Monday, November 13 2006
9:30 a.m.

Bakersfield College
Weill Institute
2100 Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
661.395.4011

All Board of Governors meetings are held in locations that 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 Njeri Griffin, 1102 Q Street, Sacramento, California, 95811-6549, ngriffin@cccco.edu, (916) 445-8508, no less than five working days prior to the meeting. The System Office will make efforts to meet requests made after such date, if possible.

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.

Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

Welcome
Sandra Serrano, Chancellor, Kern Community College District

President's Report

Chancellor's Report

Item 1
Approval of the Minutes
October 5, 2006 (word) (pdf) | September 11-12, 2006 (word) (pdf) |
May 2, 2006 (word) (pdf)

Item 2
Budget and Finance
10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

Action Scheduled

2.1 District Obligation for Full-Time Faculty Hires (word) (pdf)
This item presents information for the Board of Governors to determine the adequacy of growth and cost-of-living funds in the 2006-07 Budget Act for purposes of full-time faculty hiring obligations for fall 2007.

2.2 Title 5 Regulations to Implement Senate Bill 361 (Scott) (word) (pdf)
Memo (word) (pdf)
Draft of Title 5 Regulations (word) (pdf)
Title 5 Regulations (word) (pdf)
Resolution for Funding Formula (word) (pdf)
Resolution for Noncredit (word) (pdf)
This item provides emergency regulations proposed to implement the new funding formula recently enacted pursuant to Senate Bill 367 (Scott).

Item 3
Legislation
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Information

3.1 State Legislative Update (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on current legislative activity on issues concerning community colleges.

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

3.3 2007-08 Legislative Program (word) (pdf)
This item presents a preliminary discussion of the 2007 State and Federal Legislative Program, for the purpose of soliciting initial Board comments, ideas, and priorities.

Item 4
Academic Affairs
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Action Scheduled

4.1 Title 5 Regulations: Enhanced Funding for Noncredit Career Development and College Preparation Courses (word) (pdf)
This item proposes emergency title 5 regulations to implement the proposed provisions of the Education Code, section 84750.5 that provides three-thousand ninety-two dollars ($3,092) per noncredit FTES for courses in programs that conform to the requirements of section 84760 (a-e).

Information

4.2 The Report of the Noncredit Alignment Project: A Learner-Centered Curriculum for All Students (word) (pdf)
Alignment Program PowerPoint (ppt)
Alignment Project Report (pdf)
Annotated Bibliography (pdf)
Noncredit At A Glance (pdf)
This item presents The Report of the Noncredit Alignment Project: A Learner-Centered Curriculum for All Students that summarizes the conclusions of a yearlong study on how to strengthen the alignment between community college credit and noncredit programs and services, with the goal of increasing access to lifelong learning and improving the transition of adult learners to a career, college and civic life. The report is being presented to the Board of Governors as an information item.

4.3 ESL Student in California Public Higher Education (word) (pdf)
This item presents ESL Students in California Public Higher Education, a report that includes information about ESL instruction in all three segments of higher education in California, but focuses primarily on the community colleges.

Item 5
Foundation for California Community Colleges
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Action Scheduled

5.1 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.

5.2 Appointment of Director to the Foundation for California Community Colleges

Committee of the Whole
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Consent Calendar

Item 6
Resolution (word) (pdf)
This item presents a resolution to Dr. Norman Levan.

Item 7
2007-08 Comprehensive Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan (word) (pdf)
This item presents an overview of the 2007-08 Systemwide Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan pursuant to the requirements of Government Code sections 13101-13103.

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

Action Scheduled

Item 9
Election of Officers for 2007 (word) (pdf)
This item calls for the election of the Board officers and the representative and alternate for the California Postsecondary Education Commission for 2006.

Item 10
System Office Finance Committee Formation (word) (pdf)
This item calls for the creation of a System Office Board Committee on Finance.

Item 11
Board of Governors Meeting Dates for 2008 (word) (pdf)
This item presents the proposed 2008 Board of Governors' meeting dates.

The Board of Governors will reconvene in Open Session on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at 9:00 a.m..

Open Session
9:00 a.m.

Bakersfield College
Weill Institute
2100 Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
661.395.4011

Roll Call

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

Item 12
Strategic Plan Implementation (word) (pdf)
This item presents an update on the implementation of the California Community Colleges System Strategic Plan.

Item 13
Economic Development and Vocational Education
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Action Pending

13.1 2007-08 Career and Technical Education Improvement Act Expenditure Plan (word) (pdf)
This item presents the 2007-2008 Expenditure Plan for the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006.

Action Scheduled

13.2 2007-08 Economic and Workforce Development Program Expenditure Plan (word) (pdf)
This item presents the Economic and Workforce Development Program Expenditure Plan for the 2007-08 fiscal year.

Information

13.3 California Community Colleges Can Increase California's Global Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century (word) (pdf)
This presentation follows a study session at the September Board meeting by Dr. Ed Kawahara from the Economic Strategy Panel, who reviewed the current state of California's regional economies.

13.4 Proposed Grant From the California Department of Food and Agriculture (word) (pdf)
This item presents the Board of Governors with information on a proposed grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture to develop partnerships between community colleges to provide enhanced agricultural and related workforce preparation programs.

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