AGREE. YOU KNOW, IT WAS ANDY STERN 24 (PHONETIC) THAT SAID AT THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY, HE SAID, 25 WE COULD BE IN THE SAME GROUP. WE DON'T HAVE TO AGREE. MARCH 25, 2010 88 1 BUT AT THE END, WE HAVE TO GET THE WORK DONE. YOU KNOW 2 WHAT I AM SAYING? 3 I'VE SPENT A LOT OF YEARS HERE TRYING TO MAKE 4 SURE NOT ONLY TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW, BUT TO DO. 5 THAT'S TO GET OUT AND FEEL. SOME OF THE SAME PEOPLE THAT 6 WE HAVE AS STUDENTS HERE ARE LIVING IN THE COMMUNITIES OF 7 OAKDALE, LIVING IN MIDDLE POINT, LIVING IN ALEMANY, LIVING 8 IN ALICE GRIFFIN. SOME OF OUR BEST STUDENTS COME FROM 9 ALICE GRIFFIN PROJECTS. 10 BUT GUESS WHAT, YOU KNOW HOW WE KNOW THAT, WE 11 DON'T KNOW THAT BY TALKING ABOUT IT. WE KNOW IT BY GOING 12 OUT OVER THERE AND SEEING THEM AND MAKING SURE THEY ARE 13 REGISTERED TO VOTE, MAKING SURE WHEN IT'S TIME TO PASS OUT 14 FOOD, WE ARE PASSING OUT THOSE TURKEYS. AND, YES, WE DO 15 IT WITH PG&E. NOW I DON'T REALLY LIKE PG&E. BUT GUESS 16 WHAT, THEY TRYING TO DO SOMETHING. 17 AND IF ALL OF US WOULD FOLLOW MY MOTHER'S 18 EXAMPLE, AND EVERYBODY IN HERE -- YOU SEE EVERYBODY IN 19 HERE IS IMPORTANT. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE. AIN'T NO 20 TWO PEOPLE IN HERE ALIKE. ALL OF YOU HAVE GIFTS. 21 EVERYBODY HERE HAS GIFTS. EVEN YOU THE STUDENT TRUSTEE. 22 YOU ARE BRILLIANT. 23 NOW I'M TELLING YOU WHEN I SEE NATALIE BERG -- I 24 LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU EXEMPLIFY WHAT COMMUNITY MEANS. WHEN 25 I GO DOWN THERE TO -- WHAT IS THAT WEST -- LIKE THE MALL, MARCH 25, 2010 89 1 WHO DO I SEE? I SEE ONE PERSON COME TO SAY, HI MAMA AND 2 THEN WHEN I LOOK UP THERE'S 15 OF THEM. WHAT ARE THEY 3 DOING, THEY ARE ALL WERE IN ESL. WHAT ARE THEY DOING 4 THERE? THEY ARE ALL WORKING NOW BECAUSE OF WHO? NATALIE 5 BERG. YOU CANNOT GET ANYWHERE UNLESS YOU ALL HELP EACH 6 OTHER. 7 MILTON, I LOVE YOU, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO STOP. YOU 8 ALL GOT TO STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. WORK TOGETHER. I 9 DON'T CARE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE. I'VE GOT TWO YEARS 10 LEFT WITH YOU. I WANT TO BE HERE, BUT I'M TELLING YOU 11 MAMA'S GETTING TIRED. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO LAY THIS 12 THING DOWN. 13 FIRST, I THINK DO I MOON HIM? WHAT DO I DO TO 14 GET YOUR ATTENTION? BUT I WANT YOU ALL TO WORK TOGETHER. 15 WORK TOGETHER. MY MOM LEFT ME A CHURCH -- 16 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 17 -- SO I CAN'T CUT UP TOO BAD. BUT I'M TELLING 18 YOU, AT THE END OF THE DAY, EVERYBODY HERE IS GOING TO 19 ANSWER FOR WHAT YOU HAVE NOT DONE. YOU HAVE A CHARGE IN 20 YOUR LIFE TO DO THE RIGHT THING TO HELP PEOPLE, TO HELP 21 PEOPLE THAT'S LESS FORTUNATE THAN YOURSELVES. 22 MY MOTHER WAS AN EDUCATOR. THAT'S WHAT SHE DID. 23 SHE WENT BACK TO SCHOOL WHEN SHE WAS 45 YEARS OLD. SHE 24 HAD A SIXTH GRADE EDUCATION. SHE KEPT GOING UNTIL SHE GOT 25 HER MASTERS. ANYBODY CAN LEARN. WE ALL CAN DO IT, BUT MARCH 25, 2010 90 1 WE'VE GOT TO WORK TOGETHER. AND IF WE START WORKING 2 TOGETHER, YOU WILL FIND OUT YOU'LL HAVE LOTS OF THINGS 3 THAT YOU CAN DO. 4 BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW SOMETHING -- 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 6 MS. EVANS: -- WHEN I GET OUT, I WANT TO SEE YOU 7 OUT THERE IN THE PROJECTS WITH ME BECAUSE I DON'T LIVE IN 8 THE PROJECT, BUT I'M OVER THERE ALL THE TIME. AND I DO 9 VOTER REGISTRATION ALL YEAR LONG, NOT JUST WHEN IT'S TIME 10 TO BE ON PROCESS. 11 NOW I'M GOING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING, YOU ALL 12 MARK MY WORDS. YOU ALL LOCK US OUT, WE ARE GOING TO VOTE 13 YOU ALL OUT. 14 SPEAKER UNKNOWN: CAN I -- 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. NO. NO. NO. I'M GOING 16 TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE. 17 FIRST OF ALL, I'M SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR 18 MOTHER'S PASSING. I KNOW FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE HOW HARD 19 IT IS TO LOSE A PARENT, SO I OFFER YOU MY CONDOLENCES AND 20 SYMPATHY. 21 I ALSO WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN, DORETHA, THAT YOU 22 KNOW I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF YOU FOR ABOUT TWO 23 MONTHS, SO LET'S TALK. OKAY? I WANT -- 24 MS. EVANS: THE TIMES UP, WE ARE GOING TO TALK. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. GREAT. BUT YOU'VE GOT MARCH 25, 2010 91 1 TO RETURN MY MESSAGES, SO PLEASE. 2 I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS PROCESS AND WHAT 3 WE ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW. THIS IS 4 FAR SLOPPIER THAN IT SHOULD BE. ALL THESE THINGS SHOULD 5 BE WORKED OUT BEFORE WE GET TO A BOARD MEETING. AND I'M 6 VERY UNCOMFORTABLE -- 7 PARDON ME? 8 MR. TETI: OH, I'M SORRY. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: SAY IT, FRED. 10 MR. TETI: REFER IT BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: LET ME JUST FINISH WHAT I AM 12 SAYING, PLEASE. 13 IF WE ARE GOING TO BE COMING TOGETHER AS A 14 COMMUNITY, IF WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING TOGETHER 15 SUPPORTING EACH OTHER, WE CAN'T HAVE ITEMS LIKE THIS 16 BROUGHT BEFORE US AND FOR SOME PEOPLE TO FEEL LIKE THEY 17 ARE FEELING FORCED TO GET SOMETHING PASSED AND OTHER 18 PEOPLE FEELING THEY ARE GETTING PUSHED TO HARD. IT 19 CREATES A GREAT DEAL OF CONTENTION, AND IT DOESN'T HELP 20 THE SITUATION OF WORKING ON WHAT MATTERS TO CITY COLLEGE 21 AT THIS PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TIME. 22 I WOULD PREFER, TRUSTEE JACKSON, TO BRING IT 23 BACK TO A COMMITTEE. I AM HAPPY TO VOTE ON IT. I DON'T 24 THINK YOU HAVE THE VOTES TO PASS THIS TONIGHT. I'M GOING 25 TO ASK YOU HERE, CAN WE PUT IT BACK TO YOUR COMMITTEE? MARCH 25, 2010 92 1 IF NOT, I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN -- WE COULD VOTE 2 NOW AND THEN WE CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL -- 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: BUT I'M VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. 5 WE HAVE AMENDMENTS COMING TO US FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. 6 AND I'M NOT CERTAIN WE REALLY KNOW AND WILL KNOW WHAT WE 7 ARE VOTING ON. AND THAT MAKES ME HIGHLY UNCOMFORTABLE. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO I AM GOING TO START AND I 9 WANT TO PREFACE THIS. YOU KNOW, I JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, I 10 LOVE YOU GUYS. THAT'S WHY I PUT UP WITH A LOT OF THIS 11 STUFF. I AM A VERY PATIENT PERSON. AND I AM SAYING THIS 12 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE SECOND BULLET POINT LITERALLY SAYS, 13 "RETENTION OF FULL-TIME FACULTY, STAFF, PART-TIME AND 14 FULL-TIME." 15 RIGHT THERE, WE ARE NOT TRYING TO LOCK FOLKS 16 OUT. WE WANT YOU GUYS TO BE HERE BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE A 17 FAMILY. WE ARE ALL A FAMILY. THAT'S THE BUDGET PRIORITY. 18 IT'S TO MAKE SURE -- IT'S EMPLOYMENT. THE BUDGET 19 PRIORITIES OF EMPLOYMENT, WHAT PART OF THAT IS NOT PART OF 20 YOU GUYS' PRIORITIES? TELL ME, PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU. 21 WHAT PART OF RETENTION -- 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. NO. NO. I'M SORRY. I'M 23 SORRY. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE. I UNDERSTAND -- 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: LET'S JUST VOTE. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO MARCH 25, 2010 93 1 WHICH IS GREAT. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: LET'S VOTE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE 4 TRYING TO DO. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: JUST VOTE. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: LISTEN. I HAVE BEEN ON THIS 7 BOARD FOR NINE YEARS. AND IF ANYBODY HAS FRUSTRATION 8 ABOUT THE PROCESS, IF ANYBODY HAS FRUSTRATION ABOUT HOW 9 MUCH THE BOARD -- 10 TRUSTEE BERG: (INAUDIBLE.) 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WILL FINISH. LET ME FINISH. 12 NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE BOARD HAS BEEN CUT OUT OF THE 13 BUDGET PROCESS, HOW MUCH THE BOARD WHO REPRESENT THE 14 PUBLIC HAVE BEEN CUT OUT OF THE BUDGET PROCESS, I'M THE 15 ONE WHO IS PROBABLY MOST FRUSTRATED. SO I UNDERSTAND WHAT 16 YOU ARE TRYING TO DO HERE. AND WE ARE GOING TO TAKE BACK 17 A LOT OF THIS. AND WE ARE GOING TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF 18 THE VOTERS THAT COME THROUGH US, BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY 19 TO DO IT. THIS IS JUST NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I JUST -- 21 TRUSTEE BERG: TRUSTEE MARKS. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: -- ACTUALLY -- 23 TRUSTEE BERG: TRUSTEE MARKS, CAN I -- 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WILL ACTUALLY -- 25 TRUSTEE BERG: WAIT. THIS IS A POINT OF MARCH 25, 2010 94 1 INFORMATION -- 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. GO AHEAD, TRUSTEE BERG. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: -- I THINK EVERYONE WANTED TO 4 KNOW. THAT IF THIS GOES BACK TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, 5 THEN LEGALLY NO OTHER BOARD MEMBER WHO IS NOT ON THAT 6 COMMITTEE IS ALLOWED TO SPEAK EITHER FROM THE AUDIENCE OR 7 ELSEWHERE. SO THE BOARD IS EXCLUDED FROM THAT PROCESS IF 8 IT GOES BACK -- 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: THE BOARD ABOVE THREE MEMBERS. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: THE THREE MEMBERS ON THE 11 COMMITTEE CAN SPEAK, BUT NO OTHER BOARD MEMBER COULD 12 SPEAK. WE HAVE TO SIT IN -- 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: HERE'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO 14 COLLEAGUES. WE NEED TO AGREE ON A TIME TO HAVE A RETREAT. 15 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO INSIST THAT IT BE ON A WEEKDAY. 16 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO INSIST THAT IT BE ON A WEEKEND. 17 WE'VE GOT TO COME TO SOME ACCOMMODATION. 18 TRUSTEE JACKSON IS RIGHT. WE HAVE BEEN TRYING 19 FOR OVER A YEAR TO SCHEDULE A RETREAT, AND IT IS VIRTUALLY 20 IMPOSSIBLE. 21 SO I'M HAPPY TO BRING IT TO A RETREAT, BUT WE'VE 22 GOT TO GET A DATE. WE'VE GOT TO GET A DATE OR ELSE WE 23 CAN'T DO IT. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I VOTED AGAINST THIS 25 COMMITTEE, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD FORWARD THIS ON BECAUSE I MARCH 25, 2010 95 1 THINK THAT THE CHANCELLOR NEEDS THIS GUIDANCE. WE TALKED 2 ABOUT THIS AT THE COMMITTEE. AND I THINK HE EXPRESSED 3 THAT, AND HE CAN CONTRADICT ME IF I AM WRONG AND MAYBE I 4 AM WRONG, BUT WE HAVE THREE MONTHS UNTIL A BUDGET. I 5 DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPENED IF WE SENT THIS BACK TO 6 COMMITTEE. THE COMMITTEE HAS DISCUSSED IT. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY, WE ARE NOT SENDING IT 8 BACK TO COMMITTEE. WE ARE GOING TO VOTE ON IT RIGHT NOW. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU KNOW AS FAR -- 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: THIS HAS GONE ON WAY, WAY TOO 11 LONG. LET'S VOTE ON IT AND THEN LET'S MOVE ON TO THE NEXT 12 ITEM ON THE AGENDA. 13 NO, I'M NOT ENTERTAINING IT AND I'M NOT GIVING 14 THE FLOOR TO ANYBODY ELSE. 15 SO ON THE MOTION -- 16 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T THINK I CAN INCORPORATE 17 THE AMENDMENT. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: LET'S VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT TO 19 ADD RETENTION -- HOLD ON. LET ME FIGURE OUT IF I CAN DO 20 IT. "RETENTION OF FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME FACULTY." WE 21 CAN'T DO THE CLASSIFIED STAFF YET BECAUSE IT HASN'T 22 BEEN -- THAT'S WHY THIS IS SO CONFUSING. THIS IS A REALLY 23 BAD IDEA. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: CAN WE HAVE A COMMITTEE OF THE 25 WHOLE IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET? MARCH 25, 2010 96 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE CAN DO IT AS A COMMUNITY OF 2 THE WHOLE. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: AND THEN EVERYBODY CAN SPEAK. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: BUT I WANT -- 5 TRUSTEE WONG: WE CAN DO IT EVEN NEXT WEEK, A 6 COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WANT THE CHAIR TO CALL 8 THE -- 9 TRUSTEE WONG: A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: LISTEN, PEOPLE ARE NOT 11 PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT BUDGET PRIORITIES. THIS IS AMONG 12 THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS -- 13 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S RIGHT. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- THAT WE DO AS AN 15 INSTITUTION. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: EXACTLY. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND UNLESS PEOPLE ARE PREPARED 18 TO COME IN AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK THE PRIORITIES 19 ARE AND TO HELP US TO UNDERSTAND -- 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: POINT OF INFORMATION. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- WHAT THE PRIORITIES ARE. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: POINT OF INFORMATION. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: NOT YET. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: IT'S A PRIVILEGED MOTION. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. MARCH 25, 2010 97 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: POINT OF INFORMATION. YOU 2 HAVE TO RECOGNIZE ME. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: I DON'T HAVE TO RECOGNIZE YOU. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YES, YOU DO. A POINT OF 5 INFORMATION? 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WANT TO VOTE ON THIS. THIS 7 HAS GONE ON WAY, WAY TOO LONG. 8 SPEAKER UNKNOWN: (INAUDIBLE.) 9 TRUSTEE WONG: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: I DON'T CARE AT THE MOMENT. 11 WE ARE GOING TO VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL, I GUESS WE DON'T HAVE 13 ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER ANYMORE. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: WELL, I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY 15 THAT YOU FEEL THAT WAY. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THE CHANCELLOR SAID HE WANTED 17 IT. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: THAT'S FINE. HE HAS THE RIGHT 19 TO EXPRESS THAT OPINION. AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DECIDE 20 WHETHER OR NOT WE AGREE WITH THE HIM. 21 ON THE AMENDMENT TO CHANGE IT FROM "RETENTION OF 22 FULL-TIME FACULTY" TO "FULL-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF" -- 23 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: CLASSIFIED STAFF. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO, I CAN'T. THAT NEVER GOT 25 ADDED. YOU SEE, THAT'S THE PROBLEM. THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD MARCH 25, 2010 98 1 NOT BE VOTING ON THIS AT ALL. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WAIT A MINUTE. I PUT 3 CLASSIFIED STAFF IN THE AMENDMENT. THAT IS IN AN 4 AMENDMENT. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE RIZZO, DID YOU SECOND 6 THAT? 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL SECOND IT. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: "RETENTION OF FULL-TIME AND 9 PART-TIME FACULTY AND CLASSIFIED STAFF." 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THAT 13 AMENDMENT, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 14 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 22 THAT AMENDMENT PASSES. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE ANOTHER 24 AMENDMENT, DARLENE ALIOTO'S AMENDMENT. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: I AM GOING TO DO THAT RIGHT MARCH 25, 2010 99 1 NOW. 2 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL -- 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M NOT CERTAIN WHAT'S COMING 4 OUT IS THE PROBLEM. BUT, OKAY, LET'S SEE IF I CAN DO 5 THIS. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: IT CAN BE MOVED. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: I AM GOING TO SEE IF -- 8 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU CAN'T DO IT. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: I AM GOING TO READ IT AND THEN 10 SOMEONE NEEDS TO MOVE IT. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE DID THE CLASSIFIED STAFF. 13 TO CHANGE -- TO REPLACE RESUMING SUMMER SCHOOL IN 2011 AT 14 ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THE 2009 LEVEL OF PUTTING ASSOCIATE 15 SUPPORT SERVICES" TO REPLACE THAT WITH "RESTORE SUMMER 16 SCHOOL TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE." 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: INCLUDING -- 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. I CAN ONLY DO WITH WHAT'S 19 WRITTEN ON HERE. 20 TO REPLACE "EQUITY IN THE OFFERING OF CLASSES 21 ACROSS ALL CAMPUSES TO DIRECT CHANCELLOR TO WORK WITH 22 DEPARTMENT CHAIRS TO INCREASE CLASS OFFERINGS ACROSS ALL 23 CAMPUSES AS APPROPRIATE." AND TO ADD "RESTORE CLASSES 24 THAT WERE CUT DUE TO THE BUDGET CRISIS AS SOON AS 25 POSSIBLE." MARCH 25, 2010 100 1 SO DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO MOVE THAT, PLEASE. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 6 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THESE AMENDMENTS? 7 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM 9 THE CHANCELLOR ON THE FEASIBILITY OR WISDOM OR WHATEVER ON 10 THE LAST ITEM OF RESTORING CLASSES. SHOULD THAT BE A 11 BUDGET PRIORITY? IS IT POSSIBLE? 12 TRUSTEE WONG: WE HAVE TO RESTORE CLASSES. 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: RESTORING CLASSES IS A 14 PRIORITY. WE CANNOT -- THE AMENDMENT IS FINE BECAUSE "TO 15 THE EXTENT POSSIBLE." SO WE ARE NEEDING TO RESTORE 16 CLASSES IN FALL AND SPRING. "TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE" WILL 17 COVER IT. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO 19 RESTORE STORE ALL THE CLASSES. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO 21 RESTORE ALL OF THE CLASSES, NOT AT ALL. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST WANTED TO MAKE 23 THAT CLEAR BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS CLEAR TRUE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON, YOUR POINT OF 25 INFORMATION. MARCH 25, 2010 101 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: IT'S NOT IN CONTEXT THE 2 ANYMORE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 4 DOES ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WANT TO TALK ABOUT 5 THESE AMENDMENTS? 6 IF NOT, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, YOUR VOTE ON 7 THESE AMENDMENTS. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE 10 AMENDMENTS, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 19 NOBODY IS OPPOSED. 20 IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE 21 RESOLUTION AS AMENDED? 22 TRUSTEE NGO. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE AT 24 THIS COLLEGE AND TO THE CHANCELLOR TO THE EXTENT THAT I 25 HAVE CONTRIBUTED IN SOME WAYS TO THIS VERY CLEAR CULTURE MARCH 25, 2010 102 1 OF MISTRUST BETWEEN THE BOARD AND EVERYONE ELSE HERE. 2 THERE CLEARLY IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE WAY WE 3 ARE INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER. 4 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: THAT'S RIGHT. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I WILL BE A LEADER -- ONE OF 6 THE LEADERS OF THIS INSTITUTION TO OWN MY BEHAVIOR. I 7 WILL DO THAT. IT'S BEEN EVIDENT TO ME THAT THERE IS THIS 8 CULTURE OF MISTRUST AT THIS COLLEGE FROM THE VERY 9 BEGINNING. AND IT REALLY SADDENED ME. AND IT FRUSTRATED 10 ME. AND MANY TIMES I'VE EXPRESSED MY ANGER THAT MANY OF 11 YOU HAVE SEEN, BUT THAT'S WHERE IT IS COMING FROM. I'M 12 CONFUSED BY THIS CULTURE THAT WE HAVE HERE. 13 WE INTRODUCED THIS, THESE BUDGET PRIORITIES. 14 AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE KNEW THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD A 15 CONVERSATION WITH YOUR LEADER, THE CHANCELLOR, ABOUT THIS. 16 THE 40 PERCENT NUMBER, WE DIDN'T ADD THAT. WE GOT THAT 17 FROM THE CHANCELLOR. WE WEREN'T MICROMANAGING. HE SAID, 18 40 PERCENT. HE SAID, ABOUT 40 PERCENT. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: RIGHT. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: THE MINUTE THAT THE CHANCELLOR 21 SAID OPENLY THAT HE HAD A ROLE IN DRAFTING OF THIS 22 DOCUMENT, PEOPLE CHANGED THEIR MINDS. I THINK THAT'S 23 IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY TRUST HIM. SO DO I. 24 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: YES. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: SO LET'S LET HIM LEAD. HE IS MARCH 25, 2010 103 1 LEADING AT THE DELIGATION OF THE POWERS THAT WE HAVE GIVEN 2 HIM, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. ELECTED BY THE VERY PEOPLE 3 YOU REGISTER TO VOTE. THOSE PEOPLE THAT YOU REGISTER TO 4 VOTE, THEY ELECTED THESE SEVEN PEOPLE HERE. AND WE'VE 5 GIVEN THIS POWER TO OUR LEADER. 6 I WANT TO REINFORCE THIS COMMITMENT TO HIM AS A 7 INSTITUTION. HE NEEDS TO KNOW THAT WE ARE BEHIND HIM. HE 8 HAS HEARD THAT FROM ME RIGHT NOW AND EVERYONE ON THIS 9 BOARD. WE CANNOT UNDERMINE HIS LEADERSHIP AT THIS TIME. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I HAVE ONE COMMENT. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS IS WHY TRUSTEE JACKSON AND 12 MYSELF AND TRUSTEE RIZZO JOINED THE BUDGET COMMITTEE 13 MEETING THAT WAS OPEN AND TRANSPARENT. WE HAD A VERY 14 HONEST DISCUSSION WITH HIM ABOUT THIS. A LOT OF THIS IS 15 HIS LANGUAGE. SOME OF IT IS OURS, BUT WE HAD A 16 DISCUSSION. WE WERE WORKING TOGETHER OPENLY WITH 17 TRANSPARENCY. 18 AND I THINK AS WE MOVE FORWARD, LET'S REMEMBER 19 THAT HE IS OUR LEADER. AND THAT THAT LEADERSHIP, THAT 20 POWER, IS GIVEN TO HIM BY THIS BOARD, ELECTED BY THE 21 PEOPLE YOU REGISTER TO VOTE. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US, EACH 22 OF US HAS AN INDIVIDUAL MANDATE THAT WE DELEGATE TO HIM. 23 LET'S TRUST HIM TO DO HIS JOB. 24 I WILL ALSO SAY THAT I THINK IT IS VERY 25 IMPORTANT THAT FROM NOW ON WE ALL COMMIT TO EACH OTHER AS MARCH 25, 2010 104 1 AN INSTITUTION. MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD, MEMBERS OF THE 2 COLLEGE COMMUNITY, BETWEEN EACH OTHER AND WITH EACH OTHER 3 ON THIS BOARD AND THE CHANCELLOR, TO COMMUNICATE TO EACH 4 OTHER IN A WAY THAT RESPECTS EACH OF OUR JURISDICTION, 5 PRIMACY, RESPECT AND LOVE FOR THE COLLEGE, AND MORE 6 IMPORTANTLY, FOR THE STUDENTS AT THIS COLLEGE. 7 WHEN WE ALL AGREE THAT WE CARE FUNDAMENTALLY 8 ABOUT THE WELL BEING AND THE FUTURE OF THIS COLLEGE, IT'S 9 A GOOD STARTING POINT, RIGHT? 10 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: THAT'S RIGHT. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: SO LET'S ASSUME THAT IS TRUE FROM 12 THIS POINT FORWARD THAT WE ALL HAVE A SHARED INTEREST IN 13 THE WELL BEING IN THE FUTURE OF THESE STUDENTS. 14 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: THAT'S RIGHT. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. I'M ALMOST DONE. 16 GIVEN THAT WE HAVE THAT SHARED INTEREST AND WE 17 ALL WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SHARED DIFFERENCE, LET'S 18 COMMUNICATE TO EACH OTHER IN A WAY THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT 19 WE HAVE THOSE CONCERNS AND THAT DEEP DEVOTION AND CARE FOR 20 THE SAME PEOPLE AT THIS COLLEGE. 21 AND LET OUR CONDUCT INCLUDING MINE, INCLUDING 22 EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD, AND EVERYONE AT THIS COLLEGE, BE A 23 REFLECTION AND AN EXAMPLE FOR THESE STUDENTS TO FOLLOW. 24 BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK TO EACH OTHER AND HOWEVER THE WAY WE 25 TALK TO EACH OTHER, WE ARE TEACHING SOMEBODY SOMETHING. MARCH 25, 2010 105 1 WE ARE TEACHING TRUSTEE NEILSEN SOMETHING. AND THERE ARE 2 STUDENTS IN THIS ROOM THAT ARE WATCHING HOW WE CONDUCT 3 OURSELVES. AND WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT. RIGHT? 4 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: THAT'S RIGHT. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: SO I WILL DO MY PART AND APOLOGIZE 6 TO THOSE STUDENTS AND TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS BOARD AND TO 7 THE CHANCELLOR AND TO THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY TO THE EXTENT 8 THAT I'VE ADDED TO THE CULTURE OF MISTRUST HERE AT THIS 9 CAMPUS. AND I HOPE THAT GOING FORWARD WE CAN ALL DO OUR 10 JOB AND WORK TOGETHER. THANK YOU. 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I APPRECIATE THOSE WORDS, 14 TRUSTEE NGO, THEY ARE HEARTFELT. AND, YOU KNOW, IT IS 15 JUST MY FRUSTRATION SOMETIMES BECAUSE I KNOW THE BOARD'S 16 VALUES. I MEAN I HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF WHERE MOST FOLKS 17 COME FROM AND I GO OUT OF MY WAY TO BE -- TO UNDERSTAND 18 FOLKS AND TO UNDERSTAND WHERE FOLKS ARE COMING FROM. 19 AND KNOWING HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THE COLLEGE AND 20 HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THIS COLLEGE AND THEN TO HAVE FOLKS NOT 21 TRUST US. I'M LIKE, WHY NOT? WE DO CARE. WE WANT TO 22 PROTECT FOLKS. WE WANT TO PROTECT JOBS. WE WANT TO 23 PROTECT STUDENTS. WE FIGHT TO THE DEATH. WE ARE GOING TO 24 BE TRYING TO FORCE OUR WAY ON TO A TAX MEASURE, A PARCEL 25 TAX MEASURE IN NOVEMBER. WE, DAY IN AND DAY OUT, I KNOW MARCH 25, 2010 106 1 THAT EACH ONE OF THESE TRUSTEES DOES FIGHT HARD FOR THIS 2 COLLEGE. WE LOVE THIS COLLEGE. I LOVE THE COMMUNITY AS 3 WELL. 4 I WILL OWN MY FRUSTRATION. I WILL OWN IT TOO. 5 I HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED. THIS HAS BEEN A DIFFERENT 6 PROCESS. 7 I GOT ELECTED IN 2008 AND IT WAS ABOUT CHANGE. 8 IF WE HAD -- IF FOLKS HAD THOUGHT THAT WE WERE DOING 9 CERTAIN THINGS, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ELECTED ME. I GOT 10 ELECTED FOR CHANGE. AND SOME OF THIS STUFF -- AND MOST OF 11 THIS STUFF I LOVE. 95 PERCENT OF THIS STUFF ON THIS 12 COLLEGE I LOVE AND I PROMOTE. I'M A BOOSTER. I AM 13 PROBABLY ONE -- I AM ONE OF THE CHANCELLOR'S STRONGEST 14 SUPPORTERS IN TERMS OF WANTING TO SEE THAT MAN SUCCEED. 15 AND TO PUT UP MEASURES, LIKE THE STUDENT EQUITY 16 RESOLUTION, TO PUT UP THE BUDGET PRIORITIES, THIS IS AN 17 ATTEMPT TO DIALOGUE WITH FOLKS. 18 SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT FOLKS DON'T THINK THE 19 BOARD HAS ANY TYPE OF ROLE IN TERMS OF EITHER ACADEMIC 20 POLICY, NOR BUDGET POLICY. 21 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT WE HAVE A ROLE AS 22 EDUCATIONAL LEADERS BECAUSE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY LOOK UP 23 TO US IN TERMS OF EDUCATION, SO WE DO HAVE A ROLE. I AM 24 NOT SAYING THAT -- JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE A ROLE, OTHER 25 FOLKS DON'T HAVE A ROLE. EVERYBODY HAS A ROLE IN IT. BUT MARCH 25, 2010 107 1 WE ALL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER. 2 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I DON'T FIGHT. I 3 UNDERSTAND TRUSTEE WONG WHEN HE SAYS HE DOESN'T LIKE THIS 4 PROCESS. AND I KNOW THAT TRUSTEE WONG UNDERSTANDS WHEN I 5 SAID, I DIDN'T LIKE THE OTHER PROCESS. THAT'S NOT US 6 FIGHTING. WE ARE HAVING A HEALTHY DISAGREEMENT. WE ARE 7 NOT THE TEA PARTY. 8 AND SO WHEN I COME BACK AND I SAY, HEY, I REALLY 9 DID MEAN I WANT TO RETAIN FACULTY AND STAFF, FULL-TIME AND 10 PART-TIME, THAT'S OUR VALUES. IT'S NOT FOR POLITICAL 11 GAIN. IT'S NOT FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT WE 12 KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE ON THE FRONT LINES DAY IN AND DAY 13 OUT WORKING WITH OUR STUDENTS. WE ALL AGREE THAT IT'S THE 14 STUDENTS IN THE END. NONE OF US WOULD BE HERE WITHOUT THE 15 STUDENTS. AND NOW WE ARE TRYING TO HOLD IT DOWN FOR THE 16 STUDENTS. 17 AND SO WHEN WE SAY WE WANT ALL OF YOU GUYS TO BE 18 HERE, IT'S FOR NO POLITICAL GAIN. WE JUST WANT YOU GUYS 19 TO WORK AS HARD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN FOR THE STUDENTS. 20 AND THAT'S WHY WE CAME UP WITH BUDGET 21 PRIORITIES. YOU GUYS COULD HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE TO THOSE 22 BUDGET PRIORITIES. IT'S NOT MEANT FOR ANYTHING. IT'S NOT 23 A TAKE OVER, NOT ANYTHING, BUT TO SAY THIS IS WHERE THE 24 BOARD IS. THIS IS OUR VALUES FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. NOW 25 IF WE DON'T HOLD UP TO THOSE VALUES, HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE, MARCH 25, 2010 108 1 BE IT BALLOT BOX, BE IT RECALL, BE IT AT MY HOUSE. I 2 DON'T CARE. HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE TO THIS BUDGET PROCESS. 3 BUT WHAT I WON'T DO IS BE UNACCOUNTABLE. WHAT I 4 WON'T DO IS CONTINUE TO WORK AS HARD AS I CAN TO MAKE SURE 5 THAT FOLKS, EVERYBODY, EVERY STUDENT FEELS THAT THEY HAVE 6 A FAIR SHOT IN TERMS OF ACHIEVING AT CITY COLLEGE. THAT 7 EVERY SINGLE FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBER FEEL THAT THEY ARE 8 PROTECTED, FEEL THAT THEY ARE VALUED IN THIS COLLEGE. AND 9 I'M GOING TO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS BUDGET PROCESS TO 10 PROJECT OUR VALUES BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO BE AT. 11 AND SO I'M SORRY THAT WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF 12 MISTRUST. I ACTUALLY DO TRUST YOU GUYS. I MEAN IT MIGHT 13 BE A ONE-WAY MISTRUST BECAUSE I DO TRUST. AND WHEN YOU 14 GUYS TELL ME THINGS, I'M RESPONSIVE TO IT WHEN YOU GUYS 15 TELL ME THINGS. 16 IT IS A LACK OF COMMUNICATION, BUT I SAY JUST 17 CALL ME. MY NUMBER IS ON FACEBOOK. YOU HAVE MY NUMBER ON 18 FACEBOOK. MY NUMBER IS ONLINE. YOU GUYS HAVE MY NUMBER. 19 YOU COULD CALL THE CHANCELLOR OFFICE. I AM ACCESSIBLE SO 20 YOU JUST TALK TO ME AND WE CAN SIT DOWN AND WORK THINGS 21 OUT. I DON'T LIKE TO FIGHT. I DON'T THINK I WANT TO 22 FIGHT BECAUSE WE ARE ALL IN THIS FOR THE SAME REASON, AND 23 IT'S FOR THE STUDENTS. 24 AND I THINK TRUSTEE NEILSEN IS A WONDERFUL 25 EXAMPLE OF WHEN YOU PUT IN EDUCATIONAL VALUE, AND YOU MARCH 25, 2010 109 1 CARE, AND YOU PUT LOVE AND EFFORT AND SWEAT AND TEARS IN 2 IT, YOU GET A TRUSTEE NEILSEN. YOU GET ME. YOU GET 3 EVERYBODY WHO IS ON THIS PANEL, AND THAT'S WHERE I AM 4 COMING FROM. 5 SO I HOPE THAT YOU GUYS ARE WHOLEHEARTEDLY 6 LISTENING TO WHAT I AM SAYING. I'M HOPING THAT YOU GUYS 7 UNDERSTAND WHERE I AM TRYING TO COME FROM. AND I HOPE 8 THAT YOU GUYS ENGAGE. I MEAN IT IS THE LACK OF ENGAGEMENT 9 THAT'S KILLING ME. IT'S WHEN WE PUT SOMETHING OUT AND WE 10 ASK FOR FEEDBACK, WE DON'T GET IT TO THE BOARD MEETING. 11 THAT'S WHERE I AM COMING FROM. 12 IT'S LIKE, MAN, WHY DO YOU GUYS JUST YELL AT US 13 AT THE BOARD MEETING. WE WANT TO BE YELLED OUT AT 14 COMMITTEE MEETING. YELL AT US WHEN WE DO THE STUFF, BUT 15 DON'T JUST YELL AT US AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING. WE HAD A 16 BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING. WE PUT THIS OUT THERE. IT WAS 17 PUBLICLY NOTICED. THE FOLKS SAW IT AND WE DID THIS. 18 SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THOSE ARE MY 19 COMMENTS. THOSE ARE OUR EFFORTS AT INCLUSION IN TERMS OF 20 THIS STUFF. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DIALOGUE. I AM NOT AN 21 INACCESSIBLE PERSON. BUT I DO FEEL THAT THIS IS A VERY 22 ACCEPTABLE AND SUNSHINED AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS BECAUSE 23 WE DIDN'T TRY TO HIDE IT FROM ANYBODY. 24 SO PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE ARE OUR VALUES 25 AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THE DIALOGUE MARCH 25, 2010 110 1 BECAUSE I WANT THAT DIALOGUE. I WANT THE ACCEPTANCE. I 2 WANT THE TRUST TO BE THERE BECAUSE THIS BOARD TRUSTS THE 3 INSTITUTION AND WE DO. WE TRUST IT THROUGH THE CHANCELLOR 4 BECAUSE WE KNOW HE'S COMPETENT. 5 AND SO WE REALLY ARE LOOKING FOR THAT SAME TRUST 6 TO BE RECIPROCATED BACK THAT WE REALLY DO CARE ABOUT THIS 7 INSTITUTION AND THAT WE REALLY DO CARE ABOUT EVERY SINGLE 8 MEMBER FROM STUDENT TO CLASSIFIED STAFF TO FACULTY TO 9 EVERYBODY. SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT AND, 10 HOPEFULLY, WE CAN GET ON WITH THE VOTE. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON, I WOULDN'T 12 HAVE APPOINTED YOU TO BE THE CHAIR OF THE PLANNING AND 13 BUDGETING COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD IF I DIDN'T VALUE YOUR 14 PARTICIPATION AND DIDN'T VALUE YOUR VALUES AND EXPECT YOU 15 TO DO JUST THE SAME KIND OF HARD WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING 16 ON THIS, SO I DO APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU ARE DOING. 17 SO STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, ON THE RESOLUTION AS 18 AMENDED. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: ACTUALLY, I THINK WE NEED TO 21 DO A ROLL CALL VOTE. 22 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE LAWRENCE WONG. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 111 1 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE STEVE NGO. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE CHRIS JACKSON. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE DR. ANITA GRIER. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: TRUSTEE DR. NATALIE BERG. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: VICE PRESIDENT TRUSTEE 10 RIZZO. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: PRESIDENT MILTON MARKS. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO HOW MANY WAS THERE? 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: 6 TO 1. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT WAS SIX YESSES AND ONE NO. 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: OKAY. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 19 NEXT, COULD I HAVE A MOTION FOR S6, PLEASE? 20 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECOND BY TRUSTEE WONG. 25 TRUSTEE RIZZO. MARCH 25, 2010 112 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AT OUR LAST MEETING, 2 TRUSTEES, WE PASSED A MASTER AGREEMENT WITH THE 3 FOUNDATION. SUBSEQUENT TO THAT MEETING, THERE WAS A 4 FOUNDATION BOARD MEETING WHICH DR. GRIFFIN AND I ATTENDED. 5 THE FOUNDATION DID NOT PASS THE AGREEMENT THAT WE PASSED. 6 THEY HAD THREE POINTS THAT THEY WANTED TO 7 CHANGE. WE DISCUSSED IT FOR A WHILE AND THERE WAS NO 8 CONCLUSION AT THAT MEETING, BUT THE FOUNDATION BOARD 9 MEMBER TERRY OTTON AND MYSELF WERE TASKED TO HAVE ANOTHER 10 MEETING AND WORK OUT THE THREE ISSUES AND WE DID THAT. 11 AND I'M VERY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE CAME UP WITH ON 12 THESE ISSUES. 13 ONE ISSUE, BASICALLY, THE FOUNDATION GAVE TO US. 14 THE SECOND ISSUE WE GAVE TO THE FOUNDATION, BASICALLY, ON 15 LEGAL GROUNDS. IT WAS APPARENT THAT THEY WERE CORRECT. 16 AND THEN THE THIRD ISSUE, THERE WERE SOME LEGAL 17 COMPLICATIONS THAT WE HAD NOT CONSIDERED. AND ON THAT 18 THIRD ISSUE, WE BASICALLY COMPROMISED AND CAME UP WITH 19 SOME NEW LANGUAGE THAT WE ARE BOTH SATISFIED WILL WORK FOR 20 BOTH THE FOUNDATION AND CITY COLLEGE. 21 ONE THING WAS CLEAR, THE FOUNDATION BOARD 22 MEMBERS AND MYSELF AND DR. GRIFFIN ARE ALL ANXIOUS TO HAVE 23 THIS SET AND SET IN STONE AND APPROVED SO THAT WE COULD 24 GET ON WITH THE WORK OF RAISING MONEY FOR THE DISTRICT 25 WHICH WE ARE IN DIRE NEED OF. AND THE FOUNDATION BOARD MARCH 25, 2010 113 1 SAID IT WOULD HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING SOME TIME AFTER THIS 2 MEETING TO APPROVE THIS SO THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT 3 UNTIL JUNE, THEIR NEXT REGULAR MEETING. SO I COULD TALK 4 ABOUT THE THREE ISSUES. 5 THE FIRST ONE IS PAGE 3 IN SECTION 1. THE 6 FOUNDATION WAS ASKING FOR -- THIS IS THE SECTION THAT 7 DESCRIBES THE DISTRICT SETTING FUND-RAISING PRIORITIES AND 8 GIVING THE FOUNDATION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS THE DISTRICT'S 9 FUND-RAISING PRIORITIES. THE FOUNDATION HAD ASKED FOR 10 SOME LANGUAGE THAT CHANGED -- THAT WE FELT WAS NOT REALLY 11 SOMETHING THAT WE WANTED TO SEE, SO WE DROPPED THAT 12 LANGUAGE. THE FOUNDATION GAVE THAT POINT UP TO US. 13 WE ALSO DELETED SOME LANGUAGE THAT WE THOUGHT 14 JUST MADE IT MORE CONFUSING AND SIMPLIFIED. AND SO NOW 15 WHAT WE HAVE IS THE DISTRICT SETS PRIORITIES AND GIVES IT 16 TO THE FOUNDATION EVERY YEAR. AND AS LAST MONTH, APPENDIX 17 A IS THIS YEAR'S LIST OF PRIORITIES. 18 THE SECOND ISSUE WITH WAS TOWARDS THE END. AND 19 I THINK IF I COULD FIND THAT. IT HAD TO DO WITH -- I 20 CAN'T FIND IT AND GET MY HANDS ON IT. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: PAGE 9? 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S PAGE 10. I WANT TO 23 SKIP TO PAGE 10, ITEM 17, "DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS." THIS 24 IS IN CASE THE FOUNDATION IS DISSOLVED, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 25 TO THE ASSETS OF THE FOUNDATION AND WHO WOULD DECIDE HOW MARCH 25, 2010 114 1 THEY ARE DIVIDED UP. 2 WE HAD ASKED FOR THE LANGUAGE THIS PHRASE "AT 3 THE DISTRICT'S DISCRETION" SO THE DISTRICT WOULD DECIDE IF 4 THE FUNDS WOULD GO TO ANOTHER FOUNDATION OR TO THE 5 DISTRICT. AND IT WAS POINTED OUT TO US THAT ACTUALLY THE 6 LAW PREVENTS THAT FROM HAPPENING SO WE ALL AGREED THAT, 7 YEAH, WE CAN'T GET AROUND THE LAW. SO WE WILL GIVE THAT 8 ONE UP. 9 THE NEXT ONE WAS THE ONE -- THAT OF THE PAGE 9. 10 AND THIS WAS THE ISSUE OF THE APPOINTMENT OF THE MEMBERS 11 OF THE FOUNDATION BOARD FROM THE CLASSIFIED SENATE AND THE 12 ACADEMIC SENATE. 13 AND THE ISSUE HERE WAS THE FOUNDATION'S RIGHT TO 14 REMOVE SOMEONE WHO THEY FELT WASN'T WORKING. AND THERE 15 WAS AN ISSUE IN THE LAW THAT SAID, IF ANOTHER BODY SUCH AS 16 THE CLASSIFIED SENATE APPOINTS A BOARD MEMBER TO ANOTHER 17 BOARD, THEN THE FOUNDATION WOULD NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO 18 REMOVE THAT PERSON AT ALL. 19 AND SO WHAT WE CAME UP WITH IS -- AND IT'S 20 DESCRIBED IN HERE -- THERE WILL BE AN INTERVIEW PROCESS 21 FOR NEW BOARD FOUNDATION MEMBERS. SO THE CLASSIFIED 22 SENATE NOMINEE, THE ACADEMIC SENATE NOMINEE, WOULD GO 23 BEFORE AN INTERVIEW COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF THE FOUNDATION 24 BOARD MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE CLASSIFIED AND ACADEMIC 25 SENATE. MARCH 25, 2010 115 1 SO MEMBERS OF THE CLASSIFIED AND ACADEMIC 2 SENATE, NOT ONLY DO THEY NOMINATE A PERSON, BUT THEY ARE 3 ON THE INTERVIEW COMMITTEE WITH THE FOUNDATION BOARD 4 MEMBERS AND THEN THEY ARE PART OF THE VETTING PROCESS. 5 THEY ARE PART OF THE FOUNDATION'S VETTING PROCESS. AND 6 THEN THEY WOULD APPROVE -- THAT INTERVIEW COMMITTEE WOULD 7 FORWARD IT TO THE FOUNDATION BOARD. SO WE THOUGHT THAT 8 THAT WAS A GOOD COMPROMISE ON THAT. THAT WOULD KEEP THE 9 ACADEMIC SENATE AND CLASSIFIED SENATE IN THE PROCESS AND 10 INTERREGAL TO IT AND STILL FOLLOW THE LAW AND THE DESIRES. 11 I THINK THESE ARE A GOOD SET OF CHANGES TO GET 12 US FORWARD AND MOVING FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN START 13 WORKING. 14 MY MEETING WITH TERRY OTTON WAS VERY PRODUCTIVE. 15 WE ACTUALLY STARTED OUT AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER AT OUR 16 FIRST TASK FORCE MEETING. BUT WE AT THAT ONE ON ONE 17 MEETING, I THINK, WE REALLY SAW THAT WE COULD WORK WELL 18 WITH EACH OTHER. AND I ACTUALLY LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING 19 WITH MR. OTTON AND THE FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS TO HELP 20 RAISE MONEY FOR THE FOUNDATION. I THINK WE'VE GOT THE 21 START OF SOMETHING GOOD HERE, A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. 22 SO I AM GOING TO MOVE THIS IF I COULD -- 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT WAS MOVED ALREADY. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WAS MOVED. I'M SORRY. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: THAT'S OKAY. THANK YOU FOR MARCH 25, 2010 116 1 ALL THE WORK YOU'VE PUT INTO THIS. 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AND I WILL SECOND IT. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: HE JUST MOVED IT. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: NO. NO. IT WAS DONE BEFORE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN 8 DISCUSSING IT IF IT HADN'T BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED IT. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: ALL RIGHT. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WAS WRONG. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: FIRST, I WANT TO THANK -- I 14 REALLY WANT TO THANK TRUSTEE RIZZO FOR HIS EXTRAORDINARY 15 EFFORTS IN TERMS OF WORKING WITH THE FOUNDATION. 16 I ALSO, OF COURSE, WOULD LIKE TO THANK TRUSTEE 17 JACKSON AND TRUSTEE BERG. THEY WERE ALSO PRESENT AND 18 THERE WAS ALSO A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE FOUNDATION. 19 WE SPENT MANY HOURS LOOKING AT THE MASTER 20 AGREEMENT AND WE WERE VERY, VERY CLOSE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE 21 GAVE TO THE FOUNDATION. SO THERE WERE THESE THREE 22 CHANGES. ALL OF THEM ARE IMPORTANT, BUT THERE ARE THREE 23 CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO. 24 I SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION 100 PERCENT WITHOUT 25 RESERVATION. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE GO FORWARD. I MARCH 25, 2010 117 1 THINK IT IS A VERY FAIR PROCESS FOR GETTING PEOPLE 2 NOMINATED FROM THE ACADEMIC SENATE AND FROM THE 3 CLASSIFIED. I BELIEVE THAT IT'S RATIONAL AND IT'S WITHIN 4 THE LAW IN TERMS OF HOW WE ARE PROCEEDING. 5 AND THESE THREE SMALL, BUT IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS 6 AS DESCRIBED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO, ARE IMPORTANT. BUT I THINK 7 THEY HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT WITH A GREAT COMPROMISE, SO I 8 REALLY WANT TO CONGRATULATE HIM. HE WENT THE EXTRA SIX OR 9 SEVEN OR EIGHT HOURS OR WHATEVER IT TOOK TO GET THIS THING 10 REALLY WRAPPED UP AND IT'S A GOOD MASTER AGREEMENT. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. TRUSTEE WONG, 12 TRUSTEE NGO AND THEN I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO 13 WANT TO -- 14 TRUSTEE WONG: I DID READ THROUGH THIS DRAFT. 15 AND I DO WANT TO ALSO INCLUDE MY THANKS TO TRUSTEE RIZZO 16 BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WORKED VERY HARD ON IT. 17 AND HE DID REMIND US, LAWRENCE, IT'S BEEN OVER A 18 YEAR. AND WE NEED TO LET THE FOUNDATION CONTINUE DOING 19 THE WORK THAT IT DOES BEST, WHICH IS TO RAISE MONEY FOR 20 CITY COLLEGE. ALSO THANK YOU, TRUSTEE BERG AND TRUSTEE 21 JACKSON ALSO. 22 I THINK IT IS A GOOD MOU. I THINK IT IS A GOOD 23 AGREEMENT. I THINK WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD. I KNOW 24 MEMBERS OF THE FOUNDATION WHO ARE SO SELFLESS AND WHO WORK 25 SO HARD ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS. AND ALL THEY CARE ABOUT MARCH 25, 2010 118 1 REALLY IS HELPING OUR STUDENTS AND CITY COLLEGE. AND I 2 FEEL THAT WE JUST NEED TO LET THEM GO AHEAD AND DO IT AND 3 NOT HANDCUFF THEM ANYMORE. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THE AD 4 HOC COMMITTEE. THANK YOU. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 6 TRUSTEE NGO. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND THE 8 NEGOTIATING TEAM OF TRUSTEES UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF JOHN 9 RIZZO. I DO ADMIRE YOUR WORK. I THINK IT INCORPORATES 10 MANY OF THE ISSUES THAT I HAD, ESPECIALLY WITH 11 TRANSPARENCY AND REPORTING BACK. THAT TO ME WAS 12 FUNDAMENTAL. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. AND I 13 THINK THIS IS A WORKABLE DOCUMENT. 14 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MEMBERS OF THE FOUNDATION, 15 IF THEY ARE HERE. THERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS 16 DOCUMENT IF THAT'S OKAY. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO 18 COME UP OR MAYBE THE TWO OF YOU. IF I DON'T KNOW THE 19 ANSWER, (INAUDIBLE). 20 MR. MARDIKIAN: I'M HAIG MARDIKIAN. I SERVE AS 21 PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION AT CITY COLLEGE. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 23 MR. MARDIKIAN: GOOD TO SEE YOU. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: WE HAD LUNCH LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, 25 BUT IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. AND THANK YOU FOR ALL MARCH 25, 2010 119 1 THE WORK YOU DO ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICT. 2 MR. MARDIKIAN: THANK YOU. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S MUCH APPRECIATED. AND YOUR 4 FELLOW MEMBERS, SO THANK YOU. 5 MR. MARDIKIAN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: AND YOUR STAFF. 7 CAN I JUST ASK IF WE COULD LOOK AT ADDENDUM A, 8 WHICH I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT. WE HAVE LANGUAGE IN 9 THERE THAT SAYS IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH, "THE FOUNDATION 10 AGREES TO PURSUE THE FOLLOWING SOURCES" -- AND IT LISTS, 11 UNREALIZED CAPITAL GAINS, USE OF BASIC SKILLS CLASSES, 12 REQUESTING DONORS OF RESTRICTED FUNDS TO RELEASE SOME 13 FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS, NEW FUNDRAISING, AND RECOVERY OF SOME 14 OF THE MONEY SPENT BY THE DISTRICT ON THE ORFALEA 15 CHILDREN'S CENTER ACTIVITIES. 16 I ASSUME THIS LANGUAGE IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU. 17 MR. MARDIKIAN: YES. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: SO I APPRECIATE THAT YOU WOULD DO 19 THAT. 20 I JUST WANT TO ASK WHETHER YOU INTEND TO REPORT 21 BACK ON YOUR AGREEMENT TO PURSUE THESE FOLLOWING 22 ACTIVITIES OR THE FOLLOWING SOURCES AT SOME POINT DURING 23 THIS YEAR. 24 MR. MARDIKIAN: YES, WE DO. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. MARCH 25, 2010 120 1 MR. MARDIKIAN: IT'S OUR INTENTION THAT THE 2 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDATION WILL MAKE A WRITTEN 3 REPORT OR APPEAR PHYSICALLY BEFORE YOU AT YOUR BOARD 4 MEETINGS SO THAT ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE CAN BE 5 ANSWERED OR IF THEY CAN'T BE ANSWERED THAT NIGHT, THE 6 INFORMATION WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TO YOU VERY SHORTLY. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AND SHE WOULD BE AMENABLE TO 8 REPORTING BACK ON THIS PARTICULAR ADDENDUM A. 9 MR. MARDIKIAN: SURE. ABSOLUTELY. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK 11 YOU VERY MUCH. 12 MR. MARDIKIAN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 14 ONE LAST QUESTION I HAD WAS, TRUSTEE RIZZO, THE 15 DOCUMENT THAT WE HAVE HERE HAS NOT BEEN ADOPTED BY THE 16 FOUNDATION. 17 IS THAT CORRECT? 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S CORRECT. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. SO WE ARE OFFERING THIS TO 20 THEM AS AN OFFER. IT LOOKS LIKE THE PRESIDENT HERE IS 21 ACCEPTING OF THE LANGUAGE. 22 I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE TERM OF THE 23 AGREEMENT AND WHETHER THERE WAS ANY DISCUSSION IN TERMS OF 24 WHY WE CHOSE DECEMBER 31ST, 2012 VERSUS PERHAPS A SHORTER 25 TERM OR A LONGER TERM. MARCH 25, 2010 121 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M NOT SURE. I DON'T 2 KNOW WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE OF THE 4 MASTER AGREEMENT. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, OKAY. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S THE TITLE PAGE. AND IT SAYS, 7 "THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE EFFECTIVE ON THE 1ST DAY OF 8 APRIL 2010 AND SHALL TERMINATE, UNLESS EARLIER 9 TERMINATED" -- IT'S THE LAST SENTENCE -- "OR EXTENDED AS 10 PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2012." 11 WAS THERE ANY DISCUSSION OVER THAT LENGTH OF 12 THAT -- 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: FIVE YEARS. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: HISTORICALLY, FIVE YEARS. 15 I'M SORRY. HISTORICALLY, WE HAD A FIVE YEAR -- WE 16 TYPICALLY RUN A FIVE-YEAR AGREEMENT -- 17 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 18 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: -- ON THE PREVIOUS ONES. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: SO THIS IS SHORTER THAN. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT THIS IS TWO YEARS. 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THIS IS FIVE YEARS OR 22 NOT -- 23 TRUSTEE WONG: TWO YEARS. 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THIS WOULD BE TWO. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: SO THIS IS SHORTER THAN WHAT IS MARCH 25, 2010 122 1 CUSTOM. 2 IS THAT CORRECT? 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THAT A TYPO OR -- 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IS THERE A TYPO? 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: WHERE DO YOU SEE IT? 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: PAGE 1? 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: ON PAGE -- 8 TRUSTEE WONG: IT SAYS, "PAGE 1." 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: THE MASTER AGREEMENT? 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT SHOULD BE 2015 -- 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YEAH. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- INSTEAD OF 2012? 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YEAH. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO OFFER IT 15 AN AMENDMENT? 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: OH, THAT'S NOT IT. 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT SHOULD BE 2012. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M ACTUALLY OKAY WITH IT BEING 19 THIS LENGTH, UNLESS THE CHANCELLOR -- 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, YEAH. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: -- IS GOING TO BE VERY -- UNLESS 22 HE IS GOING TO INSIST. 23 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT WAS UP GOING TO BE FIVE 24 YEARS, BUT IF IT'S TWO YEARS. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR MARCH 25, 2010 123 1 UNDERSTANDING WAS? 2 MR. MARDIKIAN: WELL, I THINK IT'S A COMBINATION 3 OF THINGS. ONE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THESE A LONG TIME. 4 I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE A PROBLEM FOR THE FOUNDATION IF 5 YOU WANTED TO ADD IN ANOTHER YEAR TO THIS. THAT'S NOT AN 6 ISSUE FOR US. OR IF WE LEAVE IT AT THIS, THE TWO YEARS, 7 IT JUST GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY. 8 I BELIEVE THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS 9 THAT I RECALL FROM OUR AD HOC MEETING. THERE WAS SOME 10 DISCUSSION THAT WE WERE CREATING A NEW BABY AND MAYBE WE 11 WOULD ALL LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY IN A SHORER TIME FRAME TO 12 SEE IF WE CREATED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T QUITE WORKING AS 13 WE WOULD ALL ASSUME IT WOULD. 14 BUT IF WE WANTED TO ADD A YEAR, THAT WOULD NOT 15 BE A PROBLEM FOR THE FOUNDATION I'M SURE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I THINK I 17 HAVE THE SAME VIEW AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION HERE 18 THAT -- 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: THERE JUST HAS TO BE 20 CONSISTENCY BECAUSE IN THE RESOLUTION IT SAID, 21 "JANUARY 31ST, 2015." AND IN THE MASTER AGREEMENT IT 22 SAYS, "DECEMBER 31ST, 2012." THE ONLY THING THAT'S THE 23 SAME IS THE 31. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, ONE OF THEM IS A 25 TYPO. MARCH 25, 2010 124 1 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE -- I GUESS WE HAVE TO 2 MOVE THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT TO BE CHANGED TO BE CONSISTENT 3 WITH PAGE 1 DELINEATING THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT. 4 IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING, MR. PRESIDENT? 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IF SOMEONE JUST HAS TO -- 6 IS IT GOING TO BE THE JANUARY 31ST, 2015 OR THE 7 DECEMBER 31ST -- 8 TRUSTEE NGO: IF I MAY SPEAK ON THAT, I THINK I 9 STILL HAVE THE FLOOR. I ACTUALLY DO AGREE WITH THE 10 PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT BECAUSE 11 WE ARE WORKING ON A NEW DOCUMENT, A WORKING DOCUMENT, EVEN 12 THOUGH THERE ARE PROVISIONS IN THERE THAT ALLOW US TO 13 TERMINATE EARLY, A TWO-YEAR TIME FRAME IS ACTUALLY 14 REASONABLE. WE CAN REEVALUATE IT. WE MAY JUST ADOPT IT 15 AGAIN. 16 BUT I THINK IT'S GOOD TO NOT BE BOUND BY SUCH A 17 LONG TERM, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A NEW WORKING DOCUMENT. 18 THEY MAY NOT LIKE SOME OF THE PROVISIONS IN TERMS OF 19 PRACTICE OVER TWO YEARS AND NEITHER MAY WE LIKE SOME OF 20 THESE PROVISIONS. SO I DON'T WANT US TO BE BOUND BY SUCH 21 A LONG TERM. 22 I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE -- I WOULD MOVE TO 23 CHANGE THE TERMINATION DATE OF THE AGREEMENT THROUGHOUT 24 THE DOCUMENT SO THAT IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DATE OF 25 DECEMBER 31ST, 2012 ON PAGE 1 OF THE MASTER AGREEMENT. MARCH 25, 2010 125 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL SECOND THAT 2 AMENDMENT. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND ALSO IN THE RESOLUTION. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: CORRECT. THROUGHOUT THE OPERATIVE 5 DOCUMENTS. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, I MOVE WE VOTE ON THIS. I 7 THINK IT IS A COMMENDABLE DOCUMENT, A GOOD JOB. 8 TRUSTEE RIZZO, VERY GOOD. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: IT'S VERY WELL DONE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: I MOVE THAT WE VOTE ON THIS RIGHT 13 NOW. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: I HAVE SOME CARDS HERE. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: OH, SORRY. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: SORRY. 17 HAL HUNTSMAN. 18 MR. HUNTSMAN: GOOD EVENING. HAL HUNTSMAN, 19 PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE. 20 I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS WITH REGARDS TO THE 21 NEW LANGUAGE AROUND THE NOMINATION OF MEMBERS TO THE 22 BOARD, THE FOUNDATION BOARD, AND HOPEFULLY, THEY ARE JUST 23 CLARIFYING. WE'LL SEE. 24 FIRST OF ALL, IT SEEMS LIKE -- WELL, HOW MANY 25 PEOPLE ARE ON THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. IT'S A NOMINATING MARCH 25, 2010 126 1 COMMITTEE. YOU CALLED IT AN "INTERVIEW COMMITTEE." 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S NOT SPECIFIED HOW 3 MANY. 4 MR. HUNTSMAN: DO WE KNOW? 5 TO ME, THAT'S RELEVANT BECAUSE WE ARE GOING -- 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MAYBE WE DO KNOW. MAYBE 7 IT'S IN THE FOUNDATION BYLAWS. 8 MR. MARDIKIAN: WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF NOW 9 CREATING FULLY STAFFED COMMITTEES, AND IT'S OUR 10 ANTICIPATION THAT THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE OF THE 11 FOUNDATION WILL HAVE FIVE MEMBERS. SO THERE WILL BE FIVE 12 FOUNDATION MEMBERS ON THAT. 13 MR. HUNTSMAN: OKAY. SO LET ME ASK A FURTHER 14 CLARIFICATION THEN. THERE WILL BE ONE NOMINATING 15 COMMITTEE FOR EVERY PERSON WHO IS NOMINATED TO SERVE ON 16 THE FOUNDATION BOARD; IS THAT CORRECT? 17 THAT WOULD BE INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE 18 COMMUNITY OR NON MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY; IS THAT 19 CORRECT? 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO. 21 MR. HUNTSMAN: NO, OKAY. 22 MS. RELFE: ONLY FOR THE -- 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: GENELLE, IT WON'T PICK YOU UP 24 UNFORTUNATELY. I'M SORRY. 25 MS. RELFE: THANK YOU. MARCH 25, 2010 127 1 ONLY FOR THAT PERSON ON THE CLASSIFIED SENATE AS 2 WELL AS FOR THE ACADEMIC SENATE. TWO DIFFERENT ONES WOULD 3 COME TO OUR NOMINATING COMMITTEE AT THAT SPECIFIC TIME 4 WHEN YOUR NOMINEE WOULD BE PROPOSED. 5 AND IF YOU WERE THE PERSON WHO WOULD SET THAT 6 NOMINATION, YOU WOULD BE THE ONE TO COME, NOT NECESSARILY 7 THE NOMINEE THAT WOULD COME AT ANOTHER TIME. 8 IS THAT CLEAR? 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S VERY CLEAR. 10 MS. RELFE: IN OTHER WORDS -- 11 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 12 -- WE DO MEET INDEPENDENTLY WITH EACH PERSON. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: BEFORE YOU SAY SOMETHING HAL, 14 GENELLE RELFE FROM THE FOUNDATION BOARD. 15 MS. RELFE: YES, I'M -- 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'VE ALREADY INTRODUCED YOU. 17 MS. RELFE: OKAY. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. THANKS SO MUCH FOR 19 COMING UP. 20 MR. HUNTSMAN: I THINK I UNDERSTAND. 21 SO I AM JUST GOING TO TRY TO CLARIFY A LITTLE 22 BIT MORE. SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING THEN IS THERE WILL BE 23 FIVE MEMBERS OF THE FOUNDATION BOARD WHO WILL SIT ON THIS 24 NOMINATING COMMITTEE. WHEN A MEMBER OF SAY THE CLASSIFIED 25 SENATE IS TO BE CONSIDERED, THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE WILL MARCH 25, 2010 128 1 THEN TAKE A SIXTH PERSON WHO WOULD BE A MEMBER OF THE 2 CLASSIFIED SENATE AND APPOINT IT TO THE NOMINATING 3 COMMITTEE BY THE CLASSIFIED SENATE; IS THAT CORRECT? 4 MS. RELFE: YES. 5 MR. HUNTSMAN: AND THEN THOSE SIX PEOPLE WOULD 6 FORWARD A RECOMMENDATION WITH REGARD TO A NOMINEE FROM THE 7 CLASSIFIED SENATE. 8 MS. RELFE: THEY WOULD SIT ON -- RIGHT. THAT 9 PERSON WOULD BE SITTING ON THE -- 10 MR. HUNTSMAN: DEPENDING ON THE -- 11 MS. RELFE: RIGHT. 12 MR. HUNTSMAN: YES, RIGHT. AND THAT WOULD BE A 13 SIMILAR PROCESS FOR A PERSON FROM THE ACADEMIC SENATE. 14 MS. RELFE: YES. 15 MR. HUNTSMAN: OKAY. AND EVERY OTHER MEMBER OF 16 THE FOUNDATION WHO -- 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: HE IS OUT OF TIME. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. NO. LET HIM FINISH. 19 MR. HUNTSMAN: EVERY OTHER MEMBER OF THE 20 FOUNDATION -- 21 MS. RELFE: BOARD. 22 MR. HUNTSMAN: -- BOARD WOULD ALSO GO THROUGH A 23 NOMINATION PROCESS SIMILAR TO THIS AND GOING THROUGH THE 24 NOMINATING COMMITTEE, OF COURSE, WITH ONLY FIVE PEOPLE. 25 MS. RELFE: CORRECT. MARCH 25, 2010 129 1 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU. 2 MS. RELFE: YOU ARE WELCOME. 3 I THINK THAT'S MOST OF THE CLARIFICATION FOR THE 4 MOMENT. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANKS SO MUCH. 6 STEVE KECH. 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: (INAUDIBLE.) 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: ATTILA GABOR. 9 MR. GABOR: GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES. MY NAME IS 10 ATTILA GABOR. JUST TO REMIND PEOPLE I AM NOT THE ONLY 11 PRESIDENT OF THE CLASSIFIED SENATE, BUT ALSO A TAXPAYER, A 12 VOTER. YOU NAME IT BECAUSE WE KEEP HEARING THESE REMARKS 13 THAT THE TRUSTEES' REPRESENT THE VOTERS AND THE TAXPAYERS. 14 I'M ONE OF THEM. 15 SO LET'S TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT. PAGE 9, 16 CLASSIFIED SENATE. I'M REALLY GLAD THAT MY COLLEAGUE, HAL 17 HUNTSMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CLASS ACADEMIC SENATE, GOT 18 SOME OF THE CLARIFICATION. 19 I MEAN IT WAS VERY OBVIOUS THAT IT SAYS, "EIGHT 20 MEMBERS," SO WE KNEW IT'S NOT GOING TO BE MEMBERS OF THE 21 CLASSIFIED SENATE. IT'S GOING TO BE A MEMBER. 22 BUT THE REALITY IS IT MAKES NO SENSE. THIS IS 23 NOT AN IMPROVEMENT FROM THE LAST TIME. THIS IS THE EXACT 24 SAME THING BECAUSE REALITY IS IF THE CLASSIFIED SENATE 25 APPOINTS SOMEONE, IF FIVE MEMBERS ON THE FOUNDATION BOARD MARCH 25, 2010 130 1 ON THIS NOMINATION BOARD DECIDES IT'S NOT THE PERSON, IT 2 DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER WE JUST LEAVE THE LANGUAGE AS IT 3 WAS OR WE JUST CREATED THIS. THIS IS ACTUALLY WONDERFUL 4 BOOKS THAT ARE ON THAT IF YOU WANT TO READ HOW UNCOMMON 5 THESE KIND OF THINGS WERE DONE. IT'S JUST A NAMING. THIS 6 RIDICULOUS. 7 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I DID ASK MY COLLEAGUES WHO 8 WERE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO STAY HERE. FOR EXAMPLE, MIKE 9 BENSON, WHO IS ONE OF OUR CUSTODIANS. HE HAD TO GET UP 10 FOUR O'CLOCK IN MORNING TO BE HERE. HE HAS A WIFE. HE 11 HAS KIDS. I KNOW ABOUT HIM BECAUSE WE WERE ROOMMATES WHEN 12 WE WERE IN WASHINGTON DC. 13 ANYWAY, THE BOTTOM LINE IS I ASKED THEM, GUYS, I 14 MEAN THE QUESTION -- WHAT'S THIS? DO THEY REALLY THINK 15 THAT WE ARE THAT STUPID? 16 THE ANSWER WAS UNANIMOUS. YES, THEY THINK WE 17 ARE THAT STUPID THAT WE DON'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE OF WHAT 18 WE ARE GIVEN BEFORE. 19 SO, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE TO 20 DISAGREE WITH THE CHANCELLOR. THIS IS NOT -- 21 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 22 -- GOOD FOR THE CLASSIFIED. I'M SORRY. 23 ALTHOUGH EVERYTHING ELSE -- THAT'S OKAY. YOU 24 KNOW I DISAGREE WITH MY WIFE ALL THE TIME. SO THAT'S 25 OKAY. MARCH 25, 2010 131 1 THE SECOND ONE IS -- 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I NEVER DISAGREE WITH MY 3 WIFE. 4 MR. GABOR: I DISAGREE, BUT SHE WINS. OKAY, I 5 HAVE TO CLARIFY THAT. 6 PAGE 8, "DISPENSATION OF EARNINGS," AND THIS IS 7 VERY INTERESTING FOR ME BECAUSE I WAS READING IN THAT -- 8 I'M NOT A LEGAL SCHOLAR. I AM NOT SOMEONE WHO HAS A VERY 9 BIG BACKGROUND IN BUDGET. BUT IT SAYS, "INCOME GENERATED 10 BY THE FOUNDATION AND ACCESS OF ITS ORDINARY AND NECESSARY 11 OPERATING COST AND PROVISIONS FOR EQUIPMENT, MAINTENANCE, 12 RESERVES AND WORKING CAPITAL SHALL BE USED BY THE 13 FOUNDATION TO BENEFIT THE DISTRICT/COLLEGE ITS STUDENTS." 14 IT REALLY DOESN'T TALK ABOUT, AND I DON'T KNOW 15 IF THAT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED. HOW IS IT DISPERSED TO US 16 BACK TO THE BENEFIT OF THE COLLEGE? 17 IT TALKS HOW THE FOUNDATION IS GOING TO 18 DISPERSED, BUT IT DOESN'T TALK HOW IT'S GOING TO COME BACK 19 TO US, ANY OF THIS INCOME. THAT'S ALL MY COMMENTS. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: STEVE. 21 MR. KECH: HI, MY NAME IS STEVE KECH. I'M A 22 CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. 23 AND I THOUGHT WE HAD A CONSENSUS AT THE LAST 24 BOARD MEETING THAT THE LANGUAGE WOULD INCLUDE ANY NOMINEE 25 FROM THE CLASSIFIED SENATE OR THE ACADEMIC SENATE COULD BE MARCH 25, 2010 132 1 REMOVED BY THE FOUNDATION FOR JUST CAUSE. BUT THIS 2 AMENDMENT OR WHATEVER WE ARE CHOOSING TO CALL IT, DOESN'T 3 SEEM TO TAKE COGNIZANT OF THAT. IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S GOT 4 CIRCUITOUS AND OBFUSCATORY LANGUAGE. THAT IS REALLY 5 MAKING THE FOUNDATION OUT TO BE SOME TYPE OF 6 SELF-PERPETUATING OLIGARCHY. 7 YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THAT THESE ARE ALL DEDICATED 8 AND RESOURCEFUL INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SERVING ON THE 9 FOUNDATION. THEY CERTAINLY ATTEMPTED TO SERVE THE COLLEGE 10 WELL. AND I DON'T THINK THAT THIS SERVES THE COLLEGE OR 11 THE FOUNDATION WELL BY HAVING THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE. 12 IF SOMEONE IS NOMINATED BY THE ACADEMIC SENATE 13 OR BY THE CLASSIFIED SENATE, THEY'VE ALREADY GONE THROUGH 14 A VETTING PROCESS. THEY'VE INDICATED THEIR DESIRE AND 15 THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE. AND I DON'T THINK THAT HAVING 16 TO GO AND BEAR THEIR SOULS TO SOME NOMINATING COMMITTEE IN 17 ADDITION SERVES ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER. SO THANK YOU VERY 18 MUCH. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 20 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF I MIGHT RESPOND TO 22 THAT. THE CHANCELLOR AND I WENT INTO THE MEETING WITH 23 THAT. THAT WAS PART OF THE LANGUAGE THAT WE PASSED, BUT 24 THIS WAS IN NEGOTIATION. WE CANNOT IMPOSE A MASTER 25 AGREEMENT ON THE FOUNDATION. AND THIS WAS ONE ISSUE WHERE MARCH 25, 2010 133 1 THEY WOULD NOT GIVE. THEY WANTED THE RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO 2 REMOVE ANY ONE OF THE FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS THAT THEY 3 WISH, INCLUDING OUR REPRESENTATIVES. 4 SO, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A NEGOTIATION WHAT CAN I 5 SAY. WE GOT SOME THINGS. WE WORKED OUT THIS LANGUAGE, 6 THIS COMPROMISED LANGUAGE. I THINK I'M COMFORTABLE WITH 7 IT. IT PUTS SHARED GOVERNANCE PEOPLE ON THE INTERVIEW 8 COMMITTEE. THEY CAN SEE -- IT'S TRANSPARENT THAT WAY. 9 THEY CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHAT 10 HAPPENED, BUT I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 12 TRUSTEE BERG. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: I THINK IT IS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT 14 THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE NOMINATE SOMEBODY TO BE A 15 MEMBER OF THE FOUNDATION BOARD, THAT PERSON IS A MEMBER OF 16 THE FOUNDATION BOARD AND IS TREATED ACCORDINGLY. SO THE 17 SAME RULES THAT APPLY TO ANYBODY ELSE WHO IS ON THE 18 FOUNDATION IS GOING BY NECESSITY TO HAVE TO APPLY TO OUR 19 PERSONS TOO BECAUSE THEY BECOME BONA FIDE FOUNDATION BOARD 20 MEMBERS. THEY ARE VOTING REPRESENTATIVES. AND I THINK 21 THAT'S JUST SOMETHING WE HAVE TO ACCEPT. IT COMES WITH 22 THE TERRITORY. THAT'S ALL. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 24 I HAVE ONE MORE CARD FROM MADELINE MUELLER. 25 MS. MUELLER: GOOD EVENING. I HAVE BEEN THE MARCH 25, 2010 134 1 FACULTY REP ON THE FOUNDATION BOARD OFF AND ON FOR 25 2 YEARS. AND I HAVE BEEN ON THE CURRENT -- WHAT'S CALLED 3 "THE NEW BOARD" SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2002. 4 THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT I CAN MENTION THAT I 5 WOULD LIKE TO BRING UP. AND ONE ON PAGE 8, "DISPENSATION 6 OF EARNINGS." IN THE BOARDS I'VE BEEN ON OVER THE YEARS, 7 WE'VE HAD A FIGURE IN HERE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S 8 GOING TO BE ON SOME SUBSEQUENT AGREEMENT, THAT THE INCOME 9 GENERATED IN EXCESS. AND WE'VE USUALLY HAD A PERCENTAGE 10 OVER THE YEARS, THE VARIOUS FOUNDATIONS. IT'S BEEN 4 11 PERCENT. IT'S BEEN 5 PERCENT SO THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN 12 UNDERSTANDING THAT BEGUN BEYOND THAT POINT IT DOES -- I 13 THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO HAVE SOME WORKING IDEA 14 BASED ON THE KIND OF PAST PRACTICE OF WHERE THE MONEY DOES 15 REALLY START COMING BACK INTO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS AND 16 THE STUDENTS AND THAT SORT OF THING. 17 AND LET ME JUST LOOK AT MY PAGES. ON THE PAGE 18 HAVING TO DO WITH THE MEMBERSHIP. THERE WAS AN ERROR ON 19 THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 9. IT SAYS, "THE BYLAWS WILL BE 20 AMENDED TO PROVIDE THE MEMBER OF THE DISTRICT'S ACADEMIC 21 SENATE WHO" -- AS I SAID, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD A MEMBER SERVE 22 FOR ALL THESE YEARS -- "CURRENTLY SERVES AS A VOTING 23 MEMBER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR A ONE-YEAR TERM." 24 NO, THAT'S NOT IN THE BYLAWS. THERE IS NO 25 ONE-YEAR TERM. SO IF YOU COULD TAKE THAT OUT, THAT'S JUST MARCH 25, 2010 135 1 NOT CORRECT. 2 AND THEN IT'S AN ODD -- IT IS CONVOLUTED IN "C" 3 WHERE NOT ONLY WOULD THE APPOINTEE GO THROUGH DOUBLE 4 VETTING. BUT AS I READ IT, AND MAYBE I'M READING IT 5 WRONG. IT SAYS THAT THE PERSON WHO JOINS THE COMMITTEE 6 ALSO IS APPOINTED BY THE FOUNDATION SO THAT TECHNICALLY 7 WHOEVER IS SENT IN BY THE SENATE TO HELP BE THE SIXTH 8 MEMBER ON THE BOARD ALSO HAS TO BE APPOINTED BY THE 9 FOUNDATION. THAT'S A REAL DOUBLE FIREWALL IT SEEMS TO ME. 10 AND THE LAST BIT OF INFORMATION. I NOTICED 11 TWICE IN THE DOCUMENT WHERE THE TERMS DEPARTMENTS AND 12 FACULTY OCCURRED, THOSE WERE TAKEN OUT. THE DISTRICT WAS 13 SUBSTITUTED. AND I JUST WANT THE DISTRICT TO UNDERSTAND 14 THAT PART OF OUR TEN PLUS ONE CRITERIA FROM THE STATE 15 INCLUDES THE POLICY STANDARDS OR POLICIES REGARDING 16 STUDENT PREPARATION AND SUCCESS SO SCHOLARSHIP IS 17 CONSIDERED A PRIMARY AREA FOR THE FACULTY. IT IS PART OF 18 THE ED CODE RESPONSIBILITY. 19 SO THAT'S JUST TO SORT OF SIGNAL TO THE DISTRICT 20 THAT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE TAKING OUT, WE HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND 21 THAT WE AREN'T TOO FAR AWAY BECAUSE WE HAVE A VERY ACTIVE 22 SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE. 23 AND I THINK -- I JUST SAT BACK AND THOUGHT 24 PERHAPS THIS IS TOO DRAMATIC, BUT MAYBE IT WILL MAKE 25 THINGS A LOT EASIER. I DO WANT TO OFFICIALLY RESIGN FROM MARCH 25, 2010 136 1 THE FOUNDATION RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO, MADELINE, BEFORE I ASK YOU 3 THE QUESTION. I DO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE YEARS 4 THAT YOU PUT INTO BEING ON THE FOUNDATION AT TIMES WHEN 5 IT'S FLOURISHING AND TIMES WHEN IT HAS GONE THE OPPOSITE 6 DIRECTION. 7 MS. MUELLER: YES. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO THANK YOU FOR STICKING IT 9 OUT AND FOR SERVING AS LONG AS YOU HAVE. 10 SO I'M NOT CERTAIN THAT WE GOT ALL OF THOSE 11 SUGGESTIONS THAT YOU'VE MADE IF WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO 12 AMEND THIS NOW. SO I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE ARE 13 GOING TO ACCOMMODATE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS. 14 MS. MUELLER: WELL, THEY DON'T NEED TO BE IN THE 15 DOCUMENT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO PUT A PERCENTAGE IN 16 THAT AREA. I DON'T KNOW THAT COULD BE DONE LATER I 17 SUPPOSE. THE OTHER IS ACTUALLY A TYPO IT'S A BYLAW 18 PROBLEM. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I AGREE I THINK 21 THAT COULD BE WORKED OUT LATER. I DO WANT TO CLARIFY WHAT 22 THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 9 WHAT THE FOUNDATION BYLAWS ACTUALLY 23 SAY. IF THEY THE BYLAWS WILL BE AMENDED TO PROVIDE THAT A 24 MEMBER OF THE DISTRICT'S ACADEMIC SENATE WHO CURRENTLY 25 SERVES AS VOTING MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MARCH 25, 2010 137 1 FOUNDATION FOR A ONE-YEAR TERM. 2 MS. MUELLER: JUST TAKE OUT FOR A ONE-YEAR TERM. 3 THAT'S NOT IN THE CURRENT BYLAWS. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: JUST TAKE THAT OUT. IT'S 5 NON SUBSEQUENT ANYWAYS. 6 MS. MUELLER: IT'S NEVER BEEN IN THE BYLAWS. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. 8 SO IF SOMEONE CAN NOTE THAT, I WILL MOVE THAT AS A 9 CORRECTION. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY -- 12 TRUSTEE NGO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T WANT TO -- AT LEAST IT'S 14 NOT MY IMPRESSION FOR ME AT LEAST, AND I HOPE THIS BOARD 15 TO CONVEY THAT OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, AT THIS 16 COLLEGE, HAVE A LESSER ROLE TO PLAY IN WHAT WE DO. AND 17 THAT HAS TO BE CONVEYED IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO OBVIOUSLY 18 IN THESE DOCUMENTS. 19 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE THOSE CONCERNS 20 TO HEART AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS AGREEMENT. I DO 21 THINK IT IS A GOOD AGREEMENT. BUT I WANT TO LET THE 22 FOUNDATION KNOW SINCE YOU ARE HERE THAT I HOPE YOU TAKE 23 THEIR CONCERNS QUITE SERIOUSLY AND OUR CONCERNS QUITE 24 SERIOUSLY ABOUT THE PURSUIT OF SOURCES FOR FUNDINGS FOR 25 BASIC SKILLS AND OTHER NEEDS AND TO RESPECT EVERY MEMBER MARCH 25, 2010 138 1 OF OUR COMMUNITY HERE. 2 AS YOU WITNESSED EARLIER IN THE PROCEEDINGS 3 HERE, WE DO HAVE A VERY LARGE FAMILY HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. 4 AND THEY NEED TO -- THAT REFLECTION AND VALUE OF EVERY 5 SINGLE ONE OF THEM NEEDS TO BE REFLECTED IN EVERYTHING WE 6 DO INCLUDING THE WORK OF THE FOUNDATION. 7 I WANT TO SAY THAT TO YOU AND REINFORCE THAT BY 8 JUST REMINDING YOU AND ALSO THIS BOARD THAT THE TERM OF 9 THE AGREEMENT IS I THINK APPROPRIATELY SHORT FOR US TO 10 REEVALUATE HOW OUR WORKING RELATIONSHIP IS ACTUALLY 11 REALIZED. AND THE TERMINATION, THE TERMS OF THE 12 AGREEMENT, IN TITLE 21 ALSO ALLOW FOR THE BOARD OR ANY 13 PARTY TO TERMINATE THE AGREEMENT WITH 90 DAYS NOTICE. 14 SO I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT I TAKE THOSE, 15 TAKE ALL OF THESE PROVISIONS VERY SERIOUSLY. I TAKE THOSE 16 COMMENTS VERY SERIOUSLY, AND ESPECIALLY THAT PARTICULAR 17 CHAPTER VERY SERIOUSLY. AND I KNOW YOU DO AS WELL, SO I 18 HOPE THAT WE COULD COME BACK AND THAT WE DO HAVE A VERY 19 RESPECTFUL WORKING TRANSPARENT RELATIONSHIP AND THAT YOU 20 KNOW THAT WE SUPPORT YOUR EFFORTS AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO 21 CONTINUE TO ENSURE THAT OUR VALUES ARE REFLECTED IN EVERY 22 PIECE OF WORK THAT WE DO, INCLUDING THE FOUNDATION. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: I DO WANT TO THANK ALL THE 24 PEOPLE WHO WORKED ON THIS, THE MEMBERS OF THE FOUNDATION 25 BOARD, THE FOUNDATION STAFF, WHO STUCK WITH US IN WORKING MARCH 25, 2010 139 1 THROUGH AN AGREEMENT. AND I THINK THAT MOVING FORWARD 2 THIS IS A REALLY GOOD THING THAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US. 3 AS THE PERSON WHO POINTED OUT THAT THERE WASN'T 4 A CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE ON THE FOUNDATION BOARD, I 5 UNDERSTAND IT'S NEGOTIATION. I'M REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF 6 SO MUCH OF THE LANGUAGE THAT IS IN HERE, MUCH OF WHICH BY 7 THE WAY I WROTE. I CAN'T SUPPORT IT, UNLESS THE ACADEMIC 8 SENATE AND THE CLASSIFIED SENATE HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE 9 WHOEVER THEY WANT AND THAT WOULD BE GO THROUGH A FURTHER 10 VETTING PROCESS. I JUST THINK THAT'S JUST TOO IMPORTANT. 11 BUT I FULLY EXPECT THIS IS GOING TO PASS ANYWAY. 12 AND LET'S MOVE ON TO RAISING LOTS OF MONEY FOR CITY 13 COLLEGE TOGETHER. 14 IF THERE ARE NO MORE COMMENTS, STUDENT 15 TRUSTEE -- 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT THERE'S AN AMENDMENT. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY. YOU ARE RIGHT. WE 18 HAVE TWO AMENDMENTS. ONE IS THE AMENDMENT TO USE THE DATE 19 OF DECEMBER 31ST, 2012 THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT AND THE 20 RESOLUTION AS THE ENDING DATE. 21 AND THE SECOND ONE IS ON PAGE 9 TO -- IF WE CAN 22 VOTE ON IT AT THE SAME TIME JUST FOR EFFICIENCY SAKE. 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE VERY LAST, THE 24 ONE-YEAR TERM. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: DELETING ONE-YEAR TERM AT THE MARCH 25, 2010 140 1 VERY BOTTOM OF PAGE 9 AND ON THE TOP OF PAGE 10. 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, ON THE AMENDMENTS. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE 5 AMENDMENTS, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 6 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 14 I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT TRUSTEE JACKSON IS 15 NOT HERE FOR THAT VOTE. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, YOUR VOTE FOR THE 17 RESOLUTION AND THE AGREEMENT AS AMENDED. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE 20 RESOLUTION AND AGREEMENT AS AMENDED, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 21 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 141 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE NIELSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND I AM OPPOSED. 5 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE 6 ALL THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING. 7 OKAY, BACK TO PRESENTATIONS. 8 I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYBODY HERE FROM THE 9 CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. THANKS FOR COMING BACK TO 10 THIS MEETING. THANKS FOR STICKING AROUND TO THIS POINT IN 11 THE MEETING. 12 13 MR. ANDERS: YES, THANK YOU. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: CAN WE JUST CLARIFY THE TIME LIMIT 17 FOR PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF HOW 19 LONG YOU WANT TO SPEAK TONIGHT? 20 MR. ANDERS: NO MORE THAN -- 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: IN OUR POLICIES IT SAYS, "HALF 22 AN HOUR," I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THAT A LOT SHORTER IF 23 POSSIBLE. 24 MR. ANDERS: NO MORE THAN FIVE OR TEN MINUTES. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. MARCH 25, 2010 142 1 MR. ANDERS: YEAH. 2 CHANCELLOR AND TRUSTEES, I'M TERRY ANDERS OF 3 ANDERS AND ANDERS FOUNDATION, AND A MONITOR AT THE 4 JOINT-USE FACILITY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 5 AND WITH ME IS THE SENIOR JOB DEVELOPER MINDY 6 KENER. I JUST WANT TO GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT IS 7 TAKING PLACE AT THE COLLEGE SINCE WE HAVE BEEN THERE. 8 THERE'S BEEN SOME VERY POSITIVE CHANGES. WE 9 WERE BROUGHT THERE PRIMARILY TO HAVE A DIVERSITY IN THE 10 WORKFORCE. AND I HAVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM THE VARIOUS 11 DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOODS TO BE EMPLOYED AT THAT 12 PARTICULAR JOB SITE. 13 FOR THE MOST PART THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REAL 14 POSITIVE CHANGES WITH THE CONTRACTORS, AS WELL AS THE 15 SUBCONTRACTORS. AS IS NOTED IN ONE OF THE PARAGRAPHS, 16 THERE WAS ONE WOMAN WHEN WE FIRST CAME AND NOW THERE WERE 17 FIVE AS OF MARCH 1ST. SO THERE WAS SOME CHANGE THERE. 18 OF THE DIFFERENT SUBCONTRACTORS THAT WE HAVE MET 19 WITH THAT WERE THERE THEY HAD MADE SOME COMMITMENTS AND 20 THEN THERE WERE SOME EVEN WHEN THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF 21 DOWNSIZING THAT THEY DID MAKE AN EFFORT TO HELP SUPPORT TO 22 PUT SOME PEOPLE TO WORK THERE. SO THAT WAS A POSITIVE. 23 THAT WAS A POSITIVE CHANGE. 24 WITH THE COMPANIES THAT CAME FORWARD, WE'VE HAD 25 SOME DIALOGUE WITH THEM, AND WE'VE HAD SOME COMMITMENTS MARCH 25, 2010 143 1 THAT THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO WORK WITH US, AS WELL AS PUT 2 SOME PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY ON THAT PARTICULAR JOB 3 SITE. SO IT DOES LOOK VERY, VERY PROMISING. 4 WE'VE ALSO SAT IN ONE OF THE PRE-BID MEETINGS 5 JUST THE OTHER DAY, DEALING WITH THE LIGHTING GOING IN THE 6 PARKING LOT. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE A PRESENTATION 7 OF WHAT WE WERE THERE FOR. AND WE HOPE WHOEVER GOT THE 8 CONTRACT, THAT THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO WORK WITH US AS 9 FAR AS DEALING WITH A DIVERSE WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR 10 DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT THEY COULD BRING WITH THEM. 11 OVERALL, I FEEL POSITIVE. ONE, THAT THERE HAS 12 BEEN SOME MOVEMENT THERE TO THAT WORKING WITH BOVIS AND 13 SWINERTON, WE MEET WITH THEM WEEKLY. AND WE ALSO MET WITH 14 THE FINANCIAL CHANCELLOR PETER GOLDSTEIN. HE HAS BEEN 15 VERY, VERY POSITIVE ALSO. 16 SO WE TRIED TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO KEEP EVERYBODY 17 AWARE AND DEAL WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRANSPARENCY. IT 18 HAS NOT BEEN A BED OF ROSES, BUT I KNEW THAT GOING IN. I 19 HAVE ACCEPTED THE CHALLENGE. AND I FEEL VERY, VERY 20 POSITIVE THAT IF WE DON'T HIT THE 40 PERCENT, THAT WE WILL 21 BE VERY, VERY CLOSE WITH THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ONE 22 BROUGHT TO THE JOB SITE AND TO THE PEOPLE THAT WERE 23 ACTUALLY ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN SOME TYPE OF FINANCIAL 24 GAIN THERE. 25 MS. KENER: GOOD EVENING. I'M JUST GOING TO MARCH 25, 2010 144 1 TALK ABOUT CERTIFIED PAYROLL. WE HAVE BEEN ASKING ALL THE 2 CONTRACTORS TO PUT IN ETHNICITY, GENDER, ZIP CODE, AND 3 HOURS BECAUSE THEY SAY, WELL, WE PUT THEM TO WORK. THEY 4 HAVE A JOB, BUT HOW MANY HOURS DID THEY ACTUALLY WORK? 5 THEY ARE CORE PEOPLE THAT THEY BRING IN AT 40 6 HOURS. AND WE HAVE BROUGHT IN SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE ONLY 7 WORKED EIGHT HOURS AND THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH. SO WE KEEP 8 LOOKING AT CERTIFIED PAYROLL. IT DOESN'T COME IN IN THE 9 FASHION I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT COME IN ON A MONTHLY BASIS. 10 WHEN I LOOK AT CERTIFIED PAYROLL, SOME OF IT IS A MONTH 11 BACK. SO WITH THE SLOW DOWN WITH THE RAINS AND PEOPLE 12 STOPPING, THEY ARE DONE WITH THE WORK. BY THE TIME I GET 13 TO SEE CERTIFIED PAYROLL, THEY'VE ALREADY LEFT THE JOB 14 SITE. SO THERE'S SOME IMPROVEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE 15 OVER THERE. 16 OTHER THAN THAT, WE DO HAVE SOME VERY SOLID 17 COMMITMENTS GOING FORWARD FROM THE AV DEPARTMENT TO THE 18 CARPENTERS TO MANY OF THE OTHER TRADES THAT ARE COMING IN. 19 WE ACTUALLY EVEN PUT SOMEONE TO WORK WHO HAD 20 NEVER WORKED BEFORE, AND SHE'S DOING VERY WELL. AND WE 21 WENT TO SEE THE COMPANY TO BRING HER TO THE NEXT JOB SITE. 22 SO IT DOESN'T JUST END HERE FOR HER. SO THERE'S BEEN 23 IMPROVEMENT. 24 I THINK BASICALLY WHEN I HEAR BOVIS TELL ME, WE 25 SEE A CHANGE. AND THEY ARE THERE EVERYDAY, THAT THERE HAS MARCH 25, 2010 145 1 BEEN A CHANGE. AND WE WILL CONTINUE MAKING MORE CHANGES 2 GOING FORWARD. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? 4 TRUSTEE NGO. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: JUST A COUPLE. 6 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK. THIS PIECE, 7 THE COMMUNITY MONITORING PIECE, IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT 8 COMPONENT ENSURING THAT WE DO HAVE LOCAL RESIDENTS WORK ON 9 THESE PROJECTS. 10 MR. ANDERS: OKAY. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: FIRST OF ALL, CAN YOU TELL ME 12 WHERE THAT FEMALE IS FROM? WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD HERE IN SAN 13 FRANCISCO? DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW? 14 MR. ANDERS: 94124, THE BAYVIEW. 15 MS. KENER: OH, YEAH, 94124. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: GREAT. GREAT. VERY GOOD. 17 AND I APPRECIATE THE ANECDOTAL REPORTS. I THINK 18 THAT CREATES A LOT OF CONTEXT TO THE WORK YOU ARE DOING. 19 IF YOU COULD PERHAPS ADD SOME CHARTS AND SOME 20 NUMBERS WITH THE ACTUAL -- IF YOU COULD HAVE LIKE THE 21 NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HIRED ON PAYROLL AND 22 DELINEATE THAT FOR US, I THINK THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT 23 CLEARER. IT WOULD JUST ROUND OUT THE REPORT I THINK. 24 MS. KENER: OKAY. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: AND TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU DO MARCH 25, 2010 146 1 KNOW, COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT THE PERCENTAGES ARE SO FAR? 2 MS. KENER: FOR LOCAL HIRE? 3 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 4 MS. KENER: I WOULD SAY IT'S IN THE 30 PERCENT. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: VERY GOOD. 6 MS. KENER: BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TELLING THE 7 CONTRACTORS THEY HAVE TO BRING LOCAL HIRES. 8 SOME BRING PEOPLE WITH THEM WHO ARE NOT FROM 9 94112, BUT FROM 94134, 94124 THE DISADVANTAGED ZIP CODES. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: VERY GOOD. SO YOU ARE LOOKING AT 11 OVER 30 PERCENT EASILY IN THE HIRING FOR -- 12 MS. KENER: CORRECT. AND SOME OF THE 13 CONTRACTORS KNOW THEY HAVE TO BRING LOCAL HIRE WITH THEM 14 WHEN THEY COME ON BOARD. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AND HAVE THEY BEEN RECEPTIVE TO -- 16 MS. KENER: IT'S CHALLENGE BECAUSE THERE'S SO 17 MANY PEOPLE OUT OF WORK. THAT'S THE CHALLENGE. THAT THEY 18 DON'T WANT TO LAY OFF THEIR WORKERS. WE AREN'T ASKING 19 THEM TO LAY OFF THEIR WORKERS. WE ARE ASKING THEM TO ADD 20 A PERSON -- 21 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 22 MS. KENER: -- BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO 23 BE LAID OFF. 24 FOR INSTANCE IN THE PAINTERS, WE HAVE A TIME 25 WITH HIM. HE COMMITTED TO HIRING TWO. HE'S COMING BACK MARCH 25, 2010 147 1 FOR THE FINAL COAT AND WE WANT HIM TO HIRE ONE BECAUSE HE 2 DOESN'T WANT TO LAY OFF HIS CORE STAFF, UNDERSTOOD. BUT 3 THERE'S A PROGRAM CALLED, JOBS NOW. HIS OBJECTIVE WAS HE 4 DOESN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY THEM. I SAID, I HAVE SOME 5 WITH JOBS NOW. YOU GET PAID BACK THROUGH FEDERAL STIMULUS 6 MONEY TO HIRE THEM. AND SO HE COULDN'T REALLY WIGGLE OUT 7 OF THAT PART. HE IS GETTING PAID TO HIRE SOMEONE. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: VERY GOOD. 9 MS. KENER: AND WE ARE TRYING MORE AND MORE TO 10 DO JOB NOW. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: VERY GOOD. SO I THINK IT WOULD BE 12 HELPFUL TO HAVE SOME NUMBERS TO ROUND OUT THE REPORT. 13 MS. KENER: OKAY. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: AND I AM GETTING FROM YOU THAT 15 WE'RE GETTING -- IT'S CHALLENGE, BUT YOU ARE SEEING 16 POSITIVE MOVEMENT ON THE WORK YOU ARE DOING; IS THAT 17 RIGHT? 18 MR. ANDERS: CORRECT. 19 MS. KENER: YES, ESPECIALLY IF THEY WANT FUTURE 20 CITY COLLEGE CONTRACTS. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S A GOOD LINE TO USE. 22 MS. KENER: IT WORKS. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: LET ME ASK ONE LAST QUESTION. MY 24 QUESTION IS WHAT DO YOU SEE AS A MAJOR RESISTANCE 25 BESIDES -- OBVIOUSLY IS IT HIRING? WHAT'S BEEN THE KIND MARCH 25, 2010 148 1 OF CENTRAL FORCE OR FACTOR IN HELPING US TO MOVE IN THE 2 DIRECTION OF HIRING MORE LOCAL WORKERS? WHAT WOULD YOU 3 SAY? 4 MS. KENER: WELL, TERRY IS A 30-YEAR UNION IRON 5 WORKER. SO HE CAN TALK THE TALK TO THESE CONTRACTORS. 6 THEY TRUST US TO BRING THE RIGHT PERSONNEL TO THEM; THAT 7 THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE 8 WORK ETHIC WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO 9 GET THERE ON TIME, DO THE RIGHT THING WHEN THEY ARE THERE, 10 AND DO THE WORK. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, VERY GOOD. THANK YOU FOR 12 YOUR WORK. 13 MS. KENER: THANK YOU. 14 MR. ANDERS: THANK YOU. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK WE HAVE A FEW 16 MORE QUESTIONS IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND. 17 MR. ANDERS: SURE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE GRIER. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: DON'T LEAVE YET. 20 MR. ANDERS: OKAY. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. I 22 THINK WHAT TRUSTEE NGO SAID ABOUT THE ANECDOTAL PART IS 23 SOMETHING WE ARE NOT USED TO, BUT IT'S VERY HELPFUL. 24 MR. ANDERS: GREAT. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: IT CREATES A PICTURE, AND YOU MARCH 25, 2010 149 1 ALSO HAVE THE NUMBERS IN THE STATEMENTS OR THE STORY YOU 2 ARE TELLING US. AND IT HELPS TO VISUALIZE WHAT YOU ARE UP 3 AGAINST. 4 I'M LOOKING AT THE PAGE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE 5 JOINT-USE FACILITY AND THAT THERE WERE 21 HIRES OUTSIDE OF 6 SAN FRANCISCO -- OR TWO OF THEM WERE FROM SAN FRANCISCO. 7 AND THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 21 MALES AND ONE FEMALE -- 8 MS. KENER: IRON WORKERS? 9 TRUSTEE GRIER: YES, IRON WORKERS. 10 BUT THEN YOU SAY IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH THAT THE 11 WORKFORCE FOR SOME REASON IT DWINDLED. 12 MR. ANDERS: YES. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND THEY WEREN'T THERE FOR A 14 LONG PERIOD OF TIME. IT JUST WASN'T CLEAR ON HOW LONG 15 THEY WERE THERE AND IF THEY WERE REPLACED. AND WHAT YOU 16 ARE DESCRIBING ARE SITUATIONS THAT WE HEARD BEFORE IN 17 TERMS OF UNION MEMBERS OR IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY PEOPLE 18 COMING TO THE BOARD SAYING THAT WE KNOW WHO THE 19 CONTRACTORS ARE. WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE INFORMATION OF 20 WHERE TO GO, WHO TO TALK TO, SOME PEOPLE GET THE JOB FOR 21 ONE DAY, TWO DAYS A WEEK. BUT IT'S NOT A JOB WHERE THEY 22 CAN FEED THEIR FAMILY OR SUSTAIN THEMSELVES. AND SO 23 THAT'S A REAL PROBLEM. 24 SO I SEE YOU ARE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM, BUT 25 I'M WONDERING WHAT YOU WOULD RECOMMEND OR WHAT YOU PLAN TO MARCH 25, 2010 150 1 DO IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF LOCAL HIRES. AND 2 THEN ALSO TO REACH YOUR GOAL OF 40 PERCENT. 3 MR. ANDERS: WITH THAT PARTICULAR SCENARIO THAT 4 WAS BT MANCINI. AND THEY WERE MORE THAN HALFWAY FINISHED 5 WHEN WE GOT TO THE JOB SITE. SO THEY WERE THE ONES THAT 6 HAD 20 OR 21 PEOPLE ON THE JOB SITE WITH TWO FROM SAN 7 FRANCISCO. THEY WERE THE ONES THAT WERE VERY RESISTANT 8 ABOUT EVEN ADDING PEOPLE TO THERE -- BECAUSE ONE, THE 9 INITIAL SUPERINTENDENT FOREMAN AT THAT JOB SITE WAS TRYING 10 TO SHARE WITH ME THAT -- WELL, HOW CAN I HIRE SOME PEOPLE 11 WHEN I'M GETTING READY TO DOWNSIZE? AND I SAID, WELL, YOU 12 KNOW WHAT, IT IS A TOUGH SELL, BUT WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE 13 THIS WORK. YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A JOB TO DO, AND I HAVE A 14 JOB TO DO ALSO. 15 AND I EVEN INVOLVED THE UNION WITH THAT PROCESS 16 BECAUSE THAT WAS AN IRON WORKING COMPANY. AND SO I 17 INVOLVED THE PRESIDENT OF THE IRON WORKERS AND SO THEY 18 CALLED THE GENERAL FOREMAN ALSO. SO WHAT DID HAPPEN WAS 19 THAT THEY HIRED THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. BUT IN THE SAME 20 PROCESS TO PLACATE ME I BELIEVE IT WAS. THEY ALLOWED ONE 21 PERSON, THE APPRENTICE TO WORK FOR ONE WEEK AND THEN THEY 22 ALLOWED THE WOMAN TO WORK FOR TWO WEEKS. AND SO NOW THEY 23 HAVE DOWNSIZED TO FOUR PEOPLE SO THAT WAS IN THE PROCESS 24 OF THAT ONE PARTICULAR COMPANY DOWNSIZING ANYWAY. BUT 25 BECAUSE THEY HAD A LARGE WORKFORCE WHEN I FIRST GOT THERE, MARCH 25, 2010 151 1 I THOUGHT THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE MORE OF A CONCERTED EFFORT 2 TO PUT SOME PEOPLE TO WORK. 3 OKAY, NOW THE POSITIVE THING IS THAT WITH THE 4 COMPANIES THAT ARE COMING ON, WELL, THEN WE HAVE A JOB 5 START BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY ARE COMING ON BOARD 6 INSTEAD OF ALREADY BEING ON THE JOB SITE. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I HAVE TWO 8 OTHER BRIEF QUESTIONS. 9 YOU ALSO DESCRIBED IN YOUR STATEMENT IN TELLING 10 US WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN TERMS OF THE CONTRACT THAT YOU 11 HAVE, WE ALWAYS HAD PROBLEMS KEEPING FEMALE WORKERS OR 12 GETTING FEMALES JOBS. THEY WERE USUALLY THE LAST HIRED 13 AND THE FIRST TO GO. 14 DO YOU HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE TO INCREASE THE 15 NUMBER OF FEMALE WORKERS BECAUSE THE STORY THAT THEY WERE 16 TOLD OR -- THEY WERE TURNED AWAY. AND THEY ALWAYS HAD A 17 REASON FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND QUALIFIED WORKERS IF 18 THEY WERE FEMALE. AND WE FOUND OUT THAT WASN'T THE CASE 19 BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY COMPLAINTS FROM INDIVIDUALS SAYING 20 THAT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO BET JOBS. SO DO YOU HAVE A 21 PLAN IN PLACE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FEMALE WORKERS? 22 MR. ANDERS: YES, I DO. ONE OF THE DIALOGUES 23 THAT I HAVE WITH MOST PEOPLE THAT I TALK WITH IS THAT I 24 LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY DO NEED TO INCLUDE IN THEIR 25 WORKFORCE WOMEN. MARCH 25, 2010 152 1 AND THE WOMAN IN QUESTION THAT WAS MENTIONED 2 ABOUT WHO HAD NEVER WORKED BEFORE, I AM PERSISTENT ABOUT 3 TRYING TO HAVE THE COMPANY THAT SHE WORKED, THAT THEY TAKE 4 HER WITH THEM. BECAUSE I FEEL THAT, ONE, IT WAS NOT 5 ADEQUATE ENOUGH TIME THAT SHE HAD AT THAT PARTICULAR JOB 6 SITE. AND, TWO, THERE ARE OTHER JOBS THAT THIS COMPANY 7 WILL BE HAVING IN THE CITY. 8 AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE WENT OVER TO THEIR 9 OFFICE AND THEY HAD NOT HEARD THE END OF IT. AND THEIR 10 LAST POUR WILL BE APRIL 1ST. I'M NOT GOING TO LET THAT 11 SITUATION GO. 12 AND THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT ACTUALLY WORKING 13 WITH OTHER SUBCONTRACTORS WHEN THEY BRING WOMEN ONTO THE 14 PARTICULAR JOB SITE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: ONE OF THE THINGS WE LEARNED 16 WITH THE MISSION PROJECT AND THEN WE HAD -- I THINK WE ARE 17 PROBABLY HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. I'M NOT SURE. I WON'T 18 SPEAK TO THAT. 19 BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND WAS 20 PROBLEMATIC WAS THAT THE REPORTING CAME AT THE END OF THE 21 SCHOOL YEAR OR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. AND 22 WE WEREN'T KEPT APPRIZED OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON A 23 MONTHLY BASIS, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL MONTHS AT A TIME. SO I'M 24 WONDERING WHEN DO YOU PLAN TO OR HOW OFTEN DO YOU PLAN TO 25 COME TO REPORT ON THE WORK YOU ARE DOING? MARCH 25, 2010 153 1 MR. ANDERS: MONTHLY. 2 WE HAVE BEEN HERE -- 3 MS. KENER: EVERY TIME. 4 MR. ANDERS: -- FOR A FEW MONTHS. AND I'M GLAD 5 THAT WE WERE BEING CONSISTENT BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO BE 6 ALLOWED TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK. 7 BUT, NO, I HAVE NO PROBLEM ABOUT REPORTING EACH 8 MONTH. I WANT IT TO BE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE. 9 MS. KENER: AND WE DO REPORT TO VICE CHANCELLOR 10 PETER GOLDSTEIN ONCE A MONTH. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S GREAT. 13 MS. KENER: AND BECAUSE WE WEREN'T ON THE AGENDA 14 IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY, WE COULDN'T REPORT. BUT I HAVE 15 GIVEN UP-TO-DATE REPORTS UNTIL THEN, THE WRITTEN ONES. 16 AND IF YOU NEED ONE, I CAN E-MAIL IT TO YOU. 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 18 MS. KENER: JUST LET US KNOW. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT 21 I THINK THIS IS A GREAT START. IT IS VERY ENCOURAGING AND 22 I THINK YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. AND THIS IS AN 23 EXPERIMENT. I THINK WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS KIND OF THING 24 BEFORE, BUT IT'S GOOD TO SEE ACTUAL RESULTS. WHERE BEFORE 25 WE USED TO JUST GET REPORTS ABOUT HOW BAD THINGS WERE. MARCH 25, 2010 154 1 AND NOW WE ARE GETTING RESULTS AND SO THAT'S VERY 2 ENCOURAGING, SO THANK YOU. 3 MR. ANDERS: THANK YOU. 4 MS. KENER: AND I ALSO WANT TO ADD THE EFFORTS 5 OF SWINERTON AND BOVIS WHERE KEVIN RAINS (PHONETIC) GOES 6 AND GETS THE CONTRACTOR. WE ALL SIT TOGETHER AND THEN WE 7 TALK. WE TELL THEM WHAT THE CHANCELLOR EXPECTS. THIS IS 8 WHAT HE WANTS. THIS IS YOUR BOSS. AND THIS IS WHAT WE 9 NEED HERE. 10 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS RESISTANCE BECAUSE, AS I 11 SAY, THEY COME IN WITH CORE WORKFORCE AND THEY DON'T WANT 12 TO ADD, BUT THEY DO ADD. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S GREAT. 14 MS. KENER: BECAUSE WE ARE THERE -- SOMETIMES WE 15 ARE THERE THREE TIMES A WEEK MEETING THE CONTRACTORS. SO 16 WE ARE VERY VISUAL THERE. AND THEY KNOW WHO WE ARE. AND 17 WHY WE ARE THERE. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I JUST WOULD LIKE TO 21 REITERATE COMMENTS OF MY OTHER TRUSTEES. YOU KNOW, THIS 22 IS A MUCH MORE PROACTIVE APPROACH TO LOCAL HIRE. AND I 23 KNOW PERSONALLY THAT WE ARE A MODEL OF LOCAL HIRE THAT 24 OTHER FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY ARE LOOKING AT. I KNOW OF AT 25 LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WOULD LIKE TO TAKE MARCH 25, 2010 155 1 THE COMMUNITY MONITOR MODEL TO THE CITY AND TRY TO WORK ON 2 THAT. 3 YOU KNOW, I THINK THE CITY IS STARTING TO LOOK 4 AT CITY COLLEGE WITH ENVY BECAUSE WE'VE SEEMED TO HAVE -- 5 OR STARTED TO FIGURE OUT OUR LOCAL HIRE ISSUES AND THE 6 CITY IS STILL STRUGGLING IN TERMS OF THEIR LOCAL HIRE 7 ISSUES IN TERMS OF RECENT NEWS AND THE NEWSPAPER AND IN 8 TERMS OF THEIR EFFORTS. AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE 9 EFFECTIVENESS OF BOVIS, OUR GENERAL CONTRACTOR, OUR 10 SUBCONTRACTORS, AND WITH THE COMMUNITY MONITORS, AND THE 11 BOARD, AND OUR ADMINISTRATION, ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO 12 MAKE SURE THAT THIS WORKS. AND THAT IT'S REAL. AND IT'S 13 JUST NOT PAPER. IT'S ACTUALLY REAL. 14 SO I DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU IN TERMS 15 OF THIS. AND, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO URGE -- KEEP UP THE 16 GREAT WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING AND TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, 17 THERE ARE DEFINITELY -- AND I KNOW I PROBABLY DON'T HAVE 18 TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE 19 DEFINITELY LOOKING AT THIS MODEL AND SAYING, WOW, WE NEED 20 SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR THE ENTIRE CITY. SO, YOU KNOW, 21 IT'S GREAT THAT CITY COLLEGE IS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF 22 THIS LOCAL HIRE ISSUE. 23 MS. KENER: I AGREE. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND, HOPEFULLY, MAYBE THIS 25 MODEL COULD SPREAD TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS IN TERMS OF MARCH 25, 2010 156 1 GETTING THIS RIGHT. 2 AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3 MR. ANDERS: THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU. 5 IT'S REALLY GREAT TO HAVE YOU THERE TALKING WITH PEOPLE, 6 MEETING WITH PEOPLE, SHOWING THE VALUES OF THE COLLEGE 7 NEED TO BE REFLECTED IN THE HIRING. 8 IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT THIS HAS TO HAPPEN. THIS 9 SHOULDN'T BE SO HARD TO GET LOCAL WORKERS ON JOBS TO PAY 10 FOR IT WITH LOCAL DOLLARS AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES STATE 11 DOLLARS AS WELL, BUT IT SHOULD BECOME A STANDARD PRACTICE. 12 AND YOU ARE HELPING THE CITY AND CITY COLLEGE TO 13 KIND OF CHANGE THE CULTURE. AND I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT 14 YOU ARE A PART OF OUR TEAM, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 15 MS. KENER: THANK YOU. 16 I ALWAYS SAY YOU ARE BUILDING A COMMUNITY 17 COLLEGE FOR THE COLLEGE FOR THE COMMUNITY. THEY GO TO 18 WORK HERE. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: EXACTLY. 20 MS. KENER: IT WOULD MAKE NO SENSE NOT TO HAVE 21 COMMUNITY WORKERS BUILDING YOUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE BECAUSE 22 THEY GO BACK TO MANTECA AND TRACY, AND THAT'S NOT WHAT WE 23 WANT. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. THANKS VERY MUCH. 25 WE CAN'T DO THAT. WE'VE LOST OUR QUORUM, SO WE MARCH 25, 2010 157 1 CANNOT TAKE UP A RESOLUTION. 2 HAL, ARE ANY OF THE OTHER TRUSTEES OUT THERE? 3 THANKS VERY MUCH. IF ANYBODY CAN ROUND THEM UP, 4 THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 5 SO IS THERE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ASSOCIATE 6 STUDENTS HERE? 7 MR. DEL ROSARIO: YES. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: COME ON UP. 9 MR. DEL ROSARIO: THANK YOU. SO GOOD EVENING, 10 PRESIDENT MARKS, BOARD MEMBERS, AND CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN WHO 11 IS NOT HERE RIGHT NOW. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: HE IS ROUNDING UP PEOPLE. 13 MR. DEL ROSARIO: I AM MICK JAGGER DEL ROSARIO. 14 I AM AN ASSOCIATED STUDENT SENATOR OF OCEAN CAMPUS. AND 15 I'M HERE TO TAKE PRESIDENT RYAN VANDERPOL'S PLACE. 16 THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I HAVE TO 17 REPORT. NO. 1, IS MARCH IN MARCH. THE MARCH 22ND MARCH 18 IN SACRAMENTO. THE OCEAN CAMPUS ALONE FILLED IN 29 BUSES, 19 WHICH IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. IT IS VERY, VERY IMPRESSIVE. 20 WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH FOOD THROUGHOUT 21 THE ENTIRE TRIP. 22 ALSO, ANOTHER THING TO REPORT ON IS EARTH WEEK. 23 THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS, THE CONCERT AND LECTURE COMMITTEE 24 FOR SHARED GOVERNANCE, AND CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO 25 GREEN CORPS ARE PLANNING EARTH DAY. SO FOR THE ASSOCIATED MARCH 25, 2010 158 1 STUDENTS, WE ARE PLANNING TO MIX UNITY DAY AND EARTH DAY. 2 UNITY DAY IS A SEMESTER EVENT, WHICH THE 3 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS PROMOTE. BUT THIS TIME WE ARE GOING 4 TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WE ARE GOING TO COMBINE THESE 5 TWO TOGETHER. 6 AND THE CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES COMMITTEE 7 WILL APPROVE VARIOUS EVENTS FOR EARTH DAY. BUT ALSO FOR 8 GREEN CORPS, WHICH IS AN ASSOCIATED STUDENT CLUB, WE ARE 9 PLANNING AN EARTH WEEK, NOT JUST EARTH DAY. WE ARE GOING 10 TO HAVE EVENTS FOR EVERY SINGLE DAY. 11 MONDAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A FOOD 12 SUSTAINABILITY DAY, WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A FOOD 13 MARKET, MUSIC AND URBAN GARDEN WORKSHOP. 14 TUESDAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DEEP ECOLOGY 15 DAY, WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE POETRY AND EXPRESSIONS AND 16 PERFORMANCES. 17 WEDNESDAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ALTERNATIVE TO 18 TRANSPORTATION DAY, WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE WORKSHOPS 19 ABOUT ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATIONS. 20 THURSDAY, WHICH IS EARTH DAY, IS GOING TO BE A 21 HUGE EVENT. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE EVERYONE FROM THE 22 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS TO GREEN CORPS TO CONCERT AND LECTURES 23 TO PROVIDE EVENTS DURING THAT DAY. 24 AND FRIDAY, IT IS GOING TO BE SUSTAINABILITY ON 25 CAMPUS DAY IN WHICH HIGH SCHOOLERS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS MARCH 25, 2010 159 1 WILL LEARN HOW TO TAKE ACTION AS PART OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL 2 MOVEMENT. 3 BUT, HOWEVER, THIS THING YOU GUYS MIGHT LIKE. A 4 WEEK BEFORE, WE ARE GOING TO CLEAN UP OCEAN CAMPUS. GREEN 5 CORPS IS GOING TO HELP CLEAN OUT THE ENTIRE CAMPUS TO 6 PREPARE FOR EARTH WEEK. 7 AND ONE OF THE PLANS WE MIGHT HAVE IS ALL THE 8 CIGARETTE BUTTS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CAMPUS, WE ARE GOING 9 TO GATHER THEM UP, PUT THEM IN THE JAR AND SHOW HOW MUCH 10 LITER THAT DOES. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY, IT'S RIDICULOUS. YOU 11 SHOULDN'T LITER IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT WHY WE DO NEED TO 12 HAVE IT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE? I MEAN COME ON. 13 ANOTHER THING TO REPORT IS ABOUT SUMMER CLASSES. 14 STUDENTS ARE STILL FRUSTRATED THAT THERE ARE NO SUMMER 15 CLASSES FOR THEM TO TAKE. AND IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE TO 16 BRING IT BACK, PLEASE, PLEASE DO SO. 17 LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE. ALSO THERE'S ONE BIG 18 THING I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT. IT'S ABOUT TIME HERE. 19 STUDENTS HAVE TO WAIT FOR SO LONG. I HAD TO WAIT FOR -- 20 IT'S 10:15 RIGHT NOW. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPEAKING 21 EARLIER WITHOUT GOING OUT OF ORDER. BUT MY POINT IS 22 STUDENTS SHOULD BE GIVEN PRIORITY TO SPEAK BECAUSE I HAVE 23 SEEN TEACHERS GRADE TEST PAPERERS HERE. AND STUDENTS 24 SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO -- THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE GIVEN 25 TIME TO SPEAK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, NOT MARCH 25, 2010 160 1 DRAGGING ON FOR HOURS ON END GETTING BORED TO DEATH, NO 2 OFFENSE. I'M JUST SAYING, IT'S TRUE. 3 STUDENTS SHOULD BE GIVEN THAT PRIORITY BECAUSE 4 WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF OTHER THINGS. WE HAVE HOMEWORK TO 5 DO. WE HAVE ASSIGNMENTS TO DO THAT CAN'T BE DONE DURING 6 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEETINGS. WE HAVE TO BE ON OUR 7 COMPUTERS AND WHATNOT. 8 BUT BASICALLY WHAT I'M ASKING OF YOU IS TO 9 PROVIDE STUDENT TIME DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETINGS, 10 15 MINUTES TOPS, JUST WHERE STUDENTS HAVE PRIORITY. 11 THAT'S WHAT I AM TRYING TO PUT OUT THERE. STUDENTS SHOULD 12 HAVE PRIORITY TO SPEAK BEFORE ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE YOU GUYS 13 ARE HERE FOR THE STUDENTS, RIGHT? 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: THAT'S RIGHT. 15 MR. DEL ROSARIO: SO IF YOU GUYS COULD THINK OF 16 SOMETHING, PLEASE PROVIDE THAT BECAUSE STUDENTS DON'T WANT 17 TO BE HERE TO WAIT AND BE TIRED OUT LIKE ME. 18 BASICALLY THOSE ARE MY KEY POINTS, IF THERE ARE 19 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: YEAH. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: GO AHEAD, TRUSTEE GRIER. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: I WANTED TO -- I DIDN'T GET YOUR 23 NAME. COULD YOU TELL ME AGAIN? 24 MR. DEL ROSARIO: MY NAME IS MICK JAGGER DEL 25 ROSARIO. MARCH 25, 2010 161 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: OH, I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT YOU 2 SAID. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: YOU HEARD IT. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: SERIOUSLY, MY QUESTION HAS TO DO 5 WITH EARTH WEEK AND I DID WRITE -- I TOOK NOTES, BUT WILL 6 WE GET A FLYER OR OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT WHEN IT'S GOING 7 TO HAPPEN. 8 MR. DEL ROSARIO: YES, OUR ASSOCIATED STUDENTS 9 ARE PROVIDING POSTERS AND FLYERS AND OTHER ADVERTISING FOR 10 EARTH WEEK. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: OKAY. AND ARE YOU DOING THIS -- 12 YOU MENTIONED SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS YOU WERE WORKING WITH. 13 BUT WHEN YOU MENTIONED THE STUDENTS, ARE YOU GOING TO 14 WORKING CLOSELY WITH SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 15 TO GET SOME OF THE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE WITH YOU. 16 MR. DEL ROSARIO: IF I COULD GO IN DEPTH WITH 17 THIS WITH REGARDS TO EARTH WEEK. THE GREEN CORPS, I AM 18 PART OF THE GREEN CORPS. I'M THE OUTREACH DIRECTOR FOR 19 THIS CLUB. WE WERE TALKING TO CRISSY FIELD CENTER, AND 20 THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A WORKSHOP WHERE HIGH SCHOOLERS 21 WILL COME. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE STUDENTS FROM GALILEO 22 HIGH SCHOOL, LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL, AND WE ARE GOING TO TRY 23 TO GET OTHER STUDENTS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE 24 ENTIRE CITY TO COME AND BE EDUCATED ABOUT THE 25 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT, AND HOW THEY CAN BE EMPOWERED TO MARCH 25, 2010 162 1 DO THAT CHANGE. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: I THINK THAT'S WONDERFUL AND 3 BALBOA IS RIGHT IN OUR BACKYARD FROM THE OCEAN CAMPUS. 4 BUT I'M SURE YOU ARE GOING TO CONTACT ALL OF THE 15, 16 5 HIGH SCHOOLS WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL 6 DISTRICT -- 7 MR. DEL ROSARIO: OF COURSE. 8 TRUSTEE GRIER: -- WHICH WOULD BE GREAT. 9 AND YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT WHAT YOU STATED ABOUT 10 COMING HERE AND SITTING AND LISTENING TO THE BOARD TAKE 11 CARE OF BOARD BUSINESS, AND YOU AS A STUDENT HAD TO WAIT 12 SUCH A LONG TIME. I REALLY APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. AND I 13 THINK THE REST OF THE BOARD WILL AGREE THAT WE SHOULD SET 14 ASIDE REASONABLE TIME FOR YOU AND OTHER STUDENTS TO COME 15 AND SPEAK BECAUSE YOU ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE. 16 MR. DEL ROSARIO: YES, THANK YOU. I HAVE BEEN 17 TO OTHER MEETINGS SIMILAR TO THIS. I'VE BEEN TO THE SAN 18 FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION 19 MEETINGS, SAME SITUATION. AND I REALLY HOPE THAT YOU GUYS 20 COULD SET THE EXAMPLE FOR OTHER GOVERNING BODIES WHERE 21 STUDENTS HAVE PRIORITY. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: THANK YOU. 23 I THINK WE COULD DO THAT. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WILL MAKE A DEAL WITH YOU. 25 WE CAN ARRANGE FOR STUDENTS TO SPEAK EARLIER, BUT I WOULD MARCH 25, 2010 163 1 LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU AND OTHER STUDENT LEADERS TO HELP 2 STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT WE DO HERE HAS A DIRECT 3 IMPACT ON YOUR LIVES AS STUDENTS. AND I WOULD LIKE TO 4 ALSO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO HAVE STUDENTS COMING UP WITH IDEAS 5 FOR WHAT THE BOARD CAN BE DELIBERATING AND CONSIDERING. 6 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME JUST FROM US. AND IT DOESN'T HAVE 7 TO COME FROM JUST THE FACULTY AND THE CLASSIFIED STAFF AND 8 THE ADMINISTRATION. 9 I REALLY THINK THAT STUDENTS SHOULD BE 10 ORIGINATING A LOT OF WHAT WE DO. AND SO IF WE COULD HAVE 11 THAT DEAL, YOU GUYS COULD SPEAK EARLIER, AND LET'S GET 12 STUDENTS MORE INVOLVED WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING, OKAY? 13 MR. DEL ROSARIO: THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 15 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WERE MENTIONING HIGH 17 SCHOOL STUDENTS. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT MY DAUGHTER, 18 WHO IS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, WILL BE GOING TO CITY 19 COLLEGE IN THE SUMMER FOR TEENS PROGRAM THIS SUMMER, SO I 20 JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT. I APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS ON 21 THAT. 22 MR. DEL ROSARIO: YEAH, THIS IS A REALLY BIG 23 THING. WHERE ALSO, ASIDE FROM HAVING HIGH SCHOOLERS HERE, 24 WE ARE SHOWING THAT WE ARE PART OF A GREATER COMMUNITY IN 25 WHICH WE COULD HAVE EVERYONE OF ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE FROM MARCH 25, 2010 164 1 THE COMMUNITY TO COME AND LEARN THROUGH OUR INSTITUTION. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, ARE YOU LEAVING 3 AFTER THIS? ARE YOU STICKING AROUND? 4 MR. DEL ROSARIO: I'D LIKE TO -- 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: TONIGHT? 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, IF YOU ARE LEAVING, 7 THE REASON I ASK, IF YOU ARE LEAVING NOW, WE HAVE AN 8 AGENDA ITEM LATER, S4, A RESOLUTION OPPOSING STUDENT FEE 9 INCREASES. AND IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE AROUND FOR 10 THAT, CAN YOU SAY IF THE -- I UNDERSTAND YOU -- WHEN I 11 CAME TO YOU, IT WASN'T AGENIZED AND YOU HADN'T VOTED ON 12 IT, BUT DID YOU ACTUALLY TAKE A VOTE ANOTHER WEEK ON THAT? 13 MR. DEL ROSARIO: ABOUT? 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE RESOLUTION 15 THAT TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND I HAVE ON THIS AGENDA TO OPPOSE 16 STUDENT FEE HIKES. 17 MR. DEL ROSARIO: OKAY. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID YOU GUYS TAKE THAT 19 UP? 20 MR. DEL ROSARIO: I CAN'T REMEMBER. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU CAN'T REMEMBER, OKAY. 22 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: YEAH, WE VOTED AND IT 23 PASSED. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU VOTED TO SUPPORT IT. 25 OKAY. MARCH 25, 2010 165 1 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: YES. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 MR. DEL ROSARIO: THANK YOU. 4 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANKS FOR FILLING IN FOR 6 RYAN. 7 MR. DEL ROSARIO: THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: I APPRECIATE IT. 9 MR. DEL ROSARIO: THANK YOU. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF IT'S OKAY, IF WE CAN GET 11 THROUGH THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS AND THEN GO TO B6, IF 12 THAT'S OKAY WITH EVERYBODY. 13 SO ATTILA GABOR, FROM THE CLASSIFIED SENATE. 14 MR. GABOR: GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES, MEMBERS OF 15 THE PUBLIC. MY NAME IS ATTILA GABOR. I AM THE PRESIDENT 16 OF THE CLASSIFIED SENATE. 17 AND THE NO. 1 AGENDA ITEM, OBVIOUSLY, WAS FOR US 18 THE CLASSIFIED -- I'M SORRY. THE CLASSIFIED. SORRY, I'VE 19 BEEN UP SINCE 5:30 ALSO. 20 ANYWAY SO CLASSIFIED SENATE, THE LAST MEETING 21 WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS THAT B1(A) WHICH, 22 OBVIOUSLY, WAS ADDRESSED SO I DON'T NEED TO TALK ABOUT 23 THAT ANYMORE. 24 OF COURSE, THIS WILL BE VERY MUCH WELCOMED, 25 PRESIDENT MILTON MARKS. HE ASKED IF HE COULD MEET WITH MARCH 25, 2010 166 1 THE CLASSIFIED SENATORS SINCE THERE REALLY ISN'T ANY 2 DIALOGUE. AND I DID BRING THE IDEA TO THE CLASSIFIED 3 SENATE. AND PRESIDENT MARKS IS GOING TO MEET WITH US ON 4 APRIL 7TH, UNLESS HE CHANGED HIS MIND. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M NOT GOING TO CHANGE MY 6 MIND. 7 MR. GABOR: OKAY. 8 AND ANOTHER ISSUE WAS THAT I KNOW THAT MANY 9 PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE ACADEMIC SENATE SPECIAL PLANNERS 10 SESSION HEARD WAS THAT -- AND I THINK IT WOULD REALLY BE 11 VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE TRUSTEES TO HEAR THAT. THERE'S A 12 VERY LARGE NUMBER OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE NONNATIVE 13 SPEAKERS. I KNOW THAT AT THE LAST MEETING OF THE 14 COMMITTEE MEETING OF THIS BOARD, YOU GUYS WERE TALKING 15 ABOUT THAT SOME 19 TO 20,000 NONCREDIT ALONE, NONCREDIT 16 ESL STUDENTS BEING SERVED PER SEMESTER. 17 YET, WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS ACHIEVEMENT 18 GAP, WE ARE NOT LOOKING -- IT'S REALLY NOT TO ADDRESS THE 19 NONNATIVE SPEAKERS WHICH GOES BEYOND ESL. 20 FIRST OF ALL, ESL, IS THE SECOND LANGUAGE. FOR 21 MANY PEOPLE, IT'S THE THIRD, FOURTH. THERE'S ALSO 22 CULTURAL ASPECTS INVOLVED -- ALSO, IN THE CLASSIFIED. AND 23 WHEN I WAS TALKING LAST TIME, I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR OUR 24 VERY EXTREMELY TOLERANT INSTITUTION CITY COLLEGE. BUT 25 MAYBE THE NONNATIVE SPEAKER ISSUE DID NOT COME OUT BECAUSE MARCH 25, 2010 167 1 I LOOKED INTO AND I REALIZED THAT THIS IS A VERY 2 PROGRESSIVE BOARD, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ONE 3 BOARD MEMBER WHO IS A NONNATIVE SPEAKER. 4 I DON'T THINK THAT -- ACTUALLY, I KNOW THERE WAS 5 NOT ONE CHANCELLOR AT THIS INSTITUTION WHO WAS A -- 6 CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG -- 7 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: (INAUDIBLE.) 8 MR. GABOR: OKAY, SO THERE WAS ONE WHO WAS A 9 NONNATIVE SPEAKER. 10 TO MY UNDERSTANDING AND (INAUDIBLE) LOOKED AT IT 11 BECAUSE IT WASN'T CORRECTED LAST TIME. THERE WAS NOT ONE 12 PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE -- CORRECT ME IF I AM 13 WRONG -- WHO WAS A NONNATIVE SPEAKER. THERE'S NOT ONE 14 PRESIDENT OF THE SEIU LOCAL CHAPTER WHO WAS A NONNATIVE 15 SPEAKER. I AM REALLY THE FIRST CLASSIFIED SENATE 16 PRESIDENT AS A NONNATIVE SPEAKER AND MAYBE THAT'S WHY YOU 17 ARE HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT IT. 18 YOU NEED TO REMEMBER WHEN THERE'S A STUDENT 19 THAT'S A NONNATIVE SPEAKER, THEY MIGHT COME (INAUDIBLE) IT 20 COULD BE SOMEONE FROM NIGERIA. AND IN MANY CULTURE, NOT 21 NECESSARILY IN THOSE, BUT IN MANY CULTURES, YOU DO GET AS 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON WAS MENTIONING IN HIS COMMITTEE ALSO THAT 23 THE THING IS NOT TO GO TO SCHOOL. THE THING IS TO GO OUT 24 THERE, HAVE A FAMILY, HAVE WORK. AND VERY FREQUENTLY, 25 IT'S DISCOURAGED, THE NONNATIVE SPEAKERS, TO GO TO SCHOOL MARCH 25, 2010 168 1 BY THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. SO THERE IS THAT URGE -- THERE 2 IS THAT ASPECT WE DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. 3 WE DON'T THINK ABOUT IT WHEN THERE'S A MATH 4 CLASS. WE THINK MATH IS GENERAL TWO PLUS. I MEAN YOU 5 DON'T NEED TO LEARN ENGLISH FOR THAT. BUT YOU DO BECAUSE 6 THERE ARE THE WORD PROBLEMS. THE WORD PROBLEMS THAT ARE 7 DESIGNED THAT IT'S DIFFICULT EVEN FOR A NATIVE SPEAKER 8 BECAUSE IT IS DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU THINK. NOW HERE'S A 9 NONNATIVE SPEAKER WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND EVERY 10 WORD. 11 SO THIS IS WHY I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT. IT 12 IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR US TO LOOK AT ABOUT INSTITUTIONALLY. 13 HOW ABOUT THE CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES, FOR EXAMPLE? WE NEED 14 TO LOOK AT -- WE HAVE 14, 24'S BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF THE 15 ACHIEVEMENT GAP. IT GOES BEYOND STUDENTS. I WAS VERY, 16 VERY HAPPY TO SEE IT ALSO ADDRESSES EMPLOYEES. 17 SO WE HAVE SOMEONE, FOR EXAMPLE, AN EMPLOYEE WHO 18 IS, LET'S SAY, FROM CHINA. AND THEY ARE CHINESE AMERICAN. 19 THEY WORK SIDE BY SIDE. THEY START AT THE SAME TIME. WE 20 NEED TO LOOK AT IT. HOW DO THEY PROGRESS? THEY HAVE THE 21 SAME EDUCATION. THEY HAVE THE SAME EVALUATION. DOES ONE 22 WHO GET MORE PROMOTED THAN THE OTHER? AND IF YES, WHY? 23 SO THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT I THINK 24 WE SHOULD LOOK AT. AND I REALLY HOPE THAT THE TRUSTEES 25 ARE GOING TO TAKE THIS ONE IN CONSIDERATION AT THEIR NEXT MARCH 25, 2010 169 1 EQUITY HEARINGS. SO THIS IS MY REPORT FOR TONIGHT. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3 HAL HUNTSMAN. 4 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. AND I GUESS 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN STEPPED OUT OF THE ROOM, BUT I THANK 6 HIM TOO. 7 I HAVE A SOMEWHAT LONGER REPORT THAN USUAL. THE 8 LAST MONTH HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY. 9 THE PRIMARY ISSUE HAS BEEN THE STUDENT EQUITY AND 10 ACHIEVEMENT GAP RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WERE COMING OUT IN 11 PUBLIC AND TO THE BOARD AT YOUR LAST MEETING. 12 THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION A LOT OF 13 ASSUMPTIONS, A LOT OF IN SOME CASES EVEN ACCUSATIONS. AND 14 I, IN THE COURSE OF MY COMMENTS, AM GOING TO BE, I HOPE 15 SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT WITH REGARD TO SOME THINGS, 16 ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO MY OWN POSITIONS WHICH SOMETIMES 17 HAVE BEEN I THINK MISREPRESENTED IN THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY. 18 FIRST, LET ME JUST SAY THAT IT'S VERY CLEAR, AND 19 I'VE SAID IT MORE THAN ONCE BOTH VERBALLY AND IN WRITING, 20 THAT FACULTY HAVE THE PRIMACY, THE RIGHTS, THE 21 RESPONSIBILITY OVER CURRICULUM AND OVER OTHER ACADEMIC AND 22 PROFESSIONAL MATTERS. THAT'S BY STATE LAW. IT'S BY OUR 23 EXPERIENCE. IT'S JUST A PRACTICAL MATTER THAT ONLY WE CAN 24 DO THAT WORK. AND THAT YOU ARE BOUND BY MANY, BOTH YOUR 25 OWN AGREEMENT AND BY LAW TO LISTEN TO US. AND I HAVE NO MARCH 25, 2010 170 1 DOUBT THAT YOU WILL. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: HAL. 3 (PRESIDENT MARKS PULLS OUT HIS WALLET.) 4 MR. HUNTSMAN: YOU HAVE IN YOUR WALLET A TEN 5 PLUS ONE CARD. GOOD JOB. 6 I ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THERE ARE 7 ACHIEVEMENT GAPS AT THE COLLEGE. AND I FIRMLY BELIEVE 8 THAT. AND I AM VERY HAPPY TO SAY THAT AT THIS POINT, 9 ALMOST NO ONE THAT I HAD TALKED TO DISAGREES WITH THAT. 10 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT WE CAN CLOSE THOSE GAPS. 11 I DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS OF HOW WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE 12 THOSE GAPS, BUT WE CAN CLOSE THOSE GAPS. AND I FIRMLY 13 BELIEVE THAT. WE HAVE THE EXPERIENCE AND THE ABILITY AND 14 THE WILL TO DO THAT. 15 AND WHAT'S MORE, WE HAVE BEEN TRYING. WE HAVE 16 BEEN WORKING ON IT. I WANT TO REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK 17 OF CITY COLLEGE OVER DECADES. THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT 18 HAVE IMPROVED AT CITY COLLEGE WITH REGARD TO SERVING UNDER 19 REPRESENTED STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE. AND I KNOW THAT WE 20 WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THAT 21 HARD WORK AND STILL THE GAPS PERSIST. 22 AND SO IF YOU WILL INDULGE ME, I WANT TO GIVE 23 YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY JUST TO RECALL TO YOU THE 24 WORK THAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE JUST IN THE RECENT PAST. 25 YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT IN FALL OF 2008 AND INTO MARCH 25, 2010 171 1 SPRING OF 2009, THE STUDENTS -- TRUSTEE NEILSEN WAS AMONG 2 THE STUDENTS THAT WORKED HARD TO DEVELOP AND BRING FORWARD 3 A RESOLUTION THAT YOU THE BOARD THEN PASSED. IT WENT 4 THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE AND THEN YOU PASSED IT IN APRIL 5 OF 2009. IT WAS IN MY OPINION A HISTORIC DOCUMENT. 6 AND THEN IN OCTOBER OF 2009, THE CHANCELLOR 7 RELEASED A REPORT THAT WAS CALLED FOR IN THAT RESOLUTION 8 TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS. MORE CAN BE 9 DONE THAN THAT REPORT IN THE FUTURE I HOPE, BUT IT ALSO I 10 THINK WAS AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT. 11 AND THEN IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, THE TRUSTEES 12 HELD A -- OR SOME OF THE TRUSTEES HELD A SERIES OF EQUITY 13 HEARINGS. AND THEN WE'VE CONTINUED SINCE THEN TO HAVE 14 QUITE A BIT OF FURTHER DIALOGUE. 15 FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF 16 MANY THAT I'VE TALKED TO WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG, 17 LONG TIME AT CITY COLLEGE, THIS IS THE MOST OPEN PUBLIC 18 DISCUSSION OF THESE ISSUES THAT WE'VE EVER HAD. IT'S THE 19 BEST OR MAYBE THE MOST POWERFUL OPPORTUNITY WE'VE HAD TO 20 LISTEN TO STUDENTS AND THEIR CONCERNS AND THEIR NEEDS AND 21 TO START ADDRESSING THEM. 22 AND WE ALL AGREE, I THINK THERE'S NO ONE THAT 23 I'VE REALLY HEARD THAT DISAGREES. WE ALL AGREE THERE'S A 24 PROBLEM, PERHAPS MULTIPLE PROBLEMS. MAYBE WE DON'T EVEN 25 UNDERSTAND ALL THE PROBLEMS. I'M SURE WE DON'T. BUT WE MARCH 25, 2010 172 1 ALL AGREE THERE'S PROBLEMS AND THAT WE HAVE TO DO 2 SOMETHING. 3 I THINK THAT'S A REMARKABLE PLACE TO BE. WE 4 DON'T AGREE ON EVERYTHING. AND THIS IS WHERE I THINK THE 5 REAL MESSAGE OF WHAT I WANT TO SAY TONIGHT COMES BECAUSE 6 IN OUR DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT MAYBE HOW TO GO FORWARD AND 7 ABOUT THE WAYS WE GO FORWARD, WE NEED TO RESPECT EACH 8 OTHER. 9 AND THIS HAS BEEN SAID ALREADY TONIGHT IN 10 VARIOUS WAYS, BUT I REALLY WANT TO EMPHASIZE IT. IT'S 11 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO ME FOR PERSONAL REASONS, BUT ALSO 12 BECAUSE THIS COLLEGE BELONGS TO ALL THE PEOPLE. IT 13 BELONGS TO THE CITY, TO THE STATE, TO THE STUDENTS, TO THE 14 FACULTY, TO THE CLASSIFIED STAFF, TO THE ADMINISTRATORS, 15 TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 16 IT BELONGS TO ALL OF US. AND THEREFORE, WE ALL 17 HAVE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITH REGARD TO THE 18 SUCCESS OF OUR STUDENTS. THAT MEANS WE NEED TO AFFORD 19 THAT RESPECT IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, IN ALL DIRECTIONS. 20 IN FACT WHAT I WANT TO SUGGEST IS THAT CONTRARY, 21 AND I DO WANT TO SAY, DARLENE, I HAVE THE UTMOST RESPECT 22 FOR YOU IN MANY, MANY LEVELS, BUT I DISAGREE WITH YOU ON 23 AT LEAST ONE POINT THAT YOU RAISED EARLIER. AND THAT WAS 24 ON THE PURPOSE OF COUNCIL, OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE 25 ACADEMIC SENATE BECAUSE I DO NOT THINK THAT THE ACADEMIC MARCH 25, 2010 173 1 SENATE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL IS THERE TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF 2 THE FACULTY IN OPPOSITION TO ANY -- TO THE BOARD OR TO THE 3 ADMINISTRATION OR TO ANY OTHER GROUP. 4 IN FACT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE 5 SAYS, "THE PURPOSE OF THE COUNCIL" AND I'M QUOTING, "SHALL 6 BE AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SENATE TO MAKE 7 RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATION, THE BOARD OF 8 TRUSTEES, AND TO OTHER APPROPRIATE INDIVIDUALS, AND BODIES 9 REGARDING ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTERS. AND AS 10 PROVIDED BY LAW AND AGREEMENT, TO MAKE JOINT DECISIONS 11 WITH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO ACADEMIC AND 12 PROFESSIONAL MATTERS AND TO INFORM THE SENATE OF CURRENT 13 ISSUES AND HOLD MEETINGS FOR DISCUSSION." 14 THERE'S NOTHING IN THERE ABOUT ANY "THEM" OR 15 "US" OR ANY KIND OF DIVISION. IT'S NOT ABOUT OPPOSITION. 16 IT'S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER. IT'S ABOUT MAKING 17 RECOMMENDATIONS. THAT IMPLIES RESPECT, AND TRUST, AND 18 WORKING TOGETHER. 19 I TRY TO SET THIS TONE. WHERE I HAVE FAILED, 20 AND I DO FAIL FROM TIME TO TIME, I HAVE APOLOGIZED. AND I 21 WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO DO THAT. I THINK AT LEAST YOU, 22 THE TRUSTEES, KNOW THAT MY BEHAVIOR AND THE WAY I ADDRESS 23 YOU HAS I THINK BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT IN THAT WAY. 24 I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW 25 IMPORTANT I THINK THIS IS IN TERMS OF MY OWN BEHAVIOR. AS MARCH 25, 2010 174 1 YOU ARE WELL AWARE, THERE WAS A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE 2 ACADEMIC SENATE THIS LAST TUESDAY, JUST TWO DAYS AGO. AND 3 AS YOU HEARD, THERE WAS A RESOLUTION THAT CAME OUT AND YOU 4 HAD IT PRESENTED TO YOU TONIGHT. 5 I WAS APPROACHED BEFORE THE MEETING HAPPENED TO 6 ASK ABOUT HOW -- THIS MEETING WAS CALLED BY THE PETITION 7 OF AT LEAST 100 MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. AND I WAS 8 APPROACHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SENATE, THE ORGANIZERS OF 9 THAT MEETING, TO SAY HOW COULD WE VALIDATE THOSE 10 SIGNATURES. 11 I SAID, WELL, YOU COULD SHOW THEM TO ME AND THE 12 OTHER SENATE OFFICERS, AND THAT WOULD BE I THINK PROBABLY 13 ADEQUATE, MAYBE WE COULD DO SOME OTHER PEOPLE. I DON'T 14 KNOW. THAT WOULD BE A START. 15 AND I WAS TOLD THAT THEY WEREN'T GOING TO SHOW 16 THEM TO ME. AND THAT THE DOCUMENTS WERE NOT GOING TO BE 17 MADE PUBLIC. 18 NOW I EXPRESSED TO THEM THAT I THOUGHT THAT 19 CALLED THE VALIDITY OF THE MEETING INTO QUESTION. 20 HOWEVER, I IN NO WAY WANTED TO STAND IN THE WAY OF THAT 21 DIALOGUE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT FOR THEM, FOR ALL 22 OF US, AND I WENT TO THAT MEETING BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE 23 RIGHTS OF ALL OF THE FACULTY, AND ALL OF THE STUDENTS, AND 24 ALL THE CLASSIFIED STAFF, AND ALL THE ADMINISTRATORS, AND 25 ALL THE PUBLIC TO DISCUSS THESE ISSUES AND ALL THE OTHER MARCH 25, 2010 175 1 ISSUES THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO DISCUSS. 2 I DID NOT WANT TO BE OBSTRUCTIVE. I DID NOT 3 WANT TO FIGHT THEM ON PROCEDURAL GROUNDS. AND I'M NOT 4 GOING TO FIGHT THEM NOW EITHER. 5 WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT 6 TO ME NOT TO BE OBSTRUCTIVE, BUT RATHER TO BE RESPECTFUL 7 OF THEIR WISH TO DISCUSS, AND I PARTICIPATED IN THE 8 DISCUSSION. AND SO I HOPE THAT YOU ALSO TAKE THAT 9 DOCUMENT AS THE OPINION OF THE FACULTY WHO VOTED FOR IT. 10 IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. 11 I VOTED AGAINST THAT PARTICULAR DOCUMENT BECAUSE 12 I THOUGHT THE DOCUMENT WAS TOO PRESCRIPTIVE. THE DOCUMENT 13 THAT I PASSED OR THAT I WROTE AND WAS APPROVED BY THE 14 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WAS LESS SO, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS MORE 15 RESPECTFUL TO THE BOARD AND TO THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY AS A 16 WHOLE. 17 NOW I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT THE DRAFT RESOLUTION 18 FROM THE BOARD WAS TOO PRESCRIPTIVE. AND TRUSTEE NGO HAS 19 ACKNOWLEDGED THAT AND APOLOGIZED FOR IT SOMEWHAT PROFUSELY 20 AT OUR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING. AND THAT'S WHY I WROTE 21 THAT RESOLUTION AND ADVOCATED FOR IT TO THE PASSED. 22 I EXPECT RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE FROM OUR LEADERS, 23 FROM MY LEADERS. I EXPECT IT FROM MYSELF. I EXPECT IT 24 FROM MY COLLEAGUES. I HAVE SEEN THAT RESPECT SHONE BY THE 25 STUDENTS, AND I HAVE SEEN THAT SHONE BY THE BOARD BECAUSE MARCH 25, 2010 176 1 WHEN WE'VE COME OUT AND ASKED YOU, WE'VE STOOD AND ASKED 2 YOU WITH REASON AND WITH UNITY TO DO SOMETHING OR NOT TO 3 DO SOMETHING, YOU HAVE RESPONDED. I'VE NEVER YET SEEN YOU 4 GO AGAINST US WHEN WE'VE COME OUT AND ASKED YOU. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE HAVEN'T IN THE NINE YEARS 6 THAT I HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD. 7 MR. HUNTSMAN: EXACTLY. AND I DON'T THINK YOU 8 ARE GOING TO DO THAT IN THE FUTURE EITHER. THAT'S THE 9 RESPECT AND TRUST THAT I BELIEVE WE OWE YOU. WE DO NEED 10 TO EXPRESS OURSELVES CLEARLY. BUT WHEN WE DO, YOU LISTEN. 11 AND I TRUST THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. 12 SO IT WAS VERY DISTURBING TO ME WHEN AT THE 13 SENATE MEETING ON TUESDAY, A PUBLIC MEETING, WHEN I SAW 14 THE STUDENTS I THINK VERY MUCH DISRESPECTED. AND I JUST 15 WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND TO ALL THE 16 STUDENTS WHO ARE PRESENT FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF MY COLLEAGUES 17 BECAUSE YOU WERE LITERALLY SHOUTED DOWN AND TOLD TO GO 18 AWAY. AND THAT WAS A LOW POINT IN MY PERSONAL CAREER 19 HERE. IT WAS -- WELL, A LOW POINT. LET ME LEAVE IT 20 THERE. 21 SO GOING FORWARD LET ME REITERATE, AND I AM 22 GOING TO TRY TO FINISH. THIS COLLEGE IS ALL OF OUR 23 COLLEGE. AND WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER. IT'S BEEN SAID 24 MUCH MORE ELOQUENTLY TONIGHT THEN I CAN SAY IT. I BELIEVE 25 THE WORDS WERE, "WE DON'T WANT TO GET ALONG. WE JUST HAVE MARCH 25, 2010 177 1 TO GET THE WORK DONE." 2 WELL, I THINK IT'S LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN THAT. 3 I THINK WE HAVE TO GET ALONG A LITTLE BIT. BUT MORE 4 IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE TO GET THE WORK DONE. 5 I APPLAUD THE COLLEGE FOR THE WORK THAT IT'S 6 ALREADY DONE. I APPLAUD THE FACULTY FOR THE WORK THAT WE 7 WILL DO. I APPLAUD THE CHANCELLOR FOR THE LEADERSHIP THAT 8 HE IS TAKING RIGHT NOW WITH REGARD TO THESE ISSUES. I 9 ESPECIALLY APPLAUD THE STUDENTS FOR THE WORK THEY HAVE 10 DONE OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF AND CONTINUE TO DO. I 11 ALSO APPLAUD THE TRUSTEES FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR 12 LEADERSHIP IN THESE MATTERS. 13 I BELIEVE THAT WORKING TOGETHER -- AND BY THE 14 WAY, I JUST SAW THIS. I WAS AT THE MARCH ON MONDAY. AND 15 THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MARCHES THAT WE'VE HAD 16 IN SACRAMENTO. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE EXACT NUMBERS ARE. 17 GUS, DO YOU KNOW? YOU MIGHT TELL US LATER, BUT 18 IT WAS CERTAINLY CLOSE TO THE BIGGEST, IF NOT THE BIGGEST 19 MARCH THAT WE'VE EVER HAD IN SACRAMENTO. AND IT WAS A 20 GREAT SHOWING, ENERGETIC, EXCITING RALLY. AND THAT'S THE 21 KIND OF THING WE CAN DO WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER. 22 SO I WILL CLOSE THEN WITH, WE CAN DO THIS. WE 23 CAN CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS WITH RESPECT FOR EVERYBODY. 24 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: DID YOU NOT WANT TO YIELD A MARCH 25, 2010 178 1 LITTLE TIME. 2 MR. HUNTSMAN: I DO I APOLOGIZE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: DON'T APOLOGIZE TO ME, 4 APOLOGIZE TO GUS. 5 MR. HUNTSMAN: THANK YOU, GUS. SORRY ABOUT 6 THAT. 7 MS. GOLDSTEIN: THANKS. 8 GUS GOLDSTEIN, AFT 2121. GOOD EVENING, 9 CHANCELLOR, PRESIDENT MARKS, AND TRUSTEES. 10 I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHERE TO START. I THINK I 11 WILL START WHERE I WAS GOING TO START WHICH WAS WITH 12 MARCH 22ND. WE WERE SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO MARCH TOGETHER 13 FACULTY, STUDENTS, ADMINISTRATORS, ON MARCH 22ND. AND 14 SEEING THE CHANCELLOR THERE AND TRUSTEES MARKS, RIZZO, AND 15 GRIER. IT WAS QUITE WONDERFUL. 16 CCSF SENT I THINK A TOTAL OF 62 BUSES OUT OF 17 ABOUT 200 BUSES THAT ARRIVED THERE THAT DAY. WE MAY HAVE 18 HAD ANYWHERE FROM 10,000 TO -- I HEARD ESTIMATES OF 19 15,000. I DON'T REALLY KNOW. BUT AT LEAST 10,000 20 PARTICIPANTS UNITED AGAINST BUDGET CUTS. 21 WE HAD THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF SEIU, THE 22 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS, AFT 2121, AND I BELIEVE THE 23 ADMINISTRATORS AS WELL, CHIPPING IN FOR BUSES. AND I WANT 24 TO THANK EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED. IT WAS QUITE AN 25 EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE. MARCH 25, 2010 179 1 WE ALSO HAVE TWO EVENTS UPCOMING. WE ARE NOT 2 FINISHED WITH OUR DEMONSTRATIONS OR OUR PLANNING. 3 APRIL 17TH, WHICH IS A SATURDAY FROM 9:00 TO 1:00 IN THE 4 PIERRE COSTE DINING ROOM. THERE WILL BE A POLITICAL 5 ACTION TRAINING. STUDENTS AND FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS 6 ARE ALL INVITED TO PARTICIPATE, BUT YOU NEED TO RSVP TO 7 AFT 2121 BY CALLING 585-2121 TO LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE 8 GOING TO BE COMING SO WE COULD GIVE YOU YOUR CONTINENTAL 9 BREAKFAST AND YOUR LUNCH. 10 ON APRIL 21ST IN SACRAMENTO, THAT WILL BE THE 11 LAST DAY OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY MARCH. THE MARCH FOR 12 CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE. IT STARTED IN BAKERSFIELD. AND IT'S 13 BEING -- YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE SEVEN STALWART MARCHERS WHO 14 ARE BEING JOINED ALONG THE WAY BY RALLIES OF LOCAL PEOPLE 15 AND ALSO PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING IN FROM THE BAY AREA AND 16 OTHER AREAS TO JOIN THEM AND MARCH PART OF THE WAY. IT'S 17 BEEN QUITE REWARDING SO FAR, AND THEY ARE GOING TO ARRIVE 18 IN SACRAMENTO ON APRIL -- THEY ARE GOING TO ARRIVE ON THE 19 20TH AND GO ON TO THE CAPITOL ON THE 21ST. THE LAST OF 20 THE MARCH WILL BE FROM 2:00 P.M. I THINK TO THE CAPITOL 21 BUILDING AT 4:00 P.M. 22 THERE'S GOING TO BE A RALLY. RICHARD TRUMP IS 23 GOING TO BE THERE FROM AFL-CIO, THE PRESIDENT. THE 24 PRESIDENT, RANDY WEINGARTEN. THE PRESIDENT OF AFT 25 NATIONAL WILL BE THERE ALSO. AND SO YOU ARE INVITED TO MARCH 25, 2010 180 1 JOIN. AND I WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO GET MORE STUDENTS AND 2 FACULTY UP THERE ON THAT DAY. 3 BUT THE UNITY OF MONDAY THIS WEEK WAS FOLLOWED 4 BY TUESDAY'S ANGUISHED SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC 5 SENATE, WHICH WAS OCCASIONED BY THE DRAFT OF S2 THE 6 RESOLUTION FOR STUDENT EQUITY. 7 AT THIS POINT I HAD A PRETTY POINTED SPEECH THAT 8 I WAS PLANNING TO GIVE ABOUT THE DIVISIVENESS THAT THAT 9 HAS CAUSED THE FACULTY. BUT TRUSTEE NGO'S APOLOGY HAS 10 TAKEN THE WIND OUT OF MY SAILS, WHICH IS I'M GLAD TO SAY. 11 BUT I DO HOPE, TRUSTEE NGO, THAT YOU WILL AS 12 QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE CHANGE YOUR WEBSITE TO REFLECT YOUR 13 DESIRE TO REBUILD THE TRUST THAT YOU REALIZE IS MISSING 14 BECAUSE YOUR WEBSITE IS, AT THIS MOMENT, QUITE 15 INFLAMMATORY AND UNHELPFUL. 16 WE DO NEED TO WORK TOGETHER, NOT POSTURE OR 17 PANDER. WE ALL WANT TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS. WE 18 WELCOME POSITIVE POLICY POSITIONS BY THE BOARD. AFT 2121 19 TRIED TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO TRUSTEE JACKSON WHEN HE MET WITH 20 US TWO WEEKS AGO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICROMANAGEMENT 21 AND SETTING POLICY. 22 AS YOU CONSIDER -- MARCH 4TH WAS QUITE A 23 SUCCESSFUL OCCASION. AND I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF THE 24 BOARD. THAT WAS THE LARGEST RALLY IN THE STATE OF RALLIES 25 ALL OVER THE STATE. WE HAD PROBABLY 10,000, MAYBE 12 IN MARCH 25, 2010 181 1 THE CIVIC CENTER. IT WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL AND INVOLVED. 2 THE COOPERATION OF THE LABOR COUNCIL, FACULTY, AND 3 STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE BAY AREA, NOT COMMUNITY 4 COLLEGES, BUT K-12, THE CSU'S. IT WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL, 5 BUT I WANT TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT 6 THE STUDENT EQUITY ISSUE. 7 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT AS YOU CONSIDER HOW TO 8 CONTINUE ON THE ISSUE OF STUDENT EQUITY, I PLEAD WITH YOU 9 TO SLOW DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT, BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH THE 10 COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AND CALENDAR OF MEETINGS OF SHARED 11 GOVERNANCE, INCLUDING THE COLLEGE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE AND 12 THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEES WHERE THE 13 CHANGES OF CURRICULA THAT YOU MAY SEEK MIGHT ORIGINATE. 14 LET'S WORK TOGETHER USING THE SHARED GOVERNING 15 PROCESS ESTABLISHED ALREADY OR IF YOU WANT TO ESTABLISH 16 NEW PROCESSES, DO SO, BUT PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE PROCESS 17 BECAUSE IT'S THE VIOLATION OF PROCESS MORE THAN ANYTHING 18 ELSE THAT CAUSES THE MISTRUST THAT WAS SPOKEN OF EARLIER. 19 WE CANNOT TRUST EACH OTHER IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 20 PROCESSES WILL BE IN ALL HONESTY AND GOOD FAITH FOLLOWED. 21 THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: BEFORE YOU GO, GUS, I WANT TO 23 ASK YOU A QUESTION -- 24 MS. GOLDSTEIN: YES. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- WHICH I AM ONLY DIRECTING MARCH 25, 2010 182 1 TO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE STANDING THERE AND MENTIONED SHARED 2 GOVERNANCE. THIS IS NOT AIMED AT YOU, YOU JUST HAPPEN TO 3 BE THERE. 4 MS. GOLDSTEIN: OH, ALL RIGHT. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: PARDON ME? 6 MS. GOLDSTEIN: ALL RIGHT. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THAT BAD. 8 I AGREE WITH YOU THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE TRUST 9 AND THAT THE BOARD NEEDS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THE COMMITTEE 10 STRUCTURE AND WHAT THE COMMITTEES DO. 11 HOWEVER, IF YOU WERE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE 12 SHARED GOVERNANCE WEBSITE AND DO A LITTLE BIT OF AN 13 ANALYSIS, WHICH I HAVE DONE, THE VAST MAJORITY -- TAKING 14 AWAY THE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY GOOD 15 AND THE COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL BECAUSE THAT'S PRETTY 16 GOOD AND THE PBC, THE VAST MAJORITY OF SHARED GOVERNANCE 17 COMMITTEES HAVE NO AGENDAS POSTED, NO MINUTES POSTED, NO 18 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND WHERE THEY ARE. 19 SO I TRULY BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD BE DEPENDENT 20 UPON SHARED GOVERNANCE FOR THAT PROCESS TO WORK WELL SO 21 THAT WHEN WE COME TO A BOARD MEETING, WE DON'T HAVE TO 22 DELVE INTO SOMETHING AND IN THE DETAIL THAT WE DO. BUT 23 UNLESS THE SHARED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE IS FOLLOWING THE 24 PROCESS WE DID SET UP, WHICH REQUIRES AGENDAS AND MINUTES 25 AND ALL OF THAT, I THINK IT MAKES IT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT MARCH 25, 2010 183 1 FOR US. 2 SO IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THAT, 3 I WELCOME THEM BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BOTHERED ME 4 FOR A LONG TIME. AND IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED. AND I'M NOT 5 EXACTLY CERTAIN HOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. 6 AND WHEN I SAID IT BEFORE, THE RESPONSE THAT 7 TEND TO GET IS WELL, WE ARE ALL VOLUNTEERS. YOU REALLY 8 SHOULDN'T EXPECT US TO DO THAT. BUT IT'S IN OUR POLICIES. 9 EVERYBODY HAS AGREED TO THOUGH POLICIES. AND I WOULD LIKE 10 TO BE ABLE TO DEPEND ON THE SHARED GOVERNANCE PROCESS, 11 WHICH INCLUDES ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS. SO IF THERE ARE 12 WAYS OF FIXING IT AND IMPROVING IT, HELP US. 13 MS. GOLDSTEIN: I HAVE NO SPECIFIC ANSWER FOR 14 YOU. BUT WHAT MATTERED TO ME IN THE CONTEXT IN WHICH I 15 WAS SPEAKING -- 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: I UNDERSTAND IT'S A DIFFERENT 17 CONTEXT. 18 MS. GOLDSTEIN: -- WAS THAT THE IDEA THAT 19 HEARINGS COULD BE DONE. THERE WAS A SELF-SELECTION 20 PROCESS IN THESE STUDENT EQUITY HEARINGS THAT TOOK PLACE 21 EARLIER THIS SEMESTER. WE HAD THE TESTIMONY OF SOME 22 SELF-SELECTED STUDENTS AND FACULTY. THEY BECAME THE BASIS 23 OF A RESOLUTION THAT SOMEHOW WAS SUPPOSED TO PASS THROUGH 24 SHARED GOVERNANCE WITHIN THE SPACE OF ONE MONTH. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: NEVER WAS EXPECTED TO PASS IN MARCH 25, 2010 184 1 THAT PERIOD OF TIME. THAT WAS A MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION. 2 MS. GOLDSTEIN: WELL, IT APPEARED TO ANYONE 3 READING THE RESOLUTION THAT IT WAS COMING BACK TONIGHT. 4 OF COURSE, IT WAS PULLED, BUT -- 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO, IT WAS NEVER ON THE 6 AGENDA. THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT. IT WASN'T PULLED. IT 7 WAS NEVER ON THE AGENDA. AND I SAID THE SAME THING TO 8 TRUSTEE WONG. I HAD NO INTENTION OF HAVING THAT ON THE 9 AGENDA TONIGHT. AND I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING. I 10 THINK PEOPLE WERE MISTAKEN THINKING WE WERE GOING TO RUSH 11 THIS THROUGH, AND IT WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN THAT WAY. 12 MS. GOLDSTEIN: I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. BUT ON 13 THE OTHER HAND, HOW WAS ANYBODY TO KNOW? 14 I MEAN, IT WAS PRESENTED AS A DRAFT AT YOUR LAST 15 MEETING. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: YES. 17 MS. GOLDSTEIN: AND ONE WOULD ASSUME THAT IT'S 18 THE DRAFT OF SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE UP IN 19 YOUR NEXT MEETING. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: WELL, THAT'S WHY WE PUT IT 21 WITH THE POLICIES BECAUSE HAVE YOU UP TO TWO MONTHS TO 22 RESPOND, TWO MONTHS. 23 MS. GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. WELL, I HAVE TO SAY THAT 24 EVEN TWO MONTHS FOR SHARED GOVERNANCE IS UNREALISTIC 25 BECAUSE -- MARCH 25, 2010 185 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: COME BACK AND TELL US. THAT'S 2 ALL YOU NEED TO DO. 3 MS. GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE ARE NOT THAT HARD TO TALK 5 TO. 6 MS. GOLDSTEIN: THANK YOU. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MR. PRESIDENT. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE RIZZO. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AT THE BUDGET 10 COMMITTEE -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AT THE POLICY 11 COMMITTEE, BUT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE DID NOT VOTE TO 12 FORWARD THE SHARED EQUITY RESOLUTION TO THIS BOARD. I 13 DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AT THE -- 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: I DON'T THINK THE POLICY COULD 15 BE FOLLOWED UP. 16 MS. GOLDSTEIN: I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT WHAT 17 FIRST ORIGINALLY CAME OUT OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AND 18 WHICH YOU VOTED AGAINST, ACTUALLY HAD SOME SPECIFIC DOLLAR 19 AMOUNTS. I MEAN, SPECIFIC IN THE SENSE THAT A DOLLAR 20 RANGE OF 500,000 TO $750,000 SET ASIDE TO IMPLEMENT THE 21 FINDINGS OF THIS SPECIFIC -- YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT 22 WOULD SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS STILL IN A DRAFT 23 FORM AND YET, THAT BUDGET RESOLUTION WAS COMING FORWARD. 24 NOW I SAW THAT SOME OF THOSE FIGURES WERE 25 CHANGED. I DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY WERE CHANGED BECAUSE WHEN MARCH 25, 2010 186 1 I WAS AT THE PBC A WEEK AGO, THOSE FIGURES WERE STILL IN 2 THERE. 3 AND SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THE ALARM THAT THAT SORT 4 OF RESOLUTION CREATION CAN CREATE AMONG FACULTY WHO 5 BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE SUDDENLY RESPONSIBLE FOR 6 BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE UNDER THOSE GUIDELINES SOMEHOW. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: I UNDERSTAND THAT. YOU TALK 8 ABOUT THE RESOLUTIONS HAVING S2, BUT I'M NOT CERTAIN THAT 9 I EVER KNEW IT ACTUALLY HAD -- 10 MS. GOLDSTEIN: I BELIEVE IT HAD THE TITLE, S2. 11 I COULD BE WRONG. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M NOT SAYING YOU ARE WRONG. 13 I AM JUST SAYING -- 14 MS. GOLDSTEIN: I COULD BE INCORRECT. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- I'M JUST WONDERING HOW THAT 16 HAPPENED BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER COMING ON THIS AGENDA. 17 MS. GOLDSTEIN: ALL RIGHT. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: HEY, GUS. 20 MS. GOLDSTEIN: HI. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YOU KNOW, WHEN I HAVE 22 QUESTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, I CALL THE NUMBER 585-2121. YOU 23 GUYS ARE VERY OPEN, VERY ACCESSIBLE. I HAVE YOUR CELL 24 PHONE. I HAVE ED'S CELL PHONE. I HAVE RODGER'S CELL 25 PHONE. WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING, WHEN THERE'S AN ISSUE, I MARCH 25, 2010 187 1 KNOW HOW TO GET AHOLD OF YOU GUYS AND CALL. YOU GUYS 2 100 PERCENT ARE ALWAYS THERE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND I 3 SO MUCH APPRECIATE THAT. 4 I WOULD SAY THAT ON THIS END, OFTENTIMES THERE'S 5 MISPERCEPTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO, BUT WE 6 DON'T SOMETIMES GET THE PHONE CALLS LIKE, HEY, ARE YOU 7 REALLY PUTTING THAT ON THE AGENDA? I WOULD HAVE BEEN 8 LIKE, WELL, I DON'T THINK WE ARE. THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO 9 BE ON THE AGENDA FOR ANOTHER TWO MONTHS. SO THE DIALOGUE, 10 AND IT'S JUST THE COMMUNICATION. 11 MADELINE, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE LAUGHING AT ME. 12 BUT HONESTY, IT'S MORE OF THE COMMUNICATION. AND SO IF WE 13 GOT A PHONE CALL OR THE CHANCELLOR GETS A PHONE CALL, IT'S 14 EASIER FOR TO US RESPOND. BUT WE CAN'T RESPOND WHEN 15 EVERYTHING HAPPENS WITHIN THE COLLEGE, WITHIN THE 16 INSTITUTION AND WE DON'T SEE IT UNTIL THE BOARD MEETING. 17 THAT'S IT. WE CAN'T RESPOND TO THAT. THAT'S KIND OF HARD 18 FOR ME TO RESPOND TO SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW. 19 IF YOU CALL ME AND SAY, HEY, CHRIS, WHAT'S GOING 20 ON WITH THIS? JUST LIKE I CALL YOU OR ED OR RODGER OR 21 KOVAK OR PABLO OR ALAN, HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS? 22 IT'S JUST THAT COMMUNICATION. I TRUST YOU GUYS. I CALL 23 YOU. I SAY, HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON? YOU TELL ME. I REACT. 24 JUST LIKE THAT, I WISH IF YOU CALL ME, I COULD 25 TELL YOU WHAT I BEST KNOW AND THEN YOU GUYS CAN REACT TO MARCH 25, 2010 188 1 WHAT I GIVE YOU. 2 THAT'S KIND OF THE OPEN DIALOGUE I AM SEEKING IN 3 TERMS OF POLICY MAKING. AND THAT'S HOW I THINK WE CAN GET 4 PAST SOME OF THIS. THE RUMORS AND THE SWIRLING RUMORS 5 AROUND BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS STUFF -- I MEAN, I SERIOUSLY 6 THINK TWO-THIRDS OF THIS STUFF IS MISUNDERSTANDING. 7 ONE THIRD IS REAL. I'M NOT GOING TO DISPUTE THE 8 ONE-THIRD PART. ONE THIRD OF THIS PART IS REAL. BUT THE 9 OTHER TWO-THIRDS PART IS SOMETIMES RUMORS. AND WE NEED TO 10 TALK WITH EACH OTHER TO GET RID OF SOME OF THAT STUFF. 11 MS. GOLDSTEIN: WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, TRUSTEE 12 JACKSON, I APPRECIATE YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS. I BELIEVE 13 YOUR INTENTIONS ARE GOOD. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU MET WITH OUR 14 E-BOARD A LITTLE OVER TWO WEEKS AGO, AND WE TOLD YOU THAT 15 WE THOUGHT THE DRAFT RESOLUTION ON STUDENT EQUITY INCLUDED 16 A LOT OF ELEMENTS THAT REALLY APPEARED TO BE A KIND OF 17 MICROMANAGEMENT THAT WE THOUGHT WAS INAPPROPRIATE AND THAT 18 WE WELCOMED GENERAL POLICIES FROM THE BOARD AS WERE RATHER 19 NICELY REPHRASED BY -- I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER WHO DID IT 20 EARLIER THIS EVENING, WHETHER IT WAS DARLENE ALIOTO OR 21 MADELINE MUELLER. I DON'T REMEMBER WHO, BUT THERE WAS 22 SOME VERY NICE REPHRASINGS OF HOW YOU COULD GET AWAY FROM 23 THE SPECIFICS IN THE BUDGET RESOLUTION. 24 YOU LEFT THAT MEETING, WENT TO YOUR BUDGET AND 25 POLICY COMMITTEE, AND PRODUCED A DOCUMENT WITH PRECISELY MARCH 25, 2010 189 1 THE SAME KIND OF MICROMANAGEMENT IN IT THAT WE HAD JUST 2 TOLD YOU WAS INAPPROPRIATE. SO I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT 3 KIND OF COMMUNICATION YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL, IN TERMS OF BUDGET, YOU 5 KNOW IT ACTUALLY IS IN OUR -- WE HAVE PRIMACY ON BUDGET. 6 IN TERMS OF BUDGET, THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD DOES IN TERMS OF 7 BUDGET. WE ACTUALLY DO BUDGET PRIORITIES. AND IF IT HAS 8 NUMBERS, I MEAN WE ARE NOT -- IT'S OUR BUDGET. IN TERMS 9 OF THE POLICY, THE NEXT THING I DID WAS ACTUALLY GO TO 10 TALK WITH STEVE, TALK WITH THE CHANCELLOR. AND WE 11 ACTUALLY STARTED WORKING ON AMENDMENTS IN TERMS OF YOUR 12 CONCERNS. BUT IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET, THAT IS OUR PRIMACY 13 IN TERMS OF OUR BUDGET. 14 AND SO THAT'S WHAT I WILL SAY THAT ON THE BUDGET 15 MATTERS, I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE THAT PRIMACY IN TERMS OF 16 CRAFTING A BUDGET. IN THE END, WE ENDED UP WITH A BUDGET 17 PROCESS THAT ACTUALLY DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THE NUMBERS. AND 18 AS YOU SEE, THAT'S HOW THAT MORPHED AND METAMORPHOSIS INTO 19 WHAT YOU SEE TODAY. 20 MS. GOLDSTEIN: I APPRECIATE THE CHANGE. THANK 21 YOU. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND SO THE SAME THING IS ON 23 THE ACADEMIC PART WHERE YOU GUYS SAY FACULTY HAVE PRIMACY. 24 I RESPECTED THAT. I KNOW OTHER TRUSTEES RESPECTED THAT. 25 AND WE ARE WORKING CURRENTLY ON AMENDMENTS. AND WE ARE MARCH 25, 2010 190 1 WORKING WITH THE CHANCELLOR TO TAKE SOME OF THE 2 SPECIFICITY OUT OF IT, JUST LIKE WHEN WE DID PASS IT 3 THROUGH BUDGET. BUT THAT IS TECHNICALLY OUR PRIMACY. BUT 4 EVEN IN THAT ROLE, WE TOOK OUT THE SPECIFICITY. 5 AND SO WHEN YOU SEE THE FINISHED PRODUCT HERE, 6 ALL WE DID IS ADD TWO FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS. AND BOOM, WE 7 ARE READY TO GO. AND SO THAT'S HOW WE WORK. THE FIRST 8 DRAFT MIGHT BE UGLY, BUT IF YOU WORK WITH US TO CLEAN IT 9 UP, IT WILL LOOK BEAUTIFUL. 10 MS. GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND THAT'S HOW WE ARE TRYING 12 TO WORK. 13 MS. GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I MIGHT NOT ALWAYS UNDERSTAND 15 YOU THE FIRST TIME OR THE SECOND TIME, BUT I WILL GET YOU 16 SOON ENOUGH. AND IF YOU BE PATIENT WITH US, WE WILL BE 17 PATIENT WITH YOU, AND WE WILL EVENTUALLY GET IT DONE 18 TOGETHER JUST LIKE DORETHA TALKED ABOUT. 19 MS. GOLDSTEIN: THANK YOU. 20 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I AM CONCERNED IF THE 21 STUDENT EQUITY RESOLUTION IS TO COME BACK IN APRIL, THAT 22 PROBABLY ENOUGH TIME FOR SHARED GOVERNANCE WILL NOT HAVE 23 PASSED YET. THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN AND THEN WE HAVE TO MARCH 25, 2010 191 1 FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE BECAUSE IT IS 11:00 O'CLOCK. 2 GO AHEAD. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: JUST REAL BRIEF, GUS, 4 HOW YOU WERE JUST REFERENCING YOUR ASSUMPTION THAT 5 STUDENTS THAT CAME TO THESE EQUITY WERE SELF-SELECTED 6 STUDENTS. I REALLY FEEL THAT'S INVALID FOR VARIOUS 7 REASONS. I MYSELF AND VARIOUS STUDENTS WE WENT AND DID 8 EXTENSIVE OUTREACH WITHIN ALL THE VARIOUS CAMPUSES, CLUBS 9 RETENTION PROGRAMS. WE EVEN HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO 10 DISTRICT WIDE E-MAILS SO EVERYBODY WAS NOTIFIED REGARDING 11 THESE HEARINGS. 12 SO I THINK TO STATE THAT A STUDENT WAS 13 SELF-SELECTED AS IN THAT THEY REGURGITATED THIS 14 INFORMATION, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE ASSERTION FROM WHAT 15 YOU ARE STATING -- 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: MR. PRESIDENT, I REALLY 17 HAVE TO OBJECT. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: I DON'T WANT A CONVERSATION 19 ABOUT IT. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE PASSED OUR 30 21 MINUTES. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: GUS, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIT 23 DOWN AND TALK WITH JOSH AND THEN MAYBE HE CAN COME BACK 24 AND TALK TO US AT THE NEXT MEETING. 25 MS. GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. MARCH 25, 2010 192 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: HERE'S WHERE WE ARE. IT'S 2 11:00 O'CLOCK. WE HAVE 23 RESOLUTIONS STILL ON THE 3 AGENDA. I HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE 4 ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING AND ABOUT THE EQUITY HEARINGS. I 5 THINK WE HAVE TO MOVE ON WITH THE AGENDA. IT'S JUST 6 GETTING TO BE TOO LATE FOR US TO DO IT. 7 I KNOW KAREN I SAID YOU CAN SPEAK NOW. I DON'T 8 THINK WE CAN. IF YOU WANT TO WAIT AND THE TWO OF YOU AS 9 WELL IF YOU WANT TO WAIT AROUND TO THE END OF THE MEETING 10 FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT, I AM HAPPY TO DO IT. BUT WE'VE 11 GOT TO PASS SOME OF THESE RESOLUTIONS. AND WE'VE GOT TO 12 FIGURE OUT A WAY OF TAKING LESS TIME AT THESE MEETINGS. 13 IT'S NOT -- I'M NOT TRYING TO LIMIT DEBATE. I'M NOT 14 TRYING TO LIMIT CONVERSATION, BUT THIS IS -- THIS IS JUST 15 TOO MUCH AND WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY OF CHANGING IT. 16 SO TRUSTEE RIZZO WANTED TO TAKE UP B6 AND THEN 17 WE ARE GOING TO JUST GO THROUGH THE AGENDA. I DON'T 18 KNOW -- 19 PETER, YOU ARE STILL HERE. ARE YOU STICKING 20 AROUND FOR THE -- OR DO YOU WANT TO DO THE MONTHLY -- 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO. NO. LET'S DO THE 22 RESOLUTIONS FIRST. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I WILL BE HERE FOR ALL THE 24 RESOLUTIONS. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. B6, PLEASE. MARCH 25, 2010 193 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN WE BRING DEAN BELL 2 UP. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: WHY DON'T YOU MOVE IT. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I AM GOING TO MOVE B6. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO; 7 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS DID NOT COME BEFORE 9 THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE THIS MONTH, BUT IT HAS BEEN 10 DISCUSSED AT THE FACILITIES MEETING SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE 11 PAST FEW YEARS. SO I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT IT'S FINE; 12 THAT WE THAT THE FULL BOARD CAN TAKE THIS UP. 13 DEAN BELL. 14 MR. BELL: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JORGE BELL, 15 DEAN OF FINANCIAL AID. 16 PRETTY MUCH DURING THE STUDENT EQUITY HEARINGS, 17 I HEARD VERY LOUD AND CLEAR THAT STUDENTS WANTED FASTER 18 SERVICE. THEY WANTED SHORTER LINES. AND THEY WANTED MORE 19 ACCESS TO FINANCIAL AID. 20 SO I AM VERY PROACTIVE. AND THIS IS A SOLUTION, 21 WHICH IS THE GREEN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION, WHICH WILL HELP 22 FINANCIAL AID TREMENDOUSLY IN HOW WE CAN ADDRESS THESE 23 CONCERNS. 24 FIRST, IT WILL HELP US TO CREATE ELECTRONIC 25 FILES FOR EACH STUDENT. MEANING THAT INSTEAD OF HAVING A MARCH 25, 2010 194 1 CENTRALIZED OFFICE, WE CAN BEGIN TO DECENTRALIZE THE 2 OFFICE AND HAVE EMPLOYEES OF THE OFFICE WORKING AT THE 3 DIFFERENT CAMPUSES. 4 SECONDLY, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO SUBMIT THEIR 5 FORMS VIA THE WEB WITHOUT COMING TO THE OFFICE AND WAIT IN 6 THOSE LONG LINES. AND IT WOULD BE A MUCH FASTER AND 7 FRIENDLIER SERVICE. SO IF YOU COULD APPROVE THIS 8 RESOLUTION, THAT WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE STUDENTS. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT 10 WILL BE FUNDED BY A GRANT; IS THAT CORRECT? 11 MR. BELL: IT IS FUNDED BY A GRANT WHICH IS 12 SPECIFICALLY FOR THE FINANCIAL AID OFFICE. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. TRUSTEE WONG. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: MR. BELL, WE ALL KNOW THE ISSUE 15 OR THE DIFFICULTY OF APPLYING FOR PELL GRANTS WAS ON THE 16 FRONT PAGE OF THE CHRONICLE A FEW DAYS AGO. AND I KNOW I 17 E-MAILED YOU RIGHT AFTER THAT. AND I JUST WANTED TO KNOW 18 WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS GOING TO HELP IN TERMS OF ALSO 19 FACILITATING THAT. AND MAYBE THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO ASK 20 YOU, BUT WHAT IS YOUR OFFICE DOING TO FACILITATE THE 21 APPLICATION, THE STUDENT APPLICATION FOR PELL GRANTS WHICH 22 MANY ARE SAYING THEY AREN'T APPLYING FOR BECAUSE IT IS TOO 23 CONVOLUTED AND TOO DIFFICULT OR TOO COMPLICATED OR 24 WHATEVER. AND I DON'T EXPECT -- I DON'T NEED AN ANSWER 25 RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S 11:00 O'CLOCK. MARCH 25, 2010 195 1 MR. BELL: WE HAVE A RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS 2 APPLYING FOR FINANCIAL AID. SO THIS SPECIFIC STUDENT THAT 3 WAS IN THE CHRONICLE, I CALLED HER MYSELF. AND I TOLD HER 4 THAT SHE NEEDED TO COME BACK TO THE COLLEGE. AND I MADE 5 AN APPOINTMENT FOR HER TO SEE ME ON MONDAY, LAST MONDAY. 6 AND SO SHE CAME IN AND WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS. 7 BASICALLY SHE CANNOT GIVE UP BECAUSE OF THE LONG LINES, 8 AND SHE WAS FRUSTRATED BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T ACCESS THE -- 9 TRUSTEE WONG: I'M TALKING ABOUT BEYOND ONE 10 STUDENT WHO WAS INTERVIEWED IN GENERAL. WE ARE LOOKING AT 11 HOW WE COULD FACILITATE THIS SO THAT STUDENTS ARE NOT 12 DISCOURAGED IN APPLYING FOR THESE PELL GRANTS. 13 MR. BELL: YEAH. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S THE CHARGE OF YOUR OFFICE. 15 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. 16 MR. BELL: BASICALLY, THIS TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP 17 US BY DECENTRALIZING A LITTLE BIT OF THE OFFICE AND THEN 18 THE NEW ONE-STEP SITE THAT WE ARE PLANNING TO HAVE IN THE 19 NEW BUILDING WITH THE FINANCIAL AID. AND WE DEDICATED 20 STUFF TO HELP STUDENTS FILE SHOULD ALSO HELP. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: OKAY. THANK YOU. 22 MR. BELL: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE WONG. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: I THOUGHT TRUSTEE JACKSON 24 WANTED TO SPEAK ON THIS, BUT HE'S LEFT SO IF HE'S NOT 25 COMING BACK -- MARCH 25, 2010 196 1 TRUSTEE WONG: CALL FOR THE QUESTION. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF I COULD HAVE THE VOTES, ALL 3 THOSE IN FAVOR -- 4 MR. GABOR: I HAD A CARD. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY, ATTILA. YOU DID 6 HAVE A CARD. 7 THANKS FOR SPEAKING UP. 8 MR. GABOR: MY NAME IS ATTILA GABOR. I AM GOING 9 TO SPEAK AS THE SHARED GOVERNANCE, THE DISTRICT SHARED 10 GOVERNANCE COORDINATOR, TO JUST REMIND THE BOARD THAT 11 THERE ARE TWO DISTRICT POLICIES, HOW THE SHARED GOVERNMENT 12 POLICIES SHOULD BE HANDLE. 13 AND THE LAST ONE, THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE THAT 14 WAS PASSED LAST YEAR, CLEARLY STATED THAT THINGS GO 15 THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE GOES THROUGH THE THREE COUNCILS, 16 ACADEMIC SENATE, COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL, OR PBC. THESE 17 DOCUMENTS PUTS THE FINANCIAL SHARED GOVERNANCE. IT DID 18 NOT. ITCP, THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT WENT THROUGH. AND THIS 19 IS SOMETHING THAT IS A REOCCURRING PROBLEM WE ARE HAVING. 20 PEOPLE GO TO SUBCOMMITTEES. COMMITTEES NEVER COME TO THE 21 TOP. THE CHANCELLOR DOESN'T SEE IT. THE COLLEGE 22 LEADERSHIP DOESN'T SEE IT AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT -- NO. 23 I'M LOOKING AT IT. I DON'T KNOW IF IT NEEDS TO GO TO THE 24 COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL OR SHARED GOVERNANCE, PERIOD, 25 THIS DOCUMENT BECAUSE IT'S A GRANT. MARCH 25, 2010 197 1 BUT THIS IS JUST A REOCCURRING PROBLEM. AND I 2 ENCOURAGE THE BOARD. IT'S VERY SIMPLE. LOOK AT THE 3 DOCUMENTS. IT SAYS, "CACT OR ACADEMIC SENATE." ANYTHING 4 ELSE, IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: PRESIDENT MARKS, WE DIDN'T VOTE 7 YET. CAN WE VOTE ON THIS? 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S AN ISSUE 10 HERE. 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YEAH, IF I MAY, WE HAVE 12 BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PRODUCT FOR YEARS. AND WE'VE 13 TALKED ABOUT SCANNING DOCUMENTS AND SO FORTH. I DID TALK 14 IN DETAIL WITH DEAN BELL ABOUT THIS PRODUCT. IT HAS BEEN 15 PRESENTED AS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO HELP. IT WILL HELP 16 TREMENDOUSLY. IT DID GO THROUGH ITCP. 17 I THINK THAT ATTILA, OF COURSE, IS CORRECT IN 18 TERMS OF SOME OF THIS. I DON'T THINK THE RESULT WILL BE 19 ANY DIFFERENT WHATSOEVER, BUT THIS IS TECHNOLOGY 20 ENHANCEMENT THAT BASICALLY MUST BE PUT INTO PLACE. THE 21 LONGER WE WAIT, THE MORE MONEY WE ARE LOSING BECAUSE WE 22 ARE HAVING PEOPLE SITTING AROUND TRYING TO DO THINGS THAT 23 WE COULD ACTUALLY JUST BE VERY, VERY EFFICIENT IN TERMS OF 24 GETTING THIS DONE. IT'S A PROBLEM THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE, 25 SO I DEFINITELY 100 PERCENT SUPPORT THIS ONE BECAUSE -- MARCH 25, 2010 198 1 AND I WILL TAKE THE HEAT IN TERMS OF IT NOT GOING TO A 2 HIGHER SHARED GOVERNANCE, BUT IT DID GO TO ITCP. IT HAD A 3 GOOD DISCUSSION THERE. AND IT WAS SUPPORTED THERE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? 5 I HAVE A FEELING YOU DO. JUST SAY YOUR NAME 6 AGAIN. 7 MR. VAN LEHN: GLEN VAN LEHN, I.T.S. DEPARTMENT, 8 NETWORK ENGINEER, SYSTEMS AND WORKS. 9 ATTILA AND I ALSO HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS ABOUT 10 THIS PRODUCT WITHIN I.T.S. KNOWING THERE ARE VARIOUS 11 DIFFERENT IMAGING POSSIBILITIES; THAT WE'VE COME TO AN 12 AGREEMENT THAT THIS PRODUCT GOING THROUGH BANNER, WHICH IS 13 OUR CURRENT ERP PROCESS IS POSSIBLY THE -- IF WE HAVE ONE 14 IMAGING SYSTEM THAT WORKS, IT'S BETTER THAN HAVING THREE 15 OR FOUR DIFFERENT ONES THAT ALSO WORK, BUT ARE ALSO 16 INCOMPATIBLE. 17 AND I THINK THAT THE SENSE WITHIN I.T.S. IS THAT 18 THIS IS ALSO OKAY FOR THEM TO DO. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 20 MR. GABOR: POINT OF CLARIFICATION. 21 ONCE AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO CALL THIS BOARD'S 22 ATTENTION TO THAT. I JUST WANTED TO, IN MY CAPACITY, 23 POINT OUT. THAT'S ALL IT WAS. I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES 24 THAT IT'S PROBABLY THE BEST PRODUCT OUT THERE. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: I THINK THIS GOES BACK TO THE MARCH 25, 2010 199 1 POINT I WAS MAKING TO GUS IS THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE 2 SHARED GOVERNANCE AND WHAT'S WORKING AND WHAT'S NOT 3 WORKING. AND WHAT WE NEED TO HAVE PRESENTED TO US, BUT 4 LET'S PASS THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION. SO NO FURTHER 5 CONVERSATION. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF B6, 9 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 10 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 18 TRUSTEE NGO AND TRUSTEE JACKSON -- TRUSTEE NGO 19 IS HERE. HE IS VOTING "AYE" TOO. TRUSTEE JACKSON IS NOT 20 HERE. 21 SO IF WE CAN -- LET'S SEE HOW FAST WE CAN GO 22 THROUGH THESE OTHER RESOLUTIONS. 23 STARTING WITH B1, PLEASE. 24 IF SOMEONE CAN MOVE B1, PLEASE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. MARCH 25, 2010 200 1 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG; 3 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 4 ANY DISCUSSION ON B1? 5 IF NOT -- 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I DO. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY, TRUSTEE RIZZO. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: DID THESE GO THROUGH THE 9 FACILITIES COMMITTEE OR ARE THESE THE ONES THAT DID NOT 10 OR -- 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: THEY ARE NOT FACILITIES 12 RESOLUTIONS. 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, THEY ARE NOT. 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THEY ARE AUDIT CONTRACTS. 15 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, AUDIT CONTRACTS. OH, 16 OKAY. THANK YOU. 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SURE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, YOUR 19 VOTE. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF B1, 22 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 23 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 201 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 6 B1 PASSES. 7 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR B3, PLEASE. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: I WILL MOVE B3. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG; 11 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 12 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON B3? 13 COUNSEL BATTISTE: MR. PRESIDENT. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY. 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE JUST A 16 BRIEF COMMENT. 17 AFTER THE FACILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE, I 18 SPOKE WITH GENERAL COUNSEL LEE ABOUT THE ISSUE IN NUMBER 19 A, SUBSECTION A, WITH PLANT CONSTRUCTION FOR THE 101651. 20 I BELIEVE THE ISSUE WAS PRESENTED IN FIT AND 21 PROBABLY THE REASON WHY IT COMES TO THE FULL BOARD WITHOUT 22 RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO BOARD -- APPARENT 23 BOARD APPROVAL FOR THE CONTRACT FOR PLANT TO DO THE LEAD 24 CERTIFICATION. I MEAN THERE WAS NO RATIFICATION OF THE 25 CONTRACT THAT THE PROJECT MANAGER COULD FIND. MARCH 25, 2010 202 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHICH ITEM? I REMEMBER 2 THAT FROM THE FIT COMMITTEE, BUT WHICH -- 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: B3(A). 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YOU ARE SPEAKING TO THIS 5 PARTICULAR ASPECT, NOT TO THE ENTIRE PLANT CONTRACT. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: NO. NO. NO. JUST TO THIS. 7 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 8 COUNSEL BATTISTE: JUST TO THIS ONE ITEM. 9 AND I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT I DID SPEAK WITH 10 THE GENERAL COUNSEL ABOUT IT. HE GAVE ME SOME CASES THAT 11 I WANT TO SPEND SOME MORE TIME LOOKING INTO. I HAVE ONE 12 CASE IN FRONT OF ME THAT BASICALLY STATES IF YOU ARE 13 INTERESTED, THAT EVEN THOUGH THE STATUTES, THE ED CODE 14 81655 ALLOWS FOR OFFICERS OF THE DISTRICT TO CONTRACT WITH 15 OUTSIDE ENTITIES. NEVERTHELESS, THAT HAS TO BE RATIFIED 16 BY THE BOARD, SO I WANTED TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION. 17 IF YOU WANTED TO HAVE US LOOK INTO IT MORE, I'M 18 HAPPY TO DO THAT. BUT I WANTED TO BRING THAT TO THE 19 BOARD'S ATTENTION BEFORE YOU VOTE ON IT. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO WE ARE VOTING, IF I 21 REMEMBER, WHAT IS HERE, VOTING ON SOMETHING THAT HAS 22 ALREADY BEEN SPENT, MONEY THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SPENT. 23 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES, THAT'S CORRECT. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN 25 WORKING TO GET AWAY FROM. MARCH 25, 2010 203 1 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: FOR BOTH A AND B OR JUST A? 3 COUNSEL BATTISTE: JUST A. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: JUST A, THE $101,000. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF INFORMATION. SO HOW DID 6 IT GET AUTHORIZED? 7 MR. LIGGETT: DAVID LIGGETT, DIRECTOR OF 8 FACILITIES. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CORRECT THE STATEMENT 9 THAT WAS MADE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 11 MR. LIGGETT: ITEM B IS ALSO RETRO TOO. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: ITEM B. 13 MR. LIGGETT: THERE WERE PRE-BID SERVICES THAT 14 WERE ENGAGED IN. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M SORRY. I CAN'T HEAR YOU. 16 MR. LIGGETT: I'M SORRY. ITEM B ON THE MATRIX, 17 THERE ARE RETRO ITEMS ALSO. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: ITEM B ON B3. 19 MR. LIGGETT: YEAH. PLANT PERFORMED SERVICES 20 PRE-BID AND THAT INCLUDES FEES TO THEM. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY ARE EXECUTED? 22 MR. LIGGETT: NO, I DO NOT. IN THE CASE OF ITEM 23 A, WE FOUND A DOCUMENT THAT WAS SIGNED BY THE FORMER 24 ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR. IT WAS THE LETTER FORMAT THAT 25 WAS GIVEN BACK TO PLANT TELLING THEM TO PROCEED WITH THE MARCH 25, 2010 204 1 LEAD CERTIFICATION APPLICATION ITEM B. 2 WHAT WE DISCOVERED AS WE STARTED TO MAKE THE 3 FINAL PAYMENTS TO PLANT IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY AND 4 FEBRUARY, THERE WERE INSUFFICIENT FUNDS. WE HAD SWINERTON 5 MANAGEMENT LOOK INTO IT. THEY WENT BACK AND AUDITED, ALL 6 THE FINANCIAL RECORDS. AND THEY FOUND THAT THERE WERE 7 SOME PAYMENTS THAT WERE MADE DURING THE PRE-BID PERIOD TO 8 PLANT THAT WERE UNACCOUNTED FOR. AND WHEN YOU ADD THAT 9 ALTOGETHER, IT EXCEEDS THE BOARD AUTHORIZED MAXIMUM 10 AMOUNT. 11 COUNSEL BATTISTE: AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO 12 REITERATE THAT THE PROJECT MANAGER AT JOHN ADAMS, I THINK 13 HE WAS QUITE SURPRISED BY THE SWELL. AND HE'S FOUND NO 14 APPARENT BOARD AUTHORITY AT LEAST FOR IT. I DON'T KNOW IF 15 DAVID CAN SPEAK TO B, BUT HE'S FOUND NO APPARENT BOARD 16 AUTHORITY FOR A. 17 MR. LIGGETT: THERE IS NO BOARD AUTHORITY FOR A. 18 WE COULD NOT FIND IT. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS WAS BASICALLY JIM 20 BLOMQUIST -- 21 MR. LIGGETT: SIGNING A DOCUMENT BACK IN JUNE. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- SIGNING IT, YEAH. 23 MR. LIGGETT: BASICALLY, PLANT WROTE A LETTER TO 24 THE DISTRICT SAYING, WOULD YOU LIKE US TO PERFORM THESE 25 SERVICES FOR THE DISTRICT? AND JIM SIGNED AT THE BOTTOM MARCH 25, 2010 205 1 LAST JUNE. SO WE FOUND A SIGNED DOCUMENT THAT WAS GIVEN 2 TO US BY PLANT. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLANT CAME TO YOU WITH 4 THIS DOCUMENT. AND SAID, HERE WE DID THIS WORK -- 5 MR. LIGGETT: WE HAD AUTHORIZATION. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLEASE PAY US. AND YOU 7 DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. 8 THIS IS WHY THE FIT COMMITTEE FORWARDED THIS 9 WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO -- WE 10 DIDN'T WANT A RECOMMENDATION, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO KILL 11 IT IN COMMITTEE. WE WANTED THE FULL BOARD TO HEAR ABOUT 12 IT. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION, 14 PETER? 15 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SURE. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M JUST WONDERING IF THE 17 BOARD COULD GET A LIST OF ISSUES THAT -- IT DOESN'T MATTER 18 WHO NECESSARILY. I MEAN IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ARISING NOW 19 AS PROBLEMS. I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO KNOW, 20 AND I THINK THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW TOO, WHAT THE COST 21 WAS? WHAT THE ISSUES WERE? 22 BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE FACED 23 WITH AT SOME POINT IS THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A 24 DECISION ABOUT SHIFTING SOME THINGS PERHAPS. AND I THINK 25 WE NEED TO DO IT WITH AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN GET. MARCH 25, 2010 206 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I THINK TRUSTEE RIZZO HAS 2 ALREADY ASKED FOR THAT -- 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. THAT'S GREAT. THANKS. 4 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- IN THE FIT COMMITTEE, SO WE 5 WILL PRODUCE THAT. 6 I WOULD JUST POINT OUT THAT IF THE BOARD DOES 7 APPROVE THIS, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS RETROACTIVE AS HAS BEEN 8 POINTED OUT. IT DOES NOT -- YOU ARE NOT BEING ASKED TO 9 INCREASE THE TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET. THESE EXPENDITURES 10 WILL STILL FIT WITHIN THE JOHN ADAMS PROJECT. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. THANK YOU. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHAT IF WE DON'T APPROVE 13 IT? WHAT HAPPENS? 14 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, THEN WE WOULD BE -- HAVE 15 THESE BILLS BEEN PAID ALREADY? 16 MR. LIGGETT: NO. WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE PAID 17 PLANT UP TO THE CEILING THAT THE BOARD AUTHORIZED. AND WE 18 HAVE MADE NO PAYMENTS PASSED THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT THE 19 BOARD AUTHORIZED. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 21 MR. LIGGETT: SO ALL OF THIS IS ON HOLD WAITING 22 FOR DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: SO THE ANSWER IS WE WILL NOT 24 PAY THEM UNTIL WE GET SOME AUTHORITY TO PAY THEM. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. MARCH 25, 2010 207 1 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I -- 2 TRUSTEE BERG: I HAVE A QUESTION. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: OH, I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T SEE 4 YOU, TRUSTEE BERG. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: IT SEEMS TO ME WHEN WE PUT OUT 6 THE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, 7 THE PROJECTS THEMSELVES WILL INCLUDE LEAD CERTIFICATION. 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES, THAT'S CORRECT. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: SO AS A MATTER OF FACT, THIS IS 10 APPROVED BY VIRTUE OF THAT ORIGINAL CONTRACT BECAUSE WE 11 SAID -- WE ARE VERY SPECIFIC THAT WE WANT ALL OF THE 12 BUILDINGS BUILT TO LEAD SPECIFICATIONS. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH, AND WE'VE HEARD THAT FROM 14 THE BOARD. AND WE ACTUALLY MAKE THAT A CRITERIA. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, SO I THINK AT LEAST A IS 16 COVERED BECAUSE IT'S BEEN PRE-AUTHORIZED BECAUSE IT'S 17 IMPLICIT IN THE RFQ WAS THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO 18 DO THIS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE LEAD CERTIFICATION. SO I 19 WOULD SAY A SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT SHOULD BE FINE. THAT'S 22 PREAPPROVED. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: I APPRECIATE THE TALK ABOUT MARCH 25, 2010 208 1 PROCESS. AND I'M GOING TO TRY TO ASK US TO ALL BE 2 CONSISTENT HERE. I ASSUME THE PROCESS REQUIRES THAT THE 3 BOARD AUTHORIZE EXPENDITURES IN THIS AMOUNT OF THESE 4 CHANGE ORDERS. I EXPECT THAT PROCESS REQUIRES THAT THERE 5 ARE NO IMPLICIT AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS, BUT EXPLICIT 6 AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS. I EXPECT THE PROCESS DOES REQUIRE 7 THAT. 8 AND I WANT US TO BE CONSISTENT WHEN WE TALK 9 ABOUT PROCESS. AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE EQUALLY OUTRAGED 10 WHEN THE PROCESS BYPASSES THIS BOARD; THAT WE HOLD PEOPLE 11 ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT. AND WE DON'T MAKE ARGUMENTS AND 12 JUSTIFICATIONS TO WHY THEY SHOULD NOT BE. 13 PROCESS REQUIRES THAT THIS WAS AUTHORIZED OR 14 THIS BE AUTHORIZED BY THIS BOARD. I DON'T THINK ANYONE 15 DISPUTES THAT. SO LET'S BE CONSISTENT IN OUR APPLICATION 16 OF THE TERM PROCESS AND HOW PROCESS CAN BUILD TRUST 17 BETWEEN PARTIES, THE ADMINISTRATION, AND THIS BOARD. 18 I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR THIS RESOLUTION UNDER 19 THE RESPECT PROCESS. I THINK SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD CARRY 20 THE BURDEN OF THIS CONDUCT. I DON'T THINK THE DISTRICT 21 SHOULD. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: CAN I -- I DON'T MEAN TO CUT 23 YOU OFF. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M DONE. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO IF WE NEVER VOTE TO MARCH 25, 2010 209 1 AUTHORIZE THESE PAYMENTS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN? 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: I WOULD ASSUME PLANT WOULD TRY 3 TO TAKE SOME KIND OF AN ACTION TO TRY TO RECOVER THEIR 4 COST. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 6 COUNSEL BATTISTE: AND IF THEY DID THAT, THEY 7 WOULD BE FACED WITH THE LEGAL MAXIMUM THAT IT'S WELL 8 SETTLED THAT PERSONS DEALING WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE 9 CHARGEABLE WITH SOME NOTICE OF THE LIMITATIONS ON ITS 10 POWER TO CONTRACT. 11 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CAN'T JUST DELEGATE THE 12 AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT AWAY WITHOUT SOME RATIFICATION OF 13 THE BOARD. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: RIGHT. 15 COUNSEL BATTISTE: SO THEY WOULD BE 16 ESSENTIALLY -- I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL, 17 BUT -- 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: THEY WOULDN'T BE SUCCESSFUL. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I'M NOT VOTING FOR 20 THIS. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: WELL, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A 22 PROBLEM I THINK. 23 SO IF THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMENTS, STUDENT 24 TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): I'LL MARCH 25, 2010 210 1 ABSTAIN. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF B3, 3 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 4 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO I THINK TRUSTEE BERG -- 6 JUST INTEREST TRUSTEE BERG. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: NO. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: NO. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: NO. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: NO. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 17 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR B4, PLEASE. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG AND 21 TRUSTEE WONG SECONDED IT. 22 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON B4? 23 IF NOT, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF B4, MARCH 25, 2010 211 1 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 2 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 7 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 10 B4 PASSES. 11 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR B5, PLEASE. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 16 YOU WILL SEE AT THE TOP, "REQUIRES A UNANIMOUS 17 VOTE OF THE BOARD." 18 COUNSEL, DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE NEED TO HAVE ALL 19 OF US VOTING? 20 BECAUSE IF SO, WE NEED TO GET TRUSTEE JACKSON 21 BACK IN HERE. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET HIM 23 IN HERE. 24 LET'S GO ON TO B5(A) WHILE WE ARE WAITING. 25 COUNSEL BATTISTE: I HAVE HIM IN EYE SHOT. MARCH 25, 2010 212 1 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 5 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: HE'S COMING. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: LET'S JUST DO B5(A) AND THEN 7 WE WILL COME BACK. 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE ARE ON B5(A). 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: PARDON ME? 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: B5(A). 11 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK. 13 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE NARROWLY MISSED THE DEADLINE 14 TO TRY TO DISCUSS THIS AT THE FIT COMMITTEE. IN FAIRNESS 15 TO TRUSTEE RIZZO, HE WAS WILLING TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL FIT 16 COMMITTEE TO TRY TO MOVE THIS PRODUCT ALONG AND MOVE THIS 17 RESOLUTION. WE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF CROSS WIRED AND DIDN'T 18 GET THAT SCHEDULED. 19 THIS IS NOT A CHANGE IN TERMS OF WHAT BOVIS 20 ORIGINALLY PROPOSED WHEN THEY SUCCESSFULLY COMPETED FOR 21 THIS CONTRACT. IT'S AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT MORE EXPLICIT 22 BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION PASSED IN JUNE 2006. 23 WHILE IT ESTABLISHED AN $80 MILLION CONSTRUCTION CEILING 24 AT THAT TIME, IT DID NOT SPECIFICALLY SPEAK TO HOW THE 25 LIABILITY INSURANCE WOULD BE PASSED THROUGH TO THE MARCH 25, 2010 213 1 DISTRICT OR HOW THE BUILDER'S CONSTITUENCY WOULD WORK IN 2 EACH OF THE SUBCONTRACTS THAT WE INDIVIDUALLY BID OUT AND 3 THEN NOVATE TO BOVIS. 4 SO IN AN ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY AND HAVE THAT ALL 5 VERY MUCH OUT IN THE OPEN, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BEST TO 6 PASS AN ADDITIONAL RESOLUTION TO SPELL THAT OUT. 7 THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY A DOZEN SUBCONTRACTS THE 8 BOARD HAS ALREADY APPROVED FOR CHINATOWN; THAT WE NEED 9 NOVATE TO HAND OVER TO BOVIS THAT I AM HOLDING ONTO UNTIL 10 WE GET THAT THIS CLARIFICATION OUT IN THE OPEN. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANY QUESTIONS ON B5(A) OR 12 COMMENTS? 13 IF NOT, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR B5(A), 16 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 25 B5(A) PASSES. MARCH 25, 2010 214 1 NOW LET'S GO BACK TO B5, WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN 2 MOVED AND SECONDED I KNOW. IT'S NOT EXACTLY RIGHT TO NOT 3 MOVE IT AGAIN, BUT LET'S JUST GO. AND AS I SAID, IT 4 REQUIRES A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE BOARD. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND WHY DOES IT NEED A 6 UNANIMOUS -- 7 COUNSEL BATTISTE: BECAUSE IT EXCEEDS 8 10 PERCENT. 9 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, IT EXCEEDS -- OH, 10 THAT'S RIGHT. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT B5? 13 IF NOT, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF B5, 16 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 17 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 22 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 25 SO THAT IS A UNANIMOUS VOTE. IT WAS ALL SEVEN MARCH 25, 2010 215 1 OF US AND THE STUDENT TRUSTEE. 2 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR B6, PLEASE -- OH, 3 NO WE DID B6 ALREADY. SORRY. 4 C? NO, WE'VE DONE C. 5 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR F1, PLEASE. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 10 ON THE RESOLUTION THAT'S FILED UNDER THE TAB F1, 11 IT'S BLANK. 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: HERE'S THE NEW DOCUMENT. 13 SO WE HAVE A NEW HANDOUT FOR F1, WHICH IS -- 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: CAN YOU DO F2 AS WELL? 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YOU HAVE F1 AND F2 IN FRONT 16 OF YOU. F1 IS FOR THE INTERIM ASSOCIATE DEAN OF 17 REGISTRATION AND RECORDS. THE PERSON IS MONICA LIEU. 18 SALARY IS AT SCHEDULE CLASSIFICATION C ASSOCIATE DEAN 19 STEP 1. AND THAT'S AN INTERIM POSITION FOR A YEAR OR 20 LESS. 21 DO YOU WANT TO DO F2 AS WELL? 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE WILL DO F2 IN JUST A 23 SECOND. WHY DON'T WE DEAL WITH F1 FIRST? 24 DOES ANYBODY -- 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST HAVE A QUESTION MARCH 25, 2010 216 1 ABOUT THE -- THE NAMES ARE NOT FILLED IN ON THESE 2 RESOLUTIONS. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: THAT'S WHAT HE HAS. 4 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, BUT DID THE PUBLIC 5 SEE THAT. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: YES, THE NAMES WERE GIVEN. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: YEAH. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS 9 ABOUT F1? 10 IF NOT, STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF F1, 13 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 14 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 22 F1 PASSES. 23 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR F2, PLEASE. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. MARCH 25, 2010 217 1 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER, I 3 THINK. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER: BERG. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: BERG. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: CHANCELLOR. 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO F2 IS FOR INTERIM 8 ASSOCIATE DEAN OF CONTRACT ED AND CONTINUING EDUCATION. 9 THE PERSON IS KIT DAI. THE ADMINISTRATIVE SALARY SCHEDULE 10 CLASSIFICATION C ASSOCIATE DEAN STEP 4. EVERYONE HAS 11 THIS. 12 JOHN, DO YOU NEED A COPY OF THIS? 13 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO, THAT'S OKAY. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT F2? 15 IF NOT, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF F2, 18 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 19 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 218 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 2 F2 PASSES. 3 WE CAN GO ON TO -- 4 TRUSTEE BERG: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE ALL THE 5 PERSONNEL RESOLUTIONS G1-H1. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: THAT WAS ALL ON THE CONSENT 7 CALENDAR. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: IT WAS ON THE CONSENT, TRUSTEE 9 BERG. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR 11 P1, PLEASE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO MOVED. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO; 15 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 16 THIS IS THE SECOND READING OF THIS POLICY. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. THIS WAS ACTUALLY -- IT 18 WENT THROUGH TWO COMMITTEES. IT WENT THROUGH FIT. AND IT 19 ALSO WENT THROUGH POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION. WE DID GET 20 SOME CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK AND AMENDED THE RESOLUTION OF 21 THE POLICY ACCORDINGLY. THIS IS A SECOND READING. AND WE 22 WOULD URGE ADOPTION BY MY COLLEAGUES AND WELCOME ANY 23 QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN I ASK WHAT THE CHANGE 25 WAS? MARCH 25, 2010 219 1 TRUSTEE NGO: THERE WAS NO CHANGE ON THE POLICY 2 IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, OKAY. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: THEY WERE ALL MADE AT FIT. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, THAT'S RIGHT. THIS 6 IS THE SECOND READING HERE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS OR 8 COMMENTS, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, P1. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P1, 11 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 12 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 20 P1 PASSES. 21 WHERE IS -- I DON'T HAVE P2 IN HERE, UNLESS IT'S 22 JUST OUT OF ORDER. 23 DO OTHER PEOPLE HAVE P2 IN YOUR BINDERS? 24 TRUSTEE NGO: I DO. YEAH. 25 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES. MARCH 25, 2010 220 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I DO. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 5 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS IS A FIRST READING OF A 7 SERIES OF FISCAL AND ETHIC REFORMS THAT WE'VE INTRODUCED 8 LAST NOVEMBER. THIS CLARIFIES THAT "FOR INFORMATION ONLY" 9 IS ACTUALLY NOT AN AUTHORIZATION. IT NEVER HAS BEEN. BY 10 DEFINITION IT IS NOT AN AUTHORIZATION OR RATIFICATION OF 11 THE BOARD. THIS MAKES THAT QUITE EXPLICIT. I THINK THAT 12 WAS VERY IMPORTANT GIVEN THE CONFUSION THAT SOME MEMBERS 13 OF THE ADMINISTRATION HAD ABOUT -- AND THE BOARD ACTUALLY 14 ABOUT WHAT "FIO" ACTUALLY MEANS. 15 THIS IS JUST A FIRST READING. IT WILL COME BACK 16 FOR A SECOND READING AT WHICH POINT I HOPE WE CAN HAVE A 17 MORE THOROUGH DEBATE ABOUT IT. BUT I WOULD URGE THE 18 PASSAGE OF THE FIRST READING. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 20 SO IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER COMMENTS OR 21 QUESTIONS, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, ON P2. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P2, 24 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 25 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 221 1 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 8 COULD I HAVE A MOTION FOR P3, PLEASE. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 11 IS THERE A SECOND DOWN THERE? 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL SECOND. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS TOO WAS PART OF A PACKAGE 15 THAT WAS INTRODUCED LAST NOVEMBER. THIS WAS HEARD IN THE 16 POLICY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE AND WAS SENT TO THE BOARD 17 FOR A FIRST READING. 18 I WELCOME ANY FEEDBACK TO IT HERE AND ALSO AT 19 THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. BUT BASICALLY, THIS ADDRESSES I 20 THINK SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WERE RAISED IN B3. AND THAT 21 IS IT SIMPLY REQUIRES THAT ANY RATIFICATION OF EXECUTED 22 CONTRACTS BE SPECIFIC AS TO THE DATE THE CONTRACT WAS 23 EXECUTED, THE PERSON WHO EXECUTED THE CONTRACT, AND A 24 FORMAL REQUEST RATIFICATION BY THE BOARD. 25 IT JUST SIMPLY ASKED FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY AND MARCH 25, 2010 222 1 WHO EXECUTED CONTRACTS ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICT, SO I 2 WOULD URGE PASSAGE ON THE FIRST READING OF P3. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 4 IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, 5 STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P3, 8 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 17 I JUST WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN TRUSTEES WONG AND 18 JACKSON AREN'T HERE FOR THAT VOTE. 19 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR P4, PLEASE. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: SECOND. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE 24 NEILSEN. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS AGAIN, IT WAS PART OF A MARCH 25, 2010 223 1 PACKAGE THAT WAS INTRODUCED LAST NOVEMBER TO ADDRESS SOME 2 OF THE ISSUES RAISED IN VARIOUS AUDITS AND THAT HAVE 3 BECOME MORE APPARENT SINCE THEN. THIS ALSO SEEKS TO 4 ADDRESS ISSUES OF RATIFICATION THAT ASK INDIVIDUALS WHO 5 OPERATE OUTSIDE THE COURSE AND SCOPE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT 6 AND THEIR AUTHORITY TO INDEMNIFY THE DISTRICT FOR ANY 7 DAMAGES THAT MAY ARISE FROM THAT EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY OR 8 APPARENT A AUTHORITY. 9 I WOULD WELCOME ANY FEEDBACK FOR THIS PARTICULAR 10 RESOLUTION AT ANY POINT. AND ESPECIALLY, WHEN WE TAKE IT 11 UP FOR A SECOND READING. AT THIS TIME I WOULD URGE 12 ADOPTION ON FIRST READING WITH RECOMMENDATION FROM THE 13 POLICY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 15 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, P4. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P4, 18 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 19 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 24 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: (ABSENT.) MARCH 25, 2010 224 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 2 P4 PASSES. 3 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR P5, PLEASE. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECOND. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 7 BY TRUSTEE RIZZO. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: THIS IS THE SECOND READING. IT 9 REALLY MIRRORS THE PREVIOUS P4 IN THE LANGUAGE IN THAT WE 10 ARE SEEKING TO MAKE CLEARER IN OUR POLICY THAT INDIVIDUALS 11 WHO EXERCISE A CONSCIENCE DISREGARD OF THE CHANGE ORDER 12 POLICY WHICH IS A SPECIFICATION OF STATE LAW THAT THEY 13 ALSO INDEMNIFY THE DISTRICT SIMILAR TO THE MANNER IN WHICH 14 P4 SPECIFIES. 15 THIS HAS BEEN HEARD IN THE FIT COMMITTEE, I 16 BELIEVE. AND IT HAS ALSO BEEN HERE IN POLICY 17 IMPLEMENTATION. 18 I WELCOME ANY FEEDBACK AS WE ARE ADOPTING IT AS 19 BOARD POLICY TONIGHT ON THE SECOND READING. 20 ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER 22 QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR P5, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P5, 25 PLEASE SAY "AYE." MARCH 25, 2010 225 1 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 9 P5 PASSES. 10 TRUSTEE WONG IS HERE FOR THAT ONE. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: I WILL MOVE P6. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: P6 IS MOVING FORWARD A WHOLE 16 BUNCH OF POLICY MANUAL CHANGES THAT WENT THROUGH THE 17 ORIGINAL POLICY REVISION COMMITTEE WAY BACK WHEN IT WAS 18 HELD. IT WAS HELD UP BECAUSE I WAS NOT AVAILABLE, BUT 19 THESE WERE DONE WITH GINNY REIGEL WHEN SHE WAS STILL 20 CONSULTING FOR THE COLLEGE. 21 THESE ARE JUST THINGS THAT HAD TO BE CLEANED UP 22 IN THE POLICY MANUAL THAT WERE OUTDATED. AND THEY NEEDED 23 TO BE UPDATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH NEW LAWS. AND THAT'S 24 JUST SIMPLY AN UPDATE OF WHAT EXISTS IN THE POLICY MANUAL. 25 IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE GONE THROUGH SHARED MARCH 25, 2010 226 1 GOVERNANCE. WE SUBMITTED IT TO RON LEE. AND HE WAS 2 SUPPOSED TO TAKE IT THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE. WHETHER IT 3 GOT THERE OR NOT, I REALLY CAN'T SAY BECAUSE IT HAS NOW 4 BEEN A NUMBER OF MONTHS. I DON'T KNOW. 5 IN ANY EVENT, THESE ARE SIMPLY UPDATES. AND 6 THEY WERE ALL APPROVED BY THE ORIGINAL POLICY REVISION 7 COMMITTEE. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I -- MAY I -- I JOIN TRUSTEE BERG 9 IN URGING ADOPTION ON THE FIRST PASSAGE. THESE BASICALLY 10 ARE PROVISIONS THAT SPECIFY STATE LAW AND UPDATES OUR 11 POLICY TO REFLECT STATE LAW, WHICH WE ARE ALSO TRYING TO 12 DO WITH YOUR OTHER POLICY PROPOSALS. 13 SO, AGAIN, IT'S A FIRST PASSAGE. I HOPE THAT IT 14 DOES GET TAKEN THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE BEFORE WE ADOPT 15 IT ON A SECOND READING. AND THAT IT BECOMES POLICY ONLY 16 AFTER SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEWS THESE SET OF POLICY 17 MANUALS PROPOSALS, WHICH IS QUITE A NUMBER. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 19 TRUSTEE BERG: I WOULD LIKE TO PASS IT ON THE 20 FIRST READING AND THEN WE WILL GIVE IT TO THE SHARED 21 GOVERNANCE, BUT IT'S A WHOLE PILE OF STUFF FOR THEM. IT'S 22 PRETTY TECHNICAL. BUT I HAPPILY SEND IT THROUGH SHARED 23 GOVERNANCE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: IT WAS ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO HAVE MARCH 25, 2010 227 1 GONE THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE. IT DIDN'T GET THERE. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 3 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): ABSTAIN. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P6, 5 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 6 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: (ABSENT.) 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 14 P6 PASSES. 15 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR P7, PLEASE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: P7. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: ACTUALLY, I THINK THIS MIGHT 22 BE -- 23 CHANCELLOR, DID YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS? 24 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YEAH, MISSION VISION HAS 25 GONE THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE AND HAS BEEN REVIEWED AD MARCH 25, 2010 228 1 NAUSEUM. AND EVERYBODY IS BOUGHT INTO IT. IT IS GOOD 2 LANGUAGE, SO -- 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AND IN FACT, IT WENT THROUGH A 4 NUMBER OF ITERATIONS OF SURVEY. I GOT RESULTS OF ALL 5 THOSE SURVEYS. SO IT WAS THOROUGHLY VETTED. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: I THINK YOU MEAN, CHANCELLOR, 7 THOROUGHLY. 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I MEAN, "THOROUGHLY." SOME 9 OF US GOT NAUSEATED, BUT IT WASN'T LIKE THAT. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 11 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF P7, 13 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 14 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 21 P7 PASSES. 22 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR S2. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: SO MOVED. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: SECOND. MARCH 25, 2010 229 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 2 MY ONLY QUESTION ABOUT -- I KNOW WE'VE HAD THIS 3 BEFORE, BUT IT IS NOT HERE, THE DOCUMENT. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT'S NOT IN THERE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S RIGHT HERE. IT'S IN THE 6 REVISED. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: PARDON ME? 8 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S IN THE REVISED -- THE ACTUAL 9 REPORT I SEE. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT'S FINE, BUT I JUST WANTED 11 TO POINT OUT IT'S NOT IN HERE. BUT IF THERE ARE NO 12 QUESTIONS, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF S2, 15 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 16 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: S2 PASSES. 24 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR S3. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: MOVE S3. MARCH 25, 2010 230 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE GRIER. 2 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 4 TRUSTEE GRIER, I THINK YOU SHOULD PROBABLY SAY 5 SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. 6 TRUSTEE GRIER: I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE COMMENTS. 7 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THIS WAS THE BOARD I SERVED 8 ON AT THE STATE LEVEL UNTIL I WAS TERMED OUT. AND SO NOW 9 WE GET A CHANCE TO VOTE FOR SEVEN CANDIDATES WHO ARE 10 RUNNING TO FILL THE OPEN POSITIONS ON THE CALIFORNIA 11 COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. I KNOW SEVERAL OF 12 THE INDIVIDUALS PERSONALLY. AND I'M SURE THEY CAMPAIGNED 13 AND SENT YOU INFORMATION. 14 SO I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I RECOMMEND, AND 15 YOU CAN MAKE YOUR MIND UP ABOUT WHO YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND 16 FORWARD TO THE BOARD. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND WE CAN VOTE FOR UP TO 18 SEVEN. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: YOU CAN VOTE FOR UP TO SEVEN, 20 YES. THERE ARE SEVEN OPEN SEATS SO FAR. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: AND IT'S FOR A THREE-YEAR TERM 23 ON THIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. CY GULASSA IS AT PERALTA 24 COLLEGE, AND THERE'S HISTORY WITH PERALTA COLLEGE. THEY 25 DIDN'T BELONG TO THIS ORGANIZATION FOR A LONG TIME, SO MARCH 25, 2010 231 1 IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT THE EAST BAY IS SENDING A 2 REPRESENTATIVE OR TRYING TO SEND ONE TO SACRAMENTO. 3 ALSO DONALD SINGER IS FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 4 WHEN THEY MAKE THEIR DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR SELECTION, THEY 5 TRY TO BE REGIONAL AND HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH 6 REGION. 7 THE OTHER THING THAT IS A POLICY IS THAT IF 8 THERE IS ONE BOARD MEMBER ON THIS BOARD, THEN THERE'S ONLY 9 ONE ALLOWED, NOT TWO. 10 SO CY IS THE PERSON FROM PERALTA AND DONALD 11 SINGER WAS THE ONE FROM SAN BERNADINO AND WALT HOWALD FROM 12 COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 13 AND I RECOMMEND THESE THREE BECAUSE WALT HOWALD 14 IS ALSO ON THE STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES -- NOT THE STATE, 15 BUT THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND SO IS DONALD 16 SINGER. AND I HAVE WORKED WITH THEM VERY CLOSELY. AND I 17 AM RECOMMENDING CY, DONALD, AND WALTER. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I'LL SECOND IT IF THAT WAS A 19 MOTION. I ASSUME THAT WAS A MOTION. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE JUST HAVE THREE VOTES. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: NO, WE HAVE SEVEN. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE CAN HAVE SEVEN. 23 TRUSTEE GRIER: YOU CAN HAVE SEVEN. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: DOES ANYBODY WANT TO DO THE 25 OTHER FOUR OR SHOULD WE STICK WITH THE THREE? MARCH 25, 2010 232 1 LET'S JUST STICK TO THE THREE IF THERE'S NOBODY 2 ELSE. IS THAT OKAY? 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S FINE. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO, STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, 5 YOUR VOTE ON CY GULASSA, DONALD SINGER AND WALT HOWALD. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THOSE 8 THREE, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 17 S3 PASSES. 18 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR S4, PLEASE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO MOVED. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE RIZZO; 22 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 23 DO YOU OR STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN WANT TO SAY 24 SOMETHING ABOUT THIS? 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, IF I COULD. I ALSO MARCH 25, 2010 233 1 WANT TO NOTE THAT TRUSTEE JACKSON ALSO REQUESTED TO BE 2 LISTED AS A SPONSOR, SO IF WE COULD NOTE THAT, THAT WOULD 3 BE GOOD. 4 BASICALLY, THE STATE -- THE LEGISLATIVE 5 ANALYST'S OFFICE HAS PROPOSED RAISING STUDENT FEES TO $40 6 A CREDIT. 18 MONTHS AGO IT WAS $20 A CREDIT. AND I 7 THOUGHT WE SHOULD GO ON RECORD AS OPPOSING THAT. 8 THE OTHER THING IS THAT THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY 9 COLLEGE LEAGUE, WHO WE JUST VOTED FOR BOARD MEMBERS, 10 SUPPORTS THE HIKE TO $32 PER CREDIT. I THOUGHT WE SHOULD 11 ALSO OPPOSE THAT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD BE AND 12 WE SHOULD SUPPORTING ANY STUDENT FEE INCREASES AT THIS 13 POINT. THE STUDENTS TOOK A BIG FEE INCREASE FROM $20 TO 14 $26. AND IT'S TAKEN A TOLL. AND WE SHOULD BE ASKING FOR 15 A FEE ROLLBACK, NOT ACCEPTING $32. 16 SO I WOULD -- I TOOK THIS TO THE ASSOCIATED 17 STUDENTS AT OCEAN CAMPUS. THEY GAVE UNANIMOUS SUPPORT AT 18 THE MEETING I WAS AT, BUT IT WASN'T AGENIZED. SO THEY HAD 19 TO APPROVE IT AT THE SUBSEQUENT MEETING, WHICH THEY DID. 20 THEY ARE IN SUPPORT. 21 SO I WOULD LIKE US TO COMMUNICATE TO THE LEAGUE, 22 COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA, AND OUR STATE 23 LEGISLATURES THAT WE, CITY COLLEGE, OPPOSE ANY FEE 24 INCREASES. AND THAT'S THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS RESOLUTION. 25 TRUSTEE GRIER: PRESIDENT MARKS. MARCH 25, 2010 234 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE GRIER. 2 TRUSTEE GRIER: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT. 3 I SERVED ON THIS BOARD, THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY 4 COLLEGE COLLEAGUE BOARD, FOR THREE TERMS. AND EACH TIME 5 THE FEE INCREASE CAME UP, I WAS IN THE MINORITY BECAUSE I 6 VOTE AGAINST IT. 7 BUT SINCE WE ARE VOTING TONIGHT AND WE VOTED FOR 8 THE ELECTION OF THESE THREE MEMBERS TO THE BOARD, I WILL 9 LET THEM KNOW THE DESIRE OF THE BOARD AND THE ASSOCIATED 10 STUDENTS THAT THEY NOT SUPPORT SUCH AN ITEM AND REMIND 11 THEM THAT WE ENDORSED THEM IN THIS ELECTION. 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO 15 SAY REALLY BRIEF. FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO THANK TRUSTEE 16 RIZZO FOR HIS ADVOCACY EFFORTS IN ADVOCATING AGAINST THE 17 BUDGET CUTS. I KNOW THIS PAST MONDAY I DID SEE JOHN RIZZO 18 MARCH ALONG WITH ALL THE VARIOUS STUDENTS TO THE STATE 19 CAPITOL. I DO BELIEVE THERE WAS PROBABLY OTHER TRUSTEES 20 AS WELL, BUT YOU GUYS HEARD IT EARLIER FROM COMMENTS THAT 21 IT WAS ABOUT 10 TO 15,000 INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE THERE AT 22 THE PROTEST. 23 I JUST THINK IT'S REALLY ABSURD AS FAR AS THE 24 FEE HIKE IN GENERAL. I KNOW A WHILE BACK, I DON'T KNOW 25 ORIGINALLY IF IT WAS 2006 WHEN THEY INCREASED IT BACK THEN MARCH 25, 2010 235 1 FROM $20 TO $26 PER UNIT, ABOUT 300,000 STUDENTS ACROSS 2 THE STATE DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE. 3 NOW I KNOW CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO HAS 4 MADE GREAT EFFORTS IN REGARDS TO THE BUDGET CRISIS WE ARE 5 CURRENTLY IN BECAUSE TUITION HAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY. 6 AND I THINK THAT'S DUE TO THE ECONOMIC RECESSION THAT WE 7 ARE CURRENTLY IN. 8 I THINK TRUSTEE RIZZO IS RIGHT ON WHEN WE SHOULD 9 OPPOSE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEAGUE; THAT THEY ARE TRYING 10 TO IMPOSE THIS $32 PER UNIT HIKE INCREASE, WHICH IS 11 RIDICULOUS. I THINK NO STUDENT SHOULD HAVE TO BE CLOSED 12 FROM ANY TYPE OF OPPORTUNITY WITHIN A POTENTIAL EDUCATION 13 THAT COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROVIDES. 14 OBVIOUSLY, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT A COMMUNITY 15 COLLEGE LEVEL PROVIDES EDUCATION TO THE WORKING CLASS AND 16 TO THE LOWER CLASS. SO WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS WHOLE 17 BUDGET CUT CRISIS AS A WHOLE, IT'S REALLY DETRIMENTAL THAT 18 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST EFFECTED ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 19 REALLY TRYING TO STRIVE FOR ANY TYPE OF EDUCATION, 20 REGARDLESS OF THEIR SITUATION LIKE LOWER CLASS, WORKING 21 CLASS. WHY ISN'T IT HAPPENING TO THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, 22 FROM MIDDLE CLASS, HIGHER CLASS, OR FOR THOSE TYPE OF 23 INDIVIDUALS? 24 IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST 25 IMPACTED ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST IMPOVERISHED. AND MARCH 25, 2010 236 1 WHAT TYPE OF EDUCATION ARE WE REALLY GOING TO PROVIDE FOR 2 THE FUTURE IN REGARDS TO THIS. 3 SO I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD TRUSTEE RIZZO FOR 4 WORKING ON THIS RESOLUTION AND I COMPLETELY AGREE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: ATTILA GABOR. 7 MR. GABOR: I AM ALSO VERY GOOD AT THIS 8 RESOLUTION. I FEEL IT'S CRIMINAL FROM OUR GOVERNMENT THAT 9 WE TOOK IN THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION THAT POSITION VERY 10 RIGHTFULLY SO THAT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TO ENSURE 11 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES IS REALLY GOING TO BE IN THE 12 FUTURE BUT THEN IT WAS THE 20TH CENTURY. SO THEY LOOKED 13 AT THE 21ST CENTURY AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 14 COMMODITY. AND WE ARE APPROACHING -- OUR ECONOMY WAS 15 GEARED TOWARDS THAT. THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE SILICON VALLEY 16 AT THE TOP. AND NOW THAT VERY SAME GOVERNMENT IS IMPOSING 17 THESE EXTRA FEES. 18 I REMEMBER IT WAS IN 1986 WHEN THE FIRST FEE 19 INCREASE -- UNTIL THAT POINT, COMMUNITY COLLEGES WERE 20 FREE. THE $5 PER UNIT WAS -- I THINK IT WAS $5 PER UNIT 21 WAS IMPLEMENTED. AND IT WAS -- WE WERE PROMISED BY 22 GOVERNOR PETE WILSON BACK THEN, THAT'S ONLY FOR ONE 23 SEMESTER. WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT ONE SEMESTER IS ONE 24 OF THE SEMESTERS THAT POOR STUDENTS WHO DON'T GET INTO 25 CLASSES EXPERIENCE IT JUST TAKES FOREVER.SO I'M REALLY MARCH 25, 2010 237 1 GLAD TO SEE THAT WE ARE DOING SOMETHING ON OUR END. 2 I KNOW IT'S STARTING TO HAVE THE IMPACT THAT WE 3 ALL WISH IT WOULD HAVE, BUT NEVERTHELESS, IT'S A NOBLE 4 EFFORT. AND I THANK YOU. 5 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANKS. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANKS VERY MUCH. 7 IF THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, 8 STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF S4, 11 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 12 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 20 S4 PASSES. 21 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR S5, PLEASE. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: SECOND. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE MARCH 25, 2010 238 1 NEILSEN. 2 A MAJOR REQUIREMENT OF PROPOSITION 39, WHICH 3 ENABLES SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS 4 TO PASS BOND PROPOSITIONS BY A 55 PERCENT MAJORITY RATHER 5 THAN A TWO-THIRDS, IS THE CREATION OF AN INDEPENDENT 6 CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, WHICH THIS BOARD HAS DONE 7 SEVERAL TIMES. 8 WHERE WE ARE AT THE MOMENT IS THREE -- LET ME 9 STEP BACK FOR A SECOND. THE PROPOSITION 39 REQUIRES 10 MEMBERSHIP OF THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE OF ONE STUDENT 11 ENROLLED AND ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUPPORT 12 GROUPS, SUCH AS THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT. 13 ONE MEMBER ACTIVE IN THE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 14 REPRESENTING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY LOCATED IN THE 15 DISTRICTS. ONE MEMBER ACTIVE IN THE SENIOR CITIZENS 16 ORGANIZATION. ONE MEMBER ACTIVE IN THE BONA FIDE 17 TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION. AND ONE MEMBER ACTIVE IN THE 18 SUPPORT ORGANIZATION FOR THE COLLEGE, SUCH AS THE 19 FOUNDATION. IT ALSO SAYS THERE WOULD BE TWO MEMBERS 20 REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY. 21 WHAT WE'VE DECIDED TO DO, INSTEAD OF THE TWO 22 MEMBERS, IS TO HAVE THE SEVEN ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 23 EACH NOMINATE ONE PERSON FOR THE BOARD. 24 AND THOSE PEOPLE HAVE -- I THINK IT'S TWO 25 THREE-YEAR TERMS IS THE MAXIMUM THEY CAN SERVE. MARCH 25, 2010 239 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: TWO TWO-YEAR TERMS. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: TWO TWO-YEAR TERMS. I'M 3 SORRY. TWO, TWO-YEAR TERMS. 4 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SOME OF US HAVE 5 NOMINATED FOR THE BOARD WHOSE TERMS ARE CONTINUING. THREE 6 TRUSTEES, TRUSTEES BERG, GRIER, AND WONG HAVE AN OPEN 7 APPOINTMENT AND OPEN SEAT BECAUSE OF THE TERM LIMITS. 8 SO AT OUR NEXT MEETING IN APRIL, IF THOSE 9 THREE -- BEFORE THAT TIME, IF THOSE THREE TRUSTEES WILL 10 HAVE TURNED INTO THE CHANCELLOR YOUR NOMINEE, THAT WOULD 11 BE GREAT. 12 ON THE OTHER ONES, ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL ONES 13 WHERE SOMEBODY HAS TO COME FROM A ORGANIZATION, WHAT THIS 14 RESOLUTION IS SEEKING TO DO IS TO GIVE DIRECTION TO THE 15 CHANCELLOR BY IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE OF THESE GROUPS. 16 THESE ARE JUST ONES THAT I PUT DOWN JUST FROM MY OWN 17 KNOWLEDGE OF ORGANIZATIONS. WE CAN PICK FROM THESE OR WE 18 CAN ADD, BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO GIVE THE 19 CHANCELLOR ONE OR TWO ORGANIZATIONS AND THEN HE OR HIS 20 REPRESENTATIVES CAN GO TO THESE VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND 21 SEE IF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS WOULD LIKE TO APPOINT SOMEBODY 22 TO BE ON THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND THEN WE WILL VOTE ON 23 THAT, THOSE NAMES AS WELL NEXT MONTH. 24 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: PRESIDENT MARKS, I MARCH 25, 2010 240 1 ACTUALLY HAVE A CANDIDATE WHO COULD SERVE ON THE 2 TAXPAYERS' SLOT, WHICH I COULD -- SHOULD I GIVE THAT NAME 3 TO -- 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: BUT IS IT PART OF A TAXPAYERS' 5 ASSOCIATION? IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND ONE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK I HAVE FOUND ONE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 8 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND I HAVE TALKED TO HIM 9 ABOUT IT. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO THEN WHAT ABOUT THE 11 OTHER -- 12 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, MY QUESTION IS 13 SHOULD I JUST GIVE THAT NAME TO THE CHANCELLOR. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: YES. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU 15 SAY -- CAN YOU SAY WHAT THAT NAME IS? 16 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: GEORGE WOODING 17 (PHONETIC). 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: WOODING? 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WOODING. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 21 SO ON THE OTHER ONES, LET'S JUST START AT THE 22 TOP ONE. 23 STUDENT -- 24 TRUSTEE BERG: PRESIDENT MARKS, THIS FORMER 25 STUDENT PRESIDENT WHO WAS HERE EARLIER AND COULDN'T WAIT MARCH 25, 2010 241 1 BECAUSE THE MEETING WAS TOO LATE, REQUESTED THAT "GENERAL 2 ASSEMBLY" BE DELETED BECAUSE HE SAID, HE WANTED IT -- 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE CAN DO IT. THAT'S FINE. 4 TRUSTEE BERG: HE JUST SAID THAT IT WASN'T AN 5 ORGANIZED -- 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 7 SO BETWEEN THE OTHER TWO SHALL WE -- WE JUST 8 NEED A RECOMMENDATION. IF SOMEBODY JUST WANTS TO MAKE A 9 RECOMMENDATION. IF WE STICK WITH THE STUDENT TRUSTEE 10 WHICH IS WHAT IT'S BEEN IN THE PAST AND LEAVE IT AT THAT. 11 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 13 THEN ON THE ONE MEMBER ACTIVE IN THE BUSINESS 14 ORGANIZATION, REPRESENTING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY LOCATED 15 IN THE DISTRICT, WE'VE HAD A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHAMBER 16 OF COMMERCE IN THE PAST. AND THESE ARE OTHER BUSINESS 17 ORGANIZATIONS THAT EXIST IN SAN FRANCISCO. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M WONDERING IF WE MAYBE WE COULD 21 EACH -- IF WE CAN THINK OF PERSPECTIVE NOMINEES TO SUBMIT 22 FROM THESE ORGANIZATIONS, IF WE COULD JUST SUBMIT THEM TO 23 THE CHANCELLOR WITHIN TEN DAYS AND THEN HAVE YOU AND THE 24 CHANCELLOR WORK TOGETHER AND PROPOSE THE NOMINEES THAT WE 25 WOULD ADOPT. MARCH 25, 2010 242 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: FROM THESE ORGANIZATIONS? 2 TRUSTEE NGO: CORRECT. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M WONDERING IF YOU COULD 4 JUST SAY THE NAMES AND IDENTIFY THE ORGANIZATIONS AND THEN 5 WE CAN -- 6 TRUSTEE NGO: OH. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND THEN WE CAN DO THAT OTHER 8 PART OF IT AFTERWARDS. 9 ARE THERE ORGANIZATIONS, TRUSTEE NGO, THAT YOU 10 ARE THINKING ABOUT FROM THESE OR NOT? 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I CAN'T THINK OF ANY RIGHT NOW. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: WELL, I'M JUST TRYING TO 13 FIGURE OUT HOW WE GIVE THE DIRECTION WE NEED, AS A BOARD, 14 TO THE CHANCELLOR SO THAT THIS ISN'T DELAYED ANYMORE 15 BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE SERVING PAST THEIR 16 ALLOWED TIME. AND WE NEED TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 17 LAW, PARTICULARLY SINCE BONDS ARE OUT BEING SOLD. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK THIS IS A GOOD 19 POOL, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE KIND OF ODD FOR US TO CHOOSE 20 BETWEEN HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OR THE CHINESE 21 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WHEN WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THERE'S 22 ANYBODY THERE THAT WANTS TO SERVE. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: WHAT'S ANOTHER SUGGESTION 24 THEN? 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, I MEAN I THINK IT'S MARCH 25, 2010 243 1 GREAT THAT YOU CAME UP WITH THIS LIST BECAUSE I CERTAINLY 2 WOULD NOT HAVE -- OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I COULD NOT COME 3 UP WITH THIS LIST. BUT MAYBE SOMEONE, YOU KNOW, THE 4 CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE COULD CONTACT, YOU KNOW, JUST PICK ONE 5 AND START THERE AND SEE IF THERE'S SOMEONE AVAILABLE. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: I WOULD HAVE A HARD TIME 7 PICKING -- 8 I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. I THINK WE 9 SHOULD BE GIVING DIRECTION TO THE CHANCELLOR, RATHER THAN 10 THE CHANCELLOR PICKING -- 11 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, PRESIDENT MARKS, I KNOW THE 12 PERSON WHO IS HEAD OF ST. ANTHONY FOUNDATION. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: COULD YOU SPEAK UP A LITTLE 14 BIT MORE. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: I KNOW THE PERSON WHO IS CHARGE 16 OF THE ST. ANTHONY FOUNDATION. AND I WILL GET HIS NAME 17 AND CONTACT INFORMATION TO THE CHANCELLOR. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: PRESIDENT MARKS. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: GO AHEAD, TRUSTEE WONG. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: ALSO, FOR EXAMPLE, THE CHINESE 21 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THERE'S THE CHINATOWN CHAMBER OF 22 COMMERCE. AND UNFORTUNATELY, ONE CHAMBER WAS CREATED ON 23 AN OPPOSITION TO ANOTHER AND THE POLITICS ABOUT IT. AND 24 IT JUST -- 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS MARCH 25, 2010 244 1 DIFFICULT. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THE 3 CHINESE CHAMBER IS ACTUALLY OPERATIVE ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY 4 WERE JUST CREATED OUT OF OPPOSITION TO ANOTHER GROUP IT'S 5 BEEN EXCLUDED FROM. SO IT GETS COMPLICATED HERE. 6 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AND THEN YOU HAVE THE GOLDEN 8 GATE, WHICH IS FINE, BUT YOU'VE GOT OTHER LGBT BUSINESS 9 GROUPS. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: RIGHT, WELL, I'M JUST LOOKING 11 FOR DIRECTION ON WHAT THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO DO. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK I -- MR. PRESIDENT. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE NGO. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK I WOULD SUGGESTION THAT WE 15 SURVEY THE RESOLUTION AND ADOPT THE NAMES, THE 16 ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU HAVE HERE. DO NOT MAKE IT 17 EXCLUSIVE TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY 18 ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE STATE, THE 19 STATE PROVISIONS FOR BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONAL OR SENIOR 20 CITIZENS' ORGANIZATION. AND THAT THE CHANCELLOR SOLICIT 21 THOSE OR RECEIVE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, HE CAN VET THEM TO 22 ENSURE THAT THEY COMPLY WITH THE STATE PROVISIONS AND THAT 23 HE REVIEW THEM WITH YOU FOR US TO CONSIDER AT THE NEXT 24 BOARD MEETING A LIST OF NAMES. 25 IT IS MY SUGGESTION THAT WE GO AHEAD AND ADOPT MARCH 25, 2010 245 1 THIS RESOLUTION AS IT IS. AND IF WE COULD, MAYBE ADD A 2 TERM THAT SAYS THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS -- ADD A PHRASE 3 "THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE SO LONG AS THE 4 NOMINEES QUALIFY UNDER STATE LAW." 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: WE ARE TAKING OFF "GENERAL 6 ASSEMBLY." WE NEED TO TAKE OFF THE "GENERAL ASSEMBLY." 7 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT COULD BE PART OF MY AMENDMENT 8 AS WELL. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: SO I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO -- 10 WE DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING IN TERMS OF A MOTION AND A 11 SECOND ON THAT. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: HE JUST SAID THAT WE DON'T NEED 14 TOO. THE LIGHTS ARE ABOUT TO TURN OFF IN FIVE MINUTES. 15 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR -- 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS 19 RESOLUTION, PLEASE SAY "AYE." 20 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 246 1 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 3 IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION FOR W1, PLEASE. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 8 DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS? 9 WE'VE HEARD ABOUT IT BEFORE I BELIEVE. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: CALL THE QUESTION. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 12 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF W1, 14 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 15 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 20 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 23 W1 PASSES. 24 MOTION FOR W2, PLEASE. 25 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. MARCH 25, 2010 247 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG; 3 SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THIS IS ABOUT THE FORT MASON 5 COLLEGE. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: THIS IS ENABLING DISTRICT TO 7 ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH A FIRM TO SEE IF THERE'S AN 8 ALTERNATIVE SITE FOR THE FORT MASON CAMPUS. 9 VICE CHANCELLOR GOLDSTEIN. 10 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES, WE CONDUCTED AN RFP. AND 11 THIS IS OUR RECOMMENDATION TO YOU BASED ON THAT PROCESS. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? 13 TRUSTEE WONG: I HAVE A QUESTION. 14 IF FORT MASON RECONSIDERED THEIR PROPOSAL TO US 15 BECAUSE INITIALLY THE RENTS WENT UP, BUT DIDN'T THEY 16 RECONSIDER CONSIDERING THE MARKET. 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH, THEY HAVE -- 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AND IS IT THE SAME RENT OR A 19 LOWER RENT? 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: NO, IT'S STILL A HIGHER RENT, 21 BUT THE INCREASE IS NOT AS MUCH AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY 22 PROPOSED TO BE. 23 TRUSTEE WONG: SO IF WE HIRE THIS FIRM TO LOOK 24 FOR OTHER SPACE, AND THE FIRM COMES UP WITH SPACE THAT'S 25 PERHAPS EVEN MORE THAN WHAT FORT MASON IS OFFERING. MARCH 25, 2010 248 1 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: MORE EXPENSIVE? 2 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, MORE EXPENSIVE. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OH. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: FOR EXAMPLE, CAN WE GO BACK TO 5 FORT MASON AND SAY, OKAY, WE'LL ACCEPT THE OFFER. 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OF COURSE. WE WOULD NOT -- 7 TRUSTEE WONG: WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH, WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO TO 9 SOMETHING THAT'S -- 10 TRUSTEE WONG: WELL, MY CONCERN IS FORT MASON 11 GOING TO GO AHEAD AND START RENTING OUT THAT SPACE. 12 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: NO, THEY HAVE NOT MADE ANY 13 INDICATION TO US. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: BECAUSE IT IS A HUGE SPACE THAT 15 WE ARE RENTING FROM THEM. 16 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YES, THAT'S CORRECT. NO, THE 17 ANSWER IS THAT, OF COURSE, WE WOULD NOT GO ANYWHERE THAT 18 WAS A WORSE FINANCIAL DEAL FOR THE COLLEGE. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: I KNOW THAT. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO 21 WORK WITH FORT MASON TO GET THE BEST POSSIBLE -- 22 TRUSTEE WONG: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE HERE. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: YEAH. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: IF THEY RENT IT OUT AND THE 25 PERSON THAT THEY WE'RE HIRING COULD PUT MORE SPACES AND MARCH 25, 2010 249 1 SAY -- 2 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THEY'VE MADE NO -- 3 TRUSTEE WONG: -- I'M SORRY, BUT YOU GUYS GOT 4 THE BEST DEAL AND THAT WAS IT, THEN WE ARE UP A CREEK 5 BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF STUDENTS WHO GO TO FORT MASON. 6 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: RIGHT. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: ALL RIGHT. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. THANKS. 9 STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN ON W2, PLEASE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 11 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF W2, 12 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 13 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? 21 W2 PASSES. 22 A MOTION FOR W3, PLEASE. 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO MOVED. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: SECOND. MARCH 25, 2010 250 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE 2 NEILSEN. 3 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO 4 TALK ABOUT THIS IS. I ACTUALLY WROTE THIS AND BROUGHT IT 5 TO THE FIT COMMITTEE. THE FIT COMMITTEE HAD BEEN 6 DISCUSSING IT OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL MONTHS. IT MOVES 7 FORWARD THE TRANSFER, THE LAND TRANSFER IN BALBOA 8 RESERVOIR. 9 IF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, THE DISTRICT HAD WORKED 10 OUT AN AGREEMENT WITH THE PUC. THE CITY'S REAL ESTATE 11 OFFICE BLESSED IT. AND THEN WE CAME THROUGH -- THE 12 MAYOR'S OFFICE SEEMED TO HAVE ATTACHED ANOTHER REQUIREMENT 13 TO IT WHICH SAID THAT THE DISTRICT WILL BUILD A PLAZA ON 14 CITY LAND AT ITS OWN EXPENSE. AND WE DIDN'T THINK THAT'S 15 FAIR. WE ARE A NONPROFIT DEVELOPER. WE SHOULDN'T BE 16 ASKED TO DO, YOU KNOW, THESE KIND OF BENEFIT THINGS. 17 SO THE PAST FEW MONTHS, I HAVE BEEN IN 18 DISCUSSIONS WITH DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF 19 SUPERVISORS TO ASK THEM TO ACCEPT THE ORIGINAL DEAL FROM 20 THE CITY'S REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT AND SAY -- BECAUSE THE 21 BOARD OF SUPERVISOR HAS TO APPROVE THE LAND SWAP. SO I 22 HAVE BEEN ASKING THEM PLEASE, IF YOU WOULD, APPROVE THE 23 ORIGINAL LAND SWAP AND THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TALKING WITH 24 THE CITY ABOUT THE PLAZA SEPARATE, UNCONNECTED AND HAVE 25 THAT DISCUSSION GO OFF ON ITS OWN. MARCH 25, 2010 251 1 I'VE TALKED TO -- I WAS STILL TRADING PHONE 2 CALLS TODAY, ACTUALLY, ALL DAY WITH ANOTHER SUPERVISOR. 3 BUT I'VE TALKED TO A MAJORITY OF THEM. I DO BELIEVE WE 4 HAVE THE VOTES ON THE BOARD TO PROCEED WITH THIS AT THIS 5 POINT, SO THAT'S WHY THE COMMITTEE, THE FIT COMMITTEE, 6 KIND OF PASSED IT ON HERE. WE THINK IT'S TIME. WE CAN'T 7 REALLY WAIT TOO MUCH LONGER ON THIS. AND PETER COULD TALK 8 TO THAT ISSUE THE TIMING ISSUE. 9 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, QUITE SIMPLY, THERE'S A 10 POSSIBILITY THAT NOVEMBER 2010 COULD SEE A STATEWIDE 11 BALLOT MEASURE FOR A NEW BOND ISSUE FOR HIRE EDUCATION, 12 WHICH COULD IN TURN PROVIDE THE STATE FUNDING WE NEED TO 13 COMPLETE OR TO START OUR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. WE DON'T 14 WANT TO GET CLOSE TO THAT DATE WITHOUT HAVING TITLE TO THE 15 LAND CLEAR ITSELF. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: CALL THE QUESTION. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF W3, 20 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 21 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. MARCH 25, 2010 252 1 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: W3 PASSES. 4 COULD I HAVE A MOTION FOR W4, PLEASE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 6 PRESIDENT MARKS: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: SECOND. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 9 DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS? 10 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS ALSO CAME THROUGH -- 11 IT'S NOT MARKED, BUT IT DID COME THROUGH THE FACILITIES 12 COMMITTEE AS WELL. 13 PRESIDENT MARKS: WITH A RECOMMENDATION? 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WITH RECOMMENDATION. AND 15 WE ACTUALLY CONTINUED THE ITEM FOR A MONTH TO GET BACK 16 FROM -- WHAT WAS IT? 17 WHAT DID WE GET BACK? 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WE HAD SOME FACULTY CONCERNS. 19 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S RIGHT. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: AND WE MADE IT CLEAR TO THE 21 CITY THAT WE WOULD ONLY WANT TO DO THIS IF IT WAS A PILOT 22 PROJECT -- 23 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S RIGHT. 24 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: -- AND IF IT WASN'T WORKING FOR 25 US, THEY WOULD REMOVE IT AND TAKE IT AWAY. MARCH 25, 2010 253 1 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANKS VERY MUCH. 2 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO WE DIDN'T RUSH THIS 3 THROUGH. WE TOOK SOME TIME WITH THIS. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN, W4. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN (ADVISORY): AYE. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF W4, 8 PLEASE SAY "AYE." 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE GRIER: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT MARKS: ANYBODY OPPOSED? 17 W4 PASSES. 18 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: MR. PRESIDENT. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: YES, SIR. 20 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE FINANCIAL REPORT -- 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: NO, WE HAVEN'T. WE ARE COMING 22 BACK TO IT. RIGHT NOW. 23 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY, WELL -- 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT. 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY, WELL, I'M NOT GOING TO MARCH 25, 2010 254 1 GIVE YOU A DETAILED FINANCIAL REPORT. 2 I'M SURE THE BOARD'S PLANNING AND BUDGET 3 COMMITTEE WILL MEET EARLY NEXT MONTH. AND WE WILL GIVE 4 YOU A DETAILED REPORT ON WHAT WE KNOW FOR 2010-'11. 5 I WANT TO HANDOUT FOR YOU TONIGHT, WHICH I'M 6 SURE YOUR AUDIT COMMITTEE WILL HEAR AT SOME POINT, COPIES 7 OF THE NEWEST FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE BOND PROGRAM. I'M 8 HAPPY TO TELL YOU THAT AS PERFORMED BY VAVRINEK, TRINE AND 9 DAY, THERE ARE NO NEWSPAPER FINDINGS. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU. 11 ANY QUESTIONS OF VICE CHANCELLOR GOLDSTEIN? 12 IF NOT, REPORTS FROM THE BOARD. 13 TRUSTEE NGO. 14 TRUSTEE NGO: YES, LET'S SEE, I HAD A VERY 15 ACTIVE MONTH BASED ON THE RESOLUTION INTRODUCED LAST MONTH 16 FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE DISTRICT. I HAD A PRETTY GOOD 17 MEETING I THOUGHT WITH THE ACADEMIC SENATE, THE MARCH 17TH 18 MEETING, TO CLARIFY A LOT OF THE CONCERNS THAT I THINK 19 THAT WERE RAISED BY INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE CAMPUS. AND I 20 THOUGHT IT WAS PRODUCTIVE. I HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATING WITH 21 THE CHANCELLOR AND OTHER TRUSTEES AS WELL ON MOVING IN A 22 PROGRESSIVE AND REASONABLE FASHION ON THE EQUITY 23 RESOLUTION. I WILL DEFER TO THE CHANCELLOR ON THAT GOING 24 FORWARD IN TERMS OF HOW WE CAN GET THAT GOING. 25 I HAVE THREE OTHER OR FOUR OTHER RESOLUTIONS MARCH 25, 2010 255 1 THAT I INTRODUCED LAST MONTH, BUT WERE NOT BROUGHT BEFORE 2 THE BOARD THIS MONTH AND PART OF IT -- 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY. CAN YOU REMIND US 4 WHAT THOSE WERE? 5 TRUSTEE NGO: YES. WELL, IT'S FINE BECAUSE I 6 THINK -- I HAD NO PROBLEM WITH IT. BUT THEY WERE 7 RESOLUTIONS ON THE VETERAN SERVICES THAT WAS INTRODUCED. 8 I WANTED JORGE BELL TO REVIEW THAT AND ALSO THE 9 CHANCELLOR, OBVIOUSLY, AND COACH RUSH WHO IS WORKING 10 ACTIVELY WITH THE COMMITTEE ON THAT. SO I HOPE TO HAVE 11 THAT BACK AT THE APRIL BOARD MEETING. 12 THERE WAS A RESOLUTION ON ESL AND VESSEL THAT IS 13 CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT. AND THE 14 CHANCELLOR'S AWARE OF THAT WORK. AND AS SOON AS THE 15 RESOLUTION IS RETURNED AS WRITTEN BY THE ESL DEPARTMENT 16 AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE, THAT THAT WOULD BE SHARED WITH 17 THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC AS WELL. 18 THERE IS A RESOLUTION THAT I'M ALSO INTRODUCING 19 FORMALLY TONIGHT THAT I WOULD LIKE THE BOARD TO CONSIDER. 20 I WILL GET TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE CHANCELLOR IN DUE TIME 21 FOR CONSIDERATION RELATED TO AB 37, WHICH WAS PASSED LAST 22 YEAR THAT CALLS FOR THE CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES TO 23 JAPANESE AMERICANS WHO WERE INTERNED DURING WORLD WAR II 24 AND WHOSE EDUCATIONS WERE INTERRUPTED BECAUSE OF THE 25 EVACUATION AND INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS. MARCH 25, 2010 256 1 A LOT OF DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN ALREADY WORKING ON 2 HAVING A CEREMONY FOR THOSE STUDENTS. AND I WANT TO MAKE 3 SURE THAT THE DISTRICT IS ON RECORD FOR SUPPORTING AB 37 4 AND ALSO BRINGING A CEREMONY OF OUR OWN. 5 I HAVE ASKED TRUSTEE JACKSON TO COSPONSOR THAT 6 WITH ME, ALONG WITH TRUSTEE WONG. I'M HAPPY TO HAVE THEM 7 AS COSPONSORS. 8 AND THIS ONE, WHICH WAS HANDED OUT TODAY, IS A 9 RESOLUTION THAT RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDENT 10 DEPARTMENT AID AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT. THAT WAS 11 PASSED IN THE HOUSE AND HAD BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY SCALED DOWN 12 BY THE SENATE. AND CALLS FOR THE ENDING OF BANK SUBSIDIES 13 IN THE STUDENT LENDING PROGRAM, FEDERAL LENDING PROGRAM, 14 AND THE SAVINGS OF WHICH WOULD GO TOWARDS PELL GRANT 15 INCREASES. AND IT ALSO CALLS FOR A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL 16 FOR OUR BANKING AND SERVICES AS IT IS LAID OUT HERE. 17 SO I HAVE FORWARDED THIS TO THE CHANCELLOR FOR 18 REVIEW AND ALSO TO PETER GOLDSTEIN TO CONSIDER AND TO 19 BRING BACK FOR APRIL. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: HAL, THE HONORARY DEGREES, 21 WOULD THAT RESOLUTION OF HONORARY DEGREES, WOULD THAT BE 22 SOMETHING THAT THE ACADEMIC SENATE WOULD LOOK AT OR WHO? 23 MR. HUNTSMAN: I THINK IT WOULD BE VERY 24 APPROPRIATE FOR THE FACULTY TO WEIGH IN ON THAT. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. THANK YOU. MARCH 25, 2010 257 1 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S IT. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE WONG. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: WELL, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY ONE 4 THING. I JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE OUR NATION, OUR 5 PRESIDENT OBAMA, OUR SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, AND OTHERS FOR 6 PASSING HEALTH CARE REFORM. IT IS SO IMPORTANT. AND I 7 JUST WANT TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PASSAGE AND THAT 8 HISTORIC MOMENT. THAT'S IT. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 10 TRUSTEE BERG. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I SPENT 12 THE WEEK VISITING VARIOUS CAMPUSES. AND I'M HAPPY TO SAY 13 THEY ARE ALIVE. THEY ARE WELL. AND THEY ARE DOING JUST 14 GREAT AS USUAL. 15 CONGRATULATIONS TO CITY COLLEGE AND THE FACULTY 16 AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN OUR CAMPUSES. THANK YOU. 17 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 18 TRUSTEE GRIER. 19 TRUSTEE GRIER: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I WAS 20 REALLY PLEASED WITH THE MARCH IN SACRAMENTO. I SAW MANY 21 OF YOU. I ROAD ON THE BUSES WITH MANY OF YOU. AND I 22 THINK WE WERE JUST WELL-REPRESENTED FROM THE STUDENTS TO 23 THE FACULTY, THE ADMINISTRATORS, THE UNIONS, THE 24 COMMUNITY. AND IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL. 25 AND ALSO THE MARCH 4TH RALLY THAT WE HAD WAS MARCH 25, 2010 258 1 ALSO WONDERFUL. 2 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ONES IN APRIL. 3 AND I PLAN TO BE OUT THERE HAVING MY VOICE HEARD ABOUT THE 4 BUDGET AND JUST THE SITUATION WE FIND OURSELVES IN. AND 5 WE NEED TO THINK REALLY SERIOUSLY ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING 6 TO US. 7 SUMMER SCHOOL, NOT AT THIS COLLEGE, SHOULD NEVER 8 HAPPEN AGAIN. AND THE KIND OF AGONY THAT OUR FACULTY AND 9 STAFF ARE GOING THROUGH IN TERMS OF KEEPING THEIR JOBS, 10 IT'S JUST CRIMINAL. SO I'M THINKING ABOUT THAT. WE JUST 11 NEED TO GO FORWARD. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 13 TRUSTEE RIZZO. 14 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, MY REPORT ON THE 15 FACILITIES COMMITTEE, I MEAN, WE'VE DISCUSSED THAT WE HAD 16 A LOT OF RESOLUTIONS THAT WE PUT ON THE AGENDA HERE THAT 17 WE'VE TAKEN CARE OF. 18 THERE WAS ONE RESOLUTION THAT WE DID NOT FORWARD 19 TO THE COMMITTEE. I JUST THOUGHT I WOULD MENTION THAT. 20 PRESIDENT MARKS: FROM THE COMMITTEE? 21 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE WAS A SPENDING ITEM 22 THAT CAME TO THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE THAT WE DID NOT 23 FORWARD TO THE BOARD. 24 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. 25 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND THAT WAS FOR SIGNAGE MARCH 25, 2010 259 1 IN THE WELLNESS CENTER TO DESCRIBE THE MULTI-USE 2 BUILDING -- TO DESCRIBE THE GREEN ASPECTS OF THE BUILDING. 3 AND WE THOUGHT THAT WE SHOULD SEE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT 4 STUDENTS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DOING OR THE DEPARTMENTS 5 AS AN ART PROJECT OR SOMETHING. SO WE ARE GOING TO HEAR 6 BACK ON THAT. AND SO THAT'S BASICALLY IT. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WEDNESDAY, I HAD THE 9 OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT WILLIE BROWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 10 IT'S IN THE BAYVIEW. I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY -- ACTUALLY, I 11 TALKED TO THEM ABOUT CITY COLLEGE. AND I GAVE THEM OUR 12 COURSE CATALOG. AND I GAVE THEM OUR NEWSPAPER. THEY MUCH 13 PREFERRED THE NEWSPAPER. BUT THEY REALLY ENJOYED ALL THE 14 DIFFERENT CLASSES. IT WAS ACTUALLY A LEARNING OPPORTUNITY 15 FOR ME TO SEE JUST HOW MANY VARIOUS, YOU KNOW, WAYS AND 16 DEPARTMENTS AND CLASSES THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE AND THE RICH 17 VARIETY THAT WE HAVE. AND THEY LOVED IT. AND THEY WERE 18 VERY IMPRESSED WITH CITY COLLEGE IN TERMS OF THAT. 19 AND THEN THEY ALSO ASKED WHAT CHANNEL DOES OUR 20 FOOTBALL TEAM PLAY ON, AND I COULDN'T QUITE ANSWER IT. I 21 THINK IT IS PROBABLY CHANNEL 29 OR 27, BUT I'M PRETTY -- 22 IT'S NOT EVEN ON TV. AND SO I LIED TO KIDS TODAY. I WILL 23 SAY THAT ON TV. 24 BUT, YEAH, THEY REALLY DID ENJOY CITY COLLEGE. 25 EVEN FOLKS WHO ARE IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH GRADE, MARCH 25, 2010 260 1 KNOW CITY COLLEGE, RESPECT CITY COLLEGE. AND, YOU KNOW, 2 IN TERMS OF THEIR EDUCATIONAL GOALS, SEE THAT AS A VIABLE 3 OPTION. AND SO WE REALLY SHOULD BE PROUD OF OURSELVES IN 4 TERMS OF THAT ADVOCACY IN THE COMMUNITY. 5 THE SECOND THING IS I WANT TO THANK MY BOARD 6 COLLEAGUES IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET PRIORITIES. AND THE 7 NO. 1 BEING TO RETAIN ALL FACULTY, STAFF, FULL-TIME, AND 8 PART-TIME JOBS. I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY 9 IN THIS TOUGH ECONOMIC TIME. AND IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY 10 AND LAYOFFS AND FIRING 15,000 WORKERS AND THEN REHIRING 11 THEM AT 37.5 HOURS. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT 12 THIS INSTITUTION IS COMMITTED TO RETAINING EMPLOYMENT AND 13 MAINTAINING A HIGH -- NOT JUST MAINTAINING EMPLOYMENT FOR 14 EMPLOYMENT SAKE, BUT MAINTAINING EMPLOYMENT SO THAT WE CAN 15 MAINTAIN A HIGH LEVEL OF SERVICE IN EDUCATION TO OUR 16 STUDENTS. AND SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. SO I THANK MY 17 COLLEAGUES FOR THAT. 18 I HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN CONVERSATION 19 IN THE COMMUNITY. SINCE THERE IS NO SUMMER SCHOOL, MAYBE 20 WE CAN USE OUR CITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN TERMS OF TUTORS. 21 AND SOMEONE BROUGHT UP THE CONVERSATION THAT SINCE SF 22 UNIFIED JUST IMPLEMENTED THEIR A-G REQUIREMENTS FOR 23 INCOMING 9TH GRADERS, THAT POSSIBLY WE COULD HAVE, YOU 24 KNOW, CITY COLLEGE STUDENTS TEACH EIGHTH GRADERS WHO ARE 25 INCOMING NINTH GRADERS, MATH AND SCIENCE DURING THE MARCH 25, 2010 261 1 SUMMER. AND THERE ARE SPECIFIC NON PROFITS WHO ARE 2 WORKING ON THAT AND HAVE ASKED ME TO HELP OUT IN THAT. 3 AND I KNOW THAT OUR DEAN AT THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS 4 IS PRETTY POSITIVE AND PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT THAT SO THAT 5 MIGHT BE SOMETHING, A POSSIBLE COLLABORATION. OF COURSE, 6 I WILL TALK TO OUR MATH AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT TO SEE IF 7 THAT'S A POSSIBILITY OF GIVING OUR STUDENTS CREDIT FOR 8 THOSE VOLUNTEER HOURS. AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO 9 HARNESS THE POWER OF OUR STUDENTS IN TERMS OF THE 10 VOLUNTEER. 11 AND THAT LEADS ME TO SOMETHING I AM GOING TO 12 WORKING ON IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND THAT'S SAN FRANCISCO 13 STATE HAS A COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT CENTER. IT IS 14 CENTRALIZED. IT GIVES STUDENTS CREDIT FOR THEIR 15 INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY WITH THE LOCAL NON PROFITS. 16 AND I WILL BE LOOKING FOR A WAY TOO CRAFT A SIMILAR 17 PROGRAM HERE. IT WILL BE, HOPEFULLY, GRANT FUNDED SO THAT 18 WE DON'T USE ANY OF OUR GENERAL FUND OUT OF THAT. 19 BUT I DEFINITELY THINK WE NEED TO IN A REAL WAY, 20 I WOULD LOVE TO HARNESS IN A GREATER WAY THE VOLUNTEER 21 POWER OF OUR STUDENTS IN TERMS OF THEM WORKING IN THE 22 COMMUNITY AND DOING REAL WORK. I KNOW THEY ALREADY DO IT, 23 BUT I WOULD LOVE TO GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THEIR ENDEAVORS 24 AS WELL AND DO THAT IN A CENTRALIZED WAY. 25 SO I WILL BE LOOKING AT THE SAN FRANCISCO STATE MARCH 25, 2010 262 1 MODEL OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT CENTER IN SEEING HOW I CAN 2 WORK WITH THE CHANCELLOR AND WORK WITH THE INSTITUTION TO 3 DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON A GRANT FUNDED BASIS, SO THAT 4 CONCLUDES MY REPORT. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'D LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU ON 6 THAT LAST ITEM ABOUT THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. 7 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: STUDENTS TRUSTEE NEILSEN. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: YEAH, I DID WANT TO 10 REITERATE AS FAR AS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT PREVIOUSLY IN 11 TONIGHT'S MEETING IN REGARDS TO THE SPECIAL ACADEMIC 12 SENATE MEETING. I DID WANT TO FOCUS ON IT AGAIN BECAUSE I 13 FELT LIKE I WANTED TO MAKE MY MESSAGE COME ACROSS MORE 14 CLEAR AS I AM CURRENTLY A LITTLE SICK. I APOLOGIZE. 15 I STATED EARLIER THE MEETING WAS COMPLETELY 16 DISRESPECTFUL IN REGARDS TO THE TONE AND THE MEETING. AND 17 THE FACT THAT THE STUDENTS HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE END, 18 UNTIL EVERYTHING WAS VOTED AND DISCUSSED IN REGARDS TO THE 19 RESOLUTIONS THAT WERE PROPOSED IN THE MEETING. 20 I UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE REFERENCES THAT WERE 21 COMMENTED TONIGHT IN REGARDS TO WHY THE FACULTY SHOULD 22 HAVE PRIORITY OVER STUDENTS BECAUSE WITHIN THIS ACADEMIC 23 SENATE PROCESS THAT WAS HELD IN THIS SPECIAL HEARING, THEY 24 STATED THAT THEY HAVE THE SOLE PRIORITY TO DISCUSS 25 FACULTY. AND THE STUDENTS, I GUESS FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, MARCH 25, 2010 263 1 ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THE LOOP. 2 I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THOSE CLAIMS, BUT I 3 QUESTION THE VALIDITY WITHIN IT BECAUSE I'VE REFERENCED 4 THE ACADEMIC SENATE'S CONSTITUTION. AND IT STATES NOTHING 5 WHATSOEVER IN REGARDS TO GIVING PRIORITY TO FACULTY OVER 6 STUDENTS. 7 I'VE SAT IN VARIOUS MEETINGS WITHIN THIS 8 COLLEGE, ACROSS EVERYWHERE, AND IT'S ALWAYS ON A FIRST 9 COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. I THINK THE FACT THAT A STUDENT 10 HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE END, WHICH WAS TWO AND A HALF HOURS, 11 AND IT WAS ONLY THREE STUDENTS, JUST TO ONLY SPEAK FOR TWO 12 MINUTES WAS REALLY RIDICULOUS. 13 I ONLY ASK -- I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, IT WAS A 14 VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 15 IT DIDN'T EVEN ABIDE TO ROBERTS RULE OR THE BROWN ACT. 16 BUT DESPITE THAT, I THINK IF WE ARE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD 17 WITH THIS EQUITY DRAFT RESOLUTION THAT'S BEEN PASSED 18 AROUND, I THINK IT'S BEST TO NOT ONLY CRITICIZE THE 19 RHETORIC WITHIN THE RESOLUTION, BUT TO LOOK AT THE CONTENT 20 AS FAR AS WHAT IT IS GOING TO DO FOR THE STUDENTS. 21 NOW I'VE HEARD FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE. I KNOW WHEN 22 WE DID THESE EQUITY HEARINGS RECENTLY THIS PAST MONTH, THE 23 DEPARTMENT CHAIR FOR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT BROUGHT FORTH 24 THIS RESOLUTION THAT CAME OUT OF THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM 25 DEPARTMENT. AND IT STATED THERE WAS SOMETHING IN PROCESS MARCH 25, 2010 264 1 TO DECREASE THE ENGLISH SEQUENCE HORRENDOUSLY LONG PROCESS 2 THAT WE CURRENTLY HAD. AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THEY 3 SAW THIS IN REGARDS TO ALL THE STUDENTS INPUT, THAT THEY 4 WANTED TO DECREASE THIS ENGLISH SEQUENCE AS WELL. SO IT'S 5 STATED WITHIN THE LANGUAGE TO DECREASE IT WITHIN ONE YEAR 6 FOR THE PRE-COLLEGIATE COURSES. 7 SO I SPOKE TO AN INDIVIDUAL ON THIS, AND HE 8 STATED, IT IS NOT EXPLICIT. IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 9 ESL. I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO 10 BRING THOSE ISSUES TO US AS FAR AS WHAT WE CAN CHANGE 11 WITHIN THE RESOLUTION. SOMETHING SO SIMPLE LIKE THAT 12 SHOULD NOT BE COMPLETELY -- YOU SHOULD NOT USE THAT TO 13 COMPLETELY DISMANTLE WHAT THE RESOLUTION'S INTENT IS AS 14 FAR AS TO HELP THE STUDENTS. I THINK WE SHOULD BE WORKING 15 TOGETHER, RATHER THAN COMPLETELY CRITICIZING THE WORK 16 THAT'S WITHIN THE CONTENT. 17 AGAIN, LIKE WHEN I WAS AT THIS SPECIAL HEARING 18 ON TUESDAY, I SAW VARIOUS NEW FACES THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN. 19 THE ACADEMIC SENATE USUALLY IS ABOUT -- I SAY, MAYBE UP TO 20 26 INDIVIDUALS. I'M NOT FOR CERTAIN. BUT THERE WAS ABOUT 21 OVER 100 PEOPLE IN THE SPECIAL HEARING, SO I DON'T KNOW IF 22 THERE WAS ANY TYPE OF SECOND INFORMATION THAT'S BEEN 23 FLOATING AROUND FOR E-MAILS OR WHAT IT MAY BE, BUT A LOT 24 OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WERE NOT EVEN AT THE EQUITY HEARINGS. 25 SO I FEEL IT WOULD BE BEST THAT WE MAYBE KIND OF SIT DOWN MARCH 25, 2010 265 1 AND JUST THINK ABOUT DIFFERENT WAYS IN ORDER TO WORK ON 2 THIS DRAFT EQUITY RESOLUTION THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN 3 PLACE IN REGARDS TO MOVE FORWARD. THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 5 A NUMBER OF US MENTIONED TRYING TO PLAN AND 6 SCHEDULE A BOARD RETREAT. AND IMPLORE MY COLLEAGUES TO 7 FIGURE OUT A WAY OF MAKING THAT HAPPEN SOON, VERY SOON. 8 THERE WAS A REQUEST THAT WENT OUT TO SEE ABOUT 9 CHANGING THE DATE OF THE APRIL BOARD MEETING FROM THE 29TH 10 TO THE 22ND, WHICH THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO RESPONDED 11 TO THAT. IT'S GOING TO CAUSE A LOT OF PROBLEMS IN TERMS 12 OF THE TIMING, SO WE ARE GOING TO KEEP IT AT APRIL 29TH. 13 JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK 14 THAT THE BOARD MEETING IS THE FOURTH THURSDAY OF THE 15 MONTH. IT'S ACTUALLY THE LAST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH. SO 16 AS YOU ARE PLANNING YOUR SCHEDULE, KEEP THAT IN MIND. 17 I TOO WENT TO THE MARCH IN SACRAMENTO ON -- I'M 18 ACTUALLY GOING TO PLAY SOMETHING HERE -- MONDAY. AND IT 19 WAS -- LET'S SEE -- 20 (PRESIDENT MARKS PLAYS A RECORDING OF RALLY.) 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: THEY ARE SAYING, "SAVE OUR 22 SCHOOLS." IT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT. PEOPLE WERE 23 PASSIONATE. AND IT WAS GREAT TO SEE. 24 ON THE WAY BACK, I WAS WALKING BY SOME STUDENTS. 25 AND ONE OF THEM SAID -- ONE OF THEM ASKED HIS FRIEND -- MARCH 25, 2010 266 1 IT'S A DRAWBRIDGE, AND HE WAS CURIOUS ABOUT HOW IT 2 OPERATED. 3 AND I SAID TO HIM THAT I REMEMBER BEING A YOUNG 4 KID. I THINK I WAS ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN YEARS OLD. AND WE 5 WERE GIVING A RIDE BACK TO THE CAPITOL TO JESSE UNRUH. 6 THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE KNOW HE WAS 7 QUITE A LEGEND IN CALIFORNIA POLITICS AS THE SPEAKER AND 8 THEN LATER AS THE TREASURER. AND I REMEMBER GETTING OUT 9 OF THE CAR AND HAVING JESSE UNRUH HOLD ME UP SO I COULD 10 SEE THE DRAWBRIDGE GO UP SO I COULD SEE THE BOAT PASS 11 UNDER. 12 AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE STUDENT THAT I WAS 13 TALKING TO IS A STUDENT HERE. MANY OF THE STUDENTS WHO 14 WERE IN SACRAMENTO WERE FROM CITY COLLEGE. AND WE HAD A 15 GREAT CONVERSATION. HE IS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENT OF 16 THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS HERE ON THIS CAMPUS. A REALLY 17 THOUGHTFUL PERSON, AND I HOPE HE WINS AND THAT WE SEE MORE 18 OF HIM. IT WAS A GREAT WAY TO END THE DAY IN SACRAMENTO. 19 CHANCELLOR. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NOTHING. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: COUNSELOR, DO WE HAVE ANY 22 CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS? 23 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YES, YOU DO, MR. PRESIDENT. 24 THE BOARD MET IN CLOSED THE SESSION TODAY ON 25 MARCH 25TH, 2010 AND TOOK THE FOLLOWING ACTION: THE BOARD MARCH 25, 2010 267 1 AUTHORIZED A DEFENSE IN THE CASE OF HEIN VERSUS CITY 2 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO. 3 THIS IS A NEW LAWSUIT IN WHICH THE PLAINTIFF 4 ALLEGES DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION, FAILURE TO PREVENT 5 DISCRIMINATION, FAILURE TO ACCOMMODATE, RACE AND GENDER 6 DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION. 7 THE VOTE WAS AS FOLLOWS: BERG, YES; GRIER, YES; 8 JACKSON, YES; MARKS, YES; NGO, YES; RIZZO, YES; AND 9 TRUSTEE WONG, I BELIEVE, WAS ABSENT DURING THE VOTE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: WHAT WAS THAT? 11 COUNSEL BATTISTE: TO AUTHORIZE THE DEFENSE IN 12 HEIN. IT'S A NEW LAWSUIT. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: AUTHORIZE WHAT? 14 COUNSEL BATTISTE: A DEFENSE, A LEGAL DEFENSE IN 15 THE CASE OF HEIN VERSUS CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO. I 16 THINK YOU WERE ABSENT. 17 TRUSTEE BERG: NO, HE CAME IN. 18 VICE PRESIDENT RIZZO: HE CAME IN AFTER. 19 TRUSTEE WONG: THIS IS BEFORE I ARRIVED. OKAY. 20 I DON'T REMEMBER THAT. 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 22 COUNSEL BATTISTE: YOU ARE WELCOME. 23 PRESIDENT MARKS: I HAVE THREE REQUESTS TO 24 SPEAK. AND I THANK YOU FOR STICKING AROUND. THE FIRST 25 ONE IS FROM KAREN. MARCH 25, 2010 268 1 KAREN, ARE YOU STILL HERE? 2 MS. SAGINOR: I AM. 3 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND I HAVE ONE FROM LENA CREW 4 (PHONETIC) AND SAMMY RAMIREZ. I DON'T KNOW IF SAMMY IS 5 STILL HERE OR NOT I DON'T KNOW. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE NEILSEN: SHE IS NOT HERE. 7 MS. SAGINOR: I AM TRYING TO STILL BE AWAKE. 8 PRESIDENT MARKS: AND MADELINE MUELLER AND 9 RODGER SCOTT. 10 MS. SAGINOR: SO JUST TO CLARIFY, THERE WAS SOME 11 DISCUSSION EARLIER ABOUT WHY IT WAS WE THOUGHT THAT THIS 12 RESOLUTION WAS GOING TO BE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA. AND I 13 JUST HAPPEN TO HAVE ALL THESE COPIES LEFTOVER. SO IF YOU 14 WANTED TO SEE IT, IT SAYS ON IT "MARCH 25TH" ON TOP OF IT 15 AND THAT'S (INAUDIBLE). 16 THAT WAS HANDED OUT A MONTH AGO. AND IT SAID ON 17 IT "MARCH 25TH" AND SO THAT'S WHY WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING 18 TO BE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: I'M SORRY ABOUT THE CONFUSION 20 ABOUT THAT. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN. 21 MS. SAGINOR: OKAY, AS I SAID, IT'S A 13-PAGE 22 DOCUMENT THAT SOMEBODY WENT THROUGH THE TROUBLE TO WRITE 23 OUT. IT LOOKED TO ME LIKE A LOT MORE THAN JUST IDEAS THAT 24 WERE BEING UNDER DISCUSSION. 25 ACCORDING TO OUR CONSTITUTION, ONE OF THE WAYS MARCH 25, 2010 269 1 IN WHICH MEETINGS CAN BE CALLED, SPECIAL MEETINGS OF THE 2 CENTER, THE COUNCIL MIGHT BE CALLED BY THE FOLLOWING WAYS: 3 BY THE PRESIDENT, A PETITION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE 4 COUNCIL, OR ON PETITION OF 100 MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. 5 THERE WAS THE PETITION OF 100 MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. 6 THERE'S NOTHING IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT SAYS 7 WHO'S SUPPOSED TO COUNT TO SEE IF THERE'S 100. ACTUALLY 8 IN MY FIRST CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT HUNTSMAN ON THIS, 9 HE SUGGESTED THAT WE COULD ASK OUR SHARED GOVERNANCE 10 COORDINATOR TO COUNT THEM, AND SO WE WENT DOWN THE HALL 11 AND HE COUNTED THEM. AND HE SAID, YES, THERE'S MORE THAN 12 100, BUT I GUESS THE NEXT DAY THERE WAS A -- ANYWAY, I 13 DON'T WANT TO GET INTO A SORT OF DISCUSSION. 14 BASICALLY, I WAS CHARGED WITH TRYING TO 15 FACILITATE A MEETING AT WHICH THE FACULTY COULD COME 16 TOGETHER AND TALK TO EACH OTHER TO COME UP WITH HOW WE 17 WANTED TO RESPOND. AND THAT WAS REALLY THE INTENT OF THE 18 MEETING. 19 MADELINE JUST HELPED ME BY PASSING OUT TO YOU 20 SOMETHING THAT WE PASSED OUT AT THE MEETING TO EXPLAIN TO 21 THE STUDENTS THAT THE INTENT OF THIS MEETING IS FOR 22 FACULTY TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER. 23 TRUSTEE NEILSEN IS QUITE RIGHT. THERE WERE A 24 LOT OF FACULTY MEMBERS THERE WHO HADN'T BEEN AT EXECUTIVE 25 COUNCIL MEETINGS AND WHO WERE REALIZING THAT THEY HAD TO MARCH 25, 2010 270 1 COME THEMSELVES TO A MEETING IN ORDER TO GET THEIR VOICES 2 HEARD. THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T GET TO 3 SPEAK. 4 IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I PROBABLY 5 WOULD PUT A STUDENT COMMENT SECTION AT THE BEGINNING OF 6 IT. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A NICE THING TO DO, BUT WE HAD A 7 LOT TO CONSIDER IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. 8 AND I DON'T -- 9 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 10 -- QUITE KNOW WHAT ELSE TO TELL YOU. AND MY 11 TIME IS UP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: KAREN, CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? 14 MS. SAGINOR: YES. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: IS IT TRUE THAT TRUSTEE NEILSEN 16 WAS SHOUTED TO GO AWAY. IS THAT -- 17 MS. SAGINOR: OH, I'M GLAD YOU ASKED ME THAT. 18 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A AUDIO TAPE OF THE ENTIRE MEETING. THE 19 ENTIRE MEETING IS AUDIO TAPED, AND THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR 20 YOU TO GO AND LISTEN TO. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: SO YOU DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. 22 MS. SAGINOR: YOU KNOW, I WOULD RATHER YOU WENT 23 AND LISTENED TO THE AUDIO TAPE INSTEAD OF SAYING, WELL, HE 24 SAYS THIS. AND SHE SAYS THAT. AND SOMEBODY ELSE SAYS 25 SOMEBODY ELSE, OKAY? MARCH 25, 2010 271 1 TRUSTEE NGO: SO YOU DON'T KNOW? 2 MS. SAGINOR: I'M GOING TO STAND HERE AND SAY, 3 "NO, HE WASN'T." AND ANOTHER STUDENT IS GOING TO STAND UP 4 AND SAY, "OH, YES, HE WAS." AND SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING TO 5 STAND UP AND SAY, "NO, HE WASN'T." SO MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL 6 GO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO TAPE. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M JUST ASKING. IF YOU DON'T 8 KNOW, THAT'S FINE. I UNDERSTAND. OBVIOUSLY, THERE WAS A 9 DISPUTE. 10 MS. SAGINOR: THERE WERE A LOT OF THINGS THAT 11 HAPPENED AT THE MEETING. ACTUALLY, THERE WAS A POINT AT 12 WHICH TRUSTEE NEILSEN STOOD UP TO SPEAK. AND I SAID, "I'M 13 SORRY. IT'S NOT YOUR TURN TO SPEAK RIGHT NOW." 14 AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO SIT DOWN. HE CONTINUED TO 15 SPEAK AFTER I ASKED HIM TO SIT DOWN. YOU KNOW, THERE WERE 16 CERTAINLY A LOT OF STRONG FEELINGS AT THAT MEETING. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: HOW DO I GET THE COPY OF THE TAPE? 18 MS. SAGINOR: IS FRANCINE STILL HERE? 19 MS. PODENSKI: IT WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER SPRING 20 BREAK. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 22 MS. SAGINOR: THEN YOU CAN FIND OUT FOR 23 YOURSELF. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 25 MS. SAGINOR: AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE MARCH 25, 2010 272 1 REMARKS YOU MADE EARLIER, TRUSTEE NGO. THANK YOU VERY 2 MUCH. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT MARKS: LENA, YOU WERE ON YOUR WAY UP 5 HERE AND THEN YOU WENT BACK. 6 MS. CREW: HI, I'M LENA CREW. I AM A STUDENT 7 HERE. 8 I'VE PLAYED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT ROLES 9 RECENTLY. I HAVE BEEN PRETTY ACTIVE IN THE STUDENT EQUITY 10 HEARINGS WITH JOSH AND HAL. AND I'M ALSO THE STUDENT 11 SHARED GOVERNANCE COORDINATOR FOR THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS. 12 SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF INTERESTING THINGS THAT 13 HAVE SEEMED TO PARALLEL THAT WAS BROUGHT UP EARLIER THAT 14 MILTON MARKS ACTUALLY BROUGHT UP, SHARED GOVERNANCE. AND 15 SO I'M PROBABLY ONE OF THE FEW STUDENTS THAT'S PRETTY 16 INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN SHARED GOVERNANCE. STUDENT 17 REPRESENTATION IS REALLY LACKING AND COMMUNICATING TO 18 110,000 STUDENTS IS REALLY A DIFFICULT CHALLENGE AS I'M 19 SURE YOU GUYS KNOW. 20 SO HOW THIS RELATES TO THE ACADEMIC SENATE 21 SPECIAL HEARING THAT WE HAD ON TUESDAY, AS WELL AS THE 22 STUDENT EQUITY RESOLUTION, IS THAT WHAT I'M NOTICING IS 23 THAT SOME INDIVIDUALS, SOME FACULTY MEMBERS, ARE REALLY 24 HIDING BEHIND POLICY. AND THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN PROCESS. 25 AND IN THEORY, THERE ABSOLUTELY IS. SHARED GOVERNANCE IS MARCH 25, 2010 273 1 A WONDERFUL SYSTEM WHEN IT WORKS. AND, UNFORTUNATELY, IT 2 IS BROKEN. AND IT'S REALLY SADDENING BECAUSE A LOT OF 3 DECISIONS GET MADE WITHOUT STUDENTS BEING THERE. AND IT'S 4 EASY FOR US TO COMPLAIN THAT WE WEREN'T PART OF THE 5 DISCUSSION, BUT WE NEED TO BE THERE TO BE PART OF THAT 6 DISCUSSION. 7 BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE DON'T NEED TO BE 8 DISCOURAGED FROM BEING AT THAT DISCUSSION. IT'S 9 INSULTING. IT'S FRUSTRATING. IT'S HURTFUL. AND THIS 10 IS -- WE ARE BEING DISCOURAGED BY THE SAME PEOPLE THAT 11 TEACH US TO BE INDEPENDENT THINKERS AND TO BE PART OF THE 12 DISCUSSION AND TO BE WELL INFORMED SO THAT WE CAN MAKE THE 13 BEST DECISIONS BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE GET AHEAD. 14 SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN JOSHUA NEILSEN WAS IN FACT 15 TOLD TO LEAVE THE MEETING AT THE BEGINNING WHEN HE TRIED 16 TO SPEAK, THAT DIVIDES THE STUDENTS FROM THE FACULTY, 17 WHICH IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. WE 18 NEED TO BE A PART OF THIS DISCUSSION. WE NEED TO PUSH FOR 19 THE CHANGES THAT WE REQUESTED TO THE TRUSTEES -- 20 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 21 MS. CREW: SO I JUST HOPE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, 22 THE STUDENTS ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP ON THIS ISSUE AT 23 ALL. AND WE ARE GOING TO KEEP PUSHING FOR IT. AND WE 24 DON'T REALLY CARE HOW IT HAPPENS. YOU KNOW, THAT'S 25 BETWEEN YOU GUYS. WE JUST WANT IT TO HAPPEN. IT'S REALLY MARCH 25, 2010 274 1 SIMPLE. 2 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 3 MADELINE MUELLER. 4 MS. MUELLER: ABOUT THE SHARED GOVERNANCE POLICY 5 THAT I'M HIDING BEHIND, I HOPE THAT YOU DO REVIEW IT. IT 6 IS YOUR POLICY. AND IT'S A STATE REQUIRED POLICY. WE HAD 7 THE BEGINNING OF IT IN I THINK '92 AND THE UPDATE IN '98. 8 AND, YES, THE STUDENTS NEED TO BE COMING TO THE 9 COMMITTEE MEETINGS. EVERY COMMITTEE MEETING I'M AT WE TRY 10 VERY HARD, AND WE WORK WITH THE STUDENTS, BUT WE NEED 11 PARTICIPATION. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE. AND I 12 THINK WE DO NEED TO REVIEW WHAT'S IN PLACE IN THIS 13 DISTRICT AS A LEGAL POLICY. 14 THE 10.1 WAS GIVEN OUT. I WANTED TO SPEAK 15 SPECIFICALLY, FOR EXAMPLE, NO. 10, UNDER THE "FACULTY 16 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MATTERS." IT INCLUDES PROCESSES 17 FOR INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING AND BUDGET DEVELOPMENT. BUDGET 18 DEVELOPMENT WAS EXACTLY WHERE THE UPDATE CAME IN '98 WHERE 19 THE COUNCIL WAS CREATED STRENGTHENING IT. AND IT INCLUDES 20 THE LANGUAGE THAT SAYS THAT YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE 21 COUNCIL, THE PLANNING AND BUDGETING COUNCIL, NEEDS TO 22 REVIEW AND RECOMMEND THE ANNUAL BUDGET. AND YOU 23 PARTICIPATE THROUGH THE CHANCELLOR WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS 24 ON FINAL PLANS AND BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD. 25 ANYWAY, THE LANGUAGE IS THERE. AND IF ISSUES MARCH 25, 2010 275 1 OVERLAP INTO FACULTY AREAS, THERE'S SECTION C ON THE NEXT 2 PAGE THAT SAYS YOU GO BACK TO THE SENATE AND TOUCH BASE IF 3 IT'S AN ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL MATTER. 4 I DO WORRY THAT THE COMMITTEES THAT YOU ALL PUT 5 TOGETHER AND HAVE IN PLACE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, STARTED OFF 6 AS COMMITTEES FOR INFORMATION TO BE GATHERED. THE BOARD, 7 AS I REMEMBER, MEETINGS WERE GETTING LONG AND THE IDEA WAS 8 THERE COULD BE SEPARATE MEETINGS ON CERTAIN ISSUES. THEY 9 HAVE RATHER QUICKLY BECOME SORT OF A SHORT CUT 10 SUBSTITUTION FOR THE SHARED GOVERNANCE PROCESSES, AND I 11 WOULD HOPE -- 12 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 13 THAT'S MY SIGNAL. I WOULD HOPE THAT WE CAN GET 14 A BETTER SORT OF FEELING ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL SHARED 15 GOVERNANCE POLICY MAKING PATH, THE SPECIAL MEETINGS, WHICH 16 IS REALLY I THINK GETTING SORT OF EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE 17 BECAUSE THEY ARE SO FAST. 18 PRESIDENT MARKS: I JUST WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN, 19 MADELINE, THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE COMMITTEES -- 20 MS. MUELLER: YOUR COMMITTEES? 21 PRESIDENT MARKS: THE COMMITTEES THAT WE ARE 22 OPERATING NOW AS A BOARD AND THE SETTING OF THE TIME 23 LIMITS -- 24 MS. MUELLER: RIGHT. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: -- AFTER WHICH RESOLUTIONS CAN MARCH 25, 2010 276 1 BE (INAUDIBLE) BY THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE 2 UPCOMING BOARD MEETING, THEY ARE ACTUALLY ABOUT RESPECTING 3 SHARED GOVERNANCE AND PROLONGING THE PROCESS. 4 MS. MUELLER: RIGHT. 5 PRESIDENT MARKS: IF IT'S OPERATING IN THE 6 OPPOSITE WAY TO HOW THEY ARE INTENDED TO OPERATE, IN TERMS 7 OF SHORT CIRCUITING OR SHORT CUTTING SHARED GOVERNANCE, 8 THEN THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE. 9 MS. MUELLER: THAT'S ALL. I THINK THEY COEXIST. 10 PRESIDENT MARKS: IT'S QUITE THE OPPOSITE IDEA. 11 MS. MUELLER: YEAH. 12 PRESIDENT MARKS: I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. 13 MS. MUELLER: LIKE WITH TRUSTEE NGO, HE WANTED 14 SOME POLICY THINGS. AND THERE WAS SOME STUFF THAT POLICY 15 CAME UP WITH AT THE POLICY COMMITTEE, AND I THINK MUTUALLY 16 PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO GO OUT TO SHARED 17 GOVERNANCE. AND HE DIDN'T GIVE A TIME LIMIT AND THAT'S 18 GOOD BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: RIGHT. 20 MS. MUELLER: THE MORE INVOLVEMENT THE BETTER, 21 AS THE STUDENTS SAY. THE MORE INVOLVEMENT THE BETTER. 22 PRESIDENT MARKS: OKAY. THANKS. 23 RODGER SCOTT. 24 MR. SCOTT: GOOD EVENING. 25 PRESIDENT MARKS: GOOD MORNING. MARCH 25, 2010 277 1 MR. SCOTT: WELL, IT IS MORNING NOW. YES, YES. 2 THE RESOLUTION THAT OUR GOOD TRUSTEES INTRODUCED 3 WAS A BIT EXPLOSIVE AND ILL CONCEIVED. HOWEVER, I THINK 4 THE RESPONSE TO IT WAS NO BETTER. 5 I THINK THE PROCESS OF SHARED GOVERNANCE IS A 6 GOOD ONE. SOMETIMES IT'S MORE THEORETICAL THEN ACTUAL. 7 CLEARLY, IF CHANGES THAT ARE PROPOSED EFFECT WAGES AND 8 HOURS AND WORKING CONDITIONS, THOSE MUST BE NEGOTIATED BY 9 THE UNION AND THEY WILL BE. THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT 10 THAT. 11 I THINK NO ONE HERE THAT READS AT EIGHTH GRADE 12 LEVEL OR ABOVE FAILS TO UNDERSTAND THAT CURRICULUM IS A 13 FACULTY MATTER. AND THAT'S UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE 14 ACADEMIC SENATE. I THINK THE RESPONSE TO THE MEETING ON 15 TUESDAY WAS NOT -- I THINK THAT DOESN'T REPRESENT THE BEST 16 PARTS OF THIS COLLEGE. 17 I THINK THE STUDENTS WERE TREATED SHABBILY. I 18 AM NOT ADVOCATING THAT THE STUDENTS VOTE BECAUSE I DON'T 19 THINK THE STUDENTS WOULD LIKELY HAVE A VOTE IN THAT FORUM. 20 HOWEVER, THEY WERE TREATED DISCOURTEOUSLY. IT'S 21 IRRATIONAL AND NOT VERY COLLEGIAL TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO 22 COME TO THE MEETING AND WHEN THEY ATTEMPT TO SPEAK, THEY 23 ARE SHOUTED DOWN. AND THEY WERE DISCOURTEOUSLY TREATED 24 WITHOUT QUESTION. THEY WEREN'T SHONE THE RESPECT THEY 25 MERITED. MARCH 25, 2010 278 1 IT MAKES NO SENSE TO HAVE THEM SPEAK AT THE END 2 OF THE MEETING WHEN THE VOTES HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN. 3 THAT'S TOTALLY IRRATIONAL AND UNFAIR. AND THAT WAS NOT A 4 VERY GOOD MEETING. AND CITY COLLEGE IS A MUCH BETTER 5 INSTITUTION THEN OUR ILL CONCEIVED RESOLUTION SUGGESTS -- 6 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 7 -- AND THE SHABBY BEHAVIOR SUGGESTS IN MY 8 JUDGEMENT. 9 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU, RODGER. 10 I CAN READ CAROL. IT SAYS F-R-E AND THEN I 11 CAN'T READ ANYMORE. 12 MS. FREGLY: IT'S FREGLY. I'M LOSING MY VOICE. 13 GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CAROL FREGLY. I AM AN 14 INSTRUCTOR IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. I HAVE BEEN IN THE 15 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SINCE 1975. I CAME HERE AS A STUDENT 16 TEACHER FROM SAN FRANCISCO STATE. AND I'M HOPING TO 17 RETIRE. THE DATE GETS MOVED UP EVERYDAY. 18 BUT BEFORE I GO, I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT 19 THIS PROCESS BECAUSE IT'S BEEN PRETTY TOUGH ON ALL OF US. 20 IT'S MID-SEMESTER. WE ARE HALF-DEAD. ONE OF THE REASONS 21 WE ARE EXHAUSTED, JOSH, WE'VE BEEN WAITING ALL NIGHT. WE 22 GOT THE LAST 15 MINUTES OF THIS SHOW TONIGHT. 23 I HAD A WHOLE GROUP OF STUDENTS HERE TONIGHT, MY 24 EVENING STUDENTS. THEY CAME IN, NO ONE SHOUTED THEM DOWN. 25 THEY CAME IN HERE. THEY STOOD IN THE BACK. THEY MARCH 25, 2010 279 1 LISTENED. THEY TOOK NOTES. THEY WERE QUITE IMPRESSED 2 WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. 3 I WANTED TO SHARE SOMETHING WITH YOU. I'VE SENT 4 YOU THIS IS IN AN E-MAIL. I KNOW YOU ARE BUSY. YOU MAY 5 NOT HAVE OPENED IT YET. 6 IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS TRYING PERIOD, ONE IDEA 7 THAT SEEMS WORTH PURSUING IS GETTING INPUT FROM ALL 8 SEGMENTS OF THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY REGARDING WHAT HELPS OUR 9 STUDENTS SUCCEED BY FOLLOWING THE GUIDELINES OF THE SHARED 10 GOVERNANCE PROCESSES. 11 TO THAT END REPRESENTATIVES FROM VARIOUS CAMPUS 12 GROUPS, FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS, AND ADMINISTRATORS COULD 13 WORK WITH OUR RESEARCH OFFICE TO DESIGN A SURVEY THAT CAN 14 BE ACCESSED ONLINE BY ALL STUDENTS IF THEY WISHED WHEN 15 REGISTERING FOR CLASSES. THE DATA COULD THEN BE SORTED 16 AND USED TO ASSESS WHAT WE NEED TO HELP CURRENT STUDENTS 17 SUCCEED AND ALSO TO HELP US PLAN FOR FUTURE NEEDS. 18 ADDRESSING THE CONCERNS OF THE STUDENTS AND 19 HELPING THEM SUCCEED DOES NOT END WITH CURRICULUM 20 RESTRUCTURING, WHICH THE DEPARTMENTS CAN DO AND HAVE BEEN 21 DOING FOR YEARS. 22 IF YOU ASK THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS, YOU MAY 23 FIND THAT THEIR NEEDS ARE FAR MORE PERSONALIZED AND 24 CONCRETE. BUILDINGS WITH ELEVATORS THAT DON'T ENTRAP 25 THEM. HEAT THAT DOESN'T INNERVATE THEM. CLASSROOM CLOCKS MARCH 25, 2010 280 1 THAT WORK. BATHROOMS WITH PLUMBING THAT IS FUNCTIONAL. 2 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 3 EQUAL ACCESS TO SUPPORT SERVICES, INCLUDING 4 LIBRARY LABS, HEALTH CENTER, JOB PLACEMENT, AND CHILD 5 CARE. AND MOST OF ALL, SMART, SENSITIVE, COMPASSIONATE 6 INSTRUCTORS. 7 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: CAROL, I JUST HAD -- WE HAD A 9 WONDERFUL CONVERSATION OUTSIDE WITH GUS AND THE GENTLEMAN 10 WITH THE VERY NICE HAT. I KNOW THAT -- OH, YOU ARE RIGHT 11 THERE. 12 AND YOU GAVE ABOUT FIVE SUGGESTIONS ABOUT, YOU 13 KNOW, THINGS THAT YOU FELT AND I ACTUALLY FELT. WE 14 MUTUALLY AGREED THAT YOU GAVE ABOUT FIVE THINGS, EQUALITY 15 FOR EVENING STUDENTS, AND ACCESS. THOSE ARE WONDERFUL. 16 AND I WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IN THE 17 CONTEXT OF MYSELF, TRUSTEE NGO, AND TRUSTEE MARKS'S 18 RESOLUTION, THAT'S THE KIND OF INPUT THAT WE WANTED. 19 THAT'S THE KIND OF INPUT THAT WE KIND OF EXPECTED IN THE 20 RESOLUTION. 21 I MEAN, TRUSTEE NGO AND TRUSTEE MARKS, I WISH 22 YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THE FIVE SUGGESTIONS. THEY WERE 23 WONDERFUL. AND JUST TO GET A POINT IS THAT'S THE KIND OF 24 FEEDBACK THAT WE RESPOND TO IN TERMS OF THAT. AND THAT'S 25 STUFF THAT WE WANT. AND WE HAVE COMMON GROUND. MARCH 25, 2010 281 1 SO I JUST WANT TO TELL FOLKS THAT THE 2 SUGGESTIONS AND THE THOUGHT PROCESS WE HAVE COMMON GROUND. 3 IT'S JUST THE FEEDBACK AND THE COMMUNICATION STYLES THAT I 4 REALLY THINK WE HAVE A SEPARATE THING GOING ON THAT I 5 THINK WE CAN BRIDGE. 6 MS. FREGLY: WELL, ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO 7 SAY, AND I SAID THIS TO -- MY STUDENTS WERE JUST 8 FASCINATED TONIGHT. AND WE HAD A CHANCE TO TALK WITH 9 ALICE MURILLO AND ALSO WITH PETER GOLDSTEIN ABOUT SOME OF 10 THE THINGS THAT EVENING STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE LIKE 11 THE POOR FOSTER CHILDREN OF THE COLLEGE. EVERYTHING 12 CLOSES AT 5:00 O'CLOCK. THEY GET ACCESS TO NOTHING. 13 AND ONE OF MY POINTS THE OTHER DAY WAS WE HAVE 14 SO MANY STUDENTS WHO ARE SO STRESSED RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE 15 JOB MARKET IS JUST INSANE. 16 I HAD FIVE STUDENTS IN HERE TONIGHT WHO HAD 17 GOTTEN PINK SLIPPED WITHIN THE LAST MONTH. THEY ARE 18 SCRAMBLING TO TRY TO GET JOBS. YOU KNOW, HOW ARE THEY 19 GOING TO PAY THEIR RENT? 20 I'VE GOT STUDENTS IN MY EVENING CLASSES WHO ARE 21 VETERANS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS 22 SYNDROME. WE HAVE NO HEALTH SERVICES AVAILABLE. 23 I MEAN I THINK ONE THING YOU COULD DO IS WE ARE 24 THE FRONT LINE OF DEFENSE. THE STUDENTS COME TO US. THEY 25 SIT IN OUR OFFICES. THEY TELL US WHAT THEY NEED. ASK US, MARCH 25, 2010 282 1 WE WILL TELL YOU WHAT THE STUDENTS NEED. WE WOULD BE 2 HAPPY TO SHARE. 3 MY STUDENTS ASKED ME IF I COULD INVITE YOU TO 4 THE CLASSES. AND I SAID, YEAH, I WILL PUT THE INVITATION 5 OUT. ANYTIME YOU EVER WANT TO COME TO ANY OF MY CLASSES, 6 YOU WILL BE ASTOUNDED AT THE QUALITY, THE HIGH QUALITY OF 7 OUR STUDENTS. 8 I WROTE LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATIONS TODAY FOR 9 FOUR STUDENTS. I'VE GOT STUDENTS GOING TO STANFORD. WE 10 DID SCHOLARSHIPS TODAY. WE GAVE OUT EIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS IN 11 THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. YOU DON'T EVER HEAR THE GOOD 12 STUFF. YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR THE GOOD STUFF IN THE END. 13 THAT'S WHAT'S KEPT ME HERE ALL THESE YEARS. 14 PRESIDENT MARKS: THANK YOU. 15 FRANCINE. 16 MS. PODENSKI: WELL, I WANT TO -- I THINK THAT 17 KAREN HAS A GOOD IDEA THAT EVERYONE WHO IS CURIOUS ABOUT 18 THE SPECIAL MEETING DO LISTEN TO THE CD'S. AND THEY WILL 19 BE AVAILABLE THROUGH BROADCAST MEDIA SERVICES OR YOU CAN 20 E-MAIL ME, AND I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU WILL GET ONE 21 THROUGH THE CAMPUS MAIL OR HOWEVER YOU GET THINGS. 22 I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MIGHT -- THERE'S 23 A BALANCE HERE. INITIALLY, THE PETITIONERS WERE TOLD BY 24 SOME ASSOCIATED STUDENT MEMBERS THAT STUDENTS PLAN TO 25 CRASH THE MEETING. AND THERE WAS GOING TO BE PROBLEMS. MARCH 25, 2010 283 1 AND CALL THE POLICE. IT WAS NOT -- MAYBE THIS WASN'T 2 TRUE, BUT THIS IS WHAT FACULTY WERE BEING TOLD. AND SO 3 THE SUGGESTION THEN WAS MAKE ROOM FOR THE STUDENTS SO THAT 4 THEY COULD COME AND OBSERVE THE MEETING. THERE WAS NO 5 REASON THEY COULDN'T. 6 SO I THINK THAT BOTH THE FACULTY AND THE 7 STUDENTS FELT DISRESPECTED BY ONE ANOTHER. AND WE NEED TO 8 WORK ON THAT. I THINK IT WAS A MUTUAL FEELING. I THINK 9 THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE FROM THE FEEDBACK I'VE 10 GOTTEN FROM BOTH STUDENTS AND FACULTY. 11 NOW I HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THE RESOLUTION. IT'S 12 REALLY DESIGNED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH JUST HASTE. THE 13 RESOLUTION OF THE FACULTY PASSED. I GET THE SENSE THAT 14 PEOPLE FEEL IT IS SOMEHOW STOPPING THINGS WHEN THE 15 INTENTION IS TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, GET EVERYBODY TO 16 TALKING ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE OF THE MATTER AND MOVE. 17 AND ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT I HAVE THAT I AM KIND 18 OF BRINGING UP NOW. AND I WAS GOING TO TALK TO THE 19 CHANCELLOR FIRST ABOUT IT, BUT TO GET TOGETHER WITH THE 20 SHARED GOVERNANCE COORDINATOR AND CREATE -- FIRST OF ALL, 21 DETERMINE SOME OF THE THESE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH 22 SHARED GOVERNANCE, SO THEY DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH SHARED 23 GOVERNANCE. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF MONEY WHICH, 24 UNFORTUNATELY, IS NOT A SMALL MATTER THESE DAYS. OTHER 25 THINGS THAT MIGHT NEED TO GO THROUGH SHARED GOVERNANCE, I MARCH 25, 2010 284 1 WOULD LIKE TO PERSONALLY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR TAKING 2 THE LEAD IN MAKING A MAP OF THE TWO OR THREE COMMITTEES, 3 THEY NEED TO GO TO -- 4 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 5 -- THE CHAIRS OF THOSE COMMITTEES, THE MEETING 6 DATES OF THOSE COMMITTEES SO THAT ANYONE WHO WANTS TO 7 PARTICIPATE IN A PARTICULAR ITEM OR SEVERAL ITEMS, YOU 8 KNOW EXACTLY WHERE TO GO AND WHEN. IT WOULD NOT BE 9 COMPLICATED. AFTER SPRING BREAK, OF COURSE. 10 I'M ASSUMING, AND I DON'T MEAN TO BRING THIS UP 11 WITHOUT ASKING YOU FIRST, BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU 12 AFTER THE MEETING TONIGHT. 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THAT'S OKAY. 14 MS. PODENSKI: BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN 15 INTENT TO MOVE FORWARD IN A POSITIVE WAY. AND I HOPE WE 16 CAN MOVE ONTO THE POSITIVE AND INTO THE SUBSTANCE OF THE 17 MATTER. I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE GET ON 18 WITH IT. 19 PRESIDENT MARKS: I AGREE. THANK YOU, FRANCINE. 20 IF THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMENTS, I THANK ALL OF 21 YOU. THERE'S STILL QUITE A GOOD TURNOUT FOR PEOPLE WHO 22 ARE STILL HERE AT A QUARTER TO ONE. 23 SO WE ARE ADJOURNED. IT IS 12:45. THANKS VERY 24 MUCH. 25 (MEETING ADJOURNED AT 12:45 A.M.) MARCH 25, 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: APRIL 19, 2010 ______________________________ MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 STATE OF CALIFORNIA MARCH 25, 2010