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Welcome to the wednesday, december 15, twenty twenty one regular board meeting. Organizational cerritos college.

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remind me again, please.

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that's where president james jose, birkey present board, vice president shin liu marisa,

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avalos trustee zurich lewis, present trustee, mariana, pacheco present, trustee, marisa,

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perez, isacson, trustee, sandra, salazar, present, student, trustee, ninel, sutherland

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present and president superintendent here.

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give us a roll call. Can I get trustee?

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you. Sorry. I remember your names.

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all right. Let's see. Thank you. It's our hand, our flag ready to begin.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for

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which it stands one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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thank you. I appreciate the call and the pledge of allegiance.

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there was an agenda organization tonight. You have one statement to make clear.

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so we discovered that there was a technical issue in regard to this 15 board meeting

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agenda, which was which made it not easily accessible to the public until monday morning

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to comment, letting us know that the agenda publicly available was not easily accessible.

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we will conduct today's organizational meeting as normal, but to err on the side of

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caution and to ensure full compliance with ground act. We will jeopardize all of tonight's board agenda action items on the january 12 board

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agenda. Does that make sense to the board?

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so it was hosted, but it was not available with a feature, yes.

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so there was a technical issue in which the agenda was uploaded, but the way that it is

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meant to be featured on the website made it so that even though it was literally on the

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web, it wasn't easily accessible from our website, which led to a community member

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pointed out that it was not easily accessible and so out of which is even a technical

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error within our seeing software.

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and as a result, we are going to earn the side of caution and actually everything,

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everything that we fight on tonight, what we technically ratified under the next 48 in

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order to ensure compliance to our board document.

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they feature information, so sometimes if you if you upload, but you don't take care, it

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takes more clicks to find it. This feature? But it was.

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all right. We are compliant. Yes, right. So say you feel more comfortable doing that.

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I'm fine with that, but we're fully compliant. Yeah, you're correct that this space is that question is sacred to just put it

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back, the action item from the global fund to fight to make sure we're ok because in the

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event it was going to be an issue, that would be the solution, right?

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so we are going to be fully transparent. Is this close to?

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the issue of the side of caution, and I do want to make sure that we're not going to

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sit there is a we've been getting everybody the availability of access to it.

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and so for whatever reason, I said someone did not get an opportunity to appeal or find it

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or do it for purposes. Next councilman, we're going to ratify all of our decisions.

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correct. Right?

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what is the process? Over again, over and over abundance, having more abundant.

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I want to, you know, I just want to make sure that it folks regularly report meetings and

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all along our agendas that they are accommodated in.

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so we'll begin tonight with some comments from the audience.

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the most of any board items, one of three items that usually wants to be organized.

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correct, remove your audience.

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so the board of trustees welcomes public comments that issues within the jurisdiction of

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the college. The public comment request cards must be returned to secretary prior to the

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start of the meeting, where the rivals are not permitted to speak in the promise to limit

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at five minutes per speaker and 20 minutes per topic.

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there's more than one speaker. Um, so we'll begin tonight with reading some public comments and messages.

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thank you. So the first public comment is from tom jones. There have been multiple occurrences where the college is not complying with the ground.

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institution has not posted the agenda at least 72 hours in advance within the regularly

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scheduled meetings. The community needs to properly do the agenda items to be discussed

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in the meetings. Act requires that regular meetings be noticed by posting an agenda for

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the meeting at least 72 hours in advance. Government code plan for that, or to a regular meetings, are defined only as meetings for

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which an agenda is posted at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting.

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I have several comments here regarding the same topic, it's regarding cola.

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well, first do is I would play the voicemail recordings and then until we hit the 20

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minute time limit, I would go ahead and read the written comments that we received as

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well. There was one moment while I share the audio.

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you know, just to be clear, we have 20 minutes per.

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and with the remaining time after the audio, you're going to share with us some written

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comments that have been submitted until that 20 minutes is complete. Is that correct? That's correct.

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and then and then all the written comments will remain publicly available for for any of

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our committee members to report. Right? That's correct. So the public comments that we received regarding cola are already posted and board

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talks. I could a the file there and you have copies of all those written products

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available. Hi,

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cerritos college board. I am a full time faculty member and I'm calling regarding our contract.

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I am urging you to offer cola plus for all faculty for our contract.

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cola is a cost of living adjustment. It really lets us zero in our pay and it is something that you should provide to all

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faculty as it is something the state has given you. Faculty is spending more money on everything.

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we're spending more money on gas to get to work. We're spending more money on rent and housing.

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we're spending more money on groceries. We're spending more money on supplies that many of us buy for our students and our

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classrooms, offering us cola just to compensate us for all these increases in costs.

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we make no extra money. Faculty deserve cola. Plus we deserve a cost of living adjustment which has been given to cerritos college by

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the state. Plus a merit increase on top of that, to pay off our hard work and our merit

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that we have given to students both online and on ground in our teaching hold up plus for

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faculty. Thank you.

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good evening, board members. My name is julie davis, and I am a full time faculty member in the history department.

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since the start of the pandemic, this semester has been by far the most taxing and

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stressful for me. Half my week, I teach on campus and half my week I teach remote zoom classes.

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it is certainly been nice to see students in person, but it has been complicated too.

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this semester I am now required to teach while in a mask, which is not an easy feat,

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clean between classes and facilitate alternative instruction for the many students who

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have been off campus in my classes due to covid exposure, some for up to two weeks.

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in total, I have had 13 students in quarantine in my two campus on campus classes.

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this is required me to not only learn how to use and set up the owl camera, but also

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carry all of the equipment of three flights of stairs to ensure that these students are

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able to successfully continue with their studies. I teach my on campus classes and then rush home to make it in time for zoom office hours

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and then zoom committee meetings on my alternate days. I teach on zoom, where I have been required to morph into teacher, troubleshooter and

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cerritos college directory agents. If there is anything that this pandemic has taught me, it is that teachers are clearly

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the interface of the college, more so than we ever were before.

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the classroom is the point of contact now, so board members, I will leave you with this.

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if education is the greater good of the state and that shouldn't be up for debate and

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teachers serve this greater good, while more and more is put on our plate, then you as

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the board must recognize us. Is this something we really need to discuss?

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my concluding remark give us a just contract and support college plus.

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my name is nicholas matthews, and I teach in the communication studies department.

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I'm calling to urge the board to provide a fair contract to the faculty.

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frankly, faculty workloads during the pandemic have increased. The extent to which administrators have asked us to innovate inside and outside the

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classroom has increased. The time required to meet the growing needs of our students has increased.

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so why? In light of inflation that hit 6.8 percent in november is the district's

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negotiating position that are pay should effectively decrease.

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a fair contract that honors the extraordinary work faculty have done is absolutely in the

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best interest of students because faculty working conditions are student learning

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conditions. Thank you.

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boulevard. First and foremost, thank you for your time and effort. I know it must be challenging to hold such a position as yours.

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keeping the district happy and trying to keep the college in a healthy fiscal state while

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attempting to keep faculty somewhat happy or at bay.

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let me remind you that faculty are not your enemy. We are the ones who keep our students safe, healthy, happy, successful and on track to

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the best of our abilities. We make ceos look good. We nurture the students to be successful, which makes freedom looks good.

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your tired faculty has been here working hard before during an even post-pandemic.

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if that gets here, how do you improve enrollment by taking care of your faculty so that

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they continue to keep cerritos on the radar this semester as a new director chair and

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also to let you know I was a student at one time and now chair of my department and I

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think has a lot to do with the faculty that I incurred, that I dealt with and all the

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caring and support and knowledge that they instilled in me as being the director chair,

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having to teach my classes. In addition to that, overseeing our clinical rotations outside facilities for salazar

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spring schedules, ordering supplies, complete strong workforce. Perkins program review unit planning, following and monitoring covid protocols.

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meeting with faculty and staff to oversee a move out of our existing building actually

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passed the department architecture meetings, transportation meetings developing to remove

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this to ensure our items are securely taken care of.

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cte has many items to consider, not just books and desks, which is no undermining or

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undertaking of any department of this whole college. This is we are taking care of our departments.

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this is our cerritos college. We take pride in our department and the properties of cerritos college.

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we have put in many hours in trying to keep up with student contacts.

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it's heartening to know not only our division, but all divisions and faculty are working

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over and beyond and have been for a long time. Yet we have to invest additional time with our request to the board and what is due to us

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financially. It is also embarrassing, especially when I speak to my colleagues in other

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colleges who might not have the same situation. It is a constant battle pay increase in cola pay increase and cola pay present and cola

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over and over and over. I don't know in the simple words, do the right thing.

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reward the faculty, but they deserve releases. What is do does the college claims equity student success core values board.

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let's start with the faculty. How about faculty success?

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thank you for your time, diane lewis.

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hello, board of trustees, my name is pierro bracamontes. I'm a full time faculty member in the communications studies department this semester, I

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taught two classes fully in person, which meant that I as fewer students in each of my

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classes. However, this did not lessen my workload. If anything, my workload increased.

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the first two weeks of the semester, my students and I attempted to create some sort of normalcy to being back in person.

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it took several weeks to figure out how to navigate the constant fluctuation in student

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attendance due to all of us taking our safety seriously and following the covid

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protocols. I didn't think about the extra work then because I was glad we were all taking

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our safety so seriously as the semester progressed.

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I asked for an owl cam because I quickly realized student attendance would be inconsistent. I began creating alternative assignments for students who could not be in

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class. I worked each week to find suitable alternatives for students who couldn't join

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our live discussions. We engaged in trial and error to find best practices for our own class.

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when it came to our ad hoc setup and the entire time, I wasn't thinking much about how

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much extra work I was doing because I was just excited to see students in person again.

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now it's the end of the semester. I'm exhausted and as I finished my grading, I find myself frustrated with the college I

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was so excited to come back to. I'm frustrated because the district is offering us off schedule payments instead of a

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salary increase when we had a $10 million surplus last year.

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I'm frustrated because we have some of the largest class sizes in our community college

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system. I'm frustrated because the district does not understand how any return to face to

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face learning in a pandemic increases our workload. And I am frustrated because here we are yet again at a board meeting having to plead for

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what should be part of our fair working conditions, reasonable class sizes, ca2+ and

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compensation appropriate for the continued increase in workloads during a pandemic.

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please listen to your discipline experts. Listen to your faculty. We need plus reasonable class sizes and compensation appropriate for the continued

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increased workload during the pandemic. Thank you. Ok, now I'll read a few of

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the written comments that were received. The first one is from mary ellen.

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the administration has been asking a great deal from us, the faculty since covid began.

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we have sent schedules, have been asked to modify schedules and ask to do it again.

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instructors have had have all had to become certified to teach online because that was

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originally the only place we were teaching. Then we had to prepare all classes to go through tech review and curriculum to be approved

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to teach online in case emergency distance education went away.

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additionally, the instructors have been asked to be understanding and compassionate with

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our students and what they're going through during this pandemic.

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the faculty has done so much and continue to do so much for the students, no matter what

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we are going through. Not once have I read or heard about anyone taking into consideration the additional

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workload for faculty and what is going on in our own personal lives.

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to add insult to injury, the faculty has denied up.

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how can you expect the faculty to perform at their best when all they feel is taken, when

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all they feel is taken for granted and not appreciated for all of the hard work and

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dedication they have been they have given in nearly the last two years.

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we are not just doing our job.

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we have gone above and beyond what we have been tasked to do. The faculty deserves cole a-plus.

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the next comment is from heather kate st. John. This is the first time I've decided to speak out because it seems imperative to do

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so. The first thing to address is cola.

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the governor has provided the funding for cola and it is shameful and exploitative not to

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give it to us. This money that we quote unquote don't have was set aside for this very

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purpose. How can we quote unquote not afford it?

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one response to this question has been that quote enrollment is down and the money should

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be saved just in case end quote. If the concern is low enrollment and why not improve the college instead of quote

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punishing end quote the employees? Other colleges offer smaller classes and a 16 week schedule.

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if. For us to maintain our increase enrollment, then perhaps addressing faculty and

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student needs will help students do not want 18 weeks of classes.

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nobody, they want to be one of 60, 80 or one hundred and twenty students in a class.

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they do not want burned out faculty, and almost everyone is burned out across the nation,

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according to inside higher ed, the chronicle of higher education, faculty focus and

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search and psychology today, just to name a few. I understand that the job of the board is to protect and promote the college.

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one way to do that is to ensure that faculty, students and staff are satisfied with their

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work agreements. There has been no time to rest and recover as the pandemic drags on and faculty has

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continued to ritual practices for protocols, teaching techniques, etc.

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to help maintain the college or college leaders ready for the consequences of that.

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when you have the faculty through paying them cola, reducing the academic calendar to 16

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weeks and decreasing class size. Then you are helping the students and thus for protecting and promoting the college.

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I hope you will consider these points.

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the next comment is from bruce greenberg.

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this agreement has a lot of armchair, our legal program director and an instructor.

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I want the board to know what faculty have been doing for the last year and a half to

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support cerritos college students. When we were fully on campus, student access to faculty was pretty much limited to class

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time, office hours and a few other times students catch up on campus.

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but because we're online, either via email or zoom, students communicate with us seven

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days a week into the night and at times beyond.

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speaking for myself, I respond to students either by email or by setting up zoom

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meetings, no matter the day and pretty much no matter the time, I reply to students via

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email as early as 6:30 a.m. And as late as midnight.

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I participated in zoom meetings on sundays and even legal holidays.

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why? Because many students often have difficulty learning in a remote format,

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necessitating extra time and more one on one instruction.

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yes, students need availability, not during banker's hours, but almost five or seven.

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I'm making myself accessible when they are. It helps alleviate their stress and increase the chance of success.

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further, students are now facing personal non educational matters that present like

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challenges. And many of these students turn to their instructors because we make them

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feel comfortable. Well, I'm sure the birkey board understands we teach.

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I am not certain the board understands that we go the extra mile for our students.

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it would seem to me that it's the state of california provides our district with additional funds that are board would acknowledge the constructors for passing on the

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cola to its faculty with. Our reservations, delay or excuses.

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please acknowledge your faculty and give them a cola adjustment at a minimum.

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the next comment is from patricia reidel, r.n..

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there, cerritos college board members, another new year ahead of us.

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wow, funny. Twenty two and it feels like twenty twenty twenty one last of a lifetime for

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all of us who put in tremendous effort both on and off campus hospital rotations,

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distance education, becoming online certified as well as working hard for our students.

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it is with great respect that I ask you to consider arcola as we are.

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this is zurich and we'll continue to strive for excellence in teaching while managing our

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home life and our budgets. Its upcoming 2020 two thousand year.

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thank you and happy holidays.

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the next comment is from michelle.

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to the board of trustees pierro michelle mahoney, councilwoman faculty.

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as we wrap up yet another unprecedented year, I find it necessary to share with you my

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experience as a faculty member at cerritos college.

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as a counselor at cerritos, I am working with students in a variety of formats.

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face to face on zoom via email, phone and even via text.

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I have three work areas and three computers. One in the conference center, one of my office and one at home.

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five days a week, I'm helping students complete any number of the following tasks

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creating comprehensive plans for transfer taking classes from in-person to online and

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vice versa navigating campus. Navigating how to access to services either in person or remotely.

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communicating with our faculty, understanding of multiple codes and mandates.

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and the list goes on. Additionally, I am teaching a regular session hybrid court where I'm juggling two sets of

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students. So attendance for officers, as well as navigating which students may or may not

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meet all of the covid protocols for the.

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I am designing lessons for students who are in-person, asynchronous and zooming in my

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classroom. I love my students, and I'm glad to see many of them in person.

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but I am exhausted. The thought of doing this all again next semester is overwhelming and I'm concerned this

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is becoming the new normal without campus wide discussion that includes faculty.

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I'm grateful for the hybrid compensation that was settled upon with our last hope and

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emmylou. But I'm frustrated that this hybrid pay has not been paid regularly as promised

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as of today. I have received only one payment that covered august and september, and it

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is the end of the semester. As the semester comes to a close, I find myself wanting one thing this holiday season.

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they there their contract for faculty. They contract that not only acknowledges the additional work I have done to continue

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counseling and teaching during a pandemic. But also a contract that honors the work.

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I and other faculty do and will continue to do for the benefit of our cerritos college

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students. Board of trustees let dr.

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pierro and the administration know that you care for us and that you believe faculty

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working conditions, our student learning conditions.

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and I'll read this last comment regarding this topic.

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it really does. Good evening. As a full time faculty member of cerritos college for over 20 years, I witness how

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instrumental faculty are in student lives academically and personally support students

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and their success. Especially during this pandemic, faculty of continuing your professional development

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opportunities, I've had to learn new technology and modes of delivery.

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have created opportunities for scholarly dialog within and across disciplines and have

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collected data to ensure that we're meeting the needs of our students so they can thrive.

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please recognize and acknowledge the continued hard work of all faculty with a fair

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contract and a plus for faculty.

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so at this point, I'll move on to the next topic of public comments received.

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I received two comments regarding the testing and vaccination requirements submitted

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electronically. The first comment is from barbara soda's, I am a retired and now part

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time instructor at cerritos college and I teach all the oldest.

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I've been given a temporary religious exemption because of my religious beliefs for not

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taking the vaccination, which, when I have to fill it up again, will not change when I

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sign the religious exemption form. I agree that I did not have to take any testing as long as I do not come to campus, which

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I have no reason to do. In the meantime, it appears that this is possibly change and I do not understand how this

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can be arbitrarily done. I'm asking that the college changed the mandate that makes online instructors take the

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vaccination shots and testing. I'm not a threat to any personnel, faculty or students on campus.

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when will these mandates end? How far would board go with these mandates?

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I see the next thing being decided for us is that the booster shots need to be taken in

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order to keep our jobs. I'm 72 years old and I have been an instructor for 50 years.

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30 of those years teaching and department chair at cerritos.

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I love teaching and working at cerritos. Please don't penalize me and make me decide between my jobs and beliefs.

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thank you for listening and god bless.

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the next comment is from cherry for a proposal.

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what the district has chosen to jump on the bandwagon of mandates, saying that it is for

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the safety of our campus community and quote without a full understanding of the long

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term impact of the medical procedures they are requiring, in my opinion, this decision

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will have far reaching consequences that even the district does not yet understand

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because the district and many of their employees refuse to step outside of the echo

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chamber of their peers. We wonder why enrollment is down.

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the public is speaking to you. You just don't want to listen.

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number two, for instance. It is highly likely that the vaccine mandate is having an impact on student enrollment,

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I'd say seven of 10 potential students I have spoken with.

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or inquiring about our programs. Also asked if the college is mandating the vaccine.

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her students have also made negative comments about the vaccine mandate.

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moreover, students have stated that some of their classmates have refused to come to

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class on campus because of the testing and vaccination requirement. Therefore impacting her grades and likely the to raise.

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number three, it is now widely known that individuals who receive the covid shot and

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still contract and spread the virus to others. So why are we the unvaccinated being tested?

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because of the testing requirement, there's no privacy. But workers and students who know who has and who has not taken the covid shot, in my

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opinion. Two nine zero five policy borders on discrimination against the unvaccinated

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based on medical status and religious beliefs and is creating a divide among the campus

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community. All of this work out of the campus should be tested, rather than singling out

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those who were religious or medical reasons, chose not to be vaccinated against covid 19.

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having all the campus. Or none of the campus test would help minimize the hostile work, hostile environment that

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several on campus have or are beginning to experience.

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furthermore, employees should be trusted to self test at home.

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this would be more economical, less time consuming and would minimize the campus divide.

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therefore, the call itself does not even have the commitment to ensure the testing

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facility they chose for employees is maintaining the responsibilities.

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too often, employees do not receive their test results within the 48 to 60 hour window

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promised and often not even within seventy two hours.

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therefore, they could not be on campus. I also know of at least two instances where the person administrating the test did not

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show up. In fact, just this past friday, december 10, the test administrator did not show

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and there was no notification. Cerritos college has the ability to send someone over to assist the testing is happening,

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yet they can dump the shortening of available private time.

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lack of regard for appointments and lack of regard for late test results leave

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unvaccinated employees feeling as though college may be intentionally creating a hardship

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for unvaccinated employees to complete their weekly on campus testing.

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unvaccinated employees are fulfilling their responsibility.

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cerritos college is testing procedures dropped as a result, employees ready for work are

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missing time on campus because the college values the test results more than they do the

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employees present and livelihoods. Cerritos college lack of concern and lack of compassion for their unvaccinated employees

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is inhumane, and it needs to stop. Yeah. It's the last time.

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all right. Very much here now, us, some live comments from the audience here tonight.

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again, we will limit the each speaker to five minutes.

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we're working to spend 20 minutes per topic will likely be available for that much unless

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there's an objection from the board and we'll proceed.

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so when I call your name, according to the card, please enter the organ with an iphone

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and korean and share identical comment.

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we begin with present zurich.

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if there is a third time for us to speak for bringing these kind of stuff together for

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discussion. I don't want to be out here freezing right before christmas, but you can help

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our economy. But yet here we are. I have from the beginning of our plans and actions from the speech that perfectly

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vaccines and other treatments that works for you.

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I accept the position I am in what you are doing to a single mom who depends on the

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system. Maybe I'll just pretend I have cerritos college a priority.

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I have dedicated my time outside the classroom to answer emails, grading papers less

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important and reaching out to my students to help them through this difficult time.

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I want to take a moment and share a little affection.

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I want you to read it in its entirety from my comment as well, so I have it.

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he writes. It's a bittersweet moment that is really not the emotional type, but there's

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something about this class was special to him. He says, I've never had a professor there about the students as much as you did, and I

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feel I'm thankful for that. And the larger lectures I was able to tell from your sentiment that your sentiment for us

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was from the heart. Even online, you created a classroom field.

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that's the way the material is presented. And the professors like me are hard to find, hard to forget.

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isn't that right? We appreciate it. Even though I was referring the same work right there, he says, because of you, we could

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all come together. There are differences and problems aside for a bit and this one in

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this box, we have no problems with the class and I'm interested at the time of enrollment

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to being the same across the. I never thought I would miss a course or a class where I am reminiscing the experiences

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we share. I feel absolutely grateful and appreciative to your class for doing my

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professor. As I said in the beginning, I never had an instructor, a thoughtful, caring,

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passionate and affectionate towards the students. Words can't describe the impact that you believe.

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this is why I teach. I actually really care about my students, and I love what I do.

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I share this with you because I want you to know that you are losing. I can make a positive difference in the lives of my students, and I have the shoe to let

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me back in the classroom. Toby is killing the classroom. I cannot teach you the mask, social distancing and through plexiglass.

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viruses and germs will not disappear, and I am ok with that, but I am not ok with this

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type of contracts and a corrupt government repeating history and damaging our society in

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ways that make it irreversible. Cerritos, what you are doing to me and the other employees who refuse to take four to

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participate in a political battle for their health and the students who just want an

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education is on the wrong side of history. Revolution will not be told us if those people are standing up in protest or helping

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lausd just suspended their mouse programing until the fall. Let the people make up their own minds.

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it's time to take a stand against a multi conglomerate corporation that sickening our nation under the guise of profit health.

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these are not magic words that, in all, constitutionally protected individual rights.

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this was really about your health. You'd be hearing about a new services like vitamins and immunosuppressants like sugar and

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processed food. When businesses are close to 11000 walmart to prosper.

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this is not about health. It's about control. The approach did not happen all at once.

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it is not come easy to take people off the streets. No, it was slower. They first started segregating and giving the population the idea it

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was ok to be exclusive, that someone should have rights and privileges while others

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should not. This is where society is headed and this is why we are here.

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I know that you cannot change the policies and mandates of california that you can't stand to get security and support your students and employees by doing the bare minimum

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distances required. Or, dare I say, even oppose these mandates because you are trying to enforce all the

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recommendations of the pharmaceutically profit driven criminal. Please wake up before it's too late and do not implement 4:31.

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I'm also asking you to clarify whether or not fully online employees for the spring

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semester have to test at home. Here we are due to this, that we have personnel from the us military for a minutes that

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we are talking tough to come human resources. It's not to say that you have loyal employees that are willing to work in the spring

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semester if we have to test to stay home. I know want to start on campus and we want to come back.

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the right now I have an 18 year. And I would like to see you next,

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how I'll this other.

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thank you all for. During the cold weather, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity

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to share my views. I'm really still concerned that we're at the same place and I know the consequences right

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now that are affecting us individuals. But what's really going to affect the chances?

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and board to make a decision to not follow this mandate, what are those consequences?

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are you going to lose funding? What can you stand together with other districts?

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and this coming from the chancellor's office, it's something that money is all the object

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about the whole program. What is keeping us from?

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being who we should be as a campus, as a community and had the opportunity to go to

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the university of arizona and I walked on from that campus.

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don't ask thousands of kids and students and I would just blow away my whole opportunity

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to continue my education work on my master's. At home, one class.

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that's it. One. And when I'm done with that class at the next class and it's set up to

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meet the needs of people, and I'm looking at why aren't there choices to be made that

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will help the community to help this college? All it's doing is putting you further and further behind and losing quality individuals,

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hoping that somewhere along the line they'll be back or this will all be resolved.

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the science isn't coming up the way everyone thought it was going to be.

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the scenario, those that have been vaccinated and used to be eight months now, the

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science has shown it only lasts for six months, so everybody needs to be tested.

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is going to have to be checked most now. The numbers are rising and rising because of individuals that thought they were

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vaccinated. Superhuman went with family events and went to places and affected others

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because they thought it was a cure. It wasn't. The miscommunication that continues to happen is not benefiting anyone.

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and still the same things that the new stuff is coming out. Is it being considered because I'm not sure what platform you're listening to or whose

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results and science you're getting it from. But where is it going to lead?

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except more hard for the student body until you have less and less students now I ran

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into some other students that didn't even hear about the wedding, didn't know about the

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minute we covered on campus without the wedding. And when I talked to her over her husband, the pastor of a church, and she says I didn't

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know anything. She got on her phone and looked at shin liu. I don't see how they got no emails.

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and she's a student coming here now. She goes, well, if that happens, I'm out. I'm not getting the vaccination.

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so I just wonder, you know, I'm telling you there's stupid numbers you need to be looking

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at and you're trying to avoid it to prove your point. But where is your point going to meet you as as the trustee that are supposed to be for

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this community and those marisa? What are the others? Are you communicating with everybody?

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how are they going to stay all these pathways? Oh, you're going to have to be choosing other courses, other places, because unless you

409
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lower your enrollment percentage so they could continue to have the class at a smaller

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number, or they're not going to be able to have a class. If they're going to be on a wait list and then all of a sudden, you're going to find

411
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individuals hurting for more and more. And it's just choose to go other places.

412
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and that's kind of disappointing. I chose I said last time, I'm not going to follow the mandate.

413
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I'm not going to do an exemption. You're going to lose me and my experience and knowledge.

414
00:45:00,820 --> 00:45:03,790
I already know of other traders at work with foster families. I've already found all the places and I will go those directions, but I've been here for

415
00:45:08,830 --> 00:45:08,830
so long. Live it down and I'm finding it very hard to realize it.

416
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:14,920
where is that trust? Where is it coming from? After all this time, I felt proud I graduated from here.

417
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,250
I have foster adopted in all. Four of my girls have graduated with bachelor's degrees.

418
00:45:27,580 --> 00:45:29,920
three of them come from here. Others have taken classes just need because it was the community.

419
00:45:34,300 --> 00:45:38,140
but it doesn't matter anymore. I guess it doesn't mean anything. So what is stopping me?

420
00:45:39,430 --> 00:45:42,010
what problem are you facing? Let us know what you're feeling.

421
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:43,840
maybe we should be somewhere else speaking so that you can make the choices that you

422
00:45:48,580 --> 00:45:52,450
don't want to be. Because it is unfair. These things should not be occurring in this way.

423
00:45:55,830 --> 00:45:58,710
so different parts of the city, different parts of the county, different parts where everyone doing something different.

424
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,290
and it doesn't seem that this is the way it should be. Other than the fact that you are the ones mandated, it's your choices here.

425
00:46:09,510 --> 00:46:13,200
so what happens to you? You lose your position. Are you scared? You don't think other people are scared or worried about how they're

426
00:46:18,750 --> 00:46:22,080
going to pay their house? Are they going to make their mortgage up or do they have health care for their children?

427
00:46:24,260 --> 00:46:26,420
does that matter to you? Do you feel their heart where it meets?

428
00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:29,420
these are the things that everyone has to ponder on, and people are making those choices

429
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:33,920
because they're standing up. You already got everyone saying you already know who they

430
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are, but all you're doing is discriminating, distributing it to people individually and

431
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,880
as a native american. I've already felt councilman. I already know where I stand and what I would need to do.

432
00:46:50,810 --> 00:46:50,810
but is it? Do you want me to be that person I chose not.

433
00:46:56,140 --> 00:46:56,140
this is individual, I chose to continue my education, I chose to graduate from me.

434
00:47:01,710 --> 00:47:01,710
I chose to go on. And I still try to look at this as a positive test, but not as easy as

435
00:47:06,990 --> 00:47:10,070
I used to think in evolving. And hope, you hear I hope it's not just in your head, but your heart to understand what

436
00:47:15,410 --> 00:47:18,100
are we really trying to prove? How many people are we willing to hurt?

437
00:47:20,410 --> 00:47:22,900
how many families are you willing to break up? How many more people are going to move to a different state?

438
00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:28,940
yes, because they're going to have to find it. I'm going the us, we will find way.

439
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:32,300
but then now what we have left, I mean, we do have to recreate it.

440
00:47:37,550 --> 00:47:40,970
I mean, you look at the situations that are going on in the high schools. Well, they want to come here.

441
00:47:43,090 --> 00:47:43,090
I tried to encourage one of my nephews who it's not going to.

442
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,370
jose will play football. He's not vaccinated. He's at another community college playing football.

443
00:47:55,150 --> 00:47:58,170
I'm going to say who it is, because I don't know what he had to do to get that done, but not people will look the other way and do certain things to make sure they're able to

444
00:48:02,620 --> 00:48:02,620
continue to open their doors and keep things going and have a smooth transition.

445
00:48:06,730 --> 00:48:06,730
during this time, present will soon be something else, something new, something changing

446
00:48:11,050 --> 00:48:11,050
constantly. But if the students aren't getting the right information and they're not

447
00:48:16,860 --> 00:48:16,860
taking the test and you're not mandating it for every single person, that's

448
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,600
discrimination. Downright. Because they don't have those antibiotics anymore.

449
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:28,500
I don't know. And there's a lot of different tests out there that you get, that's not

450
00:48:32,810 --> 00:48:32,810
marisa, that's not hurtful, and it's much easier to do much more consistent, but you're

451
00:48:38,690 --> 00:48:42,120
not following up on that. You made the rules that nobody's doing that. How's that sound? How does that work?

452
00:48:44,300 --> 00:48:45,830
thank you, mr. Zurich. Roughly parallel.

453
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:14,840
oh, good evening, thank you for letting me speak.

454
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I am going to just comment on a couple of things, and let's start off with saying that,

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according to the cdc website, even the fully vaccinated can catch and spread the covid 19

456
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virus. Even people with boosters get sick. So when is it going to stop?

457
00:49:38,180 --> 00:49:38,180
is it going to stop after one booster or 10 or never?

458
00:49:43,190 --> 00:49:43,190
you can't mandate people to get a shot every six months if the fully vaccinated are

459
00:49:48,290 --> 00:49:51,890
getting it and spreading it. Why such pressure? At this point, everyone can get it and spread it?

460
00:49:54,860 --> 00:49:57,380
the fully backs are not any special. The this district is creating such a separation and hate on campus.

461
00:50:01,810 --> 00:50:05,270
are people really saying get facts or get asked? This is the type of environment this mandate is creating on campus.

462
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:09,200
it is dividing everyone and it's creating a hostile environment.

463
00:50:13,410 --> 00:50:13,410
if the vaccinated feel so protected, they shouldn't be worried about anyone else.

464
00:50:18,060 --> 00:50:21,580
you are your mark safe, right? Also, faculty teaching fully online should not be subjected to stress testing.

465
00:50:27,130 --> 00:50:27,130
why does faculty need to test weekly in order to work from the living room or another

466
00:50:32,050 --> 00:50:35,950
state? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. But then again, this whole thing doesn't make sense.

467
00:50:38,620 --> 00:50:41,200
people have lost their minds. Testing should be should be made available for those testing within the district, took

468
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away days, times and availability to make it. I guess I go swagit test.

469
00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:52,500
I'm sure that's a tactic used to pressure people to get the vaccine.

470
00:50:56,650 --> 00:50:56,650
since the district is mandating this, the ministry should also make testing easily

471
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available and free of charge. In addition, the contests are good for a doctor's office.

472
00:51:07,170 --> 00:51:10,830
why isn't it good for cerritos college? Those tests are accurate enough for a doctor, as they should be allowed for service

473
00:51:15,150 --> 00:51:15,150
employees. And students as well, again, making it harder for people who want to test.

474
00:51:21,540 --> 00:51:21,540
another question I have is why the religious exemption is only good until august.

475
00:51:25,830 --> 00:51:25,830
twenty twenty two other people's religions and beliefs going to change after six months.

476
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:31,560
they originally were going to be good for at least a year, but now they're liberated

477
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:35,640
zones. What are the reasons for questioning people's beliefs every semester?

478
00:51:40,590 --> 00:51:43,530
do you really think that they will change every few months? I really find that offensive.

479
00:51:51,810 --> 00:51:51,810
I. I

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00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:01,600
just wish people can realize that no one is safe and anyone can get the virus to stop

481
00:52:07,180 --> 00:52:07,180
pressuring others to do things against their will, do what feels right for yourself and

482
00:52:13,030 --> 00:52:15,640
your family and leave everyone else alone. You're taking a ride away.

483
00:52:17,740 --> 00:52:21,040
choose what is best for us and our own families. This mandate, this madness really needs to end.

484
00:52:24,610 --> 00:52:24,610
thank you for your time. Thank you.

485
00:52:31,010 --> 00:52:31,010
let's get emails.

486
00:52:40,270 --> 00:52:40,270
ok. Thank you, everyone.

487
00:52:51,140 --> 00:52:51,140
how did we get here? Almost two years ago, we were told three weeks to flatten the curve.

488
00:53:00,690 --> 00:53:00,690
and then we were told, wait a little longer, wait for the curve really goes down better

489
00:53:05,970 --> 00:53:08,070
and then we were told. Stay home, don't teach you everything online.

490
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:12,000
and now, two years later, when things or most people look like they're getting better,

491
00:53:20,100 --> 00:53:23,730
we're told now you have to do what we tell you. Even if it goes against your bodily.

492
00:53:27,570 --> 00:53:31,110
privacy principles, or you lose your job. How did we get from there to here?

493
00:53:34,730 --> 00:53:34,730
and how did that ever happen in america in twenty twenty one?

494
00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:39,900
that's probably the most important issue that we're facing.

495
00:53:45,590 --> 00:53:48,460
do what we tell you to your body. We're going to make the decision for you or you lose your job.

496
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,380
that's just unimaginable to me. Now we heard speeches from members of the union who desperately want to pull up.

497
00:54:05,870 --> 00:54:05,870
and they talked about how difficult the work is under the pandemic protocols and how this

498
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,680
goal is going to be very important to them. But these people you see out there standing in the cold.

499
00:54:19,010 --> 00:54:22,220
they're here because they might lose their jobs. I personally am not worried about my collar because my job is secure.

500
00:54:27,620 --> 00:54:27,620
I'm worried about their jobs and their personal beliefs and how they feel.

501
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,370
they're being manipulated, cajoled and coerced. Right. I wouldn't say a government because this isn't a government.

502
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,480
the federal government didn't make that happen to us, the state government didn't make that happen to us, if you.

503
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:51,720
I'm looking at bp, 4:31 and all over the place, I say rendition to physically access.

504
00:54:59,180 --> 00:55:02,150
all right, fine. That's sort of in your purview line. Twenty one. Like twenty three lines, twenty nine lines, thirty two.

505
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but there's three words on line twenty one. Condition of employment.

506
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:12,760
those don't seem to come from the preamble that says, what is the relevance?

507
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,430
why are we doing this? Those three words are in there. Now you've heard people say today that they said, fine, we got our exemption.

508
00:55:27,860 --> 00:55:27,860
and incidentally, I am grateful for that because there are certain places in the country

509
00:55:32,770 --> 00:55:35,240
that are not. Really honoring religious exemptions, and I'm glad this place is doing that.

510
00:55:39,140 --> 00:55:39,140
but if you get the religious or the medical exemption, that means that the vaccination

511
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requirement has been relegated and that they will agree to test to come on district

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property. Nowhere in the bp does it say testing is a requirement of employment.

513
00:56:00,780 --> 00:56:00,780
it says vaccination is and if you're not vaccinated, we don't want you on campus unless

514
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you prove you're okay. Incidentally. I was tested.

515
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:10,680
I was vaccinated almost a year ago, almost a year ago.

516
00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:15,720
and we're told that if you're vaccinated, then you don't have to test because you're not

517
00:56:20,940 --> 00:56:20,940
a risk factor. But I'm also being told that even though I'm vaccinated, if somebody who

518
00:56:27,510 --> 00:56:27,510
is unvaccinated comes on campus, that's too risky for me.

519
00:56:32,310 --> 00:56:34,530
so does the vaccine work or not? When I got the vaccine, I believed it would work.

520
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:38,400
I couldn't prove that, and I couldn't prove there wouldn't be side effects.

521
00:56:42,540 --> 00:56:45,630
it was a decision I made carefully. I know about the lady in hungary, but that made all this possible because moderna

522
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:54,030
couldn't get this to work. They've been working on it for years and they couldn't get it to work. But a research scientist in hungary figured out how to encapsulate the mrna and lipid

523
00:57:02,340 --> 00:57:04,920
nanoparticle, and suddenly it all works. Well, that was the thing that worried me the most, because the fact that it was in the

524
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:09,360
lipid nanoparticle meant some people were worried it could cause early onset alzheimer's

525
00:57:15,810 --> 00:57:18,240
because it could pass the blood brain barrier. So I had to evaluate all that, and I came to the conclusion just didn't have it going on.

526
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:28,310
doctors have been writing papers and I said. I think I'm going to trust this, so it should work.

527
00:57:31,790 --> 00:57:31,790
I'm good, right, but I'm told if I'm near an unvaccinated person, I'm in danger.

528
00:57:38,780 --> 00:57:38,780
I think people need to decide for themselves whether they want to contact us for an

529
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,150
american right. You decide for yourself if you want to be vaccinated. If you don't, you're allowed to take that risk.

530
00:57:49,850 --> 00:57:52,610
if you're sick, you're not allowed to come on campus. If there is a pandemic going, you probably should be tested.

531
00:57:57,530 --> 00:58:00,680
if you're worried about that in some manner, I might have. Oh, that makes perfect sense.

532
00:58:03,590 --> 00:58:03,590
but even though I have issues with the mandate, as I've just explained.

533
00:58:10,910 --> 00:58:10,910
all those people out there are happy that they got their religious exemption or their

534
00:58:16,550 --> 00:58:18,140
medical exemption. Well, they're not happy about is told that even though they're not coming on campus, they

535
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,140
need the test to turn on their computer and teach from home. Now, after the last board meeting, we were told that that was mistaken and that if you're

536
00:58:34,310 --> 00:58:34,310
working remotely and you're not coming on campus, you don't have to test.

537
00:58:39,590 --> 00:58:42,980
well, it turns out that's not entirely true, either. So what I'm suggesting is bp 4:31 isn't clear enough on the way that the

538
00:58:52,190 --> 00:58:52,190
administrators will formulate their policies for 80 20 ninel five.

539
00:58:56,870 --> 00:58:56,870
in fact, I didn't even see that requirement in the ap.

540
00:59:00,890 --> 00:59:00,890
so I think bp 4:31 has to be clarified.

541
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:09,170
my preference would be remove the term condition of employment. If you leave everything else in place, you should be covered just fine, right?

542
00:59:13,070 --> 00:59:15,860
what would actually be sorry? What would actually be different?

543
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:21,700
but if we to wrap up this party. All right, so so that's it.

544
00:59:24,370 --> 00:59:24,370
it turns out that we are being told by air right now that even though you're not coming

545
00:59:30,130 --> 00:59:32,980
on campus, you have to be vaccinated. So I think this needs this needs to be clarified and the ap needs to be revised.

546
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:39,730
thank you for your time. Thank you, mr. Norris. Now getting to grow.

547
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:01,560
no problem.

548
01:00:08,390 --> 01:00:08,390
I just have a couple of things to say, so I can answer your for my 17th year.

549
01:00:12,660 --> 01:00:12,660
I was also sleeping here, so that's very dear to my heart.

550
01:00:18,330 --> 01:00:18,330
and I don't know, the last couple years have been very tough, making all the changes and

551
01:00:24,330 --> 01:00:28,170
everything, and I feel like we all work really hard. So I just want to kind of address when I first found out that I may not be here anymore

552
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:33,360
in january because of the vaccine mandate.

553
01:00:38,070 --> 01:00:39,540
it was pretty life. I'll take a lot of sleep issues, anxiety issues, depression.

554
01:00:45,690 --> 01:00:49,020
I think we'll probably run through that. And then there was the assumption that I'm grateful for that I got.

555
01:00:53,530 --> 01:00:55,410
but it's just a brief relief. Again, as we said, we know it's limited and the testing is very difficult.

556
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,960
so we're actually dealing with that right now. I work at another campus and I think 22 days and I'm only here on campus on thursday,

557
01:01:11,370 --> 01:01:11,370
which means I have to test on mondays and I work on my other job.

558
01:01:15,990 --> 01:01:15,990
luckily, I've ever moved and I've been able to run over her on my lunch and get them to

559
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:22,500
extend my lunch for me. So I've been able to do it for like the last month and a half.

560
01:01:25,770 --> 01:01:25,770
so that testing option is going away and I may have to go back to campus, to the other

561
01:01:29,820 --> 01:01:29,820
campus. So now I have to figure out how I'm going to test it there or how to make it

562
01:01:34,650 --> 01:01:34,650
work, and I don't work. Starting last week and the last few days with h.r.

563
01:01:39,540 --> 01:01:39,540
here and also student health services that I've been told that health services is going

564
01:01:44,250 --> 01:01:44,250
to be testing, but they don't seem to know anything about it.

565
01:01:48,540 --> 01:01:48,540
there's no set dates and times, and I first day tested january 3rd.

566
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:53,040
I was told to call back that week to see what's going on.

567
01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:57,480
so it's just not very helpful and trying to figure out how to keep my thoughts through

568
01:02:02,730 --> 01:02:02,730
the testing. So I'm just hoping that that can get figured out as well, or we're going to

569
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:10,360
be close to home testing that would help for something else around that, that would help

570
01:02:18,660 --> 01:02:18,660
us. Peter, thanks very much.

571
01:02:25,410 --> 01:02:25,410
and finally, brian, the federal.

572
01:02:49,810 --> 01:02:49,810
so board of trustees.

573
01:02:53,820 --> 01:02:53,820
returning this, brian mckenna, and I want to come here to address the attack going on.

574
01:03:01,140 --> 01:03:01,140
I want to start off with up to see the real me.

575
01:03:06,570 --> 01:03:06,570
that's assuming you said something that was very offensive and said that maybe life is

576
01:03:13,890 --> 01:03:17,500
more important than freedom. The reason why that was to.

577
01:03:22,130 --> 01:03:25,640
and going through respect for the polish. Is because without our freedom, we do not have.

578
01:03:30,580 --> 01:03:30,580
from what I gather you is, say, one thing that's great about this island.

579
01:03:35,130 --> 01:03:38,460
chinese people, actually. We have an errant, terrible nazi organization trying to come out as a rape and murder.

580
01:03:48,770 --> 01:03:51,800
ok, you don't care about. They have threatened people. They have the minority too long, joe, it's ridiculous, and

581
01:03:59,310 --> 01:03:59,310
so on video and then they get on topic.

582
01:04:04,350 --> 01:04:04,350
well, I'm addressing that statement is that statement is how the ccp thinks.

583
01:04:11,250 --> 01:04:11,250
you guys have instituted a ccp like our card system.

584
01:04:18,340 --> 01:04:18,340
with no shame. And the government that you followed, that it has the same system has done

585
01:04:24,670 --> 01:04:26,900
these things. And that is very, very bad.

586
01:04:31,260 --> 01:04:31,260
what's amazing is everyone here is extremely intelligent.

587
01:04:35,550 --> 01:04:35,550
and yet you have done this and you have followed in the footsteps.

588
01:04:40,790 --> 01:04:44,330
now, I understand why he's such an intelligent administration like george w. Bush administration could be so disastrous.

589
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,880
you have really intelligent people do very disastrous things. This all is proof of it.

590
01:04:55,750 --> 01:04:55,750
you have taken away people's freedom.

591
01:05:00,450 --> 01:05:02,860
I'll say this as best I can. Men in male video male giant come.

592
01:05:09,470 --> 01:05:12,310
no prenup, no life. That's why you cannot give it up.

593
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:15,280
you have you guys are not asking for an increase on tax money.

594
01:05:20,770 --> 01:05:23,250
I don't think you're going to get it. I published that story around people are buying a vast majority are against.

595
01:05:28,930 --> 01:05:32,830
and I'm going to fight for them to vote against it. I want to start getting money, frankly.

596
01:05:36,630 --> 01:05:36,630
I've d staffers who support the cce like system only start getting money.

597
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:43,320
well, if I have to tax taxpayers signed by a lot of people in the free plan, let's start

598
01:05:47,530 --> 01:05:47,530
the other money. That's what I want to do.

599
01:05:51,630 --> 01:05:51,630
you mean it was always difficult, you take away the career opportunities.

600
01:05:57,070 --> 01:06:00,070
and it doesn't make any sense, I was not somebody going to say, come on, the health care professionals here, they know that.

601
01:06:02,630 --> 01:06:02,630
come on, you and I, when I was living in china, the voters first came out.

602
01:06:07,100 --> 01:06:07,100
we all knew that chinese and us more than once out of town and say, we all need this and

603
01:06:12,380 --> 01:06:12,380
anybody anywhere. Oh, my goodness.

604
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:18,960
so. On the fight to make sure you don't give up on tax money, well, the solar panel

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present presentation coming up on, let's point out that read the powerpoint and it says,

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oh, it's going to save u.s. Gas money, that's untrue. Vice president lopez said it will not save money or cost money.

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in that powerpoint powerpoint, I stated, things might save money. Well, what gives? Who's not telling you accurate information?

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is it going to save us money or use us one way or the other? What's a real bottom line?

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she won this board some conservative. He is the only one with some right, but shame on you, present birkey.

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shame on you. Showing all of you have voted for this nazi like ccp only mandate.

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and I hope that when the history books are written, and I hope he it a society your means

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will live on in shame.

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there's a lot hispanics on board. And as a hispanic, I want to tell you, that's one thing my grandfather fled the

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revolution in 1910. Inflect that you wanted a good life here.

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ninel applied for it.

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mexicans and mexican americans are not slaves. We do not need medical professionals, chinese, all people in southeast l.a.

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county don't know what they're doing, so it's a mandate to push them, push this that seeing onto them.

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we're not idiots. We're not slaves.

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sad. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Well,

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I believe that concludes our comments from the audience, was that right?

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all right. Now, move to item one point zero five reports and comments from constituent

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groups. We'll begin with faculty senate president dennis hopper.

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all right. I hope you guys can hear me.

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board present birkey, honorable board members, president superintendent pierro honored

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guests and colleagues, I have a few items I would like to go over today.

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it's going to go over some widely different things, so be patient with me.

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first, I would like to recognize that just recently, dr.

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maulana karenga, professor of africana studies at csu obe, visited cerritos college via

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zoom at the invitation invitation of the cerritos college curriculum committee to discuss

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the development of africana studies at cerritos college.

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and this is just five years or so after the visit by dr. Rudi ogunyemi, the godfather of chicano studies, having visited cerritos college and even

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making a presentation to the board of trustees regarding the development of chicano

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studies and ethnic studies at the community college level.

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cerritos college faculty have been working above and beyond.

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to create new courses in africana studies, she got on latin studies, women and gender

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studies, et cetera, to keep up with the ever increasing inter segmental statewide

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requirements related to ethnic studies for graduation at both the high school community

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college for transfer and the csu level.

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they've also been working really hard, playing a pivotal role in laying the foundation

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for those coming mandates related to ethnic studies. And I dare say, with no additional resources for the hard work that they are doing, a

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situation that we're going to have to change in the months to come. And I look forward to being a part of that process.

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I would also like to note the lives of black feminist author, bell hooks, and of course,

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we sent fernandez, volver, volver.

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art international cultural icon.

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I would also like to recognize the bereavement notice that was sent out today regarding

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the father of a cerritos college colleague, and I would just like to take a moment of

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silence for that, if you don't mind. Get all the folks who will be lost due to tornadoes that we've had in this country, I'd

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like to have my sentence in addition to.

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would you mind if we did those? Thank you, trustee.

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you know, a couple of other comments today, I sent out a faculty exit survey to get

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faculty input related to our experiences this past fall in the classroom and online and

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to help prepare the way for return the spring semester. And in just one day, I've already received almost 200 responses to that survey, and the

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survey will be open until this sunday night. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to get a really good response rate to that survey.

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and I have to tell you going into it that there are substantial faculty concerns and

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questions related to enrollment issues for the spring semester, scheduling issues,

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inconsistent policies and procedures related to modes of instruction.

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issues related to instructional resources. And more. I will be sharing this information with faculty beginning next week, and I

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will, of course, share this with district administrative staff and representatives so

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that we can work together coming into the spring to make sure that we can alleviate as

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many of these concerns as possible and meet the needs of faculty as we move forward.

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and finally, I want to thank dean rachel mason on behalf of the faculty senate for the

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years of service as dean of the business and humanities social sciences divisions.

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thank you, rachel, for bringing together two divisions and helping us to forge

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relationships that will survive long after you are gone and when you're sitting on the

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sand with an umbrella in your drink.

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and to my colleagues and the csa and ccf cola plus.

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thank you. That concludes my remarks, thank you.

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give an excellent update, faculty senate president dennis hoffman now will move to the

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cerritos college faculty federation president dr. Lemole. Thank you, president birkey and trustee.

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thank you to all the faculty who left comments tonight. Thank you for taking the time to do this during finals week.

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I am so proud to represent this hardworking and student centered faculty body.

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we're finally here at week 18 and of the fall 2020 one semester.

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there are many times I'm not sure if I could make it to the finish line, but I'm glad

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we're here. As I reflect back on my experience and my interaction with the board, I want

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to say thank you. Thank you for listening. As a collective, we may have disagreements, but oftentimes we find and create solutions

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together. Collectively, we formed a constituent base covid-19 return to campus task force

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12 faculty who are represented in six different work groups.

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because of this, we have minimal covid positive cases on campus.

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collectively walked the classrooms and student service areas to make sure plexiglass were

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probably installed. Chairs and desks are six feet apart and cleaning supplies were provided accounted for.

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because of this, faculty and students felt safer to return to the classrooms.

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collectively, we made sure ill for air filtration systems with service and individual

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units of air purifiers were purchased to make sure folks have the proper air exchange

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rates and their buildings. Collectively, we work together to continue to provide health care coverage for all regular

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employees and their families. Because of this, all regular employees can keep the same providers and physicians for the

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next three years without paying additional premium.

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collectively, we work together to ensure faculty are aware of the testing and vaccination

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demands. Because of this, almost all regular faculty are currently in compliance with bp.

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twenty nine oh five. I believe we can continue to work together and have difficult conversations and find

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solutions because as faculty, we do not quit when the fight gets hard.

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faculty will continue to show up. Engage with students and meet the needs of our students.

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but we cannot do this without your support trustees.

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I believe we can work together to ensure college plus for all faculty because a one time

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off schedule three percent pay increase is disrespectful to the hard work and the trust

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we have built. Faculty deserves a fair contract now.

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that concludes my statement. Thank you. Thank you. After all, and now it's on the lewis csa president.

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good evening, board of trustees dr pierro avalos are classified family and the rest of

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the campus community I'm filling in tonight for csa president orlando lopez, imam najera,

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the second vice president and chief job steward for csa chapter 161.

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last week we had some holiday events. Two of those were in person on campus.

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I want to thank those who were able to attend and our campus administration for approving

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us to have those in-person events. It was nice to see those who were in attendance and to meet the new classified members in

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person who were hired during our remote work environment.

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as we wrap up this year, I want to thank our classified family for their tireless

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efforts, their resilience and their flexibility as we all work toward doing our part to

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help our students succeed. I wish you all a happy winter break and I look forward to working with you all next year.

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thank you. Thank you so much, appreciate it.

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and as well as we get have an update from sutherland ninel trustee birkey.

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sandra of issues a zoom meeting that she had to leave, and she asked if I could read her comment. Yes, thank you.

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she is the president of. That's critical. So the report is as follows the fcc has passed three main pieces of

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legislation in fall 2021, including a resolution opposing the usage of audio for

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proctoring exams introduced by deputy director, director of equity and diversity andy

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parker and approved by the senate on december 1st.

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the fcc opposes the usage of pretoria, pretoria by property of cerritos college and will

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request professors buying alternate methods for proffering online exams.

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and there's propaganda resolution included, it's invasive software makes black students

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with disabilities at a higher rate due to movements that are blocked and suspicious and

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invasion of privacy. The resolution will be presented to faculty senate in the spring next as student

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representation stipend program to recognize the time and commitment of students

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participating in shared governance processes and seek senate approved a program to

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provide stipends to students serving in representative roles.

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the second will be funded by the student representation fee and the guidelines were

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developed to ensure student representatives complete their duties in full in order to

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receive a stipend. The second opportunity is provided to student government member shared

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governance committee members and students who sit on hiring committees.

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the last point is student activities fee increase to support l.a. Metro fairless transit initiative on december 7th, asec senate approved a bill to

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increase the student activities fee by $9 each term beginning in fall 2022 to the fall.

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in spring, student activities fees will be $19 and summer will be 13 hours.

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the student activity fee has not been increased in over 30 years, and the increase of the

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fee will support implementation of the l.a. Metro fearless initiative program, providing bus passes to students pay their activity

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fee. This represents a huge discount on bus passes for students, supports the

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transportation needs of students and also supports our go green efforts.

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the details of the program implementation are being worked out by dr miller to begin no

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later than fall 2020 to sooner if possible. Thank you to the board of trustees for your ongoing support of this initiative.

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I think you. Great.

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present, actually, so that will move to item two point zero one election of board

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officers, president, vice president in charge before we go.

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let's take a moment to recognize the trustee view vice president and trustee avalos

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birkey for their service for officers during this last year on twenty one is a token of

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appreciation. Please accept the cerritos college zurich.

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I tested.

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well, we will now proceed to the election of more officers.

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the election process, outlined in eight to 10, is as follows we begin the process with

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four present will call for a motion and second to open nominations followed by vote of

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the members or present will recognize the members of the nominations for the office of

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the board president. After all, nominations are completed before president will ask if

747
01:21:17,090 --> 01:21:17,090
each nominee accepts the nomination for president will then call for a motion, the second

748
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to close the nominations, followed by a vote of members.

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each nominee will be given the opportunity to make a statement to the board regarding the

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kind of future president. The presentation of such a statement shall not exceed three minutes.

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the order of the statements shall be or the nomination will then be conducted and voting

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will begin with the first candidate nominated in that order and is able to earn the votes

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of be selected as board present.

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so with that, I'll now open nominations for president of the board.

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01:22:02,070 --> 01:22:06,060
there is no I'd like to nominate vice president dr. Shin liu for the office of president.

756
01:22:09,810 --> 01:22:12,370
thank you, so. You have any other nominations.

757
01:22:18,650 --> 01:22:22,130
I actually would like to keep you as our president. And the reason for that is that we have so much going on with our moms.

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they know you are very, very savvy and very well versed in that area.

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and so I think that would be important for us as long.

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additionally, with poker, I don't feel that we've had an opportunity to go back to being

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the. No reason to hold them in your house.

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and I'm hoping that this outcome where we have that opportunity so that we really get

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immersed and able to be able to participate in of those new graduations.

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I would be like you, no offense to my colleague.

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that's not meant to be.

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with the other nomination.

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ok, with that, we will move to motion to close nominations.

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01:23:32,550 --> 01:23:32,550
who is a close second?

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I just want to add that we have to ask each of the candidates who have been nominated if

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they accept the nomination. Oh, excuse me. Thank you, dr..

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01:23:49,610 --> 01:23:53,180
thank you. Thank you. I think.

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and divided sutherland. Ok, so now we have a motion and a second vote,

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and now I'll offer. Or roughly, if you would like to make a statement regarding your candidature.

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I appreciate zurich lewis to me, and I feel like I just needs

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to be a good president who would listen to us through these difficult times and then me

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and I just want to thank you and thank you for taking.

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um, as for my future, I am absolutely delighted this last year to deserve

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this award. And it has been a very difficult year to be president of this order for a

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whole variety of reasons. But I've taken great pleasure in looking for ways to win the college and the best

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position possible, even when there's hard decisions that don't provide the answers.

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I would very much like to have the opportunity to participate in normal activities as

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a president. That would that would be wonderful.

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but that's not the only reason why I would be president, either.

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I'd love to continue to navigate college through some very difficult decision making

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regarding both arms and the way we work going forward with many of the infrastructure

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needs that work as well. But in any case, I'll be delighted to serve any capacity that my colleagues find

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appropriate. So given our statements and very good,

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you could a call police. Yes, some of this first roll call vote is going to be in support of dr.

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lou. As for president. To trustee sutherland.

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01:26:36,190 --> 01:26:36,190
nick? Trustee avalos.

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01:26:41,900 --> 01:26:41,900
trustee birkey. No, trustee lewis.

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01:26:48,850 --> 01:26:52,300
trustee lewis I. Trustee pacheco, trustee perez is upset and trustee salazar.

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01:26:58,690 --> 01:26:58,690
right. No.

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ok, so the motion did not pass, I'll now move to the roll call vote to nominate trustee

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birkey at board present trustee sutherland trustee avalos.

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trustee birkey I trustee lewis.

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trustee lewis. I trustee pacheco I trustee perez as isd trustee salazar I.

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and the motion passes.

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thank you, all of you. The honor is mine, and I appreciate all of your support and for what it's worth, I feel

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like I've got no one coming over.

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I'm very much appreciated.

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I think there. Now we will conduct the election of board vice president and first

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and now I would like to open nominations for vice president of board of trustees.

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I'd like to nominate the introduction of the vice president.

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01:28:26,660 --> 01:28:26,660
oh, I can second that right?

806
01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:30,680
sure. And then any other nominations lewis, you accept the nomination?

807
01:28:39,140 --> 01:28:39,140
thank you. Yeah.

808
01:28:44,150 --> 01:28:47,420
you get the nomination. I you in to close it, I suppose I could.

809
01:28:54,430 --> 01:28:54,430
all right. You have to have a candidate statement.

810
01:29:01,970 --> 01:29:01,970
no, thank you. You want me to get it up to you.

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if we get out of it. Yes. So this roll call vote is to nominate dr.

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lewis board, vice president, student trustee sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey hi

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trustee lewis hi trustee lewis trustee pacheco I trustee perez is absent and trustee

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salazar a motion.

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congratulations. All right, and now an open nomination for the board of trustees

816
01:29:41,740 --> 01:29:44,160
I've d birkey salazar. We hear that.

817
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:57,180
all right. Dr. Salazar sandra nomination.

818
01:30:00,350 --> 01:30:00,350
I accept a second.

819
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,030
probably the second. Ok. Um, it all gets ratified in january.

820
01:30:14,480 --> 01:30:14,480
so, yeah, I do have any of the nominations.

821
01:30:26,070 --> 01:30:28,530
I see none. Do we have a motion to close the nominations?

822
01:30:32,050 --> 01:30:32,050
I should close second second if we proceed.

823
01:30:36,100 --> 01:30:36,100
would you like to provide a statement?

824
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:41,000
no, it's what I'd like to say is thank you for the nomination.

825
01:30:45,930 --> 01:30:45,930
I can say I have experience, I've been, you know, board quick before, so here we have a

826
01:30:56,030 --> 01:30:57,390
real problem. Yes. So this roll call vote is to nominate trustee salazar as board clerk student trustee

827
01:31:03,410 --> 01:31:03,410
sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey I trustee lewis hi trustee lewis hi trustee

828
01:31:10,790 --> 01:31:13,160
pacheco I trustee perez ms. Acid and trustee salazar.

829
01:31:16,410 --> 01:31:19,690
I have. Regulations, team regulations.

830
01:31:26,130 --> 01:31:26,130
in fact, when you continue to have trustee birkey as a present, so I guess that is not a

831
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:37,020
new president to thank you for your service this past year. So that falls to me.

832
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:41,640
so I'm not sure what the protocol is. You were supposed to get a token of our new president appreciation, so I see why he

833
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:47,360
doesn't do that for, I don't know, deposit account.

834
01:31:53,580 --> 01:31:53,580
no, but I feel like we have a board of trustees.

835
01:32:01,320 --> 01:32:01,320
otherwise, we want to thank you for the last year of service.

836
01:32:06,570 --> 01:32:06,570
thank you for answering my phone calls and text.

837
01:32:11,790 --> 01:32:11,790
it is very much appreciated and it makes it easier to to solve issues.

838
01:32:17,250 --> 01:32:18,750
I want to have good communication. Thank you very much. And I did check this ban, so it actually works.

839
01:32:22,340 --> 01:32:25,190
so congratulations. I think. Again, thank you all

840
01:32:36,180 --> 01:32:36,180
as unfounded as it may seem really great.

841
01:32:42,290 --> 01:32:42,290
um, and just as we close this up, I really want to point out that, you know, we've said

842
01:32:49,550 --> 01:32:49,550
this a lot privately. This has been an excellent group of trustee used to work together

843
01:32:54,380 --> 01:32:58,100
on the issues. We usually agree on most things. We often have some little disagreement.

844
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:00,560
but I honestly believe the tone and the way in which we go about those disagreements

845
01:33:06,350 --> 01:33:06,350
makes it better than even an award would agree on anything.

846
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:11,000
so. Um, I just feel very, very proud that as difficult as the issues in front of us are

847
01:33:19,510 --> 01:33:19,510
working together to get there, so it doesn't make any pacheco point for them either.

848
01:33:28,660 --> 01:33:32,340
so I'm proud to serve everybody here. Thank you for your leadership as president for another year.

849
01:33:37,870 --> 01:33:37,870
a.c. Lewis. All right, so I guess that we we've got to take a break, reorganize anything.

850
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:46,080
I still think we need that.

851
01:33:50,940 --> 01:33:50,940
let's let's do a quick little break and get some some water in and review right here and

852
01:33:55,770 --> 01:33:55,770
then we'll get into some issues in this environment.

853
01:34:04,290 --> 01:34:04,290
so now we'll move on to item two point zero two.

854
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:10,080
it's the revision of the consideration of regular meeting dates for cerritos community

855
01:34:15,480 --> 01:34:18,920
college district board of trustees. Um, so according to education code section seventy two.

856
01:34:27,100 --> 01:34:27,100
there they're there to require every community college or to hold monthly meetings at six

857
01:34:31,970 --> 01:34:31,970
times as may be provided in the rules and regulations adopted by them to start otherwise

858
01:34:38,440 --> 01:34:38,440
do so in the avalos agenda.

859
01:34:42,950 --> 01:34:42,950
there's a list of board meetings that he.

860
01:34:49,560 --> 01:34:49,560
my issue here is one that we did previously, that march 16 and march nine, the committee

861
01:34:59,490 --> 01:34:59,490
for access will be on spring break during the birkey tonight.

862
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:10,560
that way, if there's any faculty or students that want to join spring break, that would

863
01:35:16,580 --> 01:35:16,580
at the same rate at which we may not can.

864
01:35:25,470 --> 01:35:25,470
um, do you have a motion to accept things that is so important in this motion to?

865
01:35:36,660 --> 01:35:36,660
second. All right.

866
01:35:41,720 --> 01:35:41,720
of everything on a roll call, vote on this.

867
01:35:52,180 --> 01:35:52,180
and that we recall.

868
01:35:57,070 --> 01:35:57,070
I'm happy to report that there has to be little.

869
01:36:01,190 --> 01:36:04,250
ok. So why is that? Because guess folks are not allowed in person here, so it's being televised.

870
01:36:10,050 --> 01:36:10,050
and part of the mandate from the state is that all matters pertaining to board decision

871
01:36:16,100 --> 01:36:16,100
have. Is that that in line with our understanding as well?

872
01:36:27,460 --> 01:36:27,460
we about the exception, bill, so theoretically, we are on campus, but we can do it this

873
01:36:34,620 --> 01:36:36,190
on every issue. We did know what is going on with the bill.

874
01:36:38,980 --> 01:36:40,980
we didn't know about that anyway. So theoretically, we act.

875
01:36:43,390 --> 01:36:45,100
this is not the exception. But we can do. I would advocacy say, for folks who like since we are having technical

876
01:36:49,900 --> 01:36:53,530
issues for that purpose more than anything else? Yeah, no. The final thing just happened.

877
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:59,230
and over the last. We. And we're going to more women over the the week.

878
01:37:06,540 --> 01:37:06,540
I think susan trustee, sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey trustee lewis trustee

879
01:37:13,410 --> 01:37:13,410
lewis I trustee pacheco trustee perez ms., trustee salazar, I think we go back and.

880
01:37:23,380 --> 01:37:23,380
I don't think very much.

881
01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:30,480
right now, item two point zero three, consideration of election of annual representative

882
01:37:35,450 --> 01:37:36,740
to the l.a. County school trustees slated for 2022 is something that we have a background on

883
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:46,520
present pierro. So traditionally, we do all day, we fill all the

884
01:37:56,310 --> 01:37:59,400
offices here, and I believe dr. Gupta is the representative.

885
01:38:02,990 --> 01:38:06,350
so the electronics association, am I correct? Yeah. And usually that we select a new representative, but I believe that's a little

886
01:38:12,570 --> 01:38:12,570
convenient for the last couple of years.

887
01:38:18,130 --> 01:38:19,840
I'm happy to continue to have dr. Lewis that she's willing to accept money and we want to find her, I'll try.

888
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:29,120
I nominated you wrote this book.

889
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:42,640
and I'm happy to say that. All right. Know of trustee sutherland, trustee, avalos, trustee, birkey, jose, lewis,

890
01:38:51,250 --> 01:38:51,250
trustee, lewis, trustee, pacheco, trustee perez is absent and trustee salazar I a motion

891
01:38:58,630 --> 01:38:58,630
passes. All right.

892
01:39:05,960 --> 01:39:05,960
I don't 2.0 for information, item or policy.

893
01:39:11,580 --> 01:39:11,580
twenty seven, fifteen photographic standards of practice, this poor policy incorporates

894
01:39:20,450 --> 01:39:20,450
the code of ethics. That includes a clearly defined policy for dealing with behavior that

895
01:39:25,230 --> 01:39:25,230
violates its food policy statements to be reviewed during that organizational meeting,

896
01:39:30,210 --> 01:39:32,760
all important for elections. Thank you, present birkey.

897
01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:34,560
so every year there are three organizational meeting and I ask you to click on the link

898
01:39:39,810 --> 01:39:39,810
and make sure that you familiarize with this policy, as it is one obviously a requirement

899
01:39:49,980 --> 01:39:49,980
by its code or to obviously or commission or commitment to or on ethical I've d.

900
01:39:56,410 --> 01:39:56,410
so you might just say, does anybody need an additional minute to review?

901
01:40:08,770 --> 01:40:08,770
seeing ninel is anybody have a question is like present argument that the policy.

902
01:40:19,450 --> 01:40:19,450
hard seeing move on to item.

903
01:40:23,500 --> 01:40:25,120
we don't need to ratify anything, right? Ok. Item three point zero one as usual, presentation recognition of retirees.

904
01:40:32,200 --> 01:40:32,200
we have six retirees or five retirees here to to recognize that.

905
01:40:42,380 --> 01:40:42,380
if you are not trustee birkey, so I would like to.

906
01:40:48,990 --> 01:40:48,990
green or kelly, american sign language instructor on the front, mr.,

907
01:40:58,110 --> 01:40:58,110
to use a little bit of an overview of its service to the

908
01:41:07,140 --> 01:41:07,140
institution. Collaborations with the so we the.

909
01:41:14,530 --> 01:41:14,530
and. Sorry.

910
01:41:21,380 --> 01:41:22,550
thank you very much, dr. Fierro. I'm proud to have the opportunity to speak on behalf of ed kelly.

911
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:29,840
a distinguished instructor, professor of american sign language.

912
01:41:36,460 --> 01:41:36,460
it's been at the college for a decade in which time he's left an indelible mark upon all

913
01:41:41,860 --> 01:41:41,860
of us. He has built an outstanding american sign language department.

914
01:41:47,580 --> 01:41:47,580
growing it from quite literally nothing to a department whose enrollment has grown in an

915
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:54,720
era of general enrollment decline.

916
01:41:58,930 --> 01:41:58,930
it is not only had a hand in building the asl program at cerritos, but he's also been an

917
01:42:05,380 --> 01:42:05,380
integral part of building the asl program at cal state long beach.

918
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:10,600
he continues to teach in their program and he has built a whole set of informal

919
01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:15,760
articulation agreements with them, all of which cindy and I plan to plan to formalize

920
01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:25,720
in honor of ed.

921
01:42:30,500 --> 01:42:30,500
this. This alone makes for an outstanding career.

922
01:42:37,230 --> 01:42:39,480
but ed has not stopped there. He has been for many years a fierce advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing community.

923
01:42:48,710 --> 01:42:48,710
it has been his life's work to make sure that the community is heard and just as

924
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:58,340
important to make sure the rest of us are listening. Through these efforts, he's had a tremendous impact on the division, the college and me

925
01:43:05,420 --> 01:43:05,420
personally. But with all those accomplishments, I think the most important thing that I

926
01:43:13,380 --> 01:43:13,380
can say about ed tonight and the most important thing that you should know about him.

927
01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:18,560
is that it, he is a very, very kind person and a very, very funny person.

928
01:43:24,950 --> 01:43:28,520
and all the rest of it is gravy. Speaking on behalf of the division and the college, I can say with certainty you will be

929
01:43:33,560 --> 01:43:37,430
sorely missed by us all with your absence. We will be diminished, my friend.

930
01:43:40,010 --> 01:43:43,850
thank you for all your service. And here. Thank you.

931
01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:50,080
thank you, ed. We appreciate your service and you have been a great person since I know

932
01:43:57,280 --> 01:44:00,910
you over the last nearly seven years. I'm glad you are embarking on the next chapter of your life, but also sad to see you go.

933
01:44:07,270 --> 01:44:07,270
so thank you very much for everything ed and I wish you all the best.

934
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:14,680
thank you. Thank you.

935
01:44:22,470 --> 01:44:22,470
and would you like to share anything?

936
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:28,640
oh, who me? Oh, ok.

937
01:44:36,370 --> 01:44:36,370
well, I just want to thank cerritos cerritos college for allowing me to teach their.

938
01:44:46,440 --> 01:44:50,040
and I really enjoyed myself at cerritos. You know, I'm, you know, being deaf and working with hearing coworkers, I really enjoyed

939
01:44:56,310 --> 01:44:56,310
my time there at cerritos college and I just wanted to thank all of you for coming into

940
01:45:02,190 --> 01:45:02,190
my life. And and I know that cindy will carry the torch for

941
01:45:12,180 --> 01:45:12,180
our esl program.

942
01:45:16,970 --> 01:45:16,970
yeah. Thank you.

943
01:45:23,900 --> 01:45:23,900
thank you so much. All right,

944
01:45:33,790 --> 01:45:33,790
so next, we have roger adams, senior application analyst, who is also retiring mr.

945
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:46,630
patrick adonal, our director of information technology, will give us a little bit of overview of the old techniques we have had rob gronkowski.

946
01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:56,670
thank you, dr. Pierro. It's a pleasure to introduce roger adams.

947
01:46:01,590 --> 01:46:01,590
roger began his career at cerritos college as a computer operator, which was back then

948
01:46:09,180 --> 01:46:09,180
which was referred to as computer services as a student adult hourly in nineteen eighty

949
01:46:14,550 --> 01:46:14,550
seven and his full time employment as a swing shift up computer operator in nineteen

950
01:46:20,070 --> 01:46:20,070
eighty eight. He left the college in 1999 to work in a large data center in pacific care.

951
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:29,370
in 2001, he returned to cerritos college as a programmer. He is currently a senior applications analyst in the information technology department.

952
01:46:34,530 --> 01:46:36,000
rogers role is critical. He provides support and generates all of the college's ms.

953
01:46:39,390 --> 01:46:39,390
reports. And until recently he was doing all of our apportionment 320 reports and many,

954
01:46:45,060 --> 01:46:45,060
many other things are there's just so many different things that that roger does, and I

955
01:46:51,570 --> 01:46:54,270
count on him daily. Roger is someone that cerritos and I have come to truly rely on.

956
01:46:59,340 --> 01:46:59,340
he he possesses a great amount of institutional knowledge.

957
01:47:05,010 --> 01:47:05,010
roger works on many of the most complex regulatory requirements, and he's been doing

958
01:47:10,380 --> 01:47:10,380
remarkably well, and that definitely will be truly missed.

959
01:47:16,670 --> 01:47:16,670
and in his retirement, roger plans to get more involved in his music again, which was his

960
01:47:21,500 --> 01:47:21,500
first love, and that was what he originally planned on doing and working on his house.

961
01:47:27,230 --> 01:47:27,230
really, roger and roger is actually being generous and volunteering some of his time to

962
01:47:33,260 --> 01:47:33,260
help get some documentation and get some just follow through on items for to transition

963
01:47:41,540 --> 01:47:44,540
into the future. So, roger, you will be truly missed. I'll miss some of those lunches that we had.

964
01:47:47,630 --> 01:47:47,630
so thank you and congratulations for such a long career with cerritos college.

965
01:47:59,210 --> 01:48:02,760
thank you, everyone here for your many years of service. I do appreciate everything that you have done for us, for the district, and I really

966
01:48:09,410 --> 01:48:09,410
don't have words to thank you for the commitment that you are making of helping those out

967
01:48:16,190 --> 01:48:16,190
after your retirement to transition the position.

968
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:20,960
I do remember when we first met, I was shortly after I arrived to campus and I went to

969
01:48:26,150 --> 01:48:26,150
I've d I've d offices and you walked into the office and told me, you know, is there so

970
01:48:30,380 --> 01:48:30,380
thank you very much. I appreciate you taking the time of that time to make you feel

971
01:48:35,390 --> 01:48:35,390
welcome and I wish you the best in your retirement.

972
01:48:39,590 --> 01:48:39,590
thank you. Thank you.

973
01:48:44,100 --> 01:48:46,930
any words you'd like to share? All right. You know, my relationship with cerritos college began in 1972.

974
01:48:55,670 --> 01:48:55,670
uh, actually, because I was a music major and that bernard center that you all just tore

975
01:49:02,350 --> 01:49:02,350
down. But I was a music major and then transferred to cal state long beach and got a

976
01:49:10,060 --> 01:49:11,920
bachelor's degree there. And I was trying to make a go of it as a classical guitarist, and I wasn't getting a

977
01:49:17,440 --> 01:49:17,440
steady income. And so I started coming back in the nineteen eighties to get a computer

978
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:25,360
classes and math classes and seeing which way I wanted to go and I decided on the

979
01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:32,590
computer information systems. And that's that's why I got into that cerritos college as a computer operator.

980
01:49:38,560 --> 01:49:38,560
but I've had a long relationship and I really appreciate having that.

981
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:43,600
being able to work at cerritos college a really great place to work, and I'm going to

982
01:49:48,190 --> 01:49:50,020
miss everybody. Yes, I'm coming back in a way to advise and try to help with the transition.

983
01:49:56,230 --> 01:49:56,230
but I do have plans to try to do more of the music again and.

984
01:50:03,110 --> 01:50:06,890
kind of expand what I previously had done. So thank you all and really appreciate the working at cerritos college.

985
01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:17,570
thank you, ms., and we really appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you.

986
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:25,680
all right, thank you. Now all we have is going to be time each administrative assistant

987
01:50:30,990 --> 01:50:30,990
or potentially the office of human resources and a little bit of an overview of the work

988
01:50:36,460 --> 01:50:36,460
they have done over the last couple of decades has cerritos college.

989
01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:44,880
we have dr. Clinton's church vice president of human resources and assistant superintendent. Thank you.

990
01:50:47,210 --> 01:50:47,210
thank you. Don't miss perez cerritos college in january 2003, she was fired as human

991
01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:57,010
resources technician. One was promoted to human resources in september 2006 and later promoted to

992
01:51:04,540 --> 01:51:04,540
administrative assistance to the vice president of human resources.

993
01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:11,470
in august 2013. This is great wealth knowledge in this exact position.

994
01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:14,920
she became the go to person for any procedural or historical question.

995
01:51:20,890 --> 01:51:20,890
furthermore, I have been actively involved with the district administration since 2003,

996
01:51:29,170 --> 01:51:29,170
while she became the administrative assistant to the vice president of human resources.

997
01:51:34,870 --> 01:51:34,870
she officially became our graphics coordinator in 2013.

998
01:51:40,300 --> 01:51:40,300
they're working. Human resources can sometimes be challenging due to the nature of the

999
01:51:45,310 --> 01:51:48,910
issues we deal with on a daily basis. However, during the time doing the work for the district, she always exhibited a helpful

1000
01:51:54,850 --> 01:51:56,620
and present demeanor. She supported those who were in need of direction, moving troubled from time provided

1001
01:52:04,030 --> 01:52:04,030
timely and reliable benefits information.

1002
01:52:08,810 --> 01:52:12,380
she's a problem solver by nature. I enjoy searching for the right answer.

1003
01:52:15,110 --> 01:52:15,110
she enjoys reading a nerdy like us, a very inquisitive mind.

1004
01:52:20,570 --> 01:52:24,080
I directly supervise them enough for 10 years. She was such a pleasure to work with.

1005
01:52:26,540 --> 01:52:26,540
our relationship grew beyond the office environment.

1006
01:52:31,250 --> 01:52:33,650
we became good friends. Together, we relied on each other and offered support through research about equal time.

1007
01:52:41,130 --> 01:52:41,130
we celebrated success, invented often to keep our sanity.

1008
01:52:46,730 --> 01:52:48,590
I will be so not very good. But I look forward to hearing about you, I think you're going to my best wishes to you

1009
01:52:54,560 --> 01:52:54,560
for a wonderful on your.

1010
01:53:03,750 --> 01:53:03,750
right now, the race without a man.

1011
01:53:08,340 --> 01:53:12,060
it's been a pleasure to know you, I've worked here with you. I can say that you probably were the first person that I had significant interaction at

1012
01:53:19,170 --> 01:53:20,700
cerritos college. Yeah, I believe so.

1013
01:53:23,790 --> 01:53:23,790
in my first interview, you were kind and helpful for me.

1014
01:53:31,020 --> 01:53:31,020
what I guess you noticed that I was what I was trying to fill the paperwork.

1015
01:53:35,770 --> 01:53:35,770
then apparently I did not complete prior to coming to that interview.

1016
01:53:41,010 --> 01:53:41,010
so I do remember telling the board when I got to see them the second time, how impressed

1017
01:53:48,450 --> 01:53:51,170
I was with you from that moment on. So you have been always on my favorites.

1018
01:53:56,310 --> 01:53:59,820
thank you very much. I appreciate you very much. And I hope you enjoy the next chapter of your life.

1019
01:54:02,730 --> 01:54:06,060
it has been a joy getting to know you. Thank you. I'd like to have his comments as well, I know you helped me over the many

1020
01:54:13,310 --> 01:54:13,310
years with insurance forms and just questions and always very professional, very

1021
01:54:19,640 --> 01:54:19,640
thoughtful and keeping everything confidential, they should be in nature.

1022
01:54:23,690 --> 01:54:23,690
just know you will dearly be missed by those of us who have had to come to h.r.

1023
01:54:28,820 --> 01:54:31,460
and just wishing you the best as you retire. I think you're too young personally, but I know.

1024
01:54:35,240 --> 01:54:35,240
thank you, but thank you so very much for always having such a great attitude and just an

1025
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:47,840
amazing professional etiquette that you've brought me to. Cerritos college we appreciate you.

1026
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thank you very much.

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did anything you like to add on? Well, I'd like to say thank you to dr.

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01:55:01,820 --> 01:55:03,480
pierro, the board. Adriana, it's been a pleasure working there.

1029
01:55:07,550 --> 01:55:07,550
all the staff in each are just the staff in general on campus.

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01:55:13,190 --> 01:55:13,190
I've always felt like part of a family since the day I stepped onto campus many moons

1031
01:55:18,710 --> 01:55:20,820
ago. I've made a lot of friendships. I'm going to miss everybody and it's been a great time, but I appreciate the opportunity

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01:55:27,800 --> 01:55:27,800
that I was. I, you know, got to work at the college and work with all of you.

1033
01:55:32,480 --> 01:55:32,480
so thank you so much.

1034
01:55:37,680 --> 01:55:37,680
thank you.

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all right. All right.

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01:55:49,690 --> 01:55:49,690
so now we have felicia just need cosmetology professor, but the deal is optional being of

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01:55:58,930 --> 01:55:58,930
technology will give us an overview of the leases in the service to the institution over

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01:56:05,830 --> 01:56:09,340
the last several years. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to share a bit about felicia smith.

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01:56:12,850 --> 01:56:12,850
felicia holds a vocational education teaching credential, a cosmetology license, the

1040
01:56:18,640 --> 01:56:18,640
cosmetology instructors license and real estate agent license.

1041
01:56:23,110 --> 01:56:23,110
she's a graduate of usc, where she received a business degree in finance and management.

1042
01:56:28,660 --> 01:56:32,350
felicia is not only an educator, but also an entrepreneur. Felicia is the proud owner of a successful beauty salon, which enables her to provide a

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01:56:37,300 --> 01:56:37,300
real world and current beauty trends directly to our students.

1044
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:41,680
our passion to see our students succeed in the beauty industry is what drives our day to

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01:56:46,900 --> 01:56:49,030
day work as an educator. If you ask felicia what she enjoys most about teaching, she'll tell you it's the

1046
01:56:52,990 --> 01:56:52,990
satisfaction she feels when a student expresses the appreciation in her, helping them to

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01:56:59,110 --> 01:57:01,810
be successful in the cosmetology field. She took her students to many events on and off campus to enhance their learning even

1048
01:57:06,820 --> 01:57:08,110
after graduation. Students continue to keep in contact with and share their successes because she genuinely

1049
01:57:13,390 --> 01:57:17,300
cares. She has received countless thank you notes from students. She began our profession here at cerritos college.

1050
01:57:20,620 --> 01:57:24,250
the cosmetology industry is greater because of educators like felicia. She will be sorely missed.

1051
01:57:31,510 --> 01:57:33,940
thank you, melissa, for all your service. Thank you for that.

1052
01:57:38,020 --> 01:57:38,020
I do to remember meeting you and in the early years, the month of my tenure here because

1053
01:57:47,320 --> 01:57:47,320
I thought it was one of the first departments I visit, there have been area that's going

1054
01:57:52,450 --> 01:57:54,960
like every two weeks for haircuts and yoga. So it's very good to me.

1055
01:57:57,910 --> 01:57:59,320
so thank you very much. I appreciate everything you have done for us, for our students, and I wish you well.

1056
01:58:04,690 --> 01:58:04,690
I thought, you know, I really in retirement, well deserved because you have a full resume

1057
01:58:11,830 --> 01:58:11,830
and a full set of activities that you have that over the last several several years.

1058
01:58:16,870 --> 01:58:20,050
thank you very much again. Thank you very much. I'm really going to miss working with the students, working with my cohorts, and I've had

1059
01:58:26,860 --> 01:58:29,800
a wonderful time teaching at cerritos college. I appreciate everything.

1060
01:58:31,720 --> 01:58:31,720
thank you, nick. You've been a great dean.

1061
01:58:43,610 --> 01:58:43,610
all right, next time next on the delays we have at the walton theater production

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01:58:51,050 --> 01:58:53,510
coordinator and we'll have dr. Eric return instructional being the primary communication to give us an overview of its

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01:58:59,720 --> 01:58:59,720
work. This could take a while because that has been with us a long time.

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01:59:05,510 --> 01:59:09,300
so I still have that many, many, many things for the. So go ahead. You're.

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01:59:13,400 --> 01:59:15,110
thank you very much, dr. Pierro. It's my pleasure to work with that walton as both a faculty member and dean for the past

1066
01:59:19,160 --> 01:59:19,160
22 years, throughout her time at the college and a dedicated her energy and knowledge to

1067
01:59:24,020 --> 01:59:27,800
the students of cerritos college contributed to the success of the department division and the college that has served on many shared governance committees and contributed

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01:59:31,820 --> 01:59:35,600
countless hours to productions and special events that expanded opportunities for students to learn and succeed in the arts.

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and I grew up surrounded by educators. She worked at l.a. Unified in the early part of her career and also taught theater

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01:59:44,090 --> 01:59:46,010
courses while at cerritos. Her service to the district follows an expected path of dedication and compassion for

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01:59:50,450 --> 01:59:53,930
students as the focus of retirement cerritos college. This work is evident in her support of high standards and theater programing and job

1072
01:59:57,710 --> 01:59:59,990
placement for theater students. In 1979, when eddie began her career at the college, the tony award for best play went to

1073
02:00:05,270 --> 02:00:05,270
barnard pomeranz for the elephant man and sweeney todd won for best musical.

1074
02:00:10,070 --> 02:00:12,500
mother teresa won nobel peace prize. Superman was the number one movie.

1075
02:00:14,570 --> 02:00:16,700
gees topped the pop charts. Soviets invaded afghanistan and a group of students seized the u.s.

1076
02:00:19,850 --> 02:00:22,910
embassy in tehran. Gas was 86 cents a gallon. Movie tickets were two dollars and fifty one cents in the four decades that followed at a

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02:00:28,010 --> 02:00:28,010
shared in the many important challenges and changes to daily life with students, staff

1078
02:00:32,030 --> 02:00:32,030
and faculty and administrators that included the rise of the internet, cell phones and

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02:00:36,800 --> 02:00:36,800
social media. One of ed is earliest interest reveals her spirit of adventure and

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02:00:42,110 --> 02:00:42,110
dedication to preserving traditions and something many of you may or may not know about

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02:00:47,240 --> 02:00:47,240
her. And I only actually learned about it a couple of years ago is that at a classic car

1082
02:00:52,250 --> 02:00:52,250
enthusiasts to garages a 70s era purple corvette in retirement, I hope etta reconnects

1083
02:00:59,240 --> 02:00:59,240
with this beautiful car, enjoys time with her family and friends, and finds many new

1084
02:01:03,800 --> 02:01:07,040
experiences on the open road ahead of her etta. Cheers to a well-deserved and blissful retirement.

1085
02:01:15,240 --> 02:01:16,760
thank you very much, harry. It could not be with us tonight, but I echo those words.

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I hope you have a great retirement. You deserve it and I will miss seeing you and the other one when I go to the building.

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02:01:35,400 --> 02:01:35,400
it always there, and you have been always incredibly polite, accommodating many of our

1088
02:01:41,820 --> 02:01:41,820
crazy requests. So thank you for having my.

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02:01:47,720 --> 02:01:47,720
party. All right, and now you get an upgrade on a new way of life, basically rendezvous

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02:01:57,430 --> 02:01:57,430
by the family event without the printing press, the vice president of student services,

1091
02:02:05,350 --> 02:02:05,350
and she's going to give us a little bit of an overview of the work.

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02:02:10,270 --> 02:02:10,270
first, laurie christy, match or tiger writer, who is retiring in sandra, marks

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02:02:18,460 --> 02:02:18,460
institutional sales occupations, and we rate the latter rise in the outgoing dean of

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business, education, humanities and social sciences.

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good evening, board of trustees. And the audience is going to be here for 10 that I am using my vice president and voice

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as I read the acknowledgments for tonight. It is my pleasure to present a heartfelt farewell for lori christina.

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lori was part of the cerritos college family since november 5th, 1990.

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02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:53,000
thirty one years. They're, like every department and division, had the privilege to work with her to

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02:02:56,260 --> 02:02:56,260
procure grants. Lori acted as relieved writer for grants, but many college programs,

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including my falcon project hope teacher track as I still articulation reseller, etc.

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02:03:10,900 --> 02:03:10,900
through her efforts, the campus prepare millions of dollars in external funding.

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it was important to lori that she helped secure grants and opportunities for continued

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02:03:21,100 --> 02:03:21,100
programing for community college students to transfer to a four year institution.

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02:03:25,970 --> 02:03:25,970
lori attended gold at west college and cal state university long beach, and I'm sure many

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02:03:31,090 --> 02:03:31,090
of you are aware. But in case you are not, lori is a musician and a member of the

1106
02:03:35,770 --> 02:03:38,170
claremont colleges orchestra. You would often see her carrying in her violin case with birkey campus.

1107
02:03:43,510 --> 02:03:43,510
it is my sincere hope that zurich speaking that we all have the opportunity to see her

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02:03:47,950 --> 02:03:47,950
perform now with roger adams, that she has more free time.

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honestly, I love to perform together, but it would be great. Lori was unable to make it today, but she asked if we could read this statement on her

1110
02:04:00,400 --> 02:04:00,400
behalf. I would like to say a special thank you to lee evans, with whom I have worked

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02:04:05,620 --> 02:04:09,040
every day for the past 31 years in the director's office. She made me feel very welcome on my first day on the campus, and her dedication, hard

1112
02:04:14,050 --> 02:04:14,050
work and friendship has helped make my time here a great joy.

1113
02:04:18,820 --> 02:04:18,820
please join me in wishing lori a happy retirement as she moves on to her next big

1114
02:04:22,840 --> 02:04:22,840
adventure. But next is the saturday marks.

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it is my honor to share a few congratulatory words for sammy marks.

1116
02:04:34,800 --> 02:04:34,800
sandy began her career at cerritos college in january in nineteen ninety five as a

1117
02:04:39,030 --> 02:04:42,180
faculty member for the medical assistance program. She came to the college as an experienced registered nurse working in intensive care

1118
02:04:46,500 --> 02:04:46,500
units, radiation oncology clinics and ambulatory care services, just to name a few

1119
02:04:52,290 --> 02:04:52,290
examples. And her faculty role, she was responsible for writing medical assistant

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02:04:57,090 --> 02:04:57,090
curriculum, served as a faculty senator, volunteered as the omega alpha club advisor and

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02:05:03,810 --> 02:05:03,810
board sandra transition to the dean of health occupations position in june 20, 2012, and

1122
02:05:11,220 --> 02:05:14,160
served in this capacity through the end of this month. During her tenure as dean, she oversaw multiple construction facilities updates within

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02:05:19,320 --> 02:05:19,320
her division, the development of the simulation lab, which helped our students maintain

1124
02:05:24,060 --> 02:05:24,060
their hours during the pandemic when clinical sites were unavailable, develop technical

1125
02:05:29,550 --> 02:05:29,550
standards, essential functions for health occupation programs and served on many

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02:05:33,870 --> 02:05:33,870
committees. Acting as the acting president and assisting in bringing the national

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02:05:38,340 --> 02:05:38,340
university to the college for the bachelor of science degree in nursing.

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these are just a few of her accomplishments over the years. Please join me in wishing sandy a wonderful retirement.

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02:05:53,020 --> 02:05:53,020
lastly, seeing rachel mason, it is my honor to express our gratitude and share a few

1130
02:05:58,390 --> 02:06:00,370
words about rachel mason. Rachel is a product of the california community college and california state university

1131
02:06:04,840 --> 02:06:07,960
system that study business administration. She earned her mba from pepperdine university and was a faculty member at antelope valley

1132
02:06:13,060 --> 02:06:13,060
college university of redlands, east los angeles college and the university of phenix.

1133
02:06:19,420 --> 02:06:19,420
rachel began her role as dean at cerritos college in 2008 and served in this capacity for

1134
02:06:25,420 --> 02:06:26,980
13 years. During her tenure, she presented at the portland leadership academy on managing change,

1135
02:06:31,570 --> 02:06:31,570
served as vice president and treasurer of acting, served on many campus life committees

1136
02:06:36,400 --> 02:06:36,400
and task forces, and was voted the outstanding manager of the year by faculty.

1137
02:06:42,700 --> 02:06:42,700
furthermore, rachael supported job placement by fostering programs such as the mental

1138
02:06:47,290 --> 02:06:47,290
health worker program and paralegal program, which provides job placement for students

1139
02:06:51,730 --> 02:06:51,730
and career path jobs, and help bring the university of cerritos college for our students

1140
02:06:56,440 --> 02:07:00,250
and the paralegal and administration of justice departments. Rachel helped create the division motto make decisions that are on the side of students.

1141
02:07:05,440 --> 02:07:07,780
it will be the correct decision. Please join me in congratulating rachel and wishing her well in this new chapter of her

1142
02:07:12,070 --> 02:07:12,070
life. Thank you, vice president perez.

1143
02:07:17,260 --> 02:07:20,560
and yes, indeed three great great administrators. Lori miller worked with her that employee, but I did work with her by email quite a bit.

1144
02:07:29,860 --> 02:07:33,090
got a system with christie. You will remind me of basically everything that I forgot to do on the ground via email in

1145
02:07:39,060 --> 02:07:40,770
a very polite way. Have you completed this bringing this to your attention again?

1146
02:07:45,560 --> 02:07:45,560
and she was always, always very nice about it and make sure that we submitted and signed

1147
02:07:50,890 --> 02:07:52,320
for grants on time. So thank you very much, christy laurie.

1148
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we'll miss you. Same with rachel and sandy.

1149
02:08:02,490 --> 02:08:02,490
I got to meet the two of them as soon as I got here.

1150
02:08:07,230 --> 02:08:07,230
they were working with me and they.

1151
02:08:13,750 --> 02:08:13,750
they cut me a break, but we need to understand how this goes, and I make work, and so

1152
02:08:20,230 --> 02:08:20,230
when I tell them they have been incredibly old people to work with both of them, I have

1153
02:08:26,980 --> 02:08:30,920
nothing but good things to say about them. That is. It's a lot of work that they accomplish over the last several years.

1154
02:08:37,550 --> 02:08:40,400
rachel and sandy. And you also leave big legacy on your requirements or positions will be difficult to

1155
02:08:47,750 --> 02:08:47,750
fill. And I know your faculty will miss you always.

1156
02:08:53,210 --> 02:08:54,530
and so will we. Thank you very much to the two of you.

1157
02:09:04,080 --> 02:09:04,080
that's great. Very proud of those people left behind big shoes to fill.

1158
02:09:10,080 --> 02:09:10,080
yes. Well, we hope you're all invested in your next endeavors.

1159
02:09:18,870 --> 02:09:18,870
certainly, your movements in the world is going to get more time with the internet.

1160
02:09:26,610 --> 02:09:26,610
that's great. Go move on to item three point zero two institutional presentation,

1161
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recognition of classified employee of the month you went.

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02:09:43,290 --> 02:09:43,290
advice to sir hugh hugh is not going to be here with us, but

1163
02:09:52,930 --> 02:09:52,930
again, I still believe in him as you actually is in or out of retirement.

1164
02:10:00,240 --> 02:10:00,240
hugh, sort of critical of the human resources team who was hired in november 2018 as a

1165
02:10:07,020 --> 02:10:07,020
human resources state, one assigned to the office of diversity compliance and title nine.

1166
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your typical job responsibilities include support for all the title nine mandates,

1167
02:10:19,050 --> 02:10:19,050
combination of the district diversity and equity employment opportunity advisory

1168
02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:23,760
committee, the full support of the district universal access taskforce website and

1169
02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:35,080
technical assistance for the department. Oversight of the restrictive compliance and programmatic assistance.

1170
02:10:41,560 --> 02:10:41,560
it was a team player and dedicated to his position, its commitment to the college and the

1171
02:10:47,530 --> 02:10:47,530
district was evident when he agreed to serve the district covid 19 coordinator for human

1172
02:10:53,800 --> 02:10:53,800
resources. If you tell the details of the positions or not, forget or not flush out

1173
02:11:03,590 --> 02:11:03,590
and lower the requirements at the time, yes, you agree to serve in this role without

1174
02:11:09,750 --> 02:11:09,750
hesitation. And this temporary assignment, hugh is a consummate professional and work one

1175
02:11:16,660 --> 02:11:16,660
on one with employees ensuring that the compliance with the district covid 19 protocols

1176
02:11:22,880 --> 02:11:22,880
and assist with contact tracing recently, you agree to assume oversight of the management

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02:11:30,050 --> 02:11:33,450
employee recruitment process. Additional responsibility required him to learn a new process at the same time that he

1178
02:11:38,690 --> 02:11:42,320
was learning his covid 19 responsibilities. But he did so with eagerness to learn.

1179
02:11:46,610 --> 02:11:46,610
give the indication and commitment to cerritos college to go above and beyond to meet the

1180
02:11:51,800 --> 02:11:55,460
needs of the students and staff is exceptional. We are proud that you are a cerritos college employee and we commend you for your

1181
02:12:00,950 --> 02:12:04,580
outstanding service and dedication. Thank you for a job. Well done. Congratulations.

1182
02:12:12,850 --> 02:12:12,850
all right. And frequent zero three, I have three points here, three for potential us and

1183
02:12:21,170 --> 02:12:21,170
this whole project.

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I've d board of trustees, and I thank you for allowing me to provide this presentation to

1185
02:12:35,940 --> 02:12:35,940
you. So as you know or may be aware of, cerritos college has tried to entertain solar

1186
02:12:45,810 --> 02:12:45,810
project on this campus before and in many occasions it didn't make economic sense to

1187
02:12:55,800 --> 02:12:55,800
us. But over the last year, we continue to evaluate that process.

1188
02:13:03,540 --> 02:13:03,540
and the reason why we continue to look at solar is because we have a couple of state

1189
02:13:11,910 --> 02:13:14,580
guidelines that we must adhere by. And two of those being by twenty twenty five, we need to increase renewable energy

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02:13:21,600 --> 02:13:21,600
consumption by 25 percent by 2030.

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we need to increase that renewable energy by 50 percent.

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also, by twenty twenty five, fifty percent of all new buildings and major renovations

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02:13:38,520 --> 02:13:38,520
will need to meet zero net energy by 2030, one hundred percent of all new buildings and

1194
02:13:47,430 --> 02:13:47,430
major renovations will need to meet zero energy.

1195
02:13:52,620 --> 02:13:52,620
so we continue to reevaluate solar on our campus for the last year.

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02:14:00,030 --> 02:14:00,030
I have met with several different solar providers and contractors and looking at

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02:14:08,250 --> 02:14:11,520
different ways to purchase solar. In the past, we tend to look at supply upfront and make it an upfront investment, but we

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02:14:19,440 --> 02:14:22,830
needed to take a different look and a different strategy. And I believe the presentation we're.

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there you rose along that lines on that, and so I invited two colleagues or one me from

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for hour along with kevin, which is from he's from school project for utility rate

1201
02:14:43,550 --> 02:14:46,040
reduction, otherwise known as spirit. And so they're here to assist me in this presentation and allow me to kind of kick us off.

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02:14:55,360 --> 02:14:57,280
thank you for your bye. Am I good to go? You're good to go.

1203
02:14:59,560 --> 02:14:59,560
you're good to go, right? So thankful to be here today.

1204
02:15:03,940 --> 02:15:03,940
thank you for the opportunity to talk about and bring these exciting solar projects to

1205
02:15:08,440 --> 02:15:11,160
bear with you all. My name is nate smith. I represent the solar renewable energy company that has been collaborating with district

1206
02:15:17,470 --> 02:15:17,470
staff and philippe to put forth the potential solar and battery storage project.

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we'll be discussing briefly tonight. I'm joined by my colleague from spur, the joint powers authority.

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they are composed of community college districts and k-8 dish and k-12 districts.

1209
02:15:39,770 --> 02:15:41,230
they run big rfp. They ran an rfp statewide competitive rfp for solar and battery storage and 4front power.

1210
02:15:47,230 --> 02:15:47,230
the company that I represent was the selected vendor of that process.

1211
02:15:52,240 --> 02:15:52,240
cerritos through this joint powers authority called spur that kevin is going to talk to

1212
02:15:57,640 --> 02:15:57,640
you about is able to utilize their statewide competitive process as a procurement vehicle

1213
02:16:04,990 --> 02:16:04,990
in which in which to pursue the potential solar and battery storage project.

1214
02:16:09,940 --> 02:16:09,940
and with that, I will pass the mic off to kevin and let him go into his spiel.

1215
02:16:15,940 --> 02:16:15,940
so thank you very much again.

1216
02:16:20,130 --> 02:16:24,030
great news, if you wouldn't mind just giving it just because we're getting late in the evening. If we could keep it to about five minutes or so.

1217
02:16:27,750 --> 02:16:27,750
that it just really hit the high points, if you don't like.

1218
02:16:32,120 --> 02:16:36,080
sure, yeah. If you guys don't mind maybe going to the next slide, I can do a quick overview of spur. So as philippe mentioned, as nate mentioned, my name is kevin flanagan.

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I represent an organization called spur. I think in terms of the high level, here we are a buying consortium made up of community

1220
02:16:48,470 --> 02:16:51,560
colleges and k-12 districts across the state. We were created by community colleges.

1221
02:16:53,660 --> 02:16:53,660
we develop piggyback buying programs to help community colleges reduce utility costs.

1222
02:17:00,020 --> 02:17:03,980
we ran a statewide rfp for solar and energy storage. The name of the company that won the rfp, that competitive process was 4front power.

1223
02:17:09,530 --> 02:17:09,530
we have a master contract with 4front power, and the college can take advantage of that

1224
02:17:14,570 --> 02:17:14,570
master contract to streamline its procurement process, get really great pricing and get

1225
02:17:19,970 --> 02:17:19,970
really good contract terms and conditions that reduce risk on the project.

1226
02:17:25,490 --> 02:17:26,780
next slide, please. The program, which is the name of the buying program that we have here at spur for for

1227
02:17:31,850 --> 02:17:31,850
solar and storage, has been used by over a dozen community colleges across the state, as

1228
02:17:37,460 --> 02:17:37,460
well as two dozen or three dozen k-12 school districts, as well as cities and counties.

1229
02:17:43,190 --> 02:17:43,190
and even the state of california is using the program to piggyback for solar and energy

1230
02:17:47,780 --> 02:17:50,090
storage. So it's a really proven buying program. It's a proven procurement vehicle for public agencies to utilize for the procurement of

1231
02:17:56,420 --> 02:17:58,790
solar and energy storage. And so with that, I'll hand it back over to nate.

1232
02:18:03,060 --> 02:18:03,060
thank you. A quick, obligatory commercial for foreign power where a nationwide solar and

1233
02:18:07,410 --> 02:18:07,410
battery storage developer, the backbone of our business and our strength, is developing

1234
02:18:12,180 --> 02:18:12,180
projects with specifically community colleges and the california public sector.

1235
02:18:16,890 --> 02:18:16,890
so we're extremely good at working with the department of state architects, also known as

1236
02:18:21,630 --> 02:18:21,630
gsa, to get these projects into the ground and energized as soon as possible.

1237
02:18:26,790 --> 02:18:30,630
we're backed by a really strong, stable parent company and mitsui. They've been around for 400 years.

1238
02:18:32,430 --> 02:18:32,430
they allow us to finance all these projects on balance sheet and really, you know,

1239
02:18:37,470 --> 02:18:37,470
mitigate construction delays and and get to project execution as soon as possible.

1240
02:18:42,510 --> 02:18:42,510
next slide, please. Next slide, please.

1241
02:18:47,500 --> 02:18:47,500
so the method of procurement that philippe alluded to at the beginning of the meeting is

1242
02:18:53,170 --> 02:18:55,300
different from using bond dollars. It's called a power purchase agreement or a ppa.

1243
02:18:58,450 --> 02:18:58,450
many of you are probably familiar with this method of procurement under the ppa.

1244
02:19:02,800 --> 02:19:02,800
there's no upfront cost, no use of bond funds on behalf of the college.

1245
02:19:07,570 --> 02:19:11,380
how it works is 4front power. We finance the project. We take advantage of that.

1246
02:19:13,210 --> 02:19:13,210
twenty six percent federal investment tax credit that the college would be leaving on the

1247
02:19:17,740 --> 02:19:17,740
table if you were to finance this system out of pocket as your non taxpaying entity.

1248
02:19:23,000 --> 02:19:23,000
so for foreign power, the company that I represent, we finance the project, we build it,

1249
02:19:27,670 --> 02:19:30,550
we operate it and we maintain the system. And then we simply sell the energy that's being produced by the project to the college

1250
02:19:35,680 --> 02:19:38,710
for a rate that's lower than what you currently pay. See, that's the bare bones of the ppa.

1251
02:19:42,280 --> 02:19:44,950
all of the operations and maintenance are included. It's not another thing for facility staff to worry about, and we also guarantee the

1252
02:19:49,090 --> 02:19:49,090
performance. Next slide, please.

1253
02:19:53,440 --> 02:19:53,440
this is the preliminary kind of most up to date version of the potential solar project

1254
02:20:01,480 --> 02:20:01,480
that we've been discussing with philippe and staff over the last couple of months.

1255
02:20:05,560 --> 02:20:05,560
so what we did is we took all of the, you know, we took the college's bill data.

1256
02:20:10,120 --> 02:20:12,310
I've conducted site walks. We understand electrically what's going on on site and we believe based on feedback from

1257
02:20:16,720 --> 02:20:16,720
philippe, this is a version of a potential solar project.

1258
02:20:20,980 --> 02:20:20,980
I'd like to just caveat this and I've and I've labeled the slide as such that, you know,

1259
02:20:25,360 --> 02:20:28,120
this is rectangles on the page at this point. This is totally subject to change.

1260
02:20:30,610 --> 02:20:30,610
the pricing and savings that I'm about to show you is predicated upon this layout.

1261
02:20:34,750 --> 02:20:34,750
so we wanted to let everyone kind of feast your eyes on it for now.

1262
02:20:38,950 --> 02:20:41,440
so next slide, please. Battery storage we're also pairing the solar project with battery storage.

1263
02:20:45,610 --> 02:20:45,610
battery storage shaves demand spikes from seeing saves you money also performs energy

1264
02:20:50,080 --> 02:20:53,920
arbitrage, absorbing more expensive energy during peak pricing. Discharging during off off off peak pricing times.

1265
02:20:57,790 --> 02:20:59,740
buy low. Sell high with your energy. Next slide, please. So the estimated solar, solar and battery storage savings is pretty

1266
02:21:07,860 --> 02:21:07,860
great, you know, upwards of three percent in year one, and that's based on a solar

1267
02:21:12,600 --> 02:21:12,600
project size based on that layout that you just saw of about five megawatts or about four

1268
02:21:18,710 --> 02:21:18,710
four point nine thousand kilowatts and then about a two and a half megawatt battery

1269
02:21:23,640 --> 02:21:23,640
storage project, offsetting approximately based on your current load, your non-covid

1270
02:21:28,530 --> 02:21:28,530
load. So essentially 18 square 18 to school year 19, where you know where students are in

1271
02:21:34,440 --> 02:21:34,440
seats and you're consuming energy, as you know, as you would imagine you would, we're

1272
02:21:39,030 --> 02:21:39,030
offsetting 60 percent of that energy annually with this potential project.

1273
02:21:44,250 --> 02:21:44,250
and then ultimately, across 20 years, we have projected $13 million of potential savings.

1274
02:21:49,680 --> 02:21:49,680
the devil's in the details with that, that 20 year savings figure, you can see that we've

1275
02:21:54,360 --> 02:21:54,360
assumed and outlined our annual seeing escalation rates down there at two point seven for

1276
02:22:00,930 --> 02:22:04,140
energy and five percent for demand, which are very conservative. Next slide, please. The big ticket item that I want you all to leave this this update

1277
02:22:11,040 --> 02:22:14,700
with and in your minds is net energy. Metering is changing. Net energy metering is any energy that you produce that you do not consume is sent back to

1278
02:22:20,760 --> 02:22:20,760
sea, and it's compensated currently under the existing net energy metering framework,

1279
02:22:26,100 --> 02:22:29,790
I.e. Nem 2.0 for essentially the full retail rate. Next slide, please. That is a really that it's a very lucrative program, and

1280
02:22:36,300 --> 02:22:36,300
unfortunately, that program is changing the the cpec, which mandates this program and

1281
02:22:42,540 --> 02:22:46,140
also see released their brief yesterday. What it's showing is is a very reduced payment for that export a generation which is

1282
02:22:52,290 --> 02:22:55,140
driving down project savings. Fortunately, next slide, please, if we're able to submit the college's interconnection

1283
02:23:03,060 --> 02:23:03,060
application to see for the solar and storage project, we're able to secure 20 years of

1284
02:23:10,770 --> 02:23:10,770
the existing net energy metering framework for the project just by submitting

1285
02:23:16,980 --> 02:23:18,660
interconnection applications. And you can see that, per the proposal that was released today.

1286
02:23:23,220 --> 02:23:23,220
the savings are essentially flipped upside down cumulatively across 20 years.

1287
02:23:28,230 --> 02:23:28,230
if the project goes into the new net energy metering program, which is supposed to change

1288
02:23:35,460 --> 02:23:37,830
at the end of january. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to submit this interconnection application as

1289
02:23:42,780 --> 02:23:42,780
soon as possible before that change, so we can secure these savings for the college.

1290
02:23:48,120 --> 02:23:50,610
and the way that we do that is by the college. Executing a letter of intent with 4front power is a good faith agreement to then come

1291
02:23:56,850 --> 02:23:56,850
back to you all to the board and say, hey, look, we've submitted this interconnection

1292
02:24:00,960 --> 02:24:03,780
application for foreign power has done that on our behalf. Now here's a fully baked project, and here's a contract that is the intention of our next

1293
02:24:08,850 --> 02:24:12,680
steps. Next slide, please. And guys, I dismount and leave you with any questions.

1294
02:24:19,010 --> 02:24:20,990
thank you. Did you make. You know, again, I wanted to mention, I think it's important to know that why we're

1295
02:24:29,420 --> 02:24:29,420
showing this to you now is because of the opportunity to get under grandfathered under

1296
02:24:34,760 --> 02:24:34,760
the existing 2.0 program, because the state the same guy guidelines are not changing one

1297
02:24:42,920 --> 02:24:42,920
way or another. We're going to have to increase or renewable energy by twenty five

1298
02:24:47,810 --> 02:24:47,810
percent by twenty twenty five and 50 percent by 20 30.

1299
02:24:52,640 --> 02:24:52,640
and really, the only way to do that currently on campus is so.

1300
02:24:58,250 --> 02:24:58,250
so we're going to have to entertain solar one way or another over over a number of years.

1301
02:25:04,880 --> 02:25:04,880
you know, I also mentioned that 50 percent of all new buildings and major renovations by

1302
02:25:12,470 --> 02:25:12,470
twenty twenty five must meet net zero energy.

1303
02:25:17,060 --> 02:25:17,060
the only way to be able to do that is through solar and rooftop solar isn't enough to be

1304
02:25:23,540 --> 02:25:27,320
able to get to net zero energy. So you're looking at a project like this.

1305
02:25:30,800 --> 02:25:30,800
it just makes sense, especially if we can get under the current rules that will provide

1306
02:25:38,360 --> 02:25:41,090
an opportunity for some cost savings. Obviously, there's still a lot of details to work through, obviously the actual location.

1307
02:25:48,680 --> 02:25:51,770
and then also the details of the contract. But submitting the application does not necessarily obligate us into it.

1308
02:25:56,210 --> 02:25:56,210
it just makes a good faith commitment to four or five to continue the negotiation through

1309
02:26:02,450 --> 02:26:02,450
a contract, which then the board would have the opportunity to take a look at and approve

1310
02:26:08,180 --> 02:26:09,650
before moving forward. So be happy to take any additional questions and get on board with this may have yes,

1311
02:26:15,380 --> 02:26:15,380
trustee lewis. Yeah, we are required by the state to have a certain goal of zero percent

1312
02:26:23,030 --> 02:26:24,770
emissions by a certain time. What are the consequences of not meeting those goals?

1313
02:26:29,090 --> 02:26:30,920
it's great question. Trustee lewis. I don't don't know that offhand the guidelines doesn't necessarily go into the

1314
02:26:36,620 --> 02:26:36,620
consequences of that, but your guess is as good as mine of what the state could do.

1315
02:26:45,830 --> 02:26:45,830
potentially, it could potentially limit us from submitting for capital outlay dollars.

1316
02:26:54,230 --> 02:26:57,560
that could be something that they they may do. Again, I'm just talking out loud here.

1317
02:26:59,690 --> 02:26:59,690
I don't have any answers to that, but those are some things that we can look into.

1318
02:27:04,520 --> 02:27:04,520
we have not publish the what if we don't think of confie what would happen?

1319
02:27:11,090 --> 02:27:11,090
they just have published their guidelines on what community colleges must meet.

1320
02:27:17,360 --> 02:27:17,360
and I'm curious what other districts are looking at, how their goals are to try to meet

1321
02:27:24,110 --> 02:27:24,110
this statewide goal is zero percent by.

1322
02:27:29,290 --> 02:27:29,290
by 2030, it seems pretty it seems like a pretty tall task.

1323
02:27:34,420 --> 02:27:34,420
and so if of these districts are not anywhere near that goal, I have to imagine that the

1324
02:27:42,820 --> 02:27:42,820
state will have to adjust that goal or possibly even not have any consequences or

1325
02:27:49,120 --> 02:27:49,120
exceptions to certain districts that don't need it, because, like a lot of girls on the

1326
02:27:55,820 --> 02:27:59,500
stage, tend to be unrealistic at the practical level. So I just want to keep that in mind that we're we're on the ball and we're getting this

1327
02:28:07,060 --> 02:28:09,130
done as soon as possible. But the goalposts may move shorter than the think.

1328
02:28:13,630 --> 02:28:13,630
so I think we need to make sure that we explore all available options before diving in

1329
02:28:19,930 --> 02:28:19,930
headfirst to build roads that maybe don't snow further out into the country.

1330
02:28:26,800 --> 02:28:26,800
that's a good point. My comment would be that, you know, in my opinion, we're a little

1331
02:28:33,940 --> 02:28:37,270
behind the eight ball in moving toward solar. I think a lot of our colleges have already progressed.

1332
02:28:41,020 --> 02:28:44,530
I think may you rattled off roughly. You've done what, 15 districts already with 4front alone.

1333
02:28:50,080 --> 02:28:53,940
there's a number of other solar providers out there. You know, most of the cal states have already moved this this route and pushing it

1334
02:28:59,530 --> 02:28:59,530
because the cal states are under the same guidelines on that.

1335
02:29:04,120 --> 02:29:04,120
and so we're just trying to move quickly on on.and.

1336
02:29:08,840 --> 02:29:08,840
and like I said, we've entertained solar a number of different times, but we've been

1337
02:29:15,190 --> 02:29:15,190
doing it the old fashioned way by utilizing bond dollars to purchase it and make the

1338
02:29:19,870 --> 02:29:19,870
upfront commitment and looking at it from a financial standpoint that just didn't really

1339
02:29:24,970 --> 02:29:24,970
make sense. But we look at it from a different, well, obviously what we're proposing here

1340
02:29:31,510 --> 02:29:31,510
is no upfront cost from the district pushing the risk over to four five, but

1341
02:29:41,470 --> 02:29:43,930
also commitment on our side to actually have it know. These things take a 20 year commitment.

1342
02:29:46,630 --> 02:29:49,330
so which means this won't put up a solar. We're committed to have that solar there for 20 years.

1343
02:29:52,230 --> 02:29:55,360
and so. So there's some tradeoffs on that. And so so we look at this a number of ways.

1344
02:29:58,480 --> 02:30:01,500
like I said, I've been working on this for. Last year, working with different solar providers, we need them, and this has been the

1345
02:30:07,860 --> 02:30:07,860
best solution thus far in all of our meetings on that.

1346
02:30:12,160 --> 02:30:12,160
so is it correct to say that the corporation tax credit run it from the private sector

1347
02:30:20,190 --> 02:30:23,720
allows for this call? Yes. Result?

1348
02:30:26,070 --> 02:30:26,070
yeah, I think without that, I think that it that dramatically impacts the financial.

1349
02:30:37,710 --> 02:30:37,710
the other question. My only one and it's.

1350
02:30:43,780 --> 02:30:47,710
it's probably the most typical board question. I think it's already been answered, but it wasn't explicit in the presentation is this

1351
02:30:51,580 --> 02:30:54,770
would result in a 20 year commitment, right? That's correct. And what were what are the.

1352
02:30:59,200 --> 02:31:01,570
this is certainly a negotiating point. But what are what are the political consequences for not keeping this whole house in

1353
02:31:08,770 --> 02:31:08,770
place for 20 years? So there's that's a great point, and we had a lot of these

1354
02:31:12,970 --> 02:31:14,980
discussions in this kind of gets into the details. But real quick, a couple of options that we have actually looked at is.

1355
02:31:22,950 --> 02:31:22,950
is the ability to down the road being able to buy out the contract at a later date if we

1356
02:31:30,060 --> 02:31:30,060
wanted to take on the ownership of that?

1357
02:31:36,210 --> 02:31:39,980
I don't know that the severe consequences if we're able to that. Ok, I'm sure some obligations of cost associated with that for us to back out on that.

1358
02:31:46,280 --> 02:31:46,280
but again, the devil's in the details and both are illegal and in four fronts, legal

1359
02:31:52,640 --> 02:31:52,640
would have to go through those contract terms to make sure that we're positioned the best

1360
02:31:57,980 --> 02:32:00,140
way possible. And we want to make sure wherever we put these solar panels that we can guarantee as much

1361
02:32:08,750 --> 02:32:08,750
as we possibly can that that location makes sense.

1362
02:32:13,140 --> 02:32:13,140
and so again, it's all about location on that.

1363
02:32:17,420 --> 02:32:17,420
what do you see in the diagram that was proposed based on what we went through a method

1364
02:32:23,550 --> 02:32:25,340
or facilities master plan? As you recall, in 2019, when we approved the master plan, master plan did call out solar

1365
02:32:31,100 --> 02:32:32,570
in those particular areas. So it just made sense, at least starting there as a talking point and then figuring out

1366
02:32:37,460 --> 02:32:38,630
does it really makes sense? There's still some conversations we need to have with some of our partners again with our

1367
02:32:44,570 --> 02:32:44,570
partners in the card group that I should bring out that locked.

1368
02:32:48,690 --> 02:32:51,870
and also, we need to have some conversations with some of the programs that in that birkey might notice that we kind of carved out the motorcycle class because we don't want

1369
02:32:56,010 --> 02:32:56,010
to impact any of her or programs that we have on our campus or vigilant in that we don't

1370
02:33:01,800 --> 02:33:01,800
want to impact any of our programs as much as we possibly can.

1371
02:33:06,510 --> 02:33:06,510
and so we'll be working with all the groups to try to work the best solution as possible.

1372
02:33:13,040 --> 02:33:16,740
I appreciate that. I mean, this is just. There's probably a million different experiences with solar, but just doing a lot of

1373
02:33:23,160 --> 02:33:23,160
facilities programing on college campuses across the state, and they get to a point where

1374
02:33:31,950 --> 02:33:31,950
we're behind the curve when it comes to the.

1375
02:33:36,030 --> 02:33:36,030
it's just a number of times there's come back and said, oh, this is actually the ideal

1376
02:33:40,800 --> 02:33:44,800
location for this facility we're trying to build. And we have a clear ms.

1377
02:33:47,080 --> 02:33:49,530
that still has some of that. So what of things with with the full value of the remainder of the agreement and it's

1378
02:33:59,710 --> 02:34:02,350
financially feasible? While I'm sure we can work all this out and really appreciate all the work put into this,

1379
02:34:09,640 --> 02:34:09,640
and I'm excited by the opportunity to kind of thread the needle here in terms of the

1380
02:34:17,080 --> 02:34:17,080
rates and the tax credit opportunity.

1381
02:34:21,340 --> 02:34:21,340
and one of the things that I thought was interesting about this particular project is the

1382
02:34:25,710 --> 02:34:25,710
ability to provide battery storage that isn't common in lot of the early solar projects

1383
02:34:31,660 --> 02:34:31,660
that it is here. This one, because of battery storage technology, is changing so rapidly

1384
02:34:38,290 --> 02:34:38,290
that we're choosing to modify the contract length of the battery storage because there's

1385
02:34:43,000 --> 02:34:43,000
probably opportunities to invest in better battery storage that provides additional cost

1386
02:34:49,690 --> 02:34:49,690
savings on that. So our initial thoughts is not to go up to no more than a 10 year lease

1387
02:34:58,330 --> 02:34:59,620
on the battery storage. Just because of the changing and the technology when it comes to battery storage provides

1388
02:35:03,950 --> 02:35:03,950
this ability to reevaluate and either upgrade to better technology during that time.

1389
02:35:09,790 --> 02:35:11,890
that would only provide additional cost savings. And that's for sure, because I'm sure, as our colleagues know, solar technology 20 years

1390
02:35:18,610 --> 02:35:18,610
ago is nowhere near what it is now, and I'm sure how many years and years around battery

1391
02:35:24,460 --> 02:35:24,460
and technology will hopefully enhance present.

1392
02:35:29,050 --> 02:35:29,050
all right. Many other items related to this is it.

1393
02:35:34,570 --> 02:35:37,000
all right, thank you guys very much. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

1394
02:35:40,240 --> 02:35:40,240
thank you. All right, item three point zero for redistricting process of the trustee

1395
02:35:47,030 --> 02:35:47,030
cerritos. Alison, thank you.

1396
02:35:51,560 --> 02:35:51,560
trustee birkey, so, so with most of your comments, last meeting, we met

1397
02:36:01,340 --> 02:36:01,340
with our consultant to outline our expectations and submit your citations.

1398
02:36:10,310 --> 02:36:10,310
and we have set up on the schedule the adult court with all the different points that

1399
02:36:18,350 --> 02:36:20,880
were made as our last meeting. So the first public hearing and discussion, draft maps and the study session that is

1400
02:36:26,990 --> 02:36:29,750
scheduled for january 12. And we will meet again for a second public hearing of the draft maps.

1401
02:36:34,610 --> 02:36:34,610
and then I will come back on february nine for consideration of both of the revised

1402
02:36:39,640 --> 02:36:39,640
sources and that is to start the study session.

1403
02:36:45,090 --> 02:36:45,090
and at that point, we have additional discussion, additional information that needs to be

1404
02:36:52,820 --> 02:36:55,250
brought to our attention. We have an extra meeting there or additional conversation and the final vote.

1405
02:37:02,350 --> 02:37:02,350
and we think the deadline for us to submit the adoption of the march officially to the

1406
02:37:07,060 --> 02:37:10,570
government is on february 28. In addition to this, we consulted the or consultants on the possibility of using the

1407
02:37:18,940 --> 02:37:18,940
electronic map. And fortunately, the two main companies they have been doing this are not

1408
02:37:25,930 --> 02:37:27,460
taking clients at the moment. We are in the waiting list board because of the shortage of personnel, programmers and so

1409
02:37:34,900 --> 02:37:38,590
on. They cannot take additional clients. So we are currently developing a website and the website.

1410
02:37:42,100 --> 02:37:42,100
we are going to use pbx on downloadable maps with our data so we can allow

1411
02:37:52,240 --> 02:37:52,240
the citizens to download the maps to their proposed domains based on the data that we

1412
02:37:59,140 --> 02:37:59,140
will be posting to their website, upload them and we will be able to collate that and

1413
02:38:04,240 --> 02:38:04,240
provide it to their consultants so that they use that information and point to throw the

1414
02:38:12,530 --> 02:38:12,530
maps that they will present to you when we review the data or populations.

1415
02:38:19,930 --> 02:38:19,930
ships are not that great, which is not necessarily a surprise for any of you because of

1416
02:38:27,950 --> 02:38:27,950
is a highly targeted metropolitan area with not significant migration ships, but ships

1417
02:38:34,180 --> 02:38:36,610
with the recent migration. So we have to account for that when we do the maps we have as the consultants to give you

1418
02:38:43,150 --> 02:38:43,150
at the very least three models to provide feedback to use them for shin liu, we get it

1419
02:38:51,700 --> 02:38:53,500
from our community. It will be available in the website.

1420
02:38:58,420 --> 02:38:58,420
we are also engaging in a campaign to let the community know that we are doing this

1421
02:39:04,840 --> 02:39:04,840
process and they are aware on how to get involved.

1422
02:39:10,030 --> 02:39:10,030
and I hope they obviously all of you participate in this process.

1423
02:39:17,380 --> 02:39:17,380
all the hearings, but obviously once we get the data available and so on, evaluating and

1424
02:39:25,420 --> 02:39:28,350
making your own. Are suggestions as we as we meet.

1425
02:39:31,720 --> 02:39:31,720
and so I have no.

1426
02:39:38,650 --> 02:39:42,430
zurich, yes, trustee. So on january 12th, it is proposed that we will have draft maps from redistricting

1427
02:39:49,900 --> 02:39:49,900
partners for us to look at and to decide when that will be essentially our first foray

1428
02:39:56,440 --> 02:39:56,440
into designing where the lines will be going for this decade.

1429
02:40:02,050 --> 02:40:04,270
that's my understanding. Yes. So you'll have some, some drafts that you could provide feedback.

1430
02:40:10,300 --> 02:40:10,300
we will open also that for the community to provide live comments if they wish.

1431
02:40:17,950 --> 02:40:17,950
but prior to that, the website will be up and running so they can begin to see that the

1432
02:40:25,330 --> 02:40:28,770
website is slated to be. And it should be it should be done before we leave for them or break a.

1433
02:40:37,340 --> 02:40:37,340
I want to tell you that the week or is already being worked on should be done what we call

1434
02:40:43,130 --> 02:40:43,130
the home ground because I think it's part of these discussions.

1435
02:40:47,360 --> 02:40:47,360
I think we should see some huge perhaps from all of them, but from that we draw the line.

1436
02:40:54,110 --> 02:40:54,110
that's the mission that has been addressed through the statewide assembly senate election

1437
02:40:59,630 --> 02:40:59,630
board declaration maps, and they engage in live line drawn as a result of that.

1438
02:41:06,410 --> 02:41:06,410
I think we can take a look at something that's quite similar in that process for us to

1439
02:41:12,170 --> 02:41:12,170
each engage and our neighbor to say we believe based on public testimony, certainly by

1440
02:41:19,370 --> 02:41:23,350
january 19th or february 9th. All of that in reasonable public testimony that we've heard that we can then competently

1441
02:41:28,870 --> 02:41:28,870
engage in deciding this neighborhood does not belong with this city or otherwise, because

1442
02:41:36,010 --> 02:41:36,010
each and every city is essentially their own community, but they are not equal in the

1443
02:41:43,720 --> 02:41:43,720
population, so they are going to have to be great at certain points to make their lives

1444
02:41:48,850 --> 02:41:48,850
work. And so we need to have that technology available to us for us to decide how the

1445
02:41:58,750 --> 02:42:02,650
lines are going to be done, rather than just taking draft maps and saying, I like this one, I don't like this one in the back.

1446
02:42:05,110 --> 02:42:06,400
come back again. The next time we have the ability to engage in live online drawing and deciding, ok,

1447
02:42:11,320 --> 02:42:12,850
let's move this over here. Does that work with the population deviations?

1448
02:42:16,300 --> 02:42:16,300
does that keep us still within the limits and other things that make it that much more

1449
02:42:24,460 --> 02:42:24,460
responsive and available to us as trustee to represent our districts rather than previous

1450
02:42:31,840 --> 02:42:31,840
years where we have seeing draft maps or on progression maps?

1451
02:42:39,340 --> 02:42:40,780
yeah, I think not to do it. Yeah, the big question on that is even more right in the cycle is that technology that's

1452
02:42:47,200 --> 02:42:50,210
actually were able to evolve with it. I know it does take just be our unique district, just like all districts that are looking

1453
02:42:58,180 --> 02:42:58,180
at this sort of thing at this moment that we just rent out of the carpet.

1454
02:43:05,620 --> 02:43:07,360
is that something that is available? I know you guys have looked into a lot of different technologies and it's very limited.

1455
02:43:12,050 --> 02:43:12,050
I've d design the two main providers are not completely compliant, so we are we are

1456
02:43:18,880 --> 02:43:18,880
enjoying this, but I'm not talking about like the district are or any of that thing, but

1457
02:43:25,810 --> 02:43:29,110
we have redistricting partners that's working with us, correct? They have their own tool to be able to take all of the census data that has been

1458
02:43:36,190 --> 02:43:36,190
supplemented with california's prison population to be allocated to the different

1459
02:43:41,440 --> 02:43:43,930
addresses last known anyway. So I think that's something that we need to be engaging in.

1460
02:43:47,020 --> 02:43:47,020
outside of that, I understand that the challenge that may not come to fruition.

1461
02:43:51,730 --> 02:43:51,730
and it's unfortunate that we're taking this up so late in the process when being been

1462
02:43:57,340 --> 02:44:00,880
able to be on those waitlists a lot sooner. But we can work with redistricting partners to have their latitude or whatever that they

1463
02:44:08,500 --> 02:44:08,500
have to make sure that those lines are being drawn with our instantaneous input on that.

1464
02:44:16,660 --> 02:44:16,660
and I think that's what's going to move this process forward.

1465
02:44:20,720 --> 02:44:24,010
it's done well for the statewide commission. They've drawn very questionable lines, but it has done very well for making the public

1466
02:44:29,650 --> 02:44:32,770
feel as though they were part of the conversation. So I think we should look at that process and make sure that that's part of our meetings

1467
02:44:38,080 --> 02:44:38,080
going forward, rather than simply draft maps that are drawn by redistricting process.

1468
02:44:43,460 --> 02:44:43,460
but with a will check on that, I cannot promise that that is something that they have

1469
02:44:48,730 --> 02:44:48,730
available in the services they provide, but I will definitely speak to them about it.

1470
02:44:53,410 --> 02:44:54,790
and if they have it, we'll bring it. And if not, I will provide an update with whatever they can to help you figure something

1471
02:45:01,060 --> 02:45:01,060
out. Not to any other.

1472
02:45:07,690 --> 02:45:10,800
questions or comments related to this. One more comment I want to make.

1473
02:45:14,190 --> 02:45:14,190
so in the interest of being fully transparent.

1474
02:45:20,050 --> 02:45:20,050
the way we selected the the consortium was very much an arm's length.

1475
02:45:28,990 --> 02:45:28,990
we did not want to have any better contact with the consultants or any type of local

1476
02:45:34,060 --> 02:45:35,770
influence with the consultants. So everyone felt comfortable with the process.

1477
02:45:38,930 --> 02:45:38,930
so we utilize the the same vetting process through the chancellor's office and the

1478
02:45:47,800 --> 02:45:50,110
foundation of the. Council member focus, they do all the screening, they do all the competitive bidding, they

1479
02:45:54,760 --> 02:45:54,760
do all the selection and then they connect the interested colleges with the selected

1480
02:46:01,930 --> 02:46:05,920
group. So none of us have any involvement in the process. None of us had any local connections in the process or anything like that.

1481
02:46:11,800 --> 02:46:11,800
and once they finish the work, then we with all the districts, I believe one of those

1482
02:46:19,780 --> 02:46:19,780
names, plus arena, gets connected with the selected group.

1483
02:46:24,370 --> 02:46:24,370
so I want to make sure that you know that, and that is also a peace of mind for everyone.

1484
02:46:30,580 --> 02:46:30,580
we are making every possible effort to make sure that that's transparent and for process

1485
02:46:36,940 --> 02:46:39,570
for all involved. The much appreciated and I think we will debate this as I think that all this commentary

1486
02:46:46,580 --> 02:46:46,580
has to do with us trying to make sure that this is as transparent process as possible and

1487
02:46:54,020 --> 02:46:58,010
just for clarity. These are going to when we find the u.s. Published draft maps.

1488
02:47:01,140 --> 02:47:01,140
and nobody on board is going to see in the work that means it, so I think it's an intense

1489
02:47:07,650 --> 02:47:07,650
process. All right, in the seeing that you on to our 13 zero five hour

1490
02:47:17,480 --> 02:47:17,480
regular coordination campus safety protocol update.

1491
02:47:21,600 --> 02:47:21,600
I know. Thank you.

1492
02:47:27,070 --> 02:47:27,070
so we are actively monitoring the omicron variant, or trustee, I understand based on

1493
02:47:36,520 --> 02:47:36,520
emails and comments that I have received that there is some concern about the outcome of

1494
02:47:42,790 --> 02:47:42,790
that variant. So we are keeping an eye on it right now.

1495
02:47:47,110 --> 02:47:47,110
obviously, we are seeing cases in the county increase expected due to the holidays, and I

1496
02:47:56,290 --> 02:47:56,290
think we are going to continue to see those increase through the holiday season and

1497
02:48:00,760 --> 02:48:04,480
probably during the month of january. So we'll obviously keep an eye on that and monitor.

1498
02:48:07,720 --> 02:48:07,720
we're monitoring all the.

1499
02:48:11,730 --> 02:48:13,570
recommendations from the l.a. Public health department and the cdc, and in the event the guidelines change

1500
02:48:19,020 --> 02:48:19,020
significantly, we are ready to react to what we have.

1501
02:48:24,180 --> 02:48:24,180
obviously, the protocols that we have started with were a little more strict than the

1502
02:48:28,560 --> 02:48:28,560
protocols, even though the cdc and the local public health department.

1503
02:48:32,660 --> 02:48:32,660
so we feel comfortable that we can react accordingly to any changes.

1504
02:48:39,180 --> 02:48:39,180
we are hoping that that is not the case, but in the event that that was going to be the

1505
02:48:43,470 --> 02:48:43,470
case. We are prepared to react to those changes

1506
02:48:52,950 --> 02:48:52,950
today became again mandatory in the state of california.

1507
02:48:57,250 --> 02:48:59,670
we have to wear masks indoors. That does not impact us because we have had the mask mandate from day one and we have no

1508
02:49:06,600 --> 02:49:06,600
mandate. So we will continue to observe that the mandate for right now is steady based,

1509
02:49:13,710 --> 02:49:13,710
but based on.

1510
02:49:17,940 --> 02:49:17,940
is that I have a year from officials, it seems that it's likely to last until the end of

1511
02:49:23,100 --> 02:49:23,100
january, which will mark the keep going and then probably reassess that.

1512
02:49:29,730 --> 02:49:29,730
but people are following the implementation of nine zero five.

1513
02:49:36,030 --> 02:49:39,450
that's not going without challenges as we observe less ninel. So I want to thank all the colleagues.

1514
02:49:45,250 --> 02:49:45,250
they came this evening to provide their public comments and their concerns regarding the

1515
02:49:50,850 --> 02:49:50,850
implementation of two eight nine zero five.

1516
02:49:55,760 --> 02:49:55,760
that's right. Now we have.

1517
02:50:00,080 --> 02:50:00,080
five employees who have not made it either afraid, seven employees who have not immediate

1518
02:50:09,670 --> 02:50:09,670
to of vaccination or medical exemption.

1519
02:50:16,370 --> 02:50:16,370
so we are hoping that that changes from this point until the time of implementation is

1520
02:50:24,800 --> 02:50:24,800
here. I also would like to publicly recognize the leadership committee that includes our

1521
02:50:32,150 --> 02:50:32,150
faculty, senate president or csa president and president, mr.

1522
02:50:38,120 --> 02:50:41,990
vice president linda lopez. This is a very sad end of the long acting president, mexico in my hands, my committee,

1523
02:50:51,710 --> 02:50:51,710
confidential representative and zurich current vice president.

1524
02:50:56,510 --> 02:50:56,510
so it is no surprise to me on that myself, but thank you myself.

1525
02:51:07,910 --> 02:51:07,910
I would like to thank everyone for this indication of their commitment to continuously

1526
02:51:13,820 --> 02:51:13,820
monitoring the information and making sure that we are.

1527
02:51:19,270 --> 02:51:19,270
providing information primary and the we are reacting to the comments we're receiving to

1528
02:51:26,920 --> 02:51:29,860
ensure that we implement through the best possible way. Of course, we understand that there are some concerns and we are working to resolve some

1529
02:51:37,030 --> 02:51:37,030
of those concerns in the room that the ap gave us.

1530
02:51:42,340 --> 02:51:42,340
we will continue to do that as we move into the future.

1531
02:51:49,060 --> 02:51:49,060
other and that it seems, it seems, that we are getting ready to take a little break in

1532
02:51:57,190 --> 02:51:57,190
the next couple of weeks and we'll be back monitoring the only the compliance with 4:31,

1533
02:52:05,950 --> 02:52:05,950
but obviously concerns that are connected with enrollment and class cancelations as well.

1534
02:52:10,660 --> 02:52:10,660
so many of us will be active during the break looking at some of that data content

1535
02:52:16,720 --> 02:52:16,720
questions. More.

1536
02:52:22,200 --> 02:52:22,200
appreciate your your helpful in getting us monitoring the whole team working on this

1537
02:52:28,020 --> 02:52:28,020
nonstop. It's it was sort of new that we had to additionally take this on and now it's

1538
02:52:38,190 --> 02:52:38,190
part of the daily work.

1539
02:52:43,920 --> 02:52:46,910
so much easier. Later that day. Now on to our present calendar.

1540
02:52:53,380 --> 02:52:53,380
is there a motion to approve our consent so that india can get a

1541
02:53:03,250 --> 02:53:04,970
roll-call vote? Yes. Susan trustee sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey hi trustee lewis hi trustee lewis

1542
02:53:11,830 --> 02:53:15,370
ninel trustee pacheco hi trustee perez ms. Acid and trustee salazar.

1543
02:53:16,930 --> 02:53:16,930
hi. All right.

1544
02:53:22,960 --> 02:53:22,960
item five point zero one I'll meet minutes after it was signed by november 22nd,

1545
02:53:32,260 --> 02:53:32,260
2021. Do we have a motion to receive in parliament?

1546
02:53:40,970 --> 02:53:40,970
what do you think? Again.

1547
02:53:49,880 --> 02:53:49,880
seeing trustee sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey trustee lewis trustee lewis

1548
02:53:56,960 --> 02:53:59,720
trustee pacheco trustee perez ms. Trustee salazar. I reached out to public discussion and presentation of the initial

1549
02:54:07,250 --> 02:54:07,250
proposal of the california school employees association, csa chapter one sixty one to the

1550
02:54:13,460 --> 02:54:13,460
cerritos community college district for negotiation of the esea district collective

1551
02:54:18,110 --> 02:54:18,110
bargaining agreement for the period of july one, 2021, through june 30.

1552
02:54:22,550 --> 02:54:22,550
ten point four a motion to by.

1553
02:54:27,740 --> 02:54:27,740
sure to receive a second trustee sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey,

1554
02:54:38,120 --> 02:54:38,120
trustee lewis, trustee, lewis, trustee, pacheco, trustee perez is upset and trustee

1555
02:54:43,730 --> 02:54:46,370
salazar I ms.. All right. I have one zero three public discussion of ratification of the initial

1556
02:54:51,260 --> 02:54:51,260
proposal. Community college district to the california school boards association is one

1557
02:54:59,450 --> 02:55:02,630
part of the initiation of this esea district collective bargaining agreement for the period of july one, 2021, through various ten point four a motion lewis.

1558
02:55:09,800 --> 02:55:09,800
remove. Seeing trustee sutherland trustee avalos trustee, birkey trustee,

1559
02:55:19,480 --> 02:55:19,480
lewis, trustee, lewis, ninel, trustee, pacheco, I've d, trustee, perez ms.

1560
02:55:24,520 --> 02:55:27,860
and trustee salazar I a motion perez. We run the item 5.0 for discussion of twenty nine point five for the vaccination and

1561
02:55:33,200 --> 02:55:33,200
testing requirement requested by trustee lewis that we agenda a discussion related to

1562
02:55:40,190 --> 02:55:43,850
this previously approved item. So I wanted to take this time to agenda items so that we could take one more look at it,

1563
02:55:50,430 --> 02:55:50,430
one more consideration of it before it turns into effect for the semester.

1564
02:55:55,310 --> 02:55:55,310
since this is our last meeting beforehand and I would implore my trustees to take one of

1565
02:56:00,080 --> 02:56:03,830
the three color options on this either. My favorite avalos and not have a vaccine mandate.

1566
02:56:08,240 --> 02:56:10,400
second of which postpone it. Similar to how l.a.

1567
02:56:13,070 --> 02:56:13,070
unified has postponed their vaccination mandate for vaccines in fear of losing, according

1568
02:56:19,820 --> 02:56:19,820
to their analysis, approximately 34000 students that would leave the l.a.

1569
02:56:27,980 --> 02:56:27,980
unified school district and go to independent studies or other institutions that do not

1570
02:56:34,340 --> 02:56:34,340
have such mandates, which of course, would lead to a significant reduction of the

1571
02:56:40,410 --> 02:56:43,080
resources that would come from the state and would be allocated. Why, for instance, birkey as well.

1572
02:56:47,300 --> 02:56:47,300
the third is to edit the board policy and subsequently the admission policy to

1573
02:56:57,110 --> 02:56:57,110
not have a condition of employment, be that one is vaccinated and such.

1574
02:57:03,410 --> 02:57:03,410
many of the concerns that were brought up today by some of our colleagues here on campus

1575
02:57:09,410 --> 02:57:09,410
and those who are teaching and other locations have many concerns about vaccination being

1576
02:57:16,880 --> 02:57:16,880
a requirement and testing being a requirement despite the religious exemption.

1577
02:57:22,280 --> 02:57:22,280
so there have been many other jurisdictions throughout our nation that have.

1578
02:57:29,410 --> 02:57:29,410
have not implemented any vaccine mandates, but even some of the most and many others have

1579
02:57:36,370 --> 02:57:36,370
said that they've declined to implement even a mask mandate because at this point, with

1580
02:57:43,690 --> 02:57:43,690
education being out there and quite literally everyone having had plenty of opportunity

1581
02:57:49,450 --> 02:57:49,450
to have gotten vaccinated if they so chose, it's ok.

1582
02:57:54,190 --> 02:57:55,990
that's the colorado governor's. It's their own fault that they have not been vaccinated and proved themselves to be a

1583
02:58:01,720 --> 02:58:01,720
greater risk. And we do know that vaccinations don't stop the spread of the virus.

1584
02:58:07,870 --> 02:58:07,870
and still today we are living with some mutation of the 1918 spanish flu.

1585
02:58:14,900 --> 02:58:14,900
so to say that there is a zero profit goal for anyone, I think is just not following the

1586
02:58:22,520 --> 02:58:22,520
science. So that said, I would ask my colleagues to respond in any way that they so

1587
02:58:29,870 --> 02:58:30,940
choose to do. One of those three options either abolish the postpone it or two headed it concerns is

1588
02:58:37,660 --> 02:58:39,620
brought up by my colleagues. So maybe jose.

1589
02:58:42,020 --> 02:58:42,020
and this is certainly an important item for everyone because it impacts everyone.

1590
02:58:48,560 --> 02:58:48,560
and it's clear that as clearly demonstrated.

1591
02:58:54,730 --> 02:58:54,730
if you're tired by the cold in order to in order to make sure that their voices are heard

1592
02:59:02,320 --> 02:59:02,320
on this issue, I think we all in agreement that this has been a very difficult, long

1593
02:59:07,600 --> 02:59:07,600
season for all of us and all definitely not enjoy the sacrifices that to make in order to

1594
02:59:17,440 --> 02:59:19,630
navigate through this time. And it's been very difficult.

1595
02:59:22,480 --> 02:59:24,490
so I think we're in that sense. We're definitely all looking at this from a shared experience.

1596
02:59:30,970 --> 02:59:30,970
I agree with the other board members I'd like to hear.

1597
02:59:35,930 --> 02:59:39,580
we have two medical professionals on our board, which are very important to have. So if.

1598
02:59:41,780 --> 02:59:41,780
it's now possible, want to hear from you?

1599
02:59:50,040 --> 02:59:50,040
well, I know that for me, somehow I'm doing another vaccination clinic at an elementary

1600
02:59:59,580 --> 02:59:59,580
school. It seems like every three weeks I've been doing vaccination clinics and we've

1601
03:00:06,870 --> 03:00:06,870
already started the five pierro 11 kids better school district and my have read on that

1602
03:00:16,230 --> 03:00:16,230
message out there and I hear from both of those parents that don't want to get their kids

1603
03:00:25,710 --> 03:00:28,500
vaccinated because they're afraid. And I also see the kids that they feel this is going to give them a little bit more

1604
03:00:34,830 --> 03:00:34,830
freedom because the parents will give them more freedom when they're back in school or

1605
03:00:39,840 --> 03:00:41,550
they're in school right now. And then I'm also seeing the fact that we have to do present tracing.

1606
03:00:48,000 --> 03:00:48,000
so any time a child, you know, through 12, you have someone that tests positive to see

1607
03:00:57,210 --> 03:00:57,210
impact that it's having in the classroom and the impact it's having to the school

1608
03:01:02,010 --> 03:01:02,010
district, obviously, because we're having to do the tracing.

1609
03:01:06,690 --> 03:01:09,630
so I. You understand and I respect those people that don't want to get vaccinated.

1610
03:01:17,340 --> 03:01:17,340
but then you have to reason why I understand there is a religious exemption that you can

1611
03:01:24,660 --> 03:01:24,660
apply for. Fear not, because I guess it's the same thing apply for religious exemptions

1612
03:01:31,980 --> 03:01:31,980
or even apply for me.

1613
03:01:36,780 --> 03:01:36,780
the other one where there's still extensive medical medical exemption.

1614
03:01:42,850 --> 03:01:42,850
so and I believe we're doing the same thing that the district is doing.

1615
03:01:50,580 --> 03:01:50,580
but I do see both sides and I see how it's impacting this overall community.

1616
03:02:01,470 --> 03:02:01,470
and I know that the salazar probably seen comes from a different viewpoint because she

1617
03:02:09,850 --> 03:02:13,810
seeing the people who are getting sick. And unfortunately for some of the kids, they are getting sick and the high school and

1618
03:02:19,470 --> 03:02:19,470
middle school and there are they are getting hospitalized, unfortunately.

1619
03:02:24,960 --> 03:02:24,960
I believe we're seeing that also.

1620
03:02:29,400 --> 03:02:29,400
sandra, yeah, I think I can speak from my perspective as as just someone who.

1621
03:02:40,040 --> 03:02:43,520
been working kind of on the front lines throughout covid. We're getting urgent care in downey.

1622
03:02:46,040 --> 03:02:46,040
our community has really been hit by this virus.

1623
03:02:50,300 --> 03:02:53,660
it's decimated some communities. It's been the highest in downey from hospitalization, from testing positive and all of

1624
03:03:00,830 --> 03:03:03,320
l.a. County. So we're really close. We're next door to the hub of what covid hotspot has been throughout the pandemic.

1625
03:03:09,590 --> 03:03:13,040
things are probably looking a little better. We'll see what the holidays bring. But, you know, we've seen it affect everybody.

1626
03:03:16,940 --> 03:03:16,940
it doesn't matter what age, how old or how, how healthy you are, how unhealthy you are.

1627
03:03:24,080 --> 03:03:27,770
and we kind of seeing that herd immunity isn't working. So really, this is our only masking and we don't have many options masking and vaccines.

1628
03:03:35,220 --> 03:03:38,870
my my kids just got their second vaccine today. I do agree. There's a lot we don't know.

1629
03:03:40,640 --> 03:03:44,330
we don't know what we're going to say about this ten years from now, 15 years from now. But in my point of view, I'm more afraid of the virus hurting my children or anybody else

1630
03:03:50,030 --> 03:03:51,920
than of the vaccine itself. So I believe in science, and I think the numbers are consistent enough to show that

1631
03:03:59,330 --> 03:04:01,950
vaccines work. They're not 100 percent I. I still am following up phone calls with patients who have covid, and we're seeing people

1632
03:04:07,040 --> 03:04:08,810
who have who are vaccinated, who have quit. So we're not saying it's 100 percent.

1633
03:04:11,790 --> 03:04:15,790
at least we know that you won't die from it like if you're vaccinated, and that's our goal. Our goal is to try to prevent, but if we can't prevent to make sure that there

1634
03:04:20,080 --> 03:04:22,720
won't be a bad outcome. So, you know, I don't think we're doing something out of the ordinary.

1635
03:04:26,320 --> 03:04:28,030
I think we're dr. Pierro has been very responsible in terms of following the numbers following more than

1636
03:04:31,840 --> 03:04:33,700
me. He's been polling the l.a. County numbers daily.

1637
03:04:36,220 --> 03:04:37,540
he's been seeing trends. He's been, you know, talking to other college districts.

1638
03:04:42,700 --> 03:04:42,700
and I think we've been responsible and we rent the first people first district to

1639
03:04:48,490 --> 03:04:50,140
implement the mandate. And we the last, you know, kind of like in the middle, we kind of waited a little

1640
03:04:53,830 --> 03:04:53,830
cautious and decided, ok, it's fine, but I just don't see any other alternative.

1641
03:04:59,590 --> 03:05:02,680
I wish we had options, but I just feel we don't. From a medical perspective, I just feel that we don't injuries implementing a vaccine

1642
03:05:08,530 --> 03:05:08,530
mandate and and if you don't get the exemption, you won't be working there.

1643
03:05:13,750 --> 03:05:16,900
so there's not many options. Testing at home, it's that's putting a lot of responsibility to the people who are being

1644
03:05:23,320 --> 03:05:24,460
tested themselves at home. And so I'm not too comfortable with that.

1645
03:05:27,970 --> 03:05:30,010
but I don't know. I just feel we're being responsible and we're protecting our community who has been very

1646
03:05:34,570 --> 03:05:36,970
hard hit and continues to be hard hit. There's been many articles that talk about the latino younger population that the virus

1647
03:05:42,790 --> 03:05:46,570
is killing them at higher rates than even african-americans. And there's all these trends.

1648
03:05:47,720 --> 03:05:47,720
so considering where hispanic serving institutions and most of our our students, whether

1649
03:05:54,850 --> 03:05:54,850
it's themselves or their families, they're they're essential workers and we have to be

1650
03:06:01,150 --> 03:06:01,150
responsible for them because we're here to protect our students or campus communities.

1651
03:06:05,960 --> 03:06:05,960
so I think I see it as being responsible.

1652
03:06:10,420 --> 03:06:10,420
you. Now, the other commentary on this discussion, I don't.

1653
03:06:19,810 --> 03:06:19,810
it's one of the things that in talking with public health professionals in my circles,

1654
03:06:28,110 --> 03:06:28,110
one of the points was of this that in some senses that vaccine is a bit like a safety

1655
03:06:33,800 --> 03:06:33,800
valve, right? When you're driving in your car, you certainly can still get in an accident

1656
03:06:39,080 --> 03:06:39,080
and certainly so that, but the likelihood of that or likelihood of severe injury is

1657
03:06:46,520 --> 03:06:46,520
reduced. And in that sense, it's not that safety belts are ineffective, but rather that

1658
03:06:54,230 --> 03:06:54,230
they are partially effective and increased likelihood of success or decrease the

1659
03:07:01,460 --> 03:07:04,730
likelihood of catastrophe. Would you guys say that that is that a fair?

1660
03:07:07,970 --> 03:07:07,970
now, yes, I've had actually friends that got vaccinated, and they did have the

1661
03:07:15,350 --> 03:07:15,350
breakthrough and they were happy they did because they were never hospitalized.

1662
03:07:22,940 --> 03:07:22,940
they felt the minor lewis type of things, but they were happy that they got back

1663
03:07:33,190 --> 03:07:33,190
and they ended up not getting any help with that place where they ended up in the

1664
03:07:38,150 --> 03:07:41,060
hospital and icu. So I have those people know that have had I'm not saying that they have no there is no

1665
03:07:48,530 --> 03:07:51,530
cure. There has been. But I haven't seen those that group properly vaccinated really and other than really bad

1666
03:08:00,660 --> 03:08:00,660
at home. Other than that.

1667
03:08:05,330 --> 03:08:05,330
so yeah, that's what you were talking about.

1668
03:08:11,040 --> 03:08:11,040
so that brings me to kind of two other items that were brought up by our members tonight.

1669
03:08:17,190 --> 03:08:17,190
one is related to if it is, we're wired

1670
03:08:26,490 --> 03:08:26,490
to still cash regularly and report that testing in the event that that you have a job

1671
03:08:35,950 --> 03:08:35,950
that never does require you, especially if you're in california.

1672
03:08:42,150 --> 03:08:45,350
dr. Pierro, would you mind verification on that? Yes. So, so for us, these we're using a little bit of the flexibility that is built

1673
03:08:55,230 --> 03:08:55,230
on the ap, if you can see it both ways.

1674
03:08:59,530 --> 03:08:59,530
in fact, if you get an exception, you test regularly it's on a student employee.

1675
03:09:05,070 --> 03:09:05,070
however, there are also a couple of lines there that said if you have in the campus.

1676
03:09:12,210 --> 03:09:12,210
so the way that we are trying to use the available flexibility on the ap is to first

1677
03:09:21,420 --> 03:09:21,420
assess those employees who were hired.

1678
03:09:25,660 --> 03:09:25,660
to work, we want to begin with, so those employees who were hired to work remotely to

1679
03:09:31,260 --> 03:09:31,260
begin with will not be required to face to face weekly unless they come to practice.

1680
03:09:39,600 --> 03:09:39,600
so if I was hired, let's say, to teach biology from the get go, my assignment has been

1681
03:09:49,500 --> 03:09:49,500
online. The vaccination is still a requirement for employment or the exception, and then

1682
03:09:57,570 --> 03:10:00,540
it being exempt. I come to campus.

1683
03:10:01,590 --> 03:10:01,590
I will have to test negative before entering the facility.

1684
03:10:06,000 --> 03:10:06,000
however, since my assignment is fully online, the likelihood of making that post is

1685
03:10:11,550 --> 03:10:13,800
small, so I will not have that quickly. But when I come to campus, if I ever do.

1686
03:10:18,740 --> 03:10:18,740
most of those assignments happened to be part time faculty, so those assignments will

1687
03:10:25,280 --> 03:10:25,280
have to be evaluated every single term based on contractual obligations, right?

1688
03:10:30,380 --> 03:10:30,380
so far, particularly things only contracted to do in the period that he or she is

1689
03:10:36,830 --> 03:10:36,830
teaching the class. So that will be reevaluated every time because if the next assignment

1690
03:10:42,650 --> 03:10:42,650
is on campus, then the individual will be subject to testing if he or she is not

1691
03:10:48,770 --> 03:10:48,770
vaccinated, but essentially the next group of individuals.

1692
03:10:53,760 --> 03:10:53,760
so we will be assessing under the same room operation that the ap has given us as those

1693
03:11:01,970 --> 03:11:05,300
who are on temporary online assignments. Those are a little harder to distinguish because some of them were given exemptions to be

1694
03:11:12,230 --> 03:11:12,230
online for reasons or there than what is required by law, and those exemptions are

1695
03:11:20,450 --> 03:11:20,450
expiring at the end of this year, and any new exceptions will be outlined based on what

1696
03:11:28,490 --> 03:11:30,350
is required by law. So some of these individuals will not qualify to continue to be teaching or working

1697
03:11:37,250 --> 03:11:37,250
online because this has been done for everyone across campus who needed an exception.

1698
03:11:43,490 --> 03:11:43,490
so we use the flexibility the report allows to use when we first began transitioning

1699
03:11:49,280 --> 03:11:49,280
those who have to come to campus, obviously if they don't have an exception or they're

1700
03:11:55,100 --> 03:11:55,100
not vaccinated, they will have to pay, according to the policy, those who are eligible

1701
03:12:02,090 --> 03:12:06,070
for that additional exemption. We will then evaluate as well, and if they are indeed not expected to be on campus.

1702
03:12:15,070 --> 03:12:15,070
we will then apply the same approach of you will not notice until you have to come to

1703
03:12:22,420 --> 03:12:22,420
campus. So so what we're doing, it is in phases to ensure that we are capturing the

1704
03:12:30,100 --> 03:12:30,100
correct individuals because those exceptions only apply during the time the exemption is

1705
03:12:36,850 --> 03:12:36,850
made, meaning that they believe I'm only teaching online temporarily.

1706
03:12:42,940 --> 03:12:42,940
for whatever reason, I am not sure we have ninel online from this point on and I am not

1707
03:12:50,020 --> 03:12:52,840
fully exempt from testing from this point on. That will be based on the assignment that those individuals give in any given time.

1708
03:13:00,460 --> 03:13:00,460
the difference there is those who were hired to do that job from the get go because that

1709
03:13:06,340 --> 03:13:09,370
is their expectation of employment. Are there any who were originally hired to do some in-person classes who are expected to

1710
03:13:18,610 --> 03:13:18,610
or might even possibly be doing solely remote in the upcoming semester, despite those

1711
03:13:25,420 --> 03:13:28,300
temporary assignments that you were mentioning? Yes, yes. So there will be some individuals who traditionally have federal campus.

1712
03:13:34,990 --> 03:13:34,990
they may have some fully online assignments for the.

1713
03:13:43,800 --> 03:13:43,800
it's all part of the spring semester, so the exception will be made at that time to

1714
03:13:50,670 --> 03:13:50,670
determine whether no one will qualify for the olympics, not testing since they will not

1715
03:13:56,370 --> 03:13:56,370
be on campus. But the moment that their assignment change.

1716
03:14:01,540 --> 03:14:01,540
there will be expected to be on campus, fully comply with the regulation.

1717
03:14:06,500 --> 03:14:06,500
so I just want to clarify that everyone, anyone who is expected to be on campus or any

1718
03:14:11,110 --> 03:14:11,110
portion of their employment is expected to be vaccinated as a condition of employment or

1719
03:14:18,970 --> 03:14:22,690
have any more. I'm sure that is exactly correct. So for instance, if I was if I was not vaccinated and I had an exemption on my first half

1720
03:14:31,900 --> 03:14:35,380
of this semester, I was working from home. I will notice that first half, but then I know you have to come back the next second

1721
03:14:40,660 --> 03:14:40,660
half, then I will be testing once a week to be able to go to work because this patient is

1722
03:14:46,270 --> 03:14:46,270
the. Once your affection is biased or your ultimate assignment expires, you will be

1723
03:14:55,330 --> 03:14:55,330
assigned to what your assignment was.

1724
03:15:02,290 --> 03:15:05,350
all right. Thank you for the excellent yeah. So it doesn't seem that there's a sense as to my viewpoint, I will leave it on that.

1725
03:15:10,280 --> 03:15:10,280
and thank you for everything that.

1726
03:15:15,500 --> 03:15:15,500
and. So my trustee lewis that the issue is.

1727
03:15:22,800 --> 03:15:22,800
pierro, as a result, the discussion is.

1728
03:15:27,780 --> 03:15:29,760
is it satisfied? I stand behind my advocacy since the very beginning, but it's up to the other trustees if

1729
03:15:35,820 --> 03:15:35,820
they want to continue the conversation or otherwise get it wrong or abolish.

1730
03:15:43,920 --> 03:15:46,980
and. Oh, interesting. But I do have a two pronged question that I would like to address that relates to some

1731
03:15:55,940 --> 03:15:59,030
questions that you know before we close this out. That's right.

1732
03:16:01,130 --> 03:16:01,130
so the two questions I have are linked to the religious exemption.

1733
03:16:07,300 --> 03:16:07,300
and and my my understanding of this subject is that relative to ways in which the

1734
03:16:16,940 --> 03:16:16,940
religious exemption is rolled out in other jurisdictions, in the areas, we have a

1735
03:16:24,350 --> 03:16:24,350
relatively flexible, intentionally so flexible attitude and requirement or the

1736
03:16:34,580 --> 03:16:38,580
religious exemption. So it. Normal, relatively normal dress for people to be able to fulfill the requirements of

1737
03:16:44,790 --> 03:16:47,160
exertion, is that is that accurate? Yes, that is exactly it.

1738
03:16:49,110 --> 03:16:49,110
so what we did would be an exceptional procedure that was not overly complicated.

1739
03:16:55,860 --> 03:16:55,860
it was very straightforward with the meeting on benchmarks we have approved last

1740
03:17:04,440 --> 03:17:04,440
february. We say over 99 percent of so submissions, the few that have now been approved.

1741
03:17:11,820 --> 03:17:15,750
as those they simply say, I don't like the mandate. I'm not going to do with that.

1742
03:17:17,190 --> 03:17:17,190
that's not necessarily being, you know, really a healthy religious exemption.

1743
03:17:23,890 --> 03:17:23,890
other than that, we have made the impact very low to ensure that we accommodate those

1744
03:17:32,370 --> 03:17:32,370
individuals who feel strongly about not getting the vaccine for whatever reason.

1745
03:17:39,980 --> 03:17:39,980
maybe that is.

1746
03:17:45,030 --> 03:17:45,030
I didn't see it this way, but there's no requirement to say mr.

1747
03:17:49,500 --> 03:17:53,010
particular faith or anything of that nature. It's really just an explanation, do you believe?

1748
03:17:55,820 --> 03:17:55,820
correct. And they or sincerely held beliefs here in germany, but we're not.

1749
03:18:04,890 --> 03:18:04,890
we're not asking for and or information is relatively basic because this is

1750
03:18:15,870 --> 03:18:15,870
basically the the as I said before, about 90 percent, 99 percent of them have been the

1751
03:18:23,880 --> 03:18:25,820
right. Correct. Yeah. As being have mentioned, there are places that have very, very high standards for

1752
03:18:30,320 --> 03:18:33,950
those. It makes it very easy to deny. We're not going around and we intentionally selected the rules that we have for that

1753
03:18:40,400 --> 03:18:40,400
reason. There is accommodating as possible and does not require anybody to explicitly.

1754
03:18:48,980 --> 03:18:52,040
but any other belief on the table. That's correct. Ok.

1755
03:18:53,770 --> 03:18:53,770
then the other piece of that same question is the length of the exemption.

1756
03:18:58,160 --> 03:18:58,160
what is the rationale for the exemption to and in august?

1757
03:19:04,140 --> 03:19:07,060
certainly, it's a fair point. They're usually sincerely held beliefs. So. Any kind of regular basis.

1758
03:19:10,580 --> 03:19:10,580
that being said, I assume that has something more if we are to have an exploration as a

1759
03:19:16,160 --> 03:19:19,580
little bit more to do with running the system correctly. Is that what is the whole story?

1760
03:19:23,420 --> 03:19:23,420
us vice president for research development that.

1761
03:19:33,630 --> 03:19:33,630
so crazy of.

1762
03:19:38,710 --> 03:19:38,710
yes. Yeah. So finish your thought because of the current changes that are happening in

1763
03:19:44,320 --> 03:19:44,320
the state of the federal level, so we didn't know who caused the change.

1764
03:19:49,930 --> 03:19:49,930
so it doesn't mean that it will not be extended after this craziness of the summer, but

1765
03:19:57,190 --> 03:19:59,290
it might be just an extension after that. But at this moment, we didn't know what to expect because things are changing over time.

1766
03:20:05,050 --> 03:20:08,110
so that's why we have. But it doesn't mean that we won't continue.

1767
03:20:10,690 --> 03:20:10,690
but we just needed to know what's going to happen at the state of the federal level.

1768
03:20:16,030 --> 03:20:16,030
and does it in your estimation, would we automatically give you anybody who's already

1769
03:20:23,270 --> 03:20:23,270
filed for that or are they going to refile or how?

1770
03:20:27,370 --> 03:20:27,370
so there are no changes at the state or federal level, salazar, but it's just an

1771
03:20:34,040 --> 03:20:34,040
administration I know because I agree with the person want someone who's I think it would

1772
03:20:42,100 --> 03:20:42,100
apply what we just wanted to know what.

1773
03:20:47,170 --> 03:20:47,170
we do know that something may happen, of course, at the state level.

1774
03:20:52,340 --> 03:20:52,340
I was hoping you would say that you have confirmation that it will be over in august and.

1775
03:20:58,470 --> 03:21:01,160
we will have to do anything about any of this anymore. Oh, sorry, I can say that.

1776
03:21:05,190 --> 03:21:05,190
all right, thank you for that explanation.

1777
03:21:10,200 --> 03:21:10,200
salazar. They just wanted to also just kind of highlight some points on the vaccine

1778
03:21:18,100 --> 03:21:21,850
because I feel, especially with the comments that are being made, sometimes they're inaccurate, sometimes they're on point, but sometimes they aren't accurate.

1779
03:21:25,570 --> 03:21:25,570
but the purpose of the vaccine is to prevent serious illness or death.

1780
03:21:31,750 --> 03:21:34,000
the vaccine is not 100 percent. Immunity does decrease over time, and we're figuring out how long that is.

1781
03:21:40,060 --> 03:21:43,900
you can still transmit covid even if you have the vaccine. But the goal is for you to live.

1782
03:21:48,310 --> 03:21:48,310
and I think I just wanted to kind of put that all together because I think it's helpful

1783
03:21:54,220 --> 03:21:56,440
because we're not saying it's the cure. But if you read the history of the measles smallpox, you were kind of reheating kind of

1784
03:22:03,400 --> 03:22:05,990
history a little bit. And this is a little different.

1785
03:22:07,900 --> 03:22:07,900
but but it's kind of think that process, but I just wanted to bring up those points.

1786
03:22:12,310 --> 03:22:16,300
so we're not saying that just because we have the vaccine, you're never going to get covid. Chances are less, and if you do, it'll be very mild.

1787
03:22:20,720 --> 03:22:20,720
I follow still a lot of covid patients who are at home who have had the vaccine, a lot of

1788
03:22:26,380 --> 03:22:29,890
them actually delayed testing because they think, oh, I think I have allergies. I think I have a cold.

1789
03:22:31,330 --> 03:22:34,900
it's not covid, it's not that bad. I feel ok. And then they're like, you know what? It's not going away.

1790
03:22:36,010 --> 03:22:37,780
let me get tested. And then they're positive. So I hear it over and over again where they kind of feel that I should have got tested

1791
03:22:41,800 --> 03:22:45,610
earlier. But because they feel so good, they're thinking, oh, I thought it was allergies. So but that's the goal.

1792
03:22:47,620 --> 03:22:51,430
that's good news that you have very mild symptoms. You're going to live, you're not going to be in the hospital in a system that can can't

1793
03:22:56,770 --> 03:22:56,770
take any more. It's already kind of at capacity, its capacity for months, a lot of

1794
03:23:03,760 --> 03:23:06,310
months. So I just want to be there. I appreciate that coming from you.

1795
03:23:10,930 --> 03:23:10,930
and one more comment than these may.

1796
03:23:16,000 --> 03:23:16,000
I appreciate your first question about the.

1797
03:23:20,620 --> 03:23:20,620
the requirements of the exemption, unless you said it was done purposely to ensure that

1798
03:23:27,520 --> 03:23:27,520
we were in sandra motivating if we could, given the process that was being implemented.

1799
03:23:34,840 --> 03:23:34,840
I appreciate the time that all of you took to come here and voice your concerns and

1800
03:23:40,810 --> 03:23:40,810
opinions. I appreciate the time the meeting took to inform all of theirs, and I have one

1801
03:23:49,540 --> 03:23:49,540
ask if I may if you're if you do not want to vaccinate.

1802
03:23:56,080 --> 03:23:56,080
I understand I have a different view with respect to you, but please do.

1803
03:24:04,000 --> 03:24:06,800
file extension. We want to continue to work with our feet, we open that door to ensure we were as

1804
03:24:13,490 --> 03:24:13,490
accommodating as possible under the current circumstances.

1805
03:24:19,190 --> 03:24:19,190
we are continuing to listen and to operate within the leeway there was built on the

1806
03:24:28,370 --> 03:24:28,370
procedure and the administrative policy, and we will do that as we as we move forward.

1807
03:24:36,050 --> 03:24:36,050
but we need that additional is there because like many of us, we don't want to get to the

1808
03:24:44,810 --> 03:24:44,810
end of january and not see some of our colleagues that we have been seeing for years come

1809
03:24:53,510 --> 03:24:53,510
to work. So so if we can roll the all of the handful of our colleagues are.

1810
03:25:03,040 --> 03:25:03,040
and to me, that exceptions, I will ask you to please do so so we can cross, examine and

1811
03:25:12,370 --> 03:25:12,370
work together in a situation that I know we have all of these agreements.

1812
03:25:16,400 --> 03:25:16,400
but I think we are all making a little bit of progress to compromise and make the best out

1813
03:25:24,820 --> 03:25:24,820
of a situation that is not pleasant for all of us students and their religious

1814
03:25:31,390 --> 03:25:33,760
exemptions. Yes, they have. They do, I guess.

1815
03:25:36,250 --> 03:25:36,250
is that widely available on the portal?

1816
03:25:41,410 --> 03:25:41,410
yes. So I'll let bill press the other way about that and brag about all the outreach they

1817
03:25:47,560 --> 03:25:47,560
have that. Very briefly, we have had a team meeting to work on the exemptions for

1818
03:25:57,070 --> 03:25:58,960
students medical as well as religious. So today we've got about 120 religious exemptions being abusive and folks are having a

1819
03:26:06,040 --> 03:26:07,600
hard time finding that at all. Part of the team has done an amazing job of tracking the number of students who have

1820
03:26:12,280 --> 03:26:12,280
registered for classes either hybrid or in-person classes and contacting them.

1821
03:26:16,790 --> 03:26:16,790
and so we have a team calling them actually every single student to let them know how to

1822
03:26:21,580 --> 03:26:21,580
upload what they need to do and if they do not or express a desire to not provide

1823
03:26:27,910 --> 03:26:30,770
vaccination. They're being told about the exemption process. And then also about other classes that they might be able to see if they choose not to

1824
03:26:35,470 --> 03:26:37,480
receive the vaccination or get the exemption. So right now, they're preparing that perfectly.

1825
03:26:39,850 --> 03:26:41,950
there is about a 99 percent approval rating. We've had about 120.

1826
03:26:43,900 --> 03:26:43,900
folks don't seem to have a hard time fill out performance all online and we respond in a

1827
03:26:48,550 --> 03:26:49,790
really quick fashion. So the team is working hard and tracking every single student who's ready shirt that has

1828
03:26:55,000 --> 03:26:55,000
expressed an interest to be on campus and doing a great job that that to do.

1829
03:27:01,330 --> 03:27:04,630
we try and or trying really hard to give credit to dr. In manila and her team, as well as elizabeth relief for all their hard work and that so

1830
03:27:09,580 --> 03:27:12,850
for you to do an amazing job as well. Thank you so much.

1831
03:27:19,200 --> 03:27:19,200
be here. And with that, I'll encourage everyone to continue to get tested.

1832
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I'm fully vaccinated and I still get tested and is my nose still work on the house?

1833
03:27:34,180 --> 03:27:34,180
but but it's it's a good idea because as you pointed out earlier, you can feel very well.

1834
03:27:44,380 --> 03:27:44,380
so abundance of caution all of us.

1835
03:27:48,700 --> 03:27:48,700
um, and with that, we'll close this item.

1836
03:27:58,280 --> 03:27:58,280
so the minister of I've d 6.0, one word workaholism, new chapter two policies twenty

1837
03:28:04,250 --> 03:28:04,250
three oh five, twenty three fifteen twenty three point.

1838
03:28:13,510 --> 03:28:13,510
it is recommended that the board of trustees review and approve it.

1839
03:28:17,920 --> 03:28:17,920
policies as presented in a discussion on this.

1840
03:28:24,830 --> 03:28:24,830
france back in.

1841
03:28:29,350 --> 03:28:29,350
this didn't happen before, so I was going to say that the stress of the job know that I'm

1842
03:28:36,190 --> 03:28:36,190
getting all right.

1843
03:28:42,960 --> 03:28:42,960
you don't really have as much work as you do that yourself.

1844
03:28:47,880 --> 03:28:47,880
so we have to always is going three zero five seven three, 15, 23, 20 and it's

1845
03:28:56,880 --> 03:28:56,880
essentially the policies that we use board or annual reorganization because sessions on

1846
03:29:03,330 --> 03:29:03,330
emergency meetings based on the latest legal legal updates.

1847
03:29:11,220 --> 03:29:15,060
they are not changes to the procedure. So I do recommend taking them as a group if you have to use the influence of each one

1848
03:29:24,180 --> 03:29:24,180
individually. I'll be happy to answer them, but they have to have no changes based on

1849
03:29:30,960 --> 03:29:30,960
the. Um, foreign policy and based on the.

1850
03:29:38,040 --> 03:29:38,040
uh, latest legal review.

1851
03:29:43,010 --> 03:29:43,010
I know that we have a discussion or two when the vote on this.

1852
03:29:53,080 --> 03:29:56,350
through all these items. Move to a group. Second.

1853
03:30:00,220 --> 03:30:00,220
level student trustee sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey, trustee, lewis, trustee,

1854
03:30:10,060 --> 03:30:10,060
lewis, trustee, pacheco, trustee perez is absent and trustee salazar I a motion

1855
03:30:21,380 --> 03:30:21,380
jose. Are at this point zero to

1856
03:30:31,140 --> 03:30:31,140
acknowledgment of receipt of the initial proposal from the school employees association

1857
03:30:37,830 --> 03:30:37,830
chapter 161 to the cerritos community college district, the period july one twenty five

1858
03:30:43,990 --> 03:30:43,990
point one june 30, 2014 for.

1859
03:30:48,400 --> 03:30:48,400
can we have any discussion on this and.

1860
03:30:54,160 --> 03:30:54,160
with that, all of this in a motion to approve.

1861
03:31:00,610 --> 03:31:00,610
so. Yes.

1862
03:31:04,750 --> 03:31:04,750
or move to acknowledge there's not real emotion to acknowledge, is that right?

1863
03:31:16,400 --> 03:31:16,400
or seeing trustee sutherland trustee avalos ms.

1864
03:31:20,900 --> 03:31:20,900
trustee birkey trustee lewis trustee lewis, pacheco I trustee perez is absent and trustee

1865
03:31:28,610 --> 03:31:28,610
salazar I a motion.

1866
03:31:33,030 --> 03:31:33,030
right at this point, there are three adopt the initial proposal.

1867
03:31:39,080 --> 03:31:39,080
the cerritos community college district to the california school boards association

1868
03:31:44,810 --> 03:31:44,810
chapter 161 for the period of july one, 2021, through july thirty five point four.

1869
03:31:51,380 --> 03:31:54,830
we have emotions without. Would. The second.

1870
03:32:00,830 --> 03:32:00,830
jim trustee, sutherland trustee avalos trustee birkey trustee lewis specialist, trustee

1871
03:32:08,480 --> 03:32:08,480
pacheco, trustee, perez absent and trustee salazar a motion passes.

1872
03:32:14,360 --> 03:32:14,360
all right. Yeah, with that by some miracle or potentially news reports and comments just

1873
03:32:24,320 --> 03:32:26,150
before 11:00. Yeah. So we make it 30 seconds.

1874
03:32:29,390 --> 03:32:33,290
you look at each version. All right. So I can't see someone.

1875
03:32:40,310 --> 03:32:40,310
would you like to take this off within our report?

1876
03:32:45,740 --> 03:32:45,740
religious. Just. The trustee pacheco, again, happy

1877
03:32:55,350 --> 03:32:59,220
holidays to everyone, and I want to thank dr. Pierro for the installation of the anchor, and they're doing what they're doing,

1878
03:33:11,550 --> 03:33:11,550
which is great. So yeah, maybe he has a little credit mr.

1879
03:33:18,650 --> 03:33:18,650
that. I just I just want to wish everyone.

1880
03:33:27,030 --> 03:33:27,030
and hopefully, you'll stay safe and stay healthy, and I wish you much help in this

1881
03:33:33,060 --> 03:33:33,060
upcoming year as you hit 2020.

1882
03:33:38,340 --> 03:33:38,340
and to just remind your team of all the folks who lost their lives with this last year

1883
03:33:46,950 --> 03:33:49,980
and had connections to other states. Very tragic them.

1884
03:33:53,100 --> 03:33:53,100
but it's during these times that you realize how fortunate you are to be alive and to

1885
03:33:58,710 --> 03:33:58,710
have resources available to you to make this country that you want to see happen again,

1886
03:34:05,880 --> 03:34:08,430
to stay healthy, just wishing everyone lots of help. This is probably the most important if you can have is your health.

1887
03:34:12,270 --> 03:34:14,170
without that, nothing else can happen. So seeing.

1888
03:34:23,040 --> 03:34:23,040
this is not the happy, heavy policy.

1889
03:34:31,220 --> 03:34:31,220
hear it now, just a big thank you for everyone at cerritos college who for navigating a.

1890
03:34:43,700 --> 03:34:43,700
thank you. Thank you to everyone who work is stuff we do have our differences, but I think

1891
03:34:51,050 --> 03:34:51,050
this is time to recognize the good work that has been done and celebrate.

1892
03:34:55,940 --> 03:34:55,940
we will have time to work out our differences on our return.

1893
03:35:02,840 --> 03:35:06,260
but right now, I want to thank you. I also want to thank the board of trustees for your support or your commitment for your

1894
03:35:12,830 --> 03:35:12,830
cerritos. I think that has twenty one seven challenges and you have been very steady on

1895
03:35:21,380 --> 03:35:24,290
what you have recommended. How you have challenges to come up with solutions.

1896
03:35:28,120 --> 03:35:28,120
and it's very much appreciated because it has produced good results.

1897
03:35:34,730 --> 03:35:34,730
otherwise, I don't think we will have achieved.

1898
03:35:38,990 --> 03:35:38,990
last but not least, grateful to be with all of you, including all of you and canada.

1899
03:35:48,470 --> 03:35:48,470
it has been difficult, but I will not change this thing for any other team to go through

1900
03:35:56,060 --> 03:35:57,270
this difficult time. So thanks again.

1901
03:36:01,470 --> 03:36:01,470
dr. Salazar. Happy holidays.

1902
03:36:05,590 --> 03:36:05,590
that is all. All right.

1903
03:36:11,010 --> 03:36:11,010
see, lewis. So I attended the marisa chamber speaker series.

1904
03:36:16,650 --> 03:36:16,650
they had senator bob corker, who represents much of the cerritos college congressional

1905
03:36:20,910 --> 03:36:20,910
record cerritos college district.

1906
03:36:25,050 --> 03:36:25,050
and I would like to invite him on campus to give a tour of our area to see how much

1907
03:36:32,790 --> 03:36:36,240
further we partner with him in the coming years. I was part of rotary club islamorada as for girls, for his shopping spree at marshall,

1908
03:36:43,170 --> 03:36:43,170
that we do every year and every problem that we have every year, that we have more

1909
03:36:48,360 --> 03:36:48,360
volunteers than there are kids because we have 50 people in the fire department, police,

1910
03:36:54,060 --> 03:36:56,250
local pta and so on and so on. There's really never enough kids to do that or we able to have a great time with each and

1911
03:37:02,940 --> 03:37:02,940
every one of those kids to get them both that they truly need, especially if as cold the

1912
03:37:07,500 --> 03:37:07,500
winter as we are currently experiencing, which the no dangerous holiday next year as

1913
03:37:13,260 --> 03:37:13,260
well, and also ninel marisa flights honoring the outgoing board president mary morris and

1914
03:37:23,490 --> 03:37:23,490
the new president tonight where we have merry christmas, happy holidays and happy new

1915
03:37:32,010 --> 03:37:35,850
year eve, trustee lewis. I'll be brief as well.

1916
03:37:37,560 --> 03:37:37,560
I just wanted to highlight on tuesday, december 21st, the longest night of the year, and

1917
03:37:46,680 --> 03:37:46,680
nationally it's serve a homeless memorial service for all of those that we've lost this

1918
03:37:54,900 --> 03:37:54,900
year, especially with covid, among other issues.

1919
03:38:00,570 --> 03:38:00,570
it's also often the coldest night of the year, so it makes for a very poignant

1920
03:38:07,110 --> 03:38:10,840
opportunity to to observe those. Presently, there's a ceremony going on in bellflower at christian church, and that's

1921
03:38:16,320 --> 03:38:16,320
sponsored by the gateway cities.

1922
03:38:21,120 --> 03:38:21,120
so feel free to do anything.

1923
03:38:26,550 --> 03:38:26,550
and and the other item I would say is thank you all for all your hard work this year and

1924
03:38:34,380 --> 03:38:34,380
and having all of it to realize.

1925
03:38:39,180 --> 03:38:39,180
and I'd also like before we get to give you that, I'd like to adjourn this open session

1926
03:38:48,060 --> 03:38:48,060
for this meeting. We have two requested moments of silence first for the victims of the

1927
03:38:55,320 --> 03:38:55,320
tornado in the southeastern united states march.

1928
03:39:07,610 --> 03:39:07,610
thank you. The second most tonight's opening session in memory of a winner.

1929
03:39:24,580 --> 03:39:26,860
thank you. And that concludes tonight's open session. We'll have to react.