Nov 13, 2024 Board Meeting

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I'D LIKE TO CALL TO ORDER OUR BOARD MEETING FOR TODAY.

COULD I HAVE A ROLL CALL? ROLL. CALL. ROLL CALL.

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BOARD PRESIDENT SANDRA SALAZAR IS ABSENT. BOARD VICE PRESIDENT MARIANA PACHECO.

PRESIDENT. BOARD CLERK. DOCTOR. DON GREEN. PRESENT.

TRUSTEE. JAMES CODY. BIRKEY. VERY PRESENT. TRUSTEE.

ZURICH LEWIS. PRESENT. TRUSTEE. DOCTOR SHIN LIU IS ABSENT.

TRUSTEE. MARISA PEREZ HERE. STUDENT TRUSTEE KATHIE LEE.

AND PRESIDENT. SUPERINTENDENT PIERRO PRESENT.

NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

[1.02 Pledge of Allegiance]

PLACE YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART AND. REPEAT AFTER ME.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

DOES ANYONE WANT TO REORGANIZE THE AGENDA? SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD.

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OH, I KNOW I'M GOING TO SAY IT WRONG. OH, OSHA, IS THAT KIND OF SORT OF. OKAY.

GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. I'M HERE WITH MY STUDENTS.

I'M DOCTOR SANDY OBAZUAYE. I'M ONE OF THE PROFESSORS HERE ON CAMPUS.

I'VE BEEN TEACHING HERE SINCE 1998, AND I VERY MUCH LOVE WHAT I DO HERE.

I COUNT IT A PRIVILEGE AND TO CHANGE THE WORLD ONE STUDENT AT A TIME.

THIS IS MY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLASS, STUDENTS.

SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL ISSUES CLIMATE CHANGE AND EDUCATION, INEQUALITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND THE STUDENTS WERE CURIOUS ABOUT HOW DOES THAT FIT INTO WHAT WE DO HERE LOCALLY? IN GLOBAL STUDIES WE HAVE A TERM CALLED GLOCAL, THAT IS, THINK GLOBALLY AND ACT LOCALLY.

SO HERE THEY ARE. THEY ARE HERE TO PRACTICE WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS.

IN TERMS OF THE ROLE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

SO I HAVE A STUDENT, GUSTAVO STUDENT DOMINIC, STUDENT SOPHIA, AND STUDENT WESTON, WHO WILL BE ASKING SOME QUESTIONS TO THE BOARD TONIGHT. I DIDN'T ASK. I DIDN'T PUT THESE QUESTIONS TOGETHER.

THEY PUT THESE QUESTIONS TOGETHER. AND I ALSO BUT I HAVE ADVISED THEM THAT THEY MAY NOT GET A RESPONSE FROM THE BOARD TONIGHT.

SO THEY ARE JUST HERE TO EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DUTY.

SO GUSTAVO. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. BOARD TRUSTEES, VICE PRESIDENTS, AND THE AUDIENCE.

MY NAME IS GUSTAVO SANCHEZ. I'M A FRESHMAN POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR.

I WORK IN THE LIBERAL ARTS OFFICE, AND I'M ALSO THE SENATOR FOR THE HCC AS LONG AS WELL AS A DELEGATE FOR THEM.

SO OUR TWO QUESTIONS THAT OUR CLASS CAME UP WITH FOR THAT I WILL BE SPEAKING ON ARE ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO RENOVATE THE OLDER BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS, AND WHERE DOES MOST OF THE FUNDING THAT CERRITOS COLLEGE CREATES GO? THANK YOU. WE CAN'T COMMENT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW THAT. YEAH, YEAH HE DID. THEIR PROFESSOR ACTUALLY SAID THAT.

AND I'LL WAIT UNTIL EVERYBODY HAS THEIR QUESTIONS.

AND THEN I'LL GO AHEAD AND ADDRESS ALL OF AT THE SAME TIME.

SO WHO WOULD BE UP NEXT? HELLO. MY NAME IS DOMINIC.

I AM A THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

I AM A FILM MAJOR. AND ON TOP OF THAT, I ALSO WORK HERE AS A CADET FOR THE CERRITOS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

AND MY QUESTION IS, WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT THE LIMITED CLASSES DURING THE NIGHT HOURS AND THE SUMMERTIME TO ACCOMMODATE STUDENTS WHO HAVE FULL TIME JOBS? OKAY. THANK YOU. AND COULD I HAVE THE NEXT STUDENT UP? SOPHIA. SOPHIA. HELLO. MY NAME IS SOPHIA WAINWRIGHT.

I'M A STUDENT ATHLETE HERE ON THE WATER POLO AND SWIM TEAM.

AND THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR AT CERRITOS AND I'M A POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR.

MY QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE MOST IMPACTFUL THING YOU HAVE BEEN OR BEEN A PART OF AS A BOARD MEMBER HERE AT CERRITOS?

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WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ANSWER THAT? AND I KNOW EACH OF US HAVE A DIFFERENT THING OF WHAT WE FEEL IS MOST IMPACTFUL.

YES. TRADITIONALLY, ON PUBLIC COMMENTS, YOU'RE NOT ENCOURAGED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS BASED ON THE QUESTIONS THAT THE STUDENTS PROVIDED. THIS PARTICULAR QUESTION DOES NOT LEAD TO ANY ACTION OF THE BOARD AS A WHOLE OR ANYTHING THAT WILL BE AGENDIZED.

SO TECHNICALLY YOU COULD PROVIDE A COMMENT ON THAT WITHOUT MUCH WORRY.

THE OTHER QUESTIONS, OF COURSE, THOSE ARE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN AGENDIZED OR WILL BE AGENDIZED.

SO OBVIOUSLY YOU CANNOT COMMENT ON THOSE. HOWEVER, I WILL AT THE END DURING MY REPORT, I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU, FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE PERSPECTIVE, A LITTLE BIT OF THE ANSWERS HERE, AND THEN WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU WITH ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS. BUT BUT THE REASON, AGAIN, THAT THE BOARD CAN ANSWER IS BECAUSE THEY CAN ONLY SPEAK ON THINGS THAT ARE PUBLICLY AGENDIZED. DURING A MEETING. MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY, MAYBE WE COULD REORGANIZE THE AGENDA TO HAVE OUR BOARD COMMENTS BE DIRECTLY AFTER THE PUBLIC COMMENTS. AND THAT WAY WE CAN USE THAT TIME TO RESPOND WHILE STILL BEING WITHIN THE BROWN ACT AND OPEN MEETINGS ACT.

ABSOLUTELY. WE CAN. WE DO HAVE EACH BOARD MEMBER AT THE VERY END DOES PUBLIC COMMENTS.

AND SO AS PART OF OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS, WE CAN ACTUALLY ADDRESS THIS QUESTION TO TO ALL OF YOU SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT TO EACH OF US, MAYBE WHAT WE FEEL HAS BEEN MOST IMPACTFUL INDIVIDUALLY SO THAT YOU CAN HEAR WHAT WE FEEL THAT HAS IMPACTED OUR COLLEGE. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON THEN AND WE WILL ADDRESS THE LAST QUESTION.

WE HAVE ONE MORE PUBLIC COMMENT. OH ONE MORE.

I'M SORRY. I WAS GOING TO MISS YOU, WASN'T I? GOOD AFTERNOON, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. I'M WESLEY MILLIGAN, A DUAL ENROLLMENT STUDENT AND CURRENTLY A SENATOR FOR STUDENT GOVERNMENT.

AND A QUESTION THAT WE CAME UP FOR AS A CLASS WAS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT STUDENT SAFETY DURING THE NIGHT THE HOURS THAT WILL BE ALSO ADDRESSED BY SOMEONE FROM OUR STAFF. THAT WILL GIVE YOU INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO THAT.

OKAY, SO NOW WE WILL BE MOVING ON TO REPORTS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR CONSTITUENTS.

YOU COULD ASK THE BOARD IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO REORGANIZE THE AGENDA.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO REORGANIZE THE AGENDA IN REGARDS TO.

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SO MOVED. SECOND. AND ANY OPPOSE. OKAY. IT PASSES.

SO HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO REORGANIZE THE AGENDA? BY HAVING THE BOARD COMMENTS BE PLACED DIRECTLY AFTER THE PUBLIC COMMENTS IN THE AGENDA.

SO WE WILL MOVE PUBLIC COMMENTS TO. IT'S 9.01.

9.01. AND NEXT. THAT'LL BE NEXT AFTER, BECAUSE WE'RE DONE WITH THE AUDIENCE COMMENTS.

OKAY. SO WE'RE YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GET TO HEAR NOW THE BOARD COMMENTS SO THAT THAT WAY EVERYONE CAN HEAR BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE REST OF THE AGENDA

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ANY COMMENTS? I'M SORRY. NO COMMENT. OKAY. TRUSTEE.

ZURICH LEWIS. SO TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN MOST IMPACTFUL, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR TEN YEARS, AND I WAS ELECTED AT THE AGE OF 21 WHILE I WAS STILL A SENIOR POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENT AT BIOLA UNIVERSITY.

AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY IMPACTED ME GROWING INTO YOU KNOW, THIS POSITION EVEN BEFORE IT WAS DUAL ENROLLMENT, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I HAD AT MY HIGH SCHOOL THAT ENABLED ME TO FINISH MY DEGREE AT BIOLA IN THREE YEARS RATHER THAN FOUR.

AND IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, EIGHT YEARS, ESPECIALLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH TRUSTEE PEREZ HERE, THAT DUAL ENROLLMENT HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY AT THE STATEWIDE LEVEL AND ESPECIALLY HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ALL THANKS TO THE CP PROGRAM AND DEPARTMENT THAT HAS BEEN LED BY NUMEROUS WONDERFUL LEADERS,

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YOU KNOW, AS WELL, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE EDUCATION TO THEM AS FAST AND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO GET THEM INTO CAREERS.

AND, YOU KNOW, ACCESSIBILITY IS REALLY WHAT COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS ALL ABOUT, TO GIVE HIGHER EDUCATION TO PEOPLE.

YOU KNOW, RIGHT, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, I HAD BEEN, I FEEL HAS IMPACTED THIS COLLEGE THE MOST IS BY HAVING A ISLAMORADA SITE THAT MY CITY THAT I'VE GROWN UP IN ALL MY LIFE HAS ALWAYS HAD ONLY A PRIVATE EDUCATION. HIGHER EDUCATION OVER THERE, WHICH I HAPPEN TO GO TO.

BUT, YOU KNOW, FOR EVERYBODY THAT DOESN'T WANT TO GO TO BIOLA THEY WOULD BE WRONG, BUT THAT'S OKAY.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S WE PROVIDE THIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES OVER THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE BEEN GROWING FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS. COVID KIND OF PUT A LITTLE BIT OF A STOP TO THAT FOR A BIT.

BUT I THINK THAT WE'VE CONTINUED TO GROW A LOT MORE, AND EVENTUALLY WE'LL HAVE A, A FULL DEGREE OVER THERE SO THAT WE HAVE ACCESSIBILITY PHYSICALLY AS WELL AS BEING SUPPLEMENTED BY ALL THE ONLINE CLASSES THAT ARE NOW AVAILABLE POST COVID.

SO I'M VERY, VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL MY COLLEAGUES THAT ARE HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S SOMETHING THAT I FEEL, YOU KNOW, IS UNIQUE TO, YOU KNOW, OUR COLLEGE, THAT WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT TEAM, BOTH AT THE ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL, THE FACULTY, EVERYBODY WORKS FAIRLY HARMONIOUSLY TOGETHER TO WHAT WE'VE BECOME TODAY IN BEING A STATEWIDE LEADER IN SO MANY RESPECTS THAT A LOT OF COLLEGES LOOK TO US TO SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW WE'VE BROKEN OUR RECORD FOR EIGHT YEARS IN A ROW OF HOW MANY DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES THAT WE'VE AWARDED TO STUDENTS. SO, YOU KNOW, LEADERSHIP, YOU KNOW, IT STARTS AT THE TOP AND IT CREATES THE MORALE FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO DO THE DAY IN AND DAY OUT WORK. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE HERE.

AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY, MANY MORE YEARS OF CERRITOS COLLEGE ON THE ASCENDANCY.

SO THANK YOU. TRUSTEE PEREZ. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

FIRST, I'LL START BY THANKING EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. IT'S GREAT TO SEE STUDENTS HERE AND GLAD YOU'RE ENJOYING YOUR PROFESSOR'S CLASS AND LEARNING A LOT AND REALLY ENGAGING. I FIRST LIKE TO TELL EVERYBODY THAT, YOU KNOW, MY START IN POLITICS REALLY STARTED WITH HAVING A FACULTY MENTOR LIKE YOURSELF.

AND WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I STUDIED ENGINEERING, AND ONE OF MY ENGINEERING PROFESSORS TOOK ME TO THE STATE CAPITAL AND SAID, IF YOU TURN AROUND AND LOOK AT ALL THE STATE LEGISLATORS, THERE'S NOBODY HERE THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU, RIGHT? THERE'S NOBODY HERE WHO IS A WOMAN WHO IS LATINA, WHO IS STUDYING ENGINEERING, AND THEY'RE MAKING ALL THESE DECISIONS ON YOUR BEHALF.

SO THERE SHOULD BE MORE PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE YOU IN GOVERNMENT. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT STORY AND ALWAYS ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY.

IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN PUBLIC SERVICE, YOU KNOW, PLEASE CONSIDER RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BOARD.

RUNNING FOR COLLEGE BOARD, BECAUSE I DO THINK THAT IT IS A REALLY WONDERFUL, HONORABLE PART OF A PUBLIC SERVICE.

AND AGAIN, I THINK WE REALLY NEED GOOD PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

I THINK GOING TO THE QUESTION, I THINK PROBABLY THE THING I AM MOST PROUD OF, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL OF OUR ALL THE WORK WE'VE DONE AT THE BOARD AND WITH DOCTOR FIERRO AND WITH ALL OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF IS REALLY CERRITOS COMPLETE.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN I GOT ON THIS BOARD 12 YEARS AGO, IT WAS KIND OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PROMISE PROGRAM IN CALIFORNIA.

REALLY, THE ONLY SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT HAD THAT WAS LONG BEACH, RIGHT.

AND EVERYBODY HAD HEARD ABOUT THE LONG BEACH PROMISE.

AND IT WAS, YOU KNOW, IT WAS THIS REALLY BIG INITIATIVE THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTED BY THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, THE K THROUGH 12 DISTRICT AND, AND LBCC. AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING AT CERRITOS COLLEGE AT THAT TIME.

12 YEARS AGO, BECAUSE OUR COLLEGE IS DIFFERENT IN THAT WE HAVE IS IT FOR K THROUGH 12 OR 05, 4 OR 5, FOUR, FOUR, FOUR. BUT WE ADOPT BUT WE ADOPT SEVERAL LIKE PARAMOUNT.

SO WE HAVE FOUR. AND IT WAS LIKE, WELL, I WASN'T REALLY SURE.

WOULD WE BE ABLE TO CREATE A PROMISE PROGRAM WITH FOUR DIFFERENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS? AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY THE THING I AM MOST PROUD ABOUT IS REALLY BEING ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE CERRITOS COMPLETE PROGRAM AT ALL OF OUR K THROUGH 12 DISTRICTS, AND SEEING SO MANY STUDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY CHOOSE TO START THEIR COLLEGE CAREER AT CERRITOS COLLEGE, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE ONE THING THAT I'M MOST PROUD OF AND JUST REALLY JUST THANKFUL FOR EVERYBODY WHO DOES THE WORK RIGHT, WHO DOES THE REAL WORK. ALL OF OUR COUNSELORS, ALL OF OUR STAFF WHO REALLY HELP FACILITATE BETWEEN THE HIGH SCHOOLS AS WELL AS THE COLLEGE. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, DOCTOR FIERRO IS VERY BIG ON ALL THE DATA AND THE NUMBERS.

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I MEAN, ALL THE DATA SHOWS THAT YOU WILL BE MORE SUCCESSFUL AND THAT YOU WILL COMPLETE YOUR DEGREE.

SO AGAIN, I'M JUST I THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE MOST THING.

SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT.

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO OTHER COMMENTS TOO ABOUT WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.

YES BECAUSE WE'RE DOING OKAY. YES OKAY. YES. SO THIS IS ALSO THIS IS ALSO MY LAST BOARD MEETING.

SO I WANTED TO KIND OF SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON.

A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, DOCTOR FIERRO AND MYSELF AND ANDREA, WE TRAVELED TO THE NATIONAL STUDENT, THE NATIONAL TRUSTEE CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE, AND WE DID A PRESENTATION ON THE METRO GO PASS PROGRAM, WHICH IS OUR FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.

AND TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE SUCCESS HAS BEEN HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

I PROBABLY SAY THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER THING I'M VERY PROUD OF, BECAUSE I REALLY DO FEEL THAT ONE REMOVING BARRIERS TO STUDENTS IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE ABOUT AT CERRITOS COLLEGE. I'M ALSO A HUGE ADVOCATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY, MAINLY BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOUR GENERATION, TO MY CHILDREN. SO I ALWAYS TRY TO ADVOCATE FOR THAT.

SO WE REALLY TALKED ABOUT THE DATA AND WHAT THE DATA IS SHOWING US ALREADY JUST IN THE INITIAL YEAR IS THAT FOR OUR STUDENTS WHO HAVE THE GO PASS PROGRAM, THEY ARE ENROLLING IN ONE MORE CLASS, WHICH AGAIN HELPS THEM GET TO THEIR TO THEIR DEGREE COMPLETION QUICKER.

SO THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD FOR US TO SHARE OUR STORY.

WHAT WE'RE DOING THERE. NEXT WEEK, WE'RE ALSO TRAVELING TO THE THE CALIFORNIA LEAGUE ANNUAL CONVENTION.

AND WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A PRESENTATION ON BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND SUPERINTENDENT GOALS WITH MY COLLEAGUES FROM SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE, AS WELL AS ALAN HANCOCK.

SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT PRESENTATION. TODAY, I ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE ENDORSEMENT COMMITTEE INTERVIEWS FOR THE ACT, WHICH IS THE NATIONAL STUDENT NATIONAL TRUSTEES.

WE HAVE FOUR CALIFORNIANS WHO WANT TO COMPETE TO GET ON THE NATIONAL TRUSTEE BOARD.

SO I PARTICIPATED IN THE INTERVIEWS, AND I THINK WE HAVE SOME REALLY GOOD CANDIDATES WHO WILL BE MAKING A GOOD CASE TO BE ELECTED TO REPRESENT US.

AND THEN I THINK I JUST WANTED JUST TO ALSO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK EVERYBODY FOR MY FABULOUS TRUSTEE RECEPTION.

I KEEP ON SEEING PICTURES. SO THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR HOSTING IT AND FOR ATTENDING IT. I REALLY ENJOYED IT AND IT WAS VERY, VERY GRATEFUL.

AND THEN ALSO JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE FOUNDATION HAD THE SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION LAST WEEK AS WELL TOO, AND A GREAT NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS.

SO AGAIN, WE JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO PLEASE CHECK OUT THE FOUNDATION EVERY SEMESTER.

THEY HAVE SCHOLARSHIPS THAT YOU CAN APPLY FOR.

AND THERE'S A LOT OF VERY GENEROUS SUPPORTERS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY WHO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS.

SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM AS WELL. THAT'S IT.

TRUSTEE BIRKEY. IT'S A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW. SO YEAH, IN TERMS OF THE PERSPECTIVE ON THE BOARD, I THINK LIKE FOR ME, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE COME BACK TO EARLY ON WHEN I FIRST JOINED THE BOARD IS THAT OH, FIRST OF ALL, I WAS GOING TO SAY GOOD ON YOU GUYS ON POLITICAL SCIENCE.

IT'S PEOPLE SAY IT'S TOO GENERAL, BUT I FEEL LIKE IT'S ALMOST TOO SPECIFIC.

AND I STUDIED A LOT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE AND THEN RAN, RAN OFF, DID SPEAKING OF LOCAL LIVED AND WORKED ON FIVE DIFFERENT CONTINENTS AND IF ANYTHING DIDN'T DO ENOUGH OF THE LOCAL STUFF AND COMING BACK HOME NOW'S MY CHANCE TO DO A LOT MORE LOCAL.

AND I THINK BOTH ARE PHENOMENALLY IMPORTANT. AND SOMETIMES IT'S HELPFUL TO HAVE SPENT TIME OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND OUT OF YOUR HOMETOWN IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WHAT YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF.

AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT KIND OF APPLIES TO BEING A TRUSTEE IS I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH DURING GRAD SCHOOL TO GO TO, LIKE, A FANCY IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL, AND ONE OF THE FIRST DAYS THE DEAN GOT UP IN FRONT OF ALL THE STUDENTS AND SAID SOMETHING THAT KIND OF STUCK WITH ME.

HE SEEMED KIND OF SNARKY, BUT HE SAID, WELL, JUST SO YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE EXPENSIVE TO GO TO SCHOOL HERE, BUT YOUR COST OF ATTENDANCE IS THREE TIMES WHAT YOUR TUITION IS.

AND YOU KNOW THAT THIS SCHOOL COVERED A LOT OF THE EXTRA COST OF ATTENDANCE WITH RESEARCH AND GRANTS AND PHILANTHROPY ENDOWMENTS, ALL THE, YOU KNOW, FANCY IVY LEAGUE STUFF. WELL, I REMEMBER DOING MY FIRST BUDGET MEETING HERE AND SEEING THE COST OF TUITION COMPARED TO THE COST OF ATTENDANCE. SO APPARENTLY IF YOU GRADUATE FROM HARVARD, YOU GET RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE.

YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS 3 TO 1. YOU GET THREE TIMES MORE THAN WHAT YOU PUT IN.

BUT WHEN YOU GO TO CERRITOS COLLEGE, YOU GET 11 TIMES MORE THAN WHAT YOU PUT IN.

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GOING TO SCHOOL HERE IS LIKE BETTER THAN GOING TO IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL.

LIKE IT'S PHENOMENAL. AND AND I THINK THE, THE OTHER COUNTERPOINT TO THAT IS LIKE, WELL WHAT'S THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION? AND ONE OF THE THINGS I'M MOST PROUD OF AS A TRUSTEE IS THE DEDICATION THAT THAT THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP ALL THE WAY DOWN TO. THE SIMPLEST TASK AT THE INSTITUTION.

LIKE THERE'S A REAL COMMITMENT TO. DOING MORE THAN WHAT'S EXPECTED AND REALLY ELEVATING THE OFFERING.

AND I WOULD SAY THAT. VERY SPECIFIC TO THAT IS THE WAY THAT THE BOARD AND KUDOS TO DOCTOR FIERRO AND AND OTHER LEADERSHIP. HERE, THEY TOOK A STEP BACK OVER A FEW YEARS AGO AND WANTED TO SAY CREATE A UNIFIED OBJECTIVE OF.

LIKE, WHAT IS THIS, THIS WHOLE INSTITUTION TRYING TO DO LIKE ONE THING AND IT WAS ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE.

ON A TRACK WHERE THEY GRADUATE WITHIN FIVE YEARS OR AND BEING ABLE TO HAVE 50% OF OUR, OUR.

OUR STUDENTS DO THAT. AND IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK IN ORDER TO GET THAT GET THERE.

AND WE HAVE TO UP OUR GAME IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. WE HAVE TO HAVE DIFFERENT WAYS OF TEACHING AND DIFFERENT WAYS OF FOLLOWING UP WITH STUDENTS.

STUDENTS. THERE'S JUST A TON OF ORGANIZATIONAL WORK, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THOUGHT WAS AWESOME ABOUT THAT IS THAT IT IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE ADAPTED TO MY OWN LIFE. RIGHT? IS SAYING, LIKE, WHAT DO I REALLY WANT TO DO? LIKE WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME IN MY CAREER AND MY FAMILY.

AND HAVING THAT UNIFIED OBJECTIVE OF REALLY WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS PULL HAS PULLED TOGETHER A LOT OF THE LITTLE THINGS AND HELPED ME UNDERSTAND WHAT TO PRIORITIZE.

SO LONG STORY SHORT, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE INCREDIBLY VALUABLE OFFERING THAT WE GIVE OUR STUDENTS.

AND I LOVE THE FACT, SPEAKING OF LOCAL, HOW MUCH THAT IMPACTS OUR OWN LOCAL ECONOMY AND OUR LIVES AND OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND LOCAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. LIKE, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH BLESSING THAT COMES OUT OF HAVING A REALLY COOL, REALLY GOOD COLLEGE LIKE THIS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

SO I'M REALLY PROUD OF THAT. TRUSTEE GREEN. OKAY, SO I BELIEVE THE QUESTION WAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT IMPACT OR HOW HAVE I FELT THAT AN IMPACT IS BEING MADE? AND I WOULD SAY THAT THE WORD IMPACT IS SO POWERFUL.

AND BEING IN THIS POSITION, I REALLY DO HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DECISIONS I'M MAKING, THE SUPPORT THAT I'M GIVING, THE ACTIONS THAT WE'RE TAKING ARE ALIGNED OR ALIGNED TO CREATING THAT IMPACT FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR STUDENTS, FOR OUR STAFF HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I CAN SAY ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL EXPERIENCES THAT I'VE HAD IN THE TWO YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THIS SEAT IS REALLY EXPERIENCING THE GRADUATION CEREMONY. THERE IS JUST SOMETHING SO JOYOUS, BEAUTIFUL AND JUST, YOU KNOW, HEARTWARMING ABOUT SITTING, YOU KNOW, ON THE, I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY THE STAND OR THE STAGE AND LOOKING OUT AT THE SEA OF GRADUATES AND NOT JUST THE SEA OF GRADUATES, BUT THE SEA OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS, THE SEA OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY BEING THERE AND KNOWING THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT EXIST FOR THEM HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE OR THROUGH CERRITOS COLLEGE. AND SO WHEN YOU'RE IN A POSITION AS A TRUSTEE, YOU HAVE TO KIND OF HAVE A GUIDE.

RIGHT. AND SO OUR GUIDE ARE THE BOARD GOALS THAT WE HAVE.

AND SO WHEN I WAS AT THE GRADUATION, I WAS ABLE TO DIRECTLY CORRELATE OUR GOALS TO WHAT I WAS EXPERIENCING AND SEEING IN THAT MOMENT.

SO ONE OF OUR GOALS, OF COURSE, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PROVIDING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES.

AND SO SITTING THERE, I SEE ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT HAVE ARRIVED FOR SO MANY OF OUR STUDENTS AND FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO DIRECTLY IMPACT THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.

ANOTHER LEVER, A LEVER THAT WE HAVE IS MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING OUR COMPLETION RATES RIGHT THERE AT THE GRADUATION.

WE'RE SEEING IT, YOU KNOW, RIGHT THERE. THEY HAVE COMPLETED THEY'VE MADE IT, AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE OTHER STUDENTS WHO ARE MAKING IT AND MOVING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL, AND INTO DIFFERENT CAREERS AND PATHWAYS TO CONTINUE TO MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE AND CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT CERRITOS COLLEGE. ONE OF THE THINGS I'M VERY PROUD ABOUT, AND I UNDERSTAND IT'S ALSO CONNECTED TO THE IMPACT THAT WE MAKE AS TRUSTEES, IS THAT WHEN I'M IN THE COMMUNITY, I HEAR SO MANY PEOPLE SAY, OH, I WENT TO CERRITOS COLLEGE OR OH,

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AND THEY'RE JUST EVEN IN NETWORKING, I SEE THE POWER OF THE IMPACT THAT WE ARE MAKING HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

ANOTHER LEVER, OF COURSE. AGAIN, I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MENTIONED IT, BUT CAREER AND TRANSFER PATHWAYS, HAVING THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS CAN MATRICULATE AND GO ON TO FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITIES, OR GO ON INTO THEIR CAREERS AND CONTINUE TO MAKE GAINS AND GROWTH IS JUST OUTSTANDING.

AND SO I'M VERY FORTUNATE TO BE A PART OF THAT AS A TRUSTEE.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, AS A TRUSTEE, I HAVE TO MAKE SURE OR WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT THE RESOURCES WE HAVE ARE ALIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MEETING THESE GOALS AND THAT YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL AS STUDENTS, THAT OUR STAFF IS SUCCESSFUL, THAT OUR OVERALL OPERATIONS ARE SUCCESSFUL.

AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GOING TO JUST TAKE IT BACK TO THAT WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO BE AT GRADUATION.

AND WHEN YOU CAN JUST FEEL IT, YOU CAN. IT'S JUST A IT'S JUST AGAIN, THE AIR THAT WE'RE BREATHING AT THAT TIME IS JUST FULL OF HOPE, FULL OF LOVE, FULL OF SUPPORT AND JUST FULL OF ALL THE ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES THAT REMAIN FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND FOR OUR STUDENTS.

IT GOES FROM LIKE ABSTRACT TO, LIKE SUPER TANGIBLE.

I LOVE IT. YOU'RE NEXT. DOCTOR FARRELL. I'LL GIVE YOU, I SUPPOSE, A LITTLE BIT OF AN ANSWER OF THE QUESTIONS YOU PROVIDED AND WITH.

WITH THAT, I WANT TO SAY THE THESE ARE NOT THE POSITIONS OF THE BOARD.

I WILL GIVE YOU AN ADMINISTRATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON THESE AS AS TRUSTEE PACHECO MENTIONED WE WILL HAVE SOMEONE AT THEIR DIRECTION GET BACK TO YOU WITH MORE DETAILED ANSWERS.

THE OTHER PART I WANT TO CLARIFY IS THE REASON THAT THEY CANNOT ANSWER IS BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS CALLED THE BROWN ACT, WHICH PREVENTS PUBLIC OFFICIALS FOR ADDRESSING BUSINESS THAT IS NOT PREVIOUSLY AGENDIZED AND SEEN BY THE PUBLIC. SO THERE IS A RULE THAT REQUIRES US TO POST THE AGENDAS WITH EXACTLY THE CONTENT THAT IS GOING TO BE COVERED DURING A BOARD MEETING.

AND UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING WITHIN THE AGENDA THAT IS SPECIFICALLY CONNECTED TO THEIR COMMENTS THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE LIBERTY TO DISCUSS. THE OTHER QUESTION IS EASY TO ANSWER BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ASKING ANYTHING THAT IS BUSINESS RELATED SO THEY CAN ADDRESS ANYTHING, BASICALLY AS LONG AS IT'S NOT A BUSINESS ITEM WITHIN THEIR PUBLIC COMMENTS, AS YOU SAW TODAY. SO AGAIN, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT THESE ARE ADMINISTERED FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE POINT OF VIEW, NOT THE VIEWS OF THE BOARD. I WILL GIVE YOU SOME SHORT ANSWERS ON THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU PROVIDED.

SO ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO RENOVATE THE OLDER BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS? SHORT ANSWER IS YES AND NO. SOME BUILDINGS WILL BE RENOVATED DEPENDING.

AND I LEARNED THAT FROM FELIPE. YES AND NO. SOME, SOME SOME BUILDINGS WILL BE RENOVATED AND SOME BUILDINGS WILL BE DEMOLISHED AND REPLACED WITH NEW BUILDINGS. THE REASON BEING IS THAT THERE IS A CALCULATION THAT YOU DO IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT REMODELING A BUILDING IS VIABLE, VERSUS BUILDING A NEW ONE, BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL THE REGULATIONS, NEW CONSTRUCTION CODE, AND AND COSTS, OVERALL COSTS OF PUTTING THE BUILDING TOGETHER VERSUS THE LONGEVITY OF THE RENOVATION.

MOST OF OUR BUILDINGS AND CANDIDATES FOR FULL REBUILD RATHER THAN AND RENOVATIONS, BUT WE HAVE BEEN ADDRESSING OVER THE LAST, I DON'T KNOW, TEN YEARS PLUS DIFFERENT REPAIRS AND MODERNIZATIONS OF THE BUILDINGS.

THE NEWEST BUILDING THAT IS BEING MODERNIZED, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE OLD BUILDINGS, IS THE HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING.

AND FOR INSTANCE, THIS BUILDING IS NOT BEING MODERNIZED.

THIS BUILDING IS BEING DEMOED AT SOME POINT AND IS BEING REPLACED WITH THE BUILDING THAT YOU SEE ACROSS THE WAY.

SO. SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH HOW WE DO THAT.

WE DO IT THROUGH BOND DOLLARS, AND WE HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY FORTUNATE THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS SUPPORTED THE DISTRICT OVER THE LAST.

ACTUALLY, THE FIRST ONE, I THINK WAS IN 2012 FOR AND AND THE LATEST ONE WAS IN 2022.

SO WE HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO GET THREE BONDS FROM OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO REMODEL AT THIS POINT, THE LARGE MAJORITY OF OUR CAMPUS. SO WE ARE ENJOYING THESE FACILITIES BECAUSE THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE SERVE CHOSE TO TAX THEMSELVES.

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THE STATE DOES NOT NECESSARILY CONTRIBUTE CONSTRUCTION DOLLARS.

THE CONSTRUCTION THAT YOU SEE HERE IS PAID BY OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES, THE CITIES THAT WE SERVE.

THEY PAY ON THEIR HOME TAXES EVERY YEAR, A LITTLE BIT MORE SO WE CAN HAVE BETTER FACILITIES.

WHERE DOES MOST OF THE FUNDING GO? THE MOST OF THE FUNDING GOES TO PAY EMPLOYEES SALARIES AND BENEFITS.

SO I BELIEVE IT'S SOMEWHERE AROUND 92% OF ALL OF OUR MONEY IS INVESTED IN PEOPLE.

SO $9.2 OF EVERY TEN GOES TO PAY OR FACULTY OR STAFF OR ADMINISTRATORS AND SO ON.

THE REST GOES TO KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON, MAKING SURE OR THE THE WATER RUNS, MAKING SURE THE AIR CONDITION WORK AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. SO THE ABILITY OF RUNNING THE CAMPUS, WE DO WITH THE WHAT IS LEFT, BUT 92% IS INVESTED ON PEOPLE. WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT SAFETY FOR THE STUDENTS DURING OFFICE HOURS? EVERY YEAR WE HAVE BEEN INVESTING IN BETTER LIGHTING AND EMBEDDED INFRASTRUCTURE CAMERAS AND SO ON.

SO OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT WALK AROUND CAMPUS HAVE A SAFE CAMPUS OR CAMPUS THE CRIME REPORT THAT IS PRODUCED EVERY YEAR BY OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT SHOWS OUR CAMPUS HAS BEEN SAFER STATISTICALLY, THAN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES. AND THAT IS A TESTAMENT NOT ONLY OF THE SECURITY THAT IS IMPLEMENTED ON CAMPUS, BUT THE LEVEL OF RESPECT OR LOCAL COMMUNITIES HAVE IN OUR CAMPUS.

I AM OFTEN HERE LATE AT NIGHT, AND YOU DON'T SEE PEOPLE WANDERING AROUND CAMPUS THAT DO NOT BELONG HERE.

WE DON'T GET A LOT OF TAGGING VANDALISM OR ANYTHING TO THAT MATTER.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE, YOUR CAMPUS IS AN OPEN CAMPUS.

AND THAT IS A TESTAMENT OF THE RESPECT AND THE CARE THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS FOR OUR CAMPUS.

BUT OBVIOUSLY, WE ALWAYS TRY TO ENSURE THAT WE PUT NEW SECURITY MECHANISMS. SO EVERYONE THE VISITOR CAMPUS AND IS PART OF OUR CAMPUS COMMUNITY IS AS SAFE AS WE CAN POSSIBLY POSSIBLY KEEP YOU SAFE LIMITED CLASSES DURING NIGHT HOURS, SUMMERTIME TO ACCOMMODATE THAT.

DOCTOR MIXON WILL BE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE SCHEDULES WITH THE DEANS TO LOOK AT THE BALANCE OF CLASSES.

PART OF THOSE BALANCES HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE BIT DUE TO THE PANDEMIC, IN WHICH THE PREFERENCE FOR SOME OF THE CLASSES THAT USED TO BE EVENING OR WEEKENDS OR SUMMERS IS SHIFTING TO ONLINE ENROLLMENTS. HOWEVER, IF THERE IS A STUDENT PREFERENCE OF GOING INTO EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS AND SUMMERS ON CAMPUS, AS WE USED TO DO PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC WE HAVE BEEN VERY OPEN TO DO THAT.

PART OF THE ENROLLMENT PATTERNS THE DOCTOR MIXON HAS BEEN WORKING ON WITH THE DEANS IS FOLLOWING THE STUDENT PREFERENCE.

SO IF THE STUDENT PREFERENCE CONTINUES TO SHIFT TO BE ON CAMPUS, THERE WILL BE MORE OF THAT.

SO DOCTOR MIXON WILL ADDRESS THIS MORE IN DETAIL AT A LATER TIME.

BUT IF YOU HAVE VERY SPECIFICS ON THIS FEEL FREE TO CONTACT MY OFFICE AND, AND, AND WE'LL DISTRIBUTE THAT INFORMATION TO THE OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS. SO THEY WILL GIVE YOU A MORE CUSTOMIZED ANSWER TO TO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.

ON THE COMMENTS, I WOULD LIKE TO TELL MARISA THAT I THOUGHT ABOUT HER THIS MORNING MORE THAN USUAL, BECAUSE I HAD TO BE VERY, VERY EARLY IN A MEETING IN DOWNTOWN LA AND IT TOOK ME LIKE TWO HOURS AND 40 MINUTES TO GET TO WHAT I NEEDED TO GO. AND I WAS LOOKING AND I WAS LIKE, I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MARISA MORE AND TAKING THE METRO.

BUT I DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO GO AND TAKE IT. SO I SHORTLY AFTER I GOT HERE ANDREA WAS KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE ME AN EMAIL WITH THE METRO ROUTE AND HOW MUCH TIME I WILL HAVE SAVED IF I WILL HAVE DONE THAT.

SO I'LL KNOW FOR NEXT TIME. I WILL ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE CATHY.

CATHY MILLAR OR VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER SPECIALIST.

SHE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH STUDENT VETERANS AND SHE DOES A FANTASTIC JOB.

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STARTING WITH THE MILITARY WALL, THE SHE GOT UP LIKE AT 3 OR 4 IN THE MORNING, WHATEVER TO GO ON AND GO.

FLOWERS TO DOWNTOWN, COME BACK, GET THE ORANGES, GET THE ROOM READY AND BEAUTIFUL FOR THE STUDENTS TO AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ENJOY.

AND THEN WE CAME HERE MONDAY TO DO THE RAISE OF THE FLAG.

AND CATHY AND THE REST OF THE TEAM THERE HAVE DONE A NICE JOB.

BUT WHAT IT REALLY HIT IT OUT OF THE STADIUM WAS WE ORGANIZED A BIKE RIDE THIS PAST WEEKEND WITH SOME OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF HERE AND OUR STUDENT VETERANS, AND CATHY RENTED BIKES FOR THE STUDENT VETERANS THAT DIDN'T HAVE BIKES IN SANTA MONICA, DROVE THE BIKES TO UPLAND, WHERE THE BIKE RIDE WAS BEGINNING, WAITED UNTIL 330 IN THE AFTERNOON TO GET THE BIKES FROM THE LAST STUDENT THAT CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, DROVE BACK TO SANTA MONICA TO DROP THE BIKES, AND NEXT DAY, IN THE MORNING, SHE WAS DOING A BEACH CLEANUP WITH A DIFFERENT GROUP OF VETERANS. THAT IS HUGE COMMITMENT. SO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE HER.

IN CASE YOU'RE CURIOUS THERE WERE THREE DIFFERENT RIDES 100 MILES, 65, 66 MILES, STEADY MILES, AND A 12 MILE RIDE AT THE END. AND A COUPLE OF OTHER STUDENTS.

VETERANS. I GUESS THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW FAR WAS 66 MILES AND DECIDED TO GET IN A BIKE.

AND LET'S SAY A COUPLE OF THEM DID MANAGE TO FINISH, BUT THEY WERE VERY GLAD TO GET OUT OF THE BIKE AT THE LAST MINUTE.

SO IT WAS A GREAT EVENT. BUT ALL, ALL THE CREDIT GOES TO CATHY.

TOMORROW WE HAVE THE MOROCCAN CUP OR CULINARY ARTS.

STUDENTS WILL BE COMPETING IN A COOKING CONTEST.

SO IF YOU ARE AROUND, I THINK THE SPACE IN THE STUDENT CENTER IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO TO GO AND CHECK IT OUT, BUT THEY WILL GET JUDGED OR CRITICIZED BY PROFESSIONAL CHEFS THAT WILL COME AND WORK WITH THEM.

SO IF YOU'RE HERE PLEASE DO STOP BY AND TAKE A LOOK.

OR THE STUDENTS DO A FANTASTIC JOB WITH THAT.

I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE ENTIRE CAMPUS COMMUNITY FOR THE PATIENT, THE AND THE KINDNESS THEY SHOW DURING OUR INTERNET SITUATION. IT HE WAS A COMPLETE HEADACHE.

IT WAS A BIG HEADACHE AND CONTINUES TO BE THE.

NOW THE INTERNET IS WORKING, BUT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS TO TO ADDRESS ISSUES LIKE THIS GOING FORWARD, WHERE WE KNOW THE VANDALISM IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN PREVENT, THAT OTHER THINGS THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO TO, TO MINIMIZE THESE ISSUES, BUT THE ENTIRE CAMPUS REALLY SHOW A LOT OF KINDNESS, SUPPORT AND INCREDIBLE PATIENCE.

DURING DURING THIS ISSUE. I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT TODAY AND WHATEVER AMOUNT OF CABLE WAS STOLEN FROM THE FACILITY THAT ENDED UP TAKING OUR INTERNET DOWN DOES NOT COST ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY THE DAMAGE THAT IS CREATED OVERALL BY DOING SO WHATEVER THEY GET PAID FOR, THAT CABLE IS JUST A VERY SMALL FRACTION OF THE ECONOMICAL DAMAGE, THE COST OF REPAIRING AND THE ISSUES THAT THEY CAUSE IN INSTITUTIONS LIKE OURS WHEN THEY COMMIT OFFENSES LIKE THAT.

SO I HOPE THAT THINGS LIKE THIS ARE NOT SOMETHING THAT WE SEE GOING FORWARD, BUT TOO HARD TO CONTROL. BUT MY MAIN POINT IS TO THANK THE ENTIRE CAMPUS FOR FOR THE PATIENCE THAT EVERYONE SHOW AND THE KINDNESS.

I SPOKE WITH PATRICK. HE DID ONE OF THE RIDES WITH US, AND I SPENT SOME TIME RIDING MY BIKE WITH HIM, AND HE WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS REALLY STRESSFUL.

BUT WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS THE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT CALL ME ABOUT IT WERE SUPER NICE.

THEY WERE NOT RUDE. AND AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS THEY WERE CHECKING ON ME RATHER THAN CALLING TO COMPLAIN.

SO. SO THAT WAS REALLY GOOD FROM EVERYONE AND HOPEFULLY WE DON'T HAVE TO SEE THAT AGAIN.

IN REGARDS TO MYSELF AND YOUR QUESTION WHAT IS THE MOST IMPACTFUL? I AGREE WITH TRUSTEE LEWIS. THE DUAL ENROLLMENT, AT LEAST FOR THE AREA I REPRESENT,

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I'VE SEEN IT, I'VE TALKED TO PARENTS ABOUT IT.

AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS HAS BEEN IMPACTFUL FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

THE THINGS THAT WE PLAN TO DO IN THE FUTURE IS MAKING SURE THAT THE STUDENTS IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS START KNOWING ABOUT COLLEGE, HOW TO MAYBE GAIN ONCE THEY GET INTO HIGH SCHOOL, THOSE COURSES THAT COULD PROPEL THEM SO THAT THAT WAY THEY CAN FINISH UP AND MAYBE GET THEIR AA AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY GET THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA.

THAT WOULD BE FABULOUS. THE OTHER THING THAT'S BEEN IMPACTFUL FOR ME IS THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO STUDENTS HERE.

AND ONE OF THEM IS OUR FALCONS NEST. FOR THOSE STUDENTS THAT ARE IN NEED, THAT FALCONS NEST HAS BEEN HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT THE STATE FOR THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE TO STUDENTS THERE, THERE.

THE OTHER ONE IS THE VILLAGE THAT ALSO HAS BEEN HUGELY RECOGNIZED THAT WE PROVIDE HOUSING FOR THOSE FAMILIES IN NEED. WE DON'T HAVE A LOT, BUT WE DO PROVIDE SOME HOUSING FOR THOSE FAMILIES IN NEED THAT WANT TO CONTINUE EDUCATION, BUT THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO LIVE. SO TO ME, THOSE TWO PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE HERE ON OUR CAMPUS ARE HUGELY BENEFICIAL TO OUR STUDENTS WHO DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS, DON'T HAVE, DON'T KNOW WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM, BUT THEY WANT TO GET AN EDUCATION. SO THOSE TYPE OF SERVICES TO ME FOR STUDENTS ARE HUGELY IMPORTANT.

SO FOR ME, IT'S I ECHO EVERYTHING THAT THE OTHER TRUSTEES HAVE SAID.

BUT THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT I FEEL PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN HUGELY IMPACTFUL FOR ME.

OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE NOW THAT WE'VE FINISHED PUBLIC COMMENT TWO CONSTITUENT REPORTS AND WE HAVE NO

[1.05 Reports and Comments from Constituent Groups]

AND THIS IS OUR WAY ALSO OF CERRITOS COLLEGE AB 953, THE CIVIC AND ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT THAT THE STATE PASSED ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO. AND THANK YOU FOR COMING, AND IT'S GREAT TO SEE ALL OF YOU HERE AND ENGAGED.

YOU GET EXTRA CREDIT AS WELL. I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY CONSTITUENTS.

RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, SO THEN WE HAVE NO CONSTITUENT COMMENTS.

FOR TODAY. SO WE'RE MOVING ON TO ITEM 22.01. IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION, RECOGNITION OF OUTGOING. OH, NO.

2.01 RECOGNITION OF RECIPIENT OF THE MEDRANO PEREZ SCHOLARSHIP.

[2.01 Institutional Presentation: Recognition of Recipients of the Medrano-Perez Scholarship]

IS GOING TO BE HERE. HELLO. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. I'M REALLY EXCITED TODAY TO HONOR TWO OF OUR CERRITOS COLLEGE STUDENTS.

I'M SORRY WE COULDN'T DO IT LAST WEEK AT THE FOUNDATION AWARDS.

I THINK BOTH OF THEM COULDN'T MAKE IT, AND I WAS AT A WORK BOARD MEETING, SO IT WORKED OUT PERFECT TODAY THAT THEY BOTH COULD COME TODAY.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO CALL BOTH OF THEM UP HERE, AND I WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EACH ONE OF THEM.

SO THE FIRST ONE IS CHARLIZE LEMUS. SO CHARLIZE PLEASE COME UP HERE.

YAY. SO SO AGAIN, I ALWAYS HAVE A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO INTERVIEW FANTASTIC LADIES WHO ARE ALL STUDYING STEM. I THINK WE'RE AT 39 SCHOLARSHIPS SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD, AND WE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW TO GET THE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED SO THAT IT WILL CONTINUE ON LONG AFTER I'M GONE.

BUT AGAIN, IT'S ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO HEAR THE STORIES OF OUR WOMEN AND JUST THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES THEY HAVE HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

BUT THIS IS CHARLIZE. SHE IS A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAJOR HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE.

SHE SPOKE OF HER EXCELLENT PROFESSORS AND OPPORTUNITIES SHE HAS HAD HERE, AND SHE REALLY WANTS TO WORK ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS VERY FASCINATING. AND SHE WANTS TO ACTUALLY EVEN KNOWS WHAT TYPE OF MANUFACTURER SHE WANTS TO BE A RIVIAN TEST ENGINEER.

SO THAT IS HER GOAL. AND SHE HOPES TO TRANSFER IN THE FALL OF 2025 TO A LOCAL UC OR CSU.

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SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO HERE YOU GO A LITTLE PHOTO.

THERE YOU GO. THREE. TWO ONE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

CONGRATULATIONS SO MUCH. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

OUR SECOND SCHOLARSHIP THIS YEAR. THIS SEMESTER IS TO IVY LAGO.

SO, IVY, PLEASE COME ON UP HERE. HELLO. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. SO IVY IS A PHYSICS MAJOR HERE AT CERRITOS COLLEGE, AND SHE'S INVOLVED IN BOTH THE ROBOTICS CLUB AS WELL AS MESA.

SHE HAS A VERY STRONG INTEREST IN WORKING ON FLOOD CONTROL SYSTEMS IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES, WHICH WAS VERY, VERY SPECIFIC. AND WE WERE VERY INTERESTED IN BY HER, YOU KNOW, HER, THAT PARTICULAR INTEREST.

SHE HOPES TO TRANSFER IN THE SPRING OF 2026 TO EITHER CS TO YOUR CAL STATE FULLERTON OR TO CAL STATE LONG BEACH.

SO AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS, IVY, ON A PHYSICS MAJOR HERE AT THE COLLEGE.

SO SORRY. WRONG WAY.

CONGRATULATIONS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU AGAIN.

OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 2.02 INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION RECOGNITION OF OUTGOING TRUSTEE MARISA PEREZ.

[2.02 Institutional Presentation: Recognition of Outgoing Trustee Marisa Perez]

AS TRUSTEE PEREZ MENTIONED DURING HER COMMENT, IS HER LAST BOARD MEETING AFTER 12 SHORT YEARS.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN TERM LIMITS FOR THOSE THAT ARE SERVING WELL.

SO WE'RE VERY SAD TO TO SEE YOU GO, BUT WE WANT TO CELEBRATE WHAT YOU HAVE HELPED US DO DURING THE LAST 12 YEARS AND THE PATH THAT YOU AND THE REST OF THE BOARD HAVE CHARTED FOR ALL OF US.

SO I THINK THE QUESTION THE STUDENTS ASK ABOUT WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE THE BIGGER ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR THE MOST SPECIAL THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE BOARD WAS VERY APPROPRIATE FOR TODAY BECAUSE AS WE SAID EARLY ON, 12 YEARS AGO, A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE THRIVING TODAY DID NOT EXIST. AND THROUGH THE ADVOCACY OF TRUSTEE, PEREZ AND THE REST OF THE BOARD, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE PROGRAMS THAT ARE HOPEFULLY GOING TO ENDURE THE TEST OF TIME. WHEN, WHEN WHEN I TALK ABOUT THESE PROGRAMS AND CREATING NEW PROGRAMS ON CAMPUS, I ALWAYS THINK AND SAY THE THE PROGRAMS WILL OUTLIVE US IF THEY EXCEED AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS AND THEY BECOME PART OF THE FABRIC OF THE INSTITUTION RATHER THAN BECOMING THE BOARD'S INITIATIVE, THE PRESIDENT'S INITIATIVE, THEY BECOME WHAT THE CAMPUS DOES THAT BASICALLY MEAN? THERE ARE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT TO LAST.

AND I FEEL THAT OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS, TRUSTEE PEREZ CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE HELPED US CEMENT THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE BECOMING RELEVANT FOR OUR INSTITUTION, HOPEFULLY FOR YEARS TO COME.

SO TRANSPORTATION, WE HAVE BEEN DOING TRANSPORTATION EVEN.

I WAS THINKING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION TODAY ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS.

NOW THAT IS IN POLICY AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DO SECOND NATURE RATHER THAN HAVING LENGTHY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT SUPPORTING STUDENTS BASIC NEEDS, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT NOW CONTINUE TO BE ADOPTED AND SUPPORTED THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE.

AND THE CONVERSATIONS GO ON WITHOUT ANY OF OUR INTERVENTION.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, COMPLETION INITIATIVES THAT ARE CENTERED AROUND THE STUDENTS.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. TRUSTEE PEREZ FOR 12 FANTASTIC YEARS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FROM THE FOR FOR FRIENDSHIP, FROM THE MENTORSHIP AND FOR THE COLLABORATION OVER THE YEARS, OVER THE YEARS, I HAVE NOT ONLY CONSIDER YOU ONE OF MY BOSSES, BUT ONE OF MY FRIENDS AND A MENTOR.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR US, FOR THE INSTITUTION, FOR THE COMMUNITY,

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SO WE HAVE OH, ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? ABSOLUTELY. WELL I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BETTER BEFORE OR AFTER THE PHOTO.

BUT I JUST WANT TO. WHILE WE'RE PILING ON HERE, SINCE I DON'T HAVE A REPORT.

I, I THINK WHEN I FIRST CAME ON THE BOARD I WAS IMPRESSED BY EVERYBODY, BUT THERE WAS A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF IMPRESSED THAT I WAS WITH YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR MULTIPLE LEVELS. ONE, YOU WERE VERY TENACIOUS ABOUT THINGS YOU KNEW ABOUT AND YOU CARED ABOUT.

AND YOU WERE WILLING TO LISTEN, BUT NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP GROUND UNLESS YOU PROVEN OTHERWISE.

AND I ALSO REALLY APPRECIATED THE WAY THAT YOU, MORE THAN ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBER, REALLY HAD AN IN-DEPTH EXPOSURE TO SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE COLLEGE. AND YOU WE WOULD GET INTO CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE HARD AND YOU ALWAYS WERE ABLE TO PULL ON A LOT OF FAMILIARITY AND FACT THAT THAT A LOT OF US PROBABLY JUST WISHED WE HAD.

AND ON TOP OF THAT, YOU WERE CONSIDERATE. AND YOU, YOU WERE ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT I COULD RELY ON TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD FOCUS ON WHAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND THAT SPANNED A GAMUT OF DIFFERENT TOPICS.

BUT YOUR, YOUR CHARACTER AND INTELLECT REALLY HAS BEEN A HUGE ASSET TO THIS COLLEGE.

FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN YOU SAID, I'M PROBABLY NOT GOING TO STICK AROUND.

I WAS LIKE, I WAS REALLY BUMMED. AND I WAS ONE OF MANY PEOPLE TRYING TO TALK YOU OUT OF IT.

AND NOW, WE DIDN'T WE WEREN'T AS LUCKY THIS TIME, BUT WE TRIED.

AND I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE SOME REALLY BIG SHOES TO FILL, AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO WORK REALLY HARD TO, TO FILL THEM, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

SO WE'LL MISS YOU A LOT. THANK YOU. THANKS FOR LETTING ME SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

MY PLEASURE. I ALSO JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I I'M THE NEWBIE HERE TO THE BOARD, BUT FROM THE MOMENT I WAS HERE AND I'M SPEAKING IN FRONT OF THE BOARD, ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS AND THE IMMEDIATE SUPPORT THAT YOU SHOWED AFTERWARDS, EVEN WITH YOUR COMMENTS, IT REALLY, REALLY HELPED ME FEEL SUPPORTED AND KNEW THAT I, AND I KNEW THAT I HAD SOMEONE THAT I COULD COME TO TO ASK QUESTIONS AND TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ROLE OF A TRUSTEE WAS. AND SO I HAD SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO GET TO SEE YOU IN ACTION, ESPECIALLY AT THE THE DIFFERENT CONFERENCES WHERE I WAS, YOU KNOW, DOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SO THAT I COULD BE A BOARD MEMBER.

MAKING THAT IMPACT JUST AS YOU ARE AND OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HERE.

AND SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME.

THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS I'M LENDING A LISTENING EAR AND THANK YOU JUST FOR YOUR GUIDANCE.

I TRULY APPRECIATE IT. AND LIKE BIRKEY SAID, THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY BIG SHOES TO FILL, BUT YOU HAVE LEFT US WITH YOUR GREATNESS AND SO WE KNOW HOW TO OPERATE.

ESPECIALLY FOR ME, YOU KNOW, JUST EVEN YOUR QUESTIONING THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU'VE ASKED.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'M WATCHING AND I'M LISTENING AND I'M LIKE, OKAY, YOU KNOW, I NEED TO DO THAT.

I NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THAT, LIKE, REALLY ANALYZE AND REALLY MAKE SURE THAT THE DECISIONS WE'RE MAKING ARE WELL INFORMED DECISIONS.

SO I APPRECIATE YOU FOR THAT. WHEN I FIRST STARTED, YES, YOU WERE THE PERSON THAT HAD A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE. YOU BASICALLY WERE IN CHARGE OF A WHOLE BUNCH OF COMMITTEES.

YOU WERE YOU WERE CONSTANTLY IN SACRAMENTO. YOU WERE CONSTANTLY ADVOCATING FOR THINGS FOR THE COLLEGE.

I SAW THAT YOUR WORK ETHIC WAS TREMENDOUS. ALWAYS PUTTING IN MORE TIME.

AND I KNOW THAT YOU GAVE UP A LOT OF YOUR TIME FOR THIS COLLEGE.

AND YOUR KIDS, I KNOW, MAYBE SUFFERED A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE OF IT, BUT I THINK YOU MADE A HUGE IMPACT FOR A LOT OF STUDENTS HERE IN THIS COLLEGE THROUGH ALL YOUR WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE.

LIKE AS OTHERS HAVE SAID, YOU'VE DEFINITELY BEEN THE POLICY WONK OF OUR BOARD.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST THAT YOU KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE POLICY IN DEPTH, BUT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO APPLY IT TO ADVOCACY SO EFFECTIVELY

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SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN A LONG TEN YEARS SINCE I GOT ON THE BOARD AND YOU HAVE TWO YEARS ABOVE.

BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S REALLY GOING TO BE BITTERSWEET BECAUSE NO ONE DESERVES RETIREMENT MORE THAN YOU FOR AS MUCH WORK AS YOU PUT IN.

IT'S NOT 12 YEARS OF WORK. IT'S MANY, MANY DECADES WORTH OF WORK ALL CRAMMED IN.

AND WE ARE VERY, VERY GRATEFUL. AND THE PEOPLE OF LAKEWOOD, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, HAD REPRESENTATION WITH YOU ON THIS BOARD IN, IN OUR ENTIRE COLLEGE HISTORY. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE LEFT AN INCREDIBLE LEGACY FOR PEOPLE HERE. YOU'VE BEEN SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO, YOU KNOW, SO MANY STUDENTS ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, WOMEN IN STEM OF COURSE, BUT TO, YOU KNOW, SO MANY OTHER COLLEAGUES, REGARDLESS OF RACE, GENDER OR ANY OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, LIKE BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU'VE BROUGHT TO THIS COLLEGE AND HOW YOU'VE LIFTED THIS BOARD UP AND BY EXTENSION, EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS COLLEGE TO BE, YOU KNOW, SUCH A BEACON FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR STATE, AND FOR OUR NATION IN MANY INSTANCES. AGAIN, YOU'RE STILL WORKING TO THE VERY END DOING THE ENDORSEMENT AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE FOR THE A SEAT. LIKE, OKAY, WE GET IT, WE GET IT.

YEAH. YOU KNOW, YOU YOU LOVE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND IT LOVES YOU.

SO THANK YOU, MARISA. AND WE KNOW YOU WON'T BE TOO FAR AWAY.

PLEASE COME BACK ANYTIME. AND WE'RE HAPPY TO HEAR FROM YOU AT ANY POINT.

AND THANK YOU. OKAY, SO WE CAN MOVE ON O THE PRESENTATION. UP UP PICTURE. THANK.

YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M AFRAID YOU'RE RIGHT.

I HAVE. I HAVE MY FAVORITE. MY FAVORITE HERE.

I LIVE HERE. ALL RIGHT. SQUEEZE IN A LITTLE TIGHTER.

SURE. ONE. TWO. THREE. FOUR.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. DO YOU NEED A COFFEE MUG ANYMORE, THOUGH? YEP. I DON'T THINK YOU NEED TO GO AND SIT DOWN.

MIGHT AS WELL GO BACK. I MADE IT BACK. BUT IT'S ITEM 2.03.

[2.03 Institutional Presentation: Recognition of Classified/Confidential Employee of the Month]

CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH. DOCTOR. FIERRO.

ALL RIGHT. JUST TO CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZING GREAT PEOPLE TODAY, WE ARE ALSO RECOGNIZING CHRISTINE GONZALEZ.

YES, YOU CAN CLAP. CHRISTINE BEGAN HER CAREER AT CERRITOS COLLEGE IN AUGUST 2022 AT THE ADMISSION AND RECORDS TECHNICIAN TWO, SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HER TEAM NOMINATED CHRISTINE, WHO CHAIRS FOR SORRY.

SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HER TEAM NOMINATED CHRISTINE, WHO CHAIR.

CHRISTINE IS A TEAM PLAYER, ALWAYS THE FIRST TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP COVER CHIEFS WHEN NEEDED AND AN INVALUABLE PART OF THE DEPARTMENT.

SHE ALWAYS GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND TO HELP STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES.

SHE PUTS THE STUDENTS FIRST AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE TAKEN CARE OF.

ONE OF CHRISTINE'S ROLES IS TO LIAISE WITH THE VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER, AND THE CENTER WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT.

CHRISTINE, WE DEEPLY APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATION TO OUR CAMPUS AND YOUR EFFORTS IN ENSURING STUDENT SUCCESS.

WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE YOU AS PART OF THE FALCON FAMILY, AND COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR EXCEPTIONAL COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION TO THE SUCCESS OF EVERYONE ON CAMPUS. CONGRATULATIONS, CHRISTINE.

WELL DESERVED. I'D LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING. ARE YOU SURE? THANK YOU. YOU CAN LOCATE. YOU CAN LOCATE THE PLAQUE IF YOU DON'T. I'M JUST KIDDING.

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OR.

ONE OR MORE. FLOWERS.

READY? ONE. TWO. THREE.

WE'RE MOVING ON TO ITEM 2.04 INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION, STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE.

[2.04 Institutional Presentation: State Legislative Update]

DAVID IS OUR MAIN CONSULTANT FOR GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES, AND HE IS A PARTNER ON CAPITAL ADVISORS OUT OF SACRAMENTO.

WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH DAVID FOR TWO YEARS NOW, AND WE HAVE HAD A VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL TIME ADVOCATING TOGETHER IN SAN FRANCISCO.

SO OH, MY GOD, WHAT AM I THINKING? SAN FRANCISCO? SACRAMENTO. YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY NO. WHEN WAS LAST TIME WE ADVOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO, BUT TRADITIONALLY IT'S IN SACRAMENTO. AND AND WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TO ACCOMPLISH A SERIES OF THINGS.

BUT ONE OF THE BEST PARTS IS THE DAVID IS ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO IS REACHABLE.

NO MATTER THE TIME OF THE DAY. QUITE LITERAL.

HE WILL GET BACK TO YOU. WITH GOOD INSIGHT, INFORMATION.

AND WE HAVE BEEN VERY PLEASED TO WORK WITH DAVID AND ESPERANZA, WHO IS OR OTHER MAIN POINT OF CONTACT THROUGH CAPITAL ADVISOR.

SO THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT HERE, DAVID. I KNOW YOU HAVE TO COMMUTE BACK TO SAN DIEGO, BUT APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS EVENING AND AND GIVING US A GOOD RUN ON THE 24 BUDGET AND SOME OF THE BIG TOPICS ON THE LEGISLATION.

THANK YOU, DOCTOR FIERRO. AND THANK YOU, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO YOU AS DOCTOR FIORA MENTIONED.

MY NAME IS DAVID NEBEN, PARTNER AT CAPITAL ADVISORS GROUP.

AND PLEASE ENJOY OUR LEGISLATIVE UPDATE.

SO JUST AS A QUICK ECONOMIC AND BUDGET UPDATE THE CALIFORNIA ECONOMY RELATIVE TO LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME IS PRETTY STRONG. AS OF THE FIRST COUPLE OF MONTHS OF THE 2024, 2025 FISCAL YEAR, WE ARE ABOUT $5.2 BILLION ABOVE PROJECTIONS THAT WERE IN THE 2024 BUDGET ACT.

THIS TIME LAST YEAR, SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WE WERE FACING WE WERE ALREADY FACING A SIGNIFICANT DEFICIT GOING INTO THE 2024 BUDGET.

SO GOING INTO 2025, GOVERNOR NEWSOM WILL HAVE IF IF THE ECONOMY CONTINUES AT IS AS IT IS GOING IN THE STATE. GOVERNOR NEWSOM MAY HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL SPENDING POWER TO GET APPROVAL FROM THE LEGISLATURE FOR.

SO, 2324 FISCAL REVENUES AS OF EARLIER THIS WEEK, WE GOT NOTICE THAT THEY WERE UP ABOUT $3.2 BILLION ABOVE PROJECTIONS.

SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN RELATIVELY, FOR K-14 AND PROPOSITION 98, WHICH DRIVES THE SPENDING FOR K-12 AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES. THERE MAY BE SOME ADDITIONAL ONE TIME FUNDING.

THIS IS DUE TO THE AGREEMENT THAT THE LEGISLATURE MADE WITH THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE LAST YEAR ON SUSPENDING THE PROPOSITION 98 MINIMUM GUARANTEE DOWN TO A LOWER LEVEL, SO THAT WE HAVE A HIGHER FLOOR GOING FORWARD IN 24, 25 AND BEYOND.

BUT THE STATE STILL WAS IN ESSENTIALLY IN DEBT TO K-12 AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND SOME OF THAT DEBT MAY BE GETTING PAID BACK AT A SOONER PACE THAN WE INITIALLY

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CITED IN THE VETO MESSAGE. THE GOVERNOR ESSENTIALLY USED THE BUDGET AUGMENTATION AS HIS WAY OF SAYING THAT HE IS STILL DOING SOMETHING FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES WHEN IT COMES TO NURSING PROGRAMS AND ENHANCING NURSING, BACCALAUREATE OR NURSING BACHELOR DEGREE BRIDGE PROGRAMS WITH CSU CAMPUSES AND UC CAMPUSES, AS WELL AS SOME ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE THAT REFERENCED THE MASTER PLAN FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, WHICH A LOT OF US KNOW IS FAIRLY OUTDATED.

AND A LOT OF LEGISLATORS IN THE RECENT YEARS HAVE LOOKED AT POSSIBLY UPDATING THIS, THAT WE STILL HAVE YET TO SEE ANY UPDATES TO THE ACTUAL MASTER PLAN.

GOING FORWARD THOUGH, IN THIS UPCOMING 2526 LEGISLATIVE SESSION THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY THAT WE WILL SEE FOR NEW LEGISLATION TO BE INTRODUCED IS AT THE DECEMBER 2ND, 2024 ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION.

AT THIS TIME, WE WILL ALSO SEE THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE VOTE ON THEIR LEADERSHIP, THOUGH AT THIS POINT, WE DO EXPECT TO SEE THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP MAINTAIN THEIR POSITIONS.

AS SENATE PRO TEM MIKE MCGUIRE AND ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ROBERT RIVAS.

THESE ARE BALLOT UPDATES OR BALLOT MEASURE UPDATES.

AND THE LITTLE ASTERISK IN THE BOTTOM AS OF NOVEMBER 6TH, WHEN THIS REPORT WAS WRITTEN WE WERE 1.3 MILLION UP ON PROP TWO AND 1.5 MILLION UP ON PROP FOUR. AS OF TONIGHT, WE ARE 2.2 MILLION UP ON PROP TWO AND 2.5 MILLION UP ON THE PROP FOUR CLIMATE BOND. SO AS JUST A VERY BRIEF RECAP, I'M SURE YOU'RE ALL VERY WELL AWARE OF WHAT THESE DO.

THE PROP TWO EDUCATION FACILITIES, CONSTRUCTION BOND $10 BILLION TOTAL.

FORTUNATELY, COMMUNITY COLLEGES WERE GETTING 1.5 BILLION OF THAT $10 BILLION TOTAL, WHICH IS A RELATIVE JUMP AWAY FROM THE STANDARD 11% THAT WE NORMALLY GET FOR PROPOSITION 98. SO GETTING 15% OF PROP TWO IS VERY I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S WE'RE FORTUNATE TO SEE A HIGHER AMOUNT. AS FOR PROP FOR THE CLIMATE BOND $10 BILLION TOTAL, THE VAST MAJORITY OF IT IS GOING TO GO TOWARDS STATE RELATED PROJECTS.

CARBON OFFSETTING, CARBON NEUTRALITY, GREENING OF STATE SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, THERE IS SOME POTENTIAL FOR THE USE OF SOME OF THAT MONEY FOR PROJECTS ON K-12 CAMPUSES AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS.

AS LONG AS THEY FIT THE BILL OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED CARBON OFFSETTING OR CLIMATE GREENING.

AND WE ARE ALREADY LOOKING AT SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IN PROP FOUR AND AWAITING SOME OF THE LEGISLATIVE INSIGHT AND DIRECTIVE FROM THE LEGISLATURE ON HOW EXACTLY THAT MONEY IS GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTED.

A QUICK UPDATE ON THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE.

PRIORITIES FOR THIS UPCOMING TWO YEAR SESSION AND THE UPCOMING 2025 BUDGET.

FULLY FUNDING ENROLLMENT AND CATEGORICAL COLA.

IN THE PAST, WE'VE ONLY SEEN CATEGORICAL COLA PROVIDED FOR ABOUT 5 OR 6 CATEGORICALS.

AND THOSE ARE THE HISTORIC CATEGORICALS THAT GET THAT EXTRA BUMP EACH YEAR.

THIS YEAR THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE IS ASKING FOR A COLA FOR ALL OF THE CATEGORICALS THAT EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE FUNDING FORMULA.

FINANCIAL AID OFFICE FUNDING INCREASES. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE I'M GOING TO PUT IN QUOTES.

THE BOTCHED ROLLOUT OF THE FAFSA APPLICATION CAUSED SIGNIFICANT KERFUFFLE WITHIN A LOT OF THE DISTRICTS.

AND WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN BOLSTER THE FINANCIAL AID OFFICES ON EACH CAMPUS TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS GET THEIR FAIR SHOT AT STUDENT FINANCIAL AID. AND THEN A SYSTEM WIDE COMMON DATA PLATFORM, AS WELL AS EXPANDED,

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HOWEVER, FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, WE HAVE NOT HAD ENOUGH FUNDING AT THE STATE LEVEL.

IT TAKES ROUGHLY 300 TO $350 MILLION TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THE CGF, JUST DEPENDING ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS THAT WE PERCEIVE IN ANY GIVEN YEAR. BUT THIS IS A A MAIN PRIORITY OF THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE, AS WELL AS MANY OF THE LEGISLATORS ON THE HIGHER ED COMMITTEE AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE.

AND THEN LOOKING AHEAD TO THE 2526 LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO REFINING THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS FOR INTRODUCTION BETWEEN DECEMBER AND FEBRUARY.

DEADLINE. THEN WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO PREPARING FOR THE LEAGUE LOBBY DAY.

AS MANY OF YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED IN OUR ANNUAL END OF JANUARY BASH WHERE YOU KNOW, WE STORM THE CAPITOL AND GO AROUND, VISIT EVERY SINGLE OFFICE AND KNOCK ON ALL THE DOORS ASKING FOR, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN THEY DO TO HELP US? GIVEN THAT THEY ARE THE LEGISLATORS THAT REPRESENT OUR STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF AND OUR COMMUNITY IN GENERAL.

THEN THERE ARE GOING TO BE CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS WITH ADMINISTRATION ABOUT AFFORDABLE STUDENT HOUSING FUNDS.

THERE IS POTENTIAL, GIVEN THAT ONE TIME FUNDING, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL BOND FUNDING FOR POTENTIAL NEW STUDENT HOUSING PROJECTS, OR INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING FOR EXISTING STUDENT HOUSING PROJECTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN INCLUDED IN BUDGETS.

SO WE WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO THOSE CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS.

AND THEN FINALLY AS PART OF THE STRATEGY IS STRENGTHENING OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NEW INCOMING MEMBERS AS WELL AS THE EXISTING MEMBERS THAT WON REELECTION IN THIS LAST ELECTION. ONE THING I WILL NOTE AS PART OF THIS LAST BULLET POINT WE WILL BE WORKING VERY QUICKLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY TO DEVELOP A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INCOMING SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.

SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THAT SENATOR JOSH NEWMAN UNFORTUNATELY LOST HIS REELECTION OVER THIS LAST WEEK.

SO THERE WILL BE A VACANCY ON THE SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIR.

AND WITH THAT HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. ARE THERE ANY FRONTRUNNERS FOR THAT VACANCY NOW THAT MR. NEWMAN LOST? A COUPLE OF NAMES THAT HAVE BEEN FLOATED AROUND.

AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ALL THE TALK AND THE HEARSAY.

WE HAVE BEEN HEARING THAT THE REPLACEMENT IN SENATOR PORTENTINO CHAIR MISS PEREZ MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE POSITION AS WELL AS MR. CABALDON.

SEEMS LIKE AN IDEAL FIT FOR THE CHAIR. BUT UNTIL WE OFFICIALLY GET THE SENATE PRO TEM IN PLACE WHEN THEY DO THE LEADERSHIP VOTE IN DECEMBER, IN EARLY DECEMBER.

WE ALSO HAVE TO KIND OF SEE WHO IS GOING TO BE CURRYING FAVOR WITHIN HIS CAMP.

AND ALSO LOOKING FOR THAT CHAIR POSITION. IT WAS IT WAS A RELATIVELY NOT TOO SOUGHT AFTER CHAIR POSITION TWO YEARS AGO.

THAT MAKES SENSE. ARE THERE ANY CURRENT LEGISLATORS THAT ARE FORMER COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES? BECAUSE THE ONLY ONE I REMEMBER WAS THERE IS ONE.

OH, THERE IS ONE RIGHT NOW. THAT'S A FORMER TRUSTEE.

YES. YES. ASSEMBLY MEMBER MIKE FONG. YES. WHO CURRENTLY HE CHAIRS THE ASSEMBLY HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

SO HE'S ALREADY RELATIVELY IN A IN A, YOU KNOW, DECENT PLACE TO PROVIDE HIS INFLUENCE ON THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SPHERE.

THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE REPORT. I GUESS MY FIRST QUESTION IS THERE WAS A PIECE OF LEGISLATION RELATED TO DUAL ENROLLMENT THAT WAS INTRODUCED BY ASSEMBLY MEMBER HOLDEN. HE'S TERMED OUT HE'S GONE.

RIGHT. SO WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH THAT PIECE OF LEGISLATION? SO AN EXCELLENT QUESTION. SO AB 359 BY ASSEMBLY MEMBER HOLDEN.

IT I WILL SAY WHEN IT FIRST STARTED ITS PROCESS IN 2023 IT WAS A SMALLER

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AND EVENTUALLY IT BECAME ALMOST LIKE A SUPER BILL BY THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR.

AND IT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS IT WAS REALLY WELL SUPPORTED GOING INTO THE MID SESSION OF THIS YEAR.

AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN A VERY HIGH PRICE TAG GOT PUT ON IT IN THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AND AS, AS PART OF, YOU KNOW, THE GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT ON WE'RE STILL IN A CONSERVATIVE BUDGET.

YOU KNOW, SPENDING PERIOD. THERE REALLY IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY FOR IT.

AND A COMPETING NOT NECESSARILY A COMPETING BILL, BUT ALMOST LIKE A COMPANION BILL.

SB 1244 BY SENATOR NEWMAN CAME UP THAT WOULD IMPLEMENT 1 OR 2 ASPECTS OF 3/5 OF AB 359.

SO IT KIND OF GAVE THE GOVERNOR A WAY OF GETTING RID OF THE MORE EXPENSIVE OPTION TO GO WITH THE CHEAPER OPTION, BUT STILL IMPLEMENT PART OF THE THE TENETS OF 359.

HOWEVER, THE THE EQUITY PORTIONS OF AB 359 WERE NOT INCLUDED IN SB 1244.

HOPEFULLY THAT ANSWERS. YEAH. SO WHO'S GOING TO BE WHO'S GOING TO LEAD THAT CHARGE NOW THAT ASSEMBLYMEMBER HOLDEN IS NO LONGER IN THE ASSEMBLY? WHO DO YOU WHO DO YOU IMAGINE WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOME LEADERSHIP THAT COMES INTO THE LEGISLATURE AS SOME OF THE NEW FOLK THAT JUST GOT ELECTED. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, MR. CABALDON IS LOOKING TO MAKE SOME WAVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION.

WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR INCREASED LEADERSHIP ROLE FROM ASSEMBLY MEMBER MIKE FONG, AS WELL AS ASSEMBLY MEMBER DAVID ALVAREZ.

IN HIS IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S GOING TO BE YOU KNOW, REALLY STEPPING INTO A MORE EXPERIENCED ROLE AS HIS CHAIR OF ASSEMBLY SUB THREE ON EDUCATION FINANCE. SO THOSE ARE THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF NAMES, BUT WE ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE FROM SOME OF THE NEWLY ELECTED OFFICIALS, YOU KNOW, WHO HAS IT AS THE TOP OF THEIR PRIORITY LIST.

THERE ARE TWO PIECES VERY INTERESTING ABOUT THE LEGISLATION, AND I DID SEE HOW IT HAD IT EVOLVED AND LIKE IT GREW BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER.

THERE WERE TWO THINGS THAT WERE PARTICULAR INTEREST TO ME PERSONALLY AS A TRUSTEE AND ALSO AS A MOTHER OF DUAL ENROLLMENT PARENTS.

ONE WAS REMOVING THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE PRINCIPAL'S APPROVAL.

I DO FEEL THAT IS A TOTAL GATEKEEPER, AND I HAVE HEARD MORE THAN ONE STORY OF CHILDREN WHO GO TO THEIR COUNSELOR, AND THEIR COUNSELOR TELLS THEM NO, THEY CANNOT ENROLL IN THAT DUAL ENROLLMENT CLASS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT AN AP HONORS BOUND STUDENT.

RIGHT. SO THEY AGAIN, SO I THINK ANY SORT OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO REMOVE BARRIERS WHICH ARE JUST CREATED FOR NO REASON, THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD DEFINITELY REALLY LOOK AT.

SO I'LL COUNT ALL OF YOU TO, TO CARRY THAT FLAG.

AND THEN THE OTHER THING, WHICH WAS VERY INTERESTING TOO, WHICH WAS ALLOWING NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS TO COME INTO OUR DISTRICT AND, AND THAT ALSO WAS A HUGE RED FLAG TO ME, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THE MINUTE WE ALLOW THAT WITHIN OUR FOR, I GUESS, OUR FOUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THAT OUR NEIGHBORS AT COMPTON LAKE WOULD SWOOP RIGHT IN.

SO AGAIN, I THINK YOU KNOW THAT WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO TO WATCH THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THOSE ARE OUR DISTRICTS, THOSE ARE OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR STUDENTS.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T SEE ANY GROUND TO THAT TOO.

SO I KNOW THAT WAS ANOTHER PIECE THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TOO, ABOUT THAT PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT WAS SO THAT WAS VERY CONCERNING. THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I, I STARTED TO OPPOSE IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE WHERE IT WAS GOING, IF I MAY.

SURE. SO SB 1244 ESSENTIALLY DOES THAT. AND WE DID GET SOME ADDITIONAL CLARITY, THOUGH, THAT THE ONLY WAY THAT THAT CAN BE ENACTED IS IF THE IS IF CERRITOS AS A DISTRICT OUTRIGHT DENIES OR CANNOT COME TO AN AGREEMENT ON A PROGRAM AS A WHOLE, NOT JUST SAY LIKE ONE PARTICULAR SUBJECT AREA.

SO THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF, YOU KNOW, PROTECTION BEHIND IT THAT IT'S IT'S NOT OUTRIGHT HEADHUNTING, YOU KNOW, FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND THE, THE K-12 DISTRICTS.

THERE IS SOME PROTECTION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS BEHIND THAT AS LONG AS THERE'S, YOU KNOW, GOOD FAITH EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT THE PROGRAM AS A WHOLE IS NOT COMPLETELY REJECTED BY BOTH PARTIES. WHAT IF A SCHOOL WHAT IF A WHAT OF A HIGH SCHOOL HASN'T ALLOWED US TO DO A PROGRAM THERE?

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YEAH. THEY DON'T. BUT AGAIN, LIKE, THOSE ARE LIKE THINGS THAT LIKE I JUST GET A LITTLE BIT WORRIED BECAUSE YOU KNOW YEAH CURRENTLY CURRENTLY THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO IT BECAUSE THE REASON THEY DON'T HAVE AN EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT AGREED TO ACTUALLY DO IT LIKE THEIR SECOND HIGH SCHOOL. BUT WE CONTINUE TO BE WILLING AND READY TO DO IT.

AND, AND I THINK WHAT DAVID IS SAYING THAT IS IF WE DENY THE OPPORTUNITY THAT THEY CAN GO ELSEWHERE.

BUT WE, WE HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY WANTING TO DO IT THERE.

THERE IS MORE ONUS EXACTLY. AS DOCTOR, THERE'S MORE ONUS ON THE K-12 DISTRICT TO COME TO THE AGREEING TABLE.

YEAH. IN TERMS OF LIKE IT SOUNDS LIKE, YOU KNOW, CERRITOS HAS ESSENTIALLY PUT THE FOUNDATION IN PLACE TO SAY WE'RE OPEN, COME AND, YOU KNOW, ENJOY WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER.

IF IT WERE THE OTHER WAY AROUND, THEN THEY COULD GO OFF TO, YOU KNOW, LONG BEACH OR COMPTON.

YEAH. YEAH. SO AGAIN, I MEAN, THOSE ARE JUST THINGS TO WATCH BECAUSE I JUST GET A LITTLE BIT WORRIED.

MY NEXT QUESTION IS IN REGARDS TO NURSING. SO WHAT'S NEXT? SO WHAT'S THE NEXT STEPS. LIKE WHO DO YOU SEE AS THE CHAMPION BEHIND THE NEXT ITERATION OF THIS LEGISLATION? SO IF IF I'M GOING TO BE ABSOLUTELY, BLATANTLY HONEST AND VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS, UNTIL THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS NO LONGER IN OFFICE, THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME TYPE OF OR THERE WILL NOT BE SUCCESS ON A SIMILAR TYPE OF EFFORT WHERE IT IS CONSTITUTING A BLANKET EXPANSION TO THE BDP PROGRAM.

WE ARE ENCOURAGING DISTRICTS AND ALL OF OUR CLIENTS, ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS, TO CONTINUE PRESSING FORWARD WITH WHAT THEY ARE ABLE TO DO ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

LIKE THE EDGE OF THE LETTER OF THE LAW IN TERMS OF YOUR UNIQUE PROGRAMS THAT YOU CAN DO.

AND WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO EXPAND THE TOTAL NUMBER THAT GO INTO EACH CYCLE OF APPROVAL OR EACH PHASE IN CYCLE OF APPROVAL AT THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AS WELL AS AS TRYING TO STREAMLINE THAT PROCESS.

THERE HAVE BEEN TALKS AT THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AND WITHIN THE HIGHER EDUCATION COMMUNITY AND THE CONSULTANTS ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE THAT APPLICATION PROCESS AND THE APPROVAL PROCESS MORE STREAMLINED, MORE SIMPLISTIC, AND EASIER FOR DISTRICTS TO GET APPROVED AT A MORE EXPEDITIOUS PACE.

IF YOU LISTEN TO SOME OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING AGENDA ITEMS. YOU'LL HEAR THEM TALK ABOUT HOW THERE ARE STILL SOME APPLICATIONS FROM LIKE EVEN CYCLE TWO FROM 3 OR 4 YEARS AGO THAT ARE STILL IN A HOLDING PATTERN.

CYCLE THREE STILL HAS QUITE A FEW. SO IT'S TRYING TO STREAMLINE THIS PROCESS AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE ICAS COMMITTEE THAT HAS, YOU KNOW, THE FINAL SAY ON THE DUPLICATE, THE REMOVING DUPLICATIVE NATURE OF PROGRAMS. SO TRYING TO STREAMLINE EVERYTHING AND GET EVERYTHING IN A, IN A MORE EASY TO USE PROCESS AND APPROVAL METHOD.

THAT'S YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S ULTIMATELY THE CURRENT GOAL.

YEAH. BUT I WOULD YOU KNOW, I WOULD JUST CAUTION THAT SB 895 AND AB 2104, IT WAS VERY, VERY GOOD EFFORT. AND IT SHOWS THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCY OF THE 72 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS, AS WELL AS EVERYBODY THAT'S SUPPORTED. I THINK WE HAD OVER A THOUSAND INDIVIDUAL ENTITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE SUPPORTING THE EFFORTS.

BUT UNTIL THIS ADMINISTRATION IS IS NOT THERE I DON'T THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE A BLANKET CHANGE TO THE GDP.

WELL, LUCKILY THERE'S AN ELECTION IN TWO YEARS, AND I THINK THERE'S BASED ON THIS PAST ELECTION LAST WEEK, I THINK THERE WILL BE SOME DIVERSITY WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR OUR GOVERNORSHIP.

I THINK THAT THERE WILL BE MAYBE SOME CHANGES.

SO MAYBE WE'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THE CASE FOR SEVERAL CANDIDATES BECAUSE THERE'S SEVERAL GOOD ONES.

SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THIS.

SO HOPEFULLY AGAIN MY LAST QUESTION IS ON THE HOUSING.

SO MAYBE NOT FOR YOU, MAYBE MORE FOR FELIPE. AND DOCTOR FIERRO AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS LIKE,

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AND I KNOW WE WERE KIND OF BUMMED BECAUSE WE WANTED A GREATER SHARE OF THAT.

AND WE HAVE TO TO SHARE WITH OUR K THROUGH 12 PARTNERS.

BUT FOR THAT $1.5 BILLION DO WE CERRITOS COLLEGE HAVE A POSSIBLE PROJECT THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO COMPETE FOR, FOR THIS MONEY BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT. YOU HAVE TO BE ON THIS LIST. AND I'M CONFUSED BY THIS LIST, BECAUSE WE HAVE THREE LOCALLY PASSED BONDS WITH LOCAL DOLLARS THAT WOULD MATCH.

SO I'M JUST VERY CONFUSED. LIKE, WHO'S GETTING THIS MONEY? I GUESS AT THE MOMENT WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROJECTS ON THE LIST.

IN ORDER TO BE ON THE LIST, WE WILL HAVE TO RERANK AND RESUBMIT ONE OF OUR PROJECTS AND SEE IF WE MEET THE THE CRITERIA. IT COULD BE DONE, BUT IT'S PRETTY UNLIKELY AT THIS POINT.

SO. SO IT. WELL, IT'S POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO RERANK AND GO THROUGH THE LIST AND SEE IF WE GET FUNDED DOWN THE ROAD. I WILL SAY THE. OUR CHANCES OF GETTING IT ARE SMALLER VERSUS WHAT WE EXPERIENCED LAST TIME AROUND. THERE WAS A BOND.

PHILIPPE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE. YEAH, SO.

SO WE HAVE TWO FOR PROJECTS TO ACTUALLY GET COMPETE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE WHAT THEY CALL FINAL PROJECT PROPOSALS.

CURRENTLY, WE HAVE TWO OF OUR PROJECTS THAT ARE IN IPS.

SO THE FIRST THING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO IS CONVERT THOSE IPS INTO IPS TO GET RANKED INTO THE, THE NEED. AND THEN DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PROJECTS WE CAN, WE CAN THAT SCORE HIGH ENOUGH BASED ON BECAUSE ONE OF THEM I THINK BOTH OF OUR PROJECTS ARE NEW PROJECTS.

I THINK THE MOST ONE THAT PROBABLY SCORED THE BEST IS OUR CTE BUILDING.

AND SO BECAUSE WE'LL GAIN EXTRA POINTS WITHIN THE CTE CATEGORY ON IT.

BUT ALL OF THESE WILL BE GROWTH BUILDINGS. GROWTH DOLLARS ARE WITHIN THE ACTUAL CAPITAL OUTLAY PROGRAM.

WE'RE PROBABLY ONE OF THE HARDEST ONES TO GET, BUT I THINK WE COULD SCORE RELATIVELY WELL ON THE CTE PROGRAM.

BUILDING OF POTENTIAL FUNDING FOR IT. BUT WE WOULD HAVE TO INVEST A LITTLE MONEY IN CREATING THE FPP IF WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD ON THAT. AND SO WE WOULD HAVE TO SUBMIT OUR FPP.

I THINK BY JULY. SO WE HAVE ROUGHLY SIX MONTHS TO GET THAT DONE, TO GET IT IN THE QUEUE AND TO GET SCORED AND RANKED.

ON THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NEED IS CURRENTLY AT THE CHANCELLOR AT STATEWIDE, I WOULD IMAGINE IT'S WELL BEYOND WHAT WE'RE GETTING.

SO IT'S GOING TO BE SLIM PICKINGS. IT'S BASED ON A RUBRIC, YOU KNOW, BASED ON ON THAT OF HOW THEY'RE RANKED ON THAT.

SO IF WE'RE NOT ACTIVELY, YOU KNOW, IN THERE YOU KNOW, WE WOULD NEED TO HUSTLE TO GET OUR PROJECT IN THAT PIPELINE AND, AND QUEUED UP AND GO. SO OBVIOUSLY WE JUST ARE ABOUT TO COMPLETE OUR, ONE OF OUR CAPITAL OUTLAY PROJECTS THAT WE DO CURRENTLY HAVE, WHICH IS THE HEALTH SCIENCE RENOVATION PROJECT.

BUT THE MONIES THAT WE WOULD BE ASKING AND MOST OF THESE TO SCORE HIGH, WE WOULD HAVE TO REQUIRE A 50% MATCH FROM BOND FUNDS, WHICH OBVIOUSLY LEVERAGING OUR BOND DOLLARS WITH CAPITAL DOLLARS IS IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND OUR BOND PROGRAM.

WITH GIVEN WITH CONSTRUCTION COSTS GOING UP, AND WE CAN PROBABLY EXPECT THEM TO GO UP EVEN MORE WITH ROUGHLY.

I FORGET THE NUMBER ON THAT, BUT IT'S SOME PRETTY LARGE NUMBER OF THE AMOUNT OF BONDS THAT WERE PASSED WITHIN THE K 14 MARKET IN CALIFORNIA. AND SO THERE'S ALREADY PANIC WITHIN THE ACTUAL INDUSTRY CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF TRYING TO FULFILL THAT NEED ON THAT.

SO WE PROBABLY ARE GOING TO EXPECT ESCALATION COSTS TO SKYROCKET PRETTY EXTREMELY, BECAUSE JUST THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORKERS TO BE ABLE TO POTENTIALLY FILL SOME OF THESE PROJECTS THAT ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE RELATIVELY SOON.

SO. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THOSE ARE ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE.

THANK YOU. VERY GOOD REPORT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UPDATE. THANK YOU.

THE NEXT ITEM IS OUR CONSENT ITEMS. IT WOULD COVER CONSENT ITEMS ON SECTION THREE,

[3. Consent Items - Office of Academic Affairs]

[4. Consent Items - Office of Business Services]

[5. Consent Items - Office of Human Resources]

[6. Consent Items - Office of Student Services]

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DOES ANYONE LIKE TO PULL ANY OF ITEM FROM ANY OF THOSE? NO, I'M NOT GOING TO. I THOUGHT ABOUT IT. OKAY.

SEEING NONE. MOVE TO APPROVE THE ITEMS. SECOND OR MOTION? SECOND. ANY ANY ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO LET'S SEE.

WHAT IS IT? OBJECT. NO OBJECTIONS? OKAY, THEN.

CONSENT ITEMS HAVE BEEN APPROVED. NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 7.01.

[7. Information Items]

THESE ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL ONLY. YES. OKAY. DO I NEED TO? NOTHING. NOTHING. OKAY. NEXT ITEM 707.02 REVIEW OF BOARD POLICIES.

AGAIN INFORMATIONAL ONLY. ITEM 7.03 REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES.

AGAIN INFORMATIONAL ONLY. ITEM 7.04 FIRST READING.

REVISED BOARD POLICY 3420, TITLED EQUITY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

AGAIN INFORMATIONAL ONLY. 7.05 FIRST READING REVISED BOARD POLICY 3540, TITLED SEXUAL AND OTHER ASSAULTS ON CAMPUS AND IN CAMPUS PROGRAMS AGAIN, INFORMATIONAL ONLY.

7.06 FIRST READING, REVISED BOARD POLICY 5180, TITLED STUDENT ACTIVITIES INFORMATIONAL ONLY 7.07 FIRST READING, REVISED BOARD POLICY 54 000, TITLED ASSOCIATED AIDED STUDENT ORGANIZATION INFORMATIONAL ONLY. ITEM 7.08 FIRST READING REVISED BOARD POLICY 5410 TITLE ASSOCIATED STUDENT ELECTIONS, AGAIN INFORMATIONAL ONLY. NOW WE'RE MOVING ON.

IF I MAY TRUSTEE. PACHECO. FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK TO THESE ITEMS, THE TRACK CHANGES.

THE RED IS WHAT HAS BEEN REMOVED OR IS BEING ASKED FOR CONSIDERATION FOR REMOVAL.

THE GREEN IS WHAT IS NEW IN EACH ONE OF THOSE DOCUMENTS? MOST OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE THERE, IF YOU'RE WONDERING, ARE CHANGES BASED ON CHANGES IN THE LAW OR UPDATED PRACTICES.

CURRENT NAMES OR VOCABULARY BASED ON WHAT IS CURRENT.

SO AGAIN, FIRST READING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION INFORMATION ON WHAT? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS YOU SEE THE, THE, THE, THE RED LINE AND THE GREEN WHICH ARE THE ADDITIONS, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THAT ARE JUST SIMPLY UPDATES TO BE UPDATES TO BECOME CURRENT.

AND SOME OF THOSE ARE LEGAL UPDATES AND SUGGESTIONS THAT COME FROM OUR PARTNERS AT THE LEAGUE.

SO FROM THIS POINT ON, ALL THE WAY TO JUNE, YOU WILL SEE MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY MORE OF THESE COMING YOUR WAY.

161 TO BE EXACT. OKAY. OKAY. SO THEN ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS, SECOND READING AND

[8.01 Second Reading and Consideration of Adoption Revised Board Policy 5500]

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPT REVISED BOARD ABOARD POLICY 50 500, TITLED STANDARDS OF STUDENT CONDUCT.

DO WE NEED TO TAKE A IS IT? YEAH, YOU NEED A BOAT.

SO CAN I HAVE DOES. SECOND. ANY OBJECTIONS? SEEING NONE. IT THIS ITEM PASSES SECOND. ITEM.

[8.02 Second Reading and Consideration of Adoption Revised Board Policy 5530]

THE ACTION IS IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPT THE REVISED BOARD POLICY 5530, TITLED STUDENT RIGHTS AND GRIEVANCES. DO I HAVE A MOTION?

[01:35:01]

ITEM 8.03 SECOND READING AND CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION OF REVISE BOARD POLICY 6250.

[8.03 Second Reading and Consideration of Adoption Revised Board Policy 6250]

CAN I HAVE A MOTION? SECOND. ANY OBJECTIONS? SEEING.

NONE. IT PASSES. ITEM 8.04, AGREEMENT BETWEEN CERRITOS COLLEGE DISTRICT

[8.04 Agreement between The Cerritos Community College District and The California School Employees Association and its Cerritos Chapter 161]

CERRITOS, CHAPTER 161. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CERRITOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT AND CERRITOS COLLEGE FACULTY FEDERATION CC, PHS LOCAL 6215.

GOVERNING WAGES, HOURS, AND OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT FOR THE PERIOD OF JULY 1ST, 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30TH, 2027. CAN I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. ANY OBJECTIONS? SEEING NONE, IT IS APPROVED.

NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 8.05, REVISED CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF 2024

[8.05 REVISED: Consideration of Approval of 2024-2025 Salary Rate Increase and 2024-2025 Salary Schedules for Classified Employees]

THE PRESIDENT SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE 2024 2025 SALARY RATE INCREASE AND 2024 2025 SALARIES SALARY SCHEDULE FOR CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES.

COULD I HAVE A MOTION? OH I THINK THIS UNLESS PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK IT'S A MISTAKE THERE.

IT'S A MISTAKE. RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THE 2024 2025 SALARY RATE INCREASE AND 2024 2025 SALARY SCHEDULE. IS THAT CORRECT? IS IS TITLES CORRECT? THE TITLES ARE CORRECT. YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. AND THEN THE SCHEDULE.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS IS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT.

SO THE WELCOME BACK. IS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT AND REFLECTS THE, THE PERCENTAGE UPDATE AND THE NEW SALARY SCHEDULES, WHICH THEN HAVE TO BE SUBMITTED TO LEGCO FOR PROCESSING, BUT IS THE SAME INCREASE THAT WAS OFFERED TO ALL EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE COLLEGE.

SO CAN I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. ANY OBJECTIONS? SEEING NONE, IT IS APPROVED. WE'RE MOVING ON TO ITEM 9.01.

REPORTS AND COMMENTS. OH, WE ALREADY DID THAT.

SO WE SINCE WE REORGANIZED. SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO CLOSED SESSION.

[10. Closed Session]

CORRECT? YES. OKAY. AT LEAST ONE READ OUT. POSSIBLY TWO.

OKAY. SO THEN WE WILL BE BACK. ALL RIGHT.

[11. Closing Items]

IT IS REPORTED THAT IN CLOSED SESSION, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HEREBY AUTHORIZE MODIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT, SUPERINTENDENT, ORIGINAL AGREEMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT AND FIRST, FIRST THROUGH 11TH AMENDMENT IN THE AREA OF VACATION AND EXECUTIVE RENEWAL LEAVE AS PRESENTED IN CLOSED SESSION.

THE VOTE FOR APPROVAL WAS FIVE YES ZERO NO'S, TWO ABSENT TRUSTEE LIU AND TRUSTEE SALAZAR.

THIS CLOSES OUR SESSION.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.