Financial Ratios For Consulting Firms

Scroll Down To Watch Video Detail...

��>> chair jerry cook: good afternoon.i'd like to call the april 17th meeting of the boardof trustees for johnson county community college to order. would you please join me in thepledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the unitedstates of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisiblewith liberty and justice for all. >> chair jerry cook: roll call and recognitionof visitors. >> ms. terri schlict: this evening's visitorsinclude bryan peeke and deanna ruud. >> chair jerry cook: thank you. welcome. theopen forum is the section of board agenda, a time for members of the communityto provide comments to the board. there will

beone open forum period during each regularly scheduled board meeting. comments are limitedto five minutes unless a significant number of people plan to speak. in that instance,the chair may limit a person's comments to less thanfive minutes. in order to be recognized, individuals must register at the door at each board meetingprior to the open forum agenda meeting. there are zero registered speakers for tonight'smeeting, so the open forum is hereby closed. awards and recognitions. dr. sopcich.>> dr. joe sopcich: thank you, dr. cook. i'm going to defer to dr. korb and dr. larsonon this. judy, you want to go first? >> dr. judy korb: okay. the first award thatwe want to highlight is the john and

suanne roueche excellence award, and thisaward was established to celebrate outstanding contributions and leadership by communitycollege faculty and staff. we have two employees that were nominated and selected. they werenominated by their colleagues to receive this award, and it was a fairly comprehensive applicationor nomination that had to be submitted, and they the winners had to demonstrate accomplishmentsin the following areas: commitment to the scholarship of teachingand learning, motivating others to learn, respectingdiverse talents and ways of learning, developing positive relationships, and modelingleadership through collaboration and support. so we had two individuals that were selected.the first of those is bea peeke. bea, if

you want to come forward. bea is recentlyretired from her role as coordinator in the adultbasic education, general education development program. bea served as an adult educator atjohnson county community college for 29 years, and she taught adult literacy, basic math,and ged test preparation. bea touched the livesof thousands of students in profound ways and shewas one of those true go to people who colleagues and peers turned to for wisdom, advice, andencouragement. the johnson county adult education program would not have enjoyed thesuccess that it has without her experience, dedication, and leadership. so, bea, thankyou very

much.(applause.) >> dr. judy korb: the second award winneris deb williams. so, deb, if you would come forward. deb is associate professor inscience, and, okay, so i went through the whole list of her accomplishments and it waslike pages, so i picked out a few things to say here. debdoes model a commitment to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and it was quiteimpressive to me as i started reading through this. her commitment to learning is exemplifiedin the fact that she has two bachelor's degrees, three master's degrees, and a juris doctorate.and just for fun she's currently working on another master's degree. so she certainlymodels

the learning part of that.she teaches a variety of courses for johnson county community college students andher passion is evident in the way she implements new and innovative learning experiences forher students. she serves as the president of the faculty association and has servedon 21 other johnson county community college committeesand task forces. but who's counting? (laughter.)deb's accomplishments are many, and she truly models excellence in teaching andlearning and, deb, we thank you for everything that you do.(applause.) >> dr. judy korb: the next award is the exemplaryleadership award, and this is the

chair academy's 2014 international exemplaryleadership award, and this award goes to debbie rulo in continuing education. debbiethere's a variety of reasons that debbie was nominated by her supervisor and peers forthis award, but continuing education has gone through a significant reorganization in thelast two or three years, and although all of the grouphas participated in that reorganization, debbie has been the person who has been the day today individual carrying out the operations ofthe reorganization that has taken place. and just to name a few things that they havedone, they've seen a 25% turn over in people in continuing education, so they'vegone through a variety of job reviews and

hiringsand getting the right people moved around in the right places. people had to learn tobe budget administrators that had never been budgetadministrators before. they've gone through asignificant cross training effort in continuing ed. they also went through and completelyrevamped how they do their processes and they set up new metrics for the branch and i couldgo on with some of the other changes that have taken place there in the last coupleof years. and we've talked about, you know, all thesechanges and making these changes and how well it's gone, and karen and i were just talkingrecently that one of the reasons that it's

gone so wellis because of the leadership of debbie rulo. she has taken on all of those challenges withamazing competence and professionalism. and, debbie, we really thank you, and you're verydeserving of this award. (applause.)>> dr. judy korb: okay. and the next one is mary kay eiserer. mary, if you wouldcome forward. mary kay was named kansas master educator of the year for 2014 at therecent annual meeting of the kansas adult educators association. this prestigious awardis presented to the individual who exemplifiesprofessional adult education in the state of kansas.mary kay has served students in the johnson

county adult education program for nearly20 years. her roles have included both instructionaland administrative responsibilities in esl andabe ged. she has also led and participated in many program and statewide initiativesenhancing adult education programs. mary kay, thank you very much and congratulations.(applause.)>> dr. barbara larson: thank you. and the final award is for johnson countycommunity college. jccc was recently recognized as the number one digital communitycollege by the center for digital education in the large community college category forthose schools with 10,000 or more students. thisaward recognizes digital and emerging

technologies such as use of mobile devicesand technology integration into curriculum, strategic planning, data management, and professionaldevelopment. the top ten winning colleges reflect a comprehensive implementationof technology supporting the institution's operations, as well as serving students, faculty,and administrators. the awards reception was held on april 6th during the american associationof community colleges' annual conference in washington, d.c. and i want to thank denisemoore for her leadership of information services, as well as everyone here at thecollege who works to support technology. denise hadthe opportunity to accept this award on the college's behalf, and at this time we'd liketo present

this award to the board of trustees.(laughter.) (applause.)>> chair jerry cook: i believe does that conclude our special recognitions? i would justlike to take this opportunity to say to the community off campus that you've just seena number of examples of people who are passionate andcare about their profession that they do so manyextra things that require a lot of hours to complete, and we know that the students oncampus are the beneficiaries of it, but the communityneeds to understand that these are but a few examples of what makes your community collegeso wonderful and well esteemed around the

country, and i would just like to say againcongratulations to all of you that have put so manyhours in that are recognized tonight, but also all of the staff and faculty that everyday are passionate about their work and strive tobe the very best they can be to honor the teaching andlearning that goes on here at this campus. so to all of you again, congratulations, andthank dr. korb and dr. larson for these awards. thank you.any trustees have a comment? okay. student senate report. follow that, mr. rogers.(laughter.) >> mr. elliot rogers: first you have me follow the volleyball team and now this.what's

the game plan here, guys?(laughter.) well, hello. in my last report, i told youall that we were working on setting up guidelines, by laws for each of our standin ad hoc committees through the rules and conductcommittee. at this time, there are only two committees remaining. those are still in draftform, but they will be voted on by the end of the month. on april 14th, the student senateapproved a request to start a jccc chapter of the american association of universitywomen and we allocated club funding to the ceo club.earlier this month we also awarded funds to the model united nations and the veteransclub.

the mentoring program committee recently gavea presentation to the student life department regarding our progress, as wellas seeking input and guidance. right now we arehoping to expand the program to involve more than just student senate. we want a largerbase with other clubs and student organizations to pull our mentors from, and also to reachout and find people who would benefit from havinga mentor. on april 11th, the 2014 2015 student senateexecutive board was announced. i am pleased to report that the student senatepresident elect is jeffery redmond; the vice president elect is elysia chao; the secretaryelect is mpho kekana, who is with us today.

please stand, mpho. the parliamentarian electis joshua powers; and the treasurer elect isricardo aristiguieta pulgar. these two gentlemen were able to be here today. unfortunately,jeff and elysia are not able to be here because they are on a trip with model united nations.now, i hope this isn't a spoiler, but at some point today they were supposed to be receivingan award for their delegation.so with that i want to say we are very evidently in the home stretch of the semester, and iam glad to know that i have one more report to you all before the semester is up, butit is somewhat bittersweet to know that i have onemore report to you all. so thank you very

muchfor your continued support. >> chair jerry cook: well, thank you, mr.rogers, and congratulations to the new electeds. we certainly appreciate the timeyou put in as well with all the students and theactivities you have on campus to make this campus a better place for students. so thankyou very, very much. any questions by any of thetrustees? >> dr. joe sopcich: if i could.>> chair jerry cook: dr. sopcich, yes. >> dr. joe sopcich: excellent choice i haveto say across all of the officers, but also especially so the treasurer. ricardo was inmy class. he was

(laughter.)>> mr. elliot rogers: i wonder how that happened. >> dr. joe sopcich: he was the number onestudent, almost had perfect scores on every test. i think the treasury is in good hands.(laughter.) >> chair jerry cook: thank you very much.appreciate it. and good luck in your last month.this is the time for our annual budget workshop meeting, and i would like to recognizedr. larson, who has been here for several days to get this in place. so, dr. larson.>> dr. barbara larson: well, i have the easy job, thank you, dr. cook. don perkins willbe taking the board through this presentation, and as he comes up to the podium, i want toacknowledge don's leadership in the budget

process. i've worked with him for just twomonths now and i don't think there's one questionregarding college financial matters that i've asked ofhim that he couldn't answer immediately. so obviously it's clear that we've all been invery, very good hands.i also want to acknowledge the hard work of everyone here in preparing departmental anddivision budgets. there's been a great deal of time and thought to get us to this point,to get us to be able to summarize a lot of data foryou. and with that, i will turn it over to don. thankyou. >> dr. joe sopcich: excuse me. i think

we have some av issues we're going to getstraightened out here. >> we just dropped to number two on the digitalcollege rankings. rats, denise. (laughter.)i knew it! >> trustee jon stewart: i'd like to commentthat trustee musil looks much more professional today. i think it's the jayhawkpin on the lapel that makes that. >> trustee greg musil: if we're in a lull,i will explain especially for my k state friends. a gentleman that has helped keep this collegesafe and this city safe and this county safe, johndouglass, retired as chief of police in overland park after 18 years as chief and 41 yearson the

force. that's why i was late coming from hisretirement reception and i wear this in honor ofjohn douglass, and no one else. (laughter.)>> chair jerry cook: let me also say, this might be a good time to do that as we tryto get through the are we close? are we close?>> we're close. >> chair jerry cook: i'll save my remarksuntil later. please. >> mr. don perkins: this is the evening whenwe cover the treasurer's i'm sorry, not the treasurer's report the board's budgetworkshop. this is the evening for the board's budgetworkshop, and i will take you through this

manual. i know because it is the workshopevening you were expecting or we were hoping to provideheavy hors d'oeurves as the dinner for this evening.(laughter.) but it got cut.(laughter.) >> chair jerry cook: you've never had sucha sense of humor before. (laughter.)>> the last budget. >> i didn't think that was funny. i'm hungry.(laughter.) >> mr. don perkins: what i'd like to do istake you through the first part of this book inrather rapid a rapid pace, so i don't mean

to be running through it and zipping pastsomething that you may deem very important to talk about,but we can always come back to it. so on page 2 of the board that the board haseither on your computer or hard copy manual, you can revisit the budget guidelinesthat were established back in december of thispast year. these were reviewed by the board management committee. we had input from thecounty in regard to the assessed valuation, and the pbs prioritizing the budget strategicallyprocess has been used throughout this time, and as we go to page 4, you can see the credithours. i just have on the powerpoint it's just a visual, but you can see the detailsof the credit

hours, some history, and that we're projectingzero increase in credit hours for next year.as far as assessed valuation goes on page 5,we have heard that assessed valuation may go as high as 6.9% for next year. we're onlyprojecting; we're only using a 5% rate of increasefor our planning purposes. mill levy in these materials stays the same.in the revenues, we can see that tuition is still about 23% of everything in the generalfund, or the general/pte funds. you see the letters pte, post secondary technical educationfund, as prescribed as required by board by state statutes.expenses, as shown on page 7, show that there is an increase in the general/pte fundamounts. last year it was about 137.7 million

or that's this year, actually. next year,140 million, point 1. much of that we'll describe a little bit later, in detail, but it includesabout $1.7 million of remodeling and building improvements,one time type expenditures that we are we have added to the budget as a resultof getting that .5% assessed valuation increase instead of 2%. it gives us the opportunityto make some to whittle away at our deferred maintenance for our buildings a little bitmore and also to do some remodeling, primarily dosomething with the first floor of ocb, which has been sitting unused for the past for allof this year.on the next page, page 8, you have some detail

in your hard copy book, or as you maysee it online, but this is the these are three years of cash balances. the up and down istypical. that's how it is every year. you can see it is each year very similar. theyear that's in green would be the most current, and thatis this year. it's not finished, so the end of that graphshows it as a dotted line. but please take a look at the low point in december. we'vealways talked about that as being the low point.it's just in a visual way describes how much lowerthan other points of the year and why. >> dr. joe sopcich: excuse me, don. on thatone, could you go back to that chart,

please. the trustee policy is at 10%. so ifyou were to draw the bottom line as far as that thingcould go, it would be where, about 13 million? >> 14.>> dr. joe sopcich: 14 million. >> mr. don perkins: 14 million.>> dr. joe sopcich: and then at the 16% amount that we've been talking about, that putsthat bottom line at about where? >> mr. don perkins: 14 the 16%. well, let'ssee. we'll just 25 million. >> dr. joe sopcich: around what?>> mr. don perkins: 25, 28 million. >> dr. joe sopcich: yeah. so you can see thechallenge with that, it's down about as low as it can go, so we cannot use that anymoreas far as that reserve.

>> mr. don perkins: that's right.in the next couple of pages in your book, you will see all the new full time positionsthat have been added for next year. of course it'szero. now, that doesn't mean there isn't activity. there is. there have been a lot of cuts. sowhat we've been able to take a look at is seehistorically what the staffing table counts have been. you can see in each of the categoriesdisplayed what that what the variance has been through the years. on the bottom of thatpage, you can see the nine year difference. that's interesting. but the one year differenceis very interesting, all the negative numbersthere for each of those categories.

jumping over to the subject of average residencetax, we aren't raising the mill, but the assessed valuation is going up. given therates that we are considering, we're talking aboutabout $10 for the average residence in the county. the impact on students, what we'vedone is we've taken a look at in the book you cansee we've taken a look at the university of kansas,kansas state, metropolitan community colleges, kck community college, and we'veindicated what their tuition rates are this year. we've shown what it is here this year.and the increase we expect for next year, $3 for incounty, in state, and $8 i believe for out

of state.this particular budget reverses the reserve spending trend. it contains the growth ofsalary and benefit budgets. we do know that we've we have 2.5% raises included here, butwe have reduced salary and benefits by $3.7 million. we've restored capital budgets toaddress equipment replacement and building improvements.now, part of that is that 1.7 million that idescribed. another part of it is we have moved $1 million of capital expense out of the capitaloutlay fund into the general fund. no increase in spending, we've just decided we need toget that out of the capital outlay fund, but notall at once. we'll do that again in the next

year, andagain in the next year, until all of the ongoing type expenses, equipment and items that areevery year, is once again reflected in the general fund. the capital outlay fund thenwill be in place where it can be used for one timeprojects. it's a short term fund anyway. it can be ofcourse renewed every five years, but our the direction we're going is to get back to thepoint where that capital outlay fund can be usedfor specific projects with specific dollar amounts.the ongoing expenses for capital will be built up in the general fund.the decline in total salaries and wages, reduced

again, a little repeat here reduced by$3.7 million from this year's budget. we budgeted 2.4 million for 2.5% raises. there's adecline in current operating expenses and an increase in the capital budget that i justdescribed. >> don, could you go back for just a second.how do you want to handle questions here, mr. chair?>> chair jerry cook: i'd like i think for don to go through and then if you could keepyour questions. all right, don, it's up to you.>> mr. don perkins: i'm happy to do that. and by the way, we're about done.>> chair jerry cook: let's let him finish and then come back.>> mr. don perkins: just for your information,

age of our square footage, and this justlets us know how new they are, how old they are, and the fact is, we want to take careof them, we don't want the deferred maintenance coststo build up and become far more expensive in thefuture. the guidelines for building infrastructure allocations research from association ofphysical plant administrators, 1.5 million to 1.5% to 2% of facilities for current replacementvalue. johnson county community college replacement value of all facilities would be271 million. recommended range, 4 million to 5.4 million annually. we're far under that.the good news is we've been doing a good job withwhat we have so far. our infrastructure

improvements built into this budget wouldadd up to 1,440,000, and the office classroom building, ocb, as i mentioned before, thevacated space that's been sitting empty for this pastyear, we have provided about $1.1 million for that purpose.we're about to the end.projected reserves. the blue line describes what we had projected in january. theapril the red line describes or shows what we project where we project reserves to benow. that's based on a 5% increase in assessedvaluation. now, what are those stars up there, thoselittle dots there in the form of stars? i just stuck them on there.(laughter.)

>> whimsy?>> mr. don perkins: the top one, the green one is where we would be in that last yearif we reduced the mill levy by a tenth of mill.the next one down, the red one, just about at theend of the blue line is where we would be if we reduced the mill levy by .25 mill. andthe one way down on the bottom, almost as low as myvoice is this past week, is where the reserves would be if we reduced the mill by a halfmill and let it sit there for the five years. now, in the rest of the book, you see summaryinformation for all funds on page 16. behind that, you can see some informationspecific to the general fund and the auxiliary

fund. behind that, the most recent iterationof the projection model, and in that model we cansee in more detail where we would be in cash at the at december 31st for any of those yearsand some other historical information. behind that, we have a section where we showa lot of detail for all of the organizations of the college and for a number all of theunrestricted funds, general fund/pte fund, adultsup fund, auxiliary fund, student activities fund, a couple other minor funds, and by minori just mean dollar, minor dollar amounts, andthat's motorcycle fund, the truck driver's school,and the capital outlay fund. so we have lot

of detail here. some items in this book maypop out to you as some things you'd like to getsome more information about, and we'll be happy todo that if we can or at least make sure we get that information to you. we are not votingon this budget tonight. this is strictly for informationand for discussion, and now i leave that to you.>> chair jerry cook: don, in that regard, review the timeline with us again.>> mr. don perkins: sure. in may, at the may board meeting, which is not too far in thefuture, we will vote on the budget, what we call the management budget. that allows usto do

business starting july 1. in the summertime,at the end of june, we'll get some more information. we'll get some numbers that wewill use for what we call the legal budget fromthe county on assessed valuation. we'll be more certain about what we will receive fromthe state by that time as well. and then in julyin other words, we skip june. no action in june.in july the board will approve a one page portion of the legal budget which will beput in which will be published and available forthe public to see per statutes. that will be a page outof the legal budget. and legal budget has

two purposes, number one is to set the milllevy, and also provide some restrictions for our spendingin each of the funds. in august, then, there will be a hearing,public, the public may come and address the board, about the legal budget, and the boardwill vote then to approve that budget or they willvote to do whatever they want, but hopefully to approve it, and then i will file thosedocuments with the state and the county, after whichthe mill levy will be officially set. >> chair jerry cook: thank you. trustee musil?>> trustee greg musil: well, could you go back to the projected reserves, the two lines.>>mr. don perkins: two lines?

>> trustee greg musil: yeah, the graph there.okay. so at the end of the five year period, we would be at about 30 million underthe projections you assumed, and then we would be at 26 million if we dropped the mill atenth i'm just looking at the approximate numbers.>> mr. don perkins: yes. >> trustee greg musil: you mentioned you showeda slide that said recognized a $3.7 million decrease in the salary and benefitsline item this year to next year. and you saidwe'd budgeted 2.4 million to reflect the salary increase which we have contracted with thefaculty and intend to apply to the non bargaining unit members, too. is that>> mr. don perkins: yes.

>> trustee greg musil: remember that?does that mean that there's a i'm trying to figure out what the net of that is. is it$3.7 million reduction after you've budgeted the $2.4 million increase?>> trustee jon stewart: go back to that slide. it's a couple more.>> before. >> trustee greg musil: all right. so we reducesalaries and benefits by 3.7 and now we're increasing them back 2.4, so the netnumber is 1.3. >> mr. don perkins: i'm sorry.>> dr. joe sopcich: the action that was taken basically halted the growth in salaries andbenefits. >> right.>> dr. joe sopcich: slightly declined a little

bit. so that was our objective with that.>> trustee greg musil: total effect. >> chair jerry cook: but keep in mind we werealso targeting 5 million reduction when we went through our previous budget workshopand we ended up at the 3.7 for this current year. so i guess i'm not following what you'regetting at in terms of a net change because the2.4 million increase is part of the settlement agreement we had for the '14 '15 year.>> mr. don perkins: there is also a small amount of increase in benefits.>> trustee greg musil: i'm just i was just trying to figure out whether we had a true,without looking at the numbers, truly a $3.7 million reduction in that line item from fy'14 to

fy '15. it's not it won't be that 3.7 million.it will be closer to 1.3 million? >> mr. don perkins: yes. yeah.>> absolutely. >> mr. don perkins: yeah. it needs to be nettotal difference. if you want to see the detail of that, by the way, please look onpage 21. the top of the page. >> i know it's here somewhere.>> mine is on this slide, too. so the 3.7 is what we've reduced. we're going to addback 2.4 based upon>> dr. joe sopcich: exactly. that's right. >> trustee jon stewart: so we are 1.3 millionless in expenditures in that area. >> mr. don perkins: we added back we did havean increase in benefit costs to the

tune of about 300,000.>> trustee jon stewart:so we're 1 million less. and then there's a decline in currentoperating expense. >> right.>> mr. don perkins: yes. >> trustee jon stewart: so here's my question.we have an assessed value increase. we're assuming 5%. it's actually going tobe 6%. 5% equals $3.5 million in increased revenues. we are reducing expenses somewherein the neighborhood of $1 million. so is that $3.5 million increase entirely plus the 1million reduction in expenses going to the capitalbudget? >> dr. joe sopcich: the capital line, if youlook at that one page there, it shows increase

something around 3 million, i think the 6.so that capital line is what absorbed that increase.>> trustee jon stewart: okay. so that's where that's going.>> dr. joe sopcich: which, jon, by the way, it's a one year deal on that.>> trustee jon stewart: well >> dr. joe sopcich: versus if you'd put thatin the above two things, then it's ongoing. >> trustee jon stewart: it's a matter of debatewhether it's a one year thing or not, but it's that would be one year>> right. >> trustee jon stewart: go to the reserveslide, that graph. >> projected reserves.>> trustee jon stewart: there. no the graph.

>> mr. don perkins: with the star?>> yeah, with the star. >> trustee jon stewart: thank you.>> dr. joe sopcich: i told you not to put those on there.(laughter.) >> trustee jon stewart: all right. i can makea graph i can make this graph look a lot better, so it's a matter of your assumptions.>> mr. don perkins: absolutely. >> trustee jon stewart: you're assuming thatin 2018 and '19, that we get to 29 million in reserves if we don't do anything with themill levy, if we leave it where it's at, we have a 5%increase in assessed value this year, but we have 3% in the future years. if you put5% increase

in each of the future years, that number runsway up. >> mr. don perkins: yes.>> trustee jon stewart: and that bottom star, with a reduction in the mill levy, goes wayup. >> mr. don perkins: yes.>> trustee jon stewart: so i think that we're going to have more revenue in the futurethan we're forecasting, so we're kind of doing a doom and gloom that we've got to take andspend this money for capital this year because we won't have it next year. activity i seein the county, we're going to have another nice increasein 2014, probably along the line that we're going to have this, 6%, 5%, and there's alot of activity. so i don't want the board

to be focused that this is the only outcomethat we're going to see because we're assuming 3% increase. itmay be 4, it may be 5, it may be more. and maybe a one time adjustment to increase restoreour capital might be in order, i'm not convinced of that yet. but i do we do need to know thatwe've got $4.2 million 3.5 to 4 million more dollars this year than we had last year justbecause of the increase in assessed value, no action of our own. some would call it awindfall. and so that's the number we're working with,and we're reducing expenses, so we've actually got a bigger cushion there.the other assumption in here that i think needs to be corrected, and maybe it has been,but we assume we're going to lose reduction

of state aid of 1.5%. is that now did iunderstand that the legislature is holding us harmless on that and there's not a reduction?>> dr. joe sopcich: the 1.5% will be restored. but until the session's over, we'rereluctant to make any >> trustee jon stewart: right. i'm just pointingthis out. this hasn't been pointed out. i'm pointing it out. so that's $320,000 additionalfunding. so we're going to have some extra revenues.i think we need to be cautious what we do because even though i think optimistic aboutthe next couple years, we could come back toanother situation where we our revenues are doing and i want to get to what bobdrummond defined a few years ago as a very

sustainable budget and make sure we don'tbuild a budget that we can't sustain in the future.>> chair jerry cook: trustee musil, i'll go back to you, and then trustee lindstrom.>> trustee greg musil: just you saw showed a slide with the and i think we saw itin management committee about what this international association recommends for apercentage of your budget that annually should be put into your infrastructure reserve, ifyou will, 2 to 3%, and it was 3 to $4 millionfor us 4 million to 5.4 million. what i'm trying tofigure out is, does that number reflect our capital budget and our capital outlay budgettogether?

is that what we should be those two togetherought to be 4 to $5.4 million? >> mr. don perkins: these items are strictlyfor building improvement type costs. so it really doesn't make any difference which fundit's coming from. it's not for computers. it's justfor tuckpointing, roofs, general building improvements>> trustee greg musil: i guess what >> mr. don perkins: regardless of the fund.>> trustee greg musil: i'd like to see before may is just a summary that says here'swhat our number would be to 4 million to 5.4, if you add up what we're doing that is applesto apples with what this guideline is where arewe.

>> mr. don perkins: at 1.4.>> for next year. >> mr. don perkins: next year.>> trustee musil: that was in your slides. i should have caught that.>> mr. don perkins: this year we're at 1 million. next year we're proposing 1.4.>> trustee musil: and those we believe those are apples to apples to that internationalassociation guideline? >> mr. don perkins: yes.>> trustee greg musil:okay. well, that may require to me some more discussion. wemay be doing a heck of a job if that guideline is valid, we're at 25% of the guideline. soi understand it now. that's all i have.>> chair jerry cook: trustee lindstrom?

>> trustee david lindstrom: thank you, mr.chairman. don, on the general pte funds, unencumbered cash graph, the one withthe three the 12, 13, and 14, can you pull thatup for just a second. that one. it was referenced dr. sopcich referenced the 16% level indecember and the fact that that was below that number. if now you go back to the projectedreserves graph, is that red or blue number >> i'm sorry.>> trustee david lindstrom: the red or blue number, that is the average for the year?that doesn't take into account the dip in december? or is that the high point or averagepoint or low point for the year?>> mr. don perkins: this is the projected

reserves at the low point.>> trustee david lindstrom: at the low point. >> right.>> trustee david lindstrom: okay. could you tell me where if you could put anotherstar there at the 16%, where would that be each year?>> mr. don perkins: excuse me. we could take a look at page 26 in your workshopbook and we could see at the top of the page, in that particular column, that the 16.5%number is 26 million.>> trustee david lindstrom: at the end of 19?>> mr. don perkins: yes. >> trustee david lindstrom: okay. so it wouldbe just about where the star is, then?

>> mr. don perkins: about where the greenstar is. >> trustee david lindstrom: okay.>> chair jerry cook: don are you finished, trustee lindstrom?>> trustee david lindstrom: yes, i am. thank you.>> chair jerry cook: i guess i would have a question for trustee stewart. when welook at the assumption of the assessed valuations throughout 19 and we're looking at theprojection of 3% for each of those years, are you suggesting that we should be changinga projection for one or two of those years?>> trustee jon stewart: i think we need to keep in mind when we're seeing a doomsdaygraph that the assumptions are pretty modest

and that maybe maybe we ought to see thegraph leave that graph the way it is and then superimpose a graph on there showing whatif the rates go up 4%, something different. ithink those numbers would look dramatically different. and i'm the minimum kind of bothersme because we have such a fluctuation, and maybe we need to be looking at an averagereserve, what's the average reserves over the yearnumber versus the minimum and maximum. our risk our risk is that the state doesn't payus. that's the only risk we have, or that theydelay the payment. we're going to get a payment injanuary and we're going to get a payment in

june when we all write our tax checks forour real estate taxes. so it may be more meaningful to put an average number in there than that'sjust my thoughts.>> chair jerry cook: don, on page 57, where you get into some of the detail, the capitalexpense, and again, we don't need to necessarily discuss it tonight, but you list on line 54020,the modeling and renovations of 1.7. i believe those are the renovations you referred toas space that we haven't been able to utilize as a result of the culinary center movingand we're going to remodel that area.>> don perkins: yeah. >> chair jerry cook: you also list on 54050furniture and equipment of 1.1, which is up

considerably over the current year. is allof that due to the new renovations? >> mr. don perkins: first, on page 57, atthe top, the proposed budget for 2015, the 1.7includes about 1.1 for the remodeling of ocb. for our purposes, to keep that number together,1.7 was the additional dollars based on additional moneys available through the assessedvaluation. that includes about 440,000 for building improvements actually.>> chair jerry cook: okay. >> mr. don perkins: and 1.1 for ocb and about100 for other remodeling primarily for ada safety purposes. and i think we have arest room that we're going to put on there. >> chair jerry cook: that furniture and equipmentthen at 1.1, is that related to that

work primarily? line 54050?>> mr. don perkins: which page are you on? >> chair jerry cook: i'm on 57 yet. the furnitureand equipment line, from 103 to 1.1. >> mr. don perkins: oh, i see.>> i have a question. >> mr. don perkins: thank you. very good.this is that jump is there primarily because we've moved a million dollars fromcapital outlay to the general fund. we're notspending a million dollars more, but we will reflect that in the general fund instead ofthe capital outlay fund.>> chair jerry cook: i see. >> dr. joe sopcich: don, we've been doingthat to the tune of about 2.3 million a year.

>> mr. don perkins: correct.>> dr. joe sopcich: shifting that over. the capital outlay, the use of that capital outlayfund, which i believe you approve every four years, is we believe should be directed towardmajor capital projects, one shot deals, rather than supplementing what we do on an annualbasis. so part of the discipline of this budget recommendation is that we get back to wherecapital used to be. at one time that capital line used to be in the neighborhood of $13million. so i don't think it's ever going to get upthere again, but we are shooting i believe for 10 millionafter year 5. >> mr. don perkins: roughly the offset ison the bottom of that same page, the capital

outlay grouping, furniture and equipment.you can see it's going down a million. >> yeah.>> mr. don perkins: that's the offset. >> chair jerry cook: trustee stewart. >> trusteejon stewart: the ocb remodel, what are the more classrooms? what isthe >> dr. joe sopcich: we were going to do atrustee lounge. (laughter.)actually, we've challenged the academic side to bring us ideas. they bring those to thecabinet through our newly established space committee. we keep sending therecommendations back to think of some other things. so assume we think we'll get to wherewe need to be on that, and whatever it is,

it's going to be driven by the needs of theacademic side.>> trustee jon stewart: then, for rex, a million one for 9,000 square feet is $128 a foot.is that a reasonable number for a remodel? that seems a little bit high.>> mr. rex hays: it just depends on what's going to go in there. and then you also haveto remember we have some culinary equipment in there that we have to remove, so that drivesthe cost up. >> trustee jon stewart: seems like it couldbe a pretty nice trustee lounge. >> dr. joe sopcich: it's like when you remodelyour house, the final product is always more than you thought when you started.>> chair jerry cook: just so there's no misunderstanding

in the public, we are not(laughter.) >> chair jerry cook: i say this again. weare not remodeling a trustee lounge. >> trustee jon stewart: we haven't voted yet.>> trustee stephanie sharp: what trustee lounge? (laughter.)>> trustee stephanie sharp: there is no trustee lounge.>> chair jerry cook: trustee drummond? >> trustee robert drummond: thank you, mr.chair. to go back to what trustee stewart was talking about, it would be helpfuli think, at least for me, to have kind of a rangeon the projected reserves from 6% or 5.5, wherever we think it's going to be, versushow we

have it there so we can look at the wholepicture and the public can see the whole picture ofthat. and then as an addendum to that, one thing i wonder about, and i just wonder, idon't know if it will be true or not, is as we getinto this period of time if it does occur in which ourassessment continues to go up 5 or 6% a year, i'm a little concerned that we might get backinto the routine that we've historically had andthat we become reliant on that and assume that andspend that. so a little concerned about that, that we act with as much discipline as wecan to be

able to do that.now, kind of a reverse of that is i like the idea of keeping the student tuition downas much as we can. so finding the best balance we can between student tuition versus assessedvaluation and the natural flow of all that. i'm not sure what the silver bullet is forthat, but i think that's something we ought to consideras we go forward in the years ahead. one of thesecharts talks about i think about a 23% load for the students. i think that's pretty good.national average is like 25.>> dr. joe sopcich: right.>> trustee robert drummond: so i think we're doing a good jobon that, and i like that.

>> dr. joe sopcich: and, trustee drummond,keep in mind that this budget recommendation over the next five years and,don, you can correct me if i'm off on this but calls for an annual increase of $3 percredit hour. so we've planned that over the next fiveyears. >> trustee robert drummond: i'd like to seewhat that looks like in terms of that percentage. i think at one time we were like26% or 28% or something like that. we've slid itdown. i like the idea of it being there if we can possibly keep it there. and i thinkanother piece of the whole thing is if you look backon page 4 maybe, at least on the computer,

page 4,well, the enrollment, and we talked about this before. i don't want to keep batteringthis, but if you look at the chart, that could be a veryalarming chart in the sense that you see we're almostback to 2005 and '6 enrollment. so in the past ten years, we've gone up, down, up, andnow we're way down again. i've very roughly onmy hand calculator tried to figure out what is thatin dollars. well, if i think, depending on what the tuition is a particular year, we'retalking between 8 to $10 million that we have lostsince 2011 when he had our height of our

enrollment, so that's about a $3 million lossper year for the last three years. so after a periodof time, that becomes real money. and so i think we have to continue with our initiativethat has been started, take a really hard lookat our enrollment figures, and i understand that it's adifferent environment today than it was in 2004, we've got schools up and down collegeboulevard and we have online courses and you can take a course anywhere in the world. butwhere is there a better buy than here? so i think we need to take a very, very seriouslook, because this is tied, at least in my opinion, very directly into sustainabilityas we go forward. if we look at the proposed

budgetfor next year, we've got a combination of things that make us look pretty doggone good,but it's not going to be every year that we cut $3.7million out of the budget. that's probably aone time thing. so if you go forward with that, not beingable to cut out the kind of money we've cut outthe past several years, then we're going to be looking for more and more revenue everyyear, and part of what i'm trying to say here isi hope we don't become dependent just on tax revenue. if there's opportunities there forstudent tuition, then i want to try to get

that studenttuition. i mean that works in lot of different ways. i don't know what it would be, but itseems to me that if you would take '14 '15, theprojection there, and look at cost per student, the costper student has probably gone up significantly versus 2010 '11. and i think that's anotherbarometer we have to be careful about in terms how much are we what's it cost us on a yearlybasis to educate a student, and obviously the lower the enrollment, the more it costsus. and when you have empty classrooms not emptyclass empty seats that we could fill up some of those seats, then it makes us alot more efficient, less dependent on tax

dollars andable to use the treasures we have here in terms of our faculty help our community beable to become more educated. i think maybe that'sall i had to say. >> chair jerry cook: trustee cross.>> trustee lee cross: yes, thank you, mr. chair. and i agree with my colleague'sassessment in terms of keeping costs down for students. i do also want to ask mr. perkinsand the administration on pages 9 and 10, we show that there's no new full time positionsrequested. is that because we don't need any new positions?>> dr. joe sopcich: we put a cap on we have not called for new position requests inlight of the situation that we're in there,

in light of enrollment. we're doing what wecan with what we have.>> trustee lee cross: do we need new positions? >> dr. joe sopcich: i think probably acrosscampus everybody would tell you we need new positions. i think we've challenged theinstitution to do the best they can with the currentpersonnel that they have. >> trustee lee cross: understood.>> chair jerry cook: trustee lindstrom. >> trustee david lindstrom: i don't have aquestion, i just have a comment. this is my second year now on doing the budget and, don,i commend you. i really appreciate all the information and how it's presented. thankyou very much. good job.

>> mr. don perkins: thank you.>> chair jerry cook: trustee stewart and trustee musil.>> trustee jon stewart: yeah, don, you do a great job and i grill you pretty hard. youalways have the answers. so we're going to miss you. i'll miss grilling you. will youcome back next year just so we can go through amock budget or something? (laughter.)we set our assessed value estimate at 5% increase. we pass the budget. we get tooctober and november when we get the final assessed valuation number that will be appliedto the tax bills and it's 6%. our budget is setbased upon 5%. so the mill levy that is actually

onthe tax bill gets reduced by the additional increase in valuation above our assumption;is that correct?>> mr. don perkins: we'll get a number from the county at the end of june, we'll usethat to generate our legal budget, set the mill. so in october if anything varies fromthat, in other words, if assessed valuation is slightlygreater, they will reduce our mill levy and viceversa. is that what you asked? >> trustee jon stewart: well, kind of. butyou didn't really answer (laughter.)>> mr. don perkins: i'm practicing.

(laughter.)>> trustee jon stewart: we set our budget, it's 5%>> mr. don perkins: yes. >> trustee jon stewart: what our assumptionis. and we pass a budget based upon that, and in july we get the final number>> mr. don perkins: yes. >> trustee jon stewart: whatever that milllevy was at the 5% will be reduced by the increase in assessed value. we do not getthe additional 700 >> mr. don perkins: that will be a decisionfor the board to make. the fact is we'll find out whether it's 5 or if it's 7.>> trusteejon stewart: right. >> mr. don perkins: we'll find that out theend of june, and then the board will have

todecide, okay, do we stick with the mill levy we have and go forward, or do we make anadjustment to that because of that extra increase. >> trustee jon stewart: so, in effect, theboard, in july we could reduce the mill levy byone tenth based upon all factors today if we adopt this budget, and that's certainlythe position i'll take then. i just wanted to clarify that.>> or spend it. >> trustee jon stewart: or we could spendthe extra 700,000. >> chair jerry cook: trustee musil.>> trustee greg musil: well, a follow up on that point. when we passed themanagement budget in may, that's a management

budget to allow you to go ahead,as administration, go out and see who wants to come back and work here next year and thosekind of things. when we pass the legal budget in august with as much information updatedas we have from the county appraiser, that will set a mill levy.>> correct. >> trustee greg musil: and that mill levywill apply even if the assessed valuation endsup being slightly higher than that in november when tax bills go out.>> mr. don perkins: yeah, subject to some adjustment by the county, some minoradjustment. >> trustee greg musil: but they don't movethe mill levy to match our number after we

publish our legal budget?>> yes, they do. >> mr. don perkins: they do.>> trustee greg musil: they do? so we have an opportunity in july to set it based onnew information and the county will automatically reset it in november or october, beforebills go out? >> mr. don perkins: correct.>> trustee greg musil: is this budget workshop information online someplaceaccessible to folks? >> yes.>> trustee greg musil: so that the public can get to it if they want to go through allthis? i just make the point, every bit of this isbased on assumptions

>> mr. don perkins: correct.>> trustee greg musil: because it's future, and it's guidelines we told you to use basedon your recommendation to us and our direction to staff to use these numbers. and so justwe can all come up with different assumptions to use, and i know you'll run them, butultimately to me it comes down to are we running assumptions on both the revenue andexpense side that are both conservative and that allow us to have some stability yearto year and we're not going like this one year, reactingto that year's numbers, and the next year doingsomething completely different, and that's how i'll go into the revisions. i'll lookforward to may and particularly to july when

we have more information and we'll know ifwe're 5% or above 5%.>> chair jerry cook: any other questions by the trustees? trustee drummond?>> trustee robert drummond: one more thing very quickly. i would just commendadministration for all the work that they've done in presenting this, and the managementcommittee for their work on it, and particularly if you turn to page i think it's 5 or 6, topexpenses, salaries and benefits of 78%, particularly commend you for holding it there and try tokeep it down, because as you all know, once you hit 79, 81%, it's like the gauge on yourcar, it begins to move you toward overheating. soit becomes unsustainable at that period of

time. soi commend you for keeping it in that range. that's all. thank you very much, mr. chairman.>> chair jerry cook: don, any final comments that you have?>> mr. don perkins: no. >> chair jerry cook: i think what i've heardour discussion focus around, and trustee musil summed up the assumptions pretty well,we have given the staff direction on the assumptions to be made over a five year period,and i applaud the trustees for looking at afive year projection, always keeping that in front of us. but i think the i think theissues that all the trustees should be thinking aboutin the next 30 to 60 days as we gather more

detail andperhaps for the administration to help us with numbers as well, is the enrollment projections.i think, trustee drummond, you made a good pointabout that. we'll have a report later in tonight's meeting about some work that's beingdone on enrollment as a result of our collegial steering discussion. i believe that we shouldalways review that assessed valuation very closely, as trustee stewart has indicated.a good barometer is that tuition, percent of the totalrevenue. again, good comments were made about whether that ought to be 25 or 26 or 24%.i think many of us agree that we want tuitionfor students to be held in check, if we can,

andmake it affordable for students to come here. i do believe we need to look at staffing needs.we have been on a very conservative approach. you've seen the numbers that we reducedacross the board, and as programs change, meeting the needs of the teaching and learningrequirements going forward, i wouldn't eliminate that altogether, but also it isn't a messageto say we're going to add staff, but we haveto review those projections. we should be thinking about a reserve balancestrategy, what is the right amount of reserve balance. and if we have to look atdifferent assumptions to direct the administration, we should be looking at that, particularlyover a five year sustainability period. i

like trusteedrummond's approach a few years ago, in agreement with trustee stewart, that let's not getinto a rollercoaster ride here of having to make drastic cuts one year and have excessrevenues another year.and then of course that all leads to the mill levy strategy as well. we have to be thinkingabout what that mill levy should be in balance with those other assumptions. so, dr. larsonand don, i just hope that's enough charge for you for one night. but i appreciate thework, you all do a great job, and our collective interestsare to keep the college sustainable, providing thebest quality of education we can at a reasonable

cost for our students. thank you very much.thati think believe concludes our budget workshop for this evening and i would like tocall dick carter to the podium for our college lobbyist report so we can move to some reallymotivational, inspirational work. thanks, don. appreciate it.>> mr. dick carter: thank you, mr. chairman. i hope i look tanned, rested, and relaxed.we've been on spring break for the past couple of weeks, the legislature, and that's affordedus some time to go through the various documentsto see just exactly where everything is. it hasbeen a little frustrating as the primary source that we use for tracking legislation has beenvery

glitchy the past week and a half or so, andso that has resulted in several trips over to the capitolto speak with revisors and folks in the research department to see just exactly where a pieceof legislation is.so if you have questions at the conclusion of my report about where a particular pieceof legislation is, i should be able to tell youfor the most part. if something is on the way to thegovernor's desk for signature, i may not know because, again, we use that tracking systemto be able to tell when a bill arrived in the governor'soffice, when he has signed it, and such and

soon. i think i may have used these same words lastyear when i was speaking to you about this time, but that we have just experienced yetanother historical legislative session. this one hadparticular flavor to it that was really an all out front on local governments and localgoverning bodies, and it's interesting because in thesame breath that many who are in topeka will say thatthey do not want the federal government telling them what to do and will issue concurrentresolutions and send memos off to washington, d.c., we will introduce legislation and passlegislation that further curtails your ability

as an elected official to govern the institutionthat you've been tabbed by the public to represent.nevertheless, we did make it through the regular portion of the session, even though therewas lots of national spotlight grabbing headlines related to bills that were introduced, heard,or passed in kansas this year. i do have to say it's very difficult to it'sincreasingly difficult to track matters in thelegislature when we are continually faced with ambush hearings, bills that change numbersmultiple times in the course of a hearing. in fact, there was one hearing this year wherea bill number changed three times, and so if you'retrying to follow from the general public,

that canbe extremely difficult. i would say that in the final days of theregular session, the legislature did work hard todevelop a education funding bill that would meet the muster of the court, and containedin that were some policy provisions then that caughtadditional headlines, and i'm not going to opineon those, but that has been sort of what the entire legislative session has been like.and so that bill now awaits the governor's signature and,again, it's it was presented i believe last week.so there's 14 days 10 days that the governor

has to sign a bill or allot to become law,and that's what we're waiting on right now.one interesting piece of news that occurred the very last thing that occurred before thesenate adjourned was the confirmation of senator pat apple from louisburg. the governorappointed him earlier in march to sit on the kansas corporation commission. thatconfirmation occurred on the final day that the legislature met, and i would be remissif i didn't point out that the frontrunner for fillingthat seat is one of jccc's own, and that's molly baumgardner. that central committeeelection will occur on monday the 21st. so this comingmonday, folks will be paying attention to

what's going on down in that particular senatedistrict. legislators will for the most part come backon april 30th. that signals the beginning ofthe veto session. the rumors that we're hearing now from leadership and from different folksthat are close to that process is it will be brief. typically the veto session can belong and drawn out and extend beyond the regular deadlinesthat have been established by the legislative calendars. we sort of did that at the endof the regular session. we were supposed to end onfriday. it was was it the 1st? whatever that first friday of april is. how quickly we losedates when we're so close to the process.

we did not finish until late sunday night,and so the legislature extended its regular session acouple of days. we do have on the calendar the ability togo through until about may 15th during the vetosession, but i think that legislators, especially house members and incumbent house membersare anxious to get out on the campaign trail. this is an election year for them, and sothere's little desire to extend the session any morethan necessary. the consensus revenue estimating memo thatsort of gives us a financial forecast for where the state is going will likely be releasedor in fact it's probably being released right

now. there may be social media updates aboutit going out right now. i saw one just before istood up to speak that it was anticipated that it would be released around 5:00. i'manticipating, although we've had no heads up about whatthe financial forecast looks like, like any report orany document related to legislature, you can massage it and help it to say what you wantit to say. i do anticipate that it will paint arather rosy picture for the next at least year or so forrevenues coming into the state. but, again, i'll have a more thorough analysis once we'reable

to actually review the document that the economistshave discussed and come up with. let me speak specifically about a few legislativeitems. i'm not going to go through in detail the report that i presented to you.is it a little bit longer than normal. but i do want totouch on few high points, specifically as it relates to higher education.as you're aware, there were three pilot projects that the legislature or at least the senateintroduced related to higher education. almost all of them related to community collegesor technical colleges. in the final analysis,and one of those was specifically related to johnsoncounty community college, and that was the

gopro now program, that program was excludedin the final negotiations, as was a program that was called the success act. it wouldhave created some partnerships with community collegesand state institutions, but it also was a pathway for a discussion to begin on statewidemill levy, and that was a large concern, at leastto this body. and that bill both of those bills were not in the final product that wasadvanced to the governor for a signature. they arecontained altogether, k 12 and higher education, inthe same bill. there was a bill in a component in there thatestablished an ongoing pilot project for

ged students and we were expressly writtenout of that bill when it was introduced. that billremains the same and is part of the larger package. you can make guesses as to why thatmight be. i cannot give you the accurate answer.we will continue to have some conversations. i know that dr. sopcich is very involved atleast at the association level with that particular partof the discussion. i will say that the good news is that the1.5% cut that was given to the college for fiscalyear 2015 that's the current budget year that we'll be talking about, or that was justapproved was restored. that's about $2.1 million

for the two year institutions. the othergood news is that the second year funding for senate bill 155, or about $12 million,was also appropriated and, again, that's a programthat we've seen some success from as well through thehigh school kids that participate in some of the cte programs.and so that's about where it stops for the good news as far as finances for highereducation is concerned. i won't go into detail about the rest of the system, but those aredefinitely good notes to end on for the community college sector.i will talk briefly about the amendments to the gun bills that were passed, and i didfollow up with the senior advisor who serves

the committee where that bill is heard, andnothing has changed from the time that i reported to you back in february when the bill hadits initial hearing. the bill did get stoppedup in the house for some reason, and within the lastweek or so, the regular legislative session, the senate introduced a new bill, passed thatbill out of committee, passed it across the their floor,and it was included in a conference committee report that was ultimately adopted.the question that i've been asked, and hopefully i can put to rest any concerns that youmay have is that the four year exemption that the college applied for through the attorneygeneral's office will stand through that,

the rest of that period. and so we're roughlythree and a half years out, three years out with thatprovision in place. it does create some challenges for the collegeas it relates to employees and their ability to conceal carry in the workplace, some ofthe other things after that four year period is up.the other item of concern is, and we testified to this when the bill had its hearing in thehouse, is that we have students that fall under twocategories and we have student policies and wehave employee policies, and we have some students who are here on work programs and workfor the college while they're going to school.

and so there is a question as to how thoseparticular individuals will be treated with respect to the new with the new law. thatwas a question that was presented to the committee.it was not answered. it wasn't necessarily intended that it would be answered the daythat we presented it, but that is something that i willcontinue to follow up with legislative staff on.the governor has signed a bill that directly speaks to the conversation you just had withmr. perkins, and that is the property tax transparency bill. that's a bill that hadbeen floating around in the legislature for the past coupleof years and essentially what that bill will

do isrequire and i believe it's a current practice that this board already observed, but it wouldrequire the board to take a public vote of the board on any increase in property valuesfor the mill levy.and so you saw some budget projections this evening in your discussions, if you choosethen to retain the money that is part of that property value increase, you'll vote and thenpublish that vote in the local paper of record. thatbill passed and it would exempt i would mention that it would exempt any previous taxes thathad been approved by voters, whether they're special levies or whether they're part ofthe statutory 21.5 mills related to public

education.another interesting bill, and this is the only one that has passed so far that wouldlikely be of interest to you, because we did spenda lot of time tracking local elections bills, the onethat passed was a party change affiliation bill. it just sets time parameters for folkswho might change their political affiliation to votefor someone in a primary. it establishes timelines forwhen they can change back. the governor did sign that bill.i'll talk about the other election bills momentarily. the other important thing, and i won't gointo details, again, as we talk about taxation

issues, but again, it plays it comes intoplay again when you start talking about your budgetworkshops and how you allot for future years and how you plan for budgets for future years.some of these major issues are still up in the air. i don't know if we'll see movementon them or not. again, i mentioned that we're hearingthat there will be a brief veto session. we arehearing that there would likely be one tax bill, one budget bill, and one judiciary billand that everything else likely will not be workedor discussed. it may be discussed, but likely notworked in this brief veto session.

and so one of those things that could comeinto play are things like the machinery and equipment tax issue. that issue has boileddown now simply to i say simply. compared towhat it was, it seems rather simple, but codifying in statute the property valuation guide thatis already out there in a publication of thedepartment of revenue, it creates a three level test onhow you can determine whether something is personal or real property. that gained sometraction as the session rolled on and is part of the bill that has passed both the houseand the senate in different forms and is a part ofpart of conference committee discussion.

interestingly, a bill that was attached tothat is a bill that speaks to property tax exemptions forprivate health clubs. when you're in a community the size of ours, those are major squarefootage buildings. there are some that are part of tif or cid districts. the numbersgo into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for acounty like johnson county. and so that's somethingthat we'll continue to monitor. it's a very controversial issue. it wouldn't seem likeit is, but it is, and we'll continue to monitor that.the other one that is still out there and i know there's a full court press and someadditional folks have been hired to help push

them across the finish line, and i don't knowif it will occur or not is the mortgage registrationfee issue. again, that's a 16 to $17 million issueas it relates to johnson county budgets at the county level. again, how that impactsus down the line is yet to be seen. that issue isstill part of the conference committee discussion. and then the final one, again, i don't thinkthis one will have as much of an impact as itinitially as we were concerned that it might, and that's the change from the court of taxappeals to the board of tax appeals. there are clearly some issues there that need tobe dealt

with. but the change that i would continueto watch is the one where if the board rules on aproperty tax value, that value cannot be changed for three years, and that would be if theboard rules in favor of the property tax the propertytaxpayer, or the property owner. that's something that we'll continue to watch andsee if that plays out in the end. so all of those itemsare potentially ripe for discussion in a conference committee report as it relates to taxes.onto the good stuff. the local election issues, the one bill that made its way through theprocess was the public reporting bill. that's a bill that would require entities like thecollege or

other public funded entities that have representationin topeka to file with the secretary of state's office the amount of compensationof a contract if the employee is contracted for or ifthe employee is an actual employee of the entity. that bill is in current report thatis an agree to disagree, which means there's a several stepprocess that you go through to ultimately get thatbill to become law. i'm not sure that the time exists or if they'll take that up whenthey return. likewise, i'm not sure that they will addressthe local elections issue. both bodies, both house both the house and senate have workedbills in their committee. they have passed

bills out that sit on general orders in thoserespective bodies. we will not be working any moregeneral orders, although nothing ever dies in topeka. you can suspend the rules, youcan bring something above the line and discuss it. again,it's a procedural process that's somewhat difficult but still is possible. the housebill would move local elections to the fall and keepthem non partisan. it's as simple as that. the senate bill contains a few other provisionsthat i've discussed before. they've not changed.there would be special specific exemptions rather for community colleges, county governments,and water districts. we expect that

provision to come out if a conference committeeaction were to take place. the other provision that's contained in therethat's equally concerning to groups and bodies like yours, and that's the vacancyfill in process where if a vacancy were to be createdby the board, there would be a dual precinct committee process that is still that wouldcome together for the central committee election.that is how vacancies would be dealt with on localgoverning bodies. there's still a lot of questions to be answered. it's very complicated andi'm not sure that it ultimately works in the end.but that's where those particular pieces are

rightnow. again, i'm i'm not thinking that those issueswill probably come up during the veto session, or at least in a sense where they'llbe passed, but again, it's the legislature, anything canhappen. i think i'll stop there and see if there'sany questions. i did bring some parting gifts withme for a select few of the trustees. the pictures with senator roberts arrived last week. iknow that was several months ago that we went out to d.c., but for those of you that traveledwith us on that trip, i have those with me and i can wait to distribute those at theend of the

meeting or if you'd like i'd be pleased toread the inscriptions and distribute them accordingly.>> chair jerry cook: we'll not do that, mr. carter.(laughter.) but i have a question on house bill 2141,the local elections. am i clear that it would exempt community colleges from the precinctprocess? >> mr. dick carter: not from the precinctprocess. it would exempt them from the fall the fall election. and that particularpiece became very contentious in that it creates anew set of elections, or it would continue the current spring elections. it would createa new set

of elections in the fall, and it would havea price tag that is fairly significant, and that provisionwill likely come out in any discussion if the bills continue to be discussed. so thoseexemptions for water districts, charted county governments and community colleges will goaway and they would be moved to the fall, ultimately, would be the intent.>> chair jerry cook: so it's your understanding that vacancies on the communitycollege would be handled through the precinct process and become partisan?>> mr. dick carter: in the version of the bill that is currently on the senate floor,yes. it does not address issues if you have an unaffiliatedoffice holder or an independent or a

libertarian office holder. they would be filledby the republican precinct committee men and women and the democrat precinct committeemen and women that would come together for one large central election.>> chair jerry cook: any questions of dr. carter? trustee stewart, then trustee musil.>> trustee jon stewart: yeah, on house bill 2473 or senate bill 447, i've got an issue.i assume the governor is probably going to sign that, or has he?>> mr. dick carter: he's not signed it yet. it's been enrolled and presented to him,engrossed and presented to him i should say.. >> trustee jon stewart: when would it go intoeffect, upon his signature? or july 1st? >> mr. dick carter: i believe july 1st isthe date.

>> trustee jon stewart: tanya, are you studyingthat? can you that affects us pretty significantly. and i think we need to havea report to the committees on and maybe executive, whatever committee level, becauseif we can't i think there's two issues, actually. there's something that happened to open carryand we need to look into that because we may not be able to prevent people from walkingaround with an open carry gun on campus. >> mr. dick carter: i believe you can posta prohibition of open carry, but you cannot prevent concealed carry.>> trustee jon stewart: so i think we need to make sure we understand that completely,and if so we can tell our students you can't carry on campus, but we won't be able to tellour

employees, and it's also my understandingthat that pre empted our four year opt out, that thatwould be effective immediately, and i think we need to clarify that, too, because it maybe july 1st an employee could be a as long asthey had a concealed carry license, could carry agun on campus. so i think we need to clarify and make sure we have a good report to thecommittee, because i don't know what we can do about it, but>> mr. dick carter: mr. chairman, i'll pass along the statute that the revisor gave tome. he said that they did create special languagethat protected any of the institutions that

filed forthe four year exemption. >> trustee jon stewart: that's good.>> mr. dick carter: but i will pass that along to ms. wilson.>> chair jerry cook: trustee musil and trustee sharp.>> trustee greg musil: i'm confused now. special language, we have opted for thefour year exemption. but as i understood this legislation, it said that employees of publicgovernmental entities who had a concealed carry permit could carry their gun to work,period. are you saying that you think that the languageincludes the bill includes language that says community colleges, that's not true?>> mr.dick carter: the four year exemption that

we applied for as a campus willcontinue to hold. i think maybe we will need to go back and look at the employee pieceof that. >> trustee greg musil: my understanding, thatwas the entire purpose of it was that employees of governmental entities could carryconcealed at their jobs, and that's what is concerning because we have 2,000 employees,temporary and full time. >> mr. dick carter: correct.>> trustee greg musil: any of whom could get a concealed carry by going through theeight hour course and could carry weapons on here and the administration would haveno control over whether or not they're carryinga concealed weapon in the classroom, in the

counselor's office, or wherever.>> mr. dick carter: you would not be allowed to ask if a person is a concealed carryholder. >> chair jerry cook: trustee sharp. or areyou finished? >> trustee greg musil: i was not.>> chair jerry cook: please proceed. >> trustee greg musil: i think we need toexplain to the public, the effort of the statewide mill levy for community collegesis very similar to what happened in 1992 with thek 12 funding where we adopted a statewide mill levy where all the money from the stategoes to topeka, then they dole it out, and thathas not worked very well for johnson county.

and iam not against, you know, sharing our largesse and our wealth with other parts of kansas,having grown up in another part of kansas, but if we do that for community colleges,that means the topeka legislature will collectmoney from johnson county and dole it out to 18other community colleges, and if we see what happened to some of the bills today, theywill exempt us from the ability to get some ofthat or get our share. so that's an important issue forjohnson countians. i would like you to do a summary when thelegislature is done and all the bills have

beensigned about those bills which, as you described it, were an affront to local control, wherethe legislature in topeka imposed a mandate ortook power away or placed restrictions on localgovernment, whether it's cities or counties or the community college, because i thinkwe need to understand that for the people in johnsoncounty and understand what their legislators aredoing. you said nothing ever dies in topeka, andi'm not sure that common sense hasn't, but idon't ever have a question for you. the folks

that are in charge up there said they weregoing to do transparent government and accountablegovernment and they supported local control. andyou say there are ambush hearings, there are bills that numbers change on, there are billsthat are never seen until they're passed out ofcommittee. that's not transparent government, it's notaccountable government, and they have done nothing since in the last two years but takecontrol away from local government. >> mr. dick carter: that certainly is notthe regular course of action, but it is a growingtrend, and you should be concerned.

>> trustee greg musil: i'm done now.>> chair jerry cook: are you sure?>> trustee greg musil: yes, sir.>> chair jerry cook: thank you. trustee sharp. >> trustee stephanie sharp: thank you, mr.chairman. i just wanted to add real quick, ichecked on twitter, and the consensus revenue estimate shows that the state is about 6%down from this time in 2013 in revenues, and that'sall i've seen so far. nobody reported anything onthe expectations moving forward, just >> mr. dick carter: there will be two versions.there will be an executive summary and then there will be a longer memo and iwill be pleased to forward the executive summary,

once we are able to get it, to terri and wecan get it out to the trustee board. >> trustee stephanie sharp: and then, secondly,i would just say i think that trustee musil's idea about a report of all of thebills attacking local government is a good one. i don'tthink there's enough time in mr. carter's day. i keep track of legislation for a numberof clients, and every bill i read, in the most obscurecommittee bill that you wouldn't think had to doanything with local government, and in every bill there is a reach down to take away localcontrol from some entity. it's a water board, it's a sewer board, it's community collegeboards

of trustees. it has been absolutely frighteningthis year to see to see that so pervasively andobviously. so i do like that idea. i don't know where you start or where you end.>> chair jerry cook: trustee stewart. >> trustee jon stewart: i was just thinkingabout that, the gun bill and having you come to the committee, but looking around the room,everybody in this room except for the trustees would be able to carry a weapon. that kindof puts us at a little disadvantage. (laughter.)so you may want to look at that, judy, to see if we can designate ourselves as employees,even though we don't get paid, so that everybody's questioning, so.>> chair jerry cook: other questions or comments

of mr. carter? trustee drummond?>> trustee robert drummond: just a response to trustee stewart. are you saying we'dhave to count on these guys (inaudible). >> i'd rather count on this guy over here.(laughter.) >> chair jerry cook: other comments or questions?>> trustee jon stewart: i thought that was pretty informative.>> chair jerry cook: thank you, mr. carter. appreciate it.>> dr. joe sopcich: on a positive note, on a positive note, i would like to recognizethe fact that the infamous gopro now effort wasreally the first time that i can ever recall that ourdelegation came together to promote something

that directly benefits this college, and ithink that's something that needs to be noted, andso i just wanted to make that point. >> chair jerry cook: that's a good one. okay.committee reports and recommendations. management. trustee stewart.>> trustee jon stewart: okay. one added comment is it's also i guess it's good that ilooked around the room and counselor ferguson wouldn't be able to carry either. she's notan employee, so you'd be with us.(laughter.)all right. the management committee met on wednesday, april 2nd, and we had anumber of items we went through. we only have one recommendation. but the staffrepresented presented a number of reports,

beginning with patrick rossol allison on thestatus of the college's strategic planning process. it was quite informative. the reportsinitiatives on addressing declining enrollment and report on college financial ratios incomparison to peers. don gave us a budget update and we heard from denise moore oninformation services and security, always a high priority, and with all the certainlyin the news about all the hacking attempts and all that,it's something that we have to be very vigilant with.but i think that the staff here is doing a very good job. you probably can never sayit will never happen, but i believe that they are very proactivein staying trying to stay ahead of that.

rex hays updated us on several capital projects,and i think things are going well there. we do have one recommendation. and it's weissued the college issues a request for proposal for its annual microsoft enrollmentfor education license agreement, it allows usto all the college computers and servers to have the latest versions of the microsoftapplications for a period of one year from april 1st to march 31st, 2015, and we it hadfour additional year increments that can be renewed.so it is the recommendation of the management committee that the board of trusteesaccept the recommendation of college administration to approve the low proposal$163,763.65 from govconnection, inc., for

theestablishment of an annual agreement for microsoft enrollment for education solution. i'llmake that motion. >> second.>> chair jerry cook: we have a motion and a second. is there any discussion? anydiscussion? all in favor signify by saying aye.(ayes.) >> chair jerry cook: opposed? motion carries.>> trustee jon stewart: that concluded the management committee.i have one add on announcement that i want to make, and it's a commercial for the cohencommunity series which is coming up on may 3rd at yardley hall. country music star tracylawrence will be here and it is an event that

100% of the proceeds from the ticket salesgo to scholarship and programs here at the college,so it's a really neat thing to do, and those of youin country music will enjoy that. so there are tickets available. they've sold prettywell so far. but mark your calendars for may 3rd, saturdaynight. thank you. >> chair jerry cook: thank you, trustee stewart.learning quality. trustee lindstrom. >> trustee david lindstrom: mr. chairman,learning quality committee meeting minutes are on page 21 to 43 of your electronicboard packet. the meeting was held on april 4th, 2014, at 8:00 a.m. the meetingwas directed by dr. andy anderson. there were

fourpresentations, and the learning quality committee will be asking for the board of trustees totake action on one recommendation. the first presentation was steve hansen, chairof the educational affairs committee. he presented curriculum that was approved bythe educational affairs march 26th meeting. heexplained the various modifications, additions, deactivations that were due to kborrequirements, course alignments, response to accrediting agencies, response to studentsand local need. it was noted that the solar technology degree program and energy courseshave been deactivated due to lack of student enrollmentand interest. those courses and the concepts

will be folded into existing degreed hvacand electronics programs to give students theopportunity to complete their degree. it was explained that the curriculum approvalprocess can be lengthy and one that begins with the department approval, the divisioncurriculum committee approval, the division deanapproval, and then on to review and approvals from the educational affairs committee, thelearning quality committee, the board of trustees, and then, finally, kansas board ofregents. this process may take up to 6 to 12 months to complete, and as part of thatpresentation, bobanne kalkofen, she's chair of interior design and a professor there,and darla

green, interior design associate professor,presented their experience in the department's curriculum changes that were the culminationof a one and one half year to two year process. they mentioned that all three design programswere to be modified, nine new courses would beadded, 17 were deactivated and 12 courses were modified. professors kalkofen and greenexplained the changes were a result of input from student exit interviews, input from the24 advisory board members, examining trends,considering faculty strengths, determining what thestudents needed to be successful in the field, and finally, community needs.the third presentation, vince miller, director

of education technology center, spokeabout the migration from the old it management system, angel, to the new system,desire2learn, or d2l, at the end of may. training opportunities are being offered by facultyto faculty and staff to learn the new managementsystem. he noted that there are 2,675 total credit and face to face courses with 300,000visits per month on angel. he also added that d2l provided a better experience for thoseusing their phone and that instructors can see at aglance how many students have looked at the course materials. vince added that johnsoncounty community college's hosting the summer institute on distance learning andinstructional technology conference to be

held july 31st through august 1st. around400 are expected to attend this yearly professionaldevelopment conference which will feature presentations, discussions groups, hands onworkshops, and demonstrations. keynote speaker will be dr. richard culatta, director of educationaltechnology for the united states department of education.and the fourth presentation was rick moehring, dean of learning engagement. hebriefly reviewed the recommendations regarding the proposed amendments to key policystatements in sections 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, and 316, which all relate to the studentregistration, records assessment, tuition, financial aid, and general academic policies.those

policy amendments can be found on pages 2342 in the electronic board packet. this is part ofa larger review. as i mentioned last month, all college policies directly affecting studentsare being conducted for the purpose of improvingkey performance indicators of student satisfactions. the recommendations recommendedchanges generally serve to improve clarity, readability, organization, and userfriendliness of student policies. as a result, it is the recommendation of thelearning quality committee that the board of trustees accept the recommendations ofthe college administration to approve the deletions,transfers, and amendments to the following

board sections: section 311, registrationassessment records; section 312, tuition and fees, refunds, return checks; section 313,financial aid; section 314, academic policies; section315, degree certificates requirements; and section316, transcripts as shown subsequently in the board packet. i would make thatrecommendation. >> chair jerry cook: we have a motion. isthere a second? >> second.>> chair jerry cook: any discussion? any discussion? all in favor signify by sayingaye. (ayes.)>> chair jerry cook: opposed?

>> no.>> chair jerry cook: trustee lindstrom, anything else?>> trustee david lindstrom: i would welcome any comments from anyone else whowas in attendance to that meeting. chairman, that concludes my report.>> chair jerry cook: questions of trustee lindstrom? thank you. human resources.trustee drummond. >> trustee robert drummond: thank you, mr.chair. appreciate it. our committee met on monday, april 7th, at 9:30, and trusteesharp and myself were there to represent the board.we have two recommendations for you. i'll kind of give you a briefing on the first one.the first item on the agenda was a discussion

of a 2.5% increase for all non bargainingunit employees, increase for the bargaining unit employees unit members of 2.5% for fiscalyear '15 was approved in the current master agreement. we had discussion surrounding theappropriate time to grant increases to non bargaining unit probationary staff, as wellas the plan to incorporate merit increases to the compensationsystem in fiscal year 2016. the human resources staff will bring a documented overviewof the continuing roll out process of the newperformance appraisal system and the procedure for granting increases once a newly hiredemployee has successfully completed his or her probationary period for discussion atour may

meeting of this year.with that being said, the recommendation we have for you this evening is recommendedby the college administration, the hr committee that the board of trustees authorize salaryadjustments equivalent to 2.5% increase for all non probationary, non bargaining unitsalaried and full time and part time hourly employeesemployed as of june 30th, 2014, to be effective july 1st, 2014, and i would so move that.>> second. >> chair jerry cook: we have a motion anda second. is there any discussion? any discussion? all in favor signify by sayingaye. (ayes.)>> chair jerry cook: opposed? motion carries.

>> trustee robert drummond: thank you verymuch. the second item i'll make a recommendation in a second but give you abriefing on it was a recommendation regarding aproposed amendment to the master agreement. the members of the faculty association haveworked together with their constituents, administration to identify and clarify discipline areas andhow they should be treated under the master agreement, specifically with respect to themaster agreement. the amendment requires ratification by the bargaining unit and the boardof trustees. the proposed amendment does not have a fiscal impact or make significantchanges to the provisions of the agreement. it does contain the following key items andprovisions:

article ii, recognition, section 3, amendedto define the term counselor as a counselor, career counselor, or access services advisor.article 8, reduction in force, amended to andrestated to say incorporate a new addendum 2, which defines a discipline area and setsforth the discipline areas to be considered shoulda reduction in force become necessary. part b,clarify that in no instance under article e would the administration be required tocreate a new position or to place a bargaining unit memberinto a position for which he or she cannot meetposted job requirements. part c, define probationary

solely for the purpose of article 8 of themaster agreement. part d, provide for the agreement upon the notification of the facultyassociation president prior to implementation of a reduction in force. part e, update therecall provisions in the context of discipline areas.and part f, address the non material amendments to correct/clean up existing language.and for the sake of further discussion, i would make this recommendation: it is therecommendation of hr committee and the college administration that the board of trusteesaccept the recommended amendments to the master agreement, and i would so move that.>> second. >> chair jerry cook: we have a motion anda second. any discussion? trustee stewart.

>> trustee jon stewart: yeah, just a question.on d, provide for an agreed upon notification, what are the details of an agreedupon? >> dr. joe sopcich: i presume this is thetype of thing where we sit down and talk to thefaculty association president about what's happening, something that we would do andhave done, i believe, this past year.>> trustee jon stewart: it's not saying that you have to give them six months noticebefore reduction i mean what is are there devil in the details? does it give you theability to obviously sit down and say we've made thedecision to do a reduction in force, i wanted

youto understand this before we make the announcement? or...>> dr. joe sopcich: i think the key word, and tanya might give us an elaboration, buti believe the key word there is notification.>> ms. tanya wilson: reduction in force becomes necessary, the president(inaudible). (off mic.)>> trustee jon stewart: that's all? >> ms. tanya wilson: there's but the presidentwill present reasons for (inaudible). (off mic.)>> trustee jon stewart: that's reasonable. >> chair jerry cook: other questions? we havea motion and a second. all in favor

signify by saying aye.(ayes.)>> chair jerry cook: opposed? motion carries.>> trustee robert drummond: thank you very much, mr. chairman. one point here.a third agenda item was an update of the affordable care act. recent government guidelineshave provided a safe harbor approach to determining adjunct faculty members' accreditedhours of service per week. the guideline allows for a credit of 2.25 hours of service perweek for every hour teaching or classroom time.given our current load guidelines for adjunct faculty, the majority of adjunct faculty membershave a workload of less than 30 hours per week. the aca requires implementation in thefirst benefit plan year beginning in 2015,

which only impacts the month of june of thisprojected budget in 2015. based on the current cost of our medical plan and this retrenddata, the estimated cost will be approximately $20,000. however, if every eligible part timehourly employee opted for the benefit, the costwould be approximately $125,000. an analysis is currently underway to determine budgetestimates for fiscal year 2016. undoubtedly we will bring that to you when we have thatavailable. so that's just an update of the aca and the ongoing impact of that legislationto us. >> chair jerry cook: trustee stewart.>> trustee jon stewart: so the estimate is $20,000 for a year.>> trustee robert drummond: no. one month.

>> trustee jon stewart: because it says fiscalyear '15 will be approximately 20,000. 20,000 per month it should say.>> dr. judy korb: well, it should be 20,000 per month. but in '15 it goes into effectin january of '15, so we have to implement itin our first benefit year. so the first benefit year isjune 1, and so in our fiscal year '15, we only have one month that would actually beimpacted. but then after that>> trustee jon stewart: so on the low end it's $240,000 a year additional. on the highend it's a million >> dr. judy korb: 1.5.>> trustee jon stewart: 1.5 million. wow.

wow.>> dr. judy korb: the estimate that we're using, that $20,000 a month number comesfrom industry trend, which is that approximately 10 to 15% of your eligible employees willtake advantage of the benefit. obviously, that so the 1.5 million is if every currentlyeligible employee took which that's probably not goingto happen, but we also have there's still alot of gray area here with right now it doesn't appear that our adjunct faculty, the way wecurrently set our workload guidelines, would qualify for the benefit. so that does we don'tappear to have to count that number at this point. those things can change.>> trustee jon stewart: so the range is $240,000

a year to a million five, which both aresignificant, so. >> dr. judy korb: they are.>> trustee jon stewart: that's the restoration of the state aid.>> chair jerry cook: trustee cross? >> trustee lee cross: what's the highest it'sever been? if that number was said, i didn't catch it, in terms of the most we've spenton the numbers we are discussing.>> dr. judy korb: we haven't this is a new thing withthe affordable care act. so this is not something that the college has>> trustee robert drummond: this is new money. >> dr. judy korb: right.>> trustee jon stewart: yeah. it was zero. >> trustee lee cross: sorry. thank you.>> good question.

>> chair jerry cook: other comments? thankyou, trustee drummond. anything else? >> trustee robert drummond: that should covermy report. thank you very much. >> chair jerry cook: thank you. next itemis collegial steering committee. collegial steering committee did meet on may 5th. thatis that is hmm. i made tiak notes for collegial steering. isn't that interesting.collegial steering did meet april 8th, i'm sorry, and we had faculty senate representation,faculty association representation, administration, and mr. trustee musil and myself. we hada very aggressive agenda. it seems like those hours go very, very quickly and we had a lotof engagement. we discussed learning managementsystem. we had a website utilization

update on progress we're making there fromprevious discussion. talked a little bit about thephysical education requirement that's being discussed, reading readiness provision thatwe had some interest in at the beginning of the schoolyear, and enrollment strategies and also the discipline issue. spent a lot of time on theenrollment strategies. dr. korb i think gave a nice report of wehave and that was of interest at our last boardmeeting, or a couple meetings back, and i think dr. williams had made the comment aswell that faculty association certainly was interestedin enrollment strategies. there's a committee

of 25 people working on that right now, comprisedof faculty, counselors, student affairs, and support areas. they're really focusing onthree areas in enrollment, the academic experience itself, enrollment strategies, and marketingcommunications. so they've kind of broken it upinto three subgroups. a lot of interest. some of the things they're discussing, thepossibility of block scheduling, which would be about four classes together on two nightsa week. they're talking a little bit about howonline courses are affecting our enrollment. trustee drummond, as you said earlier, reallylooking at restructuring, recruiting strategies. as we look around benchmark colleges, we'refinding that we certainly don't have the number

of recruiters that some colleges have of oursize, and that may be another issue that we need to address.but it was very encouraging that everybody has a stake in the game and with thatparticipation we're really encouraged judy, i don't know if you have anything else tosay to that point, but i really appreciated thatreport and the interaction we had on that topic. is thereanything else you'd like to say about enrollment strategies?>> dr. judy korb: no. just that we are the one thing that is really significant to meis that we're working across all different sectionsof or all different areas of campus to try

tobring together the strategies that we need to do to increase enrollment, and so there'sjust been a really strong recognition of the fact thatit's not just one area of campus that is responsible forthat, but we all have a part in it. and i think one of the most significant things isjust the partnership that the faculty have entered into with student services and withthe counselors to try to make sure that we are more proactivelycontacting students and getting information tostudents that they request. so it's really been kind of exciting and it's work we'reexcited to

see what kind of results happen in the fall.>> chair jerry cook: in some cases, and i think mr. rogers has left, but in some cases,students are targeting students to call for potential enrollment, as dr. korb indicated,faculty are targeting certain students from their programand to recruit others. so it was really encouraging. trustee musil, i'm not sure ifyou have anything to add. >> trustee greg musil: well, a couple thankyous here i think to the faculty. thanks, deb, and your team on the master agreementamendment because i know how hard you worked on it. i've heard it from your colleagues.i know the rest of the leadership of the association did as well. and really thanksto all the faculty for the work on the student

enrollment, because we hear a lot about howgovernment or how governmental entities ought to function like a business and i've alwaysthought that was funny because i don't think it reallyworks that way, but we can be more convenient to the people we serve, we can be morecustomer friendly, and we can realize we're all in it together. and that's what i sawis that task force moved quickly to get some things donethat really are based on common sense and making it easier for the students and reachingout to the students. and the faculty's in that, andi have, just to let everybody know, semi volunteered the board because i think if there arepeople out there that are going to be calling

students who didn't complete their onlineapplication, we don't know why, or who didn't end up enrolling, that we ought to be partof the effort to be recruiters and ambassadors aswell, and so i'm certainly willing to do that. i hopethe rest of the board is, if there's an opportunity for us to be active participants in this effortinstead of just recipients of information. so collegial steering goes very fast. thathour goes a lot faster and is a lot more enjoyable than this.(laughter.) >> chair jerry cook: the other item that wespent considerable time on was the learning management system which our facultyuses and we're using the famous angel

system, which will come to an end here soon,but the discussion is kind of fun because it's justlike some of us thought that laptops probably would never stay, we have some that feel thatangel will never go away, and yet that reality is coming. so we had a lot of discussion inthe transition about the learning management systemand moving into the new one, and even dr. sopcich learned some things about howto apply for his own class. so i >> dr. joe sopcich: thank you, trustee cook.>> chair jerry cook: you were very transparent about that. so good discussion. and ijust really am pleased at the interaction that we're having at collegial steering onthese very

important issues and the work that's beingdone already in committee on a lot of the topics.any questions about that? president's recommendations for action. treasurer's report.trustee lindstrom. >> trustee david lindstrom: mr. chairman,i'm pleased to present the treasurer's report for the month ending february 28th,2014, which can be found on pages 54 64. briefly, here are a few highlights. ad valorem taxdistributions of 2.4 2 million were received inmarch and will be reflected in next month's report. on page 63 at the bottom of the page,please note the cash balances. at february 28th, we had a book balance of 92.3 millionwith

17.6 million in outstanding encumbrances,leaving us with an unencumbered balance of $74.7 million. expenditures generally arein the primary operating fund are within approved budgetary limits. and it is the recommendationof the college administration to the board oftrustees to approve treasurer's report for the month ending february 28th, 2014, subjectto audit, and i would make that recommendation.>> chair jerry cook: we have a motion. is there a second?>> second. >> chair jerry cook: any discussion? any questionson the treasurer's report? all in favor signify by saying aye.(ayes.)

>> chair jerry cook: opposed? motion carries.>> trustee david lindstrom: mr. chairman, that ends my report.>> chair jerry cook: dr. sopcich? >> dr. joe sopcich: thank you, trustee cook.there are four different clinical affiliate agreements in this packet. i would like torecommend to the board that i do them all at onetime. any objection to that? >> chair jerry cook: any objection by anyone?let's proceed. >> dr. joe sopcich: it is the recommendationof the college administration that the board of trustees authorize the college toenter into agreements with the agencies featured onpages 65 82 of the board packet for the clinical

experiences indicated for the periods as listedin their respective recommendations. >> chair jerry cook: do we have a motion?>> i'd so move. >> second.>> chair jerry cook: any questions? any questions? trustee stewart?>> trustee jon stewart: yeah. the internship with leavenworth, the bureau of prisons,what does that entail? what area, what >> can anyone answer that?>> dr. joe sopcich: i think, trustee stewart, we might have to get back to you on thatone. >> i will. i'm sorry.>> dr. joe sopcich: administration of justice? >> trustee jon stewart: probably, but>> dr. joe sopcich: we've been talking about

putting these in the consent agendabecause we've never had a question on any of the clinical affiliate agreements. keepingyou on your toes.>> i don't have a question >> dr. joe sopcich: we'll get that informationback to you.>> trustee greg musil: if anybody wants to look at this list, it's an impressivelist of the variety of programs where we send studentsout to work in the, quote, real world, and withthese partnerships, and this is one time we do a bunch of them at once. a lot of timeswe'll have one or two of them at a meeting. thisis an impressive list of how our students

are outthere not only learning about the real world, but contributing, and i just congratulateeverybody that has a hand in that to give those studentsthat experience. >> chair jerry cook: other questions or comments?we have a motion and a second. all in favor signify by saying aye.(ayes.) >> chair jerry cook: opposed? motion carries.do you have anything else? >> dr. joe sopcich: yes, i do. the monthlyreport to the board. before you, you have a packet here that itemizes numerous accomplishmentsand feats that our faculty and staff have performed over the past year. but in keepingwith our newfound tradition, i'd like to introduce

into a lightning round and start with dr.korb. judy. >> dr. judy korb: i have just three littlethings to well, they're not little but to highlight to you, and they're out of continuingeducation again. a couple of contracts that theyhave just signed that are really representative of the work that's going on there. one iswith burlington northern, and it is an agreementto train 160 people in cdl training. and so it's afairly large contract, and so it was really good. we just got that signed. and then they'vejust signed a contract with a biomanufacturingcompany, ten courses in which we'll be doing

sometraining and be able to use our biotech lab facilities that we have here on campus. sothat's another one that just got signed. and thenjust before i came to the board meeting, i found outthat the pharmacy tech program is accredited and they received their notification of asix year accreditation just this week. so>> dr. joe sopcich: excellent. thank you. barbara?>> dr. judy korb: sorry. there was a question. >> trustee jon stewart: yes, of course. thecdl training, is that in conjunction with metropolitan or>> dr. judy korb: it is, yes.

>> trustee jon stewart: the training is donethere or >> dr. judy korb: well, it's done karen, isit all done at metro? >> it's done here.>> dr. judy korb: it's done here. but we use their simulator and we use a lot of theirresources, and so it is all done in a partnership. >> trustee jon stewart: i knew we had thatpartnership. and that's going well? >> it's going very well.>> trustee jon stewart: good. >> dr. barbara larson: thank you. i'd liketo highlight a few of the initiatives in our police department that signify greater emphasison community partnerships and community policing. for instance, together with thedea, we will hold our first prescription drug

takebackinitiative here on campus next saturday, along with other locations in overland park. earlierthis week, our chief russell offered our department's help to overland parkpolice chief douglass for today's interfaith memorial service at the jewish community center,and this morning we received a call requesting that two officers come and assist there, andwe were happy to provide that assistance.finally, based on planning that's already taken place, the department will have theequipment and training necessary to have bicycle patrols on campus by the fall 2014 semester.research has shown that officers on bicycles are perceived as more approachable than thosein

cars, and we want our students and visitorsto feel at ease in approaching our officers. so i'mjust really pleased with many initiatives that i see underway in our police department.>> dr. joe sopcich: thank you, barbara. andy? >> dr. andy anderson: thank you. i don't havea lightning round item, i have maybe a year's worth, which is kind of the way ido things. >> dr. joe sopcich: get together with mr.perkins. >> dr. andy anderson: yeah, exactly.(laughter.) >> dr. andy anderson: in all seriousness,this week, tuesday morning i attended the fashion merchandising annual celebration,celebratory breakfast. there were over 20

students.they all introduced themselves, the work they had done over the past year and talked aboutthe careers that they already have coming outof that program. they were addressed by the manager of the nordstrom's store at oak parkmall, which is a graduate of that program, whichis very interesting. described her career over the past 13 years and how she startedand has finally found her way back to overland park,but she's one of our own. she had some fascinating advice.but as i was listening to that, i found myself entering into this time of the year when wesee the culmination of semesters and academic

years. the honor symposium honor studentsare featuring presentations of their papers, their research. the johnson county communitycollege international students presented their annual international fundraising dinner, whichbrings them together and effectively raises funds. if you follow the info list, you noticedtoday or yesterday it was, i'm not sure which, theworld mythology class is explaining referencing contemporary culture that comes from worldmythologies. the list of things that students havebeen doing this academic year are just fascinating and demonstrate the sort of richness thatdr. sopcich was talking about in terms of what the college offers the community widely.the successes, one has already been mentioned,

the johnson county community collegemodel u.n. team is receiving top awards again in new york. they at the united nations,actually. they recently hosted over 200 high school students at a model u.n. here on campus.there have been ten ten of our students have their artwork being selected for exhibitionin the kansas city artist coalition undergraduate college student exhibition. i think 19students dennis might mention recently completed the cavalier student leadershipdevelopment program. the debate team finished second in the national community collegerankings and second in the mid america regional cross examination debate associationyearly rankings. tabi secor was selected to the all american team in debate. only 30 debatersnationally are awarded that, so that program

continues in its stellar fashion. the "campusledger" and jcav and the student video broadcast media students came back today with over24 awards at the annual spring conference of the kansas collegiate media association.the numbers of awards that our students have earned this year, it just goes on and on,and it's really quite moving to reflect upon andi almost tend to become a little well, i do becomesentimental, actually. when i'm not cynical, i'm sentimental. so i sort of it's terriblemood swings, but that's what happens.(laughter.) this year, in these past few months, it'sbeen interesting to see not only the students

thatare exiting, if you will, that are moving on to do great things, but to see the numberof high school students that our college has broughton to this campus. not only are we serving, if youwill, the general population, but we are actively bringing students into the campus. there were,again, the journalism department hosted the take 5 film festival. there were over 100students here, many of them i think there were 20 some i can't remember exactly, thatwere showing short digital films, but they werealso afforded opportunities to meet with professionals in the field to show them howto do that more effectively. i just mentioned

themodel u.n. with over 200 students. the math and science division has hosted regionalscience olympiads here every for the past 20 years. there were over 25 middle schoolsand 20 high schools attending the past weekend.april 12th, district three kansas junior academy of sciences was held here. the cosmetologystudents gave free prom services to high school students. and a program that i don't thinkgets referenced very often but is quite remarkable isthe tips program, it's the transition into post secondary studies. those students it'sa collaborative effort between johnson countycommunity college, blue valley school

districts, gardner edgerton schools, and it'sbeing expanded to include other high schools, butthey bring special students into the school so they can get help it's a comprehensivei should just read this. it's a comprehensivetransition program, provides selected high schoolsenior students with specific learning needs the opportunity to experience college forthe first time with extra support. it's remarkable thatof those students, approximately 80% of the students who have completed this program arenow currently enrolled in college, they're enrolled in job training, or working fulltime. maggie eckleson, holly dressler, charlotte

walker, along with the blue valley transitionspecialists have collaborated to make a really effective program. it's quite remarkable.the career pathways program, judy nagle and the transition retention specialists havepresented over 350 high school students in the past semester, talking about career pathways,bringing students into the high school or to the college. loralee stevens with collegenow works effectively with the counselors acrossall the johnson county high schools. it goes onand on. i've gone beyond my lightning round. but thenumber of programs that bring students to our college and prepare them to do greatthings is just really moving, and this is

a specialtime of the year, and as we're looking at the budget, this is why we're looking at it.so i thank you for all your work and the support thatyou give us. >> dr. joe sopcich: thank you, andy. thatwas a nice report. and, also, thank you for redefining lightning.(laughter.)>> dr. andy anderson: thunder. thunder rolls. >> dr. joe sopcich: i have a top ten, of whichandy just read about five of them, but i'm going to do it anyway. this is not a totallisting of everything that happens here, and i'll kind oftry to provide more background for some of the things andy mentioned.for example, number one: yes, our model u.n.

team is in new york city. they're inmanhattan. they're actually at the united nations building. they won the outstandingdelegation award for their portrayal of niger at the conference. it's pretty exciting. andwhat people don't realize is that there are morethan 3,000 students who compete in this thing. thisis community colleges, universities, college, it's a huge deal. they basically proposeresolutions and write reports that deal with world issues. now i'm going to name the studentswho contributed to the success. joe gideon from independence, missouri. ben brown,overland park. nathaly cifuentes from bogota columbia/merriam. linda mccoy fromoverland park. danielle allison, overland

park. aaron swift, olathe. elysia chao, overlandpark. jeffery redmond, olathe. donald roth, prairie village. katlyn pratt, baldwin. ammaressa, lenexa. joe beeso, gardner. elizabeth andrews, tonganoxie. marie kistin horvatfrom lingen, germany, who is living in lenexa. ian sneid from leawood, kansas. bennetthofer from olathe. what a great representation of johnson county. and i'm relieved to seethat no one was from niger on our team. this award caps ten years of success for thisprogram. the team has received awards at the last 30 consecutive conferences they'veattended. kudos to dr. brian wright, he's ourprofessor and model u.n. advisor. i'm sure he'll be asking for his own building prettysoon.

and i think it's critical to note this remarkableopportunity that students who go here receive. it's really extraordinary. i happened to runinto the team on a flight early friday morning, andthey were sharing with me that when they announce these awards at these conferences, whenthey they say the outstanding delegation award from johnson county community college,there's this audible gasp in the room because you've got folks here from ivy league schools,big ten schools and >> notre dame?>> dr. joe sopcich: yeah, notre dame. (laughter.)>> k state. >> dr. joe sopcich: i won't say and to hearthat johnson county community college

is number one is really kind of mind bogglingfor them. so that's terrific. number two. we'd like to commend christinawolff, assistant professor of spanish and french, for winning best in kansas at thekansas world language association conference. she outlined the development and implementationof jccc's legal and healthcare interpreting program. wolff has taught at our college since1992. she was hired to be the supervisor of healthcare and legal interpreting programsin 2012. she'll now present her session at the 2015central states conference in minneapolis, minnesota. felicitaciones, christina. that'sterrific. number 3. we'd like to recognize student maryalice coulter, the 2014 newman civic

fellow. coulter. this award is given by campuscompact, a national organization. the award honors student leaders committed to creatinglasting change. it's sponsored by the kpmg foundation. campus compact includes 195 membercolleges and universities from 36 states, d.c., and mexico. mary alice is in our honorsprogram. she's actually president of the honor students association. additionally, she'sthe winner of our very own college's outstanding student award. her area of study is math andphysics. she aspires to get into engineering andbiomedical engineering. she wants to be a veterinarian. wouldn't you like your vet tohave a biomedical engineering degree? she is currentlyemployed by wayside waifs.

number 4. our phi theta kappa announced severalwinners of the international hallmark awards. these are the early announcementsthat come prior to the i guess the major ones. we'd like to recognize pat decker,alpha iota gamma, for her recognition as a distinguished chapter officer for the teamhallmark awards. number 5. again, compliments to denise forleadership of is, but you need to know that this department has been ranked in 2005, 2007,2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. that's quite a track record of accomplishment for our isprogram here. number 6. on february 4th, we hosted our veryown take 5 film fest. andy mentioned this. this was the tenth year. 130 studentsand faculty from shawnee mission west, shawnee

mission northwest, paola, louisburg, eudora,and lawrence high schools visited our campus. these workshops are led by area filmmakingand technology experts. the workshops included sessions on movie make up, effects, editing,lighting, gopro use, scripting, and storyboarding. one of the filmmakers presenting was jonathandillon, a former johnson county community college student who helped establish the filmfestival and is now a hollywood director, producer, and editor. his session was "fromstory to screen, a hollywood insider's approach."another session of interest was"blood, guts and zombies," which covered make up techniques and, according to the brochure,guaranteed to make you squirm. so kudos to molly baumgardner for pulling that together.it was a really nice event. i was able to

dropby that and actually enjoyed some of the make up on the students.number 7. we'd like to recognize lafayette norwood, who was the golf coach andbasketball coach here at our college. he is on a list of ten individuals who comprisethe 2014 wichita sports hall of fame induction class.lafayette, and he's no stranger to being inducted into the hall of fame, he's already a memberof the cowley college hall of fame, the southwestern college hall of fame, the wichitabitty basketball hall of fame, the kansas baseball coaches hall of fame, the wichitaeast hall of fame, and the oklahoma aau basketball hall of fame. he has coached for57 years, 32 of those here at our college.

number 8. we'd like to recognize the headlineraward recipient that was given today. shawn polowniak. shawn is the i guess youcould say the ceo of blacktop creative, a marketing and advertising consulting firm.he took three hours today and spoke to students. three hours. filled hudson auditorium, twice.so what a tribute to this program, to this award, and demonstrates another great opportunityfor our students to be able to listen to someone like that.number 9. i'm just going to read to you something out of a teaching philosophy that wassubmitted by one of our associate professors of english, sam bell. she's full time in theenglish department. and this represents what the faculty puts together with regard to theirformative evaluation process, and i'd like

to thank larry reynolds for forwarding thisto me. it was a very moving piece, i have to say, prettyemotional. i'm going to read one part of it whichpertains to how faculty interact with students here.and she writes: at the close of the fall 2012 semester, i wrote all my students letterstelling them what i know about them, why they matter, why they will succeed, thanking themfor their contributions to our class. i have kept this tradition up, writing all my studentspersonalized letters. it is likely due to the anticipation of these letters that i rarelyhave late semester absences. i often have students waitingfor his or her own letter during the last

weekof class. i am able to write these letters because i work hard at getting to know mystudents, along with their strengths and weaknesses.i teach through discussions, sometimes at theexpense of necessary instruction about more pragmatic skill sets, especially mla formattingand mechanical errors to address. but this is interesting, when she puts in this littleself critique i need to work on improving my teaching methods in order to have morebalanced instruction among creativity, learning outcomes and technical writing issues.i think this demonstrates certainly her commitment to our students and the effort thatfaculty will take toward ensuring student

success.number 10 is in the consent agenda, and so you'll just have to wait for that one. andthat was supposed to be a joke. and lastly, i'd like to i'd like to inviteall of you to the international night this friday. ibelieve it's the talent show. it's really a lot of fun and worthwhile. so that concludesmy report. >> chair jerry cook: thank you, presidentsopcich. in that report, in the report of thelightning rod, i in my day job >> trustee greg musil: lightning round.>> chair jerry cook: lightning round. (laughter.)i said that last time, didn't i? lightning

round. the lightning round. when dr. korbmentioned the contract bnsf, in my day job at the convention & visitors bureau we'revery happy about that because they generate a lotof room nights in our hotels and it's a big deal forthe community. so thank you very much. i don't believe we have any old business tonight,but i would like to discuss three new business items. one is the graduation schedulethat i wanted to thank you for your participation. trustee musil led a good suggestionthat we try and participate in all of those, and as andy has said, may is going to be verybusy with graduation. so i just wanted to thankyou for that. terri has the list if you have

not had a chance to visit with her about that,and we'll try and have a trustee at each of thegraduation ceremonies that will be taking place in thenext few weeks. i would like to appoint a nominating committee.it's that time of the year to make nominations for the positions on the boardof trustees. i've asked trustee stewart and trusteelindstrom to head up to that nominating committee. they'll make a report back to our mayboard meeting for trustee board assignments going into next year.trustee musil mentioned the retirement reception this afternoon for chief john douglassof the overland park police department, and

when dr. sopcich was mentioning the narrativeof sam bell, i couldn't help but think again of police chief douglass. very nice ceremonythis afternoon at the ritz charles. here's a manthat spent 41 years in overland park, beginning, as was said, a silver badged officer writingtickets to a detective to police chief for the last 18years, and what was really personified was here's a man that cared about his job, caredabout his community, cared about his family, andcared about immersing different cultures together. and being recognized by the united statesarmy in work he did nationally, as well as withinoverland park and within the county, is just

really special. and so when you mentionedsam bell and her writing the letters to each ofthe kids really personified caring for my students, andi know we have a lot of faculty that amplify and represent that same modeling. but i wouldlike to take the opportunity at least on behalf of the trustees and any trustee that wouldlike to make an additional comment to thank chiefjohn douglass for his leadership in our county andin the city of overland park and certainly to our college as i know he's been very involvedwith the police academy work as well. so we'vehad the opportunity to work with a very good

manwho cared about what he did every day, and he said today, i woke up every morning lookingforward to going to work because i felt i mattered in the lives of other people. andthat really i think personifies what sam bell has said,too, she matters in the life of students. any other trustee want to make a comment regardingchief douglass' retirement today? >> trustee greg musil: i made mine.>> chair jerry cook: okay. reports from board liaisons. kansas association ofcommunity college trustees. that's where i was going with my collegial steering report.i would say that we're going to have an executivecommittee of kacct on may 5th in

hutchinson. part of it has to do with someof the remarks that dick carter made about thelegislature, and it's been an interesting year as we try to represent kacct and movetogether as a body. but there were some instances ofjust needing to understand how we go forward as astate group, so we've decided to have rather than a phone call in that month, to cometogether, and we'll do that, like i say, on may 4th in hutchinson may 5th in hutchinson.and then our next meeting of the kacct is june13th and 14th in garden city. if any of you areinterested in traveling to the west for that

meeting, please let me know. i have a tiakmeeting, travel industry association of kansas, on the 12th in emporia, and if you wantedto go with me to emporia on the 12th and thengo on to garden city from there, you are welcome to do that as well. anyway, that's all i havefor kacct. research triangle. mr. musil?>> trustee greg musil: the next meeting of the johnson county educational researchtriangle board is next tuesday, the 22nd. i appreciate chair cook replacing me as iwill be out of town. and then you should have receivedinvitations to the community breakfast on wednesday, the 23rd. it is the five year anniversaryof the collection of the sales tax for the

johnson county educational research triangle.it's been a very successful program with edwards campus, the k state innovation campus,and the ku clinical cancer center, a really unique model in america, and very impressivethat johnson county once again led the way onthat. so i'm sorry i'm going to miss the breakfast because i'll be out of town, but i'm surewe'll be well represented.>> chair jerry cook: any questions of trustee musil? faculty association. dr. williams.and while dr. williams is coming up, we do havesome concerns about her lack of proper accreditation and advanced degrees, but we're workingwith her on that and hopefully we can take

care of that. congratulations again on a greataward, and i didn't realize you were so mastered. (laughter.)>> dr. deborah williams: i tell people i'm a graduate student undecided or graduatestudent emeritus. well, thank you so much. it's a pleasure to be here again. i've madea few notes during the meeting, so i'd like to startby asking you to kind of dust off your budget reportand turn to page 11. i just had one item i'd just like to call your attention to. therewas some comment about enrollment being down to the2006 level. just an observation, but the bargaining unit faculty number is down tothe 2006 level as well. the notes that i made

whilethe discussion was being had was that we're actually down 25 from our highest point, whichwas 2012 2013. we're down 11, as noted, from last year. but we are essentially the samenumber, we're one up from that 2006 number that was referenced with regard to enrollment.so that might fully flesh out our understandingof the costs and savings associated with revenue lost from tuition, but also revenue gainedfrom salary and benefits that are no longer being paidto faculty members. the next item, just kind of just for clarificationpurposes, i think you probably all know that i really enjoy my position as facultyassociation president. i take it very seriously.

it's aprivilege and an honor to be in this position. but there's been a little confusion on campusamong faculty, not so much anyone else, but three of you have received an e mail fromme regarding just essentially the status of thefaculty association, and i'm not implying that there'sany confusion on behalf of the administration, the trustees, but i would just like to readsomething for the record. it's the recognition clause on page 4 of the master agreement insection 2. the board of trustees of the johnson countycommunity college recognizes the association as the exclusive representativeas the term is used in ksa 72.5413 of those

regularfull time employees of the college duly appointed to fill positions as set forth in addendumone. that's the bargaining unit.so just for the sake of clarity, the faculty association is the exclusive representativeof the full time faculty on this campus.i would like to now move into some really great news. you've already discussed themaster agreement amendment, proposed amendment that we've been working on so much thispast year, since september, actually, and i'm happy to hear that the board approvedit. what you didn't know was that the faculty ratificationvote was in progress. i got the final numbers

as of about 5:15 this evening. we closed thevote at 5:00 and i'm happy to report that themaster agreement proposed amendment was ratified by the faculty. we had 58% of the facultyvote, 204 out of 350 faculty members, with 95% approving and 5% not approving of therecommended changes. the numbers come out to 193 for and 11 against. so i'm happy tosay that that task is behind us. and while it'sfinished, i think as was referenced earlier, we are at amuch better place as a college, as a faculty group, as administration, with regard to asection of the contract, while it's highly controversial, it's very important to haveclarity in that section,

and now we do, due to a lot of work and alot of cooperative work. i always like to recognize the faculty associationteam members, and i'll do that again. stu shafer, jim mcward, ron palcic, jeff anderson,and myself. but i'd also like to recognize tanya wilson, who has been extremely patientand extremely professional and extremely helpful in this whole effort, particularlywith regard to the drafting of the language as wenegotiated that piece. obviously the discipline list was done a month ago and i'm sureeverybody was wondering what was happening prior to it being launched. we had springbreak and some other logistical issues, but mostly we were working on the language. andi

can't emphasize enough how valuable tanyawas to that process. so thank you as well for allthat you contributed to helping us get this project done.well, there's another vote underway, and that's the faculty association officer election,which we just launched today, and you'll see some familiar names on the ballot, includingmine for president, and i guess i'll just sufficeit to say if i'm here next month you'll know theoutcome. (laughter.)again, i'd like to echo what everyone else has said about congratulating the model u.n.team for their outstanding delegate award.

i'd also like to feature something that hasnot been featured yet but is very important. the earthdays actually earth week earth days starts tomorrow and there are a lot of events planned,really creative, important, hands on events, likeplanting trees on campus on tuesday, the campus farm lunch, where there will be anopportunity for anyone who participates to enjoy veggies that were grown on our own campus.but there's something creative here, it's a swap, a clothing swap, and they're askingpeople to bring clothing and exchange. this is actuallysomething that i've attended several sustainability conferences and they have swap meets and particularlyat universities, where they have

residential housing, it's very common to justhave these kind of end of the semester or end ofthe year swap events where you recycle and exchange goods that you no longer want, andso it's in keeping with the spirit of sustainability.so i'm happy to see that that's a new addition toour usual events that celebrate the earth in numerous ways, including recognizing themany activities that's going on, on campus.we also have a documentary screening of a movie called "chasing ice," which is onglaciers. it's a cooperative event apparently between the grace covenant presbyterian churchand the kansas interfaith power & light church.

so that's a real interesting alignment andone that we are trying as a community collegein the community to bring in multiple participants onthese educational sustainability events. and it culminates with the campus farm workdayon friday, april 25th, where anyone, includingtrustees, are welcome to go to the farm and plantplants, plant veggies and the next year's next season's crop, i suppose i should say.so with that, i think i've concluded my report, and i'd like to take questions.>> chair jerry cook: thank you, dr. williams. any questions of dr. williams? trusteecross?

>> trustee lee cross: just briefly, if i may.dr. williams, i know you have an environmental background. is that right? whyis the planting of a tree so important? why is itso symbolic?>> dr. deborah williams: well, there are a couple of well, symbolic, that'sa different question. important, well, on our campus,there's an educational focus. we have a horticulture program. we have our environmental scienceclasses that could actually use those trees as teaching opportunities. we're trying, youknow, philosophically to make the campus a learning laboratory and we've made good onthat with having the campus farm and we have apond, prairie, and numerous resources that

we've built right into our campus that wecan teach, use as a learning tool. and so planting treesand having that available to students and facultyfor identification and learning purposes is an excellent advantage, and so that's theprimary focus that was behind the grant to get thetrees to plant. and then of course getting peoplethe other educational piece is to get people who may not otherwise have experience plantinganything to actually get their hands dirty and plant, appreciate the life and the processof the cycle of life i suppose that you are helpingto perpetuate.

>> chair jerry cook: i'm not sure what yourpersonal time limit is tonight, but you still might have time to work on that fourth master'sdegree. >> dr. deborah williams: well, the fourthone will be completed in the fall. it's the nextone i'm still trying to figure out what i should do.>> chair jerry cook: thank you. >> dr. deborah williams: thank you so much.>> chair jerry cook: thank you, dr. williams. appreciate it.consent agenda is an item where we handle a lot of routine items in one large vote.is there any item that a trustee would like tohave removed from the consent agenda? if not,

i'llentertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.>> so moved. a second. any discussion? all in favorsignify by saying aye. we do have an executive session this evening.i would like to entertain a motion to go into executive session for the purpose ofdiscussing personnel matters of non elected personnelin order to protect the privacy interests of the individuals to be discussed, consultationwith an attorney which would be deemed privilegedin the attorney client relationship, in order toprotect the privilege and the board's communication

with its attorney on legal matters. thesession will last no longer than 45 minutes, and no action will be taken during the session.we would like to invite joe sopcich, tanya wilson,judy korb, terri schlicht, barbara larson, mark ferguson to join this executive session.i would entertain a motion. >> so moved.>> second. >> chair jerry cook: we have a motion anda second. the executive session will start at how about 20 till. that will give you 7minutes. let's make it a quarter till. we've hadkind of a long meeting. quarter till, and 45 minutes later. all in favor signify bysaying aye.

(ayes.)>> chair jerry cook: opposed? motioncarries. (executive session.)>> chair jerry cook: we have completed our executive session of 45 minutes. we doneed to go back into executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel mattersof non elected personnel in order to protectthe privacy interests of the individuals to be discussed,consultation with an attorney which would be deemed privileged in the attorney clientprivilege, in order to protect the privilege and the board's communication with its attorneyon legal matters. the session will last not longerthan 30 minutes. no action will be taken.

theexecutive session will start at 7:30 and conclude at 8:00. do i have a motion?>> so moved. >> second?>> second. >> chair jerry cook: all in favor signifyby saying aye. (ayes.)>> my motion included the same people that were in the prior session.>> chair jerry cook: i'm sorry. yeah, that includes joe sopcich, tanya wilson, judykorb, terri schlicht, barbara larson, and mark ferguson. thank you.(executive session.) >> chair jerry cook: we have just completedthe extension of our 30 minute executive

session. no action was taken. we are backin open session. i would ask for a motion toadjourn this meeting. >> so moved.>> chair jerry cook: is there a second? >> second.>> chair jerry cook: all in favor signify by saying aye.(ayes.) >> chair jerry cook: we are adjourned. thankyou.