KIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MINUTES

January 17, 2008

CALL TO ORDER

Chair Roy Spangler called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. with the Pledge of Allegiance.

ROLL CALL

Members Present:      Sally Galer, Richard Silverman, Roy Spangler, Denis Weiss

Members Absent:       MaryAnn Ferrigan, Roberta Werle, Patricia Webb,

Others Present:           Stacey Barnes, Jo Ann Comerford, Gene Frazier, Ed Koliba, Kathy Koch, Dennis Mansfield, Kathy Marsh, Tom Quinn, Dale Shantz, Ilene Scherer, Tim Scherer

WELCOME

Members and guests were welcomed by Chair Roy Spangler.

Due to lack of quorum, Chair Spangler announced that the agenda would be rearranged to discussion items until a missing board member arrives. (Trustee Sally Galer arrived at 7:29 p.m.)

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Tom Quinn, College President, made note of the student art exhibit currently on display at Kirtland House and encouraged everyone to take a look at it.

Update on cardiovascular sonography program

Tom Quinn explained that recent negotiations have broken down, but they are re-grouping and hoping to make progress toward the transfer of the program from a privately owned school to Kirtland Community College.  The issue is a request for guaranteed employment that violates our faculty union Master Agreement.

Department Chairs

Tom Quinn stated that the college is moving forward on faculty department chairs and shared a job description for those positions. A board member’s concern was addressed regarding restriction of some faculty who would not be allowed to serve as department chair because they would be put in a position of supervising a family member. The faculty are in favor of this restriction.

Announcements

Tom Quinn pointed out the announcements section of the board agenda, noting the performing artist series dates and the Firebird basketball games through February.

Trustee Richard Silverman announced that the men’s basketball team record is currently 6-1 and in second place in the NCAA Eastern Division, and it looks like they will qualify  for the playoffs. The women’s team record is currently  4-3, and they are in fifth place in the conference. He said that the crowds at the home games have been very good;  some games have had between 400 and 500 in attendance with a good mixture of fans of every age. He said it is a very exciting atmosphere; something very amazing is happening in Mio at the MacGregor Athletic Complex. He encouraged others to experience the excitement.

Regarding the next regular board of trustees meeting scheduled for February 21, 2008, Quinn announced that he has not finalized arrangements, but anticipates attending a training conference for strategic planning that week in Houston, Texas. Therefore, he asked for consideration to move the February meeting to February 28. The request was noted, and Quinn said he would get back to the board members when and if the training sessions are confirmed.

Board meeting schedule for 2008

Because the December meeting dates have been changed for the past two years, a request was made by the Recording Secretary to consider changing the 2008 December meeting in advance, to the second Thursday in December. The rationale for changing the meeting date in the past has been due to the busy holiday season.  Changing the December meeting in advance would allow early posting of meetings for 2008 and provide for smoother scheduling of the Kirtland House activities. Trustee Richard Silverman made a motion to approve a regular board of trustees meeting for December 11, 2008. The motion was supported by Trustee Sally Galer.

Vote:      Ayes, four     Nays, zero     Abstain, zero                Absent, two           The motion was declared carried.

Establishing goals for the Board of Trustees

Tom Quinn shared a summary of 2006 board self-evaluation for discussion along with self-assessment survey results compiled by the Association of Community College Trustees. He spoke of the board’s role in planning, creating policy, decision making, oversight and rewarding dedicated service to the college.

Richard Silverman asked about how to budget for goals regarding time lines and process. How do the board goals affect development of the budget?  The response is that the working budget goes to the board for approval in May/June each year. One of the goals can be to develop a strategic plan for a guide to budgeting and planning.

Tom Quinn asked the board members to write their goals on a slip of paper to be placed on a board for categorizing, discussion and prioritization.

While the board members wrote out their goals, Tom Quinn displayed a couple of examples from a three-dimensional printing machine recently acquired by the CAD department. Jason Prout will do a presentation on it at the February meeting.

The following goals were posted:

Establish standards to allow board to effectively monitor student learning outcomes and program effectiveness.

Develop clear student education success measures.

Improve penetration of available student enrollment.

Better job of competing with private educational institutions and market share.

Be recognized (we’re too silent!) within and beyond local community.

Be known as a great place to start college career.

Heal the trust issues (as best we can).

Develop a strategic plan that looks at exploiting KCC’s and the district’s strengths as a means of continuing to make

        KCC unique and extraordinary in the way it serves people.

Have available information on trends that could or may affect KCC.

Develop a clear idea of KCC’s future.

Provide an M-TEC facility central to the service area.

Develop new educational programs to meet market demands.

Expand programs in health, environmental science, arts and criminal justice. Examples: sports medicine,

 environmental continuing ed., fire, summer arts program.

Cope/energy issues   proactive

Establish goals that will help KCC better serve “senior citizens.”

A plan for board participation in the community.

Be known in our communities as the place to go to get job training.

Have a summary reference of the key KCC metrics that is updated monthly.

Get serious about economic development in district.

Tom Quinn shared his goal ideas: 

Leadership in the community, planning a future-oriented focus, setting standards for the college, professional development for board members, facilities and grounds. workforce development, finances.

He said that he would meet individually with the missing board members and get their goals to be added to the list. When this is completed, they can vote to select which ones to develop and make action plans.

Spangler shared a recent experience while watching a Jerry Springer show. There was an advertisement from a private educational firm targeting people who typically watch Jerry Springer, out-of-work people at home during the day. The line was “You know you need to get a job...”  His point was that they were targeting a specific audience, and that there are other ways to do it than we are doing.

The session ended with a 30-second commercial demonstrated by Tim Scherer, Director of Institutional Services, for an M-TEC Kirtland-Gaylord radio spot. They declared that it was an excellent example of what Roy just said.

PUBLIC COMMENT

None

MINUTES

Minutes from the November 15, 2007 regular board meeting were presented and approved with a motion from Trustee

Sally Galer, supported by Trustee Richard Silverman as presented.

Approval of minutes from the December 13, 2007 regular board of trustees meeting was postponed due to absent members.

ADJOURNMENT

With no further business to come before the board, the meeting was declared adjourned at 8:15 p.m. by Chair Roy Spangler.

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Koch

Recording Secretary