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I hereby call this meeting of the Lee College District Board of Regents to order. I'm actually not going to do anything yet. I just want to get on the record starting because it was already getting late. 

I got to figure out a couple things here. Okay, we do have a quorum. We have eight present and one absent. 

Regent Alfaro was not able to join us by Zoom. He is out of town today. So we will continue with our next agenda item which is invocation and pledge to the United States flag and pledge to the Texas flag. 

Regent Susan Morfantino. Everybody stand. Bow your heads. 

Father God, we come. We are just very thankful for this day. We're thankful as we are ending this academic year that we have so much to be grateful for with our academic programs and our graduations that we just danced with and our athletic teams. 

Lord, we thank you for blessing these young people and giving them the knowledge and the skills and the abilities that they're seeking. Now Lord, as we prepare tonight to have our meeting, we ask that you will be with each of us. We ask, oh gracious heavenly Father, that our decisions that we make will be in your favor.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

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All right, thank you Susan. Next we'll move to presentation of certificates of election to elected regents. I will begin with the presentation to Regent Guillory. 

So this is a certificate of election in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas Lee College District. This is to certify that Regina Guillory was duly elected for the purposes of the May 6, 2023 general election pursuant to the order issued on March 23rd, 2023 by the Lee College Board of Regents canceling the general election that was scheduled to be held on May 6, 2023. In testimony whereof, I have here to sign my name and cause the seal of Lee College District to be affixed at Baytown, Texas this 18th day of May, 2023. 

Gilbert Santana, Chairman Lee College District Board of Regents. All right, we will move on to Regent Gerald's certificate of election in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas Lee College District. This is to certify that Judy Gerald's was duly elected for purposes of the May 6, 2023 general election pursuant to the order issued on March 23rd, 2023 by the Lee College Board of Regents canceling the general election that was scheduled to be held on May 6, 2023. 

In testimony whereof, I have here to sign my name and cause the seal of Lee College District to be affixed at Baytown, Texas this 18th day of May, 2023. Gilbert Santana, Chairman Lee College District Board of Regents. And now Vice Chair Gerald's certificate of election in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas Lee College District. 

This is to certify that Gilbert A. Santana was duly elected for the purposes of the May 6, 2023 general election pursuant to the order issued on March 23rd, 2023 by the Lee College Board of Regents canceling the general election that was scheduled to be held on May 6, 2023. In testimony whereof, I have here to sign my name and cause the seal of Lee College District to be affixed at Baytown, Texas this the 18th day of May, 2023. Judy Gerald's, Lee College District Board of Regents. 

Thank you very much. There is no opportunity to vote on that. It is what it is. 

All right. We'll be moving forward with the swearing-in of Regents. They'll be myself, Regent Geralds, and Regent Guillory. 

Regent Guillory, you are first on the agenda. If you would like to step forward. Judge Joe Stevens, we're glad to have you here tonight.

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You're still not eyeing the item. I got a stool for you, Gina. Thank you for having me, Sheriff Santana. 

Did I understand that everybody ran unopposed? Correct. Can we all hug? I need somebody to rub off on me. It's been a pandemic ago since I've been here, and it's always a pleasure to come back to Baytown Lee College. 

I served for nine years on the Glen Park ISD School Board, for which I was Board President, and I can tell you the job that you guys do right here at Lee College springboards these kids out into life, and there's no substitute for that. I was a student-athlete. I just talked to Regent Fontenot about the basketball team and the award-winning debate team. 

Those are the skills that will carry these kids on into the future. I just finished law school and passed the bar exam. Thank you so much.

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And I don't say that to brag. I just say that to say that the Board of Trustees and the people in Glen Park ISD that poured into me are the reason why I'm who I am today. Thank this job, so let me be the first to tell you all thank you. 

Thank you very much. I much prefer swearing in trustees than being sworn in by them. I love being a judge, so thank you guys. 

So, Trustee Guillory, with that being said, please raise your right hand and be sworn in and repeat after me. I, Regina Guillory, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Lee College Regent of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state. Help me God. 

Congratulations, Trustee Guillory. Thank you. Thank you. 

Next we'll have Regent Geralds. Repeat after me. I, Governor of the state of Texas, I solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Lee College Regent of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the laws of the United States the Constitution and laws Before you begin, since I am chair, I want to introduce Ignacio Rivera.

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Ignacio is my brother-in-law. He's been the attorney for 25 or 30 years. 33 years.

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33 years. He's an attorney. He swore me in six years ago and I told him he wouldn't have to do it again ever.

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All I want to point out is that Ignacio is on the Lee College Hall of Fame. He's a Lee College alum. He did very well here.

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I, Governor of the state of Texas, I solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Lee College Regent of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States and of this state and of the United States and of this state but of God. Thank you. I apologize for talking over him. 

I was trying to keep him from saying too much for me to remember. Okay, thank you very much. Congratulations to the three of us for signing up for another six years. 

We must have not been paying attention the last six. Now anyway, sorry, next item on the agenda will be executive session which we will not have tonight. So we're gonna move right past that and we will move to next on the agenda. 

It says chairman comments, but I've been told that I cannot speak until Dr Villanueva speaks. Typical, right? You folks, you folks know how it works, right? Dr Villanueva. I have a few remarks that I'd like to make to Chairman Santana. 

Uh, David, if you will, uh, we want to recognize your outstanding efforts as chair of the board during the last two years with a very small token of our appreciation. Something in here that you can look at later later. And David's going to bring something out.

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Nice. Wow, that's beautiful. David, will you read what that says? It was made by our Huntsville Center.

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Yeah, right. Over to a Santana and has the Lee College overnight Santana 2021 chair of Board of Regents. Very nice.

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Do you have one for the wife? Because, you know, I think you can sit opposite of one another at your cabana, which I don't know when he's going to use this, though, because he hardly they hardly ever eat at home. So you might have to figure out something to do or take it with you to your beach house or something at any rate. So, Chairman Santana, there are a lot of reasons why people will say that you are an outstanding leader. 

You're well connected in our community, holding numerous leadership positions ranging from the city of Baytown, the Goose Creek School District, Houston Methodist of Baytown Rotary, the United Way, the Chamber of Commerce, the Cat Association and the Lee College Board of Regents Lee College Foundation Board, just to name a few. You are valued by all of these entities because you always show up and you are fully engaged. When you accept a role, you are in 100%. 

Anything less is simply not good enough for you, which in and of itself speaks volumes about your character. You are keenly insightful, you listen and you are the first person to volunteer when something is needed. You get the big picture, yet you can all always get down into the weeds. 

A talent that I appreciate and sometimes I struggle with being a member of the board can lead to a lot of politics. But you, Chairman Santana, no matter what the situation is, you have always valued the harmony and overall functioning of the whole board above your own needs. And I don't think people really understand the value of this very special trait. 

For all the reasons I've mentioned, it's easy to call you a great leader. But to me, you are a great leader because you have led through acts of kindness and love. You lead people to become the best versions of themselves, a gift that few possess. 

I've made mistakes, but you have this special way of interacting with a person where they walk away having made a mistake, but feeling like they've just been complimented. And because you are an amazing collaborator, when we work together, the solutions are better than any one of us could have developed on their own. Though, come to think of it, you are great in the art of persuasion, and there have been several instances in which all you do is ask some really good questions, open-ended questions, and all of a sudden I come to reach your conclusion. 

But better than that, I walk away thinking it was my own idea. When I interviewed for this job and the board asked if I would accept the job if it was offered, one of the conditions I set was that I wanted to be on a team of 10. You agreed and took that to heart. 

You included me in discussions, you asked me about my opinions, and you have never made me feel like I was your subordinate. And that's because you genuinely care about the feelings of those around you and want the people around you to be the very best selves that they can be. You have given a great deal of your time to accompany me to just about every function I can think of. 

You have taken every single one of my calls, and even when we disagreed, you have never, not once, given me a directive or made me feel less than. You always had my back, you always valued my contributions, and you always cared about my well-being. I could say that you are a great leader for all of the things I've already mentioned, but above all, I'm most proud to say that you are a truly good human being.

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And you, Chairman Santana, from here forward, will be the chair that all future chairs will be measured against. Thank you. Thank you. 

Well, that was unexpected. Thank you for the comments. So it is my turn to share a few comments. 

Before I start, I'd like to recognize that my wife, Cheryl Santana, is here right here in the front. Wave. She hates when I do that. 

That's how it goes. So thank you for being here and watching me be sworn in. Today is our youngest son's birthday. 

He's 40 years old. That lets you know how old she is. So anyway, so she's here with me tonight, and I'm glad she is. 

She will be stepping away here in a little while, but glad you're here tonight. Thank you. I really haven't thought about what to say, so I might could just, you know, defer my time to you. 

But just a couple of things. It's been an honor and a pleasure serving as the board chair these last couple of years. When I joined this board six years ago, I think Gina and I were new. 

Judy was was being reelected, and, you know, my eyes were wide open. I was just naive. And man, it's gonna be great. 

And, you know, some of you that have been here know that we all of a sudden faced a pretty significant challenge. And I think that for the first three years or so of my time here in my first my first term, you know, we spent a lot of time building, building back the foundation of Lee College. It wasn't gone. 

It was just fractured a little bit. You know, we we firmed it up. And then for the last three years, which coincidentally have happened to be the last three years that Dr Villanueva has been here, we've been we Lee College have been on on a trajectory that I don't think anyone could have ever expected. 

We've done great things together, and I do consider Dr Villanueva and our board a team of 10 when she interviewed. That was one of her requirements to become one of our team, not not a sub part, but an equal part. And I've done my best, you know, for us to collaborate and cooperate with Dr Villanueva. 

You know, we we understand our roles. There's no doubt there. She's the only one that's running the college. 

We're not, but we're still a body of 10 that that operate together. I've enjoyed being in the chair the last couple of years. I've had a lot of time to talk about things with Dr Villanueva. 

Most of the time, I'd say 90% of the time we talk, we're just talking about stuff, you know, really not really hard. Lee College things on all that stuff comes out to everyone else as well. So there's haven't been any secrets, but it's just been an interesting time these last few years, and I'm proud when I came here six years ago, I simply said I just wanted to be part of a high performing institution. 

That was it simple. I had no other agenda. That's all I wanted on. 

And we're there, and and it's continuing to perform at a high level, and I don't know where we're gonna stop. I just don't think we are. So I just want to say thank you to the board for trusting me these last two years to take a little bit of a lead role. 

It's not really leading the board. It's somewhat facilitating our discussions and our meetings, and I've appreciated the opportunity to do that these these last two years, and I know that the new chair coming in is gonna do a great job as well. Bring their talents and skills to this to this position, and we're gonna keep doing well together. 

I think our Lee college community is strong. I think we're together. I think we have tough discussions when we need to, and I think we come out even stronger after butting heads for a little while. 

So I just want to thank Dr Bill and wave. I want to thank my colleagues here on this board for allowing me the last couple of years to sit in this spot. I'm not going far. 

I'm going that way or that way. I don't know how far away, but I'll be moving, but I won't be gone. So I just want to say thank you to everybody who has supported me in this position the last couple of years. 

Thank you very much. So the next item on the agenda is reorganization of the board. This will be the last act that I perform as chairman of this board. 

I'm gonna tee this up a little bit in the fact that we're about to have a reorganization that I've not experienced. I've only been through three of them, uh, and I don't know that the board has experienced this. So I'm gonna do my best to to walk us through this process, uh, and and get ourselves some new officers. 

And and I think we all know that any one of us could fill any one of these positions, but there's only one chair, one vice chair, secretary, assistant secretary. So, um, building on the process we used a couple of years ago to understand the interest that each member had and then looking at at how people felt about nominating folks for for different offices. Uh, we we took that approach. 

And so there's been a little bit of work done up front to get us started for today, but we still have to meet our policies. We still have to meet our board procedures, manual requirements, uh, and Robert's rules of order. So I'm gonna take us through this process. 

11 of the things that's a little different than what we've done in the past is we do have a contested chair election. We've not had that in the past. And so I'm gonna move forward and I'll if you have a question about how we're moving forward, ask me, I'll explain what we've done or where we're going. 

But I do need everyone everyone here who has experience to make sure that we're going the path we should go. Okay. So for tonight's election of the chair, we have two nominees. 

We have a Regent Judy Geralds was nominated by Mark Hemsel and also nominated by Regent Hall. So we have a nomination and a second Regent Fontenot was nominated by Regent Guillory for chair. And originally, Regent Alfaro made the same nomination for Regent Fontenot. 

However, since he is not here and not participating in the activity today, I will need to know if there is a second from the floor for Regent Fontenot to be elected chair. Do I hear a second? I'll make the second. All right. 

So we have a nominee and a second for Regent Fontenot. All right. So the process we're about to use is a ballot process.

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So Mr Momen will pass out a ballot with each of the candidates names. Yeah. Yeah. 

There's pens. All right. Yeah. 

So as you receive your ballot, please select only one. We know how to count. Select only one of the nominees for the position. 

Mr Momen will then collect the ballot and then I will ask Regent Hemsel, who is our secretary, to look at the results with me. So these are secret ballots? Well, they're not really secret, but we'll cover that in just a second. But yeah, select your candidate.

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Pick them up. All right. So if you'll pass those on to me and I will ask you just like if you will take note, have one for Regent Fontenot at one for Regent Gerald's at one for Regent Gerald's on for Regent Fontenot One for Regent Gerald's One for Regent Fontenot one for regent fun. 

No. One for Regent Fontenot. What is that tally? It would be five for Regent Fontenot and three for Regent Geralds. 

All right we have five votes for Regent Fontenot and three votes was it? Yeah. That's eight of us. Three votes for Regent Geralds. 

At this time what I'm going to ask is for someone to motion that we accept the results of the ballot. I need a second. We got a motion to accept the results of the ballot. 

We have a second to accept the results of the ballot. So this is where we'll say all in favor please raise your hand. Any opposed please raise your hand. 

So we have, were they up? Okay. Okay. So we had seven for and one against. 

Okay thank you very much. Okay so at this time we will move forward with the vice chair position. We had we had one nomination for Regent Guillory. 

Regent Guillory you had noted that you would decline that position. So you I'm just confirming that that is still the case. We had one nomination for Regent Moore Fontenot for vice chair and that motion or that nomination would require a second from the floor. 

There was not a second nomination. Do we have a second for that nomination? The nomination was made by Regent Hemsel. I second. 

Okay we have a second. So we have a nomination for Regent Moore Fontenot and a second for Regent Hall. There was also a nomination by Regent Fontenot for Gilbert Santana for vice chair. 

There was only one nomination so there would be a need to be a second from the floor for that position. Okay so we have a second from Regent Geralds. All right so we have two candidates. 

Are there any other nominations from the floor for this position? All right hearing none we'll we'll proceed. Mr. Moehman could you give us another ballot as well? We will just go through the same process we just did. All right thank you very much.

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Okay we have one ballot for Regent Fontenot. Another ballot for Regent Fontenot. Moore Fontenot sorry. 

One for Regent Santana. One for Regent Moore Fontenot. One for Regent Santana. 

One abstention. One for Regent Moore Fontenot. One for Regent Moore Fontenot. 

That would be five votes for Susan Moore Fontenot. Two votes for Gilbert Santana and one abstention. Okay great. 

So we have the results. Five for Regent Moore Fontenot. Two for Regent Santana. 

One abstention. So as we did before what I'm looking for is a motion to accept the results of the ballot. We got a motion and a second to accept the results of the ballot which were Regent Moore Fontenot five and Santana two and one abstention. 

So any discussion? None. All in favor say aye. I mean I'm sorry raise your hand.

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All right any opposed? All right we have eight in favor of. Great. Okay the next position we'll be looking at is secretary. 

That position is open for nominations from the floor. We did have one nomination for secretary it was Regent Fontenot. He is no longer eligible to unless you'd like to change your mind he's no longer eligible to be elected secretary. 

So I'm open for any nominations from the floor for secretary. I will nominate Regent Geralds for secretary. I decline. 

Thank you. Well I will nominate Regent Timsel for secretary. Okay. 

We're running out of people aren't we? Do we have a second? All right we have a second. So we have one. The second was by I'm sorry. 

Regent Geralds. Okay are there any other nominations for this position of secretary? All right do we have a second on that? Second. Okay so all in favor of it was a Who seconded that? Okay so all in favor of electing Regent Timsel as secretary by whatever terminology you use please raise your hand. 

All right we have a four and zero against. So we have a secretary. Well you know you don't have to change spots. 

Yeah just kind of like it there. I like it here. Well that's if the chair leaves. 

Oh good point. Yeah chair has to leave. All right the final position we have is assistant secretary. 

We did have one nomination for that position. Regent Geralds nominated Regent Mark Hall. You had indicated that you had no interest. 

I'm asking you do you still feel that way? I will do it if nobody else. No you have to say yes or no. There's no conditional answer. 

No it's a yes or no. Will you accept that nomination for assistant secretary? That's the question. Okay do we have a second? All right we got a second by Regent Fontenot. 

Oh yeah Judy made the yeah okay. All right are there any other nominations from the floor for the position of assistant secretary? What would you do what you did a while ago? Once again I will move that the nominations be closed and he be elected by acclamation. You seconding that? I'll second it. 

All right we got it we got a motion by Regent Cotton second by Regent Geralds. All in favor raise your hand. All right we have 8-0. 

We have a new board. We have new officers for our board. So at this time since we have reorganized I will do my due diligence and pass the gavel on to Regent Fontenot. 

If you want to come over here grab your stuff I'll grab mine. I don't know if I need to keep them or not. I may not have the laptop set up the way you like it Darryl. 

Looks like the one I just got up from. Okay I believe we left off at president's comments. Yes thank you Chairman Fontenot. 

I wanted to begin with commencement. I can tell you that I am still riding on the high from our commencement ceremonies last weekend. We had six packed ceremonies and a day full of celebrations and smiles. 

Over 700 degrees and certificates were conferred to 646 students and I could not be prouder. I want to thank Scott Bennett, Dr. Carl Husband and Jamie Holloway for their leadership, their efforts. They did a lot of work and they made the day successful and so special for our amazing students and there were so many that also volunteered and helped behind the scenes and I'm so grateful to all of you. 

Let me give you an update on fall registration. So currently we are up 12% overall compared to last year this time and 12% may not sound like a big deal but it is a big deal and I'm going to tell you why and it's because of two reasons. The first is that most community colleges are losing regular enrollment and they're making it up with dual credit enrollment. 

Both our regular enrollment and our dual credit enrollment is climbing at rapid rates. The second reason our enrollment growth is noteworthy relates to national enrollment trends. Last Thursday higher education experts gathered in the nation's capital the same day the CDC declared an official end to the COVID-19 public health emergency to reflect on the damage the pandemic dealt to enrollment across the country and to discuss how to rebuild. 

Their panel was titled bouncing back from the enrollment plunge. They were divided on how on how big of a bounce higher education could make and whether their proposed solutions would boost enrollments to pre pandemic pandemic levels or simply ease the slide to a new normal of reduced enrollment. They were all however in agreement on the depth of the plunge.

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Since the pandemic community college enrollment has dropped by a whopping 16%. I'm very proud to say that during the same period Lee colleges enrollment has grown by 8%. Because of the efforts of our amazing Lee college team that headline bouncing back from the enrollment plan plunge does not seem to apply to us. 

Lee colleges headline reads more like against all odds Lee college soars to record heights. So I say it again and again but our amazing results demonstrate what a team focused on one vision to ensure our students have no reason to delay their educational goals is capable of achieving. And again I could not be more proud of our amazingly college team. 

As the board recently heard the credit rating agencies of Moody's and standard and poor's have upgraded Lee colleges bond rate. S and P global ratings rated raised its long term rating general obligation or geo bonds which are taxpayer funded from a a minus to a a affirming a stable outlook. Moody's raised its general obligation limited tax bond rating from a a 3 to a a 2. One can think of these ratings like your personal credit score. 

We all know that the college experienced a budget shortfall in 2017 that led to a downgrade of the college's bond rating. And in the most recent review both rating agencies cited our record enrollment growth are strong cash reserves and our experience management team and a stable Board of Regents as the reason for the upgrade. If you ask our amazing CFO who seated in the audience Annette Ferguson what this means she's going to tell you that our upgrade in bond rating means that our credit risk is very low which is true which will mean lower interest rates on future bonds. 

However what is more meaningful is the efforts that were made to reach this point. It once again shows what our college team including the Board of Regents can achieve when we work in unison and are lockstep in our efforts to serve our community. A couple of weeks ago our achieving the dream coaches were on campus to help us host three college-wide professional developments events called conversations that matter. 

Employees worked in small groups to look at Lee college data and discuss how our guided pathway efforts could be improved to ensure the creation of the ideal student experience. The success of these three sessions was due to the extensive planning of Nicole Tunmire who seated in the audience and Dr. Laura Lane Worley who was also seated in the audience. I participated in all three sessions and I can tell you that it was a truly gratifying experience to see our employees deeply engaged in all of the events. 

The tone created by our leaders encouraged collegial interactions and gave participants the opportunity to interact with people in very different roles and explore how they all have a role to play in guided pathways. The data were clearly presented and encouraged participants to want to know more and as stated by our feedback letter from our achieving the dream coaches the event was a home run. Thanks to everyone who participated I truly appreciate your efforts and just as we were wrapping up our visit with our achieving the dream coaches we learned that the college experienced a water main break. 

It presented some challenges to us as we lost water to some of our buildings and some of us really appreciate using the restroom and we were concerned that fire safety systems might be compromised. I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to our new executive director of facilities Mr. John Ditto who is seated in the audience and his entire facilities team. They worked around the clock not only for the goal of fixing the water main break but of ensuring that the break did not affect the learning environment of our students.

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This was kind of a baptism of fire event for John but we are so grateful that you have chosen Lee college as your new home. Thank you. Next I'm thrilled to announce that Lee college received the 2023 workforce development outstanding college partner award by the Associated Builders and Contractors ABC and the Construction and Maintenance Education Foundation CMEF. 

As stated by executive director of CMEF Michael Richter your unwavering dedication to workforce development has been recognized by this prestigious award and I can think of no one more deserving of this honor than Lee college. Lee's outstanding leadership and innovative approach to workforce development has had a profound impact on the local industry and I have no doubt that your achievements will continue to inspire future generations of students and contractors. Our Lee college commitment to excellence and the tireless efforts of our leadership team under the direction of Fran Parent have truly set us apart as an award winner and it is an honor to see Lee college's achievements celebrated through this award. 

I also want to announce that two of our college's leaders Kelly Ford Spears and Scott Bennett have been selected as two of 40 state leaders to participate in the Texas Success Center Leadership Academy. The focus of the Leadership Academy is to develop college leadership capacity to advance the college's student success agenda. More specifically the Leadership Academy will align closely with our work at Lee college to implement talent strong Texas pathway reforms. 

I am so proud of both of them and know that they will represent the college well. Let's talk about the legislature a little bit. We've been very busy as we approach the end of the regular session and that is on May 29th. 

I'm starting to think though we might go into special session as things keep moving forward but we'll see. But just Tuesday the Senate Education Committee voted unanimously to advance our House Bill 8 out of the committee and to the full Senate for consideration. This is obviously a very significant development and we now expect HB 8 to be heard on the Senate floor either tomorrow or Saturday is kind of where we're at right now. 

Several amendments were added to the bill and I can confirm to the board that the amendments are in keeping with our legislative priorities including increased accountability at universities for accepting fields of study from our transfer students. We continue to closely monitor this bill and are confident that HB 8 will move successfully through the legislative process. I want to talk about one other bill in that Senate Bill 1814. 

We've been closely monitoring this bill as well by Senator Betancourt. The bill addresses political subdivisions including community college districts setting tax rates. Primarily it focuses on specific measures of transparency for rate increases and how those are communicated to the public. 

However it also contains language that potentially would redefine how the voter approved tax rate is calculated by including the minimum debt payment. What does this mean for the college? Well in a nutshell it could make it much more difficult for us to pay our bond debt ahead of schedule despite the fact that paying off debt ahead I know this doesn't make any sense just but despite the fact that paying off debt ahead of schedule results in substantial savings over time um and they have made amendments that help us address this effort. We continue to follow this bill closely but I am grateful for the efforts of Charlene Piggott and Annette Ferguson for bringing this matter to light and helping me to ensure that the Texas Association of Community Colleges has made this one of their legislative priorities. 

Mr. Chairman this concludes my report. My rather lengthy one. Sometimes that happens. 

I would like to recognize one of our own tonight. Mr. James Campisi was elected to the Goose Creek School Board recently and I would like to for us to to recognize he's not here tonight but recognize him for that for that accomplishment. I know he'll have our interest at heart.

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Okay, moving along. Disposition of minutes. We have the board workshop retreat March 31st 2023. 

Board workshop retreat April 1st 2023. Special board meeting April 3rd 2023. Board building committee meeting April 18th 2023 and board meeting April 20th 2023. 

Okay, we have a motion by Regent Guillory, second by Regent Geralds. Any discussion? The only comment I want to make is you know I was told one meeting a month when I signed up right? One meeting a month. They told you that lie too? Already complaining. 

Okay, all in favor of approval of the minutes as they've been presented please say aye. Any opposed? Okay, report of the chairman. I have no report. 

I just want to recognize that Dr. Villanueva is being recognized tomorrow at the Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce along with four others in the category called community leaders. Regional community leaders are recognized for their dedication and support of women and girls in their communities thereby improving the quality of life for all. She's one of the folks being recognized tomorrow and I think some of us are going to go and surprise you. 

Congratulations for being recognized and also bringing Lee College to them so thank you. Building committee report. Okay, I will give that report. 

We met on Tuesday. We had a very informative meeting and there are some items later in the agenda that we will be taking action on and they were thoroughly reviewed at Tuesday's board meeting. Building committee meeting. 

Policy committee meeting. Audit and investment committee. We have not met. 

And I gave my report. Yes. Unless you want me to give another one. 

Thank you. So we are now at informational reports. I told you I probably didn't leave it the way you had it over here so. 

On the left side. Resignations. Yes. 

Report of Lee College registrations and or retirements. So I can report Morrison Willits, welding faculty. Gary Denson, process technology faculty.

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Janice Johnson, Umezu-Leakey, ADN faculty and Robert Matthews, advisor recruiter. Okay. Next item, financial report. 

Ms. Ferguson. Thank you Chairman Fontenot. We're going to be talking about the financial results through April 30th.

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We're about 66% through our fiscal year. Our cash remains very strong. We have about 28 million in operating funds. 

About 23 million total in reserves. And then 9 million in other funds. Our tuition and fees. 

We've talked about this numerous times. Our enrollment is up over what we had previously budgeted. And so right now we're already at 103% of our budget and we still have summer to go. 

So we will end up over our budgeted revenue. State appropriations. That one's usually pretty easy. 

They tell us what it is and we put it in our budget. Taxes. Right now the M&O as well as general obligation taxes. 

We're a little bit below our budget but probably by the end of the year we'll be pretty close. But we are exceeding our revenue in lieu of tax. That number is always just a crapshoot and this year it turned out favorable for us.

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That terminology in your CPA language book? Crapshoot. Yes sir. That is an official term.

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Somewhere. Other revenue. Our interest income of course is up. 

We've talked about that in the last few meetings and we just have more revenue and we are investing that money in more than just the pools. I just will point out when did we ever think we would see a million dollars in interest income on our financial report? Up to $10,000. Our restricted funds. 

We have about $384,000 that needs to be pulled down. $400,000 of that is in our federal grants and that money will be pulled down as soon as it is made available. Looking at revenue compared to our budget, again you can see that pretty much in all categories we are projecting to meet our budget or exceed our budget. 

Looking at our projected net revenue, we are projecting that we will have an operating surplus of about 4.9 million dollars. You may recall last year we had a final net operating surplus of just a little over 5 million and so this year we're tracking to be pretty much right in line with that same that same number. You can see here where it's coming from. 

Most of it is of course the increase in revenue and then the insurance and contingency funds that we plan to have surplus in. Looking at our expenses compared to our budget, everything aligns very very well with what we had budgeted. For the month, you can see again our salary and benefits are a little bit below what we had budgeted as well as operating costs and then debt services. 

Very small. Year-to-date, it's the same story. Salaries are a little bit below, operating costs a little bit below, and then debt services pretty much right there. 

Projecting out, we are projecting that we will be below our budget on salary and benefits. We will be below our budget on operating costs and then debt revenue, I mean debt service will be right on track. And that is my report, unless anyone has any questions for me.

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Quick question. For salaries, we budgeted at 95 percent? That's correct. And right now we're at 98, we're projected to be 98 percent. 

That's right. Okay. Just trying to keep that in mind as we're preparing for the next budget. 

So if we had done it at 93, we would have been, pretty much, okay. I'm not suggesting that, I'm just saying that we would have been. Please don't. 

Yes. That makes it pretty close. Okay, anything else? Thank you.

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Public comment. We have, Mr. Chairman, one person has spoke or has signs to speak, I say, Mr. Michael Van Cleave. Welcome back. 

What I want to talk about tonight is, people don't want to talk about, but I do because it's evil. Title IX says it prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other educational program that receives federal funding. It doesn't say that we have to fly the pride flag month, we have to have LBGT week, trans week. 

It just doesn't say that. We're doing it because we want to. I find it kind of hypocritical.

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We pray to a holy, righteous God, and then we go out and condone this kind of stuff here at this school. I mean, I don't know where it's coming from. It just bugs the dickens out of me. 

I don't know if you all are familiar with that Covenant School shooting. It was done by, killed six people there in Tennessee, done by a woman identifying as a man, trans man, whatever. I don't understand all that. 

But trans people don't like Christian people because I believe God created man and woman, and that's all it is. There's no other. It's man and woman. 

I'm not going to back up from it, and we shouldn't at this school. Trans and LBGT people are pushing evil on American people. There's several things they're doing.

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Chemical castration, breast removal, surgical mutilation, hormone therapy, gender confusion, telling us what pronouns we can use. I'm going to use what pronoun I want to. This school, by celebrating and condoning this, is becoming part of the problem. 

You're helping to destroy our culture in America. I mean, I want to treat them as equal and have every right I do, but I don't like their agenda and their programs. It's evil. 

Pushing it with taxpayers' money, even Exxon money is taxpayers' money. That's my money they're pushing it with, or we're pushing it with. I don't believe the taxpayers as a whole want this ideology pushed.

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Bud Light lost $5 billion already by putting a trans on a can. So most blue-collar people don't want it. I've talked to hundreds of people. 

I go to the gym and used to own one, and they don't even know that's going on here. I mean, really? We have Trans Week? All I'm saying is treat them as equal and as good as I am, but don't get into the folly of pushing their programs like we seem to be doing. The trans movement threatens women, children, and civilization at large. 

It's getting serious. If you've been watching the news, there's a battle going on between good and evil, and I hope we stick with the good, really. Thank you.

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Okay. Are we skipping grievance? Yes. Okay. 

Next on the agenda is personnel. Can we take this consent item and just take them all at once, or does he have to go through them? Yes. I just wanted to make sure that consent allows us to consider all of them at one time. 

You don't have to take each one individually. Okay. Consent agenda. 

Consideration of new hires. The administration recommends that the board approve the new hires as presented below. So moved.

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Second. Okay. That was a motion by Regent Hall, second by Weston Cotton, Regent Cotton. 

Okay. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. New business. 

Consideration of payment to enterprise fleet management for two leased vehicles. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate final terms and approve the lease agreement payment to enterprise fleet management. Do I need to read the rest of this? Technically.

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Okay. No? Okay. I thought you were done. 

Go ahead. I'm sorry. Okay. 

The lease agreement for these two vehicles is an upfront lease payment that will save money by avoiding interest. The lease is for a 2021 Ford Van for the Huntsville Center at $62,610 and a 2023 Acura MDX for the president at $65,462. Do we have a motion? Second.

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Okay. We have a motion by Regent Guillory and a second by Regent Morfantino. Do we have any discussion? I have some questions. 

I emailed it and I'm not sure if my email went through. Can you explain the difference between this lease program and just buying them since we're fully upfronting the cost? That's what I didn't understand. I'm not questioning it.

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Regent Hall, did you see the email I sent? I got to it late and the difference that I explained was that we get some value from leasing the vehicles because we're allowed to be on a maintenance plan, which has proved to have a great deal of return on investment. For example, just with the vehicle that I was driving last time, we had substantial savings in anything I needed to have done, whether it was repairing a windshield or replacing it, which can be very costly. And the program is very minimal to be a part of, so it has a great return on investment for the college.

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I guess just to further my question, and I can understand that, so at the end of the lease, the value of the car, the entire value, I'm not sure who sets that, but that belongs to us. We can continue to keep the car, am I correct? We could. And we're not having to pay for it again. 

We could. We could if we chose to. Yeah, particularly maybe the van. 

We could keep that and we would not have to be releasing it for any amount of money. Basically, it's like a dollar lease purchase or something in my mind. Is that correct? That's correct. 

Or we could turn it in and then receive the equity off of that vehicle. Okay, that's my concern. So, Annette, what is the cost of the 2023 Acura? If we wrote a check for it, how much would that be to own it? Before or after the trade-in? I'm not sure what your question is.

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If we went and bought the car and paid cash for it, how much would that check be written for? If we traded in the Toyota Highlander, which is what we did on this lease agreement, it would have been the amount that's listed on your action item. So we traded the old car in and we're still paying $65,000 or no? Right. Because the Toyota, keep in mind, we did not buy that one outright.

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We were on a fixed payment plan for that particular vehicle and we held it for a little over three years. And we had somewhere, I don't remember the exact number, but it was like $15,000, $14,000, $15,000 in equity in that vehicle when we turned it in, even though we'd only had it three years. Maybe I misunderstood you. 

If we were to pay cash for this car, how much would that be? It would be around $77,000, Regent Hensel. Does that answer your question? Well, that's the question I've been asking, but I've never gotten an answer. Well, I'm asking, does that answer your question? Yes.

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Thank you. So, that wasn't very nice. Okay.

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I don't appreciate that. So we had $15,000 and we're paying $65,000. So, you said we had $15,000 coming back from a Toyota? That was applied against the cost of the vehicle and we paid the difference.

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It's just like any other car transaction that you do. You take your car to the dealership. They tell you how much they're going to give you for it.

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You apply that against the cost of the vehicle that you're purchasing and then you pay the difference. So, if I'm to understand, the car was more than $65,000? That's correct. Okay. 

I think that's what you were asking, Mark. So, it sounds like the car was $77,000 and we got $15,000 credit for the old car, right? Thereabouts, yes, sir. Okay.

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And so, if we were to write a check for the new car, we would own it, period. That's correct. And you're saying there's not a benefit to that? Because it says that we're still responsible for the maintenance.

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No. We're on the maintenance program. The only ongoing cost would be the maintenance of the vehicle.

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Because it's part of the maintenance program that we pay for through Enterprise. So, if we take it to the dealership, I'm not going to have to pay $120,000, $150,000, whatever it is now for an oil change because that's part of the maintenance program that we already participate in. So, yes, there is a cost associated with that.

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But it's not a every trip that I make to the dealership, then I have to pay an additional cost. But the car's under warranty, so it shouldn't be a whole lot. The car is under a limited warranty, yes, for a limited period of time.

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But there's not a lot of maintenance in the first three years. So, yeah, and I'm still not going to… You never know. Unless you've got a limit.

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I had a car that had 30,000 miles on it less than three years old, and the transmission went out. So, you never know. Yeah, but this one's under warranty.

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So, the van… So was mine. I said, so was mine, but the transmission still went out. Not sure.

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So, can you explain the situation on the van? Where did this van come from? Who does it belong to? It came from our vendor, Enterprise. It's at Huntsville. It is used to transport our students to testing sites so that they can get their CDL license or any other credentials that they may need.

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But we transport prisoners in our vehicles? We do. That vehicle was actually purchased with money from TDCJ. It did not come out of our operating account.

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Donna expressed to them that she had the need for this vehicle, and they fronted the money for the leasing of this vehicle. Well, the safety, all the protocols are still in place. Oh, absolutely, absolutely.

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And there's restrictions, and I'm not familiar with what they all are on who can actually, like for the CDL, who can actually take the course, who can go and test. I mean, it's not just anyone that can take that course and can be transported to receive their license. But I'm sorry, I don't know all the details.

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I had no idea we transported prisoners in college vehicles. Our personnel are transporting them, or is it? I answered a side question. I believe that is true.

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I don't know, but I mean, if it's something that we need to research and bring back, that I would think that it's such a liability that neither the college nor the institution would want to be responsible for anything that happened, you know, jail breaks or any of those other kind of things that we would want to make sure. Well, again, there are restrictions. There are protocols that are put into place.

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Yeah, I mean, I threw up a lot of questions. By extension, is there a greater risk than walking into the classroom with teaching the students? The classroom that's behind the prison walls? Yes, that we are in, yeah. Versus being out on public roads with them? I think that's a difference there.

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So, again, the answer that we have, unless the board wants additional details, is that we use the vehicle to transport students, Lee College students, to take their licensure exams, and we have been doing that for as long as I know. That was going to be my question. Have we already been doing that? Yes.

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We already have one. We're just replacing the vehicle that they're being transported in. For the same purpose.

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We didn't start a new procedure of transporting. But we also follow the very strict procedures and protocols and rules of TDCJ, which I can tell you are much more firm and scrutinized than any policy we have in place. So the agenda item itself is for whether we want to approve the lease agreement or not.

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The safety and all the other questions we have is not what this agenda item is. Even though I think it's valuable, but it's not the agenda item. So we're veering away from the agenda.

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My last question. Have we issued checks for these already? No, sir. I saw we had vehicles.

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I didn't know if we'd written the check. We paid for them or not. We have not.

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Hmm. We'll be glad to. Sign for it.

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We've committed to them, I guess. Somewhat. But we had agreed to that already.

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Yes. We agreed to purchase the vehicle already. I didn't remember us voting on that.

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We agreed when we discussed about the vehicle. That's fine. We asked Annette to find the best way to do it.

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And I think that's what you're presenting tonight. It's the best way for us to purchase this vehicle. I believe it was also voted on when you voted on the president's contract.

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It was in there. But you voted against. There you go again.

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I don't really appreciate the jabs. I don't know why you're doing that tonight. I wish you wouldn't do that.

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I'm asking you not to do that. Any further discussion on this item? All in favor say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? Okay. Next item. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate the final terms and approve the contract with Global Source for PeopleSoft Consulting Services at an annual amount not to exceed $295,000.

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Do I hear a motion? So moved. Second. All right.

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Motion by Regent Guillory, second by Regent Geralds. Any discussion on this item? Okay. Hearing no discussion.

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All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

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Next item. Consideration of potential change order number 50 to access builders for the Student Center Food Bank and Resource Advocacy Center project. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate final terms and approve PCO number 50 to access builders for the Student Center Food Bank and Resource Advocacy Center project totaling $750,000.

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So moved. Motion. Second.

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Motion by Regent Morfantino, second by Regent Cotton. Any discussion? I have some discussion. Yes.

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Okay. This was an item that was brought up at the building committee meeting. It was a lengthy discussion at the building committee meeting and I'm going to ask that from my observation and meeting with our staff at the same time and I just, if they can prepare, if you can prepare a report as to what the approximate cause of all this water now standing against the building where that used to not be the case.

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And so I think that's a bearing on part of the cost. This is a lot of money and it's, in my opinion, a creative problem. Not by the college, but by a separate project that was done about four or five years ago.

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And I can just say we have to fix this if there's any question about this. It is a lot of money. But that building is, that water, I guess it's unsafe.

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Not unsafe, it's unsafe to the building. It's just a matter of time before further damage is done. So that would be my request.

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Just a clarification. These are significant items like window replacement. Is that due to this water issue? Or is that just an addition to the scope of work? No.

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It's due to this water, moisture. Most all of this is due to this? This is all related to moisture. Correct in that.

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The window, is the windows not part of this $700,000? Is that correct? It is. The window replacement is $400,000. $400,000 of this is window replacement.

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Okay. I thought, I was under the impression that the windows were in addition, that we had approved that prior month. No, it's part of the $750,000.

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I mean, like the elevator replacement, that's not water related, is it? That's the one item that's not. It's just an addition to the scope of work. That's the one item that's not.

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Okay. You might be thinking of the one interior window in the new food pantry area that they took out and they're just putting an infill in. That was one window that was discussed before.

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But these three sets are from the water intrusion. They're the old original windows. Yes.

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Okay. Can you guesstimate what, we're kind of setting a budget from what I understand, what we discussed in the building committee. Can you assign somewhat of a value to what the water intrusion cost to repair is? I think it's at least the $400,000 there with the windows and the flushing and the water improvement.

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So $400,000 is the windows and the water. Yes, that's right. The brick and lead, all of that.

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And the re-grading of the property around there and all that. Yeah, I'm not certainly questioning the need. I'm just trying to just better understand the result.

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You know, were these all discoverables or were there some scope addition, maybe a combination of something like the elevator may have been a scope addition or discoverable, something that we thought was good and turned out to not be good? Work was, I mean, from what I saw, work was done about five years ago. Our staff reacted and did what they could to mitigate by installing some green pipes and from the downspouts and all. But with the amount of water we've had, whether we have additional water that had no way to escape from the building, and so it literally just sets against the wall.

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Yeah, I was just clarifying. It sounded like a lot of this was related to the water issue. I was just trying to just better understand for myself.

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I'm not – I certainly understand what each of these items are. I'm not questioning the need. I'm just trying to better understand what caused the need.

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So I don't have any other questions. Okay. So, I mean, from what I recall, basically of the 750, the elevator is not related to the water.

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Right. Is that the only item that's not related to the water? There's another $20,000 one in there, I think, smaller thing. Yeah.

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That's not. So, basically, $600,000 of this is water related. There's a $75,000 contingency in there that's for that.

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So the other $100,000 is the floor moisture vapor. So is it $400,000 for the moisture vapor? That's the windows and the exterior walls and then $100,000. But there's $100,000 for slab moisture.

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For slab moisture. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor, say aye.

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Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Okay.

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Consideration of AE fee increase to PBK Architects for the Student Center, Food Bank, and Resource Advocacy Center. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate final terms and approve the fee increase of $28,848.56 to PBK Architects for the Student Center, Food Bank, and Resource Advocacy Center. Do we have a motion? I'll move.

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Second. Okay. Motion by Regent Cotton, second by Regent Geralds.

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Any discussion on this item? Hearing none. All in favor, say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? Moving on. At least it's not $750,000. At least.

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Next, an item that is near and dear to my heart. I promised you guys back in December we'd be bringing this forward. Okay.

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Consideration to fund $4 million to operating budget fiscal year 2023 for campus Americans with Disabilities Act projects. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to fund $4 million to the 2023 operating budget for the ADA campus compliance projects. Do we have a motion? I'll move.

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Second. Okay. We have a motion by Regent Geralds and a second by Regent Morfano.

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Any discussion? Just a clarification again. It says projects will be presented for approval at a later date, so we'll be approving these projects one at a time as they come up? Well, we have a list of projects here. It wasn't an attachment, right? Everybody has the hard copy.

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It's at our places. Yeah, that's your copy. You left that behind.

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Okay, but it just says for approval at a later date, so I wasn't sure if we were approving the total value and then we're going to take each project one at a time based on its actual cost when we get there. You're approving us to move $4 million over to fund those projects, then as we develop the scope and the RFPs and go out for bid to complete the projects, then, of course, those would come back to you for final approval. Okay, that was just clarifying that.

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Mr. Chairman, do we have other ADA needs on campus, or is this going to be it? This is going to be it from the initial assessment that we had of ADA deficiencies. Did I say that correctly? That's correct. You may recall we did an ADA survey of the entire campus a couple of years ago, and they provided us with a list of all the things that we needed to look at and to fix.

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The total at that time was a little over $5 million, I believe. And in the money that was allocated this last time, the $3.8 million, we did part of those projects. And so now, with this allocation, we should be able to wrap up the rest of the projects that were identified during that study.

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So once we do this, we'll be in compliance. Is that fair to say? Yes, sir. Good.

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Also, I would point out that of the $4 million, $206,000 of it is an HVAC project. The rest of it is the ADA that we were speaking of. So is the HVAC not an ADA? No, that's a comfort problem, but not an ADA.

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Because it seemed like it was put into an agenda about ADA. Should it have been in there if it's not an ADA? Again, the agenda is or the ask is that you allocate $4 million over out of the operating surplus from last year. And that detail that is provided to you is just a listing of how we are proposing that that $4 million will be spent.

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But the agenda item specifically says, I'm just for clarification, it specifically says for campus Americans with Disabilities Act projects, but it doesn't appear that the HVAC one is an ADA project. That's correct. So to me, it seems like that's not in, that we're voting on something that doesn't match what we say we're voting on.

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So it was a misstatement and I do apologize for that. But it is, we are asking that we be able to complete the HVAC project with the $4 million that we're asking you to set aside. I just wish we would have had maybe two motions instead of one because I believe that that's a little misleading.

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Mr. Chairman, I move that we amend the motion to include ADA projects and other projects. Who made the motion? Just so it's stated properly. I think, did I make the motion? Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, for this one, Regent Gerald's made the motion.

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Oh, I'm sorry. And Regent Morfantino, I have for the same motion. Yeah.

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Thank you for that clarification. So do I need to make the amendment? Yeah, I know exactly how to state it, but I say that we amend this motion to include an additional project that is outside the realm of the ADA. And I second that amendment.

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Okay. So motion by Regent Gerald, second by Regent Morfantino on the amended agenda item. And all in favor say aye.

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Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Now, Mr. Chairman, you need a, you voted and approved the amendment to the motion.

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Oh. Just the amendment. Now you need to vote on, up and down the motion as amended, if you follow what I'm going for.

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And we have a motion for that. Correct. Okay.

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So all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

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Pass the amendment to the amendment and the agenda item. Approve the amendment and approve the motion as amended. Very good.

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Okay. Now comes the part of the agenda that's near and dear to my heart. Okay.

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Matters of concern for future agendas. I'm going to make you mad. No, I'm not.

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I'm just going to delay once. Keying off of Regent Morfantino's concern about the procedure of us transporting prisoners from the hospital system, I would just be, if we could have some report of some sort from exactly what we're doing and what our Lee College employees are doing it, and how that system works, what the agreement is, if you don't mind. And if I could add to that, could we have a contract review to see where that's at in our contract and how it's addressed in the contract? Our contract with TDJ? Yeah.

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I'll look to see if that's in there. Well, if not, it might need to be. Well, I'm sorry.

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Some of that could just include some indemnification statement or something like that. That's a good thing. As long as we got it in there somewhere.

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Any other matters for future agendas? Okay, hearing none. We are at adjournment. Here we go.

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725.