Call
to Order
The meeting was called
to order at 6:12 p.m.
Roll
Call
Present: Brannan,
Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Smith, Laverty
Absent: Canady
pledge of allegiance
Trustee Brannan led the pledge
of allegiance.
Chairman Laverty asked everyone
to remain standing for a moment of silence for former Trustee Judy Wolpe
(Hollister).
ADDITIONS/DELETIONS TO THE AGENDA
Trustee Rasmusson requested an
item be added to the agenda having Gary VanKempen and Gary Knippenberg
bring the Board up-to-date as to what they have done to identify
products, packaging and marketing for the emerging markets that the
Board discussed two months ago as well as convergence in other new
markets.
This item will be discussed at
the beginning of the President's report.
Limited Public Comment Regarding Agenda Items
There was no public
comment.
CHAIRPERSON AND
BOARD MEMBER REPORTS
Chairperson Reports
College Policies
Purchasing Policy
Jan
Lazar gave a brief description on this policy.
Discussion followed.
Trustee Proctor asked
for a friendly amendment to make the following revisions.
Section I. 2.
Securing supplies
and services from a responsible and responsive supplier offering the
lowest possible cost and providing the
overall best value to the College.
Section
III. B. Third paragraph
A record of sole source
purchases will be maintained as a public record and will list each
supplier name, and amount, a listing of item(s) purchased, the purchase
order number and be provided to the Board
of Trustees on a monthly basis.
Section
III. J. 5.
No contract awarded
pursuant to this clause shall be sublet in any manner that permits 50%
or more of the dollar value of the contract to be performed by a
subcontractor who does not or
subcontractors who do not meet the definition of located within the LCC
tax district.
MOVED by Trustee Pelleran and supported by Trustee
Rasmusson to adopt the Purchasing Policy.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Smith, Laverty
Nays: None
Absent: Canady
Motion Carried.
Purchasing Card
Policy
Jan Lazar gave a brief
background of the policy.
Discussion followed.
The following revision
was made.
Section III. 1. a.
Card controls include a
single transaction limit, monthly cycle
limit, and merchant code category restrictions.
MOVED by Trustee
Pelleran and supported by Trustee Smith to adopt the Purchasing Card
Policy.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Smith, Laverty
Nays: None
Absent: Canady
Motion Carried.
Hiring and
Contract Approval Policy
Jan Lazar gave a brief
background of the policy.
Trustee Proctor
requested that the following revisions be made.
Section I.
This policy shall
commence effective July 19, 2006.
Section III. A. 1.
A. The Board of Trustees shall select,
hire, negotiate terms and scope of service, and directly receive the
reports and information from the following, whether hired as employees,
contractors, or consultants:
1.
Board
Administrative Assistant
2.
President
3.
Board Liaison
4.
Legal Counsel, regular, or
special counsel
5.
External Auditor
6.
Internal Auditor
7.
Special consultants retained
on a project basis.
Chairman Laverty made a
request that the Board Liaison and Board Administration Assistant be
screened by the college HR and Administration for qualifications through
an interview process and then makes a final recommendation to the Board
for confirmation. Those two individuals would be responsible and report
directly to the Board. He also stated that President Cardenas pointed
out that Section III. B. of this policy is in contradiction to bylaw
1.6.1 in which the Board specifically hires Vice Presidents.
Trustee Rasmusson
responded that he had a proposed bylaw change to correct this.
Trustee Pelleran
replied that she would support the change in the bylaw to revert back to
the time when the President hired the Vice Presidents.
Trustee Rasmusson also
stated that his suggestion provides that a President can not create any
new Vice President positions without Board approval.
Discussion followed.
MOVED by Trustee
Pelleran and supported by Trustee Rasmusson to adopt the Hiring and
Contract Approval Policy.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Pelleran, Rasmusson
Nays: Proctor, Smith, Laverty
Absent: Canady
Brannon did not vote.
Motion Denied.
Trustee Smith left at
7:02 p.m. to receive an award from the City Council.
Audit Policy
Jan Lazar gave a brief
background on this policy. She met with Trustee Rasmusson and Bev
Baligad. From that meeting they found that it was best to have a
separate free standing policy.
Trustee Proctor
suggested the following revision be made.
Developing and adopting
the scope of services and for both the internal auditor and for
the external independent audit;
Discussion followed.
MOVED by Trustee
Proctor and supported by Trustee Brannan to adopt the Audit Policy.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Laverty
Nays: None
Absent: Canady, Smith
Motion Carried.
Executive Search
Firm
Chairman Laverty
reminded everyone that sixty-five RFP?s went out and sixteen firms
replied. The entire Board has been going through them to evaluate them
and all of the information has been forwarded to attorney Bev Baligad.
He asked if Ms. Baligad would give an update as to where they were in
the process.
Ms. Baligad reported
out the final scores she had received back from each of the Trustees
independently. The top four firms in no particular order were ACCT,
Greenwood & Associates, Isaacson, Miller, Inc. and RPA, Inc.
Trustee Pelleran
requested doing just a Presidential search. The proposal came to them
for Presidential and CFO searches. She suggested having the President,
once in place, hire the CFO so that the Board would not get distracted
doing two separate searches. Trustee Pelleran would like the Board to
just focus on the search for a President.
Ms. Baligad responded
that she would convey that new directive to the top four firms.
Trustee Pelleran
questioned if an addendum needed to be made to the RFP to separate those
two out.
Ms. Baligad responded
that she would contact the purchasing department.
Chairman Laverty asked
Trustee Pelleran whether she wanted the current President to hire the
CFO or wait until the Board hired the new President and have the new
President hire the CFO.
Trustee Pelleran
replied that she didn?t feel the Board needed to do two searches but
thought that the Board needed to move ahead with the Presidential search
and make that their focus and that the current President could hire the
CFO. Trustee Pelleran asked Caroline Duda to clarify what the Board
would need to do to change the RFP.
Ms. Duda responded that
she would not put out a new RFP, but would ask the firms to resubmit
bids based on just the Presidential search.
Trustee Pelleran moved
that the Board do an addendum to the previous RFP for the Presidential
and CFO search and write the addendum so that is states that it is only
for a Presidential search.
Trustee Rasmusson
stated that he would support. He also suggested that the President
bring the Board a list of candidates with her recommendations and the
Board would make the final selection.
Trustee Proctor asked
for clarification on whether the motion included the recommendation by
staff that the Trustees be provided an opportunity to review those
responses and score them only on the basis of looking at the proposals
regarding the Presidential search.
Trustee Pelleran
replied that was her intent but would accept it as a friendly amendment.
MOVED by Trustee Pelleran and supported by Trustee
Rasmusson to make an addendum to the RFP removing the CFO.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Laverty
Nays: None
Absent: Canady, Smith
Motion Carried.
Chairman Laverty asked
if Ms. Baligad had anything else to add.
Ms. Baligad stated that
she would be redelivering the packets to everyone and meeting with Ms.
Duda to get the addendum and contact the firms.
President Cardenas
reported that at the last meeting it was recommended that Steve Bennett
would provide technical support on the presidential search. After
looking at his educational load and being a senior this next semester,
President Cardenas felt that they should provide a different support
person. She recommended Ms. Ava Mills as the support person for the
Presidential search.
MOVED by Trustee
Brannan and supported by Trustee Proctor to name Ms. Ava Mill as an
assistant to the Recruitment Search Liaison, Ms. Bev Baligad.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Laverty
Nays: None
Absent: Canady, Smith
Motion Carried.
Information and
Announcements
Chairman Laverty passed
out a book to each Trustee entitled the Jobs Revolution. He felt it was
a good book and a quick read and also recommended a copy be placed in
the Board library.
Chairman Laverty
reported that he attended the Michigan Works! Conference on
construction. He thanked President Cardenas and others at the college
for the attendance by LCC staff.
He also attended the
Star Institute?s Graduation and mentioned that this was their last year.
Chairman Laverty spoke
about the Fire Academy graduation and the several ?firsts? they
accomplished. He reported that the overall class average for this
semester?s class was 93.4%. This was the new class that graduated from
the new facility out at West Campus. The Fire Fighter I & II state exam
results consisted of 87% class average. The Hazardous Materials
Operations test, which is the most difficult test the state delivers for
the fire service resulted in an average score of 89.3% and the Hazardous
Materials Awareness test resulted in an overall class average of 85.4%.
LCC had eight students over the 90% on the State Fire Fighter I and II
exam. Over the past 5 semesters the fire academy has averaged 4-5
females, which accounts for approximately 14% - 15% of our students for
each class. He also mentioned that he did not get a chance to attend
all of the graduations but particularly enjoyed the Nursing, Fire
Academy and Policy Academy graduations. Chairman Laverty gave special
recognition to Dean Roberta Peterson, Denny Morse and Jeffrey Huber.
He reported that the
Women?s Resource Center sponsored the Beverly Hunt Award Luncheon. Ms.
Tamilika Foster was the recipient for this year.
He reminded everyone of
the 2006 Michigan Community College Association Summer Workshop in
Traverse City, July 20 - July 22, 2006. Chairman Laverty felt it was a
good time to network, to see what other Community Colleges were doing
across the country and to find out what is going on legislatively.
He reported that the
Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame event takes place this week
Thursday, June 22, 2006. This will be the 31st Annual induction
ceremony. The reception is at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. The
Board is invited to attend.
Chairman Laverty stated
that he will be calling each Board member individually about committee
assignments. He mentioned that the Board now has a Finance Committee
and a Personnel and Compensation Committee.
Board Members
Reports
Trustee Rasmusson
- Audit Committee
The following
resolution was made by Trustee Rasmusson.
INTERNAL AUDIT
- That the Audit Committee is
authorized to retain the services of a CPA with audit and internal
audit experience to assist with the wording of the RFP for an internal
audit consultant as a no bid contract. The Board authorizes up to
five thousand dollars to be spent for the CPA to assist with the
wording of the RFP, and up to ten thousand dollars to be spent for the
internal audit consultant to assist with internal audit as
circumstances indicate during a three-month period and to make
recommendations to the Board, including whether the College should
have an outside firm handle all internal functions.
- The Board sets ideal parameters
with respect to the internal audit so as to be compliant with
standards of Section 404 for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
- The Board authorizes the hiring
of an employee to work exclusively on internal audit. The Board shall
be advised of the candidate in advance selection. The Board retains
final approval authority. The internal audit employee shall sign a
statement containing the following:
I understand that internal audit is a vital function of the College and
requires that I hold myself out as a fiduciary of the College, owing my
best efforts and loyalty to the institution.
- That the Audit Committee take
steps to examine use of the 525 college credit cards by staff, and to
prompt an audit of the last five years use of those cards, as is
indicated, and offer a limited amnesty program, if indicated by
circumstances.
- That 35 hrs of additional time
for
Jan Lazar the Mercer Group
is authorized (1) to assist with implementation of the new policies
and (2) to draft Bylaws and changes consistent with the new policies
and (3) draft an Audit Policy distinguishing
internal audit from external audit and setting minimum parameters.
Trustee Pelleran stated
that she would support Trustee Rasmusson?s resolution replacing the name
Jan Lazar with the Mercer Group.
Trustee Rasmusson
agreed.
MOVED by Trustee
Rasmusson and supported by Trustee Pelleran to adopt the resolution
recommended by the Audit Committee.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson
Nays: Laverty
Absent: Canady, Smith
Motion Carried.
Trustee Rasmusson
stated that he had received some great material on Board self-evaluation
and would prepare something for the Board to share once it came in.
Trustee Proctor -
Workforce Development Board
Trustee Proctor
reported that at his attendance at the last Workforce Development Board
meeting he was advised that Lansing Community College was one of several
entities that received funding under the Work First program to provide
certain services. There is a minimum performance level of 75%. It was
reported that the college had failed to meet that performance standard
and that representatives would be called in to explain the
circumstances. He trusted that representatives of the college did
appear at the administrative Board meeting. Trustee Proctor asked that
someone from the college who was familiar with the Workforce program
offer an explanation.
President Cardenas
asked Vice President VanKempen to shed light on the report.
Dr. VanKempen replied
that when they put together the Work First proposal they set a number of
specific targets. They looked at the percentage of placement of the
clients and the 90 day retention of jobs. What they failed to do was
realize that the job market had changed and they also didn?t anticipate
a decrease in the number of clients. They looked at putting several
things in place if they get the grant for next year. One would be a
part time skilled trainer to enhance the orientation program and another
would be work experience blocks for clients who don't get a job in the
first four weeks. They would be given the opportunity to interact with
a certain part of the college and do certain types of job shadowing. He
stated that they were hoping that those combinations would make them
successful for the next grant year.
Trustee Proctor thanked
Dr. VanKempen and asked if he had any sense as to what explanation was
offered to the Workforce Development Board.
Dean Souden responded
that the Workforce Board felt that the size set for our program was
unrealistic but that they accepted our explanation of why and what we
were gong to do to improve. More importantly our numbers were very near
or close to what the other agencies provided.
Trustee Smith - Foundation Board of Directors
An alumni video was
played.
Trustee Smith returned
at 7:36 p.m.
President's REPORT
Informational Items
President Cardenas
announced that the college put out an RFP for a strategic enrollment
management company to help the institution look at diversifying it's
offering and expanding its credit offerings in the appropriate way.
They will also look at other segments that they have not looked at in
order to gain enrollment numbers. This effort will be led by Dr.
Rebekah Woods. Dean Knippenberg will also be a part of this process.
They have started working on diversification of offerings for the senior
citizen program and have put a proposal together.
College Spotlight
- Tutoring Services
This was presented by
Renee Mickleson and Ruth Heckman.
Discussion followed.
The presentation is on
file with the official Board materials.
International
Cyber Security Education Coalition
Dean Berry reported
that Lansing Community College as of April 2006 has become a partner
with the International Cyber Security Education Coalition to assist with
helping to strengthen national security, establish business and district
partners in Michigan and nationally and to provide articulated education
that can lead to nationally critical cyber security jobs in the areas of
information assurance, information management, data integrity, software
security, intelligence and network security. BMIT worked with the
committee on national security systems, which is the policy making body
for all issues concerning the security of national security systems for
the federal government. The committee delegated the project management
functions to the information assurance courseware evaluation program,
NSA, National Security Agency. The goal of the program is to ensure
compliance with national standards for information assurance education
and training throughout the nation. The program implements a process to
systematically asset the degree to which an institution courseware or
program objectives satisfy the committee on national security system
standards. Dean Berry introduced faculty members Joe Warren, Virginia
Warner and Cameron Dean who worked over the past two years to meet the
standards required for the membership in the international cyber
security educational coalition. She also introduced faculty Chair John
Lightner, and Director Mary Speiser to present two documents to the
Board of Trustees. One was the signing document for the Coalition
Partnership and the second was the Committee on National Security
Systems Courseware Evaluation Award.
Strategic
Direction for the Institution
President Cardenas
stated that she has found that there is a need for the college to
increase its level of accountability not only to the Board of Trustees
but to the public. In addition, she feels that the college needs to
provide flexible course offerings and find alternative funding. She is
looking to provide clear and concise performance goals for the
organization. The President felt that many of the issues the college is
facing have to do with internal controls. She has asked the Deans and
Vice Presidents to begin to look at a more strategic approach for the
institution as the college begins to move forward as well as to add a
strategic enrollment plan and an emergency response plan. The President
added that the college had taken the policies that the Board has passed
seriously by taking a look at the internal auditing process and coming
up with what an office of internal audit would look like at Lansing
Community College. They have put together a charter as well as a code
of ethics. They have also taken each of the new policies the Board has
passed and begun to implement them. President Cardenas requested that
as soon as the Board finalized its hiring process that the college
search for a CFO as soon as possible. She also stated that she was
looking at repositioning a full-time employee as an internal auditor.
She also requested support to reorganizing the institution so that it
will be more student, faculty, and staff focused.
Trustee Pelleran stated
that she felt her request was timely and that it was something that the
Board needed to do and respected her for taking the necessary action to
move this college forward.
Trustee Proctor replied
that he did not refer to the President as Interim, but as the
President. He stated that he had full confidence in her and that she
has demonstrated that she thinks about the vision of the college and she
raises the critical questions about strategic planning, as well as
future strategic objectives. He stated that he hoped the college
community would support her and that she has moved the college forward
to a cultural change. Trustee Proctor also stated that he had heard
stories about what has taken place on this campus in the past, and he
hoped that the future would be one in which truth and openness
prevailed. He urged faculty staff and administrators to support the
President.
Trustee Smith thanked
President Cardenas for her overall knowledge of the things that are
taking place on the campus.
Trustee Rasmusson
stated that he has 100% confidence in the President's skills and her
ability to lead and we are already seeing results of her success.
Financial Aid and
Oracle Update
President Cardenas
reported that they have been able to resolve many of the issues related
to providing checks to our students but unfortunately, the checks have
come in during the third week of summer semester. For many students,
this has caused undue hardship because they were not able to purchase
their books. The college has helped each student the best that they
can. As of today, everyone has been paid. The college realizes that as
an institution this is an unacceptable practice. As of today, Lansing
Community College is one of only five institutions that utilize the
student Oracle System. President Cardenas feels that this puts the
institution in a vulnerable situation. Dialogue has been started and
front line users have been made a part of dialogue, but the college now
needs to make a decision very quickly with regards to changing its
system completely. She stated that multiple decisions needed to be made
and that they were looking at which systems they needed to replace and
whether or not to outsource any of the technical support. President
Cardenas would like to bring a recommendation with a RFP to the Board by
August. She is waiting until August so that the students are registered
for the fall and that they don't feel any changes that the college may
make in the next few months. She would like this transaction to be
seamless for the students. All of this will force the college to look
at other means of offering services to students. They have had
conversations with other institutions that have left Oracle with regards
to the reasons why they left Oracle. The new product, Fusion, which is
the Peoplesoft product from Oracle, will be ready in 2012 and that the
college cannot afford to wait until 2012 to make a decision. She wanted
to inform the Board that the financial aid checks were late.
Trustee Pelleran
questioned what guarantee they would have in the fall that the college
will not have 2000 students standing in long lines waiting for their
financial aid checks.
President Cardenas
responded that for the financial aid portion they would have to put a
team together. She stated that she could not promise that it won?t
happen, but she could figure out a way to alleviate the problems that a
majority of the students experienced last fall.
Trustee Pelleran
replied that she stands by the ad hoc committees report and that the
college needs to think about making a decision. She stated that she is
very disappointed in the product and that she was ready to say goodbye
to Oracle.
Trustee Rasmusson
commented that according to the Wall Street Journal, Oracle had to pay a
$450 million dollar penalty for questionable practices.
Trustee Smith expressed
that she had concerns with students having problems with the online
applications for financial aid and that she stills hears from students
that are having a great deal of difficulties with the online
application. She had concerns about the fall registration and would
like to see a plan that would help the college to lessen problems that
occurred during the previous fall registration. Trustee Smith is
concerned because they had given the community assurances that the
college was making headway with this process. She is not stating that
the college has not made progress; but that it still poses concerns.
She questioned if there were any students dropped from their programs
due to their untimely financial aid checks.
President Cardenas
responded no.
Trustee Smith was glad,
but was saddened that the students didn?t come back because of the
difficult time they experienced. She requested to see the enrollment
numbers for the summer.
Trustee Pelleran
responded that she would really like the Board to follow the lead of
some of the other colleges in the state, as well as across the country,
and cut loose from Oracle on the particular system that deals with
financial aid. She was not sure about the other systems. She further
commented that millions of dollars have been spent and that staff is
getting burnt out and the students are not being served.
President Cardenas
agreed with Trustee Pelleran and thinks that the first and foremost
issue is the student part of the system, as well as the HR and the
Finance systems. She stated that she brought this up at the June Board
meeting because if they knew what they were heading for, they could
begin to put together an exit strategy to leave the system.
Human and Health
Services Facility - Third Floor Proposal: Medical Clinics and Other
Educational Rooms
Dean Roberta Peterson
gave the Board highlights on this proposal.
This proposal is on
file with the official Board material.
Discussion followed.
Mr. Chris
Strugar-Fritsch provided support in answering some of the questions.
Human Resources -
New Hires
Ms. Mary Stroebel
presented the following New Hires.
Administrative
Appointments:
Nancy Hayward, MPH,
BSN, Clinical Coordinator, Nursing Program, Human Health and Public
Services Division.
Richard Scott, BA,
Apprenticeship Coordinator, Technical Careers Divisions.
Faculty
Appointments:
Wanda Adams, BSN,
Nursing Faculty, Human Health and Public Services Division.
Mary Martin, MS, BS,
Biology Faculty, Liberal Studies Division.
Thomas Nicholas, MA,
BA, Developing Writing Faculty, Student and Academic Support Division.
Action Items
Approval of Minutes:
May 15, 2006 Policy Working Session
May 15, 2006 Regular Meeting
June 5, 2006 Policy Working Session
June 5, 2006 Special Meeting
Corrections were made
to the May 15, 2006 Regular meeting minutes.
Human Resources -
Sabbaticals and Leaves
Sabbaticals-
Wanda Larrier, Communications, Spring Semester 2007
Leaves-
Jean Morciglio, Director, Extension and Community Education,
August 5 - December 2006.
Discussion followed.
Finance -
Approval of Bids
Ms. Caroline Duda
presented the following bid for the Board's approval:
Life Insurance, AD&D, &
Long Term Disability in the amount of $249,125.79. The recommendation
was to award the bid to SIG Employee Benefits in Okemos, Michigan.
Internet Service
Provider in the amount of $954,000. The recommendation was to award the
bid to CRT/Arialink in Lansing, Michigan.
West Campus Parking Lot
2 in the amount of $875,000. The recommendation was to award the bid to
Youngstrom Contracting in Ionia, Michigan.
Shigematsu Memorial
Garden in the amount of $272,000. The recommendation was to award the
bid to HTA Companies, Inc. in Lansing, Michigan.
Academic & Office
Facility Woodshop/Lower Level Renovations in the amount of $409,890.
The recommendation was to award the bid to Nielsen Commercial
Construction in Holt, Michigan.
Main Campus Site
Lighting in the amount of $215,000. The recommendation was to award the
bid to J. Ranck Electric in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Arts & Science 1st
floor Tutoring Renovation in the amount of $105,900. The recommendation
was to award the bid to Moore-Trosper Construction in Holt, Michigan.
Electrical Services in
the amount $60,000/year. The recommendation was to award the bid to
Delta Electrical Contractors of Lansing, Inc. Lutz Electric and Ro-Lyn
Electric.
Consulting Services &
Temporary Staffing in the amount of $85,000. The recommendation was to
award Financial Aid Services in Atlanta, Georgia.
HP Hardware & Software
Service & Support in the amount of $596,517.49. The recommendation was
to award Hewlett-Packard Company in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Discussion followed.
Trustee Pelleran felt
that the Consulting Service & Temporary Staffing contract was not enough
and requested that the RFP be put back on the table at the next Board
meeting.
Trustee Brannan stated
the he would support the Hewlett Packard contract for one year and that
the purchasing department should go out again for bids.
Trustee Pelleran
accepted Trustee Brannan?s friendly amendment.
It was requested by
Trustee Smith to separate out the vote on the Shigematsu Memorial
Garden. There were no objections.
MOVED by Trustee
Rasmusson and supported by Trustee Pelleran to accept the President's
Report action items.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Smith, Laverty
Nays: none
Absent: Canady
Motion Carried.
MOVED by Trustee
Pelleran and supported by Trustee Brannan to accept the Shigematsu
Memorial Garden action item.
Trustee Smith expressed
concern that she was not comfortable with this deadline to vote.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Laverty
Nays: Smith
Absent: Canady
Motion Carried.
The Chairman opened the
floor up for public comment. There was no public comment.
CLOSED SESSION
MOVED by Trustee
Brannan and supported by Trustee Pelleran that the Board went into
closed session to consider the purchase of real property.
The Board entered into
closed session at 9:56 p.m.
The Board returned to
open session at 10:32 p.m.
PUBLIC COMMENT
There was no public
comment.
MOVED by Trustee
Pelleran and supported by Trustee Brannan to open the sealed bid from
the Executive Search Firms.
Bev Baligad stated the
RFP called for a sealed bid.
Trustee Pelleran stated
that she would make a motion to amend the RFP.
Chairman Laverty
responded that after the Board has interviewed and made the final
recommendation, is when the sealed bids should be opened to see what the
Board would be paying for.
Trustee Pelleran
replied that she felt the bids played a part in the Board decision
making.
MOVED by Trustee
Pelleran and supported by Trustee Brannan to amend the RFP to view the
portion of the financial that relates to the Presidential search.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Rasmusson
Nays: Proctor, Laverty
Absent: Canady
Trustee Smith abstained
from voting.
Motion Denied.
Trustee Pelleran asked
to go on the record that the Board needed to do the process right and
that she would be taking time off and may not be available for another
meeting. She also stated that see was saddened that RFP?s were not
presented.
Discussion followed.
ADJOURNMENT
MOVED by Trustee
Rasmusson and supported by Trustee Smith for the meeting to adjourn.
Roll call vote:
Ayes: Brannan, Pelleran, Proctor, Rasmusson, Smith, Laverty
Nays: None
Absent: Canady
Motion Carried.
The meeting adjourned
at 10:58 p.m.