But I was told by CNS that
three people have shown
interest on the websites that we put the data out on,
and they said that they were good to run [inaudible].
Good.
Any further discussion? All those in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed? I assume no abstentions in that case?
[OVERLAPPING]
Sure. A resolution 3.1.2,
the resolution authority to
negotiate and execute the college property leases.
Again, an issue we
discussed at our finance committee meeting.
I'd put that in the form of a motion.
Do we have a second?
Second.
All right. Any discussion?
I just have a quick question,
was this specifically for any leases or is this just
going to be for all leases coming up in the future?
I don't remember talking about that at all.
Could anybody comment on that?
This is intended to be any lease associated with
college properties at the given moment
and now this interim period of time,
I'll say the next 6-8 months.
That will be currently updated for
effective September 1 of 2021.
This is going up until September.
That's fine. Thank you.
Yeah.
Any other discussion or questions?
Hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed? All right, moving on.
Resolution 3.1.3,
a resolution to approve faculty promotions.
We received that information a while ago.
Tom discussed it.
I would put that in form of a motion.
Do I have a second?
I'll second.
Any discussion? Hearing none.
I just would like to say all of
these faculty promotions appear to be very well-deserved,
excellent representatives of our academic community.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Roll call.
Aye.
Roll call.
We have to do a roll call I think.
You're right. Thank you.
Mr. Camardo.
Yes.
Mr. Klink.
Yes.
Ms. Kerr.
Yes.
Mr. Franceschelli.
Yes.
Ms. Brown.
Yes.
Ms. Van Buskirk.
Yes.
We also have Alaina has joined us.
Oh, I'm sorry, Alaina.
Ms. Bates.
No, it's okay.
Yes.
The motion carries.
The last resolution from
the finance and audit committee is resolution 3.1.4.
That's the resolution to approve
the 2021-2022 tuition and fee schedule,
which again, we discussed
at the finance committee meeting.
I'll put that in the form of a motion.
Can we have a second?
Second.
Any discussion?
Marian, I would just like to say that I
appreciate all the hard work put into this,
not to see an increase in tuition next year.
I think it's going to help out with
the tough year were coming off of.
I appreciate all the hard work
that was done in this area.
I would second that most heartily. Any other discussion?
Just that we appreciate that.
We obviously are trying to be mindful of
not only the students circumstance, family circumstance,
but certainly being mindful of
all the other revenue resources that we have.
We're going to be looking to bring
a full college operating budget to
you in June for your consideration approval.
The approval of this tuition of
fee schedule helps us solidify
our assumptions on the revenue pieces
so we can complete the budget development.
Any further discussion or questions?
Hearing none. I believe this
also requires a roll call vote.
Mr. Camardo.
Yes.
Mr. Klink.
Yes.
Ms. Kerr.
Yes.
Mr. Franceschelli.
Yes.
Ms. Brown.
Yes.
Dr. Van Buskirk.
Yes.
Ms. Bates.
Yes.
All in favor.
All right, and the motion passes.
Thank you, Mr. Klink.
Moving on to governance and planning committee,
Dr. Van Buskirk, please.
Thank you, Marian. Governance and planning had
a extremely informative and busy meeting in April.
I think the high point for everybody was
the discussion at MIT Hub that we had
been hearing about for months and it had been one of
those mysterious artificial intelligence things
that we never really quite understood.
Shauna gave a wonderful presentation on that.
I really want to applaud everyone who's worked on that.
The meeting notes are in your packet,
and I would ask that they be approved.
[inaudible].
Do you need a second Linda, or do you move it?
John, yes, I do need a second. Thanks.
Yeah.
All those in favor of approving the meeting notes?
Aye.
Moving on to resolution 3.2.1,
approval to submit to SUNY a program announcement for
a music AS degree on the Auburn campus.
Whereas Cayuga has successfully
offered a range of music courses for many years,
but has not offered a full degree program
in music and whereas
transfer paths to baccalaureate
music programs and diverse music careers are plentiful.
Whereas many music students travel to other colleges,
while other perspective music students
are unable to travel far from Auburn for classes,
and whereas a music degree program
will attract new students and now therefore,
be it resolved that
the Board of Trustees of Cayuga Community College,
hereby approves the submission to SUNY of
a program announcement for
the proposed AS degree in music.
I make that as a motion.
Do we have a second?
Second.
Any discussion?
Well, because we had so much on
our agenda at our committee meeting,
we did not discuss this in any kind of detail,
so I do have a couple of questions.
A, will we be having any new faculty if this is approved?
Music, that's pretty broad.
What kind of music?
Have we got performance, voice, instruments,
what are we talking about or
just theory and appreciation on one thing and another?
If somebody could address that,
I'd be tickled pink.
I would be happy to defer to
Steve Keeler on this
who's close and I think can speak to that.
Sure. Thanks, Ryan. Hopefully everybody can hear me.
We're not hiring any faculty.
We currently have a full-time music
faculty member, Michael Cortez.
We have a strong core of
agile music faculty who
have been with us for a long time.
We currently offer a range of theory courses,
appreciation courses, as well
as vocal and instrument, and performance courses.
We currently have a music concentration within
the liberal arts and humanities degree,
and this program has grown out of that concentration.
I think we've worked very hard
in the last 10 years in developing facilities for music.
I think we're well poised to have
a music degree program at this point.
Thank you, Steve. That's exactly
the kind of thing I wanted to know.
Any further discussion?
Hearing none. All those in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed? Motion carries.
3.2.2 at the academic management contract,
a memorandum of understanding,
be it resolved that
the attached Memorandum of Agreement between
the Chief Executive Officer of
Cayuga Community College and the president
of the Cayuga Community College Faculty Association
be adopted as part and parcel of
the 2023 contract between
the Board of Trustees and the Faculty Association.
I make that as a motion.
Do we have a second?
Second.
Any further discussion?
I know Brian's been working on that for
a long time and I want to congratulate him
and Eric Caesar and everybody else who's worked
on streamlining and modernizing our management structure.
I'm sure Brian has a few words to say.
Thanks I appreciate that.
[NOISE] The result of this MLA and agreement
with the faculty association leadership and their body,
I think is one that represents
a collaborative and intensive process that we were
able to get to agreement based
on all parties being committed to hearing each other,
and [NOISE] understanding each
other and ultimately [NOISE]
point of agreeing to
what the modern academic management structure
could be and how we can move forward.
I just want to express our appreciation for
administration's perspective to the leadership
of the Faculty Association,
the faculty as a whole, it's for their openness and
their equal passion to
come to resolution on this in such time.
This is actually been agreed upon for
a few months and we've taken our time to
work it through the process to get it to you,
but we're pending your final approval here we are
ready to implement later this summer for a full start.
This just makes me feel really good because
I remember times in
the past when the administration and
the faculty did not work well together.
So I just really want to complement
the leadership on both sides for this.
It just makes me feel good. Thank you, folks.
Eric, do you want to say something?
Thank you. I just wanted to say that
I agree with Dr. Grant.
This has been a really well thought out process.
A lot of listening on both sides.
We're excited to move forward with it.
We think we've got
a plan that's going to help the college,
help faculty, help students,
and just be a good overall product and
the collaboration is really what made this happen,
so thank you everybody,
and thank you for your support.
That's great. Thank you.
Any further discussion?
Somebody help me with [inaudible] rules.
Does this require roll-call?
I don't know why it would. No?
The rule of thumb is when you spending money.
Well, I'm trying to figure it out, if
we are spending money,
it's under the contract term.
I would consider doing a roll-call on this one.
Okay. That's fine.
[inaudible] modification of the contract,
and it does include
a differential recognition of a new salaries
[inaudible] for division chairs to
be effective, and [inaudible].
That's fine. Mr. [inaudible]?
Yes.
Mr. Klink?
Yes.
Ms. [inaudible]?
Yes.
Mr. Francis Chelly?
Yes.
Ms. Brown?
Yes.
Dr. Ban Busker?
Yes.
Ms. Benton?
Yes.
Ms. Hutchinson?
Yes.
I don't think Angela's here yet.
Okay.
That's it.
Alright. We carry. Thank you.
Moving on to 3.2.3
resolution to adopt a gender neutral restrooms policy.
Whereas New York State and
the State University of New York and
Cayuga Community College Board of Trustees
are committed to protecting the safety and
well-being of its students and staff and maintaining
educational and working environments that
are free from discrimination and harassment.
Whereas there is a need and take
all possible precautionary steps
to prevent harassment from occurring,
and college officials can play a crucial role in creating
a space of inclusivity to protect transgender,
gender nonconforming,
and non-binary individuals from
discrimination and harassment on its campuses.
Whereas on December 23rd, 2020,
Governor Cuomo signed into law Chapter 3-5-3 of
the laws of 2020
relating to the single occupancy bathroom requirement.
Now therefore, be it resolved
that the Cayuga Community College has established
the attached policy to comply with
Chapter 3-5-3 of the laws of 2020.
Part 3-1-7 single occupancy bathrooms.
I make that as a motion. Thank you.
Do we have a second?
Second.
Any discussion. Hearing none.
All those in favor.
Aye.
[inaudible] comes out as a comment I was
at the back and sorry, I was muted.
We appreciate your support.
I know you're in the middle of the vote.
This is obviously [NOISE] continue to step
forward for us to promote an inclusive environment.
It also ensures compliance
with State University of New York Board,
as well as the state of New York and
the overall state's commitment
to building inclusive environments and welcoming.
Thank you, Dr. Van Buskirk.
We're moving on to reports from
the different groups, Mr. President.
Good morning, everyone, I'll be relatively brief.
It's hard to imagine we're in May
what typically is our time of celebration for
student achievement accomplishments and
our employees and staff and
recognition of their accomplishments as well.
We'll be continuing to do so.
I want to just take a moment
to the trustees and certainly to express
sentiments to our faculty and our staff as we
are concluding another academic year as
a spring semester is coming to an end of how
much I appreciate
everyone's commitment to the institution,
their work, and supporting
our students to his or her goals.
It's been a remarkable year in many ways.
As I've tried to keep stressing,
if we can find positives and
moments where it's been difficult,
the innovation that's emerged and I think the
overall visioning that staff,
faculty administration is having as
we continue to re-imagine Cayuga for our future.
I think it's really going to set up moments of
powerful conversation and decision-making
and the years ahead for us.
As we recognize student enrollment dynamics
and how students choose to enroll,
how we engage, how we
reduce barriers for access to education.
I think that some of
what we already knew would be coming will be
accelerated based on more and more students
being remote in the last year-and-a-half.
We really want to be able to make
sure that we are a college that continues to
build upon its momentum and isn't one that will retreat
backwards while we're being
mindful of the success of our students.
We'll have a virtual commencement ceremony
coming up in a couple of weeks.
We encourage people to participate.
More information will be forthcoming.
We also will be looking to at a later point,
probably at the end of summer, early of fall,
where we're delaying an employee recognition event
to try to be able to get the community
together and be able to have
a safe social distancing
or whatever the requirements may be at that time,
so we can celebrate really two years of
milestones that individuals have
been able to achieve here.
We're looking to have that at some point later
on maybe more likely early September as the world evolves.
Obviously we mentioned earlier with
the AMI project were eagerly awaiting bit
opening here in a few weeks and hopefully we
can move forward with that particular project.
The culinary project continues to
be in final stages to be opening.
We're looking to have some opening events scheduled for
that in the coming months or weeks, which is exciting.
Number of students are applying
for that particular program.
Really [NOISE] the college administration,
we're focused right now and trying to create
a budget for next year.
Passing of the tuition and fee schedule
is a big help for that.
Leveraging cares funds as a way for us to keep
ourselves as whole as
possible while we're getting in the years is important.
But I think one of the other messages
for the trustees and I know for
the other constituency groups who are listening is,
we recognize that although cares funds are helping us
minimize the loss of enrollment and loss of
other aid and revenue resources this year,
we recognize that they're one-time funds
and that we have to really be mindful
of two and three years out of
what realities are likely to be for us.
Hopefully we have a record [NOISE] here for
six plus years where we're able to do
so and have the confidence
of board and the college constituencies.
I know that I can be as conservative as
the next person when it comes
to fiscal planning, however,
our realities are clear and,
the uncertainties are becoming more certain and
that's resulting in us just to
be as transparent and as clear as possible.
When we roll out this budget,
we are maximizing our cares funds
will be demonstrating why and how.
Then ultimately will also be
cautioning on what it's going to mean
one and two and three years from now
and what those realities project to be.
We can have campus-wide leadership discussions
of how we're going to address
these realities because that is our responsibility.
I look forward to sharing our budget with you next month.
I appreciate all the leadership groups,
involvement and engagement in the process.
But ultimately we continue
to be focused on our priorities,
we continue to be focused on our success of our students,
but also living within our means
and protecting our interests for
decades to come. Back to you.
Thank you. Academic affairs report, Dr. Cantor?
Yes. Thank you. I'd like to add on
the good comments already made and express what
a pleasure it's been working with folks from
every level on the new academic management structure.
I learned a lot from my colleagues in the process.
I believe very strongly
in the new team that we have coming in,
we announced the division chairs and
assistant division chairs at Fridays faculty meeting.
I look forward to a great couple of years
of varying levels of terms
from the three years with them.
But we're going to have
a new fresh approach all for the good.
Also, at the faculty meeting on Friday,
we announced the new slate of
committee members and a variety of
standing committees and other committees.
Again, we've got some very able and committed people,
so we'll be served well.
Finally, I'd just like to give a tip of
the hat to Emily Cameron and
Keiko Kimura who have been very
involved in the community in a number of different ways.
Workforce development,
community education roundtables and a number of
industries and both Oswego
and Cayuga counties and many other ways,
some related to grants and
new opportunities with business partners.
It's a productive, fresh approach that I
think is going to bring us to new places,
not only on the non-credit side,
but also in partnership with our credit bearing programs,
taking a new look at workforce development.
I wanted to call your attention to that. Thank you.
Any questions for Dr. Cantor?
Is Steve Keeler still on the call?
Steve, I just had a question,
do you have a sense of what
the SUNY Gen Ed recommendations might do?
I guess, if that's going to have any impact on
whether we have courses to meet
those Gen Ed requirements.
If there's anything we have to create.
We're hoping not to have to
create courses to meet those requirements.
But in the first draft,
I think one of the major changes is the requirement that
AAAS programs now require
students to fulfill Gen Ed requirements.
That would require a very long look at
our AAAS programs and could mean
some drastic changes in those programs.
But it is my understanding and I
think Dr. Cantor knows something
about this as well because
the chief academic officers
at the community colleges have been
working on this as well.
There's been a lot of commentary back to SUNY admin that,
that requirement would not be appropriate
for AAAS program and
would really change the nature of
AAAS programs were to come about.
Remains to be seen.
I know the SUNY Gen Ed committee
is looking at all the comments and they're supposed to
have a final report ready soon because
the timeline says that it's going
to the SUNY Board of Trustees at their June meeting for
approval and then roll out in the fall of '22,
which is also seen as problematic by
most of the SUNY colleges.
Okay. Thank you. Any other questions
for the academic team?
If not. Moving on to student affairs,
enrollment management and IT Mr. Rosenthal.
Good morning, everyone. You have my report.
Even though classes have ended staff,
continue to work hard in admissions.
Particularly despite the pandemic
and the challenges associated with it,
they continue to work hard to recruit students,
come to Cayuga and to process their applications.
Student engagement continues to work hard to
register students for summer and fall.
I just want to recognize their hard work.
I also want to share with you, as of yesterday,
we have 29 applications to the Culinary Arts program.
Wonderful.
Compared to 15 at the same time last year.
We've almost doubled the number
of applications that we've received.
I want to congratulate those who have worked so
hard to make the Culinary Arts program in reality.
I'll also share that
the Human Services program
also has 29 applications for fall,
which is remarkable given that this is the first year,
I believe that we're offering that program.
It demonstrates the need
within the community for such a program.
I also want to recognize Eric Zizza and all
those who worked so hard to make
the human services program a reality.
I'll be happy to answer questions that folks have.
Jeff, for my edification.
You're recurring for summer.
When would we have
more updated numbers for summer enrollments?
I guess I'm not even sure when you're summer term starts.
Summer term starts June 4th,
I believe. June 2nd. [OVERLAPPING].
Okay. So you're about a month out then.
We're about a month out, we're slightly behind where
we were at the same time last year,
but I spoke with the registrar staff
yesterday and they said there's a steady stream
of registrations coming in and
they continue to put those students into the system.
We will have a deregistration event, I believe,
the last week in May before
we break for the Memorial Day weekend.
That has a tendency
to flesh out those who were not serious
about taking classes in
the summer and somehow
have a better sense, probably mid-late May.
And most of those classes will be online?
We do have some classes offered in Albert and Fulton,
but yes, most of the summer classes will be online.
Okay. May have to get through
the grading period for those students in
other programs who weren't successful
and need to pick up something in the summer at home.
We also continue to move
forward with our marketing strategies in terms
of utilizing social media
and the airwaves to promote Cayuga,
for summer and for fall.
Any other questions or comments for Mr. Rosenthal?
Yeah. I have a quick question.
As I understand it,
SUNY is continuing its promotion
of community colleges that they
started during the pandemic.
Do you have any sense of whether
that's been at all successful
and how you're being able to interact with that, Jeff?
I think it's wonderful that SUNY is
recognizing community colleges and that
they're devoting resources to promote community colleges.
I haven't seen any data that demonstrates the impact of
those kinds of marketing strategies
but I'm certainly supportive of it.
Anything and everything that puts
community colleges at the forefront of
people's eyes and minds
is a positive for all of us, including Cayuga.
Okay, thanks.
Anything else for Mr. Rosenthal?
Okay. Moving on to human resources and public safety.
Mr. Corcoran? Actually, I'm
not sure I saw him on the call.
I am here. [OVERLAPPING].
You are here. Okay.
I just need to get unmuted. Good morning, everyone.
You have the report for HR and public safety,
which appears rather routine.
I did want to add to it
before I open it up for any questions that we are
going through our annual retraining cycle
for with Safe Colleges
for mandatory training in the space of title 9,
New York sexual harassment and workplace violence.
We've wrapped in Foundation Board members
this time as needed.
We're wrapping in childcare
and soon to be wrapped in will
be training requirements for students.
We will be handling that.
I did want to recognize
[inaudible] who has been assisting with
this endeavor and one new thing for this cycle,
we are accepting compatible training
completed in other organizations,
which we've gotten a lot of positive feedback about.
The two things we need to keep in mind is
that it does need to be compatible.
For example, if it's sexual harassment
but not New York sexual harassment,
it does not meet the requirements.
The second thing is that when it expires,
the person who's submitting the documentation
needs to keep in mind that they would need to keep
that certification up or when it expires,
come into our training.
It requires a little extra tracking but at the same time,
I am getting positive feedback
that people don't have to take it twice.
Other than that, you have my report.
I'll open up for any questions. Thank you.
I was just wondering, could you expand on
the county VMO work that you're
doing with the video surveillance?
It's under public safety.
Is Doug Kinney on the call?
He was dialing in today.
Yeah, I am. The grid's mission is in,
but we have not heard back from the results.
By the way, this is a new endeavor for
Cayuga County before the new director
of emergency management was hired.
That money that was was
allocated to the county was essentially
distributed directly to the county sheriff's department,
with a little bit to the Arbor Police Department.
This new director has expanded
that grant to allow us to at least request money
for upgrading any safety-related initiatives
that we have here at campus.
We're still waiting to hear what
the outcome of that grant
is and we'll see and I'll
keep you posted as it's updated.
Thank you.
Great. Any further question
for Mr. Corcoran? [OVERLAPPING]
I'm sorry. I didn't know Doug was on the line.
Doug, I see in the comments there that you're talking
about the campus landscaping.
In a couple of meetings ago,
I asked the condition of the nature trail,
has anybody been able to look into that
and give us an update on that, please?
We have added some stone in
the nature trail to cover up some of
the potholes and we have
not yet been back there to mow because it's
too wet at this point but we are
continuing to look at that on
an ongoing basis and we know that it's likely to be used.
If the school district is going to be
running track back there for the cross-country,
we're going to have to step that up a little bit,
but we have not heard from the school district yet.
Thank you.
Once it dries out, John,
we're going to have a crew go back and see if there
are parts of the trail that need to be widened out.
As Doug mentioned, if
it's on pace for the school district to use it,
we know that it also needs to have some spaces that
are widened out and managed.
I know there always are other concerns
about the nature trail itself,
but the primary focus this year
will be about [inaudible] laying of any rocks that
exist and if there are any places that could be a
little wider based on
overgrowth, that'll be our priority.
Some of the other passions related to
the nature aspects won't
be able to be a priority for this year,
but we can look at them in our future.
Thank you. [NOISE]
Okay. If nothing else,
moving on to acting CFO and treasurer, miss Nelberk.
Good morning everyone. In your packets,
you'll note that March statements were
presented at the finance committee meeting.
We could not do April statements at this point,
obviously because of deadlines for this board meeting.
In June, we will include an April statement,
but we'll present may statements for everyone.
Really, I just want to highlight a couple of
things as we did go over them in
detail in Finance Committee in the balance sheet,
if you note the cache is up and
that's finally a reflection
of receiving our beck state aid.
It was the 1920 payment that was
reinstated in full and then receiving
our cut in state a
minus the full five percent for the year in March.
As I noted in finance,
we are also starting to see
some of the restricted money come in.
Almost all of the tab is in
which was being withheld at 20 percent.
We were required to pay the students 100 percent,
but every payment to us was withheld at 20 percent.
That is being reinstated fully.
We're starting to see that and some of the other, almost
all of our state grants were withheld 20 percent.
We're starting to see that come in, which is great.
That was really the highlight of the balance sheet.
In the income statement,
[NOISE] the big change was last month.
I had reflected cares round one are
748,000 in their operating fund.
But as I explained at finance,
we are going to be recording that in a restricted funds.
I took out the effects of the cares one.
That money was actually,
all of that 748,000,
the college did pay indirect cost to keep
the campus safe to enable distance learning.
It was PPE, cleaning supplies,
salaries, all in those efforts,
so that was all spent on that.
Cares round two was made available to us
and we finally got
the ability to draw down some of that money.
Just recently.
You'll see a reflection of 1.7 million.
That number may change that we're actually
taking that into the operating fund as lost revenue.
We haven't drawn down at full 1.7 million as
you're only allowed to draw it down as you incur it.
Basically, we've drawn down about
1.2 million and that's related to the full semester.
Very shortly, we would have
the ability to draw down more for spring.
That 1.7 million you may see fluctuate.
We have the entire fiscal year to figure
out how much of that loss revenue we do want to
take into the operating fund
based on how strategically we want to spend it.
You will see that we had budgeted to use
690,000 of fund balance and in the latest statements,
we're not projecting to use that.
That is a savings.
You can definitely tell how much revenue we've
lost by looking at the budget and the projection.
You can see the difference between the two.
That's part of the loss revenue.
But we have even more additional loss revenue
because prior to the pandemic,
we had started our budget.
When we were originally doing the 2021 budget,
we started at an FTE enrollment of
2,140, something like that.
It became evident that that
wasn't going to be able to be achieved,
so we brought our enrollment out of
2,000 and the 2021 budget.
Now we're projecting 1,800.
Really, the lost revenue that we've
incurred is from that 2,100.
When you do the lost revenue calculation,
you look at your normal enrollment trends and we
were trending down about seven percent,
but our enrollment trends were down 20 percent this year.
That difference is what we can recognize as lost revenue.
If we wanted to,
we would almost be able to use the entire
cares to allocation in
loss revenue this year so
that's what we have available to us.
But we will continue to make
these decisions throughout the entire fiscal year.
That number you may see fluctuate.
Based on what strategic spending
we're going to be doing for the future,
as Dr. Grant said,
to keep the college shored up.
This is onetime funding.
Cares three will be 3.2 million
for the institution and 3.2 million for students.
It's very big.
But it is again, onetime funding.
As you can see, we really truly do have a loss in
revenue that we do need to make up with this money.
In terms of expenses.
Some of those were adjusted
for moving that cares one money to a restricted fund.
One thing I did want to say that happens since
the Finance Committee in my unemployment insurance line.
I just had a note that it's still to
be determined because we had
heard that we were not going to have to
pay unemployment insurance for a period of time.
We did receive yesterday a credit of a
146,000 dollars which we will ask to get in a check.
They've made that available that way.
That's a 146,000 that we can
add to the bottom line in 2021, which is good news.
That's it for the statements.
Our PO cutoff is May 13th
and we are seeing quite a bit of activity on that front.
The May statements will
be a very good reflection of year-end spending.
We really should be able to fine tune.
I have the ability now to see what we
spent last year from cut-off to fiscal year end.
I really feel like we're going to be able to
fine tune that spending in
May and know where we're going
to be at for fiscal year end.
Finally, the audit RFP is due this Friday.
I expect that there'll be
three firms that reply and provide us a response.
For the people that are on that committee,
you know that we have a meeting next week and I'll be
getting out those a few responses on Friday.
I think they have a deadline at
the end of the day or four o'clock or so.
Also a template that we will use to evaluate the firms.
If anybody has any questions.
Anything for me Miss Nellenbak? No?
Thank you.
[NOISE] Miss Bates,
do we anything for the student trustee report?
[NOISE] I didn't have anything that was report worthy.
I just know what I've been hearing from students,
especially those that are graduating.
They haven't heard anything
definite on how graduation's working.
I know some of them are very confused
and lost a little bit about that.
Then everybody's relieved that
the semester is coming to an end
because it has been a stressful one.
[NOISE] Yeah. That's about it.
That's all I have [LAUGHTER].
Thank you. Mr. Constantino for the foundation.
Good morning. Just quick groups of [inaudible]
The [inaudible] vegetation has awarded
their 2021 alumni of the Year Awards,
and we're delighted to announce that we have
three winners that we will hopefully recognize.
Normally we would recognize them next Tuesday,
but with the pandemic,
I'll try to do this in
early fall and you will all be invited to that.
But the 2020/2021 winners are Gerald Martin,
class of 1967, who many of
you who live in Auburn and its environs know.
Robert, he was a former teacher
of history at Auburn High School,
taught college classes for Cayuga as well,
both at the Auburn campus and at Cuba Auburn Campus.
We have Robert Smith, at a class of 1977,
who is the managing partner of Castello Cooney and
Fearon in Syracuse. She's an attorney.
Then we have Thomas White,
who's the class of '92.
He is a broadcast engineer
with a Azure and has been working to implement
the inclusion of Syracuse University in
the ACC conference televising of sporting events,
beyond that just basketball
and football that most of us watch,
but all sports for that.
We're delighted with that group.
We are also happy that we have been
able to fund three different projects.
The first one is we've been able to help
underwrite 30 students with the PTK applications,
thanks to Ron Cantor and the academic staff.
We had the ceremony last week and
the foundation is delighted
to have been able to help with that.
We also are happy that we've been
able to help the faculty student association
purchased a refrigerator for the Auburn food pantry.
Dr. Jeremy [NOISE] Flowers
was able to get that in place and
that has allowed them to stock up
more perishables which are
always needed for our students.
That has been there.
We also received through the work of TJ Gamba,
your baseball coach,
a nice donation for a pitching machine.
We receive the picture of the whole team
masked yesterday with the new pitching machine,
which was very cool, that will have included
in our annual report and hopefully in this part.
We'll continue to work on
commencement awards and scholarships.
The faculty have been
great in getting us all the information
that we need to award the scholarships for
the 21/22 academic year.
We're hopeful to make
all 160 or so commencement awards later this month.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.
Hey, questions for [inaudible].
[NOISE] I just have one question,
this is Angela Winfield by the way.
Just a question about the award recipient.
I know that this is probably done by nomination,
but can you tell me a little bit about the process.
I noticed that there weren't any women
selected this year.
You're tying for the Alumni of the Year Award.
[OVERLAPPING] The Alumni of the Year Award we post it,
we send out the information.
Sure, absolutely.
We send that information out
not only to faculty but the general community.
The nominations are received by the alumni association,
specifically, Ginny Kent in our office;
who I know you know from Leadership Cayuga.
She then prepares packets
for a subcommittee of the alumni association;
they review all of those.
We try to keep it to three winners each year.
Last year, we were two,
the year before, we were three.
They then make that recommendation to the full committee,
and they make that announcement then again,
last month to their board
and then to your board this month.
It's general and we do post it in
The Citizen, and The Palladium-Times.
I think he's on the call.
Andrew [inaudible] helps us
out in getting the word out on
social media as well to get people to apply for that.
If I could only because he is
a continual feeder for us
of nominees is Steve Keeler who,
I hope I'm not talking out of tune.
Our turn, he has made it clear
that he likes to get us nominees who
have done well with
specifically their two-year degree from Cayuga,
and that's how we feed into that system.
It's general public with
faculty and then anyone else connected to the college.
Very good. I would love to
see more diversity highlighted,
and I don't know the history.
I can only speak to this year's,
I haven't done the research to look at it.
But I would love to see [OVERLAPPING]
Last year it was [inaudible] ,
who again through the nominated by Steve Keeler,
as well as Judge Timothy [inaudible].
We had one male, one female last year.
Two years ago, it was two males and one female.
I'll go back just those last three years that really
comes up to the nominations and making sure that people
nominate great candidates which we do have.
I should say, for those who have nominated individuals.
If someone is not picked in a given year,
we do roll that over into
the nominating process up to two years.
Thank you. Anything more for Mr. Constantino?
Moving on, we do have all business today.
We are discussing the board bylaws
and helping to approve them.
Dr. Van Buskirk? Putting you on the spot.
[NOISE]
Indeed, you are putting me on the spot.
[LAUGHTER] Thank you very much, Mary.
I really appreciate that.
[OVERLAPPING] It's okay.
The process of the bylaws has been long and thorough,
and I think everything is ready to go.
There was one rewritten paragraph,
I think on the last go-round.
I guess that has to be approved.
I'm a little bit at sea here.
Kathy, could you help me on this?
Sure. On that, did
you share the document that showed the changes?
Just pulled out the changes. You're muted now.
Yeah, I think we did. I think those were send out.
I thought so. We tried to simplify it,
I don't think there's anything
new from the discussion we last had
about it except just correcting
some of the way that one paragraph was written.
Other than that, I don't think there were
any other significant changes
between our last conversation.
Now, this is just formalizing the changes
and closing the process at this point.
There was nothing substantive,
the only change was stylistic.
It was just me fussing about some wording.
Again, it was not substantive,
it was just stylistic.
[NOISE] I think they should be ready to go.
I think they're slated for approval next time.
We'll have a resolution to approve
the bylaws next time we meet, is that correct?
I think that is correct.
That was the intent.
The intent was to make sure it's on
everyone's radar about any updates,
answer any questions, make sure
everyone has the updated documents review.
We'll be looking for full board approval in June.
I would encourage everyone if you have
not yet reviewed the
old and the new and the summary of changes, please do so.
If not, forever hold your peace.
Good comment, Mary. I like that.
There you go. But at least until
the next time we look at [LAUGHTER]
Exactly.
Great, thank you. Thanks for
all who've been working on this.
It's a mind-numbing job,
but important for our function. Thank you.
Moving on to new business, we have none.
We don't seem to have any communications.
In the information packet,
we have the assignments for trustee attendance.
I didn't look at it,
have those been updated with our new?
I did add the new officers in,
[OVERLAPPING] but I [inaudible] until
next month because I
wanted to give them a month [inaudible] [OVERLAPPING]
That's fine.
[inaudible]
John, you're on for this month.
I don't know, might be when you're traveling,
so let us know if you need someone to cover.
Thank you.
Let's see, what else we got?
Well, it's just a contact list, all the rest of it.
We do have need of an executive session. What? I'm sorry.
No worries. Dawn, just
so you know, they're still virtual.
If you are still in
Florida before that then
you'll be able to do it from there.
But if you're traveling, we could find someone else.
We do have need of an executive session
for the purposes of personnel,
real estate, and contract negotiations.
There will be no business after the executive session.
Could I have a motion to enter [NOISE] executive session?
Demote.
Second.
All those in favor?
Aye. [OVERLAPPING]
I'll just bid everyone else on the call goodbye.
Have a good rest of your day.
On the admin side, I just need Tom.
Marie, that other thing isn't an issue now,
so we're all set.