1 1 2 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x 4 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 5 SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE 6 EASTERN CAMPUS 7 ROOM 100 - PECONIC BUILDING 8 RIVERHEAD, NEW YORK 9 AUGUST 10, 2006 - 9:30 A.M. 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Court Reporter: 21 Tina M. Lehman 22 23 24 25 2 1 2 A P P E A R A N C E S: 3 4 WILLIAM D. MOORE, Trustee/Chair 5 WALTER C. HAZLITT, Trustee/Vice Chair 6 JERRY KANE, Trustee/Secretary 7 FRANK C. TROTTA, Trustee 8 JOHN L. KOMINICKI, Trustee 9 ERNESTO MATTACE, JR., Trustee 10 DENNIS MCCARTHY, Trustee 11 AVETTE D. WARE, Student Trustee 12 DR. SHIRLEY PIPPINS, President, SCCC 13 TERRI KOPP, President's Office 14 CHARLES STEIN, V.P. for Business & Fin. 15 Affairs 16 JOANNE BRAXTON, Assoc. V.P. for Campus 17 Affairs 18 ET AL 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. MOORE: All please rise and say 3 the Pledge of Allegiance lead by Jerry 4 Kane. 5 (Whereupon, the meeting commenced with 6 the Pledge of Allegiance.) 7 MR. MOORE: Thank you. All be seated. 8 We'll take a moment to recognize a few 9 guests and we'll see and hear them in 10 action in just a few moments. We have Todd 11 Stedmans there, Judge Emerson, and Chief 12 Deputy Clerk Marty Hally. Welcome all, 13 thank you for being here. 14 We have a couple trustees to swear in. 15 Walter will be sworn in for another seven 16 years this time, used to be nine, and we're 17 glad to see our student trustee Avette up 18 and about with us this morning. This will 19 be her second year as a student trustee, so 20 congratulations to both, and with that, 21 let's commence with the swearing in 22 ceremony. 23 JUDGE EMERSON: Avette, I ask that you 24 step up, please. 25 Ladies and gentlemen, may I call your 4 1 August 10, 2006 2 attention to this very important event. 3 This morning, I would like to present your 4 student trustee and would you pay careful 5 attention as she takes the oath of office 6 for her second term. 7 Avette, would you raise your right 8 hand and repeat after me. 9 I do solemnly swear -- 10 MS. WARE: I do solemnly swear -- 11 JUDGE EMERSON: -- that I will 12 support -- 13 MS. WARE: -- that I will support -- 14 MS. EMERSON: -- the Constitution of 15 the United States -- 16 MS. WARE: -- the Constitution of the 17 United States -- 18 JUDGE EMERSON: -- the Constitution of 19 the State of New York -- 20 MS. WARE: -- the Constitution of the 21 State of New York -- 22 JUDGE EMERSON: -- and that I will 23 faithfully discharge -- 24 MS. WARE: -- and that I will 25 faithfully discharge -- 5 1 August 10, 2006 2 JUDGE EMERSON: -- the duties of the 3 office of student trustee for Suffolk 4 Community College - 5 MS. WARE: -- the duties of student 6 trustee -- 7 JUDGE EMERSON: The Office of 8 Student -- 9 MS. WARE: The office of student 10 trustee for Suffolk County Community 11 College. 12 JUDGE EMERSON: In and for the County 13 of Suffolk -- 14 MS. WARE: In and for the County of 15 Suffolk -- 16 JUDGE EMERSON: -- according to the 17 best of my ability. 18 MS. WARE: -- according to the best of 19 my ability. 20 JUDGE EMERSON: Ladies and gentlemen, 21 your student trustee. 22 Sir, if you would step up over here, 23 please. 24 Ladies and gentlemen, would you 25 indulge me a few moments. In all the years 6 1 August 10, 2006 2 that I have known this man, I have to say 3 this is the first time that I have had the 4 pleasure of administering any kind of an 5 authoritative oath so I'm really enjoying 6 myself this morning. I also wish to tell 7 you that I have been on the receiving end 8 of many of those father-daughter 9 introductions, and thinking back over the 10 years, I'm going to just move directly on 11 to the swearing in ceremony. 12 MR. HAZLITT: I will have some 13 comments. Before I was having a little 14 problem with the Justice about showing up 15 today, missing calendar and all that court 16 work and -- 17 JUDGE EMERSON: Gave me the wrong 18 date. 19 MR. HAZLITT: -- and I said well, you 20 got two choices, either you show up or 21 you're out of the will. 22 JUDGE EMERSON: All right now, ladies 23 and gentlemen, let's get serious again. 24 It is my distinct pleasure to present 25 your trustee, Walter Charles Hazlitt, and 7 1 August 10, 2006 2 it's a great honor and privilege to 3 administer this particular oath so, sir, 4 raise your right hand and repeat after me 5 in a loud and clear voice. 6 I do solemnly swear -- 7 MR. HAZLITT: I do solemnly swear -- 8 JUDGE EMERSON: -- to support the 9 Constitution of the United States of 10 America -- 11 MR. HAZLITT: -- to support the 12 Constitution of the United States of 13 America -- 14 JUDGE EMERSON: -- the Constitution of 15 the State of New York -- 16 MR. HAZLITT: -- the Constitution of 17 the State of New York -- 18 JUDGE EMERSON: -- and that I will 19 faithfully discharge the duties -- 20 MR. HAZLITT: -- that I will 21 faithfully discharge the duties -- 22 JUDGE EMERSON: -- of the office of 23 trustee and vice-chairman for Suffolk 24 Community College. 25 MR. HAZLITT: That's a long one. 8 1 August 10, 2006 2 JUDGE EMERSON: I'll break it down. 3 Discharge the duties of the office of 4 trustee -- 5 MR. HAZLITT: Discharge the duties of 6 the office of trustee -- 7 JUDGE EMERSON: -- and 8 vice-chairman -- 9 MR. HAZLITT: -- and vice-chairman -- 10 JUDGE EMERSON: -- for Suffolk 11 Community College -- 12 MR. HAZLITT: -- for Suffolk Community 13 College -- 14 JUDGE EMERSON: -- and in and for the 15 County of Suffolk -- 16 MR. HAZLITT: -- and in and for the 17 County of Suffolk -- 18 JUDGE EMERSON: -- according to the 19 best of my abilities -- 20 MR. HAZLITT: Wow. According to the 21 best of my abilities -- 22 JUDGE EMERSON: -- so help me God. 23 MR. HAZLITT: So help me God. 24 JUDGE EMERSON: Congratulations. 25 MR. MOORE: Thanks for your time, 9 1 August 10, 2006 2 Marty. 3 JUDGE EMERSON: Thank you, ladies and 4 gentlemen, it was a pleasure to be here. 5 MR. MOORE: I'll entertain a motion to 6 approve the minutes of the Board of 7 Trustees meetings. 8 MR. KANE: So moved. 9 MR. MOORE: All in favor? 10 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 11 "aye.") 12 MR. MOORE: At this point, we didn't 13 do it back at our June meeting and it is 14 appropriate to have an election of our 15 board officers so I ask for nominations for 16 each of the respective chairs, vice-chair 17 and secretary. 18 MR. HAZLITT: For chairman, I nominate 19 William D. Moore. 20 MR. KANE: I second. 21 MR. MOORE: Any other nominations? 22 (No response.) 23 MR. MOORE: Hearing none, we'll close. 24 MR. HAZLITT: The secretary casts one 25 ballot in favor of William D. Moore. 10 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. MOORE: You took the oath as 3 vice-chair. 4 MR. HAZLITT: I didn't know that. 5 MR. MOORE: I'll take nominations for 6 the position of vice-chair. 7 MR. MATTACE: I nominate Walter C. 8 Hazlitt. 9 MR. KOMINICKI: Second. 10 MR. MOORE: Any other nominations? 11 (No response.) 12 MR. MOORE: Hearing none, record one 13 ballot for Walter Hazlitt for vice-chair 14 with the thanks of the board. 15 And, lastly, I open the nominations 16 for the position of secretary. 17 MR. MCCARTHY: I'd like to nominate 18 George Kane being that he's the last one in 19 and out of the room for secretary. 20 MR. HAZLITT: I will second that 21 motion with enthusiasm. 22 MR. MOORE: Any other nominations? 23 (No response.) 24 MR. MOORE: Hearing none, I direct the 25 ballot for secretary George Kane. Thank 11 1 August 10, 2006 2 you, George. 3 MR. KOMINICKI: Congratulations. 4 MR. MOORE: Moving on to Item F, 5 discussion of parking decals. 6 MS. BRAXTON: Good morning. I'd like 7 to just give you a brief update on our 8 parking management system that we embarked 9 on over a year ago. 10 In keeping with Dr. Pippins, one of 11 her goals which is to further enhance the 12 safety and security of the college, we did 13 embark on an RFP for a new parking 14 management system. When we solicited the 15 RFP, we asked the vendors for the following 16 items that needed to be included: One, to 17 provide an identification of vehicles on 18 the campus, to facilitate ticketing and 19 enforcement activity to enhance security in 20 emergency identification procedures, and to 21 provide visible parking -- excuse me, to 22 provide visible public marketing of the 23 stickers on all vehicles because we had a 24 special design of the decal and a system 25 that will be contemporary and up to date 12 1 August 10, 2006 2 with a solid on-line access and also a 3 system that was web-based. 4 I am happy to report that with the 5 selection of the T2 System which is the 6 name of the vendor who received the 7 particular RFP that we are, as they say in 8 the business, we are alive. The system is 9 up and running and all the requirements 10 have been met and we also want to share 11 with you that with this new system, there 12 are three major enhancements that we think 13 are important. 14 One, individuals can register as many 15 vehicles as they want with the new system 16 because it is all web-based and automated. 17 Two, the decals are removable. You're 18 able to put them from car to car and people 19 are not scraping things all over and 20 defacing their decal and probably the most 21 important is that we are now able -- our 22 security officers will have PDAs, hand-held 23 scanners, to be able to issue tickets. 24 They will no longer have to stand in the 25 rain and write. All they do is take the 13 1 August 10, 2006 2 PDA, place it in front of the bar code of 3 the sticker, and the ticket is 4 automatically issued. It also goes into 5 our billing system and the billing system 6 will place it on their account so in terms 7 of that, that is productivity but also 8 moving us into the future. 9 The other piece is that we now have an 10 on-line appeals process which will allow 11 anyone who did receive a ticket to appeal 12 it and the nice piece of this is that the 13 committee no longer has to meet as a group. 14 They can meet on-line, they can deliberate 15 the appeal, and then the decision is sent 16 to the individual so we have moved very far 17 and I am very pleased to say that we are 18 alive, on-line, and the 22,000 students and 19 faculty staff and visitors will be able to 20 register their vehicles as well as we have 21 made a provision for ESL students and we 22 even have the instructions in Spanish as 23 well as any of our continuing education 24 students. 25 I will be remiss if I did not thank 14 1 August 10, 2006 2 all the people who made this arduous 3 process because we had to incorporate this 4 into our computer system. I'd like to 5 thank, of course, the director of security, 6 John Williams, Robert Dobecker who's the 7 associate dean for student services here on 8 this campus, and of course, the 9 magnificent, wonderful, outstanding 10 computer department, Gary Briss, Laura 11 Levine and Jason Larelle. Thank you. 12 MR. TROTTA: I want to ask you a 13 question. 14 You said the decals are removable? 15 MS. BRAXTON: They are removable, you 16 can put them on -- 17 MR. TROTTA: What are they made of, 18 static -- 19 MS. BRAXTON: You just stick them on 20 and just -- 21 MR. MOORE: And visitors are to have 22 them as well? 23 MS. BRAXTON: Yes. If you are a 24 visitor, you are to go to the security 25 stations and we also will issue you a 15 1 August 10, 2006 2 temporary decal. The other piece is that 3 anyone who is here for a long period of 4 time, any contractors, we now have built 5 into their contract that they must have IDs 6 as well as parking decals as well because 7 it will help us to identify anyone who was 8 on our premises. 9 I saw there was another question. 10 MR. MATTACE: Do we still have a 11 student court? 12 MS. BRAXTON: A student court, not 13 that I'm aware of. 14 MR. MATTACE: Where do the appeals go? 15 MS. BRAXTON: The appeals go to 16 committee. There is a committee that is 17 set up through the Department of Student 18 Activities and they sit on the committee. 19 The chairman is, of course, the Director of 20 Security, and as I said, the nice part is 21 you don't have to ride up and down the 22 highway anymore. You can deliberate 23 on-line and send out the appeal on-line and 24 also the trustees will have decals. 25 MR. TROTTA: Without the bar code; 16 1 August 10, 2006 2 right? 3 MS. BRAXTON: No, the bar code will be 4 there so we know where you are. 5 Yes, Mr. Kane? 6 MR. KANE: This is not completely 7 related, but what's the status of the cell 8 phone operation on this campus? 9 MS. BRAXTON: The cell phone 10 operation, we sent the RFP and are waiting 11 for those responses to come back so we can 12 move forward with that so we still have 13 that in the -- 14 MS. WARE: The entrance on College 15 Road where the light is, will that become 16 locked now, gated? 17 MS. BRAXTON: No. 18 MS. WARE: Because it's kind of open 19 at this point. 20 MS. BRAXTON: No. The decal is 21 basically for anyone who's a student, 22 faculty member, or staff or anyone who is 23 here for a long period of time. We've 24 always have had the ability, if there's a 25 car that doesn't have a decal, we run them 17 1 August 10, 2006 2 through the Department of Motor Vehicles to 3 find out if they belong here or not. We 4 always had that ability through our 5 security department. 6 MR. MATTACE: Has anybody approached 7 the campus as far as putting the town or 8 any of the other campuses -- 9 MS. BRAXTON: We've had that 10 discussion with some but not that -- we 11 have the RFP. They have to really respond 12 to that. 13 DR. PIPPINS: The decals give us the 14 ability, should we ever need to lock the 15 campus down, to identify who belongs here 16 and who doesn't. Most instances this is 17 for safety, security, at one level. If you 18 ever had a security alert in the country, 19 only students would be on the campus and 20 that would give you some kind of control at 21 that level. Plus, there are stickers all 22 over the county that say Suffolk County 23 Community College. 24 MS. BRAXTON: Absolutely, that's part 25 of the design as well. 18 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. TROTTA: Congratulations, good 3 job. 4 MR. MOORE: Chuck, give us the budget 5 updates. 6 MR. STEIN: I have good news. The 7 Budget Review Office issued a report with 8 respect to the budget that was recommended 9 by the County Executive and it was an 10 excellent report, discussed in detail the 11 situations that exist at the college with 12 respect to the level of support as well as 13 the condition of some of our equipment and 14 furniture and other things. As a result of 15 that report, the Legislature on Tuesday 16 voted to amend the recommended budget to 17 add back a number of things and also to 18 increase the county's support, an 19 additional 2 percent above what the County 20 Executive had recommended for a total of 4 21 percent increase in county support. The 22 newspaper article in Newsday said it was a 23 4 percent increase in the budget. It was a 24 4 percent increase in county support, I 25 wanted to clarify that. The vote at the 19 1 August 10, 2006 2 Legislature was 18 in favor and none 3 against. 4 I was advised by a representative of 5 the County Executive's office at that point 6 that the County Executive will be 7 exercising his right to veto. He has that 8 right. He has ten days to do that. The 9 Legislature meets again on August 22nd, and 10 hopefully, they will continue to show their 11 excellent support for this college and if 12 there is a veto that they override the veto 13 and provide us with our budget which then 14 would come back to this board. You have a 15 resolution in your packet today for the 16 budget which I'm recommending to table to 17 allow the process to go through its normal 18 procedures. Hopefully, if there is a veto 19 and it's overridden, I ask that you return 20 I think the schedule is on August 24th to 21 vote on the budget and I'll answer any 22 questions. 23 MR. HAZLITT: Does the County 24 Executive have the option of doing nothing? 25 In other words, if he does nothing for ten 20 1 August 10, 2006 2 days, does it automatically pass? 3 MR. STEIN: If he does nothing for ten 4 days or if he submits his veto after the 5 ten days, as it happened if you recall 6 about six years ago, the legislative action 7 stands. 8 Any other questions? Thank you. 9 MR. MOORE: Dr. Pippins. 10 DR. PIPPINS: I will stand here and I 11 think you can look at the presentation on 12 the screen. 13 I realized that this is actually my 14 third budget update, my second annual 15 report, so as of September 1, I will 16 actually have been with the college three 17 years. Hard to believe, but it's been a 18 wonderful three years and the information 19 that I will share with you today is really 20 the result of the work of the faculty, 21 staff, administrators, and board of this 22 college. 23 I wanted to start out by saying thank 24 you for the support and I would like a 25 picture of the board, the trustees, up 21 1 August 10, 2006 2 there so I can have a separate picture, but 3 I thank you for your support. None of this 4 would be possible without your support. 5 I'm pleased to share with you that the 6 tax payers investments that we are making 7 to Suffolk Community College are continuing 8 to pay off. We're continuing to address 9 major county priorities. You're aware of 10 the many challenges that we are facing. We 11 have a diversifying funding base and we are 12 an efficient organization. 13 A major goal for the college continues 14 to be creating and supporting a quality 15 work force that we believe will make 16 Suffolk County more competitive and less 17 vulnerable to the outsourcing of jobs and 18 we are capable of producing high quality 19 employment opportunities for young people 20 and working families. 21 When I talk about a quality work 22 force, I'm addressing both those that come 23 to us through transfer opportunities and 24 those who come seeking work force 25 development opportunities because 22 1 August 10, 2006 2 eventually, we all want our children to go 3 to work. 4 Internally, we're working on quality, 5 organizational efficiency, and 6 effectiveness. We are conducting 7 assessments of programs, providing support 8 and professional development opportunities, 9 reviewing program enrollment, monitoring 10 section size, comparing ourselves to our 11 peers, and adjusting our offerings as 12 appropriate and all this is an enhancement 13 of our student success initiatives. 14 As I shared before, we have integrated 15 all elements of our operation under our 16 strategic plan and this more successfully 17 allows us to be more accountable in terms 18 of being efficient and effective, cost 19 avoidment, good stewardship, developing our 20 human resources, diversifying our funding 21 base, and enhancing our recruitment and 22 retention program. 23 The highlights for safety and security 24 are implementing the parking decal system 25 and perhaps more promptly addressing the 23 1 August 10, 2006 2 barriers that is preventing us from keeping 3 security positions, which we had filled and 4 we are moving forward in that area. We put 5 funding available for additional lights and 6 we are participating with the county in 7 emergency preparedness training. 8 As you know, for the first time in 9 this academic year, we have been accredited 10 as one institution with three campuses. 11 For all of you available, October 30th and 12 October 31st, the team leader will be 13 visiting and the accreditation ceremony in 14 March of 2007. We are making significant 15 progress in this area. We have a very hard 16 working committee. 17 Externally, we are taking steps to 18 increase the competitiveness of this 19 region. Jobs are going to where the best 20 educated and most productive work force is 21 located. In real estate, it's location, 22 location, location, and in economic 23 development, it's work force, work force, 24 work force. 25 As a community college, we're 24 1 August 10, 2006 2 providing access and opportunities to high 3 paying career options for students and 4 families in the work force and our goal 5 really is to educate and train our 6 residents so that Suffolk County is 7 perceived as having the most highly skilled 8 and most productive work force in the 9 country. 10 A skilled work force will help the 11 county in attracting new businesses, 12 enhance competitiveness in terms of 13 existing businesses, and decrease the 14 vulnerability in business relocation, 15 downsizing, and outsourcing. 16 With the support of the county, we are 17 addressing the needs of all skill levels 18 within our current and potential work 19 force. We are in a good position to do 20 this. Research shows that 94 percent of 21 our graduates initially live and work on 22 Long Island, and even among those students 23 that do transfer, 66 percent transfer to 24 institutions on Long Island. 25 In terms of reversing the brain drain, 25 1 August 10, 2006 2 a lot of honor students, an increase of 15 3 percent in the number of students in this 4 program, which is over the largest 5 graduating class in the history of the 6 honor program and I am very pleased to say 7 that this year we have two students who 8 this fall are going on full scholarships to 9 Columbia University. 10 Students coming to the college can 11 experience significant savings ranging from 12 $6,000 if they transfer to Stony Brook to 13 $37,000 if they transfer to C.W. Post -- I 14 know at least one person has at least one 15 child attending C.W. Post -- to 56,000 to 16 NYU and I know for a fact several students 17 will be at NYU. 18 We're seeking to reach out to talented 19 students early in their academic careers 20 and we're partnering through an Early 21 College Program with Deer Park High School. 22 Students who successfully complete this 23 program will graduate from high school with 24 one full year of college under their belts. 25 With the support of our faculty 26 1 August 10, 2006 2 through our union, we're moving forward 3 with the dual enrollment courses and 4 students in our local high schools will be 5 eligible to receive college credit. We are 6 also working with students at-risk at 7 Westhampton High School through the College 8 Bridge Program. We're encouraging them to 9 experience higher education. 10 The College Success Program is moving 11 forward with success and I am particularly 12 pleased with the retention rates in that 13 program. You can see in the second year, 14 the retention rates of 78 percent, 84 15 percent, and 79 percent. 16 Our goal is to put in place a 17 comprehensive coordinated system of work 18 force development both for businesses and 19 for employees. There's a regional advanced 20 manufacturing system, an excellent example 21 of our goals. 22 We are addressing major county 23 priorities and I believe this is one of the 24 reasons that got the unanimous vote of the 25 Legislature in terms of healthcare, 27 1 August 10, 2006 2 economic developmental, downtown 3 revitalization, work force development and 4 reversing the brain drain. 5 We are working to put Suffolk County 6 on the state and national and, I might well 7 say, international map. I wouldn't put 8 that on the slide. We have academic 9 excellence and work force and economic 10 development. This status attracts 11 excellent students, faculty, and 12 administrators, attracts funding, and gives 13 a message to the business community that we 14 are prepared to attract a quality work 15 force, support a quality work force, and 16 give assistance to individual businesses 17 whether they are large or small. This is a 18 short list of the businesses in the area 19 that we're currently supporting. 20 In terms of state and national 21 recognition, our faculty and staff are 22 providing opportunities and doing excellent 23 jobs. Carla Dyck, a student from the 24 Eastern Campus, was 1 of 25 to receive the 25 Jack Kent Cooke scholarship. Abby 28 1 August 10, 2006 2 Cassella-Graesera, a nursing student, was 3 named an All-USA First Team member and New 4 Century Scholar. 5 We are continuing to be 4th in on-line 6 courses. One of our faculty from the Grant 7 Campus, Nursing Department received the 8 Nursing Education Award and another faculty 9 member has been selected to serve on the 10 National Assessment Panel. 11 We see ourselves continuing working to 12 leverage the investment made in the 13 college. We are effective and efficient 14 and we have diversified our funding base. 15 You all know about the impressive three 16 year, $2.4 million Mechatronics Grant Award 17 which is the largest grant award in the 18 history of the college. Grant funds are 19 increasing, and in fact, the BRO report 20 cited our work in this area showing that we 21 are outperforming the state average and our 22 peers in terms of bringing in additional 23 revenue to the college. 24 Our foundation is moving forward and 25 we have successfully completed our first 29 1 August 10, 2006 2 annual campaign. We have secured approval 3 for payroll deductions, no small task. We 4 have validated the alumni database. In 5 2006, we are planning for a major gifts 6 campaign. 7 As you also are aware, we continue to 8 face major challenges in terms of limited 9 resources, compensation, varying levels of 10 state and local support, aging facilities, 11 the need for state-of-the-art technology. 12 Enrollment growth and technology 13 require learning resource centers, sports 14 and health facilities, science labs, 15 infrastructure. I mentioned health and 16 sports facility and learning resource 17 centers and I am very proud that our 18 Capital Program is moving forward. 19 These are some pictures of our 20 outdated science labs, the outdated 21 technical equipment, poor space based on 22 that, old classroom furniture, and the 23 library furniture is actually the original 24 furniture in that building. These are 25 examples of some of the science equipment 30 1 August 10, 2006 2 we replaced. This is the library 3 furniture. The good news is the Budget 4 Review Office recommended an increase of 5 370,000 for furniture, vehicle, and 6 equipment replacement. 7 We're also in need of key additional 8 positions to move forward. The important 9 SCCC initiatives that we have in Riverhead, 10 the College Success Program, and I would 11 also bring your attention to the need for 12 the improvement of our infrastructure. 13 The positions we requested are safety 14 and security, student success and 15 stewardship. We ask for two additional 16 public safety officers, a College Success 17 counselor, three facilities, three 18 clerical, and one PA. 19 In recognition of the financial 20 support necessary for this type of 21 operation, the governor and the state 22 Legislature, as you know, took steps 23 towards the one third, one third, one third 24 commitment that was made when the community 25 college system was established. The data 31 1 August 10, 2006 2 shows the need for this commitment. In the 3 last five years, enrollment has grown 4 22.75, state aid has gone up only 4.44 5 percent, county aid in terms of percentage 6 has actually gone down 3.1 percent, 7 full-time tuition has increased 28.33, and 8 the total budget FTE increased by about 9 12.99 percent. This is a graphic 10 representation of that funding situation. 11 In the BRO report, they had another chart 12 that reflected what happened in terms of 13 funding and you can see since 1997 that 14 state aid has gone down by 1.2 percent, 15 county aid by 3.7 percent. At the same 16 time, students have picked up an additional 17 share and their increase is about 3.6 18 percent and actually the increase for 19 students has been mitigated by the outside 20 revenue that the college has brought in. 21 The good news is that despite these 22 challenges and the cost of living here in 23 Suffolk, we are very competitive in terms 24 of our tuition and are under the cost of 25 our neighboring institutions during the 32 1 August 10, 2006 2 last three years. 3 We have asked Suffolk County to 4 continue its current level of support and 5 to provide a 4 percent increase -- 2 6 percent from the County Executive, 2 7 percent from the County Legislature -- to 8 address our needs and we're very excited 9 that the Suffolk County Legislature has 10 supported our request for funding and for 11 positions. I believe that's a good 12 decision in the sense that it's fiscally 13 prudent, invests strategically, and it 14 reflects cost reduction and holds tuition 15 increase in the amount of cost of living. 16 Working together, we have expanded 17 access and opportunity, strategically 18 investing in the county, making progress 19 towards creating a state-of-the-art 20 teaching and learning environment, 21 rebuilding infrastructure, provide high 22 quality affordable education, and all of 23 this with an increase in tuition which is 24 consistent with the cost of living. 25 I believe with approval of our budget 33 1 August 10, 2006 2 -- I'm hoping if the budget is vetoed, it 3 will be overridden -- that we are 4 positioned for a successful 2006-2007 5 academic year and moving this institution 6 forward during that period. Thank you. 7 Any questions? 8 MR. MATTACE: Can I have a copy of 9 your slide show? 10 DR. PIPPINS: I learn people don't 11 listen if you give that to them first. 12 What I tried to do is provide an 13 update and give you an idea of the points 14 we're sharing consistently with the 15 community and perhaps the most exciting is 16 the 18 to 0 vote by the Legislature. I 17 tried to emphasize the points that we're 18 making, that we are providing affordable 19 quality education, that we're implementing 20 efficient strategies. 21 MR. KANE: Perhaps we should send a 22 letter of appreciation and thanks to the 23 Suffolk County Legislature for their 24 participation from the Board of Trustees. 25 MR. MOORE: We want to send that at 34 1 August 10, 2006 2 this point, in the midst of this process -- 3 DR. PIPPINS: Thank them in advance. 4 I also invited the Legislature and 5 invited you to be with us on our Opening 6 Day. For the first time this year, we will 7 have faculty and staff at our Opening Day 8 exercises and I've invited the Legislature 9 to be present at that meeting and 10 officially thank them for their work. 11 Getting a letter from you would be 12 wonderful. 13 MR. MOORE: Opening Day is -- 14 DR. PIPPINS: August 29th, Tuesday, 15 8:30 breakfast, Grant Campus. We mean to 16 be at Grant, bringing everybody together 17 and it's the only facility that will 18 accommodate us and the foundation will be 19 providing an array of coffee experiences, I 20 guess that's the best way to describe it. 21 MS. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Those of you who 22 haven't had an opportunity to make your 23 contribution yet to the annual fund, you 24 may certainly do that at that time. 25 DR. PIPPINS: I've also invited the 35 1 August 10, 2006 2 members of the general assembly that gave 3 the $3 million to the college to the 4 Opening Day. 5 MR. MOORE: Let's turn to Item G on 6 our agenda, that is the approval of our 7 list of resolutions. 8 Note that in your packet -- you pulled 9 them all apart, now I can't guide you -- we 10 have an amended budget transfer sheet. It 11 was on the top of the left-hand side and 12 Chuck's suggestion is that the Board pull 13 Item 3 and table it for the time being. 14 We'll give the County Executive his ten 15 days to contemplate and to think about and 16 to come on board and be a leader with the 17 college and Legislature in advancing the 18 institution so we'll give him the ten days 19 to think about that. 20 That wasn't too harsh, was it? 21 MR. KOMINICKI: Have we received any 22 specific word from him? 23 MR. MOORE: Chuck can answer that. 24 MR. STEIN: At the legislative vote, I 25 spoke to Mr. Zwern (phonetic) and asked, 36 1 August 10, 2006 2 knowing that this board meeting was coming 3 up, whether or not the County Executive 4 would be contemplating a veto and the 5 comment I received was he will be 6 exercising his right to veto. 7 MR. KOMINICKI: But no specific 8 details as to what his difference is with 9 us in the Legislature? 10 MR. STEIN: No. 11 MR. KOMINICKI: Okay, thanks, Chuck. 12 MR. MOORE: Any chance to review the 13 packet that was sent ahead of time and 14 those changes? We'll table Item 3 and the 15 amended transfer sheet in your materials. 16 I'll entertain a motion to approve 17 Resolutions 2006.52 through 61 and tabling 18 .54. 19 MR. MATTACE: Second. 20 MR. MOORE: We had a second. 21 All in favor? 22 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 23 "aye.") 24 MR. MOORE: I move to recess the Board 25 of Trustees' meeting and convene the Board 37 1 August 10, 2006 2 of Directors meeting for the Association. 3 MR. KANE: So moved. 4 MR. HAZLITT: Second 5 MR. MOORE: All in favor? 6 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 7 "aye.") 8 MR. MOORE: I'll entertain a motion to 9 approve the minutes of the Board. 10 MR. HAZLITT: So moved. 11 MR. KANE: Second. 12 MR. MOORE: All in favor? 13 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 14 "aye.") 15 MR. MOORE: And you received in your 16 packet the financial report for the 17 Association and the budget. Do we have a 18 presentation on that or -- 19 MR. KIRSHER: Carl Kirsher, College 20 Dean of Students. 21 Just to go over last year briefly 22 before we proceed with the coming year, the 23 total revenues for last year were 24 approximately 3,900,000; expenditures, 25 3,500,000 collections and allocations made 38 1 August 10, 2006 2 according to campus population. It's done 3 on a ratio basis. Most of the revenues 4 come from the student fees which is used to 5 support primarily campus association 6 activities, athletics, theater, small part 7 child care operation of the center staff 8 itself. There are advisory committees 9 based on the campus plus a college-wide 10 advisory committee. 11 We are going to be doing some training 12 and Mary Ellen is going around to different 13 campuses because of turnover in the campus 14 and teach them how to build a budget, 15 execute a budget so that these people have 16 a guide to work with. We have moved 17 personnel from independent contractor lines 18 on the college budget. There were only a 19 few categories left in this area such as 20 coaches, orientation leaders, and theater 21 personnel and we've done this in line with 22 IRS recommendations of their 20 questions 23 of what constitutes an independent 24 contractor versus what constitutes an 25 employee. In line with their stricter 39 1 August 10, 2006 2 guidelines and the Social Security crisis 3 that they've been looking to tighten and 4 gather more money from anyplace they could. 5 They'll no longer be independent 6 contractors except maybe for an official of 7 athletic events who are no longer 8 employees. 9 We were able to reduce our insurance 10 costs because of strict adherence to risk 11 management we are recognized for that so 12 that went down by 8 percent which was a 13 $6,000 savings reversing the trend of a 14 yearly 8 to 10 percent increase. We found 15 a new broker, Kane and Kane Insurance, who 16 was able to work with us and with our 17 agent, Waldorf Insurance. There is an 18 increase in the student accident insurance. 19 It's less than a dollar, it's about 40 20 cents. The reason being we have what's 21 known as the Cadillac of insurance policies 22 for our students. We cover our students 23 24/7 on campus, off campus. We've also had 24 the highest payouts. We've looked around 25 and we see that other colleges in the state 40 1 August 10, 2006 2 are not doing this. We are going to issue 3 a new RFP this fall. We're cutting down 4 the coverage to on-campus activities, not 5 off-campus. They looked at us and said 6 this is way too much so that's going to be 7 done with an RFP to try to reduce the 8 costs. I have left up on the table a 9 complete list of all of the activities from 10 the prior year from athletics association, 11 from activities so that you can look at the 12 achievements we've had over the year, how 13 the money's been spent is also in your 14 packet. 15 Child care as you know had been a 16 problem. At Grant Campus, there was a 17 deficit last year of $55,000. We still 18 have a deficit but we've been able to bring 19 it down to approximately end at about 30 to 20 35,000. The way we reduced that was by 21 reducing the number of full time teachers 22 from I think it was nine down to three 23 which cuts down on the benefits and 24 compensation, all additional costs. 25 We've closed one of the -- we've 41 1 August 10, 2006 2 reduced the number of classrooms from four 3 to three because it wasn't being utilized 4 the way we had hoped. Utilization at Grant 5 is down in terms of child care services. 6 There's a lot more competition than we've 7 ever had before and we're trying to 8 restructure it. What we're trying is a 9 shadow class. If enough children are 10 enrolled for the program, we have the space 11 to open it up. We don't want to keep it 12 open if there's only going to be two or 13 three students. 14 We're also going forward with the big 15 marketing plan thanks to Dean Macay who is 16 notifying his whole campus, his whole 17 community, that we have these opportunities 18 available. So right now the Grant funding 19 will be in line with the Ammerman Campus 20 funding for child care and we hope that 21 there is no longer any deficit by the end 22 of this year. 23 The Long Island Shakespeare Festival 24 continues to be a success. Also they had 25 18 performances across the six at New York 42 1 August 10, 2006 2 State parks. Right now, it appears that 3 it's in the red but there's revenue still 4 coming in and that should end in the black 5 by the end of the year, that's the way we 6 anticipate it. Stony Brook is very 7 interested in the Long Island Shakespeare 8 Festival. We have heard indirectly that 9 they're either looking to work with us on 10 this program or to take it over if we no 11 longer want it because we have the rights 12 to the name of the Long Island Shakespeare 13 Festival. 14 MR. TROTTA: Why wouldn't we want to 15 continue? 16 MR. KIRSHER: It had been a drain 17 financially. This year we were lucky we 18 had Gloria Fisher -- 19 DR. PIPPINS: And we also restructured 20 it. 21 MR. KIRSHER: We no longer had major 22 productions that we had, now it's a lot of 23 smaller traveling productions throughout 24 the counties, that has helped quite a bit. 25 Gloria Fisher and Liz Gardo (phonetic) also 43 1 August 10, 2006 2 helped financially by giving grants because 3 they did not want to see this end either. 4 Unless there's any questions, that 5 would be it. We have the copy of the 6 previous year's budget and, this year, you 7 have the packet for the coming budget. 8 MR. MCCARTHY: How did we get the 9 rights to the name? 10 MS. AUDIENCE MEMBER: It's registered 11 as a DBA out of Suffolk County several 12 years ago. 13 MR. MATTACE: On the child care 14 center, you said you went from nine to 15 three -- 16 MR. KIRSHER: We made up the 17 difference with part timers. 18 MR. MATTACE: But the service is still 19 being provided? 20 MR. KIRSHER: We have to have a 21 certain amount of ratio depending on the 22 age of the students enrolled of the 23 children. We were carrying a large staff 24 there that really in terms of the 25 population was out of line. 44 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. MATTACE: Part timers were hired? 3 MR. KIRSHER: Yes. 4 MR. MATTACE: How were they certified? 5 MR. KIRSHER: They have a license, not 6 to teach the class but -- 7 MS. AUDIENCE MEMBER: All the full 8 time teachers have a Bachelors in early 9 child care. All part timers have a two 10 year degree mostly from Suffolk Community 11 College in child care. 12 DR. PIPPINS: We have to keep an eye 13 on that. We've closed one because of the 14 financial drains. I think when these 15 facilities were open, sometimes we were the 16 only option in town, and as other 17 operations opened up, we had more 18 competition. We have to decide whether or 19 not we should continue it. The important 20 thing is that the service is provided, not 21 that we necessarily provide it ourselves 22 and -- 23 MR. HAZLITT: I have a question on the 24 budget. What is the contingency fund? 25 MR. KIRSHER: That's the Dean of 45 1 August 10, 2006 2 Students' fund for programs that may not 3 have enough money in the specific account 4 whether it's inactivity, whether it's 5 theater. The Dean of Students keeps a 6 certain portion of the budget. This year 7 we were able to reduce the child care 8 budget by going into that contingency fund 9 at Grant. That's basically unallocated to 10 specific programs that gets used through 11 the year. It's an appeals process that's 12 used. Thank you. 13 DR. PIPPINS: It's probably also 14 important to keep in mind that when a 15 college runs a child care program, we have 16 to have a higher standard than the general 17 population. Ours is always going to be an 18 expensive opportunity for students. We 19 should also be role models in terms of what 20 we offer. There's more pressure on us 21 offering a program than if an individual in 22 the community decides to open up a child 23 care facility. 24 MR. MOORE: Any other questions, 25 comments? 46 1 August 10, 2006 2 (No response.) 3 MR. MOORE: We have before us 4 Resolutions Items 1 through 7, that's 5 2006.A7 through A13. 6 MR. TROTTA: Make a motion. 7 MR. MOORE: All in favor? 8 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 9 "aye.") 10 MR. MOORE: I entertain a motion to 11 adjourn our Board of Directors meeting and 12 reconvene our Board of Trustees meeting. 13 MR. HAZLITT: So moved. 14 MR. MOORE: All in favor? 15 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 16 "aye.") 17 MR. MOORE: That brings us to item M. 18 MR. STEIN: Before I get into the 19 financial support, I just wanted to mention 20 before when I spoke about the budget 21 update, there was a second resolution that 22 was also approved by the Legislature and 23 also passed 18 to 0 and it provided a line 24 item within the college budget consisting 25 of $10,000 to assist with tuition expenses 47 1 August 10, 2006 2 for The Children of Fallen Heroes of Police 3 Officers and Firefighters in Suffolk 4 County, both living in Suffolk County and 5 who were fallen in Suffolk County, and we 6 have to work out the details of this. The 7 way it was funded was actually to transfer 8 money from our 4560 line in the budget into 9 this new line so it wasn't county money 10 that was added, it was basically a transfer 11 within our budget. Now, today's paper said 12 it was going to be supported by the County 13 Executive and it won't be vetoed, that 14 we're actually going to sit down and work 15 out the criteria in order to implement this 16 program that was passed 18 to 0 by the 17 Legislature. 18 With respect to the finance report for 19 the current fiscal year, in your packet, 20 you have a finance report for revenues and 21 expenditures. On the revenue side, we are 22 projecting for the year our revenues are 23 down by $425,000, this may tie into the 24 enrollment levels for this year that we've 25 been discussing all year long. On the 48 1 August 10, 2006 2 expenditures side, we are projecting that 3 we will spend about almost $1.6 million 4 less than what was budgeted and that was 5 taken into consideration with respect to 6 the budget that we submitted for next year 7 and I'll answer any questions you may have 8 with respect to that. 9 MR. KOMINICKI: Could you remind me 10 again about the enrollment shortfall? Were 11 we too ambitious? 12 MR. KIRSHER: Last year the budget, 13 the current year budget that was submitted 14 last year, anticipated an enrollment 15 increase that didn't materialize and you 16 have less revenue when that occurs. 17 MR. KOMINICKI: And as we move 18 forward, we're expecting enrollment to 19 mirror that? 20 MR. KIRSHER: For next year we expect 21 there will be no increase in our enrollment 22 experience this year. Now, our summer 23 enrollment did not come up to what we had 24 anticipated. The Budget Review Office did 25 its analysis and anticipates that next year 49 1 August 10, 2006 2 we will have a 1 percent increase in our 3 enrollment, but they also recommended not 4 to touch the revenues that were in the 5 budget because of variations so I don't 6 know -- I don't want to say six and one 7 half a dozen of another. 8 DR. PIPPINS: Most of the community 9 colleges in the area, in the state, were 10 best even so with what's happening in the 11 economy. There was a slight increase last 12 year and we're stronger than many other 13 institutions, who being conservative, 14 proposed a budget of no enrollment 15 increase. We're taking significant steps 16 to do what we can to increase enrollment 17 and retention. 18 MR. KIRSHER: I think what the 19 president just said while very, very 20 important, while our enrollment for the 21 current year did not come up to what we 22 budgeted, it was still an increase over 23 last year and the other public institutions 24 around us actually experienced a drop so I 25 think the efforts of our enrollment 50 1 August 10, 2006 2 management people have been very effective 3 on the campuses as well. 4 MR. KOMINICKI: How does that compare 5 to four year enrollment? 6 DR. PIPPINS: I'm not sure. 7 MR. KIRSHER: I don't have the figures 8 on four year enrollment. 9 MR. HAZLITT: What's indicated for 10 September? 11 MR. KOMINICKI: Flat. 12 MR. KIRSHER: We're anticipating flat. 13 DR. PIPPINS: We're projecting flat. 14 We have enrollment management charts that 15 we look at every week in a multitude of 16 categories, but what we've learned, and 17 they compare one year to the next, it's 18 just very difficult to know what's actually 19 going to happen until you get close to the 20 census date. Different things are 21 happening every year. 22 We have a lot of different initiatives 23 this year. What George did with the nurses 24 was what made us as strong as last year, 25 projects like that in the works makes a 51 1 August 10, 2006 2 difference in the enrollment. Without 3 those initiatives, we would have 4 experienced what other institutions have. 5 MR. TROTTA: Why was summer enrollment 6 down? There was an awful lot of good 7 publicity and advertisement that went on 8 and went on early. 9 DR. PIPPINS: Our competitors have 10 become more aggressive so one institution, 11 for example, changed its whole structure 12 for the summer so I think there may be some 13 issues that the four year institutions are 14 facing also so you got -- there's a lot of 15 dynamics taking place. We now have another 16 institution moving out to the eastern area, 17 so more competition there. We have to 18 think proactively in terms of what our 19 strategies are in a competitive position in 20 those situations. 21 MR. KIRSHER: It's also again 22 important to point out while our summer 23 enrollment was down, our neighboring 24 community college had a very significant 25 drop in the summer, almost twice our drop 52 1 August 10, 2006 2 so it's not limited just to Suffolk, it's 3 happening -- 4 DR. PIPPINS: We're being very 5 aggressive. We're trying to mitigate what 6 we see happening and we'll see how it pays 7 off in the coming year. 8 MR. MCCARTHY: Chuck? 9 MR. STEIN: Yes. 10 MR. MCCARTHY: With the Legislature 11 leaving the revenues where they are, are 12 you in agreement with that? 13 MR. STEIN: At this moment, yes. 14 MR. MCCARTHY: Thank you. 15 MR. MOORE: Thank you. 16 On to Item N, couple things on my 17 plate for you. I presented to the board a 18 couple months ago some material on board 19 self-assessment and I can pick that up and 20 shake it off. If you don't have it, make 21 sure you get it. It's what the ACCT 22 materials comes out of. We can tailor it 23 to our needs which is unusual in the manner 24 in which trustees are governor, students 25 and legislative, but within the material 53 1 August 10, 2006 2 available from ACCT, you will find I think 3 some useful stuff, examine how we function 4 as a board, what to do better, what we're 5 doing well, work on things we can improve 6 on, so I'd ask to get back the material 7 that was handed out probably in March or 8 April. I want to get this back from people 9 so we can see what we want, the 10 presidential assessment in place that 11 Dr. Pippins put in turn, strategic plan 12 goals, named people for the goals, in a 13 sense institutional accountability to track 14 and monitor how people are performing and 15 it's perfectly appropriate that we track 16 and monitor what we do and how we do it. 17 So make sure you respond to the mail that 18 you get. When someone mails you something, 19 they're expecting a response and speaking 20 of myself because I was blind this summer 21 to something and I read it twice and it 22 didn't connect that I was being asked to do 23 something so my apologies publicly to -- 24 MR. KOMINICKI: No, no, don't -- 25 MR. MATTACE: It's an outlaw to -- 54 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. MOORE: I can explain but I'm not 3 going to. It's all right. I'm apologizing 4 and I'll quit explaining and -- 5 MR. HAZLITT: I didn't -- 6 MR. MATTACE: It's already stamped. 7 MR. HAZLITT: It wasn't stamped. 8 MR. KOMINICKI: You know what we have 9 to go through to get reimbursed. 10 MR. MOORE: All right, that's an 11 important process and some of us are better 12 at it than others. I'm still learning and 13 working on that. 14 MR. KOMINICKI: So we're going to get 15 a new version of that or just share files 16 and -- 17 MR. MOORE: We'll send it again. 18 I don't mean to be confusing, but 19 there was material we handed out, just a 20 generic board assessment, and the second 21 thing had to, that potential evaluation, 22 completed -- that was where I was falling 23 down. 24 The second thing to talk about and 25 it's appropriate, we are governed as a 55 1 August 10, 2006 2 Board of Trustees under the New York State 3 Education Law and that constitutes an 4 ethical code for us, but it's completely 5 appropriate that we have our own code of 6 ethics and so I've got some material on 7 that so you can chew on that. All good 8 things have to be in place and not to have 9 the slightest indication that anybody 10 around the table here, whatever absent 11 members, has an issue here, but it's nice 12 to have this as part of our package and 13 notebook and manual, what's expected of us 14 as trustees. I'll hand that out and we'll 15 roll that about and come up with a code of 16 ethics. 17 MR. KOMINICKI: Is that a retreat item 18 or -- 19 MR MOORE: We could bring it up at 20 that point. 21 DR. PIPPINS: What's the date of the 22 retreat? 23 MR. MOORE: As I recall, it's a one 24 day retreat. Now, mark your calendars in 25 advance, November 2nd. 56 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. KANE: When is Election Day. 3 MR. HAZLITT: The 7th, I think. 4 MS. AUDIENCE MEMBER: The 7th is 5 Election Day and the retreat is the 2nd. 6 MR. KANE: Will the senators know -- 7 MR. MOORE: He won't know at that 8 point. 9 MR. KOMINICKI: This is really going 10 to the beginning, it's a funny thing, but 11 what is ethics code. 12 MR. MOORE: A lot of the ethic codes 13 focus on financial conflicts. There might 14 be arguments on how the board is conducted 15 ethically and we might disagree on how we 16 conduct ourselves. Ethics are fundamental. 17 The concern is the primary incident and you 18 might be surprised that you don't even 19 think about potential conflict down the 20 road. So chew on it -- 21 MR. MCCARTHY: I think we ought to -- 22 I appreciate this and what we ought to be 23 looking forward to is a simple conflict of 24 interest that board members should get and 25 fill it out and return it and state 57 1 August 10, 2006 2 publicly if they think there's a conflict 3 of interest. I think that's something we 4 should do as a governing body here. It's 5 expected of you on most boards and you 6 should be able to put it on the table that 7 this is what this is, what I do, I have to 8 do this, this, and this, and if you think 9 it's a conflict, tell me this is what it 10 is. I think we ought to, you know, ask the 11 president to ask counsel to look into that. 12 This is good. This is something that's a 13 discussion for a retreat and maybe a 14 presentation on what we should be aware of, 15 but we all should be aware of any personal 16 conflicts that might exist or the fact that 17 they don't exist and make that public. 18 MR. MOORE: Okay, we'll see what you 19 can find on that and bring it out. Thank 20 you. 21 All right, that's it from my end of 22 the table here. Any comments, questions, 23 issues you want to raise? 24 MR. KANE: I'd like to mention the 25 fact that even though we had an 18-0 vote 58 1 August 10, 2006 2 from the Legislature and some of the people 3 involved in that application for a long 4 time know that this doesn't happen in a 5 vacuum and I'd like to say that the faculty 6 has done a marvelous job. Chuck Stein and 7 his people, marvelous job, and the 8 administrators and I've been on the Board 9 now for five years and this is probably the 10 most proactive board that I've seen. This 11 is really wonderful and that's how you get 12 an 18-0 vote, and with due respect to the 13 love of my life, Steve Levy who learned 14 everything at my knee, we'll get an 18-0 15 override and we'll still love him. 16 DR. PIPPINS: And that commendation 17 includes the guild and the AME who were 18 also very involved in the support of making 19 this move forward. 20 MR. TROTTA: They were in the pink. 21 It obviously went to the Legislature. 22 MS. AUDIENCE MEMBER: It worked. 23 MR. KOMINICKI: At the same time, we 24 need to express our great sadness at the 25 fact that given that we have an 18-0 vote 59 1 August 10, 2006 2 and that two key members of Mr. Levy's 3 administration are former Board members who 4 are responsible in some great part to the 5 new direction of the college and the hiring 6 of our current president and all the great 7 things that have occurred since then, there 8 is a certain sadness that it's not going to 9 be rubber stamped. The 18-0 vote is going 10 to be vetoed and have to be overridden. It 11 takes something away from it. 12 DR. PIPPINS: I must add that having 13 been here three years, this is the first 14 time we got 2 percent from the County 15 Executive, just kind of putting it in 16 context since this is all public. 17 MR. HAZLITT: We asked for 7. 18 DR. PIPPINS: That's true. 19 MR. KOMINICKI: There's something 20 between 7 and 2, I think it's 4. 21 MR. MOORE: Only two of the tires on 22 my car are flat. 23 MR. KANE: You go a bridge too far. 24 MR. HAZLITT: That's good. 25 MR. KOMINICKI: They can fix that. 60 1 August 10, 2006 2 MR. MOORE: Any other comments? 3 MR. KOMINICKI: Can I just ask a 4 question? I noticed in Dr. Pippins' state 5 of the college report, there's the thing 6 about the Riverhead school and continuing 7 to explore further funding opportunities to 8 corporate sponsors. Can you tell us a 9 little bit more about that? 10 DR. PIPPINS: George, can you address 11 that, please? 12 MR. G. KANE: We're working with a 13 number of manufacturers of culinary 14 equipment and, in fact, one supplier, Wolf 15 Subzero, has made a commitment to outfit 16 the demonstration theater for all of the 17 equipment at the front of the demonstration 18 theater. We'll also be putting out an RFP 19 for naming rights for different parts of 20 the building or the building as a whole and 21 we're entertaining those with obviously no 22 requirement except putting feelers out to 23 see who might want to participate. 24 As we open the facility and it becomes 25 operational, we think it's going to be a 61 1 August 10, 2006 2 great opportunity to partner with many of 3 the vineyards on the East End and also some 4 other high profile hospitality or culinary 5 venues. We'll use that demonstration 6 theater for special events also to 7 broadcast those demonstrations via 8 television or many opportunities in the 9 region, but the one that's basically in 10 hand is the donation of equipment from Wolf 11 Subzero for the demonstration theater. 12 MR. KOMINICKI: It seems like some 13 sort of area that the prominent local 14 newspaper might -- 15 MR. G. KANE: Excellent. Would you be 16 the contact person? 17 MR. KOMINICKI: I would be and I'll be 18 talking about Richard Froehlich who is the 19 director of the culinary program. 20 MR. HAZLITT: How do you spell 21 conflict? 22 MR. KOMINICKI: It's a news story. 23 MR. HAZLITT: The popular programs on 24 cable today is food shows whether in the 25 afternoon or night, they're on all the 62 1 August 10, 2006 2 time. 3 MR. KOMINICKI: I'll be on Emeril Live 4 next week. It was taped a couple months 5 ago. I'm just in the audience. That's the 6 fruit show, look for me in the second row. 7 MR. MOORE: How are things going at 8 Riverhead? 9 MR. G. KANE: Things are going well. 10 As you see in the press clips, the 11 Riverhead Town Board after several 12 additional requests for information from 13 the developer did approve the site plan at 14 the meeting last week. The site plan has 15 been approved. The developer has submitted 16 the mechanics and other building plans, the 17 town building permit, and I would hope that 18 we could have a ground breaking ceremony 19 possibly in September and a good time might 20 be after the trustee meeting on the 14th. 21 If the stars align and we can schedule it 22 that day, since we'll be at the Eastern 23 Campus, it would be a good time just to 24 move the meeting downtown and have the 25 ground breaking ceremony then, but the 63 1 August 10, 2006 2 project is moving along. I'll get back to 3 you. It's critical that we break ground 4 now. He must get his foundation in and the 5 steel up and get the building closed in 6 before the bad weather so he can work on 7 the interior so we'll able to take 8 possession June 1 because we have several 9 months of outfitting, extensive equipment 10 needs to be installed in the building for 11 us to begin classes at the end of August of 12 next year. 13 MR. KOMINICKI: This isn't turnkey -- 14 MR. G. KANE: It's turnkey with the 15 exception of the equipment. The equipment 16 is not part of the package. The equipment 17 is something -- since we had a number of 18 grants that were forthcoming to help us 19 defray the cost of the facility, we 20 couldn't include that as part of the 21 overall package so we will be bidding all 22 of that equipment and installation of that 23 equipment separately. 24 MR. KANE: To dovetail that, many 25 conversations I had with George before the 64 1 August 10, 2006 2 meeting had been about a culinary arts 3 school. I had lunch with the director of 4 development at the Peconic Bay Hospital and 5 he was very excited about this. He was 6 very excited about partnering up with the 7 culinary school because they have a new 8 dining area there and George told me his 9 people, his students, have to be doing a 10 couple hundred hours of -- 11 MR. G. KANE: Internship, yes. 12 MR. KANE: All of sudden, these things 13 start blending together and 14 congratulations, George, wonderful. 15 MR. G. KANE: Thank you. 16 MR. KOMINICKI: If George could open a 17 new program every year, it would really 18 help with the enrollment. 19 DR. PIPPINS: He is opening a program 20 every year and it is helping with the 21 enrollment. 22 MR. KOMINICKI: George suddenly looks 23 very tired. 24 MR. MOORE: Item P -- we're doing 25 great -- Dr. Pippins, any remarks you want 65 1 August 10, 2006 2 to share with us? 3 DR. PIPPINS: I wanted to just thank 4 the Board for your support. I had a 5 conversation with Bill the other day and 6 things seem to be going so smoothly. I 7 want to thank you that you're always 8 available as a group whenever we call on 9 you and you make it possible for me to be 10 president and trusting me and giving me 11 latitude to move along and I want to take 12 this opportunity to say thank you for that. 13 I will bring your attention to the 14 annual report. I put this part in 15 lavender, something that would stand out, 16 20, 21 things I thought you should be aware 17 of. This is my response to the goals that 18 we jointly set for last year. 19 I wanted to remind you that August 20 29th is All College Day. This is the first 21 time we're coming together on Opening Day. 22 We haven't gotten to all the part timers so 23 faculty staff and administrators will be 24 present and I would appreciate your 25 participation. 66 1 August 10, 2006 2 Again, keep in mind that the ground 3 breaking for Veterans Plaza, looking at 4 tentatively, October 19th after the Board 5 meeting. We're trying to keep these after 6 Board meetings. 7 MR. HAZLITT: Ground breaking? 8 DR. PIPPINS: I'm sorry, ribbon 9 cutting. It's actually quite beautiful. 10 I just wanted to share with you that 11 we're making a major effort to get the 12 Ammerman Campus cleaned up, so when you do 13 come to the ribbon cutting, the surrounding 14 areas are aesthetically pleasing. We're 15 working with AME employees to clean up the 16 campus and we appreciate their support in 17 that area. I'll ask George to spend a few 18 minutes talking on the meeting yesterday 19 with Festo International connected to our 20 manufacturing program. 21 MR. G. KANE: It was touched on in 22 Dr. Pippins' presentation and you've heard 23 this many times our $2.4 million grant from 24 Mechatronics Advanced Manufacturing. 25 One of our key partners is Festo 67 1 August 10, 2006 2 Corporation a worldwide leader in 3 mechatronics and pneumatics and in the 4 teaching didactics end of this type of 5 manufacturing training, so we were really 6 helped along the way by a company virtually 7 across the street from our Grant Campus. 8 Last night we met with a number of 9 representatives including the head of the 10 didactics division from Germany. In North 11 America, they work with 20 different 12 subsidiaries between both United States, 13 Canada, and Mexico. They are interested in 14 continuing to partner with us in sharing 15 their insight into what's happening 16 globally in terms of manufacturing and 17 they're also an excellent resource as we 18 work to secure additional federal funds. 19 Dr. Pippins also mentioned that we just 20 completed an application for additional 21 funding to extend our existing grant. It's 22 through the federal Department of Labor 23 through the Employment Training 24 Administration. We requested $1.5 million. 25 There's a limited amount of money 68 1 August 10, 2006 2 available, so if we are successful and I 3 think we will be, we could receive some 4 additional funds to partner with the 5 manufacturers on Long Island. 6 I don't think people recognize that 7 manufacturing on Long Island is a major 8 industry still. There are upwards of 9 80,000 employees engaged in and employed in 10 that industry as we speak, and over the 11 past year, we've seen some slight 12 improvements as the dollar has weakened and 13 products are more affordable worldwide. 14 We're exporting more goods internationally 15 and within the country. So we're excited 16 about it and we're very happy to have Festo 17 as a partner working with us on the 18 initiative. Thank you. 19 MR. MOORE: I entertain a motion to 20 convene the executive session of discussing 21 litigation, employment, and contracts. 22 MR. KOMINICKI: So moved. 23 MR. MATTACE: Second. 24 MR. MOORE: All in favor? 25 (Whereupon, all those in favor respond 69 1 August 10, 2006 2 "aye.") 3 MR. MOORE: All right. 4 (Whereupon, the meeting of the Suffolk 5 County Community College Board of Trustees 6 was adjourned at 11:11 a.m.) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 70 1 August 10, 2006 2 C E R T I F I C A T E 3 4 STATE OF NEW YORK) 5 ) ss.: 6 COUNTY OF NASSAU ) 7 8 I, TINA LEHMAN, a Notary Public for and 9 within the State of New York, do hereby certify 10 that the foregoing is a true and accurate 11 transcription of my stenographic notes. 12 I further certify that I am not employed by 13 nor related to any party to this action. 14 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 15 hand this 19th day of August, 2006. 16 17 18 TINA M. LEHMAN 19 20 21 22 23 24 25