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Published on 7/5/2022.

Comments/Board Business

Land Acknowledgement:  President of the Board Carol Mathews read the District’s formal statement that recognizes our area’s Indigenous Peoples as the original stewards of the land that College of the Redwoods occupies. 

We acknowledge that the land on which we are gathered today is unceded territory of the Wiyot people who continue to live and thrive on this land today. It is surrounded by the traditional, ancestral, and present homeland of several indigenous nations including the Hupa, Karuk, Mattole, Tolowa, Wailaki, and Yurok that make up Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

Member Comments: The Board recognized Cynthia Petrusha by comment and with a card for her work at the District. Trustee Dr. Mullery mentioned that she attended the recent law enforcement academy graduation. Trustee Kelley noted that he attended his first CCCT board meeting. Trustee Vice President Biggin encouraged her fellow Trustees to attend the CCCO town hall focused on DEIA students. Trustee President Mathews mentioned that she attended the Standard IV review committee meeting.

Board Committee Reports: The Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Legislative Matters met prior to the Board meeting and discussed potential positions on several legislative bills.

Appoint Ad Hoc Committees to Review 1000 & 2000 Board Policies (BP) and Administrative Procedures (AP): Accreditation Standard IV.C.1 and Eligibility Requirement (ER) 7 call on our Board of Trustees to exercise their authority over and responsibility for policies to assure the academic quality, integrity, and effectiveness of the student learning programs and services and the financial stability of the institution.  Under this standard and ER, the Trustees are required to ensure the efficacy of all board policies (BPs) and administrative procedures (APs).

President of the Board Mathews appointed several trustees and the student trustee to ad hoc committees to review all BPs and APs numbered in the 1000s and 2000s. To make the review work manageable and meet our ISER timeline, the ad hoc committees will examine roughly half of the BPs and APs in fall 2022 and submit those to College Council in January 2023 for constituent review. The remaining BPs and APs will be reviewed in fall 2023.

Ad Hoc Committee 1—Trustees Biggin and Dorn

Chapter 1 - The District BP 1100 The Redwoods Community College District
Chapter 1 - The District BP 1201 Philosophy
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2010 Board Membership
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2105 Election of a Student Member
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2110 Vacancies on the Board

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2110 Vacancies on the Board

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2220 Committees of the Board
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2305 Annual Organizational Meeting

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2305 Annual Organizational Meeting

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2310 Regular Meetings of the Board
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2315 Closed Sessions
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2320 Special and Emergency Meetings

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2320 Special and Emergency Meetings

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2325 Teleconferencing

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2325 Teleconferencing

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2330 Quorum and Voting

Ad Hoc Committee 2—Trustees Dr. Mullery and Coppini and Student Trustee Madsen

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2340 Agendas

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2340 Agendas

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2345 Public Participation at Board Meetings

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2355 Decorum
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2360 Minutes
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2365 Recording

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2410 Board Policies and Administrative Procedures

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2410 Board Policies and Administrative Procedures
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2430 Delegation of Authority to President/Superintendent
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2431 President/Superintendent Selection
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2432 President/Superintendent Succession
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2510 Participation in Local Decision Making

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2510 Participation in Local Decision Making

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2520 Responsibilities of the Academic Senate

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2610 Presentation of Initial Collective Bargaining Proposals

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2610 Presentation of Initial Collective Bargaining Proposals

Ad Hoc Committee 3—Trustees Dr. Robertson and Kelley

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2710 Conflict of Interest

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2710 Conflict of Interest

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2712 Conflict of Interest Code

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2714 Distribution of Tickets or Passes

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2714 Distribution of Tickets or Passes

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2715 Code of Ethics/Standards of Practice

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2715 Board Protocols for Effective Trusteeship

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2716 Board Political Activity
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2717 Personal Use of Public Resources
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2730 Health Benefits
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2735 Board Member Travel
Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2740 Board of Trustees Professional Development

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2740 Board of Trustees Professional Development

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees AP 2745 Board Evaluation Process

Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees BP 2750 Board Member Absence

Consent Calendar Action Items

Approve/Ratify Personnel Actions: The Board of Trustees approved several personnel related items at this meeting.  Please join me in welcoming Jonathon Maiullo, Joseph Lang, Andre LaRocque, and Christina Morse to our classified service. 

Jonathan will begin serving as a Student Development Advisor in our Adult and Community Education (ACE) department on July 18, 2022.  You may be aware of Jonathan’s background. He’s been an Associate Professor of English faculty with us for the last four years and has taught English as a Second Language for the Peace Corps. He’s also authored several publications—Radio Drama for Speaking Practice; Paper Mountains: An Armenian Diary; and Teaching Techniques: Physical Vocabulary in the Beginner-Level Classroom.  

Joseph will begin service as an Early Childhood Education Assistant I on August 10, 2022. Andre will start as our Student Services Specialist II, Financial Aid on July 11, 2022. Christina will begin working in the Admissions Office as an Enrollment Services Advisor on August 1, 2022.

I am pleased to announce that Julie Gilbride has agreed to serve as my executive assistant on July 11, 2022 replacing retiring Cynthia Petrusha. Julie’s background is perfect for the executive assistant role. She holds an Associate of Science Legal Assistant/Paralegal Studies and a Paralegal Certificate from CR.  She also brings over 22 years of administrative experience including 17 years of legal administrative experience to her new role.  She has worked as a paralegal with two local law firms—Mitchell Law Firm and with the Arnot Law Firm—where she specialized in municipal, business and real property law, the Brown Act, the California Public Records Act, updating policies and procedures for multiple public entities and local non-profits, and preparing agenda item descriptions for city council meetings and board meetings.

I also want to congratulate Esmeralda Ramirez for her out of class pay. Her annual pay will be supplemented by 15% from July 1, 2022 to December 15, 2022 to perform some duties of the vacant Manager Basic Law Enforcement Academy Coordinator position.

The Board ratified my acceptance of a several resignations and a retirement. We say farewell to Sandra Macias, Cynthia Cabeceira, Schuyler Kirsch, and Paul Chown. Sandra resigned from he Administrative Office Assistant II position on June 10, 2022 and Schuyler Kirsch stepped down as our Instructional Support Specialist II in DSPS on June 28, 2022.  Cynthia will leave CR as our COVID response manager on July 14, 2022 and Paul will retire from the College on June 30, 2023.

Approve Bond Project Status: Although we didn’t execute any Measure Q expenditures, we rebalanced several completed projects to offset some of the cost associated with the demolition of the Life Science and Physical Science buildings. We moved $45,831 from Student Union Upgrade; $92,629 from Mandated Improvements to Waste Water Plant; $19,875 from Project Management; $23,229 from Security, Marquee, and Fire Alarm; and $5,000 from Measure Q/B Final Project Closeout. We also added $32,994 in interest from fiscal year 2020-2021 to the LS and PS Building Demolition project budget. 

Approval of Award to Lowest Bidder for Life and Physical Science Building Abatement and Demolition: Several companies submitted bids to demolish the Eureka Campus Life Science and Physical Science buildings.  We are required to forward the lowest bidder to the board for approval. This agenda item accepted the lowest bid and awarded the contract to Unlimited Environmental, Inc.  I attached the list of bidders and their base bid amounts to this blog summary. Here’s a link to the complete bid response summary in case you are interested in reading them:  https://www.redwoods.edu/businessoffice/Purchasing

Action/Discussion Items

Approve Monthly Financial Status Report: Our monthly report covered July 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022 or 91.67% of the fiscal year. Here’s a brief snapshot of the information contained in the report:

• The estimated amounts for the elements that comprise the SCFF revenue sources have been adjusted.  Because the Chancellor’s Office estimated higher amounts for Property Taxes and Prop 30 EPA, we increased the budgeted amounts for those two elements.  To balance out the SCFF equation, the Chancellor’s Office decreased the State Apportionment budget.  To better reflect actuals, we decreased the Enrollment Fees and increased Other State Revenue slightly. 
• The State Apportionment actuals exceeded the adjusted budget amount.  To correct this overage, the total June apportionment payment, which includes state categorical program apportionment, was decreased accordingly. 
• The Salary and Benefit Expenses are still trending higher than at this point in time last year, but actuals to date are slightly under our budgeted amounts.
• Overall, expenses are trending lower than at this same time last year.
• We still plan to set aside $850,000 to Capital Outlay for Education and Facilities Master Plan Initiatives as a Revenue Contingent Transfer Out. This was a recommendation from the Budget Advisory Committee (BAC) and supports our Education Master Plan.
• We still intend to transfer $90,000 to the Child Development Center, $59,567 to the Shively Farm, $820,000 to OPEB, and 600,000 to the Capital Outlay Fund. These transfers out total to $1,569,567.

Informational Reports

Student Success Data: Transfers to Cal Poly Humboldt: Dr. Angelina Hill used several Cal Poly Humboldt reports to populate this month’s student success data report.  The data show that more College of the Redwoods (CR) students apply to transfer to Cal Poly Humboldt than any other community college. In 2021-22, approximately 20% of undergraduate transfers to Cal Poly Humboldt came from CR. Applicants from CR were much more likely to subsequently enroll than applicants from other colleges.

Transfer College	Applied	Enrolled	Enrolled/ Applied
Redwoods	228	150	66%
Santa Rosa	126	35	28%
Sierra	107	22	21%
Diablo Valley	95	23	24%
Santa Monica	89	18	20%
Santa Barbara	88	16	18%
Shasta	84	11	13%
Pasadena	78	28	36%
De Anza	78	6	8%
Cuesta	76	11	14%

Using Fall 2020 as a base, students transferring from CR persist in their first year at a slightly higher rate than students transferring from other locations. CR students also persist at a rate almost ten percentage points higher than first-time freshman.

Transfer Origin	1-Year Retention
Local/CR	83.6%
Northern CA	80.8%
San Francisco bay	82.8%
Sacramento	73.3%
Los Angeles	82.7%
San Diego	80.0%
Other State	70.0%

Compared to first-time freshman, a greater percentage of students who transfer to Cal Poly Humboldt are first generation and demonstrate financial need (Pell eligible). Despite these factors, which are commonly associated with a higher risk of stopping out, first-generation transfers and transfer students demonstrating financial need have a high rate of persisting in their first year.

	First-Time Freshman	Transfer Students
First Generation	71.5%	82.8%
Pell Eligible	71.4%	83.8%

Transfer students also graduate at a much higher rate than first-time freshman. The following table shows graduation rates in terms of 100% time to normal completion (transfer: 2-year rate; freshman: 4-year rate) and 200% time to normal completion (transfer: 4-year rate; freshman: 8-year rate) through Fall 2020.  

Time to Normal Completion	Full-Time Freshman	Transfer Students
100%	22.2%	41.7%
200%	50.1%	78.0%

Shively Farm Report: Farm manager Silas Sarvinski provided a thorough farm report to the Board. As an added delectable bonus, Silas gave fresh strawberries to each of the Trustees.

Organizational Reports

CSEA: President Engman mentioned that two classified staff will serve as delegates to the CSEA conference.

Student Trustee: Marabeth Madsen noted that ASCR thanked Crystal Morse for her excellent work in the recruiting, selection, and hiring of Psychology professor Stephen Quiggle as the 2022-23 ASCR Advisor. She also mentioned that ASCR is working Katrina Hanson to put on Welcome Week events on the Eureka, Del Norte and KT locations.  

Administrative Reports

President/Superintendent's Report: I shared several informational items in my written report including the following:

• We invited administrators, managers, confidential, and classified staff to a virtual town hall meeting in June to begin discussing how we may continue to create a more nimble and adaptable institution. Kerry Mayer led a discussion about our short and long term course scheduling plan and the new faculty orientation program. Crystal Morse talked about how we are balancing high touch and high tech to serve students. She also discussed our plan to address student homelessness and improve basic needs services.
• We sent out a press release announcing that CR will add Intercollegiate Men’s and Women’s wrestling to our list of athletic programs starting in the fall of 2023. The Men’s program will start competition in the fall of 2023 and the Women’s season will begin in the spring of 2024. Bob Brown will start initial recruitment of a coaching staff for each program this fall and then plan off-season conditioning for new student recruits starting in the spring semester of 2023. Adding these two sports will help us regain enrollment lost in the pandemic. Check out the great picture of Corshairy in a wrestling outfit that I attached to this blog summary. Thank you to Molly Blakemore and Jesse Wiedel!
• AB 1655 which would add June 19, known as “Juneteenth,” to the list of state holidays and holidays continues to wind its way through the state legislative process. The bill was heard in the Senate Education Committee on June 29, 2022.
• The work that our coaches are doing to recruit new students to CR as well as supporting our student/athletes classroom and athletic court/field success was recognized by Ray Hamill in several HumboldtSports stories in June. Check out these links.

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/07/01/corsairs-continue-to-build-momentum-with-seven-local-recruits/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/28/breaking-corsairs-to-add-two-new-sports-teams/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/25/more-success-for-cr-as-sophomores-find-the-perfect-fit-to-move-on/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/23/corsairs-add-two-more-local-standouts-as-gorge-and-sauers-commit/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/15/cr-legends-moving-on-get-set-for-the-next-chapter/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/15/cr-players-showing-leadership-coaching-staff-finalized/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/10/corsairs-add-more-competition-for-places-as-previde-romero-commit/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/09/trio-of-eureka-seniors-taking-their-talents-to-cr/

https://humboldtsports.com/2022/06/08/redwoods-coach-excited-about-2022-local-recruiting-class/

In my verbal comments, I thanked Cynthia Petrusha for her service as my executive assistant for the past several years.

Interim Vice President of Instruction Report: Kerry’s written report contained a breakdown of course offering information that she shared at the June virtual town hall. The data shows that our pre-pandemic active online sections tended to be between 10-12% and then increased to 40-44% during the pandemic. Kerry and I are satisfied with the current scheduling as we emerge from the pandemic.  

It’s important to point out again that the pandemic will create long-lasting and previously unseen ripple effects even after vaccines are widely available. We are doing what we can to anticipate the challenges and opportunities that we will likely encounter over the next few years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  We will continue to monitor the enrollment data to ensure that we make informed decisions about class offering ratios moving forward. We would like to maintain a 60/40 modality mix and make sure that our course schedule helps fulltime and part time students meet their academic goals. To this last point, we have to be more nimble and adaptive in our scheduling and explore alternative scheduling arrangements such as evenings and weekends, etc.  

Academic Year	Section #	Face-to-face section %	Online section %
2022 - 2023 (as of 6/21/22)	750	66%	34%
2021 - 2022	1364	60%	40%
2020 - 2021	1202	56%	44%
2019 - 2020	1738	88%	12%
2018 - 2019	1766	89%	11%
2017 - 2018	1822	90%	10%
2016 - 2017	1863	91%	9%

 

Year / Term	Section #	Face-to-face section %	Online section %
2022 - 2023	750	66%	34%
2022Fall (as of 6/21/22)	647	70%	30%
2022 Summer	103	43%	57%
2021 - 2022	1364	60%	40%
2021Fall	636	64%	36%
2021 Summer	91	26%	74%
2022 Spring	637	62%	38%

In Kerry’s verbal comments, she thanked Silas and Mike Haley for the work they’ve done for our Shively Farm students. She introduced Leigh Dooley, our new Director of Distant Education, to the Board. Kerry also thanked Cynthia for her service as the executive assistant.

Interim Vice President of Student Services: Crystal’s written report spoke to the following:

• Under the leadership of Katy Keyser (Director, TRiO & Upward Bound) and Heidi Bareilles (Manager, Upward Bound), the 4-week Upward Bound Summer Program, which serves nearly 50 students from Del Norte and Humboldt County high schools, is underway and will conclude on July 21, 2022. 
• We joined 38 other schools across California in facilitating the new Learning-Aligned Employment Program (LAEP).  LAEP provides eligible underrepresented college and university students with the opportunity to earn money to help defray their educational costs, while gaining education-aligned, career-related experience.  Montel Vanderhorck, Career Center Manager, will lead the launch of LAEP with us in 2022-23 and provide ongoing coordination for student access and collaboration with community employee partners. 

In her verbal comments, Crystal noted congratulated recognized Cynthia Petrusha for her work as the executive assistant and wished her well in retirement.

Interim Director of Human Resources: In her inaugural administrative report, Alia noted that we submitted the EEO Multiple Methods Allocation Model certification for FY2021-2022 and the EEO Fund Certification Form for FY 2020-2021 to the Chancellor’s Office. She is working with Dr. Abdimalik Buul, Visiting Executive of Educational Excellence and Equal Employment Opportunity Program, on EEO Best Practices and forthcoming funding opportunities for innovative EEO Best practices.  Alia also wrote that she intends to complete the following activities in 2022-23: 

• Design an EEO Orientation for Advisory Committee
• Evaluate the District's current data system that provides analysis of College of the Redwoods' workforce, applicant pools, and student data
• Examine Innovative Practices specifically tied to the 2021 Budget Act Investment in EEO Best Practices and the CR Education Master Plan Initiatives.
• Examine cross campus collaborations to develop leadership opportunities with current staff focusing on DEIA.

In her verbal comments, Alia honored Cynthia Petrusha and wished her well in retirement.

Executive Director of the Foundation: Marty’s written report noted that he met with Bob Merrill and Rees Hughes to discuss our Outdoor Campus Collaborative.  Mr. Merrill is the retired North Coast District Manager for the California Coastal Commission and Rees Hughes is the retired Director of Student Life and the Career Center for Humboldt State University and is intimately involved in trail development and support in Humboldt County. Marty also noted that he secured Blue Lake Casino & Hotel and Jack Rieke’s Ace Hardware Stores – Shafer’s in Eureka, Fortuna, and Willow Creek as title sponsors for the Redwoods Dinner & Auction. 

In his verbal comments, Marty also thanked Cynthia Petrusha for her collegiality and wished her well in retirement.