EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Planning & Budgeting Committee
Minutes
Date: September 15, 2011
MEMBERS PRESENT
Ott, Jonathan – Campus Police
Natividad, Rory – Mgmt/Supervisors
Patel, Dipte – Academic Affairs
Quinones-Perez, Margaret – ECCFT
Reid, Dawn – Student & Community Adv.
Shenefield, Cheryl – Administrative Svcs.
Spor, Arvid – Chair (non-voting)
Tomoda, Kenji – ASO
Turner, Gary – ECCE
Widman, Lance – Academic Senate
OTHERS ATTENDING: Francisco Arce, Katie Gleason, Ken Key, Jeanie Nishime, Emily Rader,
John Wagstaff
Handouts: Letter from President Fallo to Chancellor Scott and Special Trustee Hudley-Hayes;
2010 PBC Evaluation
The meeting was called to order at 1:08 p.m.
Approval of 8/25/11 and 9/1/11 Minutes
1. Future minutes will focus on content and not reflect who said what. Minutes are not transcripts
and should accurately reflect general dialog content.
2. 8/25/11 minutes were approved with no changes.
3. 9/1/11 minutes were approved with no changes.
a. Comment: Page 2, #10a – request was made to see the letter from President Fallo to
Chancellor Scott and Special Trustee Hudley-Hayes. The letter notes that the issue was
primarily budgetary and that ECC would end the partnership if changes were not made.
Members of both ECC and Compton PBC asked why the letter was not made known
earlier. Barbara Beno, Chancellor Scott, President Fallo, Special Trustee Hudley-Hayes
and Tom Henry had been involved in discussions to resolve the budget issues during the
summer. Tom Henry will return as Interim Special Trustee and the partnership will
continue while budget issues are being resolved.
b. Comment: Page 3, #4 – In October, J. Ely will bring document that shows differences
between budgeted and actual reserves.
c. Comment: Page 4, Discussions occurred between Board members and guest speakers at
the last Board meeting. PBC recommended adoption of the final budget as written, but
the Board chose to approve the final budget without the $975,000 negotiable line item.
Not sure how the District will balance the budget after $975,000 is removed.
2011 PBC Evaluation:
1. 2010 evaluation reflected changes in responsibilities of the committee (as outlined in the budget
book) in planning, budgeting and communication. Meetings/chair component is not in the budget
book. The draft minutes are approved in meetings so keep in mind question #4 is about the final
version, which is available online. It is the responsibility of members to review the final version.
2. Members agreed no changes will be made to the evaluation other than the year.
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3. A. Spor will email the 2011 evaluation and asked members to print and send or email to L.
Nelson. Evaluations will be sent to PBC members, alternates and support staff. Will not send
evaluation to K. Tomoda since this evaluation covers the past year.
The next meeting is scheduled on October 6, 2011.
The meeting ended at 1:24 p.m.
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