Monday, January 12, 2004
9:30 a.m.

Chancellor's Office
California Community Colleges
1102 Q Street
Board Room
Sacramento, California 95811-6549
916.445.8752

All Board of Governors meetings are held in locations which are wheelchair accessible. Other disability-related accommodations such as alternate media materials, sign language interpreters, or real time transcription will be provided to persons with disabilities upon request. Persons requesting such accommodations should notify Helga Martin, 1102 Q Street, Sacramento, California, 95811-6549, hmartin@cccco.edu, (916) 322-1773, no less than five working days prior to the meeting. The Chancellor's Office will make efforts to meet requests made after such date, if possible.

Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

President's Report

Chancellor's Report

Item 1
Resolutions (word) (pdf)
This item presents a resolution to Chancellor Thomas J. Nussbaum.

Item 2
2003 Exemplary Program Awards (word) (pdf)
This item announces the recipients of the 2003 Exemplary Program Awards for the Board of Governors recognition.

Item 3
Approval of the Minutes (word) (pdf)
November 3-4, 2003

Public testimony will be invited in conjunction with Board discussion on each item. A written request to address the Board shall be made on the form provided at the meeting.

Persons wishing to make a presentation to the Board on a subject not on the Agenda shall address the Board during the time listed for Public Forum.

Items placed on the Consent Calendar will be voted on by a single Board action, without staff or public presentations, and without Board discussion. Any Board member may remove an item from Consent by informing the President of this intent. A member of the public may request that an item be removed from Consent by filling out a request to testify in accordance with Section 41 of these Procedures, or by asking a Board member to remove an item from Consent. The item shall then be removed from Consent if any Board member exercises his or her authority to remove an item from Consent.

Item 4
Budget and Finance
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Information
4.1 2004-05 System Budget (word) (pdf)
This item presents an oral update on the Governor's 2004-05 Budget, particularly as it relates to the California Community Colleges.

Action Pending
4.2 2005-06 Capital Outlay Projects (word) (pdf)
This item presents the Capital Outlay Projects for 2005-06.

Item 5
Legislation
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Action Scheduled
5.1 Positions on State Legislation (word) (pdf)
This item presents recommendations for positions on legislation pending before the California Legislature.

Information
5.2 2004 State Legislative Preview (word) (pdf)
State Legislative Matrix (excel) (pdf)
This item presents a brief update on legislative activity as the 2004 session begins.

5.3 Federal Legislative Update (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on current federal legislative activity.

Lunch
12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Item 6
Educational Policy
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Action Pending
6.1 Criteria for the Allocation of Funds (word) (pdf)
This item presents a proposed approach to a requirement of the 2003-04 Budget Act that the Board of Governors adopt criteria for the allocation of certain funds so as to assure that courses related to student needs for transfer, basic skills, and vocational/workforce training are accorded the highest priority.

Information
6.2 2001-2002 Credit Program Approvals (word) (pdf)
This item presents a report describing the number and types of new instructional programs approved by the Chancellor's Office during a two-year period. It also presents issues and future directions concerning the program approval function.

Item 7
Economic Development and Vocational Education
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Action Scheduled
7.1 2004-05 Economic and Workforce Development Program Expenditure Plan (word) (pdf)
This item presents the Economic and Workforce Development Program Expenditure Plan for the 2004-05 fiscal year.

7.2 Request for Exemption from Competitive Process in Award of Perkins State Leadership Funds (word) (pdf)
This item presents a request for exemption from the competitive process in the award of a portion of the 2004-2005 State Leadership Funds from the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, Title 1-B.

Break
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Item 8
Equity, Diversity and Human Resources
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Information
8.1 Report on the Promoting Diversity Report (word) (pdf)
This item presents an oral report on the activities and findings from the Promoting Diversity Project. The presenters are Dr. Phillip Day, Chancellor, and Dr. Robert Gabriner, Dean of Research, Planning and Grants, City College of San Francisco.

Item 9
Foundation for California Community Colleges
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Information
9.1 Update on the Activities of the Foundation for California Community Colleges (word) (pdf)
This item will present an oral update on the activities of the Foundation for California Community Colleges.

Committee of the Whole
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Consent Calendar

Item 10
Approval of Contracts and Grants (word) (pdf)
This item presents contracts and grants for Board approval.

Action Scheduled

Item 11
Requests for Deferral of Increase to Full-Time Faculty Hiring Obligations - Fall 2003 (word) (pdf)
This item presents requests from six community college districts to defer required increases to their full-time faculty hiring obligations for Fall 2003.

Item 12
Title 5 Regulations: Authority to Accommodate Students Affected by the 2003 Wildfires (Public Hearing Item) (word) (pdf)
This item presents a proposed emergency regulation that would waive various deadlines and other requirements for students who were absent from class as a result of the devastating wildfires in Southern California during October 2003.

BY INVITATION ONLY
Retirement Reception
For
Chancellor Thomas J. Nussbaum
6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Sutter Club
1220 Ninth Street
Sacramento, California

The Board of Governors will reconvene in closed session on Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 8:00 a.m.

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Closed Session
8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

The Board of Governors will hold a closed session to consider the following items:

CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - PENDING LITIGATION
Government Code section 11126(e)(1)

Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation
Government Code section 11126(e)(2)(A) and 11126.3(a)

Case name unspecified: 1 case

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Government Code section 11126(a) and Education Code section 71022

Discussion with the Chancellor regarding employment matters.

Employment of Chancellor.

Open Session
9:45 a.m.

Committee of the Whole
9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Study Session

Item 13
Conversation with Richard Riordan (word) (pdf)
This item presents the Board of Governors with an opportunity to dialogue with Governor Schwarzenegger's recently appointed Secretary of Education, Richard Riordan.

Public Forum

Persons wishing to make a presentation to the Board on a subject not on the Agenda shall observe the following procedures:

A. A written request to address the Board shall be made on the form provided at the meeting.

B. Written testimony may be of any length, but fifty copies of any written material are to be provided.

C. An oral presentation is limited to three minutes. A group wishing to present on the same subject is limited to ten minutes.

New Business

Adjournment