Board of Education Minutes for
the
Meeting of May 16, 2007
Present: Brayton, Brodie, Eastman, Horner, Mason and
Wogaman
CALL
TO ORDER
The meeting was
called to order at 7:43 p.m.
HEARING OF DELEGATIONS/CITIZENS
A. Presentation of LBCC Student Scholars
Dr. Cavin presented All-USA Scholarship Award winners Peggy
Long and JoDee Lonsdale with their award certificates. Dr. Cavin reported that they had all been
very busy at events to represent the college:
a Foundation event, the governor’s office, presentation to the
legislature together. Dr. Cavin also reported that Ms. Lonsdale is on her way
to
B. Campus Compact Awards Presentation
Associate
Dean Kristen Jones presented the Campus Compact Awards, one to faculty member
Sherry Rosen, two to students Matt Hamel and Cosmo Pringle, and one to
community partner
C. Reading of Retirement Resolutions
Dean Ruppert read the retirement resolutions
for Beth Camp and Rich Bergemann.
Vice
President Schaafsma and Dean Lundy read Jan Huskey’s retirement resolution.
D. Family Resources
and Education Division Report
Pam
Dunn, Sue Doescher, and Jen Beudert reported on the department outlining just a
few of the many education programs offered by the division.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES OF 4/18/07
Dr. Wogaman moved
to approve the minutes of the April meeting as distributed, and Dr. Brodie
seconded the motion. The vote on the motion to approve is recorded as
follows: Yes – Brodie, Eastman, Horner,
Mason, and Wogaman. The motion passed by
unanimous vote of those present and voting.
CHAIR’S
COMMENTS
Chair Brayton
offered his congratulations to Dick Running and Claus Sass on their election to
the Board. He also expressed his thanks
to all involved for doing such a good job of keeping the students safe during
last Friday’s situation. Chair Brayton
suggested that the Budget Committee calendar be an agenda item at the June 27th
Board retreat and that if any Board or staff member has any thoughts or
comments on how we should schedule the Budget Committee next year, please let
Dr. Cavin or Chair Brayton know.
OLD
BUSINESS
A. Report on Full Faith and Credit Obligation
Dr.
Holland reported on the Full Faith and Credit Obligation (FFCO), noting that
there is a lot of work involved in preparing for the sale of a Full Faith and
Credit Obligation and Jim Huckestein has done an outstanding job of preparing
for the sale of this bond.
NEW
BUSINESS
A.
Dr.
Holland reported that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) wants to buy
some land from the college at the
B. Commencement
Awards
Distinguished
Citizen – Dr. Cavin read
the qualifications for the Distinguished Citizen Award noting that Joseph Novak
has been nominated. Dr. Wogaman moved to
approve the nomination as submitted and Ms. Horner seconded the motion. The vote on the motion to approve is recorded
as follows: Yes – Brodie, Eastman,
Horner, Mason, and Wogaman. The motion
passed by unanimous vote of those present and voting.
Honorary Degree – Dr. Cavin reported that the
recommendation for Honorary Degree is Alex Paul, Foundation Board member and Albany
Democrat-Herald reporter. Ms. Horner
moved to approve the nomination as submitted and Ms. Eastman seconded the
motion. The vote on the motion to
approve is recorded as follows: Yes –
Brodie, Eastman, Horner, Mason, and Wogaman.
The motion passed by unanimous vote of those present and voting.
Distinguished
Alumni Award – Dr. Cavin
noted that Distinguished Alums are featured on the cover of a schedule of
classes and alums are delighted to win the award. Some usually speak at some college event, but
they are often introduced at a number of events. The Board discussion centered on the
following options:
v
OPTION
A. Award all 5. There is a possibility that one would be “in
absentia” since he resides in
v
OPTION
B. Award 3 as we have done the last 2
years.
v
OPTION
C. Same as option B, except Board
approves but “holds over” two nominations who will be “pre-approved” for 2008.
Dr. Brodie moved
using option B; the Chair declared that the motion died for lack of a second.
Dr. Wogaman
suggested an option D, which would be to approve five this year, and then have
screening done before hand and limit future years to three nominations
only.
Ms. Horner moved
using option A this year and Dr. Wogaman seconded. The vote on the motion to approve is recorded
as follows: Yes – Eastman, Horner,
Mason, and Wogaman. No - Brodie.
The motion passed.
Dr. Wogaman moved
that the Board recommend to the staff that only three names be presented to the
Board for Distinguished Alumni Award in the future. If the president/committee has trouble
picking three, then four names may be submitted to the Board for
consideration. Mr. Mason seconded the
motion. The vote on the motion to approve is recorded as follows: Yes – Brodie, Eastman, Horner, Mason, and
Wogaman. The motion passed by unanimous
vote of those present and voting.
C. Transportation/Safety Fee
Mr. Huckestein
noted that this fee should be voted on tonight so that it may be included in
the Summer term registration and is visible to the students. Dr. Brodie moved that a $1 per credit
Transportation/Safety fee be approved and Mr. Mason seconded the motion. The vote on the motion to approve is recorded
as follows: Yes – Brodie, Eastman,
Horner, Mason, and Wogaman. The motion passed
by unanimous vote of those present and voting.
D. First
1. Board
Policy 2021 – Board Evaluation
This would put a
policy in place for an evaluation during even-numbered years. This year’s Board evaluation will occur prior
to the implementation of this policy.
2. Board
Policy 6290 – Professional Development Leave
This change is
primarily clarifying language for the policy.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
Dr. Wogaman moved
the approval of Consent Calendar items A through F-1 and Ms. Horner seconded the
motion. The vote on the motion to
approve is recorded as follows: Yes –
Brodie, Eastman, Horner, Mason, and Wogaman.
The motion passed by unanimous vote of those present and voting.
REPORTS
AND COMMUNICATION
A. President’s Report
Dr. Cavin expressed
her congratulations to Dick Running, newly elected Board of Education member
who was present at this meeting. She
reported that Student Services Dean Diane Watson had a heart attack and quadruple by-pass surgery. She is out for six weeks and is recouping at
home. Associate Deans Bruce Clemetsen
and Kristen Jones are sharing her responsibilities until she returns.
Dr. Cavin also
expressed her thanks to everyone for their cooperation and good sense during
the recent lock down. She asked Sharon
King and Marlene Propst to report on that situation. They reported that the
situation began with the report of a man on campus in a trench coat who seemed
to be hiding weapons under the coat.
Police response included officers from
We had the second
largest Foundation event ever; the First Annual Teddy Bear Tea was VERY popular
with 145 guests and raised money for scholarships. Paul Axtell worked with several different
groups on campus over the last two days.
On Monday, managers who are continuing Conversational Skills on campus
had lunch with him, and he led a workshop on coaching in the afternoon. Tuesday
he met with College Council, had lunch with campus communication leaders, and
led an advanced workshop on relationships that afternoon.
A new schedule and
catalog are out. Printer is making good
on the issues that were flawed.
B. Fiscal
Affairs Report
Mr. Huckestein noted that state
revenue was not at last years level, because of the delayed payment, and the
fact that the accrual for the July payment had not been entered yet. The college has updated the state projection
to account for imposed property taxes from all community colleges. This caused
the 06-07 state revenue projection to increase by $78,600. Mr. Huckestein also noted that tuition would
probably be lower than the number projected in April, and will be updated in
the May projection. Interest Earnings
was revised upward by $50,000 in April. The
ending fund balance projection is currently $6,621,095 while the budgeted
amount was $6,500,000.
C. Association Reports
1. Classified
Ms. Drury reported that
Mary Sue Reynolds, Sweet Home Center Coordinator, will be graduating from
2.
Faculty
Ms. Sperling gave
the following report from the Faculty Association:
Two members of
our Art Department faculty have been selected for major purchase awards at the
25th "Art About Agriculture - By Land and By Sea"- exhibition
currently on view at the Memorial Union Concourse Gallery at Oregon State
University. This exhibition is on view
until May 16, and will then travel to several other locations before being
finally shown at the
Rich Bergeman had
two of his photographs juried into this prestigious exhibition, including
"
Kurt Norlin
received the Sheldon Ladd and F.E. Clark Northwest Environmental Purchase Award
for his photograph "Going to Water,
Gary Westford is
curating an art exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at
On May 3rd,
Analee Fuentes gave a well attended public lecture on campus entitled; When you
think of
Jenny Strooband
of our Ag. Sci. department reports that we have three new babies at the horse
center, all colts. We named two of them after deans: Interim Ann
(sort of a boy named Sue thing) and Dan.
We already have an Elizabeth who is a year old this year.
Dental assisting
faculty and students attended the annual Oregon Dental Conference on April
12th. The Oregon Dental Assistants
Association provided a free luncheon for all students and discussed career
challenges, changes and life time learning.
Students were very involved and took continuing education courses as well
as touring the exhibit hall to view the many vendors. LBCC students were impressive in dress and
professionalism.
The LBCC student
newspaper, The Commuter, advised by Rich Bergman, won nine awards at the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers Association Annual College Newspaper Competition earlier
this month -- including first place in best design, best headline writing and
best columnist (Erin Mallon)..... second places were won in the categories of
best writer overall (Elizabeth Uriarte), best photographer overall (Chris
Campbell), best single feature story (Nancey West) and best single spot news
photo (Jesse Skoubo).
Former LB
photography student Lewis Forquer is having his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
terminal show in the LaVerne Krause Gallery at Lawrence Hall at the U of
O. The show runs from May 21-25.
From
Counseling: the college experienced a
series of student and (two non-contracted) staff suicides in calendar years
2005 and 2006. This was very unusual for LBCC.
The counseling staff has responded with regular workshops on suicide
prevention for staff, for students, and now one for parents... and we haven't
had any suicides reported in 2007... We'll never know if our trainings helped
turn the tide, but, for whatever reason, it does seem to be turning. That's the
important thing.
Eight people from
LBCC are registered to attend the May 18th Sustainability/ Green Building
Symposium at Lane C.C. I'm pleased to
see that three people from facilities will be there. The first four will attend the Green Building
Track, and the second four the Strategic Collaboration Track: The conference is designed for individuals
involved in planning, design, building, maintenance, workforce training,
business development, fundraising, and sustainability instruction.
3. Students
Ms. Gzik thanked
the Board for allowing her to represent the students at Board meetings. She reported that she felt very safe during
the lock down, and that the Student Life & Leadership advisors did a very
good job for the students in their care.
“I feel safer now than I would if it hadn’t happened.”
Ms. Gzik reported
that outgoing student body president Joey Markgraf awarded Brian Sandersfeld with
the Outstanding Staff Award at the recent student recognition dinner. She also reported that Jamie Wilson spoke at
the Foundation’s Teddy Bear Tea and PTK Honor Society members helped to sell
tickets and hand out baskets.
Incoming president
J.J. Quinlivan reported that Associated Student Government held a candidate’s
forum for the candidates running for the Board of Education. He also reported that based on feedback
during student debriefing, the students’ number one complaint about the lockdown
was that the name of the student involved was published by the local newspapers
even though he was not charged with any crime or found to be doing anything
wrong. Mr. Quinlivan also reported that several
students are going to the sustainability conference mentioned by Ms Sperling in
her faculty report.
D. Board Comments
Mr. Mason noted that
he is very pleased that everything went as well as it did at the lockdown. Staff is very encouraging here; he is working
with some staff on scholarship awarding and while reading applications, he
noticed that quite a few of the students started with a lower goal, but because
of the encouragement of staff, they raised their sights higher.
Dr. Brodie expressed
her thanks to Mr. Huckestein and his staff for all their hard work. Great work on the lock down. The Teddy Bear Tea was a great event and she
is glad it’s happening again.
Dr. Wogaman expressed
his feeling of intense pride in staff and students for their handling of the
lock down, as well as their determination to learn from it. Dr. Wogaman moved to commend the staff and
student body for their handling of the situation, Mr. Mason seconded the motion. The vote on the motion to approve is recorded
as follows: Yes – Brodie, Eastman,
Horner, Mason, and Wogaman. The motion
passed by unanimous vote of those present and voting. Dr. Wogaman also suggested a possible article
for the Insider regarding this commendation.
Ms. Eastman noted
that this is the third of four meetings for her as an interim Board member. She said, “I have enjoyed working on the
Board and my appreciation for the quality of the staff of the college has
deepened and grown.”
Ms. Horner gave her
thanks to the student reps., Hannah and J.J. and reported that she heard good
things about how the staff handled the lockdown situation.
E. Citizen’s
Comments
Mr. Quinlivan thanked the Board for their concern
for the students, especially during the lockdown situation.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ADJOURNMENT
Chair Brayton
adjourned the meeting at 9:25 p.m.