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         October 7, 2020 Governing Board...



         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Welcome to our October 7, 2020 Governing

    Board meeting.  The meeting is being held virtually.  The meeting is

    called to order, and the first item on our agenda is roll call.

         Mr. Silvyn, if you could read the roll, please.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Thank you, Mr. Chair.  Mr. Clinco?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Present.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Dr. Hay?

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  Present.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Hanna?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Present.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Ms. Garcia?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Here.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Gonzales?

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Here.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Chair, all board members are present.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Next item on our agenda is our public

    comment, call to the audience.

                The Pima Community College Governing Board welcomes public

    comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the college.  Generally

    the total time for public comment will be limited to 45 minutes, and

    comments will be limited to 3 minutes per individual.  These time

    limits may be modified by the board or board chair.

         Individuals sharing comments are expected to communicate with





    decorum and respect.  Individuals who engage in disorderly conduct or

    use divisive or insulting language may have their time reduced or

    concluded by the board chair.

         At the conclusion of public comment, individual board members may

    respond to criticism made by those who addressed the board, may ask

    staff to review a matter, or ask that a matter be put on a future

    agenda.  Members of the board, however, may not discuss or take legal

    action on matters raised during public comment unless matters are

    properly noticed for discussion and legal action.

         Finally, be advised that internal college processes are available

    to students and employees for communications.

         We have you four individuals this evening.  First is Matej

    Boguszak.

         >> MATEJ BOGUSZAK:  Good evening.  My name is Matej Boguszak.  I

    teach math at Pima and serve as president of PCCEA.

         I'd like to provide a brief update on some preliminary work

    underway for the class in comp study.  Vice Chancellor Phillips is

    leading a team to develop recommendations for how to best organize

    instructional positions at the college, and we already started

    holding focus groups and will be serving all academic divisions to

    gather early input and then later to get feedback on any proposals.

         The first stage is to better understand really what kind of work

    our front-line instructional faculty and staff actually do in each

    division, what they consider most important for student success, and

    also what might be missing or may be needed to better support our





    students.

         Having this input is critical when designing any new structure,

    and I commend Dr. Phillips and the team on a thorough effort so far.

    We are excited to take a look at instructions at Pima from the ground

    up.

         Still, I have to say many faculty, myself included, are also wary

    of where this ultimately could be headed, especially given the

    counselors' (indiscernible) last year, for example.  There appear to

    be very specific interests in how to structure faculty pay,

    evaluation, progression, as well as prescriptions for problems we

    haven't even attempted to solve yet.

         PCCEA must emphasize that such issues and policies will have to

    be addressed through an interest-based collaboration process and the

    appropriate and established college bodies like the AERC, Faculty

    Senate, and other committees.

         We must also not hamstring or predetermine their work or that of

    the class in comp consultant by setting up unreasonable constraints

    at the start.  So big work in progress, and I will be sure to provide

    more updates.

         Second, I'm sorry, but the special meeting yesterday was really

    disheartening.  The effort is appreciated, but who was the show for?

    And why didn't you just postpone it if the two board members with

    actual questions weren't there?

         Could you all have perhaps tried a little harder to communicate?

    I know it's truly difficult, but it really reflects poorly on the





    college when the two board members of color are being stonewalled in

    their information requests and conspicuously absent from important

    board proceedings in protest.

         Sounds like they had legitimate questions about college

    priorities and documents being shielded from the public in executive

    session.  I don't know.  But if there is really nothing to hide here,

    why not just give them and all of us that information and have a

    civilized conversation and a few study sessions for the sake of

    transparency.

         So Maria, Luis, thank you for trying to exercise your oversight

    responsibility and looking out for our community.  Keep trying to

    communicate and don't be intimidated.

         The implication yesterday that Pima was primarily on probation

    with the HLC because the board was too involved was a half-truth at

    best and a mischaracterization at worst.

         So PCCEA urges all board members and the chancellor to recommit

    to constructive communication, increased transparency, closer

    collaboration for the sake of our college.

         Thank you very much.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much.

         Next we have Shannon Otstot.

         >> SPEAKER:  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and esteemed board.

    I'm Sharon Otstot, A number is 00972510.  I did submit a list of

    questions.  I will read them again right now.

         This is all about, I guess you could say -- in the federal





    government we have a Constitution and U.S. code that shows all the

    laws.  In Arizona we have a Constitution, and we have Arizona Revised

    Statutes.  County and City has of course the Constitution and there

    are codes too.

         So that's what I'm trying to find out.  I just completely hit a

    stone wall.  I can't find out anything.

         My questions are this.  What is the process for proposing and

    enacting rules and regulations for PCC?  Who initiates the proposal?

    Who votes on them?  Are there multiple layers of rules, for instance,

    college-wide, campus-wide, departmental, so that there might be rules

    for each level?

         Are individual instructors allowed to create and enforce their

    own rules?  Where are these rules archived?  Are students given

    access to these archives for research?

         And I'm kind of interested in what the previous gentleman said

    about transparency.  I have completely hit a stone wall.  I have

    tried to get on the phone with the administration.  I got a sweet

    young thing who wanted to help me with registration.  I don't need

    that.

         So I looked in the phone book, and there was a number that said

    administration, 206-2700.  I called it, and a gentleman answered and

    said, campus police.  I said, I'm trying to get the administration

    building on Broadway.  He said, I'll transfer you.  I waited and he

    transferred the call.  I got a sweet young thing saying she'd help me

    with registration.





         I don't know why I can't get through to find somebody -- that's

    why I'm coming to you -- to find out who sets these rules and can't

    we read them?

         I have had people at the university, at the college, and in the

    department, telling me things that I know can't be so.  I mean, I

    have been going to Pima College since 1978.  I have 80 credit hours,

    a GPA 3.99-something.

         I'm the ultimate of a lifetime learner.  I don't go to clubs and

    bars.  I go to class.  So when somebody tells me something like that

    I know it just doesn't sound right -- oh, I also have taught at Pima.

    I taught credit classes in Spanish at Northwest Campus when they

    first opened in the strip mall.

         So I want answers.  How can I get answers?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  You know, we can certainly ask the

    chancellor to reach out to you directly or someone in his office to

    talk to you about what your concerns are and get you the information

    that you are looking for.

         Chancellor Lambert, if you could please have somebody in your

    team contact Ms. Otstot?

         >> DR. LEE LAMBERT:  We'll be glad to do that.  Will you make

    sure you provide your number or at least figure out a way to post

    your A number so that we can follow up with you?  Because you read it

    pretty quick.

         Or you can send me an e-mail at llambert@pima.edu.  I'll make

    sure someone from the administration contacts you directly.





         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Contact information was in the request to

    speak tonight, as well.  So somebody will be in touch.

         Thank you very much for bringing it to our attention.

         Next speaker is Barbara Benjamin.

         Hello?  Ms. Benjamin?

         >> SPEAKER:  Looks like she's muted.

         >> SPEAKER:  I'm sorry.  I just unmuted.  I apologize.

         I'm Barbara Benjamin.  I'm a retired professor of history and

    political science at Los Angeles City College.  I had the sincere

    pleasure of teaching adjunct at PCC and co-chairing the adjunct

    faculty task force.

         This statement tonight is truly an attempt to be constructive.

    The September 9 meeting really concerned me.  I watched Meredith Hay

    and Demion Clinco demean, dismiss, and disdain Member Maria Garcia

    and Member Luis Gonzales.  Indeed Mr. Clinco couldn't even resist his

    jabs at last night's meeting when he stated "at least the three

    members present function at such a high educational level."

         For me, you simply couldn't help yourself.  The clear implication

    of your comment is that the two board members classified as nonwhite

    lower the intellectual level of the board.  That is beyond ignorant,

    and if you really believe it, Mr. Clinco, I suggest you're not as

    educated as you pretend.

         Mr. Hanna, you are a self-described liberal and reputed to be a

    really nice man.  You made the comments last night that you should

    have made at the September 9 meeting.  Last night you said "we have a





    responsibility to respect one another."

         For me, that was too little too late.  Observing the September 9

    meeting, I couldn't fathom how you saw your statutory

    responsibilities, because you didn't intervene when both Members

    Garcia and Gonzales were under attack for simply exercising their

    statutory responsibilities by asking pertinent questions without the

    insidious motives that all of you, including Mr. Silvyn, ascribed to

    them last night.

         I remind you that liberals and nice people don't stand by others

    are being attacked.  In short, I blame you because you could have

    intervened and stopped the attacks on your colleagues.

         And please, I can't forget that you were no better, Mr. Lambert,

    and at one time I respected you.  You perpetuated this shockingly and

    appallingly overt discrimination by calling the two minority members

    Maria and Luis, instead of acknowledging their board status.

         I think you all need to be reminded that you're public figures,

    and your display at the September 9 meeting was not merely

    distressing but childishly disgusting.  Words matter.

         Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you, Ms. Benjamin, for your remarks.

         Next we have Mario Gonzales.

         Mr. Gonzales?

         >> SPEAKER:  Looks like his mics are muted.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Mr. Gonzales?  You need to unmute

    yourself.





         >> SPEAKER:  Sorry about that.  This technology is interesting.

         Anyways, my name is Mario Gonzales, and I'm the board chair for

    C-FAIRR.  I would like to address two issues:  One, the disrespectful

    and discriminatory treatment of two minority board members.  One, a

    Mexican-American woman and a Native American man.

         It was wrong for the chancellor and the chairperson to allow it

    to go on as far as it has gone and not put a stop to it.

    Unfortunately the chair not only condones this but is an active

    participant and himself is a perpetrator.

         Up to now, none of you have accepted the responsibility for your

    disrespectful treatment of two minority board members.  You have not

    had the decency of publicly apologizing to them.

         The second issue is the reluctance of the chancellor to answer

    questions and provide simple written information requested by both

    private taxpayers and two duly elected members of the Board of

    Governors who happen to be his bosses.

         The questions were very simple.  These questions were asked in

    writing and verbally.

         It was recently revealed that the chancellor is a chairperson of

    the Unmudl steering committee.  Unmudl is a flagship project of

    SocialTech.AI, a for-profit organization, thus making Mr. Lambert a

    chairperson of an entity of a profit-making company that he signed

    and entered into a contract with representing Pima.

         Unbeknownst to the board, an MOU was signed and an initial

    payment of $25,000 was made to SocialTech, Inc.  Some questions came





    up.  When was the 25,000 payment made?  Was this payment made to

    SocialTech, Inc., or SocialTech.AI?  And what account activity was it

    paid out of?  Was this payment made before or after the MOU was

    signed?  Did these funds come from the workforce development budget

    or account?

         According to Dr. Ian Roark at the September 9 meeting a

    substantial amount of time was spent by him and very large number of

    college staff in assisting in the Unmudl portal.  Is this not against

    the gift laws that all tax-funded institutions have to abide by?

         On the Trane contract, the request was very simple.  Conduct and

    provide the public with an independent investigation on the RFP

    process on the Trane contract from the formulating stage and the path

    it took up to the final awarding of the contract.

         Were the other four bidders who bid against Trane notified in

    advance of the relationship with NC3 and Trane and that the

    chancellor is a board member of NC3?  None of these questions have

    been answered.

         How do you justify being a board member of profit-making

    organizations, SocialTech and Unmudl, and entering into contracts

    with the college?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Your time is up, Mr. Gonzales.

         >> SPEAKER: ...chancellor and chairman of the board are so

    opposed to answer...

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much.

         I just want to provide two sort of pieces of information.  One, I





    would refer any concerns related to Unmudl or Trane or SocialTech, we

    addressed this at a meeting last night and we hired outside counsel

    to do an independent review.  Those documents have been made public,

    so the public is welcome to see those as well as all of the requests

    for information and responses from the administration.

         Secondly, I'd like to personally apologize.  It's certainly not

    my intention to ever offend anyone.  One of the things that was

    brought up is the way that I have used people's names.  It's

    certainly not purposeful.  If anything, it's a slip of the tongue,

    not because I don't respect members but rather as an indicator of our

    collegial working relationship.

         These board meetings are held on Zoom, and they are not quite the

    same as our boardroom, and sitting in my dining room, it's easy to

    fall into a familiar rapport.

         I will certainly do my best to refer to all board members with

    the same titles moving forward and give everyone equal opportunity to

    ask questions and have a thoughtful dialogue and express their

    responsibilities while serving on this board.

         Thank you very much.  With that, we conclude the public comment

    section.  Our next item is remarks by the Governing Board members.

         I don't have any remarks, and I will pass to Dr. Hay.

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  Nothing to update anybody on.  Thank you,

    everybody on the staff and the college and the faculty for your

    service and your hard work.  Carry on.  We're all in this together.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Ms. Garcia?





         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  I have...

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Can you repeat that?  I'm sorry.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Sorry.  So this is my statement.  I want to

    welcome our community members and faculty and staff for attending

    this meeting.

         As you know, I have been very concerned with the process that we

    have used to contract Trane and the development of the Unmudl portal.

    At the September 9 board meeting I had very specific requests to

    this.  I have not received them yet.

         I do not (indiscernible) specifically asked for a special session

    and the investigation did not address my concerns.  I have sent

    documents for distribution, and it appears they were not distributed

    to all the individuals and internal groups that I specified.

         I listened to the special board meeting, especially the closing

    statements that was made by Chairman Clinco.

         He stated that the board had addressed these questions and the

    issue was closed.  He is incorrect.  However, for the record, I wish

    to inform the community...

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Ms. Garcia, point of order...

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  ...the two simple questions I have made for

    information specifically, when was the payment made -- and I'm not

    going to go any further than this.  I'm going to end it.

         As a member of this board, I am clearly entitled to have these

    questions answered.  In my culture we have a saying (speaking

    Mexican).  This has to do with respect and manners, which are very





    basic in my culture.  This is the manner in which we are treated.

         Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much, Ms. Garcia.

         Mr. Gonzales?  You're on mute now.  You need to unmute.

    Mr. Gonzales, you're still muted.

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Okay.  Good afternoon.  I just wanted to

    say I'd like to thank the community members and our faculty, staff

    for attending tonight's meeting.  I have prepared a short statement

    also, like Ms. Garcia.

         After viewing last night's special meeting, firstly I agree with

    Board Member Garcia's statement and question that we asked have gone

    unanswered as of to date.  This is an issue in fact not closed but

    still unresolved.

         For the record, all the questions we have asked and all of our

    requests for documents concerning Unmudl and Trane were solely to

    determine if actions by the college conform with HLC criteria.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Mr. Gonzales, you are now moving into a

    discussion about topics that are not on the agenda this evening.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Okay.

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Again, it is clear the majority of the

    board has misinterpreted and continued to misinterpret our intent

    when it was presumed that we were requesting a financial audit,

    improprieties or improper use of resources.  Member Garcia and I

    never alleged or raised any questions that could remotely be

    construed to suggest this.





         Again, after watching last night's special meeting, it is clear

    that this matter continues to go unresolved.

         To date, Board Member Garcia and I have not received any answers

    or questions instead of our duties and commitment as board members or

    questions.  In fact, last night I did not appreciate Chairman Clinco

    suggesting that Member Garcia and myself were not included and did

    not participate in the same high level of education around HLC

    standards.

         It is my opinion that this majority board and the chancellor is

    not acting with transparency but neglecting to fulfill a community,

    which as Board Member Garcia and I have done.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  You are talking about substantive issues

    that were on the agenda yesterday.  You chose not to attend the

    meeting.  They are not agendized for today.

         Mr. Silvyn, could you provide some sort of insight on whether

    this is in fact stepping over...

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  So if the board members would like to have a

    substantive conversation about these issues and have remaining

    questions, then the most appropriate way is we do have a section at

    the end of the agenda this evening for future agenda topics, so at

    that point why don't we talk about having a future meeting at which

    these are specifically noted on the agenda.

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  We welcome those meetings, but separate

    meetings in reference to the three items that we requested on the

    letter that was signed and handed over as well.





         In closing, I just want to say, as Maria mentioned (speaking

    native language).  I close.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much, Mr. Gonzales.

         Mr. Hanna?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Thank you, Chairman Clinco.  So I just wanted

    to quickly acknowledge our former academic dean of health professions

    and critical care, Dr. Joe Gaw, who recently left the college after

    approximately 10 years of service for another position.

         I met Joe early on on my tenure on the board, and he's one of

    those people when you meet, they explain to you their vision of the

    future, and he did much to make that future come true at Pima and to

    make our health science education programs respected and probably the

    most advanced in our community.

         Hundreds of new healthcare professionals enter the workforce in

    our community well prepared and ready to serve their time, well

    prepared to serve during his time as leader, and we're grateful for

    his service.  I just wanted to acknowledge Dr. Gaw.

         Also, I got a chance to visit the Aviation Technology Center last

    week and to take a look at COVID-19 protocols and get an update on

    the expansion of the facility.

         I was impressed on all fronts, to be honest.  I wanted to give a

    big thank you to program director Jason Bowersock, faculty, one of

    whom I watched teaching a class about aircraft engines with a GoPro

    camera attached to his head, and virtually explaining to his students

    who were online how an airplane engine was put together.  I can't





    wait to see the building which will allow us to double our enrollment

    capacity.

         Also, I wanted to mention I enjoyed the art event live streamed

    from the East Campus this past week that showed the building of an

    ice sculpture by famed artist and faculty member Olivier Mosset.

    Then the gradual disappearance of the installation in our 100-degree

    fall weather.

         However, I must take note at the title of the exhibit was ICE,

    obviously it was about ice, but in all capital letters, and to me and

    to others, that invoked an undesired effect within our community,

    including myself, by its similarity to a law enforcement agency

    that's tasked with arresting undocumented persons, some of who

    include our students.

         I fully support exposing our students to all forms of art.  I

    think it's a highly desirable responsibility of the college to do

    that.  But I also believe we must be sensitive to words and symbols

    that we use that may have unintended consequences.

         Lastly I want to say that this board, it's a responsibility when

    you serve on a board, elected board, that you show respect to each

    and every member of that board and that we all do that.  One of the

    ways we can do that is to follow the set procedures and abide by

    those rules of order.

         We should be adamant in stating our positions and asking for

    answers.  That's our responsibility.  But I just think it shows

    respect by doing that in the way that is prescribed.





         So again, I have great respect for each and every one of my

    fellow board members.  I know that each and every one of them are

    concerned about our college, and most importantly, our students.  I

    appreciate what each and every one of our board members brings to

    this board.

         So my time is almost up on the board.  I have certainly enjoyed

    it.  I will talk more about that next meeting, but I just believe

    that respect is the probably the No. 1 issue in terms of running an

    effective board.  So I would ask that we all show that respect to one

    another.  Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much, Mr. Hanna.

         Next we have our administrative reports, and before we start, I

    just want to remind our employees that we highly value and appreciate

    you being here and the candid comments and professionalism and

    expertise you bring to every meeting in and out.

         I want you all to know that this board recognizes the job you do

    day in and day out under extraordinary circumstances, particularly

    this year, to assure the success of this college and our student

    success.  I just wanted to underscore how much we appreciate the time

    you take from your families to be here to share with us your

    perspectives and your expertise on the issues facing the college.

         The first item under our administrative reports is our fall 2020

    budget update with David Bea, executive vice chancellor for finance

    and administration.

         You have 10 minutes, Dr. Bea.





         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  Good evening, Chairperson Clinco, members of

    the board, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues and guests.

         Tonight I'm pleased to give a very quick update on where we are

    at financially to start the year and to do a very preliminary

    projection for what the implications mean for the beginning of the

    fiscal year '22 budget development.

         Recall at the end of last fiscal year back in May and June there

    was a great deal of uncertainty related to the COVID implications,

    the recent closing of a number of the campus locations, and then

    projecting what the implications would be from a tax revenue

    standpoint, from the sales tax revenue standpoint what the

    implications would be on the economy, on investments, and one of the

    things we did when we had the budget adopted was we mentioned that we

    would come back to the board once the year has started and do a

    really preliminary discussion about the finances and what things look

    like now that things have become a little bit more clear.  So that's

    what I'm here for tonight.

         Again, I will be relatively quick in going through these things.

    A number of these issues we have talked about, and the board is

    familiar with, that the big challenge with the budget both in the

    current year and going into fiscal year '28 would be the implications

    of declining enrollment.

         The not good news but when we were talking about speculation of

    what potential declines could be, recall that back in May we were

    talking about developing scenarios for a 15% decline all the way up





    to what the implications would be of a 30% decline.

         Fall came in closer to the 15% number.  This is not uncommon

    versus our peer institutions.  Maricopa is in that same realm.  Most

    of the Arizona colleges are in the same realm of decline, and one of

    our colleges, peer institutions, is closer to 30% down.  That's

    Eastern Arizona.

         And when I get into the revenue, I'm going to talk through the

    revenues in more detail in a minute.  We will talk about what the

    implications of the decline mean for our revenues.

         Unfortunately, and as you all know, there is still a great deal

    of uncertainty related to COVID-19.  There is no near-term scenario

    that looks like there is going to be a vaccine coming in, and it

    certainly does not look like it's just going to disappear by any

    stretch, and there are still fluctuations up and down in each of the

    states and each of the local areas.  But we are very much still mired

    in a pandemic situation.

         Moving on, a couple of other pieces of uncertainty and hopefully

    these will be positive news for the institution, we are very familiar

    with Proposition 481.  That is to reset the Pima Community College

    base expenditure limit.

         The election is November 3rd.  Voter information pamphlets have

    gone out to all of the households in Pima County, and we have a great

    deal of support behind this initiative throughout the community.

         I will get into the implications of expenditure limitation in a

    couple of slides.





         The other one that's relatively new for what we talked about is

    an initiative, a statewide initiative, called Smart & Safe Arizona.

    This is a legalizing marijuana proposition.  It seems to be polling

    relatively favorably.  The reason for mentioning it tonight is that

    there is a component within Smart & Safe Arizona that some of the tax

    proceeds are designated to go to Arizona community colleges.

         So there is a 16% tax on the recreational marijuana and

    marijuana-related products.  The revenues generated from that support

    administrative services related to Smart & Safe Arizona, and there is

    a one-time program funding, a funding up of the program support for

    that initiative.

         The early projections for what the potential revenues are is that

    it will generate something like $166 million annually, and of that,

    after the administrative costs and after that one-time funding up of

    the program costs, 33% will go to Arizona's community colleges so

    that the initial estimate is for the colleges to receive about $54

    million.

         That's to be distributed relatively equally between each of the

    colleges, 50% of the share is evenly distributed for each colleges,

    so we'd get 10%, so one of the 10 shares.  Then about half of it is

    distributed based on enrollment, and we're about 13% of the

    enrollment.

         So we will get a little bit more than, somewhere probably about

    11, 12% if this passes and if the revenues come in as expected.  What

    that means for the college is potentially around $10 million.





         The other thing that, there is a couple of things I understand

    are good news.  One is good news for Pima and one is good news for

    the other colleges, less relevant to Pima at least right now, that

    within the proposition and the language drafted is the exclusion from

    expenditure limitation, so much like Prop 301 has a specific

    exclusion for the revenue so it's outside of expenditure limitation,

    that makes it good revenue for us, that these revenues would be

    outside, so that's very good news.

         I also understand, and I haven't seen the language on this, but I

    have asked the question that there is a provision in this that the

    legislature will be prohibited from using these additional revenues

    and replacing, sort of as a prohibition on replacing currently

    existing revenues with this new influx of revenues.  In other words,

    if you get $50 million more coming into the Arizona community

    colleges there is a always a temptation for legislative folks to cut

    back on the funding that's going to those entities so that they can

    put it into other things that they would like to prioritize, and

    apparently there is a prohibition on that.

         The reason I said it's more relevant to our peer institutions,

    since we receive no state aid, there is no risk that we will be cut

    any further.  So there you go.

         So it is promising.  Again, I understand the polling is going

    relatively well for that initiative.  I'm not promoting it by any

    stretch.  I'm just speaking to the fact that the college may receive

    some money from that.





         Now, on the downside, we know of a number of increasing

    expenditures related to COVID, and we always have, when we are

    talking about the budget going forward, there are always new needs

    for increases coming on.  Many of them are benefits related, class in

    compensation, we would like to build up funds to be ready to

    implement changes to class in comp that may come out of that study

    and always things like COLAs and things like that are important for

    the college as well as contractual obligations.

         We know of a number of increased expenses related to how the

    college has changed.  We have proctoring expenses that this year are

    being covered out of CARES funds, but if that expense continues into

    the next year we will have to fold that into the budget.

         Another, cleaning expenses, other obligations related to

    additional operational costs that we have been incurring, if they are

    ongoing, we will have to be folding those into the budget.  So those

    are things to be aware of from an expenditure standpoint.

         Revenues I'm going to get into in the next slide.

         Here is basically the outline of what the revenue picture looks

    like in early projections.  The property taxes we have put, listed as

    stable.  The projection for fiscal year '22 is an increase of a

    little bit more than a million dollars.  That's the estimate for

    growth in new property.  That does not include an increase -- so the

    board will recall has the ability to increase the tax levy by 2% each

    year.  Because we didn't do that last year, there would be the

    ability to increase it by 4%, but given the challenging economic





    circumstances, I would suspect that that's going to be a tough sell

    with the board as we go into the budget season.

         But the additional $1 million is a pretty safe bet that that

    additional revenue will come in from growth in new property.

         Tuition and fees is the biggest hit that we have taken.  To give

    an idea, the decline in 15% represents a bit more than $3 million of

    lost revenue or lower revenue than expected in the fall semester.

    Annualized out, if that continues into the spring and you double it,

    roughly double it, you're talking about a decline of about 6 million.

         And then, as you know, we did a couple of initiatives this year

    to stimulate enrollment.  We made STU classes be tuition-free, and we

    had the rebate program that is expected to result in rebates to

    students at around $500,000.

         The STU discount for the year or elimination of tuition is

    looking like it's going to be about $500,000 of lost potential

    revenue.  The good news on that is we do see an increase in STU

    enrollments.  It's a small number in terms of the total FTSE, like 9

    or 10 FTSE, but it's up about 12%.  And I think as we go into the

    spring it's likely to have a greater effect as students realize these

    are really great opportunities for them to develop strong study

    skills and life skills that we know lead to better success of

    students, and we will be I think proposing to continue that into the

    fiscal year '22.

         There is another piece of good news with STU classes, which is

    that we actually are teaching fewer sections of STU but we have more





    students in them.  So there are more students per class, and that's

    more efficient.  So we didn't, while we have lost some additional or

    potential revenue, we didn't actually ramp up a lot of extra costs,

    or we didn't ramp up extra costs related to it.

         So that's a good sign.  It is also related to something I want to

    talk about which is the changes in focus on classroom efficiency,

    reducing the number of sections offered and offering them up when

    they are more full.  Trying to cut down on the number of low

    enrollment classes is making a big difference.

         We are estimating in the fall semester we will be saving

    somewhere in the neighborhood of a million dollars from a fewer

    number of sections offered.

         This is one of the things I mentioned in May that there are

    certain triggers that if enrollment goes down, our adjunct faculty

    costs will also go down if we offer fewer sections, and we have some

    natural balancing mechanisms that help with the budget.

         Moving down on the revenues, because I will get into some of that

    in a bit.  Investment income and auxiliary revenues are down, and we

    can expect that those are going to be down.  Those are essentially

    certainties going into fiscal year '22, so we will have to fold that

    in and understand that that's going to be part of the budget reality

    going forward.

         Prop 301 has actually been a very positive thing versus what our

    early projections are.  Initially sales tax dropped a fair amount

    when the pandemic started, and it certainly has been a big change in





    terms of where sales tax revenues are flowing from and to, but the

    reality is that we are experiencing very little decline in Prop 301

    revenues, and I think that's likely to bounce back in next fiscal

    year.  So that's really good news versus what we had initially

    projected.

         Overall we are looking at the potential in the current year of

    dropped revenues in the neighborhood of like $10 million, and then we

    are going to have some reduced expenses alongside of that.  But that

    we are going to expecting to have that bounce back up in fiscal year

    '22.

         Nevertheless, from a pure financial standpoint, our revenues are

    going down and expenses are likely to go up.  That's a negative, a

    challenge that we will be working on and talk more with the board as

    we go into the budget season.

         In terms of how are we managing it, the board I think is familiar

    that we have a modified hiring freeze in place.  The idea is to

    accumulate as many vacant positions as possible to eliminate them.

    We are hoping to be able to eliminate another 100 positions by the

    end of the year through vacancy attrition, and we are looking at

    trying to eliminate about 30 by the end of December.

         100 vacant positions is roughly worth $4.5 million so that gets

    you a long ways towards what we were talking about.

         I also mention that the classroom efficiencies we were targeting

    reduction or improvement of about a million dollars.  At the rate

    that we're going, it's going to be closer to $2 million for the





    current year, so that's going to be helping the budget picture going

    forward.

         And the better we get at that, I think the more that we can look

    that that will be a budgetary efficiency that we can plan on in

    fiscal year '22.

         Travel expenses are also down for obvious reasons.  There are

    some things that are compensating but what we are looking at is the

    likelihood that we will be eliminating more vacant positions

    initially, and then clearly we will be tracking enrollment trends to

    see, and we will talk more about that during the normal budget

    development cycle.  But I wanted to give sort of a first pass of what

    things look like early on.

         Prop 481, it's pretty important to understand that this is a

    constraint on how we spend our tax-based revenues and whether we can

    utilize them on operational expenses.

         If Prop 481 passes, it provides a lot of relief and it will be

    for the fiscal year '22.  It will not improve enrollment, and nor

    does it change the fact that our enrollment is down significantly and

    the college needs to structure itself appropriately to staff for a

    size college that our enrollment is justifying.

         One thing that we have also in place that will lead to reductions

    in the future is the 50 to 1 full-time faculty to full-time student

    ratio that we have had in place for a long time.  When you are

    looking at a reduction of about 1,000 FTSE, that's equivalent to 20

    full-time equivalent faculty positions, the value of that is





    averaging out would be about $1.3 million.

         So that's one of the things that as, and it phases in gradually,

    but what we will be looking at is if the enrollment is down and stays

    down that much that there are certain ratios, staffing and so forth

    ratios that will be guiding the budget development as we go forward.

         So if it passes, it gives us a lot of relief in terms of being

    better able to utilize the tax-based revenue we are getting, and

    should the state restore state funding, we need to have extra

    capacity otherwise we will be constrained from being able to use that

    money.

         If it fails, it's going to be very challenging.  The projected

    shortfall in the current year is somewhere between, depending on how

    things play out, but it will be between 8 and $11 million.  We have

    carry-forward credits that are about $75 million.  So if you do the

    math and if we are overspending that carry-forward by about $10

    million a year, we are burning that up and we will burn it up very

    quickly and then you have no options.

         So it is really critically important for 481 to pass to give us

    that flexibility within the resources we currently are able to get.

    Just wanted to go through that and explain the 481 and the

    implications of expenditure limitation.

         That's the quick and dirty of where we are at right now and what

    things look like.  And I'm happy to entertain any questions the board

    may have.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Do members of the board have any questions





    for Dr. Bea?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Dr. Bea, let me just be clear, the proposed

    reduction of 30 full-time and another 30 to 70 are part of those 100

    vacant positions or would be done through...

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  Right.  The goal at this point would be to

    eliminate as many positions through vacancies as possible.

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Thank you.

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  Just as we have done in the past, right?  It's

    a lot easier and I think it helps the institution a lot to be able to

    reduce expenses through attrition rather than through layoffs.

         I'm not saying that the other doesn't happen, but the goal would

    be to do as much through attrition as possible like we have done in

    the past.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Additional questions?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  David, can you tell me off the top of your

    head, our revenues compared to our expenditures for this coming year

    and the projected, how much will we be off approximately?

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  So the expectation is this year -- let's go

    back.  I'm going to back it up a little bit.

         So the estimates for how we concluded fiscal year '20 are that we

    had an improvement in our net position of a little bit more than $20

    million, so that's $20 million to the positive.  That isn't going to

    continue.

         What's happening is we are probably going down by about $10

    million because of what I have just described, our revenues are down





    and our expenses are up, so you're looking at sort of a base point

    where I would expect that we will finish in a positive, somewhere in

    a positive around $10 million, and we will keep track of that as we

    go through the year.

         Now, what's also important though is that we have discussed with

    the board and we are planning and continue to set aside about $9

    million a year for the Allied Health building.  This would be the

    third year of setting aside the $9 million so that we have the

    funding available for that.

         So we want to have a net positive, not because we are growing our

    revenues but because we have a plan to spend it on building a

    building or renovate buildings, whichever one is being...

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Any additional questions?

         Dr. Bea, can you tell me -- you talk about Prop 481 in this

    slide, and if Prop 207 passes there is additional revenue

    theoretically that would flow to the college districts.  Would that

    funding, because it's a sales tax, is that above or below the

    expenditure limit?

         >> STUDENT:  So my understanding is that there is a provision in

    the law and how it's written that it's excluded from expenditure

    limitation.  So it's good revenue.  It won't count against -- it

    would essentially act as tuition or our other revenue sources.

    That's a really good thing.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Do we have any idea if that passed what





    that projected revenue may or may not look like?

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  I'm estimating it to be probably a little bit

    higher than $10 million.  So JLBC, joint legislative budget

    committee, they did an estimate of the implications -- I am not

    making it up, I have no clue.  I did read what their projections

    were.  So when looking at what the share would come to the college,

    it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million per year.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  That would be starting in 2021 that that

    collection would occur?

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  I would guess that we would probably not see

    that till probably midway through fiscal year '22.  They have to get

    the structure up in place, they have to, you know, get the structure

    built, have to develop the rules, they have to implement the taxes,

    and then have the taxes flow in.

         The first 45 million goes into a certain fund, and then after

    that is when it would start to come to the college.

         In terms of when you would actually see that 10 or $11 million

    per year, I would maybe even guess that might be fiscal year '23.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Okay.  Thank you very much.  I appreciate

    the clarification.

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  My pleasure.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  We will move on to the next item.  The

    COVID re-entry plan update with David Dor�, our president of campus

    and executive vice chancellor for student experiences and workforce

    development.





         >> DR. DOR�:  Thank you.  Good evening, Board Chair Clinco,

    members of the Governing Board, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues,

    students, and guests.

         I am pleased to report that things are going very well on our

    campuses and centers.  The campus vice presidents, the deans and I

    continue to track and document the re-entry protocol compliance at

    the campuses through regularly scheduled visits.  I have regularly

    unannounced visits at each of the campuses.  Then these reports are

    sent to the chancellor regularly.

         Since the last board meeting, there have been only a couple of

    minor PPE, personal protective equipment, compliance findings that

    the vice presidents immediately corrected and addressed with the

    program leadership.

         In terms of contact tracing, employee health and safety continues

    to work with the campuses on any suspected or confirmed COVID-19

    cases, and I would like to report that there have been no cases

    resulting from attendance at a Pima campus or center.

         We have a clear processes in place for reporting and for the

    contact tracing, both on the employee side and the student side, and

    we have real clear flow charts for everyone to follow, as well.

         I want to thank Board Member Hanna and the chancellor for

    visiting our Aviation Technology Center last week, and the chancellor

    also toured our new IT spaces at the East Campus which include a new

    student data center, a cybersecurity operations center, and a cyber

    fusion center, which is a collaborative interdisciplinary space.





    These are truly state-of-the-art learning spaces, and I'm really

    proud of everyone that was involved.

         I want to commend our students and employees at the campuses for

    the high level of collaboration and cooperation that continues to be

    demonstrated everywhere I go.

         Just a couple more things.  I have asked the campus vice

    presidents to hold regularly scheduled virtual campus meetings as a

    way for employees to stay connected to their campuses, and I will be

    at Desert Vista tomorrow to participate in their meeting.

         In terms of new services coming on board, next week adult

    education is planning to return to very limited in-person services at

    the Downtown Campus.

         The move to on-site appointments is designed to serve those

    students who have no device or Internet with which to complete the

    registration process and who lack maybe the language or technology

    skills to complete a fillable PDF or even a video call.

         So appointments are for students whose needs cannot be resolved

    in a virtual context.  This plan has been fully vetted and approved

    by facilities and myself.

         We are working very closely with the provost on preparing for the

    spring semester, and we are planning for adjustments to the campuses

    including Hyflex classrooms as we plan for the new normal moving

    forward in a post-COVID learning environment.

         This concludes my report and I'm happy to answer any questions

    from the board.





         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Are there any questions?  Okay.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  I don't have any questions, but I want to

    thank David Dor� for all his work.  You're doing a great job.  Thank

    you.

         >> DR. DOR�:  Thank you very much, Board Member Garcia.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much.  We really appreciate

    it.  The fact there has been no community spread cases within the

    college really speaks volumes to the careful attention that you have

    taken and the entire institution has taken to put safety of our staff

    and faculty and students first.  Thank you very much.

         I'm going to change the order around on a few of the next items.

    Next we are going to have the technology plan are Rag Murthy.

         >> SPEAKER:  Thank you very much.  Let me share my presentation.

         Greetings, members of the board, Chancellor, colleagues,

    students, and guests.  I'm Raj Murthy, and I am the CIO responsible

    for the IT department and I report to Dr. Bea.

         For the next few minutes I'm going to take you on a tour of the

    IT department to share our vision and plan for the future, who we

    serve, what we do, and how we contribute to the future of Pima.  I

    will also introduce you to some of the most intelligent, dedicated

    and hard-working people who make it all happen.

         The IT department consists of four units.  The user support and

    education technology department, led by Evan Goldberg.  When any of

    our stakeholders call for help to either fix a device, move a device,

    buy technology, set it up, they will almost always first interact





    with the user support group.

         Next is the enterprise services group led by Marci Walkingstick.

    The enterprise group is responsible for all the functionality

    provided by Banner, our student information system, and ERP, as well

    as all the other business-related services and processes like project

    management, customized applications, and technologies that are used

    by HR, STAR, finance, financial aid, student services, workforce

    development, and adult ed.  They are all managed, provisioned, and

    supported by enterprise service department.

         Next is the infrastructure services group led by Jack

    Satterfield.  His department is responsible for all things IT.  The

    internal network, connection to the Internet, servers, storage,

    product apps like Gmail, and if you connect to or use any functional

    service, you are working with IS.  If they go dark, all of Pima will

    go dark.

         Next is the security risk and compliance department led by

    Jonathan Brownly.  His department is responsible for the very simple

    and easy task of protecting all our applications, data, device,

    services, and network.  He's also responsible for disaster recovery

    readiness, risk mitigation, and has been tasked with all compliance

    issues like HIPAA, FERPA, GLBA, SOX, and state audits.

         All four units together provide a student and faculty centered

    technology solution.  The moment you walk into your office and turn

    on the lights, everything else you do is dependent on technology.  We

    are on 24 by 7 by 365 days.





         We are also responsible for the purchase, care, and life cycle of

    your $2 mouse and our $2 million ERP system.  We purchase, support,

    train, and provide help with cellphones, desktops, tablets, printers,

    video conferences like this one, laptops, servers, and the

    applications they run.  Our role is to operationalize your ideas.

         Next I would like to share IT's vision and plan for the future in

    alignment with the chancellor's big four, mobile, cloud, AI, and IoT,

    starting last year and continuing for the next four years we have

    already started planning and transitioning to align with the big

    four.  I elaborate a couple of them here.

         With mobile we have initiated plans to replace most of our

    desktops with laptops or handheld devices.  No user in the future

    will be tethered to their desk.  You'll be able to take your device

    and work wherever you go.

         All our apps will be web natives and responsive to any device.

    We have already deployed and are expanding the use of soft phones so

    your desk phone can follow you on any other device.

         AI is getting embedded in all our next generation apps.  It will

    be integrated in all our operations, IT processes and security with

    the intent of ensuring that infrastructure is working on itself to

    optimize, notify, learn, and make decisions about itself, based on

    its use over time.  I will give you an example.

         If the system learns that the chancellor usually starts his

    e-mails at 6:00 a.m. and shuts down at 6:00 p.m. from Tucson,

    Arizona, on a Friday, the probability that he is trying to log in at





    2:00 a.m. on a Saturday from China or Russia is very unlikely, and

    the system will automatically deny him access and notify us of a

    possible attempted breach.  That is the work of AI.

         Cloud, over the last few years, we have started migrating several

    of the data center services to the cloud.  We work with Amazon AWS,

    Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.  Our data center footprint is

    shrinking year after year.

         We are currently evaluating migrating Banner to the cloud.  Our

    goal for moving to the cloud is to reduce our data center footprint,

    increase our agility and scale, incorporate industry standard

    processes, and provide greater resilience and reliability of our

    services.

         We have started evaluating IoT solutions for Pima also.  COVID-19

    has certainly accelerated that progression.  As the infrastructure is

    upgraded, we will deploy sensors to help us understand student

    movement patterns, help students find their way to their classroom,

    especially at West Campus, and provide digital signage that delivers

    context sensitive assistance.  Finally, my favorite is when you go to

    West Campus, it will save you some time and sanity when you're

    looking for parking options.

         So that's our vision for the future in alignment with the

    chancellor's vision for Pima.

         At this point, I would like to emphasize a new purpose within IT.

    Most people of think of IT as a technology department which is

    accurate but incomplete.  We do provide technology to operationalize





    Pima processes, but we also provide solutions that integrate

    processes for students, faculty, methods and outcomes, which is more

    than just IT.  We want to create a program relevant exciting and

    learning conducive ambience for the classroom.  As such, we will work

    with faculty and students to provide an enterprise solution that

    integrates all facets of learning and teaching.

         Next I would like to show you who our stakeholders are.  We work

    with faculty, students, and the community.  We are present in

    classrooms and labs, offices, conference rooms, commons, and parking

    lots and nowadays even homes.  We serve everyone and we serve

    everywhere.

         We provide our stakeholders with applications, the web,

    documents, prints, storage, phones, mobile devices in a very stable,

    seamless and safe environments on every device from anywhere and at

    any time.

         Finally, the IT roadmap.  As you will see on this leg, all four

    units have some themes in common.  The valuation of risk security,

    compliance, optimization, and innovation, we want to build that

    mindset in every project we do.  In addition to that, we are working

    to modernize each unit with the intent of being current and relevant

    with the industry.

         Much like we follow the NIST SANS DHS security framework, we are

    adopting the (indiscernible) framework for all IT operations so that

    we can ensure best practice, industry standards, such that we get a

    succession and continuity of work regardless of who is in the role





    tomorrow.

         The user support and (indiscernible) department is focused on

    providing students with CARES Act devices, upgrading classrooms and

    boardroom technologies, providing technology supported training to

    students and employees.  The infrastructure department is focused in

    optimization, increased capacity, agility, and skill.

         The enterprise department is focused on digitalization, business

    analysis, and project management.

         Finally, the security department is focused on protecting us

    every minute of every day in every packet of data and interaction on

    every incoming and outgoing channel with the latest and best tools on

    the market.  All four units are pursuing the use of AI for prediction

    and automation and all their processes, human intervention, and

    provide a high level of proactive services to all our stakeholders,

    keeping with all our stakeholders' requests and ideas, demands for

    new services that leads to expanding infrastructure that comes with

    risk, adherence to compliance, new skills, and security challenges.

    It is a 25-hours-a-day, 8-days-a-week job and not for the faint of

    heart.

         Finally, I want you to know that every person in IT is dedicated

    and devoted to the mission of this institution.  I know for a fact

    that several members within the department could easily get a higher

    paying job in the market today based on their experiences in our

    large and complex organization, but they still choose to stay here

    and be of service to this institution.  For that, I am personally





    thankful and grateful for everything they do for Pima.

         I realize that I have shared a lot of information in a very short

    time.  So while I take a deep breath and restore my oxygen levels,

    please let me know if you have any questions I can answer.  I'm happy

    to answer them here as well as happy to schedule another time between

    us to further explore and elaborate in greater detail about the

    services we provide.  Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much, and thank you to your

    entire team.  The work you have done since arriving at the college

    and the work that your team did before and currently has just made a

    transformational difference particularly during the pandemic.

         I cannot underscore how appreciative we all are that you were

    there to be able to help guide the ship and move as quickly as we did

    using the technological tools that we have as we are moving towards

    through this roadmap, which is very impressive.

         So thank you.  We really value you and really appreciate this

    work.

         Are there any questions or comments from the other board members?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Thank you.  You should be very proud of all

    your staff and your whole operation.  This presentation is very

    impressive.  Let me ask you about the last thing you talked about,

    and it's been a reoccurring issue, is staffing.

         Where are we at currently in staffing?  Is it still as big a

    problem as it's been?  Is there anything this board can do to help

    you alleviate that issue?  Tell us.





         >> SPEAKER:  Hiring is still a challenge, and the pandemic has

    definitely made it a bigger challenge.  But I believe that I really

    have very strong support from my boss directly, Dr. Bea, and the

    chancellor.  They have always been extremely supportive and willing

    to go out into the market, increase pay scales, hire people from

    whatever moved them to Tucson.

         Though it is a challenge, I would say that the support of the

    administration and the board have been really solid.  I have nothing

    to complain about on that note.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Any other questions?

         Okay.  Thank you very much.

         The next item is our enrollment update with David Arellano.

         >> SPEAKER:  Thank you.  Let me pull up my presentation.  I'm

    sure you all could see that there and hear me.

         Good evening, chairperson of the board, board members, Chancellor

    Lambert, colleagues and guests.  I'm going to provide you an

    enrollment management update.  I'm going to begin this evening taking

    a look at our spring 2020 applications, really honing in on that.

         When we look at spring 2021 and compare it to spring 2020, we can

    see we are approximately about 1,600 applications so far year to date

    compared to 1,800 last term.  So that's a difference of about 200

    applications, a lot of which I attribute to the K12, our high school

    seniors being in a virtual environment and not engaging with their

    counselors, not engaging with our recruiters and doing some of those

    senior activities that they normally would in being proactive with





    their registration.

         Of those applicants we have received so far, approximately 1,100

    of those applicants are degree-seeking, meaning they are not a guest

    student, not here to take a course for transfer and move on to the U

    of A.  These are students who are looking for a credential from Pima.

         When we look at that group as well, we know that approximately a

    thousand of those students do have a high school diploma or GED and

    are ready to move forward.

         In those comparison numbers, we do have our dual enrollment and

    guest students and a variety of other students listed in there.

         When we look at our residency, we have made a lot of improvements

    since April.  We do have a healthy balance when we look initially at

    the application, about 78% being in-state with 22% out-of-state.

    That 22% will go down as folks gather documents and do their

    residency correction, but it's also indicative of our distance

    learners, our partnerships we have with Pearson and our online

    footprint that other folks for out-of-state are also taking courses

    with Pima in that online environment and taking advantage of our

    online tuition rates.

         Moving on, when we look at our applicant age breakdown, what

    you're seeing also is our adult learners, that 21 to 25 range, having

    the most applications there.  What that means is we really need to

    look at how we're offering services, courses, and options and

    programs and our scheduling for those adult learners, because that's

    where enrollment growth is really going to take off for us.





         We know about our demographics, we know about less high school

    seniors or less high school graduates coming through that pipeline.

    How do we look to retool, reskill some of those employees who are

    currently in the workforce but need to upskill with us.

         A lot going on there, but I wanted to provide that glimpse into

    our spring applications so far.  Keep in mind we are very early in

    the application period for spring.

         With that though I wanted to talk about our spring 2021

    enrollment focus.  When we look at our enrollment advisors, we gear

    them up to walk students through that enrollment funnel, we've done

    title changes, I have talked about that before.  But now we are

    talking it a step further in aligning them to a program of study,

    really creating that success network with their program advisors, so

    there is that seamless transition from new student to continuing

    student and going into that case management style of advising.

         Again, we are virtualizing a lot of our systems in workforce,

    extra training.  We just onboarded BlackBeltHelp on September 30th.

    Seamless transition from Blackboard to BlackBeltHelp in terms of our

    call center separations.

         We are looking at onboarding new technology like interactive

    checklist front facing to students and providing our enrollment

    advisor new tools to interact and see where students are in that

    enrollment funnel, continuing with virtual events and that social

    media presence, really partnering with our K12, business and

    industry, and transfer institutions.  The immigrant and refugee





    center just hosted a K12 high school counselor breakfast.  I was able

    to present at that meeting.  We walked through counselors how to

    apply to Pima, gave tips and tricks, engaged with that community of

    educators to get them onboard with what we are doing and really serve

    our students that way.

         We also have a lot of internal collaboration, increasing that

    with our enrollment huddles where we meet monthly, go over tactics

    and strategies, collaborate and share information and really try to

    get that holistic approach to enrollment management.

         Then keep in mind the provost and Dr. Dor� are looking at the

    breaking barriers task force.  In there we will look at access and

    student success.  Those are key components of enrollment management.

    That does involve what we're currently doing.  Does it still best

    serve students, and how can we make it easier in this virtualized

    environment?  So a lot of work going on this fall in preparation for

    spring.

         If you recall, last fall we hired an independent auditor to kind

    of do a secret shopping experience at our brick and mortar campuses.

    This year we brought in EAB to do a virtual secret shopper audit

    experience.  Because we don't have access to the campuses and we

    virtualized a lot of our services, we wanted to get some feedback on

    how we can improve and what that experience was from an outside

    perspective.

         EAB, it's Educational Advisory Board.  They are leaders in higher

    education consulting and research.  They have a lot of member





    institutions.  So the research is really rich with lots of data,

    quantitative, qualitative.  They honed in on what our welcoming and

    website presence was.  They looked at our application and admissions

    process, looked at financial aid, our tuition cost, advising and

    career counseling, scheduling and registration, orientation, and then

    that post-registration experience or engagement.

         They came back with three areas where they wanted us to improve,

    but keep in mind they said their overall assessment is we are doing

    great, doing better than most institutions they have been auditing

    during this process.  They looked at advising and career counseling,

    and they talked about how we can provide those placement scores much

    quicker for advising.

         That really is indicative of the larger SAT, ACT testing score

    conversation around the country in terms of admissions applications,

    so they are looking at what can community colleges do to bypass

    standardized testing.

         They looked at during our enrollment advising, how can we do more

    work on career-focused interventions or advising there?  So we are

    providing training to our staff, looking at onboarding career

    assessment tools that will give students before they pick a major

    ideas about what the workforce looks like for that particular major,

    employment outcomes, earning outcomes, things like that.

         And then going back to our enrollment advising, really

    structuring that by program of study so there is that career focus

    and that seamless transition to a program advisor.





         They did talk about orientation.  With orientation we have done a

    lot of work with virtualizing that.  PimaOnline has an orientation to

    online learning.  We have our virtual academic advising syllabus, so

    we are really investigating how to make that more dynamic to see what

    technologies and best practices are out there in terms of the new

    student orientation big picture.

         In this COVID pandemic environment, universities, community

    colleges are really rethinking what orientation looks likes.  A lot

    of universities used to have a whole full day, couple days.  That

    really needs to be reshaped in our new environment.

         And then lastly looking at college communications.  That

    particular shopper who did the audit wanted more e-mails.  The

    reality is we do send multiple e-mails out.  We do have our

    enrollment advisors doing proactive outreach to every student who

    applies to the college, and then we're going to be onboarding that

    interactive checklist.

         So with their assessment, we fared very, very well, and with

    those key areas where they recommended improvement we already have

    some improvements in line, and so we did go through that exercise

    similar to last fall.  So I did want to share that information with

    you.

         Then that is my update for the board.  I will open it up to any

    questions or comments.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Any questions from the board?  Okay.

         Thank you very much.  We appreciate all the good work and trying





    to find solutions in this very difficult time.  Thank you.

         >> SPEAKER:  Thank you, Chairman.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Next is diversity and affirmative action

    update.  Update with Jeffrey Lanuez, assistant vice chancellor for

    human resources, acting, and Hilda Ladner, our executive director of

    diversity, equity, and inclusion.

         >> SPEAKER:  Thank you very much, Chair Clinco, board, Chancellor

    Lambert, guests, faculty, staff.

         Hilda and I are going to present some information on the college

    diversity.  I wanted to start off with a little bit of information on

    the affirmative action plan and what that is and what that means.

         Also, part of building this presentation and on our call in case

    you have any specific questions is Kate Schmidt, our executive

    director of faculty affairs and development, and Aida Vasquez,

    advanced program manager for classification in compensation.  She is

    also our project manager on the comp class committee project.

         I'm going to take you quickly through what the affirmative action

    is, a little bit of HLC compliance that's related.  We're going to

    show you a little bit of information on diversity of staff with a

    focus on faculty, some of our diversity strategies that we have put

    into place, and then Hilda is going to take us through the faculty

    recruitment process.

         I wanted to give you some information about sometimes we use

    language that I want to make sure that everybody understands.  When

    we say we have to do the AAP report, affirmative action report, it's





    because we are a federal contractor due to an Air Force grant.  We

    are required to develop and maintain an affirmative action plan for

    each and every campus for the promotion and ensuring of equal

    opportunity for all persons without regard to race, color, religion,

    sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, and

    failure to comply with those things comes with sanctions by executive

    order 11246 from 1965.

         In terms of other compliance regulation around this, we have our

    Higher Learning Commission criteria, Criterion 1 on the mission and

    1C in particular that speaks to this.  I won't read all through the

    bullet points, but I wanted to note that it does address this

    specifically about the institution's processes and activities that

    they need to demonstrate inclusive and equitable treatment of diverse

    populations.

         And then of course, depending on what discipline, there are

    faculty qualification criteria that must be met according to the

    Higher Learning Commission also for faculty to teach students at

    Pima.

         This slide is showing you a couple of different things.  You

    might see numbers in green.  Those are the target availability

    percentages in our Arizona community.  The numbers next to them in

    red mean we haven't met them, and that's where the percentages are

    currently.  If you see a number that doesn't have red or green, that

    means we are at or even above the percentage.

         So taking you through this just a little bit, you can see that





    there is some areas of improvement needed around American Indian or

    Alaskan Native faculty.  We are at 1%.  The criterion we want to

    shoot for is 2.5%.  And I won't take you through all this, but if you

    have any questions, I'd love to answer them and come back and spend

    more time on that slide if you wish.

         This slide, what we are trying to show is the difference of where

    we were in 2013 and where we are now.  In 2013 when the chancellor

    started, we've got a number of 40.5% down near faculty.  It's what we

    saw is due to data records not containing enough data.  So that's one

    data point, the only data point in this figure that we can't compare

    2013 to 2020.

         You're again seeing the numbers where if they are in black we are

    meeting or exceeding the target.  If they are a number in green it's

    trying to show you what the availability in our area of percentage

    is.  And if they are in red means that's the percentage we're at, and

    we can come up to the green number.  I hope I have explained that

    well enough to correlate those numbers.

         So in here we see faculty have become more racially and

    ethnically diverse over the course of these years.  We have increased

    percentages for Native Americans and Black faculty, both adjunct and

    full time.  Asian faculty we have seen an increase for full-time

    faculty, and we have seen significant increases for Hispanic faculty.

         We have made strides over these years, in total 16.4% of faculty

    you can see represented minority population in 2013, and now it's at

    23.6.





         Here is some information that we think answers some of your

    questions about how it is to be challenging hiring diverse faculty.

    So on this sheet we see that typically all the disciplines that we

    hire for in the transfer programs require a Master's degree in order

    to teach that discipline.

         You have heard Dave Bea in his presentation express something

    similar to my bullet point No. 2 is Pima has limited vacancies for

    faculty positions to fill, and unfortunately we may see that on a

    decline.

         Now, in speaking back to that requirement for the Master's

    degree, I've got some statistics in bullet point No. 3 for you.  In

    Arizona, about 32% of the total population has a Bachelor's degree or

    higher.  So out of that 32%, we see at the Bachelor's degree level,

    Hispanic population having 8.7% achievement of that degree, Black

    community having 15.4%, and White community having 23.2%.  That's out

    of the total population that has a degree.

         Out of that, when you go to the higher degree of graduate degree,

    only 13.5% of all of our residents have these levels of degrees.  In

    the different communities you see here, Hispanic has 3.5, Black at

    9.3, and White at 12.4.  What I'm trying to show you is the

    challenges to increasing our diverse pools and finding that talent

    here.

         Here is a little bit of comparison about national data on these

    faculty demographics, so in column 1 where it says national, these

    are across the United States in higher education, speaking only about





    faculty members, 0.4% of that community, faculty members in the

    country, are American Indian or Alaskan Native.  Here at Pima

    Community College it's at 1%.  The column you see for Maricopa, the

    only data we were able to get were the two numbers you see, so I'll

    get to those.

         And going down, in the country, the Asian population of faculty

    is at 9.3% at colleges.  Pima is 5.4, and so on as you go down this

    sheet.

         We do see a very large increase over the national data of

    Hispanic faculty is 4.7.  Pima it's 14.5.  But as we know, our

    population of Hispanics in Arizona in Tucson is quite higher than

    that.  Maricopa actually has a lower percentage of faculty that are

    Hispanic.

         I went through some of this at our June presentation, but I just

    wanted to quickly review it and see if it's of interest to have any

    follow-up in another meeting or follow-up on questions or perhaps a

    future board study session on anything I presented so far or the

    things that we are doing in relation to improving processes.

         We're always looking for continual process improvement,

    everything we do.  That's certainly true in human resources and

    recruiting, and also on the faculty recruitment side.

         So things we have done in the past couple of months or a new job

    integration or automation is a tool called Broadbean.  The value of

    that tool is we can see in real time the return on investment in

    terms of diverse pools in our job postings, so we can post a job on a





    Monday, check back in real time on that pool if people self-disclose

    and see what that people looks like and see what job boards are

    producing candidates.

         That's something the college has never been able to do before and

    we are now able to do that now with some automations to our HRS

    system.

         We have instituted in the past year our new recruiting process.

    We have done that on the faculty side that Hilda can address.  And in

    June she shared with you a report that her and Kate did on the

    faculty recruitment process.

         We are also working very hard with our data analytics consultant,

    ASR, on a lot of availability of data and (indiscernible) of data.

    Board Member Mark Hanna saw this at the September HR board advisory

    meeting.

         We do college-directed training.  We do mandatory recruiting and

    implicit bias training for all our advisory committees.  We did this

    year some very specific and very highly regarded training on

    diversity for faculty, the Executive Leadership Team, and now we are

    also doing it for staff.

         Coming in January of next year, HR is taking the entire AAP

    process in-house.  Aida will be doing that, and we will have much

    more real-time access to our own data and be able to use it in a very

    proactive way.

         More things that we have done to improve the process, I won't go

    through that in all detail to save some time in case you have





    questions, and I wanted to turn over the presentation to Hilda to

    take us through what we have done with the faculty recruiting

    process.

         >> HILDA LADNER:  Thank you, Jeffrey.  Thank you, board,

    Chancellor, colleagues, students, and guests for having us back

    since the June meeting to once again to talk about some of the

    diversity work that's happening at the college.

         I first want to say that I do appreciate all of the time that you

    all devote to this.  I know that your questions and your desire to

    talk about this come from a place of caring for our community and

    thinking about why this is important and the work that we do at the

    college to serve this community.

         Since we spoke to you in June, we were really focused on a lot of

    the things that were going on throughout our country regarding COVID,

    regarding racial equity, and violence in some of our communities.

         Since June, there has been quite a bit going on at the college.

    Not that that wasn't going on before.  There had already been a

    foundation building of some of these, the knowledge and capacity

    building around diversity, equity, inclusion.  This is some of the

    updates what we have been working on since.

         This summer we held virtual learning communities, which I know

    you were all aware of.  We had over 300 people registered for these

    virtual learning communities.  Some of those are still ongoing.

    Really helping us to think about what it means to be an institution

    that really cares about equity and about the community that we serve.





         In August we held the Unconference, which was a virtual

    conference that had keynotes by Ibram X Kendi and Laura Rendon.  We

    held post-keynote discussions for faculty and staff after those

    sessions and again thought about the students we serve and the

    community we serve and how we can do that in this new educational

    environment.

         We have had several webinars throughout the fall semester for

    faculty, staff, for students.  I have been doing a workshop about

    every week for different populations across the college to help us

    really again address and think about our community.

         We have started to have some identity group Town Halls.  In

    August we held a Town Hall with our African-American and Black

    community.  The chancellor and other leadership at the college spoke

    to some of the issues that the community is concerned about here in

    Tucson.

         On Friday we will be holding an Asian-Pacific Islander community

    member Town Hall with the chancellor and other leadership.

    Throughout this next year I'm planning additional Town Halls with

    members of our community to listen to our community, our Latino

    community, our indigenous and Native American communities, and those

    will be coming up over this next semester and spring.

         We had our All College virtual summit so that again, the topics

    brought up there, helping us to think about who we are and how we

    serve the community.  Our Faculty Senate has formed a social justice

    committee, and our breaking student barriers is reviewing a lot of





    literature based on serving the students that we serve at our

    community college level.

         And that group will start to really look at all of our different

    policies, our practices, the ways that we engage and teach students

    to make sure that we are serving this community in the ways that we

    need to and the ways that our community wants us to be doing this

    work to close achievement gaps.

         So finally this last slide again talks about some of the work we

    have done around our faculty recruitment process.  We talked about

    this in June.  Primarily I worked with faculty affairs and Kate and

    others in developing and piloting a new faculty hiring framework.

         We really consulted throughout the nation on best practices

    around diversity practices for hiring faculty and borrowed and

    adjusted a lot of those policies and practices that were out there

    throughout the country to introduce them here and piloted them here.

         You can kind of read through some of the key pieces of what we

    have created there, redefining the way we put search committees

    together, how we approve that process, how our departments are

    thinking about the job descriptions and how deans really have a lot

    of responsibility for that process throughout.

         So we have really focused in a lot of our training and

    discussions with the deans to think about how do we recruit more

    diversity into our pool so that we can then demonstrate greater

    diversity in our hiring.

         We have started to collect some data and gathered some input





    throughout this pilot year.  I don't know if you can click on the

    link there, Jeffrey, just so you can see this very thorough document,

    I don't know if it will go there.  Here we are.

         So it is a very comprehensive document, if you could just kind of

    scroll through, it's over 40 pages.  It gives very detailed

    information to the search committee, to the dean, when to think about

    this process, when to begin the process, why we value diversity

    within our college and how to achieve greater diversity results in

    our searches.

         So from again the job description considering the jobs that we

    have, what they will look like, how we write those descriptions to

    attract more talent, and then creating questions.  How does the

    interview go?

         Now we're really starting to have that conversation about

    retention and what that means for keeping employees that will

    contribute to diversity within the college.

         So again, I invite you to look at that, and I'm happy to come

    back at another time for perhaps a study session to really discuss

    this in more detail.

         >> SPEAKER:  Hilda and Kate just did a fabulous presentation at

    the national CUPA-HR conference on diversity and faculty recruitment.

    Hilda, can you speak for a second you and I are co-chairing the Pima

    Community College District-wide diversity survey, maybe you could

    talk about that for a minute.

         >> HILDA LADNER:  Of course.  Part of that capacity building will





    require us to do a comprehensive examination for the climate for

    diversity, equity, and inclusion at the college.  So Jeffrey and I

    have put together a team.  We will be meeting shortly to launch at

    work to look for external consultant, assessment tools, and guide

    some conversations throughout the college around the climate for

    diversity, equity, collusion, and then develop some strategies and

    recommendations for how we move forward.

         That conversation and that work I think will really then play

    into writing our new strategic plan as we sort of phase out of the

    current strategic plan for diversity, equity, inclusion and think

    about some new strategies going forward, some of the work that will

    need to be done.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you to both of you and Kate Schmidt

    for your work on all of this.  I'm sure we have questions from our

    board.

         Is there any questions?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Yes.  So I have a question on recruitment.

    So do you go out to other states to try to recruit faculty members?

         >> HILDA LADNER:  I think I can speak to that a little bit.  Yes.

         So in our recruitment process for faculty, we post in a lot of

    different places to bring faculty into our various schools.  A lot of

    them are local, but there are also some national places where we

    place our advertising.

         Part of the work that we are trying to recommend now through our

    new hiring framework is to have the committee be active recruiters





    into our pool.  Obviously that doesn't guarantee anybody a job, but

    it helps us to bring people in from our local community that are

    qualified for the jobs, from national organizations that they might

    belong to, that really, you know, again, reaching out far and wide to

    have big diverse pools that we can select from in our various job

    categories but especially for faculty.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Okay.  I guess I have another question.

    I'm not trying to impose my views, but I do have someone that I would

    recommend that if you guys could meet with this person to discuss

    some of the ideas, he's an expert on data.

         I'm not saying that you guys don't do a good enough job.  You

    guys work really hard, and I know that.  So please understand that

    I'm not trying to demean anybody.  But we all have to work together,

    and I have someone that could be of value to all of us, you know, if

    you decide to at least talk to him.

         >> SPEAKER:  Board Member Garcia, thank you for that.  I'd be

    happy to facilitate that meeting between myself and this person

    you're talking about and Hilda and Kate and myself.  That could be a

    really great resource.  I appreciate that.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Thank you.

         >> SPEAKER:  Absolutely.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  I think the best way to facilitate any

    meeting again is through the chancellor's office, so you should send

    that --

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Okay.  I will send it.





         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  I have a question.  I enjoyed the

    presentation, Mr. Lanuez and Mrs. Ladner.  Unfortunately what I saw

    in reference to the Native American community, it's still 1%,

    according to your presentation in 2013 to date, to 2020, is still 1%.

         The reason I'm asking is I know that both Pascua Yaqui and

    O'odham Nation are the second and third-biggest Indian community

    within the state, and it hasn't changed in seven years, but I think

    we could do more in reference to that.  I really would like to see

    that, because in one of the slides that you mentioned, we didn't have

    it posted at all.

         But I think in both nations here that are neighbors right now, I

    know there is a lot of them that go through Pima but also go through

    the four-year institution.  I think those are the ones that we need

    to reach out.  I know that you're starting to work more with the

    Pascua Yaqui but also with the O'odham Nation in the nursing program

    next to Ajo out there, too, which is a great move.

         But still in reference to the faculty, I really would like to see

    the reflection of the community to be increased.  Seven years it's

    not increased, 1%, I beg to say I think we can do better.  And we

    should do better in reference to really diversifying the community,

    Pima Community College, as mentioned before, and look at all the best

    practices but also in reference to the strategic plan you're

    hopefully to implement.

         But that was one of my concerns.  Overall, in the seven years

    hasn't changed, I think I would like to know why it hasn't changed,





    because I know there is qualified people out there.  I think we can

    somehow tap into that, as well, too.

         We do have quite a few of Yaquis and quite a few of the O'Odham

    representative students graduating not only with a Bachelor's but

    also the Master's -- the Bachelor's but also with Master's as well,

    too.  Thank you.  Enjoyed your presentation, though.

         >> HILDA LADNER:  I appreciate your comments and your question.

    We can definitely do more to increase our outreach into different

    communities.  I certainly look forward to doing that and seeing if we

    can get more diversity into our pools and then into our hiring.

         >> SPEAKER:  I agree with that, Board Member Gonzalez --

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Excuse me, just as a point of

    clarification, the presentation was pulled up and it actually has

    increased over the last seven years, nearly doubling.  It's still at

    1% as opposed to 0.6% for the faculty and the adjunct increase, and

    that's not enough, I think we all agree that we need to be at a

    higher level, but there has been incremental increase.  So I do want

    to, just for clarity's sake, point that out.

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Any other questions from any other member

    of the board?  Okay.

         Thank you both very much.  We really appreciate it.

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  So I think one thing this report points out

    is the importance of the Achieve60 initiative for our state.  If the

    state is basically at 32% with a higher education degree, let alone a





    Master's, we have a lot of work to do.  I think Pima is really poised

    to play a big part in that.

         But the thing I wanted to ask about is not hiring but in terms of

    our internal diversity, equity, and inclusion training for our

    current employees, given the edicts that have been recently issued by

    the administration, has that had any impact on how we do our

    diversity, equity, and inclusion training?

         >> DR. LEE LAMBERT:  Let me answer that, Mark.  What we are

    starting to see across the national landscape is some universities

    already announcing that they are going to be pulling back on their

    diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts because of the

    administration's communication around federal agencies and the

    concern is those federal agencies may then apply that same standard

    to any state entity receiving federal dollars.

         I'm hoping that we aren't forced into a corner to make that kind

    of a decision.  I think we don't need to do that at this stage, but

    also recognize that companies who are also federal contractors like

    Microsoft and Wells Fargo may have come out publicly and said that

    they were going to, in the case of Microsoft, double the number of

    African-American managers.

         They received a letter from the Department of Labor saying that

    -- this is my words, not the words of the agency -- that you may be

    violating a federal law just because you came out and said that

    you're going to do this.

         So now Microsoft is going to have to justify that to the





    Department of Labor.  The reason I'm bringing -- your question is

    great.  We have to be careful how we message, how we manage this,

    because we might be scrutinized at some point in time.

         Of course things can shift, and we will have to see how those

    shifts occur.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you, Chancellor Lambert.  Okay.

         Moving forward, thank you both.  We really appreciate it.

         There is no additional questions?  Just double-checking.  Okay.

         Dr. Hay?  No questions?  You know, I have to say it is a little

    bit of a struggle with these meetings because I cannot see everybody,

    and some people have their cameras off, so it's difficult to see who

    wants to speak when.  I have been unable to pin everybody to the top.

    I just want to double-check.

         Next we have our reports by representatives to the board.  First

    is student report with Sage Fukae McCollough.

         >> SPEAKER:  Thank you for having me.  My name is Sage Fukae

    McCollough.  I am the board representative, student governing board.

         We will go over the virtual adult education first.  They are

    hosting a financial wellness series virtually via Zoom October

    through December.  Financial help has improved and we understand what

    impacts our personal relationship to money.

         In this free series open to adult education and Pima students, we

    will learn how to create healthier financial habits and make friends

    with our money.

         Financial wellness series will be sponsored by Tucson Federal





    Credit Union based on the Center for Financial Social Work

    Curriculum, facilitated by Robin Austin.  Topics will include

    accepting myself, my money, my friend, what money means to me,

    learning the cycle of change, dealing with financial stress, and

    using the cycle of change.

         For virtual Student Life, October 8 they will be hosting a

    depression screening, a co-curricular event.  The event description

    is as follows:  Virtual depression screening workshop.  This is a

    proactive effort to raise awareness around depression.  Academic

    success counselors will be conducting virtual screenings.  Screenings

    point out the presence or absence of depressive symptoms and provide

    community resources for further evaluation if needed.

         Virtual first year experience, there will be a new student

    welcome scheduled for October 30, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. via Zoom.

    There will be a welcome and celebrate Pima's new students, play

    virtual games to build community and relationships with peers,

    faculty, and staff.  Finally, a closing candlelight commitment

    ceremony.

         For the student senate, they will be hosting a faces of first

    year which is hosted live on FYE social media pages on the 23rd

    featuring the student government.

         Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much for your report.  Next

    we have our adjunct faculty report with Sean Mendoza.

         >> SPEAKER:  Chairman Clinco, Chancellor Lambert, members of the





    board, and honored guests.  This past month the adjunct faculty have

    been working to streamline communications with our employee group and

    strengthen our dialogue with the administration.

         Since our last board meeting, two important developments have

    occurred.  First, college administration has agreed to meet and speak

    with adjunct faculty members during our monthly meetings, the

    chancellor meeting with us on November 6 and the provost on December

    4.  Their willingness to listen and provide feedback on some of our

    most important concerns is just one of many indicators of support by

    this administration.

         Second, a survey of adjunct faculty with the intent of improving

    communications indicated that nearly 50% of all comments find

    compensation and responsibilities outside the institution as an

    obstacle to participating in the governments of our institution.

    Fortunately the college is taking an active role in addressing these

    issues, providing opportunities for compensation and professional

    development for our employee group.

         And also in an effort to develop social and networking

    opportunities, we have implemented a virtual water cooler where

    participants discuss topics near and dear to their hearts.  Since its

    inception, topics have ranged from guitar influences to the ethical

    challenges inherent in a global community.

         If you have any extra time on Friday morning from 10:00 to 10:30,

    please drop by.  The link is there on the board report.  And join our

    discussion.





         Lastly, with election day right around the corner, I'd like to

    ask my colleagues and the college community to please get out and

    vote.  It's very important that we take an active role in the future

    of our community.

         Thank you.  That ends my report to the board.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you.  We really appreciate it.  As a

    reminder there is actually still time to register to the vote.

    Deadline was extended to the 23rd.  So get out and vote and get

    registered.

         Next we have our faculty report with Brooke Anderson.

         >> BROOKE ANDERSON:  Good evening, Chairman Clinco, board

    members, Chancellor Lambert, honored guests.

         So this report covers the items covered at the September 2nd

    Faculty Senate meeting as well as a few updates from our most recent

    meeting from Friday, October 2nd.

         So the provost continues her tradition of attending senate

    meetings and delivering her report.  This month, this last month, in

    September, she highlighted the importance of social justice

    initiatives at the college.  Additionally, the chancellor joined the

    start of the senate meeting.

         He shared his thoughts on Kendi's antiracist work and on the

    reflection and action Pima faculty and staff can take to lead

    positive social change and combat social and economic racism and

    inequity.  The chancellor was unable to attend our October meeting,

    but he is planning to attend at the November meeting.





         Michael Tulino shared with the senate that because of student and

    faculty voicing their concerns, his department was able to make the

    following improvements to the new class schedule search interface.

    Students can more precisely search for short-term classes by

    filtering their search criteria to display only sections that start

    after a specific date.

         They can also now search for honors-only courses, and his

    department is still working on creating the ability for students to

    pick courses by start date.  He will let Faculty Senate know once the

    function is in the new schedule, as well.

         Faculty Senate continues to prioritize ways to improve student

    experiences and learning, especially in the virtual classroom.

    Virtual classroom and captions task force is investigating potential

    virtual learning alternatives to what is currently embedded in D2L,

    which is Bongo.  Currently they are discussing several options and

    plan to make recommendations in the future.

         Divisions have been discussing virtual classroom successes and

    challenges, and they have also been holding special meetings with the

    provost and chancellor to highlight the innovations taking place in

    their areas.

         Then in addition with faculty, college staff, and administrators,

    we are investigating innovative instructional models like Hyflex to

    better meet the needs of students.

         Senate president, Josie Milliken, shared the systemic justice

    action committee's charge with the senate in September, which is





    cultivate a liberatory institution by examining current practices and

    policies related to curriculum, academics, and governance.

    Identifying ways to foster more equity-focused practices.  Working to

    shift policies and practices to support and promote equity,

    diversity, inclusion, and facilitating social justice best practices

    at the college.

         This committee will be meeting again on October 16.

         Faculty Senate officers met with administration on Wednesday,

    September 16, and assessed topics such as enrollment, the

    chancellor's goals, and Unmudl.  The officers expressed faculty's

    desire to be more meaningfully involved in the chancellor's goals so

    the administrators in charge of each major goal category presented at

    the senate's October meeting.  Faculty Senate officers and

    administration will be meeting again on October 21.

         Faculty Senate also hosted a special meeting on the educational

    and facilities master plans on September 23rd, where faculty provided

    the SmithGroup planning team with input.

         The leadership team for instructional transformation has

    scheduled October focus groups to begin collecting stakeholder input.

    Topics for discussion include the components of instructional work

    that need to be included in Pima structure to appropriately support

    learners.

         After completion of each of the focus groups, the team has said

    they will share summary documents and solicit additional feedback.

         Senate's next meeting is on November 6, and the TLC in addition





    continues to organize and host professional development events and

    all faculty are continuing to dedicate themselves and work hard to

    adapt to new technology and new virtual learning environments to meet

    student needs.

         I want to close tonight by again thanking the Governing Board and

    administration for continuing to prioritize the health and safety of

    Pima employees and students and for continuing to support employees'

    social justice and equity work.

         Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you so much, Ms. Anderson.  We

    appreciate all the work that the faculty are doing, and thank you for

    bringing forward such great examples.

         Next we have our staff report with Michael Lopez.

         >> SPEAKER:  Chairman Clinco, Chancellor Lambert, Governing Board

    members, (indiscernible).

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  You're breaking up a little bit.

         >> SPEAKER:  Am I still breaking up?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  I think it's clear now.

         >> SPEAKER:  Informational items, most recent staff council

    meeting occurred on Friday, October 2.  (Indiscernible) referred to

    the Governing Board when that process is completed.  Staff council

    officers meeting occurred on Monday, September (indiscernible).

    Friday, October 2 staff council meeting, which just occurred.

         Staff council is actively seeking more staff involvement for

    their membership and are currently holding elections.  Well,





    actually, the vice-chair has been filled but I will leave that

    announcement to our president, Gloria.

         Participation in staff council (indiscernible).

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Mr. Lopez, you are still breaking up a

    little.

         >> SPEAKER:  It might be my bandwidth.  You do have the written

    report, and if you can hear me --

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  We hear sort of segments and then you

    break out.

         >> SPEAKER:  Okay.  It's probably the bandwidth.  I will get

    back, or thank you very much, and --

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you.  We have the report, and it's

    been entered into the record, and I would again encourage everybody

    to review it and the members of the board, as well.

         >> SPEAKER:  Thank you.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you.  Our next report is

    administrative report with Jim Craig.

         >> JIM CRAIG:  Chairman Clinco, Chancellor Lambert, distinguished

    board, fellow representatives, PCC family and friends.

         PCC center of excellence for cybersecurity and IT is nearing

    construction completion at the East Campus.  The COE is a collection

    of academic and technical programs that strategically align to pursue

    excellence in cybersecurity, information and technology and related

    fields of study with a student run data center that will allow

    students to experience IT and a cyber operations center to allow





    students to deal with threat detection.  These skills are so

    desperately needed in all areas of the workforce and industry.

         The promise of the COE is already demonstrating positive results.

    This fall's enrollment for IT programs is actually up 14.5% over last

    fall, which represents over 200 students.  We invite all of you to

    request a tour of the new facility at your convenience, and we will

    also be filming a virtual open house in the near future.

         Former Pima film student, Nicholas Duarte, is an Emmy Award

    winning commercial director.  He was recently interviewed for a

    segment with the Old Pueblo New Economy podcast.  We are so proud of

    our Pima film students.

         Sculpture installations have been going in full swing the last

    few weeks at East Campus, the outdoor exhibit.  We still have a few

    more art works to be installed before the virtual opening on October

    29.  We will highlight the sculpture on campus in our next November

    report.

         The provost and the teaching and learning center present Striving

    For Excellence in Teaching Award that will recognize teaching staff

    who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to improving teaching

    and learning at the college.

         Each recipient will receive a monetary award of $100 courtesy of

    the Pima Foundation honored on All Faculty Day, and their name will

    be engraved on a plaque in the office of the provost.  Nominations

    will be due Monday, November 16.

         Finally, October is National Cybersecurity Month.  Have you seen





    in the news big companies hacked, customer information stolen?  Sure,

    almost daily.  Might any of those have one of your accounts?  If so,

    then expect a visit from a BOT that's an automated program.  Now, you

    may ask why would someone want to hack me?  The answer, a BOT does

    not care.  It just does what it can and gives back the results.

         So ask yourself, do I ever use the same password or same user

    name?  How easy was it to crack at the other company?  Was it more

    than 12 characters long?  Hopefully.

         Did you use two-factor authentication so just a password alone

    will not work?  Is your e-mail password the most protected account

    you own?  It should be.  It recovers most of the other accounts.

         These are some of the basic questions you need to ask yourself

    and take seriously.  There are forces that are not purely money

    driven.  They are trying to cause financial disruption for us and for

    the whole community.  Please take the time to learn the basics

    because remember, a BOT does not care.

         This concludes my report.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much, Mr. Craig.

         The next item on our agenda is the chancellor's report.

    Chancellor Lambert?

         >> DR. LEE LAMBERT:  Yes.  Well, good evening, everybody.  Let me

    first start out and say I too apologize to Ms. Garcia and

    Mr. Gonzales if you felt that I was being disrespectful to you.  That

    is definitely not my intent.  I will do what I can to earn your trust

    so that you realize that we have more in common than we do not.





         Also, I just want to say just my hat's off to the faculty, staff,

    and the administration and to the board for your support.  We have

    done phenomenal work over the last six, seven months since we have

    gone into this new reality, thanks to COVID and the pandemic.

         And you're seeing it, because we're not missing a beat in terms

    of the things we need to do to support our students to be successful

    and our relationships with the broader community.

         I will give you some examples.  So I just met with Bruce earlier

    today, and he shared general education learning outcomes assessment.

    If you haven't seen that yet, and I really would love to share this

    with the board, the faculty have done a 180 in terms of the work

    around assessment of student learning.  Now, remember this has been a

    challenge for the college going as far back as 1991.  It kept being a

    reoccurring challenge for the college all the way through our

    probation and notice when I first arrived.

         Now we are in a strong position going forward, and the faculty

    have really stepped up and really answered the call, and I think

    you'll be pleased to see the outcomes coming out, so we are looking

    forward to submitting one of our reports to the commission, HLC, that

    speaks to this issue.

         Also, just want to, hats off to the adult basic education folks.

    Again, they have just taken the IBEST program.  They Pimaized it, so

    much so that we as a college, the program that they have built, is

    being recognized as one of the top five in the nation by the U.S.

    Department of Education.  That speaks volumes to the changes that





    have happened over the last seven years at the college.

         But there are so many other positive things going on.  Those are

    just two key highlights.  Also, just be aware that in the very near

    future we will be releasing the Arizona state of attainment report.

    I sit on that board.  We are hoping to get that out here in the very

    near future.

         Some of Jeffrey's numbers also reflect in that report.  So we

    have still a huge challenge ahead of us as an institution.  I'm

    hoping, if the board is willing sometime next year, we could do a

    study session to present to you the 60% goal, where we are as a

    state, where Pima needs to be to close that gap, what are some of the

    challenges we still face to get there, and one of the things that we

    are doing well.

         So hopefully we can make that happen as we go into the new year.

         Also, I was very pleased, and I want to thank Dr. Ricardo Castro

    Salazar and Marcy Euler for coordinating a meeting with the new

    consul here in Tucson, Arizona, Rafael Barcela.  I was able to meet

    the new consul, and the meeting was in regards to the Mexican

    government giving a check to Pima Community College to support

    individuals of Mexican origin in our community.

         So we are so pleased of the relationship we have built with the

    consul, and we look forward to our ongoing relationship and

    strengthening our ties with the new consul in our community.

         Also, as Jim pointed out, if you have not had a chance, I know

    Mark got to see it, I highly recommend each board member go out and





    tour the new IT cybersecurity center of excellence.  It is state of

    the art, it's fantastic, and it fits into the living lab concept that

    you have heard us talking about, whether we're talking Trane, whether

    IBM, Tech Data, Raytheon, doesn't matter who the partnerships are

    with, we are focused on providing a world class experience based in

    the supplied work-base learning type of experience that is so

    necessary for each and every one of our students.

         Also, Dolores reported to me her attendance and our partnership

    with United Way, with the number of our city partners throughout the

    city with the K12s and many of the community-based organizations and

    business partners through the Cradle to Career initiative, two key

    focuses will be on digital literacy and the mental health wellness of

    our students.  I think they are spot on on the two twin challenges

    that we have got to do better for each and every student in our

    community.

         I want to leave with just some thoughts on trends and current

    issues.  The national conversation that is happening is more and more

    focused on upwards of 40 to 60 million working adults in our country

    who may not have a degree or may have some college or may need some

    upskilling and reskilling.  As Gallup and Strada has done surveying

    of well over half a million individuals across the country, a picture

    is starting to emerge.  And that picture is these individuals do not

    want to come to college for a long-term experience.  They want to get

    into a short-term experience, they are very open more so to noncredit

    than they are to credit.  It's overwhelming that the desire for that





    noncredit, but they want the noncredit to stack to improving their

    outcomes in life.

         Also, our challenge is to incorporate that noncredit in a

    stackable way to the credit side of the equation.  This is the work

    you're seeing a lot of states doing now, a lot of colleges and

    universities.  Also you're seeing a number of universities and

    community colleges partnering with edX to deliver on micro Bachelor's

    degrees, micro Master's degrees, more of that microfocus, if you

    will.

         And you're seeing community colleges who are taking that

    curriculum, bringing it into the classroom at their colleges, and the

    faculty are acting as facilitator and guides of the learning

    associated with those courses.

         So the courses are already built out.  It's now being able to

    leverage that for the students.

         So again, these are important things to pay attention to as we go

    forward, and it's exciting times ahead.  But it will not be the world

    we were in just before we went into this COVID.  We already knew it

    was trending in this direction, but it's now accelerating in this

    direction.

         So with that, I will be glad to answer any questions if you

    happen to have any.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Are there any questions for Chancellor

    Lambert?  Okay.

         Hearing none, we will move on to our information items.





    Mr. Silvyn, if you could please read the information items.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Thank you, Mr. Chair.  The information items

    are various reports and information that was provided to the board to

    provide them with some greater context about events happening at the

    college.

         The items that were shared with the board in preparation for this

    evening's meeting consist of the August 2020 financial statements,

    employment information which involved one hire, one separation, one

    retirement.

         The hiring of three provisional faculty members.  Those are

    one-year appointments.  A list of several individuals who were

    qualified to serve as adjunct faculty at Pima Community College.  A

    grant from the governor's office of highway safety to cover the cost

    of purchasing an electric motorcycle.  The period of the grant is

    from October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021, amount of the award

    is slightly over $30,000.

         The college also received a grant from the governor's office of

    highway safety for DUI impaired driving enforcement overtime that

    allows Pima Community College police officers to work with local law

    enforcements on DUI related task forces.

         The period of that grant is from October 1, 2020, through

    September 30, 2021, in the amount of $20,000.

         The next item is a third grant from the governor's office of

    highway safety program.  This is for enhanced pedestrian and bicycle

    enforcement activities around the Downtown and West Campuses.  That





    grant is from the period of October 1, 2020, through September 30,

    2021, in the amount of $7,000.

         Last item is finalization and posting of the college's revised AP

    on discrimination and retaliation prevention and complaint process.

    We originally published an interim policy.  We extended the comment

    period for an additional 30 days because it was a fairly significant

    revision.  We received a limited amount of comments.  Those were

    taken under consideration and then for the board we have shared what

    is the final version of that AP of course until it's subject to a

    further revision on a regular review cycle.

         That concludes all the information items.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much.

         Next is consent agenda, if you could read the consent items.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Thank you.  Minutes of the August 12, 2020

    that should be executive session meeting.  Next are the minutes from

    the August 12, 2020 special meeting.  Minutes from the September 9,

    2020 executive session meeting.  Minutes from the September 9, 2020

    regular meeting.

         Next we have an intergovernmental agreement with the Tohono

    O'odham regarding nursing care, a program for joint education and

    nursing with the tribal education authority.

         Next we have an intergovernmental agreement with Pima County

    OneStop for this is related to a federal grant from the U.S.

    Department of Health and Human Services that supports financially

    disadvantaged students in pursuing healthcare related careers.





         Next we have an intergovernmental agreement with the Whetstone

    fire district for the provision of vehicular rotations to help

    satisfy some of the training requirements for students in the

    college's paramedic program.

         Next we have amendments to a few dual enrollment agreements to

    expand course offerings with the districts that are the parties to

    those agreements, so one is with the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School

    District.  And the other is with the Tucson Unified School District.

    The specifics of the courses and locations are included in the board

    materials.

         That concludes the consent agenda items for this evening.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Is there a motion to approve the consent

    agenda?

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  So moved.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Second?  Well, I will second it.

         Is there any discussion?  Okay.

         Hearing none, Mr. Silvyn, if you could do a roll call vote.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Clinco?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Yes.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Dr. Hay?

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  Yes.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Hanna?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Yes.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Ms. Garcia?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Yes.





         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Gonzales?

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Abstain.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  So the consent agenda passes unanimously.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  I'm sorry, just to make a correction, I

    believe Mr. Gonzales abstained, so it would be four votes in favor

    and one abstention.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Yes, thank you very much for the

    clarification.

         Next is our action items.  We have one which is the discussion of

    possible approval to extend the term of the chancellor's existing

    contract by one year.

         Could you just provide a little bit of background on the item?

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Certainly, Mr. Chair.  I'd be glad to.

         So traditionally, or at least for the last few years, each year

    the Governing Board has sort of gone through a specific cycle with

    the chancellor, so that cycle has been that kind of in the

    spring/early summer.  The board has a retreat.  It conducts an

    evaluation of the chancellor, a review of his goals, as well as board

    priorities for the upcoming year.

         That results in an evaluation document which then the board

    drafts and approves usually at the first or second meeting in the new

    academic term, and then following that the board typically considers

    whether to make changes to the chancellor's employment contract.

         In most years, that change has consisted of adding an additional

    year to the contract to keep it at a fixed number of years.  So





    pursuant to state law, the maximum employment contract that the board

    can use for the position of chancellor is five years, and for the

    last few years the board has consistently tacked on an additional

    year so there is always a five-year contract in effect.

         Last year we got a little bit off of the cycle because we did a

    comprehensive compensation and benefits review.  We hired two outside

    consultants who did some benchmarking to look at how the current

    compensation structure for the chancellor at Pima Community College

    compared with comparable institutions in Arizona and in other states

    as well as some nonprofits, and the result of that was some

    modifications to the compensation provisions of the chancellor's

    contract.

         So because of that process, that caused a bit of delay, and we

    ended up, the board ended up voting on amendments to the chancellor's

    contract in February of 2020 as opposed to the fall of 2019, which is

    the normal cycle.

         So at the request of the board, I prepared a proposed amendment

    to the chancellor's contract which would essentially make it go from

    October of 2020 through October 2025, so again we'd have a five-year

    fixed term.  No terms of the contract were changed with respect to

    compensation.

         The one adjustment that was made was with the new budget that was

    passed for the current fiscal year we are in, the board approved a 1%

    pay raise for all employees, and the new contract, it reflects that

    1% change in the base compensation for the chancellor.





         So that's the proposal that was shared with the board obviously

    for discussion and consideration at this time.  And I'm happy to

    answer any questions if there is additional background that would be

    helpful.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  We need a motion in order to have a

    discussion.  Is there a motion to extend the term of the chancellor's

    contract by one year?

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  So moved.

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Second.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Discussion?  Is there any discussion from

    any of the members of the board?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Yes.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Ms. Garcia?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  So I am not willing to extend another year

    to the contract, because it consistently goes on for a year.  Most of

    the Pima (indiscernible) administration have a three-year contract.

         I know this was done way before I went in.  I really believe that

    no reflection on the chancellor at this point in time, but I really

    think that we need to stop that practice.  He has a five-year

    contract.  I'm willing to look at it next year, but there is some

    goals that have not been met.

         I understand that some of it is due to the pandemic.  I also

    think that some of the terms of the contract need to be changed, so

    I'm not willing to accept the contract as is or to add another term.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Chair, if you just indulge me for a





    second.  One thing I want to clarify.  So the chancellor is the only

    employee at the college that has a multi-year contract.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  I know that.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  There was a time in the past when others

    also did, but at this point in time he's the only employee.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  And I would just point out too that we,

    the board, passed, we evaluated the chancellor as part of our annual

    review, and the evaluation was unanimously passed and agreed to that

    he had met or exceeded expectations in his performance and management

    of the college.  That is what the document that we all passed stated.

         Additionally, I think it's worth just noting that over the last

    year, I'm just going to cover a few of the things that the chancellor

    has done.  I mean, and I will say again, having served on the board

    now for almost going on five years, where we started and where we

    have come has just been extraordinary.

         But in the last year, the development and progress on the centers

    of excellence.  We broke ground on the Aviation Technology Center,

    using $15 million in state support.

         Preparing for the ribbon cutting of the automotive technology and

    innovation center at Downtown Campus.  Cybersecurity center of

    excellence is nearing completion on the East Campus.

         Plans are completed for centers of excellence and hospitality on

    the Desert Vista Campus.  The COVID response has been highly

    effective.  The distribution of $5,995,925 to 7,946 students and the

    purchase of $2.6 million for students, computing support, computers,





    tablets, hotspots.  Pima was among the first to distribute its

    student-directed CARES funds in the state and Pima was among the

    first to distribute the emergency grants to students, really making a

    difference at a very critical moment.

         2,413 spring classes were converted to virtual or hybrid formats.

    484 hands-on courses were moved to summer so students could complete

    their programs.

         More than 1,200 faculty made the transition to virtual.  Nearly

    700 faculty received D2L webinar training during spring break.  More

    than 300 existing iPads and laptops were loaned out to faculty and

    staff so they could continue to teach remotely.

         We've received critical funding, $2.5 million gift from the

    Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation, and the National Institute of

    Health grants to increase participation in STEM by communities of

    color.

         We received National Bellwether Award for the developmental

    education, Adult Basic Education for College and Career readiness,

    IBEST initiatives, one of only four programs in the U.S. to be

    recognized in the advancing, innovation in adult showcase.  The

    amount saved by students, thanks to the open educational resource

    this year, broke 4.5 million.

         These are just large highlights.  I think we are very lucky to

    have Chancellor Lambert with his hand on the rudder during this time,

    and he has been extraordinary in helping to guide this institution

    through very choppy waters and I hope through what's coming next.





         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Let me add one more thing, if I may.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Go ahead, Ms. Garcia.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Okay.  So you can't give chancellor credit

    for everything that's been going on, because it's really the staff

    that does that work.  Okay?  The pandemic, cleaning of the areas, the

    teachers having to go in and relearn skills and going on to virtual,

    he didn't do that all.  Okay?  That was staff and the faculty.

         You know, I understand that he's the leader.  So I still don't

    -- I still don't see us -- and I'm going to tell you my main concern

    here.  My main concern is financial.  So therefore, that's my main

    focus, financial.

         The enrollment, the FTSEs right now is a little bit under 4,000,

    okay?  I don't understand how we're going to support the college with

    low enrollment.  You can't expect 481 to pass, and it's wrong for us

    to continue in the direction we are going and building, okay, with

    all the facilities that we already have.  I just can't see it.

         So I'm still going to say it.  I just can't.  I won't.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Comments from any other board members?

    Dr. Hay?

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  Sure.  I will just go on the record.  I

    think that Pima College has done an extra job over this past year

    under the leadership of Chancellor Lambert.  I can't imagine any

    other higher education leader being able to do as good a job as he

    has done in leading his team.

         It's always a team effort.  Anybody that works in a large





    organization knows it's a team effort and the leadership is

    absolutely essential for that.  A rolling five-year contract is a

    standard contract for university administrators, senior

    administrators, certainly.  And I certainly support the motion.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Any final comments?

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Hello?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Hearing none...

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Hello, hello.

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  Luis has a comment.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  I thought you said no.  Go ahead.  You're

    on mute.

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Thank you.  As Maria mentioned in

    reference to this contract, I know it's a five-year rolling contract,

    but for us to stay another year, I'm not able to support it at this

    point, because even with the presentation that we did in reference to

    the 481, maybe the 207, that might pass; it might not.  Still, there

    is a lot of unanswered questions that we have.  It's not fulfilled

    yet to us.  To me, Mr. Gonzales, and Ms. Garcia.  But at this point I

    cannot support it, unfortunately.  And I say no.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Okay.  Are there any final comments?

    Mr. Hanna?  Do you have anything to add?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Let me just say that we have a nationally

    recognized leader of this college who has moved the college from the

    brink of disaster, truly the brink of disaster, we were about ready

    to have our accreditation taken away, and I absolutely agree with





    Mrs. Garcia, Ms. Garcia, this is a team effort.  It takes a village

    to do this.  And there are many, many people involved.  But it's the

    leader who steers the ship.

         I have to say that I can't imagine that we would have found a

    more qualified person than Chancellor Lambert to lead us through this

    whole entire time.

         So having a five-year contract simply says to him, hey, I can

    continue, I don't have to worry about looking for another job, even

    though I'm quite sure there are many people who like to have him, has

    a solid, five-year contract knowing that he doesn't have to worry

    about what's coming up quickly.

         I think in terms of doing that, it just makes sense, any CEO is

    going to ask for some kind of stability in terms of their employment

    contract.

         So I don't have a problem with it.  I think he's a very talented

    person.  That's just the way I feel.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Thank you very much, Mr. Hanna.  Again, I

    want to be very clear.  In no way am I trying to diminish the

    extraordinary contributions of everybody within the institution.  I

    certainly know and clearly everyone on this board is highly aware

    that this is a massive team effort.

         But it does take leadership and it takes somebody providing

    clarity and direction and where the ship is going, and Chancellor

    Lambert has done that, and we all unanimously voted to approve his

    review.





         With that, Mr. Silvyn, if you could please read the vote roll.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Thank you, Mr. Chair.  Mr. Clinco?

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Yes.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Dr. Hay?

         >> DR. MEREDITH HAY:  Yes.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Hanna?

         >> MR. MARK HANNA:  Yes.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Ms. Garcia?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  No.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Mr. Gonzales?

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  No.

         >> MR. DEMION CLINCO:  Okay.  The motion passed 3 to 2.

         The next item on our agenda is our request for future agenda

    items.

         We have received a letter from Mr. Gonzales and Ms. Garcia.  We

    will certainly work to get a number of those items agendized in the

    coming months with some special study sessions.

         Is there anything else in particular anybody else would like to

    discuss as being added?

         Okay.  Hearing none, the meeting is adjourned.  Thank you, all.

         (Adjournment.)





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