DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL AND ADULT EDUCATION
STATE BOARD MINUTES
Central Education Center/West Central Technical College
MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT
Annie Hunt Burriss Cedric Johnson
Don Chapman Sandra Reed
Ben Copeland Earl Smith
Michael Daniel Jimmy Tallent
Mary
Rhubarb Jones
McGrath Keen
Ann Purcell
Otis Raybon
Harold Reynolds
Allen Rice
Steve Rieck
Emerson Russell
Larry Snellgrove
Carl Swearingen
CALL TO ORDER
Pursuant to date, time and place stated above, Chairman Copeland called the October State Board meeting to order.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Upon a motion by Mr. Reynolds, second by Mr. Jones and Mr. Russell the Board approved the September 7, 2006, State Board minutes.
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
1) Regarding the request of BOTA Committee to appoint a Finance Committee, Chairman Copeland responded that the Commissioner and he were considering the possibility of a Sub Committee for BOTA versus a Finance Committee and would report this at a later date.
2)
Upon a
motion by Mr. Chapman, second by Ms. Purcell and Mr. Rice, the 2007 State Board
schedule was approved as follows:
January – 30 Taste of Technical College at the Capitol – no Board meeting
February – 1 Changed to Wednesday, January 31 to coincide with Taste of
March 1 –
April 5 –
May 3 –
June 7 –
July – no Board meeting
August 2 –
September 6 –
October 4 –
November 1 –
December 6 –
3) Adult
Literacy Conference at Hyatt Regency Downtown
4) Leadership
Conference in
5) During this Conference, Chairman Copeland and Commissioner Vollmer would like to meet with the Chairmen of each Committee of the State Board to discuss their role as a Chair. Details of date and time will follow.
6) December 7 meeting at Quick Start with a Christmas dinner on Wednesday evening, December 6.
COMMISSIONER’S REPORT
Budget Highlights:
Funding for FY08:
1) Stay in School Initiative is very successful and will request additional funds to continue.
2) Fast Track Nursing Program
3) Utilities paid by our colleges. Colleges have never received monies for utilities. Will request $7 million
4) Increase full-time faculty. $8 million.
5) Level Funding
6)
GED Transition Program: Students dropping out of high school need to be reached as soon as possible and transition them into GED programs. Also know how they are transitioned into the technical colleges after they complete their GED
HOPE Study Committee: DTAE agreed to staff, and this committee concludes November 29, with focus on dual enrollment. Our dual enrollment has dropped, and we would like to recommend not counting HOPE hours against the high school student.
FOUNDATIONS: Looking at the corpus of our Foundations, we take all 34 colleges and note there is an estimate just under $25 million. We would like to take a system wide approach and consider development of a coordinated campaign by 1) conducting workshops; 2) building support staff; and 3) compiling a list of donors.
ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT STUDY COMMITTEE: a committee of the Presidents and Vice Presidents with Bobby Arnold, President of Griffin Technical College as Chair, to look at policies/procedures, testing and centralization of student services at all colleges regarding decline in enrollment and offer recommendations to address these issues to be resolved at state level.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION COACHES: Working collaboratively with State School Superintendents to invite high school counselors to the technical college campuses and tie them in with the technical college as a resource for graduation.
GOVERNOR’S CERTIFIED WORK READY
INITIATIVE: The program is scheduled to
begin in January 2007. All technical
colleges will serve as certified assessment centers; providing gap training
support services; and providing requested Work Ready Assessment occupational
and job profiling information to businesses and industries
I. Local Board Appointments/Re-Appointments
Upon a motion by Mr. Rieck, second by Mr. Snellgrove and Mr. Rice, the Board approved the technical colleges below, that the persons listed be appointed/reappointed to the local board of directors of the technical college.
A.
Haydee Anderson,
B.
Jennifer Giffen,
Thurmond
Tillman,
Upon a motion by Mr. Rieck, second by Mr. Snellgrove, the Board approved the technical colleges below that the names listed be placed on the Board table until the October meeting for consideration of approval of appointment to the local board of directors.
A.
Janie Peel,
Alana Burke,
B.
Mary Sib Mooney Banks,
C.
Doug Meyer,
Upon a motion by Mr. Rieck, second by Mr. Rice, the Board approved that the college requests listed below to offer diploma and degree programs effective the quarter specified for each request. Any fiscal requirements to begin these programs must be approved through the standard budget approval process.
(Main, Thomson,
(Main campus) Diploma and AAS Degree program in Marketing Management --
add Entrepreneurship Specialization effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
(Main campus) Diploma program in Electronics Technology -- add
Biomedical Instrumentation Technology Specialization effective Winter Quarter,
2007.
(Main campus) Diploma and AAS Degree program in Management and
Supervisory Development effective Winter Quarter, 2007.
(Main campus) Diploma and AAS Degree program in Fire Science effective
Winter Quarter, 2007.
Upon a motion by Mr. Rieck, second by Mr. Russell and Ms. Purcell, the Board approved that the college requests listed below to offer technical certificates of credit effective the quarter specified for each request.
(Main campus) - effective
Fall Quarter, 2006.
Hospitality Customer Service Provider
(Augusta, Thompson/McDuffie,
Criminal Justice Specialist
(
Computerized Accounting
Specialist
Office Accounting
Specialist
Payroll Accounting
Specialist
Tax Preparation Specialist
(Oakwood, Forsyth campuses) - effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
Certified Customer Service
Specialist
(Oakwood campus) -
effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
Certified Warehousing and
Distribution Specialist
(Oakwood, Forsyth, Winder/Barrow campuses) - effective Winter Quarter, 2007.
Entrepreneurship
(
Environmental Horticulture
Technician.
(
Residential Construction Supervisor
(Oakwood, Forsyth, Winder/Barrow campuses) - effective Winter Quarter, 2007.
Small Business Management
Associate
(Main campus) - effective Winter Quarter, 2007.
Computerized Accounting
Specialist
Payroll Accounting
Specialist
(Tifton campus) -
effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
Agriculture Irrigation
Systems Specialist
(Main campus) -
effective Winter Quarter, 2007.
Automotive Brake Technician
Automotive Heating and Air
Conditioning Technician
Automotive Suspension and
Steering Technician
Basic Electronics
Technician
Computer Animation
Technician
Upon a motion by Mr. Rieck, second by Mr. Russell and Ms. Purcell, the Board approved that the college requests listed below to terminate diploma, degree, and technical certificate of credit programs effective the quarter specified for each program.
Diploma and Degree Programs
(Main campus) – effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
Medical Laboratory Technology, Diploma and Degree
Technical Certificates of
Credit
(Main campus) – effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
Diesel Maintenance Technician
(Main campus) – effective Fall Quarter, 2006.
Introduction to Architectural CAD
ADULT LITERACY
Tyre Rakestraw gave an update of the reorganization progress in Adult Literacy with no motions.
AUDIT AND
COMPLIANCE
Tyre Rakestraw gave an update of the policies and procedures under discussion by the Committee with no motions.
New Equipment
Purchases and Contracts
Upon a motion by Mr. Chapman, second by Mr. Rieck, the Board approved that the Commissioner be authorized to purchase for the technical college listed below the designated items or requested contracts at a cost not to exceed the amount stated by the technical college.
USDA grant funds are available for this expenditure.
New Expenditure
Upon a motion by Mr. Chapman, second by Mr.
Rieck and Mr. Snellgrove, the Board approved that the State Board of Technical
and Adult Education authorize the Commissioner to purchase from Scantron Class Climate and eListen software
for a cost not to exceed $300,000.
The Carl D.
Perkins grant is the fund source.
AMENDMENT TO THE ABOVE MOTION
This is software that is used to evaluate performance by teachers and professors and the Committee was informed that 31 out of 34 technical colleges are participating in this program. The Committee requested all 34 technical colleges to participate and ask the staff to report back to the Committee at the next meeting that this is the case.
Reevaluation
Upon a motion by Mr. Chapman, second by Mr. Rieck, the Board
approved that the Commissioner be authorized to purchase for
Local funds are available for this expenditure.
Comments: Originally, the Board approved this through
December 2006. The Committee’s question
is do we have an external consultant along with an IT Department at the college
of 10 employees? The Committee does not
have an opinion whether we centralize or not but would like to have a
consistent program in place.
Mr. Rice gave an update on the Marketing Survey and the Road trip with no motions.
APPROVAL OF CONTRACT
A.
Upon a motion by Ms. Flanders,
second by Mr. Swearingen and Mr. Jones, the Board approved to authorize the Commissioner
to enter into an architectural contract with Ellis, Ricket and Associates,
B.
Upon a motion by Ms. Flanders,
second by Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Daniel, the Board approved to authorize the
Commissioner to enter into a contract with Malone Construction Co.,
C. On
Upon a motion by Ms. Flanders,
second by Ms. Purcell and Mr. Swearingen, the Board approved to authorize the
Commissioner to enter into an architectural contract with IPG, Inc.,
APPROVAL OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL
AGREEMENT
Northwestern Technical College – Upon a motion by Ms. Flanders, second by Mr. Russell and Mr. Snellgrove, the Board approved to authorize the execution of an intergovernmental agreement with Catoosa County Government, Ringgold, Georgia, in the amount of $500,000 for design and construction of a 5,500 sq. ft. addition to the Shirley Smith Learning Center, Benton Place Campus, 36 Muscogee Trail, Ringgold, Georgia. The 2006 Georgia General Assembly made a $500,000 cash appropriation to our Department for use with this project.
ANY FURTHER
BUSINESS
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Upon a motion by Mr. Daniel, second by Mr. Reynolds, the Board recessed to an Executive Session to discuss a personnel matter.
Upon a motion by Mr. Reynolds,
second by Ms. Purcell, the Board approved Dr. Robert Abene as President of
Valdosta Technical College effective
There being no further business and upon a motion by Mr. Reynolds, second by Ms. Purcell, the Board approved to adjourn at 1:50 p.m.
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Belva B. Strickland Brenda Wise
Executive Secretary Executive Assistant
State Board to the Commissioner