Monday, March 6, 2006
9:30 a.m.

System 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
Approval of the Minutes (word) (pdf)
January 17-18, 2006

Item 2
2006 Hayward Awards for Excellence in Education (word) (pdf)
This item announces the four 2006 Hayward Award for Excellence in Education recipients, representing the best of California's community college educators.

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 3
Budget and Finance
10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Action Scheduled
3.1 2006-07 System Budget (word) (pdf)
In response to direction given by the Board at its January meeting, this item presents (1) a resolution in support of the Governor's 2006-07 Budget proposal for the California Community Colleges and (2) a plan for the redirection of unspent current-year funds in order to meet key system priorities that were not addressed in the Governor's January 10th proposal.

3.2 Requests for Exemption From the Fifty Percent Law (word) (pdf)
This item presents requests from three community college districts for an exemption from the "Fifty Percent Law" (Ed. Code § 84362).

3.3 Needles Center Relocation and Correction of Grandfather Status - Palo Verde Community College District (word) (pdf)
This item seeks approval of a request from Palo Verde Community College District for (1) recognition of its existing Needles Center as qualifying for grandfathered center status and, (2) relocation of that center to a nearby location within the same community.

3.4 State Center Community College District - Career Technology Center Relocation (word) (pdf)
This item presents a request from the State Center Community College District to relocate its existing Career and Technology Center to a location within the same community.

3.5 2007-08 Capital Outlay Projects (word) (pdf)
Attachment A (word) (pdf)
Attachment B (word) (pdf)
Attachment C (word) (pdf)
Attachment D (word) (pdf)
This item presents information in the following areas:

1. An overview of the capital outlay programs including the procedures used to review proposals that ultimately come before the Board for approval and subsequent inclusion in state budget requests.

2. The projects funded in the 2004-05 Budget Act.

3. The projects funded in the 2005-06 Budget Act.

4. The projects proposed in the Governor's Budget for funding consideration in the 2006-07 Budget Act.

Action Pending
3.6 Title 5 Regulations: Full-Time/Part-Time Faculty Obligations
(word) (pdf)
This item presents a revision to title 5, California Code of Regulations, to provide one-time relief from funding reductions to certain community college districts that otherwise would be required pursuant to regulations governing the number of full-time faculty hired by these districts in prior years.

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

Item 4
Legislation
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Action Scheduled
4.1 Positions on State Legislative (word) (pdf)
This item presents recommendations for positions on legislation pending before the California Legislature. At this time there are no bills anticipated to be brought before the Board of Governors for this meeting; however, the item remains on the agenda in the event action may be necessary.

Information
4.2 State Legislative Update (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on current legislative activity and issues of significance that may come before the Legislature in the second year of the biennial session.

4.3 Federal Legislative Update (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on activities at the federal level provided by the Federal Director.

Item 5
Economic Development and Vocational Education
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Information
5.1 Conversation with California Secretary of Food and Agriculture A.G. Kawamura (word) (pdf)
This item presents the Board of Governors an opportunity for an interactive discussion with A.G. Kawamura, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

5.2 Update on Proposed Award of 2006-2007 Perkins State Leadership Funds (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on two aspects of the proposed use of 2006-07 State Leadership Funds from the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, Title 1 B.

5.3 Update on Nursing Initiative (word) (pdf)
Revised Capacity Building Grants Update for Board of Governors (powerpoint presentation)
This item presents an oral update on the current status of the California Community Colleges Nursing Initiative that was developed in 2005 to train and educate 10,000 new nurses annually, with the goal being to add 1300 nursing students slots into the community colleges by 2007-2008.

Item 6
Student Services and Special Programs
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Information
6.1 California Community Colleges Funding for Financial Aid Outreach and Administrative Capacity (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on the Financial Aid Outreach and Administrative Capacity Funding first received in 2003-04. The colleges continued to receive this augmentation in 2004-05 and 2005-06. This update includes summary statistics reflecting achievements for 2003-04 and 2004-05.

Item 7
Foundation for California Community Colleges
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Information
7.1 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
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Consent Calendar

Item 8
Approval of Contracts and Grants (word) (pdf)
This item presents contracts and grants for Board approval.

Information

Item 9
Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program: Annual Report and Update (word) (pdf)
Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program Annual Report (pdf)
This item presents a report on the Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program and the progress of systemwide technology projects.

BY INVITATION ONLY

Legislative Reception
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Senator Hotel Atrium
1121 L Street
Sacramento, California

The Board of Governors will reconvene in closed session on
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at 8:00 a.m.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

System Office
California Community Colleges
1102 Q Street
Board Room
Sacramento, California 95811-6549
916.445.8752

Closed Session
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 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)(2)(C)(i)

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Government Code section 11126(a)(1) and Education Code section 71022

Evaluation of Vice Chancellors

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Open Session

System Office
California Community Colleges
1102 Q Street
Board Room
Sacramento, California 95811-6549
916.445.8752

Committee of the Whole
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Study Session

Item 10
Dialogue with Elected Officials (word) (pdf)
As part of its ongoing efforts to interact with State leadership, the Board of Governors welcomes Assembly Member Pedro Nava and Senators Jack Scott and Tom Torlakson, who will discuss their perspective on issues in the Legislature that affect community colleges.

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