Jun 18, 2025 Board Meeting

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I MEAN, ROLL CALL. WE'RE NOT VOTING. OKAY. BOARD PRESIDENT MARIANA PACHECO, PRESENT.

[1.01 Roll Call]

ZURICH LOUIS. PRESENT. TRUSTEE JAMES CODY BURKE.

PRESENT. TRUSTEE SHIN LIU IS ABSENT. TRUSTEE MARIANA RIOS WILL BE ARRIVING SHORTLY.

TRUSTEE. SANDRA SALAZAR IS ABSENT. STUDENT TRUSTEE GUSTAVO SANCHEZ IS ABSENT AND PRESENT.

SUPERINTENDENT FIERRO PRESENT. OKAY. ITEM 1.02, THE PLEDGE OF

[1.02 Pledge of Allegiance]

READY? BEGIN. 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.

MOVING ON TO ITEM 1.03. IT. DOES ANY MEMBER, ANY TRUSTEE LIKE TO REORGANIZE THE AGENDA.

[1.03 Agenda Organization]

[1.04 Comments from the Audience]

[1.05 Reports and Comments from Constituent Groups]

WELCOME. AND DO YOU HAVE A REPORT OR ANYTHING TO SAY? I DON'T HAVE A REPORT. I JUST WANTED TO SHOW UP AND INTRODUCE MYSELF, AND WE'LL GO FROM A FULL TIME MEMBER IN THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT TO CHAIR THAT AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL. WELCOME. THANK YOU.

AND SEEING TERENCE MULLEN ISN'T HERE, AND NEITHER IS IRLANDA LOPEZ.

TO BE ABLE TO GIVE A REPORT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 2.01, PRESENTATION AND CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF TENTATIVE BUDGET FOR

[2.01 Presentation and Consideration of Approval of the Tentative Budget for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year]

TWO.

THERE YOU GO. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SO I'M GOING TO GO OVER THE TENTATIVE BUDGET.

SO THE ITEMS I'M GOING TO CARRY ON IS GO OVER THE MAIN REVISION.

I'M GOING TO BRIEFLY GO OVER THIS ONE SINCE I PRESENTED THE MAY REVISE AT OUR PREVIOUS MEETING, BUT I'M GOING TO ACTUALLY SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON SB 101, WHICH IS THE LEGISLATURE'S ADOPTED BUDGET.

THEN WE'LL GO INTO OUR TENTATIVE BUDGET AND THEN I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THERE.

SO AS A REMINDER, THE MAY REVISION WAS RELEASED MAY 14TH OF THIS YEAR.

THE MAY REVISION HAD A $12 BILLION DEFICIT. AND THEN THE GOVERNOR IN HIS MAY REVISION UTILIZE A NUMBER OF MECHANISMS TO ADDRESS THE SHORTFALL.

BY. LET ME MOVE THIS OUT OF THE WAY. BY UTILIZING SPENDING REDUCTIONS PAYMENT DEFERRALS AND THE USE OF EMERGENCY RESERVES OR WHAT THEY'RE CALLING THE RAINY DAY FUND. AND SO THOSE ARE THE MECHANISMS THAT WERE USED TO HELP THE FILL THE SHORTFALL IN THE MAY REVISION.

AND THEN ALSO IN THE MAY REVISION, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT STARTING IN THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR, THE 25, 26 DISTRICTS WILL THEN BE FUNDED ON A NEW FLOOR.

AND SO WHICH MEANS IS WHATEVER WE'RE FUNDED THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR WILL BE OUR FLOOR MOVING FORWARD.

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ON THAT. AND ONE ADDED NOTE ON THE HOLD HARMLESS.

IN PREVIOUS YEARS, HOLD HARMLESS WAS ADJUSTED EVERY YEAR BY COLA MOVING FORWARD.

THIS HOLD HARMLESS IS STAGNANT. SO WHATEVER THAT NUMBER IS IT'S IT'S A STAGNANT NUMBER.

AND IT DOES NOT CHANGE YEAR AFTER YEAR. IN THE SHORT TERM THAT REALLY DOESN'T MEAN TOO MUCH FOR US, BUT OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, OBVIOUSLY, AS WE GROW THAT GAP BETWEEN WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY BEING FUNDED AND WHAT THAT BOTTOM COULD, COULD GROW, WHICH, YOU KNOW, COULD CREATE SOME SEPARATION IF WE EVER DID COME DOWN ON, YOU KNOW, ENROLLMENT STARTED FALLING IN SOME CASES. THAT WOULD, WOULD DEFINITELY HURT US ON IT.

BUT FROM THE SHORT TERM, I DON'T SEE ANY RELATIVE IMPACT OF THAT.

GOOD NEWS IS IT INCREASES THE FLOOR ROUGHLY ABOUT $13 MILLION OF WHAT OUR CURRENT FLOOR IS AS, AS THE MOMENT. SO THAT IS GOOD THAT IT ACTUALLY DOES INCREASE HIGHER FOR US ON A GO FORWARD BASIS.

OKAY. PRESIDENT, CAN I ASK QUESTIONS AS WE WORK THROUGH THE SO IS THAT TO ASSUME THAT THEN THERE'S NO CORE, ANY SORT OF COROLLARY IN ESCALATION OR INFLATION ADJUSTMENT IN THAT IN THAT AMOUNT, IN THE WHOLE HARMLESS AMOUNT? YEAH, THAT WOULD BE CORRECT. THERE WOULD BE NO, NO ADJUSTMENT WHATSOEVER UNLESS IT'S BUILT INTO THE BUDGET.

BUT THIS CHANGE IN THE FLOOR IS, IS A NEW CHANGE ON IT.

SO MOVING FORWARD, THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THAT THE FLOOR NOW STAYS AT A CONSTANT AMOUNT AND DOES NOT CHANGE DUE TO INFLATION OR COLA OR ANYTHING FROM YEAR TO YEAR. IF WE SEE A 10% INFLATION IN THE MARKET, WE ARE GOING TO BE FUNDED IN THE EXACT SAME WAY REGARDLESS.

YES. YEAH. IF THERE IS NO CHANGE IN ENROLLMENT GROWTH OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

SO WE WOULD STAY, WE WOULD HAVE A CONSTANT REVENUE SOURCE ON THAT.

SO WITHOUT ANY CHANGE IN COLA OR INFLATION OR ANYTHING OF THAT SORT.

SO YOU KNOW, IN SOME DIFFERENCES IN THE MAY REVISION THAT, THAT I MENTIONED, $114.6 BILLION.

THIS AMOUNT IS, IS A LITTLE LESS THAN WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY IN THE, IN THE MAY IN THE GOVERNOR'S JANUARY PROPOSAL.

SOME OTHER KEY CHANGES THAT ARE OUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE SPECIFIC ONE AND ALL OF THESE ARE RELATIVELY GOOD THINGS. ON THAT WAS ABOUT $210 MILLION TO FULLY FUND THE SKIFF FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR.

WE HAVE ROUGHLY ABOUT, WHAT, 15 MORE DAYS UNTIL THE FISCAL YEAR COMES TO A CLOSE.

SO KNOWING THAT THERE IS A BUDGET DEFICIT WITHIN THIS, WITHIN THE FUNDING FORMULA, MEANING THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO FULLY FUND THE FUNDING FORMULA, THE GOVERNOR HAS POINTED OUT, AND PROVIDING ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO FULLY FUND THAT FORMULA FOR US.

AND SO SO WE DON'T ANTICIPATE GETTING ANY TYPE OF DEFICIT FACTOR ON THAT.

AND SO BOTH THE ITEM, THE FIRST ITEM AND THE SECOND ITEM, HE'S ALREADY PROJECTING FOR NEXT YEAR, THAT HE'S ADDING AN ADDITIONAL $105 MILLION TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S ENOUGH MONEY TO FULLY FUND THE SKIFF FOR NEXT YEAR.

ON AN ONGOING BASIS ON THAT. SO KUDOS TO TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE FOR PUTTING EDUCATION AT THE FOREFRONT PARTICULARLY WITH COMMUNITY COLLEGES ON THAT.

THERE'S ROUGHLY ABOUT $109.5 MILLION MILLION DOLLARS IN THE BUDGET FOR ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

SO THAT IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY GAIN ADDITIONAL DOLLARS IS IN OUR CONTINUOUS ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

AND WITHIN OUR BUDGET, I CAN SHOW YOU A TREND OF HOW OUR ENROLLMENT IS DOING AND WHAT WE'RE PROJECTING ENROLLMENT TO BE ON AN ONGOING BASIS.

AND THEN COLA THERE'S ALSO A COLA BUILT INTO THE BUDGET 2.3% COLA.

THAT EQUATES TO ROUGHLY ABOUT $3.4 MILLION REVENUE INCREASE FOR US ON THAT.

SO THAT'S THAT. THAT IS THE 2.3% COLA EQUATES TO ROUGHLY ABOUT A $3.4 MILLION INCREASE TO OUR STATE APPORTIONMENT. ALSO THERE IS SOME DEFERRALS.

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TO TRY TO CLOSE THAT $12 BILLION BUDGET GAP. SOME OF THOSE ARE DEFERRALS WHICH WE'RE PLANNING FOR.

OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE MONITORING CASH FLOW AND ONGOING BASIS TO ENSURE THAT.

SO ROUGHLY ABOUT $532 MILLION WORTH OF DEFERRALS, THAT EQUATES FOR US SOMEWHERE AROUND ABOUT $8.3 MILLION DEFERRAL. SO MEANING IS THAT ABOUT $8 MILLION OF OUR CURRENT FUNDING IS GOING TO BE PUSHED OFF AND PAID TO US AT A LATER DATE ON THAT.

SO IT'S STILL A BIG NUMBER, BUT WE'RE TAKING A CLOSE EYE ON THAT.

LIKELY WE'LL BE ABLE TO KIND OF WEATHER THIS.

WE WON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO GO OUT AND ISSUE TEMPORARY BORROWING.

AN EXAMPLE OF THAT WOULD BE LIKE A TRAN ON THAT.

CHANCES ARE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE CURRENT RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO BACKSTOP THAT CASH SHORTFALL.

TEMPORARY SHORTFALL. HOW LONG DO WE ANTICIPATE THAT DELAY IN FUNDING? ONE MONTH. ONE MONTH OF DELAY. OH, SO IT'S ONLY ONE MONTH OF DELAY ON ON THE 8 MILLION.

YEP. OKAY. AND THEN OTHER USES IS PROGRAM REDUCTIONS.

OBVIOUSLY THE BIGGEST NOTABLE ONE HERE IS THE ELIMINATION OF THE STATEWIDE ERP SYSTEM.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS RECALL, THE STATE WAS LOOKING TO GO IN AND PROVIDE A STATEWIDE ERP SYSTEM THAT ALL COMMUNITY COLLEGES COULD USE USE THAT STATE. PUT UP SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT TO THAT.

NOW, GIVEN WHERE WE'RE AT FROM A BUDGET STANDPOINT, THE GOVERNOR HAS COMPLETELY WIPED THAT OUT OF THE OUT OF THE BUDGET.

SO MOVING FORWARD AT LEAST AS THE MAY REVISE, THAT IS A BASICALLY COUNCIL PROGRAM ON THAT.

SO UTILIZE RE UTILIZING SOME OF THOSE FUNDS TO HELP WITH FILLING SOME OF THOSE BUDGET GAPS.

THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION WHAT THEY'RE CALLING THE COMMON CLOUD PLATFORM.

THAT'S A THAT'S A BASICALLY A DATA SOLUTION TRYING TO GET COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO SUBMIT DATA IN A CONSISTENT MANNER.

THAT ORIGINALLY HAD A BUDGET OF ABOUT 163 MILLION.

THAT HAS NOW BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED TO ONLY ABOUT $12 MILLION GOING GOING FORWARD.

SO A HUGE, HUGE DECREASE IN THAT PROGRAM. AND THEN SOME TAKEAWAYS FROM THE MAY REVISION.

OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE GOING TO BE MONITORING CASH BECAUSE OF THE DEFERRALS LIMITED ACCESS TO NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE HE'S CUTTING PROGRAMS. NOT REALLY A LOT AVAILABILITY OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES ON THAT.

WE'RE GLAD TO SEE SOME MONEY SET ASIDE TO FULLY FUND THE FUNDING FORMULA AND THAT THERE IS SOME GROWTH MONIES IN THAT.

SO THERE'S THOSE ARE A COUPLE OF OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY MAXIMIZE FUNDING.

NOW MOVING TO SB 101. SB 101 IS THE STATE'S LEGISLATURE'S ADOPTED BUDGET RIGHT NOW.

SO THAT IS CURRENTLY ON THE GOVERNOR'S DESK WAITING FOR SIGNATURE.

THE GOVERNOR WILL NEED TO EITHER VETO IT, LINE ITEM IT, OR SIGN IT BY JUNE 30TH.

ON THAT. AND SO THIS WAS APPROVED ON FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH.

SO THIS PAST FRIDAY THEY DID SIGN IT. THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE OF THE MAY REVISE AND THE SB 101 IS SB 101 RELIES MORE ON BORROWING THAN SPENDING CUTS. AND SO AND AS I GO THROUGH SOME OF THOSE, YOU CAN SEE SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS, THIS BUDGET ON THAT TO HELP CLOSE THAT $12 BILLION GAP, REALLY KIND OF PUSHING SOME OF THOSE SPENDING CUTS INTO THE FUTURE. SO THERE IS A LITTLE WORRY ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES NOT ADDRESS ANY OF THE SPENDING, AND IT JUST PUSHES IT ALONG TO BASICALLY US TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT IN FUTURE YEARS.

SO THAT'S THE MAIN TAKEAWAY THAT I SEE OUT OF THIS.

OH MAN. SORRY ABOUT THAT. SO IT DOES HAVE A NUMBER OF NEW ADDITIONS TO IT. AND SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE NOTABLE ADDITIONS THAT WERE IN SB 101, $100 MILLION ONE TIME. THESE ARE ALL ONE TIME FUNDS AND SO ONE TIME FUNDS FOR ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

ON THAT, WE HAVE ABOUT $80 MILLION OF ONE TIME TO TO SUPPORT A STUDENT SUPPORT BLOCK GRANT.

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THAT WOULD BRING IN ROUGHLY ABOUT $500,000 TO CERRITOS COLLEGE BASED ON TRENDS OF HOW MUCH WE, WE PAY OUT ON PART TIME FACULTY OFFICE HOURS AND THEN ABOUT $20 MILLION OF ONE TIME EMERGENCY FUNDS TO SUPPORT STUDENT FINANCIAL AID. THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT $300,000 GRANT TO CERRITOS COLLEGE ON THAT.

SOME ADDITIONAL ADDITIONS THAT WERE NOT IN THE GOVERNOR'S MAY REVISION IS $15 MILLION OF ONE TIME FUNDS FOR DREAM RESOURCE LIAISONS. AND THEN ABOUT $5.1 MILLION OF ONE TIME MONIES TO TO SUPPORT FINANCIAL AID OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT. THOSE EQUATE TO ROUGHLY $230,000 OF CERRITOS COLLEGE FOR THE DREAM RESOURCE LIAISONS, AND ABOUT $80,000 TO CERRITOS FOR THE ONE TIME FINANCIAL AID, OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT.

SOME SOME PROGRAM ADJUSTMENTS OR SUPPORTS SOME COMMON THINGS.

SO SB 101 DOES AGREE WITH THE GOVERNOR'S ELIMINATION OF THE STATEWIDE ERP SO THAT BASICALLY WE CAN PRETTY MUCH GUARANTEE THAT IS A DONE DEAL. BECAUSE BOTH THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE DO AGREE ON THAT.

THEY ALSO AGREE WITH THE REDUCTION TO ONLY FUND THE COMMON CLOUD DATA PLATFORM TO $12 MILLION.

THAT'S A SIMILAR THAT'S BASICALLY THEY TOOK THE GOVERNOR'S REQUEST AND MAY REVISION AND SUPPORTED THAT AS WELL.

SO SO SOME COMMONALITIES AND SOME OF THE PROGRAM CUTS SOME NOTABLE CHANGES AND DIFFERENCES IS THEY'RE ALSO REAPPROPRIATING ROUGHLY ABOUT $135 MILLION OF UNSPENT PART TIME FACULTY HEALTH CARE INSURANCE PROGRAM TO HELP REDUCE DEFERRALS. SO WHAT WHAT THIS IS, IS THE STATE HAS SET ASIDE $200 MILLION TO SUPPORT COLLEGES FUNDING PART TIME FACULTY HEALTH CARE.

AND SO BASED WHAT THEY'RE SAYING HERE IS THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF UNUSED DOLLARS IN THAT PROGRAM.

SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE 135 MILLION OF THAT ONE TIME AND PAY DOWN DEFERRALS TO COLLEGES, MEANING THAT $8 MILLION CASH DEFERRAL I WAS TALKING ABOUT COULD LESSEN IF THIS THIS IS ACTUALLY APPROVED ON THAT.

AND SO SO THIS IS IS TRYING TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THE BUDGET CUTS IN A DIFFERENT WAY ON THAT.

AND SO THAT WOULD MODIFY THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET PROPOSAL HAD DEFERRALS OF ROUGHLY ABOUT $532 MILLION.

THIS THE LEGISLATURE'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, REDUCES THE OVERALL DEFERRALS TO ONLY $378 MILLION.

OKAY, I GO BACK JUST REAL QUICK. SOME TAKEAWAYS ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MAIN VISION AND SB 101. THEY MAY REVISION UTILIZES SPENDING REDUCTIONS, CASH DEFERRALS, THE RAINY DAY FUND TO HELP WITH THE BUDGET GAP. SB 101 USES BORROWING MORE LESS CUTS AND PUSHES PROBLEMS TO THE FUTURE.

SO THOSE ARE SOME NOTABLE NOTABLE DIFFERENCES ON THAT.

STILL, BOTH BILLS ARE FULLY FUNDING COMMUNITY COLLEGES, STILL PROVIDING THE HIGHEST PRIORITY TO EDUCATION.

OKAY. SO THAT IS THE ME REVISION AND SB 101. AND THEN FROM THERE WE HAVE WE HAVE DEVELOPED OUR TENTATIVE BUDGET. SO I'LL GO OVER SOME QUICK BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE USED TO PREPARE OUR TENTATIVE BUDGET, AND THEN WE'LL GO OVER THE TENTATIVE BUDGET QUICKLY, AND THEN I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AFTER THAT.

OKAY. SO AS I NOTICE AS I MENTIONED, THE BUDGET DOES OUR BUDGET NOW INCLUDES THE THREE POINT 2.3% COLA. AND YOU CAN SEE A CHART OF COLAS OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS.

THIS CHART SHOWS OUR FUND OBLIGATION. SO THIS IS OUR FULL TIME FACULTY FUND OBLIGATION.

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THESE NEXT TWO SLIDES TALK ABOUT PENSION. AND SO IN PARTICULARLY THESE ARE FOR 25, 26, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT EMPLOYER COLUMN, THE THIRD COLUMN TO FROM THE LEFT, IT SHOWS THAT THE CALSTRS RETIREMENT RATES HAVE BEEN PRETTY HAVE BEEN STAGNANT SINCE 2023. AND SO THEY HAVE BEEN INCREASING SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE 2000 1314, WHICH AT THAT TIME, THE EMPLOYER RATE THAT WE CONTRIBUTED WAS ONLY EIGHT AND A QUARTER.

AND SO FROM 20 1314, IT INCREASED FROM EIGHT AND A QUARTER TO WHAT WE'RE PAYING RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS 19.3%. THAT DIFFERENCE OVER THAT TIME, BETWEEN 8 AND 8 AND A QUARTER AND 19 19.1 IS AN ADDITIONAL COST OF ROUGHLY ABOUT $8.4 MILLION TO OUR OVERALL BUDGET.

SIMILAR, SIMILAR CONCEPT ON THE CALPERS SIDE.

CALPERS SIDE FUNDS ALL OF OUR CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED MANAGERS PERS.

I MEAN, STRS OBVIOUSLY IS FOR OUR ACADEMIC OR FACULTY OR ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATORS.

SO SIMILAR NOTION HERE. AS YOU CAN SEE PERS HAS CONSISTENTLY BEEN INCREASING OVER, OVER SOME TIME.

SO WE DID HAVE A SLIGHT DECREASE THIS YEAR GOING FROM 27.5% TO ROUGHLY 26.81%.

SO NOT QUITE JUST A SLIGHT DECREASE ON THAT. OVERALL STATUTORY BENEFITS.

THAT PUTS OUR CLASSIFIED COST AT ROUGHLY 35.91, 91% OF WHAT WE PAY IN STATUTORY BENEFITS FOR OUR CLASSIFIED AND CLASSIFIED MANAGERS VERSUS 22% FOR OUR FACULTY AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATORS. SO THIS IS KIND OF OUR FULL TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENTS OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. AND SO THE VERY LAST COLUMN, WHICH IS OUR CURRENT YEAR, THIS IS OUR LATEST NUMBERS THAT WE REPORTED AS AP2.

AND SO WE HAD A TOTAL REPORTED FTES OF 16,374 AND SOME CHANGE.

AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN, THAT IS OUR TOTAL FUNDED FTES.

AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO NUMBERS IS OUR FUNDED FTES IS NOW DONE ON A THREE YEAR ROLLING AVERAGE.

AND SO IT'S TAKING THE AVERAGE OF OUR CREDIT FTES.

AND AND THEN WHATEVER OUR SPECIAL ADMIT NON CREDIT AND CDCP, IT TAKES THE CURRENT VALUE OF THAT.

SO THE ONLY THING THAT'S REALLY THE THREE YEAR AVERAGE IS ON THE CREDIT SIDE.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE CURRENT FOR THE CURRENT NUMBER ON IT.

SO WE'RE PROJECTING OUR FUNDED FTES FOR THIS YEAR TO BE 16,800, ROUGHLY 840 FTES ON THAT.

SO AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE ACTUAL REPORTED WE HIT A HIGH POINT GOING INTO COVID AND IN IN 2019 OR IN 20 1920 WE ENDED THAT FISCAL YEAR AT 17,362.

AND THEN FROM THAT, THE IMPACTS OF COVID. YOU CAN SEE WE WE DROPPED WE HIT BOTTOM IN 21, 22 AT 13,000, JUST UNDER 14,000 FTES. AND THEN FROM THERE EACH YEAR, WE'VE BEEN INCREASING YEAR AFTER YEAR, AND WE'RE STILL PROJECTING THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT UPTICK ON THAT.

SO WE, WE WE ARE SHOWING REALLY SOLID ENROLLMENT GROWTH MOVING FORWARD AS WELL.

MY QUESTION ON THIS SLIDE. VICE PRESIDENT LOPEZ WAS AROUND THE ROLLING AVERAGE.

SO IT WAS THE ROLLING AVERAGE, INCLUSIVE OF THE FUNDED.

IS IT PULLING FROM THE FUNDED FTE NUMBER OR IS IT PULLING FROM THE ACTUAL CALCULATION? SO SO IT IT'S WHAT'S CONFUSING. WHAT'S A LITTLE BIT TRICKY.

ON THAT IS DURING COVID, WE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN WHAT THEY CALL THE EMERGENCY CONDITION ALLOWANCE ECA.

SO WHAT THAT DID IS PROTECTED US. SO WHATEVER WE WERE FUNDED IN 1920, THAT FUNDING CONTINUED ON FOR THREE YEARS.

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RIGHT. BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, MOVING FORWARD, IT IS OUR THREE YEAR AVERAGE IS BASED ON THE CURRENT YEAR AND THEN THE TWO PRIOR YEAR CREDIT FTES. SO WHAT WE REPORT IS NOT PART OF THAT CALCULATION.

ECA WOULD NOT BE PART OF THAT CALCULATION. YEAH, OKAY.

YEAH. I THINK I'M NOT FOLLOWING HOW WE ARRIVED AT 16.8.

IN THIS CALCULATION. BUT SO SO BECAUSE IT'S A THREE YEAR AVERAGE, IT'S ACTUALLY INCLUDING ONE OF THE ECA YEARS.

SO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. OKAY. SO IT IS INCLUDING THE.

YEAH. SO DON'T DON'T USE THE CREDIT. 1317 717 YOU HAVE TO USE THE ECA YEAR OF 2020.

SO YOU HAVE TO USE THAT 16 757 AS PART OF THAT.

THAT MAKES MORE SENSE. YEAH, THAT THAT'S WHAT WAS MY QUESTION.

YEAH. SO BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THAT'S WHAT WE REPORTED THAT YEAR, WE GOT ECA GRANDFATHERED ON IT.

SO YOU HAD TO SUBSTITUTE THAT NUMBER FOR THE ECA NUMBER.

RIGHT. AND I THINK MY CONCERN THEN IS THAT AS THE ECA ROLLS OFF BECAUSE IT'S A HEALTHY CHUNK HIGHER THAN EVEN OUR INCREASED ENROLLMENT AMOUNT, OUR THREE YEAR AVERAGES ARE GOING TO. EVEN THOUGH OUR ENROLLMENT HOPEFULLY IS INCREASING OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

OUR FUNDING WILL NOT BE. YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ACTUALLY ROLLED INTO THIS FISCAL YEAR WHEN I PRESENTED IS EVEN THOUGH OUR ENROLLMENT WAS INCREASING, OUR THREE YEAR AVERAGE WAS DECREASING BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE THAT WE WERE DROPPING OFF THOSE ECA YEARS.

SO WE'RE ARTIFICIALLY PROPPED UP HIGHER, BEING FUNDED AT A HIGHER LEVEL.

AND THOSE WERE BEING FUNDED. THAT'S WHY THIS YEAR, EVEN THOUGH WE GOT A COLA THIS YEAR, OUR REVENUE REALLY STAYED FLAT.

WHY? BECAUSE BECAUSE OF THAT, ALL THAT WAS WAS HAPPENING EVEN THOUGH ENROLLMENT DROP.

RIGHT. YEAH. AND SO WE DO ANTICIPATE HAVING THAT THIS YEAR.

IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE SLIDER ON THAT BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ONE YEAR MOVING FORWARD ONCE.

WE NOW ROTATE THOSE YEARS OUT OF THAT, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO REBOUND VERY QUICKLY AND START GETTING OUR THREE YEAR AVERAGE BACK UP.

OKAY. OUR BUDGET INCLUDES A TOTAL OF OF 696 POSITIONS.

AND THIS IS THE POSITIONS BROKEN DOWN. AS AS IS THE FULL TIME FACULTY.

WE'VE THIS NUMBER ALREADY INCLUDES ADJUSTED OUT ALL THE RETIREMENTS.

WE HAD 22 FACULTY RETIREMENTS ON THAT. HERE IS A PIE CHART BROKEN DOWN BY EACH CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES. SO WE THIS BUDGET HAS A TOTAL EXPENDITURES OF 600, A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN $667 MILLION. YEAH, 100, 100. THE RECORD REFLECT 167 MILLION.

YES. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, LET ME TRY TO MOVE THIS OUT OF THE WAY.

THIS KEEPS GETTING IN THE WAY. SO WE WE ROUGHLY HAVE ROUGHLY ABOUT OVER 90% OF OUR BUDGET IS STILL DEVOTED TO SALARY AND BENEFITS ON IT'S STILL A HEAVY CHUNK OF OF THAT FOR PERSONNEL COSTS. WE HAVE A TOTAL REVENUE THIS YEAR PROJECTED AT $169.7 MILLION, WHICH IS GOING TO GIVE US A A TENTATIVE BUDGET.

WE HAVE A SURPLUS OF JUST SLIGHTLY UNDER $2.4 MILLION.

I WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION CHARTED OUT SOME INFORMATION REGARDING THE SERP.

FOR THIS IN THE TENTATIVE BUDGET WE'RE GETTING THIS FIRST YEAR, WE'LL HAVE THE MOST COST SAVINGS IN OUR BUDGET. SO ROUGHLY ABOUT $2.8 MILLION OF COST SAVINGS IS GOING TO BE BUILT INTO THIS FIRST YEAR.

SO WE'RE PROJECTING ACTUAL COST SAVINGS FOR OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WILL GIVE US A MAXIMUM OF TOTAL OF $7.6 MILLION. OBVIOUSLY, THESE ARE CHANGE COULD CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEAR DEPENDING ON HOW FAST WE CAN ROLL OUT RECRUITMENTS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO WE DO ANTICIPATE THESE NUMBERS WILL LIKELY CHANGE.

OUR COST SAVINGS WILL LIKELY GO UP EVEN FURTHER BECAUSE WE CAN'T WE CAN'T HIRE EVERYONE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

WE WE HAVE STRATEGICALLY WORKED THROUGH A PRIORITY LIST OF WHICH ONES THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE ARE CLASSIFYING AS HIGH PRIORITY POSITIONS,

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THE. NO, I THINK THAT WAS IT. 2026 CLASSIFIED BECAUSE CLASSIFIED WAS MORE THAN.

YEAH, IT WAS ABOUT 2026 CLASSIFIED POSITIONS.

SO LONG STORY SHORT, WE HAVE A LOT OF POSITIONS OVER 50, I THINK 52 POSITIONS TOTAL.

IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECT, THAT THAT ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN THE SURVEY.

SO IT'S GOING TO TAKE US A WHILE TO BE ABLE TO TO BACKFILL THAT.

PLUS SOME OF THESE POSITIONS, FOLKS WERE IN THERE FOR MANY YEARS, 30 PLUS YEARS.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY TAKING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REEVALUATE THOSE JOB DESCRIPTIONS, UPDATE THEM AS NECESSARY, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY JOB DUTIES HAVE CHANGED OVER THE LAST, YOU KNOW, TEN, 20, 30 YEARS.

SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THOSE ARE FRESH AND UPDATED.

THAT PROCESS DOES TAKE A BIT OF TIME, ESPECIALLY ON THE CLASSIFIED SIDE, BECAUSE THOSE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED UNION TO GET APPROVED BEFORE WE CAN ACTUALLY MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM. SO THAT DOES CREATE SOME DELAYS IN BACKFILLING SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS, WHICH CONSEQUENTLY WILL ACTUALLY INCREASE COST SAVINGS OVER TIME AS WELL.

OKAY. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS? TRUSTEE.

BIRKEY. ANY MORE QUESTIONS? NO, IT JUST LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE.

HOPEFULLY WE CAN SAVE THAT $8 MILLION IN CASE WE DON'T GET GET PAID BY THE STATE IN TIME.

EXACTLY. THAT'S BEEN AN ISSUE BEFORE. SO. YEAH.

AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE DO CASH FLOW ANALYSIS ON A WEEKLY BASIS TO MAKE SURE MONITOR CASH AT ANY TIME.

SO IF, IF WE DO SEE CASH GETTING SHORT, WE CAN ACTUALLY MOVE IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

WE CAN ACTUALLY BORROW FROM OURSELVES. WE CAN BORROW FROM OTHER FUNDS THAT ALLOW US TO, THAT WE ALSO HAVE MECHANISMS WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY BORROW DIRECTLY FROM THE COUNTY IF WE NEEDED TO, VERSUS GOING OUT AND SPENDING MONEY ON SHORT TERM BORROWING, LIKE TRANS TRAN IS LIKE PROBABLY THE LAST THING ON THAT GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY.

IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT OF MONEY, BUT AGAIN, IT'S MANAGEABLE.

WE CAN MANAGE FOR A MONTH. THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP BUFFER THE ONE MONTH GAP ON THAT.

SO SO WE'LL BE READY FOR IT IN, IN LIKE I SAID, WE'RE MONITORING ALL TIMES.

IT IS OUR HOPE THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEND ANY MONEY ON ANY TYPE OF SHORT TERM BORROWING ON THAT.

AND SO GIVEN THAT IT'S JUST ONE MONTH, WE BELIEVE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND ANY, ANY OF THOSE CASH FLOW SHORTAGES.

SO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ON THE THIS IS THE 1.0 BUDGET.

I GUESS IT'S THE UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND. SO, YEAH, WE'RE LOOKING AT A TENTATIVE SURPLUS OF ABOUT 2.4 MILLION.

RIGHT. AND THAT'S BUILT IN WITH THE SURP POTENTIAL SAVINGS.

SO WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THAT HAVE WE NOT DONE THE SURP.

WE'D BE LOOKING AT A DEFICIT. GOOD QUESTION. IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE, YES, THAT WE WOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO IT ON THAT.

AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THE MATH WOULD COMPLETELY SHAKE OUT, BUT.

YEAH. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE I SHOWED ABOUT 2.8. WE'RE SHOWING ABOUT 2.4.

SO WE COULD BE ROUGHLY ABOUT 400,000 OR SO SHORT ON THAT.

AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE TENTATIVE BUDGET, WE ONLY HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION ON THAT.

P2 INFORMATION HASN'T BEEN RELEASED. WE DO ANTICIPATE THAT OUR REVENUES ARE GOING TO KICK UP.

WE'RE WAITING FOR P2 TO BE RELEASED TO CONFIRM THAT.

SO WE BELIEVE WHEN I PRESENT BACK THE ADOPTED BUDGET, THE FINAL BUDGET BACK IN SEPTEMBER, THAT THIS NUMBER SURPLUS WOULD ACTUALLY INCREASE BEYOND THAT.

SO WE'LL ACTUALLY SHOW A SURPLUS, EVEN IF WE DID NOT DO THE SURP ON THAT.

SO THAT THAT IS, WE ANTICIPATE AT THE ADOPTED BUDGET THAT, THAT THAT WILL BE TRUE.

SO WHERE DOES THE SURPLUS GO? ONCE IT PANS OUT IN THERE.

SO ALL SURPLUS TYPICALLY IT GOES TO THE BOTTOM LINE.

IT GOES TO OUR ENDING FUND BALANCE. SO WE'RE REQUIRED OR MANDATED TO KEEP A CERTAIN LEVEL OF, OF, OF FUND BALANCE RESERVE, WHICH WE'RE MORE THAN ABOVE THAT COMPLIANCE ON THAT.

BUT IT ALLOWS US TO DO THAT. WE'RE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF SEEING HOW MUCH SURPLUS WE DO HAVE.

SO AS PART OF OUR ANNUAL PLANNING PROCESS WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS REQUESTS THAT COME IN.

AND SO THE TEAM WILL BE WORKING DURING THE SUMMER IN PREPARATION OF THE ADOPTED BUDGET TO POTENTIALLY FUND

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WE'LL GO AHEAD AND APPROVE ONE TIME EXPENDITURE REQUEST.

AND THEN BECAUSE WE DO PLANNING THAT, OUR COSTS WILL START INCREASING THOSE YEARS ONCE WE START BACKFILLING PARTICULARLY THE FACULTY POSITIONS.

YEAH. AND THAT KIND OF LEADS TO MY NEXT QUESTION, TOO, AS TO ALL THE FACULTY MEMBERS THAT HAD TAKEN THE CERB, ARE THERE ANY FEWER CLASSES BECAUSE THOSE FACULTY MEMBERS TOOK THAT? NO, BECAUSE WE'RE WE'RE BACKFILLING ANY OF THOSE GAPS WITH PART TIMERS.

AND SO WE WE DON'T OUR GOAL ISN'T TO LESSEN THE AMOUNT OF SECTIONS THAT WE HAVE.

AND SO MOST OF THOSE ARE BEING FULFILLED THROUGH PART TIME HIRING.

SO WE ALREADY PUT SOMETHING OUT. WE'RE WORKING WITH HR TO THE DIVISIONS ON GETTING THEM PREPPED ON, READY TO BRING IN THOSE PART TIME POSITIONS OUT AND MAKING SURE THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS IN A TIMELY MANNER SO WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE SURE WE GET THEM HIRED AND BROUGHT ON AS PART OF OUR, OUR TEAM.

OKAY. SO DO WE HAVE A LIST OF THOSE EXPENDITURES THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IF WE DO HAVE, YES.

SURPLUS. IS THAT INCLUDED? IT'S NOT INCLUDED HERE BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN APPROVED YET.

SO AT THE ADOPTED BUDGET I WILL HAVE THAT LIST FOR YOU.

IT'S PART OF THE ADOPTED BUDGET. YES. I'LL HAVE THE I'LL HAVE THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION LIST OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO FUND.

AND SO YOU COULD SEE EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS THAT WE'RE APPROVING ON THAT.

OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. YEAH. BECAUSE AS MUCH AS WE ALL ARE LIKE 02.

4 MILLION, THAT'S REALLY GOOD. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ON THE ONE HAND WE'RE WELL, I SHOULD SAY VICE PRESIDENT LOPEZ GOES TO GREAT LENGTHS TO MAKE SURE THAT AND I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE TO THE BOARD, IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT, ESPECIALLY YEAR TO YEAR OR IN OUR PROJECTIONS, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT REALLY HEALTHY FOR THE THE EDUCATION OF THE STUDENTS LONG TERM. SO BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT AS A AS A KEY PRIORITY, I COMMEND YOU ON CONSISTENTLY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DO THAT.

BUT 2.4 MILLION IN THE SIZE OF OUR INSTITUTION IS LESS THAN 2% OF OF WIGGLE ROOM.

SO IT DOESN'T AMOUNT TO A LOT IN TERMS OF I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH WE SPEND JUST TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, SO TO SPEAK, LIKE BY THE DAY. BUT IT'S IT'S A LOT.

IT'S A PRETTY HEFTY NUMBER. SO IT'S, IT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT $1 MILLION A MONTH.

NO, NO, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST THE LIGHTS.

BUT I WAS TALKING ABOUT I WAS IN THE OVERALL OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTION.

I'M JUST SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT JUST TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON IS ROUGHLY ABOUT $1 MILLION A MONTH.

YEAH. AND I'M SAYING IT'S $13 MILLION, $13 MILLION A MONTH TO KEEP THE WHOLE SHOW GOING.

YEAH. SO 2.4 DOESN'T GO VERY FAR. TRUE. BUT THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE WANTED TO ONLY ALLOCATE ONE TIME AND NOT GET COMMITTED INTO ONGOING EXPENDITURES. BECAUSE WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THAT.

SO. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ONE OTHER QUESTION THOUGH IS THE OPERATING THE DEFICIT FROM THIS ADJUSTED BUDGET.

IS THAT COMING FROM RESERVES? YES IT IS. AND AS YOU THAT PRIMARILY IS ALL DRIVEN BECAUSE OF THE CBA.

WHAT WE NEGOTIATED. REMEMBER WE GAVE A LUMP SUM 6% OFF SCHEDULE ONE TIME ONLY.

SO THIS IS PAID AND DONE. AND SO WITHOUT THAT WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN A IN A SURPLUS.

SO THAT DID COST US. I THINK I ACTUALLY WROTE IT DOWN BECAUSE I ANTICIPATED SOMEONE ASKING US THAT.

THERE YOU GO. THAT 6% ENDED UP COSTING US $8.8 $8 MILLION OVERALL, WHICH WE ANTICIPATED ON THAT.

SO THAT WAS WAS FINE. IT WAS PART OF THE NEGOTIATIONS.

WE WERE GOING TO UTILIZE SOME OF THAT AS PART OF OUR FUND BALANCE.

ONCE WE GET P2, WE DO ESTIMATE THAT DEFICIT THAT YOU SEE THERE OF THE 7.9 WILL LIKELY GO DOWN ON THAT.

WE'RE, WE'RE ANTICIPATING THIS NUMBER WILL PROBABLY GO DOWN ABOUT, ABOUT ROUGHLY ABOUT 2 MILLION BUCKS ONCE P2 IS, IS RELEASED. SO WE'LL BE MAKING SOME ADJUSTMENTS ONCE THOSE FINAL NUMBERS COME THROUGH.

AND SO WE BELIEVE P2 WILL BE RELEASED LAST WEEK OF JUNE.

AND ONCE THAT'S DONE, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TRUE UP ALL THESE NUMBERS.

AND THEN WE'LL PRESENT THE FINAL NUMBERS IN SEPTEMBER.

WHEN WE ADOPT THE BUDGET. SO BUT WE DID ANTICIPATE THAT.

LIKE I SAID, THAT IS A PAID PAID IN FULL ALREADY.

THAT'S A DONE DEAL. THAT WAS A ONE TIME EXPENSE.

AND THAT IS NOT MOVING AND DOESN'T AFFECT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR RESERVE BUDGET.

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WE WILL ON THE NEXT ONE. SO CAN I GET A MOTION? MOTION? DO WE NEED A ROLL CALL? VOTE? NO. OKAY.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. NONE OPPOSED. MOTION PASSES.

[2.02 Adoption of Cerritos College's 2027-2031 Five-Year Construction Plan (5YCP)]

THIS IS OUR ANNUAL REQUIREMENT. WE'RE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT OUR FIVE YEAR CONSTRUCTION PLAN TO THE STATE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

AND SO THIS IS IT JUST GETS REFRESHED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

AND SO IF YOU HAD ANY PARTICULAR QUESTIONS ON ANY OF THE ITEMS. BUT ALL THIS IS IT'S THE SAME FIVE THE SAME FIVE YEAR PLAN, BUT JUST UPDATED ON TO THE LATEST UPDATED ON ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CHANGES IN CONSTRUCTION COSTS. VICE PRESIDENT LOPEZ IN THE IN THE LAST 24 MONTHS.

HOW TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THIS BEEN UPDATED ACCORDINGLY? YEAH. SO WE WENT THROUGH A SIGNIFICANT PROCESS TO GET EVERYTHING UPDATED TO THE CURRENT LATEST INFORMATION THAT WE HAD ON THAT.

SO EVERYTHING HAS BEEN ADJUSTED TO THE CURRENT ROM BUDGETS ON ANY OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT HAVE NOT STARTED AND ALSO ADJUSTED ON ANY OF THE CURRENT PROJECTS. AS, AS WE STAND TODAY.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT MATTERS TOO MUCH. AND IT'S MORE, I GUESS, ERRATA, SO TO SPEAK.

IN PAGE. WHAT IS THIS THREE? I GUESS IT SAYS WE'RE IN THE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 64, 30 AND 38.

I KNOW IT'S WE'RE BASED IN NORWALK, RIGHT. BUT THE COLLEGE IS SPLIT BETWEEN NORWALK AND CERRITOS, WHICH HAS OTHER ASSEMBLY, SENATE AND HOUSE DISTRICTS.

THAT'S CORRECT. SO, I MEAN, NOT THAT AGAIN, NOT THAT IT MATTERS, BUT I JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT, THAT SPLIT IN HALF. SO. AND ANY CAN AND MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS, I GUESS, IS THAT CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH, LIKE WHAT, WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE GOING TO BE FOR BUILDING IN THESE NEXT FIVE YEARS? AND IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CAN CHANGE IN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO.

YEAH. SO RIGHT NOW I'LL GO THROUGH FOR EACH OF THE PROJECTS, STARTING WITH THE FIRST ONE WHICH IS THE HEALTH SCIENCE RENOVATION PROJECT.

OBVIOUSLY THAT WAS A STATE FUNDED PROJECT ON THAT.

SO THAT IS AS OF THIS WEEK, WE ARE OFFICIALLY ALL MOVED IN.

AND SO THAT IS IN FULL OPERATION. WE ARE HAVE A SCHEDULED RIBBON CUTTING FOR THAT FOR THAT PROJECT, I BELIEVE, SCHEDULED IN AUGUST, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECT.

AND SO SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST IN A LONG TIME STATE FUNDED PROJECT.

SO THE STATE FUNDED 50% OF THAT PROJECT ON THAT.

SO, SO THIS ONE WILL FALL OFF THE LIST ON THE NEXT GO ROUND ON IT.

SO, BUT THAT THAT PROJECT IS DONE AND SAID AND DONE, WE'RE DOING SOME COUPLE OF THINGS.

I THINK THE LAST COUPLE ITEMS THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IS SIGNAGE.

WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE SIGNAGE VENDOR ON THAT, BUT OTHER THAN THAT AS OF THIS WEEK, THEY'RE FULLY IN OPERATIONS AND THE DIVISION OFFICES AND ARE FULLY OCCUPIED.

AND WE'RE ALSO HOSTING SUMMER SCHOOL CLASSES IN THERE ALREADY, AND NO COMPLAINTS SO FAR.

SO FAR, SO GOOD. YEAH. SO WHEN WE OPEN IN SEPTEMBER, ALL THE COLORS, INCLUDING THE SIGNAGE, ARE GOING TO BE ON BRAND. RIGHT? THEY'RE GOING TO MATCH OUR FALCON BLUE FALCON? YES. SO THAT IS OUR THAT IS BRANDING THAT THAT IS ACTUALLY A CHANGE RECENTLY AS YOU NOTICED.

I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE NOTICED OUR NICE SOCIAL SCIENCE BUILDING.

I DID NOTICE THAT THAT WAS A PILOT. SO WE STARTED DOING THAT WORKING WITH CHELSEA AND THE PREVIOUS DIRECTOR OF PHYSICAL PLANT. YOU DO SEE THE FALCON? THE SEE ON THERE IS PART OF OUR BRANDING ON THAT.

AND SO THAT WAS WE WE STARTED WITH THAT BUILDING.

THE HEALTH SCIENCE IS GOING TO UTILIZE THAT SAME COLOR SCHEME FROM A SIGNAGE STANDPOINT BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE THE OLD STANDARD KIND OF BLENDED IN, YOU COULDN'T REALLY SEE IT BECAUSE THE CONTRAST WASN'T THERE BECAUSE WE USED TO USE A A KIND OF LIKE A BRISTLED METAL.

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AND WITH THAT METAL AND GRAY KIND OF BLENDED IN, YOU COULDN'T REALLY SEE IT.

SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE OUR NEXT BUILDING THAT WE'RE GOING TO START ADDRESSING IS THE LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING THAT WILL BE ADJUSTED TO OUR CURRENT STANDARDS.

ON THE NEXT BUILDING HERE. ON THAT OBVIOUSLY IS OUR STUDENT SERVICES ADMIN BUILDING.

SO THAT IS OBVIOUSLY A PROJECT THAT IS IN THE WORKS.

AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE MOVING VERY, VERY QUICKLY ON THAT.

WE ARE SLATED TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN THAT PROJECT SOMETIME IN THE END OF 2026.

SO THAT IS ON SCHEDULE. OUR NEXT PROJECT THAT'S ON PRIORITY, THAT DOES HAVE SOME STATE FUNDING ON IT IS OUR CHILD DEVELOPMENT EXPANSION PROGRAM ON THAT. SO WE'RE ACTUALLY EXPANDING CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM BY PUTTING, ADDITIONAL MODULAR BUILDINGS OVER THERE.

THE NEXT PROJECT THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH IS OUR CAMPUS POLICE BUILDING.

BOTH CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CAMPUS POLICE ARE IN DESIGN DEVELOPMENT STAGES AT THIS POINT.

AND SO THEY'RE RECONCILING BUDGETS AT THIS MOMENT BEFORE THEY START MOVING ON TO CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS ON THAT.

SO BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS ARE PROGRESSING VERY WELL.

JUST TO CLARIFY THESE, THE HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING, I REMEMBER BEING IN SACRAMENTO TRYING TO SECURE THAT $12 MILLION.

BUT THE LAST TWO THE STUDENT SERVICES AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CAMPUS POLICE, IS THIS CORRECT ON HERE THAT THERE'S NO STATE FUNDING? THAT'S ALL DISTRICT THAT'S ALL DISTRICT FUNDING WITH THE EXCEPTION OF IF YOU REMEMBER, WE DID GET A SPECIAL ALLOCATION FOR THE STUDENT SERVICES ADMIN BUILDING.

SO REMEMBER WE HAD A 6 MILLION FROM I FROM NOW YOU'RE MAKING.

YOU'RE PUTTING ME ON THE SPOT AND I CAN'T REMEMBER.

ANDREA, DO YOU REMEMBER THE SPEAKER? THE. YEAH, THE SPEAKER PROVIDED THAT I WANTED TO SAY IT WAS LIKE.

EIGHT. 16 MILLION. YEAH, IT WAS 15, 16 MILLION.

SOMETHING OF THAT. SO. OKAY, SO THAT DOES HAVE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.

SO IT'S NOT 100% BOND FUNDED. PART OF IT DID GET FUNDED THROUGH THAT SPECIAL ALLOCATION FROM THE SPEAKER.

ON THAT. SO THAT MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN UTILIZED ON THAT.

SO THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT REFLECTED. IT'S NOT REFLECTED HERE. CHILD DEVELOPMENT DOES HAVE SPECIAL GRANTS THAT ARE STATE FUNDED AS WELL.

SO IT IS 16 MILLION. YEAH. AND SO CHILD DEVELOPMENT DOES HAVE ADDITIONAL STATE DOLLAR FUNDING TO IT TO HELP SUPPORT ON THAT.

SO THAT'S NOT 100% FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND AS WELL.

THE ONE THAT IS 100% FUNDED BY THE BOND IS CAMPUS POLICE.

CAMPUS POLICE DOESN'T HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.

NEITHER DOES THE STADIUM. THAT IS A STRICTLY A BOND FUNDED PROJECT INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING.

NUMBER. WHAT WE'RE CALLING NUMBER ONE IS THIS IS THE ONE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET STATE FUNDING FOR.

SO THIS IS THE PROJECT THAT WE HAVE ON CAMPUS THAT THAT PUT US IN THE MOST PROVIDED THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GET STATE FUNDED.

SO WE WENT WITH THIS BUILDING BASED ON GROWTH FACTORS AND THINGS OF THAT SORT.

THAT BUILDING WOULD ACTUALLY GO IN THE LOCATION OF WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY RESIDING.

SO THAT WOULD BE REPLACING THIS BUILDING ON THAT PER OUR MASTER PLAN.

AND THEN THE LAST BUILDING THAT WE, WE, WE HAD WAS OUR CTE BUILDING.

THAT WAS ALSO ANOTHER CONTENDER THAT WE WERE LOOKING TO POTENTIALLY GET STATE FUNDED.

BUT THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES GROWTH. TOO MUCH GROWTH INTO IT.

AND RIGHT NOW, IT KIND OF PUTS US KIND OF OUT OF THAT, THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO WHEN WE SUBMIT EACH BUILDING OR EACH PROJECT PROJECT PROPOSAL IS SCORED POINT VALUE.

AND WE FELT LIKE THIS PROJECT WOULDN'T BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH.

IT PUT US IN A, IN A SITUATION WHERE WE WOULD NOT GET ENOUGH POINTS TO BE ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL OF GETTING STATE FUNDED.

SO WE PUT OF THE TWO PROGRAMS THAT WE CHOSE TO TRY TO GET STATE FUNDED, WE PUT THE ONE THAT WE THOUGHT WOULD GIVE US THE BEST POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO GET STATE DOLLARS. AND THAT WAS THE INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING NUMBER ONE ON THAT.

SO SO THOSE ARE KIND OF OUR CURRENT PRIORITIES WHEN IT COMES TO NEW, NEW, NEW BUILDINGS.

OBVIOUSLY THERE'S MODERNIZATION PROJECTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO TRY TO DO THAT ARE ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS IN THIS PLAN.

AND IS THIS SOMETHING THAT IS SET IN STONE ONCE WE ADOPT IT AND SEND IT TO THE STATE, OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT CAN CHANGE?

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YES, YES. SO NOTHING HERE IS SET. IT'S BASICALLY TAKING WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN OUR MASTER PLAN, PROVIDING THEM UPDATE SO THINGS COULD CHANGE ON IT FROM YEAR TO YEAR IF WE DECIDE TO GO A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

SO NOTHING HERE IS REALLY SET IN STONE SO WE CAN MAKE SOME MODIFICATIONS.

I MEAN, I LIKE IT ALL. I'M JUST YEAH, YOU KNOW, THINGS CAN HAPPEN. TRUE.

EXACTLY. SO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LOOK NEXT AGAIN AT OUR MASTER PLAN.

SO WE ARE PLANNING. SO AT OUR NEXT MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO BE PROVIDING A PRESENTATION FOR THE TECHNOLOGY MASTER PLAN.

SO WE'LL HAVE OUR CONSULTANT HERE PROVIDE THAT ONCE THAT'S DONE.

AT THE FALL SEMESTER, WE'LL OUR FACILITIES PLANNING COMMITTEE WILL RECONVENE.

AND AT THAT TIME, WE WILL START DOING A REFRESH ON OUR MASTER PLAN FACILITIES.

MASTER PLAN. SO THIS FALL, WE WILL BEGIN THAT PROCESS.

SOUNDS GOOD. I'LL BE THERE. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? HOW DOES THIS SPENDING PLAN TRACK WITH THE REMAINING BALANCE FOR OUR MEASURE CC FUNDING? WHAT? WE DO HAVE EACH OF THESE. EACH OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE EMBEDDED IN OUR IN THAT FUNDING PLAN. WHAT I COULD PROVIDE TO YOU IS AN UPDATED BUDGET OF THESE PROJECTS.

AND WHICH ONES WHICH ONES ARE KIND OF ON WHERE OUR AVAILABILITY IS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WITH ESCALATION COSTS, WHAT WE THOUGHT WE COULD BUILD OBVIOUSLY IS, IS CHANGING.

AND SO TO BETTER ANSWER THAT QUESTION, TRUSTEE BIRKEY, I'D BE HAPPY TO PRESENT YOU A FULL PRESENTATION ON ALL THE OVERALL BUDGETS OF ALL THE PROJECTS AND PINPOINT EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE AND FOR WHAT PROJECTS WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON.

OKAY. YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

MAYBE IT COULD MAYBE BE PART OF THE THIS FALLS MASTER PLAN SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHICH PIECES ARE PROJECTED TO BE FUNDED, WHICH ONES ARE NOT AND WHICH ONES MAY BE IN, IN BALANCE.

YEAH, YEAH. PROJECTS. OKAY. YOU KNOW, MARCH MADNESS, BUT IN THE FALL, WE COULD DO THAT.

YEAH. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SEEING NONE.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? MOTION? SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? SEEING NONE, THE MOTION PASSES.

[3.01 Reports and Comments from District Officials]

TRUSTEE GREEN. YES. I'M SORRY.

YES. I JUST WANT TO MAKE A BRIEF STATEMENT. JUST AS WE ARE APPROACHING JUNETEENTH AND RECOGNIZING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT HOLIDAY AND WHY IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT NOW MORE THAN EVER, ESPECIALLY IN TODAY'S CLIMATE WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON WITH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITIES BE IT RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET AND ABROAD, I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY, BUT MAKING SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO CELEBRATE FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE AND THAT WE CONTINUE TO STAND TOGETHER. AND SO DOCTOR PHARAOH SENT OUT A MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE STAND FOR OUR STUDENTS, FOR OUR STAFF, FOR OUR FAMILIES, AND FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A SAFE SPACE FOR THEM.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO JUST SHARE THAT AS WE APPROACH JUNETEENTH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. TRUSTEE LEWIS. SO I HAD DIDN'T ATTEND THE LAST MEETING, UNFORTUNATELY. BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THE PRIOR THE GRADUATION THAT WE HAD THIS YEAR WAS, IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE, THE MOST RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT GRADUATION I'VE EVER SEEN.

AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE HOW MUCH, HOW MANY STUDENTS WERE WALKING AND HOW MANY DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES THAT WE ARE AWARDING, AND JUST HOW MUCH OF AN EXPONENTIAL GROWTH THAT WE'VE HAD AS A COLLEGE OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS JUST NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME.

AND I'M REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND FACULTY STAFF CLASSIFIED OUR BOARD MEMBERS, EVERYONE ADMINISTRATORS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY IS A TEAM EFFORT.

AND JUST TO SEE THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS CULMINATE IN THIS, AND WE'LL ONLY KEEP GROWING.

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YOU KNOW, TRUSTEE GREEN BROUGHT UP A GREAT POINT, AND I WANT TO ASK IF OUR OUR STAFF CAN GIVE AN UPDATE ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE PASSED THE RESOLUTION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD CONTINUE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SOME OF THESE DEPORTATION EFFORTS.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF ANY STUDENT HAS ALREADY BEEN AFFECTED BY THAT, EVEN IF IT'S JUST ONE YOU KNOW, WHAT PROCEDURES DO WE ALREADY HAVE IN PLACE? WHAT DO WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO DO IN ORDER TO HAVE THIS PROCEDURE BECOME ALSO RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT IN MAKING SURE THAT THAT, INDIVIDUAL, AND HOWEVER MANY IT MAY AFFECT, WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION AND GET THEIR DEGREE, WHETHER IT BE ONLINE OR WHETHER THEY COME BACK THROUGH A LAWFUL REENTRY.

SO I'D LIKE TO SEE AN UPDATE ON THAT BECAUSE THIS ISSUE IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE TRUSTEE. CODY. YEAH.

CONGRATULATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS. BUT WARM JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION TO EVERYONE WHO'S CELEBRATING THIS WEEK, TOMORROW. I, I ALSO, AGAIN, I'LL EXTEND ADDITIONAL CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TO OUR GRADUATES.

BUT THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY DIFFICULT TIME LAST FEW WEEKS IN OUR COMMUNITY IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO SEE SO MANY FAMILIES RIPPED APART. IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO FIND OUT ABOUT PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN DISAPPEARED.

AND IT'S IT'S, I THINK BEEN A PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TIME FOR NOT ONLY CHURCHES THAT HAVE BEEN RAIDED AND BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN RAIDED, BUT ALSO JUST THOSE WHO HAVEN'T BEEN TO KNOW THAT TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN FEAR AS WELL.

AND I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR OUR ABILITY TO STAY CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER, TO TRY TO HELP ONE ANOTHER, AND TO UNDERSTAND THE HUMANITY OF ONE ANOTHER ABOVE AND BEYOND THE POLITICAL KIND OF OVERTONES. I WANT OUR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO KNOW THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO WHAT EVER WE CAN AS A BOARD TO ENSURE THAT WE MAINTAIN THAT HUMANITY AND WE LOOK OUT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THEIR SAFETY. AND AND WE PRAY AND ADVOCATE THAT THIS PERIOD WILL END AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

TRUSTEE RIOS THANK YOU. PRESIDENT. I BELIEVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

I BELIEVE IN OUR SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CHECKS THAT WERE IMPLEMENTED.

AND THESE ARE DEFINITELY TESTING TIMES. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE A STATE, A US SENATOR BEING MANHANDLED BY AGENTS AN OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GOVERNMENT.

AND AS HE STATED SENATOR ALEX PADILLA, THIS IS BEING DONE TO ME.

WHAT IS BEING DONE TO MANY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS VERY CONCERNING.

HOWEVER, I HAVE TO STATE THAT I'M PRIVILEGED TO BE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.

I'M PRIVILEGED TO REPRESENT PEOPLE AS SENATOR ALEX PADILLA, AS MANY REPRESENTATIVES IN OUR CONGRESS.

BUT WE'VE BEEN RELYING A LOT ON OUR COURT SYSTEM.

SO AS BEEN AS AS HAS BEEN STATED, HOPEFULLY OUR COURTS WILL BE ABLE TO ABIDE BY OUR BY OUR AMERICAN IDEALS, WHICH I BELIEVE IN, AND THAT WE WILL CONTINUE IN THE GOOD FIGHT, IF WE CAN CALL IT THE GOOD FIGHT.

VERY SAD. I CAN ONLY SEE INSTAGRAM A FEW MINUTES BECAUSE I HAVE TO TURN IT OFF, BUT AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, I HAVE TO DO MY BEST TO TO REPRESENT THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ELECTED ME, WHO ELECTED US AND CONTINUE IN OUR DUTIES, WHATEVER OUR OFFICIAL CAPACITY IS, WHETHER IT'S TRUSTEE, STATE SENATOR, ASSEMBLY MEMBER, COUNCIL MEMBER, US SENATOR, WHATEVER OUR PRIVILEGED POSITION IS TO MOVE TO A DIFFERENT TOPIC.

I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE ABC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THEY ADDRESSED A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE CLOSE TO MY HEART.

TWO YEARS AGO, I WAS APPOINTED BY FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER TO A COMMITTEE THAT AS A TEACHER I DID NOT BELONG IN.

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NEEDLESS TO SAY, AS A COMMITTEE WE ANALYZED, WE DECIDED THAT WE WERE NOT CLOSING ANY SCHOOLS OR THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD, WHICH THEY ABIDED TO. THEY BROUGHT THE ISSUE BACK AGAIN BECAUSE THEY HAVE NEW BOARD MEMBERS.

AND THE THE MATTER ACTUALLY CAME UP AT OUR LAST VISIT WHEN ANDREA AND DOCTOR FIORE AND I WENT AND IT WAS BROUGHT AT THE LAKEWOOD COUNCIL MEETING. MEETING THAT THEY WERE PROPOSING THIS AGAIN. SO LAST NIGHT THEY HAD A VOTE, AND THE VOTE WAS NOT TO CLOSE ANY SCHOOLS AND THE ABC SCHOOL DISTRICT AT THE MOMENT.

I KNOW IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT DECISION, BUT THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM EDUCATES OUR FUTURE CITIZENS, EDUCATES US TO MAINTAIN OUR AMERICAN IDEALS, THE IDEALS THAT KEEPS US, KEEP US AS A DEMOCRACY.

THE THE IDEALS. I'VE GROWN UP IN THIS COMMUNITY SINCE I WAS A CHILD, WHERE MY PARENTS WENT AND LOBBIED AND THEY WERE HEARD.

AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE LISTENING TO OUR CONSTITUENTS AND JUST HAVING BASIC HUMAN RESPECT, AS HAS BEEN STATED. AND SADLY, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT JUNETEENTH AND MANY PAST HISTORY ISSUES THAT AS AMERICANS, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO OVERCOME. AND I HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE SAD PARTS OF OUR HISTORY.

VICE PRESIDENT LOPEZ. THANK YOU. I WANTED TO SHARE ACTUALLY, A LITTLE COUPLE OR INSERTS THAT DOCTOR FIERRO SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY.

LAST WEEK REGARDING THE RECENT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS THAT WERE TAKING PLACE IN CALIFORNIA AND PARTICULARLY AROUND OUR CAMPUS. AND SO HE'S SPECIFIES WE WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY THAT MANY OF OUR COMMUNITY MAY BE FEELING. THESE MOMENTS CAN STILL STILL DEEP ANXIETY, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT WHO ARE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IMPACTED. WE WANT TO BE CLEAR.

WE STAND WITH OUR STUDENTS, OUR STAFF AND OUR FAMILIES.

WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE PRINCIPLES AND INCLUSION PRINCIPLES OF OF INCLUSION, EQUITY AND COMPASSION.

OUR COLLEGE IS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PLACE OF LEARNING, SAFETY AND BELONGING FOR ALL.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH EVERYONE, SINCE DOCTOR PHARAOH ISN'T HERE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, SO THANK YOU. DOCTOR PHARAOH, I KNOW YOU'RE ONLINE.

IS THERE ANY COMMENTS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY? GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. IT'S GOOD TO SEE ALL OF YOU.

I JUST WANT TO ECHO THE SAME. SORRY. THIS SLIDE IS A LITTLE IN A BAD PLACE.

I JUST WANT TO ECHO EVERYONE'S COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

AND I THINK IT'S A TIME FOR US TO CONTINUE TO SHOW STRENGTH TO SHOW A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND TO DIG DEEP AND CONTINUE TO UPHOLD OUR VALUES AND OUR PRINCIPLES THAT HAVE BEEN GUIDING US FOR ALL THESE YEARS.

SO I WILL BEG TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND TO EVERYONE ON CAMPUS HAMPERS TO DIG DEEP AND FIND COMPASSION IN OUR NEIGHBORS, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE OF HELP AND SUPPORT TO EVERYONE DURING THESE DIFFICULT TIMES.

AND OTHER THAN THAT, I JUST WANT TO THANK VICE PRESIDENT LOPEZ FOR RUNNING THE MEETING TODAY AND THANK THE BOARD FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND THE ENTIRE CAMPUS COMMUNITY FOR THE WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING PARTICULARLY OUR CLASSIFIED STAFF AND FACULTY, BECAUSE THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE ISSUES THAT OTHER STUDENTS ARE FACING DIRECTLY.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR SUPPORT.

THAT IS ALL. THANK YOU. I JUST IT'S BEEN A DIFFICULT TIME, ESPECIALLY SINCE I LAST WEEK, I WAS ACTUALLY OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND I WAS AT THE CONFERENCE.

WE GOT TO VISIT THREE UNIVERSITIES. DOCTOR FERRER AND I ACTUALLY GOT TO SEE THREE DIFFERENT UNIVERSITIES AND THE WAY THEY PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TEACHING.

HOPEFULLY WE CAN DEVELOP SOME SORT OF PARTNERSHIP FOR STUDY ABROAD AND THOSE UNIVERSITIES.

I THINK THAT IT WOULD BENEFIT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR FACULTY.

AND ALSO FOR ME, IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE DURING THAT TIME, IT SEEMED LIKE DOWNEY GOT HIT REALLY HARD.

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AND IT WAS HEARTBREAKING TO SEE JUST PEOPLE BEING STOPPED IN THE STREET AND QUESTIONED AND ASKED YOU KNOW, ARE YOU A CITIZEN? AND SOME PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IF THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER.

DAY LABORERS PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST GOING TO LANDSCAPERS THAT WERE GOING TO CUT GRASS TO OUR, OUR RESIDENTS AND WHERE WE LIVE. THEY WERE BEING PICKED UP AND THEIR TRUCKS ARE BEING, WERE BEING LEFT IN, IN THE STREET BECAUSE THEY WERE BEING PICKED UP.

SO IT WAS A REALLY HARD TIME FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO SEE, NOT TO HELP BECAUSE OF WHERE I WAS.

SO IT WAS HEARTBREAKING FOR ME. ALL THE INCIDENTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WAS GOING ON.

AND I ECHO THE SAME THING AS MY OTHER TRUSTEES THAT I HOPE THAT WE FIND COMPASSION AND THAT WE HELP EACH OTHER AND HELP OUR NEIGHBORS. AND IF SOMEBODY NEEDS A HELPING HAND THAT WE'RE THERE FOR THEM.

TO ME, THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. AND EVERYBODY.

SO, YOU KNOW, JUNETEENTH IS TOMORROW. AND LET US TAKE THAT AS A, A BEACON OF HOPE THAT WE CAN GET OVER ANYTHING. SO AND THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS.

IF I CAN JUST MAKE A LAST COMMENT OF THIS VERY POSITIVE THING I SAW ON INSTAGRAM, AND THAT IS THAT THERE WAS THIS GENTLEMAN SELLING FLOWERS AS WE SEE THEM EVERYWHERE.

RIGHT. AND THIS MAN PULLS OVER AND SAYS, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.

THIS IS DANGEROUS. THESE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES.

WHY ARE YOU HERE? I WILL BUY ALL YOUR PRODUCT.

ARE YOU HERE ALONE? NO, I'M HERE WITH THREE OTHER PEOPLE. I WILL BUY ALL YOUR PRODUCT AND I WILL TAKE YOU WHEREVER YOU NEED TO BE.

AND I JUST THOUGHT THAT'S. THAT'S AMERICA. THAT'S HOW.

WHAT WHAT WE DO HERE WE DO SEE THE SADNESS AND THE HORRIBLE, HORRIFYING THINGS.

BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN OUR HUMANITY COMES THROUGH AND OUR POSITIVE COMES THROUGH.

IT'S LIKE, I MEAN, AT LEAST SEEING THAT JUST COMPLETELY UPLIFTED ME.

SO I AM SORRY, OF ALL THE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING WHEN YOU WERE GONE IN DOWNEY. WE DID HEAR ABOUT THAT. BUT I TEND TO BE ON THE POSITIVE SIDE AND I'M LIKE, LET'S JUST LOOK FOR THAT, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TO CUT OFF THE INSTAGRAM.

WE DO HAVE TO CUT OFF THE TV, AND WE HAVE TO KEEP US POSITIVE BECAUSE WE DID GO THROUGH COVID.

THAT WAS CRAZY. AND OUR MENTAL HEALTH THIS JUST TURNS ON THE NEWS AND IT'S CRAZY ON MY MENTAL HEALTH.

IF I HAVE TO SPEAK FOR MYSELF BEFORE WE SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY ELSE.

RIGHT. THAT WE WE HAVE TO KEEP OURSELVES AS SANE, A GOOD WORD FOR OUR FAMILIES, FOR OUR KIDS, FOR EVERYBODY AROUND US. AND IF WE CAN EXTEND THAT HELPING HAND IF WE'RE ABLE TO.

THANK YOU. THERE IS NO CLOSED SESSION TONIGHT.

SO THIS ADJOURNS OUR MEETING. THANK YOU EVERYONE.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.