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Pima Community College Board of GovernorsApril 10, 2013 Meeting

PCC District Office, 4905 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Good evening. Hello.

Apologize for being late. We're attempting to move forward. Let

us begin.

Would you do the Pledge, please.

(Pledge of Allegiance.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I would like to turn this over I believe to

David Bea. Is that for the recognition awards?

Thank you.

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Well, good evening, and welcome. I'd like to

welcome, and on behalf of the board I'd like to welcome our honored

guests and their families for our semiannual Pima Community College

Board of Governors recognition celebration. The college encourages

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its employees and students to pursue civic and professional

activities. We are all pleased when they are honored by those

organizations with which they are affiliated.

Honorees, you're being recognized this evening because you

received an honor or award from a local, state, regional, national,

or international organization.

Each of you received your recognition over the past year through

March 2013. Community members so honored at these celebrations are

either an alumnus of the college or created a significant

relationship or partnership with the college.

To the board, I invite the board to come forward and congratulate

the exemplary employees, students, and our community partners.

For the most part tonight, we will introduce the year's honorees

by groups. We will start with employees and move to students and

finish with the community members. I will be announcing your

achievements. As we call your names, if you could, in the audience,

if you could hold your applause until all the members of the group

have received their certificates, it works a bit more smoothly that

way. Honorees who are unable to be with us this evening will be

mailed their certificates.

As your name is read, please come forward to receive your

certificate of recognition from Dr. Jerry Migler who is over to my

left. Then stand to the side until the entire group has received

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their awards, and then we will have group photographs arranged with

the board right after the group has been finished.

So our first group to be recognized consists of college employees

who have received honors and awards outside of Pima Community

College.

Our first awardee tonight is Aleksandra Knezevic who completed a

Master of Science degree in information technology management with a

concentration in business intelligence, summa cum laude from Trident

University International.

George Ahlers completed a Bachelor of Science degree in

technology management from Northern Arizona University.

Manny Amado received his Master's of Education in human relations

from Northern Arizona University.

Brian Basgen completed a Master of Science degree in information

technology management, summa cum laude from Trident University.

Our last awardee in this group is Gareth Rixton who achieved a

Microsoft Certified Professional certification.

Please join me in recognizing these individuals.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Our second group of awardees are also

employees. First one is Florence Doran who was selected by the

Tucson Nurses Week Foundation as one of Tucson's Fabulous 50 Nurses

for 2013.

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(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Trevor Vye received a Mothers Against Drunk

Drivers DUI Officer Award.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Margaret White was certified as a professional

in human resources from SHRM.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Diane-Marie Landsinger received the Society

for Human Resources Management Innovation Award.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Ana Jimenez was appointed as the traveling

workshop coordinator for the American Mathematical Association of

Two-Year Colleges where she will promote, coordinate, maintain, and

evaluate traveling workshops throughout the nation.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: And our last awardee in this group,

Dr. Johnson Bia is being recognized for his long-time service on the

Pima County Workforce Investment Board by Chairman Ramon Valdez.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Our last group of employees tonight, starting

with Louise Glogoff who received the Gold Award for Website and

Silver Paragon Award for online services from the National Council

For Marketing & Public Relations.

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(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Leah Einecker received the Gold Award for

Website and Silver Paragon Award for online services from the

National Council For Marketing and Public Relations.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The third of three, David Van Horn received

the Gold Award for Website and Silver Paragon Award for online

services from the National Council For Marketing and Public

Relations.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The last one is a group award. The facilities

department was awarded the Cornerstone Building Foundation Owner of

the Year Award.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The last group of employees, those who haven't

been paying attention, to be recognized tonight, the first one is

Phillip Melton, who is one of five artists featured in Take Five:

Interpretations of the Landscape at the Davis Dominguez Gallery.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: In addition, he has also has an exhibit at the

City of Tucson's William Clements Recreation Center just north of

East Campus.

Michael Stack served as the guest curator of the U of A Museum of

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Art for An Engagement With Presence: Drawings and prints from the

UAMA collection which is an exhibition featuring drawings and prints

by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Matisse.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Steve Uyeda received a Paragon Award from Phi

Theta Kappa International Honor Society as one of 30 new advisors.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: JodyLee Duek received a continued excellence

award from the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Our final, final employee being recognized

tonight was Rob Carey who was selected as a Phi Theta Kappa 2013

Faculty Scholars from among nearly 3,000 chapter advisors. This

involved a rigorous application process based on the knowledge of

2012/'13 honors study topic, The Culture of Competition, as well as

demonstrated excellence in teaching or administration.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The next groups of honorees are PCC students

who have received special awards and recognitions. We will call

their student names and groups so they can frame their

photograph according to the type of reward or honor they received.

First one is Mary Ross who is a recipient of the All-Arizona Academic

Team First Team for the Community Campus.

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(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Jessica Carbajal was recipient of the

All-Arizona Academic Team First Team for the Downtown Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Geoffrey Armstrong was recipient of the

All-Arizona Academic First Team for the Downtown Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Eryn Wuori was the recipient of the

All-Arizona Academic First Team for the Desert Vista Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The next one is Kelly Ruhlman who is recipient

of the All-Arizona Academic First Team for the Desert Vista Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Moving on to a couple of Second Team honorees,

Gina Mancebo was recipient of the All-Arizona Academic Second Team

for the West Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Dax Crocker was recipient of the All-Arizona

Academic Second Team for the East Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Maria Eleno Moreno, was recipient of the

All-Arizona Academic Third Team for the West Campus.

(Applause.)

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>> DR. DAVID BEA: John Anglin was recipient of the All-Arizona

Academic Third Team for the Community Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Leila Camus-Lamnaouar was recipient of the

All-Arizona Academic Third Team for the East Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Johanna Carrig was recipient of the

All-Arizona Academic Third Team for the Northwest Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: And the last student tonight is Serena Davis

who is recipient of the All-Arizona Academic Third Team for the

Northwest Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The last group of recipients for tonight's

honors are Board of Governors recognition for being long-term friends

of the college. Our first recognee tonight is Estrella Havey of

Market on the Move, and she's being recognized for making a

significant community contribution to Pima Community College Desert

Vista Campus, the Midvale Park Neighborhood area and Southwest Tucson

and members of the Phi Theta Kappa for bringing Market on the Move.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Francesca Samuel from À La Cart Translation

has been instrumental in forming a partnership with Arizona

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translators and interpreters and Pima Community College to provide

students with ongoing professional development opportunities.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Dorothee Harmon from Pima County OneStop is

being recognized for partnering with Pima Community College to

provide tuition support for classes in manufacturing and green

technology for eligible students on the Downtown Campus.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Our last honoree tonight is Ward 4

Councilwoman Shirley Scott, recognized for partnering with Pima

Community College in the dedication of the Atturbury Wash Greenway,

Phase I, and for her unrelenting and passionate commitment to the

creation of recreational and environmentally friendly green spaces

for students, staff, and faculty of the East Campus and residents of

the east side.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The college is proud of your achievements.

I'd also like to acknowledge the support given by your family and

friends, so let's take a second to congratulate family and friends,

everybody who is here in the audience.

(Applause.)

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Those who have just been recognized, feel free

if you'd like to leave. Stay if you'd like, also. I certainly don't

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want to push, but you at this point can feel free to go home and be

with your families and friends.

Thank you.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: We have a special treat for you tonight. We

want to introduce you to Dr. Zelema Harris who will be coming this

weekend and will begin as the interim chancellor next week.

So we are calling her now. She wanted to say a few words and

thought this would be a good time to make her first connection with

the communities.

(Skype call placed.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Hello there. How are you Zelema?

>> DR. ZELEMA HARRIS: Hello, how are you all?

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: We just wanted to introduce you and have you

have a chance to say hello to our constituents within the college and

within the community. Let us welcome her.

(Applause.)

>> DR. ZELEMA HARRIS: Thank you very much, Dr. Even. I didn't

expect that kind of reception. Thank you all very, very much.

I can tell you I really want to thank the board, first of all,

for giving me the opportunity to utilize my skills and experiences to

come to Pima and to help you all to sort out and to respond to those

concerns that were mentioned by HLC.

Let me just comment on the Higher Learning Commission. I did

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serve on the commission for a number of years, served as a consultant

evaluator for many years.

I think HLC, from my experience, their sole responsibility is to

improve institutional quality so that our students will benefit. So

I don't ever feel defensive about their actions, though I have been

in a position where I have influenced a review panel to change their

mind about a focus visit at St. Louis Community College. So it was

really on assessment, and I felt like we were moving in the right

direction. We had four campuses. They were utilizing strategies

differently. I felt that the team may not have grasped that.

So I did write a letter, and I appeared before the review panel.

The focus visit was overturned. So we merely had to send a report.

But I can tell you I value team leaders. I value the role that

the Higher Learning Commission plays in higher education in the

states' colleges that they accredit.

So my role primarily, as I have discussed with the board, and I'm

sure that's why they are bringing me in, is to work collaboratively

with all of the constituent groups in addressing the concerns.

But I think more importantly Pima is a great institution. I have

never been associated with an institution that was not a premier one,

and I don't want the end of my career to go down working with any

institution that's not great.

So I accepted the challenge and the opportunity because I knew

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that you were a great institution. So I look forward to working with

each of you. I look forward to working with the board. We will

await the decision of the commission.

I did read just recently -- it seems as though there is a lot to

keep up with at Pima, so I spend my days in my pajamas since I

accepted the job reading documents and materials. I did see where

the faculty has asked the commission, the HLC, to impose a lesser

sanction than probation.

So I'm not sure where that's going to go, but I did see that as a

positive step in the healing process that's certainly going to be

needed over the next few months.

And then, in addition, I would like to spend some time working

with various groups collaboratively to prepare for the next

chancellor, because whoever that person is going to be, that person

is going to need the support, the wise guidance, transparency, that

is very important to moving forward.

So I look forward to this opportunity. I will do whatever I can

to address whatever concerns have been placed on the burner by HLC

and those that you know should be addressed as a college community.

Again, I thank Dr. Even and the board members for giving me this

opportunity. I also want to say that everyone with whom I have

spoken and those I have had an ongoing e-mail relationship with, you

have been most gracious. You have given me the information that I

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requested. I sincerely appreciate that. I look forward to seeing

everyone on the 15th. I'll be ready.

Thank you very, very much.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Thank you, Dr. Harris. We are delighted

that you are coming. We look forward to seeing you next week. Okay?

What do we need to do? We'll wave. We can wave.

>> DR. ZELEMA HARRIS: Are you all saying bye?

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Yes, we are.

>> DR. ZELEMA HARRIS: Okay. Good-bye.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Until next week.

Do you mind reading that? I would appreciate that.

We will move forward to public comment. David, if you would read

that, I'd appreciate it.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Certainly, Madame Chair.

The Pima Community College Board of Governors welcomes public

comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the college. Comments

should be limited to five minutes per individual. At the conclusion

of public comment, individual board members may respond to criticism

made by those who address the board, may ask staff to review a

matter, or may ask that a matter be put on a future agenda. Members

of the board, however, may not discuss or take legal action on

matters raised during public comment unless the matters are properly

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noticed for discussion and legal action.

Finally, be advised that internal college processes are available

to students and employees for communication.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Thank you.

I believe we have the first two speakers are Mykle Zoback and Joe

Labuda followed by Georgia Brousseau.

>> MR. JOE LABUDA: I want to thank the board for allowing me to

speak tonight. Dr. Even, board. My name is Joe Labuda. I'm a

32-year employee of Pima College. I'm the library director at the

West Campus. I'm also president of the Faculty Senate.

The last time I had the opportunity to speak to you at the board

meeting up in the Northwest Campus, I mentioned that Faculty Senate

was going to have an emergency meeting. We had one agenda item that

day, and that was a resolution asking for the resignations of four of

the board members. In addition, we urged the board members to

suspend the current search for a new chancellor.

I just want to read a little bit from the conclusion of the HLC

report, and that says when outcomes become more important to a board

and its senior leaders than telling the truth or caring for the

people in its employ, then members of the board and those

administrators who have been misdirected are falling into patterns of

behavior which do not reflect the level of integrity expected of

higher education leaders. Failure to act quickly and with all due

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diligence on serious complaints against the institution's CEO, lack

of a structured review of its institutional policies and procedures,

knowledge without action regarding the former chancellor's

inappropriate nonprofessional action towards employees, failure to

become aware of and to investigate an institutional sense of distrust

and fear, and its general sense of being concerned more with fiscal

outcomes than with the well-being of its employees, all delineate a

board which has become dysfunctional. The team concludes that this

breeds serious breaches of acting with integrity have been

demonstrated by PCC's Board of Governors, the former chancellor, and

some senior administrators at PCC.

Now, I just wonder if the board thinks that they are now

functional and whether the board thinks they are now acting with

integrity.

When we put out to the people of the community that action was

taken against the chancellor when it was known late in his term, this

does not have the ring of truth.

The HLC report was very clear in terms of the feelings of the

people at the college at the time. People felt under duress. We had

administrators leaving. We had people being bullied.

It's not really plausible to hear that this did not occur or that

you were aware of it so late in the term. The board bears a

responsibility for it, knowing what's going on as it's going on.

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So, you know, when that is still an issue, when the board can't

own up to that, now, should we also trust the board to pick our next

chancellor? We're late in the academic cycle. You know, a lot of

people who are going to apply for jobs are looking at Pima. If I was

out there looking for a chancellor's job, would I want to walk into

this situation before I knew exactly how this was all going to shake

out?

We have a very good person in Dr. Harris coming in as an interim

chancellor. I think we should give her the chance to help us move

along and take our time with finding a chancellor. I don't think

finding a new chancellor is our highest priority at this point. I

think it is moving us along in terms of respectability and

credibility.

I just have to say, you know, when I hear that -- like I say, the

board was unaware of certain things. I sat in this room about five

years ago and saw the chancellor berate the head of PCCEA, and I

didn't really see the board blink when that occurred, and that was

at really an astounding event.

As far as people not knowing what occurred during the years, I

can speak with some certainty to that fact that five years ago a

complaint came in front of you with my name on it, and so I know at

least in that case somebody went in front, told the board what was

going on. Nothing had happened.

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So I still encourage you do the right thing. Don't make your

legacy stonewalling until the very end. I encourage you to leave and

also to postpone the chancellor search until we can do this in a

systematic way and not make it seem like this is just something to be

done to get out of the way. I think this is too important to rush.

Thank you very much.

(Applause.)

>> MS. MYKLE ZOBACK: Good evening. My name is Mykle Zoback. I am the

chair for the Pima County Community College Staff Council. We

represent 775 staff members, which are all regular full-time staff

members.

This is a statement we released on March 29th. We, the Pima

County Community College District Staff Council, employee

organization representing full-time, regular exempt, and nonexempt

staff, do not have confidence in the board members who served during

the Flores administration, namely Marty Cortez, Brenda Even, David

Longoria, and Scott Stewart. Staff Council believes the named board

members lack the integrity and ability to support and promote the

college's vision and mission.

Staff Council believes that the named board members have

contributed to the turmoil the college has endured by their failure

to identify, recognize, and rectify issues in an ethical and timely

manner.

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Staff Council believes in order to rebuild trust in our community

and staff morale that the named board members should suspend the

current search for the college chancellor and resign immediately.

Do you hear us now?

(Applause.)

>> VIRGINIA ORTEGA: Good evening, board members, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Virginia Ortega. I'm the AFSCME chairperson for Pima

Community College, nonexempt membership here at Pima College.

On behalf of the AFSCME Pima Community College majority

membership, as arrised by the democratic process, we bring forward a

vote of no confidence against board members Marty Cortez, Brenda

Even, Dave Longoria, and Scott Stewart, and Interim Chancellor

Suzanne Miles.

Our position comes as a result of the Higher Learning Commission

report, Dr. Flores' unethical conduct, and that of Dr. Miles knowing

of the abuse as evidence that she too must resign. Dr. Miles must be

held to the code of conduct that all employees must adhere to.

While we are pleased to see that she has made an attempt to

remove herself as an obstacle while awaiting the HLC final decision,

this unfortunately is not enough.

Dr. Miles' ability to step down and to remain as a high-level

administrator is an action that is not seen as favorable to

employees. Her changing of position does make her violations go

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away.

Ms. Cortez, Dr. Even, Mr. Longoria, and Mr. Stewart, your past

service to the college is recognized. However, it is the best

interest to the students, to staff, faculty, and community that a

show of good faith and responsibility as committed and accountable

individuals is displayed by a resignation of your governing board

position.

While the college has been fortunate to have a few quality

administrators remain, some of the Flores-style leadership

administration members still remain as well.

We, the AFSCME unit, have witnessed, we have witnessed and

grieved hostile treatment from members of the Flores administration.

Sadly, this hostile treatment of the college employees was either

supported or condoned by both Flores and Miles. Yet those

responsible individuals continue to serve in an administrative

position.

The staff members are dedicated employees who deserve a workplace

safe from hostility of any kind so that they could focus on their

primary responsibility, to the students they serve.

We are also requesting that the search of a new chancellor be

placed on hold until this serious matter at hand is dealt with.

We look forward in working with a collaborative effort with the

new chancellor and a new administration team and getting the college

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back to the outstanding academic institution it is known for.

(Applause.)


All right. Thank you very much. Did you want us to respond

specifically? I'm wondering if you would hear what we have to say.

So I know we have other people who would like to speak, and may

we move on? Thank you for your comments.

>> GEORGIA BROUSSEAU: Good evening. I'm Georgia Brousseau, as I think you

know by now. I want to tell you that -- oh, you're trying to tell me

I'm too low or too high? Which is it? Like so? Okay. Generally, I

can be heard, as some of you are aware.

I want to share with you a comment that I heard before I begin my

official comments. There is a feeling in our community, especially

on the part of those who attend these board meetings, that when

someone begins to make a critical statement, the shutters go on on

the face of the board, that there is an unwillingness to hear

criticism of any sort and an unwillingness to act visibly on any of

the criticisms that come by.

Having sat in your seat for nine years, I know that it's hard to

hear things you don't want to hear. But you have to hear them,

anyway. It goes with the territory. That's real important.

Now, I want to move into two pieces. One is the statement that I

am sharing with you that is coming from the POAC, and I think by now

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you know who that group is.

The HLC fact-finding team found that, and this is a quote, the

original design of the Prep Academy had no formal evaluation process

established as a way to determine either the impact of the college's

developmental education program, nor to determine the demographic

data of those most affected by the new program and related admission

policy changes.

That is a direct quote from the HLC response to the college after

its visit.

Then the college's response to HLC on 29 March 2013 claims that

the design of the evaluation process commenced in October 2011 with

the registrar, the institutional research, the information technology

people, faculty and administrators participating.

The college also claimed that the evaluation plan includes

demographic data and comparison of student academic progress in Prep

Academy, developmental education, and college-level courses.

That was listed on page 12, item 7 of the document that was sent

by Dr. Miles to the HLC.

Seven months later, 31 May 2012, seven months after the October

2011 date when this evaluation was to have begun, POAC submitted a

proper request for 24 data elements on demographics and indicators of

success of those students assigned to the Prep Academy.

The college's reply was, and again it is a quote, we do not have

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an existing report that includes these data.

Six of the 24 data elements requested asked for democratic data.

Almost nothing was answered in that long memo that you were given

from Philip Silvers, who is a member of the POAC and an honored

former administrator at Pima Community College.

There is something wrong when you cannot provide clear and

obvious data about a program. Now, when the program was being

described and going through the various series of forums and

presentations, what was particularly disturbing to me is that each

time I heard or read of something being different in what the Prep

Academy was going to be, I was corrected by Dr. Miles telling me

nothing had changed. It was all going to be exactly as it was

before.

I informed her that I would be happy to sit down with her and

show her exactly the statements I was referring to in written

materials that had come out. Of course, that was not accepted as an

invitation, as none of the other invitations have been.

It is a concern to our community that for the last two years you

four, because Ms. Lee was not involved in that, Dr. Lee was not part

of that at that point, that you have been approached privately and

you have been approached in groups, you have been approached

individually, and you have been approached publicly. And yet nothing

-- it's telling me I'm done. Nothing has happened to answer serious

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questions.

You have another opportunity to suspend or put on hold

indefinitely the open admission policy. It's got big problems.

Thank you.


(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Virginia Ortega, I believe you have already

spoken? Did you want to speak again?

Sterling Benson, Jason Brown, Alfonso Valenzuela.

>> STERLING BENSON: Dr. Even, members of the board, honored colleagues,

members of the community, and guests. I wish, Dr. Even, first to

acknowledge your courage in confronting the Faculty Senate last

Friday. We gave you a rough time, and you took it with dignity.

How do you read me? Loud and clear, eh? Okay.

Yet courage alone is not enough for leadership. Your statements

implied that all of the faculty senators, all of the Staff Council

who together represent upwards of a thousand employees, and the

Higher Learning Commission fact-finding team are wrong in their

perception of the college's problems, and that only the four

Flores-era board members with their secret knowledge are right. This

is beyond the bounds of credibility.

Whatever one may argue about the facts, the climate of fear, and

retribution is real. The board has allowed it to grow and persist

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for many years.

On pages 26 and 27 of its report, the Higher Learning Commission

delivers a scathing analysis of your performance and concludes that

the top leadership of the college has to change.

If the Board of Governors regards itself as the top leadership,

then you four have to go.

If, in your intransigence, you stay on, then in my view the

Higher Learning Commission is not going to argue with you. But it

will surely put the college on probation and we could lose

accreditation.

I therefore call on you four senior members of the board to stop

the search for a full-time chancellor. As the employees have no

confidence in the board, it follows inexorably that we will have no

confidence in whomever you appoint. And I call on you further to

resign for the good of the college.

Thank you.

(Applause.)

>> MR. JASON BROWN: Chairperson Even, members of the board, colleagues

and guests. My name is Jason Brown. I'm the current president of

ACES, the employee group representing the exempt staff of the

college.

Historically ACES has had a cordial working relationship with the

senior administration of the college and by extension the Board of

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Governors. We do not have a history of opposing actions of the

board. We are not an outside special interest group. We are the

heart of Pima Community College.

I'm here today to deliver a message to you from our members, and

I'd like to share with you the process by which this message was

reached so you're aware of the democratic and open process that was

followed.

After the HLC report was released, my officers and I received

many messages from ACES members essentially asking the question, what

is our organization going to do about this?

As with most issues here at the college, the immediate response

was to schedule a meeting.

So we scheduled a meeting open to all exempt staff, and we

invited participants to speak their mind, to speak their mind on what

should be done in response to HLC.

At the March 20th board meeting up at Northwest Campus I

expressed that sentiment of our members to you. Since then, I have

received many more comments from our members calling for stronger

action.

During the following week the ACES officers and I crafted a

statement to be presented to our membership on this difficult issue.

After several drafts the ACES officers group voted to present that

statement to our membership for a vote. We voted on that and it was

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not unanimous, even among our officers, whether or not to do that.

Following our bylaws, that statement was presented to our

membership for a 14-day voting period which ended today. In that

vote, ACES members were asked to read the following statement and

either affirm or deny their support for it, and the statement reads

as follows: The Association of Classified Exempt Staff, ACES, the

employee representative group for Pima Community College exempt

staff, does not have confidence in the four Board of Governors

members who were in office during the Flores administration to

effectively guide the college out of its present crisis. In

addition, ACES believes the failures in leadership and accountability

by those four Board of Governors members contributed to the present

crisis. Furthermore, ACES believes that positive changes to Pima

Community College governance cannot be made with those four Board of

Governors members in place.

76% of all ACES members responded to that survey, and many also

included very thoughtful comments. 83% of votes affirmed that

statement. 8% did not affirm it. 9% responded abstained.

While this was an overwhelming majority in favor, it was not a

unanimous vote, and we are a group that appreciates the diversity and

candor and dissent of our members, and I personally want to thank

every member who shared their opinion with me, whatever it was, and

all those who voted.

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Delivering this message to you is not simply a reiteration of the

messages you have received from Faculty Senate and Staff Council. We

stand by our colleagues, but we are hopeful that having a concrete

sense of how the majority of exempt staff feel will guide you to do

what is in the best interests of Pima Community College.

Thank you.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Good evening.

>> MR. ALFONSO VALENZUELA: Good evening. Madame Chairman, board

members,

faculty, staff, guests. My name is Alfonso Valenzuela. Much has

been said and written about three areas of concern that Pima

Community College and the community at large has faced in the recent

past.

Rather than repeat what has already been presented in various

forums and distribution channels, I prefer to offer my views on the

Higher Learning Commission's report and recommendation to place Pima

Community College on probation.

On several occasions, I have heard and read comments that should

this happen, those who will suffer the most are the students.

Ultimately, yes, the students are the ones being served by the

college, but they are not the only ones.

A careful review of the HLC's conclusion indicates that the

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failures in governance by the college affect everyone: Faculty,

staff, students, representatives of various professional

associations, and the community at large. Likewise, we are all

responsible in one way or another for the current crisis.

Everyone touched by Pima Community College has had a hand in this

process. Unfortunately, we, as a community, seem to have undergone

anesthesia. We became complacent, assuming the college was in good

hands ,thus foregoing a responsibility as stakeholders. We were not

vigilant and are at fault for allowing a culture described as one of

fear and retaliation.

Collectively, then, we have permitted certain individuals to

deceive constituents in this public institution, the community at

large, and the agency charged with accreditation.

We now know as a result of a fact-finding team visit that the

college faces a serious situation that endangers the future of this

community. The tragedy is linked to those who occupy important

decision-making positions but who failed to take action as deemed

necessary as part of their fiduciary obligations and compliance with

statutory standards.

One of President Jack Kennedy's favorite quotes is in the book

Profiles in Courage. The hottest places in hell are reserved for

those who, in time of moral crisis, preserve their neutrality.

(Applause.)

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>> MR. ALFONSO VALENZUELA: Could it be that the current governance crisis we

now face stemmed from such an attitude? Repeatedly I have heard

people ask, how could this be happening at an institution of higher

learning? We keep reading and hearing the same question regarding

the failures but mostly the denial of anything gone wrong and

preferring to find fault with the evidence provided by HLC.

Let me go back to the idea that students be most harmed by HLC's

recommendation to place Pima Community College on probation. Would

it be too far-fetched to point out that the failure to take action

against wrongdoing, that is, unethical behavior like sexual

harassment, misuse of public funds, and creating a hostile

environment is precisely what Dante meant in his inferno?

By preserving your neutrality, meaning you as public guardians,

senior administrators, you have failed in a time of moral crisis.

Instead, it is obvious that those charged with governance and

administration chose blind loyalty to an individual blinded by power

which he abused.

Now, here is the reality of my overall impression of where the

students' future lies. How can we expect students at any institution

of higher learning to become productive citizens in a climate imbued

with deceit?

Common sense tells us that allowing destructive behavior to

continue is wrong, and that includes sexual harassment, deceitful

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financial transactions, and bullying. Exposing students to elicit

activities by those charged with their educational aspirations and

expecting them to condone questionable behavior is unethical.

Our community and PCC student body know better and expect PCC to

be governed in such a way that is truly exemplary so that ultimately

our reviews will feel proud and inspired to emulate the people who

maintain and preserve the principles and values that merit praise.

These are noble and commendable goals for anyone seeking access

to educational opportunities in a way to improve their lives. Our

organization C-FAIRR, along with Pima Open Admissions Coalition and

countless individuals who share our commitment to education, human

decency, and universal principles such as respect and accountability,

seek reparation for the failings of public officials elected to

represent our interests but who have instead remained neutral in a

time of crisis.

Thank you very much.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Rosalinda Gallardo and Scott Collins.

>> MS. ROSALINDA GALLARDO: Good evening. My name is Rosalinda Gallardo,

and I know most of you guys of the board know me. I want to thank you, and

I want to thank the faculty members, the staff, the community, all

the people, students, because by being here we show you that we care

about what's going on.

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And you guys know me because I was one of the persons who was

almost begging you to stop closing admissions to Pima Community

College. The case was you didn't hear the community. Today I

represent the community.

I have a question for you guys about one of the criticisms from

that HLC team was the number of interim appointments made at Pima.

My question is: Did the board communicate the reasons for appointing

another interim chancellor to the HLC and explain? Because I

represent the community.

Please, we need you to take HLC seriously, because we are Pima

Community College that is professional, and we ask you guys to be

professional and take things seriously because we are not talking

here about a person.

When I was sharing my story for you guys about how Pima Community

College helped my family, my kids, and my community, I was doing it

out of my heart.

And today I'm here to beg you and to tell you out of my heart to

become human beings and take seriously what's going on. It might be

the board should put themselves on probation.

Thank you so much.

(Applause.)

>> MR. SCOTT COLLINS: Good evening. Madame Chair, Dr. Even, members of

the board, colleagues and guests. I'm Scott Collins. Tonight I'm

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speaking on behalf of PCCEA and. By extension, the full-time

faculty.

We want to begin by offering our appreciation to Suzanne Miles

for her efforts over the last 13 months to move the college in a new

direction and for the several times during that period that she took

actions to help the college that conflicted with her own

self-interest.

We particularly appreciate her realization that continuing as

interim chancellor would be detrimental to the college and her

willingness to step down voluntarily and gracefully.

We would like to recognize the rapidity with which the board has

appointed a new interim chancellor. Identifying and successfully

recruiting a quality interim chancellor in less than a month is a

significant accomplishment.

We want to thank you for the significant role that the employee

leadership had in this incredibly compressed selection process. We

hope that Dr. Harris appreciates that she has the unanimous support

of the employee organizations.

These are healthy and productive achievements. This is certainly

a time of transition, and next week we will learn the exact path that

the college will need to follow to regain our sterling reputation.

Regardless of the sanction imposed by the HLC, the college has a

lot of work to do. We will all need to contribute in different ways,

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maybe in unusual ways.

It is the position of the PCCEA executive board that the most

significant contribution that the Board of Governors can make in this

effort is to establish a staggered schedule of resignations that

permits a seamless transition from one board to the next --

(Applause.)

>> MR. SCOTT COLLINS: -- as smoothly as we switched chancellors.

This would be a monumental step forward, a healthy, predictable

transition based upon a sincere desire to benefit the college.

Nobody questions your dedication to the college. It is exactly

that dedication that we are relying upon. We ask that you recognize

that a graceful and planned exodus eliminates much of the turbulence

surrounding the college, helps to facilitate the change in leadership

called for by the HLC, avoids the drama associated with recall

elections, and allows for replacements to be selected in an orderly

fashion.

We urge you to take ego out of the calculation and focus on

what's best for the college.

Thank you.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Brian Basgen and Bret Linden, Joe McGrath.

>> MR. BRIAN BASGEN: Hi. Chairperson Even, members of the board,

colleagues and guests. My name is Brian Basgen. I have been an

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employee of the college for seven years. I'm currently in the role

of assistant vice chancellor for IT in an acting capacity.

At an early age I learned that I had a knack for organizing and

resolving conflict. That wasn't necessarily by my choosing, but it

was usually by necessity.

The interesting thing about that is I was the youngest of four

boys, so a leadership role, you know, didn't really seem to be a fit

for that position. But I learned early and often that leadership

does not necessarily come from position. Position requires obedience

and compliance, no doubt. But I found that consensus building is far

more effective in achieving results.

So first and foremost I'm here to express my support for faculty

and staff, for everything that they are doing to constructively move

this institution forward based on the HLC report.

Now, it's true that staff and faculty have accomplished a great

deal in the last ten years. There's no question. But it's also true

that that progress came at a tremendous price of dysfunction that is

no longer sustainable.

I'm confident that the HLC will provide us a framework for moving

forward, but we need to recognize that leadership at this institution

needs to expand in depth and breadth. This is not a zero-sum game of

top down versus bottom up. Instead I think this needs to be about

finding pathways towards building consensus between staff, faculty,

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and administrators.

I have long believed that speaking to you about the issues of

this institution would be career-ending at worst and ineffective at

best. But I think now it's the time to stop yielding to fear and to

instead reach for hope.

(Applause.)

>> MR. BRIAN BASGEN: I think it's time to stop prognosticating on when

and how, and instead it's time for us to just do and recognize our

mistakes collectively and then to find a path forward to healing this

institution and moving us in the right direction.

Thank you.

(Applause.)

>> MR. BRET LINDEN: My name is Bret Linden. I was employed at PCC from

December of '05 until my resignation in January of '10. I served as

both an IT technician and IT specialist, those positions both being

classified nonexempt staff.

I am one of the many former PCC employees who quit because I

could no longer tolerate the toxic working environment and the

administration's refusal to do anything to fix it. Like many current

and former PCC staffers, I am pleasantly surprised that the HLC

listened to our concerns and our pain and took them seriously.

As pleased as I am about the HLC's report, I am left with a

concern. That concern is that there seems to be too much focus on

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the former chancellor and the people he victimized and not enough

focus on others.

Just because someone wasn't sexually harassed by the former

chancellor doesn't mean that their suffering should be dismissed.

There were many more than eight PCC employees that were mistreated

over the last decade, and Flores hardly had a monopoly on breaking

the rules and abusing subordinates.

Speaking to my own situation, while I wasn't sexually harassed

here, I personally was subjected to many things the HLC mentions in

their report, including bullying, demeaning and berating actions,

verbal abuse, intimidation, inappropriate use of the institution's

discipline process, being told that offering a view different from

the campus president could be detrimental to my employment, and being

denied opportunities to interview for positions for which I was

qualified, as well as other abuses in the hiring system.

Dr. Flores didn't do any of these things to me. On the contrary,

I doubt he ever knew who I was. But I still endured all these things

here at PCC. Unlike some others at Pima Community College, I wasn't

afraid to speak my mind, and I didn't keep any of this a secret. I

went to supervisors, I went to administrators, I went to HR. In each

and every case I was either outright ignored or my complaints were

swept under the rug. Not once were any of my issues ever responded

to with any action that had any realistic chance of resolving the

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situation.

At least Dr. Flores is gone now. In the case of the abuses I

personally endured? Each and every person responsible for them, as

well as those who helped the perpetrators cover them up, they all

still work here. Each and every one of them still work here. And a

couple of them are even sitting in this room right now. To the best

of my knowledge, not one of them ever had to answer for their

unjustified and unprovoked actions.

I'm not alone. I'm not a special case or an isolated incident.

I am far from the only PCC staffer at a lower pay grade abused here.

Many of my colleagues here were also mistreated, and none of us

deserved it. In PCC's response to the HLC's report, PCC says they,

and I'm quoting, recognize and accept full responsibility for the

serious breaches of integrity and college administration and

governance.

Well, accepting responsibility must include doing what needs to

be done to make right the multiple wrongs committed by HR,

administrators, and the lower levels of management.

Just adding new policies is a meaningless gesture when the

policies PCC did have were not uniformly enforced. PCC's policies in

the past have always been to attempt to figuratively beat a square

peg into a round hole, refusing to accept the fact that it will

never, ever fit.

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It's long past time for PCC management to end this idiotic

practice and to finally accept that you can't train a bad supervisor

to be a good one, and you can't train a bad person to be a good one,

either. We are all adults here, and there are several basic concepts

of being a person that we already should know having learned them in

our formative years. Anyone who doesn't know by now how to properly

conduct themselves and how to treat overs is never going to learn at

this point. You can't teach character.

PCC's management at all levels needs to finally accept the fact

that people are who they are. Continuing to deny this obvious fact

hurts many more people than it helps, will keep PCC's work

environment hostile indefinitely, and hold PCC back from healing its

many wounds.

In short, it is time to finally stop futilely trying to retrain

the bad people and it's time to start firing them. No more denial,

no more stalling, no more secrets or excuses. Get rid of the bad

people before you lose any more good ones.

It's impossible for those who contributed to creating the current

problems to be part of the solution to them. Additionally, those who

demonstrated themselves to be of low character in PCC's past do not

deserve to be a part of PCC's future. You can't clean any house

without taking out the trash.

It's time that PCC stops hoarding their trash and finally throws

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it away. In so doing, you will give a little overdue justice to the

others that anguished here, too.

Thank you.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Joe McGrath.

>> MR. JOE McGRATH: Hello. My name is Joe McGrath. I'm a PCC student.

I work with student government at Downtown and West Campus.

First, I'd like to speak on behalf of the student body. Even

though we don't have them here -- we expected a few more people to

show up, and they will be in the future.

To start off, before I showed up today I really didn't have much

to say, but filling out the comment card sparked a thought, and that

was why are we facing probation?

Yeah, I didn't have much to say because I too wanted to point the

finger, but after thinking about the question, I would like to help

take responsibility for what is going on, and that's why I came here

to speak to you. The student body has been missing for a long time,

and we should be active and incorporated into any of the processes or

rules you try to pass to rule over us. I would like to see that in

our future, and I'm trying to bridge those gaps.

(Applause.)

>> MR. JOE McGRATH: From the eyes of the students, I definitely see how

hope can be minimal. Debts are high, tuition is rising again, and as

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of now, my degree may just be another piece of paper by the time I

earn it.

So rather than sit on my hands with a shut mouth while the people

gambling away my future try to cover their tracks, that would be you

guys, I'm going to reach out to my family, community, and peers to

fix the problems that we're all facing.

You wanted a student voice? Well, we do have plenty to say.

Please come see us.

That I will leave on behalf of the student body. For me

personally, my name is Joseph Christopher McGrath. I'm a student

veteran. I served four years in the Army and I deployed to

Afghanistan. I completely understand the fear culture and how it

operates and what you guys are doing here. I think I have a good grasp on corruption when I see that. And I don't work for you.

That's a big one. You don't pay me. So I don't need to come up here

and ask you to resign. I don't have to take the extra polite routes

of speaking to you to keep my job. And I don't have to hide in fear

to make sure that there is food on the table for my family. So I

don't plan to do any of that.

What I plan to do is reach out to my peers in the community and

address the problems that we have, which is you guys. I don't think

a recall situation is too much to ask, and I'm more than willing and

planning to start the processes that it's going to take to remove the

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board of governing members that don't walk away.

So please enjoy your stay for the rest of the time you're here.

Thank you for what you've done to get us here. And you guys have a

good day.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Cort Chalfant and Kelly Ponzio.

>> CORT CHALFANT: Madame Chair, members of the board, thank you for

giving me the opportunity to address you this evening and everyone in

the audience, as well.

My name is Cort Chalfant. I want to talk with you a few minutes

this evening about leadership. I promise I'm not here to lecture,

but I am asking you to listen to your friends.

You may not immediately recognize it, but I'm one of your

friends, too. I mean that sincerely. We have so much in common.

I'm not talking about you as a Board of Governors. I'm talking about

each of you and I in terms of who we are as people and what makes us

tick.

For example, we share a passion for educating kids so they have

the best possible opportunity to fulfill their hopes and dreams.

That is not a sound bite. That's how I know we all feel.

We understand that as this college goes, to a great extent that's

how Tucson goes. We share a deep belief for public service and

recognize that by doing good for this college we are doing good for

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Tucson as a whole.

We are compassionate people. Our hearts go out to people who are

working hard and often struggling to improve their lot in life, and

we reach out to help, each of us for our own reasons, but mostly

because it's in our DNA. Finally, each of us has within us the

willingness to put team ahead of self for the good of the team.

So, Dr. Even, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Longoria, Ms. Cortez, tonight as

your friend I'm asking you to rethink your position about remaining

on the board. I'm asking you to listen to your friends so that you

can see that the horse has already left the barn. The ship has

sailed. Please recognize that by your hanging on, this team can't

move on. It can only tread water.

We know your intentions are good. That's not a question, not in

my mind or my heart. But you can't expect this storm to just blow

over. You can't wait it out. Opposition to your tenure is not

temporary. It's just getting started.

(Applause.)

>> CORT CHALFANT: Unfortunately, the longer it goes on, the more the

team suffers. We're talking about students, we're talking about the

community, we're talking about faculty, administrators, and staff,

first and foremost in that order.

Now, for you, I'm a fresh face, but I think you know I'm not a

disgruntled employee, past or present. I do not consider myself a

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community activist. And I do not have a political agenda.

I came out of the woodwork tonight because like so many others

I'm appalled at the institutional failings that have occurred under

your watch, and I can't stand idlely by and let more damage occur.

If it comes to it, recall will take a year. Like me, the people

that I know don't want to have that happen. Recall should be

reserved for only the grossest breaches of public trust, and it is

divisive. It tears people apart and fuels anger precisely at the

time we need to come together and heal.

However, the growing sentiment in the community -- it's obvious

tonight, but not just tonight. For weeks now, the growing sentiment

in the community is that you're not hearing what everyone is telling

you and certainly gross breaches of trust have occurred.

So, please, for the good of the students and the community, when

you leave here tonight and you go home, I'm asking you to re-reflect

on your purpose. I'm convinced that if you listen to your heart and

you listen to your friends, you will know that you have already done

everything you can do.

With your permission, I would like to give you a copy of my

remarks. The reason for that is so that if and when you reflect on

these remarks tonight, you can reread them and reflect on the

thoughts that I've given you.

Thank you for listening.

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(Applause.)

>> MS. KELLY PONZIO: Good evening. My name is Kelly Ponzio. I'm here

tonight because I consider myself a PCC success story. I'm not here

to rehash the negative details of the HLC's report. I'm not here to

make anyone wrong. I'm not here to point any fingers. I'm simply

here to take a stand, share my story, and do my part to ensure that

PCC success stories can continue to be created.

Bear with me while I share my story. It's an emotional one for

me. In 1990, at 25 years old, I found myself as a single mother. I

had a six-month-old, I had a chronically ill two year old, and I had

a high school education.

I was on food stamps, I was on WIC, I was on AHCCCS. I worked

nights as a waitress so I could spend days with my children. I

didn't come from money or from an educated family. My parents didn't

even graduate high school. I didn't have the financial means to go

to a university. It didn't really matter, because I didn't even have

the academic requirements to be accepted in a university.

I was pretty much a product of my environment. My reality at

that point was that I had only one option for a better future, and

that option was Pima Community College. That option for me was

actually so much more than just an option. It meant hope, hope for

better tomorrows and hope for a better future.

So I applied for financial aid. I got some help from a family

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friend. I enrolled at PCC Community College. I was able to fit all

my classes into two days a week so I could continue to work nights

and I could continue to be the mom that my children deserved me to

be.

In 1993 I earned my paralegal degree at PCC Community College.

I'm proud of that. To some of you in this room, that may not seem

like much of an accomplishment, but to me it was enormous. It was a

life-long difference maker, one that I reap the benefits of every

single day. It was my answer to better tomorrows. It was my answer

to a better future.

While this may seem like a story about me, it's actually a lot

more. It's an acknowledgement that PCC stands for hope. For many,

this hope is their only chance to creating better tomorrows.

So in closing, I'd like to share a philosophy that I believe in

and a philosophy that has served me well over the years. That

philosophy is that outstanding leaders lead with their heart and not

their heads. While it's only a 14-inch journey from your head to

your heart, I can guarantee it will be one of the toughest journeys

you ever take.

So with all due respect, tonight I'm asking you, Dr. Even,

Mr. Longoria, Ms. Cortez, Mr. Stewart, I'm asking you to make that

journey from your head to your heart, because I believe if you can

find your way there, what you'll find is the best interest of about

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35,000 students. I think you'll realize that stepping down is the

right choice to ensure that there will continue to be PCC success

stories. Please do your part and give hope a chance.

Thank you.

(Applause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: At this point we will move on to our reports

by our staff representatives.

Thank you for all who have spoken, shared your feelings and your

ideas. I would think that at this time it would be very difficult

for you to hear anything else, so we will probably move on with our

next stage.

Thank you.

>> SPEAKER: Good evening, Chairperson Even, members of the

board, colleagues and guests, the following report is from the Staff

Council meeting on April 5. The provost and executive vice

chancellor reminded us that there have been changes to the

registration and placement guides as well as they notified us we have

received three letters from state universities that are stating they

will continue to accept our transfer credits without reservation.

An additional report from the interim chancellor spoke to Staff

Council and introduced Zelema Harris as will be starting on April 15

as well as the representatives that interviewed the committee were

very impressed and that she was unanimously selected.

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In addition, we had a liaison report from the human resources

office, and that touched on recruitment statistics for March as well

as some professional development sessions in April.

The internal auditor visited the Staff Council. She was able to

share with us the EthicsPoint. She reviewed the purpose, the

mission, and the objectives of the EthicsPoint and reviewed how a

complaint is received and processed.

The director of admissions as well joined us and presented a

draft for the 2014/'15 academic calendar as well as the committee is

going to set the dates for the All College Day for faculty and staff

development.

Employee reports. The AFSCME report reviewed officers and

stewards names and positions for the AFSCME and the ACES report that

the Meet and Confer process is underway. Final issue should conclude

soon.

As far as campus and district reports go, there are still a lot

of events going on at the campuses. May 9, the Multicultural

Convocation at West Campus, as well as the diversity conversation

will take place on April 26 at the Downtown Campus.

Other business, there was some discussion regarding using Deer

Oaks or a contract company to help heal the disruption people are

going through. We are not sure staff or supervisors are passing that

along. We do encourage our staff to reach out to Deer Oaks right now

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to help with this process.

Additionally I'd like to introduce to my left our new staff Board

of Governors representative Amy Parker who was nominated, accepted,

and elected unanimously by all members present at Staff Council.

That will conclude the Staff Council report.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Welcome.

John Valenzuela.

>> MR. JOHN VALENZUELA: My name is John Valenzuela. I'm the student

representative. Dr. Even, members of the board, staff, faculty,

community members, unfortunately my partner was unable to be here

tonight so I will be reading his reports, as well.

Starting with West Campus. The Pima Leadership Institute Silver

Level Retreat will be held on April 26 through the 28th at Mount

Lemmon. 20 PCC student leaders will participate in that.

Community Campus. Student leaders are getting involved, and I

hope I pronounce this right, Milpitas Community Garden with the

support of community food bank and civics and student leadership

program. This occurs every Saturday

Northwest Campus. The Northwest Campus Student Life office has

developed programs in honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.

On April 15 there will be a day of Asian food and entertainment.

The Downtown Campus. Bikefest 2013. In conjunction with

Bikefest 2013 and Bike to Work Day, Pima Community College Downtown

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Campus will be participating in the bike-to-work school day on April

10 from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Student government and advising

counseling will host a table at the corner of Speedway and Stone near

the college marquee. Water and healthy snacks will be provided.

Community materials will be distributed such as bike information,

maps, et cetera.

East Campus. The Alberding Amble. April 27, 2013. Student Life

will be volunteering alongside the math faculty in the third annual

Alberding Amble 5K and one-mile fun run/walk.

The event will take place on the cross-country track at Lincoln

Park. Proceeds benefit the Art Alberding Math Scholar Award.

Desert Vista Campus. Campus outreach. Sexual Assault and

Domestic Awareness Month. Desert Vista Student Life coordinator and

one of the counselors, Cat Mantan Jones (phonetic) are working

together to present public service announcements concerning sexual

assault and domestic violence on the ATM located in the atrium.

There were also two speakers scheduled to address the issues of

sexual assault and domestic violence.

On April 4 a speaker on Su Voz Vale, bilingual/bicultural

services for survivors of sexual assault, and on April 8 a speaker

from the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse.

>> MS. KIMLISA SALAZAR DUCHICELA: Good evening, Chairperson

Even, members of the Board of Governors, colleagues, guests. I'm

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assuming that you have the report for the faculty in front of you, so

therefore, rather than reading it to you as if it was a PowerPoint,

which I think is unfortunate, I'm going to point out a couple of

things on here.

First of all, item No. 2, the faculty did greatly enjoy a

presentation by Sean Mendoza from IT about accessibility and

Universal Design. I think it was -- the faculty felt and I felt that

it was a timely presentation and something that we would like to see

more of.

We also had the pleasure of having Stella Bay in to discuss some

classroom safety. Classroom safety is becoming a very important item

for faculty. As you know, there have been many things in the news,

and this is something that is near and dear to our hearts, and we

look forward to working with Bill Ward and others on this particular

item.

Also, No. 4, the enforcing of prerequisites, it's something that

has been more and more discussed. We think that enforcing

prerequisites would have the effect of solving several issues for

faculty coming in, for students coming into our classrooms and help

them get more on a path to success, having prerequisites be something

that helps them decide what classes are proper for them.

We also had a report from PCCEA on Meet and Confer and some of

the things that are going on with PCCEA.

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Last, but not least, I would like to reiterate what Dr. Vincent

said. Dr. Even did come in to Faculty Senate and face the fire on

her own. She did so with grace and dignity.

I think that concludes our report unless my colleague has

something.

Our next Faculty Senate meeting will be the first Friday of May,

which I believe will be the 3rd.

Thank you.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Thank you very much. Any questions? Okay.

I think we have some information items. Would you mind reading

the information items?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: As we all can tell, Brenda is having a

little bit of voice problems. Her allergies are really in full

bloom. We're going to try and help her out by reading some of this

for her.

Information items. Separation from employment. Information item

listing retirements and separations from employment. Constance

Strickland, Jane W. Worrall, Mary H. Holmes, Anthony R. Schlak,

Sharon J. Sinibaldi, and Gwendoline H. Vazquez.

No. 12, executive administrator contract fiscal year 2013/2014

and 2014 and 2015. Information item listing executive administrators

Exhibit B who are in the first fiscal year of their two fiscal year

contracts and will be entering the second year of their two fiscal

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year contract on July 1st, 2013.

No. 13, personnel policy statement for college employees,

information item regarding the March 8, 2013 amendments to the Family

Medical Leave Act, 2013.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Item 14, approval of minutes for the

following meetings. Special meeting of March 16; special meeting of

March 20; regular meeting of March 20; and special meeting of March

25, 2013.

What's the pleasure of the board?

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I think you're indicating there is a

problem?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: I'm just confused. Items 8, 9, and 10 on

the agenda?

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I jumped. I did jump, didn't I?

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: I was wondering what happened so fast.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Sorry about that.

Governing board member reports. I will probably try to let you

know that obviously we do not have the HLC response. We know that we

would get it within a week to ten days. At least that is what we

have been told.

We have also made sure that obviously that Dr. Zelema Harris has

had a chance to look at it and we are working with her on that. The

interim chancellor I think you've met, and we will have her on board

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as of Monday, the 15th. I think officially the 14th, right?

I would ask if there are any other items that the board members

would like to comment on.

No?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: I would just like to make one comment.

You know, we do hear you. At least, you know, we're not

indifferent to that. Your comments are taken seriously. What we

need to do is take them seriously, and the HLC report is taken

seriously.

So we appreciate the time, and we know this has not been easy for

you, for anyone, but I do want to make it clear that we're not

indifferent to your comments.

Thank you.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I think we would probably all second that.

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Yes. And there isn't an hour in the day

that doesn't go by when I question what I should do. I'm just not

ready to make the decision to resign. My constituents are telling me

the opposite, and I work for them.

But I've got to take the HLC report seriously, because

accreditation is the name of the game and higher education is the

coin of the realm. And it's a big deal like it was a big deal when

we were falling below the criteria for accreditation in our nursing

program because we didn't have enough faculty to keep the program

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going, and we had to do something different in the face of internal

opposition in terms of compensating new nursing faculty.

So we do take it seriously. I'll have more to say at another

time.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Chancellor's report. Jeff Sylvan.

>> MR. JEFF SYLVAN: Who is not the chancellor.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: No, but he is standing in.

>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Thank you, Madame Chair, members of the

board, employees and guests. For the chancellor's report tonight I

am filling in for Dr. Miles, and it is my pleasure to introduce

Dr. Johnson Bia, president of the Desert Vista Campus, who will be

speaking tonight about the aviation program.

>> DR. JOHNSON BIA: I love that picture that's up there.

Good evening, Chairperson Even, members of the board,

representatives, colleagues, and guests. Thank you for inviting

Desert Vista Campus to provide a brief update on our aviation

program.

We are proud of our aviation program, and I believe that that

will be quite evident as we give the presentation this evening.

Vice President Ted Rausch will provide some of the highlights,

and we will both be available to respond to your questions. But

before doing so, I believe that we may be joined by several folks

from the aviation program, or at least I saw some of them earlier.

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So if Department Chair Pete Stogsdill or any of the faculty

members are here, Pete, thank you very much, he's been here I believe

over 20 years with the program, so thank you for being here. There

may be other faculty members here.

Also, I would like to recognize our program manager Tom Henman

and any of the staff members. Tom, thank you.

I remember when he was over at Evergreen, and of course now

renamed Marana Aerospace, there is a new name to that, but we

appreciate him joining our program.

Also, there may be members of our aviation advisory committee.

I'm not sure. We did invite some of the industry representatives.

They may be here.

At this time I will turn it over to Vice President Roush to

provide program highlights, and then I will have some concluding

comments and entertain questions.

So with that, Ted, thank you.

>> SPEAKER: Good evening, Chairperson Even, members of the

board, colleagues and guests, I'd like to talk to you tonight about

the program we're very proud of, the aviation program here at Pima

Community College.

Not as the picture is showing you. This is not an ad for FedEx,

but it is a picture of the plane they recently donated to us upon

landing at Tucson Airport back in July.

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I'm very proud of that.

I now have to figure out which of these buttons I'm pushing to

make this go forward.

There we go. The aviation program is one of the oldest programs

at Pima Community College. It started in 1970. It's here right with

the beginning of our college. It's housed in a facility of 14,000

square feet on almost five acres. It's part of our Tucson Airport

Authority who we work in close concert with.

What makes our program especially unique is that where many

programs in the United States for training aviation mechanics,

programs use very small, well, single-engine aircraft, ours is one of

the few programs that use large cargo and transport aircraft to train

our students.

We have in total approximately eight or nine identifiable

aircraft in the program, and it's a unique resource for our students

and for the industry.

Of course, we are having, since 2003, an FAA certified program,

which is to use board member Stewart's words, coin of the realm, as

far as aviation work.

Just a little bit about our staffing. We have a program manager,

that's Mr. Hinman back there, who we have enjoyed having and five

full-time faculty and approximately five adjunct faculty, though that

changes a little bit.

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You can imagine that is an entire aviation program and basically

10 people. They work very, very hard, many of them carrying

overloads on top of overloads just to make the program work. I will

talk a little bit more about that later.

We have three full-time staff that keep all the stuff working and

hand out the tools and parts and keep track of them all for our

program.

I think one of the mistakes that sometimes people make is the

thinking the aviation program is one program when in fact it is three

distinct programs. It's first of all a program for airframe and

power plant. Those are the people we usually think of when we think

of people working on an aircraft, passenger aircraft, business

aircraft. That's an FAA certified program and has very rigorous

standards required of folks.

We also have a structural repair program aircraft that I guess

anything that holds the aircraft together, the standing on the

aircraft, the internal metal, composite structures, that is done by

our structural repair program.

It has separate requirements, though it is not an FAA certified

program because there is no FAA certification for that. Very unique

program with the United States.

And also we have our avionics program which, if you remember back

in October when I addressed the board, I talked about the Title V

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program that built the avionics program for us. It is also unique.

Very few exist in the United States, very few textbooks, very highly

remunerated program, and one we have brought up to full speed and are

having full classes on.

We use, as with many of our occupational programs at the college,

a cohort model meaning a single group moves through together. Those

groups can be no larger than 25 because that is regulated by the FAA.

As of fall 2012 we had 154 students enrolled which is a record

for us. We are a results-oriented program. What program isn't at

the college? But we are pretty proud of what we're able to achieve.

In our fall data, 89% of our students achieved A, B, or C grades,

which is I think a tremendous accomplishment.

We also awarded in 2012 110 certificates and degrees. Lest I

mislead you, sometimes those degrees and certificates are awarded

multiple to one person. They may have achieved both their

certificate and their Associate's degree at the same time.

Job placements. There aren't a lot of jobs that come out of

community colleges that have starting wages of 16 to $18, $18.75 an

hour, but the future growth potential in this area, if a graduate of

our program is willing to move, to gain experience, this is a job

area where 60, 70, $80,000 a year and into six figures can also

result for people just from what they get from our program.

As far as class results, this is something we track over time,

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and so upon graduation of our last class, 21 of 25 graduates already

had their jobs before they walked out our door.

We don't have a job placement program. What we have is the

industry beating down the door to get to our graduates.

I can't emphasize to you enough how important financial aid is

for this program. I have a couple of slides to go through here for

you. There are 161 different program participants during last year.

109 of those completed financial aid requests.

It requires a significant commitment to be part of our program,

and it is unique -- maybe not unique in the college, but very

singular in the fact that a student requires between 18 and 26 months

to complete the program, depending on which parts they decide to pick

up.

Attendance by the FAA is mandatory. They cannot miss any days,

any days or hours missed have to be made up.

The program starts at 7:30 in the morning and finishes at 3:30 in

the afternoon. So it is a full day. Somehow people are trying to

support their families and support their lifestyles while they're

doing that, working jobs at night and getting off work and coming in

the morning and starting again. So the commitment is huge and the

financial aid is absolutely essential.

There are extensive ancillary costs, meaning these people require

their tools. The tools, minimum tools they need would be about

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$1,200; whereas in some programs it's 4,000, $4,500 to get their

tools and equipment that they need to work in the trade.

Financial aid being a must, as a must, as I showed you in the

previous slide, 109 financial aid recipients, or applicants. This is

how they fell out. 84 in the Pell Grant, 60 in subsidized loans, 46

in unsubsidized loans. And what I'm trying to show you here is not

only a majority are receiving financial aid, but as you see, those

numbers don't add up to 109, they are tapping more and more of all

the different kinds.

There are very few going through our program who are not

receiving grants and having loans they're taking with them out of

this program.

Of course we'd be remiss if we didn't mention we have scholarship

support. Of course our foundation is right there helping us. We

have scholarships coming from our industry partners, Adelante, and we

don't want to miss mentioning Job Path and OneStop who played several

different roles in supporting our students.

One of the things that makes our program very, very strong is the

strong industry support and partnership. We have great partnerships

with Bombardier -- you can read the list there. Job Path, OneStop.

They are integrated with this, and most all of these folks are also

part of our aviation advisory committee.

We do spend a substantial amount of time, whether it be through

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professional associations, perseverance, good luck. We, in

developing our resources, a program like ours runs on not just

aircraft but also by parts, donated extra supplies that we get from

different aviation companies in the area.

Of course, Federal Express has been a wonderful partner. We are

a unique program in the United States having received two different

donated aircraft from them, which is unmatched by any program.

We have nine different aircraft we have there coming from

different areas, and of course the college could never have afforded

to buy those. We acquired them again through our resource

development.

Different areas here, the Experimental Aircraft Association, we

have a professional association with them, and they provide

scholarships and participate on our advisory committee.

Likewise, Bombardier provides scholarships. They participate on

our board and has been our board chair for the last three years.

Universal Avionics, likewise, Tucson Airport Authority, our

partner all the time. They donate the area that we live on and help

us function day to day, serve on our advisory committee.

I should also mention that there are always a list, a long list

of others who are interested in supporting us and may just show up

one day and say, I have a palate-worth of sheet metal. I have these

extra aircraft parts. Can you make use of them? Almost all of these

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we are nodding yes. We will take anything that's free. (Laughter.)

So kind of wrapping this program up, we are working with a

high-demand industry. Our students are almost always placed -- if

they wish to work, they will be, and they will be well paid.

We expect that growth in demand or demand for students and

enrollments will continue to grow, because not only is the industry

growing, but a lot of the aircraft mechanics out there now are aging

out of the force. As a result, that creates opportunities for our

students.

We have strong and committed community support, which we have

thought is great. I would be remiss if I did not mention how great

our faculty and staff are. The number of times you find them out

there at midnight fixing an aircraft so that it will be ready to

teach students the next day, showing up at 3:00 in the morning to

meet the cleaning staff, to setting up for graduations.

They are probably -- I'm going to go out on a limb and insult

some people -- they are the most committed faculty and staff we have

here at the college. Very, very proud of them and very proud of our

program.

I think Dr. Bia would like to conclude for us.

>> DR. JOHNSON BIA: Thank you very much. We consider our aviation

program a premier program of the college, of the industry. And as

you can see, the program by design works very, very closely with a

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lot of partners, a lot of industry, and as a major contributor into

the preparation of our competitive work force.

Having served on the work force investment board, that's one

thing we are always looking for is a trained work force that can go

to work, and obviously we are committed to that.

Just along that line, our aviation program will also be hosting

the regular meeting of the Pima County Work Force Investment Board

Friday morning. At 7:30 we will have industry partners there as

well.

With that, any questions? We will be glad to respond.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Members, go ahead.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: I have a question. Do you track the

students as to where they are placed? I would guess that you try to

do that.

And what has been the trend or the job market here locally?

>> DR. JOHNSON BIA: There may be others who may want to comment to that.

The job placement -- because the way that they're set up, they are

cohorts following each other. Out of that, for example, this last

group, I believe, the numbers shown here about 85, 90%, in that

range, would be getting job offers or actually have a job already.

So that's how we are tracking it through the program, through the

faculty, through the staff at the center, because the students

maintain contact there.

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As far as a college-wide form of tracking, et cetera, I wish we

did have a systematic way of doing that, but it has to be done at a

program level, and so our aviation technology program is able to

maintain contact. That's how we get information, albeit, some of

them anecdotal, but we work with the industry as the partnership

lists that we showed. They are able to come on-site, conduct

interviews, and that's how often it occurs.

What was the other part of your question?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: The job market potential here locally.

>> SPEAKER: Well, I attended the last aviation advisory

committee. As a matter of fact, the requests is we need them, we

need them now, it's an upward trend.

Pete, I don't know if there is anything else related to that, but

all indications are there is going to be a great, even a greater

demand.

>> SPEAKER: (Off microphone.)

>> SPEAKER: These are our resident experts, and they maintain

contact with the industry. Again, the last comment I heard is there

is going to be increasing demands.

Pete, thank you very much.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: You have to come down to the microphone;

otherwise it doesn't get recorded.

>> MR. PETE STOGSDILL: That's okay. I was told I wasn't going to be in the

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hot seat tonight.

Yeah, the industry is growing. There is a huge number of

retirees coming out of the program. Most of the people out there

have 20, 30 years in the industry. They literally are coming to the

end of their tenure there.

We have, you know, just with working with Bombardier, Ascent down

the street from us, the new Marana Aerospace out there, we are

tracking right now a need for 200 mechanics currently, and that's

just in Tucson here. We have over 30 companies that come to us every

year to try to draw our people out of Tucson, because we are such a

unique program.

Our program is the only one of its kind in the country. Those

graduates, that's almost 100% placement of every one of them that

goes through that program there. We are fast becoming a structures

and repair program and an avionics program that happens to also have

an A&P capability too.

We have done a real good job with our industry partners. Usually

the people that come back to hire our students are our graduates.

We have been doing this now for quite a few years, and, you know,

it has nothing but more growth to come. I mean, we really -- if the

industry was to -- well, let's put it this way: If the economy turns

around, the industry starts to take off, or the economy takes off,

the industry is going to be hard-pressed in finding enough qualified

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people to be able to fill it.

We're predicting right now there will be planes parked at the

gates with no pilot crews and no one to work on the aircraft in the

near future due to retirements and growth.

We can only produce about 5,000 mechanics a year in this country.

The people coming out of the military have very specialized skills,

very difficult for them to be placed immediately upon, you know,

leaving the military.

It's up to programs like ours to basically bring those people up.

So we are -- I think we've got a lot of job security here.

(Laughter.)

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Congratulations.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I was told that this is the sixth fastest-

growing industry in the country, the aviation area, and you seem to

be certainly underscoring that.

Okay. Can we expand? Can we expand our program?

>> SPEAKER: Right now we're busting at the seams. We have five

cohorts starting every July now. Those cohorts are filling up. 25

is our maximum that we can do in there. In some cases that's almost

too much in our composite shop and our avionics. We should only be

doing 20 in the size of the facilities we have right there.

We are probably looking at asking the FAA for an additional

opportunity to train 25 more, another cohort worth of people this

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coming fall, just because of the amount of demand that we have.

We are to the point now where we're about maximum capacity. We

designed the building for 150. We are there. We're just basically,

you know, working on the tip of the iceberg here.

The biggest problem is finding faculty and staff. I hate to say

this, but I will. Most of our students when they graduate make more

money their first year on the job than we pay our brand new faculty

members. So it's tough to go out and convince somebody who's going

to be out there making a lot of money, working on an aircraft, to

come in here and do what we ask them to do.

We work pretty hard. My staff, my faculty -- I say my, ours

(laughter) -- no, I don't really hold the whip, but they really enjoy

what they do. We are changing people's lives here, as we do all over

the place in the college. Truly we believe in our mission out there.

If I had more people, we'd train a lot more aviation mechanics.


>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Can we do more with adjunct faculty who

were paid differently?

>> SPEAKER: The problem with recruiting adjunct faculty is that

if you're going to take somebody who's, you know, either retired and

wants to come and make some part-time extra funds, they probably --

we'll probably work them to death because we have such a hard time

finding them.

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When you look for adjunct faculty that are actually working in

the industry and want to come and work in the evenings, that's almost

nonexistence. They can make so much more making time and a half than

we will ever pay them as an adjunct faculty member.

It's really hard to find adjunct faculty. We have tried many

different tracks to attract them. It just doesn't seem to net us a

whole lot of results. We have the majority of our students taught by

our full-time faculty.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Thank you.

>> SPEAKER: Let me just add that because it's such a highly

specialized area, technical expertise is always an issue. The

facility, the type of equipment, the specialized equipment, those are

a constant need. All of those have to be -- there has to be a

critical mass for that in order for the program to expand, just the

physical space required. As you see, a nice big hangar is already

full.

Any other questions? Thank you very much.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Madame Chair, members of the board, I

apologize for speaking out of turn and trying to proceed out of order

earlier, but going back to action items 14, approval of minutes for

the meetings as already noted, what's the pleasure of the board?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Move to approve them.

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: Second.

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>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: I apologize. There is a motion and a

second on the floor. Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, all those in favor say eye.

(Ayes.)

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Opposed?

(No response.)

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Motion passes unanimously. We're going

back to 10. Item 10 is the financial report. Dr. Bea?

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Chairperson Even, members of the board,

colleagues, and guests. Included in the board meeting are the

monthly financial reports through the end of February. As indicated

in the report, we concluded the month with an increase of net assets

of approximately $8.3 million through the end of the month.

This figure is a little bit lower than the net asset increase of

$13.5 million for February 2012, and the decrease is primarily due to

a decrease in tuition revenue and plant increases in equipment and

plant expenses. In terms of overall operational performance, the

expenditures and encumbrances reports indicate personal services and

expenditures and commitments and supplies expenditures and

commitments are similar to previous years' results.

As shown in the statement of net assets, total net assets at the

end of February were 226 million, a decrease of about $5 million

compared to the same period last year, principally as a result of

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capital depreciation.

With that, I will ask if the board has any questions. I know we

have a long night and other agenda items to tackle.

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: I have a question. Are we on page 2? Okay.

If you look under justification, the first paragraph, the decrease is

primarily due to 3 million decrease in tuition and a 3.5 million

increase in institutional support expenses?

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah. I said it slightly differently when I

was saying it orally. In the institutional support, you have

equipment expenses, and then in plant you have plant expenses. So I

said it in a slightly different way, but the increases in

institutional support are principally for two reasons. One is the

increase in equipment for computers, that kind of thing, noncapital

equipment, and then there is an increase in plant that I also

mentioned.

In the institutional support, there is also a difference, and we

talked about it previously in how we are doing the salary savings and

how we credit salary savings. We are doing this in an automated way

on a monthly basis, and we used to be crediting that back to

institutional support.

We are now crediting that back to reserves. It makes more sense

to do it that way. But in the past, so in prior years, when you're

doing a comparison to prior year, the institutional support will look

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a little bit higher because we used to credit money back to it in the

prior year.

Does that make sense?

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: If you don't mind, if I could get a list, I'd

like to know maybe a breakdown on what that entails.

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah. In fact, we have a whole list. I will

be happy to get that to the board.

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: Thank you.

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Any other questions?

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Thank you, Dr. Bea.

I believe now we are all caught up if I move forward with 15.

Consent agenda. What's the pleasure of the board? Motion to

consent?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Just catching up here.

Move the consent agenda.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Second?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Second.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Any discussion?

Hearing none, all those in favor? Mr. Stewart, did you have a

question?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: I just have a quick comment. That's on

the revised affirmative action, EEO policy, there was one difference

in the language that I asked about, and that was the affirmative

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obligation to report complaints. I was satisfied that it was in the

Standard Practice Guide, so with that, I support it.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Dr. Lee? Comment or question?

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: Just a comment so that it's clear that we

know that the board policy's post for comment for 21 days, and what I

have asked is that all comments are shown to the board from here on

out. Thank you.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: So noted.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Did we have any comments, Janet?

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: She said two.

>> MS. JANET MAY: Chairperson Even, when the Standard Practice Guide

went out, we did get two comments. One was an affirmative saying

there had been a lot of work done and thank you, and another was a

question as we went through.

We have not received any -- let me think. Hold on. I believe

there was one comment on the board policy just asking for a

clarification as we went through. So there were two for the Standard

Practice Guide and one in regards to board policy.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: And you responded to these?

>> MS. JANET MAY: Yes. We did get back with people.


>> MS. JANET MAY: Any other questions while I'm here? Thank you.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Thank you, Ms. May.

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Any further discussion on the consent agenda?

Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.

(Ayes.)

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Any opposed?

(No response.)

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: I'm going to pass the baton back to

Madame Chair.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: This is item 16, changes to personnel policy

statement for college employees and administrative personnel policy

statement.

The administration is requesting approval to change the language

from two fiscal year terms to one fiscal year term of executive

administrator contracts effective July 1, 2013.

Is there a motion?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: So moved.


>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Discussion?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Madame Chair, fellow members of the board,

I believe that we should stay with the two-year contracts for the

senior administrators. That was something that I proposed and helped

convince the rest of the board to go forward. Its purpose was to

create a greater environment of courage so that people could come

forward feeling a little more confident that they were not in any

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immediate danger as well as to stabilize the leadership of the

institution in what was obviously going to be a very difficult time.

I recommend that we continue doing that. So I oppose this

change.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Any other comments?

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: I'd like to make a comment. I asked Interim

Chancellor Miles to get information to the board on the number of

community colleges in the state that have executive administrators

with more than one-year contract, and I believe the answer came back

that there are none.

I would also like to state that being an executive administrator

myself, I understand the one-year contract and some of the issues

that individuals may have a fear that their contract may not be

renewed, but on the other hand, I do think that at times a two-year

contract does tie the hands of the board and fiscally it can be a

risk.

So I agree with this change.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Any other comments?

No further comment. All those in favor of the motion? Do we

actually have a motion? I wanted to be sure.

All those in favor say aye?

(Ayes.)

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: Aye.

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>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Aye.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Aye.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Opposed?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: No.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: No. 17 is fiscal year 2013/'14 employee

salary increases. There are several different ideas, and we have

received some additional information.

I'm wondering what is the pleasure of the board on this? We had

asked for further information.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Madame Chair, I move to table, because I

don't think we have completed reviewing the item and the information

that we need to move forward.

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: I second that.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Any discussion?

All those in favor?

(Ayes. )

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Opposed, same sign?

(No response.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I think we will be getting this information

within the next week, so it's not like it's going to be forever, and

then we will have a special meeting.

Capital budget plan for fiscal years 2014/2015.

David Bea, again.

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>> DR. DAVID BEA: Chairperson Even, members of the board. I

apologize if I stumble a little bit. My health is going down. I'm

hanging in there. My meds are wearing off. (Laughter.)

Included in your board book is the college proposal for capital

projects for fiscal years 2014 and 2015. In total the budget

includes $14.8 million for projects in fiscal year 2014 and $7.3

million in fiscal year '15. The capital budget process to outline it

for those who are a little less familiar with it or to remind those

who recall identifies equipment replacement and facility projects

greater than $2,500 that meet the needs and serve the mission of the

college.

Potential capital projects for the upcoming two fiscal years are

submitted by staff throughout the college, and the projects are

aggregated into a database along with the project's estimated costs,

funding source, category priority, et cetera. A work group

consisting of the president, executive vice chancellors, vice

chancellors, reviews and prioritizes the submitted projects to ensure

safety of facilities and equipment to meet accreditation

requirements, to maintain standards of operation, to upgrade

antiquated facilities and technologies and to meet college plan

objectives.

The estimated funds available for each year inform the final list

of recommended projects. The funding sources available for these

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capital projects include grants, contracts, auxiliary fund revenues,

student technology fee to collections, capital funds, and funds

distributed from a portion of state sales tax due to Prop 301, and

that's used specifically for work force-related programs. Much like

the aviation program, they are one of the primary beneficiaries of

301 projects each year.

To determine the base and total funds available by funding

sources, financial data is reviewed including existing capital

project fund balances, estimated technology fee revenue, based upon

projected enrollments, available grant funding, available contract

funding, and projected auxiliary fund revenues and estimates for Prop

301 funds.

Given the capital project information provided and the funding

limitations identified above, capital projects are categorized,

prioritized, and reviewed by the work group and decisions are made to

provide funding for certain capital projects.

You have been provided a summary page showing the recommended

projects that are categorized by funding source, project category,

originating campus or unit, and following the summary is a detailed

list of recommended projects with the projected cost for each of the

two fiscal years.

In addition, and this is a difference from prior years, there

remains some possibility that in fiscal year 2014 the state will

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appropriate funding for STEM and work force programs. If the college

receives such funding, we will review the list of proposed fiscal

year 2015 projects that are funded by Prop 301 dollars and will

submit another board report to request approval to complete these

projects in fiscal year 2014.

So sort of a contingency fund. If we get the extra money, we

will be able to spend it, but otherwise we will follow the plan as

indicated here.

So, with that, I will ask if the board has any questions on the

capital budget plan.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Do I note a glimmer of hope that the

legislature is maybe being more kind to...

>> DR. DAVID BEA: The hope is I think perhaps not this year but

thereafter that what is happening at the state is the statute for

capital funding is being revised to provide funding to the community

colleges for STEM and work force programs.

That is in process. We are working with the lobbyist to try and

get Pima Community College and Maricopa Community College included in

the appropriations. That's what we're hopeful about. The early

sign, the first sign was the governor's budget that did not include

any additional funding for Pima and Maricopa, but we are hopeful that

through the legislative process and the appropriations process that

we may actually receive some funding.

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>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Are you saying Pima and Maricopa were the

only two that did not receive funding from the state?

>> DR. DAVID BEA: In the governor's budget. So that budget is

sort of an early pass of what the priorities are. It wasn't that

they received funding. It was that the early pass was all the

colleges other than Maricopa and Pima were funded to a 50% threshold,

and Pima and Maricopa received 0.

I think there are probably two reasons for that. One is that to

provide 50% funding to the other institutions isn't a major financial

commitment for the state, and then conversely, to add Maricopa and

Pima is a much bigger financial commitment, so there is a logistical

element of it.

And then there is the erroneous supposition that we're working to

combat, which is that Maricopa and Pima, being so large, have

adequate resources to be able to fund our own equipment needs in

these areas. I think that's where we have to reeducate. So we are hopeful. The good news is that if not this year, I

think it will be inevitable that the funding will come back. I think

that's a positive. I will be optimistic. I'm feeling great. So,

you know, here we are. (Laughter.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Nice to be optimistic.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Thank you.

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: I notice item 12 is the locks and security

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repair/replace upgrade. Are those the kind of locks we have been

talking about recently for...

>> DR. DAVID BEA: Yeah, it is. There also is a project that

through the consent agenda you may recall that the Honeywell contract

is also related to improving security and so forth. There is

actually a current project that has funding so that this will

supplement that, but we will actually be able to, since this is for

July 1st, we actually have funding in a current project for doors and

locks and security so that we will be able to start putting in those

new locks prior to the fiscal year.

We actually expect to be able to complete that by the fall term.

If Bill Ward is shaking his head, then -- no, that's my

understanding.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Anything else?

All those in favor?

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: There's no motion on the floor.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Did one of you not make the motion? I

thought you started with that.

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: So moved.



>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: All those in favor?

(Ayes.)

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(No response.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Final item for tonight is the contract for

legal services for fiscal year 2013/2014.

There had been some questions by various board members regarding

this particular legal services question, and I'd like to have the

flavor of the board as to what you want to do on this issue.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Madame Chair, I would like to make a motion

to table this item for further review by the board.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Is there a second for that?

No? No second?

Well, then I think that motion dies then for lack of a second.

Is there another motion?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Madame Chair, I move that we adopt the

recommendation as written with an acknowledgement that -- let's see.

(Pause.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Do we need help here?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Yes, we probably do need help. Why don't

I just withdraw my motion for the moment and hopefully somebody will

be able to...

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: I second the motion on the floor.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: We don't have one on the floor.

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: Oh, I thought we had a motion.

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>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: No, we had no second.

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Okay. If this is appropriate, I would like

to again state that I would move to table item 19.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Is there a second?


>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Discussion?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: I think we ought to just go ahead with it

as written, myself, but...

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: I think we have several people who are

really concerned about that.

All right. Is there any other discussion? Any other comment?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: No.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: All those in favor?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Aye.

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Aye.

>> DR. SYLVIA LEE: Aye.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Opposed?

>> MR. SCOTT STEWART: Nay.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: The last one is -- oh, dear. State match

for Adult Education. And the administration is recommending a letter

be sent to the Arizona legislature from the Board of Governors

expressing strong support from the state to provide the required

match funds for the fiscal year 2014 Adult Education program to allow

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the state to access 12.5 million in federal funds.

Is there a motion?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Move to adopt.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Second?

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: Second.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Is there discussion?

Do you have something?

Is there any other discussion?

All those in favor? Signify by saying aye?

(Ayes.)


(No response.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Thank you. I will just pass this along.

Let's go one more time.

21 is a purchase order change request from rough to know Roughton

Investments, Incorporated, New Horizons Learning Centers of Arizona.

The administration is requesting approval of the Community Campus

purchase order exchange request raising the purchase order for

Roughton Investments, Inc., et cetera.

Could we have a comment on that? David, is that you again? Yes,

no? I think we would like to have at least some comment on that.

>> SPEAKER: Madame Chairperson, board, colleagues, guests. This

is just a OneStop contract that -- Pima County OneStop has an H-1B

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contract to do training in the four southern counties. Much of their

training is -- they have selected -- this vendor is the one that can

provide the training as necessary to meet the needs of -- it's mostly

high-end computer training that the college doesn't do.

The training has to go through a college, so we are the college

of choice for the OneStop, and we are providing the training for

them. So we are providing the services of New Horizons Computer

Training Center.

They're the only ones locally who can provide these trainings

on-site to the students, the high-end computer training that's

necessary.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Any questions from the board?

>> MS. MARTY CORTEZ: Thanks.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Thank you very much.

Is there a motion?

>> MR. DAVID LONGORIA: So moved.

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Second?


>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: Any other discussion? All those in favor?

(Ayes.)


(No response.)

>> DR. BRENDA EVEN: All right. This meeting is adjourned.

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(Adjournment.)

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