President’s Report to Academic Senate

Meetings:

Financial and Budget Planning Advisory Council (FABPAC): August 19, 2009. VP of Technology and Learning Resources Field led FABPAC through ACCJC recommendation seven and sought input and advise on how to move forward. As you recall, FABAC is the working group for this recommendation. It was a very productive session and by the end the group had divided the workload and knew what to do. They will review the narrative for recommendation seven at the next meeting. Then, Judy Anderson presented to the group a new FABPAC calendar that incorporates and accommodates the important dates of the Integrated Planning Process. Finally, Dr. Laguerre communicated to the group that the budget forums held over the later part of the summer were well attended and produced many good cost saving ideas. He also mentioned that he had received from CSEA list of "34 things" that represented their ideas on cost savings. I've also attached here the latest version of the college's efforts to respond to our budget deficiencies, the "People and Things" list.

Board of Trustees (BOT) Meeting: August 19, 2009: 1) The College accepted a donation for $5,000 from the Chinese-American Association of Solano County and another $5,000 from CC Yin McDonald's to the SCC Educational Foundation for Students Helping Students Grant. 2) Dr. Steinback gave an accreditation update. 3) Dr. Laguerre informed the BOT about the budget forums. 4) Kitchell received an award for the design of the Vallejo Center. 4) The BOT approved the divisional reorganization. 5) S. Rinne gave a 4th Quarter CCFS-311Q report. The final word is that we will have a $1,077,000 deficit. 5) Dr. Laguerre announced the Student Budget Forum that will take place on September 3rd.

Shared Governance Council (SGC): August 26, 2009. Dr. Steinback chaired the meeting for Dr. Laguerre who could not be present. There was a lively discussion on two different job descriptions, one for the Director of Fiscal Services and the other for a Bond Accountant. This was due in part to the fact that the job descriptions were originally from the late '90s and needed to be updated and because the representative duties for the Director of Fiscal Services had been modified significantly. Other news included a change in SGC membership. Dr. S. Lewis is no longer a representative for management but rather for the Minority Coalition. We also reviewed and discussed our meeting schedule. Over the summer we had switched to a 1-3 timeslot and now need to move back to our regular 2-4 time. We also agreed to continue to meet over next summer. This is significant because even though most faculty are not here, SGC needs to be able to continue and we need to have a voice on what is being done while most of us are gone.

Updates:

Accreditation: As of today there I can say that all Working Groups have met and are in the process of completing their section of the report. As Dr. Steinback mentioned in her most recent e-mail, you should contact the co-chairs for their meeting schedules if you'd like to participate face-to-face or you can visit http://techlr.pbworks.com/. Also, Tracy Schneider has agreed to serve as the accreditation editor!

Basic Skills Committee: As you know, most, if not all, of the BSI coordinator positions are up for renewal. The positions are currently being reviewed by SCFA. I believe that they will be moving on them shortly. However, there are areas the Senate should watch. 1) There is a budget report due in October. 2) BSI has several initiatives planned, from last semester, that need to move forward. 3) There is a Coordinator Workshop on September 17th and somebody should go. [Funding for this comes from the BSI budget]. 4) The Senate might want to consider having regular non-coordinator representatives to this committee so that business can continue in times like this.

Integrated Planning Process (IPP): The IPP has been approved by SGC. Rob Simas has sent a request to the appropriate individuals for representation on the Process Review and Evaluation Team (PERT). Senate President serves as a standing member of this group and I've been asked to appoint two faculty members. I'm going to appoint Ruth Fuller and Tracy Schneider because they have been on the ground floor of the IPP since the beginning.

Hiring Committees: I've appointed Terri Pearson-Bloom and Thom Watkins to the Director of Human Resources hiring committee and Michael Goodwin and Adrienne Cary to the Vice President of Business and Administrative Services hiring committee.

Administrative Assistant for the Senate: As you might know, Christy Martin has found full time work at Travis Air Force Base. I've put through the paperwork to hire Connie Adams who will begin working on September 3rd.

Faculty Development Committee: I've been asked to serve on the ASCCC faculty development committee. Wish me luck.