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I wish it can begin. And the commissioner may be joining us. Okay.

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Thanks, everybody, for joining us today. We will call this meeting to order. We have a few guests, Commissioner Jeffrey Landwood, maybe joining us, Associate Commissioner, Taylor Adams as well. On Zoom, we have Jeremy Shaw, a system for the general, a law clerk, page Lee, and then trustees, Greg Sanderson and Cori Anderson are joining us through Zoom as well. Cori Anderson.

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Yes.

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Well, and pedolids will not be joining us as well as Dan Boehl.

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What about our business is the President's Awards.

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So I will turn the time over to President Taggart for that.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to stand up here.

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If you have anything to add in some, yes, stand up here.

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And it's easier for the Zoom people to see this way.

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On an annual basis in July, even though we operate year round,

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Once our fiscal year ends on June 30th, the first couple of weeks of July, we do our kickoff

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the next fiscal year.

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And it gives us an opportunity to have a couple of days without students, have some really

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good professional development training.

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We set the themes that we are going to be working on this next year.

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We re-emphasize what our strategic plan goals are coming year.

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And we celebrated how our year ended.

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We also recognize our employees for longevity at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years.

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And so we've got that listed in your boardbook, those that we recognize for longevity.

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We also have four presidents and boards that we give out annually.

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We open these categories up for all the college community to provide nominations

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Those then we have a team evaluate those and we select the recipients and those are announced and awarded at this kickoff.

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We wanted to share with you our four award recipients. One of them is ill and so she won't be here.

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But we're still going to talk about it. It's nice things. You can say nice things behind people's back.

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The three first awards align with the college's core values, community, learning, and integrity.

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So the 2026 community award recipient is Nathan Betcher.

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Nathan, if you'll come up here, Nathan is our coordinator for our Center for Teaching

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and Learning.

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This center supports all of our faculty and staff and providing high quality training

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materials and because the vast majority of our faculty and come from team

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three, they really rely heavily on a relatively small team. If you look at the

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number of students, we serve as a team of four or three. And Nathan has built

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that team over time. And when we talk about community, everyone, instructors,

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administrators, administrators, staff that aren't teaching but need to work with students

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and provide ongoing training came clear across Nathan Bill's community.

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Comes in, listens to what your challenges are, and one of the comments from the nomination

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said, we don't think that Nathan's never not thinking about solutions to challenges people

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are having, and he comes up with great solutions.

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I can tell you, I speak to our

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ownership instructor from teaching the evening.

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They're all master plumbers and master electricians,

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but they are new on education.

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They love our Center for Teaching and Learning,

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saying, hey, our apprentices have been working on it a lot.

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We have them for three hours.

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We need to be highly effective for aiming.

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How can you help me?

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And the Center for Teaching and Learning

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That's why he was our recipient for our

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high level tech. I love working here. It's my favorite job, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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Thank you so much Nathan, you know ultimately the college is a learning institution and so we give an annual learning award out the

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the 2026 Learning Award when it occurs black, I always want to say black need, I'm sorry

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Curtis, no one gets my name right most of the time.

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So Curtis is the program coordinator, not for one program, but for two programs.

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He is the coordinator and instructor in our information technology program and our network

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and cybersecurity programs.

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Curtis has not been with the college that long, a little over two years.

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And we were in a significant transition point with our IT program, trying to decide,

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we needed this program stabilized.

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And in a very short time he not only stabilized it, he has doubled our previous four-year average

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not on enrollment, not just enrollment, but on graduates.

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And he's rebuilt partnerships with employers in our region,

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which has been critical.

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So now we have employers going, I need your IT graduates.

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He has done just an incredible job within it.

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At the same time, he stood up and has built our Network

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and Cybersecurity Program.

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He started it with four students and in a very short time he flipped that to 44 students and the graduation rate went from 4% to 72%.

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And he just has incredible leadership.

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He knows how to look at what our strategic plan is.

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He understands the local group completion because our computers make the biggest difference in job placement.

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They don't complete programs, they might find a job, they're not least sustainable.

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And Curtis really has embodied those principles.

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Thank you, Curtis.

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Terry Weaver, the college's purchasing agent received the college's integrity award.

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And Terry, again, is under the weather.

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When she started her position as the purchasing agent, she really was not feeling a whole.

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We had a fantastic purchasing department.

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We would have been happy if she came in and I think status quo, but that's not how Terry

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Rievel is built.

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She has taken good processes and has improved them and made them every better, or even better.

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She took the existing board flow and was able to say, hey, I can do more.

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I have simplified this.

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I automated this process.

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I can do more.

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And so she took over the college store purchasing, which used to be separate, and she just maintains strong integrity, always finding ways to help others stay productive.

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She's also responsible for a big chunk of our compliance with the college, with the system of higher education, with state procurement laws and policies.

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We're dealing with taxpayer dollars.

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and so there's a higher threshold and she just does a phenomenal job

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and ensuring that we are all compliant and we're doing what we're doing and

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really has works closely with our physical department to ensure that we're

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doing everything ethically and that we are doing training on fraud prevention

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and following what those state laws are. But most importantly is she does

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everything. A lot of times when you work with compliance people they have to come across this,

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hey, this is a lie, you're going to do it. She comes across with a smile and people love

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working with her. People's like, hey, I'm going to do this the right way not just because it's

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law. I'm not going to let Terry down. And so that's why Terry received our integrity award.

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The final award we give is the President's Outstanding Employee. This goes to an employee

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bodies, all three of those principles of community, learning and integrity. And this year we

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were very, very proud to give the 2026 Presence Award to Fred Frazier. Fred, come on up. Fred

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is the college's safety, excuse me, security and emergency manager. Fred's been with the college

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15 years.

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He's already retired from one job. Fred was in law enforcement in the great

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state of Arizona and he moved here and it really hasn't snowed very well in the past.

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We haven't had a lot of good snow years.

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Fred's leadership experience and commitment

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to the Technical College has set us apart as a leader in campus safety.

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This past year, the system of prior education has been taking a deep look at campus security

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on all of our campuses, including the Technical Colleges. Now, most of the universities

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have their own dedicated police force. They were looking at what is being done at the Technical

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colleges. We have a full 24-7 security department, our main purpose, in-person, 365 at our

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BDO campus. When students are there during business hours, we have in-person security and then

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we have security surveillance for other times. No other tech colleges and there are some community

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colleges that do not have that breadth and depth, and he has built standard, standard

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operating procedures and has built this team over the past 15 years. We used to have

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one person, pretty much very business hours, Monday, Thursday, Friday, and no one here

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in the evening. Well, our evening programs is many times when we have more people on campus

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and we have this large main campus that's very open, 110 plus acres in multiple buildings.

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It's just not one building to patrol. And Brett has built such an incredible team.

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Brett is also, and he does not like me saying this because he doesn't like me.

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Brett is one of the finest educators I've ever been. He provides ongoing and annual training toward

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faculty and staff and he does an amazing job of it. Very, very difficult things. He is one of the best

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instructors on conflict resolution and de-escalation techniques. He talks about different things that

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we can do, what we need to be looking at. He's been very, very involved in finding the very,

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very best software programs we can use for reporting agencies and doing notification of emergencies.

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I think our drills are better than anybody else because we do these drills and then we

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do a debrief on what worked, what didn't work.

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our radios, none of us took our radios with us.

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We couldn't actually do a check-in.

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And now I remember, I took my radio and those drills are important because when we do have

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an incident, we go, okay, we know how to do this. We had a shooting that occurred near

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our campus, and police were on our campus. And I was trying to run through my head, what

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do I do? And Fred was actually on vacation, and I was texting Fred. He was an LAX. He

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responded. He was an LAX who was safe. He wasn't boarding because, you know, no one

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boards on time there. But we really have great, we benefit from that. He works closely with

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our students with every faculty and staff member. He is seen out, not just with his security

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team, but he is seen by our entire college. We're very, very proud of his leadership.

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for taking the time and everything you do with

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been college.

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Before you take off, I'm going to introduce our food

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if you wanted to take any with you.

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You have to go.

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You need to go too.

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I'm fine.

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You're fine.

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Thank you again.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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What are the best of you?

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The culinary students have provided

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a lovely spread of snacks, as I always do.

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I'll tell you a bit about them.

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Kaley Scrobel.

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I have been in the Otek culinary arts program for over a year.

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I recently began my elective courses and I'm currently involved in cakes and

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frustrations. This class I've prepared a pumpkin soil cake and I hope you

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enjoy it. Ezekiel Adams, he is a first-year culinary student at Otec. I enjoy

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cooking because it allows me to be creative and will enjoy the other other

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school food. After graduating high school last year I continued pursuing my

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passion for culinary oats and I'm currently involved in the pies and pace

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his course. As part of this class, I've prepared it clear, it's our Colleen, and hope you enjoy them.

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My goal is to own my culinary certificate, gain the restaurant experience, and eventually open my

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own restaurant. Finally, we have Quintan Anderson. One of the reasons I enjoy Otec is the people,

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they inspire me to work harder, try new things, and reach heights I never thought possible. My biggest

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dream is to become a head chef. I have loved cooking since I was a child and spending time in the kitchen

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with my parents inspired me to pursue a career in the culinary arts. Through O-Tech, I am developing

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the skills and experience needed to achieve my goals and build a successful future in the culinary

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industry. Today, I prepared a risk at sandwich and I hope you enjoy it. Please help yourselves,

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or take some with you. I'm more done. Miles, do I? Look at you, I can't wait a single

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We have a few items for Google this afternoon.

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First, I would entertain in a little bit of boredom.

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Presley meetings, minutes from June 25th. I would make that motion to just minutes for the 25th June. Thank you, Paul. Thank you, Christine.

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Excuse me. I will take a vote. All in favour? Good night, sorry. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Next, we are going to need approval for the fiscal year capital improvements project. To hear more about that, I will turn the time over to Vice President Carl.

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Well, thank you, Will.

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So this is an approval we seek from you as trustees every year.

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It's funding from the state to improve improvements around the campus to take care of infrastructure

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needs.

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And like every year, I've provided a list here of some of the past projects that kind of

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refresh your memory on things that you've approved.

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And in many cases that have been done all but some of the top items there are still in process either being taken

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this year or will hopefully be done by the end of this this year. So you can see the most recent one had to do with a

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downsizing of our boiler in the heat plant. The replacement of the roof on construction tech building and then some of the

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work that's being done over here in our event center.

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We'll type purpose facility as it's called now,

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which will be our event center.

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So those are some of the most recent things on the list.

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If you go to the little table, it's kind of small,

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but not going to go through all of these items,

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you'll notice that in the top four,

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there's two items that pertain to this building,

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one of which has to do with taking care of infrastructure

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are underneath the building, mostly sewer lines, which are becoming faulty and cracking

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and creating smells.

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And so it's something that needs to be taken care of and looked at, and it's not very

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convenient because it's access to the piping and the infrastructure in this building is

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extremely difficult, so it'll be a challenge for them to get that done, but that's something

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that's at the top of our list. That's the number one item. The other is a reruff of this building.

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And we never know exactly how much money we're going to get. As you can see from that list from

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last year, we got a pretty sizable amount between those top two items. Those were both funded in

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the same year. That doesn't always happen. It's usually closer to a million to 1.5 million

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that we get in funding. So we could expect that maybe the top two, three items might get funded

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this next year and it kind of depends on how much money is available during the legislative

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session and they set aside for these types of projects. But the other item has to do with

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underground electrical distribution cabling and that kind of in connection with the project

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that we just did with all of the transformers. We took care of the transformers but then we identified

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that there's weakness in the cabling that's been in place ever since some of those old transformers

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were there. So we still have, you know, faulty lines in some areas and potential for tripping

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and failure in those cables. So that's the number two item. And then the update of the

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electronic door controls across campus, this is a preventative maintenance item. A lot

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of those have met their life cycle. And we'll probably begin failing if we don't get

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Does anybody have any questions on any of those four items that I've talked about or anything

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No question on the last four, but I just noticed that every item on this list is a necessary

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item.

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And so knowing that the fund, two questions I asked, knowing that funding for every item's

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likely not a reality, do you pull funding from somewhere else to make those other enhancements

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are improvements or do you have to wait and then is there a list somewhere else that goes

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down all the way to the desired but not necessary?

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I don't know, it's a good question, very good question, and I think honestly I could be

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mispeaking, I should know this, but there's actually, I think, two categories above necessary.

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The list of safety, which is number one, and so if you have a life safety issue,

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It has to be at the top of your list, they will make you make that the first priority, and I can't remember what number two is, I'm sorry.

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Well, it's good. It means we haven't had so many of those.

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So necessary is necessary, but it's also not as urgent.

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And we have a lot of necessary items to your point that are not on this list.

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The state conducted several years back, an independent study, which identified just short of a hundred million dollars of projects

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that could be done on our campus to take care of all of the infrastructure needs.

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I mean, it's an old campus.

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We're fortunate to be getting a new building.

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About 8 to 10 million of those required upgrades

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are in that business building that we're going to be tearing down.

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So we will eliminate and save the state a lot of money by getting rid of that building

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because we won't have to do those projects.

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But we have also invested quite a bit of money

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as a college to take care of infrastructure needs.

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If there ends up being significant needs

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and they're not funded through this process,

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we make it a priority.

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And so over the course of the last 10 years,

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we have really invested in trying to improve our campus

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and infrastructure and those types of things.

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And a lot of that's obviously come through this state resources,

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but we've done that using other dollars as well,

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discretionary dollars.

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and whenever we do that we have our board approved that and we report back on you.

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So if you look at what we're doing with the event center, the old gym, that is a joint project,

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DFCMs managing the entire project, the DFCM because they own the building at the state building

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said your roof needs to be replaced. So they're taking care of the roofs of HVAC things. The college

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through our savings, our fund balance, our discretionary funds, the board approved

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us to fund the rest of the remodel. And so it doesn't make sense to have a new

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roof and new HVAC on a building that really cannot be utilized. So we save those

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funds. We will have water mains break in at one last month break and and those

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Those costs, they can be anywhere, a break can be anywhere from ten to thirty thousand

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dollars for a repair.

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And that's just the repair of the pipe.

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Fortunately, those both occurred outside of buildings and did not cost flooding inside

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the building.

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We had a flood inside this building and it was plus million dollars to repair it.

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We don't like doing those types of things.

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So, but we have, even though we were able to keep those things under or necessary because

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of the preventative maintenance of our incredible facility staff, there's always going to

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be some unforeseen, but we were able to take care of so many things because for the past,

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almost seven, eight years, we have had every system on preventative maintenance.

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That's why after the transformers, they're now saying, hey, we better get those lines taken

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care of, doesn't give any of us any good to have brand new transformers if our transmission

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lines in between the main switch are 60 years old.

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Good question. Any other questions?

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The reason why we are required by statute to have our board approve this on an annual basis

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and we have to give them a comprehensive list, even though we know it might just be the

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top one, two, three, depending on how much funding. They want to see the full list because

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there are some years where they go, we can fund number one and two. We have enough money

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to fund its number 12. Is that that fits? And that's happened before. We go, it's necessary

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so great. They get off and we move it up. And we trust this every single year. The challenges

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as we've had in this building. Again, it's a very, very old building. As Tyler was suggesting,

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it's difficult to access underneath the building because this was maximum security.

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It's cement as 1-inch rebar throughout it. And so you can't, they didn't want anyone tunneling out.

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So you can't access underneath the building, short of dynamiting.

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Well, yeah, it would be very, very difficult on how to access underneath this building.

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But they'll come in with some lateral lines.

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They have a solution, tap in, and then abandon the old lines filled in with concrete.

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But it's time.

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They've tried solutions over the past couple years, and we need to make some plans.

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It's an interesting complication.

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Unfortunately, on my end of the building, I don't smell it as much, but he's down on this

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and smells it all the time.

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And that has nothing to do with the occupants at this end of the day.

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But we are going to continue to utilize this building.

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I had some people, I was at a community meeting, and I had someone going,

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Oh, are you excited to move your office into the new building?

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And I said, no, administrators office is going to new building.

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100% student-facing, a student support or instruction staying here.

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We're going to be moving our fiscal team and our HR team into this building.

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And then we can demo another building we don't need to maintain and do utilities on.

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So we need to, we want to keep this building operational for more decades.

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Yes, it's still a functional building, it's quirky.

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I will mention just so you know as a heads up, one item that's on this list, it's near

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the bottom of the list, it's the second from the bottom is the demolition of the business

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building and then the addition of overflow parking for the new pathway building.

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We actually currently have a request into both DFCM and I think they're working with

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the legislature to try and get that funded under the pathway building budget.

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It wasn't initially requested under the pathway of building budget because we were under the impression that we were at budget and there would be no money for it, but as you I think all know that came in about $15 million dollars under budget.

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And so we're hopeful that they will allow us to use some of those funds to take that building down and put a parking lot there, which would then make us so we didn't have to ask that on this list.

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So we're keeping our fingers crossed.

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We're not asking for all $15 million back that's already been appropriated.

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We just want a little bit of that back supporting the bill date.

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Because we were good stewards with the money and designed a phenomenal building.

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That's right.

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We would have asked for it if we had been under the impression that there were funds still

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available to address parking needs.

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Thank you, Tyler.

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Are there any other questions to cover?

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If not, I would entertain a motion for the approval of the Capital Improvement Projects

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Okay, let's move to FY 28 Capital Improvement Projects.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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With that, we'll take a vote.

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All in favor?

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All right.

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Hi.

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Any opposed?

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Okay.

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Motion will tell you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next on the agenda will be the strategically investment plan of

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present agitive.

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Would you mind telling us more about that?

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Sure.

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As we've talked about, the Board of Prioritication is

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is having all the technical colleges go through a modified process that our

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degree-granting partners have gone through in terms of identifying areas where

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we can disinvest of existing dollars and reinvest those into more pressing

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areas. As I shared with you, the degree-granting institutions that was in

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statute implied law at a report to their local boards, the board of higher

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education and to the legislature and they're still doing it, how they cut 10% of their budget

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and then reinvested those dollars. Now in statute the legislature actually took the money out

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of their base budget. It was held by the system and they had to earn it back. None of our budget

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dollars have been touched yet. And we don't intend them to be, but there is that potentially

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good if we do not follow this process. Our process is to cut 5% between fiscal year 27,

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our current fiscal year and fiscal 2030. And so the framework was created by the Board

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of higher education. The Commissioner, the Commissioner Landlord, is right. Commissioner

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Landlord, you're about to say. Commissioner Landlord, you hear this framework during

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the interim session. Higher education appropriations is aware that the technical colleges are going

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to leave us. It's interesting that I talk to two legislators on what's the LAC on Tuesday

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and they both agreed, and they're both on higher education appropriations, they said,

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yeah, we like not having to put this in the law. Please do it.

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And that was the commissioners and the office of the commissioners' emphasis.

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We don't want to wait and have the tech colleges go through this process

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and have as part of statute.

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Following, there was a lot learned through what are,

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in order to do that, but with some of the on-term.

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And we said, you know, we're, we look forward to see how this works.

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Now, the responsibility is on the commissioner's office, and ultimately the Board of Higher Education,

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to make sure this process is clean, that it has integrity, and that we can report it to the legislature

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as a way of saying.

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Okay, if there's an opportunity,

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So put it in law. Let us know and show that we can make an impact. So the commissioners office working again with the Board of Higher Education and with the institutions said, hey, we do want to see what you've already been doing. We know you all run efficient. Please be able to show we will look at at least consideration what you've done the past two years for fiscal 25 and fiscal 26.

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And so this is a draft, this is not what has been submitted to the commissioner's office today.

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We actually put everything that the board had approved and that we were going to do.

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You'll notice that our target is $780,000.

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And on this, everything lists, we're showing $1.14 million in cuts.

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And we didn't want to show, oh, hey, just give us credit for everything in 25 and 26 and

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we really aren't going to do anything in 27, 28 and 29, because that's just not how

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we operate.

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We are always looking, where can we be efficient and leverage those dollars first before we

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are asking for it, we never know year to year what our appropriation is going to be.

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We always know at technical colleges and at community colleges when the economy shifts

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and budgets are cut, our enrollments always go up.

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Our enrollments have been growing anyway, but we want to make sure we're being as efficient

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as possible.

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But you'll see areas of disinvestment.

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In 25, we eliminated our machine as the apprenticeship program.

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We only want ample of students and it didn't make sense to have that anymore.

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or eliminated an HVAC apprenticeship program,

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we are running a full four-year program

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and individuals are coming in to get

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three industry certifications

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and they were, we had no completers

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and we had space and very expensive equipment

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for a four-year program.

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So we taught that out.

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They could still give those

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interesting certifications through customer-fit training.

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We eliminated our medical scribe program.

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We taught that out.

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And the next slide I'm going to show you where we actually reinvested those dollars.

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We eliminated a graphic designer position in our marketing department, and we about

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sourced that and saved money there.

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Last year we eliminated our director of admissions.

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We eliminated that administrative supervise reposition, combined those duties with some existing

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positions.

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We had a math instructor who had been with us for a very long time, was at the top of

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the salary scale for all faculty he retired we did not replace that position.

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And then as the board approved last year our software development program last fiscal year.

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Our software development program is in teach out and we're working on plans on how we're

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going to reinvest that now teach out for that program is going to take time.

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So you'll see, in fiscal 27, we'll save $100,000 in fiscal 28, when the program's taught out, we'll have an additional $200,000.

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We know that much like our math instructor, we will have retirements, we'll have voluntary separations.

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We take a very close look whenever we have people who leave the college, we make determination, should this position be replaced?

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or is this an opportunity for us to look at our reinvestment into another area.

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As we shared with you, we are in the process.

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We went out with an RFP for our new student information system.

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We have selected a vendor.

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We are in the process of working on implementation for that.

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When that is up and running, you will be eliminating 13 software platforms that we are paying

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us and add on. Vice President Howard that's 200 and we narrowed it down to 191 because

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okay we need as much as there's more savings than that but we brought it in line with what our

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target is. It's 191,000 conservatively that will save that the new software platform actually has it

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in bed, we don't have to add that on, that's an efficiency.

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And then we will also be, the college is going cashless July 3rd, 2028.

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Right now we have a student accounts technician who deals with cash handling, that will be

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eliminated.

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Now, the campus grill and our culinary and cosmetology programs have already gone cashless.

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And we spend a lot of time, energy effort.

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I mean, our security team has to take cash back and forth from the bank and going,

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cashless actually reduces risk and liability.

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Wherever we do cash handling, we have certain procedures.

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So there's separation of duties and we have to have physical security cameras over that area at all times.

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And so our food truck, when it's out, it was already built to be cashless.

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We've learned from our degree-granting partners. We have many of them that are cashless.

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And so we're going to take the savings from that position and reinvest into some other pressing areas.

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If you'll go to the next slide, and then we show where we're going to have or we plan to reinvest that.

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In every case, we want to reinvest in either instructional programs or already understaffed and we've had an increase in enrollment.

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Or we have an area where we need to make a bigger impact on throughput and we need better retention or direct student services.

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There, you'll see a couple of areas in there that are critical in terms of being part of the system of higher education and being a state entity.

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And that's going to be IT, and things like data privacy and some critical areas that are also support.

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Everything that our faculty staff do, we have to have really strong IT.

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One of the questions that came up with our initial conversation with Deputy Commissioner

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Sally Talley, I just just call it a, so much easier.

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Deputy Commissioner Nate, is he, you want to make sure that we're being very clear on

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our number of FTE full-time employee equivalents that we are reducing and adding.

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We actually have a neck gain in the number of FTE with our re-investment after the disinvestment,

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but we're putting it in the right area.

439
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:11,400
We run very, very efficiently. We do not have staff or we need to have staff,

440
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:19,200
but when this process is done, we're actually by savings and some operational process things

441
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:25,240
that allow us to have frontline people that can work more closely with students.

442
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:32,780
So we're not just cutting staff to that staff and make the remaining staff triple their work to make up for that.

443
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,300
We already are very efficient along those lines.

444
00:37:36,140 --> 00:37:42,400
Now, again, this is what we sent to the commissioner's office today is paired back.

445
00:37:43,260 --> 00:37:45,980
We've already met with them a couple of times over this.

446
00:37:46,020 --> 00:37:47,920
This will go to the Board of Higher Education.

447
00:37:48,620 --> 00:37:53,900
They will have to final say on, are these plans the direction we want to go?

448
00:37:53,900 --> 00:38:03,940
We still are going to report more than the 780,000 requirement, and that was just a target.

449
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,840
It really could have been 1% of our budget, like the degree-granting institution set 5%.

450
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,620
I'm glad that the target was set at 5%.

451
00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:20,860
And this will be updated annually over the next several years, and we'll report on this

452
00:38:20,860 --> 00:38:21,660
is what we've done.

453
00:38:21,660 --> 00:38:26,420
Now some of it is forward planning, this is what we intend to do, well did you do it?

454
00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:28,080
Did those cuts actually take place?

455
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,600
Did your reinvestments actually take place?

456
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,660
And what was the impact of those reinvestments?

457
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:39,820
So this is again, this is a healthy thing for us, it's something that we've always done.

458
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,580
We have always shared that with the board.

459
00:38:42,780 --> 00:38:43,320
We didn't.

460
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:44,660
We're lost in traffic.

461
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,360
This is clear to this clear, so this has actually been very healthy for us to have this

462
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,880
is part of the process. There is no action by the board, but I want you to be familiar

463
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,560
with this, because it will be on a future agenda for the board of higher education.

464
00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:03,820
Commissioner, anything I left out? I think that...

465
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:10,480
I think it's important to go back to your original point about why it was beneficial for

466
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:15,320
us to simply say, let's just do this process on our own. One of the things is you've already

467
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:22,640
one ounce. It was a 5% target instead of 10%, which gave us some wiggle room. Also, we made it a

468
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:28,620
four-year process, instead of a three-year process. With a planning year. The planning. Which the

469
00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:33,500
degree-grading institutions didn't have. And then those those two years of look back, which the

470
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:37,780
degree-grading institutions didn't have. That's hard to negotiate with the legislature when they're

471
00:39:37,780 --> 00:39:45,060
trying to pass legislation to do something like this. Whereas, what's doing on our own initiative,

472
00:39:45,060 --> 00:39:49,580
we get the benefit of them seeing the tech colleges leading out on doing something like this

473
00:39:49,580 --> 00:39:53,960
without the legislature feeling like they have to, but also then we maintain that flexibility.

474
00:39:54,560 --> 00:40:00,360
And as we go through this process, if there's a need to pivot or adjust, we can do that without

475
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,820
having the legislature involved, which we can't do with the degree-grading institutions of the way

476
00:40:04,820 --> 00:40:10,600
the laws are written. So there are some advantages, but it is not an easy process. And it puts you as

477
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,880
a board of trustees and the president in a position to have to make some hard decisions.

478
00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:18,440
What we were less concerned about that with the tech colleges, simply because your business

479
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,400
model is built around doing this anyway.

480
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:26,440
So we were pretty confident, especially with a four-year runway, that a normal course

481
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:32,100
of business would likely be targets without much intervention from having to do anything

482
00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:33,420
differently than you normally do.

483
00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:34,080
It's true.

484
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,420
I couldn't say that about the degree range institutions.

485
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,220
So you're in a much better position for this to just be smooth sailing.

486
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:49,920
It also gives an opportunity to highlight, I think, how tech colleges operate, and really

487
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,860
that it is the model that we're trying to get degree granting institutions to operate

488
00:40:52,860 --> 00:40:53,180
under.

489
00:40:54,540 --> 00:41:00,080
Well, you know, you have this conversation about insights into budget for the degree for

490
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:00,800
granting institutions.

491
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,800
I mean, it's very straightforward with tech colleges.

492
00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:06,200
So thank you for the, you already do, but this is well thought out.

493
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:07,400
This is looking really good.

494
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:07,540
But

495
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,740
you may have for me

496
00:41:15,750 --> 00:41:20,310
that this is healthy and

497
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,760
re-grading to take the more of the pain

498
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:25,760
of the process.

499
00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:27,420
It's good.

500
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,100
You've been a good job with it.

501
00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:37,260
I will tell you that as we started this process, the University and Community College

502
00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:39,120
Presidents were very, very good.

503
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:45,720
But they all, their documentation is public when it's presented to the Board of Higher Education.

504
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:50,580
But I was able to corner a couple of them and say, hey, what's the best way to approach this?

505
00:41:52,180 --> 00:41:54,060
And they said, oh, that's a good question.

506
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:55,840
We struggled with that.

507
00:41:56,260 --> 00:41:57,180
This is what we did.

508
00:41:58,500 --> 00:41:59,200
That's perfect.

509
00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:00,020
Thank you.

510
00:42:00,220 --> 00:42:04,720
And they gave, again, one of the benefits of being part of a system of higher education.

511
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,600
It's kind of like how the older kids wear out mom and dad and the other kids, from there

512
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:12,980
not to.

513
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:17,680
I will bring you in the lessons.

514
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:18,420
Yes.

515
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:23,820
We really would, I'm fine with them taking the kids, not just kidding.

516
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,680
I did not say that out loud.

517
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,160
I don't think that did I know.

518
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,820
We learn from what they're doing and you know, they learn from us as well.

519
00:42:38,510 --> 00:42:43,410
There's no other questions. I'll just keep moving. It's got along. There's another agenda

520
00:42:43,410 --> 00:42:49,110
items. There's an information discussion packet. I encourage everyone to review this information.

521
00:42:49,250 --> 00:42:54,530
If you haven't had a chance to do so, we're welcome to have a discussion. If anybody has any points

522
00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:55,810
of request.

523
00:42:57,890 --> 00:43:05,150
Chair, I just do want to direct everyone to please take a look at the Strategic Year

524
00:43:05,150 --> 00:43:13,950
and year report. You know we have you approve our strategic plan every single year and we make sure

525
00:43:13,950 --> 00:43:18,690
that it aligns with the Board of Higher Education's strategic plan with the system's strategic plan

526
00:43:19,390 --> 00:43:25,790
and that it aligns with what our mission and role is in the direction receiving from the legislature

527
00:43:25,790 --> 00:43:30,390
but we also want to make sure that it's being in the needs of our students and our and our broader

528
00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:40,970
community. While we report on this quarterly, I would like that we keep our strategic plan

529
00:43:40,970 --> 00:43:44,630
just a handful of key critical areas.

530
00:43:47,050 --> 00:43:51,250
We were able to meet all of our strategic plan goals

531
00:43:51,250 --> 00:44:00,370
this year. They do make a difference. We just received our preliminary report from the

532
00:44:00,370 --> 00:44:07,670
growth funding and performance funding and we were able to meet those benchmarks, but

533
00:44:08,370 --> 00:44:09,450
growth is growth.

534
00:44:10,730 --> 00:44:16,770
I'm less concerned about that, but that performance funding is based on our students completing and going to work.

535
00:44:17,190 --> 00:44:18,010
That is our mission.

536
00:44:18,810 --> 00:44:27,190
And with this leadership of this board, the past four years have said we want to have a culture of completion at ARC and

537
00:44:27,190 --> 00:44:32,810
we protect. You don't want to just out our chest and say, we serve 20,000 students a year,

538
00:44:33,290 --> 00:44:38,530
sort of 7,900. And yes, I can say that's almost doubled since COVID.

539
00:44:40,660 --> 00:44:41,420
People coming

540
00:44:41,420 --> 00:44:47,220
in the front door are not building our students that complete and go to work. That's our mission

541
00:44:47,220 --> 00:44:53,120
is completers. And with your direction and keeping us just our eye on the prize, we have been

542
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:59,920
able to build that that culture of completion. As I mentioned to you that and vice president

543
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,980
The virtual who, by the way, is at our accrediting body. He sits on the commission. He's been attending commission meetings. He is listening online in the airport in Atlanta. And so I'm not going to put him on the spot. His will hear airport background noise. But he shared that during COVID in fiscal year 20, we were struggling to get 1,000 graduates. And we thought, well, it's out there.

544
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:33,420
that by 2029 will have 2,000 graduates.

545
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:40,000
So our goal last fiscal year was 1,850, 2,215.

546
00:45:43,940 --> 00:45:45,540
That's what matters.

547
00:45:46,780 --> 00:45:49,060
That's the long lasting impact.

548
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,780
We donate to our, we have scholarship students.

549
00:45:53,460 --> 00:45:56,440
Our scholarship donors want to know who's graduating.

550
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,180
That's why they keep giving money.

551
00:45:58,820 --> 00:46:00,920
Our employers want graduates.

552
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:06,380
It's their invested in making sure that the curriculum meets their needs for a graduate,

553
00:46:06,780 --> 00:46:08,880
whether it requires the licensure or not.

554
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:17,570
That's the impact on community, those graduates, so celebrate.

555
00:46:17,850 --> 00:46:23,130
Anyway, thank you, and we'll continue to report quarterly on our new fiscal year goals,

556
00:46:23,830 --> 00:46:25,070
but they do make a difference.

557
00:46:25,770 --> 00:46:29,750
They're not just nice to have, and hey, what are we going to do anyway,

558
00:46:30,030 --> 00:46:31,490
and what's easy for us to achieve?

559
00:46:31,490 --> 00:46:35,770
We wanted to make sure that it's really impacting the community and students.

560
00:46:36,910 --> 00:46:43,330
One other thing I do want to mention that I will stop talking and the commission is going well, that's never happened.

561
00:46:44,670 --> 00:46:45,650
What's the one amount?

562
00:46:45,990 --> 00:46:46,150
Yes.

563
00:46:47,050 --> 00:46:52,750
Well, our next board meeting is October 24th.

564
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:53,210
Yes.

565
00:46:55,050 --> 00:47:00,170
There is, and you may have received emails on this, but I do want to mention this and

566
00:47:00,170 --> 00:47:02,150
we'll send out additional information.

567
00:47:02,690 --> 00:47:06,810
Save the date for Monday, October 19th.

568
00:47:06,810 --> 00:47:12,230
This is the annual trustee summit that's held at the University of Utah.

569
00:47:13,390 --> 00:47:17,610
And so if you can attend that, it is very, very good training.

570
00:47:17,610 --> 00:47:24,390
There will be trustees from the other system, degree-granting and technical colleges, and

571
00:47:24,390 --> 00:47:26,230
the Board of Higher Education will be there.

572
00:47:27,190 --> 00:47:33,630
As I've shared with you, legislation changed this past year as a result of some audit, where

573
00:47:34,310 --> 00:47:42,170
there is a need for our trustees to be more involved in certain areas, where it has, in

574
00:47:42,170 --> 00:47:46,390
the past, just been kind of delegated to the President and you report to the trustees.

575
00:47:46,390 --> 00:47:53,990
trustees need to be more involved in some really critical areas of our colleges and universities.

576
00:47:54,950 --> 00:47:59,230
And so the Board of Higher Education is updating their policies and their guidance

577
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:07,470
in how that works. The past statute and past policies were really prescriptive on,

578
00:48:08,170 --> 00:48:11,090
this is the role of the Board of Trustees, this is the role of the President.

579
00:48:12,510 --> 00:48:18,250
Those policies are going to be changed where it says the Board of Higher Education will

580
00:48:18,250 --> 00:48:22,690
delegate what the roles and responsibilities are of the Board of Trustees and the President.

581
00:48:23,410 --> 00:48:27,910
So President can say, well, outside of your lane, the Board of Higher Education says that's

582
00:48:27,910 --> 00:48:29,030
your lane, that's your lane.

583
00:48:29,690 --> 00:48:31,810
And President, this is your role.

584
00:48:32,090 --> 00:48:35,250
And so this is going to be a critical opportunity.

585
00:48:35,250 --> 00:48:41,950
There will be ongoing training that you will be receiving as members of trustees.

586
00:48:43,290 --> 00:48:51,530
I don't know if you or Taylor want to talk about some of the restructuring and your emphasis

587
00:48:51,530 --> 00:48:53,210
on support forms.

588
00:48:53,450 --> 00:48:53,790
Absolutely.

589
00:48:54,150 --> 00:48:54,750
Yeah, thank you, President.

590
00:48:55,810 --> 00:49:02,210
I think the best way to think about it is, and largely, it probably won't feel too different

591
00:49:02,210 --> 00:49:08,630
other than there's been some clarification about your role as trustees and in particular

592
00:49:08,630 --> 00:49:15,430
the concept being you're not only here to support the institution, support the president,

593
00:49:16,110 --> 00:49:21,490
set a vision for the institution and talk about its mission but you now statutorily have

594
00:49:21,490 --> 00:49:32,190
a responsibility to oversee the institution, to regulate the institution and that you have

595
00:49:32,190 --> 00:49:34,090
institution has been good stewards with its resources.

596
00:49:35,370 --> 00:49:41,210
So that means that you have a heightened responsibility to ensure that not only is the

597
00:49:41,210 --> 00:49:50,090
institution healthy financially, but that the institution is meeting its obligations with

598
00:49:50,090 --> 00:49:59,270
regard to state law, state policy, that you're ensuring that your role with internal audit

599
00:49:59,270 --> 00:50:05,450
for example, is to the level where you have direct sight lines into where the areas of high

600
00:50:05,450 --> 00:50:09,870
risk of the institution. What are the findings that auditors have made that need to be addressed?

601
00:50:10,210 --> 00:50:15,230
How is the progress going on that? You have a heightened responsibility in terms of the performance

602
00:50:15,230 --> 00:50:20,350
of a president setting expectation for the president every year and then assessing the president's

603
00:50:20,350 --> 00:50:26,250
performance. You have now responsibility to sign off annually on the budget for the institution

604
00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:28,030
as well as setting budget policy.

605
00:50:29,150 --> 00:50:31,050
So these are all responsibilities that are new.

606
00:50:32,630 --> 00:50:37,070
And as the President said, we'll be doing ongoing training on

607
00:50:37,070 --> 00:50:42,910
what this looks like for you on a more specific setting

608
00:50:42,910 --> 00:50:45,250
and running an institution.

609
00:50:45,970 --> 00:50:48,730
The President remains the chief executive officer of the institution.

610
00:50:49,350 --> 00:50:52,030
Your job is not to run Ogden Weaver Tech.

611
00:50:52,250 --> 00:50:53,730
That's the President's job.

612
00:50:53,730 --> 00:50:57,070
But your oversight role is now more clarified.

613
00:50:58,290 --> 00:51:03,270
It's a double edged sword because that means you have this head responsibility, but also,

614
00:51:04,290 --> 00:51:07,550
and this is why we wanted the legislature to clarify this.

615
00:51:07,670 --> 00:51:12,290
If there's something that happens in an institution which is unlikely, given how well this institution

616
00:51:12,290 --> 00:51:18,170
has run, the question will eventually be, well, happened at the oversight level.

617
00:51:18,630 --> 00:51:26,250
You know, where you meeting your responsibilities as a board, and our job now in our view is

618
00:51:26,710 --> 00:51:31,030
we're here to make sure that you have the necessary support and guidance resources

619
00:51:31,030 --> 00:51:34,730
so that you never have to answer, we didn't know what we were supposed to do,

620
00:51:34,830 --> 00:51:37,770
or we weren't put in a position to have the kind of oversight we need.

621
00:51:39,090 --> 00:51:43,510
So in addition to the fact that you have been well supportive and continue to be well supported

622
00:51:43,510 --> 00:51:46,670
by the leadership of this institution and your role as trustees,

623
00:51:47,490 --> 00:51:56,470
We've made internal changes in the commissioner's office to give you much more ongoing guidance

624
00:51:56,470 --> 00:51:57,850
and support from our office.

625
00:51:58,670 --> 00:52:04,550
So, Taylor, Adams, Katie, Mazzie from my office, we've changed their responsibilities and

626
00:52:04,550 --> 00:52:09,490
duties and also shifted things out of my office to make sure that now their primary responsibilities

627
00:52:09,490 --> 00:52:14,110
and duties are to assist you in meeting your responsibilities and trustees.

628
00:52:15,870 --> 00:52:19,650
And this is not us coming in and saying, we're spying on you to make sure you're doing

629
00:52:19,650 --> 00:52:20,010
your job.

630
00:52:20,250 --> 00:52:22,210
This is us saying, how can we help you do your job?

631
00:52:22,850 --> 00:52:25,710
How can we make sure you have the resources necessary to meet this obligation?

632
00:52:26,070 --> 00:52:28,310
How can we help you understand the scope of your responsibility?

633
00:52:29,190 --> 00:52:32,670
How can we help you understand the difference between what the president's responsibility

634
00:52:32,670 --> 00:52:35,870
is, your responsibility, the Board of Higher Education's responsibility?

635
00:52:36,750 --> 00:52:39,170
Do you need resources in order to meet this obligation?

636
00:52:39,350 --> 00:52:40,850
Do you need information you don't have?

637
00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:42,230
Can we help you get that quickly?

638
00:52:43,350 --> 00:52:47,290
Can we help put you in a position to make the right decisions and to be at the right level

639
00:52:47,290 --> 00:52:51,810
of oversight and not too far down in the weeds to where you're taking up all your time

640
00:52:51,810 --> 00:52:58,070
spending significant amounts of your bandwidth on stuff that probably isn't necessary.

641
00:52:58,810 --> 00:53:02,590
This is all things that we're going to be helping you with on an ongoing basis.

642
00:53:02,890 --> 00:53:09,050
So yes, we've done annual training for trustees and it's gotten better over the years

643
00:53:09,050 --> 00:53:12,550
but meeting once a year to talk about your responsibilities just isn't enough.

644
00:53:13,770 --> 00:53:21,750
So the idea here is that you'll always now have a resource that will be here to help guide and support you in your role with trustees and help you learn the different responsibilities.

645
00:53:22,190 --> 00:53:25,790
So you'll be seeing a lot more of us, and that's only in a support role.

646
00:53:26,450 --> 00:53:28,790
And we hope that you feel that increased support.

647
00:53:29,250 --> 00:53:35,970
I think that if this works the way it's supposed to, you'll find that your job while the responsibilities have increased,

648
00:53:35,970 --> 00:53:40,510
the level of support has made your job hopefully even easier than would be for it.

649
00:53:45,060 --> 00:53:45,740
Thank you, Commissioner.

650
00:53:47,780 --> 00:53:50,760
Yes, I must need what it is.

651
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:57,280
But do you answer a two-part question for me, yes, or two questions, I guess.

652
00:53:58,060 --> 00:54:05,840
One is, who in the community scream and loudest for what graduates, and the second is, I noticed

653
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:13,020
we were state and just was a 15 new degree, say, to stab it, the community asked

654
00:54:13,020 --> 00:54:18,680
them for anything that we don't offer. Great questions. Great, great questions.

655
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:23,440
So, well, that, I think.

656
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,480
After this, the majority of this board represents

657
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:34,060
business industry, but I will tell you, the loudest one happens to be your

658
00:54:34,060 --> 00:54:40,760
employer. And it's not one person from Northrop Grumman. It's about 12 different departments

659
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:46,920
that all report to a different senior vice president in Washington DC. Aerospace defense

660
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:54,080
and then their subcontractors and advanced manufacturing is very, very big in this area.

661
00:54:54,960 --> 00:55:01,860
And it's getting continued. And it's getting bigger and bigger. And so wherever we see someone

662
00:55:01,860 --> 00:55:08,780
one who can soak up all of the automation technicians coming out of Davis Tech and Ogden

663
00:55:08,780 --> 00:55:09,340
Weaver Tech.

664
00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:15,040
If one employer can take all of our current graduates, we are leaving everyone else that

665
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,800
works at Frisinius and Otto Lee Shortman.

666
00:55:20,140 --> 00:55:26,120
And so automation will be a continued biggest emphasis plumbing and electrical.

667
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:32,800
the need for electricians is huge. That again has to do with just not construction.

668
00:55:33,340 --> 00:55:40,980
That really has to do, again, with aerospace events. I know that it's a hot button ticket to talk about data centers.

669
00:55:41,780 --> 00:55:48,000
But even if we don't talk about data centers, as we look at Project Gigawatt,

670
00:55:48,100 --> 00:55:51,380
Project Gigawatt will not happen without electricians.

671
00:55:52,620 --> 00:55:55,660
There's, you may have seen in the paper, there was an announcement.

672
00:55:56,260 --> 00:55:58,860
Many of you are aware of high tech and whole tech.

673
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:08,220
We've talked about their part, their building small modular reactors in Brigham City,

674
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,120
that will go all over the country and eventually here in Utah.

675
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:18,060
That production facilities in Brigham City, before they selected Utah,

676
00:56:18,060 --> 00:56:26,220
I thought they spent a full week with Art and Weber Tech, Davis Tech, and they had more land in Bergen City.

677
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:29,860
They're moving forward with some really dynamic things.

678
00:56:30,300 --> 00:56:37,300
They just signed an agreement with USU in terms of research and the engineering level,

679
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,500
but that's going to take all three technical colleges.

680
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,160
And that was said in the press release.

681
00:56:42,780 --> 00:56:47,260
It's going to take all of our technical colleges across the state in order to

682
00:56:47,260 --> 00:56:54,380
need that need. So energy, aerospace and advanced manufacturing are our two biggest needs. That

683
00:56:54,380 --> 00:56:59,420
doesn't mean that there's we don't have pressure for the other areas. I'm getting a lot of

684
00:56:59,420 --> 00:57:06,780
pressure for cybersecurity. All of our health programs are in high pressure. And then we have this

685
00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:14,880
thing called the Olympics coming in 2034. And someone who's on the regional and state Olympic

686
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,980
the community reminds me our bread and butter

687
00:57:17,980 --> 00:57:24,920
for our Olympic venues is our hospitality and service industry.

688
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,520
What are we doing to build that infrastructure now?

689
00:57:28,380 --> 00:57:30,140
And so we're working on those areas.

690
00:57:30,620 --> 00:57:32,120
The cool thing is all of these,

691
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:33,600
when we have these conversations,

692
00:57:34,260 --> 00:57:37,440
is we think about it in terms of our regional partnerships.

693
00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:41,280
So instead of us having a conversation

694
00:57:41,790 --> 00:57:43,660
about this is what we're gonna do at our level

695
00:57:43,660 --> 00:57:46,040
but we understand you figure out what you need to do.

696
00:57:46,180 --> 00:57:48,640
These are conversations that we have together now.

697
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:54,620
President Malibu will be here Monday to spend part of his morning with us here at Ogdenby

698
00:57:54,620 --> 00:57:54,960
Burtek.

699
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:59,780
But he and I in the two weeks that he's been here have seen each other once a week.

700
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:02,360
And we talk about this already.

701
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,920
As we built this out, it is what do we do in collaboration?

702
00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:08,120
This is my role.

703
00:58:08,340 --> 00:58:09,040
You're going to do this.

704
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,680
How can I make sure that when a student finishes it, if there's a role for an associate

705
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,700
or bachelor's degree, how do we build this up front?

706
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,240
In the past, we just built them in silos

707
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,320
and then create that they would articulate.

708
00:58:22,540 --> 00:58:24,120
That model doesn't work anymore

709
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,020
in order prior education.

710
00:58:26,460 --> 00:58:28,420
Players don't want it, and students don't want it.

711
00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:31,380
And so, then I answer your question.

712
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,980
Those are the two biggest areas where they're screaming.

713
00:58:34,340 --> 00:58:36,360
You know, when going back,

714
00:58:37,060 --> 00:58:39,160
when I'm old, going back a few years

715
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:46,360
And he talked about the great sucking sound, you know, that was going to happen.

716
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:56,140
We've seen that as a Salt Lake airport expansion, and it sucks so many people out of this craftsmanship system.

717
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:05,660
And then as that started coming to completion, we started seeing that same sucking sound hearing that same sucking sound with all of the Amazon centers.

718
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,540
and now if we start building data centers,

719
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:16,910
it's a feel than the...

720
00:59:17,550 --> 00:59:20,270
We would have to... Currently, if you were to build something

721
00:59:20,270 --> 00:59:24,330
a quarter of the size that was provided in Box Other County,

722
00:59:24,810 --> 00:59:27,390
you're pulling electricians from all over the intermountain west

723
00:59:27,390 --> 00:59:30,290
and probably flying people in other places.

724
00:59:31,910 --> 00:59:35,250
The interesting thing about high tech for their electricians,

725
00:59:35,250 --> 00:59:42,230
A lot of the service that they do in other areas are union plants, so they have to have

726
00:59:42,230 --> 00:59:43,230
union electricians.

727
00:59:43,470 --> 00:59:48,910
The first question they asked is, who can you connect us with, who runs union electrician

728
00:59:48,910 --> 00:59:51,670
programs in Utah, and I said, that's still me.

729
00:59:52,470 --> 00:59:58,250
Ognerweaver Tech is the partner with IBEW for the Utah Electrical Training Alliance.

730
00:59:58,250 --> 00:59:59,970
That is a...

731
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:30,160
I can talk to one person and they're going to be able to help us. Now, they'll need the independent contractors as well. Five years ago, if you would have told me welding would be one of our biggest program, the demand has not gone down. And data's tech just added a new welding building. The demand for welders continues to go down.

732
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:38,800
go up in in our community. And Virgilin does a great job taking care of Rich Cash and Box

733
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:47,180
Elder County. Three very very big programs. There are line programs, we all need full programs,

734
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:54,280
but occasionally I get a large manufacturer calling me that says, hey, I've had a position,

735
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,040
I've had a position open.

736
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,040
I've had five positions open for two months,

737
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,380
and I've only had one person from your school apply

738
01:01:02,380 --> 01:01:03,080
what's going on.

739
01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:04,380
What do we need to do differently?

740
01:01:05,220 --> 01:01:06,120
I get those calls.

741
01:01:07,140 --> 01:01:09,360
So we do talk to the high schools,

742
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:10,840
and everybody about that,

743
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,320
and try to entice these students.

744
01:01:12,420 --> 01:01:13,740
I'm constantly doing that,

745
01:01:13,940 --> 01:01:15,220
selling drugs and selling.

746
01:01:15,340 --> 01:01:15,580
Okay.

747
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:17,280
I mean, no, it's okay.

748
01:01:17,340 --> 01:01:17,920
It's okay.

749
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:19,240
She's a pharmacist.

750
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:19,640
I know.

751
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,360
He's young adults.

752
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:28,500
they don't know what they're doing and like what do you talk about? Well, tech is right here

753
01:01:28,500 --> 01:01:32,320
and I'm always giving them numbers to call the councilor and then the school because

754
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:38,640
they don't understand they have an opportunity right in our backyard with this tremendous look at

755
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:45,600
the jobs the needs. I mean you know it's a need to communicate. That's interesting. That's something

756
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:51,120
that the president Malin and I were talking about because he's invested in putting some navigators

757
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:56,960
in Weber and Ognes school district to talk about those opportunities.

758
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:02,940
And he says, I want them talking about technical colleges, because just getting someone to sign up

759
01:02:02,940 --> 01:02:08,420
and they're not going to do well, just doesn't help me, doesn't help anybody in the university community.

760
01:02:08,780 --> 01:02:12,640
They have a bad experience at Weber State, they may or may not go anywhere else.

761
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,520
And he says, so how can we work together?

762
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:28,720
And we know that it goes through really interesting cycles, and it really depends on individuals in our high schools.

763
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:38,500
It's interesting, Trustee Talover and I, during our side on graduation, anyone that walked by that had a graduate medal, I would say high school.

764
01:02:39,940 --> 01:02:50,340
We had most of the service and some construction on our side, the most high school graduates we had that were attending graduation, kind of caught me off guard.

765
01:02:50,940 --> 01:02:55,180
I'm used to it being odd in her ben moment. We were high school.

766
01:02:56,440 --> 01:03:06,540
There he is, a counselor and I talked to a parent who said, hey, my daughter is way ahead on her contract not graduate.

767
01:03:06,540 --> 01:03:11,340
She's can be done for a semester of her senior year.

768
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,860
She's last year she was finishing her junior year.

769
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,780
Her counselor said, you have to enroll now at Audembourg Tech.

770
01:03:19,300 --> 01:03:20,360
Didn't give her an option.

771
01:03:20,940 --> 01:03:22,920
And he says, as a parent, this is awesome.

772
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:24,560
Because I don't want her screwing around.

773
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,700
She's a good kid and she's smart. That's why she's done her early.

774
01:03:29,140 --> 01:03:30,900
And we have to do that.

775
01:03:31,060 --> 01:03:32,900
Now, we do have some limited staff.

776
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:34,700
We do have some high school people.

777
01:03:34,700 --> 01:03:43,880
But if you look at all the high schools in charter schools, it's a lot for one and a half people to take care of on an ongoing basis, but we are still trying our best.

778
01:03:44,940 --> 01:03:52,780
I don't like being the best kept secret. I hate when we have someone that says, I wish I would have done this in high school.

779
01:03:54,260 --> 01:03:57,800
I think it's the council, it's exactly what you said, maybe it doesn't matter.

780
01:03:57,840 --> 01:03:59,340
Is councilor sometimes it's a teacher?

781
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:03,620
Yes, and the teachers, those are the educators, they're the first people to talk.

782
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:12,520
So, I will let you know Paul that for the new APEC center, also called the Catalyst Center

783
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:16,020
or I don't know what it's going to be called, the Taggers Center of Excellence.

784
01:04:21,780 --> 01:04:28,200
We have been even with their application, and now that there's been funding, we have

785
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:33,120
space identified for us to put full programs in this space.

786
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:34,460
Now this does two things.

787
01:04:35,420 --> 01:04:41,700
One, it allows it's easier for the student to access post-secondary education and not

788
01:04:41,700 --> 01:04:45,100
just do it as exploration but for meaningful certificates.

789
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:50,020
The second thing it does is it reduces the demand of the need for the high school student

790
01:04:50,020 --> 01:04:54,820
to be on our campus, and if it's a high demand program, we can immediately backfill that with adults.

791
01:04:56,580 --> 01:05:00,740
So we are targeting programs that have waiting lists that will be replicated.

792
01:05:01,260 --> 01:05:05,520
They have the space, they have the infrastructure, we have the funding for equipment,

793
01:05:06,140 --> 01:05:11,040
and we'll put staff in there, and that way we have another ability to partner.

794
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,340
Now, we could just sit there and go, well, this is ridiculous.

795
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:18,520
You go ahead and do your catalyst APEC center and we'll do our thing.

796
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:25,480
We had the conversation of how do we do this in collaboration before they put their application in.

797
01:05:26,660 --> 01:05:29,840
Then I got a call from their board chair to say, is this going to work?

798
01:05:30,780 --> 01:05:32,300
We want to make sure that we're partnered.

799
01:05:32,540 --> 01:05:34,860
It's a good thing that the board chair is not afraid to call me.

800
01:05:36,940 --> 01:05:37,640
Speed dial.

801
01:05:37,900 --> 01:05:38,560
Speed dial.

802
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:44,480
and said, you don't want to apply if this is going to put a sideways with what we're trying to do together

803
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,660
between the school district and the technical college and our university partners.

804
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:56,700
And we learned from some other catalyst centers where that had been done in a silo

805
01:05:56,700 --> 01:06:01,460
and it caused friction down the road and we didn't want that to happen in our community.

806
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:06,480
And as the organizational district looks at their future doing the same thing.

807
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,200
I think they're learning from what Weber School District is doing.

808
01:06:09,700 --> 01:06:11,820
We've shared what can we do to continue.

809
01:06:12,460 --> 01:06:18,700
We have this great model with OTAQ High School on our campus that is making a substantial difference.

810
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:22,500
This is going to be a little bit different model.

811
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:27,740
As we've shared with you, we now have technical education concurrent enrollment,

812
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:33,400
where it is district instructors teaching our content, our curriculum,

813
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,340
and they're receiving the same credit.

814
01:06:35,340 --> 01:06:38,160
We're looking at not just one model,

815
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:40,360
you basically come here on campus,

816
01:06:40,620 --> 01:06:44,440
but multiple models for how can we help these high school students

817
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:48,180
access this training early, complete certifications,

818
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,000
and you're getting your job ready,

819
01:06:51,540 --> 01:06:55,120
and you're getting university credit for every single one of them.

820
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:58,500
You may have just seen USU just announced

821
01:06:58,500 --> 01:07:05,540
Our full operations, graduates get 50 credits towards a bachelor's degree.

822
01:07:10,220 --> 01:07:13,080
And they've said we've been doing this.

823
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:18,620
We've been working with your students for over four years, validated this.

824
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:21,580
They don't ask the question, well what textbook do you do?

825
01:07:22,300 --> 01:07:26,840
They're doing this based on actual outcomes and performance of our graduates.

826
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:34,100
and they go we can line that up with all of this coursework and it's it's it's

827
01:07:34,100 --> 01:07:39,680
phenomenal and so they have those opportunities present Mal and I will sit down

828
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:43,800
and we'll be working on a plan. What do we want to do?

829
01:07:46,590 --> 01:07:49,950
It's so great for us to be at this point.

830
01:07:50,390 --> 01:07:51,910
We hate losing any student.

831
01:07:57,500 --> 01:07:59,860
The current rule that I have some concerns about.

832
01:08:01,980 --> 01:08:02,820
The commissioner knows

833
01:08:02,820 --> 01:08:04,100
that we've had discussion.

834
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,500
Half of weavers in momentum.

835
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:15,660
17,000 plus students. Out of

836
01:08:15,660 --> 01:08:25,560
that 50% went to college. First year 50% dropout. In part of it is you've got high school

837
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:32,680
teachers teaching and the courses. I'm not giving it the college rigor that it needs.

838
01:08:33,300 --> 01:08:39,340
We're not requiring the same things that they do at the college level so I would look at

839
01:08:39,340 --> 01:08:43,480
and personally I'm just saying I would look at carefully and make sure that

840
01:08:44,440 --> 01:08:50,920
its apples and apples it's not. Yeah and we have to do that to make sure it's validated so

841
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:52,460
and they're actually employer-ready.

842
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,200
And we probably will not see the breadth and depth.

843
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,460
You're going to see with the Gen Ed, it's hot.

844
01:08:59,020 --> 01:09:01,420
This is gonna be very, very specific

845
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:03,640
or awful skills.

846
01:09:03,780 --> 01:09:06,140
Now, we do have a model that we have done in both org.

847
01:09:06,460 --> 01:09:08,060
It's currently in August school district

848
01:09:08,060 --> 01:09:12,540
and we've done part of this in Weber School District.

849
01:09:13,220 --> 01:09:14,780
And that's our AM STEM program.

850
01:09:15,340 --> 01:09:17,160
Those are taught by district employees,

851
01:09:17,440 --> 01:09:20,220
but they are teaching our manufacturing technician program.

852
01:09:20,220 --> 01:09:25,260
and they are all trained through our program and are validated.

853
01:09:25,740 --> 01:09:26,800
There is also a difference.

854
01:09:27,460 --> 01:09:30,200
We have an instructor that visits both Ben Lomit

855
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:34,020
and Auden High School's programs once and twice a week.

856
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:38,100
I'm sure the training is equivalent to everything that students

857
01:09:38,100 --> 01:09:39,720
experience on campus.

858
01:09:40,260 --> 01:09:43,220
Yeah, that's the same level of outcomes.

859
01:09:44,020 --> 01:09:45,100
They take the same tests.

860
01:09:46,740 --> 01:09:48,740
And then we've been validating that through,

861
01:09:48,740 --> 01:09:56,000
If they're hired directly out of that program because it's the exact program that we do on campus, we ask and we survey the employers.

862
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,360
Did they have the same set of skills?

863
01:10:01,380 --> 01:10:02,960
It has been phenomenal.

864
01:10:04,380 --> 01:10:08,260
And those instructors are giving up their zero hours or coming in.

865
01:10:08,460 --> 01:10:09,780
We don't teach it during the day.

866
01:10:10,340 --> 01:10:12,780
They come in and teach it from 7 a.m. to 8.

867
01:10:13,700 --> 01:10:17,200
Now we are investigating and we've been talking about.

868
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,800
We already have articulated agreements.

869
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,260
Students can take the course and we'll get rid of it.

870
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:29,760
This actually, for us, on technical education CTE, our concurrent enrollment actually raises

871
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:30,220
the bar.

872
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:36,500
Instead of us just saying, well that's 80% of what we teach, but you're following the state

873
01:10:36,500 --> 01:10:39,620
board of education standard, it's close to what we're doing.

874
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:45,000
This actually now validates, it's 100% to 100% or we don't transfer it.

875
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:47,640
So it doesn't show up as transfer credit.

876
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,280
It actually shows up as college at an excellent hand.

877
01:10:51,540 --> 01:10:54,880
But it is an incumbent on us to actually go

878
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,360
and let the student know, ain't very enrolled

879
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:58,160
and not be protected.

880
01:10:58,340 --> 01:11:01,380
This counts for both high school and for the Tech College.

881
01:11:01,620 --> 01:11:04,860
And it's our job to say, this is what you do with it next.

882
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:09,100
And if we don't, and we just pray that they're gonna come here,

883
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,760
they may come to us two to three years later.

884
01:11:11,860 --> 01:11:14,380
And it's not gonna be technical skills

885
01:11:14,380 --> 01:11:19,040
if you haven't applied them or built upon them in two to three years, they're going to need them.

886
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:22,220
And we're just setting students up for a failure.

887
01:11:22,820 --> 01:11:24,140
It's still like you thought it through with.

888
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:30,760
Well, I've present Morrison shared all the concurrent enrollment data with our K-16 Alliance

889
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:36,560
because the superintendents are very interested in expanding up because they have a lot of parent

890
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:42,160
asking for, we need more and more, and he says, hey, listen, this is what the data really

891
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:47,320
shows I want to be open and honest and transparent with that. And so we need to continue to look at it.

892
01:11:47,580 --> 01:11:53,040
Concrete a role that does have something nominal benefits and you can have every story we say

893
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:58,780
where to start will have. The parents who just say, well, I have fond of it. The parents were really

894
01:11:58,780 --> 01:12:04,300
did make a difference or students that probably would have been successful at a university setting,

895
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:08,800
had they never taken a career at all. Those are the ones that are really benefiting from it.

896
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:17,260
We want to make sure that we flip the script on those students who didn't think that they were college material, whether it's a technical college or community college or university.

897
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:28,880
Superintendents have said that's our biggest concern. Are those students we know will be successful and think I can never do that and we know they can. What are you doing for them?

898
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:40,580
The kids that are 3.6, the GPA and above that are going to go to college anyway, they're

899
01:12:40,580 --> 01:12:41,580
worried about that.

900
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:50,660
2.6, the 3.4 student who they know, not a lot of graduate yet out, they go, there's more

901
01:12:50,660 --> 01:12:51,320
options here.

902
01:12:52,140 --> 01:12:53,640
So, we have those conversations.

903
01:12:53,900 --> 01:12:54,720
Keep pushing it, though.

904
01:12:54,720 --> 01:13:00,300
So, as for the data, and as we start sharing as we roll this out, be critical of it.

905
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:02,320
Just say, is this really making it different?

906
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:03,700
You've been doing this for two years.

907
01:13:04,100 --> 01:13:05,200
How many students have enrolled?

908
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,200
Of those that enrolled, how many completed?

909
01:13:09,420 --> 01:13:10,240
How many went to work?

910
01:13:11,420 --> 01:13:11,840
How many?

911
01:13:12,340 --> 01:13:13,380
In fact, all of them.

912
01:13:18,730 --> 01:13:22,610
The nice thing about technical education, confirmed enrollment, then I'll stop talking.

913
01:13:25,250 --> 01:13:29,970
Is this stuff we were doing anyway, but did not receive any additional funding?

914
01:13:30,530 --> 01:13:34,770
The system said you're doing a concurrent enrollment, you're not accessing any of the existing

915
01:13:34,770 --> 01:13:39,430
funding because the legislation doesn't permit it, it does not include technical education.

916
01:13:40,070 --> 01:13:45,830
Statues was changed, board policy was changed, we can now access additional funds to be able

917
01:13:45,830 --> 01:13:49,210
to now do that with our district partners.

918
01:13:49,210 --> 01:13:55,970
before we couldn't even access those funds and we didn't ask for it. We didn't know we said, well that's not us. It is us.

919
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:06,400
The foods they gave were cold. If there's nothing else I would take a motion to agenda.

920
01:14:09,220 --> 01:14:10,400
Thank you, Christine.

921
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:16,960
You can get Bret and I have it sidebars and I can just talk after that.

922
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:18,900
No, it's important.

923
01:14:19,420 --> 01:14:20,980
Bret and I talk a lot.

924
01:14:21,660 --> 01:14:24,620
I don't know.

925
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:29,700
The stir some additional interest.

926
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:35,340
If there's any kind of onsite, some of the employers that are really

927
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:40,780
and they would have been able to let the internships

928
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:43,760
close.

929
01:14:48,980 --> 01:14:51,280
And that ends now, which is

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:54,200
the change name it used to be

931
01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:58,520
between smellings

932
01:14:58,520 --> 01:14:59,980
I'm just gonna have to do this for you.

933
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:06,980
Okay, and that was never, that was sitting. Thanks, everyone. I'm going to ask you because he's disease. We have.

934
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of thermal as the ballad.