Technology Policy and Planning Commmittee
Los Angeles Community College District
City • East • Harbor • Mission • Pierce • Southwest • Trade-Tech • Valley • West
Technology Policy and Planning Committee (TPPC)
Minutes
Thursday, Sept 4, 2015
2:00 – 3:30 PM District Hearing Room
1.
2:00 Convene regular
meeting
Notes
Action-Item/Concerns
Members Present: Dr. Adriana Barrera, ESC-Deputy
Chancellor; Don Gauthier, ESC-DAS; Guy Morrison,
LAVC; Jorge Mata, ESC-IT; Mario Perez, ESC-IT; Hanne
Espinosa-Frech, ESC-IT;
CCC Confer: Carolyn McGhee, SW; Lawrence Bradford,
SW; Linda Delzeit, LATTC (briefly);
No Quorum
STANDING TASK FORCE/CIO REPORT
2.
TPPC Self-Evaluation
Dr. Barrera stated that Wendy would like the group to
look at TPPC evaluations…but will need to be put on the
next agenda.
Once Minutes are approved they ought to be posted:
draft on internal site? Currently on a public site
Don Gauthier: need to make a (priority) list and add a
check mark for everything that was done
Obstacle: do mtgs at the DO help or hurt? Should there
be video conferences rather than a call-in via CCC
Confer members would not have to come downtown
to attend a meetingmaybe use Zoom which is not
technically challenging. Jorge will do a demo.
Changes to be made: have a discussion regarding the
schedule of TPPC mtgs…Dr Barrera’s suggestion: maybe
10 instead of 11 (no mtg in July, no mtg in Dec).
Don Gauthier: honing down membership; would be
helpful to know the composition of other
committeenot all have faculty
Dr. Barrera: open to language that better describes
what is done by this committee.
Chancellors Directive 70 (small taskforce)revised
1995needs to be reviewedeach committee funnels
up to TPPC.
TPPC has overarching authority but Build has brought
up issues with individual colleges instead of going to the
TPPC.
st
Don: composition of College Committee: 1 week of a
semester is not a good time to meet; a smaller
membership is more viable.
Jorge: create a feedback loop for more inclusion let
colleges know about a project and ask for feedback.
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Technology Policy and Planning Commmittee
Los Angeles Community College District
City • East • Harbor • Mission • Pierce • Southwest • Trade-Tech • Valley • West
3.
4. ?
Bill Sewell and Camille could not be here today.
SIS is negotiating a contract with Cyber; they will finish in
2017 which is one year later than anticipated allows
for more testing not a problem because we pay a fixed
price. However, about $80 will now come out of
operational funds instead of bond funds.
Dr. Barrera: Mathematica update: J. Watson contacted
Neil Duncan regarding the purchase of tutorials for
math. It’s a knowledge-based database. Chancellor will
fund it this year: $36K, use it as a districtwide pilot, then
create an RFP. If Mathematica is the selected company
the price would go down. Put on Oct 7 Board Agenda
NEW BUSINESS
5.
Mario Perez: What happened recently at the Data
Center when it went down because of an explosion
across the street.
Dr. Barrera: Completion of Valley College is a priority. If
it was in operation, students could have been able to
register in real time. The building is there and so is some
of the equipment (need equipment list and rationale.
Cost was sent by Ed Molina). Some of the Hardware
needs to be purchased/installed/configured to mirror
image the ESC Data Center and to make sure there is
connectivity between Valley and ESC
Linda Delzeit: Problems with identity theft. Need to look
at username and e-mail format.
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