Description of Consultant
The Board of Trustees invited Bill McGinnis, a special consultant to trustees, to lead a
workshop related to board governance at a special Board meeting in October 2013. Since
1992, McGinnis has been a Trustee for the Butte-Glenn Community College District. He
also sits on the Board of the California Educational Facilities Authority, a gubernatorial
appointment. Between 1997 and 2006, McGinnis also served on the Board of the
California Community College Trustees (CCCT), including one year as President. His
public service career includes 18 years as an administrator for the California State
University (CSU) system and 17 years as an administrator in local governments,
primarily as a city manager. With the CSU system, McGinnis served two years as the
system-wide coordinator for Facilities Management and taught political science courses
for four years at CSU, Chico. Since 2003, he has conducted trustee training for 25
community college districts and has served as an instructor for the new trustee orientation
program sponsored by the Community College League of California’s (CCLC). In
addition, McGinnis has served on four accreditation teams for the Western Association
for Schools and Colleges (WASC) and has presented various accreditation
trainings. McGinnis has also presented numerous times at CCLC conferences,
Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) conferences, and the League for
Innovation annual conferences on a variety of topics, including performance
measurement in colleges.