EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Community Advancement Division Council
June 17, 2015
Department Updates
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Career Pathways – Richard Gonzalez:
We are closing out the year for AMETLL (Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Linked Learning). We are closing out the year with invoices, budget reports and the growth plan
for the whole consortium. CAA: We have been doing the recruiting. We are doing recruiting
sessions for the fall every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. We recruit from different areas. On
the CTE STEM Teacher Pipeline we are doing workshops and paid student internships, where
they will be working at El Camino and other colleges. The on-core STEM teacher, we’re looking
at sending people who already have a career back to school at Cal State so that they can look at
going from engineering into teaching. We’re trying to hire a Student Support Specialist. On the
high school side, we just finished our concurrent enrollment program. We did have some issues
this year with the CCC applied website, the state website, with the on-line application. We lost a
lot of students between fall and spring. At CAMS, the school I take care of, we had about 50%
who did not enroll for the spring because they had issues. We went to the campuses to help
them out. Hopefully, this coming semester we won’t see those problems.
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Center for Applied Competitive Technologies – Tracy Traina:
1) Our first DSN (Deputy Sector Navigator) close-out was submitted this month.
2) We received another $100,000.00 in funding to support high school and middle school
programs, such as PLTW (Project Lead the Way).
3) Mentor Protégé program is entering year 3 of a 3 year contract. Currently working on closing
out year 2.
4) Certification Training: We completed our 1st Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) class in
February. We are offering a Six Sigma Black Belt in August. Our 2nd CQE class will be held
in October.
5) H1B: We are finished our 5th 2-week session of Soldering classes, and have 5 more sessions
to go. Hiring has picked up and a company has hired five of our students. We will be offering
a Summer Machine Tool class at Compton.
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Community Education – Veronica Mendoza: (not in attendance):
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Center for Customized Training (CCT) – Maricela Vital
1) ETP: We are attending Employment Training Panel meetings in Sacramento on a more
regular basis. The Community College Collaborative efforts are improving the ETP
understanding of our effectiveness. Current funding: ET14-800 AB118 Alternative &
Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Program – Term August 5, 2013 to August 4, 2015.
ET15-0804 (Supplement) AB118 Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology
Program – Term January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2016. ET14-0217 Two-Year Core Contract
– Term November 25, 2013 – November 24, 2015. ET15-0427 – New Two Year Core
Contract – Term May 4, 2015 – May 3, 2017.
2) Contract Education Training: City of Torrance continues with Development Dimensions
International Aspiring Supervisor Track training through late August.
3) Other Activities: Our department attended the Space Tech Expo Conference May 19-21 at
the Long Beach Convention Center. Eldon attended the Contract Education Summit in San
Jose in early May. End of year deadlines and budgets.
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Grants – Jennifer Hutcherson:
1) Grant proposal submission(s): Letter of Inquire submitted to Keck Foundation for the
VSTARS program. A conference call has been set up with Keck for Monday, July 6th.
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2) Grant proposals(s) in progress and/or planned: Facilities is hoping to apply for funding a
mobile veterinarian van to visit twice a year to spay/neuter and release the exiting feline
population on campus. Companies such as Petco offer small grants for spay and neuter
programs that we will be looking at.
Foster/Kinship is looking to fund a coordinator and provide money for textbooks and school
supplies to support foster youth. We are looking at applying to California Wellness
Foundation. In addition, the ECC Foundation is interested in partnering with a foundation
they have connections with it support foster youth, and there may be some fundig available
linked with the Student Equity program.
Grant proposals Not Awarded: Career Pathways Trust round 2 was not awarded.
Grant Updates: AB86 Adult Education Planning grant is ending 6/30/15. The implementation
grant will follow. Amounts and dates have not been announced.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities grant was originally supposed to end 6/30/15 but
the Chancellor’s Office has decided to extend the grant one more year and will provide at
least $70,000 additional dollars to add more HBCUs and continue efforts to link the schools to
California community colleges.
3) General Update(s): For the next Grant Managers Forum we are considering a training
session that covers the changes in Federal OMB grant regulations.
We have made a few changes to the businessassist.org website. If you want to check your
individuals areas on the site and make suggestions for changes, please e-mail Jenny
(jhutcherson@elcamino.edu). Management is discussing re-doing the site, but minor
changes can be made until then.
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Small Business Development Center – LauraLee Garinger: (not in attendance)
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Workplace Learning Resource Center – Maryann Cohan:
1) Terminal Island: Job Fair in August. Denise will present classroom prep for interviews. This
year TI wants employers to interview.
Welding: Final year 1/26 – 5/14/15, Instructor Henry Jackson. Contract has been extended
another 420 hours and will complete by 9/30/15. New 5-yr Welding contract 10/1/15-9/30/20
is out for bid.
Parenting: 5-Year contract – Began 2/10/15 - Instructor Bobbie Lanham. Sessions 1 & 2
completed; Session 3 to begin July 7th and Session 4 to begin August 11th.
2) Metropolitan Detention Center: Parenting 5-Year contract began 3/25/15 – Instructor –
Theresa Reed. On-going. MDC is looking for educational opportunities for soon to be
released inmates.
3) Maritime Training: STCW-95:
STCW, Lifeboat and Security Awareness to be held monthy.
New 16-man raft purchased and delivered to ECC pool
Advanced Fire Scheduled for week of August 3, 2015. 5 days at ECC Fire Academy.
Tankerman: Instructor, Johnathan Brainard. Class to begin week of July 20, 2015.
Medical Provider: removed from schedule.
Vessel Security Officer (VSO): Need to submit changes for approval.
Effective Feb 1, 2013 all workers who tend to off-shore rigs must have fire training.
Effective Jan 12, 2014 all seafarers must have Security Duties certification.
Roberto is working on the course description and testing for a Leadership and Teamwork
class right now to get approval. This coming January this will be mandatory for all seamen.
We also revised our STCW brochure. The BTC phone number was added in the new
brochure so that the front desk will also be receiving calls regarding classes.
Discussion
a) Presidential Search: New president will be named in October. We’re going through the process.
They posted the position and are seeking candidates.
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b) Storage Room Clean-Up: We’re in the process of cleaning out the storage room. The final day is
June 30th. Confidential papers will be shredded. Anything not tagged goes.
c) Starting July 1st, we will have a new cleaning company come in. Their contract is for one year.
d) Minimum wage will be going up in January. Also, starting July 1st, any part-time employee will now
get up to 3 sick leave days (up front). Federal Students will also get them, but we have to pay for
them out of our budget. There are a lot of people on campus that work for different departments and
get paid different rates. So they’re going to be looking at that.
e) Picnic: Looking at July/August. Is there any interest?
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