EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Community Advancement Division Council
Meeting Notes
November 21, 2013
Present: Martha Aaron, Jose Anaya, Maryann Cohan, Darling Garcia, LauraLee Garinger, Alin
Sanchez
A scheduled meeting of the Community Advancement Division Council convened at 1:30 pm at the
Business Training Center in Room 21.
Review of Minutes from October 10 meeting
Minutes approved as written.
Department Updates
o Career Pathways (CP)– Megan Ruane: Not present
1) Concurrent enrollment – Approximately 700 students have been enrolled in the 40
sections. Beginning now on registration for spring semester. Number higher than last
year. Two new schools are doing great: CAMS (California Math & Science High School) –
superb, Hawthorne – needs a little work.
2) CAA (Career Advancement Academy) – Welding and MTT (Machine Tool Technology)
students are going great. They took field trips to WESTEC, a Los Angeles machining
convention; Pipe Fitters Union; CAA Job Fair and OSHA 10 Training. Cohorts – No longer
MTT cohort, only Welding cohort. We are teaming with the South Bay Workforce
Investment Board for the welding cohort and this means new requirements for students.
No longer 18-25, now 18-21. Eight week HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning) in
Spring possibly.
3) SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) December 5th Party may be canceled because
of low registration.
o Center for Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT) – Darling Garcia:
1) Deputy Sector Navigator: Review and implementation of new work plan.
2) CACT booth at the Westec Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center in October.
3) National Science Foundation (NSF): New proposal submitted last month. We are waiting
on awards to be announced.
4) H1-B Technical Skills Training Grant: Working with partners (Cerritos, North Orange) to
train unemployed and incumbent workers. Cerritos: Process Tech Program/Welding,
North Orange focused on Veteran training (welding, CNC and printing), and El Camino:
Machine Tool, Welding and Blueprint Reading. On November 26th we will be hosting an
H1-B meeting at the BTC. The focus of the meeting will be coordination of projects and
funding.
5) Workforce Investment Partnership: (WIP) (high schools) Coordinators will start recruiting
for our summer WIP classes. We have already exceeded our grant deliverables by two
thirds, but will continue to offer summer 2014 classes at Cerritos College, Compton Center
and El Camino College. Through this grant we have funded the NIMS Certification for both
campuses, paid for instructors, student tool boxes at the completion of class and
equipment. Both ECC and Compton Center have passed the NIMS certification process
and are now fully accredited NIMS sites. Accreditation is valid for five years. Both ECC
and CEC will hold a job fair next week. Employers were invited to interview students to fill
entry-level positions.
6) Mentor Protégé Program. We’re are working with Orbital Sciences and the US Air Force to
mentor Martinez and Turek, a manufacturing company located in Rialto. This three year
program allows Martinez and Turek to be globally competitive, upgrading their skill sets
while improving production.
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Community Education – Veronica Mendoza: Not present
1) We continue to receive strong positive feedback from students on our new office location.
They are very happy to have us conveniently located to better serve them.
2) Reserving classrooms on campus still remains an issue as there is still no proper
classroom reservation process in place. However, having a dedicated Community
Education classroom has helped tremendously in dealing with this issue. We have
scheduled a good portion of our classes in this room. Having this classroom has allowed
us to run classes during the day and the evening for various Community Education
classes/programs, which the students love.
3) Community Education has launched a new in-house Pharmacy Technician program that
breaks up the program into 8 parts plus an internship component along with the
introduction of a Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) Exam Preparation class.
This structure allows students to make payments for the training program as they progress,
rather than paying one large lump sum at the beginning of the program. Instructor and
Internship placement managers are top notch with excellent student success/pass rates.
4) We just completed a series of information sessions with 20-50 persons per event in
attendance for Pharmacy Tech, Clinical Medical Assistant, Medical Billing and Coding, and
Alcohol and Drug training programs. New expedited daytime programs are very popular.
5) We are in planning mode for our annual Winter/Spring history series events; call for ECC
faculty participation has been met with positive response thus far. We are looking forward
to collaborating with some dynamic ECC instructors for the events scheduled for 2014.
6) Winter/Spring 2014 scheduling and catalog design is underway. Room reservations,
contracts and all other department tasks are in process for the current semester and for
winter/spring 2014.
Center for Customized Training (CCT) – Maricela Vital: Not present
1) ETP 12-0143 Two-Year Contract: An extension was granted by ETP due to their system
experiencing excessive outages. Invoicing for this contract was finalized on 11/21/13.
2) ETP ET11-0806 AB 118 Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Contract:
We are working with Cerritos Community College, College of the Desert, City College of
San Francisco and other entities. We are starting to receive certification statements.
Union letters from cities and municipalities are now a requirement.
3) ETP 13-0125 Two-Year Contract: Cerritos CCD, scheduled to continue training through
December. Weber Metals’ Blueprint Reading and Shop Measurement classes (2) are
scheduled to conclude by December 21st. We have sufficient funds left to provide more
training.
4) ETP 13-0217 Two-Year Contract: Our department applied and was granted a new
contract in the amount of $1,260,646. Official effective date is November 25, 2013. We
have submitted contracts for Board approval for Cerritos CCD and City College of San
Francisco.
5) Contract Ed: Space Exploration Technologies continues training. City of Torrance has
extended the term of the contract to December 2014. AEG conducts classes on a
recurring basis.
Small Business Development Center (SBDC) – Laura Garinger:
1) The SBDC is making great strides in meeting and even exceeding our goals set for by the
Long Beach Lead Center. We have exceeded our business start-up goal and are at 110%.
We hope to have even more before the end of the year. We are at 83% for our long term
clients and are working very hard to reach 100% before the holidays. Our Capital Infusion
goal is at 69%. We have such a large goal to meet, $10,000,000, that it will be a struggle
to reach that amount. Right now we are at $6,942,184 in capital infusion. We do have a
large loan in the pipeline, $2,400,000, but it may be difficult to get the loan approved before
the end of the year. Currently we only have 6 attendees for our QuickBooks series that will
end October 15. We will not offer another series until after the first of the year. Typically
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attendance is low during the holiday season. Most people are too busy to commit to a 5
week series.
2) The SBDC will be offering two special workshops in December. On December 17th we will
have a workshop from 7pm-9pm on Covered California Info Session for Individuals. On
December 19th we will have a workshop on Covered California Info Session for Businesses
from 7pm-9pm. The workshops are open to all, not just our clients. The workshops will be
held here at the Business Training Center.
3) Next year the SBDC may be offering few workshops. We are revamping our structure to
include workshops that offer the business owner or potential business owner more intense
learning in areas of a Guided Business Plan Course and the QuickBooks series, Financial
Analysis, etc. We may be combining the Orientation class with the Are You Ready to Start
A Business Workshop. We are hoping this will encourage the prepared pre-venture
business owners and make the individuals that really aren’t clear on what their business
idea entails to do more research and find out whether their venture will be profitable for
them. We, as a center, need to concentrate on the serious entrepreneurs and filter out the
individuals that really aren’t ready to be counseled. Those individuals should be utilizing
the free services of SCORE until they are ready to start using the services of the SBDC.
Workplace Learning Resource Center (WpLRC) – Maryann Cohan:
1) Terminal Island: Five year AutoCad /Blueprint contracts expired 9/30/13. Not to be
renewed. Welding Contract will start up in February. This is last of 5-year Contract
expiring 9/30/14. Parenting 5-year contract has been extended to December 31, 2013.
We will bid for new 5-Year Parenting Contract.
2) Metropolitan Detention Center: Parenting class ongoing. Blueprint for Workplace Success
to end.
Metropolitan Detention Center:
3) Parenting 5-Year Contract ends 11/30/13. It has been extended to 6/30/14 with 24
sessions of instruction. Denise finished teach Blueprint for Workplace Success.
STCW-95
4) STCW Class: No classes until we are able to have fire instruction
5) Lifeboat Class: May have class December 10-15, 2013.
6) Advanced Fire: Depends on location to burn.
7) Tankerman: Minimum of 5 students needed
8) Medical Provider: Minimum of 5 students needed.
9) Effective February 1, 2013 all workers who tend to off-shore rigs must have fire training.
Ten plus students are waiting for Advanced Fire class.
10) Vessel Security Officer: Changes were submitted to comply with the Maritime
Transportation Security & Administration (MTSA). Until approved we are unable to hold
classes. Expect classes to begin 1/1/14.
11) NEW CLASSES: Mandatory by USCG effective 1/12/14, Roberto to submit curriculum to
USCG – Security Awareness Training for All Seafarers = 4 hours, Security Awareness
Training for Seafarers with specific security duties = 8 hours.
12) STCW 3-day Refresher Course: Curriculum is being prepared to submit to USCG for a
new class. The STCW certification expires after 5 years, however, if seafarers have
enough sea time they can take the 3-day Refresher Course instead of the 5 day class.
13) STCW Basic Safety Certifications from the USCG have been approved for 10/01/1310/31/18 (5 years).
Retail/Hospitality/Tourism Sector Navigator Grant:
14) Philip Sutton attended a meeting for “2013 Stars of the Industry Awards” in Indian Wells on
11/19/13 and “Extended Operations” meeting of the Economic Development Programs in
Sacramento on 11/20/13.
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Discussion
a) Holiday Event – Alin Sanchez: I have fifteen people registered. Most of them are bringing
desserts and salads. I am waiting for a couple of people to find out what they want to bring.
Cutoff day is December 10th. (Target now at “not to exceed 40 people”.)
b) SB86: Because of SB86 the community college system will be creating partnerships and
consortiums with adult education programs in our district. Starting July 1st, 2015, the adult
education funding will flow through the community college. We’ve formed a consortium in our
area with Torrance Adult School, South Bay Adult School, Centinela Adult School and
Inglewood Adult School. Funding will start July 1, 2015 and will be based on some type of
enrollment. We want to build a bridge for adult school students to come to ECC when they are
college ready. If we have students that need remedial work, we send them to the adult
schools. That’s a better use of our resources.
c) CTE Grant and other grants: The CTE grant coming out in January for $250 million. A
consortium can apply for up to $10 million. So we’re going to be looking at that and putting
together a competitive proposal. It should be interesting because a community college can
apply or a K-12 can apply. In our area, we’d like to partner with our K-12s but who knows who
will be the fiscal agent.
d) E-mail Protocol: If you’re going to send out an e-mail to the whole campus, put the addresses
in the BLIND copy. If someone wants to respond to your e-mail and they hit “respond” or
“respond all”, only you will get the reply (not all those listed on the blind copy).
If you receive an e-mail with a mass mailing and you want to respond, DO NOT respond to all.
Respond to the originator of the e-mail.
Adjournment at 2:30 pm
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