EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Office of the President
Minutes of the College Council Meeting of August 27, 2001
Present: Dr. Fallo, Dr. Hata, Dr. Simon, Mr. Kelley, Ms. Quiroz, Dr. Caldwell, Ms.
Caldwell, and Mr. Marston.
President Fallo
The Governor’s action excluded 550M in the final budget, of this ¼ was taken from the
community colleges. There has been a real strong response from community colleges to
these cuts resulting in at least two editorials in local papers up and down the state. There are
now three Bills with the purpose of reinstating these funds. There should be some type of
restoration discussion this week with a decision by the end of the week. The Governor has
three weeks to resolve this issue. President Fallo may request that College Council
Committee members prepare signed statements identifying the impact of these budget cuts
on students and on the College. If these statements are needed, President Fallo will notify
committee members via e-mail.
College Council Operations & Logistics – Facilitated by Ms. Donna Manno
Committee members identified issues and concerns. These issues were grouped into
categories. A listing of the categories follows.
Service to Students/Community
 Becoming a student centered, “customer” oriented campus.
 Ways to improve student success.
 Do we know who our students are and what they need?
 Student/community service.
 Implementing a student access and student success model across campus.
 Improving student satisfaction/customer service.
Morale
 Socialization of employees.
 Can we increase the sense of unity among faculty, staff and administrators?
 Celebrations.
 Feeling of hopelessness among managers about inability to change things for the better.
 Lack of camaraderie, “family” feeling (culture).
 Campus morale: student and staff.
Participation
 Getting more classified participation.
 Getting more employees involved.
 More involvement on committees and council, e.g., District Planning Council.
Communication
 Communication from top-to-bottom.
 Need to report out for each group? (Yes?)
 Unreliable information (sometimes).
 Should we support a bond issue?
 El Camino College Mascot: who/what is it?
 Shared governance.
Vision/Future
 College-wide consensus, plan for the College’s future.
 Focus campus meetings around vision, values and eliminate unnecessary meetings.
 Need discussion of shared vision.
 How do we implement vision throughout campus?
 Values.
 Accountability.
 Respect for everyone and everything at all times.
Training
 Training for employees.
 Professional development for managers.
 Staff/team building.
Operations
 Time to discuss issues.
 A meeting dedicated to critical issues.
 Board agendas.
 Bureaucracy; too many steps and signatures.
 5000 series board policies.
 Policies and procedures.
 Timeline established for Collegial Consultation needs to be followed.
 Doing a few things well rather than every thing in part.
 Campus appearance.
 Shading excessively bright lights.
 Work rules.
Committee members are asked to review these issues and bring additions for discussion to
the next meeting for prioritization. A decision will also be made as to whether these are
issues that are appropriate for College Council.
Agenda for Meeting of September 10, 2001
1. Minutes for the Meeting of August 20, 2001
2. Board Agenda
3. College Council Operations & Logistics
4. District Involvement in the System 2002 Legislative Program
5. Vision Statement
6. Policies: 7130-Compensation, 7335-Health Examinations; Policy Series 5000
7. Compressed Calendar