MINUTES - Lake Tahoe Community College

MINUTES - 4 - AUGUST 24, 2010
Classified Staff
Organization
Comments
Administrator
Comments
Diane Lewis commented on the following items:
on behalf of CEA wished Susan Middleton well
all feedback has been positive regarding the interim search
thank you for signed negotiations and thanks to Sue Niehoff and Cynthea
Preston for their perseverance
there has been a lot of very negative responses to pulling Paul Killpatrick’s
portrait; classified consider him part of college and would like his portrait to be
part of other presidents
Cynthea Preston commented on the following items:
thanked Susan Middleton for all the years of working together; it will difficult to
lose her but looking forward to working with the new team
retirement party will be at Cynthea Preston’s house Saturday, August 28 from
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Leona Allen met with Jon Sanchez whose son did not get in to the Fire
Academy but his best friend did. He attended the graduation ceremony and was
so touched that their family will be donating ongoing $30,000 scholarships.
Tom Greene commented on the following items:
so nice to work with Susan Middleton again after his seven year departure;
appreciate all the support and thanked everyone for the warm welcome
provided a graph the gives an early indication of pre-enrollment activity;
applications since January are up 57% for new and returning students; just new
students who have never enrolled previously are up 42%. This helps guide our
plan in the future (Attachment O).
Sue Niehoff commented on the following items:
word out of Sacramento is that they are working towards budget by mid-
September; a tentative date has been set for September 17 for the Annual
Northern Region meeting. Several staff members participate in a conference
call regarding the budget every Wednesday morning.
have had to kick out a bear on campus and have a coyote problem as well
Jonathan Neff is working on a lot of projects in the nine weeks he has been here
including dealing with some code violations that have not been noticed to date
will be talking with the County to make sure they will still be able to provide
assistance to us through October based on the K-12 issue that has come up
Acting
President
Report
and Comments
Susan Middleton commented on the following items:
an update will be needed at Convocation regarding the progress of the
Presidential search – Kerry David will provide this
received TRIO Grant $1.2 million over five years - over 1,400 applications and
only 100 new applications were awarded; great job done by our grant writer and
the team that worked on it
Datatel implementation is on track for the launch date of July 2011. It has been
quiet for all except the IT staff and core user group but that will change as we
begin assessing our processes and timelines and continue to move forward. This
will be discussed at Convocation. The team will provide regular updates.