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And I now call the meeting to order and we will begin the meeting with invocation and pledge to the flags by Regent Mark Hall. Please join me in prayer. Dear God, thank you for the many blessings that you have given us and in particular the students and the young men on our basketball team that you have blessed us with and for the achievements that they were able to achieve. 

God, I pray that this will build strength in them, reputation for our college, and bring honor to you, God. We thank you for this opportunity together together here tonight to discuss and handle the college's business. I pray that you will give us wisdom as we do so and in Christ's name we pray, amen.

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Please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the U.S. flag. 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. 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.

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Thank you. Okay, first item on the agenda is student spotlight. Well just in the nick of time, no unintended coach Nick Wade. 

I would like to introduce our amazing coach Nick Wade to come to the podium and once again grace us with your presence. How's everybody doing? Good evening. First and foremost, today's been just really really special not only for you know our program but just I don't know the energy in the community and institution has just felt next to none and it's been it's truly been incredible. 

I need to take a second obviously to thank everybody sitting in front of me. Without you guys giving us a chance in the athletics world and knowing how we can change lives, allow kids not only to get a two-year degree and a four-year degree, it wouldn't happen without your unwavering support and I take that very seriously. Growing up in Highlands and coming to you know basketball camps here and things like that when I was younger and my mother taking classes here, it's always held a special you know spot in my heart and and truly every time I get a hug or see a smile or see you guys at the game, I just know that you know you got our back and it's easy to be successful like that.

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The guys have been tremendous this year. Can my sophomore stand up please? You guys stay standing. This has been a tremendous group. 

You know this is our third year here as a staff and and Devontae, will you please raise your hand? He's actually been here since the 2021-2022 season. He redshirted last year so he's been here the whole way but these guys have set a standard and they've carried it and carried the torch here in May. All of these guys will be walking around across the stage getting their degrees and their certificates and we're super super proud of them and and again be looking on TV. 

It's been nice but you're gonna see a couple of them playing next year for different universities and just knowing that Lee College was a part of their stop. Okay thanks guys. And then if my freshman can stand up please. 

Okay so now they pass the baton to you guys. You guys know you have a you know a really really big shoes to fill and keep going but really really proud of these guys too. It's been said across the country that we had one of the best freshman units in the country by far and it's true. 

That proof was in the pudding. So really really proud of you guys and and just continuing that great legacy. So if both my assistants will stand up please. 

This is Josh Ivory and Casey Opetre. These guys do all the dirty work behind the scenes, making sure our guys are in class, making sure they don't need for anything, doing whatever is asked of them by me and on campus. So everything that we did this year, everything we've built this year, I need help executing that vision. 

These guys do it seven days a week, 24 hours a day. I'm indebted to you guys and I really appreciate you but this is also the masterminds of behind the scenes as well. And I didn't do it earlier but I want to make sure Russell Bundage is not here at the moment.

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Russell Bundage works at Peter Highland. He grew up in Baytown too. He is absolutely integral into what we do as well. 

He's been tremendous and you know he's probably somewhere working and and continuing to chase but again he is he equally deserves as much love and you know adoration that we've all been getting. So thank you guys. The last thing I want to say, I got in trouble earlier because you know I didn't you know shout out to my wife who makes tremendous sacrifices and things like that during the season. 

You know she's tremendous in allowing me to go chase this dream that I have in this vision and she does her best to you know cheer me on. She's there you know although I never am when I'm grumpy and things like that but she's been great. However, I need to just get my back a little bit. 

My way of saying thank you is allowing her to show up with things like puppies at the house or every time I have to sift through and wade through these Amazon boxes that just magically show up there. You know what I mean? So but no she's great yeah absolutely but she's been a part of the team but again it's been such a special day just a special moment. I hope you guys know that there's still more out there. 

My goal is to be here every year at this time celebrating some new achievement and things like that. I got you and I'm gonna stand by it. I'm gonna stand by it okay but every year and then again I hope when you guys go to your meetings or your conferences you walk in with that symbol of pride and that people start to know who we are.

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We've played in front of more than well over a million people being on ESPN this year and you know just being you know a beacon for Lee College and everything we do has been truly amazing and again I know I see a couple people that helped put on what happened today. It was incredible. It was just something I always remember. 

Thank you guys so much. We love you and we'll be back and this is a piece of the puzzle. I'm telling you our volleyball team's turned in the corner too and we'll be celebrating them and and I can't wait for that either so I really really can't wait for that either but I just want you to know that so thank you guys. 

I wanted to ask the team have you guys ever heard coach use that soothing tone of voice like ever besides now like because I'm like when does his I see him all the time in another voice and I just thought that sounded like he was reading a book or something to a child. I hope we're excited about that. Alright, thank you. 

I'll make sure to take it. Thank you. Oh, because of what you did? Thank you.

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But you didn't call her out. You said don't have to do it. Got mine on the fridge.

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Thank you. Thank you. So, I'm so happy I did it.

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Sure. Linda looks so little. Please have a strainer next.

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I didn't say that. All them three points you definitely can have it. Thank you.

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Okay. Yeah. Okay.

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Next on the agenda is the disposition of minutes. Workshop meeting. Instructional master plan March 4th.

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Audit committee meeting March 6th. Special board meeting March 6th. Policy committee meeting March 26th.

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And our regular board meeting March 26th. Do we have a motion on the minutes? So moved. Second.

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Okay. I have a motion by Regent Cotman and a second by Regent Gillory. Any updates or corrections to the minutes? Any discussion on the minutes? Hearing none.

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

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Thank you, Regent Hemsel. Okay. Next.

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Committee reports. I have a brief report. I'll just say that this has been a terrific week where recognizing student achievement.

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We had the we had a fantastic honors program yesterday. And while I did not make the basketball rally today, I had to go to my office. But, you know, I understand that was quite the success.

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But I was the only Regent that went to Tyler for the basketball region tournament. And then tomorrow we have the scholarship breakfast and the scholarship luncheon. So it's a wonderful time of year where we celebrate student success.

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So just really excited about all of that. Building committee report. Chair, the building committee has not met since our last meeting.

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Policy committee. Yes, sir. We have met and you will see on the agenda today there are several items that we will bring before you for consideration.

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Most of them are housekeeping, cleaning up, but then there is a couple that I'm sure that there's interest in. FAA local, which speaks to state bill 17 on the DEI initiative and it's just the language and it's really clear. And then we're also bringing the board policy, BBB, which speaks to our next election.

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The others is just clean up. Audit and investment. We did meet and we had the quarterly investment report and then the board got a copy of that.

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Report of the president. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to echo the thanks offered by you for the presidential honors day for folks coming out and the board supporting.

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I was saying to Regent Warford as we were walking to another room that this is kind of like the beginning of the season of smiles and I like to refer to it as that because we're all smiling at the successes of our students and being able to witness that is just always the culmination of such long, hard, good work and we're just always so happy. But I also am still so very grateful to Dr. Georgianne Ward for her more than ten years of leadership in the honors program and her work really creating a truly exceptional honors program and so I think she was a little bit taken aback when we asked her to stay and give her own remarks. I want to share, I only have two items, which is kind of crazy, but I want to share some news about an organization called the Dual Enrollment Research Fund.

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The Dual Enrollment Research Fund is an organization that conducts research on, big surprise, dual enrollment, right? And it's funded by a collaboration of national funders including the Joyce Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Well today it was publicly announced that they funded six new research projects studying dual enrollment. And guess who was one of the six? We are.

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So, yes, the total award is a million in research funding these six projects and it follows a national competition that received 70 applications totaling $11 million in requests. Our award is about $160,000, a little bit over that, and it's going to support, and this I'm very, very proud of, our own research to study the implementation of Texas's new Financial Aid for Swift Transfer, or the FAST program. And also what is even more amazing is that we are the only community college to be awarded in the nation.

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So I am so incredibly proud of the efforts of our own Dr. Marissa Moreno, who is going to be the principal investigator leading this research, and our own Sella Tacconi, who helped in developing the proposal. Dr. Walters, were you involved in the proposal or any of this, are you going to be doing any of the research? You're such a researcher that I'm always thinking that. That's probably one thing he's not involved in.

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Yeah, the one thing. On his whole copy. He wants none of the blame or any of the accolades.

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So I just have to kind of brag because I've been receiving texts and emails from colleagues around the country congratulating Lee College for this award, and I'm just so absolutely proud. And so I anticipate that the coordinating board and others will be using our research. This is like what universities do, but we're doing the research here, and it's a part of the HB 8 funding, and we knew for about, how long did we know, about a week? But we had to keep it completely embargoed from everyone, and so today the announcement was made, and I'm just so happy to share the news with you guys.

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Wonderful. Congratulations. Great team.

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That concludes my report. Thank you very much. Okay, information or reports, report of Lee College resignations and or retirements.

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Very sad to announce that Sarah Tubbs, who was our media relations manager and marketing and public affairs, resigning. She was phenomenal. It was so hard to say goodbye to her.

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Next up, financial report. Okay. Chairman Fontenot, Board of Regents, we are going to review the operating results as of the end of March.

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So seven months into the fiscal year, 58% of our operating expenses. Our cash remains very strong. I think you will recall last month at our meeting, we were approved to move another 3.5 million into our board reserves.

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When you look at this cash report, just know that that does not reflect that move. It happened after the end of the fiscal month, so you will see that on the next report. Looking at our tuition and fees versus our budget, we are at about 85% of our budget right now and that is pretty close to where we need to be.

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We could be up a little bit, down a little bit, but it looks like we are going to be very close to our tuition and fee budget. State appropriations, we are usually pretty good at budgeting that because they tell us what they are going to give us, so we can usually do pretty good on that one. We have one more payment coming, that will be in July, and then that will be all for the year.

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District taxes, our taxes are pacing a little above what we had initially budgeted. There was some change in valuations after we received our certified numbers from protests and that sort of thing, and so right now we are outpacing what we had budgeted. I know at our last meeting there was a question about the revenue in lieu of taxes and what it was last year.

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I think Dr. V shared with you all a little summary sheet that I put together, but basically last year it was pretty high, it was a little over $2 million, but prior to that we had been at $1.3, $1.3, $1.1, one year we jumped up to $1.6, and so when we budget this line item we do look at the aggregate balance of what it has been for the last five years and we kind of use that as our test on where we think that budget line needs to be. And when you do look at that five-year average, it's pretty close to that $1.5. Looking at other revenue, our interest income, again we're outpacing what we have budgeted. Our other revenues, we've gotten some pretty good reimbursements from TDCJ and food service, so we're looking good there.

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Restricted funds, we've got about $850,000 worth of federal grants that will be available for us to pull down, which we will as soon as the funds are released. Our private grant shows that we've received more than what we've spent, and that's not uncommon for private grants because they usually award the money up front and then you spend it on the back end. But all total, we've got about $700,000 that we will be pulling down before the end of the year.

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Our budget versus year-to-date projected actual on revenue. As I said earlier, tuition and fees, we're right on track. State appropriations, absolutely.

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Taxes we're tracking a little bit ahead. And then other, which is mainly our interest, we're tracking ahead as well. Our total projected net revenue is $4.6 million right now, and you can see part of that, $2.7 of that, $4.6 is coming from revenue exceeding what we had budgeted.

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And then another $1.9 million is coming from savings on our budgeted expenses. As I said, we're at about 58% of our fiscal year on expenses. Our salaries and operating expenses are tracking directly with what we had budgeted.

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When you look at the monthly budget versus actual, you can see we are a little bit below what we had budgeted. Year-to-date, same story, we are tracking below what we had budgeted. And when you look at the projected year-to-date, right now we're projecting that our salary and benefits will be about 98% of our budget.

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Operating costs, 96. Debt service, we know what that is, so that will come in right on target. And that is it, unless y'all have any questions for me.

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Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Okay.

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Next up is public comment. Do we have any public comment? We do, Mr. Chairman. First, David Jaroszewski.

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Dr. Jay. Dr. Clark. Good evening.

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You know me as Dr. Jay. And I just wanted to share something with you from yesterday's honors program that I really wanted y'all to know about. It was a marvelous program.

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But after the program, Victor Martinez and I, Victor is a drafting instructor, we were visiting there in the foyer, and there was a gentleman who made a beeline for us from across the room. And we both looked up together and neither of us knew who this fellow was. And he said, I came over here because you two look like y'all are the oldest faculty members in the room.

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And may have been here when I graduated 50 years ago in 1974. And he explained that he was there for his niece's being honored. She was one of our honorees.

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And so we chit-chatted a little bit. He had gotten his degree in business management, and then he said he had gone to work out at the steel plant. And so we chatted a little bit, and then he turned and said, well, I need to go back to my family.

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And then he turned around and came back to us with a tear in his eye, and he said, this college is so important to the community. And then he left. So I want you all to know that.

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Appreciate it. Thank you. We appreciate you.

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Thank you, Dr. J. Mr. Chairman, we also have Brandon Benoit. Mr. Chairman, Dr. Villanueva, board members, I have no cool nickname like Dr. J. My name is Brandon Benoit. I'm a resident here of Baytown, Texas.

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I'm an attorney with the law firm of Reed, Strickland & Gillette. Our firm was established here in Baytown in 1927. And our relationship with the college goes back to the foundation of the college when you were part of Goose Creek.

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Our firm, to my knowledge, has represented the college in the collection of delinquent taxes for actually beyond the time that the gentleman graduated before 1974. I've been licensed since 2005, and from before the date I was actually licensed, I was working on Lee College taxes. That was the first thing I went to work to do.

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And I've done that for almost 20 years. And I am proud to say that I represent this college in the collection of taxes, not just because it's what I do for a living, but I live here, and this community is part of my home and my family's home. I address you this evening with limited time on the clock to let you know that we value the relationship we have with this college.

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The fact that we've represented you for so long, the fact that we're local, is not reason enough for you to continue that relationship, and I don't want you to be misled by that. What I present to you this evening is the fact that our firm has represented this college with high ethics, with high credibility, and with high success. We realize the needs of this community.

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We know the people here. Our offices are local, and allow your taxpayers, your constituents to come by and visit, not with a paralegal, not with a staff member, but to talk with an attorney about what they might need. When they're in danger of losing their home, we understand this community would not be better to have a series of homes foreclosed on, and we try our best to work with taxpayers.

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We come before you suggesting our continued relationship because of the good relationship we've had, the high success we've had in collecting your taxes, and the fact that we honor this college and are proud to say that we represent you. I was made aware on Monday morning of the agenda item tonight for the consideration of a contract with Purdue Brandon. I have nothing bad to say about Purdue Brandon.

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They are a fine firm. They represent countless entities across the state of Texas, and they do so very well. Lee College and Goose Creek are our only two tax collection contracts.

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You are my client. I view your files daily. As a matter of fact, there has never been a filing that I've made that does not include Lee College in a tax case, and I take pride in that.

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I ask you to consider that, consider our firm's history with the college, and continue that relationship as we work together to provide funding for the college, but also to represent this community in a way that's befitting of this board, of the students, and of the faculty of this college. Thank you very much. Have a good evening.

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Thank you. Thank you. Okay.

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Well, at this time, we're going to adjourn into executive session, and let me find that item so I can read it exactly. Okay. The meeting of the Lee College Board of Regents on above-listed date after proper posting and in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code for the specific purposes provided will recess from open meeting to closed meeting.

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No action will be taken while the board is recessed in executive session. Yeah. And on the, so.

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Yeah, on one, there's going to be no action on the protocol, and three, so subject number one, there'll be, you know, none, no action, and no action related to that. Right. Okay.

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Okay. And when it happens, I'll write it down. Okay.

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I think that would be good. Yeah. We got to write.

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No, that wasn't. We had a client call in that they wanted to know. Yeah, and then you got done.

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So. So. It's got to be.

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Yeah. Yeah. That's cool.

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That's the one I'm talking about. Yeah. Now that we've gone out of order, let me find my place in order.

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I think adjournment's next on the agenda. We are at consent agenda, correct? We haven't gotten anywhere. It's been an hour and 30 minutes.

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You are on consent. Aren't we on consent agenda? We're on consent agenda. Yeah.

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Yeah. Okay. Consent agenda.

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Consideration of new hires. The administration recommends that the board approve the new hires as presented below. I'll entertain a motion on this item.

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So moved. Second. Okay.

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I've got a motion by Regent Moore-Fontenot and a second by Regent Charles. Any discussion on this item? Okay. All in favor say aye.

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Aye. Any opposed? New business. It's going to be the Gina show.

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Okay. Consideration of adoption of board policy revisions for local policies. The administration and board policy committee recommend that the board approve and adopt the revisions to local board policies as presented and recommended by Texas Association of School Boards update 46 and one other part.

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Do I have a motion on this? So moved. Second. Okay.

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I have a motion by Regent Gillory and a second by Regent Geralds. Discussion on this item. And, by the way, before we get into discussion on this item, I do realize I did not adjourn us back into open session.

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But I don't know if that's a legal requirement or not, but we are back into open session. Yes. I wrote 724.

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Very good. You got my back. I just wanted you all to know I'm paying attention.

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I'm telling on myself. Okay. So discussion is the items that we want to bring before you to approve is local EBA, that refers to distance learning, ECC, which is schedules and course load, FA, which deals with equal education opportunity, FAA, deals with pregnancy and parenting students, FFD is freedom of discrimination, and then FLB is students' rights.

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And so those are mostly just clean up. But the one that I would like to speak to specifically is BBB local, which is a board election policy for this board. And so we talked about this, and it has been before us before.

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And so I want to provide clarity. We've met with legal and gotten clarity on this policy. And so right now, each seat will have a number.

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And so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. And so seats 1, 2, and 3 will be up for election in 2023, 2029, and 2035. Seat 4, 5, and 6 will be up for election in 2025, 2031, and 2037. And seats 7, 8, and 9 will be up for election in 2027, 2033, easy for you to say, and 2039.

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And so now that we have legal opinion as to what the numbers in the seats mean, is that if an opponent chooses to run against an incumbent, instead of it just being at large in the top three vote-getters, whoever runs during that time gets the seat, now a candidate can run against someone in seat 1. And they can specify, matter of fact, they have to specify which seat that they're running against. And so, for example, if it's my turn, they're running, they sign up to run, they're running against. We are both running for my seat.

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And if no one signs up for the next seat or the next seat, then those two are automatically reappointed, reelected, and then there's just an election of my seat because I've drawn an opponent. So that's the way it's written, and that's what we're asking for you to approve tonight. Again, any candidate will be able to run, and they will have to name exactly which seat they are running against.

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Just a comment or clarification, we're approving something we're legally required to do? Absolutely. And technically, we have already done this, but we did it without having full knowledge and clarification. Originally, our understanding was not that those numbers were going to mean something when it came time to election.

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We were under the impression that, okay, we're just going to number these seats, and now your seat has a number, and you continue. But that is not the case. Every seat has a number for election purposes.

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So that there's no confusion from anybody that listens to the recording of this, like the press. Another way to say this is our elections are at large by position. They are at large by position.

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That is correct. Sure. I would just like to make a comment.

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This whole change that's being kind of pushed on us does sadden me. It's certainly not anybody's fault here at the board. It does, though, create a circumstance where you could have multiple people running in multiple seats, and actually the top three vote-getters wouldn't necessarily be the ones that would win the candidate.

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That's number one. Number two, it creates a runoff situation if we have multiple candidates, which increases the cost of the election. And third, one nice thing about running for this board is you never ran against anybody.

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You just ran for the seat and the top three vote-getters. And I've always thought that was the most democratic, even-handed, open, just the top three. And so it saddens me that we are having – apparently we've been doing this wrong for how many years? I was just about to say, it has not just been pushed upon us.

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This changed quite some time ago, and we did not – basically, we did not comply with the change. So when we were founded and started in 1966, I believe, wasn't it? Something like that. We've been doing it wrong ever since then.

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And basically what's happening is now Lee College will have to do elections like everyone else in the world. Yeah. Basically.

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We had a good thing going when we had it. We have to do it the way that it's done all over the world. Who blew the whistle? Imagine that.

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Okay. So if there's no more discussion on this item, all in favor say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? Aye. Okay. Okay.

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Consideration of approval of jail code gyms to replace arena playing court flooring and subflooring system. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate final terms and award the arena playing court flooring and subflooring services to jail code gyms for the sum of $121,367.50 using by board number 641-21 pricing. Do I have a motion on this item? So moved.

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Second. Okay. Who was the motion? Mark.

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Mark Hall made the – Regent Hall made the motion, and Regent Warford seconded. I'm sure there is robust discussion on this topic. My concerns, Mr. Chairman.

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Okay. Some of them I understand have been corrected that we now have in the bid or in the proposal the specified grade of the wood, which was not originally in there, so that was one thing. And my concern in some of the emails, if you would step up, you could maybe address that, of the moisture issue and what could be done.

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And my concern is that if we have a moisture issue, can that be dealt with where competitive pressure can be brought to whatever price we have to pay? Yeah. We will get an independent firm to come and do some test holes, I guess, through the floor and check the moisture level in the concrete if we have some problems. And we can move when they remove the floor that we can have some kind of sealant or whatever that they deem best to be put down from a different company.

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So, yeah. And also, we're going to take a look at the HVAC and see if there's pressure problems with the building where they might be bringing some extra humidity items in or something. We'll have our people do that, too.

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Any other discussion or questions regarding this item? Okay. Hearing no further discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye.

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Aye. No, he said aye. Okay.

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Any opposed? Okay. Passes. Okay.

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Consideration of contract renewal with Stellar Services, Inc. for Information Security Operations Center. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate final terms and approve renewal of the contract with stellar services Inc.

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in the amount of $262,086. Do we have a motion on this item? So moved. Second.

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I have a motion by Regent Cotton and a second by Regent Moore-Fontenot. Any discussion on this item? Hearing no discussion, all in favor of approving this item say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? Consideration of approval of the HVAC Preventive Maintenance Agreement Renewable Option for Year 3, Fiscal Year 2024-2025. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to negotiate final terms and approve the Renewable Option of Year 3 of the agreement with Johnson Controls for $334,961. Do I have a motion on this item? So moved.

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Second. I have a motion by Regent Guillory and a second by Regent Geralds. Any discussion on this item? Just to confirm, this was the agreed to three-year option price three years ago, right? Three years ago.

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Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

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Next item. Consideration of approval of a contingent fee contract with Purdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins and Mott pursuant to Section 6.3 of tax code, said contract being for the collection of delinquent government receivables owed to Lee College. Notice of proposed said contract was posted with the agenda for this meeting in accordance with section 2254 of the government code. 

The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or her designee to execute a contingent fee contract with Purdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins and Mott for collection of delinquent ad valorem taxes. Do we have a motion on this item? Mr. Chairman, I move that we table this item until we can have further discussion. Thank you. 

That was a motion by Regent Hall and a second by Regent Guillory. All in favor of tabling this item say aye. Aye. 

Any opposed? Aye. Okay. We will table this item for a future date.

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Matters of concern for future agendas? Hearing none, we are at Regent Cotton's favorite part.