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good evening. and iapologize for our tardiness. good evening. welcome. i'd now like to call theregular board meeting of september 29th, 2015-- or august -- yeah. you know, i justread this -- no. no. no. it's okay. what i find interestingis that i will read anything that's here and pretendthat it makes sense. my apologizesoctober 27th, 2015.

i'd like to call ms.mcgrath to say the pledge. thank you. i'd like to remindeveryone there is no comma. i pledge allegiance to theflag of the united states of america, and to therepublic for which it stands, one nation undergod, indivisible, with liberty andjustice for all. oh. it's all right. we can argue aboutgrammar later on.

welcome this evening aswell to dr. maria hess's asu class members, theamerican -- where are you? yay. thank you. did they bribeyou to come here? did they bribe you? okay. very fair. very fair. before i go on, i wouldlike to announce that there are somesubstitutions for this evening. josh mackey for dr. lacoyashelton-johnson and

rey rivera for shari olson. and welcome to ourinterims mary o'connor, chris haines, andbill guerriero. bill, where are you? right here. how do you sayyour last name? guerriero. thank you, sir. thank you and welcome.

student life report. i'd like to first beginwith glendale community college. and where are you? come on down. welcome. hello. hi. good evening membersof the governing board, chancellor glasper --can everyone hear me? good evening governing boardmembers, chancellor glasper, presidents, especiallyof our own, dr. kovala.

it's a pleasure to be heretongiht presenting the student life report forglendale community college. we are associate studentgovernment and my name is jesus saldana, presidentof this organization. we're thankful for thisopportunity to talk with you about our pastacademic year and what may lay ahead for our institutionas well as our students. some of the concernsexpressed last year are still ever present:dwindling or insufficient

resources, studentengagement strategic directions and ourdesire to see one another complete our degreesand reach our goals. this past year theleadership center and associate studentgovernment personally touched the livesof over 32 students. it took two campuses andcountless hours to do it, but all in all,it was worth it. we would like to sharesome of our experiences

and insight withyou this evening. as you can see, i'vebrought my governing board with me to elaborate on ourroles as student leaders at gcc. i would like to introducemy vice president jessica mateo. throughout the schoolyear and even the summer, students working hardtry to balance academics, extracurricular activities, andlife responsibilities. however, despite all this,many students also want to better themselves throughhoning and developing

their leadership skills. this is where glendalecommunity college steps up and offers opportunitiesfor growth through leadership opportunities,which include workshops, retreats, and conferences. many of which arefacilitated entirely to make the best possible useof our talented faculty and existing resources. clubs also take theirmembers growth into their

own hands by takingthe initiative to host campus-wide events andattend conferences and conventions that areinherent to their missions. psi beta and amnestyinternational are perfect examples of this withplans to attend the wpa and ai western conferencerespectfully later this year. the most rewarding partof all these leadership growth opportunities isthe experience of hearing of our studentsexcitedly sharing their

stories and passing ontheir newfound knowledge. one peer learningfrom a fellow peer. it doesn't get anybetter than that. please meet ourtreasurer ariel garcia. possibility. more than a word, it isalive for the excitement of achieving goals,center, or otherwise. to advance studentlife at gcc. our student organizationare planning trips that

have meaning andalong with our student leadership center planand host events that are engaging to our students,staff, and community members alike. this is the most evidentin our diverse culture activities andpresentations. through creativeprogramming, our internal and external communitiesare important for us to experience presentationsand film series that are

relevant and timely totoday's current issues. please meet oursecretary, teresa bruno. as a part of the studentgovernment, we feel that it is imperative to bethe voice of our students. to gain the opinions ofour students we need communication withgcc clubs in our open business meetings. constantly seeking toimprove this, we have asked for our studentpopulations input and are

actively seeking waysto implement their suggestions, even smallchanges can have great lasting results. to further increasecommunication with gcc's clubs, we encourage allstudent government members to attend other clubsmeetings and perhaps even be active membersin other clubs. we believe in this way,through cross pollination, we are stronger and moreresponsive to their needs,

while also carryingforward two messages: we care and academicscome first. to talk more about who weare as a student group, our growth, and what we'veaccomplished thus far, here is our publicrelations andre garcia. several years ago, whenthe student leadership center first opened itsdoors, there were less than 25 studentorganizations on campus and a student government boardthat seldom saw a full board.

fast forward seven years,and we now have more than 60 student organizationson campus, a thriving and engaged student life,and an associate student government that routinelyhas a full board with an accumulative gpa muchhigher than the required 2.0. student governmentinvolvement has grown from merely attending eventson campus to actually planning andfacilitating them. our most recent endeavorwas providing our fellow

students with a verysuccessful spirit week and dia de los muertostheme homecoming dance. we have seen larger andlarger numbers of student involvement as we continueto set our goals higher and higher each year. we look forward to moreof this hard work and will strive to continueour growth on campus. to conclude ourpresentation this evening, i'd like to once againreintroduce our president

jesus saldana. as you can see, gccleaders both from student government and our otherclub organizations are taking a part in theirpersonal college and community growth. we, as student government,encourage these leaders to not only exceed inside theclassrooms but outside. we promote many activitiesfor students to encourage their social interactionswithin the college such as

our evening entertainmentseries, homecoming week festivities, and our expansionactivities at gcc north. we appreciate having theopportunity to address you this evening. no, no, no, no, no. mr. saldana, no, no, no. that's not how i play. no. no. we at least allow theboard to ask any questions

or have any comments. board? well, i do. first of all, thank youfor taking the time and coming down here andpresenting in front of us. we're not that scary. they are, but we're not. thank you very much. i agree with all of you.

and thank you very muchfor getting involved. and getting involved isthe key to success at the college level, actually, at anylevel academically and in life. so thank you very much. madam chair, i dohave a question. i was impressed about thestatistic growth in student clubs, because ithink those kind of relationships encouragestudents to be successful in the classrooms.

so i congratulateyou on that. i guess you cansit down now. nobody else has anything. sorry. dr. ernie lara fromestrella mountain and presenting tonight thecybersecurity program. good evening, presidentlivingston, members of the board, dr. glasper,and fellow cec members. tonight, we have a collegereport from estrella

mountaincommunity college. this report will includean overview of a new program, which focuses ontraining students for a career pathwayin cybersecurity. specifically, the facultywill discuss how this new program was recentlydesignated as a center of academic excellence incyber defense 2-year education by the unitedstates national security agency, the nsa, and thedepartment of homeland security.

please, allow me tointroduce the estrella mountain faculty memberswho are here this evening to share more about thisnew exciting program. mr. jim nichols,instructional computing division chairand cas faculty, mr. larry heinz,cas faculty. and also in the audienceis dr. heather weber dean of occupational educationand workforce development. thank you, dr. lara,president livingston,

members of the board, dr.glasper, and the cec members. thank you for having usthis evening so we can share information with youon the estrella mountain community collegecybersecurity program. cybersecurity is somethingthat everybody has been aware of certainlyhas been in the news. the part that has alwaysbeen interesting is everybody thinks it is alarge force in front of us. the reality is mostcybersecurity is really

the dudes in the back. they're usually makingeverything happen for us. and we'd like to help takethis program and train that new level, a wholenew education for the young students and getsome more of our student body involved. this started out with aprocess with the get into energy arizonacorridor grants. as the energy programpartners with aps, srp,

get in arizonacorporation, and others went through and lookedat just the energy requirementsfor employees. 2000 through 2050, thenumber of employees we would need in theworkforce to support energy alone isgrowing exponentially. they came to us. we were able to help them,chandler-gilbert, all the community colleges gottogether and went we can

help build aworkforce for them. cybersecurity wasadded last minute. it was requested byindustry and it was a three-year project and itwas added in year three. local subject matterexperts, we were fortunate to have with us at thatpoint in time, mike echols, who wrote the bookon smart grid security. and we were ableto engage him. and he helped bring thisprogram to a complete

circle andfruition for us. so he's still a member ofour academic process and one of ouradjunct faculty. and it's a pleasureto have him on board. one of the many grantsthat helped this, the national informationsecurity, geospatial technologies consortiumalso known as nisgtc. this grant involvedboth estrella mountain community college, rio,and south mountain.

and we were pleasedto partner with them. the grant provided anincredible amount of resources, infrastructure,and support to include tutors, success coaches,and the people that made this happenand help go on. united states departmentof homeland security, national securityadministration, federal bureau of investigationinfragard, arizona department of publicsafety, arizona cyber

threat response allianceand the arizona counter terrorism intelligencecenter, were all part of our partners and academicreview process that helped us put this together. when we looked at this, wedecided we really needed to get the people who knewwhat the cybersecurity threats were involved. and they have been part ofthe advisor ship for this along the entire way.

getting into energy was aprocess when we looked at it and we wanted to be able todo stackable credentials. as with any of theeducational programs, we need to be able -- one ofthose take the successes they had and grow on it. as you can see from the chart,it is a bit of an eye chart. but we start with the verysimple things with any of our students, personaleffectiveness, academic requirements,workforce requirements.

from there, we'll takethem into the process of industry-wide technicalinformation and then start to narrow down into thespecific information that we're looking for or needto have: occupational specific knowledge areas,occupational specific technical, and occupationalspecific requirements. each of these has beenreviewed carefully, and the program has been basedupon these requirements. turn it over to joe.

all right. thank you. so when we started to researchthe -- what was happening. sir, would you introduceyourself, please. oh. i'm sorry. my name isjim nichols. i'm the division chair forinstructional computing and thank you for theopportunity to come and present. we're researchingthe industry and the competencies that studentswould need to build their skills and knowledge sets.

a few years back, it wasmuch more wild west as far as a lack ofstandardization for cybersecurity competencies. lately, they've been kindof standardizing around the national initiativefor cybersecurity education. but back when we started, itwas far more widespread. so it was a bit of a choreto kind of corral it and kind of gather it in. what we endeavor to dois look at the different

levels of cybersecurityproficiency and try to map it to the differentlevels of education. high school education,associate's degree level, bachelor's level,master's level. so that we can make alifelong career plan where students could achieveskills at each level and have stopouts where theyto go into industry. they could go and work. they could perhaps workon their next level of

education while on theworkforce or not or whether their in theworkforce or not and keep moving up their own. so the diagram here onthe left is trying to show these four areas: highschool, associate's degree level, bachelor's degree,and master's degree. and i recognize thattext is so tiny. i don't have a chanceto read it myself. but if you could see whatit's basically showing is

an outline of some of thecontents and some of the competencies that youwould achieve at each level assess and someof the certifications, professionalcertifications that are appropriate at each level. and the same informationhas been referenced here in this table. so this is what we kind ofput together and this is kind of the skeleton ofthe program invented by

all the groups that larryspoke about earlier. what we were able to do isbuild upon our strengths at estrella mountain. we had an existing networktechnology institute, which includes severalprograms such as the cisco networking program,red hat linux program, microsoft programs, thingslike virtualization or hardware, basicallythings that are generally associated withinformation technology.

and these things arethings that are already a strength forestrella mountain. so when we went to theadvisory group and we learned that those verythings are the things that build the foundationfor strong cyber defense workforce, we knew thatwe were in our wheelhouse. we were lucky enoughthrough an nisgtc grant, as larry mentioned, to beable to bring on things like success coaches andcontent specific tutors

and a variety of otherresources that with we were able to packagetogether all in a centralized location underan institute model, and it's been very,very successful. so in addition to thestrengths we already have, we were able to addon new programs. the it and power systemsecurity degree and the imbedded ccl thatgoes with it. in order to go from thispoint forward, we needed

to submit a variety ofinformation as criteria towards the nsa and thedepartment of homeland security designation asa center for academic excellence for two-yearschools in cybersecurity. and so they have a robustlist of knowledge units that must be metin the curriculum. and we were able to showthat our curriculum does in deed match thoseunits and more. we were required to showthat our instructional

methods, including ourlabs actually would develop the skillsrequired for the workplace. and also that as aninstitution, both at estrella and maricopa asa whole that we practice what we preach, thatour security -- our it security efforts match thesort of material that we are teaching in class. so we were successful lastyear -- actually, this year achieved thecae2y designation.

we are the first communitycollege in arizona to receive that designation. there are threeuniversities that have the four-year version. and so we're looking verymuch forward to partnering with them asa progression. and i'll share in a littlebit plans for just that. some of the benefits inaddition to just holding the designation are thatthere's some level of

quality assurance. and essentially, when thenational security agency says this program is agood program for learning information security, ithink that's probably a pretty good thing. as far as opportunitiesfor students the program includes a variety ofopportunities such as access to conferences,scholarship opportunities. there's a scholarship forservice program, which is

usually pointing towardsthe four-year student, but we're hoping to be ablecreate a bridge to get there as well. this is somewhat whatthe program looks like. you know, larry sharedthat this stemmed from the power industry. our get into energy grantpartners wanted to see cybersecurity in terms ofsecuring the power infrastructure.

and so the focus of theprogram began as to this power it systemsecurity track. and our subject matterexperts helped to build a robust curriculumthat does just that. but we widened out ouradvisory committee because there was many otherindustries that are looking for this sort ofthing as well, not just power. and so we were able tocreate tracks in network security, cisco-centric,and two versions of system

security including redhat linux and microsoft so students have a choice ofwhich track that they may want to pursue on topof the security core. and every one of thesetracks, including the core, has multiple industrycertifications that students will learn aboutand be able to challenge based on what they'relearning in class. i mentioned earlierpartnerships as far as pathways that serpentinegraphic that you saw earlier.

we definitely wanted tofocus on incoming high school students and seewhat kind of partnerships we could create with them. we were lucky enough to beable to partner with the met high school inthe peoria district. it's a medical engineeringand technology school. and for the technologypiece, they decided to partner with usin cybersecurity. and so we have studentsout there through dual

enrollment and coreenrollment that are taking the first of theprogressional classes and planning to continue onat estrella mountain after graduation fromhigh school. we have a number ofcollege to university partnerships, cyberforensics program with arizona state universitywest, which is one of the universities in arizonathat is a cae4y high school. we've got cybersecurityand a masters in science

in it with a focus incybersecurity both at excelsior college, whichis an online college out of new york. and then we have apartnership with nau, which is our aas mapto their bachelor in interdisciplinarystudies in it management. and the nice thing aboutthat particular program. it's a 90/30 program. it will take up to90 credits from the maricopas.

and so if a studentcompletes this degree with 60 to 65 credits, theyhave this gap of 30 credits where they canachieve their -- and they can also pursue anadditional track and fulfill more industrycertifications as they work on towards theirbachelors, all at the maricopas. so that's a reallynice feature. that's the quick overviewof the program. are there questions?

my voice is not 100% here. so bear with me. in terms of jobs, i mean,this is pretty much a given that anybody thatqualifies for this whole progression is going toeither have an internship or a job in arizona andother places around the country. what i've always thoughtwas interesting is what kind of prerequisites in termsof aptitude a student needs. i think of nerds sittingbehind a computer all day.

you know, just like yousee last night on tv, i guess, they hadthis cyber thing. but is that a unique setof skills coming into the program that one needs orare these skills that you can learn through theprocess of your program? i certainly believe thatany student can learn and, you know, every studentscomes in at different levels with differentknowledge and abilities. but all of this iscertainly attainable.

our, kind of, fulcrum ofthe program is a couple of classes that are the firstlevel of cybersecurity. and those classes haveheavy prerequisites, a little bit of networking,a little bit of system security in linux and microsoftethics, mis compliance. and so by the time theyeven touch the nuts and bolts of cybersecurity,we've got a foundation going of the fundamentalsand all those other things. so it buildsin increments.

but absolutely, i thinkany student can learn. outside of the technicalside of the things, how important are core classeslike math, obviously, and science in preparing yourselfto get into this program? absolutely important. so in one of those slidesthat showed kind of the tiered skill levels. the first tier wasabout kind of personal, interpersonal abilities,and kind of being able to

present yourself well. by the time it got tothird level, it was about workforce appropriateness. things like, team work andmanaging time and things along those lines. and so sandwiched inbetween those two levels are the fundamentalknowledge and abilities that you would expect thestudent or employee to be able to have,reading, writing.

math is a big part ofcybersecurity, as it is any networking orcomputer program, really. this is exciting stuff. we've been looking at thisfor a year or two now. and it's nice to see thatwe're really starting now on our way to puttingpeople in place to keep organizations like thisfrom having problems like that. absolutely. thank you. any other questions?

chancellor glasper. madame chair, members ofthe board, i would like to comment and thank dr. laraand estrella mountain for this movement. i would like to read arecommendation to you. i would like to remind --also remind the board that i currently sit on thedepartment of homeland security academicadvisory council. and with that, we adopteda recommendation about a

year back or so. and it talks about how dhscan partner with academia to build a pipeline ofdiverse students and stem. and i was provided these slidesby dr. lara and his staff. and i presented thethe pathway slide. and i also presented thestackable credentials. currently, dhs looksat only hiring bachelor's degree workers. we have now adopted arecommendation which

builds on increasingthe number of community colleges as centers for academicexcellence in cybersecurity. and they're also adoptingthe pathway in terms of looking at stackablecredentials and the movement from communitycolleges into the bachelor's program. there's a level ofconversation that talks about the retentionof employees and the ability to then align itwith the k-12 system and

begin to look at a wholepathway through the elementary and highschool level and into the university, if that'swhat they want to do. so i'm also sharing thatthe scholarships that are currently available areincreasing and that they have a commitment ofthree years to dhs. that if our studentsare successful, that the federal government wantsthem to pay it off, but they'll give them a job.

so this is directlyaligned with federal jobs and there's a series ofrecommendations of which many have been adoptedby dhs in the last four years. so i applaud you in yourefforts and your work has been noticed. thank you verymuch, gentlemen. obviously, this is very current,very now, and very needed. so thank you very muchfor bringing this forward. dr. lara, thank you forhelping develop this.

it's exciting. well, dr. bustamante, itlooks like we're bringing forth white houserecognitions. so a step further. president livingston, members ofthe board, chancellor glasper members of cec and guests,i'd like to share some exciting information abouttwo recognitions from the white house and two grants thatrio salado recently received. in september, as part ofthe white house initiative

on educational excellencefor hispanics, rio salado was recognized as a brightspot in education for adults achieving acollege education program. rio's ace program is ascholarship-based college and career readinesspathway for adults age 16 and older who arecommitted to completing a degree or acertificate program. and a core mission of theprogram is to serve first generation and minoritystudents who would

otherwise not of have anopportunity to attend college. the adult ace pathwaysprogram also allows eligible students toconcurrently enroll in ged classes while takingdevelopmental and 100-level credit basedgeneral education classes. the ultimate goal is toimprove student success by facilitating a smoothtransition between pre-college andpost-secondary classes. i'd also like tocongratulate my sister

institution south mountaincommunity college, who was also recognized in thesame category for their bilingual nursingfellows program. also earlier this month,as part of the same white house initiative rio'steacher education program was one of more than 100commitment's to action recognized nationally. and since arizona faces anextreme teacher shortage with reports of some26,000 current educators

being eligible forretirement by june 30th, 2018, a grow your ownteacher certification pathway's committment from riowill reach out to high enrollment hispanicpublic school districts, charters, and privateschools to identify members of these specificcommunities who may have an interest in any ofthe programs rio salado college, including theother maricopa community colleges, that providesfrom any range of ged

preparation classes topost-bachelorette programs and master's degreespartnership to grow the pipeline of qualified teachersnow and into the future. so we certainly want to doour share in making sure we have qualified teachersin the future in our classrooms. then, also, last month riosalado was rewarded a $2.6 million first in theworld u.s department of education grant. and the selection processwas highly competitive and

rio salado was only oneof 17 schools chosen from throughout the u.s. frommore than 300 applications. also, in september, riosalado received another grant from thegates foundation. this would be the sixthgrant we've received from them, which will providea 500 and -- provide $575,000 to support theplanning and preparations for an out-of-state onlineprogram expansion that we hope will create revenuegenerating opportunities

for both the collegeand the district. with your approval thisevening on this board agenda, we will begin our work on thistwo specific grants. i appreciate the membersof the rio team who worked on these grants andcongratulate them on these successful outcomes. dr. shannon mccarty, whois our dean of instruction has led these teams andis with us this evening to share some brief detailsabout the key elements of

these two grants. dr. mccarty. thank you, dr. bustamante. president livingston,members of the board, dr. glasper, members ofthe cec, and guests, it is a pleasure to come hereand speak to you tonight about these, really, 2exciting and innovative grant opportunities thathave become through rio. the first one as dr.bustamante spoke to is

called "first in theworld." rio has named our portion of the grantcalled the plus grant. it's planning forundergraduate success. it is a four-year grant, a$2.67 million opportunity. through this grant overfor the next four years we will be serving newstudents to rio salado college. they will be degreeseeking, specifically in the areas of an aa, an as,an abs, an ags, or a transfer degree to one ofthe universities.

they can bedeemed at-risk. and for many of us thatis a high population of students we currentlyserve, 25-plus, a part-time student, thecan be a minority student, veteran, ged completer,first generation. so their deemed at-riskor a high need of support. what we will be doingto serve these students. first, we will be enrollingthem in a plus seminar. and really what your plusseminar does will be

focusing on ismetacognitive skills. so we're going to beteaching students how to set goals, timemanagement, study skills, grit, self-efficacy. all of this will befacilitated by a plus coach. and the plus coach isreally going to be -- have the opportunity tointervene with the student, to reach out,to nudge the student when appropriate,to provide that resource

and support for thesestudents as they enter college forthe first time. also, they will be enrolled in afocus sequence of courses of 13 credits -- for theirfirst 13 credits. and the courses that wehave selected are those that we know that studentsare highly successful in. all of this will occur duringthe first year of the grants. and then in the secondyear, which i think adds a little bit of excitementto the grant opportunity,

we will take the plusseminar and the focus sequence of courses and put themin an adaptive platform. an adaptive platform isreally allowing us to personalize theprocess for students. it's going to have arobust analytics behind the system that reallyprovides those just in time outreach opportunities forthe faculty member that's facilitating the courseincreases interventions and just reallyopportunities for that

student to be successful. so really the premisebehind the first of the world grants is we'regoing to get students in, set them up right fromthe start to be highly successful, to teach themhow to be self-resilient and self-reliableonline learners. that's the firstin the world grant. the next grant is thestudents success and scaling initiative.

and this grant is from the billand melinda gates foundation. it is a $575,000 grant and it'sa very short-term grant. but what we're reallygoing to be doing with the funds is we're goingto build on areas of successful best practices. we're going to beleveraging what we already have learned from our workwith the gates foundation and then utilizing ourexperience offering high quality online education.

and we're going to createa business model that will allow us to scale and thenserve underserved student populationsoutside of arizona. so during the grantperiod, we're going to be assembling a team ofhigher education experts. and these experts aregoing to collaborate with rio specific teams thatare going to be focused on the student life cycles. so that's from recruitmentto graduation, the entire

student experience,technology from looking at platforms and devices tosupports and apps. academic learningplatforms, possible courseware offerings,student information systems that can supportthese innovative practices and then just bestpractices for outreach moving forward. so at the end of thegrant, we'll be supplying -- we'll have abusinessman in place, a

timeline forimplementation, and then a final white paper that we willshare with the gates foundation. and i can say with workingwith the gates foundation, they were very excitedabout this opportunity. they see it as definitelyan opportunity just to learn how we would take adeep dive, how community colleges go into beingresilient and also just relentless improvement. and then adding thatinnovation behind our plan.

so those are the two grants thati came to speak about. so thank you. any questions? mr. saar. both grants have atimeline; one in three years and onein eight months. is there somesustainability. the second one i'm moreinterested in, i guess, for this question.

but it sounds like thisis a catalyst to develop a program that willor won't work. we'll find this out. but that not only can weuse here at maricopa, and especially at rio, but thiscould be shared nationwide. i assume that's whatthese grants do and in our case especially. yes. with the gates grant partof the white paper is not sharing the secret sauce,so to speak, but really

just sharing the process. so if other institutionswanted to create sort this kind of deep diveopportunity and work with other higher ed experts,they would have kind of a step-by-step directionaloutcome of how do to so, but not really sharing what welearned during our process. regarding the first grant,your source of students for that, where do yousee that coming from? we looked at the currentstudents that we do serve.

and we see over the fouryears that we would be able to serve about 6800students from those who are alreadyenrolled at rio. so, yeah. we just continue to servethe students we already do, just providing theseopportunities for them. and this is thethree-year grant? a four-year grant. do you see an extension ofthat on our own that we

can continue the programlong term, whether it's grant funded or not,if it's successful? yes, absolutely. part of the grant isreally doing a very controlled study to reallydetermine what variables can help thesestudents be successful. and i think allowingus that opportunity to identify what, you know,intervention, support, resources need to be putin place will allow us

that opportunity to putmoney where we need to knowing that that's wherestudents are most successful. there's also opportunitiesthrough first in the world. after the originalimplementation grant is a validation grant. so then you can go outand apply using those same premises and variables thatyou wanted to study and move forward then withvalidating that, hey, that really did work.

so it wasn't just, youknow, short-term, a four-year opportunity. and a final question. you have rio's system. is this also applicableto a brick and mortar operation? for the firstin the world? yes. oh, absolutely. yes.i can see that. what we learned, yes, itcould be used for brick

and mortar, forhybrid learning. absolutely. thank you so much. oh, yeah. thank you. any others commentsor questions? it's very impressivethis evening. the work that you've alldone to put these grants together is amazing. and you'll serve a greatpopulation, because the at-risk learner isdefinitely the one we need

to pull back in. moving on this evening. faculty executivecouncil report. ms. salina bednarek. that's fine. don't worry. chancellor glasper,members of the cec, and guests, i'm now in mysixth month as faculty association president andi've had the pleasure of speaking with each of youon many occasions prior

to this evening. i know from thoseconversations that we all share a commitmentto student learning and student success, themechanisms by which this great institution bringsthe benefits of higher education toour community. faculty are central tothat shared mission. student success dependson having highly qualified and engaged faculty in ourclassrooms, who provide

second-to-none educationbased on up-to-date techniques and knowledge. our faculty believe in thatmission and that responsibility. they carry them out everyday in their interactions with students. residential facultyare the foundation of maricopa's ability todeliver superior education for our students,their families, and our communities and businessesthat need skilled employees.

while i advocatefor the faculty as the president of the facultyassociation, i'm also here tonight to advocate forall mcccd employees. we are all apart of maricopa. we are all important tomaking this system thrive. i stand before you tonightto tell you that it is time. it is time that we havean open conversation about compensation forour employees. it is time that werecognize the quality and

value of the work all employeescontribute to this system. while i fully recognizethe fiscal realities of our district, i alsorecognize that the district's continuedsuccess depends on the ability to attract andretain highly qualified diverse workforcethrough competitive and progressive compensation. the employees at maricopahave been patient. we have been good soldiersin difficult times.

we have trusted thatour compensation was a priority for the districtand that it would be addressed as soon asit was able to do so. it is time that werecognize our hardworking and innovative anddedicated employees who've remained with us throughthe past seven years. during that time, wageshave been stagnant with only a modest colaadjustments, multiple modest cola adjustmentsand single step salary increase.

we are fortunate to workin this district, but we are also valuableprofessionals who bring an enormous amount of energy andtalent to this enterprise. we choose to work formaricopa, because we believe in its mission andvision for our community. we have chosen to remainlargely silent about the lack of salary increasethis last several years and focus on the immediateneeds of our district, but now it is time.

i respect the fiscaldecisions that become -- that are some of the mostdifficult that you face, requiring you to maketough decisions to protect the quality of theinstitution as well as to represent the interestof your constituents. i urge you to consideryour role as trustees of this district, trusteesnot only of the fiduciary and administrationoperations of this district, but of itsreputation as the home of

excellent faculty, of itslegacy as an exemplary community college districtand its history of success. if the district is toremain great, to build upon and continue toimprove decades of innovation and quality,then it must retain the human capital on whichthat greatness is founded. we need to keep ourengaged and committed employees. we need to do what we mustto prioritize those who make maricopa great,its employees.

madame president, couldi ask that she please identify herself? my name is salinabednarek, and i am the faculty associationpresident. b-e-d-n-a-r-e-k. the adjunct facultyassociation report, dr. lindsay dippold. good evening. oh, come on, guys.

it's just getting good. homework. where's the the love? board, dr. glasper,members of the cec, and guests. my name islindsay dippold. i am the adjunct facultyassociation representative for gatewaycommunity college. i'm in my second year inthis position and i was asked to come and give youguys a brief overview of a

program we're doing atgateway community college called the adjunctfaculty academy. this is in its secondyear as a pilot program. it is a paid trainingopportunity for new adjunct faculty. so we target those adjunctfaculty that have been teaching in the districtfor less than three years to do this intensivecohort model training. last year we startedwith six adjunct faculty

from various disciplines. and we have increased fromten from gateway and we opened it up and invited sixfrom phoenix college to join us. so one saturday amonth from 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon, adjunctfaculty give up their college game day watchingand other more important responsibilities to learnabout pedagogy and many different things. so some of the programoutcomes are to not only

participate, butcontribute to a collaborative community toidentify, utilize campus resources, create a planto integrate available resources into teachingstrategies to promote retention completion andstudent success, to design lesson plans that alignwith course competencies, accurately access learninglearning and engage students, to utilizeavailable instructional technology to improvedelivery of course

curriculum and increasestudent learning and engagement, and developa plan for continued professional growth. so we cover things such asemphasis motivation, some of the research behindactive learning, and the importance behindlesson planning. and the idea is that astinto will be here on friday for the studentsuccess conference, there's a lot of researchout there that says

adjunct faculty don't knowthe resources as well as residential faculty. so this is a way tointroduce them to the resources and help themutilize those and of course to positivelycorrelate with retention, but to also to increase theirown job satisfaction so they feel better aboutthemselves and their ability to teachin the classroom. and so while we only have16 participants, if you

think, say, their teachingthree courses with 20 students each, they'rereaching a thousand students almost persemester each time. so we have continued planswith support from our center for teaching andlearning as well and as mcli's, maricopa'scenter for learning and instruction, and our owngateway administration to continue, expand, andshare those resources with anyone who is interestedin developing their

adjunct faculty, so. any comments orquestions for lindsay? it's very good. thank you for your time. i'm surprisedyou only have 16. hopefully, it will grow. yes, and we hope togrow the budget as well. we're beingcreative with it identifying. thank you. okay.

dr. rey rivera, theemeritus distinction award for the south mountaincommunity college. dr. rivera. president livingston, withyour permission, may i approach the podium? yes, please. board, chancellor glasper,members of cec, and guests. we've been granted afew minutes on tonight's agenda for a very specialpurpose, to announce and celebrate the conferringof emeritus status upon an

individual whose impact onsouth mountain community college and in particularour students have been truly extraordinary. tonight, we recognizedr. oscar hardin. although dr. hardinhas been with maricopa community college districtfor more than 25 years, we were privileged to havehim at south mountain community collegeapproximately for the last ten. during his tenure as psychologyfaculty at south mountain,

he has had a tremendousimpact on his students. one of his students saidthat he was the best instructor he had ever had. and another accreditedexperience with dr. hardin for making her theteacher she is today. dr. hardin is passionateabout psychology. and is an inspiration anddedication for student success. and has studentsseeking out his classes. in addition to servingstudents in the classroom,

dr. hardin served the campus,the district, and the sate. he served 15 years in thepsychology instructional council and state ofarizona psychology articulation task force,is a lifetime member of psi beta, participated onthe behavioral assessment team and student conductdisciplinary board itself, and was a south mountainfaculty senator and provided mentoringto faculty. we are honored toacknowledge the

accomplishments of dr.hardin and announce the granting of hisemeritus status as conferred by the maricopacommunity college governing board. congratulations,dr. hardin. thank you very much. excuse me. i don't often get chokedup, but this is one of those occasions. i consider myself a verylucky man, because i first

came to the district in1974 as an adjunct at scottsdale community college. i was hired full time -- excuseme -- at glendale in 1976. i left the districtin 1979 to go teach in a graduateprogram at the university of nevada-las vegas andwas there for about six years. i came back to phoenix totake care of my mother who was terminally ill. that helps a little bit.

excuse me. i came back to bury mymom and go back to vegas. and some of you who havehad an occasion to deal with cancer know that theend stages are just weird. and so it's likea roller coaster. one day they look liketheir going to die and the next day they're updancing on the patio. so a long story short, istayed here to take care of her through theterminal stages and was

contacted immediately bycolleagues at glendale community college, wantingme to teach again, as an adjunct until i decidedwhat i was going to do. after my mother passed, iwas hired back immediately at glendale in 1986 andhave been here ever since. the last ten years, asdr. rivera said, has been at south mountaincommunity college. i'm lucky becausei've been hired twice. some people try to get inthis district their whole

entire lifetimes and theynever never make it once. so i'm extremely pleasedthat i had the opportunity to do that. i've had some milestonesalong the way. i've had a chance to teachdoctoral level students, who are just workingon becoming doctors. i had a private practicein forensic psychology with the arizona statesupreme court for many years. and people often say to me,"with your background, with

your experience, whywould you want to teach communitycollege students?" and the answer to that isvery simple, is because i absolutely love thepopulation of students that we serve. just as a quick aside,here's a good case. michael, wouldyou stand up? michael wilson a disabledvet, back from the war, starting from the verybottom, didn't have

anything, worked his waythrough south mountain, worked very hard, movedon, and just told me tonight that he hasfinally competed all his requirements for hisbachelor's degree, which he'll be receiving atthe end of this semester. looking for agraduate program. we'll find one. it really boils down tothis, some people get up and they go to work.

for me, teaching ourstudents was my passion. i mean, my passion. i want you to thinkof yourself tonight. we're here such a veryshort time on the earth. and to be able to reachand fulfill your passion, i don't know if it reallygets any better than that. i didn't do it alone. there has to be thanks. dr. glasper, who i hada chance to work with

primarily before he becamechancellor, but we had a chance to worktogether on occasion. i wanted to thankdr. shari olson and dr. rey rivera, theadministration over at south mountain. my division leader ishere, dr. jerome garrison, who is extremelysupportive of the work i was doing atsouth mountain. and last but not least, mycolleague dr. brian "doc"

murphy, in psychology. we work together veryclosely every day and became not only colleaguesbut close friends. and last but not least, i thankthe board for this distinction. any comments orstatements for you. you ran away. you really dohave to stay. there's a cardright there. okay. okay.

doyle, please. i just want to point outthat this is the sort of faculty ms. bednarekwas talking about. well, i can switch thatanother way, but i'm not going to. sir, you are a thrill toget to have the honor with this group to presentthis award to. to say you've fulfilledyour passion every day, well, i have to say this,you might have already

given out the awardsto all your students. and what you did tonightwas not just bring those that you worked with, youbrought those that got to work under you,your students. and that's really whywe're here and that's really whatit's all about. that's really at theend of the day what it's about. thank you. thank you. ms. haver wants to --teachers like you and i've

met many, by the way, thatmake me so proud to be on this board and to be part ofthis incredible college system. congratulations andthank you very much. going once, goingtwice, sold. okay. now, you get to sit down. now, you do. thank you, sir. citizen's interim. the board offersopportunity for members of the public to addressthe governing board.

in compliance to theopening meeting laws, the governing board willneither discuss nor take action on the issuesraised during this portion of the agenda. when necessary, issueswill be taken under advisement and placedon subsequent agendas. first, this eveningis charles pierce representing veterans. mr. pierce, good evening.

good evening, ma'am. president livingston,members of the council or the board, dr. glasper,members of cec, and guests. thank you for having mehere to -- allowing me the opportunity to addresssome of my concerns about the veterans center andthe expansion project. for the past 17 years, asan air force veteran -- by the way, i'm chuck piercefrom glendale community college. i could justhear that coming.

and i am the coordinator for theveterans services center there. and it's been my honorto serve maricopa for the last 17 years in theveteran services. due to the demands of theexecutive order 16 -- or 13607, which was signedby president obama in 2012, the principles ofexcellence for educational institutions servingveterans and family members, the dod, theveterans administration, and the department ofeducation have levied new

requirements on fundedmandate, of course, that require the schools toparticipate and serve veteran students andtheir family members. maricopa doesthis quite well. before this executiveorder ever came out, the folks at glendalecommunity college our administrators recognizedthe need and the importance of servingthe veterans community. and we stepped up to thatand we serve our veterans.

we have a great of passionfor our veterans at glendale community college. one of the things that wedo tremendously is we try to connect withthe veterans. it's so important forus to view them as individuals that havegiven up the bulk of their -- importance of theirlife and their family to go serve this country andwhen they came back, now it's our turn to step upand serve them, get back

-- transition from thatmilitary back to the civilian life andhopefully be successful, we try to evaluatethat at every opportunity. and when we -- we do havea lot of veterans that are badly damaged, ptsd,other problems that -- my vp and i talked todayabout the unbelievable stress of a lot of ourcombat veterans when they're trained to be thatguy who crawls around in the bush and takes a rifleand has to make a decision

to take a life. when they come back to us,we're trying to retrain them to become citizens, productivecitizens of our community. sometimes we fail. we lost one of our youngmen to one of the most horrific statistics wehave to deal with and that's suicide. the veterans populationhas the greatest suicide rate in the united states.

we lost one of ouryoung men in july. he killed himself onhis 34th birthday. what could we have donebetter to address that and save that young man? that's why we're there. that's our passion, is tomeet these men and women, to connect with them. and that's what we'resorely missing at gcc is the opportunity tohave that space, that we

can meet with theseindividuals one on one. i actually have the onlyoffice that's a private space. i have to give that up fortwo weeks a year whenever our veterans counsellorfrom the va, veterans administration, comesthere to meet with her vocational,rehabilitation, and employment students,because that is the only place on campusthat's available, in what we call thegreens zone, which is the

veterans services center. their safe zone. so kind of interestingand trying to predict the adverse behaviors,removing roadblocks, that's what we need todo on a daily basis. in the last five years,we've helped over 4,146 students in that effort. we take every one ofthem very seriously. that's unduplicated headcount over the last five years.

and each dayis a challenge. but we rise to thatchallenge, because we believe in what youbelieve in, and that's service to our community. thank you, ma'am,for hearing me. questions? just thank you very much. thank you for your servicealso and your time. yes, ma'am.

leslie bayless withthe veterans center. hi. my name is leslie bayless,i'm certified official and veterans recordstechnician at glendale community college. i work in the veteran'sservices center. i'm here representing ourteam, veterans, and their families from glendalecommunity college. i have been part of theveterans services at gcc

since july of 2009,just before the the va established thepost-9/11 gi bill. i've watched thepopulation of our veterans and their families thatwe service grow leaps and bounds over thelast six years. at times, these studentsneed to discussion personal issues orobstacles that they're dealing with and thecurrent structure and how it is designed, there'snot a lot of privacy.

and on -- sorry. it's just when theveterans and their families come in to studyor visit, when the lobby and the lounge is fullwith future students that we're registering or advising,it can get pretty loud. there's not a lot of spaceand the ceilings are low. and the advisors in theback get interrupted quite a bit and can't hear what'sgoing on with their students. we serve over 1400veterans and their

families and see those1400-plus multiple times throughout the semester. we strive to meet the needs ofevery one of our customers. and in order to providea one-stop and superior service for their success,we need more folks on our team to be able toprovide the service. right now, we are limitedon workstations in order to provide excellentcustomer service. i'm a civilian.

my dad was a vietnam vet. this is my service. i'm giving back to thosewho have served and their families who havesacrificed for us. and i'm asking that youapprove the expansion of the veterans servicescenter so we may continue our service and grow. thank you. thanks. and joe mercer.

good evening, mr. mercer. and you're here to speakon gcc veterans center correct? yes. good evening presidentlivingston, board of directors, dr.glasper, the cec. my name isjoseph mercer. i am here from glendalecommunity college. it's my privilege andhonor to work in the veterans service center. i've been be working withmaricopa community college

district since 1998,quite a few years. i am a veteran. i'm a vietnam veteran. it's been my honor, myprivilege, and my passion to serve the young men andwomen who are coming from the services who have beenin there after i left. the facility thatwe're in right now is a great improvement onwhat we had before. i have a slidepresentation.

hopefully, it will open. we talk about the size ofour facility and how it is limiting the effectivenessof us serving the students who come to our facility. this is when we firstopened the faculty in 2010. we've been therefor five years. i picked that picture fora very specific reason. there's only 12individuals in that photo. two of them, you can onlysee the top of their head,

but that room is full. that's what wesee every day. we serve more than12 individuals. on a daily basis, we mayhave 25, 30, sometimes even 50 people comingthrough that facility. as an advisor, iwork in the back. i work one-on-onewith individuals. and i'm in a small littlecube, but i'm in the back of the building.

sometimes the noise inthat building limits my conversation with thestudent i'm working with right in front of me. i have to stand up, leavethe cube, and ask people to please bring it down alittle bit, there's work going on in the back. what we're asking forisn't something that's a nicety, something thatwould be, oh, it would be nice to have.

what we're asking foris something that is essential. we have people thatwe serve that need desperately whatwe have to offer. the men and women inuniform who come to see us are not just maricopacounty residents. personally, i have peoplecoming to maricopa from all over the country. they find glendale'sname in the directory of veteran-friendly schools.

they find glendale's namein the registry of student veteran campuses. i get phone calls.i get e-mails. i get messages. and i welcomepeople to come here. right now, i'm waiting forthree people to show up who are getting dischargedfrom the military within the next two months. they've alreadycontacted glendale.

i want to come there. how'd you get our name? i found it inthe directory. my buddy got out sixmonths ago and told me about his experienceat glendale. i want that same service. when they get there,luckily, sometimes they walk in and there's onlytwo or three people there. we can warmly welcomethem, sit down, and have a

conversation about whythey're coming to glendale and what canglendale do for them. unluckily, they walk inthe room and there's 25, 30 people there, and theyturn around and walk out. we want to stopthat from happening. we need a facility wherethere's open space, where people can walk in, feelwarm, feel safe, and feel that it's a place thatbelongs to them, that's going to addresstheir issues.

one of my heros, colinpowell, coined the phrase "shock and awe." there'smy shock and awe, statistics. i'm not going to gothrough all of those. you can have thepresentation, if you like. the point of that is allof our veterans do not fit in one box. we have four primarydifferent chapters of benefits that veteransare using right now. the primary one that wesee most of our students

using is chapter 33,post-9/11, gi bill. very lucrative. a vast improvement overthe gi bill that i used, montgomery gi bill. but the requirements onthe schools for reporting, for monitoring, forcontinuously following each and every individualstudent and watching each and every credit hour theytake is an enormous task. try doing that in a roomwith the activity that's

going on in our center. it's near impossible to doour job and get the 100% accuracy that the veteranadministration demands of us. what we do is a directeffect on that paycheck that comes to our veteran. if we make a mistake, they seethat mistake in their paycheck. thank you, ms. livingston. thank you, board,for listening to me. thank you for the opportunity tostand here this evening.

chancellor'sreport, dr. glasper. no report, madam chair. all right, sir. employee group reports. any others on here? i think we alreadytook care of that. but the maricopa veterans-- maricopa educational task force, mr.robert cavan. sir, did imispronounce your name?

it's robert cavan, ma'am. cavan. i'm sorry, sir. welcome. good evening, presidentlivingston, board members, dr. glasper, and membersof the cec, and guests. my name is robert cavan. iam currently the president of the mvets and i'mhere for two reasons. and i want to startoff with the first one. mvet would like to cordiallyinvite president livingston

and boardmembers and members of the cec and dr. glasperto our annual veterans appreciation luncheon onthe 19th of the november, which will be held fromeleven to one o'clock. colors will be postedat eleven o'clock by the junior rotc color guards marcosdenenza as a u.s. junior rotc. i would like to takethis opportunity to thank dr. bustamante at riosalado for sponsoring the luncheon on the 19th.

now, a quick update aboutthe convocation next year. the date haschanged to may 6th. it's a friday eveningfrom four to seven. it will be held atmesa community college. the theme for theconvocation will be past, present, and future. at this time, i'd liketo thank dr. pan and mesa community college forsponsoring this event. and my lastreason i'm here.

president livingston, weforwarded a letter to you from the mvets. and i'd like to take thisopportunity at this moment that we voted as aconstituency group to form this letter topresent to the board. and this is our supportfor glendale community college veterancenter's expansion. and we wholeheartedlygive 100% support. and with the board'sapproval, we look forward

to moving forwardwith this. are there any questions? the luncheon, i think,is at the wigwam? no, sir. it's at the rio saladoconference room. that's a different one.all right. thank you. maybe the fourth annual. we may thinkabout that one. yes, sir. that's the gold tournament,i'm thinking of.

do you want to know whatthey're serving for lunch? not yet. okay. we'll get thatquestion to you. thank you so muchfor all that you do. we now move to the approval ofthe order of the agenda. the order of the agendaitems -- do i have a motion to approve? i'm sorry. move approval. second.

any discussions? all in favor approvingthe order of agenda? any opposed? it passes 7-0. consent agenda. consideration of consentagenda action items. does anyone wish to remove anyitems from the consent agenda? move approval. it was moved. can i have asecond, please?

all in favor of approvingthe consent agenda? 7-0. it passes. consideration ofnonconsent action items. 15.1, business services,to take action on the conceptual approvalfor the veteran center, remodeling and expansionat glendale community college. ms. thompson, wouldyou care to comment. madam president, membersof the board, this is a bond funded project andit is to both expand and

remodel the existingveterans center at the college and werecommend its approval. does the board have anycomments or statements they'd like to makebefore we take a vote. yes, i would. i visited the center onfriday and brought my husband who is a long-timeregistered architect and -- can everyone hear me? that's much better. thank you.

and i would like to saythat as i entered the vet center, i was really quitesurprised at just how cramped it really was. i heard that problemexisted, but to experience it first happened issomething quite different. it wasn't a place that iwould want to spend much time, because i tend toget claustrophobic when furniture has to bepushed so close together. and i can't imagine howanyone in a self-propelled

wheelchair could get around andcertainly not two people. and we went through whathad been brought up about construction and mostlyit had to do with -- well, partly, at least, abouta dry well, well, that is probably one of thesimplest items that anybody doing constructionhas to deal with, from what i understand,from the construction supervisor andfrom my husband. the site is ideal, becauseit is near the student

union and the disabilitiesadministration building. the cost is not as -- asprohibitive as many might think because they haveto consider many, many different points. for instance, the actualbuilding was constructed in 1977. the codes were quitedifferent then. since that time, thebuilding codes have become -- they've quadrupledand especially for public

buildings and probablymostly for safety sake, if you look at the codes. and so what we are havetoday, i would say is probably not as safeas it should be. and that can leadto litigation. we're all familiar withlitigation that we've had to deal with inthis district. i can't think of anyreason not to approve it. oh, another part of itis they have to have a

certain amount of money onreserve and that added to the budget. because when a budget isthat old, one doesn't know what one might find whenone takes down the walls; such as asbestos, suchas termites, who knows. they have a certain amountof money in the budget for that. they did have aprofessional estimator figure out theapproximate cost. and another point that ihave to make on this is

that glendale communitycollege is noted for coming under budgetwith its projects. and so i think we canassume that, probably, it won't cost as much aswhat we're allowing. and i think they've donea very good job of putting importance on this project. i know that myconstituents, the people i met at libraries, wheni was going around collecting signatures,many of them vets, they

would want me to vote yes. there's no questionin my mind. and it's with the moneythat they voted for. so i believe that i amsupporting my constituents. i believe that i'musing common sense. i believe i've beenthorough in looking at all the questions thathave come up about it. and i'd like to share thatwith my colleagues on the board before wetake a vote.

thank you, ms. haver. i do with want toshare one thing. in hearing all of yourtestimony, the reality is i go back to two thingsthat i personally live with. i don't have -- i onlyhad family member in the military and thatwas my father-in-law. and he is deceased now,but he would want all vets to have an opportunity. this christmas, i go and ihave my best friend and my

son's godfather navy sealretire after 25 years. well, he's the mostfrugal man alive. and i'm not saying that ithrow a dollar around, but i know he would wantall vets to have a place. another good friendof ours was a ranger. he came backwith severe ptsd. now, he's verysuccessful in life now. but, boy, he's toldme horror stories. i know he would want that.

so i think we're lookingabove this at beyond the dollar figure and to thepassion and to the mission and statement that we haveas a community college. and perhaps almosta moral obligation. so with that, i movefor a motion to approve. second. any comments beyondwhat was stated? madam chairman. yes. madam chairman. hold on.

push your button. there's a certainbrotherhood. and now there's a certainsisterhood that comes about from serving in themilitary, from being at risk, from carrying arifle with the intent to do harm or good, dependingon your point of view. there's a certainbrotherhood, a sisterhood that binds us all whohad that experience. whether it was a vietnamor korea or iraq or

afghanistan, itbinds us all. the greatest pain of allis still to go to the veterans coliseum everyyear where we have -- where we stand forveterans and see the extraordinary amountof pain amongst vietnam veterans thatis still there. it's so palpable and soreal that we're helping people see dentistsand get their haircut. and we do thatonce a year.

and the rest of the timethey walk the streets of phoenix, i guess. and that phenomenon cameabout because of the public policy of thiscountry to have sent us there and brought usback and said -- as bruce springsteen says in thesong, "son, don't you understand, the va mansays." this generation of veterans is unlike thatgeneration of veterans. there are nomore draftees.

everyone is a volunteer. everyone knowingly puttheir life at risk. everyone went thereknowing even if they were sitting in an office atfort benning that at any given moment, if the ordercame, they were going to afghanistan, knowing whatthey would risk the entire time they were there. and now they've comehome and many of them i suspect, just as manyin vietnam, come back as

damaged as we did. so the very little that wedo with this center, the very, very little dowith this center is an extraordinary achievement. i have sat here andencouraged every president to go back --and i mean it. i hope to tour yourveteran's center at each of your colleges, togo back and look at the facilities and see whatwe're doing at each of

those centers, because we oughtto be welcoming veterans. we ought to beeducating them. we ought to betraining them. and we ought to berecognizing when there's pain in their eyes thatcould lead to what it did in glendale, tolead to suicide. or, frankly, just leadto a life of misery. i don't go to post 41 anymore. the reason is i don't drink asmuch as beer as i used to.

veterans willknow what i mean. but that comradery is there if iwere to walk in there tonight. it's there if i were to walkinto any post in this country. that comradery is whatought to drive us to understand why we needthis, and why we should never argue for monthsagain, never should argue for months again, whetherwe should recognize and serve our veterans. let's get thisbuilding built.

and since we have moved and wehave seconded it, correct? we have a secondon the record. may we vote. all in favor?opposed? passes 7-0. 15.2 to take action on thepurchase for order for a carpet replacement at thepaul elsner library at mesa community college. any comments by the boardon this particular item

before i turn itover to ms. thompson. no? ms. thompson. madam president, membersof the board, this will replace all of thecarpeting in this building, which is about98,000 square feet. it was constructedin 1999. so for 17 years they'vehad the same carpet in place that is wearing andthey would like to replace it.

it's a heavily usedfacility and we recommend approval of this item. i move approval. second. any additional comments? none. vote all in favor?opposed? to take action, 15.3,on job order contracting purchase order for johnpaul theater addition at phoenix college.

madam president, membersof the board, this would add approximately 2300additional square feet to the almost 16,000square feet facility. the scope includes theaddition of theater lighting, a computerclassroom, a conference room, reception area, andexpansion of the scene shop, costume workshopand scenery flat storage. it will also renovatethe lobby restrooms and install a new class a firealarm system to bring it

into compliance withcurrent life safety codes. and we recommendits approval. ms. thompson, what wasthe final cost on that? it is 946,000approximately. all right. do i have amotion to approve? so move. second. okay. a vote. it passes 6-1.

15.4, take action onextension of people soft financial managementsystem hyperion consultants, ms. thompson. madam president, membersof the board, in july, we went live with two brandnew systems, one is the financial management system,which is -- replaces our 18-year-oldaccounting system. and the other is themaricopa planning and budgeting module, whichis a hyperion product that

replaces our 15-year-oldbudget system. we worked in the monthssince go live to correct some of the issues thatarose and to deal with some process issues. we have found that we doneed the continued support of the consultants whohave supported us through this developmentand go live. support that will help usto basically receive the knowledge that theyhave and make us

self-sufficient inmaintaining the system and also to implement someof the changes that still need to be putinto effect. so we're requesting acontract extension and an increase in the awardthrough the end of december of thiscalendar year. are there any comments orquestions that we have for ms. thompson or anyone? okay.

motion to approve. a vote please. all in favor? opposed? 16, human resources. this is 16.1, take actionon the chancellor's contract of employmentfor 2015 through 2018. any comments by theboard right now? madam chairman, i callfor a roll call vote. all right. so be it.

a roll call vote. i move that weapprove the motion. second. do you want mr. combsto say anything? it's been movedand seconded. mr. combs, you'reup, if you wish. you're on here. would youlike to comment? shall there be aroll call vote? shall there be? oh. i'm sorry.

my item has beenmoved and seconded? your item has beenmoved and seconded, yes. this is a personal injuryclaim, a small claim. no. we're on 16.1, thechancellor's contract. no. i'm sorry. it's rightabove that. so we're just goingto go ahead and vote. and then we'll getdo you in a minute. back at you. okay. roll call vote.

do you want tostart at the right? we can. ms. mcgrath. don't you normally goalphabetically, madam president. i don't have my alphabetmemorized right now. now, hold on. then it would be mr.gutierrez, ms. haver, i didn't know that. haver -- gutierrez, haver. b comes before g inthe normal alphabet.

so you're first. doyle burke. oh. i'm so sorry, mr. burke. i'm a g. mr. burke is a b. it's the story of my life. i'm so sorry. take it away. yes. i vote yes. mr. gutierrez. yes. ms. haver. yes.

mr. heep. no. i'm on h. so i'm going to ms. -- oh. would i go? no. chairman goes last. oh, sorry. ms. mcgrath. thank you, madam president, i'dlike to explain my vote. absolutely.

this is a veryimportant thing we do. as a new member, i waslooking forward to a great deal of discussion on thisissue, as it is a contract for over $408,000. and the thing that reallybothers me is it is a multiyear contract.i'm not used to that. i've served on boardsbefore where we done contracts and we didn'tdo rolling contracts where there's always athree-year contract.

the contract thatwe're approving has an arbitration clause in it. and it seems like astrange thing to me to have, because ingovernment here in arizona you're either a coveredemployee, which means you are subject to rules andregulations and have an employment contract andare protected in many ways in your employment. uncovered employees donot have all of those

protections, yet, theyearn a much larger salary in compensation for beingan at-will employee. and we see this all thetime in state government. the governor fires agencyheads sometimes in a rather rapid fashion. so this contract calls forarbitration in the event that the chancelloris released. and it calls for onearbiter selected by the -- i don't know quitewho selects it.

the chancellor appliesto the arbitration. professionalarbitrators people. and anyway, it justdoesn't seem right to me that a covered employeegets it both ways. uncovered, you don't get-- anyway, so i'm very disappointed. and i'm also disappointed thatwe did not get to discuss this. i couldn't discuss itwith other people because that's a violation ofthe open meeting law.

and we went into anexecutive session. and we had 20 minutesto discuss it. i was looking forward toa series of discussions, because i had somequestions about it. i would have liked to havegotten some opinions on my issues that i'm concernedabout and then have them brought back for,at least, the second discussion meeting. so for all these reasons,madam chairman, i vote no.

thank you, ms. mcgrath. i'll explain my vote too. you know, this is 20 yearsof being a board member. and i've gone throughnumerous contracts. this is a prettystandard contract. i have watched thelast five years of the chancellor's contract. and we've had noproblem with it. and i'm much more inclinedto add another year to the

chancellor's contract,because, quite frankly, we have one of thebest in the nation. and i get a chance in mypositions at the national level to talk to a lot ofgoverning boards and with the district that we have,the size, the quality, and so forth, i just thinkfrom listening to others that we are so fortunateto have somebody like dr. glasper headingup this operation. and i vote yes.

i'd like toexplain my vote. the person that sits infront of you that is our chancellor isa wonderful man. he's a wonderful qualitied-- wonder qualitied. i'm tired. he has special qualitiesand brings them every day to the college. i couldn't -- for the lifeof me right now, i don't see anybody elsein his position. but there are so manyreasons that right now i

can't agree with thecontract as it stands. so i vote no. passes 4-3. and then mr. combs. i apologize, but you'rein two places for some reason. but now we could like togo ahead give you 17.1, which is take action on theresolution of gill versus mcccd. it's all yours. this is a smallpersonal injury case.

the board has been briefedin executive session at the last meeting, and iencourage you to support this settlement. any comments or questions. i move to acceptthis settlement. second. madam chairman, yes, i'dlike to discuss a few things with mr.combs, if i could. yes, you can. it's been movedand seconded. go ahead.

could you describe the nature ofthis case to us, mr. combs. this is a slipand fall case. it involves an attendee, afamily member, who slipped and fell at the graduationat a facility that we rent for that purpose. ms. mcgrath,any additional? no, thank you, ma'am. okay. thank you. all in favor. opposed.

17.2, mr. combs, thisis to take action on the resolution of sherlockversus mcccd and/or mr. glasper --chancellor glasper. okay. mr. combs. again, this is a smallpersonal injury settlement. the board was briefedin writing, this time, in an e-mail. and i, again, encourage youto support the settlement. okay. vote.

the following areinformation items. the first is 18.1: reviewof employments, regular, short term, and speciallyfunded in september. and mr. mackey. thank you, presidentlivingston, members of the board, this is informationitem for our employment actions for the monthof september 2015. we have 41 total newhires, 15 of those regular positions, 20 areshort-term hires, and

6 are specially funded. move on to 18.2? yes, sir. thank you. separations for the sameperiod, the month of september 2015, 16total separations. doesn't soundso bad; does it? no. thank you very much, sir. business services -- madam president, may iask a few questions?

absolutely, ms. mcgrath. i apologize. thank you. we decided several monthsago that we were going to put a freeze on hiring,because we're having a little bit of difficultywith our funding. and we're thinking oftrying to raise more funds. and last month we had twonew people, and this month we have one new person. could you explain tome why we're hiring new

people when the board decided tonot have any new hires? madam chair, members ofthe board, i will address that. this board has never madethat declaration that there will beno new hires. so i'm not sure wherethis comes from. madam, president, mr.chancellor, we did it in a committee meeting, one ofour second tuesday meetings. i think it was about3 months ago that we discussed this and it wasdecided that we were going

to try to put ahold on new hires. i just want to know whywe're making a new hire. what this person does-- that we had to hire another person to dowhatever it is they're doing. madam chair, members ofthe board, the board does not take action ina committee meeting. and to my knowledge, iwas never provided that instruction by the board. madam chair, i don'trecall ever doing that.

i don't recalldoing that either. i actually don't recall,if it was something as discussed in a committee,chancellor glasper obviously iscorrect on this. we made no motion to goforward with such an item at this point. we don't make motionsin votes and committee meetings, sono, we didn't. but i would like to knowwhat this person is doing

that we didn't have anyone-- that we had to have a new hire. sure. i'll let ed kelty speak to it isas it is a hire is its. madam chair, membersof the board, this is a project manager. this individual helpscoordinate the activities of its, not only inits, but throughout the district office and acrossmaricopa when it comes to

initiatives and itprojects that the district would like to accomplish. this is one of those itpositions that we've been relying on outsideservices to get accomplished. so what we're really doinghere is brining somebody in house to replace a muchmore expensive person that we have had on contract. is that right? that is correct.

so we're saving money? madam chair, in additionto that, let me say that in this area the board hasspecifically from time to time appropriated funds sothat it could go forward with these projects,because of the sweeping transition that we'rein the process of accomplishing. so these funds werespecifically appropriated by this board forthis individual. ms. mcgrath, is thatclear as a bell?

ms. thompson, wedidn't get to you yet. 19.1: budget analysisreport, fund one, the general unrestrictedfund for the three months ending september30th, 2015. are there any commentsthat you'd like to make for the board? madam president, membersof the board, through this period 17.5% ofexpenditures have been recognize, whichis pretty typical.

and the reason ourexpenditures are very typical from year to yearis because most are in payroll and benefits. and those happenevery two weeks. so it's a very steady changeevery two weeks and every month. about 20.9% of budgetedrevenue has been recognized. that also ispretty comparable. you'll see a big jumpin october and november, because those are twomonths of the four months

of the year when propertytax collections are at their highest. so you'll see a big jump inrevenue next month and november. that's it. any comments from theboard on this item? community linkage. mr. burke, would you liketo start us off with your governing boardfor the session. i just returned from theassociation of community

college trusteesconference in san diego. according to our policieswe are to do a written report on that and i'm inthe midst of writing it. and it was afascinating conference. we learned a great dealabout issues facing community collegesnationwide. i attended a sessionon federal legislation, reauthorization act,which it appears -- well, actually there's a budgetthat will be voted on for

two years, which is --we've been working on reauthorizationsfor several years. and it appears that a budget isin the work for two years. and the reauthorizationact, the higher education act, will be part of that. but anyway, i haveinformation on several items that will affectcommunity colleges that will be in that report. they are too lengthyto report tonight.

and mr. heep. mr. gutierrez. i've got tolearn these abcs. you've got to carryit around with you. they actuallyprint for kids in little cards. it's very helpful. at least it was to mewhen i was five. i was not particularlyactive this month, but i will tell you one thing.

working with the raulcastro institute of phoenix college with thelacey larkin foundation, we've instituted a programwith raul castro on hispanic andlatino issues. we've had two majorprograms at bullpit auditorium that havebeen heavily attended. the first was "la bestia,"which is -- we brought the documentary filmmaker tophoenix to describe his experience making labestia, which is about

children taking the trainfrom central america. when i say taking thetrain, i don't mean they were passengers, payingpassengers, they were on the roof, et cetera. it's a horrendousdocumentary. we then did the salt ofthe earth subsequent to that. on november 19th we'rebringing miriam powell. miriam powellis a biographer. she has written two bookson caesar chavez,

"a union of the dreams" and"the crusades of caesar chavez." she's consideredthe authoritative historian of united farmworkers union and of caesar. she's relatively controversial,because she pulls no punches. so that will benovember 19th. and i inviteyou to be there. it's where? bullpit auditorium atphoenix college, 6:30 pm. it's a thursday.

no, the one we spent the moneyon is the john paul auditorium. this is at the bullpitauditorium, which is about 4 times the size. it's big. so when we spend moneythere it will be really big. there's a pause forsome reflection. ms. haver. hi, yes, thank you. i've had an active month.

i was, in september, onvacation, and so it was time for me tobe active again. and i enjoyedit very much. on october the 8th, i hadthe honor of cutting the ribbon for the openingof the paradise valley community collegevet center. we have pictures, buti haven't seen the yet. it was a wonderfulexperience. and i always enjoy meetingpeople in the military.

there's something very, ithink -- what can i say -- very exciting anddignified about the people who serve for use. so i was really happyto be able to have this honor. i also went to theconference in san diego. and one of the highpointswas on midlands technical college marketing program. now midland's technicalcollege actually consists of six collegesin south carolina.

and they have put togetherquite an amazing program. their website is quiteuser friendly and fun, actually. and so i took a lot ofnotes that maybe we could use as we develop ourown marketing program. also, there was quitea good session on california's foundation. and i found thatinteresting. it's huge. and i'm sure that we arein communication with the people of thecalifornia foundation.

i would like to take amoment to congratulate the people who have worked onthe maricopa priorities project. the update shows thatthey're making great progress consolidating. i know that's a very,very difficult operation. and they're continuing. and we are moving steadilytowards the one maricopa that we've all supported. and i would also like to mentionmegan carnes-garvey,

who is theperson who initiated the grant for english languagelearner education at mesa i wanted more detailsabout the program, because i was involvedin ell education. and oftentimes it seemsthat the colleges and education were teachingmethods that were not in agreement with state law. well, that's not the case. in fact, if anything,they're going well beyond.

and they're also includinga segment for foreign language, which issomething that i felt the state should have, but itnever did develop that. so i'm quite excited. this grant that we votedon tonight will provide our ell's the opportunityto receive some help in stem subjects, which isprobably -- these classes can be very technical forsecond-language learners. and i'm so happy thatwe'll be able to teach

teachers how to helpstudents to navigate through those subjects. and also, i cannot leaveout dr. ruiz of glendale she gave me a ride to the"por la casa" celebration dinner last week. i had been tothe eye doctor. and my eyes were dilated. so i was not reallyable to drive myself. and she drove longdistances, because she

lives on the opposite sideof the valley from me. so i enjoyedgetting to know her. and i have to mention thati was especially excited to see one of the teachersat palomino elementary school, which is in theparadise valley unified school district, and iswhere i live, receive an award. i've visited that school. and i've beenso impressed. in fact, my husband wassubstituting, and when he

told me he was going togo there, i said, you're going to have awonderful time. and he did. he came back and hecouldn't believe how well the children in thatschool -- and they are either are englishlearners or they used to be english learners --how well they could write. and so you can imagine howhappy i was that one of the teachers receivedthis award at $5,000 and

recognition, as well asthree others that also deserve for me to saysomething about, but i know that everyone hasprobably heard enough from me. so i will close with that.thank you. exciting stuff. okay. i think the word she waslooking for when talking about the veteran's newhome in paradise valley was probably patriotism. it was a phenomenalreception.

and i'm looking forwardto seeing the results of glendale's new projectand installing it and protecting patriotism. the next meeting wewent to was mesa. and it was their openingof the registration area, which was phenomenal. i know it has taken 10-15years to develop their new program out there, butthey really thought it out. it's there.

and now i think it canbe a great advantage, not only for mesa, but inother areas to be able to make it easier for peopleto choose and work with the consultants. the next meeting wewent to was the act. and it was quitean experience. it was five days of goingfrom meetings from 7 o'clock until almost9 o'clock every day. and the tone of themeeting was set by board

members of all thecolleges throughout the united states. they're very positive. and they know they are infront of a huge challenge, and the challenge seemsto be dedicated to sustainability, doing withwhat they have best with what they have andimproving on it and making the colleges better. they -- the emphasis wasstriking that they knew

they could do it, andthey are going to do it. the meeting also, you know-- the meetings, social meetings, which were inbetween meetings, were probably the mostinformative, because we set around at luncheonsand breakfast talking to -- each day talking to tendifferent board members from ten differentcolleges and viewing all their ideas andtheir hopes and their aspirations andtheir goals.

and they're notunlike ours. and they don't havea crystal ball. they're just out theretrying to do their best. and they know the studentsare doing their best, the teachers are doing theirbest, and we're all working together toachieve the outcomes that we all have setfor ourselves. dr. harper-marinick. madam president, ibelieve i'm next in line.

again, i will belaminating one of those little pocket things. and i will becarrying it with me. i don't think your need to.we all know where we are in the order. we canvolunteer and step up. at the meeting last month,i stated that staff had not provided me withinformation about the chancellor's contractand about his salary. i've got a frog.

and i was entirely wrong. and ms. lacoya johnsonimmediately sent me the same information. again, i've been studyinga lot about memory. and it's very interesting. and i'm sad to say i'm oneof those statistics that has memory quirksevery now and then. and i deeply apologizefor my remarks last month. and i too attended the openingof the student information

center and services atmesa community college. and it was absolutelyunbelievably well designed. my husband wasan architect. and i really appreciategood architecture, and it was a terrific building. and as a member ofthe arizona nursery association -- eat yourheart out -- i was so impressed with thelandscaping design also. and i was so pleased tosee that they put one of

my favorite trees in,quercus virginiana, a southern live oak. it's going to be a muchmore beautiful campus than it is right now. congratulations, dr.pan, on your great work. thank you,madam president. are you okay ms. mgrath? as mr. burke said, when wego to these conferences, it's a good idea todocument what we learned.

and i could sit here forthe next half hour and read it to everybody, buta two things, i would bore you to death, and second,my voice wouldn't make it, so you're lucky tonight. but i did attend the 5days of constant 7 in the morning, as wassaid earlier, to 9 o'clock at night, and really got achance to sit down with of a lot of other boardmembers, as i mentioned earlier, to find outwhat's going on in the rest

of the nation when it comesto community college education. and as great as we areand, quite frankly, as great as the rest ofthe country know we are, there's always things thatwe pick up from some of these other collegedistricts that we can bring back here and use as bestpractices in our situation. and that's really thebenefit of spending time at these conferences. mr. heep and i drove tosan diego in one of our

vehicles providedby the district. it was not a cadillac. it did have four wheelsand a bench seat. that bench seat and twopeople like mr. heep and i is well used. but the point is you geta chance in that five days to really come back withsome good information and hope that we canincorporate a lot of what all of us learned while we werethere into our programs here.

it's always a great opportunityto learn how well our district performs comparedto the rest of the nation. that's kind of a highlightof every one of these trips. so i congratulateeverybody in the district for putting us in thatposition and look forward to sharing some of thethings that i learned with the chancellor, probablymore than he really has time for, but he's goingto get it, because i got it written down.

yes, he does. i'm at the end of thelist, not because of my alphabet though,but that i know. i spend most of my life inmy car and the other half in my classroom andthen some time here. so i'm driving to -- yesthere's a story to this. i'm driving to school, itwas just a couple of days ago, actually it wasthursday of last week. and i go at the sametime every single day.

and i've never heard thecommercial for maricopa. well, it came on. and i just got so excited. actually, i did kindof a little dance. there's no music toit, but that's okay. i was jumping up and down. it was so exciting notto hear those other higher-priced collegeson in this time slot. and it's the same radio stationi listen to every morning.

and i don't know if it'sa new plug in or one that i've just always missed,but it was very exciting to see one of our maybedreams, initiatives, going forward, which is to get theword out about maricopa. so if you saw a littlemini-cooper dance, that was me dancingdown grand avenue. i have a luxury route. that's it of for me today. but we're going to thevice chancellor reports,

and our vice chancellordoes have a report. so dr. mariaharper-marinick. ms. livingston, membersof the board, chancellor glasper, cec, colleagues,and guests, i would like to take a minuteto introduce the 33 participants in thewomen's mentors program who are here tonight aspart of their learning this year to observe howyou make decisions and how you interactwith each other.

this is the 15th year we've hadthe program in maricopa. and we've had 396 women ofmaricopa participate and graduate and many ofthem receiving promotions throughout the year. so i would like to ask theparticipants in the mentor program to please stand sothat we can say thank you for their participationin the program. and we have some membersof the planning committee sitting in the back, sothey could also stand so

we can say thank you fortheir volunteered work. thank you for staying. thank you for being here. and thank you foreverything that you do. the smiles on your facesjust were ear to ear. so i know it must bea fantastic program. external communityreports, mr. burke and then mr. saar. mr. burke.

madam chair, the arizonaassociation of district governing boards willmeet in november. i don't have the date yet. but i did get a messagetoday from the president. he is contacting acctabout the governing institute for studentsuccess that we attended last spring to learnabout the follow up. we have two years moreto work on that, and he's going to deal with that inour november meeting and

give us information. okay. thank you, sir. and let me add to ourlocal state chapter, we got together in san diego,and to my knowledge, that's the largest groupof arizona board members that i think haveever attended. the giss one was another, buti mean in terms of getting away from arizona. good things are happeningin that organization.

in terms of acct, we just cameback from the congress. we are looking forward toattending the legislative summit in washingtond.c. in february. lots of things are goingto be happening between now and then legislativelyand at the federal level and hopefully all good in termsof what we're looking for. but our role there isto talk to some of those department heads tofind out how we can take advantage of some of thenew programs that are out

there as our collegesare already doing. but if you don't ask formoney, you rarely get it. so that's oneof our roles. and as far as the schoolboard association, the interesting thing in thelast couple of days is that the details -- i havenot seen yet -- but it sounds like the leadershipand legislature and the governor and the schoolsthat were involved in the lawsuit have reachedan agreement.

i look forward to seeingwhat the results of that are. the establishment of thenext meetings, dates, and times, novemberis a busy month. back here november3rd at 5:00 p.m. the annual outcomesretreat, governing board room. november 10th, 6 p.m. board policycommittee meeting. that's the -- itis in room 1388. oh, gatewaycommunity college.

nevermind. we'll be there. join us, if you wish. november 10th, agendareview, also at gateway. november 24th, agendareview here, room 128. november 24th the boardbudget and finance committee meeting,the maricopa room. and november 24th theregular board meeting, governing board room.

and we are busy. and with this, imove to adjourn. the october 27th, 2015meeting is adjourned. good night, board fans. have a great and safenight driving home.

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