Monthly Board Highlights - July 2019

If you were unable to attend the July 2, 2019 Board of Trustees meeting, here are some of the actions that took place.

First Read of:

Accreditation Follow-Up Reports for Fresno City College, Reedley College and Clovis Community College

College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Partnership Agreements with:

Madera Unified School District and its respective high schools
Sanger Unified School District and its respective high schools
FCOE, CTEC Charter High School
Kerman Unified School District and its respective high schools
Selma Unified School District and its respective high schools
Washington Union High School

Held a Public Hearing for the College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Partnership Agreements:

Golden Valley Unified School District (Liberty High School)
Parlier Unified School District (Parlier High School)
Yosemite Unified School District (Yosemite High School)
Cutler-Orosi Unified School District (Orosi High School)
Fowler Unified School District (Fowler High School)
Chawanakee Unified School District and its respective high schools
Sierra Unified School District and its respective high schools
Sierra Charter School and its respective high schools
Crescent View West Charter High School and its respective high schools
Clovis Unified School District and its respective high schools
Dinuba Unified School District (Dinuba High School)
Exeter Unified School District (Exeter Union High School)
Kingsburg Joint Union High School District (Kingsburg High School)

Adopted the following:

Madera Community College Center Institutional Self-Evaluation Report (ISER) College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Partnership Agreements with:

Golden Valley Unified School District (Liberty High School)
Parlier Unified School District (Parlier High School)
Yosemite Unified School District (Yosemite High School)
Cutler-Orosi Unified School District (Orosi High School)
Fowler Unified School District (Fowler High School)
Chawanakee Unified School District and its respective high schools
Sierra Unified School District and its respective high schools
Sierra Charter School and its respective high schools
Crescent View West Charter High School and its respective high schools
Clovis Unified School District and its respective high schools
Dinuba Unified School District (Dinuba High School)
Exeter Unified School District (Exeter Union High School)
Kingsburg Joint Union High School District (Kingsburg High School)

Resolution No. 2019.18 Establishment of an Offsite Location at BW Hive, LLC/Bitwise/Geekwise for use by Fresno City College

Resolution No. 2019.22 Lease Agreement with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools for space in the New District Office on Fulton Street

Approved the following:

Academic personnel transactions, as submitted
Classified personnel transactions, as submitted
Madera County School Boards Association (MCSBA) 2019-2020 Proposed Budget
Construction Bids, Agreements and Informal CUPCCAA Bids

Nominations of Trustee Caglia and Trustee Leal for the Fresno County Committee on School District Organization (FCCSDO)

Held a Public Hearing for the College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Partnership Agreements

Approved the following grant agreement recommendations:

Clovis Community College has received a new $99,388 grant from the California Virtual Campus to improve Online CTE Pathways.

The District Office has been approved as the Central Mother Lode Regional Consortium fiscal agent for the K12 Strong Workforce Program (K12-SWP) regional allocation on behalf of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. The majority of the funding will be passed through to local education agencies in our region and $22,695,114 coming to the Consortium/District.

Fresno City College has received a $70,440 and $393,661 renewal agreement from the California Department of Education to provide child care expenses for students who qualify.

Fresno City College received a $530,682 renewal agreement from the California Department of Education to continue the California Professional Nutrition Education and Training (Cal-Pro-Net) Center. The funding will provide training opportunities and educational resources to adult day care centers and child care centers, day care home sponsoring agencies, and emergency shelters.

Fresno City College has received a $109,955 renewal agreement from the California Department of Education. The continual funding is for the California Professional Nutrition Education and Training (Cal-Pro-Net) Center at Fresno City College to develop and provide specialized instructional programs for child nutrition personnel at the production, supervisory, and administrative levels.

Fresno City College has received a $67,654 renewal agreement with the California Department of Education Nutrition Service Division to provide the California Professional Nutrition Education and Training Center at Fresno City College the resources to maintain the website content and track website activity, and technical assistance to site users.

Fresno City College was awarded a $113,636 grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office for the currently and formerly incarcerated students reentry program.

Clovis Community College has received an amended agreement from the University of California, Merced for the development of the Small Business Development Center. It is a $220,000 award.

The report from Closed Session included:

The Board unanimously approved a purchase agreement for real property located at 1805 through 1835 North Blackstone Avenue, Fresno, California for a total purchase price of $1,560,000.

The Board moved to approve an advance up to $3.72 million to the EdCare JPA.

The Board of Trustees approved an increase to the confidential, classified management, academic management, general counsel, and vice chancellors salary schedule by 1/2 of the statutory cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) plus 0.75%, which is equal to 2.38%, retroactive to July 1, 2019, and approved a one-time, off-schedule payment for 2019-20 of 0.50%, to be paid in two installments, the first in December and the second in July, all of which is consistent with what was negotiated with CSEA and POA. There is no recommended change to the Health and Welfare benefit.

Based on satisfactory performance evaluations, each vice chancellor will receive their annual step increase on the salary schedule, and the Chancellor is recommending extending the contracts for all four vice chancellors through June 30, 2022.

The contracts for all of the presidents will be extended through 2022.

The Chancellor received a four-year contract commencing on July 1, 2019.