FINAL
El Camino College
Office of the President
Minutes of the College Council Meeting of March 6, 2006
Present: Dr. Arce, Dr. Baker, Dr. Marsee, Dr. Dever, Mr. Brown, Mr. Middleton, Ms
Caldwell, Ms. Pickens, Ms. Smith, and Dr. Simon.
1. Faculty Lap Top – distribution began February 28th.
2. Enrollment/FTES – is down for the year by 5%. We have gathered 20-25 sections to add to
the schedule mid term. We are hoping to add 80-100 FTES with these efforts.
3. Classified Employee Evaluation Status Report – Marcy Wade reported that there are 23
outstanding evaluations, some of which are in progress at this time.
4. Preliminary Budget Assumptions – were approved by PBC around February 17th and then
forwarded to the President’s Cabinet. The President presented at the Management Forum
the Assumptions that were adapted from PBC presentation and also amended to reflect
changes and additional information received. Assumption number 14 was added in Cabinet
today.
Our anticipated FTES is going to drop approximately 5% as opposed to 2% as originally
estimated. This would allow us to drop 19 full time faculty positions without being in
violation of the 75/25 requirement. With this new information Cabinet decided not to take
$3M from the discretionary fund and initiate a temporary hiring freeze. All positions will
be reviewed individually within the next two weeks. At that time a final decision will be
made as to which positions to go forward with.
Some operational assumptions are not resolvable at this time. We do recognize current
year equalization funds but are not including additional assumed equalization funds. We
don’t know how funds are going to be distributed in the future. We don’t know how the
hold harmless provision will impact us. We have not included anticipated increase in
health benefits. We have included step increases at this time.
The President has requested that the Council meet with David Vakil to discuss these
assumptions. This will also be a strategy session to determine what to do with negative
growth that could result in a decline or negative salary increase. This meeting will occur on
Tuesday, March 7th at 4:00 p.m. in Admin 127.
Agenda for the March 13, 2006 Meeting:
1.
Minutes of March 6, 2006
2.
Team Reports
3.
College Council Goals
4.
Volunteer Policy and Procedure #7500- review/discussion on March 13, 2006